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Human Performance Improvement Building Practitioner Performance

Human Performance Improvement Building Practitioner Performance

Organizations are under pressure to build and sustain competitive advantage with and through people. For that reason managers continue to demand results from workers and look for as many ways as possible to increase productivity and decrease the costs of doing business. Human performance improvement (HPI) is a systematic approach to securing better performance from people. This book provides a thorough overview of the theory and practice of HPI looking at the long-term action plan and specific interventions that can improve productivity and address performance problems. This new edition provides up-to-date references and sources examines the manager’s role in HPI in more detail than previous editions and explores how to build on human performance improvement strengths and opportunities. Written by a group of highly respected authors in the field this book will show you how to discover and analyze performance gaps plan for future improvements in human performance and design and develop cost-effective interventions to close performance gaps. HPI is not a tool reserved exclusively for training and development practitioners human resource specialists or external consultants. Almost anyone can use it including managers supervisors and even employees making this book vital reading for anyone looking to improve human performance. | Human Performance Improvement Building Practitioner Performance

GBP 35.99
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Vital Performance Historically Informed Romantic Performance in Cultural Context

Vital Performance Historically Informed Romantic Performance in Cultural Context

Historically Informed Performance or HIP has become an influential and exciting development for scholars musicians and audiences alike. Yet it has not been unchallenged with debate over the desirability of its central goals and the accuracy of its results. The author suggests ways out of this impasse in Romantic performance style. In this wide-ranging study pianist and scholar Andrew John Snedden takes a step back examining the strengths and limitations of HIP. He proposes that many problems are avoided when performance styles are understood as expressions of their cultural era rather than as simply composer intention explaining not merely how we play but why we play the way we do and why the nineteenth century Romantics played very differently. Snedden examines the principal evidence we have for Romantic performance style especially in translation of score indications and analysis of early recordings finally focusing on the performance styles of Liszt and Chopin. He concludes with a call for the reanimation of culturally appropriate performance styles in Romantic repertoire. This study will be of great interest to scholars performers and students to anyone wondering about how our performances reflect our culture and about how the Romantics played their own culturally-embedded music. | Vital Performance Historically Informed Romantic Performance in Cultural Context

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Performance Studies: The Basics

Performance Studies: The Basics

Performance Studies: The Basics offers an overview of the multiple often overlapping definitions of performance from performance art performance as everyday life and rituals to the performative dimensions of identity such as gender race and sexuality. This book defines the interdisciplinary field of performance studies as it has evolved over the past four decades at the intersection of academic scholarship and artistic and activist practices. It discusses performance as an important means of communicating and of understanding the world highlighting its intersections with critical theory and arguing for the importance of performance in the study of human behaviour and social practices. Complete with a helpful glossary and bibliography as well as suggestions for further reading this book is an ideal starting point for those studying performance studies as well as for general readers with an interest in the subject.

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Performance Art Education and Practice

Performance Art Education and Practice

Performance Art: Education and Practice is an introduction to performance art through activities and practice prompts that are framed by seminal moments in the history of the medium as well as the current theoretical discussions surrounding performance. The book begins by introducing the terminology related to performance art and its early history. The basic elements of performance including the body objects space the public and the public sphere are approached through thematic and conceptual correlations such as objects as autobiography body as an expression of gendered identity performance and the everyday the augmented body the archive of performance and public space as space for intervention. Case studies analysed in each chapter are accompanied by reflective questions and discussion topics. The book proposes a wide range of exercises and comprehensive practice prompts that aim to enhance performance skills promote experimentation and encourage an experiential understanding of the theory history and concepts relating to performance art. Performance Art: Education and Practice is addressed to students of Fine Arts and Performance Studies from beginner to intermediate level performance and visual artists who are interested in expanding their knowledge base and creative range and artist-teachers who are interested in developing their own curriculum and workshop content. | Performance Art Education and Practice

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Performance: A Critical Introduction

Performance: A Critical Introduction

Since its original publication in 1996 Marvin Carlson's Performance: A Critical Introduction has remained the definitive guide to understanding performance as a theatrical activity. It is an unparalleled exploration of the myriad ways in which performance has been interpreted its importance to disciplines from anthropology to linguistics and how it underpins essential concepts of human society. In this comprehensively revised and updated third edition Carlson tackles the pressing themes and theories of our age with expanded coverage of : the growth and importance of racial and ethnic performance; the emergence of performance concerned with age and disability; the popularity and significance of participatory and immersive theatre; the crucial relevance of identity politics and cultural performance in the twenty-first century. Also including a fully updated bibliography and glossary this classic text is an invaluable touchstone for any student of performance studies theatre history and the performing and visual arts.

