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The following open letter has been submitted to the Chief of the US
Scientific Authority, Dr. Ronald Nowak. Nowak is quitting in disgust at
USFWS' kow-towing to sport-hunting lobbies, among other reasons.

14 November 1997

To:     Chief, Office of Scientific Authority, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
From:   Ronald M. Nowak, Zoologist, OSA, FWS
Subj:   Retirement

I have today submitted to the Division of Personnel Management an
application for early retirement.  If approved, I would plan to depart on
the last day of the currently authorized period, 30 December 1997.

My primary reason for seeking this opportunity to retire is that this agency
is no longer adequately supporting the function for which I was hired, the
classification and protection of wildlife pursuant to the Endangered Species
Act of 1973, and indeed, often is working against this function.  I have
become particularly concerned about the agency's seemingly unrestrained use
of public funds to carry on litigation and other actions to thwart or delay
appropriate classification and regulation of species, such as the lynx.  It
also recently was unsettling to learn that the agency is essentially
supporting the destruction of the wolf in Central Asia to justify issuance
of permits for American hunters to import trophies of the threatened argali
sheep, which itself may be contrary to regulations.  My own efforts to call
attention to and mitigate these problems have failed.

Notwithstanding the above, I readily acknowledge that this and associated
agencies have many dedicated employees and worthwhile programs, notably (but
not limited to) those involved with wolf conservation and research.

Another factor in my application is that work-related pressures, to which I
have been subject, especially within the last year, have been the cause of
considerable stress and may be aggravating conditions potentially damaging
to my health.

I do not want, and will not accept or participate in, any party, gift, card,
testimonial, or any recognition of what to me is a distressing event.

If, after retirement, my services might be useful relative to measures that
would appropriately classify, protect, or study the urial sheep, koala,
wolf, or any other foreign or native species, I would be glad to be of help
to the extent that circumstances may allow.

I ask that my home address and telephone number (see below) be given freely
to parties seeking my attention or assistance.  Anyone, whether in or
outside of this agency, is welcome to contact me at any time.

Ronald M. Nowak
2101 Greenwich Street
Falls Church, Virginia  22043
(phone [phone])

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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:47:52 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Rebecca D Crane)
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Noah's Ark Update
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Court TV is providing live coverage of the sentencing in the Iowa cat
cruelty case beginning at 2:30 p.m. EST.  Randy Lockwood from The Humane
Society of the United States is scheduled to testify in the sentencing
phase.  Court TV is currently running the trial of the two boys found
guilty in the case and will continue coverage through the sentencing.

For more information on the case, please go to:

http://www.hsus.org/iowacat.html

Please pass this on to other interested lists, groups, or individuals.

Thank you! :)

Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 12:57:28 -0500
From: Constance Young <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: bad news re. Steve Siegel]]
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Liz and all on ar-news:

The funeral arrangements for Steve Siegel are as follows:

     2:30 Pm Sunday Dec 21st
     Forest Park Funeral Home (formerly called Schwartz's)
     on Queens Boulevard
     address:  114-77th Street Queens Boulevard

Take the E or F train to the Express stop Continental Boulevard.  Change
there for a local. Get off on the local stop 75th street.

Or take E or F train to Union Turnpike and walk down (South) on Queens
BOulevard to 75th Street.

There will be a Memorial service and anyone who wants to speak out about
him can do so.

It is indeed a very sad occasion.        Constance (Connie) Young
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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 12:33:56 -0500
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Constance Young wrote:


This saddens me terribly. Please email me info about the services.

Thank you.

Liz

Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 13:02:30 -0500
From: Mesia Quartano <[e-mail]>
To: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (US) 5 Trumpeter Swans Shot
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Five trumpeter swans, a protected species, have been shot in Illinois
over the past several weeks, three of them in one day, according to U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service special agent Timothy Santel. Four of the
birds have died. Three of the trumpeters shot most recently were wearing
neck collars, indicating they were part of a reintroduction effort by
the State of Wisconsin. The trumpeter swan is protected by the Federal
Migratory Bird Treaty Act and, unlike many other species of waterfowl,
may not be  hunted at any time. Even accidental shootings are
misdemeanor violations and carry  penalties of $5,000 for individuals
and $10,000 for organizations, up to six months in  prison, and possible
loss of hunting privileges. For more information contact Santel,
[phone], [e-mail].

