Gov. Scott Tours Monin As part of his $1 Billion in Tax Cut Tour, Governor Rick Scott visited Monin, Inc. in Clearwa- ter on Monday, November 9. Local business leaders, associa- tions and news media attended the event for his press confer- ence that followed the tour. Governor Scott’s $1 billion tax cut package includes: Permanently Eliminating Income Tax on Manufactur- ing and Retail Businesses. Permanently Eliminating the Tax on Manufacturing Ma- chinery and Equipment. Cutting the Tax on Com- mercial Leases. Extending the Sales Tax Exemption on College Text- books. Saving for Families with Sales Tax Holidays. Governor Scott said, “By elimi- nating the tax on business in- come for Florida manufacturers — big and small, and all Florida retailers, which include many IN THIS ISSUE: 2016 Membership Plaques Anniversaries BAMA Board of Directors BAMA Member News BAMA Shirts for Sale Board Spotlight: Dru Wilson Events You Shouldn’t Miss Golf Scholarship Fundraiser Manufacturing Job Openings Middleton High Robotics RoundTable Forums State of Mfg Comes to Tampa Thank you BAMA Sponsors Upcoming Job Fairs What’s Happening at SPC Welcome new members! Between Oct - Dec, we welcomed the following as new manufacturer members: Gulftech Enterprises Coppertail Brewing Bic Graphics Wings Aerospace Kincaid Plastics Mikros Systems Corp TRC-Southwire Hoffman Group BAMA Briefing Winter 2016 emption on manufacturing ma- chinery and equipment was passed by the Florida Legisla- ture in 2014 and will expire in 2017. BAMA applauds the House Finance and Tax Com- mittee for including the perma- nent sales tax exemption on manufacturing machinery and equipment, along with a reduc- tion in business rent tax, in the Committee’s proposed tax pack- age. small businesses all across the state — we are putting job creators on the road to success for years to come. I want Flor- ida to be the small business capital of the world. Our state is already home to 500,000 small businesses. The more we can cut taxes — like the one on commercial lease — the more we can grow our small busi- nesses in Florida and further diversify our economy to invest in our future.” “Florida is on a roll. Our busi- nesses have added almost one million new jobs over the last four years, but we have more work to do. We can’t only cre- ate jobs when the national economy is good. We must cut taxes and diversify our econ- omy so Florida can grow even when the national economy is bad. Florida must compete with Texas, and diversify our econ- omy to guard against another recession.” The temporary sales tax ex- Governor Rick Scott at Monin Left to Right: Mike Brewster, Monin; Becky Burton, BAMA; Mike Shaluly, Mastercut Tools; Governor Rick Scott; Jerry Custin, Upper Tampa Bay Chamber; Dru Wilson, USI Insurance; Rick Concotelli, Lockheed Martin.
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Gov. Scott Tours Monin As part of his $1 Billion in Tax Cut Tour, Governor Rick Scott visited Monin, Inc. in Clearwa-ter on Monday, November 9.
Local business leaders, associa-tions and news media attended the event for his press confer-ence that followed the tour.
Governor Scott’s $1 billion tax cut package includes:
Permanently Eliminating Income Tax on Manufactur-ing and Retail Businesses.
Permanently Eliminating the Tax on Manufacturing Ma-chinery and Equipment.
Cutting the Tax on Com-mercial Leases.
Extending the Sales Tax Exemption on College Text-books.
Saving for Families with Sales Tax Holidays.
Governor Scott said, “By elimi-nating the tax on business in-come for Florida manufacturers — big and small, and all Florida retailers, which include many
IN THIS ISSUE:
2016 Membership Plaques
Anniversaries
BAMA Board of Directors
BAMA Member News
BAMA Shirts for Sale
Board Spotlight: Dru Wilson
Events You Shouldn’t Miss
Golf Scholarship Fundraiser
Manufacturing Job Openings
Middleton High Robotics
RoundTable Forums
State of Mfg Comes to Tampa
Thank you BAMA Sponsors
Upcoming Job Fairs
What’s Happening at SPC
Welcome new
members!
