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Tony I love you but my great grandfather and his brother had this debate in Poland. My side of the family left... the rest does not exist
Don’t flee. Fight. Don’t run. Rally. Listen to those who don’t look, talk or think like you. Get out of your bubble.
#electionday
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The thing that makes me saddest about this college admissions scandal is that, at most, 200 human beings are impacted, yet everyone is talking about it. Whereas, last week Argosy University closed abruptly, which impacts ~20,000 human beings and nobody cares...
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For those who are curious, here is a nice write up of my father’s experiment that was part of the basis for this year Nobel Prize in Physics:
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Oakland needs baseball. We started the Oakland Ballers to make sure that Oakland will always have baseball.
Introducing a new team for The Town 🌳
The Oakland Ballers ⚾️
Our team was ripped away from us. Now we’re stealing baseball for the people of Oakland.
Built by Oakland. For Oakland. Forever Oakland.
#OaklandBallers
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Dude from Berkeley, commits crime in Emeryville, but Oakland gets the blame… got it.
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You don’t learn civics at a coding bootcamp.
It shouldn’t be a choice between obtaining employable skills OR a higher eduction. It should be a question about the best way to get BOTH.
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Hey
@oaklandrootssc
and
@oaklandsoulsc
if you are going to be the primary tenant of the Coliseum, do you mind if the
@OaklandBallers
rent it for a game next year?
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About a year ago, my colleagues and I joined
@RachelRCarlson
and
@GuildEducation
in order to help build a truly iconic impact company. Today we announce another milestone on that journey:
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On behalf of all of
@EntangledSOL
, we are incredibly excited to join the
@GuildEducation
team!
Today, all of us at
@GuildEducation
are delighted to formally announce the acquisition of Entangled, and to formally welcome
@pmfreedm
and the whole team to Guild!
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The
@OaklandBallers
plan to play at Raimondi is the first time a professional team has tried to play at a site exclusively controlled by the City of Oakland.
This is working because it’s strictly Town Biz.
It's happening. Oakland is about to prove hella doubters wrong.
When people complain that liberal & diverse cities can't get things done, tell them about the deep support the Oakland Ballers have received from public servants & elected officials who work for the city of Oakland.
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10 years after my father’s passing, his work wins the Nobel prize.
With today's
#NobelPrize
in physics going to former postdoc John Clauser (2nd
#Berkeley
postdoc to win a Nobel this week!), we shouldn't forget Clauser's late collaborator on the entanglement experiment - Stuart Freedman of
@UCBerkeley
&
@BerkeleyLab
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We are the only team, to our knowledge, that has the name of our City on the backs of both our home and away jerseys.
We always put Oakland on our backs, and we always know Oakland has our back.
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Thank you all!!!!
City Council just finalized approval for our $1.6M dollar plan to reactivate Raimondi Park as our new home.
We're honored to be playing at such a historic ballpark & are eternally grateful to the City, residents and fans who helped to get us here.
New renderings dropping
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As the Nobel prize was awarded, in part, for my father’s experiment. I received questions on his work, and on the Prize itself.
I tried to condense complicated stuff, so I’m sorry to the physicists who will note oversimplifications.
Grab coffee and enjoy a LONG thread 🧵
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Honored to be invited!
The OAKLAND Ballers believe “that the true value of a sports team is its power to bring people together.”
Well come February 24th at Jack London Square, they’ll be doing their part to do just that!
On behalf of the Oakland 68’s & us at The Last Dive Bar we welcome the Ballers
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@gatorhater09
That’s heart breaking….
Can you DM me your address? I’d like to send you and your family some Ballers tickets when they are available. We can’t replace the loss of the A’s, but hopefully watching baseball a B’s game will bring joy to the family.
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Incredible excited for the
@oaklandrootssc
to be playing in the Coliseum next year.
Congrats to everyone involved in making this happen.
Let’s Go Oakland!
This is incredible news for the people of Oakland. The Oakland Roots and
@oaklandsoulsc
will play the 2025-26 season at the Coliseum. Huge congrats to teams at the Roots and Oakland Soul!
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Congratulations to
@rachelrcarlson
for winning an
@EY_US
2020 Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Mountain Desert region! This recognition acknowledges her ceaseless work to expand opportunity for workers through access to education and upskilling.
#EOYMTN
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Thanks. This really means a lot coming from someone who loves Oakland as much you do!
