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American actress and businesswoman Gwyneth Paltrow (1972) is the daughter of filmmaker Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe Danner. During the 1990s the 1990s and early 2000s, she was a leading lady in period films like Emma (1996) and Shakespeare in Love (1998). Later, she acted in blockbusters and franchises in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from Iron Man (2008) to Avengers: Endgame (2019). On television, she had a recurring guest role in Glee (2010–2011). Paltrow won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Gwyneth Katherine Paltrow was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Her parents were director and television producer Bruce Paltrow and Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner. Her brother Jake Paltrow also works in the film industry. She is the niece of actress Katherine Moennig. Gwyneth grew up in Santa Monica, where she attended the Crossroads School. When she was eleven, the family moved to Massachusetts, where her father began working in summer stock productions in the Berkshires. At 15, she spent a year in Spain and speaks fairly good Spanish. She graduated from the all-girls Spence School in New York City and attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied art history. She dropped out of university to pursue acting. Earlier, she had demonstrated her talent by appearing in plays alongside her mother. She made her television debut in the drama High (1989), directed by her father. In 1990, Paltrow made her professional stage debut. She played her first film role in the musical Shout (Jeffrey Hornaday, 1991) alongside John Travolta. In the same year, she played the young Wendy in the fantasy film Hook (1991), directed by her godfather Steven Spielberg. She had minor roles in the thrillers Flesh and Bone (Sterve Kloves, 1993) and Malice (Harold Becker, 1993), alongside Nicole Kidman. Paltrow gained wider recognition with a supporting role in the thriller Se7en (David Fincher, 1995). She played a small but significant role as Brad Pitt’s wife. The two also began a relationship in real life, which received a great deal of media attention. The film was an international box-office hit. In the following year, she played Emma Woodhouse in Emma (Douglas McGrath, 1996), based on the novel by Jane Austen. For her role, she received positive reviews. Roger Ebert: "In its high spirits and wicked good humor, Emma is a delightful film–second only to Persuasion among the modern Austen movies, and funnier, if not so insightful. Gwyneth Paltrow sparkles in the title role as young Miss Woodhouse, who wants to play God in her own little patch of England. You can see her eyes working the room, speculating on whose lives she can improve." In 1998, she starred in five different films. Paltrow achieved her international breakthrough with the lead role of Viola De Lesseps in the romantic comedy Shakespeare in Love (John Madden, 1998). She played the fictional girlfriend of William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes). Shakespeare in Love won seven Oscars, including Best Actress for Paltrow. The film was a hit with both critics and cinema audiences, and she also received a Golden Globe for her performance. The British film Sliding Doors (Peter Howitt, 1998) was also successful, both with critics and the public. That year, she was the first woman to speak out about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct. In 1999, she starred alongside Jude Law, Matt Damon and Cate Blanchett in the psychological thriller The Talented Mr Ripley (Anthony Minghella, 1999), based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith

