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The collegiate system is at the heart of the University’s success, giving students and academics the benefits of belonging to both a large, internationally renowned institution and to a smaller, interdisciplinary, academic college community. It enables leading academics and students across subjects and year groups, and from different cultures and countries to come together to share ideas.
All Colleges invest heavily in facilities for extensive library and IT provision, accommodation and welfare support, and sports and social events. The relatively small number of students at each college allows for close and supportive personal attention to be given to the induction, academic development and welfare of individuals.
Each college has its own Governing Body, comprising the Head of House and a number of Fellows, most of whom also hold University posts. There are also six Permanent Private Halls, which were founded by various Christian denominations and still retain their religious character.
Series associated with Colleges
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| 868 | The nature of the beast: Genetic evidence for Yeti, Bigfoot and other mystery creatures | Bryan Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics, describes how he located and analysed as many DNA samples as possible with links to the Yeti. In doing so, he found himself entering a strange world of mystery and sensationalism, fraud and obsession. | Bryan Sykes | 10 Jul 2015 | |
| 867 | Lessons from Studying the Japanese Economy | Professor Richard B . Freeman (Harvard University), Mark's former supervisor, talked about Dr Rebick's broader contribution to the field of Japanese Economy and the shape of that filed more generally. | Richard B Freeman | 09 Jul 2015 | |
| 866 | An International Comparison in Hope and Happiness between Japan, United Kingdom, and United States | Professor Yuji Genda (University of Tokyo), Mark's colleague: shared his recollections about Dr Rebick and about research Mark's work inspired. | Yuji Genda | 09 Jul 2015 | |
| 865 | Introduction to the Memorial Event to Commemorate the Work and Influence of Dr Mark Rebick | Professor Jenny Corbett (Australian National University), Mark's colleague, talked about the work and life of Professor Mark Rebick and his contributions to the field of Japanese economics and academic life at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies. | Jenny Corbett | 09 Jul 2015 | |
| 864 | The Alchemist of Exile: Writing the Life of a Vietnamese Political Prisoner | Dr Lorraine Paterson gives a talk at the Southeast Asia Seminar on June 10th, 2015. | Lorraine Paterson | 01 Jul 2015 | |
| 863 | Rumors, riots, and taxis: The politics of Myanmar's new media infrastructure | Southeast Asia Seminar Trinity Term 2015 | Matt Schissler | 23 Jun 2015 | |
| 862 | Lunchtime talk with Italian journalist Antonio Armano | Cultural journalist and a writer.Antonio Armano in conversation with Valentina Gosetti. | Antonio Armano, Valentina Gosetti | 23 Jun 2015 | |
| 861 | Why was the Beveridge report so popular? | William of Durahm Lecture. | Ben Jackson | 22 Jun 2015 | |
| 860 | Creative Commons | Beveridge, the Webbs and the coming of the Welfare State. | William of Durham Lecture. | Michael Ward | 22 Jun 2015 |
| 859 | The Greece of the East: Writing the History of Music in Meiji Japan | A talk from Dr Jonathan Service, Wadham College, Oxford, at the Nissan Institute. | Jonathan Service | 22 Jun 2015 | |
| 858 | Japan's New Security Cooperation in Counter-Piracy Missions | A talk by Professor Wilhelm Vosse, International Christian University, at the Nissan Institute. | Wilhelm Vosse | 22 Jun 2015 | |
| 857 | Engineering the Empire: "Comprehensive Development" in Japan's Colonial Borderlands | Professor Aaron S. Moore, Arizona State University gives a talk at the Nissan Institute. | Aaron S. Moore | 22 Jun 2015 | |
| 856 | European security and defence: a personal account from Latvia’s perspective | President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, renowned politician, diplomat, and former President of Latvia (1999-2007), talks autobiographically about her life and career. | Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga | 19 Jun 2015 | |
