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Northeast water purificationplant expansion project

The City of Houston'sNortheast Water Purifica-tion Plant (NEWPP) ex-pansion project is led byRavi Kaleyatodi, P.E., Se-nior Assistant Director.The project consists of twodesign-build phases to ex-pand the plant's capacityfrom 80 million gallons perday (MGD) to 400 MGD by2024. The expansionproject will help the Cityand water authorities meetwater demands, and fulfillrequirements by the Har

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Waste PitsmeetingsDecember 4 & 5

Monday, December 4the EPA will host a commu-nity meeting for the San Ja-cinto River Waste Pits Super-fund Site. From 6:30-8:00 PMthe EPA will be at the High-lands Community Center toprovide information regard-ing their Record of Decisionto remove the Pits and thesite’s status post-Harvey. Youwill have the opportunity toask the EPA questions or ex-press your concerns. We en-courage you to join us at thismeeting to hear the site’sstatus directly from the EPA.

The San Jacinto RiverCoalition will host a regularmonthly meeting on Tues-day, December 5 at 6:30 atthe Highlands CommunityCenter. For those who can-not attend the EPA meeting,or feel they have unan-swered quest ions, th ismeeting will be an opportu-nity to receive informationand remain engaged.

Galena Park ISDCommunityHoliday OpenHouse

The community is invitedto the Galena Park ISD Com-munity Holiday Open House.

Friday, December 8 ,2017 from 9:00 a.m. - 11:00a.m. at Galena Park ISD Ad-ministration Building (BoardRoom), 14705 WoodforestBlvd., Houston, Texas 77015.

Refreshments, studentperformances and SantaClaus.

Channelview ISDto host holidayOpen House

The Channelview Inde-pendent School District willhost its annual ChristmasOpen House and Wassailfrom 9 a.m.- 4 p.m., Thurs-day, Dec. 14 at the JoyceHendrix Educational Sup-port Center, 828 SheldonRoad. The public is invited tothis holiday event.

Musical entertainmentwill be provided during theday by elementary, juniorhigh and high school stu-dents. Santa and Mrs. Clauswill also be in attendance atthe event.

Galena Park ISD wouldlike to congratulate theNorth Shore Mustang foot-ball team for their victoryover Clear Springs this pastweekend! The Mustangs willplay Lamar High School inthe 6A Regional PlayoffGame at Rice Stadium on Fri-day, December 1 at 7 p.m.Presale tickets will be avail-able at the GPISD AthleticOffice until Friday, Decem-ber 1 at 3 p.m. Presale tick-ets will be $5 for studentsand $7 for adults. Goodluck, Mustangs!

Photo by Allan Jamail

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and Heritage Hall Seniors. (turkeys in foreground)

GALENA PARK ISDNorth Shore Mustangs advanceto Regional Playoff Game

Sophomore Running Back, Zachary Evans

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee’sAnnual Turkey Gift to Jacinto City SeniorsBy Allan Jamail

Jacinto City, TX. Mon-day, November 20, 2017Jacinto City’s HeritageHall Seniors received fro-zen turkeys ready to bakefor their Thanksgiving din-ner from CongresswomanSheila Jackson Lee.

Annually Congress-woman Lee of the 18thCongressional Districtgives thousands of turkeysto senior groups during theThanksgiving season.Eighty seniors were onhand to get their turkey,the homebound seniorshad theirs delivered.

One senior said, “be-cause of the kindness ofthis gift I can make many

good meals from it.”Assisting in the event were volunteers of the Congresswoman and the Keep Jacinto City Clean Committee.

Galena Park citizens enjoy first annual turkey dinner

Mayor Moya welcomes guests for Thanksgiving dinner. Mayor Esmeralda Moya visits with Thanksgiving dinner guest.

