Notice of Determinations Regarding Eligibility To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance, 75448-75450 [2012-30576]
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The amended notice applicable to
TA–W–81,445 and TA–W–81,445A are
hereby issued as follows:
All workers from Worley Parsons Group, a
subsidiary of Worley Parsons Corporation,
Accounts Payable, including on-site leased
workers from GAS Unlimited, The Mergis
Group and Tatum LLC, Pasadena, Texas (TA–
W–81,445) and Worley Parsons Group, a
subsidiary of Worley Parsons Corporation,
Accounts Payable, including on-site leased
workers from GAS Unlimited, The Mergis
Group and Tatum LLC, Bellaire, Texas (TA–
W–81,445A), who became totally or partially
separated from employment on or after
March 22, 2011 through April 30, 2014, and
all workers in the group threatened with total
or partial separation from employment on
date of certification through two years from
the date of certification, are eligible to apply
for adjustment assistance under Chapter 2 of
Title II of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of
November 2012.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment
Assistance.
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Welded Tube—Berkeley Including OnSite Leased Workers From Snelling,
Aerotek and Express Personnel
Services, Huger, SC; Amended
Certification Regarding Eligibility To
Apply for Worker Adjustment
Assistance
In accordance with Section 223 of the
Trade Act of 1974, as amended (‘‘Act’’),
19 U.S.C. 2273, the Department of Labor
issued a Certification of Eligibility to
Apply for Worker Adjustment
Assistance on October 10, 2012,
applicable to workers of Welded Tube—
Berkeley, including on-site leased
workers from Snelling and Aerotek,
Huger, South Carolina. The workers are
engaged in activities related to the
production of steel pipe. The notice was
published in the Federal Register on
October 29, 2012 (77 FR 65583).
At the request of South Carolina State,
the Department reviewed the
certification for workers of the subject
firm. New information from the
company shows that workers leased
from Express Personnel Services were
employed on-site at the Huger, South
Carolina location of Welded Tube—
Berkeley. The Department has
determined that these workers were
sufficiently under the control of Welded
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All workers from Welded Tube—Berkeley,
including on-site leased workers from
Snelling, Aerotek and Express Personnel,
Huger, South Carolina, who became totally or
partially separated from employment on or
after August 20, 2011, through October 10,
2014, and all workers in the group threatened
with total or partial separation from
employment on date of certification through
two years from the date of certification, are
eligible to apply for adjustment assistance
under Chapter 2 of Title II of the Trade Act
of 1974, as amended.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of
November 2012.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment
Assistance.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
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Tube—Berkeley to be considered leased
workers.
The intent of the Department’s
certification is to include all workers of
the subject firm who were adversely
affected by increased customer imports
of steel pipe.
Based on these findings, the
Department is amending this
certification to include workers leased
from Express Personnel Services
working on-site at the Huger, South
Carolina location of the subject firm.
The amended notice applicable to
TA–W–81,905 is hereby issued as
follows:
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Notice of Determinations Regarding
Eligibility To Apply for Worker
Adjustment Assistance
In accordance with Section 223 of the
Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19
U.S.C. 2273) the Department of Labor
herein presents summaries of
determinations regarding eligibility to
apply for trade adjustment assistance for
workers by (TA–W) number issued
during the period of November 19, 2012
through November 23, 2012.
In order for an affirmative
determination to be made for workers of
a primary firm and a certification issued
regarding eligibility to apply for worker
adjustment assistance, each of the group
eligibility requirements of Section
222(a) of the Act must be met.