Gwyneth Paltrow co-starred with her then-boyfriend Ben Affleck in the romantic film Bounce (Don Roos, 2000), which disappointed because of its predictable, formulaic plot. That year, she also starred in Duets (2000), directed by her father, Bruce Paltrow. In this karaoke comedy-drama, she did her own singing. She played the tragic poet Sylvia Plath in Sylvia (Christine Jeffs, 2003), in which she starred alongside her mother, Blythe Danner, for the first time. Roger Ebert: "The film stars Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia and Daniel Craig as Ted. They are well cast, not merely because they look something like the originals but because they sound like workers who live with words and value them; there’s a scene where they hurl quotations at each other, and it sounds like they know what they’re doing. Paltrow’s great feat is to underplay her character’s death wish. There was madness in Sylvia Plath, but of a sad, interior sort, and one of the film’s accomplishments is to show subtly how it was so difficult for Hughes to live with her. The movie doesn’t pump up the volume." Paltrow opted for more comedic roles. She was Margot Tenenbaum in the ensemble film The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001) and starred in the comedy Shallow Hal (Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, 2001) alongside Jack Black. For her role, she had to wear a 200-pound latex 'fat' suit at times. Paltrow said that this experience made her saddened by the injustice faced by overweight people in society. She played the lead role in the unsuccessful comedy View from the Top (Bruno Barreto, 2003), for which she received a fee of US$10 million. Then she appeared alongside Jude Law in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Kerry Conran, 2004). In 2006, Paltrow received another Golden Globe nomination for her remarkable performance in the drama The Proof (John Madden, 2005) as the loyal daughter of a brilliant but mad mathematician (Anthony Hopkins). In 2007, she played the lead role in The Good Night, directed by her brother Jake. In 2008, US Forbes Magazine listed her among Hollywood’s highest-paid actresses. Between June 2007 and June 2008, she earned $25 million, placing her in fourth place alongside Reese Witherspoon, behind Cameron Diaz, Keira Knightley and Jennifer Aniston. In 2008, Paltrow launched the website Goop, based on a newsletter featuring her personal lifestyle tips and an associated online shop selling related products. The fact that Paltrow advised her followers not to rely on information from doctors and the pharmaceutical industry, but to ‘do their own research’, drew criticism. Paltrow appeared as Pepper Potts in the action film Iron Man (Jon Favreau, 2008) alongside Robert Downey Jr. The film grossed over $500 million worldwide, and she reprised her role in the sequel, Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau, 2010). In 2010, she was honoured with a star (no. 2427) on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. By 2019, Paltrow had played the role of Pepper Potts in five further productions from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In addition, she appeared in other feature films and played Holly Holliday in the television series Glee (2010, 2011 and 2014). In 2011, she won an Emmy for her appearance in Glee. In March 2011, Paltrow reached number 1 in the Australian charts with the song ‘Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah!)’ – a cover version of the song of the same name by Gary Glitter (1973). She scaled back her acting work in 2017 to focus on her lifestyle company, Goop, and other ventures. Following relationships with Brad Pitt (engaged from 1995 to 1997) and Ben Affleck (in a relationship from 1998 to 2000), Paltrow married Chris Martin, the lead singer of the British band Coldplay, in 2003. Their daughter, Apple Martin, was born in 2004, and their son, Moses Martin, was born in 2006. Paltrow and Martin divorced in 2016. In 2018, Gwyneth Paltrow married TV producer Brad Falchuk. They had met on the set of Glee. She is a board member of the Robin Hood Foundation, a charitable organisation dedicated to alleviating poverty in New York City. Recently, Paltrow appeared opposite Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie, 2025). She played Kay Stone, a wealthy, retired actress and socialite who has a sexual relationship with Marty. The film received critical acclaim and was a box-office success, grossing $192 million worldwide.

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Italian postcard by B.F.F. Edit., no. 3236. Photo: Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Publicity still for The King's Thief (Robert Z. Leonard, 1955).

Darkly handsome Edmund Purdom (1924–2009) was a British character actor who wore togas and sandals for a great deal of his career. In Hollywood, he replaced Marlon Brando in The Egyptian (1954) and Mario Lanza in The Student Prince (1954) and in Italy, he starred in countless Peplums and other genre films.

Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom was born in Welwyn Garden City, England, in 1924. His father was an artist and London drama critic Charles Benjamin Purdom. Jesuits educated Edmund at St Ignatius College and by Benedictines at Downside School. He began his acting career in 1945 by joining the Northampton Repertory Company, appearing in productions which included 'Romeo and Juliet' and Molière's 'The Imaginary Invalid'. It was followed by two years of military service, during which he joined the Army Pool of Artists. He made his screen debut in the BBC TV film Carissima (1950), followed by a BBC TV adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (Leonard Brett, 1951). He then joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon. In 1951-1952, Purdom was part of the company that Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh took to Broadway for alternating performances of Shakespeare's 'Antony and Cleopatra' and George Bernard Shaw's 'Caesar and Cleopatra'. He tested at Twentieth Century-Fox for the leading male role in My Cousin Rachel (1952), but Richard Burton got the part. The studio cast him instead as ship's officer Lightoller in Titanic (Jean Negulesco, 1953). His performance caught the attention of MGM, and he got a small role in the classic Julius Caesar (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1953) starring Marlon Brando. Purdome played Strato, the young servant of Brutus (James Mason), who holds the sword out for his master to run onto at the climax. Then he was cast in the title role opposite Jean Simmons in the epic The Egyptian (Michael Curtiz, 1954), 20th Century-Fox's most lavish production of the year. He played a brilliant physician in the service of the Pharaoh in 18th-dynasty Egypt. Ronald Bergan in The Guardian: “Purdom's reputation as a surrogate is underlined by the fact that he got his first chance of stardom when he replaced Marlon Brando in The Egyptian (1954) after Brando wisely cried off, preferring to play Napoleon in Desirée instead. (...) Purdom's striking dark good looks and dimpled cheeks made up for his rather wooden personality and inability to pronounce his 'r's, but not even Brando could have known how to react to dialogue such as: ‘You have bold eyes for the son of a cheesemaker.’”

Edmund Purdom then played the leading role opposite Ann Blyth in the MGM musical The Student Prince (1954), a part originally intended for Mario Lanza. According to Wikipedia, Lanza’s disagreement with director Curtis Bernhardt over how a certain song was to be sung led to his dismissal by MGM. (Ronald Bergan adds: “Mario Lanza's drugs-alcohol-weight problems got the better of him”) The film was subsequently directed by Richard Thorpe, and Purdom lip-synced to Lanza's singing voice. MGM gave the young unknown a considerable build-up. In the same year, he appeared in another MGM musical, Athena (Richard Thorpe, 1954), opposite Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds. Tom Vallance cites in The Independent Debbie Reynolds saying, “The only relief on the set was the action going on off camera. Linda Christian, who was Mrs Tyrone Power at the time, was also in the picture. She was a temptress, and right before our eyes, we saw the tempted, who was Edmund Purdom. They would go to his little trailer, close the door and be gone for quite a while.” Christian later divorced Power and married Purdom. He then played the title role opposite superstar Lana Turner in the biblical epic The Prodigal (Richard Thorpe, 1955), MGM's most lavish production of 1955. It was a huge flop. He partnered with Ann Blyth again in the swashbuckling CinemaScope adventure film The King's Thief (Robert Z. Leonard, 1955). Purdom's MGM contract was terminated. On television, he starred as Marco del Monte in the swashbuckler series Sword of Freedom (Peter Cotes, Anthony Squire,1957-1958). In 1959, he filmed the crime drama Malaga / Moment of Danger (Laslo Benedek, 1960) in Europe. The American premiere of the film, co-starring Trevor Howard and Dorothy Dandridge, was delayed for nearly two years. After that, he did not work in Hollywood anymore except for some cameos, such as in the MGM production The Yellow Rolls-Royce (Anthony Asquith, 1964), in which peer Rex Harrison buys his wife (Jeanne Moreau) the titular limousine, unaware that she will be using the back seat to make love to Purdom.

