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Flushing-Main Street (IRT Flushing Line) Flushing-Main Street is the terminal station of the New York City Subway's IRT Flushing Line, located at Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing. It is a three track, two platform station, completely renovated between 1999 and 2000, and ADA-compliant access has been added.
Flushing, Netherlands Vlissingen (occasionally British English: Flushing) is a municipality and a city in the southwestern Netherlands on the former island of Walcheren. With its strategic location between the Scheldt river and the North Sea, Vlissingen has been an important harbour for centuries.
Flutamide Flutamide is an oral antiandrogen drug primarily used to treat prostate cancer. It competes with testosterone and its powerful metabolite, dihydrotestosterone (DHT) for binding to androgen receptors in the prostate gland.
Flute (cutting tool) A cutting tool flute is a recessed portion of the tool's cross-section that conveys chips away from a cutting edge as the tool rotates. In the common twist drill, two flutes are usually provided, one for each cutting edge.
Flute choir A flute choir is an instrumental ensemble consisting entirely of instruments from the flute family. Typically it will include piccolo 1-2, flute 1-4, alto flute, and bass flute, but may include other harmony flutes such as the contra-alto flute, contrabass flute, and double contrabass flute.
Flute Sonata (Poulenc) The Flute Sonata by Francis Poulenc, or Sonata for Flute and Piano, was written in 1957. Poulenc composed it for the flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal, and he and Rampal gave the première in June 1957 at the Strasbourg Festival.
Flute, Viola and Harp Flute, viola and harp are the instruments of a chamber music grouping that have become common through the establishment of ensembles that feature this set of instruments and have enjoyed new compositions written for the set. The first major composition written for the instruments was by Claude Debussy (his Sonate pour flute, alto, et harpe); Debussy had set out to compose a set of chamber works for "diverse ensembles," as distinguished from more common groupings like string quartet or piano trio.
Fluticasone/salmeterol The combination preparation fluticasone/salmeterol is a formulation containing fluticasone propionate and salmeterol xinafoate used in the management of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It is marketed by GlaxoSmithKline under various trade names including Advair and Seretide.
Flutie effect The Flutie effect or Flutie factor refers to the phenomenon of having a successful sports team increase the exposure and prominence of a university. This is named after the Boston College's Doug Flutie whose successful Hail Mary pass in the 1984 game against the University of Miami clinched the win and that win supposedly played a large role in the increase in applications to Boston College the following year.
Flutie Flakes Flutie Flakes is the name of a breakfast cereal named for then Buffalo Bills starting quarterback Doug Flutie in 1998, after Flutie's popularity soared because of his scrambling, last quarter heroics and his impressive win-loss record. A large portion of the profits made from sales of Flutie Flakes were donated to the Doug Flutie Jr.
Flutie Fruities Flutie Fruities are a brand of fruit snacks developed during Doug Flutie's 2001 season with the San Diego Chargers. Much like the beloved breakfast cereal Flutie Flakes, Flutie Fruities was a product created to appeal to fans of his football career, and a large portion of the proceeds went toward the Doug Flutie Jr.
Flutina The flutina is an early precursor to the diatonic button accordion, having one or two rows of treble buttons, which are configured to have the tonic of the scale, on the "draw" of the bellows. There is usually no bass keyboard: the left hand operates an air valve (silent except for the rush of air).
Flutter Flutter: In electronics, rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency. In structures, rapid periodic motion caused by interaction of structural mass, stiffness, and aerodynamic forces.
Fluttertonguing Fluttertonguing is a wind instrument tonguing technique in which performers flutter their tongue to make a characteristic "FrrrrFrrrrr" sound. This is done by performing an isolated alveolar trill while playing the notes desired.
Fluvanna Artillery The Fluvanna Artillery was an artillery battery formed from citizens of Fluvanna County, Virginia during the American Civil War. It participated in the Antietam and Gettysburg Campaigns as well as the Shenandoah Valley Campaigns of 1864 under Confederate Major General Jubal Early.
Fluvanna Militia The Fluvanna Militia was a branch of the Virginia Militia during the American Revolutionary War. It was based in Fluvanna County, Virginia for the majority of the war and only saw action near the end of the conflict, in 1781.
