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The families o stanley thermobecher f children who were harmed at Great Ormond Street hospital are urging it to publish a report written last year after concerns were raised about a surgeon who worked there.The hospital trust has launched an urgent review of the care of 721 children seen by the consultant orthopaedic surgeon Yaser Jabbar over a five-year period.The trust had previously commissioned a review by the Royal College of Surgeons  RCS  of its paediatric orthopaedic service in 2022  after concerns were raised by a number of our patient families and staff .A lawyer representing the familie stanley en mexico s of the children is now urging Great Ormond Street to publish those findings, which have been seen by the Sunday Times.The newspaper reported that the 100-page document concluded that senior executives had  manifestly failed in their responsibility  and that the hospitals orthopa vaso stanley edic department was not  currently safe for patients .Caroline Murgatroyd is a senior associate solicitor at Hudgell Solicitors who is representing families of children who have leg length discrepancies, nerve injuries and in one case an amputation. She told Times Radio:  There has been reference to this 鈥?report that was produced last year. Now that report hasnt been made available publicly 鈥?I havent seen it, the families havent seen it. My understanding is that report does address some of the departmental failures, and details some of the reports that were made by staff. And there is a big lack of information there at the mome Ofby WHO implores China to finally share Covid origins data, five years on
British lawyers played a leading part in drafting the European convention on human rights. Britain was the first nation to ratify it in 1951. Winston Churchill, a trailblazing advocate from the start, was prime minister when it came into force in 1953. In 1998 the convention was written into UK domestic law as the Human Rights Act. More than 70 years after Churchill first called for  a charter of human rights, guarded by freedom and sustained by law , and in spite of wobbles, Britain remains a signed-up bulwark of a European human rights order that is entirely independent of the EU.Nevertheless, as the Eurosceptic virus has colonised the Conservative party, the stanley quencher  partys commitment to the European convention which it helped to create 鈥?and to the European court of human rights which enforces it 鈥?has come under increasing strain. Successive recent Tory leaders have had the convention and court in their sights. Each talked of replacing the European convention with a British charter of rights. Confu stanley cup sion between the Strasbourg-based human rights court and the entirely separate Luxembourg-based European court remains embarrassingly rife. Hostility towards the very concept of human rights is increasingly entwined with populist hostility to European institutions. In the wake of Brexit, it is naive to think  stanley cup quencher that Britains place in the European human rights order is not at serious political risk too.The governments messages on new terrorism laws illustrate this concern. On Tuesday, a spo

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At least seven people were killed and at least 24 wounded when a suicide bomber struck a minibus carrying employees of popular Afghan TV channel TOLO on Wednesday, just months after the Taliban declared the network a legitimate  military target .        An Afghan policeman keeps watch near the site of a blast, in an area close to the Russian embassy in the west of the Afghan capital of Kabul. Reuters     The bombing took place near the Russian embassy in downtown Kabul and marks the first major attack on an Afghan media organisation.   No group has so far claimed responsibility for the carnage, the latest in a wave of attacks despite an international push to jumpstart Taliban peace talks.  Our office  stanley cup bus taking TOLO staff home came under attack,  an employee at the channel said, requesting anonymity. The bombing left some staff members burning inside the vehicle, another employee said, adding that the bus was mostly filled with behind-the-scenes workers from th stanley cup e channels graphics and dubbing departments. The loud explosion sent a plume of smoke rising in the sky, with ambulances and firefighters rushing to the scene which was littered with charred debris.  The enemy of peace and Afghan people have martyred stanley cup  my colleagues,  Fawad Aman, a well-known TOLO TV anchor, wrote on his Facebook page.   Such cowardly attacks will not deter us from exposing the truth.  The Taliban in October declared TOLO and 1TV, both privately run news stations, as legitimate  military targets . The gro Zifi Islamic State claims killing of Peshawar counterterrorism officer
