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  • Plastic sorting in the Philippines.
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  • Plastic sorting in the Philippines.
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  • A plastic company that makes household items with older injection molding equipment.
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  • A plastic company that makes household items with older injection molding equipment.
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  • A plastic company that makes household items with older injection molding equipment.
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  • Plastic collectors in the Philippines.
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  • The fishing village of Palau Misa has hanging nets for lobster.
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  • A diver off the coast of Komodo Island.
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  • A photographer dives off the coast of Komodo Island.
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  • A manta ray and diver in the waters off of Banta Island.
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  • A diver in the waters off of Banta Island.
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  • Hanging cages hold lobsters off of the coast of Pulau Misa.
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  • Spearfishing in the bay.
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  • Plastic sorting in the Philippines.
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  • A diver in the waters off of Palau Misa.
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  • Sweeper fish and diver in the waters off of Banta Island.
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  • Kurilskoe Lake Preserve is a world heritage site and had serious poaching. But now, two or three wardens are always out on enforcement and they pack out for a month at a time. The official salary for wardens is $200 a month, but the WWF came in and supplemented salaries and bought them the equipment they need to do the job. WWF decided one of the gems of the reserve system that exists in all of Russia should be poaching free.
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  • Land yachts race the wind and each other across the Alvord Desert playa’s flat, dusty terrain. Fans of the sport flock to the ancient lake bed in search of speeds beyond most posted interstate highway limits. The world record stands above 116 mph. Sports enthusiasts race in high temperatures when the playa is dry enough to drive on.<br />
The desert lies to the east of Oregon's Steens Mountain, and Steen's Mountain Wilderness which is “the largest fault-block mountain in the northern Great Basin.”  It abruptly falls to the dry Alvord Desert 6,000 feet below.
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  • Blazing sunset leaves in shadow the famous gap in Kiger Gorge, atop Oregon's Steens Mountain. Steen's Mountain Wilderness is “the largest fault-block mountain in the northern Great Basin.”  The aerial view shows a forty mile long escarpment in southeastern Oregon has a notch cut out of the top and drops abruptly to the dry Alvord Desert, 5,500 feet below.<br />
Bulldozing down to basalt, Ice Age glaciers carved our huge gorges out of the Great Basin's largest fault block mountain. Beyond, Steens's east face plummets a vertical mile.
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  • Cowboys and cowgirls drink morning coffee before breakfast at a cabin in Beef Basin, Utah. The Indian Creek ranch hands camp and move cattle onto higher ground for better access to water and food.
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  • A cowgirl drives her herd down a dusty trail from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. In the last rays of light, the cowgirl works late to move her cattle on public land near Monticello, Utah. Land whipped into dust by a dry winter offers little forage for cattle on this Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment. In the spring, ranchers pay a fee to drive cattle onto higher, wetter ground.
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  • A cowgirl drives her herd down a dusty trail from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. Her son ranches with her and works to move cattle on public land near Monticello, Utah.
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  • A cowboy drives a herd down a dusty trail from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. In the last rays of light, the sky glows as the rancher works late to move cattle on public land near Monticello, Utah. Land whipped into dust by a dry winter offers little forage for cattle on this Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment.
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  • At sunset, a cowgirl drives her pick up back to the ranch in Indian Creek. Respected for her tough grit, skills and determination, the woman has lives in a region rich with Native rock art and amazing natural beauty to the surrounding landscape.
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  • A cowgirl drives her herd down a dusty trail from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. In morning light, the cowgirl works to move her cattle on public land near Monticello, Utah.
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  • A cowgirl brands a calf while ranch hands pin others in the corral to be castrated. Cowboys on horseback sort cattle in the spring near Monticello, Utah. The Indian Creek ranch is worked but ranchers are respectful of the land for preservation.
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  • A cowgirl feeds her horses some oats on her ranch near Monticello, Utah. The Indian Creek Ranch is highly valued for water rights and for the amazing pristine land and red rock canyons.
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  • A cowgirl dons her black hat as ranchers prepare to brand and castrate calves in Indian Creek. Respected for her tough grit, skills and determination, the woman has lives in a region rich with Native rock art and amazing natural beauty to the surrounding landscape.
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  • A cowgirl checks her horse and sits back to relax after a long day in the saddle moving her herd from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. Land whipped into dust by a dry winter offers little forage for cattle on this Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment. In the spring, ranchers pay a fee to drive cattle onto higher, wetter ground.
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  • A cowgirl prepares to saddle horses at the ranch near Monticello, Utah. Ropes and halters adorn the stalls at the Indian Creek ranch is highly valued for water rights and majestic scenery, the working ranch is an example of preservation.
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  • A cowgirl brands a calf while ranch hands pin others in the corral to be castrated. Cowboys on horseback sort cattle in the spring near Monticello, Utah.
