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  • 2021 Grant Application Period Now Closed

    This year we had the most grant applications we’ve ever received—a 33 percent increase over 2020—and from the greatest number of countries (53)!

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  • New Film From 2020 Grantees Just Wondering

    2020 grantees Just Wondering recently released a short animated film that explores different ideas of justice through anti-speciesist lenses.

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  • Art Installation From 2020 Grantee Colleen Plumb

    2020 CAF grantee Colleen Plumb has an installation called Invisible Visible up at the Riverside Art Center in Riverside, IL now until February 22nd….

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  • 2021 Grant Application Period Now Open

    We are now accepting applications for our 2021 grants until January 31st. CAF funds academic and artistic projects that raise public awareness about concern for animals,

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  • Gal Nissim Takes Your Time

    When you interact with “ScienArtist” Gal Nissim’s works, whether by listening to her Synanthrope Preserve rat tour, The First to Cross, in Tompkins…

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  • Donald Vincent is Working on Finding the New Normal

    As an English professor, freelance marketer, and copywriter, and as he works on rap and poetry projects or the 2020 Compassion Arts Festival, 2018 grantee

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  • Colleen Plumb Constantly Discovers

    When in 2009 Colleen Plumb stood outside Chicago’s United Center, waiting for the elephants to come out, she didn’t know what to expect. All she knew at that…

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  • Yuan-Chih Sets the Stage

    Whereas gradual progress is occurring toward legal and other rights for animals across the West, the same cannot be said in East Asia. Yuan-Chih Lung…

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  • The City and the Animal: An Interview with Ayten Alkan

    Ayten Alkan received a CAF grant in 2017 to continue her academic research into stray animals and the city.

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  • Call for Participants to Share Climate Catastrophe Stories

    2020 CAF grantee Hayley Singer is looking for participants to contribute to her project.

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  • New Paper: Tom Regan’s Philosophy of Animal Rights

    A new paper has been published in the journal Problemos about CAF founder Tom Regan called “Tom Regan’s Philosophy of Animal Rights: Subjects-of-a-Life…

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  • 2020 Grantees Announced

    We have chosen 14 applicants working on diverse projects from eight countries for this year’s grantees, who can all be viewed here.

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  • New Article from Mylan Engel Jr.

    CAF board member Mylan Engel Jr. has a new article published in Between the Species.

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  • Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowship Postponed to Summer 2021

    The 2020 Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowship, in collaboration with the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at the NC State University…

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  • New Book from Board Member and Grantee Jo-Anne McArthur

    Board member and multiple-year grantee Jo-Anne McArthur is taking pre-orders for her latest book, Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene, a…

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  • NC State FOCUS Magazine Profiles Fellow Rachel Robison-Greene

    The Winter 2019–2020 issue of FOCUS, a magazine from NC State, profiled the 2019 recipient of the Tom Regan Visiting…

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  • Watch Grantee’s Video, The Tiger Next Door

    2009-10 grantee Camilla Calamandrei‘s feature documentary The Tiger Next Door is now available for 99 cents on Vimeo

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  • The 2020 Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowship

    CAF is collaborating again with the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at the NC State University Libraries for the 2020 Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowship….

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  • 2020 Grant Application Period Now Closed

    We’re delighted that CAF has received 130 applications from 46 countries for the 2020 grant application period. (more…)

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  • Meet an Advisory Board Member—Part 9: Peter Singer: Giving Equal Consideration to All Beings

    Peter Singer is a moral philosopher best known for his book Animal Liberation in which he argues for consideration of the interests of…

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  • 2017 CAF Grantee Gal Nissim has a New Installation: SurveillAnts

    2017 CAF grantee Gal Nissim invites people to SurveillAnts, a collaborative installation with Leslie…

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  • Kathleen Gill Showed Her Series of Paintings: Reserved & Deserved

    2019 CAF Grantee Kathleen (Katy) Gill has completed her series of paintings called “Reserved & Deserved.”

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  • Diana Donald Publishes Book: Women Against Cruelty

    2014 CAF Grantee Diana Donald has published her latest book, Women Against Cruelty: Protection of Animals in Nineteenth-century Britain.

