Made up of dense rainforests, and barren plateaus, it provided the extreme conditions necessary for good combat training. |
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He claimed that evolution was not a gradual process, but occurred in rapid spurts with long periods of changeless plateaus in-between. |
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We'll follow mountain-lion tracks and watch from remote plateaus as distant puffs of cloud build into towering thunderheads. |
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Dotted with scrubland and lone trees dangling on plateaus, hillside roads curled around the ascending stretch of hills. |
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Cloudberries and lingonberries, both of which grow wild on mountain plateaus, are particular favorites. |
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Titan's dunes bend around hills and upland plateaus, revealing how Titan's wind interacts with the topography. |
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It seemed like they were on different level plateaus from each other, and that connection that used to bridge and support them seemed strained. |
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The Khmer Loeu hill tribes live in remote highland areas in the plateaus and mountainous areas on the edges of Cambodia. |
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Terrain types noted so far include rocky and sandy plains, mountains, craters, plateaus and canyons. |
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Here one could relish plateaus of stillness before the onset of bristling counterpoint and passagework in the finale. |
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I'm now working out smarter and harder, busting through strength plateaus that had stymied my progress for years. |
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These are scattered tribes who live in remote plateaus and mountainous areas. |
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We'll pass through villages, farms, alpine meadows, and plateaus flowing with prayer flags. |
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In the west, the Western Cordillera consists of a series of mountain chains and valleys or high plateaus. |
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We had mountains, valleys, plateaus, deserts, waterfalls, rivers, and streams. |
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The group will face eight days of walking across rocky plateaus, sand dunes and salt pans. |
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There are occasionally plateaus or psychological barriers to overcome in order to progress. |
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The topography includes vast desert expanses, high plateaus, rolling foothills and valleys, and immense mountain ranges. |
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Do the 5km hike between the two canyons and explore the hidden network of caves and tunnels beneath the rocky plateaus. |
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The southern half of the Republic of Guatemala mainly consists of beautiful mountain highlands and plateaus, which are susceptible to devastating earthquakes. |
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While the balmy lowlands along the southwest border seldom experienced any snow, the frigid peaks and plateaus to the northeast bore a forbidding climate all year round. |
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The country's central regions are marked by plateaus and escarpments. |
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Reaching plateaus such as 60 percent northern employment are cause to be proud, but not complacent. |
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Valley-like basins, plains, and plateaus stretch between the mountains. |
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The diffused streaming on the plateaus and slopes, carry away fine elements and end in formation of glacis sterilizing important surfaces. |
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Although they are labeled mesas and plateaus, their ruggedness and inaccessibility have been exaggerated. |
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Stop along this byway to hike across broad plateaus and to admire Rocky Mountain goats, moose, black bears, grizzly bears, marmots, and mule deer. |
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The outer ring consists of discontinuous areas of mountains and plateaus in which the younger rocks are deformed. |
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Climb higher to the highland plateaus and precipices of Tarn Shelf, where you can look over the expansive lakes in the valley below. |
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And tailoring your exercise routine to your needs will help you avoid burnout as well as the frustration of plateaus! |
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Much of this area has low, rocky hills and plateaus as well as a deeply indented coastline. |
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The ridge is in effect a long rift zone of mountains, volcanoes, and faulted plateaus. |
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These calcareous plateaus, eaten into by water, are strewn with dolines or poljes, which look like lunar craters. |
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Water has quarried the thick lahar into lofty cliffs and small plateaus in many places. |
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The plateau is actually a series of plateaus at different elevations arranged in a stairstep sequence through faulting. |
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Daman lies on an alluvial coastal plain, although outcrops of basalt create low plateaus and promontories in the area. |
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These hills lead upward, gradually forming high plateaus and woodlands and eventually climaxing in spectacular mountain ranges. |
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A superb stroll on right bank of Lot, upstream of Entraygues, offering splendid panoramas on Lot gorges and the neighbouring plateaus. |
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The northern part half of Laos, makes up of broken mountain ranges and plateaus of which the vastest and the most known is the Plain of Jars. |
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Probably created from teosinte, a wild grass of Central and South America, it is grown by Indians on the high plateaus in Mexico. |
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A country of layered plateaus, with steep rises, sometimes forming escarpments, Côte d'Ivoire is mainly flat. |
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Alpine and Arctic species flourish on the highest slopes and plateaus of the Grampians, including saxifrages, creeping azalea, and dwarf willows. |
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Climate and geography vary from the freezing northern plateaus to the semi-tropical south. |
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Provence is, without a doubt, famous worldwide for its sunny mountain plateaus filled with the scent of the lavender fields. |
