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Interview with Mildred Adams-Williams
No full textMildred Adams Williams talks about living in Fontana Village as a child in the 1940s, about how the community, especially the children of the dam workers, were insulated from the hardships of World War II, and about reunions of the Dam Kids.Adams, Mildred
Katie Bell: Okay, it's working. We are recording now. I have some questions but
it sounds like you already know which ones you want to give me [laughs].
Mildred Adams: [laughs]
KB: I am all ears. But if you could give your name again for the recording that
would be great.
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MA: I'm Mildred Adams-Williams, I'm 86 years old, I was-I came to Fontana
in 1940-the end of 1942, stayed until1945, and-my life in Fontana was the greatest
time in my whole life, even though I'm 86 years old. [laughs] those two years in Fontana
were the best.
KB: Who-did you come up with your family?
MA: My family. My father came here with the TV A and-with my mother, my
two sisters, and our brother.
KB: Did you all come and live at the village?
MA: We lived in the village, we lived about half a block up Welch Road. So I
walked to school every day.
KB: That's fantastic. My little sister back home actually walks to school. It's just
right across the street. But-yeah-for your family, how many were there? What where
there names?
MA: My mother was Lucy, my father was Alexander G, my--oldest sister was
Katherine, my youngest sister is Gayle, and my brother was Billy. And-Billy and
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Katherine have died, and Gayle, my youngest sister, she's still alive and lives in
Birmingham, Alabama.
KB: Birmingham! Alright, yup, there we go. My best friend is from Birmingham,
so I've spent a lot of time there-what was the-biggest memory that sticks out with
your time here in Fontana?
[pause]
KB: That's a toughie
MA: my memory was that I was 15-16 years old, so naturally, my mind wasn't
on the war [laughs] my mind was on boyfriends [laughs] and so-I'm sure that they
rationed thi:iJ.gs here, gasoline and stuff, but I never realized that. I mean, that was all left
up to my mother, and she provided so we never questioned anything. We always had
gasoline for my mother to take a bunch of my friends to Santeetlah Lake to go
swimming. And-that was a highlight, and then-
KB: What did your dad do on the dam?
MA: My daddy was over the cement that's poured into the dam-
KB:Ohwow
MA: And-so when that was over, well then we left and he went with the railroad
in Toccoa, Georgia [said like "Takaita" or "Toccata" -perhaps a town I am unfamiliar
with?]
KB: Did you all move to-Georgia after that?
MA: Pardon?
Adams, Mildred
KB: Did you all move to Georgia after-
MA: We moved to Georgia. We moved to Toccoa, Georgia [laughs] we were
supposed to en-well, we enrolled in girls school because in Georgia, in Toccoa, boys
school and girls school. And I hated it.
KB: [laughs] oh no!
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MA: So my sister was accepted because she was a big basketball player, so they
had a basketball team and she was a great player. And I wasn't. I played, but I wasn't that
good. And-so I begged my parents and let me move to Florida with my aunt and two
cousins, and I graduated in Pensacola, Florida.
KB: Pensacola-
MA: And that's where I met my husband.
KB:Wow.Uh-
MA: -Well, while I was here-we did a lot of-we had dances on Friday night,
and they all still kid me about wearing my hair in rollers of Fridays [laughs] to look good
for the dance.
KB: [laughs]
MA: They all knew what I looked like in rollers [laughs]
KB: That's fantastic
MA: And the rest of the days they knew what I looked like so it didn't matter ifl
had my rolls.
Adams, Mildred
KB: I think I scared my sister. I went up to Cincinnati to visit my sister and I
think I scared her the other day wearing them in rollers.
MA: In fact, later, when we came back to one ofthe reunions one of the guys
does car-he does carving, and he had carved a head with rollers and gave it to me
[laughs] It was Jimmy Marsh who lives in Florence, Alabama. But he hasn't been to a
reunion in quite a while. This is our 29th and we hope to go to 30, anyway. That'd be
great. We that were in high school, they're thinning out very fast. Either illness or death.