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Conceptual Performance Enacting Conceptual Art

Conceptual Performance Enacting Conceptual Art

Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s tested and extended the limits character and concept of performance. Conceptual Performance sets out the history theoretical basis and character of this genre of work through a wide range of case studies. The volume considers how and why principal modes and agendas in Conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s necessitated new engagements with performance as well as expanded notions of theatricality. In doing so this book reviews and challenges prevailing histories of Conceptual art through critical frameworks of performativity and performance. It also considers how Conceptual art adopted and redefined terms and tropes of theatre and performance: including score document embodiment documentation relic remains and the narrative recuperation of ephemeral work. While showing how performance has been integral to Conceptual art’s critiques of prevailing assumptions about art’s form purpose and meaning this volume also considers the reach and influence of Conceptual performance into recent thinking and practice. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of theatre performance contemporary art and art history. | Conceptual Performance Enacting Conceptual Art

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Performance Assessment in Strength and Conditioning

Performance Assessment in Strength and Conditioning

It is an essential skill for any strength and conditioning coach to be able to reliably assess the physical performance of their athletes and communicate the results and their implications to performers and coaches alike. Performance Assessment in Strength and Conditioning is the first textbook to clearly and coherently suggest the most appropriate and reliable methods for assessing and monitoring athletes’ performance as well as including detailed sections on testing considerations and the interpretation and application of results. The book explores the full range of considerations required to reliably assess performance including questions of ethics and safety reliability and validity and standardised testing before going on to recommend (through a comparison of field- and laboratory-based techniques) the optimal methods for testing all aspects of physical performance including: injury risk jump performance sprint performance change of direction and agility strength power aerobic performance body composition Closing with a section on interpreting presenting and applying results to practice and illustrated with real-life case study data throughout Performance Assessment in Strength and Conditioning offers the most useful guide to monitoring athlete performance available. It is an essential text for upper-level strength and conditioning students and practitioners alike.

GBP 42.99
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Performance Measurement and Theory

Performance Measurement and Theory

In this volume first published in 1983 the editors aim to achieve an understanding of performance from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The papers in this volume will not only spur further research but will also provide an opportunity for some careful considerations of how performance is measured in various applied settings. The book is divided into four major areas; intraindividual issues interdividual/organizational dynamics methodology and philosophies. This title will be of interest to students of business studies psychology and human resource management. | Performance Measurement and Theory

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Performance as Research Knowledge methods impact

Performance as Research Knowledge methods impact

Performance as Research (PAR) is characterised by an extraordinary elasticity and interdisciplinary drive. Performance as Research: Knowledge Methods Impact celebrates this energy bringing together chapters from a wide range of disciplines and eight different countries. This volume focuses explicitly on three critical often contentious themes that run through much discussion of PaR as a discipline: Knowledge - the areas and manners in which performance can generate knowledge Methods - methods and methodologies for approaching performance as research Impact - a broad understanding of the impact of this form of research These themes are framed by four essays from the book's editors contextualising their interrelated conversations teasing out common threads and exploring the new questions that the contributions pose to the field of performance. As both an intervention into and extension of current debates this is a vital collection for any reader concerned with the value and legitimacy of performance as research. | Performance as Research Knowledge methods impact

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Community Performance An Introduction

Community Performance An Introduction

Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible practice-based primer for students and practitioners of community arts dance and theatre offering reflection on the ethical issues inherent to the field. It is both a classroom-friendly textbook and a handbook for the practitioner perfectly answering the needs of a field where teaching is orientated around practice. Offering a toolkit for students interested in running community arts groups or community performance events this book includes: international case studies and first-person stories by practitioners and participants sample exercises both practical and reflective study questions excerpts of illustrative material from theorists and practitioners This second edition has been completely revised with over 25% new content to bring the book up to date with developments in both society and performance including the rise of social media updates in the contexts of social justice new standards and norms in social practice and the changing faces of funding evaluation and professional development. The book can be used as a standalone text or together with its companion volume Community Performance: A Reader to provide an excellent introduction to the field of community arts practice. | Community Performance An Introduction

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Professional Practice in Sport Performance Analysis

Professional Practice in Sport Performance Analysis

The use of performance analysis as an evaluative tool in the coaching process is now strongly embedded. This book aims to explore a range of contemporary topics relating to current and future working practices of practitioners in the discipline. Professional Practice in Sport Performance Analysis delivers practically centred insights into the reality of working in the industry including the technological theoretical and personal competencies required. This new book delves into the realities of working as an analyst within the evolving and complex coaching process which practitioners need to navigate in order to successfully deliver their job role. It uncovers the practical realities underpinning knowledge challenges and constraints of working as an applied performance analyst whilst providing a practical guide for those practitioners who are currently or seeking to work as an applied performance analyst. Grounded in practice and experience Professional Practice in Sport Performance Analysis helps educate and encapsulate the working realities of the modern-day performance analyst and will be critical reading for students of performance analysis coaching skill acquisition and development.