I love the owners and the CEO of the Oakland Ballers. These folks have a genuine love for Oakland. So refreshing to see this type of depth after all that the shallow SF & Atherton billionaires, and their soulless sports leagues, put Oakland through.
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Can you imagine how electric the energy is going to be
@OaklandBallers
opening night the first time a Let’s Go Oakland! chant starts going?
I’m seriously getting emotional just thinking about it.
If you've got your tickets for opening day on June 4, quote this and say you got tickets to the historic launch day for the Oakland Ballers. June 4 is shaping up to be a fun night out for the people of Oakland.
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Pro tip: If you want to make something happen, tell some Oaklanders that it’s impossible.
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I knew him before he was famous.
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This is great news for Oakland…
Samuel Merritt University, California’s second-largest school for nurses, has raised $139 million for a new campus in Downtown Oakland.
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Hey,
@IceColdKennybo
fans are going to want ice cold beer at
@OaklandBallers
Ballers games… let’s talk
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I am proud to see
@GuildEducation
on
@TIME
list of the 100 Most Influential Companies of 2022! Congrats to our team for its commitment to making education, skilling and career pathways more accessible to working adult learners.
#TIME100Companies
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The other three are making a mistake and might find themselves poorly prepared.
Two out of five US college presidents already considering online options for Fall 2020 term
#MindWiresOnline
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This thread!
I met with hundreds of college counselors and uni admissions officers while at Minerva. This scandal is the explicitly "Bad!" stuff, but there's lots more insidious activity behind the scenes. For example...
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@senatemajldr
If someone insulted a friend of mine who has passed away, I’d do a bit more than subtweet... just saying.
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This is incredible. Thank you for the hard work of the scientists involved. This will save many lives...
Update. The Cleveland Clinic has developed a COVID 19 test that gives results in 8 hours as opposed to the 2-3 days it takes for the other tests.
They developed the test in NINE days, I repeat nine. Scientists worked 24/7 once the CDC gave them the okay on 3/2.
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@NathanBreitling
@DavidZipper
Trips that you take on an ebike instead of a car do what exactly?
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Agree. I want to turn the Boycott game into Dave Kaval Bobblehead Night. Who is with me?
Good morning
#Athletics
fans, no matter what happens today - I woke up still cackling about a former A’s senior executive speaking last night & referring to Dave Kaval as a “walking, talking, bobblehead” - I mean, it’s so perfect! 😂
#SB1
#NVleg
#StadiumScam
#VoteNo
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All of this! Instead of changing the name or the airport let’s focus on addressing Oakland’s challenges and celebrating all of the positive stories about our City.
I’m against the name change
@PortofOakland
is proposing. If you want to increase tourism and economic growth we need to fix that Hegenberger corridor, get ferry’s to go from JLS to places like Alcatraz, and Angel island. Put a Ferris wheel in JLS. A name change ain’t the solution
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We’re proud to be named on the
@CNBC
#Disruptor50
list for disrupting existing industries and practices within higher education and the future of work. We’re still hiring! Reach out if you’re interested in any open roles on our careers site.
#Disruptor50
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This was fun… Sorry for the folks in the back row, I was aiming for you all, I but could quite get it up there.
Shoutout to
@pmfreedm
from the
@OaklandBallers
and
@CaseyPrattABC7
for taking part in our Half-Time Hot Dog Toss traditions. Thanks for showing off your baseball arms and spreading joy at the game.
#OaklandFirstAlways
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OMG… Fans Fest is going be 🔥 all East Bay sports fans need to be there.
Another huge attendee supporting the town and it's people! We can't wait to see you all at Fans Fest on the 24th!
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I think there is a good argument that anybody who went to the University of Oklahoma since 1999 should get their tuition money back, or, at least, the Department of Education should discharge their loans.
"
@usnews
has stripped the University of Oklahoma of its ranking, citing incorrect information provided about alumni giving. The university told U.S. News that it has been supplying incorrect data since 1999."
@ScottJaschik
via
@insidehighered
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Hey
@Bob_Shireman
, I think you are misguided on bundled service agreements. Interested in having a public debate on the topic? I’m happy to go all the way to Berkeley and have the debate on your home court...
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@NathanBreitling
@DavidZipper
Respectfully, you are thinking about the problem wrong. An ebike isn’t a bike alternative, it’s a trip alternative. There are some things you can only do with a car, but there are plenty where a vehicle with less mass will always be more efficient.
