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This volume on Russia is the first in a series on strategic thinking in Asia. It examines four periods since the 1980s and covers views of China, Japan, the Korean peninsula, Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and regionalism. With an emphasis on Northeast Asia the geographical chapters provide an in-depth look at how foreign policy toward separate areas was guided. The overview compares how strategic thinking evolved, while reflecting on factors that shaped it. The book explains the Putin era's ambivalent approach to Asia and finds lessons from earlier approaches worthy of further attention.
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This authoritative work explores the complex and evolving interplay among national, regional, and global forces influencing Northeast Asia's security, economy, and identity. Written by a team of leading scholars, the book presents a variety of theoretical perspectives and case studies to offer a comprehensive analysis of the pressures that shape the policy choices of China, Russia, Japan, the United States, North and South Korea, and Taiwan. The authors' historically and culturally informed narratives help track and explain the changes and continuities of relationships within the region and with the United States and Russia. Concise and current, this book will be essential reading for all those concerned with the role of a changing Northeast Asia in world politics.
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Although Northeast Asia could be on the verge of becoming the world's third great region, expanding economic ties have not been supported by security cooperation and trust. Gilbert Rozman traces the problems in establishing regionalism over 15 years. Relying on many sources in the languages of the region, he offers a detailed picture of conflicting strategies in China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea. While covering U.S. globalization policies, he draws attention to debates about bilateral relations in the four countries, along with shifting outcomes over six periods.
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A country of stark contradictions and puzzles, North Korea exhibits uncanny resilience in the face of external shocks and internal woes, raising important questions of theoretical and real-world significance. This volume offers a major reappraisal of the changing relationship between North Korea and its neighboring powers in the post-Cold War era in both theoretical and practical terms. The contributors examine the complex interplay of global, regional, and national forces that have influenced and shaped the changing patterns of conflict and cooperation in North Korea's relationships with China, Russia, and Japan and with the United States. Within the context of Northeast Asian geopolitics, the book tracks, explains, and assesses North Korea's survival strategies in both the security and economic domains, as well as the prospects of these strategies in the coming years.
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Nuclear Proliferation in Northeast Asia: The Quest for Security
Andrew O'Neil
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The core principle underlying the strategy of nonproliferation – acceptance of a two tier international nuclear order - has become unsustainable. Policy makers and those in the academic world need to turn their attention to exploring new proliferation management strategies premised first and foremost on recognizing that nuclear weapons are here to stay and that determined proliferators can not be stopped from going nuclear. Andrew O’Neil develops this argument in relation to the role of nuclear weapons in Northeast Asia, the engine house of world economic growth. To what extent does the failing strategy of nonproliferation pose serious challenges for Northeast Asia’s security environment? Are there alternative strategies for managing nuclear weapons in the region? Should the presence of nuclear weapons in Northeast Asia necessarily be seen in exclusively negative terms, as many experts believe?
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Power and Security in Northeast Asia: Shifting Strategies
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Japanese leaders and often the media too have substituted symbols for strategy in dealing with Asia. This comprehensive review of four periods over twenty years exposes the strategic gap in viewing individually and collectively China, Taiwan, the Korean peninsula, Russia, Central Asia, and regionalism.
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Russian Politics in Exile: The Northeast Asian Balance of Power, 1924-1931
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This work explores Russian life in Northern Manchuria during the period of political, economic, and social upheaval, leading to its eventual de facto control by Japan, and disruption of the balance of power in the Northeast Asian Region. Presenting a fresh interpretation of the combined impact of the 1929 Sino-Soviet Conflict and the onset of the Great Depression, the book examines the interplay of Soviet and eacute;migreacute; Russian interests in Manchuria, and their role in generating the instability that led to Japanese intervention and Russian decline.
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Politics and Economics in Northeast Asia: Nationalism and Regionalism in Contention
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Northeast Asia--China, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia, and Pacific Russia--remain politically suspicious of each other and economically unintegrated. Recently, however, the growing importance of economics on domestic and foreign policy agendas has led to a call for multilateral economic cooperation at the regional level. In this book, experts from the respective countries and the United States examine the desirability and feasibility of regional economic cooperation.
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An often-overlooked yet significant and prophetic event in U.S. history, the Barbary War was America's first battle against an Arab despot and President Thomas Jefferson's first major challenge to U. S. foreign policy. As described by A.B.C. Whipple, it is a great yarn as well as first-rate history. The author skillfully combines vivid accounts of derring-do with shrewd appraisals of contemporary politics and diplomacy. Because the Continental Navy had been disbanded, there was an urgent need to develop a new Navy and Marine Corps. Faced with the choice of trading arms for hostages or meeting force with force, Jefferson sent a squadron of warships to the Mediterranean while Congress was in recess, prompting the first major debate on the war-making powers of a U.S. president. The war included a blockade of Tripoli, sustained bombardment by the Navy's new frigates, and finally a ground war fought by a U.S. Army captain, eight Marines, and a rabble of Christians and Arabs sent to free the hostages.
