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Post by dex on Mar 16, 2020 8:09:03 GMT -5
www.shalommemorialchapel.com/?p=4316Fay A. Rozovsky DATELINE: HOUSTON, TX Fay A. Rozovsky, a lawyer nationally recognized for championing the rights of medical patients, and also an author, teacher, patron of Providence College and passionate fan of the New York Yankees, died March 4 at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, after a valorous three-year battle with bile duct cancer. A native Rhode Islander who grew up in Cranston and Pawtucket, Mrs. Rozovsky, 69, was one of the first women to graduate as a full-time day student from previously all-male Providence College, earning an A.B. degree summa cum laude in political science in 1973. A daughter of the late Maurice and Beatrice (Samdperil) Frank, Mrs. Rozovsky subsequently graduated from Boston College Law School and then earned a master’s degree in public health from Harvard University. She and her late husband, lawyer Lorne E. Rozovsky, founded LEFAR Health Associates in Canada, and in the U.S. she founded and headed the Rozovsky Group, advisors to health care professionals on a wide range of patient safety and consent issues. Mrs. Rozovsky lectured extensively and taught courses at the Dalhousie schools of medicine and law and Mount St. Vincent University, both in Halifax, Nova Scotia; the William & Mary law school in Williamsburg, Va.; and the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. She wrote or co-wrote more than 20 books and 600 articles. Her books, among them “Consent to Treatment: A Practical Guide,” have been cited by the Supreme Courts of the U.S. and Canada and in many law journals and academic publications. Her passion for patient rights was matched by her lifelong allegiance to the Yankees – nourished by her Bronx-born father – and which led her to actually play on the diamond with the likes of Yankee stalwarts Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez, Jose Posada, Bucky Dent, Mickey Rivers, and Chris Chambliss. That happened in 2015, when at the age of 64 she attended the Yankees’ three-day fantasy camp for women in Tampa, Fla. She came away proudly with an official Yankees uniform and a personalized baseball card that documented how in a series of games she hit a respectable .250. Mrs. Rozovsky devoted much of her energy to supporting her beloved Providence College, where her parents established a scholarship fund in her name, and she served as president of the school’s international alumni association. In 2008, PC awarded her an honorary doctorate in public health, recognizing her contributions to the field. She often joked that as the college began moving toward accepting women, she was a “guinea pig” for then-PC president Thomas R. Peterson, O.P. Mrs. Rozovsky, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management and one of its past presidents, was awarded the society’s Distinguished Service Award in 1998. In 2018 she received the society’s Presidential Citation for Lifetime Achievement in Healthcare Risk Management. Before moving recently to Houston for medical treatment she lived in Williamsburg, Va. She is survived by two sons, Joshua I. Rozovsky, of Rocky Hill, Conn., medical services coordinator for the Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective, and Rabbi Aaron A. Rozovsky of Jackson, Miss., and his wife, Eliza; her sister, Dr. Ann Frank Goldstein of Greenville, R.I. and her husband, Gerald S. Goldstein; devoted friends Judy Montgomery, Dr. Maxine Hayes, Geri Amori, and Carolyn Alexander; and her dearly loved beagle, Tevye. Due to new public health restrictions, Mrs. Rozovsky’s funeral service will be a private graveside service in Lincoln Park Cemetery, Warwick. No shiva will be held. A celebration of her life will be held at Providence College at a future date to be announced. In lieu of flowers, donations in Mrs. Rozovsky’s name may be made to the Fay A. Rozovsky Scholarship Fund, or the Jewish-Catholic Theological Exchange, both at Providence College; the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston; or to a charity of your choice.
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Post by lowcountryfriar on Mar 18, 2020 15:18:32 GMT -5
PC has some incredibly accomplished alums, it is truly humbling. RIP Fay.