So-we're lucky to be here.
KB: We're glad you're here talking with us. It's a beautiful place, I mean, once
you-for me anyway, I spent childhood in the mountains at Lake Lure. I don't know. It
always calls me back.
MA: Yeah, well, I love the mountains. I've always said if I'd have my favorite
pick, it would be North Carolina for the mountains. [laughs]
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KB: What were some of your first impressions--do you remember first coming to
Fontana?
MA: Yeah, well I did. I mean, when I saw it-and then school wasn't out up here,
but it was in Tennessee, so we moved and so, naturally, I wanted to see the school kids,
so I sat down on a rock at our house because most of the kids passed that way.
KB: Okay
MA: So there's one guy, he walked over and introduced himself and-so we got
acquainted, and every day while was in the yard, and we'd sit that rock under apple trees
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and urn-my mother said she used to look out the window and we'd sit there talking, and
the next time she'd look out the window I was chasing him all over the yard [laughs]
KB: [laughs]
MA: And so-and then we'd go sleigh riding, and that was fun. And I always-!
don't know why-my friends were mostly juniors and seniors, not my age. I was in the
gth and lOth.
[Simultaneously] KB: What grade-oh, the gth and 10th]
MA: And so they all went sleigh riding so I asked my mother if I could go and she
said "yes," but do not get on a sled. And I'm thinking-! didn't say it-I didn't answer,
but in my mind I'm thinking "I won't till I get there." [laughs] so-
KB: [laughs] there you go
MA: So we-went down with our hands laying down on the sled, you know,
guiding with their hands, but then when the twigs started popping up and hitting us in the
face, we thought we'd better change routes. So we did, and so we started guiding with
our feet.
[laughter]
KB: I can only imagine.
MA: So, when I went down, I went down and hit a tree. Knocked that sled about
six feet back.
KB: Ohmy gosh
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MA: So I was straddling a tree, so I thought everybody had fallen off the
mountain because it was so quiet [laughs]. So I lay there, nothing was said, but I was
really hurt, and I turned over, rolled over in the snow, and I managed to get up, and went
home right down the middle of the street [laughs] walking terrible.
KB: Oh my goodness
MA: So my mother saw me coming, and I had to go up about 20 steps, so when I
got to the front door and opened it, she said "Don't say a word. Go straight to your
room." [laughs]
KB: She knew
MA: Well, she told me not to [laughs]
KB: She knew [laughs] oh goodness. Did your parents talk about the dam at all?
Or just-[08:40] working?
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MA: No, not really. Now ifi'd go on a date or anything, out, I'd go home at night
and go in the bedroom where my mother and father, I'd wake her up and tell her to get
up, and I'd tell her everything he said, and everything I said. Besides-she didn't have to
worry about me doing anything bad [laughs] because I'd come home and tell her
[laughs]. So, she was a wonderful mother.
KB: Sounds like it.
MA: She really, I mean, everybody was crazy about her-all of our friends. Then
I had a friend across the street that she was-Eloise Barton was the one that initially
started this-the reunions.
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KB: Oh, right.
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MA: And, she had-I probably shouldn't say this because somebody may see it if
you happen to put it in the library over there and some of her kin-folks-
KB: Well, its-part of what you sighed-we can keep it back, we can cut
whatever you want, or it can stay in there, its up to you.
MA: Well, anyway, she said-her mother was pregnant with her seventh child,
and asked her what she wanted to name it. She said, you name it seven, number seven for
all I care because she was the oldest and she had to take care of it [laughs] and we'd have
to go over and help her do her housework and her chores in order for her to come out and
do teenage things with us.
KB: Right, I'm the oldest of seven. Built-in babysitter [laughs]
MA: Uh huh, yep. But she was a wonderful friend, but she's dead, and her
husband and-so a lot of them are already passed on, I mean, there's not many of us left.