See Galena Park FirstAnnual Turkey Dinner, Page 3

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College Night for GooseCreek ISD studentsBy Susan Passmore

More than 500 studentssigned in for Goose CreekCISD’s College Night,sponsored by College andCareer Readiness, atGoose Creek MemorialHigh School. Fifty-ninecolleges and universitieswere available to provideinformation to studentsand their parents aboutpost secondary opportuni-ties. Army, Navy and AirForce representatives werein attendance, and SylvanLearning Center also hada table.

“We had several newopportunities this year,”said Travita Godfrey, coor-dinator of college and ca-reer readiness. “Due tofeedback from other Col-lege Nights, we offered asession about NCAA andNAIA requirements forthose wishing to play col-lege sports.”

The session was pre-sented by coaches BrenJones and Robert Lockeand counselor GeorgiaLovell, who provided help-ful information aboutmaintaining grade pointaverages and other guide-lines for prospective col-lege athletes.

Grade level parentmeetings were held for thefirst time to help parentsbetter understand the col-lege and career process orexploring, researching andmaking decisions. Seniorparents learned about howto complete the college ad-missions process. Anotherfirst was that the Air ForceROTC came to talk aboutscholarship programs.

This event gives stu-dents and parents the op-portunity to ask questionsface-to-face with represen-

(from left) Clayton Maddie, Skylar Liles and NicoleBarragan, students from Ross S. Sterling HighSchool get information from Rebecca Montz withGalveston College at Goose Creek CISD’s recentCollege Night held at Goose Creek Memorial HighSchool.

Demoria Howard (second from left), a student atGoose Creek Memorial High School, and hergrandmother Emma Miller talk to ChrystalCantrell with LSU at Goose Creek CISD’s recentCollege Night.Photos by Carrie Pryor-Newman

tatives. Carolyn Washington, secretary at the Peter E.Hyland Center, and her son Nicholas Washington, a se-nior at Ross S. Sterling High School, were pleased tolearn that some colleges and universities waive out ofstate tuition if a student has a high ACT or SAT score.College Night is held annually for district students andparents.

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(Harris County, TX) - Asthe 2017 Atlantic hurri-cane season comes to anend, weather experts arecalling it the most destruc-tive season on record.Three major hurricanes -Harvey, Irma, and Maria -were responsible for mostof the destruction. Harveyspread a destructive pathacross much of southeastTexas, while Irma impact-ed Florida and Maria shat-tered Puerto Rico.

Hurricane Harveymade landfall on the Cen-tral Texas Coast as a Cat-egory 4 storm late Friday,August 25th and by thenext day, its heavy rainfallstalled in our region caus-ing catastrophic flooding inHarris and surroundingcounties. Harvey dumpedmore than 50 inches of rainacross the region, the high-est amount in UnitedStates history.

“Although Harvey wasa hurricane, its effects onus in Harris County wereprimarily as a rain event.

Most DestructiveHurricane Season onRecord EndsHurricane Harvey Devastates Harris County

A trillion gallons of waterfell across Harris Countyover just four days - morethan most cities get in ayear,” said Harris CountyJudge Ed Emmett. “Clear-ly, this was the most de-structive flood our area hasever experienced.”

Harris County officialsconfirmed 36 deaths due toHarvey, and early esti-mates indicate that dam-ages will most likelysurpass the $160 billioncaused by Hurricane Kat-rina in 2005.

“Damages are still be-ing assessed and it may bea while before we know anexact number, but we aredoing everything we can tohelp restore our communi-ties,” added Emmett. “Weare truly grateful to allwho have contributed tohelp residents impacted bythe storm.”

The Harris County Of-fice of Homeland Security& Emergency Manage-ment (HCOHSEM) hasbeen working closely with

local, state, federal andnon-profit partners to helpexpedite the recovery pro-cess. To date, the FederalEmergency ManagementAgency (FEMA) reportsthat $675 million forhousehold assistance hasbeen approved in HarrisCounty.

HCOHSEM remindsresidents affected by Har-vey that the deadline toregister for federal assis-tance is November 30th. Toapply go towww.disasterassistance.govor call 800-621-3362.