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Post by dex on Mar 20, 2020 17:41:17 GMT -5
Attachment DeletedI did not know Fay but I know folks who did. A remarkable human being AND maybe the first Jewish woman to graduate from Alma Mater. She left our hallowed land better than she found it. Blessings To Fay and her Family
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Post by pcdad on Mar 28, 2020 23:22:56 GMT -5
Curly Neal, Globetrotters’ Dazzling Dribbler, Dies at 77 He admitted he “didn’t know anything about being funny” when he joined the comedic basketball team, but he became one of its biggest stars.
Marc Stein By Marc Stein March 26, 2020
Fred “Curly” Neal, whose dribbling wizardry made him one of the most well-known members of the beloved Harlem Globetrotters traveling basketball team, died on Thursday at his home near Houston. He was 77.
The team announced the death but gave no other details.
Nicknamed “Curly” upon joining the Globetrotters in a humorous nod to his shaved head, Neal played in more than 6,000 exhibition games for the Globetrotters from 1963 to 1985, mostly against the Washington Generals, their hapless foils.
In one of the most highly anticipated elements of the Globetrotters’ routine, Neal would dribble all over the court, frequently sliding on his knees, never losing control of the ball no matter how close to the hardwood he had lowered himself. Then he would bounce the ball through a flailing defender’s legs near the free-throw line and dribble in for an uncontested layup to finish off the move.
“Oh my gosh, he revolutionized ball handling,” Nancy Lieberman, who played for the Generals against the Globetrotters in 1988, said in a phone interview. “Everything you see Kyrie Irving doing and Steph Curry doing now, all of it started with the Trotters. The Trotters made dribbling a show.”
Neal’s trickery and showmanship established him as one of the team’s foremost stars, alongside the likes of Meadowlark Lemon and Hubert “Geese” Ausbie. Known for wearing ever-present white pads over his knees and an array of red, white and blue wristbands, Neal helped the Globetrotters’ barnstorming ensemble become a regular feature of ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” in an era when the National Basketball Association did not have a robust national television presence as it does now.
At the height of the Globetrotters’ popularity in the 1970s, with Neal’s supreme ball-handling skills and long-distance shooting as prime attractions, they inspired multiple animated TV series, including “Scooby-Doo Meets the Harlem Globetrotters” in 1972.
They also performed some of their basketball tricks on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” accompanied as always by the strains of “Sweet Georgia Brown,” their trademark song. And they played themselves on television shows like “The White Shadow” and “Love Boat” and in a made-for-television “Gilligan’s Island” movie.
“His basketball skill was unrivaled by most, and his warm heart and huge smile brought joy to families worldwide,” Jeff Munn, the Globetrotters’ general manager, said in a statement on Thursday. “He always made time for his many fans and inspired millions.”
Steve Kerr, the coach of the Golden State Warriors, said on Twitter, “Hard to express how much joy Curly Neal brought to my life growing up.”
Frederick Neal was born on May 19, 1942, in Greensboro, N.C., and played collegiately at Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, where he averaged 23 points per game as a senior to earn All-Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association honors. Future N.B.A. stars such as Lou Hudson and Al Attles were high school and college contemporaries, but Neal was not drafted by an N.B.A. team and struggled to land a job in the pros.
“That’s what I wanted to do, really,” he told The New York Times in 1983.
But an offer soon materialized with the Globetrotters, and Neal eventually succeeded Marques Haynes, a 1992 inductee into the Basketball Hall of Fame, as the Globetrotters’ ball-handling sensation.
Neal and Haynes “taught me how to dribble,” Isiah Thomas, the former All-Star guard who led the Detroit Pistons to back-to-back N.B.A. championships in 1989 and 1990, said on Thursday on Twitter.
“I was blessed to be close with Curly and Marques Haynes,” Lieberman said. “Curly learned from Marques and took it to a whole different level.”
The Globetrotters retired Neal’s No. 22 in 2008 in a ceremony at Madison Square Garden — an honor bestowed upon only four other players in the team’s history: Wilt Chamberlain (13), Reece “Goose” Tatum (50), Haynes (20) and Lemon (36). He continued to serve as a Globetrotters ambassador long after he stopped playing.
