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City of Orillia
Skyline of City of Orillia
Nickname: The Sunshine City
Map of Ontario with the location of Orillia as a red dot.
Map of Ontario with the location of Orillia as a red dot. A nickname is a Name of an entity or thing that is not its Proper name. Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec
Country Canada
Province Ontario
County Simcoe County
Incorporation (Village) 1867
Incorporation (Town) 1875
Incorporation (City) 1969
Government
 - Mayor Ron Stevens
Population (2006)
 - Total 30,259
 - Density 1,057. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page The Province of Canada or the United Province of Canada was a British colony in North America from 1841 to 1867 Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec In the Canadian province of Ontario, there are three different types of Census divisions: single-tier municipalities upper-tier municipalities (which can Simcoe is a County located in central Ontario, originally established as "Simcoe District" in 1843 by the Legislature of Upper Canada Year 1867 ( MDCCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Year 1875 ( MDCCCLXXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 8/km² (2,739. 7/sq mi)
  Rank 133th
Time zone EST (UTC-5)
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Website: http://www.city.orillia.on.ca/

Orillia, (2006 population 30,259 ; CA population 40,532 — 39th largest CA in terms of population[1]) pronounced ōrĭl'ēə, is a city located in Simcoe County in south-central Ontario, Canada, on Lake Couchiching. The Eastern Time Zone ( ET) of the Western Hemisphere falls mostly along the east coast of North America and the west coast of South America UTC−5 is the Time offset used in the North American Eastern Time Zone during Standard time and in the North American Central Time Zone during Daylight saving time ( DST The Eastern Time Zone ( ET) of the Western Hemisphere falls mostly along the east coast of North America and the west coast of South America UTC−5 is the Time offset used in the North American Eastern Time Zone during Standard time and in the North American Central Time Zone during The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population The census geographic units of Canada are the Country subdivisions defined and used by Canada's federal government statistics bureau Statistics Canada to A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Simcoe is a County located in central Ontario, originally established as "Simcoe District" in 1843 by the Legislature of Upper Canada Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Lake Couchiching, from the Ojibwe goojijiing meaning "Inlet" is a small lake in southern Ontario separated from Lake Simcoe by a narrow It is about 135 kilometres north of Toronto.

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History and geography

The Village of Orillia was incorporated in 1867 (sharing the same birthyear as Canada), became a town in 1875, and was designated a city in 1969. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page A town is a type of settlement ranging from a few to several thousand (occasionally hundreds of thousands inhabitants although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status The City of Orillia is located on the shores of two connected lakes: Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching. Lake Simcoe is a Lake in southern Ontario, Canada, the twelfth-largest lake in the province Lake Couchiching, from the Ojibwe goojijiing meaning "Inlet" is a small lake in southern Ontario separated from Lake Simcoe by a narrow Both lakes are part of the Trent-Severn Waterway. This article is not about the British company Severn Trent Water. Travel north on Lake Couchiching, then through three locks and the only marine railway in North America leads to Georgian Bay on Lake Huron. A lock is a device for raising and lowering boats between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal Waterways. Georgian Bay (French baie Georgienne) is a large bay of Lake Huron, located in Ontario, Canada. Lake Huron, bounded on the west by the US state of Michigan, and on the east by the province of Ontario, Canada, is one of the five Great Travel south-east across Lake Simcoe, through many locks (including two of the highest hydraulic lift locks in the world) eventually leads to Lake Ontario. A lock is a device for raising and lowering boats between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal Waterways. Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. From either of these Great Lakes one can connect to the St. Lawrence and thence to the Atlantic Ocean. The Laurentian Great Lakes are a chain of freshwater lakes located in eastern North America, on the Canada–United States border. Saint Lawrence River (in French: fleuve Saint-Laurent; Kahnawáˀkye in Tuscarora, Kaniatarowanenneh meaning big waterway

The human history of the region extends back several thousand years: in the "Narrows", a small waterway that connects Lake Couchiching and Lake Simcoe, there is marine archaeological evidence of ancient fishing weirs used by Huron and Iroquois people to trap fish over 4,000 years ago. Lake Couchiching, from the Ojibwe goojijiing meaning "Inlet" is a small lake in southern Ontario separated from Lake Simcoe by a narrow Lake Simcoe is a Lake in southern Ontario, Canada, the twelfth-largest lake in the province Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos A fishing weir is an ancient type of Fish Trap that is traceable back to Roman times in the UK. "Huron" redirects here For other uses see Huron (disambiguation. The Iroquois Confederacy (also known as the "League of Peace and Power" the "Five Nations" the "Six Nations" or the "People of the Longhouse Also, there are several archaeological sites in the surrounding area that provide evidence of trading, fishing, and hunting camps that were visited for hundreds of years by Amerindians. For indigenous peoples in the United States other than Hawaii and Alaska see also Native Americans in the United States.

