<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Scrapple Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Scrapple):
'Scrapple, also known by the Pennsylvania Dutch name panhaas or pan rabbit,
is traditionally a mush of pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal
and wheat flour, often buckwheat flour, and spices. The mush is formed into
a semi-solid congealed loaf, and slices of the scrapple are then pan-fried
before serving. Scraps of meat left over from butchering, not used or sold
elsewhere, were made into scrapple to avoid waste. Scrapple is best known
as an American food of the Mid-Atlantic states (Delaware, Maryland, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia). Scrapple and panhaas are commonly
considered an ethnic food of the Pennsylvania Dutch, including the
Mennonites and Amish. Scrapple is found in supermarkets throughout the
region in both fresh and frozen refrigerated cases.
he roots of the culinary traditions that led to the development of scrapple
in America have been traced back to pre-Roman Europe. The more immediate
culinary ancestor of scrapple was the Low German dish called panhas, which
was adapted to make use of locally available ingredients, and it is still
called Pannhaas, panhoss, ponhoss, or pannhas in parts of Pennsylvania. The
first recipes were created by German colonists who settled near
Philadelphia and Chester County, Pennsylvania in the 17th and 18th
centuries. As a result, scrapple is strongly associated with rural areas
surrounding Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., eastern Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Southern New York, and the Delmarva
Peninsula. Its popularity on the Delmarva Peninsula is celebrated the
second weekend of October during the annual Apple Scrapple Festival in
Bridgeville, Delaware.
In composition, preparation, and taste, scrapple is similar to the white
pudding popular in Ireland, Scotland, and parts of England and the spicier
Hog's pudding of the West Country of England'.
[The Hankster says] I think the famous squeal is in this stuff. Oh, my aching arteries.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'Chaos Never Dies Day'.
Try to cut out some of the confusion and hurry, if you can on election day
2016.
[The Hankster says] I think scrapple might be called a chaos of food.
* 'Neon Sign Day'.
The patent for the first Neon sign was applied for by George Claude on
this day in 1911.
- From Wikipedia (Neon sign):
'The discovery of neon in 1898 included the observation of a brilliant red
glow in Geissler tubes. Immediately following neon's discovery, neon tubes
were used as scientific instruments and novelties. A sign created by Perley
G. Nutting and displaying the word neon may have been shown at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, although this claim has been
disputed in any event, the scarcity of neon would have precluded the
development of a lighting product. However, after 1902, Georges Claude's
company in France, Air Liquide, began producing industrial quantities of
neon, essentially as a byproduct of their air liquefaction business. From
December 3–18, 1910, Claude demonstrated two 12-metre (39 ft) long bright
red neon tubes at the Paris Motor Show. This demonstration lit a peristyle
of the Grand Palais (a large exhibition hall). Claude's associate, Jacques
Fonsèque, realized the possibilities for a business based on signage and
advertising. By 1913 a large sign for the vermouth Cinzano illuminated the
night sky in Paris, and by 1919 the entrance to the Paris Opera was adorned
with neon tube lighting. Over the next several years, patents were granted
to Claude for two innovations still used today: a bombardment technique to
remove impurities from the working gas of a sealed sign, and a design for
the internal electrodes of the sign that prevented their degradation by
sputtering.
In 1923, Georges Claude and his French company Claude Neon introduced neon
gas signs to the United States by selling two to a Packard car dealership
in Los Angeles. Earle C. Anthony purchased the two signs reading Packard
for $1,250 apiece. Neon lighting quickly became a popular fixture in
outdoor advertising. Visible even in daylight, people would stop and stare
at the first neon signs for hours, dubbed liquid fire.'.
[The Hankster says] The signs you love to hate.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'Microtia Awareness Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Microtia):
'Microtia is a congenital deformity where the pinna (external ear) is
underdeveloped. A completely undeveloped pinna is referred to as anotia.
Because microtia and anotia have the same origin, it can be referred to as
microtia-anotia. Microtia can be unilateral (one side only) or bilateral
(affecting both sides). Microtia occurs in 1 out of about 8,000–10,000
births. In unilateral microtia, the right ear is most commonly affected. It
may occur as a complication of taking Accutane (isotretinoin) during
pregnancy.
Typically, testing is first done to determine the quality of hearing. This
can be done as early as in the first two weeks with a BAER test (Brain Stem
Auditory Response Test). At age 5–6, CT or CAT Scans of the middle ear can
be done to elucidate its development and clarify which patients are
appropriate candidates for surgery to improve hearing. For younger
individuals, this is done under sedation'.
o Other:
* 'World Freedom Day'. Since 2001, a presidential proclamation (G.W. Bush)
celebrating the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall,
- From Wikipedia (World Freedom Day (United States)):
'World Freedom Day is a United States federal observance declared by
then-President George W. Bush to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall
and the end of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe. It started in
2001 and is celebrated on November 9.