Whipple's rousing narrative is filled with fascinating personalities. In addition to Jefferson, there is Commodore Edward Preble, the quarter-deck tyrant who commanded the first naval forces into battle; the bold junior officer Stephen Decatur; the tyrannical bashaw, Yusuf Karamanli; William Eaton, an early-day Lawrence of Arabia; Marine lieutenant Presley O'Bannon; and a host of others.
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A flash of deja vu.......2005-12-05
Petty Muslim tyrants, U.S. hostages, a President's "police action" in lieu of a Congressional war declaration, American political infighting and finger pointing, diplomatic waffling, the valor of American front line fighters, military leadership ranging from exemplary to non-existent, futile diplomatic negotiations, indecisive combat operations with no end in sight, perfidious allies. Sound familiar in light of recent events? Yet all apply to America's war with the Barbary Coast (Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco) during the first half-decade of the 19th century.
TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI is Addison Beecher Colvin Whipple's account of President Jefferson's diplomatic and military attempts to end the attacks on U.S. merchant ships in the Mediterranean by Barbary Coast pirates without having to resort to the annual payment of protection money (as was the habit of major and minor European powers of the period). More to the point, it's the story of the birth of the U.S. Navy and its land combat arm, the Marine Corps, both of which saw their first overseas deployment in this frustrating conflict.
If you think the naval forces of young America were resoundingly victorious over the North African brigand rulers, think again. True, Commodore Edward Preble and his Mediterranean squadron's intrepid siege of the port of Tripoli is a shining star in American military history. But, it was bookended by the ineffectual efforts of both Preble's predecessor and successor, Commodores Richard Morris and Samuel Barron respectively, with the same fleet and same mission, i.e. to bring the pirates to heel. And the conflict as a whole, while occasionally punctuated with feats of battlefield bravery rendering the greatest of honor to American servicemen, also included farce, such as when the frigate USS Philadelphia ran aground on a reef, its 300-man crew subsequently captured, while giving chase to a Tripolitan raider. And then there was the intrepid but ultimately futile overland march by U.S. Consul William Eaton at the head of a contingent of eight Marines, led by Lt. Presley O'Bannon, and a motley army comprising Greeks, Arabs, and mercenaries from some dozen other countries, with the intent of overthrowing the recalcitrant Tripolitan ruler and installing on the thrown his exiled brother, an American-backed stooge.
I'm knocking a star off what is otherwise a solid and engaging historical narrative because the volume has no maps of the region or contemporary diagrams of the port of Tripoli to give the reader at least a two-dimensional perspective on the action, nor is there a photo section comprising the portraits of the leading figures from both sides, military and diplomatic, American and Arab. Surely they weren't all so anonymous as to be unrecorded by history? To me, this is a severe deficiency.
The only substantive result of the Barbary Coast campaign, besides the eventual release of the USS Philadelphia's crew from captivity, was the battle experience it gave American naval officers for use in the War of 1812 soon to follow. Perhaps more lasting is the sword carried by every Marine officer in formal uniform, the design of which is based on that of the scimitar presented to Lt. O'Bannon by a grateful Arab bashaw. And, of course, the words "the Shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Hymn. Semper Fi!
The Start of a Tradition.......2002-04-04
"To The Shores of Tripoli" is one of those rare books which present a segment of American history in a way which foreshadows current crises and developments. As such it is a very interesting and timely book. This book tells the story of America's first incursion into the morass of the ongoing conflict between Christendom and Islam. As such, it provides an interesting backdrop to the current war on terrorism.
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Barbary states of North African pursued a state policy of attacking Christian shipping for the purpose of taking prizes as well as prisoners who could be released for ransom or sold into slavery. The traditional response to this practice by the great European powers was the payment of annual tribute to the states in order to purchase immunity from seizure for their merchantmen. Ironically, it was the Unites States, a new nation brimming with little more than enthusiasm, which chose Mar's response to this challenge.