Neal, though, recalled very humble beginnings to his Globetrotters career in his 1983 interview with The Times, saying: “I got a questionnaire letter, as a free agent. I would have to pay my way to camp. The Globetrotters sent me a plane ticket and gave me room and board.”
Another challenge, he said, was learning how to entertain fans as part of a traveling basketball troupe renowned for throwing buckets of confetti — or water — on fans sitting courtside.
“I didn’t know anything about being funny,” Neal said.
Information on his survivors was not immediately available.
In an interview with bullz-eye.com in 2008, Neal revealed that he had actually begun shaving his head at age 12 — long before he got his nickname.
“The kids in the neighborhood, we decided to do something mischievous,” Neal said. “My mom didn’t like it at first. She said, ‘What happened to you?’ And I said, ‘I went to sleep in the barber’s chair.’”
Neal stuck with that look throughout his high school and college career. He said it was Bobby Milton, the Globetrotters’ coach when Neal arrived, who decided, “We’re going to call you Curly.”
Marc Stein is a sports reporter specializing in N.B.A. coverage, with occasional forays into soccer and tennis. He spent nearly 15 years at ESPN before coming to The Times. @thesteinline • Facebook
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Post by dex on Apr 13, 2020 9:58:39 GMT -5
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• Glenn Beckert, a four-time All-Star second baseman for the Chicago Cubs in the 1960s and '70s, died on Sunday. He was 79. Citing his family, the Cubs said he died of natural causes in Florida. Playing alongside Hall of Famers Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Ron Santo and Ferguson Jenkins, Beckert won a Gold Glove in 1968 and made four straight All-Star teams for Chicago starting in 1969. Beckert batted .283 in 11 seasons with Chicago (1965-73) and the San Diego Padres (1974-75).
He led the National League five times in strikeout-to-atbat ratio and finished third in batting in 1971 at a career-best .342. After playing shortstop in the minors, Beckert moved to second base with the Cubs for the 1965 season. He then teamed with shortstop Don Kessinger for his entire nineyear Cubs career to form one of the best double-play combinations in baseball.
Beckert played at Allegheny College, earning a political science degree in 1962. He signed with Boston that year and went to Chicago in the first-year minor-league draft.
• Stirling Moss, a daring, speed-loving Englishman regarded as the greatest Formula One driver never to win the world championship, has died. He was 90. Moss died peacefully at his London home following a long illness, his wife Susan said on Sunday.
Known as “Mr. Motor Racing,” Moss had a taste for adventure that saw him push cars to their limits across many racing categories and competitions.
He was fearless, fiercely competitive and often reckless.
That attitude took a toll on his slight body. His career ended early, at age 31, after a horrific crash left him in a coma for a month in April 1962. By the time he retired, Moss had won 16 of the 66 F1 races he entered.
• Doug Sanders brought a flamboyance to golf ahead of his time, a colorful character known as much for the 20 times he won on the PGA Tour as the majors that got away. Sanders died on Sunday morning in Houston, the PGA Tour confirmed through a text from Sanders' ex-wife, Scotty.
He was 86. Sanders was still an amateur when he won his first PGA Tour event in 1956 at the Canadian Open in a playoff against Dow Finsterwald. His best year was in 1961 when he won five times and finished third on the PGA Tour money list. But he is best known for four runner-up finishes in the majors, the most memorable at St. Andrews in the 1970 British Open. Sanders also finished one shot behind Jack Nicklaus in the 1966 British Open at Muirfield.
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Post by friar82 on Apr 20, 2020 11:57:46 GMT -5
Former Baltimore Colt linebacker great, Mike Curtis has passed. I could watch the clip of him leveling the fan that ran cross the field a million more times, and laugh each and every instance
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Post by dex on May 7, 2020 9:07:38 GMT -5
MY TURN
Kindness, clad in pinstripes
By Gerry Goldstein
Circumstance has delayed baseball and scrubbed early encounters between the Red Sox and the enemy widely known here as the 'Evil Empire.”