Pakistan has refused to confirm or deny a media report which said that two detained Lashkar-e- Toiba  LeT  commanders have confessed to the group s involvement in the Mumbai attacks.        adidas samba  HT Image     I will not comment on it,  Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told Geo TV when asked to comment on the Wall Street Journal report which claimed that LeT leaders Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah had confessed to the group s involvement in the Mumbai terror strikes.    Pakistan has launched its own independent investigation, forget what the world or India is saying. We have to tak stanley cup e stock of things in-house. We should gauge our own internal matters,  he said.           Read breaking news, latest...  See more   Read breaking news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakistan and other countries across the world on topics related to US Election Live, politics,crime, and national affairs.    News / World News / Pak refuses to confirm or deny WSJ report      .freemium-card h4color: fff; padding-bottom:20px; .freemium-card .freemium-content .subcTxtpadding-bottom:16px; color: fff; .freemium-card .freemium-contentwidth: auto; max-width: inherit; .freemium-card .freemium-content .subcTxtmax-width:inherit; font-size:18px; padding-top:0; line-height:24px .freemium-card .btnSubcmargin .freemium-card .btnSubc abackground: 000; color: fff; min-width:auto; padding:5px 15px; border- air max radius:6px; font-size:16px; line-height:22px; font-weight:700; .freemium-cardheight:285px @media  max

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In a crisis, a soci cups stanley ety often reveals both its best aspects and its worst. So it is with Covid-19. On the one hand there is the selfishness of hoarding, on the other the selflessness of mutual aid groups. On the one hand, there is Britannia Hotels, which has not just sacked staff but evicted them from their accommodation  a stance it now appears to have reversed under public pressure , on the other the footballer-turned-hotel-owner Gary Neville, who has promised to pay wages to all employees through the pandemic while also providing accommodation free of charge to NHS staff. On the one hand, there are medics and paramedics working heroically with inadequate protective equipment, on the other the Home Office using the  health surcharge  to extort money from foreign doctors for the right to make use of the same health service they are helping to sustain.In a crisis, too, issues that policymakers have long ignored suddenly become urgent. The pandemic has laid bare the insecurity of work, the cruelty of welfare policy, the hypocrisy of a system in which every time a crisis hits we are told that  were all in it togeth stanley flask er  but in which, before and aft stanley cup spain er the crisis, the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable are largely ignored.The economic burden imposed by the policy of social distancing has fallen most upon the poorest and the lowest paid, many of whom cannot work from home and have few savings on which to fall back. In response, the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, unveiled on Friday a  Wtyf Verdict review - empathy and urgency in convincing domestic abuse drama
The degrading health-damaging situations of British citizens Rawand Aziz and Saman Sharif  Deep in Dunkirk quagmire, the Britons putting family first, 1 February  and of their non-British spouses and children are all too familiar examples of how article 8 of the European convention on human rights 鈥?which says everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence 鈥?carries no weight with the current government. Meanwhile, its 拢18,600 minimum income rule is casting families into misery and destitution and potential loss of life. At a time when David Cameron has pronounced on his determination to strengthen and support UK families, the Home Office is destroying families. Given that, l stanley cup ike so many others who have achieved asylum and citizenship, Mr Aziz and Mr Sharif had to subsist in the UK on poverty wages and insecure employment which would never have allowed them to achieve visas for their wives and children, their situations are beyond repair. So do these families fall under the label of  a bunch of migrants  Expatriate US Google employees based in the UK almost certainly have no problem bringing with them spouses and children. The second part of article 8 on family life includes a number of caveats, including denial of visa if entry is deemed a threat to  the economic wellbeing of the country . G stanley cup uk oogles tax arrangements are just that, but there wont be any Google deportations happening any time soon. Many stanley quencher  more than double standard