The bellicose response of the U.S. can be most clearly attributed to Thomas Jefferson. As consul in France, Jefferson had lobbied for a military response to the Barbary pirates. As President, he had the opportunity to make his wishes policy. One necessary step to implement this policy was for the U.S. to build a Navy, the cost of which made the proposal very controversial. Two of the vessels built for the expedition, the Constitution of Boston and the Constellation of Baltimore, remain on public display in the harbors in which they were built. Others, such as the Nautilus and Enterprise, were part of a long line of traditional naval names which have continued to recent times.
With fleets built and assembled, the Mediterranean squadron set sail for duty. Remaining in the Mediterranean for several years, the fleet had an inconsistent history of waiting and striking, success and failure. Several changes of commander were necessary before the right combination of men and ships was achieved in order to make decisive action possible. Throughout the process, U.S. actions were hampered by the delay in communications between Washington and the front.
Through a combination of diplomatic pressure, naval attack and land based assaults involving U.S. Marines and local insurgents, the U.S. succeeded in extracting the release of American prisoners and treaties of peace between the U.S. and the Barbary States.
This story does give an insight into several themes of history. The problems resulting from decisions made in Washington being based on stale information reminds us of the power and responsibility of theatre commanders in eras in which direction from the political powers took months to transmit. There was no micro management from Washington in this war!
A study of the Tripolitan Wars may provide insights into similarities to contemporary policy challenges. In Jefferson's day, as well as in Bush's, it was the United States, not European powers, which determined to rid the world of evil through force, rather than to work out an accommodation with it. Jefferson, as Bush, used combined forces of American and local origin. The resolution of the Tripolitan Wars, as in the case of Desert Storm, achieved the immediate objectives, but left the primary Evil Enemies in power. The Evil Persons of the Barbary Coast, as the Evil Persons of the Gulf, would return to make mischief after the U.S. forces had left the theatre.
"To the Shores of Tripoli" demonstrates that for over two centuries of U.S. history the U.S. has remained a country guided by its principles. Whereas other nations often chose pragmatism over principle, the United States, whether led by a Jefferson, a Bush, or any of those in between, remains a nation rooted in its beliefs and its ideals. Whether virtually impotent, ass in the times of the Tripolitan Wars, or powerful, as today, the U.S. has always drawn strength form its ideals. This is the spirit which enabled America to rally to Wilson's call to make the world safe for democracy, or to respond to Roosevelt's call to make America the Arsenal of Democracy. From the Shores of Tripoli to the deserts of Afghanistan, it has been the U.S., if anyone, who has lead the forces of good versus evil. To learn how this tradition began, "To The Shores of Tripoli" is a great place to start.
God Bless the U.S.A.!
It needs a map!!.......2001-11-18
Beyond that a very good work. Somewhat more scholarly than the Tuchman history's I have come to enjoy but still keeps things moving. It does speak to events of our time which really is why I got the bood. Draw your own conclusions, just have an Atlas nearby until the locations mesh with the story.
Over the Hills, and Very Far Away..........2001-06-17
This is a slam-bang account of the first overseas campaign waged by the United States. With a new, expert little Navy, and an even smaller Marine Corps, the young United States, after great success against the Revolutionary French Navy in the Quasi-War, the cocky country, fed up with foreign blackmail and extortion, sends a squadron to the Mediterranean to deal with the problem. This is adventure and high deeds at its best. Naval historian ABC Whipple is definitely up to the challenge here and he has produced a winner of a tale and a book.
All of the elements of high suspense are here: daring raids into dark harbors, ships exploding in the night from unknown causes, the roar and rush of boarders from gun deck to gun deck, dedicated seamen and Marines sacrificing themselves for their comrades, the mystery of the Arab world, and the double dealing of what was essentially a group of pirate states, a daring march across the North African desert with a motley army of Arabs, Greek mercenaries, and 'a few Marines' who, at the end of their journey launch a neck-or-nothing assault against a fortified city and take it, raising the US flag, for the first time, 'over a fortress of the Old World.'
This is history at its best and this book rekindled an interest in the young US Navy, which has blossomed into a mini-collection of excellent books on the subject, of which this was the first. This book should be read by everyone with an interest in US history. A great read, an excellent book, and superb history.