| 855 | Archie Cochrane Lecture 2015: Malaria control - past, present and future | Professor Nicholas John White, Professor of Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford and Mahidol University, Physician, John Radcliffe Hospital gives the Archie Cochrane 2015 lecture. | Nicholas John White | 16 Jun 2015 | |
| 854 | Creative Commons | OxPeace 2015: Closing Remarks | Dr Liz Carmichael closes the 2015 OxPeace Conference. | Liz Carmichael | 16 Jun 2015 |
| 853 | Creative Commons | OxPeace 2015: Key concerns in peace and security: building more peaceful and inclusive societies | Sunil Suri gives a talk for Session C of the 2015 OxPeace conference; Peace and the proposed UN Sustainable Development Goals. | Sunil Suri | 16 Jun 2015 |
| 852 | Creative Commons | OxPeace 2015: Themes in the relationship between development and peace | Jonathan Granoff gives a talk for Session C of the 2015 OxPeace conference; Peace and the proposed UN Sustainable Development Goals. | Jonathan Granoff | 16 Jun 2015 |
| 851 | Creative Commons | Oxpeace 2015: ISIL and Islamic responses to extremism | Imam Monwar Hussain give a talk for Session B of the 2015 OxPeace conference; Religion in peace and conflict: extreme war-making, didcated peacebuilding. | Monawar Hussain | 16 Jun 2015 |
| 850 | OxPeace 2015: In the name of religion: the untold story of faith-based conflict prevention | Professor Alpaslan Ozerdem and Laura Payne give a talk for Session B of the 2015 OxPeace conference; Religion in peace and conflict: extreme war-making, didcated peacebuilding | Alpaslan Ozerdem, Laura Payne | 16 Jun 2015 | |
| 849 | Creative Commons | Oxpeace 2015: 'A Force for Peace': The UN Secretary-General and the Cold War, 1946-1953 | Ellen Jenny Ravndal gives a talk for Session A of the 2015 OxPeace conference; New directions in the study of peacebuilding. | Ellen Jenny Ravndal | 16 Jun 2015 |
| 848 | Creative Commons | Oxpeace 2015: Partnering to Make Peace: The Effectiveness of UN-African Joint Mediation Efforts in Civil Wars in Africa | Allard Duursma gives a talk for Session A of the 2015 OxPeace conference; New directions in the study of peacebuilding. | Allard Duursma | 16 Jun 2015 |
| 847 | Creative Commons | Oxpeace 2015: UN Peacebuilding and the pursuit of multi-Ethnicity in Kosovo | Dana Landau gives a talk for Session A of the 2015 OxPeace conference; New directions in the study of peacebuilding. | Dana Landau | 16 Jun 2015 |
| 846 | Creative Commons | Oxpeace 2015: Of Mandates and Majors: Exploring The United Nations' Role in Disarmament Demobilisation and Reinsertion, the Case of Timor Leste | Dr Kate Roll gives a talk for Session A of the 2015 OxPeace conference; New directions in the study of peacebuilding. | Kate Roll | 16 Jun 2015 |
| 845 | Creative Commons | OxPeace 2015: UN Protection of Civilians, with special emphasis on South Sudan | Hilde Johnson gives a talk at OxPeace 2015 Conference, held at St John's College on 10th May 2015. | Hilde Johnson | 16 Jun 2015 |
| 844 | Creative Commons | OxPeace 2015: Opening Plenary Peace and the UN at 70 | Edward Mortimer CMG gives the opening talk for the OxPeace 2015 conference, held at St John's College on 10th May 2015. | Edward Mortimer | 16 Jun 2015 |
| 843 | Creative Commons | Oxpeace 2015 Introduction | Dr Liz Carmichael opens the 2015 OxPeace Conference, held in St John's College on 10th May 2015. | Liz Carmichael | 16 Jun 2015 |
| 842 | Creative Commons | OxPeace 2015 Keynote: Peace and the UN at 70 | Mark Maloch-Brown gives the keynote address at the 2015 OxPeace conference. | Mark Maloch-Brown | 16 Jun 2015 |
| 841 | St Edmund Hall Research Expo 2015: Introduction | A brief overview of the event | Keith Gull | 12 Jun 2015 | |
| 840 | From Moral Neutrality to Effective Altruism: The Changing Scope and Significance of Moral Philosophy | The third in the series of the Tanner Lectures which serve to advance and reflect upon the scholarly and scientific learning relating to human values | Peter Singer | 12 Jun 2015 | |
