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John Birch (missionary)
John Morrison Birch | |
Born | Landour, British India (now Uttarakhand, India) |
May 28, 1918
Died | August 25, 1945 Xi'an, Shaanxi, China |
(aged 27)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Mercer University |
Occupation | Missionary, Military intelligence officer |
Known for | Killed by Chinese communists |
Religion | Baptist |
John Morrison Birch (May 28, 1918 – August 25, 1945) was an American military intelligence officer and Baptist missionary in World War II, who was killed during a confrontation with supporters of the Communist Party of China.
Politically conservative groups in the United States consider him to be a martyr and the first victim of the Cold War. The John Birch Society, an American conservative organization formed 13 years after his death, was named in his honor. His parents joined the Society as Life Members.
Early life[edit]
Birch was born to Baptist missionaries in Landour, a hill station in the Himalayas now in the northern India state of Uttarakhand, at the time in the [[United_Provinces_of_Agra_and_Oudh| United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. In 1920, when he was two, the family returned to the United States. Birch was raised in New Jersey, Floyd County, Georgia,[1] and Macon, Georgia, in the Fundamental Baptist[1] tradition. He graduated from Lanier High School for Boys, now Central High School, followed by Georgia Baptist–affiliated Mercer University in 1939 magna cum laude.[1] "He was always an angry young man, always a zealot", said a classmate many years later. In his senior year at Mercer, he organized a student group to identify cases of heresy by professors, seeking to uphold the Scriptural definition of conversion and other doctrines.[2]
Missionary work[edit]
While a student at Mercer, Birch decided to become a missionary. He enrolled in J. Frank Norris' Fundamental Baptist Bible Institute,[1] Fort Worth, Texas. Completing the two-year curriculum in a single year, he was sent to China by the World Fundamental Baptist Missionary Fellowship.[1] Arriving in Shanghai in 1940, he began an intensive study of Mandarin Chinese. After six months, he was assigned to Hangzhou, an area as yet occupied by the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese sent troops to Hangzhou to arrest Birch as an enemy national. He and the other missionaries fled inland. Cut off from the outside world, Birch began trying to establish new missions in Zhejiang province.[2]
Military career[edit]
In April 1942, Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle and his crew crash-landed in China after the Tokyo raid. They had flown from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8), bombed Tokyo, then flown to the Chinese mainland. After bailing out, they were rescued by Chinese civilians and smuggled by river into Zhejiang province. Birch went to meet them, assisting them and directing them to friendly territory.
When Doolittle arrived in Chongqing, he told Colonel Claire Chennault, leader of the Flying Tigers, about Birch's help. Chennault could use a Chinese-speaking American who knew the country well and he commissioned Birch as a first lieutenant, though Birch later wrote he had been willing to serve as a private.[citation needed]
Birch joined the Fourteenth Air Force on its formation on 5 March 1943 and was later seconded to the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS). He stated he would be willing to be accepted into the OSS only if he was allowed to work as normally as he had before. He built a formidable intelligence network of sympathetic Chinese informants, supplying Chennault with information on Japanese troop movements and shipping, often performing dangerous incognito field assignments, during which he would brazenly hold Sunday church services for Chinese Christians. In his diary, Major Gustav Krause, commanding officer of the base, noted: "Birch is a good officer, but I'm afraid is too brash and may run into trouble."[citation needed] Urged to take a leave of absence, Birch refused, telling Chennault he would not quit China "until the last Jap" did; he was equally contemptuous of Communists. He was promoted to captain and received the Legion of Merit in 1944.[2]
V-J Day, August 14, 1945, signaled the end of formal hostilities; but, under terms of the Japanese surrender, the Japanese Army was ordered to continue occupying areas it controlled until they could hand power over to the Nationalist government, even in places where the Communist-led government had been the de facto state for a decade. This led to continued fighting as the People's Liberation Army fought to expel all imperial forces, a category it perceived to include U.S. personnel now openly collaborating with the remaining Japanese forces.
On August 25, as Birch was leading a party of Americans, Chinese Nationalists, and Koreans on a mission to reach Allied personnel in a Japanese prison camp, they were stopped by Chinese Communists near Xi'an. Birch was asked to surrender his revolver; he refused and harsh words and insults were exchanged. Birch was shot and killed; a Chinese Nationalist colleague was also shot and wounded but survived. The rest of the party was imprisoned but released shortly. Birch was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.
