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What’s up with China?

June 26, 2012 / / 4 Comments

Question by frank: What’s up with China?
They deny Tibet freedom, the Yangtze river is filthy, they eat dogs, they have horrible human rights records, they put the worst ingredients ever in products and food, they kill their daughters, they have a horrible political system…

Ok, this is my media image of China…Can anyone give me something nice about it or is this stuff pretty much spot on?
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Sex-selective abortion appears to have been practiced at various times in Chinese history such as the Qing dynasty[citation needed] due to population pressures. Sex-selective infanticide appears to occur infrequently in China today. However, there is a strong imbalance in sex ratios in China, as well as South Korea and India, which has commonly been attributed to sex-selective abortion. In addition, there appears to be some sex-selective abandonment of infants to circumvent China’s one child policy.
Female deselection is common in China: Chinese tradition says that most parents want their first child to be born a male. Female deselection is also due to deeply rooted Confucian traditions, and Chinese parents desire sons in order to make familial propagation, security for the elderly, labor provision, and performance of ancestral rites. China calls the female deselection situation the “missing girl” problem.[citation needed]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-selective_abortion

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Answer by Geoff E
I agree with all you say. But I did hear one surprising fact. Although China is not noted for its religious tolerance, there are over 150,000 Buddhist monks in Tibet more than any other country. They also spend a lot of the money we give them for their products on building up their army and weapons by the way.

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What do you think of my poem?

June 25, 2012 / / 2 Comments

Question by Smarties: What do you think of my poem?
The Nanking Massacre

Every time this story is told, my grandfather sheds a tear
Like the boogeyman to a child, this is his worst fear
The massacre by the Japanese that took place on December 1937
Caused five hundred thousand deaths
And also made him an orphan at age eleven.

“Just civilian casualties”, Tokyo Exclaimed,
However it was the opposite of what they claimed
There was a contest of who can kill the most Chinese
A soldier won by causing ninety-seven deaths
Is winning worth causing that many deaths?

Worse than the contest, there were many rapes and looting
Many women were brutally raped,
Young or old, no woman escaped
If they tried to flee they would be shot dead,
The soldiers would do unspeakable things to their bodies, alive or dead

On the topic of mutilation, what the Japanese did best
Opening up countless units to conduct human tests
Even the surgical tools used by the Japanese would plead for mercy
What they did to Chinese can disgust many,
No wonder it is such a huge controversy

The massacre was over within a week
Left the Yangtze River filled with bodies, oh how it reeked
This is so painful for me I could cry for a thousand years
The Japanese still owe the Chinese an overdue formal apology
I can forgive, but I will never forget this horrible atrocity

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Answer by marys.momma
It could do with a few corrections – “in December 1937”, “explained”, plus commas and periods where appropriate.

You paint a vivid picture of a historic event. There’s no need to force rhymes, but you might want to give your poem some extra structure by putting it into actual blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter).

Basically it’s a very good poem.

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The 20 most important naval battles in the history?

June 24, 2012 / / 3 Comments

Question by sinnombre2: The 20 most important naval battles in the history?
What is your opinion?

battle of the delta(1178bc)>While there is no documentation for any pursuit of the defeated Sea Peoples, who fled to the Levant, Egypt was saved from the fate of total destruction.This is the first naval battle in the history.

Salamis, (480 BC)>. 371 Greek ships defeated 1,271 Persian ships in this decisive battle. Greek triremes had a crew of about 200 while their small penteconters had 50 oarsmen. With 1,642 ships altogether, it is thought possible that 200,000 sailors, soldiers and marines took part.

Cape Ecnomus, (256 BC)>. Like Salamis, Ecnomus was also a single engagement where 680 ships were fighting in a very small area. Some historians[who?] accept Roman claims that Rome had about 100,000 personnel. If this were true, which is unlikely, it would make it probable that at least 200,000 Roman and Carthaginian sailors and soldiers were involved.