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  • 2020 Grant Application Period Now Open

    We are now accepting applications for our 2020 grants until January 31st. CAF funds academic and artistic projects that raise public awareness about concern for animals,

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  • Meet an Advisory Board Member—Part 8: Radhika Subramaniam: Re-Articulating an Interspecies Relationship

    Radhika Subramaniam is a curator and writer with an interdisciplinary practice that deploys such platforms as exhibitions, texts, and public art interventions as conscious forms…

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  • All Creatures Great and Small Art Exhibit Opening Soon

    2019 CAF grantee Shannon Johnstone received a grant for an art exhibition called “All Creatures Great and Small,” which will be on…

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  • 2019 Compassion Arts Festival

    Compassion Arts Festival is celebrating their 5th year with a month of events from October 5th to November 2nd 2019.

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  • Meet an Advisory Board Member—Part 7: Syl Ko: Acknowledging the Animality Narrative

    Syl Ko is an independent researcher known for bringing race to the forefront of the movement to end animal abuse. Her writing challenges species-centric terminology…

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  • Successful Second Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture

    On August 9th, Sherry F. Colb gave the second Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture at University of Colorado Boulder. The lecture…

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  • First Research Fellow Finishes Work

    Rachel Robison-Greene recently finished up her time at the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) and their Animal Rights Archive at the NC State University Libraries. She…

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  • 2017 CAF Grantee Gal Nissim Presents the Third Part of the Synanthrope Preserve Series

    2017 CAF grantee Gal Nissim invites people to participate in an immersive audio piece in New York City called “The First to Cross.” …

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  • Grantee’s Podcasting Network: iROAR

    Siobhan O’Sullivan, a 2019 grantee, has established a podcasting network called iROAR. It’s dedicated to animal advocacy, scholarship, ideas, social justice,…

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  • Bearing Witness to the Slaughtering of Pigs

    Two-time CAF grantees (2018-19), Amy Jones and Paul Healey received a joint grant to curate a digital free-to-use images of animals while traveling with the…

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  • Meet an Advisory Board Member—Part 6: Eva Meijer: When Animals Speak

    Eva Meijer is a singer-songwriter, novelist, and professor of animal philosophy. She became involved in animal rights as a child, having close relationships with family pets….

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  • The First Annual Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellow Announced

    The NC State University Libraries has awarded the first annual Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowship to Rachel…

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  • Recent Investigations of the Slaughtering of Pigs

    Board member and multiple-year grantee Jo-Anne McArthur and multiple-year grantees Amy Jones and Paul Healey have pieces in The Guardian’s

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  • Mark Mathew Braunstein’s Video Is Now Complete

    2019 grantee Mark Mathew Braunstein has completed his video on veg*sm in art. You can watch the video on YouTube: “Vegan…

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  • Meet an Advisory Board Member—Part 5: Dale Jamieson: Imagining a Better World

    Dale Jamieson, is Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, an affiliated professor of law, director of the Animals Studies Initiative, and the founding director of the

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  • Linda Brant—Monument for the Unmourned

    On May 18, 2019, artist Linda Brant, unveiled a monument dedicated to farmed animals at the Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in Hartsdale,…

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  • ABE, ALPINE GOAT, AGE 21

    Isa Leshko—Allowed to Grow Old

    Isa Leshko is an American fine art photographer whose work focuses on animal rights, mortality, and aging. Her collection Allowed to…

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  • Meet an Advisory Board Member—Part 4: J.M Coetzee: And the Animals

    J. M. Coetzee is an internationally acclaimed novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator, born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa.

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  • 2019 Grantees Announced

    We have chosen 15 applicants working on diverse projects from nine countries for this year’s grantees, who can all be viewed here.

