Monday, August 15, 2016

August 15th, 2016 Romeo & Juliet/West Side Story

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: Understanding Emotions.

Level#1

Emotions are mental and physical changes in your body. It is important to realize that having emotions is  not bad. Everyone has them. In fact, sometimes emotions can be helpful to your health. If you feel fear in a dangerous situation, you may react by leaving that situation. This reaction can protect your health.

1. What impact do emotions have on your health?






2. How can fear be helpful to your health?






3. What effect can your reaction to fear have on your health?







Level#2


Emotions are mental and physical changes in your body. It is important to realize that having emotions is  not bad. Everyone has them. In fact, sometimes emotions can be helpful to your health. If you feel fear in a dangerous situation, you may react by leaving that situation. This reaction can protect your health. other emotions, such as anger, can actually be harmful to your health if you do not deal with them in a positive way. Letting these feelings build up over time can have damaging effects on your physical health. Some studies have shown that people who are angry much of the time may have a higher risk of high blood pressure.

1. How can the emotion of anger be harmful to your health?






2. What can happen to your health if you let these feelings build up over time?






3. What have some studies shown about people who are angry much of the time?








Level#3


Emotions are mental and physical changes in your body. It is important to realize that having emotions is  not bad. Everyone has them. In fact, sometimes emotions can be helpful to your health. If you feel fear in a dangerous situation, you may react by leaving that situation. This reaction can protect your health. other emotions, such as anger, can actually be harmful to your health if you do not deal with them in a positive way. Letting these feelings build up over time can have damaging effects on your physical health. Some studies have shown that people who are angry much of the time may have a higher risk of high blood pressure. Humans experience a wide variety of emotions-- both positive and negative. Teenagers, in particular, can experience more changes in emotions than other people. This is due, in part, to the changes in hormones that a teenager goes through.

1. Explain what can happen to people if they are angry much of the time.






2. Explain which age group is likely to experience the most changes in their emotions.






3. Explain why teenagers are more likely to experience the most changes in their emotions.









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Friday, August 12, 2016

August 12th, 2016 Romeo & Juliet/West Side Story

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: Understanding Emotions.

Level#1

Emotions are mental and physical changes in your body. It is important to realize that having emotions is  not bad. Everyone has them. In fact, sometimes emotions can be helpful to your health. If you feel fear in a dangerous situation, you may react by leaving that situation. This reaction can protect your health.

1. What are emotions?





2. What is important to realize?





3. Who has emotions?






Level#2


Emotions are mental and physical changes in your body. It is important to realize that having emotions is  not bad. Everyone has them. In fact, sometimes emotions can be helpful to your health. If you feel fear in a dangerous situation, you may react by leaving that situation. This reaction can protect your health. other emotions, such as anger, can actually be harmful to your health if you do not deal with them in a positive way. Letting these feelings build up over time can have damaging effects on your physical health. Some studies have shown that people who are angry much of the time may have a higher risk of high blood pressure.

1. What are emotions and what is important to realize about them?





2. Who has emotions and how do they affect your health?





3. How can the emotion of fear protect your health?






Level#3


Emotions are mental and physical changes in your body. It is important to realize that having emotions is  not bad. Everyone has them. In fact, sometimes emotions can be helpful to your health. If you feel fear in a dangerous situation, you may react by leaving that situation. This reaction can protect your health. other emotions, such as anger, can actually be harmful to your health if you do not deal with them in a positive way. Letting these feelings build up over time can have damaging effects on your physical health. Some studies have shown that people who are angry much of the time may have a higher risk of high blood pressure. Humans experience a wide variety of emotions-- both positive and negative. Teenagers, in particular, can experience more changes in emotions than other people. This is due, in part, to the changes in hormones that a teenager goes through.

1. Explain what emotions are, whether having them is good or bad, and who has them.








2. Explain the impact emotions can have on your health, and what this impact can be.







3. Explain the effect that anger can have on your health.








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Thursday, August 11, 2016

August 11th, 2016 Romeo & Juliet/West Side Story

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: Emotional health.

Level#1

How you handle anger, fear, and failure determines your emotional health. Emotional health is a person's ability to cope with his or her emotions. Usually, emotionally healthy people can cope with emotional stress most of the time. A person with poor emotional health has trouble handling emotional stress. When the stress is too difficult to cope with, the person may lose control. He or she may try to bury their problems with alcohol, drugs, or negative behavior.

1. What is emotional health?





2. What can emotionally healthy people do?






3. how might a person with poor emotional health behave when faced with a great amount of emotional stress?







