It would stiffen penalties for cases of "e-personation," as she calls it.
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She also faces charges of "false personation and related felonies" by the California Attorney General.
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In July, the California attorney general charged Ms. Le with false personation; identity theft; and obtaining money, labor or property by false pretenses — all felonies.
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Le has not been employed with the company since October 2017 and was criminally charged last summer with false personation and related felonies by the California Attorney General's Office.
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Or, looking at "False Personation of a U.S. Citizen" (85033 U.S. Code § 911) — something that can be prosecuted as a felony — would Rubio consider this to be an "immigration-related" violation (i.e.
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That said, just because these rules are unlikely to prevent people from creating and distributing damaging synthetic media — what the bill calls "advanced technological false personation records" — that doesn't mean the law serves no purpose here.
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Trans women—especially trans women of color—get profiled as sex workers simply for being transgender, and are routinely forced into confinement with men while being charged for "false personation" for not using their birth names.
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Chinese scholars have long disagreed about when and how shi personation originated. Henri Doré (1914 1:99–102) summarizes the four principal opinions, which are worth quoting in full. The first opinion is that personation was a bygone superstition. The Tang Dynasty historian Du You criticizes the shi: > The ancients employed a personator.
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Several early texts and commentaries reiterate a traditional history of personation beginning in the second millennium BCE as a sacred communion with ancestral spirits, but ending as a drinking party in the late 1st millennium BCE. When the personation ceremony supposedly originated during the Xia Dynasty (c. 2100 – c. 1600 BCE), a personator would make contact with the dead ancestral spirit before sitting down to eat and drink.
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During the Yin or Shang Dynasty (c. 1600 – 1046 BCE), a personator would sometimes sit down without having contacted the spirit, and by the late Zhou Dynasty (1045–256 BCE), a personation ceremony became a revelry with several personators repeatedly making toasts and drinking sacrificial wines. Two Liji chapters describe how personation rituals changed during the Zhou period. > Under the [Zhou] dynasty the representatives of the dead sat.
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Personation (rather than impersonation) is a primarily-legal term, meaning 'to assume the identity of another person with intent to deceive'. It is often used for the kind of voter fraud where an individual votes in an election, whilst pretending to be a different elector. It is also used when charging a person who portrays themselves as a police officer. Personation appears as a crime in the Canadian Criminal Code with the meaning simply of impersonation.
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He personated the spirit. The officer > of prayer was the medium of communication between him and the sacrificer. > (11, tr. Legge 1885 27:446) Later sources repeat this legendary history of personation.
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Voting with a false registration in the name of another person satisfy the offence of personation under section 60 of the 1983 Act, and all of the entries listed in the schedule of false registrations are known to have voted.
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PEA, s. 39(3). To vote, voters must go to the polling stations assigned to them.PEA, s. 39(1). Applying for a ballot paper or voting in the name of someone else, or attempting to vote more than once, amounts to the offence of personation.
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Polling opened at 8 a.m., with both parties organising transport for their supporters. Rosettes in party colours were widely worn: blue for the Conservatives and red for the Liberals. The Liberals were fearful of personation and employed a large number of scrutineers at the eleven polling stations.
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Polling day was reported as quiet, apart from two attempts to assault Parnell, and one alleged case of personation. Kettle's supporter, Father O'Neill, protested that one of his curates was acting as a personation agent for Hammond; his three curates, defending their support for the Anti-Parnellite candidate, produced a letter from the local bishop, urging O'Neill to abstain from campaigning and allow them to promote the Anti- Parnellite cause.The Times, 8 July 1891. The result was an emphatic victory for the Anti-Parnellites, with Hammond receiving 3,747 votes as against just 1,532 for Kettle,The Constitutional Year Book, 1904, published by Conservative Central Office, page 187 (211 in web page) a majority of 2,215.
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In the U.S., the New York State Penal Law defines the crime of false personation as simply the act of pretending to be another, a Class B misdemeanor; those who assume the identity of another in order to further another crime can be charged with second-degree criminal impersonation, a Class A misdemeanor. Posing as a police officer for any reason, or as a physician in order to forge a prescription or otherwise obtain substances so controlled, is first-degree criminal impersonation, a Class E felony. Many jurisdictions allow electors to nominate an individual to vote on their behalf, often known as proxy voting. Whilst voting with an invalid proxy form could be considered personation, it is usual for an intent to deceive to be required for such an act to be considered criminal.
