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Senior Lady Panther point guard, Lauren Daniell, showed her leadership and love for learning on and off the court. Lauren visited her sister, Ms. Daniell's, first grade classroom at Miller Elementary and read to the kids an exciting and silly story called "When Will It Snow?" The children were ecstatic to have a "superstar" in their classroom and cannot wait until she returns again. Thank you #15... Go Lady Panthers!! |
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Our annual Bluebonnet Book Bowl was a success. Congratulations to Team Miller for a job well done. |
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The Cub Dancers from Frank Seale Middle School visited LaRue Miller and performed for the students. The Cub Dancers are very talented dancers and everyone enjoyed their performances. |
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Miller's Kindergarteners took us to the farm performing "E-i-E-i-Oops!" Students wore their farm animal costumes and had lots of fun performing their songs. Everyone had a "yee-haw" time! |
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The Miller Elementary 2nd-5th grade Destination Imagination team competed at the Greater Fort Worth Regional Tournament held in Weatherford, TX. After months of preparation, the "Metal Not Jakes" presented their skit, "The Old Man." The team also designed and built a DI-Bot whose function was to catch a mouse that was a nuisance to the Old Man. Team members included: Jake H., Mia C., Jake D., Madi S., Macee S., Cormac A., and Reagan D. Team managers were Dan Altman and Shelly Cappers.
Miller's Kindergarten-2nd grade Destination Imagination team, The Dynamite Panthers, performed at the Greater Ft. Worth Regional Tournament on Feb. 20th. They presented a newscast that focused on a structure they built as a group. Team members were Katy A, Bryce B, Allana C, Skyler C, Emily C, Chase H, and Coleton H. with team manager Jennifer Blair. |
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LaRue Miller Kindergartners celebrated 100 days of school by graphing snack foods, counting by 10, and creating patterns. |
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LaRue Miller had a visiting author. Mr. Vuthy Kuon delivered his presentations and showed the children how he draws his pictures; which is
better known as illustration. The children listened intently and laughed
often. |
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Thanks to all of the parents and students who came out to participate in our NO TV THURSDAY event. Miller students and parents learned about CPR, First Aid, and Safety. A huge thanks to the Midlothian Fire Department Station 3 for their assistance. |
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Miller Elementary students voted for their favorite book from this year's
Texas Bluebonnet Award nominees. |
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Miller Kindergartners had a Community Helper Parade. Students had lots of fun dressing up and learning about their community. |
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Mrs. Girard, Dustin's mom visited LaRue Miller with their pet hedgehog. Mrs. Clark's 3rd grade class read a few books about hedgehogs before she arrived and the children took turns holding their delightful visitor. |
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LaRue Miller "jumped in" to start off the Jump Rope for Heart pep rally. |
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In 2nd grade, LaRue Miller students had a brief introduction to the 3 branches of the federal government. They took a virtual tour of the capitol and found electronic voting machines on the house floor. Today, they used the CPS as their own electronic voting machines. |
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LaRue Miller students in Mrs. Story's class graphed Australian animals by telling if they were herbivores, omnivores or carnivores! |
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Miller Fourth graders used Skype to communicate with their teacher while
she was visiting the Ukraine. |
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LaRue Miller celebrated the New Year by reading for 2010 seconds. Mrs. Garippa's 3rd graders read to their "book buddies" in Mrs. Story's kindergarten class.