[Brief pause in conversation]
KB: Time. Yep. What are some-do you have any stories that might not be so
well known out there about the dam? Just memoires. Or even well known.
MA: That's hard. No, but on those Friday night dances, then-after I had my hair
rolled up all day, I looked good [laughs] and I was sitting on the side, and this fella came
and visited somebody, and now he was handsome. And I was sitting here, and my sister
was on the other side, and-no, I was dancing with someone. She was sitting close to
him, and he asked his cousin, who was the one in the pink sweater [points to herself], so
Adams, Mildred
my sister did like that for me to go to the restroom with her. So I did, and she says "he
wanted to know who you were" and she went home and told mother-she said "she was
dancing normal until I told her that, then she went crazy." [laughs]
KB: That's fantastic [laughs]
MA:[laughs] And then we walked home and he asked me ifhe could walk me
horne, and I said yes but of course it was a whole group, and so we get up-well, my
house was only a half a block, so we get there, and my cousin from Alabama was
visiting, and he's very short, and he's my age, so he wasn't that familiar and drove that
many cars, but the guy handed him his car keys said "would you go get my car" [laughs]
so he went, and he almost ran in the ditch [laughs] so-but he was so cute, I tell you,
but-anyway, that was a passing thing.
KB: That's fantastic. Is there anything else that you can think ofthat I missedthat
we missed?
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MA: No, I tell you, I sound like one that wasn't really interested in the war, the
war was going on, but I said I was a norrnal15-16 year old girl. And so I was with my
parents, and my father worked on that darn for the war, then everything was taken care
of, it leaves their children free to have free-and have a good time without the worries
and the anxieties of all the war pressing on them. And so it was never discussed at horne.
In fact it was never discussed anywhere because it was supposedly entirely secret because
it was connected with Oak Ridge. It provided the water and the electrical power that
made the water provide the electrical power that was generated to Oak Ridge to make the
first atom bomb. In fact, Manhattan Project was this. There's a book on that. So.
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KB: That's amazing. [13:48] Thank you so much! If you ever think of anything
else, I mean, Dustin and I will be here all day long. Send other people our way.
MA: [laughs]
KB: [laughs] Seriously, we'd love to talk again.
MA: Doris is-I mean, she knows more about it than I do. Her father was over the
cafeteria, and I think she stayed longer than I did. In fact I'm probably-she probably
stayed till it was over because the people-! mean, the workmen had to be fed because
the workers lived-you know where the-do you know where the boats and the dock is?
KB: Yep
MA: That's where the workmen lived in dormitories. All the single workers lived
in there.
KB: And then families lived down this way?
MA: Families lived here. But all the recreational stuff was over there so we
walked-we had a basketball team, so we walked from here over to there to practice
basketball and to play basketball, and we played basketball. We played Nantahala, I was
we had Nantahala on his computer up there [gestures toward a computer on the other side
of the room] but we like could never found it because it was up on the mountain and the
road was only broad enough for one car. I said, if somebody did come down, they'd have
to back up or we'd have to back down because we couldn't find it till after school was
out. And-so-
KB: So you played Nantahala? Were there any others?
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MA: Oh we played Tenn-we played Knoxville, and some other schools. We
played over in Murphy, we had-what is it they have when the teams come together?
Tournaments. Tournament where different schools met and so mischief was carried on at
Nantahala and so-the girls got in trouble because they didn't have a restroom to change
in. They changed in a school rooms. And pictures were turned around [laughs]
KB: [laughs] a hullabaloo about that
MA: Yeah well, it was a lot, except this one. Fools names and faces always
appear in public places. I was stupid enough to write my name. So naturally when the
principal got word, I was the first one she called in. So she asked me if I had done any of
the-I said "No ma'am, all I did was write my name on that building." And so she said
"well who did," and I said "I'm not telling. So how about you find out from them, let
them tell you." But then if she had followed me, she would have known because I-they
had assembly and I went straight to the group of girls and told them that Ms. McCall
knew. And so then she called them all into a classroom and went down individually,
asking them. And my, my faith and confidence in people really dropped to floor level,
because every one of them denied it. And the least you can do is tell the truth and accept
your punishment. But, they didn't. But one got-suspended for three or four days, I don't
know. And how it was found out, I don't know about either, so [laughs]
KB: Tis a mystery
MA: Yeah
KB: Now that part earlier when we were talking about-you weren't sure about it
being recorded. Do you want me to keep that on there? I can send you a transcript later.