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  • Moving Animals Launches Website

    Paul Healey and Amy Jones received a joint grant from Culture & Animals Foundation in 2018 to curate an archive of free-to-use images of animals,…

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  • Meet an Advisory Board Member—Part 3: Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni: Working with Nature

    Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni is the owner and founder of Querciabella, a pioneering winery based in Tuscany, Italy. Querciabella first went organic in 1988, a decision that eventually led…

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  • Meet an Advisory Board Member—Part 2: Steve Baker: After the Ark

    Steve Baker is Emeritus Professor of Art History at the University of Central Lancashire in England. Since the 1990s, he’s worked as an artist and academic…

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  • Announcing the 2019 Tom Regan Visiting Research Fellowship

    CAF is collaborating with the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at the NC State University Libraries to establish a fellowship in memory of Tom Regan to…

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  • Meet an Advisory Board Member—Part 1: Carol J. Adams: Following the Thread

    Carol J. Adams is the author of numerous books on the intersections between meat eating and misogyny, including the pioneering and deeply influential The Sexual Politics of Meat: A…

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  • Spreading the Culture of Animals and Animal Culture

    Patricia Denys and Mary Holmes talk about their new online magazine The global mainstream media does not generally cover the most critical topics concerning animal advocacy.

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  • Grantee Isa Leshko has New Book

    2016 grantee Isa Leshko is working on a book to be published this spring called Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from…

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  • Kim Stallwood and Radhika Subramaniam Have Chapters in New Book

    Animal Biography: Re-framing Animal Lives edited by André Krebber and Mieke Roscher is now out.

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  • Watch the 2018 Highlights from CAF and Our Grantees

    CAF remains unique in championing scholarship and the arts to further understanding of, inspire advocacy for, and deepen our connection with, non-human animals.

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  • Second Issue of Animal Culture Magazine Out Now

    Patricia Denys, a 2018 CAF grantee, along with Mary Holmes, and Karlie Kawa, have joined together to create…

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  • Tree Time: An Interview with Interdisciplinary Artist Lisa Hirmer

    Lisa Hirmer is an interdisciplinary artist based in Guelph, Ontario, whose practice spans visual media, social practice, performance, art-based research and occasionally writing. She is primarily…

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  • Vegan Hip-Hop Album by CAF Grantee Mr. Hip Out Now

    Culture and Animals Foundation 2018 grantee Donald Vincent aka Mr. Hip is a spoken word poet and hip-hop musician based in Los Angeles. He began recording…

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  • Grantee Michael Harren has New Book

    2016 grantee Michael Harren has a book out called The Animal Book.

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  • Book Launch for the Bangla Edition of The Philosophy of Animal Rights

    Pradhikar, an animal advocacy group based in the city of Sylhet in northeastern Bangladesh, held a book launch for the Bangla edition of Tom Regan’s pamphlet,…

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  • Linda Brant’s Monument To Animals We Do Not Mourn to be Unveiled in the Spring

    2015 and 2016 grantee, Linda Brant, has been working on her project, To Animals We Do Not Mourn.

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  • About the Tom Regan Lecture 2018

    You can now watch the first a short video about the Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture, with reflections from CAF board members, audience…

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  • 2019 Grant Application Period Now Open

    We are now accepting applications for our 2019 grants until January 31st. (more…)

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  • Read about the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture

    You can now read more about the firstAnnual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture, given by Carol J. Adams on September 21st, 2018 at North Carolina State University…

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  • Watch the First Annual Tom Regan Lecture

    You can now watch the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture, given by Carol J. Adams on September 21st, 2018. She is the author of The Sexual Politics…

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  • Successful First Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture

    On September 21st, 2018, Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and many other books, gave the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture at North Carolina…

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  • Translation of Tom Regan’s The Philosophy of Animal Rights

    Rainer Ebert has overseen a translation of Tom Regan’s pamphlet, The Philosophy of Animal Rights, into Bangla. 

