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Sports superstars Griffin and Nina discuss anything and everything in the sports world - and beyond - with a thoughtful eye and a uhh smiling mouth. Just listen please. And tell your friends! Also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Tik Tok @hflcpodcast!!
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Tim Dillon is a comedian and tour guide. He’s very excited to give you a tour of the end of the world. Each week from a porch in Los Angeles he shares apocalyptic visions with his friends and berates a local diner.
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Close Readings is a new multi-series podcast subscription from the London Review of Books. Two contributors explore areas of literature through a selection of key works, providing an introductory grounding like no other. Listen to some episodes for free here, and extracts from our ongoing subscriber-only series. How To Subscribe In Apple Podcasts, click 'subscribe' at the top of this podcast feed to unlock the full episodes. Or for other podcast apps, sign up here: https://lrb.me/closereadin ...
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Dubai based Insta iammichellegrant2.0 Resident DJ at StreetXO (One & Only Zabeel, Dubai) Vault (JW Marriott Marquis , Dubai) Former Resident DJ of LingLing (Atlantis The Royal, Dubai), Babylon (DIFC, Dubai), Zenon (Dubai, Kempinsky), Nuska (Jumeirah beach hotel, Dubai) Number 6 Female DJ in China DJ/Producer/Fingerdrummer 2020-2022 Resident of Bar Rouge, Shanghai . 2015-2020 Resident of M1NT, Shanghai . While living in Shanghai ( China) she is a guest DJ at hottest clubs in Shanghai and arou ...
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The Utterly Moderate Podcast is the official podcast of Connors Institute for Nonpartisan Research and Civic Engagement at Shippensburg University. The core mission of the Connors Institute is to disseminate high-quality nonpartisan information to the public. Utterly Moderate is hosted by Lawrence Eppard, a researcher, university professor, and director of the Connors Institute. On each episode, Eppard is joined by a guest (or two or three!) who helps listeners understand important topics by ...
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business lifestyle, šport, umenie a spoločnosť 👽 subscribe: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spacebynikita/subscribe
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If you’ve ever googled “do I drink too much” this podcast is for you! This is for those of you who end up wondering what’s wrong with you, questioning how your friends can possibly drink so slowly, or worse can just have one with dinner (aliens). For those of you who have tried to moderate, just a Thursday, only red wine, not before 6, not after 9, not if I’m wearing blue 😊 For those of you who secretly don’t enjoy the theatre because you know the show will be an interruption to a booze fill ...
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Caroline Jurisich – Founder of The Quad, an Enrichment Center for Adults Living With Cognitive Disabilities
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43:53Our guest, Dr. Caroline Jurisich, joins Discover Lafayette to discuss her inspiring work with The Quad, a Lafayette-based program helping adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities continue learning, building independence, and forming meaningful social connections after leaving school. A Lifelong Passion for Education and Inclusion Ori…
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Sleeping Habits and Other Stuff (Blue Jays, NBA Playoff Picks, and Extreme Sports Draft)
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1:11:27Griffin and Nina are back for the second time in two weeks to discuss the Toronto Blue Jays big Game 3 win against the Seattle Mariners in the ALCS, along with picking their Top 6 playoff seeds in each NBA Conference before the season starts, and come back after the break to conduct their latest draft, this one of extreme sports. Link to Kilian Bro…
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Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Fall' by Albert Camus
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15:49Never trust anyone who tries to be ethically pure. This is the message of Albert Camus’s short novel La Chute (The Fall), in which a retired French lawyer tells a stranger in a bar in Amsterdam about a series of incidents that led to a profound personal crisis. The self-described ‘judge-penitent’ had once thought himself to be morally irreproachabl…
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465 - Marjorie Taylor Greene Emergency Podcast
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1:11:20Tim Dillon sits down with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to discuss the Epstein files, the Israel Gaza Ceasefire Deal, AIPAC Influence, the Ukraine war, the government shutdown, American healthcare, Donald Trump’s second term, Charlie Kirk, and immigration. American Royalty Tour 🎟 https://punchup.live/TimDillon SPONSORS: Nutrafol Find Out Why…
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Fabian Patin – Committed to Preservation and Beautification of Rotary Point
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45:12Fabian Patin, a Lafayette architect whose name has become synonymous with the preservation and beautification of Rotary Point, a peaceful sanctuary on the Bayou Vermilion, joins Discover Lafayette to discuss his decades-long dedication to Lafayette’s waterways and the enduring spirit of civic service that drives the Rotary Club of Lafayette. He has…
