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Journal articles on the topic "Gabonese literature"
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Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Hugues Steve. "Gabonese Language Landscape: Survey and perspectives." South African Journal of African Languages 27, no. 3 (2007): 97–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2007.10587290.
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Levin, Jessica. "Sculpted Posts: Architectural Decoration on Gabonese Stamps." African Arts 37, no. 2 (2004): 62–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/afar.2004.37.2.62.
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Havelka, Ondřej. "The Syncretism of the Gabonese Bwiti Religion and Catholic Christianity from a Theological and Theological-Ethical Perspective." AUC THEOLOGICA 12, no. 1 (2022): 143–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23363398.2022.22.
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The article deals with the theology and theological ethics of syncretism of the traditional Gabonese Bwiti religion and Catholic Christianity in equatorial Africa. Traditional Bwiti religious rituals are based on the consumption of the root of the iboga shrub, which has strong psychedelic effects. In Gabon, some believers profess syncretism, which is enshrined in the Bwiti initiation ritual through the Catholic Sacrament of Penance, the Holy Communion, Christian prayers, etc. These Catholic Christians thus undergo a complex and physically demanding initiation process in Gabon. The aim of the paper is to answer the basic question of the whole text, i.e. is the psychedelic initiation ritual in the depths of the Gabonese rainforest consistent with the theological and theological-ethical foundations of the Catholic Christian life? The topic is elaborated by the method of own field research, supported by a comparison of relevant literature. Between 2001 and 2019, the author spent a total of three years on research stays in Africa, of which 12 months were devoted to West and Central Africa and the study of local syncretisms.
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Toman. "Fang Culture in Gabonese Francophone Women's Writing: Reading Histoire d'Awu by Justine Mintsa." Research in African Literatures 41, no. 2 (2010): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2010.41.2.121.
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Oluwole, Olusegun John, Heba Ibrahim, Debora Garozzo, et al. "Cerebral small vessel disease due to a unique heterozygous HTRA1 mutation in an African man." Neurology Genetics 6, no. 1 (2019): e382. http://dx.doi.org/10.1212/nxg.0000000000000382.
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ObjectiveTo describe the case of an African patient who was diagnosed with cerebral autosomal recessive arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CARASIL).MethodsCase report and literature review.ResultsWe present a 39-year-old Gabonese man who developed progressive gait difficulty at the age of 32, followed by insidious tetraparesis, urinary sphincter disturbance, spastic dysarthria, cognitive dysfunction, and seizures. Brain imaging was performed many years after disease onset and revealed diffuse confluent white matter lesions and lacunar infarcts. He tested negative for acquired white matter disease, but genetic screening detected a genetic variant of HTRA1 gene (G283R), which has not been previously reported.ConclusionsCARASIL is a disease that usually affects Asian patients. This case report describes a unique case of an African patient diagnosed with CARASIL and a novel genetic mutation in HTRA1 that has not been previously described in the literature.
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Naudillon, Françoise. "Chronique d’une écologie décoloniale dans C’est ma terre de Fabrice Bouckat." International Journal of Francophone Studies 23, no. 3 (2020): 189–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijfs_00017_1.
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The documentary film C’est ma terre by Fabrice Bouckat screened during the 2019 edition of Terrafestival is one of the first large-scale films produced locally on the crisis of the chlordecone molecule. This article will examine from a decolonial perspective, how its director, a Martinican with Gabonese origins who lives and works in Guadeloupe, develops a synthetic and universal vision of environmental crises, and thus demonstrates that destruction of ecosystems crosses time and space, cultures and lands, languages and peoples by bringing ecological crisis in the West Indies closer to the one experienced by the Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange.
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BERNAULT, FLORENCE. "SPACE, POWER AND HEALING IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA Colonial Rule and Crisis in Equatorial Africa: Southern Gabon ca. 1850–1940. CHRISTOPHER GRAY. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2002. Pp. xxii+275. $65 (ISBN 1-58046-048-8)." Journal of African History 46, no. 1 (2005): 139–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853704000350.