Red Cliffs, (208 bc)>, the battle between Cao Cao and Sun Quan on China’s Yangtze River – the exact location is debated – during the late Han Dynasty. Cao Cao’s forces are said to have numbered 220,000–240,000 while Sun Quan’s fleet is said to have had 50,000 marines, the total claimed therefore being some 270,000 or 290,000 in all.

Actium, (31 BC)>. Battle between Mark Antony, Cleopatra and Octavian for control of the Roman world; more than 500 warships were involved

Yamen, (1279). The battle which ended the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty’s conquest of Southern Song Dynasty. It is claimed that more than 1,000 Song Dynasty warships were destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty near Yamen, Guangdong, China.

Lake Poyang, (1363)>. Claimed to be the largest battle in terms of personnel. Sailors of the Ming rebel force, said to be 200,000 strong, commanded by Zhu Yuanzhang, met a Han rebel force, claimed to be 650,000-strong, commanded by Chen Youliang, on Lake Poyang, China’s largest freshwater lake.

Lepanto, (1571). 212 Holy League galleys and galleasses against 272 or more Ottoman galleys, galliots etc (484+ total). The forces of the Holy League inflicted a crushing defeat on the Ottoman fleet. This was the last major naval battle, at least in the Western world, to be fought entirely or almost entirely between rowing vessels. Around 150,000 personnel took part in the battle. Lepanto is thought by some historians[who?] to have been the most decisive naval battle since Actium in 31 BC.The Turkish fleet lost more than 200 vessels and suffered at least 20,000 casualties.

Spanish Armada, (1588)>. In a series of engagements in the English Channel, a Spanish invasion fleet of 130 ships was driven north by English forces numbering nearly 200 ships. Rounding the British Isles into the Atlantic, the Armada was destroyed by powerful gales on its return to Spain.

the english armada (1589)>One year after the spanish armada,the queen elizabeth sent 18.000 soldiers against spain.Only 5000 came to england.Spain was the most powerful country in the sea until 1639 (battle of the downs)

Myeongnyang, (1597)>. A large Japanese assault on Admiral Yi’s remaining 13 ships. The Japanese attacked with 333, but were routed by the smaller force.

Battle of the downs(1639)>After this battle,holland was became in the first naval power in the world.

Cartagena de Indias, (1741)>. 186 British ships attacked Spanish fortifications and six warships in Cartagena de Indias (present-day Colombia), resulting in a major defeat and heavy losses for the British: 50 ships lost and 18,000 casualties. The battle is thought to be the largest military action in maritime history (in terms of tonnage) until the Battles of Normandy and Leyte Gulf surpassed it in 1944.

Battle of Chesapeake Bay (1781) – the French prevented Royal Navy from supplying Gen. Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, and 5 British ships were damaged with 336 casualties. Not a humiliating naval defeat, but the outcome was humiliating – the British army eventually surrendered because the Royal Navy failed to help them, and Britain therefore lost the war

Vyborg Bay, (1790)>. 257 Russian vs 241 Swedish sailing ships and rowing vessels (498 total) (neva.ru).

Trafalgar, (1805). A British fleet of 27 ships-of-the-line and six other vessels, commanded by Nelson, attacked and destroyed a combined French and Spanish fleet of 41 ships, including 33 ships-of-the-line, ultimately capturing 21 ships of the line and destroying another. Almost certainly the largest battle, at least until the American victory at Santiago in 1898, in terms of the damage and/or casualties inflicted by gunfire alone. One of the most decisive battles in history.

Jutland, (1916)>. The largest battle in terms tonnage of ships engaged and in terms of the total tonnage of ships involved in a single action. Possibly the largest battle-line action, in terms of numbers of ships engaged. The largest surface action and the largest ship-to-ship action, in terms of t
Pearl Harbor, (1941). Six large Japanese aircraft carriers, the most powerful carrier force assembled up to that time, commanded by Chuichi Nagumo, made a surprise attack, with 353 aircraft in all, on the US Pacific Fleet’s base of Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu. 2,400 US military/naval personnel and civilians were killed and 1,280 wounded. However, this event is not usually referred to as a “battle”.