But let this, coming from a lifelong Sox fanatic, be strewn upon the record: Far from being an evil empire, the New York Yankees are one class act.
Why this surprising endorsement?
A few months ago, as my sister-in-law Fay lay dying at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, our genial bedside reminiscences revolved around her lifelong allegiance to the Yankees — a character flaw inherited from her Bronx-born father.
As a breaker of barriers, Fay was among the first women to graduate from previously all-male Providence College. A born scrapper, she held a childhood dream of becoming the Yankees’ first 'bat girl.”
That never happened, but Fay did get to play Yankees baseball. In 2015, at age 64, she attended the team’s fantasy camp for women in Tampa, hobnobbing with retirees like Mariano Rivera and Bucky Dent – the latter reviled in New England for his 1978 home run that helped deny Boston a pennant.
For years, Fay had joked that she belonged on the Yankees’ major league roster and was awaiting a call from General Manager Brian Cashman.
One Sunday afternoon, when her remaining days were few, her cell phone rang. Astonishingly, it was the very call she had longed for: “Fay, this is Brian Cashman.”
This was a magnificent double play, pulled off by Fay’s sister – my wife, Ann – and a friend. Through fantasy camp contacts, they sent Cashman a message explaining that a call from him would mean everything.
The chat was strictly private – Fay was alone in her hospital room when he rang her up.
I pined to know, why would he call a dying stranger? What would he say?
I phoned his Yankee Stadium office the following day, begging a secretary to ask him for a return call. It came in minutes.
Fay Rozovsky with Bucky Dent at the Yankees’ fantasy camp for women in 2015. [COURTESY NEW YORK YANKEES]
I asked how Fay reacted when he identified himself.
He responded with a chuckle, “I think she said, ‘Holy s**t!’” Why did he call?
“It's hard to say no to anything like that,” replied the 52-year-old Cashman. “If you can do it, you should. I told her, ‘I know you're on the Injured List. We love you and we appreciate you and we look forward to you getting off it. Please come join us whether it's spring training or during the season and we can talk Yankees after that.’” This was the same Cashman who once broke a leg skydiving to benefit wounded military veterans, slept overnight on a New York sidewalk to raise awareness for the homeless, and during the pandemic has delivered coffee and doughnuts to hospital staffers.
When we spoke, I made Cashman a promise – excruciating to keep – in acknowledgment of his kindness. I’ll get to it shortly.
First, know that when we laid Fay to rest it was without evidence of her law degree, her master’s degree from Harvard University, or the many books she wrote as an authority on public health policy.
Instead, we buried her as she asked – wearing her Yankees cap.
Now I’ll keep my vow to Cashman, sworn in gratitude for the compassion of a decidedly not-so-evil emperor: In my capacity as a loyal citizen of Red Sox Nation, and in the glare of the public spotlight, I hereby declare in all sincerity: Bucky Dent, I forgive you.
Gerry Goldstein (gerryg76@verizon.net), a monthly contributor, is a retired Providence Journal bureau chief and columnist
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Post by dex on May 9, 2020 9:26:31 GMT -5
Friar Community Mourns The Loss Of Legendary Golf Coach Joe Prisco Prisco coached the Friar varsity golf team for 42 years. Legendary Providence College golf coach Joseph "Joe" Prisco passed away on May 6. Prisco, who was born in 1919, was 101. He was born and raised in East Providence.
Prior to retiring in 2012, Prisco spent 60 years as the Friars' golf coach and was instrumental in bringing the club golf team to varsity status in 1960. Prisco led the program to a 403-119-1 mark while guiding eight squads and 16 individuals into the NCAA Championships over a 42-year span. Prisco also claimed two BIG EAST titles and eight NCAA Division I Coach of the Year accolades.