misleding title.......2001-05-30
Mr Whipple's To the Shores of Tripoli is a good read about a little known [to non-navy/marine historical buffs] period in U>S history. The title is somewhat misleading since it deals with the diplomacy and operations against the Barbary Pirates rather than an organizational history. Primarily the adventures or better, misadventures of the U.S. consul/former soldeir, William Eaton, it shows the problems inherent in our dealing with belligerent islam, problems still bedeviling us. As in most histories i have seen, the maps are poor or entirely lacking. reading this soon after reading Douglas Porch's Conquest of the Sahara and his Conquest of Morocco, the similarities are interesting. The natives are the same, the casus belli similar and the inability of both the french and U.S. to understand its "enemy" the same. there are a few techical errors which i will leave the avid nit-picker to find, but on the whole this book is well worth reading by the general history reading public
pete saussy
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…A collection of memories that does more justice for the Marine grunt than any book has done in ages. Sure, there have been tons of biographies written about leaders and their combat expeditions; even more that deal with specific battles and the glorious outcomes attain. The author chooses to write about the interaction that no training can provide. He writes of stateside bases and far off places, of lessons learned and mysteries revealed. Most active duty grunts have seen some form of combat, evacuations or humanitarian exercises. The author is no different. He chooses not to write about his awards or deployments but of the brotherhood that is built during a tour, and the way the unselfish and courageous warrior heart is formed. The author shares his clearest recollections that are far and away beyond those that any fiction writer has dreamed up or any fancy series writer has yet been able to obtain. This then is not a book of interviews and side bars with the top brass who point their fingers and give the order but more about then men who take the order; learning from their mistakes, swearing and smiling as they go.
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Great book for any FORM ER MARINE.......2004-10-21
Bought this for myself and my father. Two old war horses looking for the real stories. Chadz's editor had a few troubles yet the truth is there, funny, insightful and a heck of a memory from this Marine... in this world of money making ex-marines, the ability that this Marine showed with a tad of self deprication was refreshing
Good writers need editors, too.......2004-07-27
Chadz is a fresh voice with an ear for dialogue and pacing. But even budding Salingers need editors and proof readers. Too many typos and miscues in this one to rate Five Stars. Blame it on the publisher.
Still, recommended reading for would-be, current and former Jarheads.
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The stories are remarkable.......2004-07-11
The author did a outstanding job timelining the days and duties of a Marine Grunt and Marine Security Force Sentry. The photos and attachments brought back a floodgate of memories and although this is not a book for my mother, it is one for Marines like myself, to rest, reflect and remember
outstanding!.......2004-03-15
I started to wonder if the world revolved around what publishers would allow or what phrases authors could use to score the biggest payday....then I read this book. Chadz did a marvelous job at showing the webs that are weaved by grunt Marines during their first 4 year tour. I can't say anything more except to applaud him for not throwing the CORPS under the bus like so many other Marine authors have done over the past year and that goes without saying what some of the "reporters" reported on. Good job...great read, helluva memory!
Comical View at the highs and lows.......2004-01-08
Great Book. Funny informative, face paced, ...a look iside the Corps from a grunts eyes that allows me to show a bunch of the stories to friends and prove that the world of the "grunt Marine" is ever changing, fast paced and always filled with adventure, learning and trials. One gets to cover basically a full tour with the author...great for Marines to remember and new Marines and Marine families to learn.
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For more than a century, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been building fortifications along the American coastline in an effort to protect our vulnerable shores. With the prospect of seaborne invasion becoming increasingly unlikely, the Corps has turned its attention to a more subtle but no less dangerous threat: the insidious effects of coastal erosion.
In The Corps and the Shore, Orrin H. Pilkey, the nation's most outspoken coastal geologist, and Katharine L. Dixon, an educator and activist for national coastal policy reform, provide a comprehensive examination of the impact of coastal processes on developed areas and the ways in which the Corps of Engineers has attempted to manage erosion along America's coastline.
Through detailed case studies of large-scale projects in Texas, Maine, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and South Carolina, the authors demonstrate the shortcomings of the Corps's underlying assumptions and methodology. As they discuss the role of local citizens in the project process, they highlight the interaction between local Corps offices and community officials and residents. By focusing on different types of problems in various regions of the country, Pilkey and Dixon clearly show how the Corps has repeatedly failed to act in the best interest of those most affected by the projects. As well as criticizing Corps practices, the authors provide numerous suggestions for reforming the Corps and making it both more scientifically accountable and more accountable to the citizens it is intended to serve.
The Corps and the Shore is essential reading for coastal residents, environmentalists, planners, and coastal city officials as well as geologists, civil engineers, marine scientists, and anyone concerned with the impact of human society on our shorelines.
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Required reading for any Marine Engineer!.......2006-03-11
This book should be on the required reading list for any course on Marine and Coastal Engineering. As Engineers we love the challenge of designing and building sometimes wonderful structures as solutions to perceived engineering problems. While engrossed in the math, the modeling and the logistics, we often neglect to stand back and look at work of the real master of the Marine environment - Mother Nature herself, and the real problem in the majority of these cases, our interference with her naturally engineered structures. This book does that eloquently from an acutely informed point of view. It offers an invaluable engineering counterpoint and shouldn't be dismissed as simply a couple of greens having a cut at the corps!