Midway, (1942). The most decisive battle of the Pacific War. Midway was a crushing defeat for the Japanese navy, reversing the course of the Pacific War.

bay of pigs invasion(1961)>The cuban army defeats the american invasion,Castro holds the presidency of the Cuban goverment and U.S. through lost his first war

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Answer by For Me to know
I answered your question already
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Nobody will help me. I asked Yahoo to help and they haven’t. My computer is going crazy and it’s brand new.

June 23, 2012 / / 1 Comment

Question by : Nobody will help me. I asked Yahoo to help and they haven’t. My computer is going crazy and it’s brand new.
I only have the problems in Yahoo. Whenever I am in Yahoo all the sudden I will go from Yahoo USA to Yahoo UK and Ireland to Iceland and even make 15 minute layovers in China. I told my daughter about it and she said ‘sounds fun” i said, “no you don’t understand. I am not the one on the world cruise. My computer is. Yahoo is going global and so am I. or balistic. This ONLY happens on the Yahoo website. I tried changing passcodes but that didn’t work. I clicked the american flag 2O times. my daughter is a computer expert and I don’t think even she can fix it. It can’t be the computer cos it’s 10 months old and a very nice computer. please don’t tell me to click the american flag cos that only works for up to a half hour before it goes back to uk or iceland or china. What am i supposed to do? my daughter can’t come help for another 5 days but I doubt even SHE can fix THIS.

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Answer by Crouching Doggie
LOL… your question is so cute! I’m hardly a computer expert but I was having a similar problem on my PC. If your running Internet Explorer on Windows platform, try clicking on Tools, Internet Options, Connections, and LAN settings, and be sure that you don’t have a “proxy server” selected on the bottom. Short of that I have no clue how to correct this problem, certainly your daughter would know better than me.

I wish you luck.

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What do you think of the 2012 Nikki Predictions?