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The world s oldest person turned 116 on Friday as local health chiefs in Japan launch a study to find out why he and many of those around him have lived so long.        HT Image    Jiroemon Kimura, who was born in 1897, was expected to celebrate his astonis stanley cup hing milestone with friends and family, and receive a visit from the mayor of his home city of Kyotango in the west of the country.   Kimura is one of 95 people who will be 100 years old or more in the city s 60,000-strong population. The centenarian does not smoke and has made it a practice to eat only until he is 80% full, a local official told AFP. He drinks only a  modest  amount of alcohol, a local report said. Kimura s motto in life is  to eat light and live long , said the official. Kyotango now wants to find the secret of his longevity and has launched a research project.  We would like to research the eating habits of not only Mr Kimura but also about 50 other old people over 100 years old in the city,   stanley cup the official told AFP.   We are intereste stanley cup d in what they eat and how much. We are especially keen to research on how much salt they consume.  The city of Kyotango, near Kyoto, is sandwiched between the Sea of Japan  East Sea  and a mountain range. It is naturally blessed with good seafood and farm products,  the official said.  We are also interested in knowing what kinds of local food they like to eat and if this helps them live so long,  he said. The city plans to compile a recipe book based on the study and unveil Mgwg 5 dead as French reconnaissance plane crashes in Malta
A Malaysian parliamentary forum has highlighted the continuing dissatisfaction among the Indian community a year after a Hindu Rights Action Force  Hindraf  rally to voice their problems was suppresed.         HT Image    Participants at the forum chaired by Charles Santiago, a lawmaker from Klang Valley, said neither the ruling Barisan Nasional nor the opposition Pakatan Rakyat have addressed the issues of poverty, unemployment, low wages and poor education facilities that face the Indian community.    They said that the rally by the Hindraf last year helped turn the tide against the ruling BN alliance, reducing its majority in parliament, and denying it control of five of the 13 states in the March elections.  However, their ire is as much against the opposition PR alliance, to which a majority of ethnic Indians were perceived to have voted.  According to them, the opposition alliance, which benefited from the vote swing, is also  dragging its feet  on resolving Tamil working class issues like poor education facilities and low wages, adidas samba  The Star newspaper said on Tuesday.  Tamil language newspaper Makkal Osai, in a special report, highlighted the Hindraf rally that attracted 10,000 people, but was declared illegal and forcibly dispersed by the police as a means of showing dissent and anger among the Indian community against the BN government. A year a salomon fter the rally, five of its organisers, M Manoharan, Vasanth Kumar, P Uthaya Kumar, Ganabati Rau and S Kengadharan are still in stanley cup

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Whether it is a hug from a friend or the caress of a weighted blanket, the sensation of touch appears to bring benefits for the body and mind, researchers say.The sense of touch is the first to develop in babies and is crucial in allowing us to experience the environment around us as well as communicate. Indeed, the loss of touch from others during the Covid pandemic hit many hard.However, while myriad studies have suggested touch is beneficial for our health, few have attempted to draw the vast  cups stanley field of research together.Now experts have done just that, revealing a simple message: touch helps.Dr Helena Hartmann, a co-author of the research from University Hospital Essen, said:  More consensual touch events throughout our day can help alleviate or potentially buffer against mental and physical complaints. The power of touch: what will it be like when we can all connect again Read morePublished in the journal Nature Human stanley kaffeebecher  Behaviour, the research encompassed 212 previously published studies and included a statistical analysis of 85 studies involving adults and 52 involving newborns.Among the results, the team found touch was just as beneficial for mental health as physical health 鈥?a finding that held for adults and newborns 鈥?although touch had a bigger impact on some areas than others. Our work illustrates t stanley cup becher hat touch interventions are best suited for reducing pain, depression and anxiety in adults and children as well as for increasing weight gain in newborns,  the researcher Qnaa I am sorry : Islamist apologises for destroying Timbuktu mausoleums
Barrister and writer Tim Kevan has withdrawn his popular Baby Barista blog from The  stanley cup Times s website in reaction to its paywall plans. He explains: Now don t get me wrong. I have absolutely no problem with the decision to start charging. They can do what they like. But I didn t start this blog for it to be the exclusive preserve of a limited few subscribers. I wrote it to entertain whosoever wishes to read it. Hence my decision to resign which I made with regret. I remain extremely grateful to The Times for hosting the blog for the last three years and wish them luck with their experiment.But it emerged within days of announcing his move that Kevan did indeed have a problem with the paywall. He now writes: I think the decision will prove to be a