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<chapter>
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>PostGIS is developed by Refractions Research Inc, as a spatial
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database technology research project. Refractions is a GIS and database
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consulting company in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, specializing in
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data integration and custom software development. We plan on supporting and
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developing PostGIS to support a range of important GIS functionality,
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including full OpenGIS support, advanced topological constructs (coverages,
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surfaces, networks), desktop user interface tools for viewing and editing
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GIS data, and web-based access tools.</para>
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<sect1 id="psc">
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<title>Project Steering Committee</title>
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<para>
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The PostGIS Project Steering Committee (PSC) coordinates the general direction,
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release cycles, documentation, and outreach efforts for the PostGIS project. In addition
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the PSC provides general user support, accepts and approves patches from the general PostGIS community
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and votes on miscellaneous issues involving PostGIS such as developer commit access, new PSC members
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or significant API changes.
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</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Mark Cave-Ayland</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Coordinates bug fixing and maintenance effort, alignment of
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PostGIS with PostgreSQL releases, spatial index selectivity and binding, loader/dumper, and Shapefile GUI Loader, integration of new
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GEOS functionality, and new function enhancements.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Paul Ramsey</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Co-founder of PostGIS project. General bug fixing, geography support, 3D, geography, geometry index support, underlying geometry internal structures, GEOS functionality integration and alignment with
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GEOS releases, loader/dumper, and Shapefile GUI loader.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Kevin Neufeld</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Documentation, Hudson automated build, advanced user support
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on PostGIS newsgroup, and postgis maintenance function enhancements.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Regina Obe</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Documentation, general user support on PostGIS newsgroup, windows production and experimental builds, and
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smoke testing new functionality or major code changes.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="credits">
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<title>Contributors Past and Present</title>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Sandro Santilli</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Bug fixes and maintenance and integration of new GEOS functionality and alignment with GEOS releases. Raster support.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Dave Blasby</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>The original developer/Co-founder of PostGIS. Dave wrote the server side
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objects, index bindings, and many of the server side analytical
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functions.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Jeff Lounsbury</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Original development of the Shape file loader/dumper. Current PostGIS Project Owner representative.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Mark Leslie</term>
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<para>Ongoing maintenance and development of core functions. Enhanced curve support. Shapefile GUI loader.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Olivier Courtin</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Input output XML (KML,GML)/GeoJSON functions, 3D support and bug fixes.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Pierre Racine</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Raster overall architecture and programming support</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Mateusz Loskot</term>
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<para>Raster support</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Chris Hodgson</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>General development</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Nicklas Avén</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Distance function enhancements and additions, Windows testing, and general user support</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Jorge Arevalo</term>
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<para>Raster development</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>David Zwarg</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Raster development</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Other contributors</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>In alphabetical order: Alex Bodnaru, Alex Mayrhofer, Barbara
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Phillipot, Ben Jubb, Bernhard Reiter, Bruce Rindahl, Bruno Wolff
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III, Carl Anderson, Charlie Savage, Dane Springmeyer, David Skea,
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David Techer, Eduin Carrillo, IIDA Tetsushi, George Silva, Geographic Data BC,
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Gerald Fenoy, Gino Lucrezi, Guillaume Lelarge, Klaus Foerster, Kris Jurka, Mark
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Sondheim, Markus Schaber, Maxime Guillaud, Maxime van Noppen, Michael Fuhr, Nikita Shulga, Norman Vine,
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Ralph Mason, Steffen Macke, Stephen Frost, Vincent Picavet</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Important Support Libraries</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>The <ulink url="http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/">GEOS</ulink>
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geometry operations library, and the algorithmic work of Martin
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Davis in making it all work, ongoing maintenance and support of
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Mateusz Loskot, Paul Ramsey and others.</para>
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<para>The <ulink url="http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/">Proj4</ulink>
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cartographic projection library, and the work of Gerald Evenden and
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Frank Warmerdam in creating and maintaining it.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</sect1>
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<sect1>
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<title>More Information</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>The latest software, documentation and news items are available
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at the PostGIS web site, <ulink
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url="http://postgis.refractions.net">http://postgis.refractions.net</ulink>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>More information about the GEOS geometry operations library is
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available at<ulink url="http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/">
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http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/</ulink>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>More information about the Proj4 reprojection library is
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available at <ulink
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url="http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/">http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/</ulink>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>More information about the PostgreSQL database server is
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available at the PostgreSQL main site <ulink
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url="http://www.postgresql.org">http://www.postgresql.org</ulink>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>More information about GiST indexing is available at the
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PostgreSQL GiST development site, <ulink
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url="http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/">http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/</ulink>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>More information about MapServer internet map server is
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available at <ulink
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url="http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/">http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu</ulink>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The "<ulink
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url="http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/sfs">Simple Features for
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Specification for SQL</ulink>" is available at the OpenGIS Consortium
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web site: <ulink
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url="http://www.opengeospatial.org/">http://www.opengeospatial.org/</ulink>.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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