Hurricane season offi-cially ends on November30th, but residents are en-couraged to stay informedand be prepared for emer-gencies throughout theyear. They can gotowww.readyharris.org tosign up for emergencyalerts or download theReadyHarris app on theirmobile devices to accessinformation and prepared-ness tips.

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Water Plant,CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

ris-Galveston and FortBend Subsidence Districtsthat restrict groundwaterusage.

Construction on the$1.35 billion project is ex-pected to begin in the fallof 2017. Four partner agen-cies involved in the projectwill share portions of thecost and they include:North Harris County Re-gional Water Authority,Central Harris County Re-gional Water Authority,West Harris County Re-gional Water Authorityand North Fort Bend Wa-ter Authority.

The City will administerand oversee the project,and it is responsible for theplanning, design and con-struction of the project.

Key project aspects in-clude:

New Water Purification Plant building design.

Governor Greg Abbotthas appointed MelissaMartin, North Shore Se-nior High teacher, to theTexas Commission on Pub-lic School Finance. Martinand three other individu-als will develop recommen-dations for the governorand legislature on publicschool funding and pre-pare a report to deliver bythe end of 2018.

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sent the students andteachers in our greatstate,” said Martin. “I’mlooking forward to servingby first studying the cur-rent public school financesystem then collaboratingwith the others on the com-mission to make recom-mendations to improve thesystem in order to meet theneeds of our students.”

Martin is a career andtechnology teacher and is

a member of the Associa-tion of Texas ProfessionalEducators, advisor for theFamily Career and Com-munity Leaders of Ameri-ca, and a former advisor forthe Texas Association ofFuture Educators. She re-ceived her bachelors andmaster’s degree fromLamar University.

Congratulations, Mrs.Martin!

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Galena Park FirstAnnual TurkeyDinner,CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

By Allan Jamail

Galena Park, TX.Wednesday, November22, 2017 - Galena ParkMayor Esmeralda Moyabrought sponsors andcitizens together for aThanksgiving turkeydinner at the Deli HouseRestaurant on HollandAvenue.

According to JorgeFlores Galena Park’sEconomic DevelopmentCoordinator, more than350 citizens attendedthe free dinner. He saidbecause of its successit’ll become an annualevent.

“The sponsors wereMayor Moya, MagellanPipe Line Company LP,the Deli House Restau-rant, the Committee fora Better Galena Park,Moya’s Inc, and Ernes-to Trevino Trucking”said Flores.

City officials presentwere CommissionersRodney Chersky, BarryPonder, City SecretaryMayra Gonzales, PoliceChief Reese Martin andmembers of the fire de-partment.

Coordinator Floressaid, “we cooked 25 tur-keys along with all thetrimmings, desserts andsodas.”

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Federal, State and LocalPartnerships Remain KeyTo County’s Future asUrban Model, Emmett Says.

Just three months after themost destructive storm inAmerican history struck HarrisCounty, County Judge EdEmmett used his 2017 State ofthe County Address to an-nounce that the county wasback on its feet and againlooking to the future.

“During Harvey, the re-sponse of our residents and thecooperative spirit amonggovernment officials showed ourspirit and can-do attitude,”Emmett said. “From the HarrisCounty Office of EmergencyManagement, to first respond-ers, to volunteers with boatsand high-water vehicles, theworld saw something special.Let us capture that specialcaring for each other in otheraspects of life.”

Emmett acknowledged thelarge amount of recovery workremaining, but said that workpresents opportunities for majorimprovements in flood control,transportation and health care.Seizing those opportunities,however, will require thatgovernments continue to worktogether even after the crisishas passed.

“I look forward to workingwith Mayor Turner and officialsfrom the other 33 municipalitiesin Harris County - as well asacademic organizations such asthe Kinder Institute - to designand implement a system ofurban governance that not onlymeets the needs of our resi-dents, but will draw people fromaround the world to study whatwe have done.”

Emmett spoke to approxi-mately 1,000 people attendinghis 10th State of the CountyAddress, sponsored by theGreater Houston Partnership.