Copyright ⌐ 1997 Environmental News Network, Inc.



Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 13:15:25 -0500
From: Mesia Quartano <[e-mail]>
To: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Malaysian restaurateur kept exotic animals on ice
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 19 (Reuters) - A Malaysian restaurateur has been fined
after a large number of dead exotic and protected animals, including
flying foxes, leopards and a lizard, were found in his refrigerator.

Wong Hoi Yin, 50, was fined 9,000 ringgit ($2,375) after admitting he
kept the animal parts at his house in Puchong in central Selangor state,
Bernama news agency reported late on Thursday.

The dead animals and animal parts were found in his refrigerator on
December 11. The agency reported that found in the fridge were a leopard
leg, a bear leg, nine dead wild cats, eight dead clouded leopards, 39
dead foxes, 111 flying foxes, a wild boar, a lynx,
a mouse-deer, monkey bones and meat, part of a monitor lizard and parts
of other unidentified animals. All of the animals were dead.

Bernama did not say how large the refrigerator was or how officials
found out about the chilled animal remains.

Wong was charged under the 1972 Wildlife Protection Act.

In mitigation, Wong said he had a valid restaurant licence and kept the
animal parts for medicinal purposes.

But the prosecuting officer for the Wildlife Department said the licence
did not apply to the animals, which were all protected species.

Wong paid the fine.

(REUTERS)

Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:16:20 -0500
From: Mesia Quartano <[e-mail]>
To: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (US) Activist Jailed for Freeing Animals
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(AP Online; 12/18/97)

SALT LAKE CITY (AP)   An animal rights activist was sentenced to two
years in jail for freeing thousands of farm-bred minks, many of which
died of stress or were run over by cars.

Clinton Colby Ellerman, 21, pleaded guilty to burglary and theft in the
attack in July at the Holt Mink Ranch in South Jordan, 20 miles from
Salt Lake.

Ellerman and several others freed 3,000 animals in the name of the
militant Animal Liberation Front.

Most were recaptured. However, the mink farmers said the harm came from
the loss of the animals' pedigrees. Each cage identified the mink's
pedigree; there was no way to match the captured animal with its cage.

Ellerman's 19-year-old brother, Douglas, is awaiting trial on charges of
bombing a Utah mink-feed plant.

{APWire:Domestic-1218.321}   12/18/97


Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:18:13 -0500
From: Mesia Quartano <[e-mail]>
To: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (US) Utah Animal Rights Criminals Sentenced to Jail, Says Fur Commission USA
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(PR Newswire; 12/17/97)

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/   Animal rights criminals convicted
on felony charges for attacking fur farms have received jail sentences
in Salt Lake County, Utah, according to Fur Commission USA.

On December 16, Clinton Colby Ellerman was sentenced to two consecutive
one year jail terms for attacking fur farms and releasing animals, many
of which died from stress caused by the attack, or were killed on the
Salt Lake County roads.  Judge Robert Hilder told Ellerman he would
consider suspending the second one year jail term if Ellerman cooperates
with authorities investigating the fur farm raids and other animal
rights crimes.

On December 15, Jacob Lyman Kenison was sentenced to a year in jail and
ordered to pay more than $30,000 in restitution for firebombing a Tandy
Leather store in Murray in June, 1995.  Kenison is already serving a 16
month sentence for violating federal firearms laws.  He lied on a
federal firearms purchase form when buying an assault-style rifle he
later gave as a gift to Douglas Joshua Ellerman, an animal rights
activist under federal indictment for a bombing attack.

Ryan Holt, a fur farmer whose farm was attacked by Clinton Colby
Ellerman, told the court that attacks by Ellerman and other animal
rights criminals have caused nearly $2 million in damages to Utah farms
and businesses.  In addition to attacking fur farms and the leather
store, animal rights criminals burned to the ground a McDonalds
restaurant in West Jordan in August, 1996.  An animal rights bombing at
the Fur Breeders Agricultural Cooperative in Sandy resulted in nearly $1
million in damages in March, 1997.  Douglas Joshua Ellerman faces
federal charges for the Sandy attack.

"Utah courts are sending a strong message that animal rights terrorism
won't be tolerated," Holt said after Ellerman was sentenced.  "Animal
rights extremists are entitled to their own views, but they have no
right to break the law or force other people to comply with their
strange beliefs.  It is tragic that animal rights terrorists kill so
many animals and endanger human beings in the name of 'animal rights,'"
Holt said.

