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RELIGION AND EMPIRE

BRINFAITH Online Public Lecture Series

Held once a month, the series invites scholars from all around the globe to discuss their research on the interconnections between religion, infrastructure and empire in Afro-Eurasia. Engaging a wide variety of disciplines and topics, the lectures promise to enrich our understanding of how religiosities are transforming in an infrastructurally-connected yet increasingly de-globalizing world defined by great power competition.

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對話學者 /Dialogue with Anna Iskra/ The New Age Fever in Urban China: Taming Emotions to Become Successful and Happy

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Since the reform and opening in 1978, China has undergone massive transformations in almost every aspect of social life. This created a tremendous amount of anxiety among Chinese urbanites who embarked on a quest for newly-defined success and happiness. In this dialogue, Anna Iskra (postdoctoral fellow at the HKIHSS) shares her observations on the rising popularity of New Age/Body-Mind-Spirit practices among the urban middle class in the People’s Republic. She discusses how New Age workshops become spaces for intense emotional releases that are imagined as tools for people’s re-embedment into a more harmonious network of relationships. These practices of self-discovery occur in the context of a growing “psychologization” of political discourses disseminated by the Communist Party of China

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有時人跟人的相遇相識，真的是一件很偶然的事。我認識吳正老師就純屬偶然。當時，只是碰巧給同事帶路去港大的「一念素食」餐廳，便被邀請著一起用餐。對面坐著的便是吳正老師，他看起來應該是可以當我爺爺的年紀，但卻異常有神采，並且對我這"莫名"出現的晚輩極其親切友善。同事跟我介紹說他是一位作家，還問我有沒有讀過《上海人》。我當時既兩眼放光又惋惜地搖了搖頭，只是好奇地聽他們在用上海話敘舊拉家常。我雖懵懵懂懂，已有預感這位作家爺爺身上一定帶著很多有趣的故事，那裏有歷史、時代與個人漂泊旅居印烙下的痕跡與滄桑。

那一次似乎是吳正老師第一次來這家素食餐廳，後來便時不時晚上的時候會過來吃飯。我因是這裏的常客，便有機會撞見吳老師，聽他講他過去文革時期在上海，後來又怎麼來到香港的故事。很神奇，這是我第一次先認識書的作者，而不是書本身。我隨後在港大圖書館借了他的短篇小說集《後窗》來翻看，便發現確實能在作品中找到作者人生經歷的影子，但跟面對面聊天不同的是，文學作品終究是更藝術化的呈現與提煉，是這些作品讓個人的現實經歷更具紀錄性和審美性，乃至引起某種精神的共鳴，讓另一個時代，甚至另一種文化的讀者都有辦法去設身處地去感受、體會、共情，這或許便是藝術與文學的可貴之處。

我第一次領略吳正老師筆下的"滬港春秋"倒不是手頭這本新收到的書，而是他的另一本中長篇小說《長夜半生》（又稱作《立交人生》），這部作品應該是吳老師中後期的作品，可謂是吳老師小說創作臻於成熟的代表作。它像油畫，一層又一層塗抹；像交響，一組又一組演奏。小說中不停重複的場景，是裏面人物四條分岔而又交錯縱橫的人生節點。在上海和香港的往復之中，在上世紀與本世紀的跳躍之間，回憶與夢境，童年與中年，彈指一揮間，疊合無縫。仿佛沒有因果，回首卻早有安排，斷層分割，又藕斷絲連。回憶和夢境可以無數次地穿插在不同的當下。童年，是中年的夢遊。中年，是童年的傷痕。在漫漫長夜、半生已過之際，四個小說人物的命運仍交錯在童年與時代裂變的隔閡裏，暫望不到通向未來的重生或是和解的路。局囿在此，要問的或許是，等待他們（晚年）的下一個時代（也就是我們所處的這個時代）是什麼？