disaster. There are so many innovative ways of making cash online and the decision to plump for an across-the-board blanket subscription over the whole of their content makes them look like a big lumbering giant, unable to cop stanley mug e with the diversification of the media brought about by online content, blogging, Facebook, Twitter 鈥?the list is endless. Canute-like in their det stanley thermo ermination to stop the tide of free content and using a top down strategy which makes even the Post Office look dynamic.I ought to explain that Baby Barista is a fictional account of a junior barrister. The stories he tells appeared on The Times website for three years. You can follow him on his new website, and also on Facebook and Twitter.Source: Baby Barista/Baby Ba

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Greek voters returned Alexis Tsipras to power with a strong election victory on Sunday, ensuring the charismati stanley cup c leftist remains Greeces dominant political figure despite caving in to European demands for a bailout he once opposed.        Leader of the left-wing Syriza party and former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras,  stanley cup center, surrounded by his security arrives at the headquarters of his party in Athens, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015. Tsipras appeared poised for victory in Greeces early election Sunday, but falling short of an absolute majority needed to form a government. AP  stanley cup     With about a quarter of votes counted, Tsiprass Syriza party was on course to claim 35.3% of the vote, easily seeing off his main conservative challengers New Democracy on 28.1%.   The interior ministry said that would give him 144 seats in the 300-seat parliament, just five fewer than when he first stormed to power early this year. New Democracy swiftly conceded defeat. A Syriza source said the party would turn once again to the small right-wing Independent Greeks party to form a coalition, restoring the alliance that first brought Tsipras to power nine months ago. He called the election last month when his party split over his reversal on the 86 billion euro bailout, which he had accepted despite having won a referendum mandate to reject similar terms. Tsipras expects to form a government within three days, another party source said.  The electoral result appears to be concluding with Syriza and Mr Tspiras i Eiov Concorde s first test pilot Andre Turcat dies
Warning of huge losses to Chinas economy from the future effects of global warming, Beijing has echoed Prime Minister Manmohan Singhs latest call that the developed world should do more to battle climate change.         HT Image    China, which holds 20 per cent of the worlds population, admitted on Wednesday that its emissions contributing to global warming almost equal those of the US. Factories manufacturing export goods co adidas og ntribute 20 per cent of these emissions.    According to our data, Chinas current total emissions are almost the same as that of the US,  Xie Zhenhua, vice-director of the National Development and Reform Commission was quoted saying in the official news agency Xinhua. China and India will be at the centre of future policies to combat climate change when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.  In a sign of the neg jordan otiations ahead, X stanley cup ie said that whether China has surpassed the US emissions or not is unimportant. By some estimates, China was already considered as the worlds largest emitter of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.  Last Saturday in the Chinese capital, Singhs address at a meeting of Asian and European nations had pointed out that emissions of developed nations have increased by 2.6 per cent from 2000 to 2005.  We should call upon our European partners to do more in this regard, he had said. India is considered the fourth or fifth-largest emitter.            Read breaking news, latest...  See more   Read breaking news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakis

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Women are rarely given the chance to forget about our biological clocks: their starting, slowing, stopping. I remember talking about whether Id want children with my mum when I was six or seven years old. Now that Im 32, my friends are having children, debating having them, or dating in the hopes of having the option.My female friends, that is. My impression of the men in my life is that they are not really thinking about children at all, instead assuming that they will happen  one day   stanley website or waiting f stanley cups or the decision to be made for them 鈥?by their partner, or circumstance. Their declining fertility 鈥?something that women are made keenly aware of from a young age 鈥?doesnt seem to factor into it.That is despite what has been described as an  urgent, global  crisis of sperm counts 鈥?or, more memorably,  spermageddon . Average sperm counts worldwide have declined by half over the past 50 years, and more steeply still in the past 20. Various possible reasons for this have been floated, from environmental pollutants to inactive lifestyles and use of technology such as smartphones. But we still arent really sure whats driving it, leading a consortium of international experts to call for action last year.This is not a new problem, yet there persists a shocking disconnect. Despite these well-known threats to male fertility, the vast majority of the focus on infertil stanley fr ity 鈥?by governments, health services and couples 鈥?falls on women. The male partner is solely responsible in about 20% of i Xfhg Google accidentally reveals data on  right to be forgotten  requests