For this occasion, conservative youth groups such as Young America's
Foundation and the College Republicans urge students to commemorate this
day (which they mark as the start of Freedom Week, thus including Veterans
Day) by celebrating victory over communism through provocative flyer
campaigns and activism projects. Many conservative political commentators
and activists use World Freedom Day as an occasion in which to acclaim
President Ronald Reagan, whom they regard as being responsible for the
collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War'.
<> Historical events on November 9
* 'In 1620, The Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod,
Massachusetts. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Speedwell was re-rigged with larger masts before
leaving Holland and setting out to meet the Mayflower in Southampton,
England, around the end of July 1620. The Mayflower was purchased in
London. The original captains were Captain Reynolds for the Speedwell and
Captain Christopher Jones for the Mayflower. Other passengers joined the
group in Southampton, including William Brewster, who had been in hiding
for the better part of a year, and a group of people known to the Leiden
congregation as The Strangers. This group was largely made up of people
recruited by the Merchant Adventurers to provide practical assistance to
the colony and additional hands to work for the colony's ventures. The term
was also used for many of the indentured servants.
Among the Strangers were Myles Standish, who was the colony's military
leader, Christopher Martin, who had been designated by the Merchant
Adventurers to act as shipboard governor during the trans-Atlantic trip,
and Stephen Hopkins, a veteran of a failed colonial venture that may have
been the inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest. The group that later
became the Leiden Leaders after the merging of ships included John Carver,
William Bradford, Edward Winslow, William Brewster, and Isaac Alberton.
The departure of the Mayflower and Speedwell for America was beset by
delays. Further disagreements with the Merchant Adventurers held up the
departure in Southampton. A total of 120 passengers finally departed on
August 5—90 on the Mayflower and 30 on the Speedwell. Leaving Southampton,
the Speedwell experienced significant leakage, which required the ships to
immediately put in at Dartmouth. The leakage was partly caused by being
over masted and being pressed too much with sail. Repairs were completed,
then a further delay ensued awaiting favorable winds. The two ships finally
set sail on August 23 and made it only two hundred miles beyond Land's End
before another major leak in the Speedwell forced the expedition to return
again to England, this time to the port of Plymouth. The Speedwell was
found to be unseaworthy some passengers abandoned their attempt to
emigrate, while others joined the Mayflower, crowding the already heavily
burdened ship. Later, it was speculated that the crew of the Speedwell had
intentionally sabotaged the ship to avoid having to make the treacherous
trans-Atlantic voyage. The delays had significant consequences the cost of
the repairs and port fees required that the colonists sell some of their
invaluable provisions, but, more importantly, the delays meant that
everyone had to spend the entire winter on board the Mayflower off Cape Cod
in what could only be described as squalid conditions.
The Mayflower departed Plymouth, England on September 6, 1620 with 102
passengers and about 30 crew members in the small, 106 foot-long ship. The
seas were not severe during the first month in the Atlantic but, by the
second month, the ship was being hit by strong north-Atlantic winter gales,
causing it to be badly shaken with water leaks from structural damage.
There were many obstacles throughout the trip, including multiple cases of
seasickness and the bending and cracking of a main beam of the ship. One
death occurred, that of William Button.
After two months at sea, land was sighted on November 9 off the coast of
Cape Cod. They attempted to sail south to the designated landing site at
the mouth of the Hudson but ran into trouble in the region of Pollack Rip,
a shallow area of shoals between Cape Cod and Nantucket Island. With winter
approaching and provisions running dangerously low, the passengers decided
to return north to Cape Cod Bay and abandon their original landing plans'.
* 'In 1887, The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- From Wikipedia: 'During the early 19th century, Pearl Harbor was not used
for large ships due to its shallow entrance. The interest of United States
in the Hawaiian Islands grew as a result of its whaling, shipping and
trading activity in the Pacific. As early as 1820, an Agent of the United
States for Commerce and Seamen was appointed to look after American
business in the Port of Honolulu. These commercial ties to the American
continent were accompanied by the work of the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions. American missionaries and their
families became an integral part of the Hawaiian political body.
Throughout the 1820s and 1830s, many American warships visited Honolulu. In
most cases, the commanding officers carried letters from the U.S.
