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Its certainly true that Woodcrat Folk needs to grow.We need to grow our groups, open new districts

and recruit new members. I agree with you thatour uture depends on DFs taking leadershiproles within districts but we cant pin ourhopes on a narrow age band o around 300

young people. We need everyone in themovement to take ownership o our mission o

growth while building an outlook that is inclusiveenough to allow new members to jump straight in.

DFs have a great capacity to contribute to the running

I have been excited and encouraged to read theexcellent articles in Te Courier regarding DFsbeing more involved with districts.

In my opinion, Woodcrat is at a watershed, withmany districts struggling to survive with too ewpeople trying to do too much. DFs can be the lieblood o Woodcrat rather than dancing at thewake.

It's not just running sessions. Help withpublicity, undraising, I, playouts and o coursecamps would make all the diference.

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Science &Noise

Jack Brown & Ruth OSulivanPolitical analystsolitical analysts

om DunhillEaling Leader

Hundreds o Venturersbattled wind and rainyesterday to venture out

to Red Oak own Hall totake part in somethingthat Woodcrat Folkholds dear democracy.oday, Te Courier canreveal the results otheir elections andusher in a newgeneration o changemakers in the Venturermovement.

A year ago, 15 Venturerswere elected to the rstever VenturerCommittee. Following ayear o meetings andcake, plans andplanning, exciting train journeys and occasionalreplies to e-mails,

Venturers rom across the UK met again to chose

their representatives. Ideas were shared or the

uture o Venturers ranging rom communication to

resources. Te room had a real buzz and people were

excitedly moving about and talking to each other

said Jack Brown who was supervising the ballot box.

Te election was organised and brought together bythe previous Venturer Committee who have grown

in condence and ability over the last year and made

Tere was a great range o people standing: those with lots o

experience in Woodcrat Committees and those with none,

those who were nearly DFs and those who were (very) nearly

Venturers. Every region was contested, something that can

rarely be said o DF elections, and there was certainly huge

enthusiasm rom this rising generation o Woodcrat

members. Te enthusiasm and dedication was inspiring to see

and the maniestos show what an important organisation

Woodcrat is to so many young people. Many have agonised

over the decisions to stand; torn by outside commitments or a

lack o condence. Every single Venturer has thrown

themselves into the whole process once they made the decision

to stand. Candidate Hal Ryan-Gill said Venturer Committeegives me a voice and I can change things. I enjoyed standing

and met lots o people I wouldn't otherwise have met; my

opinion o Venturers has also improved as so many people

turned up to vote. Tis seemed to be echoed by many o those

standing, with a bond o co-operation ormed whilst sharing

an exhilarating experience.

Venturers got really excited about the idea o taking part in

elections (even i society still deems them unable to vote). One

Venturer, Richard, said I eel really proud to be able to vote in

these elections. Te election gave Venturers a taste o

involvement which inspired people to get involved in other

ways. One Venturer (soon to be DF) said I am quite sad that I

didn't get involved when I was a Venturer but when I am a DF,

I am denitely going to do more!

It was a day with a bit o everything: people returning

exhausted and damp rom touring the villages in search o

potential voters, people excitedly approaching their riends

persuading them to vote or them and even an attempt at

Comment & Debate: DFs Come home, we need you.

Revealed: Te next generation ofventurer leaders

CoCamp inNumbers

electoral raud with a member trying n

vote twice, but to put two ballot papers i

Tankully election monitors were so vig

the ofender was quickly apprehended.

15 o those were elected today but T

would like to ofer congratulations t

stood and hope that those not ele

nonetheless continue to get involved

with the new committee to make Vent

best it can be. Tis can happen in many w

suggesting things about the next Ventu

or being a contact or your group and reptheir problems and ideas, hopes and drea

new committee.

I am so proud o our DFs in Ealing. Tey areully embedded into everything we do and stillgo out and get involved in centrally organisedevents. I want every district to benet in thesame way.

In my opinion, to make this happen,all DFs should be an active part o adistrict in order to be a member oWoodcrat and attend events, unlessthere are exceptional circumstances. Ialso think DF groups should pay a registrationee like all other groups to help Woodcrat'snancial position.