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THE Anglophone literature has conceptualized the history of the African ‘space’ through two major approaches. Fine-grained reconstructions of land disputes have helped to illuminate colonial changes in the political and economic control over residential and productive units, and to assess the local (im)possibilities for Africans of accumulating landed property and/or penetrating the new plantation and market economy. More recently, environmental studies have encouraged historians to uncover how fundamental alterations in the relationships between communities and their physical environment have been shaping ancient and recent struggles for identities and socio-political resources. Meanwhile, renewed attention to cognitive notions of space by anthropologists on the one hand, and literary critics on the other, has delineated deep structuring principles in the ideological construction of space among Africans and colonizers. Few historians have followed through, however, and historicized such imaginaries. Among those who have done so, and have traced people's conceptual, commemorative and moral visions of land, fewer still have ventured beyond the boundaries of specific locales and societies. By reconstructing a longue durée history of the disruptions in both the physical and cognitive spaces of the Gabonese rainforest, Chris Gray's book stands as a major attempt to bridge these gaps.
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Detilleux, L., R. N. Poligui, L. Iannello, T. Dogot, F. Francis, and R. Caparros Megido. "Entomophagy in Gabon across the African context." Journal of Insects as Food and Feed, December 13, 2021, 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3920/jiff2021.0064.
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Entomophagy is well established in the food habits of Africa; however, country-wide knowledge remains limited for several countries, including Gabon. Here, two surveys on entomophagy were conducted in Gabon through face-to-face interviews. The first survey collected information on insect eating habits from 169 potential consumers. Edible insects formed part of the diet of most Gabonese people, with more than 60% of consumers within participants, and were particularly common among the Teke ethnic group (93%). Familiarity with edible insects was influenced by culture and family, but not by gender or study level. The second survey focused on edible insect species and their host plants, by interviewing a sample of 113 both villagers and retailers. Seventy-five species of insects from six insect orders (Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Isoptera, Lepidoptera, Odonata and Orthoptera) were consumed in Gabon, and were collected from 48 species of host plant. Many insects were formerly reported in the literature related to entomophagy; however, 13 species were newly reported as edible in this study: Bidessus batekensis, Bunaeopsis licharbas, Copelatus ateles, Copelatus confinis, Copelatus fizpaci, Copelatus tondangoyei, Gonobombyx angulata, Gonometa titan, Hydrocyrius columbiae, Oxychirus semisericeus, Philobota sp., Psara sp. and Ptyelus flavescens. Consequently, these surveys highlighted that entomophagy is common in Gabon. However, strategies to promote edible insects are needed to have a significant impact on food issues in Gabon (e.g. food insecurity and dependence on foreign food supplies). Additional researches on entomophagy in Gabon are required to further develop these strategies.
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Marcov, Zoran. "Piese de armament african din colecția Muzeului Național al Banatului (sec. XIX-XX) / African weaponry in the collection of the National Museum of Banat (19th–20th centuries)." Analele Banatului XXVII 2019, January 1, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.55201/jgvr2487.
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e collection of weapons of the National Museum of Banat in Timişoara currently includes ten pieces attributed with certainty to the African space, all ten objects falling into the category of cold weapons. Even though it is numerically small, the Timişoara collection includes five different types of cold weapons: 1. A Kaskara-type Sudanese broadsword; 2. A Shotel-type Ethiopian sword and a Mandingo-type West African sword; 3. Two Gabonese Fang daggers, one Congolese Konda dagger and one Sudanese Khanjar dagger; 4. Two Marutse-Mambunda battle axes; 5. A Zande-type Central African arrow quiver. e Timişoara collection covers a vast geographical area, from Sudan and Ethiopia in the east, to Mali and Gabon in the west, and from the central part of the continent, respectively the Congo area, to the south-eastern extremity of Black Africa. e Timişoara collection includes both weapons of Islamic influence, in the geographical area that separates the north of the continent from sub-Saharan Africa, and pieces typical of Black Africa, attributed to indigenous tribes who lived in the central and southern part of the continent. Islamic influence, especially Persian, is found mainly in Sudan, in Northeast Africa, where many types of cold weapons made after the Iranian model were used at the end of the nineteenth century.A special feature of African pieces is related to the materials and techniques used to make them. In the northern half of the continent, predominantly Muslim, the skins of various reptiles were used to cover the scabbard and handles (the most extravagant pieces are those covered in crocodile skin), and some less used metal-chemical techniques practiced in Europe (a process in which the calligraphic inscriptions were embossed on the surface of the steel). Among the weapons from the Black African area, the most spectacular pieces are the Gabonese daggers, which stand out with an extravagant design and superior quality of the materials used.Of the ten African weapons in the NMoB collection, two are purely ceremonial pieces, not designed for use on the battlefield. e two Sudanese weapons, the Kaskara broadsword and the Khanjar dagger, have many characteristics typical of ceremonial pieces: blunt edges, thinness and fragility of the blades, scabbards made of cardboard reinforced with textile material, then covered in crocodile skins.Regarding the dating of African weapons in the NMoB collection, we can propose a general dating ranging from the 19th century to the first decades of the following century. We also have more accurate dates of some of the pieces. is is the case of the two Marutse-Mambunda battle axes, picked up by the Czech explorer Emil Holub during his South African expeditions in the second half of the 19th century. e two pieces are also the oldest African weapons in the NMoB collection, having been inventoried in the fall of 1894. In terms of provenance, along with the Holub donation, we must also mention the batch of weapons inventoried in 1968 (Fang daggers and Zande arrow quiver), but also the parts purchased in 2009 (the Mandingo sword and the Konda dagger). e ten African weapons, which are part of the group of exotic pieces in the NMoB collection, illustrate the richness and diversity of Romanian museum collections in the military field. Unfortunately for scientific research, the collections of exotic weapons present in Romanian museums, although spectacular and attractive, are far too little known in the international specialized literature.