June 22, 2012 / / 5 Comments

Question by : What do you think of the 2012 Nikki Predictions?
Earthquake in Mexico City destroying most of the city.
Major breakthrough in the cure for breast cancer.
Giant earthquake in California.
Cyber hackers disrupting computers worldwide.
More solar flares disrupting communications worldwide.
Problems in Lebanon, possible attacks or uprisings, and Beirut on fire.
Animals and birds, wild and domestic, will attack people leading up to the end of 2012.
A theatre in Dublin, Ireland, will burn to the ground.
An earthquake in Cardiff, Wales.
Breakthrough in birth defects through stem cell research.
More laser attacks against planes.
Weird weather conditions worldwide including snow in Hawaii, Las Vegas and in the Caribbean.
Earthquakes in Ontario, Quebec, and the Niagara Escarpment.
Major earthquakes in Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska.
Another major earthquake in Japan where parts of Japan fall into the sea.
Giant prehistoric Sea Monsters under the sea.
Danger around President Obama.
A past US President will pass.
Major UFO sightings all over the world.
A possible landing of a space ship.
Iran and Israel will attack each other.
Upheaval in South America with governments.
Breakthroughs in the cures for Leukemia and Chrones Disease.
North America could be dark in the daytime for long periods of time.
A Stock Market crash like 1929 worldwide.
Amtrak trains blown up in the US.
Terrorist attacks in Washington, Indiana, New York, California, Chicago, and Canada.
Giant dust storms in Morocco.
Terrorist attacks in Morocco, Paris, France, and London, England.
Earthquakes in Spain and France.
Bernard Madoff and Rupert Murdock have to watch their health.
A disabled man attempts to go around the world in his wheelchair.
A bomb blast at Buckingham Palace, London, England.
A terrorist attack in Delhi, India.
Another major terrorist attack in Mumbai, India.
India and Pakistan at war.
A terrorist attack in Toronto, Canada.
Somebody will fall off the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada.
Bomb blasts in nuclear and hydro facilities in the United States.
A biological attack on the Unites States.
North Korea attacks South Korea and Japan.
More worldwide protests.
Great floods and rushing rivers in the US.
Mount Vesuvius will erupt near Naples, Italy.
Earthquake in Naples and Rome, Italy.
Mount St. Helens will erupt.
A huge pandemic worldwide.
Civil war in Syria – possible attack by the US on Syria.
Sex scandal in the Obama administration.
Ships blown up in the Port of New York City.
An attack on Norad.
An attack on the Vatican and the Pope.
A great fire in Warsaw, Poland.
A car company will go bankrupt.
A cruise ship will sink after a fire in the South Pacific.
A US owned cruise ship will be hijacked.
A bomb blast Westminster Abbey, London, England.
Thousands of dead fish and ocean species will wash up on the beaches around the world.
Planes will disappear near the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Problems with the earth’s magnetic fields.
Earth will fall off its’ axis a little more.
A hole in the earth’s core.
Ex-President Mubarak of Egypt will pass.
The Holy Grail will be found.
Oil companies will find new ways of finding fuel through oceans.
Hearst Castle in California will burn to the ground after a massive fire.
A huge drought in Africa.
An oil spill off the coast of Africa.
More of the polar ice cap will break away.
The City of Hong Kong on fire.
A massive earthquake in China.
A huge mudslide in Brazil.
Communication glitches worldwide.
A plane crashes into the White House in Washington, DC.
Terrorist attack in Copenhagen, Denmark.
New York and Boston buried in snow.
A man attempts to go around the world in a hot air balloon.
A spectacular crash of two planes on the runway at Kennedy Airport.
A famous Canadian politician will pass.
New York’s Metropolitan Opera House on fire.
Multiple rainbows in the sky all over the world within a 24 to 48 hour period.
Damage to the Sistine Chapel in Rome, Italy.
A famous racehorse will be kidnapped.
The lights go out in Las Vegas after an explosion at a power facility.
The map of the world will change because of catastrophic events happening in the world.
Larger tornadoes than usual especially in the US.
Two ships will sink on the Great Lakes.
Attack on water facilities in the US, Britain and Canada.
Foreshocks/earthquakes happening in Yellowstone Park.
People building underground houses.
A huge avalanche in Whistler, British Columbia.
An avalanche in Italy, France, and Switzerland.
A giant earthquake in India.
A giant earthquake in Japan and Turkey.
A bad terrorist attack in Nairobi, Kenya.
An attack at Edwards Airforce Base.
A man will scale the Eiffel Tower.
A bomb in the Paris subway.
Terrorist attack Dubai.

What do you guys think?

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Answer by Bryce804
All i know is you left off end of world in december haha

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Asian people first originated from AFRICA? is this true?

June 21, 2012 / / 8 Comments

Question by : Asian people first originated from AFRICA? is this true?
I read somewhere that Asians first originated in Africa:

“In Cavalli-Sforza’s genetic clustering work (1988) South Chinese join Southeast Asians in genetic clustering while the North Chinese associate with Koreans, Japanese, Ainu, Bhutanese and Tibetans in genetic clustering. Other Southeast Asians include Malaysian, Viet Muong, Thai, Western Indonesian and Philippine.

Xiao and Cavalli-Sforza (2000) find the boundary between Northern and Southern Mongoloids to approximate the Yangtze River, and suggest that their ancestors arrived from Africa via separate routes. Principal component analysis of gene frequencies of Chinese populations

Other scientists have suggested that the finding of sharp genetic differences between North and South China is an artifact of using an insufficient number of samples. However, Xiao and Cavalli-Sforza (2000) has a larger number of samples than previous studies.”