I would really like to know what other people think.

o districts in part this is becausdiverse skills they get rom workino the DF movement; developingedge peer education, trailblazing avoice and taking on sireponsitilibites. Just look at those coordinating this camp. Would they what they are today i it hadn't beenexperiences as DFs?

I am certain that the District Movement will play a key role in Woodcrat Folk, but I also know wethe entire solution.

Vs

Joel White & Phin HarperChair o DFs & Woodcrat Press Ofcer

Eastern: Alex Moor

North East: Jake yne

Wales:Arwyn Munday

North West: Lily Macaggart

Midlands: Christopher Bowler

Scotland: Emily Locke

South East: Ruth O'Sullivan

London: Jessica Kayode Newman

South West: Somin Grin Dave

Laymember: Hal Ryan-Gill

Laymember: Hannah Michel Bowma

Laymember: Holly Purves

Laymember: Katherine Swindells

Laymember: Nic Craven

Laymember: al Cameron

Results

amazing progress in increasing the prole o

Venturers nationally clearly demonstrated by the

enthusiasm or this election. Tey gave of a sense o

achievement and enjoyment with Ivy Plato saying I

have an immense amount o pride seeing my ideas

come alive at this meeting and Meg Plowright saying

Te last year has been really un.

Over the last ew days, 25 Venturers have been

writing their maniestos and thinking about why

they would like to stand and what they would ch ange.

I enjoyed standing and met lots o people I wouldn't otherwise have met;my opinion o Venturers has alsoimproved as so many people turned upto vote

6Elfns, Come takeover TeCourier! Come to Coms Centre at11:00am ODAY!

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Tory or not ToryA Conservative a

CoCamp questio

Newsthecourier #

Living under occupation

As many of you may be aware, the local Conservative

MP Mark Spencer has been invited to visit our CoCamp

community on Saturdays open day to see for himself

what the Woodcraft Folk and its sister organisations are

inviting this man to enter and observe our site raises a

number of interesting questions about our most

fundamental values.

Rather than instantly condemning this man for views

of his party which may not match our own, perhaps we

should be celebrating the fact that a local MP, especially

one with potentially contrasting ideals, is interested

enough in the politically engaged youth of today to visit

our community and observe us doing what we do best.

It may even be an ideal chance to air our views.

In the words of Simon, the co-ordinator for the open

day: Educating others about our work means reaching

out to people who we dont necessarily agree with. Our

by Rosie, a DF, who points out that, although shutting

them in takes a lot more maturity and a deeper

understanding of our own convictions.

Surely it would be against the Woodcraft ethos to turnsomeone away. Assuming that Conservatives are not

inequality, narrow-mindedness and the inability to

appreciate other opinions, points out Ellen, a DF.

However, it is also important to consider the potential

Some people have responded

negatively and in indignation that he was even invited.

Martha from Village 17 says: Young people in

the last year. Why should we be expected to just

welcome a Tory MP onto the site who is p

in destroying the futures of our young peo

At the centre of the Woodcraft creed sta

vowing to hate war, sloth and greed i

history, acts by the Conservatives such a

Labour in the war in Iraq, bailing out

during their crisis, and cutting vital

hospitals, schools and other public serv

directly oppose these core values on

organisation is built. In particular, the

over the rise in student fees hit a raw nerv

not only hindering education but also wh

many to be an attack on the youth. Jack fr

got kettled for 10 hours! Why on earth s ho

him now?

Evidently there are plenty of strong argum

against Mark Spencers imminent visit

interested in discussing them further, th

debate in Yellow Aspen Town Hall at 2

whether your opinions are held with convic

undecided. One thing that we can be sure

events to occur this Saturday will certain

interest

ami (above centre) is 15 years old and went to

monstrate at a peaceful protest in the memoryal-Nakba (the foundation of Israel). In

alandias checkpoint, he held a small stone to

otect him from gas bombs. Suddenly, he foundmself in the arms of soldiers who viciously beatm then took him to an isolated room to be

ind cant handle to make him talk about his

Sam (above right) is a 16 year old who lives in BeitSahour, 40km from Ramallah. He was excited to

come to CoCamp, but had to go to a meeting in

way; the Container and Kalandia. As Sam tried to

way he looked, so with no one to stop the soldier,

Sam was taken and beaten up for an hour. Samcouldnt do anything but pray that this would end.