Flux (album) Flux is the forth album by Love Spirals Downwards, an Ethereal band on the US record label, Projekt. It is stylistically quite different from their previous albums, and is more in line with the atmospheric drum'n'bass of artists on Good Looking Records.
Flux (biochemistry) Flux, or metabolic flux is the rate of turnover of molecules through a metabolic pathway or an enzyme. Within cells regulation of flux is vital for all metabolic pathways to regulate the metabolic pathway's activity under different conditions.
Flux (metallurgy) In metallurgy, flux is a substance which removes passivating oxides from the surface of a metal or alloy. Fluxes are routinely used to facilitate soldering, brazing, and welding by chemically cleaning the metals to be joined.
Flux balance analysis Flux balance analysis (FBA) has been shown to be a very useful technique for analysis of metabolic capabilities of cellular systems. FBA involves carrying out a steady state analysis, using the stoichiometric matrix for the system in question.
Flux capacitor The flux capacitor is the fictional core component of Doctor Emmett Brown's time traveling De Lorean DMC-12 in the 1985 movie Back to the Future, its two sequels, and the animated series. Brown states that the flux capacitor "is what makes time travel possible.
Flux Festival The Flux Festival (not to be confused with the Flux festival which is part of the Edinburgh Festival's Fringe or indeed the Flux Festival de Video D'Autor of Barcelona) was a New Year music festival staged between 2001 and 2005 in Kwa-Zulu Natal Province, South Africa.
Flux limiter Flux limiters are used in high resolution schemes — numerical schemes used to solve problems in science and engineering, particularly fluid dynamics, described by partial differential equations (PDE's). They are used in high resolution schemes, such as the MUSCL scheme, to avoid the spurious oscillations (wiggles) that would otherwise occur with high order spatial discretisation schemes due to shocks, discontinuities or sharp changes in the solution domain.
Flux method Flux method is a method of crystal growth where the components of the desired substance are dissolved in a solvent (flux) and growth takes place at relatively low temperatures. The method is particularly suitable for crystals needing to be free from thermal strain and it takes place in a crucible which almost always is made of platinum.
Flux qubit In quantum computing, flux qubits (also known as persistent current qubits) are micro-metre sized loops of superconducting metal interrupted by a number of Josephson junctions. The junction parameters are engineered during fabrication so that a persistent current will flow continuously when an external flux is applied.
Flux Television Flux Television was a pioneering digital culture show that ran on public access cable in New York, San Francisco and San Diego in the mid-1990’s. The show predated the electronic music video show AMP that ran on MTV.
Flux-cored arc welding Flux-cored arc welding (FCAW) is a semi-automatic or automatic arc welding process. FCAW requires a continuously-fed consumable tubular electrode containing a flux and a constant voltage or, less commonly, a constant electric current welding power supply.
Fluxgate compass The basic fluxgate compass is a simple electromagnetic device that employs two or more small coils of wire around a core of highly permeable magnetic material, to directly sense the direction of the horizontal component of the earth's magnetic field. The advantages of this mechanism over a magnetic compass are that the reading is in electronic form and can be digitised and transmitted easily, displayed remotely, and used by an electronic autopilot for course correction.
Fluxional molecule Fluxional molecules are molecules which can undergo a "self" reaction wherein bonds rearrange to a structurally identical molecule. Isotopic labelling, however, can demonstrate that bonds have actually shifted.
Fluxnet-Canada Research Network The Fluxnet Canada Research Network is a research network of more than 100 scientists, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from 15 Canadian universities and nine federal and provincial government laboratories. One of the priorities of FCRN is determining the factors that govern the time required for a forest to become a net carbon sink following disturbances such as harvest or fire.
Fluxus Fluxus – a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow" – is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines. They have been active in visual art and music as well as literature, urban planning, architecture, and design.
Fluxus Heidelberg Center Fluxus Heidelberg Center was founded by Litsa Spathi and Ruud Janssen. Under the name Fluxus Heidelberg, the artist duo are creating performance art and documenting everything on their site and with publications.
Fluxx Fluxx is a card game], played with a specially-designed 84-card deck. It is different from most other card games, in that the rules and the conditions for winning are altered throughout the game, via cards played by the players.
