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Becoming an electrician starts with getting the right schooling. One can start quite early, even in High School. Many vocational programs in secondary schools have an electrical program. Following High School graduation, one can enter a program at a college to further their learning. Community colleges often have excellent trades program, including electrical. In addition to their typical general education courses like math and English, students will take practical courses where they learn both the science behind the trade and also get to apply and learn new skills in hands-on work. If one desires to learn more about the scientific end of things, they can attend a four year college that offers advanced programs like electrical engineering or similar majors. Community colleges are great because they offer students practical experience.

One can also do some extra work on their own to increase their skills and education. It is a great idea to find an experienced individual who works in the field and get close to them. An experienced worker can offer electrician training in the form of an apprenticeship or might be able to hire a student to work for them. They can also share the pros and cons of the industry, as well as stories from on the job. This will give the young student a better idea of what daily life is like as an electrical worker, and help them decide if this is really the field that they want to devote their life to. Working with a professional can help one meet others in the field and perhaps potential future customers. The pro may also have some suggestions for training programs or courses that the aspiring electrician can take advantage of. They can serve as a reference for the student's resume.

Before one can be successful in industry, they must have to proper education and training. Fortunately, budding electrical workers have many options to help them reach their goals and better themselves.

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2013 NFL Mock Draft Week 13: The Pittsburgh Steelers Select?

Home ? Steelers ? 2013 NFL Mock Draft Week 13: The Pittsburgh Steelers Select?

Over at Fansided.com, the writers will be releasing weekly N.F.L. Mock Drafts from now until the epic event in April.? Although it is only November, let me just state that I am stoked to discuss and release some of my own Draft Coverage this early.? I was ?NPC?s? resident ?Draft Guy? last season, and I am proud to carry the torch for the site as ?Draft Season? nears.

Each week I will be doing a break-down of the pick(s) that Fansided?s writers decided in their infinite wisdom would be great fits with Pittsburgh.? So enough of me babbling, let?s get to my breakdown of who was projected to be selected by the Steelers (at Pick #21 of 32) by Fansided?s Josh Hill in the 1st version of his Mock Draft and my thoughts on the selection:

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I really hope the Steelers do not take Geno Smith, Matt Barkley, or any other Quarterback for that matter until they begin to find players to shore up their aging Defense. Mandatory Credit: Peter G. Aiken-US PRESSWIRE

Geno Smith, QB, West Virginia

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If this order stays as is, the Vikings might be able to pull of a trade, because the aforementioned Smith doesn?t fall past the Steelers. Big Ben is currently injured, as he usually is, he turns 31 and the Steelers have no contingency plan, as we?ve so delicately seen. Smith is an RGIII type of quarterback and after the RGIII storm, teams will want another guy like him.

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On the surface, the explanation for this pick appears to make some sense as the Steelers appear to have some issues behind Big Ben on the depth chart.? To me though, it would truly be a shock if the Steelers actually selected a Quarterback in the First two Rounds of the 2013 Draft.? But if you on the ?Steelers Must/Will Draft Geno Smith? Bandwagon, allow me to try and explain why the selection of Smith by the Steelers in Round 1 is so difficult for me to believe.

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Smith Will Likely Not Fall to the Steelers

This is a Quarterback-driven League ladies and gentlemen, and because of this, any signal-caller who flashes a good deal of potential at the college level will be highly coveted by desperate teams looking to turn their franchises around with one selection.? This mode thinking in turn has caused and continues to cause most Quarterbacks in general to be highly sought-after by Quarterback-needy franchises every April.

Granted, the Steelers will likely have a much higher selection in the 1st Round than usual next season (due to Ben?s absence).? But some Quarterback-needy franchise in the Top 10 will take a chance on Smith and select him.? Thus, there is almost no way that Smith will fall to wherever the Steelers pick in the 1st Round (likely in the 18-22 range), and that is even if the team fails to win a game for the rest of the year.

Don?t believe me that the Quarterback market is and has been skewed as of late?? How else did guys like Blaine Gabbert, Christian Ponder, Cam Newton, Jason Campbell, Brady Quinn, J.P. Losman, Joey Harrington, Cade McNown, Vince Young, Matt Leinart, Mark Sanchez etc. to name a few, go as high as they did in the 1st Round?

