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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Arlindo<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Here is a projection for WGS84.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>GEOGCS[&quot;GCS_WGS_1984&quot;,DATUM[&quot;D_WGS_1984&quot;,SPHEROID[&quot;WGS_1984&quot;,6378137.0,298.257223563]],PRIMEM[&quot;Greenwich&quot;,0.0],UNIT[&quot;Degree&quot;,0.0174532925199433]]<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Save this line in a file called world.prj in the same directory
was the world.dbf, world.shp, and world.shx files.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>It appears to match the outlines of the continents with other
maps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>John<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> arlindo.dasilva@gmail.com
[mailto:arlindo.dasilva@gmail.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Arlindo da Silva<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Huddleston, John<br>
<b>Cc:</b> gradsusr<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Another free shapefile for world maps<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>John,<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;What is your recommendation? Should we
reproject that free dataset for general grads use? Are you setup for producing
such a re-projected shapefile with the corresponding .prj metadata?&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Arlindo<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Huddleston, John &lt;<a
href="mailto:Huddleston@cira.colostate.edu">Huddleston@cira.colostate.edu</a>&gt;
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Arlindo, here is a list of projections
for Antartica:</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>$ ls Coordinate\ Systems/Geographic\
Coordinate\ Systems/Antarctica/</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Australian Antarctic 1998.prj&nbsp;
Deception Island.prj&nbsp; Pointe Geologie Perroud 1950.prj</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Camp Area
Astro.prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Petrels 1972.prj</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>The NAD27 is North America Datum of 1927
and is, in general, not a good choice for projections of the world. The
original maps that USGS created for the United States were based on NAD27 and
the CLARK1866 sphere and they have been re-projected by USGS to NAD83 and the
GRS80 sphere. </span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Projections for the world would fall
into one of two categories: Geographic and Projected.</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;$ ls Coordinate\
Systems/Geographic\ Coordinate\ Systems/World/</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>ITRF 1988.prj&nbsp; ITRF 1991.prj&nbsp;
ITRF 1994.prj&nbsp; ITRF 2000.prj &nbsp;WGS 1966.prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>ITRF 1989.prj&nbsp; ITRF 1992.prj&nbsp;
ITRF 1996.prj&nbsp; ITRF 2005.prj&nbsp; WGS 1972 TBE.prj</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>ITRF 1990.prj&nbsp; ITRF 1993.prj&nbsp;
ITRF 1997.prj&nbsp; NSWC 9Z-2.prj&nbsp; WGS 1972.prj and WGS 1984.prj</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>and</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>$ ls Coordinate\ Systems/Projected\
Coordinate\ Systems/world</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Aitoff (world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Flat Polar Quartic (world).prj&nbsp; Sinusoidal (world).prj</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Behrmann
(world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Fuller
(world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Sphere-based</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Bonne
(world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Gall Stereographic (world).prj&nbsp; The World from Space.prj</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Craster Parabolic
(world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Goode Homolosine
(Land).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Times (world).prj</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Cube
(world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Goode Homolosine (Ocean).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Van der Grinten I (world).prj</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Cylindrical Equal Area
(world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp; Hammer-Aitoff (world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Vertical Perspective (world).prj</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Eckert I
(world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Loximuthal (world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
WGS 1984 PDC Mercator.prj</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Eckert II
(world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Mercator
(world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
WGS 1984 Web Mercator (Auxiliary Sphere).prj</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Eckert III (world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Miller Cylindrical (world).prj&nbsp; WGS 1984 Web Mercator.prj</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Eckert IV
(world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Mollweide
(world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Winkel
I (world).prj</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Eckert V
(world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Plate Carree (world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Winkel II
(world).prj</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Eckert VI
(world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Polyconic
(world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Winkel
Tripel (NGS - world).prj</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Equidistant Conic
(world).prj&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Quartic Authalic
(world).prj</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Equidistant Cylindrical
(world).prj&nbsp; Robinson (world).prj</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>John</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>John Huddleston, PhD</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Research Associate </span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Cooperative Institute for Research in
the Atmosphere</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Mail Stop 1375 @ CIRA</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Colorado State University</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Fort Collins, CO 80521</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>970-491-8602</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a
href="mailto:arlindo.dasilva@gmail.com" target="_blank">arlindo.dasilva@gmail.com</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:arlindo.dasilva@gmail.com" target="_blank">arlindo.dasilva@gmail.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Arlindo da Silva<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, November 12, 2009 8:36 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Huddleston, John<br>
<b>Cc:</b> gradsusr<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Another free shapefile for world maps</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On
Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Huddleston, John &lt;<a
href="mailto:Huddleston@cira.colostate.edu" target="_blank">Huddleston@cira.colostate.edu</a>&gt;
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Arlindo,</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Please excuse this direct email to you,
the GrADS email list does not allow me to reply or send anything to the list.</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>I downloaded the world.tar.bz2 file and
it does not contain a PRJ file. While the three DBF, SHP, and SHX files conform
exactly to the ESRI 1994 shapefile standard; the accuracy and precision of our
software has increased significantly since the standard was propagated.</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>As such, it is important to know the
projection of the world maps.</span><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>You
may need to contact the data producers directly about this, it should be a
simple matter to add a standard .prj file. However, on the website it says:<o:p></o:p></p>

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style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times","serif"'>The data is based upon a
free map published by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.terraspace.ru/" target="_blank">TerraSpace,
Russia</a>&nbsp;as referenced by&nbsp;<a
href="http://data.geocomm.com/editorspicks/data_world11.html" target="_blank">Geocommunity</a>.
I added Antarctica after Curt Mills pointed out that there was a missing
continent. Antartica's data came from the Digital Chart of the World and was <span
style='background:#FFFF66'>reprojected into NAD27 to agree with the rest of the
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I
am not sure what NAD27 is, but I was assuming it was a standard projection. Let
me know if you find anything.<o:p></o:p></p>

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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Arlindo<o:p></o:p></p>

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Arlindo da Silva<br>
<a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>

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<a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>

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