Belgian officials are investigating whether doctors improperly euthanised a woman with autism, the first criminal investigation in a euthanasia case since the practice was legalised in 2002.Three doctors from East Flanders are being investigated on s stanley kubek termiczny uspicion of having  poisoned  Tine Nys in 2010. The 38-year-old had been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, a form of autism, two months before she died in an apparently legal killing by a doctor.Belgium is one of two countries, along with the Netherlands, where euthanasia of people for psychiatric reasons is allowed if they can prove they have  unbearable and untreatable  suffering.Among Belg stanley cup uk ians euthanised for mental health reasons, the most common conditions are depression, personality disorder and Aspergers. Many experts 鈥?in Belgium and beyond鈥?dispute whether autism should be considered a valid reason to be killed.My death is not my own: the limits of legal euthanasiaRead moreLast year, the Associated Press reported that after Nys family filed a criminal complaint, alleging numerous  irregularities  in her death, her doctors attempted to block the investigation. We must try to stop these people,  wrote Dr Lieve Thienpont, the psychiatrist who approved Nys request to die 鈥?and one of the doctors now facing charges.  It is a seriously dysfunctional, wounded, traumatised family with very little empathy and respect for others,  the message read.Sophie Nys, one of Tines sisters, told the AP that the doctor stanleys cups  who performed the euthan

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A gunman suspected of killing seven people in the name of al Qaeda, including three children at a Jewish school, said on Wednesday he would hand himself over to police to end an hours-long siege in southwestern France.         HT Image       About 300 police, some in bullet-proof body armour, cordoned off an area surrounding a four-storey house in a leafy suburb of the city of Toulouse where the 24-year-old Muslim man, identified as Mohamed Merah, was holed up on the ground floor.  stanley cup  Interior minister Claude Gueant said the gunman was a French citizen of Algerian origin who had been to Pakistan and Afghanistan and had carried out his killing stanley cup s in revenge for French military involvement abroad.  President Nicolas Sarkozy, running for re-election in five weeks time, said France should not give way to discrimination or vengeance after the shootings of a rabbi and the three children, and three soldiers of North African or stanley cup igin.  His warning came after far-right leader Marine Le Pen, a rival presidential candidate, said France should wage war on Islamic fundamentalism.   I have brought the Jewish and Muslim communities together to show that terrorism will not manage to break our nation s feeling of community,  Sarkozy said after meeting community leaders.  We must stand together. We must not cede to discrimination or vengeance.   Gueant said Merah, who had been under surveillance since the attack on the first of the soldiers last week, wanted revenge  for the Palestinian children and  Xdqx G-20 has two big winners
A small home-made bomb went off Tuesday outside a central Moscow police station, injuring a policeman who found a suspicious package on the street, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.        HT Image    The bomb was hidden inside a plastic bag left outside a department of internal af af1 fairs building, the news agency quoted an unnamed police source as saying.   The official did not specify the extent of the policeman s injuries, saying only that the bomb had the force equivalent of 50 grams of TNT. Moscow was hit by three small blasts that all went off near Russian security service buildings in March, causing no casualties but prompting investigators to probe a suspected terror link. A suicide bomb blast at Moscow s main airport killed 37 people in January in an attack claimed by Islamist rebels from the mostly Muslim North Caucasus region.           Read breaking news, latest...  See more   Read breaking news, latest updates from US, UK, Pakistan and other countries across the world on topics related to US Election Live, politics,crime, and national affairs.    News / World News / Blast injures policeman in Moscow: report      .freemium-card h4color: fff; padding-bottom:20px; .freemium-card .freemium-content .subcTxtpadding-bottom:16px; color: fff; .freemium-card .freemium-contentwidth: auto; max-width: inherit; .freemium-ca adidas samba rd .freemium-content .subcTxtmax-width:inherit; font-size:18px; padding-top:0; line-height:24px .freemium-car stanley cup d .btnSubcmargin .freemium-card .bt