So far this year, six Utah animal rights criminals have received jail
sentences.  In addition to Ellerman and Kenison, four others were
sentenced to jail for the arson attack against the West Jordan
McDonalds.

SOURCE  Fur Commission USA                    12/17/97
CONTACT:  Robert Buckler of Issue Strategies for Fur Commission USA,
612-222-1080


Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:19:12 -0500
From: Mesia Quartano <[e-mail]>
To: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Russians Search for Man-Eating Lion
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(AP Online; 12/31/69)

MOSCOW (AP)   Authorities in Russia's Far East launched a hunt Wednesday
for a man-eating tiger that has killed two people this month.

The animal mauled and ate one man Dec. 3 and killed a second man Monday
in the northern Primorye region along Russia's southeast coast, the
Interfax news agency reported Wednesday.

A team of hunters set out Wednesday.

{APWire:International-1217.255}   12/31/69


Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 14:21:27 -0500
From: Mesia Quartano <[e-mail]>
To: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (US) Reward Offered for Information on Bald Eagle Shooting
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(PR Newswire; 12/19/97)

FT. SNELLING, Minn., Dec. 19 /PRNewswire/   The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service is offering a $2,500 reward for information on the shooting of a
bald eagle near Grafton, Illinois.  The eagle, an adult male, was found
December 17 on Eagles Nest Island in the Mississippi River, with shotgun
wounds to its wings.

The eagle was discovered by commercial fishermen, who alerted Treehouse
Wildlife, Inc., a wildlife rehabilitation facility located in Brighton,
Ill.  The bird was retrieved and is receiving treatment for shotgun
pellets in its wings.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Special Agent Timothy Santel is
investigating the case.  According to Santel, the eagle was unable to
fly, indicating it was shot on or near Eagles Nest Island, probably
within a few days of being found.  The area is popular with waterfowl
hunters; duck hunting season ended December 16, and the goose hunting
season continues.

"We need the help of the public in identifying whoever is responsible
for injuring this magnificent bird," Santel said.  "It is discouraging
to know that there are still people who believe it is acceptable to
shoot at eagles and other protected birds."

Santel said the reward is offered under provisions of the Bald Eagle
Protection Act, which prohibits "taking," or killing, as well as
possession and of and commerce in bald eagles.  The act authorizes up to
$2,500 for information about eagle shooting incidents.  Santel added
that additional reward monies are also available.

Bald eagles are classified as threatened species under the Endangered
Species Act, which prohibits killing, harming, or harassing wildlife
listed as threatened or endangered.  Bald eagles are also protected by
the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, a Federal law aimed at conserving
waterfowl, songbirds, raptors such as eagles and hawks, and other bird
species.

Violations of the Endangered Species Act carry penalties of up to
$100,000 and 1 year in prison.  Under the Bald Eagle Protection Act,
first offenses may result in a $100,000 fine and 1 year in prison;
second offenses are treated as felonies.  Persons convicted of violating
the Migratory Bird Treaty Act face up to $5,000 in fines and 6 months in
prison.

Santel encourages anyone with information on the eagle shooting to
contact him at 217-793-9554 or the Target Illinois Poacher hotline at
800-252-0163. Callers may remain anonymous.

SOURCE  U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
CONTACT:  Timothy Santel, 217-793-9554, E-Mail Tim_Santelmail.fws.gov or

Georgia Parham, 812-334-4261 x 203, E-Mail Georgia_Parhammail.fws.gov,
both
of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service/

{PRNewswire:Environment-1219.395}   12/19/97


Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 13:15:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Markarian <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: Cuyahoga Deer Kill Canceled!
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Because of a lawsuit filed by The Fund for Animals, Animal Protection
Institute, Humane Society of the U.S., Ohioans for Animals Rights, In
Defense of Deer, and other plaintiffs, the U.S. Justice Department has just
announced that the National Park Service has withdrawn its entire Deer
Management Plan for the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area in Ohio.
They had planned to kill approximately 500 deer in the Park, but now the
deer are safe!

Mike Markarian
The Fund for Animals

Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 13:32:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Twilight <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (aa)(US)River Otters In Missouri
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Kiss These Babies Goodbye!