Level#2

How you handle anger, fear, and failure determines your emotional health. Emotional health is a person's ability to cope with his or her emotions. Usually, emotionally healthy people can cope with emotional stress most of the time. A person with poor emotional health has trouble handling emotional stress. When the stress is too difficult to cope with, the person may lose control. He or she may try to bury their problems with alcohol, drugs, or negative behavior. Emotional health begins with a person's self-image. A person with a good self-image can honestly say, "I like myself." When a person likes themselves, it means, they are trying to make the most of themselves as a person. It is having self-respect.

1. How do emotionally healthy people respond to emotional stress, and how does a person with poor emotional health respond?






2. How might a person with poor emotional health react to stress and how might they behave?







3. What does it mean when a person likes themselves?








Level#3

How you handle anger, fear, and failure determines your emotional health. Emotional health is a person's ability to cope with his or her emotions. Usually, emotionally healthy people can cope with emotional stress most of the time. A person with poor emotional health has trouble handling emotional stress. When the stress is too difficult to cope with, the person may lose control. He or she may try to bury their problems with alcohol, drugs, or negative behavior. Emotional health begins with a person's self-image. A person with a good self-image can honestly say, "I like myself." When a person likes themselves, it means, they are trying to make the most of themselves as a person. It is having self-respect. It means knowing that you are useful as a person, and that others appreciate the things you do. Liking yourself usually makes others like you. A person with a poor self-image does not like himself or herself. He or she has trouble giving or receiving love.

1. Explain how emotionally healthy people cope with stress, and how a person with poor emotional health deals with stress.








2. Explain how a person with poor emotional health may cope with stress, and behave as a result.







3. Explain what a person with self-respect knows about themselves as a person.









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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

August 10th, 2016 Romeo & Juliet/West Side Story

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: Emotional health.

Level#1

How you handle anger, fear, and failure determines your emotional health. Emotional health is a person's ability to cope with his or her emotions. Usually, emotionally healthy people can cope with emotional stress most of the time. A person with poor emotional health has trouble handling emotional stress. When the stress is too difficult to cope with, the person may lose control. He or she may try to bury their problems with alcohol, drugs, or negative behavior.

1. How does a person with poor emotional health handle emotional stress?






2. How might a great amount of stress cause a person with poor emotional health to react?






3. how might a person with poor emotional health behave when faced with a great amount of emotional stress?







Level#2

How you handle anger, fear, and failure determines your emotional health. Emotional health is a person's ability to cope with his or her emotions. Usually, emotionally healthy people can cope with emotional stress most of the time. A person with poor emotional health has trouble handling emotional stress. When the stress is too difficult to cope with, the person may lose control. He or she may try to bury their problems with alcohol, drugs, or negative behavior. Emotional health begins with a person's self-image. A person with a good self-image can honestly say, "I like myself." When a person likes themselves, it means, they are trying to make the most of themselves as a person. It is having self-respect.

1. What does emotional health begin with?





2. What can a person with a good self-image say?






3. What does it mean when a person likes themselves?









Level#3

How you handle anger, fear, and failure determines your emotional health. Emotional health is a person's ability to cope with his or her emotions. Usually, emotionally healthy people can cope with emotional stress most of the time. A person with poor emotional health has trouble handling emotional stress. When the stress is too difficult to cope with, the person may lose control. He or she may try to bury their problems with alcohol, drugs, or negative behavior. Emotional health begins with a person's self-image. A person with a good self-image can honestly say, "I like myself." When a person likes themselves, it means, they are trying to make the most of themselves as a person. It is having self-respect. It means knowing that you are useful as a person, and that others appreciate the things you do. Liking yourself usually makes others like you. A person with a poor self-image does not like himself or herself. He or she has trouble giving or receiving love.

1. Explain what emotional health begins with, and what can a person who has it say as a result.







2. Explain what it means when a person like who they are, and what do they have as a result.







3. Explain what a person with self-respect knows about themselves as a person.









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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

August 9th, 2016 Romeo & Juliet/West Side Story

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: Emotional health.

Level#1

How you handle anger, fear, and failure determines your emotional health. Emotional health is a person's ability to cope with his or her emotions. Usually, emotionally healthy people can cope with emotional stress most of the time. A person with poor emotional health has trouble handling emotional stress. When the stress is too difficult to cope with, the person may lose control. He or she may try to bury their problems with alcohol, drugs, or negative behavior.