While he was beaten up all he could think aboutwas being in Ramallah in time for the meeting.Sam really needed to get out of that insecure

painful life. Finally, he was able to go to themeeting and to CoCamp not only for fun but to

let the whole world know about the situation inPalestine and the things Palestinians go throughin a normal day of their life.

Ahmads (above left) family includes around 20 members (uncles, aunts and their

raeli occupation forces attacked this land and built a colony, and so there was nothing leftrking in daily payments. Ahmads family are no

Separate but equal lets treat our kids the sam

2000 sociologists showed a slopingalkway to mothers and asked them totimate the steepness of slope their crawling

1-month-old child could manage and wouldtempt. Boys and girls have the same crawl-g ability on the walkway, but mothers

nderestimated girls and overestimated boysmeaning that in the real world they might

nconsciously push their sons further thanaughters at physical tasks.

nd girls behave get stronger with age, due tour culture. Boys and girls don't inherit a

girl to be.

Why are there so few women in science, ormen in the laundry room? Part of the solutionmay be our culture.

Yesterday CoCamp was honoured to discoverit was radical enough to be worthy of havingan undercover Girl Guide in favour ofsingle-sex education hidden among us.

discover juicy secrets just follow the wasps.

tion is crucial for equality, and so started animportant debate. I will now take the bravestep of preaching to the mixed-sex WoodcraftFolk in support of mixed-sex education.

celebrating all gender identities, includingmale, female, gender-neutral and more. We all

stereotypes thats why the mothers wronglyexpected their 11-month-old sons to bebetter crawlers than their daughters. Although in single-sex education genderbecomes important and stereotypes come tothe fore, at CoCamp we celebrate we are freed

unique skills and talents.

Our children should be free to mabased on personality, rather thtogether based on outdated labels shape. Public support is waning ffriends based on gender and gi

separate but equal.

At CoCamp, we are doing well on eqwe can always do more. Let us co

language and insults, which are botand damaging.

he IYU Palestinian delegation in Village 16 explain whathree of their members have had to face in their daily lives

Phoebe DemegerPolitical Correspondant

ends who had joined him in protest, but he

hysically tortured the Israeli soldiers started theirental war, which meant no food or sleep. Ramis

om was a square without a bathroom. He ate

He was able to go...to CoCamp

not only for the fun but to let

he whole world know about

he situation

Rami couldnt handle it anymore and in the endtalked about his friends, but it was no use and he

was judged at 2am to stay in prison for 15 months.

Illustration on co-operation by P

Starting a debate on gender

and eduation is vital

am Senderreacher to the converted

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Julie TorpeOf Coopville fame

Comment

thecourier #co

State Education Privatisation or

Co-operatisation?

times you photocopy it. Because all you needis some paper, a pen and a photocopier, almostanything can be transmitted in a zine. Tereare photo zines, music review zines, newszines, comic zines, list zines (which I make),travel zines, political zines and zines thatteach you how to dance, knit or make zinesyoursel! Tere is some debate about what aanzine is, with some zinesters saying that it isa zine made by a an o something, and somesaying that a anzine is a general word or azine.One o my avourite zines is Morgenmufel,which has been running since the 1990s but istimeless. It is a comic zine, telling stories othe authors travels to demos and all aroundthe world. Another o my avourites isSchnews, a great weekly news zine printed by

anarchists in Brighton. It has alrunning since the 90s and provalternative view on World and current afairs.Because zines are so little knownare a lot o people who may like tothem but dont know they exist oto distribut e them. Woodies

perect people to be zinesters, majority o them seem to be open-mleties, and those labels could aapplied to most zinesters. CoCamperect place to distribute zines,they can be passed round and oother people. Zines can be ucommunicate with the rest o youror town i the other pcommunication mediums are noption. Most major cities have zinor zine libraries so you can contmake your zine outside o CoCampTere are zine review blogs andzines have websites, and while thbe useul or communicating withzinesters, e-zines have started toup which many zinesters eel goes the analogue ethos o zines, whprinted on paper and posted arouworld.I you would like to counteract themedia empire make your own zinnow, or look out or zine-workshops somewhere in Red Oalater in the week.

