Practical Business Ethics
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Complex but filled with useful information on ethical though
Practical Business Ethics
Warren A. French , and John Granrose
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: 0023388633

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Provides readers with the background knowledge and guidelines that wil enable them to test their own ethical positions in business situations. KEY TOPICS: Topics included are: it outlines two approaches to ethical theory, an overview of deontological and consequentialist views, and the analysis of ethical reasoning according to stages of moral development. Also offers a step-by-step protocol for resolving ethical conflicts, many of which end in stalemates, plus much more.

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5 out of 5 stars Complex but filled with useful information on ethical though.......1997-08-17

Have used the book for two years in a college level management course. Material is complex forcing the student to read and think. Text covers many ethical principles that are usually not contained in business ethics books. Cases are thought provoking
Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French
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  • Excellent advice
  • The Insider's Look
Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French
Gilles Asselin , and Ruth Mastron
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ASIN: 187786482X

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5 out of 5 stars a class book i enjoyed.......2005-01-21

This book was used in my french business class as a cultural aspect. Its easy to follow and tries to help us American's step out of our own ideas of culture. I would recommend this book if you want to read for fun but like to learn something new as well

5 out of 5 stars It's the best.......2004-10-06

Anyone who visits France will enjoy this well written book. It explains much of the french culture, and relates it to the history of France. For someone who has a business, and sells products or services, this book is a textbook. Thank you for your clear, concise book. It will help you enjoy and understand your French friends and associates.

5 out of 5 stars THIS BOOK DESERVES SIX STARS!.......2003-10-23

This book was insightful, rich, honest, and interesting. I could not put it down! This book is definetly worth buying, even if you are not interested in the french particularly. As someone with a french background, and french grandparents, this book makes me appreciate my heritage just a little more.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent advice.......2003-07-27

Although this book was written before the current political crisis that strained relations between France and the United States, it provides excellent general advice for everyone traveling between the two countries. It gives a fair assessment of both cultures and urges the visiter to adopt an open mind and leave cultural baggage and prejudice at home. I spent almost two years planning our recent 3 week trip throughout France and studying the language (which as the authors say is a must). It is arrogant to expect that people in any other country will automatically speak your language. Why should they? Everywhere we went people were reserved, as we expected, but courteous and helpful and sometimes quite friendly. I agree with the authors that the key to good relations and living, working or vacationing in another country, France in this case, is to learn "their" history, culture and language and embrace the differences. I recommend this book highly.

5 out of 5 stars The Insider's Look.......2003-04-25

Au Contraire is more than a book on France, the French language, or a trifle on French "something." This book touches the essence of what it means to be French. The behind-the-scene look at the history, symbols, language, and customs is truly intriguing. The analyzation of such things as interpersonal relations, socialism, education, and other elements of French life is a treasure for the person who desires to live in France, if for only a short time. One of the most remarkable things about the book is the emphasis showing the inseperability between the language and the land: Being French is speaking the langauge, and don't forget it! It's a must for expats of any sort. I read the hefty book in a matter of days. It's just that good.
Carl Crow, a Tough Old China Hand: The Life, Times, and Adventures of an American in Shanghai
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Interesting subject - writing and editing could be better
  • An Excellent Recounting of an Interpid Businessmen during Shanghai's Golden Age
  • To understand Shanghai today, understand Shaghai yesterday
Carl Crow, a Tough Old China Hand: The Life, Times, and Adventures of an American in Shanghai
Paul French
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ASIN: 9622098029

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'Shanghai resident Paul French has written a lively, exhaustive narrative account of the life and times of entrepreneur and Shanghai businessman Carl Crow. An absorbing story about a pioneering figure in transnational commercial capitalism during the first half of the twentieth century.' - Tani E. Barlow, Professor of History, University of Washington Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for the next quarter of a century, working there as a journalist, newspaper proprietor, and groundbreaking adman. He also did stints as a hostage negotiator, emergency police sergeant, gentleman farmer, go-between for the American government, and propagandist. As his career progressed, so did the fortunes of Shanghai. The city transformed itself from a dull colonial backwater when Crow arrived, to the thriving and ruthless cosmopolitan metropolis of the 1930s when Crow wrote his pioneering book - 400 Million Customers - that encouraged a flood of businesses into the China market in an intriguing foreshadowing of today's boom.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Interesting subject - writing and editing could be better.......2007-07-16

I enjoyed the book because Carl Crow did live an interesting life (journalism, marketing and hobnobbing with China's elite), in an interesting place (Shanghai) at an interesting time (pre World War 2).