1. What determines your emotional health?






2. What is emotional health?






3. What can emotionally healthy people do?






Level#2

How you handle anger, fear, and failure determines your emotional health. Emotional health is a person's ability to cope with his or her emotions. Usually, emotionally healthy people can cope with emotional stress most of the time. A person with poor emotional health has trouble handling emotional stress. When the stress is too difficult to cope with, the person may lose control. He or she may try to bury their problems with alcohol, drugs, or negative behavior. Emotional health begins with a person's self-image. A person with a good self-image can honestly say, "I like myself." When a person likes themselves, it means, they are trying to make the most of themselves as a person. It is having self-respect.

1. What are things that determine a person's emotional health, and what is emotional health?







2. How do emotionally healthy people respond to emotional stress, and how does a person with poor emotional health respond?






3. How might a person with poor emotional health react to stress and how might they behave?








Level#3

How you handle anger, fear, and failure determines your emotional health. Emotional health is a person's ability to cope with his or her emotions. Usually, emotionally healthy people can cope with emotional stress most of the time. A person with poor emotional health has trouble handling emotional stress. When the stress is too difficult to cope with, the person may lose control. He or she may try to bury their problems with alcohol, drugs, or negative behavior. Emotional health begins with a person's self-image. A person with a good self-image can honestly say, "I like myself." When a person likes themselves, it means, they are trying to make the most of themselves as a person. It is having self-respect. It means knowing that you are useful as a person, and that others appreciate the things you do. Liking yourself usually makes others like you. A person with a poor self-image does not like himself or herself. He or she has trouble giving or receiving love.

1. Explain what determines a person's emotional health, and what emotional health is.







2. Explain how emotionally healthy people cope with stress, and how a person with poor emotional health deals with stress.







3. Explain how a person with poor emotional health may cope with stress, and behave as a result.









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Friday, August 5, 2016

August 5th, 2016 Romeo & Juliet/West Side Story

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: Personality and your environment.

Level#1

Some of your personality traits were passed down to you. No one really knows how much of personality is inherited. Environment, attitude, and personal choices also shape your personality. Everyone is born with a certain temperament. Your temperament is your emotional nature. A person who is easily excited has an excitable temperament. A person who acts calmly most of the time has a calm temperament.

1. Where do some of your personality traits come from  and how much?





2. What kind of temperament does a person who is easily excited have?





3. What is everyone born with?







Level#2

Some of your personality traits were passed down to you. No one really knows how much of personality is inherited. Environment, attitude, and personal choices also shape your personality. Everyone is born with a certain temperament. Your temperament is your emotional nature. A person who is easily excited has an excitable temperament. A person who acts calmly most of the time has a calm temperament. Just because your are born with a certain temperament does not mean you will always be that way. Your personality and temperament are also shaped by your environment. If a person grows up in a violent household, there is a greater chance that person may become violent later in life. This is sometimes the case with children who are abused by their parents. When abused children grow up, they sometimes abuse their own children. They have learned violent behaviors that became part of their personality.

1. What type of temperament does a person who is easily excited have, and what type of temperament does a person who acts calmly have?







2. What are the things that shape your personality?







3. What can happen to a person if they grow up in a violent household?








Level#3

Some of your personality traits were passed down to you. No one really knows how much of personality is inherited. Environment, attitude, and personal choices also shape your personality. Everyone is born with a certain temperament. Your temperament is your emotional nature. A person who is easily excited has an excitable temperament. A person who acts calmly most of the time has a calm temperament. Just because your are born with a certain temperament does not mean you will always be that way. Your personality and temperament are also shaped by your environment. If a person grows up in a violent household, there is a greater chance that person may become violent later in life. This is sometimes the case with children who are abused by their parents. When abused children grow up, they sometimes abuse their own children. They have learned violent behaviors that became part of their personality. If behaviors are learned, they can also be "unlearned." With work, new behaviors can take the place of old behaviors. One of the great things about being a human being is that you can learn and change. A shy person can learn to be outgoing. In cases such as child abuse, people can learn to break the cycle of violence.

1. Explain what part of your personality is passed down to you or inherited, and what other factors can shape your personality.






2. Explain what can happen to a child, who has been abused, when they grow up and have their own children.






3. Explain the type of behaviors that a child could learn, that would impact their personality, if they were abused by their parents.









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Thursday, August 4, 2016

August 4th, 2016 Romeo & Juliet/West Side Story

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: Personality and your environment.

Level#1

Some of your personality traits were passed down to you. No one really knows how much of personality is inherited. Environment, attitude, and personal choices also shape your personality. Everyone is born with a certain temperament. Your temperament is your emotional nature. A person who is easily excited has an excitable temperament. A person who acts calmly most of the time has a calm temperament.