Also of historical note, the famed French explorer Samuel de Champlain visited the area that would later become Orillia in the early 1600s. Samuel de Champlain (c 1575 - 25 December 1635) "The Father of New France " was a French navigator geographer cartographer Ecole Samuel de Champlain, a local francophone elementary school, is named in his honour. A monument to Samuel de Champlain can also be found in Couchiching Park, and is a National Historic Site. A national historic site is a designation that an area possesses national historical significance

In Stephen Leacock's 1912 book Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, Orillia was used as the basis for the fictional town known as "Mariposa", although Leacock stated that the fictional town could really be any town. Stephen Butler Leacock PhD, FRSC ( 30 December 1869 &ndash 28 March 1944) was a Canadian writer and Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912 The book was based on Leacock's experiences in the town and the city has since the book's release attempted to mimic the fictional location in as many ways as possible. The Stephen Leacock Museum, located in Orillia, is a National Historic Site.

William E. Bell's 1989 novel Five Days of the Ghost was also set in Orillia, with many readers recognizing popular local spots, including the Guardian Angels Catholic Church, the Samuel de Champlain statue in Couchiching Park as well as Big Chief Island in the middle of Lake Couchiching. William E Bell is a Canadian children's Author who lives in Orillia Ontario. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Samuel de Champlain (c 1575 - 25 December 1635) "The Father of New France " was a French navigator geographer cartographer Lake Couchiching, from the Ojibwe goojijiing meaning "Inlet" is a small lake in southern Ontario separated from Lake Simcoe by a narrow

Orillia was the first municipality in North America to introduce daylight saving time and had the first municipal hydro electric transmission plant in North America. Daylight saving time ( DST

Name

The first recorded use of the name to describe the region, which until then had no officially sanctioned designation, was in 1820 when the name was given in York, Upper Canada by then Lieutenant-Governor Sir Peregrine Maitland, Maitland was a veteran of the British campaign against the French in Spain, called the Peninsular War, during the Napoleonic Wars where he served under the command of Wellington. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario The Province of Upper Canada (French Province du Haut-Canada) was a British colony located in what is now the southern portion of the Province of Ontario This is a list of Lieutenant governors (pronounced "lef-tenant" of the Canadian province of Ontario, before and after Confederation in 1867 Sir Peregrine Maitland, KCB, GCB ( July 6, 1777 &ndash May 30, 1854) was a British soldier and colonial administrator The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The Empire of the French (1804-1814 also known as the Empire of France, Greater French Empire, First French Empire, French Empire, or Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The Peninsular War or Spanish War of Independence pitted an alliance of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal against France The Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815 involved Napoleon's French Empire and a shifting set of European allies and opposing coalitions Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, KP, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS ( c

While there are no records clearly indicating the reason for the name Orillia, the most common explanation holds that the name originates in the Spanish, "orilla," which can mean the shore of either a lake or river. The Spanish pronunciation sounds much like, "oreeya," and since the word itself is spelled almost identically to Orillia, without the second, "i," it has come to be commonly accepted as the source word for the city's name. Further backing the theory of a Spanish origin are the names of surrounding communities and landmarks, which include Oro for gold, Mariposa for butterfly, and Mono for monkey. Oro-Medonte is a township in south-central Ontario, Canada on the northwestern shores of Lake Simcoe in Simcoe County. Gold (ˈɡoʊld is a Chemical element with the symbol Au (from its Latin name aurum) and Atomic number 79 Mariposa was a little known unincorporated settlement and geographic township in the Canadian province of Ontario. A butterfly is an Insect of the order Lepidoptera. Like all Lepidoptera butterflies are notable for their unusual life cycle with a The Town of Mono ( 2006 population 7071 is situated in south-central Ontario, at the south-east corner of County of Dufferin, just north of Caledon A monkey is any member of either the New World monkeys or Old World monkeys two of the three groupings of Simian Primates the third group being Historical documents contain a second spelling of the name which was never officially recognised, Aurelia, which when pronounced sounds similar to the name and is considered a clerical error. A clerical error is an error on part of an office worker often a Secretary or personal assistant [2]

Demographics

According to the 2006 Canada Census, Orillia has a population of 30,259 living in an area of 28. 61 square kilometres. The city has experienced moderate growth, with a population increase of over 1,000 residents (3. 9 percent) since the 2001 census.

