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In her experiment, psychologist Penny Pexman of the University of Calgary found that children as young as five were able to detect verbal irony.
We learn from the record kept at the Freedmen's Bureau, that there are two thousand two hundred children here.
The aim of this study was to determine whether goitrous children with iron deficiency anemia would respond to oral iodine supplementation.
The children who are part of the study will be monitored through their school years and beyond.
With the passage of time, the number of children suffering with the disease has decreased dramatically.
The museum is an excellent place to let children indulge their curiosity about dinosaurs.
She believes that we are breeding a generation of children who know nothing about the history of their country.
Suddenly the children heard Grandpa's booming voice demanding that they get down from the roof.
A few of the children began to scream, and soon they were all caught up in the hysteria.
The children clung together under the little umbrella waiting for the storm to pass.
They say school is just as important for teaching children social codes and conventions as for teaching math.
The swimming instructor reminded the children to kick their legs as they swam.
When children go to a different school, it usually takes them a while to adapt.
The children were John Charles, Maria Louisa, Charles Golding, Isobel, Emma, Alfred, and Lionel.
The village had a school for the children of the workers, almshouses, allotments, a park and a boathouse.
The Dust Bowl forced children of the original homesteaders even further west.
The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children and is considered a classic of children's literature.
The only lineal descendants of the poet are therefore the children of Ianthe.
Owing to a shortage of schools in the area her charges were soon joined by the children of neighbours, and a small school developed at the house.
Furthermore, UNICEF warned that more than 1 million children in South Sudan are subjected to malnutrition.
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Still popular in Northern England, they were given as treats to the children of customers.
The town is served by 11 first schools for children aged up to 9 years old.
Freud is rumoured to have fathered as many as forty children although this number is generally accepted as an exaggeration.
The courts, however, awarded custody of Shelley and Harriet's children to foster parents, on the grounds that Shelley was an atheist.
He and his two sisters were orphaned as children and had to be taken in by relatives.
Her parents had each been married previously and been widowed, and, consequently, the household contained the children of three marriages.
Although the children are not shown from the front, the cover was controversial at the time of the album's release.
Prolific children's author Enid Blyton chronicled the adventures of a group of young children and their dog in The Famous Five.
Gill Bennett later revealed that the births of their three children had been induced to avoid any clashes with Faldo's playing schedule.
The latter sentence refers to children in general and their specific ways home.
Studies of the mapwork of children per se have mainly concerned large scale maps and perception maps.
In many countries, a bogeyman variant is portrayed as a man with a sack on his back who carries naughty children away.
The Hecatoncheires are giants that have 100 arms and 50 heads who were also the children of Gaia and Uranus.
The Bogeyman takes bad children or those that refuse to sleep and locks them in his basement for a period of time.
During the centuries that Britain was in India, the children born to British men and Indian women began to form a new community.
Many pupils aspire to send their own children to their old schools in their historical buildings, over successive generations.
Historically, in Scotland, it was common for children destined for private schools to receive their primary education at a local school.
Students from households with more than three children may be given priority.
In 1818, John Pounds began teaching working class children in the country's first ragged school.
Babbage was one of four children of Benjamin Babbage and Betsy Plumleigh Teape.
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He was the oldest of six children born to Mary Swift and Jonas Priestley, a finisher of cloth.
Parents may tell their children that if they misbehave, the bogeyman will get them.
As he had pneumonia in 2013, he was advised not to have ice poured over him, but his children volunteered to accept the challenge on his behalf.
It was mainly to educate city children who might not get out to the countryside very often.
Collecting money was a popular reason for their creation, the children taking their effigy from door to door, or displaying it on street corners.
The central part played by young children in the celebration emphasize the procreation aspect of the celebration.
His will reveals that he had two infant children in England, of whom nothing is known except that they were in the care of a nurse.
He emphasized the innocence and natural grace of children when depicting them.
In March 1810 when Keats was 14, his mother died of tuberculosis, leaving the children in the custody of their grandmother.