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Is Connor McDavid a Showgirl? (Blue Jays, McDavid, and Taylor Swift)
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Novel Approaches: ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James
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14:38In The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James borrows from Eliot, Austen, folktales and potboilers, but ‘the thing that he took from nowhere was Isabel Archer’. James transformed the 19th-century novel through his evocation of Isabel, a woman who wants and suffers in a profoundly new (and American) way. Deborah Friedell and Colm Toíbín join Tom to discuss…
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464 - They Got Greta, A.I. Hollywood, & The Battle For Tik Tok
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58:21Tim discusses the AI actress named Tilly Norwood that is causing outrage in Hollywood, Greta Thunberg’s Flotilla being stopped by the Israeli Navy, Netanyahu calling influencers a weapon in the war, Donald Trump saying the military should train in American cities, a mysterious comet approaching Earth, and Las Vegas seeing a major dip in tourism. Ti…
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Graze Acadiana’s Amanda Osgood & Tracy Lindberg
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38:06Amanda (“Mandy”) Osgood and Tracy Lindberg of Graze Acadiana join Discover Lafayette to discuss their love of creating beautiful food presentations and what it is like to open your own small business. A mother–daughter team who have brought the art of grazing to Lafayette since 2019, this episode is presented in partnership with Lafayette Travel an…
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The Problem of Political Myths (w/Michael Huemer)
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36:02On this episode of the Utterly Moderate Podcast we are joined by Michael Huemer, a professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is here to talk about political myths and why they are dangerous. Political myths are factual claims which are believed by members of a political tribe that strongly support an element of that tribe…
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Love and Death: 'Surge' by Jay Bernard and 'In Nearby Bushes' by Kei Miller
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16:07Jay Bernard’s 'Surge' and Kei Miller’s 'In Nearby Bushes', both published in 2019, address acts of violence whose victims were not directly known to the writers: in Surge, the deaths of thirteen Black teenagers in the New Cross Fire of 1981; in Miller’s poem, a series of rapes and murders in Jamaica. Both can be seen as collective elegies, interlea…
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463 - Tylenol ‘Tism, FBI at Jan. 6th, & Meeting The Mossad
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1:08:13Tim discusses RFK’s announcement that Tylenol may cause autism, Pete Hegseth gathering top military officials for a secret meeting, breaking news that 275 FBI agents were at Jan. 6th, the money man Howard Rubin being arrested for sex crimes, and Palantir now pivoting into a lifestyle brand. Tim was also inspired by a recent interview Bari Weiss did…
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Broussard Mayor Ray Bourque – Longtime Public Servant Working for His Hometown
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45:53We welcome Broussard Mayor Ray Bourque, a lifelong resident of Broussard who has dedicated his career to public service and business. Before being elected mayor in 2018, he served eight years as a city councilman for District 3 and has co-owned Touche Printing and Signs for more than three decades. He also served as board president of the Broussard…
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Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘The Hearing Trumpet’ by Leonora Carrington
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16:31Leonora Carrington was a prodigious artist closely associated with major surrealists of the 1930s. Though only sporadically in print until recently, her writing has helped cement her cult status, not least The Hearing Trumpet (1974). Before her family consign her to an old-age facility, nonagenarian Marian Leatherby is gifted a hearing trumpet with…
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462 - Cancelling Kimmel, Fired From Riyadh, & The Prison Housing Market
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1:04:46Tim discusses Jimmy Kimmel being taken off the air for his comments about Charlie Kirk, how free speech is dissolving very quickly, why powerful entities want us to stay inside fighting on the internet, and breaks the news that he has been fired from the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia. American Royalty Tour 🎟 https://punchup.live/TimDillon …
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Chad Sonnier – LCG Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness
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28:24Our guest today is Chad Sonnier, Director of the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (OHSEP) for Lafayette Parish. With over four decades of service in fire protection and emergency response, Chad Sonnier brings unmatched experience to the role of coordinating disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts across federal, …
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Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Ethics of Ambiguity' by Simone de Beauvoir