Economy

Economic activity in Orillia is a mix of manufacturing, government services, customer service and tourism. The largest employer in the area is Casino Rama, located in the nearby reserve land of the Chippewas of Mnjikaning First Nation. Casino Rama, the idea of Orillia native George St Germain, is a large Casino, Hotel and entertainment complex located on the reserve land of For the vast tract created by the Royal Proclamation of 1763 in Canada and the United States see Indian Reserve (1763 In Canada Manufacturing operations in the city include CCI Thermal Technologies (industrial heaters and heating components), Dorr-Oliver Eimco (industrial equipment), Kubota Metal Corporation (petrochemical industry components), Parker Hannifin (moulded rubber products), Pliant Corporation (components for the packaging industry), Smiths Aerospace Components (aerospace industry machining) and TI Group Automotive Systems (automotive components). Parker Hannifin Corporation ( originally Parker Appliance Company and sometimes referred to as Parker, of Cleveland Ohio, is a manufacturer Call centre Tele Tech Canada also employs approximately 850 people.

Otaco seating, which operated from the early 1900s, announced it was closing its doors in September 2007. G. W. B. Rope & Twine, which was one of the foremost North American producers of braided rope from 1973-1985, was the inventor of the automotive restraint net. The net was introduced with the launch of the Ford Taurus at Christmas 1985, and the company morphed into Polytech Netting Industries, which employed several hundred people until moving to Mexico in 1996-7.

Large public-sector employers include the headquarters for the Ontario Provincial Police, which is located in Orillia. The Ontario Provincial Police ( OPP) is the Provincial Police force for the province of Ontario, Canada.

Recreation and culture

Orillia is known as the "Sunshine City", taking the moniker from the Sunshine Sketches by Stephen Leacock. Many local businesses also use "Mariposa" in their names. The city council actively restricts the construction of large buildings downtown and seeks to maintain a certain "small town" look with regard to signs and decorations.

Many tourists and boaters are attracted to the city each year because of its waterfront park and its position as a gateway to Lake Country, cottage country in Muskoka, Algonquin Provincial Park, and other natural attractions. The District Municipality of Muskoka more generally referred to as the District of Muskoka or simply Muskoka is a Regional Municipality located in Central Ontario Algonquin Provincial Park is a provincial park located between Georgian Bay and the Ottawa River in central Ontario. The city's waterfront has an extensive lakeshore boardwalk, a large park with two beaches, several playgrounds, an outdoor theatre, a touring ferry, and a children's' train.

The city of Orillia also is home to a large number of retirement homes (currently 9, with 4 more under construction). As such, it is often characterized as a "retirement community", although less than 18% of the city's population is actually over 65 (see below).

Orillia is home to an annual Perch Fishing Festival. Perch are netted, tagged, and released into the local lake, to be caught for prize money. This event also includes a large social gathering consisting of a "perch fry". Other popular annual festivals include the Leacock Festival, Blues Festival, Jazz Festival,Scottish Festival, and Beatles Festival (newly added to the city in September 07)

The Port of Orillia holds an annual "Christmas in June", which includes a boat decorating contest and turkey buffet, every June 24. Also, boat and cottage shows are held in June and August.

Orillia is the original and current site of the popular Mariposa Folk Festival. The Mariposa Folk Festival was founded in Orillia Ontario, and after being held in various places in Ontario for a few decades has returned there

Education

English public education in Orillia is provided via the Simcoe County District School Board, which has nine elementary and three secondary schools in the city. Simcoe County District School Board, also known as SCDSB is one of Ontario 's largest public school boards serving Simcoe County. The secondary schools are Orillia District Collegiate & Vocational Institute, Twin Lakes Secondary and Park Street Collegiate Institute. Park Street Collegiate Institute (PSCI is a Secondary school located in Orillia, Ontario, Canada. Publicly-funded Catholic English-language education is available via the Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board through four elementary schools and one secondary school, Patrick Fogarty Catholic Secondary School. The Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board administers and oversees Catholic education from Kindergarten through grade 12 in Simcoe County and the District Finally, there is one Catholic French-language elementary school operated by the Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud. Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud is the Roman Catholic separate, French language School board for the South-Central region of Ontario Private schools include the Orillia Christian School.