Birch is known today mainly by the society that bears his name although Jimmy Doolittle, who met Birch after Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, said in his autobiography that he was sure that Birch "would not have approved". His name is on the bronze plaque of a World War II monument at the top of Coleman Hill Park overlooking downtown Macon, along with the names of other Macon men who lost their lives while serving in the military. Birch has a plaque on the sanctuary of the First Southern Methodist Church of Macon, which was built on land given by his family, purchased with the money he sent home monthly. A building at the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth, Texas, was named The John Birch Hall by Pastor J. Frank Norris.[3] The "John Birch Reel", a folk dance in which dancers consistently "move to the Right," satirizes John Birch's politics. [4] A small street in Townsend, Massachusetts, John Birch Memorial Drive, is also named for him.[5][citation needed]
- Distinguished Service Medal (posthumous)
- Legion of Merit
- Purple Heart (posthumous)
- Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with two campaign stars
- World War II Victory Medal
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d e The Secret File on John Birch, James & Marti Hefley, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1980, ISBN 0-8423-5862-5
- ^ a b c "Who Was John Birch?". Time. April 14, 1961.
- ^ Stokes, David R. (2011). The Shooting Salvationist: J. Frank Norris and the Murder Trial that Captivated America. Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press. p. 325. ISBN 978-1-58642-186-1
- ^ "John Birch Reel". YouTube. 2011-05-16. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
- ^ "Maps". Bing Maps. Microsoft Bing. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
- I Could Never Be So Lucky Again, autobiography by James "Jimmy" Doolittle, ISBN 0-553-58464-2
- Mission to Yenan: American Liaison with the Chinese Communists 1944–1947, Carolle J. Carter, ISBN 0-8131-2015-2
- The Secret File on John Birch, James Hefley, Hannibal Books, 1995 (updated version), ISBN 0-929292-80-4
- The Life of John Birch, Robert Welch, Western Islands, ISBN 0-88279-116-8
External links[edit]
- John Birch profile - Who2.com
- Short History of the life of John M. Birch from the JBS.org Website.
- Military Biography, part 1, from Trivia-Library.com ― see also part 2)
- "John Morrison Birch". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
- NPR's "On the Media" on the John Birch Society's 50th Anniversary (audio)
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KINGSTON, R.I. – May 6, 2009 – When economic development discussions take place in Rhode Island, Lynne Dunphy wants nurses at the table.
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Authors: | Choudhury, B B Biswal, B B |
Keywords: | Distributed Robotics Multi-robot system Task allocation |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Publisher: | NIT Rourkela |
Citation: | Proceedings of the IEEE Sponsored Conference on Computational Intelligence, Control And Computer Vision In Robotics & Automation, March 10-11, 2008, NIT Rourkela, P 99-106 |
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Congrats on your first half marathon. I think that's a great idea to drop down and focus on the 5k. I wish I had done the same when I started.
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Sounds like a good strategy to get a practice race in, especially if you were feeling so nervous about it. There's nothing to worry about, right? Your comment about the other racers and their gear was funny. You're right though, most of us take too much. As for the water cups, it is a shame that runners don't do a better job of hitting the trash cans. I do find that the cans aren't far enough away from the aid station though, so if you're running while drinking you don't have a lot of choice but to toss the cup.
Great job on your first HM. It sounds like you stayed strong the whole way. You definitely will continue to improve your speed as you run more. Also, now that you have this great base of miles from training for the half, your body should be able to take the speed training too with less chance of injury.
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Congrats on your half! Nice photo of you! And impressive that you ran this half wearing jeans...
About the cups..I agree with what Oski said. I, too, am a terrible shot, and usually miss. I could be right next to the trash can and still miss, lol. You know, the same way your DH, and husbands in general, can be standing right by the toilet and still miss.
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I think you did great, and there's certainly nothing wrong with switching your focus either temporarily or permanently if you find out that's what you like. You have to do what you enjoy, but I definitely think you have it in you to run the paces you'd like. Just train smart, and you'll get there. Congratulations.
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5K 31:02 Sept. 2012 / 23:36 Sept. 2013 (Same Course)
10K 48:59 April 2013
HM 2:03:56 Nov. 2012 / 1:46:50 March 2013
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I know. I'm a total redneck. Getting back to my TX roots before I head back next week.
Looking forward to meeting you in Fredericksburg for the Wild Flower event.
BTW...don't be disappointed, but there really are no wild flowers to be seen along the courses. Go figure. I guess all we participants are the 'wild flowers' lol.