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The very rigid construction of the tibial plateaus keeps its stability of unilateral and alternating loads and reduces the risk of osteolyses. |
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Between these rivers, mountains and plateaus are the result of the surrection of Central Massif. |
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Employment plateaus at a high level from 2013 to 2015 and the workforce expands to restore normal recruiting conditions. |
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The inner ring comprises a chain of lowlands, plains and plateaus of generally flat-lying sedimentary rocks. |
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Activity plateaus at a high level in 2009 and the workforce has a chance to catch up. |
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We could catch salmon all the way up to Kakatshat, a very long portage that led to the plateaus 700 metres higher. |
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We have seen that in some of this industry where the plateaus are hit and companies are collapsed. |
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The disease progresses from onset with no plateaus or recovery periods or with a few plateaus and only temporary, minor improvements. |
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Normally, the definition of elevation elsewhere is reserved for oceanic plateaus, non-linear features. |
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They also used bows and arrows to hunt elk, deer, and mountain sheep, although hunting was often difficult on the hot, open plateaus of their homeland. |
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Basalt is a common extrusive igneous rock and forms lava flows, lava sheets and lava plateaus. |
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On Earth, rifts can occur at all elevations, from the sea floor to plateaus and mountain ranges in continental crust or in oceanic crust. |
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The southern low plateaus were mostly filled by a mass of rather ill-defined Paleogene and Neogene sands and gravel called the molasse, stripped off the rising Pyrenees. |
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Some volcanoes have rugged peaks formed by lava domes rather than a summit crater while others have landscape features such as massive plateaus. |
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A Veiki moraine is a kind of hummocky moraine that forms irregular landscapes of ponds and plateaus surrounded by banks. |
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Beyond unraveling the tale of how and why this happened, Paterniti immerses you in an immersion-friendly milieu of sun-baked highland plateaus, argumentative village rustics and beguiling old ways. |
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Basic features of the relief determine the relation of two main groups of surface shapes: plateaus and often deeply countersunk multilevel valleys onedges of which the rocky towns were created. |
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Indigenous to the Andean mountain plateaus of Peru, this turnip-like tuber packs quite a punch, featuring an impressive array of phytonutrients, amino acids, vitamins, and minerals. |
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Despite significant efforts by the PNEP and other projects, most households, particularly outside of the high plateaus, continue to use traditional high charcoal-consumption braziers. |
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The plateaus in Santa Cruz province and parts of Chubut usually have snow cover through the winter, and often experience very cold temperatures. |
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Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland, and its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands. |
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The national historic site is made up of four physiographical units: the valley of the Washery Stream, the north and south plateaus, and the west side of the St. Maurice River. |
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The submerged surface has mountainous features, including a globe-spanning mid-ocean ridge system, as well as undersea volcanoes, oceanic trenches, submarine canyons, oceanic plateaus and abyssal plains. |
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The ecoregion's surface materials consist of steeply sloping glacial drift, colluvium, and organic deposits in the form of peat plateaus, palsas, and fens. |
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The karst of Mexico varies from the streamless, low-relief plain of the Yucatán Peninsula to the high plateaus of the interior with their large dolines and deep vertical caves. |
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Coastal plains enfolding the sea, mountains and plateaus forming an immense natural amphitheatre where the centuries have played out the history of a region rich in beautiful contrasts. |
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Local crafts people also makes good use of esparto grass from the high plateaus, employing it in the manufacture of matting and basketwork items for household use. |
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The sites within the nomination are situated at the foot and around the Pavagadh hill, surrounded by lower hillocks, escarpments and plateaus all result of volcanic eruptions and lava flows. |
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In the southeast the vast Hodh Basin, with its dunes, sandstone plateaus, and immense regs, is a major livestock-raising region, the economy of which has many links with neighbouring Mali. |
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Igneous oceanic plateaus have a ratio intermediate between continental and oceanic crust, although they are more mafic than felsic. |
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The second is its topography, where generally low mountains juxtapose with plains or plateaus to shape distinctive countries that have nevertheless always managed to communicate with each other. |
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Made up of levels of plateaus and terraces, it benefits, thanks to the mistral, from exceptional climatic conditions which favors sunniness to raininess. |
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One guest scientist from the NMIJ will stay for a total period of one year at the BIPM to set up a high-temperature furnace with fixed-point crucibles to realize melting plateaus. |
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The ancient druidic circles, which the Celts who mingled with the Iberians and were called Celtiberians had installed on the Pyrenean plateaus, welcomed the first Gnostic apostles. |
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Very large oceanic volcanic constructions, hundreds of km across, are called oceanic plateaus. |
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Innovation plateaus have been identified before, often to the later embarrassment of their spotter. And yet the idea of a great stagnation cannot be dismissed entirely. |