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MA: I don't think I said anything about the names
KB: I don't think you did either. Okay, so we're all good. Just double checking.
Thank you so much,
MA: Uhhuh.
KB: Enjoy the rest of your time here
MA: Thank you dear. I'm glad to have met you Katie.
KB: Glad to meet you.
MA: Is it Katie or Kate?
KB: Katie
MA: Yeah, "Katie" is sweeter
KB: [laughs] Have a good day.
MA: You too
END OF INTERVIEW
Katie E. Bell
12/5/201
MA Defence: “Creativity Within Constraints: Encoding, Production, and Representation in Battlestar Galactica†by Philippa Adams
No full textOur dear colleague, Philippa Adams, will defend her MA Thesis on Friday, December 10th, 2015 at Harbour Centre, Room 1520 (2:00 pm - 4:00 pm). Here is the abstract of her thesis “Creativity Within Constraints”
The Borel and genuine -equivariant Adams spectral sequences
No full textWe find out some relations between the classical Adams spectral sequences for
stunted real projective spectra, the Borel -equivariant Adams spectral
sequence for the 2-completed sphere, and the genuine -equivariant Adams
spectral sequence for the 2-completed sphere. This allows us to understand the
genuine -equivariant Adams spectral sequence from the Borel Adams spectral
sequences. We show that the Borel Adams spectral sequence is computable as a
classical Adams spectral sequence.Comment: Added a background section and some charts; corrected some mistake
19th century graveyard, N Adams, MA
No full textPhotograph of a headstone filled graveyard in North Adams, Massachusetts from the 19th century
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Phymatosmylus Adams 1969
No full textPhymatosmylus Adams, 1969 Most of the forewing crossveins have a single seta borne on a swelling at midpoint of each veinlet; forewing has MP forks in the middle of the length of the wing, CuA anteriorly pectinate and A1 fuses with A2; in male forewing there may be one, two or three nygmata between proximal branch of Rs and MA, sometimes there is one between last two branches of Rs, and a few, between MA and MP; all veins are thickened and filled with granular substance in male forewing, in female only bases of Cu and A1 are slightly thickened. Hindwing has basal piece of MA joining R before the origin of Rs-MA; between last branch of Rs and MA there is a distal nygma, one or two nygmata can be seen in the region between last two branches of Rs. Anterior coxa of female has two irregular rows of pedestalled setae; arolium is bilobed (Adams 1969). Distribution. Chile, Argentina.Published as part of Martins, Caleb Califre, Ardila-Camacho, Adrian & Aspöck, Ulrike, 2016, Neotropical osmylids (Neuroptera, Osmylidae): Three new species of Isostenosmylus Krüger, 1913, new distributional records, redescriptions, checklist and key for the Neotropical species, pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 4149 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4149.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/25680
Adams National Historical Park expanded transit service evaluation
No full text4505041114PMIS No. 89847In 2005 and 2006, Adams National Historical Park piloted expanded shuttle service, with the aim of promoting car-free access for its visitors. This report evaluates the 2006 season of operation. Adams National Historical Park (NHP) is located approximately ten miles south of Boston in Quincy, MA (see Figure 1), and comprises eleven historic structures and a cultural landscape totaling almost 14 acres. The story told by Adams NHP is that of five generations of the Adams family\u2014from 1720 to 1927\u2014including two U.S. presidents. This report evaluates the 2006 season of operation of a pilot expanded trolley service that operated at Adams National Historical Park from 2005 to 2006
Pan-cancer analysis of ADAMs: A promising biomarker for prognosis and response to chemotherapy and immunotherapy