He concluded the event, as hedid the year before, by calling onattendees to help him battle anincreasingly pervasive antago-nism among some in govern-ment.

“Harris County has low taxesand exemplary financialratings, but some state officialswant more restrictions on ourability to meet the needs of ourresidents,” he said. “Those samestate leaders have shifted thepublic school tax burden moreand more from the state ontolocal school districts. In aneffort to stir up voters, theyattack counties and other localgovernments, all the whileoffering no real solutions.Organizations like the GreaterHouston Partnership should sayenough is enough. I urge you tosupport vision, not pandering.”

(NAPSI)—Manyolder Americans havediscovered that sharingtheir accumulatedwisdom with otherswho need help can be abig win all around.

Here’s a look at twoways you can stretchyour mind and showyour heart:

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Experience Corpsunites teachers, schoolsand older adults toimprove children’sacademic and socialoutcomes. This benefitsthe children, theschools and the volun-teers.

The program hasbeen proven to helpchildren who aren’treading at grade levelbecome better readersby the end of thirdgrade. Last school year,76 percent of studentswho were below gradelevel at the beginningof the year raised theirreading and literacyperformance by one ormore proficiency levelswith the help of Experi-ence Corps volunteers.

The goal is to im-prove children’s litera-cy, strengthencommunities, developcultures of inspirationin schools and supporthardworking teachers.It’s already changedthe lives of thousandsof children in schoolsacross America.

Volunteers should beage 50 or older; have atleast a high schooldiploma or GED; pass acriminal backgroundcheck; pass a basicliteracy screening;attend 25 hours ofannual training; andhave five to 15 hours aweek to offer duringthe school year.

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IRS tax-certifiedvolunteer preparers inlibraries, malls, banks,community centers andsenior centers answerquestions and preparetax returns. In additionto earned and retire-ment income reporting,they can also help withinvestment income(interest, dividends,and capital gains forSchedule D), ScheduleC for individuals withsmall businesses thathave less than $25,000in annual expenses,and various healthcare, education, childand earned incomecredits.

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AUSTIN - Gov. Greg Abbott onNov. 20 extended the disaster dec-laration for counties affected byHurricane Harvey. Some 60 coun-ties are included and they will con-tinue to be eligible for assistanceas they recover and rebuild.

“The most important message Iwant to send to the victims of thisstorm is that they are not alone asthey continue to recover from thisstorm. While we still have a longway to go to return to a new nor-mal, I have no doubt that Texas willeventually emerge from this disas-ter stronger than ever before,” Ab-bott said.

Declarations must be renewedevery 30 days for assistance to re-main available. Gov. Abbott said hewould continue to renew them asneeded throughout the recoveryprocess. Counties covered in the di-saster declaration include: Angeli-na, Aransas, Atascosa, Austin,Bastrop, Bee, Bexar, Brazoria, Bra-zos, Burleson, Caldwell, Calhoun,Cameron, Chambers, Colorado,Comal, DeWitt, Fayette, Fort Bend,Galveston, Goliad, Gonzales,Grimes, Guadalupe, Hardin, Har-ris, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, JimWells, Karnes, Kerr, Kleberg, Lava-ca, Lee, Leon, Liberty, Live Oak,Madison, Matagorda, Milam, Mont-gomery, Newton, Nueces, Orange,Polk, Refugio, Sabine, San Patricio,San Augustine, San Jacinto, Trini-ty, Tyler, Victoria, Walker, Wailer,Washington, Wharton, Willacy andWilson.Aid request is granted On Nov. 17

Abbott announced that the Fed-eral Emergency Management

Agency granted his request to extendthe deadline to Jan. 16 for Transi-tional Sheltering Assistance for vic-tims of Hurricane Harvey. Nearly17,000 families are receiving thisform of assistance, which is intend-ed to help those whohave been unable toreturn to their homesfind short-term shel-ter in hotels or othertemporary housing lo-cations. Abbott said heremains “committedto doing everythingpossible to get thesefamilies back undertheir own roofs.”HUD funds committed

In other hurricane-recovery news, theU.S. Department ofHousing and Urban Development onNov. 17 awarded $5 billion througha community development blockgrant program supporting the repairof damaged homes, businesses andcritical infrastructure.