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John Bingham was opposed to the Rivington Pike water scheme, but James Holme was in favour. There were two cases of Personation. John Jones of Cazneau-street, who intended to vote for Mr. Bingham, discovered that he had been personated by someone who had voted for James Holme. David Starke of Waterloo-road discovered that someone else had voted for Mr. Bingham in his name.
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The first day of the petition concerned fourteen votes which were disputed by either side. On the first scrutiny of the votes, St Maur's majority of four votes was eliminated, placing the candidates level. Then St Maur went ahead again by two votes, only to fall back to level pegging again. However, Henry Duke's lawyers established a case of personation, which gave Duke a lead of one vote at the end of the first day.
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In the case of Shahed Ali who was registered at two different addresses within the ward he was successfully elected in, both registrations were used to vote in the election for Lutfur Rahman. If both registrations were used by Ali, then he had committed an offence of voting more than once under section 61(2) of the 1983 Act. Where one of the registration was used by another person, that person would be guilty of personation.
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She then disappeared from the stage until 1818–19, when she played Mrs. Sterling, and was the original Madge Wildfire in Daniel Terry's musical version of Heart of Midlothian. For her own and her husband's benefit she played Lady Julia in ‘Personation,’ 9 June 1819, when she retired. A solitary reappearance was made at Covent Garden on the occasion of the début as Juliet of her daughter Fanny Kemble, 5 October 1829, when she played Lady Capulet.
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After the first referendum, the Electoral Commission referred seven cases of people apparently voting more than once to police. On 8 and 9 March, the Electoral Commission referred four more cases of apparent multiple voting to police. This included one case of an Auckland man allegedly voting with 300 ballot papers stolen from other people's mailboxes. Voting more than once is known as personation and is identified as a corrupt electoral practice under both the Electoral Act 1993 and the Flag Referendums Act.
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Carson was 36 years old at the time of his death, and had three children. He had previously been convicted of and imprisoned for non-violent criminal behavior including burglary, false personation and entering with intent to steal copper, and subsequently had been released from prison. At the time of his death, he had been struggling with mental health, and had engaged mental health services to try and turn his life around. His brother Ananias Carson described him as a family man who enjoyed fishing.
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Gaudron J dismissed all but 3 of the allegations, including a finding that the advertisement must be read as a whole.. The allegations that remained concerned allegations of multiple voting and personation. After the Electoral Commission had investigated the errors made in marking of the certified lists Webster accepted that the additional marks were explicable as scanning errors. Gaudron J dismissed the petition, ordering that the Electoral Commission bear its own costs because of its own errors, however Webster was required to pay the costs of Deahm.
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This was not in relation to his own election, but rather his actions in the Mornington seat, where he organised personation. Costello was sentenced to twelve months in prison, but received an early release on 31 March 1862. His business interests suffered as a result of his conviction, and he was declared insolvent in 1866. He did not become solvent again until 1891, but in the same year was elected to the North Melbourne Town Council; he served as mayor from 1892 to 1893.
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John William Miles (21 June 1817 – 5 November 1878) was a British Conservative politician and short-lived MP. Miles was elected MP for Bristol at a by- election in April 1868. Yet this election was quickly declared void on 25 June 1868 due to "bribery and personation" and the findings saw the writ for the seat suspended until November. At the ensuing general election, Miles again stood for parliament but was unsuccessful. Miles was the third son of former Bristol MP Philip Jones Miles and was educated at both Eton College and Oxford University.
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Shahyer's license had been revoked after several dozen suspensions; Nauman's license had been suspended several times but was valid at the time. Nauman was charged with false personation and conspiracy, both misdemeanors; the disposition of the charges is not known. It was reported that a Bentley Continental GT owned by Shahyer had been destroyed in a suspicious 2013 fire. Suspicions first arose at a Queensbury garage after the mechanic repairing it found that damage to the transmission appeared to have been deliberately inflicted and was thus not covered by the warranty.