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  • A cowgirl sits back to relax with her horses and a ranch hand after a long day in the saddle moving her herd from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. Land whipped into dust by a dry winter offers little forage for cattle on this Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment. In the spring, ranchers pay a fee to drive cattle onto higher, wetter ground.
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  • A cowgirl leads her horse to a corral under towering red rocks near Monticello, Utah. The Indian Creek ranch is owned by the Nature Conservancy. Highly valued for water rights and majestic scenery, the working ranch was saved from development and is an example of a working ranch respectful of the land.
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  • A cowgirl walks from the corral under towering red rocks near Monticello, Utah. The Indian Creek ranch is owned by the Nature Conservancy. Highly valued for water rights and majestic scenery, the working ranch was saved and run by a woman rancher.
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  • A cowgirl laughs with ranch hands as they prepare to brand and castrate calves at a ranch in Indian Creek. Respected for her tough grit, skills and determination, the woman has lives in a region rich with Native rock art and amazing natural beauty to the surrounding landscape.
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  • A cowboy cracks his whip driving a herd down a dusty trail from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. In the last rays of light, the rancher works late to move cattle on public land near Monticello, Utah. Land whipped into dust by a dry winter offers little forage for cattle on this Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment. In the spring, ranchers pay a fee to drive cattle onto higher, wetter ground.
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  • A cowboy drives a herd down a dusty trail from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. In the last rays of light, the sky glows as the rancher works late to move cattle on public land near Monticello, Utah. Land whipped into dust by a dry winter offers little forage for cattle on this Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment. In the spring, ranchers pay a fee to drive cattle onto higher, wetter ground.
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  • A cowgirl drives her herd down a dusty trail from their winter range in Beef Basin, Utah. In morning light, the cowgirl works to move her cattle on public land near Monticello, Utah. Land whipped into dust by a dry winter offers little forage for cattle on this Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment. In the spring, ranchers pay a fee to drive cattle onto higher, wetter ground.
    MELISSA FARLOW_MM6659_715695-03.jpg
  • A cowgirl leads her horse to a corral under towering red rocks near Monticello, Utah. The Indian Creek ranch is owned by the Nature Conservancy. Highly valued for water rights and majestic scenery, the working ranch was saved from development and is an example of a working ranch respectful of the land.
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  • A cowgirl drops to the ground while ranch hands hold a calf steady for castration and branding. Cowboys on horseback sort cattily in the spring near Monticello, Utah. The Indian Creek ranch is now owned by the Nature Conservancy, but former owners work the ranch with respectful of the land.
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  • Cowboys joke over morning coffee before breakfast at a cabin in Beef Basin, Utah near the Dugout Ranch. The Indian Creek ranch ranch hands camp and move cattle onto higher ground for better access to water and food. Land whipped into dust by a dry winter offers little forage for cattle on some the Bureau of Land Management grazing allotment.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Portrait of a Mursi woman with her lip plate removed.
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  • Salmon return from the ocean to spawn in streams on Prince of Wales Island. Scientists believe the fish species navigates to where they were born by using the earth's magnetic field like a compass.
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  • A brown bear fishing for salmon in Kuril Lake.
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  • A brown bear fishing for salmon in Kuril Lake.
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  • A brown bear fishing for salmon in Kuril Lake.
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  • A brown bear fishing for salmon in Kuril Lake.
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  • A brown bear fishing for salmon in Kuril Lake.
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  • A brown bear fishing for salmon in Kuril Lake.
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  • Spawning salmon in the Ozernaya River.
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  • Spawning salmon in the Ozernaya River.
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  • Spawning salmon in the Ozernaya River.
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  • A boy takes his cow to 4H competition at the Humboldt County Fair.
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  • A big wheel bicycle rider at Geauga County, fair.
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  • A boy uses milk to coax his pet lamb and calf into a waiting truck; the animals are being taken to a nearby fair competition.
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  • A boy uses milk to coax his pet lamb and calf into a waiting truck; the animals are being taken to a nearby fair competition.
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  • Father and son in the farm pickup truck (one of two images taken years apart).
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  • Father and son in the farm pickup truck (one of two images taken years apart).
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  • A student picks up clothing to get dressed for class.
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  • A fountain on the newly designed Riverwalk along the Detroit River.
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  • Guests at the Mediterranean Bistro, a wine and beer loft.
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  • A man works out along the beach in Lummus Park at sunrise.
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  • A man works out along the beach in Lummus Park at sunrise.
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  • A man works out along the beach in Lummus Park at sunrise.
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  • A man works out along the beach in Lummus Park at sunrise.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher looks out toward the ocean.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • A couple talk and laugh at an outdoor restaurant at night.
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  • A couple enjoys a private moment at an outdoor restaurant.
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  • A weight lifter on the beach at Lummus Park.
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  • Tourists are wed on Mendenhall Glacier in the Tongass National Forest. He marks the spot of their ceremony with a GPS while behind them a guide leads hikers up an icy trail. She blissfully basks in the sun as they wait for their helicopter return back to Juneau.