Fluxys Fluxys () is a Belgium-based company, mainly acting as a natural gas operator. In 2004, it employed around 850 people and its infrastructure comprised about 3,700 km of pipelines and a terminal in Zeebrugge, Belgium.
Fluyt A fluyt or a flute () is a type of sailing vessel originally designed as a dedicated cargo vessel. Originating from the Netherlands in the 16th Century, the vessel was designed to facilitate transoceanic delivery with the maximum of space and crew efficiency.
Flvow Flvow is a powerful and handy video converter which helps you convert all popular video formats for your portable media player (MP4 player), iPod, Sony PSP, Cellular Phone, Archos, Creative Zen, Pocket PC, iRiver PMP, Palm, etc. Support converting video files like DivX, Xvid, WMV, 3GP, MPG, MPEG, MP4,MPEG-4, AVC, ASF, RM, RMVB, MOV, SVCD, VCD, VOB, AVI, etc.
Fly (artist) Fly is an artist, a performer, a punk, a squatter. She has squatted New York's Lower East Side for the last decade, and was involved in the tenant's demonstrations that turned that neighborhood into a modern day war zone in the early 1990s.
Fly (American Football) A Fly Route(streak) is a pattern run by a receiver in American Football, where the receiver runs straight upfield towards the endzone. The goal of the pattern is to outrun any defensive backs and get behind them, catching an undefended pass while running untouched for a touchdown.
Fly (Blind Guardian song) "Fly" is a single by Blind Guardian from their 2006 release, A Twist in the Myth. Two of the songs are from the album, "Fly" and "Skalds and Shadows", with the latter being an acoustic version only available on the single.
Fly a kite (politics) To Fly a Kite is a term used in politics to describe a tactic whereby a politician either directly themselves informally, or indirectly in the media, raises an idea to gauge the reaction to it. Depending on the reaction, the idea may be implemented (if the reaction was positive) or disowned and denied (if negative).
Fly ash Fly ash (also known as a coal combustion product, or CCP) is the finely divided mineral residue resulting from the combustion of powdered coal in electric generating plants. It is also called pulverized fuel ash.
Fly Ashtray A Shimmy Disc band that kept on trucking, Fly Ashtray has recorded 10 albums of noodley, psych-rock with strange noises and frequent time-changes included. The band has performed regularly in New York City from 1983 to the present (2007).
Fly by night The phrase fly by night is a derisive term for businesses that appear and disappear rapidly, or that give an impression of transience. It has also been applied to individual traveling businessmen and tradesmen.
Fly captain A fly captain is in charge of a fly crew which operates a fly system in a theatrical production. Ordinarily a fly captain will coordinate with the set designer to get flying scenery safely into the fly loft and to plan flyrail cues.
Fly fishing Fly fishing is a distinct and ancient angling method, most renowned as a method for catching trout and salmon, but employed today for a wide variety of gamefish species including pike, bass, panfish, and carp, as well as saltwater marine species, such as redfish, snook, tarpon, bonefish and striped bass.
Fly Gibraltar Fly Gibraltar is an airline being set up by Gibraltar based OEM International, intending to fly to various destinations in the UK but the Republic of Ireland also. The airline claims that it will commence flying in early 2007.
Fly in the Ointment Fly in the Ointment' was an early EP released by AFI. Tracks 1-3 were re-recorded for Very Proud of Ya, and "Open Your Eyes" is the same as the version on the re-release of Answer That and Stay Fashionable but features different vocal tracks and a different mix.
Fly like a Bird "Fly like a Bird" is a gospel song written and produced by American singer Mariah Carey and James "Big Jim" Wright for Carey's ninth studio album The Emancipation of Mimi (2005). It was released as a single from the album in 2006 (see 2006 in music).
Fly lure A fly lure, Fly, or "pattern," in the terminology of sport fishing and fly fishing, is an artificial lure tied, most commonly, with thread, feathers, and fur, but may also include lead (for weight), ribbon, tinsel, beads, and other assorted materials. (See Fly tying).
Fly My Pretties Fly My Pretties is a collaboration of musicians from Wellington, New Zealand that only record their albums live in various locations in New Zealand. The different musical backgrounds of the members makes for an eclectic mix of songs on their releases.
