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st. louis." are there white folk in east st. louis? >> yeah, it's good roots. [laughter] i'll tell you. tavis: when you think of east st. louis, one of the firstames that come to mind for me is jackie joyner kersey, another great athlete, jimmy connors out of east st. louis. what's in the water in east st. louis? >> i'll take it. i'll take the company. my mom, my dad, my grandparents came from east st. louis and my upbringing, with the way it was back in the 30s, 40s, and the 50s. i came around in 1952. my grandfather was mayor of east st. louis and police commissioner -- good roots. i loved it. but it was also, i also knew that there was a time when i wanted to go. my mom taught me tennis, gave me an opportunity to play. back in east st. louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. if you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside. my mom gave me a game that allowed me to stretch out, and when i was 16, i was ready to go. tavis: i'm just ribbing you about the -- i'm from the midwest, i'm from indiana. >> i know, i know you are. tavis: so i'm just ribbing you about that good, midwest upbringing which i never take f

st. louis for the first time since 1997. jim: not without a little, there at the end.cole gillespie left field. boy, he got a jump on the ball. great jump, great catch and a nice win for the cubs and chris narveson -- and chris rusin. changes course and halls it in. frustrating days in st. louis. len: cubs improved to 2-2 on this trip. and kevin gregg it's his 24th save good chris rescind the winner. will be back in a >> thought and the sun turned to tragedy when a 14-year-old

first and third. a single up the middle and st. louis now only two games behind the pirates. >>> take a look at this, a line drive to oakland shortstop eric so guard puts it more than just the ball, look at that. look at that. you know? yeah. he's earned his money that day. so pegs him in the leg there. the a's take a 5-0 win. we'll just keep that on a loop. to tampa where a special guest joined the rays in the clubhouse before their game, a 20-foot python named asia. apparently this is how the manager joe madden keeps the team loose by telling them i'm going to constrict you. you know? python. yeah. see, you got the joke. big mike, you know. the rays went to beat the mariners, 7-1. the red sox lost to the jays, tampa bay is now only two games behind boston in the a.l. east. look at that thing. >>> how about some little league action for you? panama, puerto rico in the opening round of the littleal league world series. puerto rico's pitcher unleashes a nasty curveball that almost sends the batter off his feet. look at that. nope. core st

st. louis cards are now in sole possession of first place in the national league central division, and theyg bats against cincinnati to do it. in the third, matt holliday went deep with a three-run blast. and then in the seventh, allen craig rocks his first career grand slam. cards beat the reds 8-6. >>> and a devastating blow for the new york mets, their ace, matt harvey has a torn ligament in his right elbow. he'll likely sit out the est of the season. against the phillies, the mets went down swinging 2-1 for the fifth straight loss. >>> in detroit, miguel cabrera is on the hunt for another triple crown. he launched a towering home run against the a's. his 43rd of the season. in the sixth,daric barton slaps a single up the middle. they wave big nate fryman home. a's take a bite out of the tigers 8-6. >>> and in the first round of the u.s. open, the williams sisters are looking pretty strong. venus didn't seem hampered by illness or injury on monday. she's ranked 60th, but blue past kirsten flipkens 6-1, 6-2 and her sister beat francesca schiavone 6-0, 6-1. >>> when we return, top story an

st. louis is also in first place, the second place pirates trying to keep pace.n't keep aramis ramirez from going yard. that's his 350th career home run. they led 6-5 in the seventh when national league home run leader alvarez hits the foul pole, says i, the game is knotted up at six, but the brewers get an r.b.i. sac fly to win 7-6. the pirates trail the cards by a game and a half. >> roger federer's quest for a sixth u.s. open title and eighth grand slam win got off to a great start. the wet stuff postponed the first round match from wednesday night to tuesday afternoon. federer recorded 12 aces and 35 winners winning in straight sets. >> did you know, he is a seventh seed this year, not that low tins 2002. >> on the women's side, a huge upset, 17-year-old victoria beat 2011 winner. she had a qualify just to get into the open and look at her now, she gets her first ever grand slam win. >> helped me a lot today, thank you. i know sam is a great champion and i watched her when she won the u.s. open, and i know she didn't play her best today and this is the best i