When his Hollywood career sizzled out, Edmund Purdom went to Italy to star in the crime drama Agguato a Tangeri / Trapped in Tangiers (Riccardo Freda, 1957) with Geneviève Page. He decided to stay in Europe. In Italy, he made the Peplums (sword and sandal epic) Erode il grande / Herod the Great (Viktor Tourjansky, 1959) with Sylvia Lopez, I cosacchi / The Cossacks (Viktor Tourjansky, Giorgio Venturini, 1960) opposite John Drew Barrymore, and Salambò / The Loves of Salammbo (Sergio Grieco, 1960) featuring Jeanne Valérie. In France, he played Rasputin in Les nuits de Raspoutine / The Night They Killed Rasputin (Pierre Chenal, 1960) with Gianna Maria Canale. In Austria, he appeared in Das große Wunschkonzert / Big Request Concert (Arthur Maria Rabenalt, 1960) with Carlos Thompson and Linda Christian. In Great Britain, he played with Ian Hendry and Janette Scott in The Beauty Jungle (Val Guest, 1964) about the dangerous world of beauty contests. Another British film was the drama The Comedy Man (Alvin Rakoff, 1964) starring Kenneth More as a struggling actor. He lived in Rome for the rest of his life and continued to work extensively in Italian B-films and on television. His later films include the Spaghetti Western Crisantemi per un branco di carogne / Chrysanthemums for a Bunch of Swine (Sergio Pastore, 1968), the Horror film Thomas e gli indemoniati / Thomas and the Bewitched (Pupi Avati, 1970) and the thriller Giornata nera per l'ariete / Evil Fingers (Luigi Bazzoni, 1971) starring Franco Nero. He also worked as a voice actor. He dubbed dialogue translated from Italian into English for the sales of Italian films in English-speaking countries. During the 1970s and 1980s, he appeared in interesting films like the crime drama L'onorata famiglia / The honourable family (Tonino Ricci, 1974) with Raymond Pellegrin, the TV film Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (Mel Stuart, 1980) in which he convincingly played actor-writer-director Vittorio de Sica, and Don Bosco (Leandro Castellani, 1988) featuring Ben Gazzara. On TV, he was seen in The Scarlet and the Black (Jerry London, 1983) starring Gregory Peck, and the mini-series The Winds of War (Dan Curtis, 1983) starring Robert Mitchum. In 1984, he directed the Horror mystery Don't Open 'Til Christmas, about a psychopath who slaughters Santas. Purdom also played the leading role of a police inspector. It would be his first and last film direction. He was also very active as a sound engineer for music, recording many classical concerts in Florence and Vienna, and he devised a technique for transferring mono (sound) to stereo. He narrated popular short Christian documentaries on the life of Padre Pio and the 7 Signs of Christ's Return. His final film was the adventure film I cavalieri che fecero l'impresa / The Knights of the Quest (Pupi Avati, 2001) starring Raul Bova. Purdom was married four times. His first three wives, all divorced, were actress and ex-ballerina Tita Phillips (1951-1956), the mother of his children; Alicia Darr (1957-1958); and actress Linda Christian (1962-1963). In 2000, he married his fourth wife, the photographer Vivienne Purdom. Edmund Purdom died from heart failure in 2009 in Rome. He was 89. His daughter, Lilan Purdom, worked as a journalist for the French television channel TF1.

Sources: Ronald Bergan (The Guardian), Tom Vallance (The Independent), Wikipedia and IMDb.

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VIENNA, June 14 — Malaysia is well-positioned to pursue a nuclear power programme, having built a long-standing tradition and expertise in nuclear technology, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said.

He said Malaysia’s experience in operating research reactor has provided the country with a strong foundation to advance its nuclear energy ambition as part of its future power mix.

“We have been working with your country, and there is a strong interest that has been manifested to us by the government to explore more systematically the possibility of acceding to nuclear energy,” he said at a media conference with journalists participating in the IAEA Journalists Seminar held here.

Grossi said having a research reactor was “certainly a very good, solid basis” for Malaysia, as it also meant the country already had people familiar with nuclear technology and reactor operations.

“There are many people in Malaysia who know nuclear technology and know what a nuclear reactor is,” he added.

Malaysia operates the TRIGA PUSPATI Reactor, the country’s only nuclear research reactor, which began operations in 1982 and reached first criticality on June 28 of the same year.

Located at the Malaysian Nuclear Agency (Nuklear Malaysia) in Bangi, Selangor, the reactor has been used for training, research, isotope production and other scientific applications. 

Malaysia has been actively exploring the potential of developing nuclear power as part of strategy to diversify its energy mix, secure clean and reliable electricity supply, and strengthen national energy security agenda.