GBP 34.99
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The Problems of Viewing Performance Epistemology and Other Minds

The Problems of Viewing Performance Epistemology and Other Minds

The Problems of Viewing Performance challenges long-held assumptions by considering the ways in which knowledge is received by more than a single audience member and breaks new ground by counterintuitively claiming that viewing performance is not a shared experience. Given that viewers come to each performance with differing amounts and types of knowledge they each make different assumptions as to how the performance will unfold. Often modified by other viewers and often after the performance event knowledge of performance is made more accurate by superimposing the experiences and justified beliefs of multiple viewers. These differences in the viewing experience make knowledge surrounding a performance intersubjective. Ultimately this book explains the how and the why audience members have different viewing experiences. The Problems of Viewing Performance is important reading for theatre and performance students scholars and practitioners as it unpacks the dynamics of spectatorship and explores how audiences work. | The Problems of Viewing Performance Epistemology and Other Minds

GBP 36.99
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Music Technology in Live Performance Tools Techniques and Interaction

Music Technology in Live Performance Tools Techniques and Interaction

Music Technology in Live Performance explores techniques to augment live musical performance and represents a comprehensive guide to best practices in music technology for live performance. This book presents a practical and accessible introduction to the theories of liveness and an array of live performance technologies and techniques. Areas covered include analogue and digital audio live sound the recording studio and electronic music revealing best professional practices and expert tips alongside an exploration of approaches to increasing the exchange of energy in live performance. Music Technology in Live Performance is an ideal introduction for students of music performance music production and music technology and a vital resource for professional musicians producers and technology developers. | Music Technology in Live Performance Tools Techniques and Interaction

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Performance Psychology Theory and Practice

Performance Psychology Theory and Practice

Anyone who has ever competed in a sport taken an exam or appeared on stage understands the importance of performing at the right time. Those who excel in these conditions often develop ways to cope with the stress involved but what cognitive and emotional strategies allow some people to thrive under pressure whilst others are inhibited by it? In Performance Psychology: Theory and Practice Stewart Cotterill examines not only how stressful situations can affect performance but also the means by which we can reach our potential regardless. Featuring chapters on decision-making emotion resilience and mental toughness cognition and perception ageing and experience confidence and recovery this is the definitive textbook in the field mapping the core theoretical concepts but also offering practical guidance on how performance can be improved. Also including chapters on motor skills and nutrition it is a complete and comprehensive overview of this growing field of study. Including study questions and further reading in each chapter Performance Psychology: Theory and Practice will appeal not only to students and researchers across applied psychology but also coaches and performers looking for ways to realize their potential when it really matters. | Performance Psychology Theory and Practice

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Sport Recovery and Performance Interdisciplinary Insights

Sport Recovery and Performance Interdisciplinary Insights

Sport Recovery and Performance is a unique multi-disciplinary collection which examines both the psychological and physiological dimensions to recovery from sport. Including contributions from medicine neuroscience psychology and sport science the book expertly explores the implications for applied and strategic interventions to both retain and stabilize performance and promote health and well-being. Including chapters written by its leading experts the book represents an important milestone in this evolving field of study. It covers issues around measuring recovery the impact of overtraining on sleep and mental health and addresses topics such as the impact of travel on performance. The book informs not only how managing recovery can improve performance but also offers insights in how recovery can sustain athletes’ physical and mental health. Citing research from a range of individual and team sports as well as extreme situations and the workplace this is an important book that will be widely read across the sport sciences. | Sport Recovery and Performance Interdisciplinary Insights

GBP 42.99
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Achieving Peak Performance in Music Psychological Strategies for Optimal Flow

Achieving Peak Performance in Music Psychological Strategies for Optimal Flow

Achieving Peak Performance in Music: Psychological Strategies for Optimal Flow is a unique and comprehensive exploration of flow in music performance. It describes the optimal performance experiences of great musicians and outlines ten psychological steps that can be implemented to facilitate and enhance optimal experience. Achieving Peak Performance in Music reveals strategies used by experts to prepare themselves emotionally cognitively and physically for performance. Combining this information with research carried out amongst professional performers and knowledge gained from decades of study and research by psychologists on how to achieve a positive experience the book guides readers on a pathway towards optimal performance. Using everyday language it presents invaluable practical guidance and a toolbox of strategies to help with all aspects of performance including memorisation visualisation focus performance anxiety thought management motivation and pre-performance routines. Based on psychological research the book shares practical knowledge invaluable to music students parents and amateur and professional musicians. The strategies on performance provided are applicable to every type of performance from a student exam to a gig or a concert making Achieving Peak Performance in Music a significant resource for anyone looking to achieve peak performance. | Achieving Peak Performance in Music Psychological Strategies for Optimal Flow