Fly Orchid Fly orchid (Ophrys insectifera) is a plant of the family Orchidaceae, a native of the British Isles and Europe favouring sites with alkaline soil. The name arises because it resembles a fly, being totally dependent on flies and bees for pollination.
Fly plaid An added form of a pleated cloth in the same tartan as the kilt, cast over the left shoulder and fastened in front of the shoulder with a plaid brooch. It is commonly worn during the evening, particullarly for formal activities and other special events, such as weddings, dining, and other celebrations.
Fly rod building Fly rod building is the art of constructing a fly (fishing) rod to match the performance desires of the individual fisherman. See Fly fishing Many fly rod builders also adorn their rods with unique decorative thread wrappings and other distinguishing characteristics.
Fly RC Fly RC is a magazine based on promoting the use of the hobby of Remote Control Planes. The magazine features articles about numerous topics to talk about in remote controlled aviation, lists new RC airplane products, and contains several pages dedicated to advertising various aircrafts.
Fly River The Fly is the second longest river of the island of New Guinea, after the Sepik River. The first European exploration was in 1845 by Captain Blackwood in the British naval ship, the Fly, after which the river is named.
Fly system A fly system is a system of ropes, counterweights, pulleys, and other such tools designed to allow a technical crew to quickly move set pieces, lights, and microphones on and off stage quickly by 'flying' them in from a large opening above the stage known as a fly tower/flyspace.
Fly tower A fly tower is a part of a theatre above the stage where scenery in the form of gauzes, cloths and flats are stored for each performance and 'flown in' when needed. Stage lighting rigged on lighting pipes are often also "flown in", giving lighting designers much more scope for flexible lighting designs.
Fly TV Fly TV was an ABC television channel available to digital television viewers in Australia. On November 1 2001, a half-day Fly TV launched nationally, with ABC's children-orientated ABC Kids Channel airing during Fly TV's downtime.
Fly-car In emergency medical services (EMS), a fly-car is a sedan, station wagon, SUV or other non-ambulance automobile enabling an EMS team to bring their equipment to the scene of an emergency. Often the vehicle will be equipped similarly to an ambulance, short of the ability to comfortably transport a patient.
Fly-in A fly-in is an event normally held at airports where pilots are invited to fly their aircraft to the airport where it's held to put it on display for visitors and fellow pilots and to meet with other people. Fly-ins are can be aimed at specific aircraft, such as taildraggers, warbirds, experimental aircraft or specific aircraft models.
Fly2K Fly2K is Playa Fly's first album released on Minnie Mae Muzik. Fly2K was to be released in 2000, but due to his incarceration, the release date was pushed back to 2002, which is the reason why this album has tracks already used from previous albums, such tracks like "Crownin' Me" of the album Fly Shit, "Nobody" of Movin' On, and "Ghetto Eyes" of the Da Game Owe Me album.
Flyaway Flyaways (rarely used in the singular form flyaway) are individual hairs unintentionally "sticking out" from otherwise styled hair. While very common (especially if it has been a while since the hair was combed) and completely harmless from a medicial point of view, it is often seen as undesirable, and some people will go to great lengths to avoid it.
FlyAway Bus The Flyaway bus is a shuttle bus service operated by Los Angeles World Airports, which transports people to and from Los Angeles International Airport. Currently, there are two routes in service with separate schedules; the routes have no stops in between their terminal and LAX.
Flybaboo Flybaboo is a regional airline based in Geneva, Switzerland and first flight took off from Geneva to Lugano in October of 2003. Julian Cook , son of Nevil Cook a Swiss/Anglo Banker chairman at Anglo Irish Bank Geneva Branch; Julian is the 33 year old founder and CEO of Flybaboo.
Flyback transformer A flyback transformer (FBT) or line output transformer (LOPT) is a type of transformer used in the power supply that generates the high voltage needed for driving a cathode ray tube (CRT) or "picture tube". It generates a voltage of a few kilovolts for a monochrome tube, or 10 to 30 kilovolts for a color tube.
Flyball Flyball is a dog sport in which teams of dogs race against each other from a start/finish line, over a line of hurdles, to a box that releases a tennis ball to be caught when the dog presses the spring loaded pad, then back to their handlers while carrying the ball.