first off, let's get to quantitative easing. you just heard the st. louis fed president.e is saying don't do it, the next second saying taper. >> we better not taper i. liz: the headline was we still have to wait to see more data. >> four and half years of qe, five years since the collapse of the housing market we still have to wait. let's just get the balance sheet up to me before trillion. liz: let's show some stunning numbers. what the market has done since qe began in september of 2008. the nasdaq has seen a 60% gain. the dow 39% again. the trade was obvious, equities. what is the trade now? >> i went long, january of 2009. most people thought i would be bearish forever. liz: and you ppobably had a little bit of angina when you saw the lows. let's get to what the trade is now. >> treasuries have a ton of cash. it will be very challenging for investors. japan is going to blow up in the next three months. raise taxes, spend a lot of money in the government and drain inflation. that is a great idea. liz: ru shorting treasuries? >> yes. liz: how do you do it? >> anybody c

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st. louis. l.a. hoss won 17 of their last 18 games at home. >>> the baltimore ravens were back on the field for the firstnce winning the super bowl. baltimore opened their preseason schedule against the bucs in reiny tampa. the ravens got a 7-6 lead. the defending champs don't look back from there. they win, 44-16. and the super bowl runners-up were also back in action. the san francisco 49ers hosting the denver broncos, before star quarterbacks collin kaepernick and peyton manning played just one series. the only touchdown comes when niners' running back d.j. harper coughs up the ball and phillips returns with a score. the broncos win, 10-6. >>> finally, just because you earn the tens of millions of dollar as year and you are the face of the nba doesn't mean you can escape jury duty. lebron james got his notice in the mail and showed up at court in his hometown of akron, ohio, thursday. before he left, the miami heat star posted this photo on instagram. jury duty time. time to serve my civic duty. he never got the chance. james and the rest of the jury pool were sent home after about an hour because two

st. louis. guest: the first time a president had ever done that in a criminal trial. host: next to sherry in independence, missouri. caller: you answered my question about her eyesight. i have another question, being so well educated for the time, did julia speak other languages? i also understand that after the grants left the white house, that they were really party animals. i'll hang up. thank you. guest: she may have learned some french while she was in school, but not on a real conversational basis that i know of. during the world tour, which may be what the caller is referring to, they took a two and a half year world tour and were welcomed by the public and by royalty throughout the world. most of the time, they had to have an interpreter while they were there. host: we learned that at least mary lincoln thought washington looked down upon her as a westerner. the question from dave on twitter -- guest: i never found that at all. she was more sure of herself and not insecure like mary lincoln. she went after it. she was one of those people that jumped in the mid

first robotics. it's the national st. louis, it might as well be football friday night lights. it's amazing. know, 10% of the incoming mit class did first robotics. so one of the main things, the main things i think about for stem is how are we going to leverage all this technology to get the content and the lecture out of the classroom and into other time and how will they get their hands on design thinking robots class and debate in theater and performance and all this stuff into the classroom? so that it is much more fun. i think if we think back about why all of us do technology, you can remember the moment, wherever it was, elementary school, middle school, where you did a project. it was project-based learning, and you loved him to realize not only is this fun and science is not history of science that he said gently what other people do, it's what i do. and not only what you do but it's also what i do. people learn they do it. kids learn they do it. we need to get in class. i'm lucky because trey's daughter when she's not here is in the same class as our older son, and this is from the

bars for a 15 million dollar robbery is about to become this nation's first ex-con sworn in as a police officer. along with lake st. louise chief mike forest. great to have you both here, gentlemen. larry, i want to start with you on this, because when you hear about that jewel heist, is there a little ting in you that gets excited to hear that someone was able to achieve that big of a get, $136 million? is there a small part in thaw responds to that? >> well, i think that i could have prevented it, thomas. i think that maybe they read the book and i hope they didn't, but there is more to that whole story. as i said on other networks, that was more than just one guy doing that robbery but i don't get excited. i really get excited by helping the police departments like i o now. >> how were able to make that switch from jewel thief to life coach. >> i had my bottom in prison. everybody has a different bottom. then when you find people who work with you like police chief mike morris and the lake st. louis replied is where the turnaround really comes. >> when we talk about this turnaround, it's gotten the attention of lake s