That said, I have a few complaints. It is obvious that the author was working with very incomplete archival material, as the book has a "distance" from the subject that if he had talked to many people who had known Carl Crow should not be present. I felt like I was reading a summary of other reports, rather than a book that made Carl Crow really come alive. It is unfortunate that no one wrote a good biography before he died or shortly thereafter.

Secondly, I think the editing was terrible. Numerous times throughout the book, I read something and I said "Didn't I just read that?", and there it was - a similiar fact or statement in the paragraph above. No excuse for that kind of thing...

By far the best part of the book for me was when Japan invaded and the recently evacuated Carl Crow decided to go back to China, via the Burma Road, to report on the resistance and drum up support for China in America. This had the makings of engrossing book right there but unfortunately it was only one chapter of this effort.

5 out of 5 stars An Excellent Recounting of an Interpid Businessmen during Shanghai's Golden Age.......2007-04-18

There are many books on the market about Shanghai. However, Mr. French's book is your best choice for seeing how Shanghai's past is prelude to the present. Carl Crow lived during an era when Shanghai embraced a cosmpolitan culture that is strongly reminiscent of the city today. His writings about life and business custom made him the Shanghai counterpart of Peking's compelling and gifted foreign-born writers, like George Kates and John Blofeld. We owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. French for rescuing Carl Crow from obscurity and bringing him back to the attention of those of us whose lives and work take us to this great city by the sea. Highly recommended.

5 out of 5 stars To understand Shanghai today, understand Shaghai yesterday.......2007-03-14

Carl Crow was a unique individual in a unique time and place -- early 20th century Shanghai. His best-selling book, 400 Million Customers, published more that 70 years ago, is remarkable in part for great writing, but more importantly for insights into business in China, insights that still resonate in 2007, and likely will for decades to come, for these insights are not about transient political or economic trends, but about the Chinese as they truly are.

With his biography of Crow, Paul French (author, director of one of China's most respected research houses, Access Asia, and a tough old China hand himself), gives us a great look at his fellow author's life and times, but also at Crow's Shanghai. French spent years researching in Shanghai (his own residence), other parts of Asia and the USA to bring us this insightful work.

With China in such obvious ascent, we of the West owe ourselves and the coming generations a better understanding of the country and its history. Reading Crow's own book, and French's biography of him, is a great step toward such understanding. I strongly recommend both.
Parlons affaires!: Initiation au français économique et commercial
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Tres Bien
  • Thorough and Concise
Parlons affaires!: Initiation au français économique et commercial
R. -J. Berg
Manufacturer: Heinle
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ASIN: 1413005888

Book Description

In-depth and adaptable, PARLONS AFFAIRES! is the ultimate resource for the Business French course. The program covers traditional business topics, as well as career practices and cultural concepts particular to French businesses. The core lesson within each Module discusses in great detail the latest trends in French business practice and culture. The systematic presentation and analysis of each topic provides a comprehensive overview, while the "Lexique" equips the student with crucial vocabulary, and the subsequent activities reinforce newly acquired terms. The focus on France particularly helps students prepare for the exams sponsored by the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris, and additional information on Quebec acquaints students with French business practices in North America. The PARLONS AFFAIRES! text serves as a jumping point to the innumerable resources on the World Wide Web. Within the text, multiple links to additional information on the Web augment the material, while the Book Companion Website, considerably expanded for this edition, offers support for professors and for students.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Tres Bien.......2004-04-28

I used this book in my business French class and I thought that is was a good choice for people with notions of basic French.

It covers the business vocabulary through texts and exercises. That for me was the most helpful part as it gave me a quick overview of the business vocabulary. I was able to incorpate this into my knowledge of French and fake my way through business conversations.

It also gives readers an overview of French traditions, habits, and other quirks, which is both amusing and informative :-)

5 out of 5 stars Thorough and Concise.......2001-04-25

During the course of a French business class, we used this book as the central text. After that semester, I was sincerely impressed by the cogent and clear explanation given by Berg in this book. It is divided into sections (modules) that facilitate comprehension both at the undegaduate and graduate levels. It is easily divisible, providing lenency concerning curriculum planning and course structure. Perhaps the most striking of Parlons Affaires! is format; it was designed as a prepatory text for the Diplome de francais d'affaires (DFA) administered by the Chamber of Commernce and Industry of Paris (CCIP). In this fashion, the book is indispensable for 1) an introduction into the french business world and lexicon; 2) those who wish to prepare for the DFA; 3) any person desiring a better understanding of french business operations. Finally, I recommend, without reservation, this text. Choose it and you will not be disappointed! Il vaut la peine!
Understanding Cultural Differences: Germans, French, and Americans
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Understanding Cultural Differences: Germans, French, and Americans
  • A Truly Useful Book
  • Excellent guidelines and some practical value
  • Extrodinary!
  • A Must for anybody dealing with one of these three cultures
Understanding Cultural Differences: Germans, French, and Americans
Edward Twitchell Hall
Manufacturer: Intercultural Press
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Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Understanding Cultural Differences: Germans, French, and Americans.......2007-02-28