I. Under Section 222(a)(2)(A), the
following must be satisfied:
(1) A significant number or proportion
of the workers in such workers’ firm
have become totally or partially
separated, or are threatened to become
totally or partially separated;
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(2) The sales or production, or both,
of such firm have decreased absolutely;
and
(3) One of the following must be
satisfied:
(A) Imports of articles or services like
or directly competitive with articles
produced or services supplied by such
firm have increased;
(B) Imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles into which one
or more component parts produced by
such firm are directly incorporated,
have increased;
(C) Imports of articles directly
incorporating one or more component
parts produced outside the United
States that are like or directly
competitive with imports of articles
incorporating one or more component
parts produced by such firm have
increased;
(D) Imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles which are
produced directly using services
supplied by such firm, have increased;
and
(4) The increase in imports
contributed importantly to such
workers’ separation or threat of
separation and to the decline in the
sales or production of such firm; or
II. Section 222(a)(2)(B) all of the
following must be satisfied:
(1) A significant number or proportion
of the workers in such workers’ firm
have become totally or partially
separated, or are threatened to become
totally or partially separated;
(2) One of the following must be
satisfied:
(A) There has been a shift by the
workers’ firm to a foreign country in the
production of articles or supply of
services like or directly competitive
with those produced/supplied by the
workers’ firm;
(B) There has been an acquisition
from a foreign country by the workers’
firm of articles/services that are like or
directly competitive with those
produced/supplied by the workers’ firm;
and
(3) The shift/acquisition contributed
importantly to the workers’ separation
or threat of separation.
In order for an affirmative
determination to be made for adversely
affected workers in public agencies and
a certification issued regarding
eligibility to apply for worker
adjustment assistance, each of the group
eligibility requirements of Section
222(b) of the Act must be met.
(1) A significant number or proportion
of the workers in the public agency have
become totally or partially separated, or
are threatened to become totally or
partially separated;
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(2) The public agency has acquired
from a foreign country services like or
directly competitive with services
which are supplied by such agency; and
(3) The acquisition of services
contributed importantly to such
workers’ separation or threat of
separation.
In order for an affirmative
determination to be made for adversely
affected secondary workers of a firm and
a certification issued regarding
eligibility to apply for worker
adjustment assistance, each of the group
eligibility requirements of Section
222(c) of the Act must be met.
(1) A significant number or proportion
of the workers in the workers’ firm have
become totally or partially separated, or
are threatened to become totally or
partially separated;
(2) The workers’ firm is a Supplier or
Downstream Producer to a firm that
employed a group of workers who
received a certification of eligibility
under Section 222(a) of the Act, and
such supply or production is related to
the article or service that was the basis
for such certification; and
(3) Either—
(A) The workers’ firm is a supplier
and the component parts it supplied to
the firm described in paragraph (2)
accounted for at least 20 percent of the
production or sales of the workers’ firm;
or
(B) A loss of business by the workers’
firm with the firm described in
paragraph (2) contributed importantly to
the workers’ separation or threat of
separation.
In order for an affirmative
determination to be made for adversely
affected workers in firms identified by
the International Trade Commission and
a certification issued regarding
eligibility to apply for worker
adjustment assistance, each of the group
eligibility requirements of Section 222(f)
of the Act must be met.
(1) The workers’ firm is publicly
identified by name by the International
Trade Commission as a member of a
domestic industry in an investigation
resulting in—
(A) An affirmative determination of
serious injury or threat thereof under
section 202(b)(1);
(B) An affirmative determination of
market disruption or threat thereof
under section 421(b)(1); or
(C) An affirmative final determination
of material injury or threat thereof under
section 705(b)(1)(A) or 735(b)(1)(A) of
the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C.
1671d(b)(1)(A) and 1673d(b)(1)(A));
(2) The petition is filed during the 1year period beginning on the date on
which—
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(A) A summary of the report
submitted to the President by the
International Trade Commission under
section 202(f)(1) with respect to the
affirmative determination described in
paragraph (1)(A) is published in the
Federal Register under section 202(f)(3);
or
(B) Notice of an affirmative
determination described in
subparagraph (1) is published in the
Federal Register; and
(3) The workers have become totally
or partially separated from the workers’
firm within—
(A) The 1-year period described in
paragraph (2); or
(B) Notwithstanding section 223(b)(1),
the 1-year period preceding the 1-year
period described in paragraph (2).
Affirmative Determinations for Worker
Adjustment Assistance
The following certifications have been
issued. The date following the company
name and location of each
determination references the impact
date for all workers of such
determination.
The following certifications have been
issued. The requirements of Section
222(a)(2)(A) (increased imports) of the
Trade Act have been met.
TA–W No.
Subject firm
Location
Impact date
82,023 ............
82,075 ............
US Mouldings, LLC ...............................................................................
Trane U.S. Inc., Tyler Operations/Residential Solutions, Remedy Intelligent Staffing.
Manning, SC .................................
Tyler, TX .......................................
October 1, 2011.
October 12, 2011.