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Preselections are usually conducted along factional lines, although sometimes a non-factional candidate will be given preferential treatment (this happened with Cheryl Kernot in 1998 and again with Peter Garrett in 2004). Deals between the factions to divide up the safe seats between them often take place. Preselections, particularly for safe Labor seats, can sometimes be strongly contested. A particularly fierce preselection sometimes gives rise to accusations of branch stacking (signing up large numbers of nominal party members to vote in preselection ballots), personation, multiple voting and, on occasions, fraudulent electoral enrolment.
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No man on the stage was more versatile at this period of his career. His personation of Sir Hugh Evans in the Merry Wives of Windsor was excellent. He was considered the best representative of Malvolio on the English stage. He played with great success Mr. Hardcastle in She stoops to conquer, Clod in Young Quaker, Rupert in Jealous Wife, Sir Anthony Absolute in The Rivals, Major Sturgeon in The Mayor of Garrett, Governor Heartall in The Soldier's Daughter, and Dr. Cantwell in The Hypocrite at the Lyceum on 23 Jan. 1810.
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The shi () was a ceremonial "personator" who represented a dead relative during ancient Chinese ancestral sacrifices. In a shi ceremony, the ancestral spirit supposedly would enter the descendant "corpse" personator, who would eat and drink sacrificial offerings and convey messages from the spirit. James Legge (1895 IV:135), an early translator of the Chinese classics, described shi personation ceremonies as "grand family reunions where the dead and the living met, eating and drinking together, where the living worshipped the dead, and the dead blessed the living." In modern terms, this ancient Chinese shi practice would be described as necromancy, mediumship, or spirit possession.
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United States statutes on this subject are mainly copied from the English statutes, and the courts there in a general way follow the English interpretations. The statutes of each state must be consulted. Under federal law, obtaining money or property through false pretenses as part of a scheme or artifice to defraud, and using means of interstate commerce such as a telephone, is illegal under title 18 USC section 1343; the crime is usually referred to as "Wire Fraud." There are Federal laws providing penalties for false personation of the lawful owner of public stocks, &c.
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Liverpool Town Hall, where the votes were countedPolling took place on Wednesday 10 November and both parties worked hard to get out their voters, with each using teams of cyclists to get out the vote. Rumours circulated of votes being cast on behalf of dead people, and two people were charged with that sort of personation. Early polling was high in nationalist areas, giving the Liberals confidence of victory, but a steady flow of voters in other areas shifted the balance. In Irish areas such as St Anne's Street and Great Crosshall street, bottles were thrown at the carriages of Conservative supporters.
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The Times newspaper reported that "only three persons" were arrested for personation, one of whom had been released when it was acknowledged that a mistake had been made. The results were announced by the Mayor at 6.30pm, when Fielden and Hornby were declared the winners with a margin of over 700 votes. In their acceptance speeches, Fielden and Hornby both pronounced the result as being the true voice of Blackburn once the screw had been removed. Fielden said that he hoped that Potter would not dare challenge the result again, and then a fight broke out, which was speedily broken up the police.
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In early life Miss Graham enjoyed personation, and mystified her acquaintances by presenting herself to them disguised as somebody else. The pranks she played on Jeffrey and others were recorded by her in her old age at the request of her friend Dr John Brown in the volume of Mystifications, first privately printed in 1859 together with a few poems and prose sketches. Dr Brown edited the first published edition of Mystifications in 1865. She also translated from the French and published in 1829 The Bee Preserver, by Jonas de Gelieu, a Swiss author, for which she received a medal from the Highland Society.
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The Zambia Revenue Authority in June 2016 illegally closed the Post in contravention of an Order of the Tax Appeals Tribunal in move clearly intended to shut down the critical voice. On 14 February 2017, saint Valentine's Day, the Magistrate's Court of Zambia issued an arrest warrant to the Zambia Police Service to arrest Mr. Fred M'membe and his lawyer Nchima Nchito for alleged 'personation' for fighting to save the Post. Nchima's arrest warrant was quashed by the Court on 28 February 2017. As police reached Mr. M'membe's residence, he was absent and only his wife (daughter of the late opposition UPND leader Anderson Mazoka) was present.
