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A total of $351,900,000, comprised of the proceeds from the initial public offering after offering expenses and a portion of the proceeds of the sale of the private placement units, was placed in the trust account maintained by Continental, acting as trustee.
−Removed: We must complete our initial business combination by February 8, 2023 (or by the end of any Extension Period).
−Removed: If our initial business combination is not consummated by February 8, 2023 (or by the end of any Extension Period if we extend the period of time to consummate a business combination), then our existence will terminate, and we will distribute all amounts in the trust account.
Exempted companies are Cayman Islands companies wishing to conduct business outside the Cayman Islands and, as such, are exempted from complying with certain provisions of the Companies Law.
As an exempted company, we have applied for and received a tax exemption undertaking from the Cayman Islands government that, in accordance with section 6 of the Tax Concessions Law (2018 Revision) of the Cayman Islands, for a period of 20 years from the date of the undertaking, No law which is enacted in the Cayman Islands imposing any tax to be levied on profits, income, gains or appreciations shall apply to us or our operations and, in addition, that no tax to be levied on profits, income, gains or appreciations or which is in the nature of estate duty or inheritance tax shall be payable (i) on or in respect of our shares, debentures or other obligations or (ii) by way of the withholding in whole or in part of a payment of dividend or other distribution of income or capital by us to our shareholders or a payment of principal or interest or other sums due under a debenture or other obligation of us.
+Added: Conversion of Founder Shares
+Added: On January 30, 2023, our sponsor elected to convert all of the Class B ordinary shares issued to it in a private placement prior to our initial public offering into Class A ordinary shares of the Company on a one-for-one basis.
+Added: As a result, all 11,983,333 of our
+Added: then outstanding Class B ordinary shares were cancelled and 11,983,333 of our Class A ordinary shares were issued to our sponsor.
+Added: Our sponsor agreed that all of the terms and conditions applicable to the founder shares set forth in the Letter Agreement, dated November 3, 2021, by and among the Company, its officers, its directors and the sponsor, shall continue to apply to the Class A ordinary shares that the founder shares converted into, including the voting agreement, transfer restrictions and waiver of any right, title, interest or claim of any kind to the trust account or any monies or other assets held therein.
+Added: Extension Amendment
+Added: On February 3, 2023, we held an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders for the purpose of considering and voting on a proposal to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to extend the date by which we must consummate our initial business combination from February 8, 2023 to December 15, 2023.
+Added: The Extension Amendment was approved by a special resolution of our shareholders and took effect upon such approval.
+Added: If our initial business combination is not consummated by December 15, 2023 (or by the end of any Extension Period if we further extend the period of time to consummate a business combination), then our existence will terminate, and we will distribute all amounts in the trust account.
+Added: In connection with the EGM, shareholders holding 32,116,947 public shares exercised their right to redeem their shares for a pro rata portion of the funds in our trust account.
+Added: As a result, approximately $333 million (approximately $10.38 per public share) was removed from the trust account to pay such holders.
+Added: As of March 15, 2023, approximately $25 million remained in the trust account and there were 2,383,053 public shares outstanding.
Our Management Team
Our management team is led by Richard N.
−Removed: Peretz, our Executive Chairman, Hooman Yazhari, our Vice Chairman, Ben Baldanza, our Chief Executive Officer, Jeff Rogers, our President, and Philippe J.
−Removed: Kurzweil, our Chief Financial Officer.
+Added: Peretz, our Executive Chairman, Hooman Yazhari, our Vice Chairman, Ben Baldanza, our Chief Executive Officer, and Jeff Rogers, our President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary.
The team has significant operational and transactional experience, primarily in the transportation, mobility and supply chain management industries.
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As companies prepare for this structural uplift and large influx of online traffic, new technologies and operation innovations are strategically imperative for navigating fulfillment challenges and associated reverse logistics volume.
+Added: 1 Converted to USD from €5.275 trillion at a rate of 1:1.1031 as of March 24, 2022.
As global supply chains become increasingly integrated, innovations around logistics automation, big data analytics, and network optimization have gained traction across the industry.
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● Broad experience in both the public and private companies over the last three decades providing guidance on managing a wide range of challenges, including strategy, operations, finance, marketing and regulatory affairs.
−Removed: 1 Converted to USD from €5.275 trillion at a rate of 1:1.1031 as of March 24, 2022.
● Established networks across the global transportation, supply chain and logistics sectors providing a deep sourcing network and due diligence acumen.