Between Oct - Dec, we welcomed the following as new manufacturer
members:
Gulftech Enterprises
Coppertail Brewing
Bic Graphics
Wings Aerospace
Kincaid Plastics
Mikros Systems Corp
TRC-Southwire
Hoffman Group
BAMA Briefing
Winter 2016
emption on manufacturing ma-chinery and equipment was passed by the Florida Legisla-ture in 2014 and will expire in 2017. BAMA applauds the House Finance and Tax Com-mittee for including the perma-nent sales tax exemption on manufacturing machinery and equipment, along with a reduc-tion in business rent tax, in the Committee’s proposed tax pack-age.
small businesses all across the state — we are putting job creators on the road to success for years to come. I want Flor-ida to be the small business capital of the world. Our state is already home to 500,000 small businesses. The more we can cut taxes — like the one on commercial lease — the more we can grow our small busi-nesses in Florida and further diversify our economy to invest in our future.”
“Florida is on a roll. Our busi-nesses have added almost one million new jobs over the last four years, but we have more work to do. We can’t only cre-ate jobs when the national economy is good. We must cut taxes and diversify our econ-omy so Florida can grow even when the national economy is bad. Florida must compete with Texas, and diversify our econ-omy to guard against another recession.”
The temporary sales tax ex-
Governor Rick Scott at Monin
Left to Right: Mike Brewster, Monin; Becky Burton, BAMA; Mike Shaluly, Mastercut Tools;
Governor Rick Scott; Jerry Custin, Upper Tampa Bay Chamber; Dru Wilson, USI Insurance;
Rick Concotelli, Lockheed Martin.
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BAMA
Board of Directors
President; Cliff Csulik,
Jabil Circuit
Past President: Steve Meitzen,
S.C.M Inc.
Vice President: Rick Concotelli,
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Treasurer: Ann Paxton, PDR
Certified Public Accountants
Mike Brewster, Monin Gourmet
Flavorings
James Long, Sypris Electronics
Grant Petersen,
Ogletree Deakins, P.A.
Jeff Perkins, Seal Dynamics
Dennis Piotrowski
Dennis Stotts,
Lewis, Longman & Walker, P.A.
Rob Wallace, Environmental
Engineering Consultant
Dru Wilson,
USI Insurance Services
Dru Wilson, a Property and
Casualty Practice Leader with USI Insurance Services in
Tampa has a passion for manufacturing that goes back
a long way. It stems from his
father who was in the manu-facturing business. “The com-
pany that he was with manu-factured airline interior pan-
els. He traveled all around the world meeting with air-
lines to demonstrate their
products. I’ve always been incredibly impressed by the
entire manufacturing process. Taking raw materials and
through an efficient process,
having something that is use-ful.”
Board Spotlight: Dru Wilson He started his commercial
career writing roller coaster and amusement ride manu-
facturers’ products liability coverage. It was natural that
he would want to become a
member of a group that was focused on manufacturing,
which he did in April 2012.
Two and a half years ago he
joined the BAMA Board of Directors and became in-
volved in the membership
committee. He works with a team of fellow BAMA mem-
bers, periodically visiting manufacturers around Tampa
Bay to promote and educate
them about the benefits of
belonging to an association that has been around for
more than 50 years.
When asked what he enjoys most about his participation
with BAMA, he replied, “I have had such a great experi-
ence with the group. I par-ticularly enjoy the tours, the
people, and the giving back.
The tours are great in that you get to see many different
processes and have a better understand how things are
made. I value the relation-
ships and the people that I know. Also, I like what we
do as an organization as it relates to building a deeper
bench of manufacturing em-ployees. I find that the ef-
BAMA Briefing
Feb. 18, 5:00 -8:00 pm Leo Reddy, Chairman and CEO, Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC) speaks on Na-tional Industry Certifications. Location: Bardmoor Golf Club Special pricing for students Registration Info
See Dru Wilson page 8 Dru’s team has enjoyed a lot of success (and fun) each year at the Annual Golf Scholarship Fundraiser.
Winter 2016
Dru Wilson
Events you don’t want to miss!