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OBJECTIVE: As a part of the Public Health Activities and Service Tracking study and in collaboration with partners in 2 Public Health Practice-Based Research Network states, we examined relationships between local health department (LHD) maternal and child health (MCH) expenditures and local needs. DESIGN: We used a multivariate pooled time-series design to estimate ecologic associations between expenditures in 3 MCH-specific service areas and related measures of need from 2005 to 2010 while controlling for other factors. MEASURES: Retrospective expenditure data from LHDs and for 3 MCH services represented annual investments in (1) Special Supplemental Nutrition for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), (2) family planning, and (3) a composite of Maternal, Infant, Child, and Adolescent (MICA) service. Expenditure data from all LHDs in Florida and Washington were then combined with "need" and control variables. STUDY POPULATION: Our sample consisted of the 102 LHDs in Florida and Washington and the county (or multicounty) jurisdictions they serve. RESULTS: Expenditures for WIC and for our composite of MICA services were strongly associated with need among LHDs in the sample states. For WIC, this association was positive, and for MICA services, this association was negative. Family planning expenditures were weakly associated, in a positive direction. CONCLUSIONS: Findings demonstrate wide variations across programs and LHDs in relation to need and may underscore differences in how programs are funded. Programs with financial disbursements based on guidelines that factor in local needs may be better able to provide service as local needs grow than programs with less needs-based funding allocations. |
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§ Baroness Walmsleyasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many competitions for new secondary schools there have been in 2003, 2004 and 2005 to date. [HL1003]
§ Lord FilkinThere have been no competitions for new secondary schools since the requirement for a competition for additional secondary schools was introduced in June 2003. The Education Bill currently before Parliament will extend the requirement for 73WA competition to all new secondary schools, including schools replacing existing schools as a result of reorganisation. unless the Secretary of State agrees that in a particular case the objectives of increasing the quality and diversity of provision could be met by other proposals commanding support in the area.
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Year Numbers 2003 9 2004 7 2005 (to date) 0 These figures include proposals for new maintained secondary schools that have been approved by the LEA, school organisation committee or schools adjudicator under local decision-making arrangements. They include proposals for schools to be established as a result of local reorganisations and amalgamations and for voluntary or foundation schools with a religious character to replace existing community schools.
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Whether they will publish the number and type of respondents to the consultation launched on 8 July 2004 which proposed that all proposals to establish new secondary schools should be open to competition. [HL1006]
§ Lord FilkinThe letter from officials of 8 July 2004 was sent to national representative bodies only, in order to inform them of our current thinking on school organisation issues. It was not a formal consultation, but did say the department would be happy to receive74WA comments. In response to the letter the department received responses from nine individual local authorities and the following representative bodies:
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- Church of England Board of Education
- Institute of School and College Governors
- Local Government Association
- Methodist Church
- National Governors' Council
- National Union of Teachers
- Secondary Heads Association
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What assessment they have made of possible delays in implementing secondary school reorganisation proposals if the requirement to hold a competition on the category and religious character of all new and replacement secondary schools is implemented. [HL1008]
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Engrave or etch metal, wood, rubber, or other materials for identification or decorative purposes. Include such workers as etcher-circuit processors, pantograph engravers, and silk screen etchers. Include photoengravers with "Prepress Technicians and Workers" (51-5022).
These estimates are calculated with data collected from employers in all industry divisions in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas in every State and the District of Columbia.
Employment estimate and mean wage estimates for this occupation:
Employment | 11,060 | RSE = 6.4 % |
Mean hourly wage | $11.42 | RSE = 2.1 % |
Mean annual wage | $23,740 | RSE = 2.1 % |
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Hourly Wage | $6.63 | $8.13 | $10.12 | $13.12 | $17.78 |
Annual Wage | $13,790 | $16,910 | $21,050 | $27,280 | $36,980 |
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Percentile wage estimates show what percentage of workers in an occupation earn less than a given wage and what percentage earn more. The median wage is the 50th percentile wage estimate—50 percent of workers earn less than the median and 50 percent of workers earn more than the median. More about percentile wages.
(1) Annual wages have been calculated by multiplying the hourly mean wage by a "year-round, full-time" hours figure of 2,080 hours; for those occupations where there is not an hourly mean wage published, the annual wage has been directly calculated from the reported survey data.
The relative standard error (RSE) is a measure of the reliability of a survey statistic. The smaller the relative standard error, the more precise the estimate.