An interesting book, but poorly written. Observations were useful but the book is so repetitious and muddled, it was hard to stay focused on it. Most of the source material was self-referential and seemingly based on surveys done in the 1980s. Worth a read, but keep expectations in check.

5 out of 5 stars A Truly Useful Book.......2006-03-30

I read this book several years ago, in large part due to the fact that I had married a French woman and was having quite a bit of difficulty understanding the culture during my visits to France. Granted, this book largely focuses on the business aspects of the cultural divide, but I found it incredibly accurate as it relates to the culture as a whole. Especially useful was the description of a "polychronic" culture as opposed to a "monochronic" one like the U.S.
If you want to get to the root of the differences and gain an ability to work with others of France, Germany, or Japan, I highly recommend this book.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent guidelines and some practical value.......2002-01-31

The book provides excellent guidelines for Americans to compare German cultural values and behaviors against ours, but I am not sure about the French (lack of personal experience). It is quite general but you can learn a lot if you have the will to understand German corporate cultural rules and to gain the edge in your interactions with your German counterparts. My personal observations/experience during a recent business stay in Germany seemed to have mostly agreed with the authors' points of view.

I wish it had more real-life examples and illustrations for higher practical values.

I loved reading it through and would recommend it highly.

5 out of 5 stars Extrodinary!.......2001-11-25

If you have little time to read about Doing business in Europe then this book is ideal choice. Well analysed and Excellent Presentation. Worth for my money sure your's too.

4 out of 5 stars A Must for anybody dealing with one of these three cultures.......2000-07-10

Anybody dealing with any of those three cultures in business should read this book. It is simple, handy and quite accurate. I am myself French and have been living and working in Germany for ten years now in an international environment. I also spent three years of my life in the US. The book - already ten years old - does need some up-dating as far as the political and economic situations in each of these three countries are concerned and I found a few inaccuracies in the French part (probably due to the fact that the French culture is more difficult to grasp for an American than the German one), but all in all it is a highly recommendable book. The key notions of "monochronic" and "polychronic", of "high context" and "low context" cultures are extremely useful. This is not only a book for Americans doing business with Europeans : as far as I am concerned it helped me understanding and being more patient with my American colleagues.
Le Robert & Collins Du Management: Dictionnaire Francais-Anglais Anglais-Francais
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    Le Robert & Collins Du Management: Dictionnaire Francais-Anglais Anglais-Francais
    M. Peron
    Manufacturer: Robert
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    Harrap's French and English Business Dictionary
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      Harrap's French and English Business Dictionary
      Harrap's Harrap's
      Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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      “More than just a business dictionary, a genuine guide to the whole business world.” —Le Figaro

      The most authoritative, up-to-date reference of everyday business language, Harrap’s French and English Business Dictionary offers more than 40,000 references, with usage examples throughout. This invaluable resource also provides tips on working with translators, articles on meeting protocol, information on nations of the world and administrative divisions, and explanations of financial statements in French and English.

      Chopsticks and French Fries: How and Why to Teach English in South Korea
      Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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      • M Jo hates Korea, not the book
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      • Not bad but very short.
      Chopsticks and French Fries: How and Why to Teach English in South Korea
      Samantha D. Amara
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      If you're thinking of joining the thousands of English-speaking teachers in Korea, this is the book for you. Samantha Amara guides you through the maze of contract and cultural issues that confront the first time teacher. She offers a checklist of things to ask for and to avoid. And she gives you realistic expectations of life halfway around the world.

      Customer Reviews:

      1 out of 5 stars Worthless.......2005-12-29

      Korea has the worst reputation in terms of teaching jobs. Look up "Korean school blacklist" on Google and see the State Department's travel advisory on Korea - gives a lot more useful info than this piece of fluff.

      3 out of 5 stars Not quite four stars, but a few jewels may make it worth more than three........2005-12-13

      When this arrived, I couldn't believe it qualified as a book, so I checked out the product pages. Yup, there it was--50 pages. IMHO, that's a fat pamphlet, and at $7.95, somewhat overpriced.