Want alternative media?Read zines instead!

Amidst the phone-whacking and corruption

revelations o yesterday, the need has been eltor a new kind o media, one run by peoplewith diferent last names rom each other, anunocial, uncorrupt, underground media.One certain medium o communication ullsall those needs: zines!Put briey, a zine (pronounced zeen to rhymewith clean, not zine to rhyme with ne) is asel published magazine that is not or prot.Tey are normally distributed outside o themainstream and not to many people, butobviously the latter depends on how many

Pearl AhrensBrighton Hill Fort Venturer

Michael Gove, the education minis-ter, has clearly spelt out his agendaor the efective privatisation oEnglands schools over the next ewyears. Cuts in unding to localauthorities, nancial incentives orschools to convert to independentAcademy status, along with agrowing number o private compa-nies keen to take over schools which

the government classes as ailingmean that a rapidly growing numbero state schools are being moved intothe private sector.

Academies run by boards o trustees,completely independently rom localgovernment control. Tey dont haveto ollow nationally agreed pay

structures or teachers and a reerom the restrictions o the NationalCurriculum.

Te only diference between theseschools and public schools is thattheir unding comes rom the taxpayer rather than the parents. Whilstat present they must remainnot-or-prot it seems that it mayonly be a matter o time beore thischanges too. Some o the Academy

chains have already ound ways oproting rom the arrangement andexecutive heads managing groups oschools are oten pay massivesix-gure salaries.

Te Minister o Education says thatall schools will be expected to movetowards academy status and weakerschools will be taken over.

Its a bleak picture and one whichmany heads, teachers, and studentare only just waking up to. So isthere any hope or the uture odemocratically controlled education

in this country?

Over the last ew years theCo-operative College and theCo-operative Group have beenworking with a growing network oschools to develop a co-operativemodel or school organisation.

Tere are already over 150co-operative schools across thecountry. Teir members students,staf, parents, and local communityrepresentatives have a say inmaking decisions about the ethosand long term direction o theirschools which have adopted theco-operative principles o sel-help,sel responsibility, democracy,

equality, equity and solidarity.

I youd like to nd out more a boutco-operative schools and how yourschool can become one there is aworkshop on Friday at 2.30pm inVillage 6.

Academies dont

have to follownationally agreed

pay structures for

teachersIf you would like to

counteract the Har

media empire make

your own zine righ

now

Peach Melba is Pearls own zine

Winter 2010 DF Zine

Coopvillebankers

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Camp in Numbers

ornado

Wosbs!Wosbs!Wosbs!

thecourier

in Reigns OverCamp

village we are having a problemosbs. Now over 10 people have

tung in only 2 days. We havethe Scouts but they can't help

don't want to make wosb trapse that is not the Woodcrat

race Fidler says I've beenand so has my sister in the

H. Caiti O'Boyle says wellreally want to kill, them but

eally hurt you! Darcys We should have

Stephen Fidlerents It makes

erence, theremany people

ust eel goodkilling wosbs.

r the land, rain has interrupted thesunny camp lie with a number oowers and torrential downpours.

ere mixed opinions about this suddenthe weather. Te our libraries had

nteresting comments; It has beenet. Says Red Oak, adding, My shoes. We were ooded! Silver Birched. Blue Cedar werent too ussed,It was ne. Yellow Aspen said, Ourot damaged, and Blue Cedar alsoWe are ofering welly painting.

as a little bit o trouble over at theUP yurt, where they had to spendours de-ooding it. Rebecca Sternpy to give us a ew comments, At

al o our tent was just pools oWe are not very waterproo. Rebecca

y had a lot o work to do, Every timehed, it would rain again.

hinanigans in Blue Cedar and theod rom Red Oak had mixed eelings

he weather. Chez Chinanigans saidey had had a reduced businessnd ater the rain, but were hoping cooler weather would encourage

to buy their hot drinks. Te Powere ne with the weather, saying thatctronics still work well and that theyafected majorly, but complainedecause it is cloudy, we are

generating muchty.