| 839 | Promoting nutrition through schools in a lower middle income country, Sri Lanka | Investigating how schools may help improve diet, particularly in low- and middle-income countries | Julianne Williams | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 838 | Past and Future Earthquake Hazard in Asia | This lecture illustrates the ways in which the landscape in Central Asia has been influenced by active faults and earthquakes and will examine the hazard faced at the present-day. | Richard Walker | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 837 | Rethinking the American Revolution and the US Founding Myth | The importance of looking at the American colonial period not as the ‘Thirteen Colonies’ but as a British America consisting of twenty-six colonies and provinces. | Trent Taylor | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 836 | The stimulated brain | How non-invasive brain stimulation techniques might work, and how we have started to use them in stroke survivors. | Charlotte Stagg | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 835 | Can we predict the structure of matter? | From predicting the properties of nanotechnological devices to the structural stability of small proteins and dynamics of water. | Mariana Rossi | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 834 | Current practice in preventing and handling missing data alongside clinical trials: are we doing well? | Reviewing the methodology surrounding missing data in research and statistical analysis, clarifying why it can contribute to misleading results. | Ines Rombach | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 833 | The Eternity Puzzle | How mathematicians think about the puzzle that Christopher Monckton launched in 1999. | Oliver Riordan | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 832 | What debt management strategies do OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries follow? | How do debt managers decide about the maturity of new public debt? | Ilona Mostipan | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 831 | Shakespeare's Animals | Why animals are everywhere in Shakespeare's language. | Tom MacFaul | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 830 | Looking at atoms to understand mega-structures' structural integritySome components of nuclear reactors, such as steam generators, can weigh over 300 tonnes (4m diameter and 20m tall) and are expected to be safely in service for over 20 years. However, it | How we need to characterize materials at atomic level in order to understand their macroscopic behaviour. | Sergio Lozano-Perez | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 829 | How to spot a liar in literature | An introduction to the theory of unreliable narration and outlines two critical approaches: the cognitivist and the rhetorical. | Alex Lloyd | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 828 | Who killed "Dead Meat" Thompson? | Using a scenario from the Hollywood film "Hot Shots", how should a compensation payment have been divided up between all those involved in the circumstances of "Dead Meat" Thompson's death? | Dominik Karos | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 827 | A digital database of the correspondence of Catherine the Great of Russia | Demonstrating the pilot and explaining the significance of this digital database. | Andrew Kahn | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 826 | Watching the Brain Change | Our research uses brain imaging techniques such as MRI, to assess changes in brain activity or brain structure. We then try to use this information to design new interventions to improve healthy ageing or boost recovery from stroke. | Heidi Johansen-Berg | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 825 | Seeing the Invisible in Health and Disease | How our ability to now see the invisible is central to research in biology – from infectious disease to cancer and Alzheimers. | Keith Gull | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 824 | Cancer: why it's bad to the bone | Why is cancer metastasis to bone so devastating, what are the challenges, and what are we trying to do about it. | Claire Edwards | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 823 | Climate Change and the fall of the Pyramid Age of Egypt | Is Climate Change responsible for the downfall of the Pyramid Age of Egypt | Michael Dee | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 822 | Earth’s earliest super predators | Anomalocaridids: their ecology & their diversity. | Allison Daley | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 821 | The ethics of rail travel; or, what George Eliot can teach us about HS2 | An analysis of George Eliot's 'Middlemarch' and how the writer's critique of railroads might inform an ethically sensitive approach to HS2 | Philip Chadwick | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 820 | Trade Unions and North Africa's Arab Spring | What role did trade unions play in the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings of 2010/2011? | Dina Bishara | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 819 | What can dinosaurs tell us about evolution? | Fossil records tell us a lot about evolution around the time of dinosaurs | Roger Benson | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 818 | Lost in Translation? Experiencing the body on stage and screen | How audiences respond to the body on stage and on screen. | Alexandra Greenfield, Vanessa Lee | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 817 | Colouring-in for Adults | How flow cytometry can help investigations into immune-mediated diseases. | Hussein Al-Mossowi | 11 Jun 2015 | |
| 816 | Sanjaya Lall lecture 2015 | Professor Abhijit Banerjee (Sanjaya Lall Visiting Professor) delivers the 2015 Sajaya Lall Lecture. | Abhijit Banerjee, Ingrid Lunt, John Vickers, Vincent Crawford | 08 Jun 2015 | |
| 815 | The 17th Ockham Lecture - 'Physics in the World of Ideas: Complexity as Energy' | Given by Professor Yuri Manin, Professor Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany; Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA; Principal Researcher, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. | Yuri Manin | 03 Jun 2015 | |
| 814 | Reading the Corpus | LAL’s contribution to cultural diplomacy, diffusion, literary exchanges, and education. Wen-chin Ouyang and Chip Rossetti lead discussion with Philip Kennedy, Sean Anthony, Julia Bray, Robert Irwin and Mohamed-Salah Omri. | Wen-Chin Ouyang, Chip Rossetti, Philip Kennedy, Julia Bray | 29 May 2015 | |
| 813 | Translating the Corpus | LAL’s remit, ambition and complexity. Philip Kennedy and Richard Sieburth lead discussion with Roger Allen, Humphrey Davies, Marilyn Booth and Robyn Creswell. | Roger Allen, Humphrey Davies, Marilyn Booth, Robyn Creswell | 29 May 2015 | |
| 812 | Editing the Corpus | Methods and approaches to establishing the texts, linguistic difficulty, history of transmission, literary character, audience. Michael Cooperson leads discussion with Julia Bray, Joseph Lowry, and Devin Stewart. | Michael Cooperson, Julia Bray, Joseph Lowry, Devin Stewart | 29 May 2015 | |
| 811 | Remembering the Corpus [Part 3] | LAL’s importance to comparative literature and ways of reading. Marina Warner leads discussion with Dominique Jullien, Ros Ballaster, Wen-chin Ouyang and Matthew Reynolds. | Marina Warner, Dominique Jullien, Ros Ballaster, Wen-Chin Ouyang | 29 May 2015 | |
| 810 | Remembering the Corpus [Part 2] | Different genres embraced by LAL and modes of writing. Julia Bray and James Montgomery lead discussion with Beatrice Gruendler and Shawkat Toorawa. | Julia Bray, James Montgomery, Beatrice Gruendier, Shawkat Toorawa | 29 May 2015 | |
| 809 | Remembering the Corpus | Overview of the project, difficulties, ideals, scope, historical context. Speakers: Philip Kennedy leads discussion with Geert Jan van Gelder, Ferial Ghazoul, and Joseph Lowry. | Philip Kennedy, Geert Jan van Gelder, Ferial Ghazoul, Joseph Lowry | 29 May 2015 | |
| 808 | The Avian Genome Explosion | The ASC Trinity Term Lecture delivered by Professor Tom Gilbert, exploring the analysis of bird genomes and evolution. | Tom Gilbert | 27 May 2015 | |