Teams like Kansas City, Jacksonville, Oakland, Arizona, Buffalo, New York (Jets), should all be selecting ahead of Pittsburgh, and each of them need help at the Quarterback position and could seriously use a player like Smith.? As it stands now, there is no conceivable way that all but one of these teams will pass on a Quarterback with the messes they have on their rosters at the position, and will likely be more than happy to gamble on a Quarterback with Smith?s upside.? Plus, with the Rookie wage-scale in place, teams will be more than willing to move up the draft boards to take Smith if the teams in front of Pittsburgh somehow pass on the talented Mountaineer.

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Steelers Quarterback Depth/Likely Draft Strategy

I do not mean to nit-pick, but what the Fansided article fails to mention is that the Steelers might have recently signed themselves a capable long-term backup in the form of Brian Hoyer.? The former Michigan State Spartan is a Quarterback who learned under some of the best at their Coaching and Positional crafts? (Bill O?Brien and Tom Brady) since 2009.? While Hoyer will not wow anyone with his skill-set, he is a heady Quarterback that is accurate, possesses decent mobility, and can make every throw on the field despite not having a laser for an arm.? As long as Hoyer impresses and stays, Quarterback will be a position far from Pittsburgh?s minds? as they have other needs to fill during Draft Season.

But in the event that the Steelers do choose a signal-caller, it will more than likely be a later Round developmental player (Brad Sorensen (Southern Utah) comes to mind) or a talented player that somehow falls to them in the Middle Rounds (3-5).? Some of these Quarterbacks Pittsburgh could consider are Tyler Bray (Tennessee) (if he declares & falls a la Ryan Mallett in 2011), E.J. Manuel (Florida State), Mike Glennon (NC State), Landry Jones (Oklahoma), and Zac Dysert (Miami OH).? These players would be in a perfect situation to be groomed as the #3 for a year or two until they are ready to compete for playing time or extended backup reps, and the Steelers would have themselves a ?low-risk/high-reward? Quarterback on their roster that did not come at a particularly high (1st or 2nd Round Draft Choice) price.

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Defense Needs Help & Play-Makers

As far as Draft Strategy goes, I have a hard time believing that the Steelers would use their 1st Round selection on luxury pick like Smith.? In fact, even if Smith somehow drops out of the Top 15 to where the Steelers are picking, selecting him would probably not be something that G.M. Kevin Colbert and the rest of the Front Office consider.? Why you may ask?? Well it is precisely because the Steelers need a massive amount of help and an influx of young, play-making talent on the Defensive side of the ball.

The Steelers definitely need a transition strategy for their Defense as most of their starters are nearing retirement age, and playing like it this season as well.? Here are just a few examples of how ?old? the Steelers Defense is getting: NT Casey Hampton (36 years old in 2013), OLB James Harrison (35), DE Brett Keisel (35), FS Ryan Clark (34), ILB Larry Foote (33), CB Ike Taylor (33), and SS Troy Polamalu (32).

In fact, only 4 of the 11 starters on Defense will be under the age of 30 when the 2013 season is in full-swing (OLB LaMarr Woodley (29), ILB Lawrence Timmons (27), CB Keenan Lewis (27), and DE Ziggy Hood (26)).? What?s worse is that Woodley has dealt with various injuries over the last two seasons, and is likely past his prime in terms of his Sack numbers.? Plus, younger players like OLB Jason Worilds, NT Steve McLendon, DE Cameron Heyward, CB Cortez Allen, and CB Curtis Brown are forced to sit on the bench and give up reps to the veterans in front of them despite the fact that some have performed well when given the chance.

Certain positions like Free Safety, Strong Safety, Inside Linebacker, and Outside Linebacker have little to no depth behind them and could definitely use help.? To me, a transition strategy for the post-Polamalu & Clark era must be achieved over the next two years, a tandem must be in place when that day inevitably comes, and Safety (or any position on Defense) would be a much better direction to look in than Quarterback when the 1st Round gets underway.

As far as the players and the Defensive positions that the Steelers could and likely will target instead of Smith, I have some thoughts in mind:

Cornerbacks who fit Pittsburgh?s system and the size they like in the position (6? 200 lbs.+) like Johnathan Banks (Mississippi State), Xavier Rhodes (Florida State) will likely be available.? In addition, Jordan Poyer (Oregon State) as well as David Amerson (NC State) should be around too if the Steelers elect to go in the Cornerback direction.

Inside Linebackers like Alec Ogletree (Georgia) and?C.J. Mosley (Alabama) will be on the board if they declare as underclassmen as well as the athletic former Safety Khaseem Greene (Rutgers).? Outside Linebackers/Pass Rushers like Dion Jordan (Oregon), Sam Montgomery (L.S.U.), and Alex Okafor (Texas) could be in Pittsburgh?s range if the Steelers drop more games down the stretch too.