1. What is your temperament?





2. What kind of temperament does a person who is easily excited have?





3. What kind of temperament does a person who acts calmly, most of the time, have?








Level#2

Some of your personality traits were passed down to you. No one really knows how much of personality is inherited. Environment, attitude, and personal choices also shape your personality. Everyone is born with a certain temperament. Your temperament is your emotional nature. A person who is easily excited has an excitable temperament. A person who acts calmly most of the time has a calm temperament. Just because your are born with a certain temperament does not mean you will always be that way. Your personality and temperament are also shaped by your environment. If a person grows up in a violent household, there is a greater chance that person may become violent later in life. This is sometimes the case with children who are abused by their parents. When abused children grow up, they sometimes abuse their own children. They have learned violent behaviors that became part of their personality.

1. What type of temperament does a person who is easily excited have, and what type of temperament does a person who acts calmly have?






2. When a person is born with a certain temperament will they always be that way, and what is a factor that can shape your personality and temperament?






3. What can happen to a person if they grow up in a violent household?









Level#3

Some of your personality traits were passed down to you. No one really knows how much of personality is inherited. Environment, attitude, and personal choices also shape your personality. Everyone is born with a certain temperament. Your temperament is your emotional nature. A person who is easily excited has an excitable temperament. A person who acts calmly most of the time has a calm temperament. Just because your are born with a certain temperament does not mean you will always be that way. Your personality and temperament are also shaped by your environment. If a person grows up in a violent household, there is a greater chance that person may become violent later in life. This is sometimes the case with children who are abused by their parents. When abused children grow up, they sometimes abuse their own children. They have learned violent behaviors that became part of their personality. If behaviors are learned, they can also be "unlearned." With work, new behaviors can take the place of old behaviors. One of the great things about being a human being is that you can learn and change. A shy person can learn to be outgoing. In cases such as child abuse, people can learn to break the cycle of violence.

1. Explain what can happen to a person who grows up in a violent household.





2. Explain what can happen to a child, who has been abused, when they grow up and have their own children.






3. Explain the type of behaviors that a child could learn, that would impact their personality, if they were abused by their parents.








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Wednesday, August 3, 2016

August 3rd, 2016 Romeo & Juliet/West Side Story

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: Personality and your environment.

Level#1

Some of your personality traits were passed down to you. No one really knows how much of personality is inherited. Environment, attitude, and personal choices also shape your personality. Everyone is born with a certain temperament. Your temperament is your emotional nature. A person who is easily excited has an excitable temperament. A person who acts calmly most of the time has a calm temperament.

1. Where do some of your personality traits come from  and how much?





2. What are other factors that shape your personality?





3. What is everyone born with?







Level#2

Some of your personality traits were passed down to you. No one really knows how much of personality is inherited. Environment, attitude, and personal choices also shape your personality. Everyone is born with a certain temperament. Your temperament is your emotional nature. A person who is easily excited has an excitable temperament. A person who acts calmly most of the time has a calm temperament. Just because your are born with a certain temperament does not mean you will always be that way. Your personality and temperament are also shaped by your environment. If a person grows up in a violent household, there is a greater chance that person may become violent later in life. This is sometimes the case with children who are abused by their parents. When abused children grow up, they sometimes abuse their own children. They have learned violent behaviors that became part of their personality.

1. How much of your personality is passed down to you or inherited?





2. What are the things that shape your personality?





3. What is everyone born with and what is your temperament?








Level#3

Some of your personality traits were passed down to you. No one really knows how much of personality is inherited. Environment, attitude, and personal choices also shape your personality. Everyone is born with a certain temperament. Your temperament is your emotional nature. A person who is easily excited has an excitable temperament. A person who acts calmly most of the time has a calm temperament. Just because your are born with a certain temperament does not mean you will always be that way. Your personality and temperament are also shaped by your environment. If a person grows up in a violent household, there is a greater chance that person may become violent later in life. This is sometimes the case with children who are abused by their parents. When abused children grow up, they sometimes abuse their own children. They have learned violent behaviors that became part of their personality. If behaviors are learned, they can also be "unlearned." With work, new behaviors can take the place of old behaviors. One of the great things about being a human being is that you can learn and change. A shy person can learn to be outgoing. In cases such as child abuse, people can learn to break the cycle of violence.

1. Explain what part of your personality is passed down to you or inherited, and what other factors can shape your personality.






2. Explain what a person's temperament is, and provide two examples of different temperaments.






3. Explain a known factor that can shape your personality and temperament.









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Tuesday, August 2, 2016

August 2nd, 2016 Romeo & Juliet/West Side Story

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: Body & Mind, Personality & Heredity.