GBP 31.99
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Embodied Cognition Acting and Performance

Embodied Cognition Acting and Performance

In this collection of essays the four branches of radical cognitive science—embodied embedded enactive and ecological—will dialogue with performance with particular focus on post-cognitivist approaches to understanding the embodied mind-in-society; de-emphasising the computational and representational metaphors; and embracing new conceptualisations grounded on the dynamic interactions of brain body and world. In our collection radical cognitive science reaches out to areas of scholarship also explored in the fields of performance practice and training as we facilitate a new inter- and transdisciplinary discourse in which to jointly share and explore common reactions of embodied approaches to the lived mind. The essays originally published as a special issue in Connection Science. | Embodied Cognition Acting and Performance

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Performance Management Systems A Global Perspective

Performance Management Systems A Global Perspective

Performance management is the process by which organizations set goals determine standards assign and evaluate work and distribute rewards. But when you operate across different countries and continents performance management strategies cannot be one dimensional. HR managers and line managers need systems that can be applied to a range of cultural values. This important and timely text offers a truly global perspective on performance management practices. Split into two parts it illustrates the key themes of rater motivation rater-ratee relationships and merit pay and outlines a model for a global appraisal process. This model is then screened through a range of countries including Germany Japan the US Turkey China India and Mexico. Using case studies and discussion questions and written by local experts this text outlines the tools needed to understand and ‘measure’ performance in a range of socio-economic and cultural contexts. It is essential reading for students and practitioners alike working in human resources international business and international management. | Performance Management Systems A Global Perspective

GBP 34.99
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Histories of Performance Documentation Museum Artistic and Scholarly Practices

Histories of Performance Documentation Museum Artistic and Scholarly Practices

Histories of Performance Documentation traces the many ways in which museums have approached performance works from the 1960s onwards considering the unique challenges of documenting live events. From hybrid and interactive arts to games and virtual and mixed reality performance this collection investigates the burgeoning role of the performative in museum displays. Gabriella Giannachi and Jonah Westerman bring together interviews and essays by leading curators conservators artists and scholars from institutions including MoMA Tate SFMOMA and the Whitney to examine a range of interdisciplinary practices that have influenced the field of performance documentation. Chapters build on recent approaches to performance analysis which argue that it should not focus purely on the live event and that documentation should not be read solely as a process of retrospection. These ideas create a radical new framework for thinking about the relationship between performance and its documentation—and how this relationship might shape ideas of what constitutes performance in the first place. | Histories of Performance Documentation Museum Artistic and Scholarly Practices

GBP 36.99
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Church Music Through the Lens of Performance

Church Music Through the Lens of Performance

This book is an investigation into church music through the lens of performance theory both as a discipline and as a theoretical framework. Scholars who address religious music making in general and Christian church music in particular use performance in a variety of ways creating confusion around the term. A systematized performance vocabulary for the study of church music can support interdisciplinary investigations of Christian congregational music making in today’s complex interconnected world. From the perspective of performance theory all those involved in church musicking are performing be it from platform or pew. The book employs a hybrid methodology that combines ethnographic research and theory from ritual studies ethnomusicology theology and church music scholarship to establish performance studies as a possible next step in church music studies. It demonstrates the feasibility of studying church music as performance by analyzing ethnographic case studies using a developmental framework based on the concepts of ritual embodiment and play/change. This book offers a fresh perspective on Christian congregational music making. It will therefore be a key reference work for scholars working in Congregational Music Studies Ethnomusicology Ritual Studies and Performance Studies as well as practitioners interested in examining their own church music practices.