Bad Corps: Who's Responsible for BAd Coast Policy in the US?.......2001-07-07
Book: The Corps and the Shore Authors: Orrin H. Pilkey, Katharine L. Dixon
It's not difficult to beat up the Army Corps of Engineers. It's run roughshod over more than one engineering and erth moving project. In this book the authors make a compelling case (as do several other good books)that the Corps used traditional steel and concrete projects to force human utilization on the nation's coastal zones. In spite of the very incisive and useful analysis in this book we should recognize that American's love the coast, are moving there in unprescedented numbers, and are investing massive amounts of capital in housing, recreational, and commercial construction.
Was the Army Corps of Engineers a culprit in the "urbanization" of America's coastlines and beaches or was the Corps an inevitable partner in coastal development? My own analysis (see our discussion at ...) is that the coast and seashore is a magnet for population throughout the world. Most "megacities" in the world are coastal cities. It is instructive that, although the Corps exists only in the United States, "Corps-like" construction and structures which seriously assault the coastal areas (by "armouring" the beach) takes place in all the coastal zones I have studied.
Everyone who has visited, lived, or worked near the beach must read this book. But ask yourself this "If the Army Corps had not undertaken these projects who would have done so?"
Steffen Schmidt, Ph.D Professor of Politics and Coastal Policy Iowa State University and Nova Southeastern University, Oceanographic Center, Ft. Lauderdale
Fascinating, harrowing, and definitive.......1998-08-24
Scourge of developers everwhere, coastal geologist Pilkey is the deepest and most penetrating thinker we have about our complex relationship with the shoreline. With this book, Pilkey makes public his disgust with the ham-handed and over-engineered tactics of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and their walling of the American coastline.
Whether you live near the coast, are thinking of moving there, or are just curious about those million-dollar Malibu mansion you see tumbling into the Pacific every winter, you need to read this book.
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Coastal Groins and Nearshore Breakwaters (Technical Engineering and Design Guides As Adapted from the Us Army Corps of Engineers, No 6)
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Environmental Engineering For Coastal Shore Protection
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This manual summarizes research and field experience gained in the area of environmental engineering for coastal shore protection. It addresses both natural and human induced changes in the coastal zone; the structural and nonstructural measures that coastal engineers employ against these changes; and the desirable and adverse impacts of the measures.
Selection of the best environmental and engineering solution to a specific coastal problem requires a systematic and thorough study because of the complexity of coastal projects and the diversity of coastal environments. The prerequisites to such a study are a clear definition of the problem and cause of the problem and then a comprehensive review of potential solutions (alternatives). This manual addresses both natural and human-induced changes in the coastal zone; the structural and nonstructural measures that coastal engineers employ against these changes; and the beneficial and adverse impacts of these measures. Immediate and long-term impacts in the project area, as well as adjacent environments, are summarized. In addition, this manual emphasizes potential steps for obtaining desirable results and reducing adverse impacts.
The manual focuses primarily on shore protection, i.e., coastal projects designed to stabilize the shore against erosion related principally to current and wave action: however, the material is also applicable to harbor and navigation channel improvements. The manual applies to both the Great Lakes and the coastal marine systems. It identifies the principal environmental factors that should be considered in design and construction and provides techniques for attaining environmental quality objectives. Proper techniques for collection, analysis, and interpretation of environmental data to use in planning and engineering are outlined.
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Low Cost Shore Protection: A Guide For Engineers And Contractors
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The purpose of this book is to familiarize engineers and contractors with various established methods of low cost shore protection. It is written for the individual who is knowledgeable in general civil engineering design and construction, but not a specialist in coastal engineering or shoreline protection.
The methods described in this book are usually appropriate for use only in sheltered waters. That is, they are generally not intended for open coast sites where they would be exposed to the undiminished attack of large oceanic waves.
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This book is intended for property owners whose land is located on sheltered waters protected from direct action of open ocean waves. As a reader, you may be personally concerned about some aspect of shore protection because your house or cottage is threatened by continued erosion or a sandy beach you once enjoyed as disappeared. Whatever your personal circumstances, it is probably small comfort to know that your plight is shared by many others.
In trying to solve your problem, you may have sought the advice of others or observed the means they have used to combat erosion problems. Or, you may have been approached by a local firm trying to sell either construction services or some shore protection device. While such resources may sometimes achieve satisfactory results, you and a majority of others are probably reading this because you have been unable to solve your problems and have suffered substantial capital losses in the process. If such is the case, then this report is for you.
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