See these events and more at www.bama-fl.org/calendar And check out the community calendar: www.bama-fl.org/otherevents
Feb 25 , 11:30 AM - 1:00PM What behavioral insight really can do for your hiring, leadership & engagement Location: The Omnia Group, Tampa Registration Info
March 9, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Intellectual Property Law Questions on Patents, Trademarks or Copyright? You should attend this Lunch ‘n Learn sponsored by Larson & Larson Law. Location: Pinellas Tech College, Clearwater campus Registration Info
www.bama-fl.org
Middleton High School students demonstrated their robotics maneuvers in 2015.
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Thank you BAMA Sponsors
Please remember these generous companies who help BAMA
throughout the year with their Annual Corporate Sponsorship.
Clearwater Gas System www.clearwatergas.com
Environmental Engineering Consultants, Inc.
www.eec-tampabay.com
Lewis, Longman & Walker, P.A. www.llw-law.com
Patterson · Pope Patterson Pope
PDR Certified Public Accountants www.pdr-cpa.com
To find out more about how
your company can be a sponsor of BAMA, please visit
our website: www.bama-fl.org/sponsors
Winter 2016
The guest speaker this year is Dr. Nancee Sorenson, Presi-dent, Brandon Campus, Hills-borough Community College.
Middleton's Electrathon Car will be on display. It was designed and built by students and is powered only by commercial rechargeable batteries weigh-ing no more than 73 pounds. A robotics demonstration will be conducted by Middleton High School robotics club students, winners of the 2012 World FTC
Each year, BAMA supports the Middleton High School Ro-botics Team - middletonro-botics.com - with education and in their pursuit of a national championship.
The 6th Annual STEM Profes-sional Association Event, high-lighting the Middleton Robotics Team, will be held Thurs., March 24 from 5-7 PM, at Middleton High School, 4801 N. 22nd St, Tampa.
Annual STEM Professional Assoc. Event
featuring Middleton Robotics Presentation
Robotics Championship and 2012, 2013 and 2014 Florida State FTC Robotics Championships.
This STEM event will take place in the Media Center, located on the second floor of Administra-tion Building 100.
Guests are encouraged to bring their family members for this awesome Science, Technology, Engineering and Math event! Click here to register.
Northeast High School, St. Pete, toured Jabil Circuit on Dec 8, 2015.
www.bama-fl.org
Know someone who is me-chanically inclined, able to work independently with pre-cision, accuracy, and crafts-manship? Well, the Industrial Machinery Maintenance pro-gram is now available at Brewster Tech in Tampa.
This 14-month program pro-vides hands-on activities, creativity and problem solving in machinery maintenance
Wear your BAMA support proudly!
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Happy
Anniversary!
The following members celebrated anniversaries
with BAMA during the fourth quarter of 2015:
Ten years: Clearwater Gas System
PDR Certified Public Acct. Ogletree Deakins, P.A.
Five years: Advanced Protection Techn.
One year:
Chemical Standards Lab
Enser Corporation
GA Foods
Precise Technologies
ProTools
RevTech MFG Solutions
Savant Sourcing
Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick
Tampa Electric Company
TECO Peoples Gas
BAMA shirts are now for sale and can be purchased at events, by emailing [email protected], or by filling out
the form on the website*.
We have the following: Men’s $35
Sport-Tek Black Nike Golf Royal Blue
www.bama-fl.org
Do you need a 2016 sticker for your BAMA membership plaque?
Or do you not have a plaque?
If you need a 2016 sticker for your BAMA member plaque,
or if you haven’t received one, please email Becky and
I’ll see what we can do to get
that rectified.
CareerSource Offers Lean Courses
CareerSource Pinellas and CareerSource Tampa Bay understand the importance for employee training and skill upgrades. Innovation and technological advances are rapidly transforming U.S. manufacturing.
Their Lean Six Sigma series of courses are not just training your staff but directs them towards projects that provide real measurable returns. They provide training classes at locations in St. Petersburg and Tampa or on-site.
To find out more, contact: Judi Dorcy at 813-397-2045 or [email protected]
*Shipping charges may apply
and repair. Students will also learn basic piece parts ma-chining using manual machine tools and Computerized Nu-merical Control (CNC) pro-gramming.