While no post-secondary institutions are based in Orillia, two schools operate satellite campuses in the city. The Orillia campus of Georgian College, based in Barrie, offers applied arts and technology programmes to 1600 students. Georgian College is an Ontario College of Applied Arts and Technology. Lakehead University of Thunder Bay opened a new campus in downtown Orillia in 2006. Lakehead University ( LU) is located in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Thunder Bay ( 2006 census population 109140 formerly the twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur, is a City in and the seat of Thunder Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Health care

The Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital is a 179-bed hospital located in the city. It is presently undergoing an expansion to 231 inpatient beds, scheduled to open in 2008. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common

The Province of Ontario also operates the Huronia Regional Centre, a home for people with severe developmental disabilities. This facility is scheduled to close in 2009. This article is about the year For the film see 2009 Lost Memories. The planned closure, which has attracted controversy from patient's families and public-sector unions, will see patients moved into a community setting.

Transit

Orillia Transit provides service on four routes throughout the city every day except Sundays and statutory holidays. Orillia Transit is operated by First Student Canada (formerly Laidlaw School Transit under contract to the City of Orillia in central Ontario, All of these routes run on loops which depart and end at the downtown bus terminal on Peter St. at Mississaga St.

Environmental issues

In 1989, representatives of Ogden Martin Ltd. , of Mississauga, approached the City of Orillia regarding the construction of a massive recycling and incineration facility which was to be used for handling the trash of nearby cities and Toronto. Mississauga (ˌmɪsɪˈsɑgə) incorporated in 1974 is a City located in the Regional Municipality of Peel Incineration is a waste treatment technology that involves the Combustion of organic materials and/or substances Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario This was to be one of three facilities used to deal with the garbage produced by the greater Toronto region.

The plan to accept the incinerator was developed by city council with no public input, citing a potentially significant boost the local economy — not only in terms of jobs, but also in the resale of recycled materials, the energy generated by the facility and the duties charged to other cities involved. Some citizens reacted negatively to the closed-doors approach to the talks. Indeed, Orillia's then-mayor, John Palmer, noted on the day of the vote on the plan that Ogden Martin "has asked council not to reveal any details until tonight. "(Orillia Packet & Times, 4-9-90).

Many residents were concerned about the environmental effect this would have on the region, leading to protests and public awareness programs by a network of concerned citizens calling themselves Stop Incineration Now. At a protest by a large number of high school students, then-mayor John Palmer famously noted that if he had been their teacher, "I'd shoot every last one of you", a quote that was shown on televised news and reported in Orillia and Toronto newspapers.

When city council made no effort to involve the public in the discussions, anti-incineration activists polled over 2,000 residents on Ogden Martin's proposal, and found that 75% were against incineration, 10% for incineration, and 15% undecided. A petition was circulated against the incinerator and was signed by approximately 9,000 residents (out of a total population of only 24,000). A petition is a request to change some thing most commonly made to a government official or public entity

A committee consisting of Orillia's 54 doctors generated a report, based on extensive research of published health data, that recommended a rejection of the incinerator proposal - 52 (and later, 53) of the doctors endorsed the report. Dr. Don Philpott, a member of the committee, noted that: "People can be bamboozled into thinking that acceptable risk means no additional risk, but that is just not true. . . " In retaliation for the call to reject the incinerator's installation, Ogden Martin threatened to sue the doctors of Orillia for defamation. The Ontario Medical Association (OMA) passed a resolution in support of the Orillia doctors, after which the threat of litigation was dropped. The Ontario Medical Association is a Professional organization for Physicians in Ontario Canada founded in 1880.