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After several dismal failures in tragic parts, some of them in support of Mrs Siddons, he discovered accidentally that his forte was comedy, especially in the personation of old men and country boys, in which he displayed a fund of drollery and broad humour. An introduction to Charles Kemble led to his appearance at the Haymarket on 10 June 1805 as Sheepface in the Village Lawyer, and his association with this theatre continued with few interruptions until 1830. Paul Pry, 1825. Paul Pry, the most famous of all his impersonations, was first presented on 13 September 1825 and soon became, thanks to his creative genius, a real personage.
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He was re- elected at the 2014 mayoral election, which had a turnout of nearly twice that of the 2010 election. He represented the new political party Tower Hamlets First, of which he was the leader. The election has since been declared void, with Rahman reported personally guilty and guilty by his agents of making false statements of fact about another candidate's personal conduct or character, of administering council grants in a way which constituted electoral bribery, and of spiritual intimidation of voters. He was also reported guilty by his agents of personation, postal vote fraud, fraudulent registration of voters, and illegal payment of canvassers.
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In England and Wales and Northern Ireland, forgery is an offence under section 1 of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, which provides: "Instrument" is defined by section 8, "makes" and "false" by section 9, and "induce" and "prejudice" by section 10. Forgery is triable either way. A person guilty of forgery is liable, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or to both.The Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981, sections 6(1) to (3)(a) For offences akin to forgery, see English criminal law#Forgery, personation, and cheating.
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Now, men being all of the same > kind, the father and the children being all of one family and of the same > stock, the soul of the departed person is requested to come and establish > its seat in one of them as in an agent. His follower Zhu Xi concurs: > In ancient times all employed a personator when sacrificing to the dead. > Since the descendants continue the life of their ancestors, the personator > shares, therefore, in the life of the departed person, and the ancestor's > soul descends undoubtedly upon his descendants, and reposes therein to enjoy > the sacrifice offered. Carr (2007:387–388) offers a contemporary explanation for shi "corpse" personation: Julian Jaynes's psychological bicameralism hypothesis.
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Although there were 5,700 voters on the register, it was calculated that only about 4,600 were available on the day. Given the generally hostile attitude of the Catholic Church to Parnell's supporters, it was noted that the Anti-Parnellite, Hennessy, had a number of priests supporting him as personation agents in the polling booths, and others were seen outside the booths. Matters were sometimes tense:The Times, 23 December 1890. :'In the course of the day, at the polling booth for the district of Grace's Oldcastle, a clergyman asked for the assistance of the police, as one of the crowd, he stated, had just struck a voter who was about to enter the booth.
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A polling agent may attach their own seal to the ballot box, alongside the official seal In elections in the United Kingdom and Singapore, a polling agent is someone appointed by either the election agent of a candidate standing for election, or where there is no election agent the candidate personally, to oversee conduct of the poll at polling stations, from the installation of empty ballot boxes, through the day as voters cast their ballots, until the ballot boxes are sealed and collected for delivery to the count centre. The primary purpose of a polling agent is to assist in detection of personation. The appointment of a polling agent is not legally required. Polling agents are appointed after the period when nominations to the election are made.
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Ten voters discovered that someone had voted under their names at polling stations in Glasgow, a method of fraud termed 'personation', and this led to an investigation by Police Scotland. During a BBC results broadcast, Scottish Conservative Party leader Ruth Davidson said that "No" campaigners had been "taking tallies" of postal votes and that those showed that the "No" campaign was in the lead. This resulted in complaints to the Electoral Commission because the Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013 stated that people attending proceedings related to the receipt of postal votes must not attempt to ascertain the outcome or "communicate any information" from that voting. The Electoral Commission, who could not investigate criminal allegations, passed the complaints onto Police Scotland.