No full textBackground: Members of a disintegrin and metalloproteinase (ADAM) family play a vital role in cancer development. However, a comprehensive analysis of the landscape of the ADAM family in pan-cancer remains to be performed.Methods: The correlation of the expression level and prognostic value with ADAMs in a pan-cancer cohort and the relationship between ADAMs and the stemness score, tumour microenvironment (TME), chemotherapy-related drug sensitivity, immune subtype, and immunotherapy outcome were investigated.Results: ADAMs were differentially expressed between tumour and para-carcinoma tissues in the pan-cancer cohort, and the expression of ADAMs was significantly correlated with patient prognosis. Furthermore, ADAMs were significantly correlated with the stromal score and immune score based on the TME analysis. Additionally, ADAMs were also correlated with DNAss and RNAss in the pan-cancer cohort. On investigating the CellMiner database, ADAMs were revealed to be significantly correlated with the sensitivity of various drugs, including raloxifene and tamoxifen. Moreover, in the IMvigor210 and GSE78220 cohorts, ADAMs were correlated with immunotherapy response and immune activation genes. Furthermore, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and immunohistochemistry (IHC) were utilised to determine the differential level of ADAM9 in cancer and para-carcinoma tissues in patients’ samples.Conclusion: This study elucidates the importance of ADAMs in cancer progression and lays a foundation for further exploration of ADAMs as potential pan-cancer targets
A comparison of the indicators of hand function in early RA populations from the UK and China
No full textBackground:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a universal disease with clinical presentations and impacts varying in different ethnic groups. The process of inflammatory joint damage quantified by ESR, CRP, number of tender and swollen joints can lead to structural impairment and deformity of wrists and hands. However, the relationship between hand impairment and disability in early RA is controversial. A comparison of this relationship in different population groups would add to the understanding of country-specific impacts of RA. This study compared the correlations of disease activity and hand impairment with self-report hand function between two early RA populations from the UK and China. Methods: A cohort comparison study was conducted. 60 Chinese patients recruited from Shanghai, China were matched on gender and age with 60 patients from a prospective early RA cohort from the UK (SARAH trial). The procedures of data collection in China followed the standard operating procedures employed in the SARAH trial. Outcome measures including MHQ, medical history and physical assessments were used to assess disease activity, hand impairment and function.Results:There was no significant association (P?0.05) between hand function with MCP joint deformity in either population group. Correlations between hand function with range of movement measured by active wrist flexion, combined finger flexion and composite finger extension were weak in both the UK and Chinese population (r?0.04, p?0.05). The associations between self-report overall hand function and full grip strength were moderate to weak in Chinese patients (dominant r=0.473 and non-dominant r=0.347, p?0.05). The correlations were weak between overall hand function and pinch grip among Chinese patients (p?0.05). However, correlations between hand function and full grip strength were moderate in UK patients (dominant r=0.582 and non-dominant r=0.555, p?0.05). Moderate relationships were found between hand function and pinch strength in the UK patients (dominant r=0.647 and non-dominant r=0.624, p?0.05). There were strong to moderate negative correlations between hand function and pain in both population groups (UK r=-0.690 and China r=-0.458, p?0.05). A moderate negative correlation was found between hand function and swelling (r=-0.45, p?0.001) and a moderate correlation between dexterity and hand function (dominant r=0.441, non-dominant r=0.440, p?0.05) in Chinese patients. However, no significant association (P?0.05) was found between hand function and swelling or hand function and dexterity among UK patients. Conclusion: In early RA populations in both the UK and China, hand strength, range of movement and pain are indicators of hand function. There is a weaker correlation between hand strength with self-reported hand function in the Chinese population