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Guidosse, Quentin, Patrick du Jardin, Lee J. T. White, Ludivine Lassois, and Jean-Louis Doucet. "Gabon’s green gold: a bibliographical review of thirty years of research on okoumé (Aucoumea klaineana Pierre)." BASE, 2022, 30–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.25518/1780-4507.19458.
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Introduction. Aucoumea klaineana Pierre is the most harvested timber species in Central Africa and plays a key role in the economy of Gabon. This tree is considered “Vulnerable” for more than three decades by the IUCN because its population is assumed to have been reduced by at least 50% as a result of logging. The objective of this review is to synthesize recent and relevant knowledge in order to update this status. It focuses more specifically on ecology, population dynamics, silviculture and impacts of logging. Literature. Its natural range mainly covers Gabon. It is a light-demanding and gregarious species that forms root anastomoses. It principally establishes itself in abandoned fields and savannahs. In mature forest its regeneration is rare and limited to large gaps. Selective logging only allows significant regeneration along roads. However, at the scale of Gabon, the species is abundant and its renewal is ensured. Legal logging does not threaten the species. However, after decades of logging focusing on best shaped trees, a production of lower quality is feared. The implementation of a thoughtful silviculture could be a solution. Conclusions. Aucoumea klaineana is not vulnerable under IUCN A1 criterion. However, the maintenance of a high-quality production over the long term calls for the implementation of silviculture based on a thorough knowledge of the factors affecting stand dynamics, especially the role of the rhizosphere. Although long described, the functioning of root anastomoses has never been studied in depth.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Gabonese literature"
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Mounziegou-Mombo, Narcice. "Les modalités de l'élaboration romanesque dans la littérature gabonaise. : Lecture des oeuvres de Peter Ndemby et de Chantal Magalie Mbazoo Kassa." Thesis, Limoges, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LIMO0015/document.
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Des travaux sur la littérature gabonaise en général et le roman en particulier, suscitent de l’étonnement, des exclamations du fait de leur rareté. Notre travail de thèse a eu pour objet de réajuster certaines approches de l’esthétique romanesque gabonaise. Il a été question de conjurer la notion du retard souvent utilisée pour présenter l’écriture romanesque gabonaise. L’esthétique romanesque gabonaise admet une identité d’isolement. Les systèmes de son élaboration découlent principalement de cet aspect. Dire les modalités de l’élaboration romanesque dans la littérature gabonaise à travers les écritures de Peter Ndemby et de Chantal Magalie Mbazoo Kassa, c’est d’une part, préciser les questions d’influences de la prose gabonaise et configurer le rapport entre le texte et la société. Un procédé qui a permis de révéler une redéfinition de la notion de littérarité au Gabon selon les travaux de Fortunat Obiang Essono. D’autre part, parler des modalités du Roman gabonais, c’est décliner la spécificité littéraire autour de la littérarité mimétique, de la littérarité autistique et de l’exiguïté. De l’histoire littéraire de Lanson en passant par la sociocritique de Claude Duchet et de Pierre Zima, le texte romanesque gabonais a révélé des spécificités qui imposent des nouvelles approches, une nouvelle conception du phénomène littéraire romanesque au Gabon<br>Gabonese literary works in general and the novel in particular raise amazement because of their being scarce. The goal of our dissertation has been to improve some aesthetical approaches of the Gabonese novel. It has consisted in turning down the common description of the Gabonese novel as being behind. The aesthetics of the Gabonese novel reveals an identity of isolation. The systems of its setting up result mainly from this aspect. Revealing how the novel has been built up in the Gabonese literature through the writings of Peter Ndemby and Chantal Magalie Mbazoo Kassa means, on the one hand, developing issues of influences in the Gabonese prose and shaping the relationship between text and society. This process helps to uncover a better definition of literariness in Gabon according to the works of Fortunat Obiang Essono. On the other hand, in dealing with the modalities of the Gabonese novel, we have had to develop its literary peculiarity through its mimetic and autistic literariness, and its ‘exiguousness’. From the literary story of Lanson through the sociocriticism of Claude Duchet and Pierre Zima, the Gabonese novel has unveiled peculiarities requiring new approaches, a new conception of literariness in the Gabonese novel
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Kounga, Tatiana. "Représentations et identités des femmes afro-descendantes et africaines dans la littérature : cas du Pérou et du Gabon." Thesis, Reims, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014REIML004/document.