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15:44At the heart of human existence is a tragic ambiguity: the fact that we experience ourselves both as subject and object, internal and external, at the same time, and can never fully inhabit either state. In her 1947 book, Simone de Beauvoir addresses the ethical implications of this uncertainty and the ‘agonising evidence of freedom’ it presents, a…
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461 - The Silencing Of Charlie Kirk
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1:04:47Tim discusses the tragic event on Sept. 10th that led to the end of Charlie Kirk’s life and shares his thoughts on the public’s reaction to it. Tim also sits down for an interview with journalist and editor of ‘The Grayzone’, Max Blumenthal, to discuss his recently published piece on Charlie Kirk. They discuss key events in Charlie’s life leading u…
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Warren Abadie, Director of Traffic, Roads and Bridges
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33:22Today we welcome Warren Abadie, Director of Traffic, Roads and Bridges for Lafayette Consolidated Government (LCG). A Lafayette native, Warren has spent his entire career with LCG, steadily rising through the ranks after graduating from UL Lafayette in 2003 with a degree in electrical engineering (computer option). He started as an engineer aide, m…
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The Act of Schmoozing (NFL Recap and Fantasy Concepts Fantasy Draft)
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1:05:24Griffin and Nina are back to discuss recent goings-ons in the NFL, draft some fantasy concepts, and vaguely allude to recent events. Check out our website, hflc.ca for everything HFLC!
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Novel Approaches: ‘The Last Chronicle of Barset’ by Anthony Trollope
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17:07Trollope enthusiasts Tom Crewe and Dinah Birch say they could have chosen any one of his 47 novels for this episode, so it’s no wonder Elizabeth Bowen called him ‘the most sheerly able of the Victorian novelists’. They settled on The Last Chronicle of Barset: a model example of Anthony Trollope’s gift for comedy, pathos, social commentary and maste…
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Tim discusses Bari Weiss' 'Free Press' being sold to Paramount for $200 million and her new role leading CBS News. He assures us that her new position will have no influence on CBS and explains why the news doesn't even matter anymore. Mazel! American Royalty Tour 🎟 https://punchup.live/TimDillon SPONSORS: ARMRA Go To https://armra.com/TIM or Enter…
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Russ Hosmer, USMC Veteran & Founder of Constant Progression
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1:12:35Russ Hosmer, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, certified life coach, former national-champion bodybuilder, and founder of Constant Progression, an online life coaching and personal development platform serving clients worldwide, joins Discover Lafayette to discuss his mission to help others reach their full potential. Russ grew up in New Jersey, just ou…
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Hi everybody and welcome to Sober Alcohol Free Stories. I'm Victoria and I don't drink. Today I talk to Joe. Joe has been sober for over 25 years. In this episode, she teaches us how becoming sober, healed her heart, mind, and soul. Joe is my oldest guest and unfortunately had to leave recording early because a visitor arrived at her door. I have…
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Love and Death: ‘Poems of 1912-13’ by Thomas Hardy
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14:13Without Emma Gifford, we might never have heard of Thomas Hardy. Hardy’s first wife was instrumental in his decision to abandon architecture for a writing career, and a direct influence – possibly collaborator – on his early novels. Their marriage, initially passionate, defied family expectations and class barriers, but by the time of Emma’s death,…
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459 - Taylor Swift’s Engagement & The Digital Prison
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1:01:38Tim discusses his participation in the Riyadh Comedy Festival, shares his thoughts on Taylor Swift’s engagement to Travis Kelce, warns of Peter Thiel’s digital prison brought to you by Palantir, laments our mediocre culture, learns about drones meant to deter school shootings, and explains how the end has been engineered by the elite. American Roya…
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Tim Metcalf – Lafayette Restaurateur and Entrepreneur
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51:29Today we welcome Tim Metcalf, a Lafayette entrepreneur whose name is tied to some of Acadiana’s most beloved establishments. Owner of Deano’s Pizza, Prejean’s Restaurant, and Marcello Wine Market, along with ventures in real estate, storage, and assisted living, Tim has built his life around preserving local traditions while bringing fresh ideas to…
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Fiction and the Fantastic: Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
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13:55Jorge Luis Borges was a librarian with rock star status, a stimulus for magical realism who was not a magical realist, and a wholly original writer who catalogued and defined his own precursors. It’s fitting that he was fascinated by paradoxes, and his most famous stories are fantasias on themes at the heart of this series: dreams, mirrors, recursi…
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Paul Eason – Billeaud Companies’ Chair and Advertising Executive