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Mercédès Adrienne Ramona Manuela Jellinek (September 16, 1889 – February 23, 1929) was the daughter of Austrian automobile entrepreneur Emil Jellinek and his wife Rachel Goggmann Cenrobert. She was born in Vienna.[1] She is best known for her father having Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft's line of Mercedes cars named after her, beginning with the Mercedes 35 hp model of 1901. Also, at the 1902 Paris Automobile exhibition, her father hung a large picture of her.
Mercédès lived in Vienna, and was notorious for marrying twice scandalously.[citation needed] She had a magnificent wedding in 1909 in Nice, on the Côte d'Azur, with Baron von Schlosser. The couple lived in Vienna until World War I, which ruined them. They had two children; Elfriede (b. 1912) and Hans-Peter (b. 1916).[1] In 1918, Mercédès was begging for food in the streets. A little later, leaving her husband and two children, she married Baron Rudolf von Weigl, a talented but poor sculptor. She played music and had a good soprano voice, but never shared her father's passion for automobiles. She died in Vienna from bone cancer in 1929, at the age of 39, and was buried in Vienna in the familial grave near her grandfather, the former chief rabbi of Vienna, Adolf Jellinek.[2][verification needed]
In 1926, the Daimler company merged with the Benz company. Although the company traded as Daimler-Benz it gave the name Mercedes-Benz to its cars to preserve the respected Mercedes marque.
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OVER THE DECADES, Dallas Cowboys fans have disagreed vehemently over Coach Tom Landry's play calling, his selections on draft day, even his colorless, Bible-toting persona. But one thing everyone who ever saw him stride the sidelines could agree on was that he was the very personification of good health: tanned and svelte, clear-eyed and vigorous—especially, it seemed, after he retired and, in his seventies, became a walking advertisement for the virtues of clean living.
So it came as a shock in early May when his family confirmed that the 74-year-old football legend was undergoing treatment for leukemia, the rare but deadly cancer of the blood that strikes some 28,000 people each year. The coach's son and business partner, Tom Landry, Jr., was quick to reassure a concerned public: "Fortunately," he said, "this was diagnosed at an early stage and treatment was begun immediately."
Still, leukemia is one of the most terrifying types of cancer, and worrisome questions persisted even as Landry took up residence at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas for a thirty-day protocol of chemotherapy. Some wondered how an old man could come down with a cancer widely thought to strike mainly children; others couldn't understand how someone who appeared to be so healthy could suddenly have a life-threatening condition.
Breakthroughs in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, especially in the past decade, have begun to cut the disease down to size in the eyes of the public. Although two of every five of us will develop it, more than half of that group will survive it (and the percentage is going up every day). Cancer has become a more common and less daunting foe.
Except for leukemia. This cancer continues to have a firm grip on the public's imagination, thanks in part to its role in sensational news stories such as the leukemia cluster in East Woburn, Massachusetts, in the seventies, which was traced to industrial waste and was the subject of the book and movie A Civil Action. And it remains the cancer of choice for melodramas, such as the John Grisham novel The Rainmaker, the fictional story of a young leukemia victim's battle against an insurance company that refuses to cover his treatment.
Although science has long known that leukemia is not just a childhood disease—indeed, nine out of ten victims are adults—we still don't really know what causes it. Genetics plays a role, as do certain environmental agents, such as cigarette smoke and industrial chemicals, benzene in particular. But both genetics and the environment account for relatively small percentages of leukemia's overall incidence. The majority of cases appear to be just bad luck. "It's pretty infrequent that we know what causes leukemia in an individual," says Dr. Robert Collins, the director of the bone and marrow transplant program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. "It just happens."
The good news is that treatment has improved radically since the sixties, when leukemia was still claiming the lives of more than 80 percent of its victims. Still, the five-year survival rate is only 42 percent. And it remains a disease that can kill a victim with startling rapidity. But perhaps it's the stealthy nature of leukemia, more than anything else, that makes it especially feared. Sooner or later, most cancers will announce their presence to a victim by means of mysterious pain or a suspicious lump or an inexplicable cough. But leukemia flies under the radar: Its warning signs are fatigue, malaise, lingering infections, shortness of breath, frequent bruising, bleeding gums, and cuts that are slow to heal, which aren't likely to strike most people as symptoms of a potentially lethal disease. Hence it can sneak up on an otherwise perfectly healthy person.
