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UPCOMING
EVENTS
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Tuesday, March 6: The Hunger Games Mall
Tour
• Saturday, March 17: 130th Atlanta St.
Patrick's Parade
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Friday-Sunday, April 20-22: TrekTrax
Atlanta
SAVE THE DATES: DETAILS TO BE
ANNOUNCED
• Sunday, April 29: Spring
Dinner & Business Meeting
• Friday-Sunday, May 4-6:
Outlantacon
• Saturday, May 5: Away Mission
to The Avengers
• Friday-Sunday, May 25-27:
TimeGate
• Friday-Sunday, June 8-10:
Sci-Fi Summer Con
• Saturday, July 7: Away
Mission to The Amazing Spider-Man
• Saturday, July 21: Away
Mission to The Dark Knight Rises
NEWS
& ANNOUNCEMENTS
• TrekTrax Atlanta announces
Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen
• TrekTrax
Atlanta MUST have your support NOW!
• Personnel
Records
• Library Computer
• Recent Chapter Event Photos
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March Birthdays
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Welcome Aboard!
• Member Reenlistments
• Upcoming
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• About the Republic
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Partners
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Quinto:
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UPCOMING
EVENTS
The
Hunger Games Mall Tour
5:00
p.m. Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Lenox Square Mall
3393 Peachtree Road NE, Atlanta GA 30326 |
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friends at Allied Integrated Marketing here in Atlanta have
invited members and friends of the USS Republic to
attend The Hunger Games Mall Tour on Tuesday, March
6, at Lenox Square Mall. The Hunger Games
is an upcoming science fiction action-drama film directed
by Gary Ross based on the novel of the same name by
Suzanne Collins. Scheduled to be released on
March 23, it stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson,
Elizabeth Banks, Liam Hemsworth and Woody
Harrelson. Hemsworth will be appearing at this event,
as well as Leven Rambin, Dayo Okeniyi, Amandla
Stenberg and Jack Quaid. Gates open at 2:30
p.m. and the event will begin at 5:00 p.m. This is a
free, family event. USS Republic CO Capt Eric
L. Watts is not able to attend due to his work schedule,
so any members and friends of the Republic who attend
are asked to take photos of the event (including the obligatory
group shot) for publication in next month's Republiqué.
Make it so! |
130th
Atlanta St. Patrick's Parade
A JOINT CHAPTER EVENT WITH THE USS ATLANTA AND MEMBERS
OF KAG
Saturday,
March 17, 2012
Line-up begins at 10:00 a.m.; step-off is at 12:00 p.m.
Peachtree Street at Ralph McGill Boulevard
Atlanta GA 30308 |
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Republic
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in the 2010 Atlanta St. Patrick's Parade.
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For
the third year since 2009, the USS Republic will
march in Atlanta's St. Patrick's Parade. Always
held on Saturday, this year's parade will actually be held
on the traditional date of St. Patrick's Day, March 17. This
year, we'll be joined by members of both the USS Atlanta
and members of the Klingon Assault Group behind our awesome
parade banner in a strong showing of Star Trek solidarity! PLEASE
PLAN TO JOIN US!
LINE-UP
INFORMATION
The USS Republic is #25 out of 38 groups to line
up on Peachtree Street between Pine Street and Ralph McGill
Boulevard. (The Georgia 501st Stormtroopers are
#10!) Other groups will be lining up on West
Peachtree Street and Ralph McGill. Our line-up
time and place is 10:45 a.m. in the left-hand curb lane
(see map, below; click to enlarge).
MARTA is highly recommended. Take MARTA
to the Civic Center Station on West Peachtree Street. When
exiting the station, our line-up area is one block to the
east (see map, below; click to enlarge).
2012 will be the largest, best-attended St. Patrick's Parade
& Festival since the first Atlanta St. Patrick's Parade
held 154 years ago, in 1858. The parade begins
at 12:00 noon, runs 1.1 miles starting from Peachtree Street
and Ralph McGill Boulevard, proceeding down Peachtree past
Woodruff Park, then left on Decatur Street to Pryor Street
and right on Pryor through Underground Atlanta and the huge
Underground Atlanta Festival where there will be free entertainment
and vendors. For
a map of the entire parade route, please click here.
The 2012 Atlanta St. Patrick's Parade will have over 200
units, including clowns, floats, bands of every kind, military
units, bagpipe and drum corps, thousands of children, Irish
dancers, clowns, high-tech firefighting equipment, police
units, drill teams, dogs, horses, antique cars, dignitaries
from Ireland and our own government leaders. Join
us for a great day and for a grand time as we celebrate
Atlanta and her Irish Heritage in 2012.
Please contact
the Captain as soon as possible if you're planning
to join us so we can have a reasonably accurate idea of
how many to expect. This is a costume-encouraged
event, so please plan to wear your Republic chapter
sport shirt, chapter t-shirt or your best Star Trek
costume. If you don't care to march with us,
consider coming out with your camera and cheering for us
as we go by!