It says that they originated from a part of Africa, if this is true, Black people are our long lost brothers and sisters?

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Answer by Rawr!
People originated in Africa.

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World History Help! 10 Points Given?

June 20, 2012 / / 3 Comments

Question by Jiooij I: World History Help! 10 Points Given?
Time Remaining:
1. What sparked the Philippine Insurrection?
(Points: 1)
The United States’ decision to keep the Philippines

Long-simmering Filipino anger at Spain

A misunderstanding between the Spanish minister and Emilio Aguinaldo

The British refusal to leave the Philippines

2. What nation acted as a buffer between French Indochina and Burma?
(Points: 1)
Thailand

New Guinea

Java

China

3. Which was not something that imperialist powers sought in Southeast Asia?
(Points: 1)
Wheat

Sugar

Tin

Timber

4. Why did Britain benefit from controlling Singapore?
(Points: 1)
It had the largest navy in Southeast Asia.

It was a convenient stopping point for ships traveling to and from China.

Its location at the mouth of the Yangtze River made it an ideal port.

Its location in the Philippines made it a convenient port for Spanish traders.

5. What is one reason that timber was in demand?
(Points: 1)
The United States banned the export of timber.

Britain had a large trade deficit with China.

The amount of sea trade had increased.

Wooden skyscrapers were becoming more common.

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Answer by inferiorego
Answer: Do it yourself, in the time you took to type this, you could have looked those answers up yourself

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I need help planning a trip to China?

June 19, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Question by jamescroc: I need help planning a trip to China?
Hello,

I am trying to plan a trip to China. I am currently a US citizen living in Georgia. I plan on going alone to China and basically want to backpack to several places including Beijing, the Yangtze river, and Shanghai. I am having trouble finding out how to obtain a visa since there is no Chinese embassy near me and I would also like to know how difficult it is to get a hotel room. I would rather not book them in advance so that I’m not stuck to a strict time schedule. Should them book in advance or can I play it by ear when I arrive? Any advice is appreciated.
I am planning on staying through late May/early April.

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Answer by rolly
Late May or early April is a great time to visit China, by travelling in spring you avoid the bitterly cold winter and super humid summer. Getting a hotel shouldn’t be tricky during that time, and I don’t think booking ahead will be overly necessary. Just avoid May 1st to May 7th, the week long May Day national holiday is super hectic, and finding any hotel rooms will be tricky country wide.
In Australia (I’m not sure about the USA), as long as you have a return ticket booked, most travel agents can obtain a 1 month tourist visa without any difficulty. I loved back-packing around China! Go for it mate! You’ll have a ball!

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what songs can i put for these?

June 18, 2012 / / 1 Comment

Question by Jackie A: what songs can i put for these?
I would like some hip hop or pop or even rap for these topics i have to make a CD for world history class

YOU DONT HAVE TO GIVE ME ALL OF THEM I WOULD BE THANKFUL FOR AT LEAST 2 OR 3.

I WILL GIVE 10 POINTS TO SOMEONE WHO REALLY HELPS ME OUT, THANKS

It doesnt need to be about the exact person or thing
for example Terracotta soldiers- (one by metallica)

xia dynasty (number one by nelly) it makes sense because xia dynasty was the FIRST chinese dynasty

foot binding (watch my feet by Dude n Nem)

here are the rest of the topics:

shang dynasty
zhou dynasty
qin dynasty
han dynasty
seven warring states
confucianism
taoism/daoism
lao tzu
legalism
fu hao
mandate of heaven/dynastic cycle
king wu
qin shi huangdi
great wall of china
censorship
liu bang
wudi
yang and or Yangtze river
buddhism
womens roles

YOU DONT HAVE TO GIVE ME ALL OF THEM I WOULD BE THANKFUL FOR AT LEAST 2 OR 3.

I WILL GIVE 10 POINTS TO SOMEONE WHO REALLY HELPS ME OUT, THANKS

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Answer by Cornell W
Go with a lot of Wu Tang or something from GZA’s “Liquid Swords.”