that was the period where mainstream dailies one after another first the new york times and the washington post and the boston globe st louis post. they committed civil disobedience and publishing the pentagon papers telling the truth about and after one newspaper would be enjoined the other newspapers would start publishing so that was the high point and when you think about where have we come from seventy's today i think about bob woodward at the washington post where he bernstein unraveled this conspiracy and brought down a president and you think about woodward in the last ten twelve years and he's basically cozy with presidents whether they're democrats or republicans. the establishment media has grown even cozier with the establishment the corporate ownership has got the owners more web up with power i remember in two thousand and four sumner redstone on c.b.s. for years and then and viacom and you're known as a liberal and they said who you endorsing for president in two thousand and four and he was a friend of you for message you since he was a friend of john kerry's well i mentor senior republicans because i know i

st louis than they had scored in their last 6 games at wrigley field combined. it was the second cubs start for newcomer jake arrieta, and this one was better than his first.lready 4-0 cubs, but two men on in the sixth when he gets matt holliday looking to end the threat. that was one of his seven strikeouts in seven innings. he only gave up two hits. and he helped out with his bat in the bottom of the inning. the perfectly-executed safety squeeze scored darwin barney to make it 6-0. the cubs went on to shut out the cardinals for the second time in a week 7-0. it was a big day for a former cub. hall of famer ryne sandberg was introduced as interim manager of the phillies. sandberg was in his first year as the phils' third-base coach, and he got the call to move to the dugout when the phillies fired the winningest manager in their history, charlie manuel. ryno got his start coaching in the cubs organization but managed the phillies' aaa team the last two years. a goal of mine seven years ago when i got into managing in the minor leagues in the cubs was to get back to the major league level. charlie allowed that and i really enjoyed my time with him. i wish

first drive which ended on a one-yard touchdown run by ray rice. joe flacco threw a touchdown pass and two interceptions. ravens rap up the preseason next thursday in st. louis and kick off the regular season september 5th. that game is in denver. >>> and you can add a dash of ravens the next teem you spies up the-- spice up the crabs because mccormick released a old bay commemorative can. it features flacco and smith and suggs and rice and two others. you can get the limited edition of the cans at mccormick world of flavor store at the inner harbor and other retailers. >>> it's home of all things agriculture. maryland state fair starts today. what's new you may be asking. we are live with a preview. and a blood drive is always a good thing for the community but coming up, we will take you to one that's all about giving back. details in a few moments>> reporter: no delays getting in your way on 795 at owings mills boulevard. i will show you what the other main lines look like and bring you latest drives times after the break. this summer, new york state is back and open for business. with endless beaches, hundreds of miles for hiking...or biking. endless riv

st. louis pummeling pittsburgh, 13-0. a big egg. the pirates coach overheard saying to his players, he'll have to pump you up, maybe. the cards are a game and a half back from first. >>> beatrice tonoco is 17. her make-a-wish dream was to meet roger federer. she waited a year and federer gave her that wish. he flew her to london and volleyed with her at centre court. beatrice said after, i love you and i will never, ever forget this day. you know, the seventh inning stretch, you get a hot dog, maybe a beer. nah. that's a snore. how about propose to your girlfriend. would you say yes? she does. and if you like that idea, well, fenway only allows one proposal per game so you've got to be quick. >>> the 50 greatest musical performers, plus jimmy fallon put a new twist on robin thicke's hit song "blurred lines." >>> welcome back. let me take you through your weekend forecast. a few showers and storms will be hit and miss today. a little monsoonal moisture around tucson and phoenix. showers around seattle. cooler temperature bess hind this storm system that's kicked up to the north. it's brought down cooler air from canada. as far as the weekend goes, we warm it back

st. louis, illinois and they pretty well. my grandfather said, if i'm going there first, if i can find kids. bring the he left, found a job, called for my grandmother. he came with three children including the first dreamer in 2-year-old mom. came over in a boat. anded in baltimore, caught the train in st. louis and got out on east st. louis where i grew up. wonder about the people who were sitting around the house when they made the announcement they were going to america. bet you a nickel a lot of them when they left the house walking home saying what is wrong with this family? are leaving their good home here. heir church, their relatives, their family, their language, andure, dog, cat, chickens, going to a place where language? speak the they'll be back. no, they never came back. that's my story. story. my family's that's america's story. there is something in our dna immigrants who had the courage to come up and get here, really to fight against great succeed here. thank goodness we did. that's who we are today. we should celebrate it. we shouldn't apologize for it. e ought to build on