The following certifications have been
issued. The requirements of Section
222(a)(2)(B) (shift in production or
services) of the Trade Act have been
met.
TA–W No.
Subject firm
Location
Impact date
82,061 ............
82,108 ............
Matrix Telecom, Inc., Customer Service Department, Platinum Equity
Axa Equitable Life Insurance Company, AXA Financial, Benefits,
Payment and Accounting Group, Kelly Services, etc.
Brake Parts Inc., Affinia Group, Nesco Resource ................................
Atmore, AL ....................................
Syracuse, NY ................................
October 5, 2011.
October 23, 2011.
Stanford, KY ..................................
November 8,
2011.
82,143 ............
Negative Determinations for Worker
Adjustment Assistance
In the following cases, the
investigation revealed that the eligibility
criteria for worker adjustment assistance
have not been met for the reasons
specified.
The investigation revealed that the
criteria under paragraphs (a)(2)(A)
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Subject firm
81,948 ............
82,029 ............
82,085 ............
Vacumet Corporation, Paper Division ..................................................
Oregon Catholic Press, Employers Overload ......................................
Randstad US, LP, FKA Spherion Staffing, Hewlett-Packard, Business
Critical Systems, etc.
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(increased imports) and (a)(2)(B) (shift
in production or services to a foreign
country) of section 222 have not been
met.
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I hereby certify that the
aforementioned determinations were
issued during the period of November
19, 2012 through November 23, 2012.
These determinations are available on
the Department’s Web site tradeact/taa/
taa_search_form.cfm under the
searchable listing of determinations or
by calling the Office of Trade
Adjustment Assistance toll free at 888–
365–6822.
Dated: November 28, 2012.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment
Assistance.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training
Administration
Investigations Regarding Eligibility To
Apply for Worker Adjustment
Assistance
Petitions have been filed with the
Secretary of Labor under Section 221(a)
of the Trade Act of 1974 (‘‘the Act’’) and
are identified in the Appendix to this
notice. Upon receipt of these petitions,
the Director of the Office of Trade
Adjustment Assistance, Employment
and Training Administration, has
instituted investigations pursuant to
Section 221(a) of the Act.
The purpose of each of the
investigations is to determine whether
the workers are eligible to apply for
adjustment assistance under Title II,
Chapter 2, of the Act. The investigations
will further relate, as appropriate, to the
determination of the date on which total
or partial separations began or
threatened to begin and the subdivision
of the firm involved.
The petitioners or any other persons
showing a substantial interest in the
subject matter of the investigations may
request a public hearing, provided such
request is filed in writing with the
Director, Office of Trade Adjustment
Assistance, at the address shown below,
not later than December 31, 2012.
Interested persons are invited to
submit written comments regarding the
subject matter of the investigations to
the Director, Office of Trade Adjustment
Assistance, at the address shown below,
not later than December 31, 2012.
The petitions filed in this case are
available for inspection at the Office of
the Director, Office of Trade Adjustment
Assistance, Employment and Training
Administration, U.S. Department of
Labor, Room N–5428, 200 Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of
November 2012.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment
Assistance.
APPENDIX
[10 TAA petitions instituted between 11/19/12 and 11/23/12]
Subject firm
(petitioners)
Location
Crane Payment Solutions, Inc. (Company) ...........................
Delphi Connection Systems US, Inc. (Company) ..................
Karastan (Company) ..............................................................
Hostess (16 Locations in Michigan) (State/One-Stop) ..........
Technicolor Creative Services (State/One-Stop) ...................
Hostess Brands (Union) .........................................................
Foamworks, Inc. (State/One-Stop) .........................................
T-Systems North America (State/One-Stop) ..........................
TI Automotive (Company) ......................................................
Pearson Inc., Pearson Imaging Center (Workers) .................
Salem, NH .............................
Mount Union, PA ...................
Eden, NC ...............................
MI ...........................................
Glendale, CA .........................
Seattle, WA ............................
Morristown, TN ......................
Andover, MA ..........................
Cynthiana, KY ........................
Upper Saddle River, NJ .........
TA–W
82162
82163
82164
82165
82166
82167
82168
82169
82170
82171
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overseas offices, this RFI seeks to solicit
input from as large a set of stakeholders
as possible.