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Also, female antler size plateaus at the onset of puberty, around age three, while males antler size increases during their lifetime. |
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Its vineyards lie on the best exposed hillsides and plateaus. |
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For example, it is believed that during a particular episode the land surface was raised in one part of the world to form high plateaus and mountain ranges. |
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Subducting plates can lead to orogeny by bringing oceanic islands, oceanic plateaus, and sediments to convergent margins. |
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Mainland Spain is a mountainous country, dominated by high plateaus and mountain chains. |
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This topography consists of a sinusoidal patterns of surface projections leading to complex surface plateaus. |
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However, the accuracy of this date is uncertain, as several radiocarbon plateaus exist around this time. |
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After having nourished the builders of the great prestigious empire of Incas, the quinoa continuous to offer force and vitality to the populations of the high plateaus by constituting their basic food. |
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But as one travels to the interior of the peninsula, one encounters the slopes and plateaus of the Jebel Harim. |
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I went further down to El-Burgo-del-Osma, through dry plateaus over which the sun shines already quite generously despite the fact that we are still in the early season. |
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Skiing in Sauze will give you the chance to enjoy fantastic and widely varying scenery, from wind-swept rocky terrain to plateaus covered with immaculately fresh snow. |
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Two other types of soil favour this type of production: on the one hand, fairly deep, black or grey stony soil on the plateaus, and on the other hand, scree on carbonate-clayey slopes on the flanks of fairly open valleys. |
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Lao PDR represents a tropical humid forest biome in the mainland Southeast Asia characterized by three distinct ecosystems: plains, plateaus and mountains. |
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Then it was across the limestone plateaus of Sauveterre and Méjean towards the Armand sinkhole to discover its underground forests of stone columns. |
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The remaining three quarters are composed of mountains and plateaus. |
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Inside, the hills, valleys and plateaus formed by the undulation often make the edges of the building invisible, though there are no visual barriers between one area and the next. |
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Parts of the area are heavily wooded, while others are vast, wind-swept plateaus with little vegetation. These mountains are home to a rare Bosnian Pine variety, and are included in the Pollino National Park. |
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Greenery and wildlife ornament snow-capped plateaus. |
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A unique breed of civet cat roams the limestone plateaus that are seamed with gorges carved by rushing streams, and spiked by finger-like granite towers rising to 1,500 metres. |
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They favour areas where there is vigorous new growth and exposed mountains and plateaus where the trees are stunted, windblown, and often shrouded in fog. |
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They are surrounded by the Moldavian and Transylvanian plateaus and Carpathian Basin and Wallachian plains. |
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Compare that with the dips and plateaus of a rollercoaster. |
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Topographical elements of the natural flood plains are stylised and abstracted with corresponding slopes, plateaus and terraces, or with water channels and meandering streams, and blended together to form a new parkland. |
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Introductions take half a day or a whole day and the more fanatical can join treks on high plateaus, with a night in a refuge or under the tent of a Canadian trapper, heated with a wood stove. |
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The distinct types of relief include regions of high mountains, low hills, dissected plateaus, intermontane valleys, and coastal swamps. |
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The northwest and central parts of the country are formed by the Madhupur and the Barind plateaus. |
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For example, painters who drew from the aesthetic of Huang Gongwang, the oldest of the four Yuan artists, admired his voluptuous mountains and towering plateaus, formed by dragging a brush along the paper. |
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Cape Breton Island is composed mainly of rocky shores, rolling farmland, glacial valleys, barren headlands, mountains, woods and plateaus. |
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Looking at the map of Canada's past as at that of any country ancient or modern, we see smooth, uneventful plateaus, some depressions and ravines, and a few notable pinnacles. |
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However, winters are colder on the inland plateaus east of the slopes and further down the coast on the south east end of the Patagonian region. |
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Other oceanic plateaus, however, are made of rifted continental crust, for example Falkland Plateau, Lord Howe Rise, and parts of Kerguelen, Seychelles, and Arctic ridges. |
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Temperatures are slightly higher inland, except for the southern highland plateaus, such as the Mountain Pine Ridge, where it is noticeably cooler year round. |
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This method usually leaves ridge and hill tops as flattened plateaus. |
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In the central regions, the country's northern mountain ranges give way to shallow plateaus and typically dry watercourses that are referred to locally as the Ogo. |
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Ranging from the coastal areas of the south to the glaciated mountains of the north, Pakistan's landscapes vary from plains to deserts, forests, hills, and plateaus. |
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It has narrow coastlines, limestone plateaus and coastal plains. |
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Mexico, with its long plateaus and cordilleras, falls largely in the western region, although the eastern coastal plain does extend south along the Gulf. |
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The deep ocean floor is thought to be fairly flat with occasional deeps, abyssal plains, trenches, seamounts, basins, plateaus, canyons, and some guyots. |
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