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THE BIGGEST CONUNDRUM IN HUMAN HISTORY (1 of 2)?

June 18, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Question by : THE BIGGEST CONUNDRUM IN HUMAN HISTORY (1 of 2)?
THE BIGGEST CONUNDRUM IN HUMAN HISTORY

Of the Japanese Imperial Army (hereinafter JIA), a Japanese soldier who carried only one Japanese sword but was able to kill more than one hundred people although he loaded with an exuberant extra swords with himself, who was also a walking lethal weapon carrying only a Japanese sword and a single-action gun but was able to massacre over 800,000 citizens in China, which we can say “more lethal than even A-bomb.” They had plenty of arms and ammunition, plenty enough not to need them to think twice of pointlessly killing hundreds of thousands of local people in its colonies who could have brought more money and product to Japan and the Japanese people.
They coerced 3,200,000 Chinese people to work for Japan. Of all of them, 1,000,000 people was died, and 10,000 people were buried alive for confidentiality reasons. Even in such a harsh condition, thanks to its incredible generalship, they were able to control rebellion.
They built a total of 19 fortresses, of them those on the ground stretched over 4,700 km and those on the underground stretched over 1,700km and they had been able to hide them for over 60 years without no one noticing thanks to its unbelievable capability of controlling information.
They had an impeccable ordering system to convince people in Okinawa to commit suicidal attack on the U.S. soldiers. They had fantastic capability to hide every unfavorable information for Japan such as the time when and how they killed people, how the state of mind of the JIA soldiers was. They were perverted and visionary enough to decide sending a countless Japanese comfort women to Indonesia even when it was ruled by the Netherlands not by Japan.

They also had a advanced civil engineering technology to make it possible to narrow the width of the Yangtze River to less than 2m and had a capability of killing 300,000 people of the Nanking city, China, where 200,000 people lived at that time, who had an enough leverage to sweep up away all those dead bodies of 300,000 victims by only one truck in an astonishingly short period: in two weeks, who had many so-called comfort women surpassing the number of that of the JIA soldiers, who were well fed to maintain enough physical strength to intercourse with over a couple of dozen comfort women per day without loosing a humor to do GANSYA or spraying his sperms on woman’s face even though the concept of it didn’t get any familiar among the Japanese people until recently, who in Korea had plenty of time to kill so they broke into not only cultural facilities but every house and searched and burned books of any kind such as dictionaries, even Korean’s traditional recipe books, who come to Korea not because they were going to colonize the country but because they came in to incorporate Korea peacefully in order to protect Korea, in this sense these Japanese people were mere strangers in Korea, nevertheless Japanese people had profound knowledge on Chinese feng shui, which was not familiar in Japan though, and ambition to use it for weakening Korea by building iron piles, copper piles and such on the top of mountains for some reason, who were skilled enough at alchemy to produce aviation fuel out of human fat, who were trained enough to cloak his own shadow to avoid being found, who invented a magical machine gun that was able to kill people without bleeding around, who had abundant money and resources to allow them to consume it not for seizing Korea’s exquisite buildings, cities, and railways, instead they destroyed all of them and replaced them with poor and unsophisticated buildings by the Japanese technology consuming tons of their money and resources, who had abundant supply of oil to allow shuttling a half of the population in the Korean Peninsula to Japan back and forth, who occupied two-third of the vast mainland of China, which has 9.6 million km2 area in it, who burned down over 1,7000 villages throughout China by torching them in just 6 years, who were so cruel to be able to think of up to 250 types of murdering method, who had expendable tons of gasoline to set fire to over 50,000,000 innocent Chinese civilians and killed them for unknown reasons, who destroyed everything in China,

(cont. to:THE BIGGEST CONUNDRUM IN HUMAN HISTORY (2 of 2)

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Answer by weirdo
You’re funny when you spread propaganda.

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