這種當代中國社會的割裂與斷層感，在《長夜半生》中有很明顯的體現，一個人這一生即使從未踏出過上海，或是香港，但撞上了這樣一個從文革到改革開放，從殖民到回歸的時代，她/他也註定會感受到這種劇變帶來的恍然無措，更何況是穿梭漂泊在滬港兩地的人呢？但吊詭的是，變著變著，"上海似乎越來越香港，而香港又似乎越來越上海了"，童年的故鄉註定在歲月裏漸行漸遠，而異鄉卻慢慢成為了第二故鄉。

神奇的是，雖然我跟吳老師隔著一個時代，卻也能理解這種跨境雙城的體會。我是2014年來香港念書，疫情發生前，跨越深港邊境幾乎是每週或是每月的家常便飯，我在短短數小時內便能體驗兩種城市人文景觀極不同的社會，而積年累月下來，兩邊的文化與語言都慢慢地在我身上有機地流動與融合，可是外部的意識環境卻朝著越來越撕裂的方向變化，這於我著實是苦痛的，且是雙倍的苦痛。這個時候，疫情來襲，近在眼前的家卻無法回，我的雙城流動生活在這樣一個機緣下停下來，也慢下來了。

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Listen to 話梅堂 on Spotify. 「話梅堂」，是一檔關注個人與社會有機互動的播客，坐標香港大學本部校園梅堂。在這里，我們帶入人類學、社會學等跨學科視角，同時分享多元文化的精神養分，以期身心共同成長。 目前歡迎大家在小宇宙、Spotify、Apple Podcast、Google Podcast等平台上收聽我們的欄目，也可以持續關註我們的微信公眾號--话梅堂Mindscape

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Event recap on Demystifying Mindfulness from the Perspectives of Psychology and Buddhism: A Half-Day Retreat @HKU + Lung Fu Shan

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Demystifying Mindfulness from the Perspectives of Psychology and Buddhism: A Half-Day Retreat @HKU + Lung Fu Shan

With the Christmas bell ringing under the mistletoe, the year of 2021 is about to come to an end.

Each year at this time, we'll have a strong feeling of standing at the intersection between the past and the future, the old and the new, the 'history' and the 'mystery'. Every year of life felt like just passing us without notice.

Looking deeply, you may ponder, "have I truly treasured every day and every moment in my life as a present?"

Are you NOT doing what you are doing?

Many of us might have experienced the following situation in our hectic lives:

You forgot to get off the bus/MTR...

You are not sure whether you've used the soap or not during a shower...

You intended to send a message but got distracted after looking at your phone...

These are the symptoms of NOT being mindful of our present moments. Prof. Lam Shui-fong, the director of Jockey Club "Peace and Awareness" Mindfulness Culture in Schools Initiative (JC PandA), also our first guest facilitator of the event "Demystifying Mindfulness from the Perspectives of Psychology and Buddhism: A Half-Day Retreat @HKU + Lung Fu Shan" pointed out that our mind is constantly NOT with our body - when we eat, we are not eating; when we walk, we are not walking; when we sleep, we are not sleeping......

But what is mindfulness anyway? Prof. Lam answered, "Mindfulness is like honey; you can never know what the flavour really is until you taste it." Although she provided a rather accurate definition on mindfulness, she also pointed out that understanding the definition intellectually itself is far from enough.

There are many ways to "taste" mindfulness, such as through sitting, walking, eating and stretching. On the day of workshop, we were lucky to have Prof. Lam guide us to practice mindful sitting and stretching.

While sitting, we were told to sit in the front of the chair seat, upright our torso and pay attention to the breathing while mentally scanning our body from the feet on the ground to the head. We felt that the calmness is a natural manifestation of such process.

Mindfulness is about Accepting: it is not a game of self-criticism nor competition

Though with Prof.Lam's clear and soft instructions, many of us still found our mind easily drifting away by many different things - either the past or the future. Once we were aware of that, we can't help but criticise ourselves for not being in the present moment.

Prof. Lam told us that it is okay to have many thoughts. The key is about whether you are able to be AWARE of all those thoughts, emotions, or feelings that come to your body and your mind in the present moments. The awareness is the mindfulness. Mindfulness is NOT about emptying our thoughts - in fact, it is impossible to do that. Mindfulness is about accepting and embracing what is in your mind and body without criticism or judgments.

