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June 2018
A Women’s Wellness Evening It’s All About You The American Meditation Institute (AMI) in Averill Park, NY invites you to join us for a FREE evening designed especially for you — to nourish and reconnect with your entire self — Body, Mind and Spirit. True wellness begins with self-care. This evening provides a unique opportunity for women to gather and share their experiences, to learn simple and practical self-care tools and to encourage one another to incorporate what you learn into your every day lives. Learn self-care tools to become a healthier, happier you. Activities will include: A walk in the beautiful gardens and [...]
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DINNER, MOVIE & SATSANG Friday night, 5:30 – 10:00pm AMI – 60 Garner Road, Averill Park NY AMI presents entertaining and thought-provoking films reflecting practical Yoga Science. Each Friday night program begins at 5:30pm with a gourmet vegetarian dinner followed by a movie and philosophical discussion (satsang). A group meditation will conclude the evening. $20 per person (dinner & complementary film). All reservations must be received no later than the Wednesday before the event. “DARKEST HOUR” Starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Lily James Pitted against Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill must withstand his own self-doubt in order to rally a [...]
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WHAT HAPPENS AT YOUR SUNDAY AMI MEDITATION AND SATSANG? Our seated meditation practice is held in a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere. Each Sunday morning program includes both a seated AMI MEDITATION and satsang (a philosophical discussion led by Leonard and Jenness Perlmutter). The seated meditation practiced at AMI is known as mantra meditation. You simply sit in a chair with your head, neck and trunk straight. Close your eyes and concentrate your silent attention on any name of the Divine Reality that you are most familiar and comfortable with. The seated silent meditation lasts about 20 minutes. Participants sit on chairs [...]
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MORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
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MORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
Find out moreMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Wednesday Mornings: July 11 - 25 (Drop-ins welcome: $15) Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, [...]
Find out moreMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
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AMI SUMMER RETREAT Self-Care for Healthy Living Integrating Spirituality and Science Meditation • Stress and Pain Management • Breathing • Easy-Gentle Yoga • Yoga Psychology • Ayurveda • Nutrition • Spirituality • Personal Self-Care Plan July 19 - July 22 Discover AMI MEDITATION With Leonard (Ram Lev) And Jenness Perlmutter This retreat presents the AMI MEDITATION curriculum in a concentrated four-day format. Regardless of your level of experience, you’re guaranteed to gain practical skills for transformation through experiential lectures, practices and discussions. Leonard’s experience, clear teaching style and sense of humor will advance your understanding, provide you a [...]
Find out moreMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
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Full Moon Fire Ceremony and Ragani Kirtan Concert Celebrating the bountiful blessings of the Light of Guru We cordially invite all seekers of the Truth on the path of fire and light to join us to celebrate and rejoice in the wisdom and blessings of the sages. Guru Purnima is the occasion when students revisit their teachers to rejuvenate their sadhana (spiritual practice) and to receive inspiration and further instruction on their spiritual journey. As part of this year’s celebration, world acclaimed kirtan singer Ragani will present a sacred and inspiring kirtan concert. Kirtan is a style of call-and-response devotional chanting, and is one of [...]
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AMI MEDITATION THE FOUNDATION COURSE OF YOGA SCIENCE The Heart and Science of Yoga® • Complete Self-Care Preview of AMI MEDITATION Course July 31, August 7, 14, 21, 28 & September 4 Presented by Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev), AMI Founder AMI MEDITATION teaches the essential principles and tools of Yoga Science to empower you to relieve stress and burnout, reduce pain, boost your immune system, heal relationships, enhance your problem solving ability, deepen your spiritual journey, and find inner peace, happiness and security. View Full Course Information Required Reading [...]
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MORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Wednesday Mornings: August 1 - 29 (Drop-ins welcome: $15) Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, [...]
Find out moreMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
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INTRO TO AMI MEDITATION: The Basics for Getting Started August 8 & 15 Presented by AMI Faculty (Mary Holloway, Bob Iwaniec DC, Doreen Howe, Beth Netter MD, André Tremblay & Sandy Vo) Have you ever thought about trying meditation, but didn’t know how to get started? In AMI’s two-session course, you’ll receive a complete introduction on how to start—and stick with—a daily practice of AMI MEDITATION. It’s easy to learn the basics: how to deal with distractions, reduce stress, enhance your body’s immune system and become more focused, creative and content. What is Meditation? In meditation you are fully alert, [...]