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49:34Discover Lafayette welcomes Paul Eason, founder of Eason Advertising, a marketing and public relations firm based in Lafayette, to share his family history as a member of the Billeaud family. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Billeaud Companies. A native of Lafayette, Paul graduated from Cathedral-Carmel High School and USL. He has…
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Nina and Griffin are back, and timely as ever, to discuss the legacy of Adam Sandler and his two most famous sports movies, Happy Gilmore and Happy Gilmore 2. Guess who liked it and who didn't! Be sure to check out our website, hflc.ca
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Conversations in Philosophy: 'Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions' by Jean-Paul Sartre
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16:07What is an emotion? In his Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions (1939), Sartre picks up what William James, Martin Heidegger and others had written about this question to suggest what he believed to be a new thought on human emotion and its relation to consciousness. For Sartre, the emotions are not external forces acting upon consciousness but an a…
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458 - A Police State, Candace’s Lawsuit, & The La Quinta Promise
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1:03:50Tim explains why Americans need to fight about dumb stuff again, finds out he’s named in the Candace Owens vs. Brigitte Macron Lawsuit, warns about the militarization of police in Washington, DC, learns about a strange development at a Florida La Quinta Inn, and tells us all why that establishment is so important to this country. American Royalty T…
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Marcelle Bienvenu – Acclaimed Cookbook Author and Food Writer who has been Preparing Cajun and Creole dishes since the 1960s
Discover Lafayette welcomes Marcelle Bienvenu, cookbook author and food writer who has been preparing Cajun and Creole dishes since the 1960s. A St. Martinville native, she still lives there with her husband, Rock Lasserre. Marcelle has written about Creole and Cajun cooking for The Times-Picayune, Time-Life Books, and has been featured in Garden &…
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Novel Approaches: 'Our Mutual Friend' by Charles Dickens
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18:12'Our Mutual Friend' was Dickens’s last completed novel, published in serial form in 1864-65. The story begins with a body being dredged from the ooze and slime of the Thames, then opens out to follow a wide array of characters through the dust heaps, paper mills, public houses and dining rooms of London and its hinterland. For this episode, Tom is …
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457 - Trump’s Battle Royale, Reborn Babies, & A Labubu Economy
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1:03:23Tim discusses the Labubu dolls trend and what it signifies for the economy, how Trump pits his administration against each other as a distraction, the ever-growing relationship between government & tech, silicon “reborn dolls” that people are buying instead of having children, and the disturbing nature of adult summer camps. American Royalty Tour 🎟…
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Lafayette Fire Chief Robert Benoit — A Lifetime of Service and Leadership
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57:59Lafayette Fire Chief Robert Benoit, a man who has devoted 46 years to protecting our community, recently announced his retirement. A Lafayette native, Chief Benoit joined the department in May 1979 and made history in August 1993 when he became the first Black fire chief in Lafayette’s history. Under his leadership, the department expanded from sev…
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Love and Death: Family Elegies by Wordsworth, Lowell, Riley and Carson
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14:32Seamus and Mark look at four elegies written for family members, ranging from the romantic period to the 2010s, each of which avoids, deliberately or not, what Freud described as the work of mourning. William Wordsworth’s ‘Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a View of Peele Castle’ (1807) is an oblique memorial to a brother that seems scarcely able to men…
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456 - Auctioning America, Ghislaine’s Makeover & Sydney Sweeney’s White Naturals
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55:25Tim discusses Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle controversy, how Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to a low-security prison to be handled, Miriam Adelson giving Trump $100 million for obvious reasons, and how Trump’s presidency is auctioning off America to the highest bidder. American Royalty Tour 🎟 https://punchup.live/TimDillon SPONSORS: Ship Station Go …
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Jonathan Booth – Private Investment Fund Manager – Booth Laird Capital Management
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51:04Jonathan Booth, Chartered Financial Analyst and CPA accredited in business valuation, joins Discover Lafayette to share his remarkable journey from being a young boy of 11 years of age falling in love with stock investments to CEO and Managing Partner of Booth Laird Capital Management, a boutique investment firm based in Lafayette. “My uncle would …
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