Government giving advice on governmental affairs and of the relations of
the island nation with foreign powers. In 1841, the newspaper Polynesian,
printed in Honolulu, advocated that the U.S. establish a naval base in
Hawaii for protection of American citizens engaged in the whaling industry.
The British Hawaiian Minister of Foreign Affairs Robert Crichton Wyllie,
remarked in 1840 that .. my opinion is that the tide of events rushes on to
annexation to the United States.
From the conclusion of the Civil War, to the purchase of Alaska, to the
increased importance of the Pacific states, the projected trade with
countries in Asia and the desire for a duty-free market for Hawaiian
staples, Hawaiian trade expanded. In 1865, the North Pacific Squadron was
formed to embrace the western coast and Hawaii. Lackawanna in the following
year was assigned to cruise among the islands, a locality of great and
increasing interest and importance. This vessel surveyed the Northwestern
Hawaiian Islands toward Japan. As a result, the United States claimed
Midway Island. The Secretary of the Navy was able to write in his annual
report of 1868, that in November 1867, 42 American flags flew over
whaleships and merchant vessels in Honolulu to only six of other nations.
This increased activity caused the permanent assignment of at least one
warship to Hawaiian waters. It also praised Midway Island as possessing a
harbor surpassing Honolulu's. In the following year, Congress approved an
appropriation of $50,000 on March 1, 1869, to deepen the approaches to this
harbor.
After 1868, when the Commander of the Pacific Fleet visited the islands to
look after American interests, naval officers played an important role in
internal affairs. They served as arbitrators in business disputes,
negotiators of trade agreements and defenders of law and order. Periodic
voyages among the islands and to the mainland aboard U.S. warships were
arranged for members of the Hawaiian royal family and important island
government officials. When King Lunalilo died in 1873, negotiations were
underway for the cessation of Pearl Harbor as a port for the duty-free
export of sugar to the U.S. With the election of King Kalakaua in March
1874, riots prompted landing of sailors from USS Tuscarora and Portsmouth.
The British warship, HMS Tenedos, also landed a token force. During the
reign of King Kalakaua the United States was granted exclusive rights to
enter Pearl Harbor and to establish a coaling and repair station.
Although this treaty continued in force until August 1898, the U.S. did not
fortify Pearl Harbor as a naval base. The shallow entrance constituted a
formidable barrier against the use of the deep protected waters of the
inner harbor as it had for 60 years.
The United States and the Hawaiian Kingdom signed the Reciprocity Treaty of
1875 as supplemented by Convention on December 6, 1884, the Reciprocity
Treaty was made by James Carter and ratified it in 1887. On January 20,
1887, the United States Senate allowed the Navy to exclusive right to
maintain a coaling and repair station at Pearl Harbor. (The US took
possession on November 9 that year). The Spanish–American War of 1898 and
the desire for the United States to have a permanent presence in the
Pacific both contributed to the decision'.
* 'In 1961, The X-15 rocket plane achieved a world record speed of 4,093
mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (30,970 m or over 19 miles)
altitude. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The North American X-15 was a hypersonic rocket-powered
aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the X-plane series of
experimental aircraft. The X-15 set speed and altitude records in the
1960s, reaching the edge of outer space and returning with valuable data
used in aircraft and spacecraft design. The X-15's official world record
for the highest speed ever recorded by a manned, powered aircraft, set in
October 1967 when William J. Pete Knight flew at 4,520 miles per hour
(7,274 km/h), or Mach 6.72, and has remained unchallenged as of 2016.
During the X-15 program, 13 flights by eight pilots met the Air Force
spaceflight criterion by exceeding the altitude of 50 miles (80 km), thus
qualifying these pilots as being astronauts. The Air Force pilots qualified
for astronaut wings immediately, while the civilian pilots were eventually
awarded NASA astronaut wings in 2005, 35 years after the last X-15 flight.
The only Navy pilot in the X-15 program never took the aircraft above the
requisite 50 mile altitude and so as a result, never earned himself
astronaut wings.
Of the 199 X-15 missions, two flights (both by Joseph A. Walker) qualified
as true space flights per the international (Fédération Aéronautique
Internationale) definition of a spaceflight by exceeding 100 kilometers
(62.1 mi) in altitude'.
* 'In 1965, The biggest power failure in US history occurs. All New York
state, 7 neighboring states and parts of Canada are plunged into darkness.
.
- From Wikipedia: 'he Northeast blackout of 1965 was a significant
disruption in the supply of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965,
affecting parts of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and Vermont in
the United States. Over 30 million people and 80,000 square miles (207,000
km2) were left without electricity for up to 13 hours.