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  • Portrait of Shirley, a float house owner near Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Swede, a float house owner, bows farewell to guests as they leave for the evening near Prince of Wales Island.
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  • For an anniversary celebration, a husband surprised his wife with a romantic candle-lit dinner in a tent perched above a secluded beach on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Children help their mother unload the dishwasher in the kitchen of their home on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • A couple drink a bubbly toast after their wedding ceremony in a park setting in Juneau.
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  • A couple rides in a limousine to the airport to take a helicopter to the Mendenhall Glacier for their wedding.
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  • After the wedding ceremony on the Mendenhall Glacier, a newly married couple waits to fly back to their cruise ship by helicopter.
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  • A big congratulations wish to a couple dressed in formal attire who donned crampons to walk on ice to be married on the Mendenhall Glacier. They took a helicopter onto the icefield and said their vows, then were toasted husband and wife.
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  • Families gather for a boat ride and check a crab pot that also contained a common sunstar (Crossaster papposus) that feeds on crabs and other intertidal, marine creatures.
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  • Father and daugter kayak on still water near Moser Island which separates North and South Arms Hoonah Sound on Chichagof Island in Tongass National Forest.
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  • Young girls hike through an uplift meadow with a mosaic of flowering plants on Moser Island which separates North and South Arms Hoonah Sound off of Chichagof Island.
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  • A young girl investigates sea life at low tide on Moser Island in Southeast Alaska.<br />
Scientists have counted at least 170 species of macroscopic invertebrates in the rich marine intertidal zones.
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  • Two girls beach-comb near the water's edge investigating crabs and other sea life at low tide in Southeast Alaska.<br />
Scientists have counted at least 170 species of macroscopic invertebrates in the rich marine intertidal zones.
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  • A crisp early morning after a freshly fallen snow in the Mendenhall Valley at an inn near Juneau.
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  • A hiker explores an ice cave recently revealed at Mendenhall Glacier. As the glaciers in southeast Alaska melt, ice is exposed thousands of years after being buried. Some tunnels in the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield are connected to ice caves, which formed as the glacier moved across uneven surfaces.<br />
During the Pleistoncene Great Ice Age several climate fluctuations created glacial advance and retreat, and vast sheets of ice covered nearly a third of the Earth’s land mass and one half of Alaska. As the climate warmed during the Holocene, ice retreated remaining in Alaskan at high elevations. The most recent variation in advance and retreat created the Juneau Icefield formed 3,000 years ago and ending in the 1700’s. Mendenhall Glacier has flowed for 250 years for 13 miles ending in a lake at its’ base.
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  • A timber faller works alone with a chain saw in the forest cutting trees one by one at Winter Harbor on Prince of Wales Island. It is dangerous work.<br />
 The forests in the Tongass can take a 1000 years for spruce, hemlock and Sitka cedar to grow and tower over a lush forest floor in Alaska's Southeast.<br />
Less than 5 percent of the entire Tongass is composed of high-volume old growth. The biggest and best trees, the biological heart of the rainforest, has been cut—much of it for pulp.
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  • A timber faller works alone in the woods at Winter Harbor. It is dangerous work and cuts are calculated so a tree will fall cleanly to prevent injuries.
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  • A timber faller works alone in the woods at Winter Harbor on Prince of Wales Island. He turns off his chain saw occasionally to listen for others working on nearby hillsides. It is a way the men look out for each other's safety.<br />
Loggers and fishermen rank in the top two spots for most dangerous jobs. Both are common lines of work for people in the Alaskan outdoors. Since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking fatal occupational injuries in 1980, there were 4,547 fatal work injuries in 2010, and fatality rates of some occupations remain alarmingly high.
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  • A proud father photographs his son holding up the salmon he caught on their fishing trip.
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  • A boy proudly displays the salmon he caught when the family was fishing near Prince of Wales Island.
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  • The axe throwing contest at the annual logging show is one of the many competitions among locals to show off their skills on Prince of Wales Island. Red bulls eye targets are painted on cuts from trees in the Tongass National Forest.
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  • Equiped with crampons and emergency equipment, a hiker crawls through a blue ice tunnel formed in the Mendenhall Glacier. As the glaciers in southeast Alaska melt, ice is exposed thousands of years after being buried. Some tunnels in the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield are connected to ice caves, which formed as the glacier moved across uneven surfaces.<br />
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During the Pleistoncene Great Ice Age several climate fluctuations created glacial advance and retreat, and vast sheets of ice covered nearly a third of the Earth’s land mass and one half of Alaska. As the climate warmed during the Holocene, ice retreated remaining in Alaskan at high elevations. The most recent variation in advance and retreat created the Juneau Icefield formed 3,000 years ago and ending in the 1700’s. Mendenhall Glacier has flowed for 250 years for 13 miles ending in a lake at its’ base.
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