The ambition was also outlined under the 13th Malaysia Plan (2026-2030), which identifies nuclear energy as a viable source of clean electricity in the national energy mix, with implementation targeted to begin from 2031.

The move comes amid growing electricity demand, the need to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, and Malaysia’s commitment to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 as well as concerns over the current global energy crisis caused by the West Asian conflict. 

According to IAEA, as of January 2026, about 70 newcomer countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia, are either pursuing or exploring nuclear energy as part of their national development agenda. 

Malaysia is among 28 countries currently in the decision-making phase, where governments are assessing the feasibility of embarking on nuclear power programmes.

Grossi said the IAEA provides assistance to countries embarking on nuclear power programmes, including helping them develop the necessary capacity and establish national nuclear regulatory bodies. 

He highlighted the IAEA’s Milestones Approach, established since 2007, which enables countries to develop their nuclear programmes in an orderly and systematic manner by drawing on more than 70 years of global experience in commercial nuclear power operations.

The three-phase framework guides newly embarking countries in developing the legal, regulatory and institutional infrastructure necessary for the safe, secure and sustainable deployment of nuclear power in line with IAEA standards.

Grossi added that there is no “one-size-fits-all” approach for countries pursuing nuclear energy, with the IAEA providing independent and impartial advice according to each country’s characteristics and needs. 

This includes assisting governments in evaluating reactor technologies and vendor proposals to ensure the selected technology are compatible with national grid capacity, supply chain capabilities and long-term development objectives.

“Nuclear is a marriage for life. Nuclear power plants operate for close to one hundred years. So it means that there will be several generations that will be benefiting from it, working around it and so on and so forth.

“So it’s a very consequential decision,” he said, describing that making the decision to adopt nuclear energy as a long-term national commitment with  lasting strategic significance. — Bernama

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French actor Pierre Richard-Willm (1895-1983) was a popular actor, often a jeune premier, in 40 films during the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s.

Pierre Richard-Willm was born Alexander Pierre Richard in Bayonne, South-West France, in 1895. His mother, Elisabeth-Fanny Willm, died at the age of thirty-one, and from 1905 on, he was raised by his maternal grandmother in Bordeaux. He attended the école des Beaux-Arts in Nantes. Theatre was his passion, and in 1911, he started as an amateur at the Théâtre du Peuple de Bussang. In 1916, he joined the army and fought during World War I at Verdun. After the war, he became a sculptor, and in 1921, he started playing bit roles on the professional stage. From 1925 on, he worked at the Odeon in Paris in plays like 'La dame aux camélias' under the pseudonym Richard Willm, the combined name of his father and mother. His film debut as a jeune premier came in the Paramount production Toute sa vie / Sarah and Son (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1930), followed by another film by Alberto Cavalcanti for Paramount, Les Vacances du diable / The Devil's Holiday (1931). With his elegance and good looks, he charmed spectators of all ages. In the next years, he made dozens of films, including French versions of Ufa productions, including Autour d'une enquête / Preliminary Investigation (Pierre Chomette, Robert Siodmak, 1931) starring Annabella, and La fille du régiment / The Daughter of the Regiment (Pierre Billon, Carl Lamac, 1933) starring Anny Ondra.