, the rain producednteresting opinionsnts and we hope that

will be no more badr or the remainder oday.

Disaster struck on Wedas a strong tornado swcausing damage and de

It began behind the oothem, tearing their penearly ripping their sidNeibig, a villager rom

hold down the ood tewas it was very dramaeverywhere she stated

Next the maelstrom msending papers high incircle o tents, it litedone two man tent. Teeared they would hit ttents were eventually dvillage to V23. Te inhscattered everywhere, ahas happened either. Oanother tornado! Michenough to have been athe store tent, sorting shuge gust o wind and came and lited it upITe tornado was cahumidity explained itmuss. Hot, humid aon a slight hill which tornado by causing spinning.

Emma Neibig also sabelongings were scattecame together to put thpeoples things. Tere wCoCamp is or.

Yesterdaymeand myrieHuntarticleandwesaw itouthome; its theirs, so

Itsjust notright.Teand mosto villa

actoneo thechasactuallymais laying eggs goodreason to

youagree with ushould be treated

Chickens are p

Vegetarians in Village 18

Litres o Waste water perperson produced so ar

Average output o the EveningProgramme speakers in decibells

Average output o a cryingElfn in decibells

Hours ahead o UK time

Metres squaredo cardboard or

opening and closingceremony

Pounds speant

on acepaint

Litres o Glue40

Copies o

Te Courierpublished

every day

NativeGerman speakers

Languages spokenNative

Catalanspeakers

Native Arabic speakers

urned intopaper mache

per day

Victims othe phonewhacking scandal

Collective Years

Inccidents Reported

Centrally

Activites

oeredso ar

Woodchip

Activities

UniqueActivities

Unique Activities

UniqueActivities

Unique

Activities

Unique Activities

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District

FellowsActivites

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Activites

ElfnActivities

Pioneer

Activities

Venturer

Activities

Vegetarians in Blue Cedar

Vegetarians

Village 2

56

51

61

1.5

125Agegroups

Media

Food

Activities

1

1

548

600

751

328

2

154

Collective weeks spent atCoCamp between us

Tats 36 Years!!

1872

Cost o the siteper day

696

1000

1

Cable ties pervillage

122

48

Percentage urnoutin Venturer election

Percentage urnoutinUK General

Election

Grams o cheeseper person

hours o cowmilking requiredto make milkor that much cheese

Activitiesoered per

town

Mest-Up condoms available

Pounds spent on decorin local charity shops

Average cost to put on aCoCamp activity

Average cost or an externallyacilitated workshop

Mest-UpZines Ordered

Meters Squared o Marquee hired

Kilometres traveledrom Madam, Indonesia to

reach CoCamp

297

925

362

120

20

220200

104

186

94

174

117

191

3124160

1000

93

2423Participants at CoCamp

76

Woodchips

Kinsolk

Pioneers

DistrictFellowsElfns

Internationals

Internationals

Internationals

Internationals

Metres o courgettesconsumed

Internationals

45

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1

Venturers

144

139

144

36

22

18

53 Votes cast inVenturer Election

PercentageFemale CandidatesElected

PercentageMale Candidates

Elected

Percentage morecandidates in VenturerCommittee electionthan last Woodcrat FolkGeneral Council Election

Strawberries perperson on working week

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Zoe Harrison, Niamh E

Ruby MartinVillage 14 age 12

180

40% 278%

32

68

65%

Meals served per day

Metres o riendshipbracelet thread per

town

6828

10888

1600

2112Meringue nests rom

Tursdays Eton Mess

219

430

571

566

535

506

90

231

571

297

251

276

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nison,14andJonathanOakley,10

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WOSBS! WOSBS! WOSBS!