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If you live in the Bay Area, you should come out...
Fans Fest is a Celebration of Oakland through sports! Come meet our amazing Baller staff! Free to the public, February 24, 2024, 11AM to 4PM. Follow
@lastdivebar
and
@oakland68s
for updates and announcements.
#oakland
#oaklandballers
#fansfest
#oaklandsports
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Horses should immediately grow wings and a horn and become unicorns
.
@ryancraigap
says college boards should “enact an immediate 50% tuition discount for remote learning, and change endowment spending rules.”
Appreciate the mention of
@partners4edu
and !
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However, and somewhat ironically, if I’m am to meet my dad again, it just might be because the Universe works in a mysterious way, and he was first to see the experimental proof…
51/
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The higher ed community is the way the rest of the world can be. It is absolutely possible to disagree without being disagreeable.
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The concept behind Zenith was if you took a bad for-profit school and made it a non-profit it automagically became good. It was always a dumb idea. It turns out quality is more than a tax status.
Just In: Zenith will close all but 3 of its campuses after spending more than $500mil to keep former Corinthian campuses open.
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If they stopped calling it a ‘death tax’ and starting calling it a ‘rich kid tax’ it would be more popular.
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If there is no financial crisis, why would colleges care about sharing their financial health?
Opinion piece arguing it would be irresponsible to publish projected college failures: "there’s no crisis among the country’s private non-profit colleges" -
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You are wrong on this one
@ryancraigap
, and I challenge you to a public debate at ASU/GSV on the topic. I’m happy to be your mirror of bad punditry...
America’s colleges and universities have an obligation to resist the siren song of entertainment and videogames; they must be more than a mirror of bad parenting. My new piece
@Forbes
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So incredibly proud of this team, and the work they are doing.
Excited to share our big news! The
@ReUp_Education
team is looking forward to leveraging this raise to allow us to help more students return to college and graduate.
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Very proud of my friend and teammate for this award
Congratulations to Greg Siegel, Guild’s very own Chief Business Officer, on being named an honoree for Denver Business Journal's C-Suite Award for 2021!
Check out the full list of honorees here👇
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Dogmatists who preach ‘profit’ is the only perverse incentive in edu have hurt the Academy not helped it. This concept has given to cover to bad-actors, and has discouraged institutions from making changes necessary to serve students. It’s not just tone-deaf it’s dangerous.
As I read the recent
@TCFdotorg
#onlineeducation
report I was reminded of a great quote from the writer Issac Asimov: “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” I think
@Bob_Shireman
needs some Windex. 1/18
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@RachelRCarlson
@StanfordGSB
@GuildEducation
You and I talked about your idea for
@GuildEducation
right there
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Education podcasts aren’t always fun, this podcast was fun…
Hey
#twitter
it’s YOUR time to
#EdUp
YOUR guest is Paul Freedman
@pmfreedm
President of Learning Marketplace
@GuildEducation
YOUR link to
#EdUp
YOUR sponsor
@ckochfoundation
#podcast
#collegesanduniversities
#education
#inspiration
#highereducation
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Onto a new frontier with Entangled Solutions by Samantha Brown Olivieri
@sambrown923
super exited that you have joined our team!
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Should say: ‘Why signals representative of your practical skills will matter more than the signal of your degree in the new economy.‘
Why Practical Skills Will Matter More Than Your Degree In The New Economy
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He’s ok
There is no more incisive commentator on education and employability than Ryan Craig. Always a must read/must listen via
@Getting_Smart
@ryancraigap
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You know how I knew this happened at a non-profit? Because it didn’t say for-profit in the headline.
Investigation finds Texas college allegedly changed nursing students' grades from failing to passing
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This is super interesting.
Naviance, a technology used by over 40% of high schoolers, plays a major role in the college application process. Almost no research examines its impact on college applications and attendance… until now.
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This award is bittersweet for me, first of all it is a reminder that even after 10 years, I still miss my dad, and secondly I feel he earned and deserves the greater recognition that comes with a Nobel… all bitter. 45/
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Unless this trend quickly reverses, it will cause cascading damage to the US economy for decades.
"The number of new international students enrolling at American institutions fell by 6.6% during the 2017-18 academic year, on top of a 3.3% decline the year before."