And don?t forget, this Draft Class should be deep with Safeties like Matt Elam (Florida), Tony Jefferson (Oklahoma), Kenny Vaccaro (Texas), Bacarri Rambo (Georgia), T.J. McDonald (USC) available early.? In addition, sleepers like Shamarko Thomas (Syracuse), Phillip Thomas (Fresno State), and Duke Williams (Nevada) will be available down the road so the Steelers could double dip at the position.

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G.M. Kevin Colbert (Middle) has done a terrific job with the Steelers. Mandatory Credit: Matthew Emmons-US PRESSWIRE

Final Thoughts

Although it would be nice to see the Steelers find a Quarterback to take over in the post-Big Ben era, we still need to remember that Roethlisberger will only be 31 years of age next season.? Sure he has had the tar beat out of him over the course of his career, but he should still have at least another two to three years of solid Pro Bowl production ahead of him.? And if the Offensive Line investments begin to play better and congeal as a unit (Maurkice Pouncey, Marcus Gilbert, David DeCastro, Mike Adams, Kelvin Beachum), Ben should be more adequately protected during the next half decade.

If the Steelers want to ?Reload? instead of ?Rebuild,? they are better off shoring up their aging Defense and solidifying that side of the ball early and often in April?s Draft.? Plus, the team should at least what it at least has in Hoyer as a backup, and then determine what the best course of action is.? Overall though, I do not see Pittsburgh selecting Smith next April, let alone ever having the chance to select him.

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Readers:? Should the Steelers take Smith?? Will he even be available?? How bad does the Defense need help?? Let me know what you think of my analysis.

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April 4-6, 2013

Crowne Plaza Hotel,? St. Louis, Missouri

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Abstract deadline December 7th!!!

The Annual Meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri, April 4-6, 2013. Faculty, students, independent scholars, and practitioners are encouraged to submit abstracts for papers, posters, organized sessions, workshops and roundtables in all four fields of anthropology, as well as applied. The annual CSAS conference is student-friendly and features a paper competition for both undergraduate and graduate students. It also offers an opportunity for anthropologists from throughout the central states, from institutions large and small, to meet, talk, and network. The 2013 conference will be hosted by the?University of Missouri, St. Louis? Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Languages, and most of the events will be held in the?Crowne Plaza Hotel, located in downtown St. Louis.

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Moderate GOP senator expresses concerns about Rice

UN Ambassador Susan Rice arrives for a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, with Sen. Susan Collins, R- Maine and Sen. Corker, R-Tenn., to discuss the Benghazi terrorist attack. Rice continued her fight Wednesday to win over skeptics in the Senate who could block her chances at becoming the next U.S. secretary of state, while Republican lawmakers said they were even more troubled after face-to-face meetings with her over the handling of the Sept. 11 deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

UN Ambassador Susan Rice arrives for a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, with Sen. Susan Collins, R- Maine and Sen. Corker, R-Tenn., to discuss the Benghazi terrorist attack. Rice continued her fight Wednesday to win over skeptics in the Senate who could block her chances at becoming the next U.S. secretary of state, while Republican lawmakers said they were even more troubled after face-to-face meetings with her over the handling of the Sept. 11 deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, ranking Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee walks to a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, for a meeting with UN Ambassador Susan Rice. Rice continued her fight Wednesday to win over skeptics in the Senate who could block her chances at becoming the next U.S. secretary of state, while Republican lawmakers said they were even more troubled after face-to-face meetings with her over the handling of the Sept. 11 deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, following a Democratic strategy session. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A moderate Republican senator crucial to any White House hopes of getting U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice confirmed as secretary of state said Wednesday that there are still lingering unanswered questions about the deadly Sept. 11 attack in Libya.

Emerging from a 95-minute, closed-door meeting with Rice, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said she would need more information before she could consider backing the ambassador if President Barack Obama tapped her to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

At issue is Rice's much-maligned explanation for the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. In a series of talk show appearances, Rice blamed the attack on a spontaneous demonstration to an anti-Muslim video rather than terrorism.

"I still have many questions that remain unanswered," Collins told reporters after the meeting. "I continue to be troubled by the fact that the U.N. ambassador decided to play what was essentially a political role at the height of the contentious presidential election campaign by agreeing to go on the Sunday shows to present the administration's position."

Collins stopped short of saying she would try to block a nomination as Sens. Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte have said they would do.

But in a clear message to the White House, Collins said that Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., would have a smooth path to confirmation if Obama chose him over Rice for the State Department job.