ATLANTA
ST. PATRICK'S PARADE WEB SITE
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TrekTrax
Atlanta
Friday-Sunday,
April 20-22, 2012
Holiday Inn Atlanta Perimeter
4386 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd
Atlanta GA 30341 (770) 457-6363 |
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TrekTrax
Atlanta
is a science fiction convention based in Atlanta, Georgia,
dedicated to Star Trek and hosted by the USS Republic,
that places special emphasis on fan-based events, activities,
programming and productions. After a successful first
convention in February 2011, TrekTrax Atlanta 2012 will be
held April 20-22 at the Holiday Inn Atlanta Perimeter in the
northern Atlanta suburb of Chamblee. TrekTrax Atlanta
has been endorsed by the Klingon
Assault Group
International as the National Klingon Konvention. Membership
discounts are available to all members of STARFLEET
International
and the Klingon
Assault Group. Click
the image above for everything you need to know about TrekTrax
Atlanta,
including guests, programming, memberships, hotel, dealers
room, program book advertising, volunteer opportunities and
much, much more.
To make TrekTrax Atlanta a successful
event, we need your support, attendance and prereg membership. Make
it so! |
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NEWS
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TrekTrax
Atlanta announces KLI founder Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen |
The
USS Republic is pleased to announce that Klingon language
expert and Klingon
Language Institute founder Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen
has been confirmed as a guest for TrekTrax Atlanta.
 Schoen
holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics
and is one of the world's foremost authorities on the Klingon
language, In 1992, Dr. Schoen's interests in science
fiction and language found common ground and he established,
and began his tenure as director of, the Klingon
Language Institute, an organization dedicated to the
study of the world's most popular fictional language. This
included an ongoing career of lectures at conventions and
museums across three continents, and the development of a
loose affiliation of language scholars and amateurs throughout
fifty countries.
At TrekTrax Atlanta, Dr. Schoen will host two different presentations:
one about his work in Star Trek fandom in general and
Klingon fandom in particular, and the other will be an actual
Klingon language workshop. In addition, Dr. Schoen
will be seated on several other discussion panels as an expert
in all things Klingon.
Don't miss TrekTrax
Atlanta. Adult memberships are currently
only $45 with a $5.00 discount available to members of STARFLEET
International and the Klingon
Assault Group. Pre-reg
TODAY. When
you purchase your membership, you can also purchase your VIP
Champagne Reception ticket (available only in advance; not
available at the door) and your souvenir convention t-shirt,
and make your hotel
room reservation. Visit the TrekTrax
Atlanta web site to learn more about the convention
and everything we've got planned for this extraordinary Star
Trek fan experience.
Valid
STARFLEET and KAG memberships will be verified prior to processing
payments. One discount per person. See
respective web pages for additional details. |
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Atlanta MUST have your support NOW! Please
read this. |
As
of this writing, we are now just over six weeks away from
the kick-off of TrekTrax
Atlanta
and we are in critical need of your support.
 There
are three categories of persons who will be attending the
convention: Guests, Staff and Members. There is
something that each category of attendee can do to help.
Guests: "Guests" are all those
folks listed on the home page of our web site with their name
and photo. You are vital to the success
of TrekTrax Atlanta and each of you most likely has a web
site or a blog site or a Facebook page or some other means
of helping us advertise and promote TrekTrax Atlanta. We
have been heavily promoting your appearance at our convention;
we now need you to heavily promote your appearance at our
convention as well. Use whatever images, web links
or other information on our web site freely and liberally
on yours. "Like" our Facebook
page and "Share" our daily announcements on yours. We
need your support.
Staff: "Staff" are our volunteers
who help run the convention both in the planning and development
stages as well as at the convention itself. Volunteers
are asked to pay a nominal $10 staff badge fee. We
have critically important needs in virtually all departments,
including all four programming tracks, registration, convention
operations, technical operations, guest services, photography
and videography, security, gaming, video room and con suite. If
you want to attend the convention but the $45 price tag is
a hardship, consider volunteering for one or more of these
departments. Visit our Volunteers
web page for staff policies and contact information for our
department heads or contact
the Chairman. In the meantime, "Like"
our Facebook
page and "Share" our daily announcements on yours. We
need your support.
Members: "Members," of course,
are all those folks who purchase an attending membership. What
we need from you right now is to purchase your membership. Please
don't wait any longer. ChattaCon, Con Nooga and AnachroCon
are now behind us and TrekTrax Atlanta is dead ahead. The
TXA executive committee is now at the point where we need
to make several critically important purchases and payments
(airline tickets, celebrity appearance fees, hotel deposits,
program books, t-shirts, etc.) and other decisions based on
expected attendance (quantities of program books, t-shirts,
audio/visual equipment rentals, etc.). Almost all
of these purchases and decisions must be made within the next
two weeks and they will all be made based on the number of
preregistered memberships that have been sold. If
that number falls below our expectations (and right now, it
does), the TXA executive committee will have to make
some tough decisions on what, or who, to cut from the convention
in order to make it a financially viable event.