If you'd like more information, contact: Vangie Goldwire, [email protected], 813-276-5464, x274, www.brewster.edu
Industrial Machinery Maintenance
We also have backpacks for $50
And also… Women’s $30
Port Authority Raspberry
Nike Golf Royal Blue
www.bama-fl.org/shirts
We even have some extra large sizes
www.bama-fl.org
ApprenticeshipUSA Training
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Job Openings?
Did you know you can post manufacturing jobs on the BAMA website?
To post a job, log into the BAMA website (located on the bottom of the website) and go to bama-fl.org/jobpostings. If you are unable to log in, send the job to Becky.
The jobs you post are not only viewable to the public, they are shared with the local colleges.
If the job has any specific certifications or criteria; or if you give hiring preferences to individuals with certifications, please state that along with the contact person or how someone can apply for the job. There is no cost for this service.
Winter 2016
The Employment and Training Administration and the Office of Apprenticeship are excited to announce the release of Training
and Employment Notice (TEN) 20-15, titled, ApprenticeshipUSA Information and New Technical Assistance Resources for Start-ing and Enhancing Registered Apprenticeship Programs. This
important guidance is a great resource intended to support the expansion of Apprenticeships across the country.
Within the TEN you’ll find information related to the launch of the ApprenticeshipUSA initiative and the Dept. of Labor Appren-
ticeship portal at: http://www.dol.gov/featured/apprenticeship.
Interns?
Do you have a place in your facility for an intern, appren-tice or a job shadow pro-gram? If yes, or if you al-ready have one in place, I’d like to hear about it.
If you’d like to start one but not sure how, I will be happy to connect you with someone who can help.
If you have a program that is successful, contact Becky with the details - you could be a featured in an upcoming newsletter.
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Calling all golfers!Calling all golfers!Calling all golfers! And those who just want to have funAnd those who just want to have funAnd those who just want to have fun
BAMA’s 25th Annual BAMA’s 25th Annual BAMA’s 25th Annual Scholarships for Manufacturing Education Scholarships for Manufacturing Education Scholarships for Manufacturing Education Kelly Murphy Memorial Golf TournamentKelly Murphy Memorial Golf TournamentKelly Murphy Memorial Golf Tournament
Monday, April 11Monday, April 11Monday, April 11
At The Forest Course at The EaglesAt The Forest Course at The Eagles
16101 Nine Eagles Drive, Odessa, Fla. 3355616101 Nine Eagles Drive, Odessa, Fla. 33556
More information at www.bamaMore information at www.bama--fl.org/golffl.org/golf
We need donations of gift
cards, hotel vouchers, golf
items, wine and “schwag”. If
you can help in any way, please
email [email protected].
Individual golfers
are also welcome!
www.bama-fl.org
Do you have
news to share or
would you like
your
manufacturing
facility to be
highlighted in
a future
newsletter?
Email: Becky at
On January 1, 2016 Ven-Tel Plastics Corporation of Largo was purchased by Na-tional Molding, LLC head-quartered in Miami Lakes, Florida. National Molding is a well-established injection molding company founded over 60 years ago, and now has 4 facilities, Miami Lakes /Largo Florida, Ambridge Penn-sylvania and Shanghai China. National Molding supplies products for the automotive, military, law enforcement and commercial markets.
The acquisition of Ven-Tel Plastics adds Medical Device Manufacturing and commer-cial business to National Mold-ings current capabilities. The new name for the Largo facil-ity is “National Molding Medi-cal Division” and will continue to manufacture both medical and commercial products.
NASA lab installs Ad-vanced Vacuum plasma system
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labora-tory (JPL) recently installed an Apex SLR™ plasma etching system at its Microdevices Laboratory in Pasadena, Cali-fornia. Apex SLR™ systems are made by the Advanced Vacuum subsidiary of Plasma-Therm of St. Petersburg. A total of six of the compa-nies’ plasma tools are used at JPL for processing compo-nents such as cosmic radiation detectors, solid-state lasers to detect gases on Earth and other planets, and infrared sensors for terrestrial and ex-traterrestrial imaging. The Apex SLR’s ability to process a variety of materials, including dielectrics, metals, polymers, compound semiconductors,
BAMA MEMBER NEWS and superconductors, is espe-cially well suited to R&D labs such as JPL’s, which typically fabricate advanced devices in small numbers. Plasma proc-essing is also a key technology in large-scale manufacturing of computer chips, as well as micro- and nano-scale photonic and electro-mechanical devices such as miniature sensors, radios, and lenses, which are used in eve-rything from cars to smart phones to satellites.