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Clear is kind
@CaseyPrattABC7
Based on these comments, I think
@carmelimel
is my favorite
@OaklandBallers
co-founder.
@pmfreedm
is mean.
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Exited to have
@HiltonNewsroom
join the
@GuildEducation
family!
Hilton Announces Continuing Education Benefit for Team Members: Through a new partnership with Guild Education, Hilton will provide its team members with a best-in-class continuing education platform to help them pursue and attain their educational dreams.
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We are very excited to announce our partnership with Louisiana State University. LSU is a flagship R1 that has a genuine focus on working adults... and the football team isn't bad either.
We are proud to announce the newest addition to Guild’s growing Learning Marketplace, Louisiana State University.
@LSU
is the only public, Carnegie-designed R1 university in Louisiana and has a strong history of serving working adults.
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After numerous attempts to address the symptoms, it’s time to start dealing with the cause of student debt…
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One down, 62,984,827 to go...
I say it again, because I think it’s important to say it often: I apologize for helping to put Donald Trump in the White House. I apologize for the role I played in putting a pathological liar, a malignant narcissist, & a wanna-be dictator in the White House.
I’m truly sorry.
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Parent learners in
#highered
are a vast, but misunderstood segment.
@EntangledSOL
’s new report sponsored by
@OmidyarNetwork
highlights key challenges and opportunities for
#innovation
:
#edtech
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correlation is not causation, even on Fridays
Nevada educators found strong links to success for students who take college-level math and more than 15 credits per semester
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This seems poorly timed
House Republicans looking at cutting almost $1 billion from disaster accounts to help finance Trump border wall:
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Five experts and
@ryancraigap
College enrollment rates are already falling.
@FastCompany
asks six experts to explain how the workforce of the future will get trained.
@ryancraigap
@TechtonicGroup
@ScoLatham
@coursera
@SHRM
#futureofwork
#education
#highereducation
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Fun conversation, thanks for having us!
Happening later today, we'll be talking about the job market during and after the pandemic and the opportunities for
#highered
to prepare students for a reshaped economy with
@RachelRCarlson
and
@pmfreedm
of
@GuildEducation
. Follow along on LinkedIn Live.
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One of the things I like to think about is that my dad was the first person, in all of humanity, to see the data from this experiment, and he knew, before anybody else, a little feature of how the Universe worked… that’s pretty cool even if he was disappointed at the time 28/
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And... what if D1 sports teams were held as for-profit subsidiaries and athletes got paid to play for them.
What if boards retained auditors or outside counsel to periodically and systematically review recruitment practices, admissions standards, and athletes’ (redacted) transcripts, coursework, and exams?
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Can’t be for any profit motive, because they are a ‘non’-profit...
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Good thing Graham never changes his mind because of political expediency
“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination."
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Wouldn’t it be simpler to propose a buzzword university and cut out the middleman?
A university built entirely on blockchain? Some Oxford scholars have proposed one, and it would give faculty remarkable control while replacing many administrative tasks with smart contracts:
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Build stuff that matters...
Also, we're hiring like mad across product, engineering, coaching, you name it.
If you want to grow your own career at a company focused on doing well by doing good, connect with us today:
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Very honored to be involved in this hugely important initiative:
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Check out this job at Guild Education: VP, Product - Payments (Remote)
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Non-profit universities can only make ‘errors’ they never do something intentionally wrong because ‘profit’ is the only possible incentive to cheat...
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Advice to entrepreneurs: make them drag you off the field, tie you down, and sedate you... Don't give up
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I want to know so bad… oh wait
We've got some super exciting news dropping early tomorrow morning. We can't wait to share it with you all!!
Hold tight.
And remember:
#LetsGoOakland
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Congrats
@ktsharp2
and
@jfftweets
… very exciting to see the ongoing progress of
@EQOSBoard
… a long time ago
@michaelbhorn
and I had a crazy idea, this news makes it seem less crazy today.
Exciting news for the
#futureofwork
: JFF has acquired
@EQOSBoard
to boost results data for
#education
and
#training
programs across the workforce. Learn more in
our FAQ.
#WkDev
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What wrong with free ponies?
MLB will NEVER guarantee Oakland an expansion team. Might as well demand free ponies for every Oakland citizen.
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Just wait for the great Brooklyn sleep famine of 2024
ASU students fighting for their "right to party" is further support for my theory that The Beastie Boys have predicted every major world event since 1987.
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