A 1949 graduate of Providence College, Prisco served as the team captain and coach of the golf team in 1948 and 1949. In addition to coaching at the College, he was a professor in the business department from 1953 until he retired in 1989. He continued teaching courses at Providence for another 20 years after his retirement.
In 2015, Prisco was one of six inductees into the Rhode Island Golf Hall of Fame. Prisco also was a Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA) Hall of Fame inductee in 1987. In 1989, he was inducted into the Providence College Athletics Hall of Fame. Prisco finished the final 10 seasons of his coaching career with the Providence College club program from 2002-12.
Prisco proudly served with the US Army Air Corp during World War II; with the 434th Squadron of the 12th Bomb Group. He organized many yearly reunions of the 434th Squadron.
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Post by thumper on May 9, 2020 10:29:32 GMT -5
Rock & Roll legend Little Richard just passed away at 87.
PIZZA, SODA, GRINDERS!!!
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Post by dex on May 12, 2020 8:41:21 GMT -5
Comedian Jerry Stiller, 92
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NEW YORK — Jerry Stiller, who for decades teamed with wife Anne Meara in a beloved comedy duo and then reached new heights in his senior years as the high-strung Frank Costanza on the classic sitcom “Seinfeld' and the basement-dwelling fatherin- law on “The King of Queens,” died at 92, his son Ben Stiller announced Monday.
“I’m sad to say that my father, Jerry Stiller, passed away from natural causes,' his son said in a tweet.
'He was a great dad and grandfather and the most dedicated husband to Anne for about 62 years. He will be greatly missed. Love you Dad,' wrote Ben, who followed in his father’s comedic footsteps and became an A-list box office star with movies like “Tropic Thunder,” “Dodgeball” and “There's Something About Mary.”
Jerry Stiller was a multitalented performer who appeared in an assortment of movies, playing Walter Matthau’s police sidekick in the thriller “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” and Divine’s husband Wilbur Turnblad in John Waters’ twisted comedy “Hairspray.”
He also wrote an autobiography, “Married to Laughter,” about his 50-plus year marriage to soul mate and comedic cohort Meara, who died in 2015. And his myriad television spots included everything from “Murder She Wrote” to “Law & Order” — along with 36 appearances alongside Meara on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
Stiller, although a supporting player on “Seinfeld,” created some of the Emmywinning show’s most enduring moments: co-creator and model for the “bro,” a brassiere for men; a Korean War cook who inflicted food poisoning on his entire unit; an ever-simmering salesman controlling his explosive temper with the shouted mantra, “Serenity now!”
Stiller earned an 1997 Emmy nomination for his indelible “Seinfeld” performance. In a 2005 Esquire interview, Stiller recalled that he was out of work and not the first choice for the role of Frank Costanza, father to Jason Alexander’s neurotic George.
“My manager had retired,” he said. “I was close to 70 years old, and had nowhere to go.”
He was initially told to play the role as a milquetoast husband with an overbearing wife,
Jerry Stiller, right, and Anne Meara appear with host Ed Sullivan in the 1970s. [AP FILE]
Estelle, played by Estelle Harris. But the character wasn’t working — until Stiller suggested his reincarnation as an over-the-top crank who matched his wife scream for scream.
It jump-started the septuagenarian’s career, landing him a spot playing Vince Lombardi in a Nike commercial and the role of another over-the-top dad on the long-running sitcom “King of Queens.”
While he was known as a nut-job father on the small screen, Stiller and wife Meara raised two children in their longtime home on Manhattan’s Upper West Side: daughter Amy, who became an actress, and son Ben, who would become perhaps the most famous Stiller as a writer, director and actor.
He and Ben performed together in “Shoeshine,” which was nominated for a 1988 Academy Award in the short subject category.
Stiller was considerably quieter and more reflective in person than in character — although just as funny. The son of a bus driver and a housewife, he grew up in Depression-era Brooklyn. His inspiration to enter show business came at age 8, when his father took him to see the Marx Brothers in the comedy classic “A Night at the Opera.”