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  • Syl Ko to Sign Books at the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture

    We are excited to announce that Syl Ko, co-author of Aphro-ism, will be at the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture. She will join 

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  • First Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture Happening this Month

    Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and many other books, will give the first Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture at

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  • CAF 2017 Grantees Showcase Their Latest Project

    Martin Rowe, CAF co-vice president, writes: Looming clouds and threats of a thunderstorm didn’t deter the dozen or so enthusiasts who arrived at the south-east corner of Central Park…

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  • Meet CAF’s New Social Media Intern

    CAF is pleased to announce that we’ve hired Karen Bowman as our social media intern. Karen will be connecting on Facebook, Twitter, and…

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  • 2017 CAF Grantee Gal Nissim Presents The Synanthrope Preserve

    2017 CAF grantee Gal Nissim, along with Jessica Scott-Dutcher, invite visitors to discover the urban wildlife of Central Park in their project, The…

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  • Nonhuman Rights Project

    Tom Regan Cited in Historic Court Ruling

    In an historic ruling today, a judge of the New York Court of Appeals issued a decision that all three intermediate appellate courts of New York that had ruled…

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  • New Issue of Between the Species about Tom Regan

      Between the Species, a peer-reviewed electronic journal devoted to the philosophical examination of the relationship between human beings and other animals, just released…

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  • Board Member Named NIU Presidential Teaching Professor

    Congratulations to board member, Mylan Engel Jr., who was just honored as the 2018 Northern Illinois University (NIU) Presidential Teaching Professor. Mylan teaches in the…

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  • The First Ever Annual Tom Regan Memorial Lecture Happening This Fall

    Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat and many other books, will give the first Annual Tom Regan…

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  • Watch the Tom Regan Memorial Panel from MAC4

    CAF board member Kim Stallwood organized and spoke on the Tom Regan Memorial Panel, which took place at the Minding Animals Conference…

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  • CAF Board Member and Grantee is Voted Wildlife Photographer of the Year

    We’re very excited that multiple CAF grantee and board member Jo-Anne McArthur was voted Wildlife Photographer of the Year, People’s Choice Winner with her photograph of Pikin…

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  • Animal Welfare Materials being Digitized including Tom Regan Animal Rights Archive

    The NCSU Libraries and the ASPCA have received a grant from the 

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  • Apply for a CAF Grant

    We are currently accepting applications for our 2018 grants. (more…)

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  • Upcoming Minding Animals Conference in Mexico from January 17th-24th

    The fourth Minding Animals Conference is happening this January in Ciudad de México from the 17th-24th. 

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  • End of Year Newsletter

    Check out our latest newsletter to hear about what CAF has been up to this year. And thank you to everyone who has supported us in…

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  • Support Artists and Scholars Working for Animals this #GivingTuesday

    For three decades, CAF has provided artists and scholars with grants to help them advocate for animals and deepen our understanding of them. Grantees have…

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  • Highlights from the Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival

    The first Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival took place on October 21–22, 2017 in New York City. The Culture & Animals Foundation joined with Compassion Arts…

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  • Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival a Success

    The Culture & Animals Foundation joined with Compassion Arts for the first Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival at the…

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  • One More Week Until the Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival!

    We are excited that there is one week to go until the Compassion Arts & Culture and Animals Festival that we are putting on with

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  • In Memory of Tom Regan by Ana Cristina Ramirez

    Ana Cristina Ramirez, Minding Animals’ International‘s partner in organizing the fourth conference in Mexico, in January 2018, has published a reflection (in Spanish) on Tom Regan: In…

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  • Join us at the Compassion Arts Festival

    We are excited to announce the Festival that we are putting on in collaboration with Compassion Arts. Watch the video below of co-vice president Martin Rowe…

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  • Mohandas K. Gandhi and Tom Regan: Advocates for Animal Rights

    Rainer Ebert wrote a piece about Mohandas Gandhi and Tom Regan. He wrote about Gandhi’s influence on Regan’s work advocating for animal rights. You can read more

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  • Tom Regan “In His Own Words” video

    Robert Leonard made this video about Tom Regan that contains many of Tom’s words and writings. It’s a good way to either familiarize yourself with some of Tom’s work…

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