In back-to-back meetings, Rice met with Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, who is in line to become the top Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee.

Corker declined to say whether he would support Rice or not, but was highly critical of the intelligence apparatus and the administration.

"The whole issue of Benghazi has been a tawdry affair," Corker told reporters after his 90-minute session with Rice and acting CIA Director Michael Morell.

Pressed on a possible nomination, Corker said he will decide when Obama announces his choice, but he made it clear that the president should carefully weigh the decision.

"I would just ask that the president step back away from all of the buzz around this particular situation, take a deep breath and decide who is the best secretary of state for our country," Corker said.

The meetings with Collins and Corker marked the second straight day of private sessions for Rice as she tries to quell the uproar over her initial assessment of the Benghazi raid. Rice answered questions Tuesday from Sens. John McCain, Graham and Ayotte about her explanations about the cause of the September attack.

At the hour-plus, closed-door session, Rice conceded that her initial account was wrong, but she insisted she had not been trying to mislead the American people when she made her comments five days later.

"The talking points provided by the intelligence community, and the initial assessment upon which they were based, were incorrect in a key respect: There was no protest or demonstration in Benghazi," Rice said in a statement after the meeting. "While we certainly wish that we had had perfect information just days after the terrorist attack, as is often the case the intelligence assessment has evolved."

She was joined in the meeting by Acting CIA Director Michael Morell.

Rice failed Tuesday to mollify the three senators ? her most outspoken critics ? and they indicated they would try to block her nomination.

"We are significantly troubled by many of the answers that we got and some that we didn't get concerning evidence that was leading up to the attack on the consulate," McCain told reporters after a session with Rice that he described as candid.

Said Graham, "Bottom line, I'm more disturbed now than I was before that 16 Sept. explanation." He said in a later interview that Rice went "far beyond the flawed talking points" and should be held accountable.

"I'm more troubled today," said Ayotte, who argued that it was clear in the days after the attack that it was terrorism and not a spontaneous demonstration.

Rice's unusual visit to Capitol Hill ? typically only nominees meet privately with lawmakers ? reflects the Obama administration's campaign for Rice as Clinton's replacement against some strenuous GOP opposition.

The White House remained defiant in its support for Rice, arguing that she was relying on an assessment from the intelligence community and had no responsibility in compiling the information on the cause of the attack. It dismissed what it characterized as a fixation on her national television appearances five days after the raid.

"The focus on, some might say, obsession on comments made on Sunday shows seems to me, and to many, to be misplaced," Obama spokesman Jay Carney told reporters at a White House briefing.

House Democrats, including female members of the Congressional Black Caucus, have suggested that the GOP opposition to Rice is sexist and racist. Senate Democrats, who will increase their advantage to 55-45 in the next Congress, said Rice could win confirmation if Republicans recognize the unfairness of penalizing her for the intelligence community's talking points.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., told reporters "it is so unfair to hold her responsible for something that she didn't produce and which the intelligence community has specifically stood by."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., called the attacks against Rice by some Republican senators "outrageous and utterly unmoored from facts and reality."

Associated Press

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Aakash 2 hands-on: the $40 educational slate with revolution on its mind

Efforts to put cheap computers in the hands of students have always hit major stumbling blocks. Most notably price. The OLPC project had noble goals, but ultimately ended up well above its target price of $100. The Classmate was more of a "me too" product than anything truly revolutionary. What started as India's effort to launch a $10 laptop, slowly mutated into a $35 tablet that, even then, struggled in its initial incarnation. What ultimately became known as the Aakash was painfully underpowered and had carried a cost almost double its $35 target. With the second version DataWind is hoping to make good on the promise of an ultra-affordable tablet that can actually be used by students and educators. CEO of the company Suneet Tuli swung by our offices with the Ubuslate 7Ci, the commercial version of the Aakash 2, to give us a chance to put the device through its paces and talk about the transformative power of education.

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Celebrities safe from roving paparazzi drones ... for now

6 hrs.

Helen A.S. Popkin

Celebrity gossip site TMZ found itself on the other side of the rumor mill Tuesday morning, after a story claimed it?applied for a surveillance drone permit from the Federal Aviation Administration. This news comes just as the FAA pushes back its deadline for selecting drone testing sites, citing for the first time its concerns over privacy.

But fear not, famous people!

Stacked in between posts about Jared Leto?s lack of eyebrows and ?ELMO ACCUSER #3? is TMZ?s denial, ?We?re NOT Keeping Up with the DRONESES.?