| 807 | An Audience with Rufus Norris, Artistic Director of the National Theatre | The acclaimed director, Rufus Norris, has just taken over as Artistic Director of the National Theatre – a role that is widely regarded as the biggest job in British theatre. Here he is in discussion with Robin Geffen. | Rufus Norris, Robin Geffen | 18 May 2015 | |
| 806 | Tower Poetry 2015: The Forensics of Salt-Licking | Winner of the 2015 Christopher Tower Poetry competition, Isla Anderson, reads her poem 'The Forensics of Salt-Licking'. | Isla Anderson | 14 May 2015 | |
| 805 | Tower Poetry 2015: Fusion | Second prizewinner of the 2015 Christopher Tower Poetry competition, Max Thomas, reads 'Fusion'. | Max Thomas | 14 May 2015 | |
| 804 | Tower Poetry 2015: Firewood | Third prizewinner of the 2015 Christopher Tower Poetry competition, Lewis Harrington, reads his poem 'Firewood'. | Lewis Harrington | 14 May 2015 | |
| 803 | Tower Poetry 2015: Purblind | Commended winner of the 2015 Christopher Tower Poetry competition, Matt Ward, reads 'Purblind'. | Matt Ward | 14 May 2015 | |
| 802 | Tower Poetry 2015: Closed Door | Commended winner of the 2015 Christopher Tower Poetry competition, Andrew Wells, reads 'Closed Door'. | Andrew Wells | 14 May 2015 | |
| 801 | TACOD Conference: The future of Open Data- Challenges and Opportunities IV | Towards a European strategy to reduce Corruption through Open Data | Lorenzo Segato | 11 May 2015 | |
| 800 | TACOD Conference: The future of Open Data- Challenges and Opportunities III | Towards a European strategy to reduce Corruption through Open Data | Ben Worthy | 11 May 2015 | |
| 799 | TACOD Conference: The future of Open Data- Challenges and Opportunities II | Towards a European strategy to reduce Corruption through Open Data | Richard Rose | 11 May 2015 | |
| 798 | TACOD Conference: The future of Open Data- Challenges and Opportunities I | Towards a European strategy to reduce Corruption through Open Data | Hera Hussain | 11 May 2015 | |
| 797 | TACOD Conference: Impact of Open Data in exposing corruption: Italy Findings | Towards a European strategy to reduce Corruption through Open Data | Ombretta Ingrasci | 11 May 2015 | |
| 796 | TACOD Conference: Impact of Open Data in exposing corruption: UK Findings | Towards a European strategy to reduce Corruption through Open Data | Nick Maxwell | 11 May 2015 | |
| 795 | TACOD Conference: Open Data as a Tool of Reducing Corruption- Austria Findings | Towards a European strategy to reduce Corruption through Open Data | Mathias Huter | 11 May 2015 | |
| 794 | TACOD Conference: Open Data as a Tool of Reducing Corruption- Italy Findings | Towards a European strategy to reduce Corruption through Open Data | Giorgio Fraschini | 11 May 2015 | |
| 793 | TACOD Conference: Open Data as a Tool of Reducing Corruption- UK Findings | Towards a European strategy to reduce Corruption through Open Data | Nikolaos Theodorakis | 11 May 2015 | |
| 792 | TACOD Conference: Welcome and Introduction to Project | Towards a European strategy to reduce Corruption through Open Data | Liz David-Barrett | 07 May 2015 | |
| 791 | Creative Commons | Scottish Referendum | Panel discussion on the Scottish Referendum. | Calum Miller, David Torrancem, Adam Ramsay, Ben Jackson | 28 Apr 2015 |
| 790 | Raven Becomes Voracious: Tales of Insatiable Hunger - Body and Being Network's storytelling performance/talk | Body and Being Network's storytelling performance/talk 'Raven Becomes Voracious: Tales of Insatiable Hunger', held at St Hilda's College on 30th October 2014. | Rebecca Leach, Stanely Ulijaszek | 31 Mar 2015 | |
| 789 | Creative Commons | Children's Worlds through Children's Literature - Lecture 4 | Fourth lecture in the Green Templeton College lecture 2015. | David Rudd | 30 Mar 2015 |
| 788 | Global Childhoods - Lecture 3 | Third lecture in the Green Templeton Colege 2015 lecture series. | Karen Wells | 30 Mar 2015 | |
| 787 | Creative Commons | Children and the Internet- Lecture 2 | Second lecture in the Green Templeton College 2015 lecture series. | Sonia Livingstone | 30 Mar 2015 |
| 786 | Children, War, Insecurity and Conflict - Lecture 1 | Dr Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 2008-2014 gives the first Green Templeton College Lecture in 2015 on war and human rights. | Navi Pillay | 27 Mar 2015 | |