The TrekTrax Atlanta executive committee is committed to producing
the best Star Trek fan experience possible. But
at the end of the day, it's YOU who make it possible. "Like"
our Facebook
page and "Share" our daily announcements on yours,
and PLEASE! Buy
your membership today! |
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Personnel
Records
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 The
USS Republic expresses it sincerest condolences
to ENS1 Mark A. Ozanick and his family on the
passing of his mother, Mrs. Mary Ann Ozanick,
of Cleveland, Ohio, on February 20, 2012. Mrs.
Ozanick is survived by her beloved husband, Leonard
F.; brother, John Glagola; two sons, Leonard J. and
Mark; two daughters, Lisa and Melanie; seven grandchildren
and three nieces. Ad eundum quo nemo ante
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Recent
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Valentine's
Day Lonely Hearts Dinner || February
12, 2012
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Left:
USS Republic
CO Capt Eric L. Watts, ENS1 Zannetta Law Tucker,
Baby Zarena Nova Tucker and ENS3 Richard Tucker
at the Republic Social House restaurant in Grant
Park.
Right: Mama Zannetta and Baby Zarena.
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TrekTrax
Atlanta at Con Nooga || February
18-19, 2012
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Left:
USS Republic
CO Capt Eric L. Watts and TrekTrax
Atlanta staff volunteer Sam Vance promote TXA
from our fan table at Con Nooga in Chattanooga on
Saturday, February 18.
Right: Same convention, same table, different day,
different shirt: Capt Watts continues to promote
TXA on Sunday, February 19.
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Attending
members of Con
Nooga enjoy the Republic's
hospitality and learn about TrekTrax Atlanta during
our deluxe minisuite room party in the Chattanooga
Choo Choo Hotel on
Saturday, February 18.
Clockwise from top left: Capt Watts (center) slings
drinks from a fully stocked bar. Partygoers
give the Vulcan hand sign. Longtime friend
Scott Rennick (right) demonstrates the oxymoronic
"Klingon welcome." Chips and pretzels
and trail mix, oh my!
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TrekTrax
Atlanta at AnachroCon || February
24-26, 2012
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Left:
USS Republic CO Capt Eric L. Watts (on Saturday,
February 25) and Right: (on Sunday, February 26)
with USS Atlanta CO Adm Mike Henigan at the
TrekTrax Atlanta fan table at AnachroCon. Adm
Henigan served on AnachroCon's Gaming Room staff
and is TrekTrax Atlanta's Gaming Room Director.
New Star Trek games in this year's
TXA Gaming Room include Star Trek Online,
Star Trek Expeditions, Star Trek Heroclix
Tactics and Klingon Monopoly, and these new games
are in addition to over two dozen other Star
Trek games returning to TrekTrax Atlanta this
year. If you are a Star Trek fan AND
an avid gamer, TrekTrax Atlanta is the convention
for YOU!
USS Republic + USS Atlanta
= Year of the Phoenix.
Reenlist. Recommit. Reunite.
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MARCH
BIRTHDAYS
Friday, March 9
ENS1 Lea Hepler
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WELCOME
ABOARD!
2 New Members in February!
Ens James P. Gronski
Ens Leslie C. Gronski
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MEMBER
REENLISTMENTS
These members renewed their SFI and chapter
dues in February
ENS3 Edward L. ("Eddie") Hines
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UPCOMING
MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS
No current membership dues expirations until April!
Previously expired membership dues can be renewed here!
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ABOUT
THE REPUBLIC
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USS Republic NCC-1371 was originally commissioned
as a chapter of STARFLEET International on May 14, 1988,
at the Dixie-Trek convention in Atlanta, Georgia. As
of March 4, 2012, the Republic crew includes 36
members who are active members of STARFLEET in good
standing. |
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Republic plans and coordinates an active schedule
of events for its members, frequently partnering with other
local science fiction groups in the Atlanta area for joint
activities, but does not hold meetings on a consistently
fixed date each month. |
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Because
the USS Republic is a duly commissioned chapter
of STARFLEET International and is bound and governed by
its Constitution and By-Laws, membership in STARFLEET
is a prerequisite for membership in the Republic. Combined
annual dues for both groups are $25 per person and is
collected by the chapter (family discounts are available
with certain conditions and restrictions). Membership
in the Republic includes access to our YahooGroups
message board, voting privileges in chapter elections
and a personalized laminated membership card which entitles
the member to discounts and rebates on products and services
offered by our Member Benefits Program Partners. Additional
information on Republic membership and how to join
and reenlist is on our award-winning web site.