          The taxpayers of Missouri spent over $1.6 million to bring
          river otters back from the brink of extinction.

          The citizens of Missouri were led to believe that river otters
          would be free to roam the riverbanks of that state.

          Last winter, Missouri held an unlimited trapping season on
          river otters; trappers killed 1,054 of an estimated 3,000
          otters.

          Trappers used the barbaric steel jaw leghold trap, a device
          that causes painful injuries to its victims for many hours
          prior to their death.

          The otters' skins were sold for $60 - $80 at auction and
          then exported to the Far East, mainly China, where they are
          worn as a fashion item.

          Now, Missouri plans another unlimited trapping season,
          starting on 11/20/97.

     IS THIS STUPID, OR WHAT???? We desperately need your
     help to stop this cruel and needless waste of life.

     Right now - please contact these agencies and tell them to
     cancel the river otter trapping program:

          Governor Mel Carnahan
          State Capitol, Room 218
          Jefferson City, MO 65101
          Phone: [phone]
          Fax: [phone]
          E-Mail: [e-mail]

          Mr. Jerry Conley, Director
          Missouri Department of Conservation
          2901 West Truman Boulevard
          Jefferson City, MO 65102-0180
          Phone: [phone]
          Fax: [phone]
          E-Mail: [e-mail]





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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 17:08:02 EST
From: Me1ani <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: 1998 Animals and the Law Conference, Pace University Law School
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    Please join us at the Pace University School of Law
      1998 Animals And The Law Conference

''THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT?"
THE USE OF NONHUMAN ANIMALS
FOR HUMAN AMUSEMENT

Saturday, March 21st, 1998

A variety of speakers and informative discussion about Zoos, Circuses, Rodeos,
Marine Mammal Parks, Greyhound Racing, Sport/Trophy Hunting and more.


To be included on the mailing list for a conference brochure, please contact
Adjunct Professor Suzan Porto
914-937-5605

Pace University School of Law
White Plains, NY

Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 15:31:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Markarian <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
Subject: N.Y. N.Y. Beaver Bond Act Funds Alert!
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forwarded from private email:

    >Our years of stopping harmful beaver and snare bills, plus educational
efforts, have finally paid off with several million $ in the Clean
Water/Clean Air Bond Act for non-lethal solutions, such as water-level
control devices) to beaver flooding.  Hooray!!
    >
    >Now the draft guidelines are out for this important program.  You have
only until Dec. 26th (what timing!) to submit your comments to:
    >
    >Ms. Aimee Kea or Ms. Christine Serth
    >NYSDEC Bond Act Office
    >50 Wolf Rd.
    >Albany, N.Y. 12233-1040 (Fax: [phone])
    >
    >Because the draft also includes uses for the beaver money, such as
raising highway roadbeds and construction of bridges a danger exists that
most of the funds could go for these very expensive types of projects.
    >Please urge that more cost-effective proposals, where the public gets more
for their bucks, such as installing water-level control devices, get highest
priority.
    >Also please urge that higher priority be given to proposals that will
stop objectionable beaver flooding while allowing most beaver wetlands to
remain.  Wetlands are the worlds most valuable terrestrial ecosystem,
according to a team of ecologists and economists writing in the May 15, 1997
journal Nature, yet  most of New Yorks wetlands have been drained.
    >
    >To ensure that town officials considering these projects get the best
advice, please ask that the lead person to assist those applying for Bond
Act beaver projects be experienced and positive about water-level control
devices.  The individual listed in this position in the draft is from DEC
Wildlife Services and has spent his career promoting trapping.  (Do not
despair, others will evaluate the
>applications.)  Suggest that an experienced Beaver Damage Coordinator be
appointed to advise both applicants and DEC staff to ensure the best use of
taxpayers money.
    >
    >We, and the beavers, thank you for your help.  Happy Holidays!
    >
    >For more information contact Beavers: Wetlands & Wildlife, 518/568-2077.
    >N.Y. Beaver Bond Act Funds Alert!
>
>Sharon & Joseph Brown
>Beavers: Wetlands & Wildlife
>146 Van Dyke Rd.
>Dolgeville, N.Y. 13329
>http://www.telenet.net/~beavers

Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 15:41:00 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Lawrence Carter-Long)
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Look Out 'Babe,' Here Comes Emily the Cow
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>From today's newswire:

  ``Air Bud'' Director Charles Martin Smith has signed to direct ``Emily,'' the
  true story of a cow on the lam from a Massachusetts slaughterhouse.
  That's according to Variety. ``She escaped this slaughterhouse and lived
  in the woods and nobody could catch her,'' said Smith, who's best
  remembered for playing the role of Toad in ``American Graffiti.'' Since it's a
  Disney film, it's not exactly giving away a surprise ending to note that the
  bovine boosters win, and the cow was rescued on Christmas Eve of 1995.