st. louis, dave mcarthur, owner of a bakery. william march, owner of american farm products. let me go first to you, david.ou've got 43 employees with your bakery. obama care, good or bad for your business and why? >> for us it's an experience. 43 people full time we're covering on insurance and we've watched our plan skyrocket the last couple of years. not only have they skyrocketed, what's bad for business, it's bad for people with the policies. the policies so expensive our employees even though they pay for the policies they can't afford to use them, the deductibles are so high and scattered. that's the one thing people aren't talking about. >> tell me if obama care is good or bad for your business and tell me briefly what kind of business you have. >> citrus gift shipping business. we ship gift citrus all over the united states in the season. obama care has been good for our business. it has lowered our health care cost in 2011 by about $9600. i feel better about it because it gives us protection for premiums and loss ratio. >> louisa, why have they gone down? i hear some have gone up, what is the exp

first time smith will take on his former teammates since the big trade so it should be a great game at 5:00. >> i'm so glad football season is finally here. >>> st. louisust added a new bundle of joy. this is umeh may. her name in swahili means lyle. she is a forester rat. there are only a few of her kind. >>> 4:56. it's confirmed the bay bridge will open as planned labor day weekend. what we're now learning about the planned celebration. >> we're live in hayward where a man was shot and killed by officers after a domestic violence call. the one behind the 911 call a 12-year-old girl. ,, ,, ♪ [ female announcer ] wherever morning brings you, bring the energy you need. new nature valley soft-baked oatmeal squares. softly-baked, made with hearty oatmeal and a drizzle of cinnamon. they're nature valley's brand new take on a morning classic. because when you keep going, the morning can bring you to brand-new places. ♪ you can find them on sale now at your local safeway store. >>> the sooner we get people off the old one on to the new one and get it open successfully the better. >> the bay bridge will open over labor day weekend. >> the information coming f

american first committee was nonother than the charismatic aveuater charles -- aviator, charles lindberg, the pilot who flew across the atlantic in the single engine, single seat plane, spirit of st. louis. when he returned to the united states from france, right after that flight, he was showered with ticker tape and a huge parade in new york, and you can see that parade on youtube as well as the landing at the airport outside of paris where thousands of people stormed on to the tarmac. after the kidnapping and murder of their young son, he and his wife felt hounded by the press, and in the early 1930s, they decided to move to europe living first in england, and then in france, but they often visited germany. in germany, charles was whined and dined and honored by the nazi air force minister. bottom line, lindberg bought into nazi propaganda hook, line, and zinger. he called the spirit of the german people magnificent, intoxicated with advances in aviation and especially admiredded their strengths for lindberg, german strength and veer rielty were the key to the future. when he returned to the united states in 1939, he became the public voice of isolationism. he hammered roosevelt for

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st. louis fed president james bullard about the tapering and economy. steve liesman has some details. hi, steve. >> tyler, the firstuy out of the box since the meeting to give remarks, and he's suggesting the fed needs a little more data before it starts tapering. i wanted to read you the quote from his comments, quote, the committee needs to see more data on macro economic performance for the second half and before making a judgment on this matter, the matter being tapering so no immediate action. james bullard urging caution based on policy action based on forecasts rather than what the data is saying right now. many factors are slowing the u.s. economy, and he says he had been too optimistic in the past and so a little reluctant to be too optimistic now. tyler? >> let's go down to the nyse. sue is down there talking to traders. but let me ask you a question, steve. does the data that came out today suggest that the fed may not start tapering until later in the year? there have been all kinds of talk it would be september. what's your thinking now or the thinking you're hearing from your sources? >> i don't belie