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NEWS
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Trek Set Photos Show Benedict Cumberbatch Battling Spock
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Josh Wigler
February 24, 2012
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Trek 2 is shrouded in secrecy. We don't have an
official title, we don't know the plot, and we don't know
who Benedict Cumberbatch is playing---though all signs point
to a villain, especially in light of a new set photo that's
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this first look at director J. J. Abrams' currently shooting
Star Trek sequel, we see quite clearly that Zachary
Quinto's returning Spock and the newcomer played by Cumberbatch
are very much not friends. The two are locked in battle
on top of what's being described as "a Space Barge
set." |
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the battle and in the photo you can see here, Spock does
his best to stop his foe using his famous Vulcan Death Grip
[sic], but the move fails; Cumberbatch's character is able
to overpower the grip and regain the upper hand in his struggle
against the Starfleet officer. |
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Spock is not the only one wearing a Starfleet uniform. Cumberbatch's
unknown character is seen wearing a black version of the
uniform under his silver overcoat. A sign that this
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another shot from the epic battle, Zoe Saldana joins the
fight once again as Uhura. She's using a phaser to
save Spock from Cumberbatch's villain, though whether or
not she'll be successful is a completely different story
altogether. |
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NEWS
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Trek: Phase II to Produce Lost Norman Spinrad Script |
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Anthony Pascale
February 24, 2012
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1967, immediately after work finished on the original series
episode "The Doomsday Machine," Star Trek
creator/producer Gene Roddenberry asked writer Norman Spinrad
to follow it up with another script. This time, the
parameters were to include a role for "Mr. Television"
Milton Berle. Spinrad turned around a script titled
"He Walked Among Us," but then came into conflict
with producer Gene Coon. After Coon rewrote the script,
Spinrad felt it didn't work anymore and convinced Roddenberry
to pull it from the production schedule. Now, 45 years
later, Spinrad has rediscovered his long lost original draft
and this week he made it available as an ebook download.
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Spinrad was contacted by Star Trek: Phase II star
/ producer James Cawley and the two agreed to put the show
back into production. Spinrad tells TrekMovie that
Cawley also offered him the opportunity to direct the episode,
which he accepted. This will be Spinrad's first time
at the helm, but he has experience working on film and television
and has always wanted to direct. Spinrad tells TrekMovie
the plan is to shoot "He Walked Among Us" in September.
For now, Cawley and Spinrad haven't started to talk
about who they can cast to play the role originally intended
for Milton Berle. TrekMovie suggests Jason Alexander.
He's a good actor for both drama and comedy, and of
course a huge Trekkie (who even appeared in an episode of
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"Privileged" to Be on Star Trek Sequel
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TrekMovie.com Staff
February 28, 2012
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Cumberbatch talked to MTV about shooting the Star Trek
sequel while attending Elton John's Oscar party on Sunday.
The actor responded to Chris Pine's recent compliment
about how he stood out due to his training, saying that
he actually only had a year of training. Benedict
also said he is learning a lot from his cast mates, noting
he has been working especially closely with Quinto: |
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think they are brilliant on that show, and it's a real privilege
to be on that set. There's a patter and a kind of
knowledge of who they're playing and the other main characters,
which I'm learning a lot from. It's just good fun.
It's great to work with Chris. He's very professional.
So is Zach [Quinto], who I've been working a lot with
this week; I adore him, he's a brilliant, brilliant guy.
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Batch (trying out a new nickname for him) said that his
work is now starting on the Star Trek project, which
began filming January 12. He also talked about what
it is like jumping into a sequel where everyone knows each
other, saying: |
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a great thing to come into something that everybody's familiar
with and knows each other very well. So it's [in] a weird
way a very easy thing to get up to speed with, because everybody
is so welcoming and gets along with one another. |
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Star Trek Sequel Still Being Defined + Saldana Talks
Exhausting Schedule |
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TrekMovie.com Staff
February 29, 2012
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to E at the Academy Awards on Sunday, Star Trek's
Zachary Quinto once again talked about how the sequel currently
in production is evolving, saying: |
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you guys are going to see has yet to be solidified, decided
[and] defined and that's the great part about working with
someone who is so mind-bogglingly talented as J. J. Abrams. |
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also noted that the shooting schedule has been "overwhelming,"
but he noted that he loves to "work hard." And
Quinto's Star Trek co-star Zoe Saldana also talked
to E over the weekend, and she, too, weighed in on the schedule,
saying: |
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like happy exhausted. I'm literally going to bed with
the biggest smile... I feel like I'm home. |
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Commanding
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The
Republiqué Volume
I, Number 48, March 2012.
Published monthly by and Copyright © 2012 USS Republic
NCC-1371.
Captain Eric L. Watts, Editor.
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