Coppertail Brewing Com-pany in Tampa recently ex-panded distribution from the Tampa Bay area, to include bars, restaurants and stores in Sarasota, Orlando, Miami and Palm Beach. They hope to bring their Tampa brewed beer to the entire state by the end of the year. In 2015 their distribution volume went from100 barrels per month to 500 barrels per month. Addi-tionally, they just hired two additional brewers and will be looking for sales people in Orlando and Jacksonville in the coming months.
Seaboard Manufacturing saw a 275% growth in 2015 over 2014, adding 2 ma-chines, including a Bridgemill with a 50” x 100” x 16” on Z axis.
They increased staff and cur-rently have another CNC ma-chinist position open. They are encouraging job seekers to send in their resumes, even if it is for a different position. At the rate of growth they will be hiring again soon! Email: [email protected]
“To catch the reader's attention, place an
interesting sentence or quote from the
story here.”
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www.bama-fl.org
Manufacturing Job Openings?
Send them via email to [email protected]
Be sure to include any certi-fications desired for the job
LogoHQ Promotional Products, a full-service Pro-motional Products Distributor with in-house Embroidery, Screen Printing and Creative Services, recently moved into a newly renovated and larger facility in Gateway Lakes Busi-ness Park located at I-275 & Roosevelt Blvd in St. Peters-burg. LogoHQ and the St. Petersburg Chamber of Com-merce will host a Grand Opening and Ribbon Cut-ting on Wed., March 9 from 4-8pm with great food, craft beer and wine, along with raffles, awesome give-aways and special guests.
Buyers, Procurement and Mar-keting Managers who utilize the products and services LogoHQ offers (along with our existing customers) are in-vited. The crew at LogoHQ produces branded, logoed promotional items and apparel for businesses, organizations & events (both locally & na-tionally since 1994).
For more info, Text or Call Faith Ruzicka at 727-641-7664 or send an e-mail to [email protected]
www.bama-fl.org
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St. Pete College Wed., March 23 SPC EpiCenter, Clearwater
Employers wanting to participate, please register online at www.bama-fl.org/event-2100975
Upcoming Job Fairs
St. Pete College is gauging manufacturer interest in getting Solidworks train-ing over the course of the next year or so. If you can help or have any input, here is a survey you can complete to help them make a decision. http://web.spcollege.edu/survey/20480
A manufacturing and sup-ply chair job fair will be held at the EpiCenter on Wed., March 23. If you have jobs to be filled, please register online at bama-fl.org/event-2100975
Looking for training and edu-cation that is customized spe-cifically for your business? Need training classes at your place of business? Need a customized training strategy developed just for your em-ployees? Let St. Petersburg College do it!
St. Petersburg College Workforce & Professional Development can manage all your training and develop-ment for as many employees as you’d like. Choose from a broad base of programs or let us develop a customized cur-riculum to meet your business needs.
Specializing in areas such as: Business and Finance Conflict Resolution and Change Management
Customer Service Diversity/Cultural Compe-
tency Healthcare Innovation IT Certifications Leadership Development Program Lean/Six Sigma Logistics Management Skills Manufacturing, Quality & Process Improvement Microsoft Applications and
Mitigation Project Management Sustainability Team Building
For more information please contact Ariel Boone at [email protected]
St. Petersburg College is hosting its 2nd Annual Mid-dle School and High School Robotics Camps.
In summer 2015, the Engineer-ing Technology department's 3D modeling and rapid proto-typing instructor, Greg Lewis (along with several volunteers), started a STEM outreach pro-gram for middle and high school students. The purpose was to engage more students in 3D modeling, prototyping, and robotics.