105

9300

90

Kilometres traveledrom Hamberg,

Germany toreach CoCamp

Kilometres traveledEdinburugh Scotland toreach CoCamp

1021

437

Hours Phin spent with Saskiaoncampdue to editing TeCourier...Sorry!

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Cant sleep? Blame your bed!

After hearing that some adultshave complained of late nightmusic disturbing their sleep, Ibegun to wonder why more elnsand pioneers werent joiningthem; after all young kids tend tohave more sensitive hearing andshould be aected even more.My theory is that the answer liesn their respective choices of bed.

e young campers on site tend touse foam sleeping mats, while theadults can aord (and might evenneed) more comfortable airbeds.

Low frequency sound (bass)travels further, and as the bassfrom DJ Polars lthy dubstep orAnna & Kats hardcore grimetravels around site, it can be feltas vibration in the ground; thisvibration is transmitted into yourbed while you try to sleep.

If we think of the sound as complexharmonic excitation, your bedsmovement can be modelled as avibrating system where

Where F is the force from themusic, X is the beds movement,each dot is a derivation, m is yourmass and k and c are the compres-sive stiness and damping coe-cients respectively.

Foam mats have much higher valuesof K and C than airbeds, and thestructure of the foam material lets

Cant Sleep? Blame your Bed - Scientists.

Kat BuddBYLINE!!!

News & Commentthecourier #co

ere are youths hanging

around outside. Loitering in thestreet. Idling in doorways. Capson, hoods up. BRILLIANT! iscan only mean one thing a newWoodcraft hoodie!Today was the launch of afresh-looking,cooperatively-designed WoodieHoodie. Arriving in threeexciting colours sunset drizzle(grey with a dash of pink), bluewhale and Caroline Lucas green.e nished design is madefrom a collection of manydierent images, sent in fromaround the country, devised byElns to adults alike. e

amount of submissions wasamazing said Kate Bowman,who collaborated all of thesketches together. I picked outall of the common elements orjust the ones that were simplybrilliant. One boy wanted ahoodie that can be worn to hisfootball match, complete withpurple and yellow stripes!. Shewanted to make sure that it hada description of what Woodcraftis, in order to answer thatoh-so-dicult question frompassers by so, what isWoodcraft Folk?.Word on the street is that these

hoodies are bare dankles andsick which I think means thatthey are rather good. Either that ortheres a grizzly somewhere feelingpoorly.Of course Folk Supply has all theold classics in stock too, includingC-Change t-shirts (bargain at2.50) and the amazingly lucidorange Hands up for Peace designs.e CoCamp hoodies are sellingfast, so if you want one, get downto the shop faster than a tent in atornado. IFM-SEI also have their

Ben BonnerjeaLethargic Logician

New Hoodie Successfully Launched

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them absorb energy throughhysteresis.Airbeds on the other hand havemode 1 natural frequencies in thelow frequency range often used formusic (bass); meaning that anairbed could actually amplify thevibration caused by the bass andstop you from sleeping.

You are invited to experiment withthis information; try addingdamping to your bed; maybe laysome clothes or foam underneath itand see if you get the sleep youwant.

Showin your colours: e new Woodie Hoodie comes in navy blue, grey and woodcraft green

e IFM- SEI shop on a trolley:

e ifm hoodie makes a stop at the round

beautiful new hoodies out and availableto buy from their roaming trolley.Completely ethical, really cool and all ofthe prot goes to projects happeningaround the world.Do not fear, the new design is notmeant to replace the time-honouredWoodie Hoodie, loved and worn by all.Its just throwing a dierent design intothe mix. ere are also rumours in thepipeline of a collection of brand newexciting Woodcraft clothes. Watch thisspace.

To CoCamp Press,From Messers Murdoch yme amd SoClient: Mr Joshua Gray CSQCase no: IM1PA1NT3R

Dear Editor,Whilst your apology was made

client is still distraught and seeking comsations for the early release of his art wWe shall be taking measures to follow ucompensation claim. We are also growiincresingly concerned about its lack of

plurality in the CoCamp media and shareporting this to the Press ComplaintsCommission and of.com

Yours SincerelyLilly BerryMessers Murdoch ymes and Sonne

who are not interested in the debate.

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