The cause of the failure was human error that happened days before the
blackout. Maintenance personnel incorrectly set a protective relay on one
of the transmission lines between the Niagara generating station Sir Adam
Beck Station No. 2 in Queenston, Ontario. The safety relay, which was to
trip if the current exceeded the capacity of the transmission line, was set
too low.
As was common on a cold November evening, power for heating, lighting and
cooking was pushing the electrical system to near its peak capacity.
Transmission lines heading into Southern Ontario were heavily loaded. At
5:16 p.m. Eastern Time, a small surge of power originating from the Robert
Moses generating plant in Lewiston, New York caused the improperly set
relay to trip at far below the line's rated capacity, disabling a main
power line heading into Southern Ontario. Instantly, the power that was
flowing on the tripped line transferred to the other lines, causing them to
become overloaded. Their own protective relays, which are designed to
protect the line from overload, tripped, isolating Beck Station from all of
Southern Ontario.
With no place else to go, the excess power from Beck Station then switched
direction and headed east, over the interconnected lines into New York
State, overloading them as well, and isolating the power generated in the
Niagara region from the rest of the interconnected grid. The Beck
generators, with no outlet for their power, were automatically shut down to
prevent damage. The Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant continued to generate
power, which supplied Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation customers in the
metropolitan areas of Buffalo and Niagara Falls, NY. These areas ended up
being isolated from the rest of the Northeast power grid and remained
powered up. The Niagara Mohawk Western NY Huntley (Buffalo) and Dunkirk
steam plants were knocked offline. Within five minutes, the power
distribution system in the Northeast was in chaos as the effects of
overloads and the subsequent loss of generating capacity cascaded through
the network, breaking the grid into islands. Station after station
experienced load imbalances and automatically shut down. The affected power
areas were the Ontario Hydro System, St Lawrence-Oswego, Upstate New York,
and New England. With only limited electrical connection southwards, power
to the Southern States was not affected. The only part of the Ontario Hydro
System not affected was the Fort Erie area next to Buffalo, which was still
powered by older 25 Hz generators. Residents in Fort Erie were able to pick
up a TV broadcast from New York, where a local backup generator was being
used for transmission purposes'.
* 'In 1967, NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the
first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Apollo 4, (also known as AS-501), was the first,
unmanned test flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle, which was used by the
U.S. Apollo program to send the first astronauts to the Moon. The space
vehicle was assembled in the Vertical Assembly Building, and was the first
to be launched from Launch Complex 39 at the John F. Kennedy Space Center
on Merritt Island, Florida, facilities built specially for the Saturn V.
Apollo 4 was an all-up test, meaning all rocket stages and spacecraft were
fully functional on the initial flight, a first for NASA. It was the first
time the S-IC first stage and S-II second stage flew. It also demonstrated
the S-IVB third stage's first in-flight restart. The mission used a Block I
Command Service Module (CSM) modified to test several key Block II
revisions, including its heat shield at simulated lunar-return velocity and
angle.
Originally planned for late 1966, the flight was delayed to November 9,
1967, largely due to development problems of the S-II stage encountered by
North American Aviation, the manufacturer of the stage. Delay was also
caused, to a lesser extent, by a large number of wiring defects found by
NASA in the Apollo spacecraft, also built by North American.
The mission was the first Apollo flight after the stand-down imposed after
the Apollo 1 fire which killed the first Apollo crew. It was the first to
use NASA's official Apollo numbering scheme established in April 1967,
designated Apollo 4 because there had been three previous unmanned
Apollo/Saturn flights in 1966, using the Saturn IB launch vehicle.
The mission lasted almost nine hours, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean,
achieving all mission goals. NASA deemed the mission a complete success,
because it proved the Saturn V worked, an important step towards achieving
the Apollo program's objective of landing astronauts on the Moon and
bringing them back safely, before the end of the decade'.
* 'In 1967, The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is launched. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that
focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann
Wenner, who is still the magazine's publisher, and music critic Ralph J.
Gleason. It was first known for its musical coverage and for political
reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus
to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film
actors, and popular music. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional
mix of content'.
* 'In 1979, The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command
Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear
strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early
warning radars, the alert is cancelled. .