Kegan Paul later suggested that Mrs Godwin had favoured her own children over those of Mary Wollstonecraft.
He was given an extremely rigorous upbringing, and was deliberately shielded from association with children his own age other than his siblings.
The children became interested in writing from an early age, initially as a game which later matured into a passion.
They had an open marriage, in addition to the three children they had together.
Many children of his acquaintance remembered the stammer, while many adults failed to notice it.
Blyton was delighted with its reception by children in the audience, and attended the theatre three or four times a week.
The same style, without the arch, is used for the children and siblings of sovereigns.
After her retirement she spent all her time in Panama, and was close to her husband and his children from an earlier marriage.
Sellers was married four times, and had three children from his first two marriages.
Another popular reading program for children is PAWS TO READ or similar programs where children can read to certified therapy dogs.
Juan Antonio Samaranch was born on 17 July 1920 in Barcelona as the third of six children in a family from the Catalan rich bourgeoisie.
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Hatton is a supporter of The Village News, Haughton Green's local children's newspaper made by children in aid of charity.
Large groups of young adults and children spontaneously gathered, believing their innocence would enable success where their elders had failed.
In Essex, where the examination is optional, children sit Verbal Reasoning, Mathematics and English.
In Scotland children are entitled to a place in a nursery class when they reach their third birthday.
Independent schools in Scotland educate about 31,000 children and often referred to as Private Schools.
In 2016 planning permission was received for a new learning centre aimed at school children and linked to the baths by a tunnel.
The goal of Head Start and of Early Head Start is to increase the school readiness of young children in low income families.
Teachers assist children to explain what happened, before any decision to punish is made.
These programs serve children from birth to age five, pregnant women, and their families.
A higher quality of educational provisions for children living in rural areas will be another goal for the Chinese government.
By 1700, a political crisis arose, as all of Anne's children had died, leaving her as the only individual left in the line of succession.
Before this law was passed there was a large amount of children who did not attend an Early Childhood Education Program.
The British then opened up their schools to children from English mixed marriages, or to those with English descent.
Without the media, public concern over the illfare of Finnish children would not have been so widely discussed or examined.
Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust provides healthcare for children within the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire and the UK as a whole.
On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises, dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impedimenta.
She was the eldest daughter of Edward IV, and all their children were his cognatic heirs.
The walk is a fun and safe way for adults and children to celebrate Halloween and has a larger and larger following every year.
She is the mother of six children but somehow keeps her sanity.
With his brother's children out of the way, he was next in the line of succession and was proclaimed King Richard III on 26 June.
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The former RAF hospital based in Ely meant that many children of serving RAF parents were born in the city.
It wasn't until some time in the 1980s along with hyperactivity in children that Ritalin came onto the market.
It's important to teach your children about the dangers of smoking.
However, Henry refused to allow this, and the expelled women and children died of starvation in the ditches surrounding the town.
The claims were repudiated by Darwin's children and have been dismissed as false by historians.
His family was in crisis with children in the village dying of scarlet fever, and he put matters in the hands of his friends.
They mix the classes up agewise so the older children lead the younger ones.
The marriage unified the warring houses of Lancaster and York and gave his children a strong claim to the throne.
Paul and Margit Dirac had two children together, both daughters, Mary Elizabeth and Florence Monica.
He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.
In some jurisdictions children below a certain size are forbidden to travel in front car seats.
The children are so quick and light-handed, the victim doesn't feel a thing.
Schools often hire charter bus services on regular basis for transportation of children to and from their homes.
He was the second of four children born to Edward Fawkes, a proctor and an advocate of the consistory court at York, and his wife, Edith.
Almost all children are baptized as Lutheran and more than 90 percent are subsequently confirmed.
Women, slaves, and children all participated in a range of religious activities.
Both James's children died without legitimate issue, bringing the Stuart family to an end.