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Unless such opinion includes material information regarding the valuation of a target business or the consideration to be provided, it is not anticipated that copies of such opinion would be distributed to our shareholders.
−Removed: However, if required under applicable law, any proxy statement that we deliver to shareholders and file with the SEC in connection with a proposed transaction will include such opinion.
+Added: However, if required under applicable law, any proxy statement that we deliver
+Added: to shareholders and file with the SEC in connection with a proposed transaction will include such opinion.
We have also agreed not to enter into a definitive agreement regarding an initial business combination without the prior consent of our sponsor.
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Being a public company can offer further benefits by enhancing a company’s profile among potential new customers and vendors and aid in attracting talented employees.
−Removed: While we believe that our structure and our management team’s backgrounds makes us an attractive business partner, some potential target businesses may view our status as a blank check company, such as our lack of an operating history and our ability to seek shareholder approval of any proposed initial business combination, negatively.
+Added: While we believe that our structure and our management team’s backgrounds make us an attractive business partner, some potential target businesses may view our status as a blank check company, such as our lack of an operating history and our ability to seek shareholder approval of any proposed initial business combination, negatively.
We are an “emerging growth company”, as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act, as modified by the JOBS Act.
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Financial Position
−Removed: With funds available for a business combination initially in the amount of $337,200,000, after payment of the expenses of our initial public offering and $14,700,000 of deferred underwriting commissions), we offer a target business a variety of options such as creating a liquidity event for its owners, providing capital for the potential growth and expansion of its operations or strengthening its balance sheet by reducing its debt ratio.
+Added: With funds available for a business combination in the amount of approximately $25 million (after payment of the expenses of our initial public offering and $14,700,000 of deferred underwriting commissions and the removal of approximately $333 million from our trust account to pay shareholders who exercised their right to redeem their shares in connection with the Extension Amendment), we offer a target business a variety of options such as creating a liquidity event for its owners, providing capital for the potential growth and expansion of its operations or strengthening its balance sheet by reducing its debt ratio.
Because we are able to complete our initial business combination using our cash, debt or equity securities, or a combination of the foregoing, we have the flexibility to use the most efficient combination that will allow us to tailor the consideration to be paid to the target business to fit its needs and desires.
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We intend to effectuate our initial business combination using cash from the proceeds of our initial public offering and the sale of the placement units, our equity, debt or a combination of these as the consideration to be paid in our initial business combination.
−Removed: We may seek to complete our initial business combination with a company or business that may be financially unstable or in its early stages of development or growth, which would subject us to the numerous risks inherent in such companies and businesses.
+Added: We may seek to complete our initial business combination with a company or business that may be financially
+Added: unstable or in its early stages of development or growth, which would subject us to the numerous risks inherent in such companies and businesses.
If not all of the funds released from the trust account are used for payment of the consideration in connection with our initial business combination or used for redemptions of our Class A ordinary shares, we may apply the balance of the cash released to us from the trust account for general corporate purposes, including for maintenance or expansion of operations of the post-transaction company, the payment of principal or interest due on indebtedness incurred in completing our initial business combination, to fund the purchase of other companies or for working capital.
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Further, we will not proceed with redeeming our public shares, even if a public shareholder has properly elected to redeem its shares, if a business combination does not close.
−Removed: Our initial shareholders and each member of our management team have entered into an agreement with us, pursuant to which they have agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to any founder shares and public shares held by them in connection with (i) the completion of our initial business combination and (ii) a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) that would modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of our Class A ordinary shares the right to have their shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination by February 8, 2023 or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares.
+Added: Our initial shareholders and each member of our management team have entered into an agreement with us, pursuant to which they have agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to any founder shares and public shares held by them in connection with (i) the completion of our initial business combination and (ii) a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) that would modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of our Class A ordinary shares the right to have their shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination by December 15, 2023 or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares.
Limitations on Redemptions
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In such case, our initial shareholders and each member of our management team have agreed to vote their founder shares, public shares, and placement shares in favor of our initial business combination.
−Removed: As a result, in addition to shares held by our initial shareholders and members of our management team, we would need 10,683,334 shares, or 30.1% of the 34,500,000 public shares sold in our initial public offering to be voted in favor of an initial business combination in order to have our initial business combination approved.