Flyby anomaly The flyby anomaly is an unexpected energy increase during Earth flybys of satellites. This has been observed as an anomalous shift in the S-Band and X-Band Doppler data which translates to a significant velocity increase of a few mm/s at perigee.
FlyBosnia FlyBosnia is an airline based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was established in 2004 and planned to operate international scheduled services between the USA and Bosnia and Herzegovina starting in mid-2005.
Flycatcher-thrush The flycatcher-thrushes are medium-sized insectivorous birds in the genus Neocossyphus of the thrush family Turdidae. Two species are commonly called "ant-thrushes"; these must not be confused with the antthrushes of the suboscine family Formicariidae which are quite unrelated birds.
Flyer (pamphlet) A flyer is a single page leaflet advertising a nightclub, event, service, or other activity. Flyers are typically used by individuals or small business and are a form of small scale, community communication.
Flyers Cup The Flyers Cup is an annual high school ice hockey tournament held by the Philadelphia Flyers. The invitational tournament is the scholastic hockey championship for eastern Pennsylvania high schools and is conducted through three tiers of play, AAA, AA, and A with AAA being the most competitive bracket and A being the least competitive.
Flyff Flyff, short for 'Fly For Fun', is a free MMORPG made by the Korean company Aeonsoft, a subsidary of GALA Inc.GALA Corporate History As the name implies, players can fly around the world using a hover board, broom and other devices (Premium Items).
Flying an airplane without control surfaces There have been aviation incidents in which the control surfaces became unavailable, typically due to loss of hydraulics. Aircraft are not designed to be flown in such circumstances (which is why they have redundant hydraulics), but a few pilots have had some success in controlling such aircraft.
Flying ant day Flying Ant Day is an informal term for a day on which queen ants emerge from the nest to begin their nuptial flight. In most species, the male ants also fly alongside them, although they are smaller and less noticeable.
Flying bomb A flying bomb is an unmanned aerial vehicle or small aircraft carrying a large explosive warhead, a precursor to contemporary cruise missiles. In contrast to a bomber aircraft, which is intended to release bombs and then return to its base for re-use, a flying bomb crashes into its target and is therefore itself destroyed in its attack.
Flying buttress In architecture, a flying buttress, or arc-boutant,is usually on a religious building, used to transmit the thrust of a vault across an intervening space (which might be an aisle, chapel or cloister), to a buttress outside the building. The employment of the flying buttress means that the load bearing walls can contain cut-outs, such as for large windows, that would otherwise seriously weaken the vault walls.
Flying Bedstead The Flying Bedstead was a nickname given to two different experimental vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, both receiving the nickname because each comprised a skeletal platform raised on four legs that resembled a bed.
Flying Bigfoot of Florida The Flying Bigfoot of Florida - simply called "Bigfoot" at the time - was a hoax in west central Florida which was most active between the years 1973 and 1975, and was reported periodically in the St. Petersburg Times newspaper.
Flying Blind Flying Blind was a single season 1992 Fox network half-hour situation comedy revolving around awkward post-collegen Neil Barash (Corey Parker) who by serendipity, meets beautiful libertine Alicia (Tea Leoni) and begins a relationship with her. The series explored the difficulties faced by self-conscious and repressed Neil in dealing with the antics of Alicia and her eccentric roommates, Jordan (Robert Bauer) and Megan (Clea Lewis).
Flying Blue Flying Blue is the frequent flyer program of Air France and KLM. In June 2005, the frequent flyer programs of Air France (Fréquence plus) and KLM (Flying Dutchman) were combined to the Flying Blue program after the two companies merged into a single airline.
Flying camp In military strategy, a flying camp, or camp-volant, was a small but strong army of horsemen and dragoons, to which were sometimes added foot soldiers. Such an army was usually commanded by a lieutenant general, and was always in motion, both to cover the garrisons in possession, and to keep the adversary in continual alarm.
Flying car A flying car or roadable aircraft is an automobile that can legally travel on a road and can take off, fly, and land as an aircraft. In practice, the vehicle usually has to be converted from car mode to airplane mode.
Flying club A flying club is an organisation that allows its members to pursue flying activities, usually by renting aircraft to them. Many clubs also provide flight training, flight planning facilities, pilot supplies and associated services, as well as organizing social functions, fly-ins and fly-outs to other airports and so forth.