HUD Secretary Ben Carson saidthe agency would work with Abbottand his staff “to do whatever is need-ed to rebuild damaged homes and torestore shuttered businesses in someof the hardest-hit areas of the State.”U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruzacknowledged the importance of fed-

eral disaster aid toTexans who are con-tinuing to suffer as aresult of HurricaneHarvey and ex-pressed support forthe programs.

In September,President Trumpsigned legislationsecuring $7.4 billionin funding for Har-vey and major disas-ters, such asHurricane Irma(Florida), HurricaneMaria (Puerto Rico)and the Californiawildfires.Court blocks newlaw

Austin U.S. Dis-trict Judge LeeYeakel, in a Nov. 22ruling, granted per-manent injunctiverelief to abortionproviders who have

been trying to prevent enforce-ment of a law passed last springby the Texas Legislature. The lawwould require a provider to per-form an additional procedure toensure fetal demise before con-

tinuing a dilation andevacuation abortion.Yeakel, in finding forthe plaintiffs, said theadditional procedure,which involves a lethalinjection to a fetus inthe second trimester,would be invasive,risky and medicallyunnecessary. Texas At-torney General KenPaxton said the statewould fight the injunc-tion in the U.S. Courtof Appeals for the Fifth

Circuit.Job growth continues

The Texas Workforce Commis-sion on Nov. 17 reported that thestate’s economy added 71,500 sea-sonally adjusted nonfarm jobs inOctober while annual employmentgrowth was 2.6 percent for themonth, marking 90 consecutivemonths of annual growth. Theagency also touted Texas’ season-ally adjusted unemployment rate,which fell to 3.9 percent and set arecord for the lowest unemploy-ment rate recorded in four de-cades.

Notably, the agency pointed out,the leisure and hospitality employ-ment category rebounded by add-ing 34,700 jobs in October afterexperiencing its largest monthlydecline in September due to hur-ricane-affected business closures.Also, in 2017 to date, leisure andhospitality has gained 41,000 jobs,while trade, transportation andutilities employment grew by10,300 jobs, and professional andbusiness services expanded by6,300 jobs.

The Amarillo and Midland Met-ropolitan Statistical Areas record-ed the month’s lowestunemployment rate among TexasMSAs with a non-seasonally ad-justed rate of 2.4 percent, followedby the College Station-Bryan MSAwith a rate of 2.5 percent. The Aus-tin-Round Rock and LubbockMSAs registered a rate of 2.6 per-cent for October, Texas WorkforceCommission reported.

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Cobb Elementary andSchochler Elementary stu-dents are teaming up tobuild a better robot as theyare preparing for theFIRST LEGO League com-petition to be held in Hous-ton in December.

The team will be thefirst elementary groupfrom Channelview ISD toparticipate in the competi-tion. Team members arecomprised of fourth andfifth grade students fromboth schools. Cobb teach-er Ke lsey Evans andSchochler teacher JoseVasquez are serving as theteam’s coaches.

The main part of theevent involves the teamdesigning, building andprogramming a robot us-ing LEGO Mindstormsmaterials and software.The robot must then com-pete on a table-top playingfield. All phases of the com-petition require studentsto use concepts in Science,Technology, Engineeringand Mathematics, alsoknown as STEM.

“The robotics competi-tion challenges the stu-dents to use problemsolving skills they havelearned,” Evans said. “Ourstudents have to think out-side of the box when pro-gramming their robots toperform different tasks.Competitions like this

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stones offer three ways tofight the winter blues:tanzanite, zircon and tur-quoise – all of them, ap-propriately, best knownfor beautiful shades ofblue. These gems rangefrom the oldest on earth(zircon), to one of the firstmined and used in jewel-ry (turquoise), to one ofthe most recently discov-ered (tanzanite).