Years later, Stiller met Groucho Marx and thanked him.
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Post by wtm97 on May 12, 2020 17:35:13 GMT -5
“Festivus for the rest of us”
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Post by friar82 on May 17, 2020 6:47:05 GMT -5
Former Miss America and NFL Today host, Phyillis George passes away at age 70. She was the first woman covering a professional men's sport that I can recall
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Post by dex on May 19, 2020 8:44:57 GMT -5
Perhaps the greatest Bullchit Artist of all time. I learned so very much from this kid growing up.
A true patron of the "arts'.
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Ken Osmond, Eddie Haskell on ‘Leave It to Beaver,’ at 76
By Andrew Dalton
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LOS ANGELES — Ken Osmond, who played the two-faced teenage scoundrel Eddie Haskell on TV’s “Leave It to Beaver,” died Monday, his family said.
Osmond died in Los Angeles at age 76. No indication of the cause was given.
“He was an incredibly kind and wonderful father,” son Eric Osmond said in a statement. “He had his family gathered around him when he passed. He was loved and will be very missed.”
Ken Osmond’s Eddie Haskell stood out among many memorable characters on the classic family sitcom “Leave it to Beaver,” which ran from 1957 to 1963 on CBS and ABC, but had a decades-long life of reruns and revivals.
Eddie was the best friend of Tony Dow’s Wally Cleaver, big brother to Jerry Mathers’ Beaver Cleaver. He constantly kissed up to adults and kicked down at his peers, usually in the same scene, and was the closest thing the wholesome show had to a villain. Viewers of all ages loved to hate him.
“He was a terrific guy, he was a terrific actor and his character is probably one that will last forever,” Dow told The Associated Press on Monday.
“He was one of the few guys on the show who really played a character and created it,” Dow added, chuckling as he mimicked the evil laugh Osmond would unleash when his character was launching one nefarious scheme or another and trying to pull Wally and his younger brother Beaver into it.
Osmond was born in Glendale, California, to a carpenter father and a mother who wanted to get him into acting. He got his first role at age 4, working in commercials and as a film extra, and got his first speaking role at 9, appearing mostly in small guest parts on TV series.
The role of Eddie in season one of “Leave It to Beaver” was also supposed to be a one-off guest appearance, but the show’s
Members of the original cast of the “Leave It To Beaver,” from left, Ken Osmond, Tony Dow, Barbara Billingsley and Jerry Mathers in a 1982 photo taken during the filming of their TV special, “Still The Beaver,” in Los Angeles. [AP FILE / WALLY FONG]
producers and its audience found him so memorable he became a regular, appearing in nearly 100 of the show’s 234 episodes.
Osmond returned to making guest appearances on TV shows including “The Munsters” in the late 1960s, but found he was so identified with Eddie Haskell that it was hard to land roles.
He would give up acting and become a Los Angeles police officer.
“I was very much typecast. It’s a death sentence,” Osmond told radio host Stu Stoshak in a 2008 interview on “Stu’s Show.” “I’m not complaining, because Eddie’s been too good to me, but I found work hard to come by. In 1968, I bought my first house, in ’69 I got married, and we were going to start a family and I needed a job, so I went out and signed up for the LAPD.”
Dow, who was a lifelong friend of Osmond’s, said “His motorcycle cop stories are terrific.”
Osmond and wife Sandra Purdy had two sons, Eric and Christian.
He would return to TV in 1983, when “Leave It to Beaver” reruns were having a heyday, appearing in the TV movie “Still the Beaver.”
A revival series, “The New Leave It to Beaver,” came next, with Osmond reprising the role of Haskell alongside Dow and Mathers from 1983 to 1989.
In the 80s he also appeared in “Happy Days,” the series set in the “Leave It to Beaver” era, and the TV movie “High School USA.”
In 2014 he co-authored the memoir “Eddie: The Life and Times of America’s Preeminent Bad Boy.”
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