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Background
Request for Information (RFI): Use of
National Science Foundation Overseas
Offices in Paris, Tokyo, Beijing by
Broader Stakeholder Community
NSF’s current strategic plan states that
‘‘NSF envisions a nation that capitalizes
on new concepts in science and
engineering and provides global
leadership in advancing research and
education.’’ Because science and
engineering are increasingly global,
NSF’s Office of International Science
and Engineering (OISE) seeks to ensure
that U.S. institutions and researchers are
globally engaged, are able to advance
their research through international
collaboration, and maintain U.S.
leadership within the global scientific
community. To pursue its goals in these
areas, OISE operates three international
National Science Foundation.
Request for information (RFI).
AGENCY:
ACTION:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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NSF-FOREIGN-OFFICEINFO@LISTSERV.NSF.GOV.
To be considered, submissions
must be received by January 18, 2013.
SUMMARY: Purpose: As part of an
assessment investigating the function of
the three National Science Foundation
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institution
11/20/12
11/20/12
11/20/12
11/20/12
11/21/12
11/21/12
11/21/12
11/23/12
11/23/12
11/23/12
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petition
11/19/12
11/19/12
11/19/12
11/19/12
11/20/12
11/19/12
11/21/12
11/21/12
11/21/12
11/21/12
offices. NSF opened its first
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Two decades later, the NSF Europe
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in Paris and in 2006 the NSF Beijing
office was opened.
The major functions of these three
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• Facilitation: Promote collaboration
between the science and engineering
communities of the United States and
the respective country/region.
• Representation: Serve as a liaison
between NSF and agencies, institutions
and researchers.
• Reporting: Monitor and report on
science and engineering developments
and policies.
In responding to the following
questions, please provide as much detail
regarding each interaction and with
which office, wherever possible.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Employment and Training Administration
Notice of Determinations Regarding Eligibility To Apply for
Worker Adjustment Assistance
In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended
(19 U.S.C. 2273) the Department of Labor herein presents summaries of
determinations regarding eligibility to apply for trade adjustment
assistance for workers by (TA-W) number issued during the period of
November 19, 2012 through November 23, 2012.
In order for an affirmative determination to be made for workers of
a primary firm and a certification issued regarding eligibility to
apply for worker adjustment assistance, each of the group eligibility
requirements of Section 222(a) of the Act must be met.
I. Under Section 222(a)(2)(A), the following must be satisfied:
(1) A significant number or proportion of the workers in such
workers' firm have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;
(2) The sales or production, or both, of such firm have decreased
absolutely; and
(3) One of the following must be satisfied:
(A) Imports of articles or services like or directly competitive
with articles produced or services supplied by such firm have
increased;
(B) Imports of articles like or directly competitive with articles
into which one or more component parts produced by such firm are
directly incorporated, have increased;
(C) Imports of articles directly incorporating one or more
component parts produced outside the United States that are like or
directly competitive with imports of articles incorporating one or more
component parts produced by such firm have increased;
(D) Imports of articles like or directly competitive with articles
which are produced directly using services supplied by such firm, have
increased; and
(4) The increase in imports contributed importantly to such
workers' separation or threat of separation and to the decline in the
sales or production of such firm; or
II. Section 222(a)(2)(B) all of the following must be satisfied:
(1) A significant number or proportion of the workers in such
workers' firm have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;
(2) One of the following must be satisfied:
(A) There has been a shift by the workers' firm to a foreign
country in the production of articles or supply of services like or
directly competitive with those produced/supplied by the workers' firm;
(B) There has been an acquisition from a foreign country by the
workers' firm of articles/services that are like or directly
competitive with those produced/supplied by the workers' firm; and
(3) The shift/acquisition contributed importantly to the workers'
separation or threat of separation.
In order for an affirmative determination to be made for adversely
affected workers in public agencies and a certification issued
regarding eligibility to apply for worker adjustment assistance, each
of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222(b) of the Act must
be met.
(1) A significant number or proportion of the workers in the public
agency have become totally or partially separated, or are threatened to
become totally or partially separated;
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(2) The public agency has acquired from a foreign country services
like or directly competitive with services which are supplied by such
agency; and
(3) The acquisition of services contributed importantly to such
workers' separation or threat of separation.
In order for an affirmative determination to be made for adversely
affected secondary workers of a firm and a certification issued
regarding eligibility to apply for worker adjustment assistance, each
of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222(c) of the Act must
be met.