While practicing mindful stretching, Prof. Lam especially emphasised the "non-striving" and "non-competitive" nature of the actions.

"Stretching is not a competition with others nor even with yourself; everyone has his/her own limits, we should all respect our own limits. Just stretch your body at your own ease and at your own pace."

This is a process of listening to our own body and thus healing it with our respect and love. Although these are seemingly simple postures, Prof.Lam helped us realise how often we would put ourselves in a competitive and striving mode in which our body are tight, and our mind are trapped in self-criticism and comparison.

Driven-Doing V.S. Mindful-Being. Which way of living will you choose?

Now we may have a clue of why practicing mindfulness is helpful and important to us. By being mindful, we can truly live our lives. While we experience 'the present' every day, every minute, every second, even every millisecond, we still oftentimes dismiss the value of the present, haunted by the nostalgia of the past and worries about the future. Such mode of being almost forms an internal loop in our mind, constantly enforced by our society, and leading to many sufferings and mental issues such as anxiety and depression.

By being mindful, we are also able to turn OFF the auto-pilot mode of our body and mind, and to avoid being the slave of our own emotions such as anger. Prof. Lam said, "When we are angry, we are irrational and prone to conduct regretful behaviours, whether to our beloved ones or to other people." By practicing mindfulness, we'll be more conscious of the consequences and energies of our actions. And gradually we'll have more empathy with ourselves and the world around us and gain more capacity in growing love and happiness.

Mindful Walking: Grounding ourselves in the present moment

With the warmup practice in mindful sitting and stretching guided by Prof. Lam and her psychological insights, we were ready to experience the mindfulness in motion - by walking and hiking in the Lung Fu Mountain - and from a Buddhist perspective.

You may wonder: what is the difference between walking and mindful walking, and how could we know if we are walking mindfully? Indeed, walking is so ubiquitous that we often fail to notice it. It is an action we practice every day: we rely on walking to move from place to place, to battle with limited time, and to reach out for goals we set for ourselves in the life marathon.

Yet, according to Br. Trời Bình An (平安天), one of the monasteries from the Plum Village HK, mindful walking can fundamentally transform the nature of walking and the quality of being manifested in our daily life. It is not a competition for speed, but a spiritual process of grounding yourself where you are - right in the present moment.

Brother Bình An also demonstrated his technique of mindful walking: "While walking, we could group, say, every two to three steps into 'breath-in' and the other following steps as 'breath-out':

Step ... Step ...

(Breathing) In ... In ...

Step ... Step ... Step

(Breathing) Out ... Out ...Out

By naming the in-breath and out-breath while walking, we can regulate our steps by a certain tempo. And during this process, we can garner the support from the earth.

Mindful Hiking at Lung Fu Mountain: somewhere to go but no need to rush

After the demonstration, we followed the pace of brothers and sisters and walked into the forest of Lung Fu Mountain where we could experience the sound, the fragrance, the tactility... all the sensations awakened by nature.

Although walking mindfully does not necessarily mean walking slowly, we proceeded in a relatively slow but steady pace - a pace that many of us had no time and no chance to practice in our daily routines. We were so used to hurrying toward another destination. Now, we could have an excuse to just enjoy the process.

In the beginning, the feeling of impatience and unease might arise from the habitual patterns of rushing. But as we practice the mindful hiking collectively, the energy of calming and caring spread.

Gradually we would realise that

Every step we made mindfully is a kiss to our mother earth.