All of these stones arerelatively inexpensive,but their beauty rivalseven precious gems. Col-orless zircon is a convinc-ing replacement fordiamond, tanzanite oftensubstitutes sapphire, andturquoise is unmatchedin its hue of robin’s eggblue.

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miles of land in Tanzania,near majestic Mount Kil-imanjaro. Its price andavailability are directlytied to mines in this re-gion. Between its deepblue color and its limitedsupply, tanzanite is trea-sured by many – wheth-er one is born inDecember or not!

ZIRCON OVERVIEWZircon is an underrat-

ed gem that’s often con-fused with syntheticcubic zirconia due to sim-ilar names and shareduse as diamond simu-lants. Few people realizethat zircon is a spectacu-lar natural gem availablein a variety of colors. Thename zircon likely comesfrom the Persian wordzargun, meaning “gold-colored.” Others trace itto the Arabic zarkun,meaning “vermillion.”Given its wide range ofcolors – spanning red, or-ange, yellow, green, blueand brown – both originsmake sense. Zircon com-monly occurs brownishred, which can be popularfor its earth tones. How-ever, most gem-qualitystones are heat treateduntil colorless, gold or

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TURQUOISE OVERVIEWAdmired since ancient

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The U.S. is now theworld’s largest turquoisesupplier. Nevada, NewMexico, California andColorado have producedturquoise, but Arizonaleads in production byvalue, as well as quality.The stone’s popularityhere makes it a staple inNative American jewelry.Turquoise is found in aridregions where rainwaterdissolves copper in thesoil, forming colorful nod-ular deposits when itcombines with aluminumand phosphorus. Coppercontributes blue hues,while iron and chromeadd a hint of green.

Turquoise is sensitiveto direct sunlight and sol-vents like makeup, per-fume and natural oils.The hardest turquoiseonly measures 6 on theMohs scale, which madethis soft stone popular incarved talismansthroughout history. High-ly esteemed for its strik-ing namesake color andits ancient history, tur-quoise remains popularthrough time.

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Members of the combined team of Cobb and Schochler elementary students perform atest run on their LEGO robot after they programmed it to navigate a tabletop course.

CHANNELVIEW ISDCobb, Schochler students joinforces for robotics competition

gives our students experi-ence in working together toaccomplish specific goals.”

At the event, the Chan-nelview team will competein three categories. In thefirst phase, the studentsmust program their robotsto perform different tasks.The team then earnspoints for the successfulcompletion of each exer-cise. The second portion ofthe competition involvesteam members participat-ing in a research exercisewhere they have to comeup with a solution to aproblem. Students are ableto present the findings oftheir research in variousforms, such as through aPowerPoint presentationor other forms of visual dis-plays.

“In conducting research,the students are having tothink creatively and mustunderstand how to navi-gate the internet for reli-able resources and comeup with their own solu-tions and not one thatsomeone has already pro-duced,” Evans said.

In the final stage of theevent, the students willparticipate in a timed teamchallenge. The team will begiven an exercise wherethey will collaborate in de-termining the solution to aspecific scenario.

“One thing that the

judges look at closely ishow the team applies theirknowledge of STEM ineach stage of the competi-tion,” Vasquez said. “Ourteam is very diverse andwe have students withstrong levels of intelli-gence.”

Members of the teamand their coaches have metat least once a week for thepast two months to pre-pare for the competition.

“This is a dedicatedgroup of students,” saidChad Nuetzmann, CobbElementary principal.“These students have ded-i ca ted themse lves t ospending time after schoollearning the specifics ofprogramming their LEGOrobots and further develop-ing their higher-level skillsthat is required for thisevent.”

Schochler ElementaryPrincipal Ann Garza saidher students have enjoyedjoining forces with theirpeers from Cobb Elemen-tary.

“We are very excitedabout this event and thisopportunity for studentsfrom both campuses,” shesaid. “The students arecertainly strengtheningtheir skills in science, tech-nology and math whilehaving fun in the process.I know they will representChannelview well.”


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