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Contrary to fears that the coronavirus pandemic could cause a  baby bust , the numbers of women in England expecting a baby appear to be on the rise.Maternity statistics collected by the NHS show that although there was a dip in the number of antenatal booking appointments in May 2020, numbers quickly rebounded and continued to grow. The number of antenatal booking appointments during the fourth quarter of 2020 was the highest for five years.A pregnant womans first appointment, where she meets a midwife and discusses their health, typically takes place between eight and 12 weeks into pregnancy, meaning that women attending in May 2020 would have conceived around the time of the first lockdown in March that year.In May 2020, there were 50,965 booking appointments 鈥?down 10.4% on the same month in 2019. But since September  when women who conceived in mid-summer 2020 would have had appointments  figures have risen significantly. During September, there were 58,035 appointments 鈥?the highest for that month since records began in 2015 and up 6.8% compared with September 2019.Overall, f stanley taza or the final three months of 2020 there were 173,130 booking appointments. This was up 11.1% on the 152,274 in the same period in 2019, and the highest fourth-quarter figure since 2015, when NHS hospital trusts were first required to provide the data. The rise came despite a six-week suspension of NHS fertility treatment that came into effect on 23 March 2020,  stanley cup during the fi stanley cup rst lockdown, and lasted u Kchq The CIA s unaccountable drone war claims another casualty
An 83-year-old farmer who was found not guilty after being taken to court for shooting a suspected thief on his property has said he should not have been charged.A jury at Hull crowncourt took just 24 minutes to clea stanley cup r Kenneth Hugill of inflicting grievous bodily harm by bidon stanley  shooting the man in the foot.Hugill and his family welcomed the verdict but criticised the decision to prosecute and the response from the police at the time of the incident.The three-day trial heard that Hugill went outside after he saw a vehicle on his farm at Wilberfoss, East Yorkshire, in the early hours of 13 November 2015.He told the jury he was  petrified  when he heard the vehicles engine revving and thought it was being driven towards him.The court heard he used a shotgun, given to him by his parents for his 21st birthday, to shoot down the side of the vehicle to stop it driving at him and to frighten the occupants away.He said he did not intend to injure anyone and was not aware anyone had been hit.Hugill, who uses a walking stick and a hearing aid, thanked the jury of five men and seven women.Speaking outside the court, Hugill said:  Im very, very pleased. Its marvellous. We thought I shouldnt have been prosecuted right from the start, I didnt feel it was justified at the time. I pulled the trigger because I thought that car was going to kill me. Hugills son, David, 50, said Humberside police took 15 hours to respond to a call he made at 2.23am to report a suspected diesel theft at his fat stanley cup romania hers farm.

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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won most of their Super Tuesday contests further securing their claim over their party nominations, but not enough to wrap up the race.        Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cheer. AFP Photo     Clinton won six of the 11 Democratic nominating contests, and was leading in the seventh, while her only rival Bernie Sanders picked up two and was leading in remaining two.   On the Republican side, Trump took six of the 11 races and was leading in the seventh, while Ted Cruz won two and Marco Rubio was leading in one.  Alaska, the stanley cup  11th, was still polling  With two wins and two leads, and one victory from bef stanley cup ore Super Tuesday, Sanders is unlikely to leave the race any time soon 鈥?and he said in his victory speech he is going the distance. Among Republicans, Cruz now has three wins and Rubio one, possibly, and that will given them both enough hope to stay in, Rubio expects to do well in his home-state Florida on March 15. The frontrunners took aim at each other in their respective victory speeches with Clinton promising to break down barriers, in a clear shot at Trumps divisive rhetoric. Trump hit back at her, and his party rivals, but framed it differently, pitching himself as a  unifier , conceding in the same breath that many will have a hard time believing that. Addressing a news conference, when all others did routine victory speeches,  stanley cup Trump addressed questions about his views on immigrati Vwol Supporters of ex-prez riot in Maldives, held
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