Revisiting his native land that year, Albert Camus was horrified to find Kabyle children fighting with dogs for the contents of a rubbish bin.
It is unknown what mortuary services were given to dead children by the Vikings.
It is uncertain how many children Chaucer and Philippa had, but three or four are most commonly cited.
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Widows were in a particularly favourable position, with inheritance rights, custody of their children and authority over dependants.
In noble families a Greek nurse usually taught the children Latin and Greek.
Until 1973, school children had to pass Modern Irish to achieve a Leaving Cert and studying the subject remains obligatory.
Many Poles who have migrated to the UK since the enlargement of the EU have brought children with them.
The town is populated by the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th generation children of Irish immigrants, especially immigrants from County Donegal.
Elizabeth Branwell, who raised the children after the death of their mother, was a Methodist.
Education would begin at home, where children were taught the basic etiquette of proper manners and respecting others.
Social capital helps children engage with different age groups that share a common goal.
In the spring of 1877, Alice returned from India and removed the children from Lorne Lodge.
One in five preschool age children are vitamin A deficient and one in two are anemic.
In the West confirmation of children is delayed until they are old enough to understand or at the bishop's discretion.
If true, such a fact should come as no surprise to us, for as a child herself all other children can be nothing but rivals for her.
Tolkien was very devoted to his children and sent them illustrated letters from Father Christmas when they were young.
The Prince and Princess of Wales left court, but their children remained in the care of the king.
The new hippies, most of them, were just people who didn't buy into the rampant meism we were fed as children and teenagers.
Aimed at children and families, the Prom is informal, including audience participation, jokes, and popular classics.
The nursery teaches children aged between two and five years alongside their parents to ensure the language is also spoken in the home.
Chaplin's legacy is managed on behalf of his children by the Chaplin office, located in Paris.
In his famous Poor Law Bill, the proposal was made by Pitt that children should be set to work at the age of five.
In Wales, all children are taught Welsh from the first year of primary school.
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Since animals are a calming influence and there is no judgment, children learn confidence and a love of reading.
The children led us on a merry dance with their stories of strangers and shadows in the night.
In general, it is believed that children have advantage to learning a foreign language over adults.
All three daughters married but Kathleen had no children while Marjorie and Joan had just one daughter each.
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince that standeth for the children of thy people.
On Saturday 21 March 1981, Hailwood set off in his Rover SD1 with his children Michelle and David to collect some fish and chips.
Step children and children seen as different for a wide range of reasons are particularly at risk of witchcraft accusations.
This indicates that kindergarten teachers need to improve their perceptions of children with disabilities.
However, a rigorous preschool can be developmentally detrimental to children and cause social, emotional, and educational problems later in life.
Parents discourage their children from interacting with people believed to be witches.
Clitherow was born Margaret Middleton in 1556, one of five children of Thomas and Jane Middleton.
It is also believed that witchcraft can be transmitted to children by feeding.
The average number of children in charge is about 90. One hundred and fifty could be accommodated.
They differed in counting the children of believers in some sense members of the church.
We know we don't do a good job of tracking children in K through 12 into engineering.
Over the past decade, around 15,000 children have been accused, and around 1,000 murdered.
In the early days of August 1921, the Churchills' children were entrusted to a French nursery governess in Kent, Mlle.
His system was successful in producing obedient children with basic literacy and numeracy.
There was still limited opportunity for education and children were expected to work.
During these times, some children draw or paint, some play house, some play with puzzles while some listen to the teacher read a story aloud.
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Unlike most areas of the United Kingdom, in the last year of primary school many children sit entrance examinations for grammar schools.
Select one of the children who have had no previous practice in riding a tricycle or a kiddie car with pedals.
They sweated and saved so their children could go to college.
Philip teaches the children the Sicilian concept of omerta or silence and warns them not to commit infamita, or the telling of family secrets.
Some secondary school children enrol in schools in Islington, Tower Hamlets, Westminster or Southwark.