?We don?t have a drone ? we don?t want a drone ? we never applied for a drone,? the post reads, in part. ?Truth is ? while drones are, in fact, awesome ? it just ain?t true.?

The?San Francisco Chronicle?added a correction to the online version of its domestic drones story, which initially?contained the faulty fact. Tech, privacy and gossip blogs referencing the claim updated their posts as well.

Even the FAA issued a statement, assuring celebrity targets and their concerned fans that "TMZ does not have FAA authorization to fly an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), and we have no record that TMZ ever requested or inquired about an authorization."

But here?s the thing. Faster than TMZ could?refute the?drone accusation, plenty of people had no problem imagining that TMZ wanted one ? and?a few were?maybe?a little surprised to learn the ace gossip gathering institution doesn't have a drone?over Kanye West even now.

??Of course we were ready to believe,? said?Professor Matt Waite, the trailblazer behind the Drone Journalism Lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Journalism and Mass Communications.

If there?s two sure things, Waite told NBC News, it?s that, one day, ?paparazzi will use drones way they use helicopters, people on motorcycles, long telephoto lenses and anything else that gets a shot that brings them a bunch money.? The other, nearer sure thing? ?Significant lawsuits.? ?

This would explain the FAA?s reluctance to allow just any ol? person to cruise over crowds with what is, pretty much danger-wise, a million-dollar flying?lawnmower.?

Drones and journalism have great possibilities. From Fukushima?to Gaza, unmanned surveillance drones can help reporters gather important information without risking their lives.

Drones are valuable environmental monitors as well. This year,?the Drone Journalism Lab used an unmanned aerial vehicle to document Nebraska?s current drought, said to be even worse than the 1930s Dust Bowl. Aerial shots of the state?s desiccated landscape ? dry fields, dead grass and dying trees ? tell a story that?flow charts recording (the lack of) rain inches just can?t. ??

But celebrity stalkers piloting swarms of drones could wreak unprecedented havoc, the likes of which haven't been seen since?helicopters?cursed the extravagant cliffside wedding of Sean Penn and Madonna back in 1985. (Google it, kids!) Topless royals and hapless Lohans would be at the mercy of GPS-controlled Predators.

So for now,?universities, the military and police departments ? as well as drone manufacturers ? are the only groups the FAA considers eligible?for domestic drone licenses. Universities don't have the funds for drones that can fly for much more than 15 minutes, let alone maintain course in a five mile-per-hour wind.

You are right to?be concerned about your privacy, though,?even if you?re not a famous person. It's just that the privacy concerns of the moment?center around those eligible government agencies.?

"Drones have the ability to carry all types of surveillance ?equipment,"Jennifer Lynch, staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told NBC News.

"Basic video cameras, infrared cameras, technology to intercept communication. The larger drones purchased and flown by the federal government can fly so high you can?t see them." Drones operated by the feds can fly for days, and take photos that are way better than what you see on?Google Earth, Lynch added.

"A lot of concerns raised with surveillance drones are not new," Lynch said. ?We would have similar concerns about an area blanketed by security cameras or technology that can intercept cellphone signals."

For all that?the EFF and other?advocacies,?such as the American Civil Liberties Union, know about drones, how that information is used and stored by the government is mostly a mystery to all but insiders.

In October, following what it says were ignored Freedom of Information Act requests, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to find out why the DHS loans out Predator drones to police departments across the country. A similar suit against the FAA resulted in a steady drip of information the EFF updates on its website, along with a map pointing out where drones are located.

While the FAA was quick to quell misinformation about TMZ's lack of a drone, it hasn't been so forthcoming with information about who does have them. Part of the problem, Lynch said, is that the FAA must talk to the agencies its licensed before it makes that information public.?

"The whole point of issuing licenses is so we can see what's going on in the air at any given time," Lynch said.?"It's unusual?for such a transparent association to keep the information on drone flights so secret, and it's very difficult to?evaluate the privacy and free speech concerns about drone flight without the information about who is flying drones right now."?

Well, at least we know it's not TMZ.?One day, the skies may be abuzz with paparazzo-copters training their 360-degree cameras on wardrobe-malfunctioning?starlets?or spawning?Kardashians. For the time being though, thanks to the FAA, it'll still?just be?dudes on scooters.

Helen A.S. Popkin goes blah blah blah about privacy and then asks her to join her on Twitter and/or Facebook. Also, Google+.?Because that's how she rolls.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/celebrities-safe-roving-paparazzi-drones-now-1C7308456

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