These buddies read together for 33 1/2 minutes! THATS HOW GREAT READERS DO IT! |
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Miller 5th grade students had a BLAST learning about economics by playing their version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Students researched to create their own questions and students voted on the difficulty of those questions. Mrs. Timmerman, Mrs. Bolgiano, and Mrs Blair guided the students in setting up the game. Skyping was set up as one of their life lines and several teachers and staff from Miller and other campuses. It was a great team effort and everyone had fun with this engaging lesson! |
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Ms. Daniell's First Grade students, at Miller Elementary, were visited by 7th graders from Walnut Grove Middle School. Mrs. Melton's Speech classes performed the books "Pinkalicious" and "Sheila Rae the Brave" as plays for our wonderful learners. The acting was FABULOUS and Ms. Daniell's class loved meeting new friends and learning about these books in a new and interesting way!! Thanks for sharing with us WILDCATS!!! |
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The fifth graders at Miller Elementary had a guest scientist, Patty Ozga, and a Ready, Set, Teach teacher, Lindy Worley, who demonstrated how rocks were formed using an edible activity. After observing how the rocks were made, the students were able to taste their rock samples. Yum! |
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St. Lucia from Sweden came to visit Miller 1st Grade! |
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Author Alexandra Allred simulated riding in an Olympic bobsled with the Miller 5th graders. Thanks Alex! |
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Miller 3rd graders learned how to grow Christmas trees in Texas. We had fun roasting marshmallows, playing on haybails, dressing a scarecrow contest, going on a hayride, and playing in the maze and huge tree fort. |
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Miller 3rd grade students had lots of fun during their Christmas program. Everyone enjoyed listening and watching the children sing some of their favorite Christmas songs. |
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Mrs. Cooper's students were jolly, happy souls this week as our mystery reader came to grace us with her presence (and presents). Mrs. Van Amburgh came and shared The Baker's Dozen (A Colonial American Tale), Retold by Heather Forest, with us. The book takes us many miles away to a bakery owned by Van Amsterdam. He has wonderful red-and-white iced St. Nicholas cookies with raisin eyes and a walnut mouth that the people of his town want the most. Soon Van Amsterdam and his tasty cookies become famous. But fame makes the baker greedy--and suddenly his breads fall flat, his muffins harden, and his pies taste sour. Then, right around Christmas, an old woman helps Van Amsterdam to remember the joy of giving. A big thanks also goes out to Mrs. Van Amburghs little elf, Mrs. Worley. Mrs. Cooper's students got their very own St. Nicholas cookie to finish decorating (as Mrs. Van Amburgh surely put her beloved elf to work and she had to stop baking). Mrs. Cooper's students loved the book, their mystery reader, the lovely elf helper who got a break from her workshop, and a tasty treat! Thank you Mrs. Van Amburgh! |
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Miller students took a break from their studies to enjoy a few minutes in the snow. Did you know in the late 1800s, a man named Wilson Bently, who was sometimes called "Snowflake Bentley," loved winter and studied snowflakes? |
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Time does fly! Miller 3rd graders are learning how to tell time in a different way. Students in Mrs. Clark's class created their own human clocks! |
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S.O.S. Day (Super Outrageous Science) was outstanding! Students and staff
dressed up as a mad scientist or nerd for "It's Hip To Be
Square!" Students were engaged in lessons such as "digging"
for chocolate chips, "magnifying" plants, and recording their
observations and hypothesis during each experiment. WOW it was a super
outrageous day! |
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Mrs. Bull's 2nd graders have been reading Little House in the Big Woods. Students showed what type of entertainment pioneers participated in long ago by learning a dance to "Turkey in the Straw." |
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Ms. Williams 4th grade students, at Miller Elementary, created their travel map by importing their map and creating a grid using PowerPoint. These maps were used on their pioneer journey following in the steps of Laura Ingalls. After their journey, students typed in their points to show each stop they made. Students journaled their thoughts and encountered different hardships along their journey. "Oh no, the well has dried up!" |
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The Field of Readers reading event was held at the MISD multi-purpose stadium Thursday night. Children and parents enjoyed reading books together on the field. Mrs. Blair and her son Bryce enjoyed reading about snakes! |
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Our future is so bright, we needed some shade! Congratulations to the learners and leaders of LaRue Miller Elementary who are now enjoying new shade structures on the playground areas of the school. Special thanks to the Miller PTO, the American Academy of Dermatologists, Dr. Cathleen Bateman, and the Region 10 Head Start Preschool Program for special funding and grant award monies associated with this community project. We look forward to dedicating these structures in the near future. |
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Miller 3rd grade students in Mrs. Clark's class had fun working in groups to find the perimeter. Students drew the shape that was on the wall and figured out the perimeter for that shape. Perimeter is the distance around an object. Students will also have to figure out the area which is length times width using the same shapes on the wall. |
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Thanks to the 5th grade team of learners and leaders and specials team who set the stage for an extraordinarily moving Veteran's Day Program and Celebration! Mrs. LaRue Miller, Bill Thompson (trumpet player), Candace Ramirez (kindergarten teacher and Navy veteran), and others shared musical talents and words of patriotic wisdom during the annual school event. Students prepared a beautiful Wall of Honor, movie presentations, songs, and research boards honoring those who serve in the various armed forces. Thanks to our community guests and all Miller learners and leaders for embracing the importance of special rememberances as we teach the past to our future today. |
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Wow! What a nice birthday surprise for John....having his mom come and be the mystery reader for Mrs. Cooper's class. She brought many great books. Harry B. Wiggle Bottom taught us a good lesson in listening. The Big Hungry Bear was about a mouse who shared a strawberry with a big bear. If Take a Mouse to the Movies is always a fun story too. The little mouse can't make up his mind on what he wants. Last, we got to sing Happy Birthday to John which was extra special to do with his mom here to enjoy it with us. |
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Miller student Council organized a collection of items to be sent to military troops as part of the "join for fight against drugs" day during Red Ribbon Week. Students and staff wore camouflage clothing as a show of support. Students brought enough items to fill several boxes with candy, books, lotions, and more. |
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Miller Elementary's Character Day began with a parade of characters. Students chose a book and dressed up as one of the charcters. See if you recognize anyone!