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MAHABHARATA: Epic Battle Between Light & Dark Monday Evenings: August 13 - 27 Presented by Leonard (Ram Lev) & Jenness Perlmutter LEVEL II: This course presents a profound and thought-provoking film journey into the very heart of Indian mythology, religion, history and Yoga philosophy. In bringing to life the conflict between Pandavas and the Kauravas, director Peter Brook has crafted an allegory that speaks to the emotions and concerns of the twenty-first century. View full course information Recommended Reading
Find out moreMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
Find out moreMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
Find out moreMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
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MORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Wednesday Mornings: September 5 - 26 (Drop-ins welcome: $15) Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, [...]
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YOGA PSYCHOLOGY: The Bhagavad Gita’s Mind/Body Connection & Perennial Wisdom Monday Evenings, September 10 - October 15 Chapter 18 Presented by Leonard (Ram Lev) & Jenness Perlmutter LEVEL II: According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control, 53 percent of all illness is attributable to lifestyle choice. This in-depth Bhagavad Gita study will deepen your understanding of how skillful actions and wise choices can effect your entire well-being. The Bhagavad Gita is a practical spiritual handbook for Self-Realization and daily life that teaches you how to be creative and confident in every circumstance. It describes two paths in life — an upward path that [...]
Find out moreAMI MEDITATION THE FOUNDATION COURSE OF YOGA SCIENCE The Heart and Science of Yoga® • Complete Self-Care Preview of AMI MEDITATION Course September 11, 18, 25 & October 2, 9, 16 Presented by Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev), AMI Founder AMI MEDITATION teaches the essential principles and tools of Yoga Science to empower you to relieve stress and burnout, reduce pain, boost your immune system, heal relationships, enhance your problem solving ability, deepen your spiritual journey, and find inner peace, happiness and security. View Full Course Information Required Reading [...]
Find out moreMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
Find out moreMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
Find out moreMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
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MORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
Find out moreMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
Find out moreMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
Find out moreMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
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MORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
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Thanks-Giving Dinner Fundraiser and Chamber Music Concert Celebrate AMI’s 22nd Anniversary Every day we are grateful for the teaching of Yoga Science. It’s very practical and commonsensical, and can be applied in every relationship. As Thanksgiving approaches, please join us in celebrating our 22nd Anniversary with a special, festive meeting of gratitude for the teaching. We’ll enjoy a delicious gourmet vegetarian meal, listen to a beautiful chamber music concert and visit with like-minded seekers.
Find out moreMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
Find out moreMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
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ADVANCED TANTRIC HEALING: “Yoga Nidra” Practices to Benefit Mind and Body Thursday Evenings: December 6 & December 13 Presented by Leonard (Ram Lev) & Jenness Perlmutter LEVEL II: This course provides important instruction on employing the subtle energy healing of Tantra, a system of powerfully effective tools for self-care and stress management. Each week you will be taught new skills that reduce the effects of stress, illness and physical exhaustion by purifying the mind and body. These deeply therapeutic yogic practices minimize tension, facilitate energy flow, calm and train the mind, awaken creativity, enhance memory and retard the aging [...]
Find out moreMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
Find out moreMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
Find out moreMORNING YOGA FOR 50 PLUS: Yoga for Healthy Aging Every Wednesday Morning • 9:45 - 11:00am Instructor: Melanie (Uma) Gloeckner, RYT LEVEL I: Yoga for healthy aging focuses on developing awareness and skills for daily living. Increase flexibility and strength, improve balance and build endurance, breath awareness, reduce stress, relax and re-energize. Without difficulty or pain, you’ll learn the simple, therapeutic pleasures of focusing and stilling the mind, expanding your breathing capacity, relieving stiffness and stress, and stretching muscles. Most students feel less stress and inflexibility after the very first class. You’ll move with more ease, gain physical [...]
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New Year's Eve Celebration Pitch-In Vegetarian Dinner, Movie, Group Meditation and Fire Ceremony Join us as we celebrate the beginning of the new year at AMI. Enjoy a delicious pitch-in vegetarian dinner followed by a movie. The evening will conclude with a group meditation and fire ceremony. Please bring a delicious vegetarian dish to share.
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Jesus's Secret Life in India: His Teachings of Yoga Science “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.” Please join us on Sunday either in Averill Park or from the comfort of your own home anywhere in the world. If you are unable to attend this special Easter and Passover meditation in person, we invite you to join us online. AMI will be streaming this event live. No special software or computer equipment is required. To receive an e-mail [...]
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