A preschool, which delivers the same curriculum, is also permitted to admit a maximum of 26 children to any single session.
Furthermore, children who have limited input still acquire the first language.
But now, they have become the people of the Lord, and are called children of God.
The invaders brought their wives and children with them, indicating a meaningful attempt at conquest and colonisation.
The children are going to freeze out there without their coats.
His mother remarried and had five more children by her second husband, William White.
They want to establish their children in the family business.
The children have inadequate medical care and little formal education.
I offered the children a bribe for finishing their homework.
In Malawi it is also common practice to accuse children of witchcraft and many children have been abandoned, abused and even killed as a result.
In 1902 the Methodists operated 738 schools, so their children would not have to learn from Anglican teachers.
The children traced their hands onto the sidewalk with chalk.
It appalls me to think of the way those children have been treated.
The proclamation of Edward IV's children as illegitimate was also reversed, restoring Elizabeth's status to a royal princess.
The children exclaimed with wonder when they saw the elephant.
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Does violence on television inure children to violence in real life?
Her grasping children fought over her property when she died.
My children can act like little hellions when they're bored.
It's important that parents teach their children good study habits.
Parents were unable to establish a just nature in their children which they had never had themselves.
They were unable to have children of their own, so they decided to adopt.
The other children always teased him about being such a brain.
He observed two children playing with marbles on the street corner.
She went to great expense to ensure her children would get the best education.
Students who are children of immigrant parents are encouraged to learn the Norwegian language.
On one hand, many of the children in our study clearly saw e-safety as an important issue that they thought needed addressing in schools.
These children are suffering because they lack proper nourishment.
In Japonia 'tis a common thing to stifle their children if they be poor, or to make an abort, which Aristotle commends.
Maintenon had been governess to the children in the late 1670s before acceding to the king's favours.
French children were issued a catechism that taught them to love and respect Napoleon.
In any given performance, their tosses and spins and leaps elicit oohs and ahhs from children and adults.
The children of light, whether they are Chestertonians or not, cannot afford to pass by The New Jerusalem.
Especially appealing to older children and adolescents are science museums or exploratoriums.
If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself.
The Amerasian's spouse and minor, unmarried children are eligible to immigrate along with him or her.
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The children chased one another in a circle in front of their amused parents.
If you ever deceive yourself into believing your children are angels, take them to a small church. Or a mosque. Or any place angelly.
It says the children receive angpau from the adults, while the old receive angpau from the young.
The marriage unified the warring houses and gave his children a strong claim to the throne.
The children were all wearing anticipatory grins in the minutes before the cake was served.
The children were required to dump all of their Halloween candy on the table so that their parents could apportion it among them.
Agnes Minor Limberger was one of a family of eight children born to Francis and Atalina Minor.
Like children and animals, autists have relatively rudimentary conceptual lives.
Some children need manipulatives to learn math basics, Dr. Clements said, but only as a starting point.
The company specializes in children and babieswear, ladieswear and men's sportwear.
Since getting a divorce, she has been raising her children alone.
To avoid beatings and other punishments, Yuchi, and other Indian children abandoned their native languages in favor of English.
Paul's Cathedral declaring Edward's children bastards and Richard the rightful king.
Before sunrise, children would go to schools or tutoring them at home would commence.
Bathmophobia, as with other clinical fears, is generally not diagnosed in children unless it persists for more than six months.
Child sexual abusers are highly manipulative in their befriending of parents and children and are able to deceive all types of family.
Would not children come kindly to such out-of-door lessons, and to such practical knowledge as would always bestand them well?
My wife and children were blackberrying at the end of the garden and I was simply reading.
The student body consisted primarily of boarders, except for a few children belonging to the school staff.
One of their children was Richard Haute, Controller of the Prince's Household.
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Fourteen children have been identified, two from Freud's first marriage and 12 by various mistresses.
Many retellings of Beowulf for children also appeared around the beginning of the 20th century.