Lawrence Carter-Long
Science and Research Issues, Animal Protection Institute
email: [e-mail], phone: [phone] x. 215
world wide web: http://www.api4animals.org/

"Civil liberties are always safe as long as their exercise doesn't
bother anyone."   New York Times editorial, 1-3-41






Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 19:10:15 -0500
From: "Leslie Lindemann" <[e-mail]>
To: "AR-news postings" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Joan Rivers
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I wanted to call Joan Rivers about her fur, but I discovered that her
oh-so-important radio show is only broadcast on one little AM station in my
entire state, and nowhere near me.  I then stumbled upon her mailing
address on PETA's Action Alert page
http://www.peta-online.org/
Please take a minute to tell her how tired the "You're wearing leather
shoes and don't you have anything more important to do?" retort is. (if the
woman was running into the crowd, how could she tell what her belt was made
out of?) I think one would be hard pressed to find a scrap of leather on a
fur protester, and I want people to know that!

Leslie Lindemann
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 19:13:49 -0500
From: "Leslie Lindemann" <[e-mail]>
To: "AR-news postings" <[e-mail]>
Subject: The Nature Conservancy
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Thank you for all the reponses to my info request! Most people just
referred me back to the PETA page, which I'm still not convinced is
updated. I'm sure I read that they stopped using the snares (but that
they're still killing some animals).  I'll still write to Stop N' Shop and
tell them they shouldn't support TNC.
Others asked that I share what I found, so I'll just direct everyone again
to PETA's action alert page. You have to scroll to almost the bottom.
http://www.peta-online.org/
Thanks again!
Leslie
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 21:02:42 -0500
From: "Leslie Lindemann" <[e-mail]>
To: "AR-news postings" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Joan Rivers mailing address
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I was going to call Joan Rivers radio show to tell her what I thought of
her fur, but it seems her oh-so-important program is only aired on one
little AM station in this entire state.
Then I stumbled upon her mailing address in PETA's action alert website
http://www.peta-online.org/

Please take a minute to tell her how tired the "You're wearing leather
shoes and don't you have anything better to do?" retort is. I believe one
would be hard pressed to find a scrap of leather on an anti-fur activist,
let alone identify the material of the belt on a woman who is running into
a crowd! And what does she do that's so much more important than defending
the defenseless?

Thanks
Leslie
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 20:52:48
From: David J Knowles <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: [CA] SPCA gets grant for bone-crusher
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[Perhaps they could use some sensitivity training too!]

>From The Vancouver Sun Website - Friday 19 December 1997
NATIONAL NEWS

SPCA gets grant for bone-crusher

RED DEER, Alta. (CP) û All staff at a central Alberta animal shelter want
for Christmas is a bone-crusher and thanks to local lottery players, they
may get one.

Every week at Red Deer's Parkland SPCA, staff have to pulverize the bones
of cremated pets using hammers. Shelter manager Clare Wetzel estimated that
about 500 kilograms of bone will be smashed by hand this month.

"Many people don't realize that in cremation only the skin and flesh goes
to ash," said Wezel. "But they don't want a bag of bones and ash back, so
we have to break them up.

"At the moment, someone has to spend at least 100 hours a month smashing
the bones by hand. That is very hard on the wrists."

Wetzel said two of her staff have had surgery for repetitive stress injury.

On Friday, Wetzel learned the Wild Rose Foundation, which distributes
Alberta lottery funds, has given the shelter a $24,876 grant.

Wetzel isn't sure if the cash will cover the No. 1 item on her wish list û
a $2,122 cremolator û which she described as "basically, a big coffee
grinder."

"We are all very excited about this grant. If we get the cremolator, it
means we can spend less time smashing bones and more time looking after the
animals that are alive." SPCA gets grant for bone-crusher

Copyright The Vancouver Sun / Southam News 1997




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