Flying column A flying column, in military organization, is an independent corps of troops usually composed of all arms, to which a particular task is assigned. It is almost always composed in the course of operations, out of the troops immediately available.
Flying Circus of Physics The Flying Circus of Physics by Jearl Walker (1975, published by John Wiley and Sons, second edition in 2006), is a book that poses (and answers) about a thousand questions concerned with everyday physics. The emphasis is strongly on phenomena that might be encountered in one's daily life.
Flying Coaster Flying Coaster is a steel roller coaster located at Six Flags Elitch Gardens in Denver, Colorado. The ride was the first ever Zamperla "Volare" roller coaster (Volare is Italian for "to fly").
Flying Column (music group) The Flying Column was the name adopted by a group of Irish traditional musicians and singers who formed a folk band in Belfast around 1967/68. They took their name from the small tight cells that comprised the IRA active service units during the Anglo-Irish war of 1916-1921.
Flying Corps Flying Corps is a 1996 World War I flight simulator developed by Rowan Software and published by Empire Interactive. It was one of the most popular flight simulators of its time due to its accurate flight models and graphics, and also the novelty factor of a First World War dog fight simulator.
Flying disc Flying discs (commonly called Frisbees) are the general name for any number of discs which are generally plastic, roughly 20 to 25 centimeters (8–10 inches) in diameter, with a lip. The shape of a disc, an airfoil in cross-section, allows it to fly by generating lift as it moves through the air while rotating.
Flying disc games Flying disc games are games played with flying discs (sometimes called by the trademarked name Frisbees). Some of the games, such as Ultimate and Disc golf, are sports with substantial international followings.
Flying Daggers Flying Daggers (飛刀又見飛刀) is a Chinese television series, adapted from one of a series of Gu Long's ancient martial arts novel. With Taiwanese famous producer Yang Pei Pei, and a cast of Ruby Lin, Julian Cheung, and Sun Xin, this adventurous epic unfolds as it takes you into the inner side of a destined fighter.
Flying Dragon Flying Dragon is a fighting video game with RPG elements released for the Nintendo 64 platform in 1998, which was designed by Culture Brain and published by Natsume. The game received relatively low scores on specialized reviews at the time of its release.
Flying Dust First Nation Reserve 105, Saskatchewan Flying Dust First Nation is an Indian reserve located adjacent to the town of Meadow Lake, in Saskatchewan, Canada. With close to 1000 members (approximately 400 living on-reserve) the community has developed a reputation as a progressive and strong community.
Flying Dutchman (Efteling) Flying Dutchman (or "Vliegende Hollander" in Dutch) is a combination of a Water coaster and a dark ride in amusement park Efteling in the Netherlands. It was designed by Karel Willemen and should have gone operational on April 16 2006, exactly 328 years after the dissappearance of the legendary Dutch merchant The Flying Dutchman.
Flying Eleven (dinghy) The Flying Eleven is an Australian boat designed as a high performance racing skiff suitable for 12 to 18 year olds. High performance sailing is fast becoming the goal of a great many dinghy sailors with the appearance of 49ers as an Olympic class.
Flying fish (disambiguation) Flying fish are a marine fish family comprised of about 70 species. Their unusually large pectoral fins allow them to take short gliding flights through the air above the surface of the water to escape predators.
Flying fox (cablecar) A flying fox is a small cablecar, often propelled by gravity, and used as an item of children's play equipment and more rarely for other purposes. The term flying fox is Australian English and New Zealand English.
Flying Families Flying Families is an organisation for General Aviation pilots. Founded by Stelios Charalambides, the organisation helps those who have recently qualified as Private Pilots (PPL's) to develop their flying skills and get more out of their hobby.
Flying Finn (sports) "The Flying Finn" was a nickname given to several Finnish middle and long-distance runners. The term has such international renown that it is often attached to notable Finnish sportsmen whose exploits are fleet of foot or have to do with fast cars.
Flying Fish (roller coaster) The Flying Fish was a small roller coaster at Thorpe Park. Along with the water-themed area that contained the coaster, Flying Fish was removed from the park to allow Thorpe Park's new launching roller coaster, Stealth, to be built.
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