Journey of Hiking as Journey of living: happiness is here and now

After about 2 hours' restorative retreat in nature, we went back and sang joyfully with the melody of guitar and the beautiful songs from Plum Village. The songs are perfect reflections of our mindful walking journey:

"Breathing in, Breathing out

Breathing in, Breathing out

I am blooming as a flower

I am fresh as a dew

I am solid as a mountain

I am firm as the Earth

I am free"

- - - <Breathing in, Breathing out>

"Happiness is here and now

I have dropped my worries

Nowhere to go

Nothing to do

No longer in a hurry

Happiness is here and now

I have dropped my worries

Somewhere to go

Something to do

But I don't need to hurry"

- - - <Happiness is here and now>

After singing, sister Trang Nghiêm (莊嚴) shared her own story to illustrate why we should enjoy the process of our life mindfully.

"This journey on Lung Fu Shan", she said, "reminded me of my hike on the Phoenix Mountain, the highest mountain of Lantau Island in HK."

"People said, don't climb it. It's too high." recalled by Sr. Trang Nghiem with a smile, "but I decided to give it a try. I constantly took rests, drinking water, enjoying the beautiful scenery on my way to the top. The view around was so breath-taking."

"Finally, I reached the peak. But I saw nothing because of the fog."

She suddenly realised how lucky she was as she already enjoyed the process. Otherwise, it would be rather disappointing to find the emptiness of the destination. The journey of hiking is, indeed, a metaphor of our own journey of life.

"There's no way to happiness, happiness is the way." Sister Trang Nghiêm helped us to see how the practice of mindfulness is connected or even fundamental to the true happiness as it helps us to focus on the present, the most precious gift of our life.

Mindfulness: Our Common Heritage

After this half-day retreat and workshop, we as participants would find a lot of similarities between the perspectives of psychology and Buddhism in the understanding and practice of mindfulness.

In fact, "mindfulness is a common heritage from various spiritual traditions of various cultures and races." said Prof. Lam. No matter in Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, or in Christianity and Islam's traditions, you'll find how mindfulness is deeply embedded in the traditions of introspection, reflections and ways in attaining inner peace and wisdom.

With the new year coming, let us treasure the universality of humanity and put mindfulness, our common heritage, into day-to-day, moment-to-moment practice.

Credits

The article is a recap of the community event "Demystifying Mindfulness from the Perspectives of Psychology and Buddhism: A Half-Day Retreat @HKU + Lung Fu Shan" co-curated and organised by The New Mindscape and The Art of Happiness.

Greatest gratitude to Prof.Lam Shui-fong, the director of JC PandA and Sr. Trang Nghiêm (莊嚴), Sr. Trăng Mặc Chiếu (默照月), Br. Trời Bình An ( 平安天）, Br. Trời Phạm Trú ( 梵住天) from Plum Village HK for facilitating the workshop.

Lia Tsang, Kelly Wai and Ken from the JC PandA team helped a lot in the room booking and set up. Penny from the HKU Common Core Office and Steve Cheung, the instructor from CCHU9014 & 9061 offered their kind help in the event promotion.

Also many thanks to friends of The Art of Happiness - Georgina Chan, Mickey Chen, Tsering Lobsang and Ziggy Zhu in helping with the logistics of the day. Mickey Chen and Ziggy Zhu, as the intern editors of The New Mindscape, also contributed a lot to this article.

Coordinator and Editor: Lunar Tong

The New Mindscape is a space for knowledge-sharing and community-building on spirituality, religion and social change.

We explore different possibilities of realities and gain inspirations from diverse spiritual and religious ideas and practices, aiming to transform ourselves and our society in a better way.

The New Mindscape was initiated by Prof. David A. Palmer who's actively sharing his insights by public writing and teaching.
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A Half-day Retreat @ HKU + Lung Fu Mountain: Demystifying Mindfulness from the perspectives of Psychology and Buddhism

We spend most of our time learning about the outside world and try to change small parts of it, but most of us know very little about our own inner mindscape, and even less about how to change it for the better.

Mindfulness is one of the most simple yet also profound ways of knowing while transforming our own consciousness into one with more clarity, peace and happiness. It is a widespread practice across different religious traditions and nowadays being even widely applied in fields like psychology, medicine and education.