compared with the UK RA patients. Swelling is not an indicator of hand function in the UK population. Test Overall hand function (dominant hand) China (dominant hand) UK (dominant hand) China (non-dominant hand) UK (non-dominant hand) Correlation P-value Correlation P-value Correlation P-value Correlation P-valueSpearman’s rho MCP joint Deformity -0.321 0.221 0.121 0.359 -0.210 0.107 0.055 0.067Pearson r Active wrist extension 0.025 0.850 0.023 0.864 -0.025 0.850 0.864 0.023Pearson r Active wrist flexion 0.290 0.025 0.276 0.033 0.328 0.010 0.338 0.008Spearman’s rho Combined finger flexion -0.381 0.003 -0.350 0.007 -0.357 0.005 -0.361 0.005Pearson r Composite finger extension 0.379 0.003 0.394 0.002 0.405 0.001 0.189 0.152Spearman’s rho Dexterity 0.441 0.000 -0.123 0.354 0.440 0.000 0.086 0.515Spearman’s rho Full grip strength 0.473 0.000 0.582 0.000 0.347 0.007 0.647 0.000Spearman’s rho Pinch grip strength 0.371 0.004 0.647 0.000 0.295 0.022 0.555 0.000Test Overall hand function (both hands) China UK Correlation P-value Correlation P-valuePearson r Pain (both hands) -0.458 0.000 -0.690 0.000Spearman’s rho Swelling (both hands) -0.450 0.000 -0.093 0.479a statistically significant (p?0.05)<br/
An exploration of the characteristics of early rheumatoid arthritis hand involvement among different gender, age, and hand-dominance in a Chinese population
No full textBackground: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common inflammatory rheumatic disease across the globe causing symmetrical polyarthritis of large and small joints, including the hands and wrists. Understanding the disease presentation and impact across different global populations can add useful information to consider the impact of culture and different treatment regimes. Ethnicity, traditions, socioeconomic and lifestyles are assumed to have an impact on hand function and impairment, which Chinese population tends to experience less severe hand impairment. However, there are little data on the impact of RA on hand function in Chinese populations. The aim of this study was to use measurement protocols developed in the UK to explore and compare the characteristics of early hand RA among different sexes, ages, and hand-dominance in a Chinese population.Methods: A cohort comparison study was conducted in one Rheumatic centre in Shanghai, China. 60 Chinese patients with early hand RA were recruited from Shanghai, China. The procedures of data collection in China followed the standard operating procedures employed in the UK NIHR-funded “SARAH” trial. Participant questionnaires including the Michigan Hand Outcomes Questionnaire and Pain troublesomeness scales were used to measure patients’ reported functional ability. Medication history and indicators of all disease activities such as ESR, CRP and RF were recorded. Physical assessments including active range of hand and finger movement, deformity, tender and swollen joint counts and a dexterity test were conducted to report hand impairment and function. Results: There were no statistical significant differences (P?0.05) between Male (N=12) and Female (N=48) groups across all patient reported and objective outcome measures. Statistically significant differences (p?0.05) were found between two age groups (Age?60, N=28; Age ?60, N=32) in active wrist flexion of both dominant (z=-2.595, p=0.009) and non-dominant hands (z=-3.627, p?0.001) respectively. Dominant hand dexterity and combined finger flexion measurements were significantly better than the non-dominant measurements (t=2.232, p=0.029 and z=-2.085, p=0.037) in all participants. However, non-dominant hand composite finger extension was significantly greater than dominant hand extension (t=-2.463, p=0.017). Conclusion: In this exploratory analysis of a Chinese RA population, hand impairment and hand function were not significantly different between men and women. Hand impairment and function of the hand tended to be worse for the non-dominant hand. This is the first time that the characteristics of hand impairment and function for a Chinese population have been reported and there is a need to fully analyse the characteristics of RA hand involvement in a Chinese popu
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