However, as Romans reckoned descent through the male line, any children she had belonged to her husband's family.
In New Zealand and The Netherlands it's tradition that children who are still in primary school serve their mothers breakfast in bed.
The significance of breaktimes as a mechanism for children to develop social competence is highlighted in much of Peter Blatchford's work.
His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in.
And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
The theme of children lost in the bush is a well-worked one in Australian art and literature.
Did'n'ee 'ear as Jim Tunkiss brought three children to the parish? I reckon 'e inna married, but 'e's bin buttyin' along o' one o' them Monsells.
For byspel, there will be no more write-offs for children and no more write-offs for interest payments on mortgages.
Cammocky butter was a nuisance in Sussex, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight. In the north children dug up the root and chewed it.
Children in city dwellings were more affected by the spread of disease than the children of the wealthy.
There are also Gaelscoileanna where children are taught exclusively through the medium of Irish.
His wife and youngest children joined him there, as was the practice at the time.
Warren J. Tyler, son of Joel, was born in Byron, July 28, 1828. He married Cassandra Tyler, of Stafford, and has four children living.
If our door were in the hands of the Sepoys the place must fall, and the women and children be treated as they were in Cawnpore.
The World Bank estimates that Bangladesh is ranked 1st in the world of the number of children suffering from malnutrition.
We are not confused children and if we were then let these childs be free, for life is short and every bit of a smile extends life one more day.
In the 21st century, there has been renewed effort to reach children and youth.
The children complected the frayed edges of their pot holders to make a composite class project.
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Down in the concourses at half-time, football and Christmas collide to make excitable children of us all.
Congkak is a game played by Malay women and children in Malaysia during their leisure hours but its origin is obscure.
When she came downstairs and saw what her children were eating, she had a conniption.
The children displayed an utter lack of interest in the performance.
Why, consarn you, Anderson Crow, I didn't have any spare children to leave around on doorsteps.
The Halls had one child, Elizabeth, who married twice but died without children in 1670, ending Shakespeare's direct line.
Because all the children had a share in the family's property, there was a declining birth rate.
Mr Thorneycroft, 43, doused deadly embers while 20 women and children sheltered in the Kinglake National Park Hotel coolroom with their pets.
Correct me if I'm wrong but picking the school your children will attend is a relatively important decision for parents.
Purcell fathered six children by his wife Frances, four of whom died in infancy.
Some Shropshire children attend schools in Wales, including Llanfyllin High School.
The first time they pick up a golf club and swing it, most children do it crosshanded.
If told that they could not stay up late the children would cry blue murder.
Earlier when joint family was the norm, children used to find time to look after their parents.
She has spent her days and nights putting her mothering and daughtering hands to healing her own children and her own parents at home.
There is a large group of children under the age of five which reflecting high numbers of births in recent years.
When they returned to Guayaquil in 1914, he attended a school for children of the English colony.
Poor children suffer permanent damage due to deplorable living conditions and deplorable treatment by law enforcement.
The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion.
Developmental psychology studies how the mind forms as children and adolescents grow.
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Well, those children don't speak dialect, not in this school. Maybe in the public schools, but not here.
When his children strayed from George's own principles of righteousness, as his sons did as young adults, he was dismayed and disappointed.
Those children playing didn't look like doomy little criminals, once you knew their names.
In other words, adults and older children are fast learners when it comes to the initial stage of foreign language education.
It is also possible for parents to send their children to various kinds of private schools.
The older children snatched sponge-cakes and dough-nuts from the forks and began to eat ravenously.
The children or young patients play together all the rest of the day and are in perfect health till the eighth.
Joe and Edna moved to a bungalow after deciding to downsize when the children had left home.
The children began to sing draggingly. Half a dozen carried the first verse through alone.
After the Lord's Prayer the Missionaries duetted a hymn while the children stared at me.
Usted is also used that way as well as between parents and children in the Andean regions of Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.