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Les représentations et les identités des femmes d'ascendance africaine du Pérou et des femmes gabonaises dans la littérature est une étude comparée sur la condition de ces femmes dans leurs sociétés respectives. En effet, s'intéresser à ces deux genres de femmes est tout simplement tenir compte de leur place de femmes, en étudiant leur vie et le rôle, spécifique ou non, qu'elles jouent dans leurs sociétés. Au Pérou, les femmes d'ascendance africaine se retrouvent enfermées dans de nombreux stéréotypes et préjugés. Il nous intéresse de savoir les formes que ceux-ci prennent dans la littérature péruvienne contemporaine. Ainsi, l'analyse des personnages féminins dans les textes littéraires que nous avons choisis constitue un premier pas vers une démarche où il est question d'interroger cette stéréo-typification mais aussi les tentatives de sa « déconstruction » à partir des œuvres Canto de sirena, Crónica de músicos y diablos et Cuatro cuentos eróticos de Acarí de Gregorio Martínez.Au Gabon, par contre, la condition des femmes gabonaises, leur place dans la société et les discriminations auxquelles elles sont sujettes sont plutôt dues au poids des traditions dans l'univers traditionnel et de la misogynie dans la société moderne. Dans les romans Histoire d'Awu et Féminin interdit de Justine Mintsa et d'Honorine Ngou, les personnages féminins apparaissent comme des victimes de la société traditionnelle à cause de leur absence de liberté. Face à certaines coutumes, les femmes sont opprimées, tyrannisées, « on fait tout pour les occulter, les refuser, les rendre inopérantes ». Ainsi, le fait d'être femmes apparaît comme pesant pour les personnages féminins car les héroïnes semblent transporter avec elles toute la souffrance féminine.Mots clés : Représentations-Identités- Femmes afro-péruviennes - Femmes gabonaises - Littérature<br>Representations and identities of African descent in Peru and Gabonese women in literature is a comparative study on the status of women in their respective societies. In either society, one cannot fully grasp the experience of these two categories of women without looking into their social status, their life and the role (specific or not) that they play in their different communities. In Peru, women of African descent are constantly hobbled by many stereotypes and prejudice. We are interested to know the forms they take in contemporary Peruvian literature. That is why the analysis of female characters in the literary texts selected for this study represents a crucial step toward questioning this stereotyping dynamics. More importantly, attempts to “deconstruct” this social malady by Gregorio Martínez through such works as Canto de sirena, Crónica de músicos y diablos and Cuatro cuentos eróticos de Acarí were also analized.In Gabon, on the other hand, women's condition, their social status and the discrimination that they have to face is mainly due to the dual effects of traditions and misogyny in the modern society. In such novels Histoire d' Awu (“The Story of Awu”) and Féminin interdit (“No females”) by Justine Mintsa and Honorine Ngou, the characters are portrayed as the victims of traditional society because of their lack of freedom. Because of certain customs, women are oppressed, and abused; “they are constantly silenced, denied humanity and made nonfunctional”. Thus, women being seen as a heavy burden for female characters because they usually seem to be tasked with carrying the suffering of all womankinds.Key words: Representations - Identities - Afro-peruvian women - Gabonese Women - Literature
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Ntsame, Okourou Franckline. "Lecture du discours romanesque féminin du Gabon : Analyse sociopragmatique des œuvres de Chantal Magalie MBAZOO-KASSA, Honorine NGOU et Sylvie NTSAME." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Est, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00856016.