      Nonetheless this book contains some practical knowledge. For example, a list of things that aren't readily available, and therefore worth taking; other items that are available, but a lot more expensive. But most important, though no one expects to need it, she includes a list on phone numbers. You can find numbers for embassies easily enough elsewhere, but the true gem is an assortment of phone numbers for Korean government agencies that deal with foreign English language teachers.

      So, okay, maybe a lot of the rest of this book could have been found on the internet. Here it's gathered in one place.

      Overall, it's worth at least a read at the library even if you have to request an interlibrary loan, if it's not in the bookstore--because it's so short, it won't take long! And if you're short on cash, copy out those phone numbers for the Korean agencies involved with foreign language teachers.

      Another book to consider: Korea Calling: The essential handbook for teaching English and living in South Korea. At 173 pages, it has more than triple the coverage of what are mostly the same topics. At $14.95, that's the better value--except for thost phone numbers...



      5 out of 5 stars M Jo hates Korea, not the book.......2005-07-23

      I thought Korea was great, and enjoyed my year there. I was surprised to see the review, and then checked out other Korea books and the same person said the same things about Korea. I doubt M Jo read the book.

      4 out of 5 stars Still good advice.......2005-06-17

      I just bought this book for a job in Kwangju and have already used it. It's made life in my new home comfortable just knowing a few things about what to expect. Recommended!

      2 out of 5 stars Not bad but very short........2004-11-14

      This book is only 50 pages and it was written years ago. It's not a very helpful guide. I have been living and teaching in Korea for the past 4 years, so I know what I'm talking about. Just do a web search for Korea blogs or Korea teaching memoir and get all the information you need.
      Marketing Identities through Language: English and Global Imagery in French Advertising
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        Marketing Identities through Language: English and Global Imagery in French Advertising
        Elizabeth Martin
        Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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        ASIN: 1403949840
        Release Date: 2006-04-13

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        Elizabeth Martin explores the impact of globalization on the language of French advertising, showing that English and global imagery play an important role in tailoring global campaigns to the French market, with media companies undeterred by the attempts through legislation to curb language mixing in the media.
        French Intellectuals Against the Left: The Antitotalitarian Moment of the 1970s (Berghahn Monographs in French Studies)
        Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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        French Intellectuals Against the Left: The Antitotalitarian Moment of the 1970s (Berghahn Monographs in French Studies)
        Michael Scott Christofferson
        Manufacturer: Berghahn Books
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        4 out of 5 stars How Bad Analogies Flourish or Russian Dressing Roulette.......2004-05-04

        Once upon a time there was a country, France, plagued by pro-Communist intellectuals. Not only did these intellectuals hate freedom and have unchallenged intellectual hegemony but they also infected the United States, Britain and the rest of the free world. But then in the 1970s a new group of intellectuals arose and against overwhelming odds managed to slay the demons and dragons of totalitarianism and utopianism. No longer would Marxists undermine the true and only liberal heaven. Such anyway is the story as told by Commentary and The New Republic, by Henri Astier in the Times Literary Supplement and Paul Berman in The New Yorker. That this narrative is so popular in the United States cannot make it completely plausible. After all the French Communist Party (PCF) was only in a junior position of power from 1944 to 1947 and 1981 to 1984. Much of French politics was devoted to keeping them from power. France was a major player in the world's leading anticommunist alliance and had a sizeable nuclear deterrent posed to annihilate the Warsaw Pact. Michael Scott Christofferson's book is of immense value in showing how inadequate this self-serving narrative is. Far from bursting forth in the 1970s like Pallas Athena, antitotalitarianism built on criticisms of political parties, support for direct democracy and coolness towards the Soviet Union that had been gestating for decades.

        Christofferson starts off with a valuable discussion of the weaknesses of the very idea of totalitarianism, such as the reservations of its own theorists like Arendt and Brzezinski, its inability to predict change in totalitarian systems, its overemphasis on all-encompassing and top down terror, and its lack of concern with the differences between industrial Germany and peasant Russia. The next chapter sets the stage for the political struggles of the seventies. The PCF belittled intellectuals, was less than courageous on Algeria and was often disingenuously and stupidly pro-Soviet. The invasions of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 undermined intellectuals' attachment to Communism. The shock of 1968 seemed to offer a new hope for revolution for intellectuals not associated with political parties, one that countered the de facto parliamentariansm of the PCF. So when the PCF and the new Socialist Party agreed on a Common Program in the early seventies, many radical intellectuals viewed this as a betrayal for moderation. Such radicals would be open to a root and branch polemic against the PCF, Leninism and the whole revolutionary project.