(1) A significant number or proportion of the workers in the
workers' firm have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;
(2) The workers' firm is a Supplier or Downstream Producer to a
firm that employed a group of workers who received a certification of
eligibility under Section 222(a) of the Act, and such supply or
production is related to the article or service that was the basis for
such certification; and
(3) Either--
(A) The workers' firm is a supplier and the component parts it
supplied to the firm described in paragraph (2) accounted for at least
20 percent of the production or sales of the workers' firm; or
(B) A loss of business by the workers' firm with the firm described
in paragraph (2) contributed importantly to the workers' separation or
threat of separation.
In order for an affirmative determination to be made for adversely
affected workers in firms identified by the International Trade
Commission and a certification issued regarding eligibility to apply
for worker adjustment assistance, each of the group eligibility
requirements of Section 222(f) of the Act must be met.
(1) The workers' firm is publicly identified by name by the
International Trade Commission as a member of a domestic industry in an
investigation resulting in--
(A) An affirmative determination of serious injury or threat
thereof under section 202(b)(1);
(B) An affirmative determination of market disruption or threat
thereof under section 421(b)(1); or
(C) An affirmative final determination of material injury or threat
thereof under section 705(b)(1)(A) or 735(b)(1)(A) of the Tariff Act of
1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671d(b)(1)(A) and 1673d(b)(1)(A));
(2) The petition is filed during the 1-year period beginning on the
date on which--
(A) A summary of the report submitted to the President by the
International Trade Commission under section 202(f)(1) with respect to
the affirmative determination described in paragraph (1)(A) is
published in the Federal Register under section 202(f)(3); or
(B) Notice of an affirmative determination described in
subparagraph (1) is published in the Federal Register; and
(3) The workers have become totally or partially separated from the
workers' firm within--
(A) The 1-year period described in paragraph (2); or
(B) Notwithstanding section 223(b)(1), the 1-year period preceding
the 1-year period described in paragraph (2).
Affirmative Determinations for Worker Adjustment Assistance
The following certifications have been issued. The date following
the company name and location of each determination references the
impact date for all workers of such determination.
The following certifications have been issued. The requirements of
Section 222(a)(2)(A) (increased imports) of the Trade Act have been
met.
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TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date
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82,023.................... US Mouldings, LLC........... Manning, SC............ October 1, 2011.
82,075.................... Trane U.S. Inc., Tyler Tyler, TX.............. October 12, 2011.
Operations/Residential
Solutions, Remedy
Intelligent Staffing.
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The following certifications have been issued. The requirements of
Section 222(a)(2)(B) (shift in production or services) of the Trade Act
have been met.
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TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date
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82,061.................... Matrix Telecom, Inc., Atmore, AL............. October 5, 2011.
Customer Service
Department, Platinum Equity.
82,108.................... Axa Equitable Life Insurance Syracuse, NY........... October 23, 2011.
Company, AXA Financial,
Benefits, Payment and
Accounting Group, Kelly
Services, etc.
82,143.................... Brake Parts Inc., Affinia Stanford, KY........... November 8, 2011.
Group, Nesco Resource.
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Negative Determinations for Worker Adjustment Assistance
In the following cases, the investigation revealed that the
eligibility criteria for worker adjustment assistance have not been met
for the reasons specified.
The investigation revealed that the criteria under paragraphs
(a)(2)(A) (increased imports) and (a)(2)(B) (shift in production or
services to a foreign country) of section 222 have not been met.
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TA-W No. Subject firm Location Impact date
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81,948.................... Vacumet Corporation, Paper Morristown, TN .............................
Division.
82,029.................... Oregon Catholic Press, Portland, OR .............................
Employers Overload.
82,085.................... Randstad US, LP, FKA Fort Collins, CO .............................
Spherion Staffing, Hewlett-
Packard, Business Critical
Systems, etc.
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I hereby certify that the aforementioned determinations were issued
during the period of November 19, 2012 through November 23, 2012. These
determinations are available on the Department's Web site tradeact/taa/
taa--search--form.cfm under the searchable listing of determinations or
by calling the Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance toll free at 888-
365-6822.
Dated: November 28, 2012.
Elliott S. Kushner,
Certifying Officer, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
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