| 785 | Creative Commons | Which way forward? | A talk as part of the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series | Afif Safieh | 27 Mar 2015 |
| 784 | Creative Commons | Israel - Palestine: Can Europe Save the Two-State Idea | A talk as part of the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series | Alon Liel | 27 Mar 2015 |
| 783 | Creative Commons | How European Governments subcontract policy on Israel/Palestine to parliamentarians,civil society and businesses | A talk as part of the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series | Phyllis Starkey | 27 Mar 2015 |
| 782 | Creative Commons | Title: Why Egypt’s 2011 Uprising Has Failed to deliver on its Promise? | A talk given as part of the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series | Tarek Osman | 27 Mar 2015 |
| 781 | From Edwardian Merton to the Western Front 1906-1918 | A talk by Professor Anthony Fletcher (Merton 1959), Emeritus Professor of English Social History at the University of London, and author of 'Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front'. | Anthony Fletcher | 27 Mar 2015 | |
| 780 | 100 years on, how Tolkien came to the brink of Middle-earth | A talk given at a day-long symposium that focused on different aspects of JRR Tolkien's academic and literary work, and his life in Oxford. The talk is based on a paper published in 'Tolkien Studies 11' (West Virginia University Press: 2014). | John Garth | 27 Mar 2015 | |
| 779 | Latin American Culture and Politics in the 1960s: The View from Buenos Aires | Professor John King, Warwick University, delivers the annual Guido Di Tella Memorial Lecture 2015. | John King, Margaret MacMillan, Leigh Payne | 25 Mar 2015 | |
| 778 | Why the Sandinista Revolution mattered then (and now) | Professor Valpy FitzGerald, St Antony's College, gives a talk for the Latin American Centre series. | Valpy FitzGerald | 19 Mar 2015 | |
| 777 | Financial remittances, social remittances, and the state in Latin America | Dr Covadonga Meseguer, London School of Economics, gives a talk for the Latin American Centre series. | Covadonga Meseguer | 19 Mar 2015 | |
| 776 | Total war: Mexico and Europe, 1914 | Professor Alan Knight give a seminar for the Latin American Centre series. | Alan Knight | 19 Mar 2015 | |
| 775 | Colombia: Peace and history | Malcolm Deas, University Lecturer in the Politics and Government of Latin America, University of Oxford and Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford (from 1966 to 2008). Gives a talk on Colombia: Peace and History. | Malcolm Deas | 19 Mar 2015 | |
| 774 | Everything's Re-Made with Shovel and Spade: Playing Shakespeare with Simon Russell Beale | Simon Russell Beale, in conversation with Libby Purves, on his personal experience of playing Shakespeare in the theatre. | Simon Russell Beale, Libby Purves | 13 Mar 2015 | |
| 773 | The UK, Germany, and the European Union | Talk given by the former German Ambassador, Georg Boomgaarden, at St Anne's College in November 2014. Part of the inaugural international seminar and dinner at the College. | Georg Boomgaarden | 11 Mar 2015 | |
| 772 | Creative Commons | The Origin of Our Species | Professor Chris Stringer, Research Leader in Human Origins at the Natural History Museum, London, gave the 2015 Haldane Lecture at Wolfson College, Oxford. He discusses how we are mostly, but not entirely, 'Out of Africa'. | Chris Stringer | 10 Mar 2015 |
| 771 | Shining Light on Medieval Manuscripts | Prof. Andrew Beeby, Durham University and Keble Senior Academic Visitor, discusses his current project on the chemical analysis through Raman spectroscopy of Medieval manuscripts, and how his work can contribute to the historical record. | Andrew Beeby | 02 Mar 2015 | |
| 770 | Lady White Lecture 2015: If not you, who? If not now, when? | Alumna and entrepreneur Caroline Plumb talks about the challenges of overcoming fears and expectations of normality to help find our path to success. | Caroline Plumb | 02 Mar 2015 | |
| 769 | The Diffusion of Islamic Laws Across Indonesia | A talk as part of the Southeast Asia Seminar Series | Michael Buehler | 25 Feb 2015 |
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