The provincial New Democratic Party (NDP) government under Premier Bob Rae had a strong agenda of environmental protection and quickly began to fight the initiative to build these incinerators. Principles policies and electoral achievement The NDP grew from populist, agrarian and democratic socialist roots A premier is a title for the Head of government in some countries Robert Keith "Bob" Rae PC OC QC OOnt MP (born August 2, 1948) is a Canadian In September of 1992, and citing a number of reasons, the Ministry of Environment under the NDP government banned the development of new municipal solid waste incinerators and enacted stricter standards for existing incinerators. The Environment Minister at the time, Ruth Grier, called incinerators "a technological quick fix which creates new environmental problems without solving old ones. Ruth Anna Grier (born October 2, 1936 in Dublin, Ireland) is a former Politician in Ontario, Canada. "

Incinerators are highly controversial generally, and are known to generate toxic emissions and to produce ash that may itself need to be quarantined as hazardous waste. The term hazardous waste comprises all toxic chemicals radioactive materials, and biologic or infectious waste. The energy production value is also questionable, given the expenditure required for scrubbers and detoxification mechanisms. While it was claimed that the proposed incinerator would have produced only a small amount of carbon black, which would have been sent into extreme elevations and eventually fallen in northern Quebec, environmentalists' concerns were more focused on the emission of heavy metals, dioxins and other carcinogens, and other hazardous materials. Carbon black is a material produced by the incomplete Combustion of heavy Petroleum products such as FCC tar coal tar ethylene cracking tar and a small amount from Quebec (kwɨˈbɛk Not to be confused with Dioxane or Digoxin. Dioxin is a heterocyclic, organic, antiaromatic compound The term carcinogen refers to any substance Radionuclide or radiation that is an agent directly involved in the promotion of Cancer or in the fatation of its propagation Moreover, Ogden Martin's questionable environmental record suggests that the filtration of particulate matter would have been imperfect at best. Notably, in 1992 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cited Ogden Martin for 6,000 violations between 1989 and 1991 at its Indianapolis incinerator alone.

The citizens' campaign ultimately led to a rejection of the plan by the city council and Toronto now ships much of its waste to the United States, although there have also been recent efforts to improve recycling and composting programs. Recycling involves processing used materials into new products in order to prevent the waste of potentially useful materials reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials reduce Composting is the Aerobic decomposition of Biodegradable Organic matter, producing Compost.

Unfortunately, problems remain with the city's current approach to waste management. Waste management is the collection Transport, processing, Recycling or disposal of Waste materials The city's landfill site is placed near the lakeshore on what was once a bog, with a stream running through it into Lake Simcoe. For other uses see Water treatment and Land reclamation. A landfill, also known as a dump (and historically as This has caused the water near the site to have an unpleasant odour. Movements to shut down the dump and create a new one in another location have been rejected due to the cost of such an effort, despite the environmental cost already being paid by the region. The Orillia landfill site also contains an on-site composting, sorting and recycling programme, although it remains the case that the composting site is even closer to the Simcoe waterfront than the other waste.

Ontario Provincial Police Headquarters

The OPP Headquarters
The OPP Headquarters

As part of an initiative to decentralise its services, the provincial government relocated the headquarters of the Ontario Provincial Police to Orillia. The Ontario Provincial Police ( OPP) is the Provincial Police force for the province of Ontario, Canada. The office was initially located in the Tudhope Building downtown (part of which is currently used as the Orillia City Hall) until the new building was opened in 1995. The headquarters, known as the Lincoln M. Alexander Building, is located on Memorial Avenue near the Huronia Regional Centre. The building houses the assorted bureaus and divisions that make up the general headquarters, as well as the Provincial Police Academy, OPP Museum and headquarters for the Central Region.

The OPP also provides municipal policing to the City of Orillia under contract from a detachment located in the downtown core. The city's police force was disbanded when the policing contract began in 1996.

Media

Radio

On April 10, 2008, the CRTC issued a call for applications for new radio programming services in Orillia. CICX is a Canadian Radio station, broadcasting at 1059 FM in Orillia, Ontario. Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. Events 879 - Louis III becomes King of the Western Franks. 1407 - the lama 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common CRTC may also stand for Cathode Ray Tube Controller. Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC, in French Conseil [3]

Newspapers

Residents of note

Notes and references

  1. ^ http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/popdwell/Table.cfm?T=206&SR=1&S=1&O=D&RPP=111 Population count for Census Agglomerations in 2006
  2. ^ Why Call it That? by Ross McDonald, published by the Orillia Historical Society. Brian Orser OC (born December 18, 1961 in Belleville, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian retired professional Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele, CB, KCMG, MVO ( 5 January 1848 – 30 January 1919) was a distinguished Marnie Woodrow (born 1969 in Orillia Ontario) is a Canadian writer and editor Page 2
  3. ^ CRTC Public Notice 2008-30

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