first -- >> thank you, thank you. >> i understand that you were following -- >> that's terrific. >> i have a lot of friends from st. louis in for bosnia. >> of course, we have a huge population. >> the largest in the country. >> yeah. >> yeah, absolutely. >> have you met -- i don't think she's -- >> i have. i met a lot of the botz anyians in the community. they're great. we're lucky to have them in st. louis. >> good democrats. >> great democrats. >> good luck to you. >>> hang in there. >> i appreciate it. >> eating cookies and drank a lot of wine and then i got off of the couch and went at it. >> yes. thank you. >> so nice to see you. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> i want to steal you away over here. over here. >> all right. >> coming up here on c-span, the encore of first ladies, influence and image features julia grant. then senator ted cruz of texas and political strategist dick morris speak at the western conservative summit. >> coming up on the next "washington journal," immigration reform and a report by the bipartisan policy's centers immigration task force. then john hoff meister, former president on jell

st. louis is the wild card to me. sam bradford. it's time to move it up. the arizona cardinals, i just don't know. that was a big loss for them to lose the first round draft pick. cooper to a broken leg. >> thom: bruce arias taking over. we'll look at the afc west. second down catch. is that the weakest division? >> brian: for most people's money uh you're talking about the denver broncos at t the top. maybe only second. kansas city the wild card. in oakland, boy, still a lot. mckenzie. allan doing a good job. that was too deep of a hole to dig out of. >> thom: always competitive in the east. >> brian: you have to start with washington. new york. does that 9-7 get them in the playoffs like the last two. philadelphia, the chip kelly effect with michael vick. can he not turn the ball over. they help you move philadelphia over in this ranking. >> thom: and last but not least the afc east. >> brian: do we have to? >> thom: i was saying the afc west was in the weakest division in football. obviously they had a good team in denver. we know about the afc ea east. >> brian: they had a slam dunk at the end buffalo obviously an uphill battle. boy, new y

first committee, was none other than the charismatic heroic avenue -- avenueuateer charles lindberg. he was the fearless young pilot who had flown across the atlantic in 1927 in his single-engine single-seat plane spirit of st. louis. when he returned to the united from france right after that flight. he was showered with ticker tape and a huge parade in new york, and you can see that parade on youtube as well as his landing at the airport outside of paris, where thousands of people stormed on to the tarmac. after the kidnapping of their son, they felt hounded by the press. they decided to move to europe. they lived first in england than for instance. -- france. they often visited germany. in germany, charles was wined and dined, and honored by the nazi air force minister. bottom line, lend -- lindberg bought in to nazi propaganda, hook, link, and sinker. he called the spirit of the german people magnificent. he was intoxicated with their advances in aviation. he especially admired their strength. for lindberg, german strength were the keys to the future. when he returned to the united, in 1939, he became the public voice of isolationist -- isolationism. he hammered roosevelt for failing to appease hitler and alua

experiment first with actual users, the people in st. louis.the same way with the small remis as well. you definitely don't want to taint the vision of the person who is ultimately going to be the recipient of the technology that you've developed. you want to give them something that they can see, they can put their hands on and they can operate and learn how to use it. that develops the support from the bottom-up. we always say today we have great top support. sno and the needy are on maritime robotics. no question about that whatsoever. if you build bottom-up support then you get the deck placed sailor and it won't sit in somebody's warehouse because they say too many false alarms or this or whatever the region happens to be. and then you build an mittal cadre of people like the postgraduate school, who are now being taught and have disciplined programs and robotics so that they can write master's and doctoral thesis activities to help that cadre of leadership that then carries the issue forward and they understand more about how to use syste

first born in my family, my 2-year-old mom. came over on a boat, landed in baltimore. somehow caught that train to st. louis and got off in east st. louis where i grew up. i think about that story because i wonder about the people who were sitting around that house that night when they made the announcement they were going to america. i'll betcha a nickel a lot of them when they left that house and started walking home were shaking their heads saying what is wrong with this family. they're leaving their good home here, they're leaving their church, they're leaving their relatives, their family, their language, their culture, their dog, their cat, their chickens, and they're going to a place where they don't even speak the language? they'll be back. no. they never came back. that's my story. that's my family's story. that's america's story. there is something in our dna about these immigrants who had the courage to get up and come here, really to fight against great odds to succeed here. and that's what they did. that's who we are today. we should celebrate it, we shouldn't apologize for it. we ought to buil