- From Wikipedia: 'On at least three occasions, NORAD systems failed, such
as on 9 November 1979, when a technician in NORAD loaded a test tape, but
failed to switch the system status to test, causing a stream of constant
false warnings to spread to two continuity of government bunkers as well as
command posts worldwide. On 3 June 1980, and again on 6 June 1980, a
computer communications device failure caused warning messages to
sporadically flash in U.S. Air Force command posts around the world that a
nuclear attack was taking place. During these incidents, Pacific Air Forces
(PACAF) properly had their planes (loaded with nuclear bombs) in the air
Strategic Air Command (SAC) did not and took criticism, because they did
not follow procedure, even though the SAC command knew these were almost
certainly false alarms, as did PACAF. Both command posts had recently begun
receiving and processing direct reports from the various radar, satellite,
and other missile attack detection systems, and those direct reports simply
did not match anything about the erroneous data received from NORAD'.
* 'In 1989, The fall of the Berlin Wall begins. Communist-controlled East
Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to
travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of
East and West Germany, and fall of communism in eastern Europe including
Russia.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier
that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic
Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall
completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and
from East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. Its
demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and was completed in 1992. The
barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, which
circumscribed a wide area (later known as the death strip) that contained
anti-vehicle trenches, fakir beds and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc
claimed that the Wall was erected to protect its population from fascist
elements conspiring to prevent the will of the people in building a
socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent
the massive emigration and defection that had marked East Germany and the
communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
The Berlin Wall was officially referred to as the Anti-Fascist Protective
Wall (German: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall) by GDR authorities, implying
that the NATO countries and West Germany in particular were considered
equal to fascists by GDR propaganda. The West Berlin city government
sometimes referred to it as the Wall of Shame—a term coined by mayor Willy
Brandt—while condemning the Wall's restriction on freedom of movement.
Along with the separate and much longer Inner German border (IGB), which
demarcated the border between East and West Germany, it came to symbolize a
physical marker of the Iron Curtain that separated Western Europe and the
Eastern Bloc during the Cold War.
Before the Wall's erection, 3.5 million East Germans circumvented Eastern
Bloc emigration restrictions and defected from the GDR, many by crossing
over the border from East Berlin into West Berlin from which they could
then travel to West Germany and other Western European countries. Between
1961 and 1989, the Wall prevented almost all such emigration. During this
period, around 5,000 people attempted to escape over the Wall, with an
estimated death toll ranging from 136 to more than 200 in and around
Berlin.
In 1989, a series of radical political changes occurred in the Eastern
Bloc, associated with the liberalization of the Eastern Bloc's
authoritarian systems and the erosion of political power in the pro-Soviet
governments in nearby Poland and Hungary. After several weeks of civil
unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all
GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East
Germans crossed and climbed onto the Wall, joined by West Germans on the
other side in a celebratory atmosphere. Over the next few weeks, euphoric
people and souvenir hunters chipped away parts of the Wall the governments
later used industrial equipment to remove most of what was left. Contrary
to popular belief the Wall's actual demolition did not begin until the
summer of 1990 and was not completed until 1992. The fall of the Berlin
Wall paved the way for German reunification, which was formally concluded
on 3 October 1990'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in November
Food
Banana Pudding Lovers Month
Diabetic Eye Disease Month
Epilepsy Awareness Month
Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month
National Georgia Pecan Month
National Peanut Butter Lovers Month
National Pomegranate Month
Health
American and National Diabetes Month
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
MADD's Tie One On For Safety Holiday Campaign
National PPSI AIDS Awareness Month
National Alzheimer's Disease Month
National COPD Month
National Diabetes Month
National Family Caregivers Month
National Healthy Skin Month
National Home Care and Hospice Month
National Impotency Month
National Long-term Care Awareness Month
National PPSI Aids Awareness Month
NET Cancer Awareness Month
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
Stomach Cancer Awareness Month
Vegan Month
Animal and Pet
Adopt A Senior Pet Month
Adopt A Turkey Month
Manatee Awareness Month
National Pet Cancer Awareness Month
Pet Diabetes Month
Other
American Indian Heritage Month
Aviation History Month
Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month
Family Stories Month
Historic Bridge Awareness Month
Military Family Appreciation Month
National Entrepreneurship Month
National Inspirational Role Models Month
National Memoir Writing Month
National Native American Heritage Month
National Family Literacy Month
National Novel Writing Month
National Runaway Prevention Month
National Scholarship Month
Picture Book Month
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November origin (from Wikipedia): 'November is the eleventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian
Calendars and one of four months with the length of 30 days. November was
the ninth month of the ancient Roman calendar. November retained its name
(from the Latin novem meaning 'nine') when January and February were added
to the Roman calendar.
'
'November is a month of spring in the Southern Hemisphere and autumn in
the Northern Hemisphere. Therefore, November in the Southern Hemisphere
is the seasonal equivalent of May in the Northern Hemisphere and vice
versa.'
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