Pierre Richard-Willm’s breakthrough was the foreign legion melodrama Le grand jeu / The Great Game (Jacques Feyder, 1934), in which he starred opposite Charles Vanel and Marie Bell. In the following years, he often played the partner of diva Edwige Feuillère in such films as Stradivarius (Albert Valentin, Géza von Bolváry, 1935), Barcarolle (Gerhard Lamprecht, Roger Le Bon, 1935), La Dame de Malacca / Woman of Malacca (Marc Allégret, 1937) and La Duchesse de Langeais / Wicked Dutchess (Jacques de Baroncelli, 1942). Famous director Max Ophüls directed him in Yoshiwara (1937) and Werther (1938). A big hit was Un Carnet de bal / Dance Program (Julien Duvivier, 193) in which Marie Bell stars as a woman who decides to find out about the men (including Pierre Richard-Willm) who once danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life. His most famous role was Edmond Dantès in two episodes of Le Comte de Monte-Cristo / The Count of Monte-Christo (Robert Vernay, 1943) based on the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas père. He starred as composer Franz Liszt in Rêves d'Amour / Dreams of Love (Christian Stengel, 1942-1947), for which film he also designed the sets. In 1946, he decided to retire from the cinema and to dedicate himself completely to his beloved Theatre Vosgien. In 1975, he wrote his memoirs, 'Loin des Étoiles' (Far from the stars), in which he wrote that the cinema had only been a nice intermission for him. Pierre Richard-Willm died in 1983 in Paris.

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Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) was an American actress, model and dancer. She was a film and television star, known throughout her 60-year career as a consummate, versatile professional with a strong, realistic screen presence. By 1944, Stanwyck had become the highest-paid woman in the United States. She was a favourite of her directors, including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra. After a short but notable career as a stage actress in the late 1920s, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood before turning to television.

Barbara Stanwyck was born Ruby Catherine Stevens in 1907 in Brooklyn, New York. She was the daughter of Catherine Ann (McPhee) and Byron E. Stevens, a bricklayer. Her mother died when she was accidentally knocked off a trolley by a drunk. Her father abandoned his children in grief after the death of his wife. Her elder sister brought up Barbara and was partially raised in foster homes. Later, she went to work at the local telephone company, but she had the urge to enter show business. At seventeen, she went to work as a showgirl. In 1928, Barbara moved to Hollywood and proved to be an extremely versatile actress who could adapt to any role. Barbara was equally at home in all genres, from melodramas, such as Forbidden (Frank Capra, 1932) and Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937), to thrillers, such as Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944), also starring Fred MacMurray. She excelled in comedies such as Remember the Night (Mitchell Leisen, 1940) and The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941) and in Westerns, such as Union Pacific (Cecil B. DeMille, 1939).

Barbara Stanwyck was also well known for her TV roles as Victoria, the matriarch of the Barkley family in the Western series The Big Valley (1965). In 1983, she also played in the hit mini-series The Thorn Birds (1983), which did much to keep her in the public eye. She turned in an outstanding performance as Mary Carson. One of her last roles was in the hit drama series The Colbys (1985). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress four times, for Stella Dallas (1937), Ball of Fire (1941), Double Indemnity (1944) and Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). For her television work, she won three Emmy Awards, for The Barbara Stanwyck Show (1961), The Big Valley (1966) and The Thorn Birds (1983). Her performance in The Thorn Birds also won her a Golden Globe. She received an Honorary Oscar at the 1982 Academy Award ceremony and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1986. She was also the recipient of honorary lifetime awards from the American Film Institute (1987), the Film Society of Lincoln Centre (1986), the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (1981) and the Screen Actors Guild (1967). Barbara Stanwyck died in 1990, leaving 93 films and a host of TV appearances as her legacy. She was married twice, to film actors Frank Fay (1928-1935) and Robert Taylor (1939-1952). Her son, Dion Anthony 'Tony' Fay (1932), was adopted. Frank Fay and Stanwyck's marriage and their experience in Hollywood later became the basis of the Hollywood film A Star is Born. Their stormy marriage finally ended after a drunken brawl, during which he tossed their adopted son, Dion, into the swimming pool. Despite rumours of affairs with Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford, Stanwyck wed Robert Taylor, who had gay rumours of his own to dispel. Their marriage started on a sour note when his possessive mother demanded he spend his wedding night with her rather than with Barbara. In 1957, Tony, her adopted son, was arrested for trying to sell lewd pictures while waiting to cash his unemployment check. When questioned by the press about his famous mother, he replied, "We don't speak". She saw him only a few times after his childhood.

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