Level#1

The connection between the mind and the body is very important. Mental health is very much related to physical health, emotional health, and social health. The health of one affects the health of the other. People can use the connection between body and mind to maintain and improve their health. Some people believe they have helped cure themselves of serious illnesses by "thinking themselves well." They think positive thoughts, and do not let the sickness get them down. These people, and many doctors, believe that a positive attitude can help the body to fight disease.

1. What do people do to not let sickness get them down?






2. What do people and many doctors believe?






3. What is the connection that is very important?







Level#2

The connection between the mind and the body is very important. Mental health is very much related to physical health, emotional health, and social health. The health of one affects the health of the other. People can use the connection between body and mind to maintain and improve their health. Some people believe they have helped cure themselves of serious illnesses by "thinking themselves well." They think positive thoughts, and do not let the sickness get them down. These people, and many doctors, believe that a positive attitude can help the body to fight disease. Your personality, like your physical health, has a great deal to do with your mental health. You might say that personality is the combination of many different traits that make a person unique. Your personality is a combination of so many different traits, interests, values, opinions, goals, abilities, and feelings.

1. What has a great deal to do with your mental health?






2. What is it about personality that makes a person unique?





3. What is you personality a combination of?








Level#3

The connection between the mind and the body is very important. Mental health is very much related to physical health, emotional health, and social health. The health of one affects the health of the other. People can use the connection between body and mind to maintain and improve their health. Some people believe they have helped cure themselves of serious illnesses by "thinking themselves well." They think positive thoughts, and do not let the sickness get them down. These people, and many doctors, believe that a positive attitude can help the body to fight disease. Your personality, like your physical health, has a great deal to do with your mental health. You might say that personality is the combination of many different traits that make a person unique. Your personality is a combination of so many different traits, interests, values, opinions, goals, abilities, and feelings. What makes you different from other people? Your personality is something that is unique to you. Most scientists agree that heredity plays an important role in shaping your personality. Many of the traits that make up your personality are inherited. They are a mixture of traits from your mother and your father. Your personality may be similar to either parent, but it is still unique to you.

1. Explain what your personality is a combination of.






2. Explain what most scientist agree about regarding your personality.






3. Explain the mixture that makes up your personality and what else it is.








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Monday, August 1, 2016

August 1st, 2016 Romeo & Juliet/West Side Story

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: Body & Mind, Personality & Heredity.

Level#1

The connection between the mind and the body is very important. Mental health is very much related to physical health, emotional health, and social health. The health of one affects the health of the other. People can use the connection between body and mind to maintain and improve their health. Some people believe they have helped cure themselves of serious illnesses by "thinking themselves well." They think positive thoughts, and do not let the sickness get them down. These people, and many doctors, believe that a positive attitude can help the body to fight disease.

1. What do people do to not let sickness get them down?






2. What do people and many doctors believe?






3. What is the connection that is very important?








Level#2

The connection between the mind and the body is very important. Mental health is very much related to physical health, emotional health, and social health. The health of one affects the health of the other. People can use the connection between body and mind to maintain and improve their health. Some people believe they have helped cure themselves of serious illnesses by "thinking themselves well." They think positive thoughts, and do not let the sickness get them down. These people, and many doctors, believe that a positive attitude can help the body to fight disease. Your personality, like your physical health, has a great deal to do with your mental health. You might say that personality is the combination of many different traits that make a person unique. Your personality is a combination of so many different traits, interests, values, opinions, goals, abilities, and feelings.

1. What has a great deal to do with your mental health?






2. What is it about personality that makes a person unique?






3. What is your personality a combination of?








Level#3

The connection between the mind and the body is very important. Mental health is very much related to physical health, emotional health, and social health. The health of one affects the health of the other. People can use the connection between body and mind to maintain and improve their health. Some people believe they have helped cure themselves of serious illnesses by "thinking themselves well." They think positive thoughts, and do not let the sickness get them down. These people, and many doctors, believe that a positive attitude can help the body to fight disease. Your personality, like your physical health, has a great deal to do with your mental health. You might say that personality is the combination of many different traits that make a person unique. Your personality is a combination of so many different traits, interests, values, opinions, goals, abilities, and feelings. What makes you different from other people? Your personality is something that is unique to you. Most scientists agree that heredity plays an important role in shaping your personality. Many of the traits that make up your personality are inherited. They are a mixture of traits from your mother and your father. Your personality may be similar to either parent, but it is still unique to you.

1. Explain what your personality is a combination of.






2. Explain what most scientist agree about regarding your personality.






3. Explain the mixture that makes up your personality and what else it is.








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