st. louis, you're on with judy. caller: hi, stephanie. i wanted to make first of all, i'm going to hate to see current go.ome and will announce that as soon as we can. go ahead, scott. caller: ok. second point is that the reason why gays are being sub i couldn't gated in russia right now. the russian orthodox church is slowly but surely replacing the communist party as the major thought organ in the country. russians are nigerians right now. they're demographics are continually going down. they project there are possible going to be 120,000 russians by 2050. the pool for draftees for their army goes down and therefore becomes a national security issue for them, because of course, gays don't produce children at least the normal way. anyway, i just wanted to. stephanie: all right, thank you, scott, you're a gay who produced a child, aren't you? >> i produced a child. i thought it was normal. he came out of my vagina. i thought that was normal. ♪ ♪ stephanie: all right. ladies and gentlemen, you can see judy's show only until august 18, so i would hurry and go. >> yes, come see the show. when are you guys co

first one was--i was a counselor in that--that program. and then i went to at le--to two other upward bound programs, one in minneapolis and one in east st. louis, illinois, and i spent three years in east st. louis, when i--right after i got out of college as a counselor in the upward bound program and then we had a--one for college students called experiment in higher education. and i spent two years in that. c-span: what did you do--what did you do this for? what was your reason? >> guest: i was committed. this was the--this was the '60s and my parents had been committed before me and--and--so, you know, i didn't even think about it. it was just--it was just something that--that sort of come out of my--my family's commitment to civil rights and my own sense of what i wanted to do with my life. i had really no idea at that point of--about writing. and so i was really happy at that point to have the opportunity to do that kind of work and in that kind of--of an extremely deprived community. c-span: what were you learn--what did you learn about those programs? >> guest: oh, boy. i learned that they--they've been extremely helpful to me in think

first congressional district. >> wonderful, wonderful. >> i have a lot of friends from st. louis. came from bosnia. >> a huge population. the largest in the country. yeah. >> good, you know. >> absolutely. >> you have met with ila? she's our president. >> i have. they're great. we're lucky to have them in st. louis. >> they're good democrats. >> they're great democrats. they're great democrats. good luck to you. >> nice to meet you. >> ok. hang in there. hang in there. i drank a lot of wine after i lost and then i got up off the ouch and went at it. nice to see you. thank you. thank you very much. >> nice to have you here. >> i'm going to steal you away. you're going to go right over here. >> all right. inaudible] >> in a couple minutes we're planning to go live to iowa to hear from minnesota senator aimy klobuchar. she's speaking to iowa democrats. senator klobuchar is the first democratic hopeful to visit iowa for a possible 2016 presidential campaign. here's more about that. >> we are expecting to hear from senator amy klobuchar shortly. we will go to iowa at the annual fundrai

st. louis, illinois, and they were doing pretty well. so my grandfather said, i'm going to first and if i can find a job, bring the kids. he left, found a job, called for my grandmother. she came with three children, including the first dream in my family, my two year old mom. came over on a boat, landed in baltimore, some al qaeda trade to st. louis and got off at east st. louis were i grew. i think about that story because i wonder about the people were sitting around that house that night when he made the announcement that are going to america. i'll bet you a nickel that a lot of them when they left the house and started walking home were shaking their heads saying, what is wrong with this family? they are leaving the good home here, they're leaving their church, they're leaving the relatives, their family, their language, their culture, their dog, the cat, their chickens, and they're going to play for the don't even speak the language. they will be back. no. they never came back. that's my story. that's my family's story. that's a america's story. there is something in our dn

first, here's dylan dwyer with a check on the forecast. >> rain in the middle of the country from minneapolis stretching down to the st. louis area.eling, especially this morning at the airports where we could see some minor delays in minneapolis and later on this afternoon in st. louis. rest of the areas across the gulf coast states and into florida those would be late-day thunderstorms. it shouldn't be too much of an issue. heavy rain is moving now into southeastern iowa. we're also seeing the potential for more flooding today in kansas and missouri where flood warnings and flash flood warnings have been posted. we could also see some stronger storms later this afternoon and evening from montana right down into kansas it biggest threat would be for hail and gusty winds. elsewhere, it's about the cooler temperatures. chicago will be about 10 degrees below average. in the northeast, low humidity, temperatures around 75 to a gorgeous 80 degrees. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. at farmers we make you smarter about insurance, because what you dont know can hurt you. what if you didn't know that it's smart to replac

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