Several teachers and staff at Miller Elementary dressed up for the charcter parade. Miller 5th grade teachers were "on board" from the Polar Express!
Several teachers and staff at Miller Elementary dressed up for the charcter parade. Miller 4th grade teachers made sure we were healthy for the parade! |
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Thank you Mrs. Fischer for coming to be our mystery reader today. We enjoyed the Halloween books you read to us. We especially enjoyed turning off the lights and listening to the book about the night before Halloween. Morgan was on the edge of her seat excited to see what ghost and goblins were coming out next. |
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Mrs. Cameron led the 4th grade students in their peformance of Pirates. Miller students are very talented. |
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LaRue Miller Elementary celebrated the conclusion of a successful Red Ribbon Week of activities with a Red Ribbon Rally following the annual Character Parade. Members of the Miller Student Council, MHS STAND organization, and other guests participated in the Rally with the school. Special thanks to Carri Wilson, Miller counselor, for organizing many wonderful events and encouraging our learners and leaders to always be drug-free! |
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Miller students were spookily entertained with our carving skills. We read pumpkin books, added and subtracted pumpkins, learned about the plant process of pumpkins, and talked about different things we can make out of pumpkins. We had many frightfully happy parents come and volunteer. The pumpkins are out in the hall for all to see. Each group of pumpkins show problem solving skills by coming up with a plan and off to work we went. At the end, we named our jack-o-lanterns. Introducing...... Scary Scarecrow, Harmless Mummy, Jack, Funny Frank, Jacko, and Spooky Ooky. Thank you to the parents who were able to come and help us out, and also to Mrs. Ramirez's class for coming to join us. |
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Local author, Karen Esberger, talks to LaRue Miller Elementary second graders about the history of Midlothian. |
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Ms. Daniell's First Grade class and Mrs. Cooper's class, at Miller Elementary, went on a noun hunt around the school. They searched for different nouns that they see every single day. One of the nouns they found walking down the hall was their nurse, Mrs. Melanie Miller. The class determined that she was a person. Brady noticed the 'stairs' are a thing, Jayden found that Mrs. Bolgiano is our Librarian, which is a person, and Mariah investigated and came upon Mrs. Beckwith's classroom which is a place. Students classified and compiled pictures to make a classroom book of nouns. |
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Miller 4th grade Queen for the Day gave up the bean bag for her 1st grade
book buddy. Our book buddies are wonderful buddies! |
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What's the big attraction? The fifth grade students at Miller Elementary
were investigating if materials were magnetic or not magnetic. After
predicting, the students used different types of magnets including ring,
bar, ceramic, marble, or horseshoe. They concluded that some things they
thought were magnetic really were not, and vice versa. They all agreed
that sticking together is fun. |
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Thank you Mrs. Foster for coming to be our myssssssssssssstery reader today. We enjoyed the Halloween books you read to us. Especially the Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt. We enjoyed hearing how the Spider tried to entice the fly into it's web. Some of us were on the edge of our seats the entire time! We also had a good lesson about how to love our differences in Wanda's First Day by Mark Sperring. What a great lesson to hear that even though we all don't look the same, we still belong and can be loved by our friends. |
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On October 15th we had the priviledge of having the Mansfield Fire Department come out and put on a great show for fire and safety tips and rules. Here are some pictures that capture those moments where the students at Miller Elementary will remember these tips in a time of need. The firemen did a wonderful job this year of capturing our atttention and keeping us on the edge of our seats as we see the stories and life lessons of Flame the fire clown as he learns to stay away from strangers, remembers the EDITH rules, learns how to Stop Drop and Roll, and to change the batteries in our household fire alarms!! And thank you to 1st grades very own MS. DANIELL for showing us how to rolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll with her nice dance moves. |
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Miller fifth graders investigated to see which paper towel absorbs the most water. They practiced with the scientific method making hypotheses, experimenting, collecting and analyzing data, and making conclusions. |
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Mrs. Daniell's first graders, at Miller Elementary, visited the science lab to observe the fifth graders from Mrs. Gunter's class as they investigated with mixtures and solutions. The older students enjoyed showing the younger children how to do experiments, and the first graders were perfect guests. |
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Mrs. Spradley and Ms. Mabra's class learned about fire safety. Miller students are great listeners. |
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Many Miller 4th grade students were entertained this week as Michaela R. played several songs on her accordion. Students read a story about a close-knit community and how their culture influenced family gatherings and celebrations. Watching Michaela play the accordion made her classmates feel festive! |
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Head Start student, Autumn R., is peeling carrots for her morning snack.