St. Pete College students in the SolidWorks Advanced Applica-tions class will use the tech-
Hillsborough Cmty College Thurs., April 7
HCC, Brandon Campus
Employers wanting to participate, please contact Kirsten at
What’s Happening at St. Pete College niques they learn in class to help create the robotic parts for the middle and high school students. SPC Engineering Technology students and AA-Engineering transfer students will be volunteers during the camp to mentor the middle and high school students and to assist with robot assembly and racing.
Integrating the outreach pro-ject into the SolidWorks Advanced Applications class increases the relevancy of material taught and creates an environment of innovation, creativity, and teamwork. These are the same skills we are encouraging in the middle and high school students the SPC student volunteers will help nurture and support those skills.
They received a grant from the College, but need addi-tional funds to purchase vehi-cles parts, 3D printing mate-rial, and camp T-shirts. The department is also seeking funds to offer ten $250.00 scholarships (5 middle school, 5 high school).
Sponsors will be placed on the camp T-shirt and all advertis-ing material. If you are inter-ested in being a sponsor, please contact the Program Director, Lara Sharp, at 727-3 9 8 - 8 2 5 6 o r [email protected].
Look for BAMA at the Florida Building
Engineering & Facility
Maintenance Show, April 13 at the Florida State Fairgrounds
www.maintenanceshows.info
www.bama-fl.org
forts that we as a collective whole have with the scholar-
ships for grade school students
as well as adult students is re-warding. The total experience
brings together personal, busi-ness, and philanthropic aspects
that I’m not sure that other organizations can provide.”
Dru sees BAMA’s future as in-
credibly bright. “As we continue to add manufacturing mem-
bers, we have a number of things in progress to further
bring value to the membership.
I would like to see more in-volvement from the member-
ship as a whole and encourage their comments on what we can
do to further make BAMA the manufacturers association.”
Dru thinks that most people
have a fairly decent under-standing of what BAMA offers
but he doesn’t think that other members know how deep a
bank of knowledge that our
group harnesses as a collective. “From the most sophisticated
manufacturing processes down to the local startup, from the
associates that are involved in
legal, insurance, etc., we have professionals that can answer
any question that your business may be struggling with or re-
searching.” If you’re not a BAMA member and would like
to speak to Dru about the bene-
fits of being a member, he can b e r e a c h e d a t
Winter 2016 BAMA Briefing Page 8
www.bama-fl.org
@bamafla
Dru Wilson continued from page 2
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As part of a national tour, NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons, stopped by Port Tampa Bay on Friday, Jan. 29 to give the organization’s an-nual State of Manufacturing address: “When manufac-turing is strong, America is strong”.
Timmons’ visit to the Tampa Bay area included a speech at the University of South Florida and tours of Sun Hydraulics in Sarasota and Bristol-Myers Squibb in Tampa.
BAMA board members, Jim Long and Ann Paxton served on the Roundtable panel to discuss the state of manufac-turing in Tampa Bay. A recep-tion was held afterwards.
Also attending the Port Tampa Bay event was former U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney, current president and CEO of Associ-ated Industries of Florida (AIF); Rick Homans, president and CEO of the Tampa Bay Partnership; and Paul Ander-son, president and CEO of Port Tampa Bay.
According to industry esti-mates, the manufacturing sector supports nearly 336,200 jobs in Florida, adding about $2.17 trillion to the U.S. econ-omy.
State of Manufacturing Comes to Tampa
Timmons discussed modern manufacturing and the chang-ing workforce, as well as a strategy for creating more jobs, capturing global leader-ship and expanding business opportunities. He will also fo-cus specifically on Port Tampa Bay and its long-term influ-ence on commerce in Florida.
Stops on the State of Manu-facturing Tour 2016 include Manchester, New Hampshire; Charleston, South Carolina; Philadelphia; Chicago; and Dallas before ending Feb. 5 in Baltimore. Read more .
State of Mfg Roundtable Panel included Sen. Jack Latvala; Rep. Kathleen Peters, AIF Tom Feeney, Nam Timmons, BAMA board members Jim Long and Ann Paxton.
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