        Christofferson is particularly useful in showing the oversimplifications of other scholars such as Tony Judt and Sunil Khilnani. French support for East European dissidents did not begin in 1977 with support for Charter 77. There had been growing support for Eastern European dissidents since 1956, and particularly since 1968 with the Comite du 5 janvier, and the Comite international des mathematiciens. (Sartre himself thought Solzhenitsyn was too soft on the Soviet Union). Third-worldism was never as influential as often thought. Sartre though that the Cuban revolution had no validity in Europe, while Andre Gorz and Cornelius Castoriadis thought socialism was impossible in the third world. Christofferson shows that "The Gulag Archipelago" was not the dramatic revelation often thought to be. As the Socialists passed the PCF in popularity, one could no longer argue that Communists electorally dominated the Common Program. One had to emphasize the PCF's ideological influence instead. Arguing that French intellectuals were blind to the Gulag before 1974 was not accurate, but it made it easier to the attack the Common Program. Far from struggling against monolithic fellow travelers support, the antitotalitarian movement, whether in 1974 in fighting the PCF over Solzhenitsyn, in 1975 over the Portuguese Revolution or in 1976-77 in the rise of the "new philosophers", were rushing against an open door.

        As Christofferson points out, the results were not intellectually, politically or ethically encouraging. We read about Andre Glucksmann in 1974 breathlessly trying to convert the conservative Orthodox Solzhenitsyn into his own quasi-populist anarchism. We see an unpleasant opportunism in the journal Tel Quel as it moves from fashionable Maoism to praise of the United States in the space of a year. We see Glucksmann and Bernard Henri-Levy posturing as dissidents, as if it was somehow Stalinist for socialists to criticize them. Christofferson provides a fine critique of Francois Furet's Penser la Revolution francaise. This is a book based less on empirical research than on fears of totalitarianism, dressing up a questionable ideological determinism in the latest French fashions. Christofferson is particularly good on Furet's bait and switch tactics about Augustin Cochin, allowing Furet to argue that Cochin's paranoid ideas of intellectual manipulation were true because they had not been refuted. Overall, the antitotalitarian movement offered little in empirical descriptions of the "totalitarian" societies they were attacking. Neither Nazism nor Vichy made much of an appearance in their condemnations. Not only did the new philosophers' books read like a jazzed up version of the Open Society and its Enemies (Poppercorn, one might call it), but the idea that the PCF was a serious threat to French democracy in the seventies and eighties turned out to be wildly incorrect. Despite having started in movements supporting direct democracy and workers control, most antitotalitarians ended up with a strictly negative critique indistinguishable from neo-conservatism. "Given the murderous brutality of Latin American military dictatorships of the period, the moral balance sheet of antitotalitarianism is at the very least ambiguous." Notwithstanding the comparisons with Orwell, this movement was ultimately a dead end.

        5 out of 5 stars Author's comment.......2004-02-14

        To help amazon customers determine whether or not this book is for them, I have posted a copy of the back cover blurb and table of contents below:

        TABLE OF CONTENTS

        Introduction...1

        Chapter 1. From Fellow-Traveling to Revisionism: The Fate of the Revolutionary Project, 1944-1974...27

        Chapter 2. The Gulag as a Metaphor: The Politics of Reactions to Solzhenitsyn and The Gulag Archipelago...89

        Chapter 3. Intellectuals and the Politics of the Union of the Left: The Birth of Antitotalitarianism...113

        Chapter 4. Dissidence Celebrated: Intellectuals and Repression in Eastern Europe...156

        Chapter 5. Antitotalitarianism Triumphant: The New Philosophers and Their Interlocutors...184

        Chapter 6. Antitotalitarianism Against the Revolutionary Tradition: François Furet's Revisionist History of the French Revolution...229

        Epilogue and Conclusion...267

        BACK COVER BLURB

        In the latter half of the 1970s, the French intellectual Left denounced communism, Marxism, and revolutionary politics through a critique of left-wing totalitarianism that paved the way for today's postmodern, liberal, and moderate republican political options. Contrary to the dominant understanding of the critique of totalitarianism as an abrupt rupture induced by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, Christofferson argues that French antitotalitarianism was the culmination of direct-democratic critiques of communism and revisions of the revolutionary project after 1956. The author's focus on the direct-democratic politics of French intellectuals offers an important alternative to recent histories that seek to explain the course of French intellectual politics by France's apparent lack of a liberal tradition.

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