Joseph's Specialist School and College, a school for children with severe learning disabilities and autism in Cranleigh, Surrey.
It has everything to do with the educrat industry whose grip on our children Hillary is helping to maintain.
The presence of immigrant children in classrooms has no significant impact on the test scores of Dutch children.
School children in Shropshire and Solihull are most likely to attend university, followed by Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire.
As in many families at the time, Wesley's parents gave their children their early education.
These pastors have been involved in the torturing and even killing of children accused of witchcraft.
Henry was the seventh of eight children in a family that often struggled with poverty.
The children built a fairyland cottage out of gingerbread, decorated with gumdrops and peppermint sticks.
Even children can handtame wild birds, if they follow Al Martin's simple directions.
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All this time hatred, kept down by fear, festered in the hearts of the children of the soil.
Epilepsy may practically be regarded as an inhereditary affection, and children of one subject to this disorder are almost sure to be epileptic.
He must have had his chips, she thought, and our children will be born fatherless.
By contrast in 21st century Britain, nearly half of all children are born outside marriage, and nine in ten newlyweds have been cohabitating.
After dealing with the children all day, I just can't help feeling frazzled.
At 6 p.m. on Frinight, children participate in a beautiful Children's Lantern Parade.
The children of the poor were expected to help towards the family budget, often working long hours in dangerous jobs for low wages.
More had no children from his second marriage, although he raised Alice's daughter from her previous marriage as his own.
She refused to plead preventing a trial that would entail her children being made to testify, and being subjected to torture.
Either armed black men were coming to kill you, or white maddogs were tearing black children to ragged bits.
Through hard work and thrift they sent all of their children to college.
Henry also had illegitimate children with several mistresses, possibly as many as twelve.
It is played by children of all ages. Boys like it especially, but it is not unusual to see girls and even adults playing Gilli Danda!
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
He's usually pretty good-natured when the children give him a hard time about his bald spot.
Such instruction greatly reduces the risk of children experiencing reading difficulties in English.
The heat from the tarmac refracted the light and disturbed the vision of the children as they persisted in their game of kerby.
Lack of awareness among social workers, teachers and other professionals dealing with at risk children hinders efforts to combat the problem.
About ten years later, the employment of children and women in mining was forbidden.
During the Industrial Revolution, the life expectancy of children increased dramatically.
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What help children at risk get depends on the postcode lottery and varies between local authorities.
Across London, Black and Asian children outnumber White British children by about six to four in state schools.
Liverpool produces the most school children who pass no GCSEs, followed closely by Knowsley.
The areas that have school children most likely to attend university are Trafford and Cheshire, followed by Wirral, Sefton, Stockport and Bury.
Actually, we are both forgetting the most important step in why children are legally hittable and by whom.
He was awful to me when we were young, but I don't hold that against him. We were children then.
The children had to be guided to the holmoak tree because of the converging crowds.
Hereditary insanity may appear in children at the same time that it appeared in the parent, and it is then called homochronous.
At a family gathering, a wake or a Christmas hooley, other children would step forward to sing a rhyme or dance a hornpipe.
This was true of children as well as adults, indicative of some significant migration wave.
Some 1,300 burials have been found, including around 2,000 individuals, with women and children but few infants.
He had been careful to make sure that there was no successor in waiting, and his own children were far too young to take his place.
On the other hand, the eight hypergeusic children were described as temperamental during meals and difficult in their food choices.
Free vaccination against diphtheria was also provided for children at school.
It is also common practise for many children to attend nursery much earlier than this.
Pause behind the children framed in melting icelight. The always present pocket-camera is not in the pocket.
These children would change their appearance to pixies once their clothing was placed in clay funeral pots used in their earthly lives as toys.
His reputation flourished during the lifetime of his children and centuries after his reign.
Chetwynde is also the only school in Barrow to educate children from nursery all the way to sixth form level.
Many Greenlandic children grew up in boarding schools in southern Denmark, and a number lost their cultural ties to Greenland.

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