We now invite you to explore these questions together with us by joining this half-day retreat @HKU + Lung Fu Shan:

1. How can mindfulness connect us to a deeper understanding of self and meaning of life?

2. What insights can we gain if we could learn from both religious and non-religious approaches of mindfulness?

3. What will happen to our daily life and surrounding if we can practice mindfulness from the here and the now?

Date: Dec 17 (Friday) , 2021【Rescheduled】

Time: 13:30 pm-18:00 pm

Venue: HKU campus + Lung Fu Mountain*

Format: Talks + experiential practices in mindful breathing, sitting, stretching and hiking

(Limited quotas are available, first come first serve)
*Further details will be sent to you upon successful registration

About our guest facilitators

Professor Shui-fong LAM
B.A. (CUHK), PGDE (CUHK), M.Ed. (U. of Texas), Ph.D. (U. of Minnesota)

Shui-fong LAM is a Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She was a recipient of the Outstanding Teaching Award from the HKU, the Outstanding International Scholar Award from the International School Psychology Association, and the Knowledge Exchange Award from the Social Sciences Faculty at HKU. She is now the Director of the Jockey Club "Peace and Awareness" Mindfulness Culture in Schools Initiative. It is her aspiration to promote mental health of students, teachers, and parents in Hong Kong through the training and research in mindfulness.

Plum Village Hong Kong

Founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, Plum Village began in 1982 as a small, rustic farmstead, and has today grown into Europe's largest Buddhist monastery.

"At Plum Village we weave mindfulness into all our daily activities, training ourselves to be mindful throughout the day: while eating, walking, working, or enjoying a cup of tea together. Plum Village is a home away from home, and a beautiful, nourishing, simple environment in which to cultivate the mind of awakening."

Its center in HK was founded in November 2008 as a non-profit making, charitable, religious and educational organization to promote the teachings and practice of Buddhism in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh and Plum Village, France.

The New Mindscape
The New Mindscape provides a spiritual and intellectual space on re-imaging and re-building the self and society, with multimedia content (readings, videos and community events) developed from CCHU9014 Spirituality, Religion and Social Change, an HKU common core course taught by Prof. David A. Palmer who's an anthropologist in exploring different realities.

The Art of Happiness
The Art of Happiness HKU is a community of inner discovery, mindfulness, and self-care. We rediscover happiness in psychology, philosophy, arts, and spirituality, and turn ideas into weekly practice.

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此計劃獲Knowledge Exchange (KE) Funding Scheme 2017/18資助。

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老潤，讀Arch（建築），Year 2。面對他人，她總是習慣這樣介紹自己。但對於自我的形象、性向和身份認同，她的態度卻有些曖昧。這部小短片將帶你了解這位從廣州來港大唸書的年輕人和她探索自我的旅居生活。
Laurene, major in Architecture, Year 2. She always introduces herself in this way in front of others. But when it comes to her dress-up, sexuality and identity, her attitude is somehow ambiguous. This short documentary will show you how this young university student explores herself during her journey in neighbouring both Hong Kong and her home city Guangzhou.

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看「窗」的十九種方式

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Photography Exhibition -
看「窗」的十九種方式 Nineteen ways to look at a window

窗框構著每日之所見,雖有限制,但根據觀察角度、心情、時間、天氣和往來之人的不同，窗外的風景和故事也總是充滿著戲劇性和不確定性。

窗過渡著私密空間與公共空間。相對於門而言，它的存在是含糊不清的：它提供了「窺視」的相互性,甚至是正當性。藉由這一灰色地帶，人們通過「看/被看」與陌生人產生了一種聯繫和交流，而很多時候，這種交流最終也將通向我們自己。

華萊士·史蒂文斯（Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955）曾創作組詩「看黑鳥的十三種方式」，其中包括短詩十三首。每首短詩以不同的視角和方式來呈現「黑鳥」這一對象，詩與詩之間看似相互割裂實則相互關聯。此次展覽我們精選出了十九幅作品，題材包含攝影與繪畫。與這一組詩相似的是，出展每幅作品都以不同的方式呈現了「窗」這一主題，它們彼此間相互獨立又有產生對話的可能。受此啟發，我們將本次展覽命名為「看窗的十九種方式」。

不過與史翁組詩不同的是，這個展覽還是一次集體或公共創作，因此「看窗的方式」也就不止於第十九種：我們希望在看展之後，每一位觀眾都能在日常生活中，發現屬於他自己的「窗」的第二十種維度。

Windows frame our daily perceptions, which, however restricted, are brimming with dramatics and ambiguity due to varying perspectives and moods of the viewers, to the timing and the weather, and indubitably, to what has been occurring on the other side.