Did you know that carrots are well known to be one of the richest sources
of vitamin A? We eat healthy at Miller Elementary. |
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Mrs. Cooper's 1st grade classroom enjoyed their first mystery reader of the year with Dr. Kennedy coming to visit. He read Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel; If You Give A Mouse A Cookie by Laura Numeroff; Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak; and the Aesop Fable--Boy Who Cried Wolf. Mystery Readers will join Mrs. Cooper's class each Thursday afternoon as a special treat to the students. They anticipate all week who will be coming to read to them. Mrs. Cooper's class was especially excited when they were introduced to their very first Mystery Reader of the year--Dr. Kennedy. Thanks Dr. Kennedy! You did a great job and we loved the stories you brought! |
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Ms. Daniell's first grade class showed their support for the Midlothian Panthers football team, on Homecoming, by making a poster and sending it to them before their big game! Go Panthers-- Beat Cleburne!! |
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Miller 2nd graders have been traveling the world learning about continents and oceans. |
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Miller 3rd graders dug a little deeper into their lessons. As
paleontologist interns, they learned all about the earth’s crust and how
fossils were made and a little of what life was like in prehistoric times.
They even made their own fossils! |
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Miller Kinder stamped with apples, made Johhny Appleseed hats, measured with apples, and made apple books. Apples are tasty too! |
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Kindergartners at Miller Elementary visited the library and learned how
to take special care of their books. They are very excited to read their
very first library book. |
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Ms. Daniell and Mrs. Cooper's first grade students were busy cutting and
gluing. Students had to cut out twelve shapes and glue them down to create
their shape monster. Miller's monsters are "in shape!" |
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Xinya, a first grade student at Miller Elementary, in Mrs. Cooper and Mrs.Griffin's classes, shows off her interactive writing and illustration skills. |
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Miller students, in Mrs. Nikki Hoover's class, are learning the Essential 55 Rules by Ron Clark. Students showed their moves dancing to the Essential 55 Rap. |
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Miller 3rd grade students, in Mrs. Allison Garippa's class, made their own fossils using salt, flour, coffee grounds, and coffee. Students rolled out the dough onto wax paper. Then they made an imprint with an item, such as a shell or leaf, they brought from home. |
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Students in Mrs. Lowe's 4th grade class at Miller Elementary tried to discover who "stole" their book, The BFG. They performed chromatography experiments on the ransom note and used observations they had made to determine the culprit. Did they find the culprit? Yes, they did. |
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Students in Mrs. Stanley's second grade class at Miller Elementary enjoyed creating salt dough maps to review our unit on landforms. The students learned about many different landforms and waterways such as peninsulas, valleys, lakes and oceans. |
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Miller 5th Graders wrote "Stomp" music and performed their
unique song for their classmates. Let's STOMP! |
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Mrs. Wilson, our counselor, read the book Lady Bug Hug. They talked about how even the smallest child at LaRue Miller Elementary school is important. They also learned how to give ladybug hugs! |
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Where is 3rd Grade? "You guessed it; they are sitting under the parachute--one of the many games learners play at LaRue Miller Elementary!" |
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Miller 5th grade students were caught practicing with different types of equipment that will be used in science investigations this year. |
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Miller Elementary is very excited about their cookie dough fundraiser. Do you know what the Big Kahuna's favorite cookie is? Macademia nut of course! |
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Miller Kindergarteners know the Tooty Tah Dance! Do you? |
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Mrs. Stanley's Second Graders had fun typing on the laptops to create All About Me Wordles. |
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Third graders, in Mrs. Bly's class, are getting to know one another. They interviewed each other to learn more about their friends. |
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Miller Kindergarteners are learning their letters of the alphabet using the keyboard and computer. |
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Ms. Daniell's class painted our country flag, United Kingdom, for our study of Around the World at LaRue Miller Elementary in 180 School Days!! |
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Miller students use Destiny Quest as a resource to check what books are available. |
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The first day of Kindergarten is really hard work in Mrs. Spradley's class. Two new friends find comfort in rest and each other on the first day of school. |
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