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Aborder le roman féminin sous l‟angle d‟un énoncé discursif nécessite raisonnablement que l‟on prenne en compte, le contexte social, culturel et linguistique de production, les stratégies d‟énonciation, le champ de signification et les instances réceptrices qui déterminent ce discours. L‟approche sociopragmatique nous autorise pour ce faire à cette lecture plurielle qui, selon nous, mène incontestablement à une lisibilité optimale des textes. D‟abord, en tant que communication, le roman féminin implique des techniques discursives basées sur un environnement culturel et linguistique qui influence incontestablement le fonctionnement des énoncés en ce qui concerne les activités de production. Ensuite, la particularité des discours que nous étudions c‟est leur langage multiforme fait de paroles, d‟actes à valeur énonciatives, et d‟autres types de manifestations communicatives. C‟est un langage allégorique par essence, fait de sous-entendus, de diverses tournures imagées et aussi de silences parlants qui permettent d‟exprimer sans vraiment dire. Cette mise en scène théâtralisée du discours confère à l‟expression romanesque féminine un statut artistique particulier où la langue s‟enrichit d‟" accessoires linguistiques " d‟origine ethnique, régionale ou nationale. Enfin, la réception elle-même est fonction d‟un ensemble d‟éléments nécessaires à sa réalisation à savoir un espace, un temps, une orientation de réception intentionnellement glissée par l‟auteur. Ces éléments mis ensemble correspondent à ce que Kleiber nomme la "mémoire discursive" de l‟énonciateur et les "savoirs partagés" entre l‟émetteur et le récepteur
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Batsielilit, Moussavou F. "Colonialism, Education, and Gabon: an Examination of the Self-translation of Gabonese Citizens in Their Post-colonial Space Through Education and Language." 2016. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/407.
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COLONIALISM, EDUCATION, AND GABON: AN EXAMINATION OF THE SELF-TRANSLATION OF GABONESE CITIZENS IN THEIR POSTCOLONIAL SPACE THROUGH EDUCATION AND LANGUAGE.
SEPTEMBER 2016
MOUSSAVOU FROY BATSIELILIT, B.A., UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
M.A., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST
Directed by: Professor Maria Tymoczko
Gabon’s educational model, mode, and language of instruction are similar to that of France. Likewise, the official language in Gabon remains French. The similarities between both countries, as a result, have continued to perpetuate and reinforce the indirect, or direct, influence of French culture in Gabon. The resemblance also contributed to the inability of Gabon to create an independent identity from France. As a result, Gabonese citizens are self-translating and rewriting themselves as an extension of France while simultaneously censoring half of their identities from the narrative of nation.
To understand the current situation, I investigate education and the language situation in Gabon and relate them to the field of Translation Studies in terms of the latter’s concepts. The thesis begins with a historical background of Gabon. The discussion then shifts to analyze the connection between language and power, and its use during French colonialism in Africa. The importance of language and power is in turn linked to education, resulting in an analysis of Gabon and France’s educational systems and materials. The issues of education, language, and identity are discussed so as to determine the influences on Gabonese citizens’ identities.
Books on the topic "Gabonese literature"
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Bekale), Journée du livre gabonais (2008 Lycée Richard Nguema. Rapport du CELIG: Journée du livre gabonais : Lycée Richard Nguema Bekale, Oyem, le 1st mars 2008. Centre d'études en littérature gabonaise, 2008.
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Obame, Jean Baptiste. L'esprit des valeurs traditionnelles: Essai. Éditions Abdon Macaya, 2009.
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Mambenga-Ylagou, Frédéric, and Didier Taba Odounga. Jean Divassa Nyama. CRELAF, Centre de Recherches en Esthétiques Langagières Africaines, Université Omar Bongo, 2013.
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Binene, Pascal Mulangu. Regards sur les grands thèmes de la littérature gabonaise. La Doxa, editeur militant, 2009.
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Liliane, Nzé, ed. Le roman gabonais et la symbolique du silence et du bruit. Harmattan, 2008.
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