Windows mark the border lines the public and the private, and serve to buffer the transitions between the two. Thus its mode of being is far vaguer than that of doors. Such vagueness of windows manifests itself when one discovers the reciprocity, and even legitimacy, of gazes, by the very action of which one establishes a relationship with others where potential communications can take place. Sometimes, the communications could occur in our relationship with ourselves.

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) once wrote a poem called Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird. It's composed of thirteen short sections, each of which provides a different angle in approaching blackbird, in a seemingly separate but interrelated manner. As for this exhibition, we've selected nineteen pieces of work from the public entries, all of which function similar to that of the poem as they all present windows differently but could interact with each other as well. Inspired by this poem, we named our exhibition as Nineteen ways of looking at a window.

However, unlike the poem, the exhibition is a public creation and the perspectives on windows do not end in the nineteenth way. We sincerely invite each of you to discover the twentieth way based on your daily life experience.

Venue: K.K. Leung Concourse, HKU
Period of Exhibition: 3/4/2017 (Mon) - 7/4/2017 (Fri)
Event details: http://bit.ly/2o0QHmQ
Link to vote for your favorite works：https://goo.gl/forms/SpnERZmD37fAZxIO2

Curator Team Members
Lead Curator: Tong Yue
Graphic designer: Chen Xinhao
Copy & Annotation Editor: Liu Yijia, Tang Yiqi, Xiao Qinyu

Thomas Tsang (Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, HKU)

Jurors for prizes:
Thomas Tsang (Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, HKU)
Wong Chi Chung (Assistant Director of General Education, HKU)

This project is supported by GE F:A:C:E: Subsidy which encourages student to produce their own art works or creative projects in all areas.

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F:A:C:E: Subsidy Project - Photography Exhibition "Nineteen ways to look at a window"

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F:A:C:E: Subsidy Project - Photography Exhibition "Nineteen ways to look at a window" 看「窗」的十九種方式 Summary 內容: Photography Exhibition - 看「窗」的十九種方式 Nineteen ways to look at a window 窗框構著每日之所見,雖有限制,但根據觀察角度、心情、時間、天氣和往來之人的不同，窗外的風景和故事也總是充滿著戲劇性和不確定性。 窗過渡著私密空間與公共空間。相對於門而言，它的存在是含糊不清的：它提供了「窺視」的相互性,甚至是正當性。藉由這一灰色地帶，人們通過「看/被看」與陌生人產生了一種聯繫和交流，而很多時候，這種交流最終也將通向我們自己。 華萊士·史蒂文斯（Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955）曾創作組詩「看黑鳥的十三種方式」，其中包括短詩十三首。每首短詩以不同的視角和方式來呈現「黑鳥」這一對象，詩與詩之間看似相互割裂實則相互關聯。此次展覽我們精選出了十九幅作品，題材包含攝影與繪畫。與這一組詩相似的是，出展每幅作品都以不同的方式呈現了「窗」這一主題，它們彼此間相互獨立又有產生對話的可能。受此啟發，我們將本次展覽命名為「看窗的十九種方式」。 不過與史翁組詩不同的是，這個展覽還是一次集體或公共創作，因此「看窗的方式」也就不止於第十九種：我們希望在看展之後，每一位觀眾都能在日常生活中，發現屬於他自己的「窗」的第二十種維度。 Windows frame our daily perceptions, which, however restricted, are brimming with dramatics and ambiguity due to varying perspectives and moods of the viewers, to the timing and the weather, and indubitably, to what has been occurring on the other side.

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