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<div id="donatelink">
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<a href="/donate" class=""><img src=
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"https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif"
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alt="Donate to Boost" /></a>
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</div>
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<h4><a href="/" class="internal">Welcome <span class=
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"link">></span></a></h4>
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<div>
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<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"
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target="_top" style="width: 250px; margin-left:auto; margin-right: auto;">
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<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick" /> <input
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type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="AD5NQR44365FQ" /> <input
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type="image"
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src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif"
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border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal The safer, easier way to pay
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online!" style="display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;" />
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<p>
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<button type="submit" style="width:250px; height:64px; white-space:normal;">
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Donate once-off, or a recurring donation with Paypal or Credit/Debit card</button>
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</p>
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</form>
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</div>
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
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"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
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<head>
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<title>Donate to the Boost C++ Libraries</title>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" />
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<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/ico" />
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style-v2/section-welcome.css" />
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<style type="text/css"><!--
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#donatelink {
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display:none;
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}
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--></style>
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<!--[if IE 7]> <style type="text/css"> body { behavior: url(/style-v2/csshover3.htc); } </style> <![endif]-->
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<meta name="google-site-verification" content="mpr2HgFpodnbF_8fv4qXd9roIClVwtX3C-Kd3F6r61w" />
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</head>
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<body>
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<div id="heading">
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<!--#include virtual="/common/heading.html" -->
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</div>
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<div id="body">
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<div id="body-inner">
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<div id="content">
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<div class="section" id="intro">
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<div class="section-0">
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<div class="section-title">
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<h1>Donate to the Boost C++ Libraries</h1>
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</div>
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<div class="section-body">
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<p>
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According to <a href="https://www.openhub.net/p/boost/estimated_cost">OpenHub's
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Boost page</a>, as of August 2014 there are 14.2 million lines of code in Boost.
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Given the high quality of coding needed to pass Boost's community review
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process, and the extensive unit and functional testing required, a cost of
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US$20/line is not unreasonable. By that metric, the Boost C++ Libraries would
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cost US$284 million to rewrite from scratch in a commercial organization.
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</p>
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<p>If you want more of the same, please donate generously.
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We will use donations to fund Boost infrastructure, help finance <a href="http://cppnow.org/">
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the annual C++ Now conference</a>, and help fund students to work on Boost code
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without having to worry as much about finding the time or money to do so. You
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should be aware we may also use donations for any other purpose the Boost
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steering committee feels appropriate, and that ten percent (10%) of your
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donation after Paypal's fees will go to the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/">
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Software Freedom Conservancy</a>. The Software Freedom Conservancy is a
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not-for-profit organization that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
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</p>
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<!--#include virtual="donatebutton.inc" -->
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<h2>Why ask for donations for the first time in fifteen years?</h2>
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<p>
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Boost was not generated, for the most part, by any commercial organization. It is
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available in the public interest as one of the purest forms of open source: its license,
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<a href="/uilen.pair.com/public_html/LICENSE_1_0.txt">the Boost Software License</a>,
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is highly permissive and allows unrestricted commercial use. Most of the code
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was written, documented and tested in the spare and family time of some of the
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very best C++ engineers in the world, many of whom are also involved in the ISO
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C++ standardization process. Many of the additions to the C++ 11 standard library
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started life in the Boost libraries, and so will many of the additions and changes to
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the next C++ standard library.
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</p>
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<p>
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Yet, for its first fifteen years, Boost has never asked for donations of money
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from its users. So why begin now?
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</p>
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<p>
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As Boost grows, more time and resources is being spent on dealing with the size and
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complexity of Boost, especially as libraries are transitioned to make full use
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of the new language features in C++ 11/14. If you wish to support those efforts
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to bring more Boost libraries into first tier support for the latest generation of C++,
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please donate generously.
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</p>
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<!--#include virtual="donatebutton.inc" -->
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<h2>Why you should donate with a recurring monthly donation</h2>
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<p>
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Boost has participated in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code">
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Google's Summer of Code</a> since 2007. This is an annual student open source
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programming stipend program lasting three months during which experienced Boost
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developers mentor students who work on improving Boost libraries, usually in all
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the boring, thankless stuff none of us like to do. The problem with the three
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month duration is that the student is only just getting familiar enough with the
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Boost libraries to really ramp up their productivity and rate of output when the
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program ends. This leads to these outcomes:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>We don't reap the full rewards of what we should given the substantial
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investment in mentoring our developers invest into students each year.</li>
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<li>The student is just getting into the Boost libraries when they need to
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return to concentrating on their studies, and often back to the part time work
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needed to finance the high expense of university study nowadays.</li>
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<li>Students, when they graduate, get pulled into the development of proprietary
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rather than open source software, or they end up gravitating to one of the many
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open source projects much better at running a student-to-developer pipeline than
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Boost historically has been.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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Whatever the case, Boost is not benefiting as it should from
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enthusiastic students with great ideas about where C++ should go
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next, and we hope that <em>you</em> can help us change that.
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</p>
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<p>
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So, if you or your company or organization has benefited from the Boost C++
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Libraries, or you would like to assist promising young C++ engineers develop
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their talents to the full, please strongly consider making a regular monthly donation to Boost!
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Please donate generously. Thank you in advance! </p>
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<!--#include virtual="donatebutton.inc" -->
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div id="sidebar">
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<!--#include virtual="/common/sidebar-common.html" -->
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<!--#include virtual="/common/sidebar-boost.html" -->
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</div>
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<div class="clear"></div>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div id="footer">
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<div id="footer-left">
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<div id="revised">
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<p>Revised $Date: 2014-08-25 01:40:46 +0100 (Mon, 25 Aug 2014) $</p>
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</div>
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<div id="copyright">
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<p>Copyright Beman Dawes, David Abrahams, 1998-2005.</p>
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<p>Copyright Rene Rivera 2004-2007.</p>
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</div><!--#include virtual="/common/footer-license.html" -->
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</div>
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<div id="footer-right">
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<!--#include virtual="/common/footer-banners.html" -->
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</div>
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<div class="clear"></div>
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</div>
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</body>
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</html>
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Standard. C++11 also includes several
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more Boost libraries in addition to those from TR1.
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More Boost libraries are proposed
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for <a href=
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"http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1810.html"
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class="external">TR2</a>.</p>
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for standardization in C++17.</p>
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<p>Since 2006 an intimate week long annual conference
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related to Boost called <a href="http://cppnow.org/"
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class="external">C++ Now</a> has been held in
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Aspen, Colorado each May. Boost has been a participant in the <a href=
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"https://developers.google.com/open-source/soc/?csw=1"
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class="external">annual Google Summer of Code</a> since
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2007.
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<h3 class="note">Getting Started</h3>
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}
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#sidebar #menu ul li {
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}
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#sidebar #menu ul li #donatelink {
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width: 147px;
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margin-left: auto;
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margin-right: auto;
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}
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#sidebar #menu ul li h4 {
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font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;
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font-variant: small-caps;
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