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The television play Cemented with Love saw a return to controversy: a black comedy which deals with corrupt electoral practices including bribery, gerrymandering and personation, the play lambasts both Unionist and Nationalist parties.Hill A. "Cemented with Love – and Strife: Sam Thompson and the BBC in Northern Ireland", Centre for British Film and Television Studies Newsletter, p. 4, Summer 2004 (accessed 16 November 2007)IMDb: Cemented with Love (accessed 16 November 2007) Intended for broadcast during the 1964 general election year, it was repeatedly postponed due to protests from the BBC in Belfast. After a campaign led by the producer from BBC London, Cemented with Love finally appeared in May 1965 as part of The Wednesday Play series, a few months after Thompson's death.
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Tower Hamlets Town Hall at Mulberry Place, the original location of the trial, and the venue for the count of the subsequent election held in June 2015. Lutfur Rahman was found personally guilty by the court of making false statements about a candidate, bribery, and undue spiritual influence. The court also found Rahman guilty by his agents of personation, postal vote offences, provision of false information to a registration officer, voting when not entitled, making false statements about a candidate, payment of canvassers, bribery, and undue spiritual influence. A finding that corrupt and illegal practices for the purpose of securing Rahman's election, and that such general corruption so extensively prevailed such that it could be reasonably concluded to have affected the result was also returned.
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After the vote counting ended and results are released, the ballot papers and any other official documents used in the election are placed into separate boxes and sealed; these boxes are transported to the Supreme Court of Singapore where it was kept under safe custody for period of six months after election ended, after which the boxes are transported to the incineration plant for incineration, unless directed otherwise by order of the President. Under the protection act, the process is to ensure all of the voters' identity are not compromised, as contents inside each ballot paper have a unique serial number located on the counterfoil to ensure integrity of the democratic process and strict accounting to avoid infringement and personation.
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The phrase is also noted as the "much vaunted maxim" of the Tammany Hall political machine of the 1860s: they used "repeaters", who were given five dollars and free liquor to go and vote for recently deceased voters. This process was depicted in the Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York (2002), where drunkards are forcibly shaved (to alter their appearance) and turned back toward polling stations to vote again. In 1933 in Dáil Éireann (the Irish lower house), Thomas Kelly of Fianna Fáil said, > If a poor man is sick in hospital and not able to get out, surely it is a > good turn to see that his vote is registered. If he has gone away and his > neighbours know his opinions, I do not see any harm in personation.
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On April 15, 2014, at the request of Jim Ardis, Peoria police investigated Jon Daniel, the operator of a Twitter account parodying Ardis, on suspicion of the misdemeanor crime of false personation of a public official. After obtaining a warrant, police sent a SWAT Team to raid Daniel's home in West Bluff, seizing electronics and detaining three people for questioning. Police charged one man with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia following the raid, though no arrests were made in connection with the Twitter account. On April 23, 2014, the Peoria County State's Attorney's Office announced that no charges would be filed against the creator of the original parody account after explaining that current law regarding impersonation of a public official does not include the use of electronic media.
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Provision of false information to a registration officer is an offence under section 13D of the 1983 Act. While no specific allegation of false registration was particularised on the election petition, evidences were heard by the court as part of the case on personation and other voting offences. A schedule containing multiple false registrations were submitted to and accepted by the court where all entries were shown to have voted for Rahman. Particular examples of false registration highlighted in the judgment include that of former councillor Kabir Ahmed, councillor Shahed Ali, Moniruzzaman Syed, and Aktaruz Zaman all of whom were candidates representing Tower Hamlets First at the 2014 Tower Hamlets council election in the wards of Weavers, Whitechapel, Bromley North, and both St Peter's and Blackwall & Cubitt Town respectively.
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7 Later in the year, he stood to succeed Joseph Davison as alderman for the Court ward on the Belfast Corporation, but he was defeated by independent Unionist John William Nixon."Ulster's last ditch a court of law", Manchester Guardian, 15 August 1924 The Manchester Guardian reported that several women supporting Nixon were arrested on the day of the election, on charges of personation."Women change clothes and go on voting", Manchester Guardian, 28 August 1924 In 1925, Dorman was elected as the first NILP member of the Senate of Northern Ireland. He served until 1933,The Northern Ireland Senate, 1921-72, Northern Ireland Elections] when he lost his seat due to the reduced number of NILP members in the Commons.D. R. O'Connor Lysaght, "Between comrades: James Connolly, letters and correspondence, 1889–1916", History Ireland, vol.
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