GBP 38.99
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Collaborative Performance Management for Public Health A Practical Guide

Collaborative Performance Management for Public Health A Practical Guide

Performance management can be an uncomfortable topic within the discipline of public health. Written by leaders in public health performance management and quality improvement this book carefully explains what public health performance management is – and makes a strong case for why it is needed to tackle successfully the long-standing health issues plaguing communities and states. Notably the book eschews the need to invest in technology or to learn a new performance management vocabulary. Rather the authors advocate for more thoughtful use of the resources already available in the organization relying on public health leadership working in conjunction with well trained staff to manage their own organizational performance. To be broadly accepted within public health performance management concepts and models have to be framed and populated with public health examples and this book offers a wealth of practical insights and case studies that may be immediately applied to public health organizations from assessing an organization’s needs introducing a performance management system to the organization developing an agency’s goals and targets to implementation of sound performance management systems and plans. Collaborative Performance Management for Public Health is required reading for all public health leaders and employees concerned with maximizing the health impact of scarce resources. | Collaborative Performance Management for Public Health A Practical Guide

GBP 22.99
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Stress Well-Being and Performance in Sport

Stress Well-Being and Performance in Sport

Stress Well-Being and Performance in Sport provides the first comprehensive and contemporary overview of stress in sport and its implications on performance and well-being. It explores how athletes’ coaches' and support staffs' performance can be enhanced while simultaneously optimizing their well-being in contemporary sport. Divided into four sections following the stress process Stress Well-Being and Performance in Sport covers key topics including: Appraising and coping with stress in sport Responses to and outcomes of stress in sport Moderators of the stress process in sport Stress management to promote thriving in sport Bringing together theory and practice each chapter discusses conceptual and theoretical issues current research and innovative practical implications. Written by scholars around the globe Stress Well-being and Performance in Sport offers an international perspective. It is important reading for students of sport psychology as well as coaches athletes and support staff.

GBP 38.99
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Foundations for Performance Training Skills for the Actor-Dancer

Foundations for Performance Training Skills for the Actor-Dancer

Foundations for Performance Training: Skills for the Actor-Dancer explores the physical emotional theoretical and practical components of performance training in order to equip readers with the tools needed to successfully advance in their development as artists and entertainers. Each chapter provides a fresh perspective on subjects that students of acting and dance courses encounter throughout their training as performing artists. Topics include: Equity diversity and inclusion in performance Mind/body conditioning for training rehearsal and performance Developing stage presence and spatial awareness Cultivating motivation and intention in performance Expanding repertoire and broadening skillset for performance Auditioning for film and stage Developing theatrical productions This book also offers experiential exercises journal writing prompts and assignments to engage readers enrich their learning experience and deepen their exploration of the material described in each chapter. Readers will grow as performing artists as they analyze the principles of both acting and dance and discover how deeply the two art forms are intertwined. An excellent resource for students of acting musical theatre and dance courses Foundations for Performance Training encourages a strong foundation in creative analysis technique artistic expression and self-care to cultivate excellence in performance. | Foundations for Performance Training Skills for the Actor-Dancer

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Artificial Intelligence in Sport Performance Analysis

Artificial Intelligence in Sport Performance Analysis

To understand the dynamic patterns of behaviours and interactions between athletes that characterize successful performance in different sports is an important challenge for all sport practitioners. This book guides the reader in understanding how an ecological dynamics framework for use of artificial intelligence (AI) can be implemented to interpret sport performance and the design of practice contexts. By examining how AI methodologies are utilized in team games such as football as well as in individual sports such as golf and climbing this book provides a better understanding of the kinematic and physiological indicators that might better capture athletic performance by looking at the current state-of-the-art AI approaches. Artificial Intelligence in Sport Performance Analysis provides an all-encompassing perspective in an innovative approach that signals practical applications for both academics and practitioners in the fields of coaching sports analysis and sport science as well as related subjects such as engineering computer and data science and statistics.

GBP 36.99
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Elite Soccer Players Maximizing Performance and Safety

Elite Soccer Players Maximizing Performance and Safety

The sport of soccer has evolved immensely since its beginning around 2 000 years ago and is now considered the most popular sport in the world. The research related to the physical psychological and tactical aspects of the game has risen in conjunction with its fame. Elite Soccer Players: Maximizing Performance and Safety seeks to inform the reader with the most current research connected to optimizing physical performance and reducing the risk of injury of the elite soccer athlete for a variety of ages. After providing an initial brief overview of applying physical and psychological scientific concepts in soccer (Part I: Laying the Foundation”) this book then takes the reader through a series of important yet novel parts including: “Athlete Monitoring and Data Analysis ” “Optimizing Physical Performance ” “Injury Epidemiology and Risk Reduction ” “Achieving Peak Performance and Safety in Various Environmental Conditions ” and “Unique Aspects of the Game. ” The goal of Elite Soccer Players: Maximizing Performance and Safety is to conceptualize and expand upon the current research associated with these topics and provide an applicable point of view to the coaches sport scientists strength and conditioning coaches and sports medicine professionals who work with these athletes every day. | Elite Soccer Players Maximizing Performance and Safety

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