That certainly seems to have been the case with Tom Landry. Since retiring in 1988 after 28 consecutive seasons as the head coach of the Cowboys (including a record 20 consecutive winning campaigns and 5 trips to the Super Bowl) and being inducted into the National Football League's hall of fame in 1990, Landry was leading a quiet and relatively anonymous life that revolved around business ventures with his son and charity work, helping sponsor charity golf tournaments and working for organizations such as the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Lisa Landry Childress Foundation—named for his youngest daughter, who died of liver cancer in 1995—which promotes organ donorship. Giving a motivational speech or appearing in a television commercial, he still looked at least ten years younger than his age, despite his famous baldness.
But in early May, during a routine checkup, doctors discovered he was anemic—a condition that is a frequent precursor of leukemia. At least one longtime friend had noticed that the coach looked peaked. "I saw Tom two weeks ago at his golf tournament and, in fact, I introduced him at a dinner and he didn't look good," former Cowboys president and general manager Tex Schramm told reporters after learning of Landry's diagnosis.
Discovered in 1845 by the eminent German biologist Rudolf Virchow, leukemia (the word means "white blood" in Greek) arises from genetic damage—either inherited or caused by something in the environment—that prevents new white blood cells produced in the bone marrow from maturing properly; those cells that do mature are rendered dysfunctional in other ways. The ripple effect of this glitch in cellular replication is catastrophic: There is nothing more elemental to human life than blood. Its red cells carry oxygen, the most basic fuel of life; its white cells fight off infections and other toxins; and its platelets, which promote proper blood clotting, are critical to the healing of wounds.
When the bone marrow begins producing immature or useless white cells, the first damage is to the body's immune system, where the bad cells soon crowd out the functional ones, leaving the victim more vulnerable to infection. As the number of abnormal white cells in the bone marrow mounts (like all cancer cells, they tend to reproduce much more rapidly than normal cells), the production of healthy red cells and platelets is also


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Sophomore Emily Allen set four North Carolina records on her way to leading Hough's girls to a second straight 4A swimming title.
Allen won the 50- and 100-yard freestyle titles and helped the 200- and 400-free relays also claim championships. Jessica Merritt (200 free) also won an individual state title for the Huskies.
On the boys' side, Jack Manchester won the 100 backstroke and 200 free state titles while also helping the 200-free relay finish second behind Green Hope, which finished 69 points ahead of second-place Hough to claim the 4A boys' title.
Lake Norman, behind freshman Brody Heck's fourth-place finish in the 100 free, finished 10th on the boys' side. The Lady Wildcats were 19th.
For more, see the full NCHSAA 4A meet results.
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March 15th, 2011 | by Thrystan |Kieron-Scott decided to create the Sony Ericsson Xperia LED concept. This Android device comes with a unibody high polished black steel body and copper plated buttons with LED indicators.
Unsatisfied with the current build quality of Android phones, designerIn order to get evenly illuminated shots, the Xperia LED uses the ring flash technology and a nice touch is the illuminated Sony Ericsson at the back. This seems to be a design prototype, so it's a work in progress, accepting input from you. There's the comments section for that, if you have suggestions.
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European Union officials are concerned about the state of Turkey's democracy, and have voiced their worries about the independence of the courts and media, the BBC reported.
The talks are held being held following a recent purge of Turkish police officers and prosecutors, who have been arrested for corruption.
The Turkish government is frustrated with the slow pace of the talks.
The negotiations resumed in November after they were suspended for nearly 3 1/2 years.
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Some member countries, including Germany and France, are concerned about Turkey joining the European Union due to its location and size, which could change the nature of the EU.
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>> If the name Lulu Kennedy doesn't sound familiar now, it will soon — she's just been named editor at large of the hugely influential fashion quarterly Love magazine.
Kennedy will be in charge of a new front-of-book section featuring portraits by Solve Sundsbo and interviews by Love editors Alex Fury and Isaac Lock. Katie Grand, Love's editor in chief, said she chose Kennedy because she's "always been hugely impressed with [Kennedy's] ability to discover the brightest new talents, and by her commitment to nurturing young designers as they navigate their way into the fashion industry."
Kennedy does just that for a living: She's the founder of the Fashion East initiative, the UK predecessor of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund. Since 2000, Kennedy and Fashion East have been finding talented young British designers and helping them find the resources to grow their brands. Kennedy is credited with starting the careers of Henry Holland, Roksanda Ilincic, and Gareth Pugh, among others.
But Kennedy doesn't just help new designers get a foothold in the industry — she also helps them make money by selling their wares. In 2010, she started Lulu & Co, a label that takes exemplary work from Fashion East designers and puts it directly in front of shoppers' eyes.
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