−Removed: However, assuming only the minimum number of shares representing a quorum (23,966,677 shares or a majority of our issued and outstanding shares) are voted, no affirmative votes from other public shareholders would be required to approve our initial business combination because our initial shareholders own 13,283,333 shares in the aggregate (including 11,983,333 founder shares and 1,300,000 placement shares), which number exceeds the 11,983,334 votes (representing a majority of the 23,966,667 shares present and voting) needed to approve the initial business combination.
−Removed: Our initial shareholders and Cantor own an aggregate of 13,433,333 shares, or 28.0% of our issued and outstanding shares, including 11,983,333 founder shares and 1,300,000 placement shares held by our initial shareholders and 150,000 placement shares held by Cantor.
+Added: As a result, in addition to shares held by our initial shareholders and members of our management team, no affirmative votes from public shareholders would be required to approve our initial business combination because our initial shareholders own 13,283,333 shares in the aggregate (including 11,983,333 founder shares which were converted into Class A ordinary shares and 1,300,000 placement shares), which number exceeds the 7,183,194 votes (representing a majority of our 14,366,386 issued and outstanding shares) needed to approve the initial business combination.
+Added: Our initial shareholders and Cantor own an aggregate of 13,433,333 shares, or 93.5% of our issued and outstanding shares, including 11,983,333 founder shares which were converted into Class A ordinary shares and 1,300,000 placement shares held by our initial shareholders and 150,000 placement shares held by Cantor.
Each public shareholder may elect to redeem their public shares irrespective of whether they vote for or against the proposed transaction or vote at all.
−Removed: In addition, our initial shareholders and each member of our management team have entered into an agreement with us, pursuant to which they have agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to any founder shares and public shares held by them in connection with (i) the completion of an initial business combination, and (ii) a shareholder vote to
−Removed: approve an amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) that would modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of our Class A ordinary shares the right to have their shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination within 15 months from the closing of our initial public offering or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares.
+Added: In addition, our initial shareholders and each member of our management team have entered into an agreement with us, pursuant to which they have agreed to waive their redemption rights with respect to any founder shares and public shares held by them in connection with (i) the completion of an initial business combination, and (ii) a shareholder vote to approve an amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) that would modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of our Class A ordinary shares the right
+Added: to have their shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination by December 15, 2023 or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares.
If we conduct redemptions pursuant to the tender offer rules of the SEC, we will, pursuant to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association:
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The proxy solicitation or tender offer materials, as applicable, that we will furnish to holders of our public shares in connection with our initial business combination will indicate the applicable delivery requirements, which will include the requirement that a beneficial holder must identify itself in order to validly redeem its shares.
−Removed: Accordingly, a public shareholder would
−Removed: have from the time we send out our tender offer materials until the close of the tender offer period, or up to two business days prior to the initially scheduled vote on the proposal to approve the business combination if we distribute proxy materials, as applicable, to tender its shares if it wishes to seek to exercise its redemption rights.
+Added: Accordingly, a public shareholder would have from the time we send out our tender offer materials until the close of the tender offer period, or up to two business days prior to the initially scheduled vote on the proposal to approve the business combination if we distribute proxy materials, as applicable, to
+Added: tender its shares if it wishes to seek to exercise its redemption rights.
Given the relatively short period in which to exercise redemption rights, it is advisable for shareholders to use electronic delivery of their public shares.
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In such case, we will promptly return any certificates delivered by public holders who elected to redeem their shares.
−Removed: If our initial proposed business combination is not completed, we may continue to try to complete a business combination with a different target by February 8, 2023 (or until the end of any Extension Period).
+Added: If our initial proposed business combination is not completed, we may continue to try to complete a business combination with a different target by December 15, 2023 (or until the end of any Extension Period).
Redemption of Public Shares and Liquidation If No Initial Business Combination
−Removed: Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provides that we will have until February 8, 2023 (or until the end of any Extension Period) to consummate an initial business combination.
−Removed: If we have not consummated an initial business combination by February 8, 2023 or by the end of any Extension Period, we will:
+Added: Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provides that we will have until December 15, 2023 (or until the end of any Extension Period) to consummate an initial business combination.
+Added: If we have not consummated an initial business combination by December 15, 2023 or by the end of any Extension Period, we will:
(i) cease all operations except for the purpose of winding up;
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and (iii) as promptly as reasonably possible following such redemption, subject to the approval of our remaining shareholders and our board of directors, liquidate and dissolve, subject in each case to our obligations under Cayman Islands law to provide for claims of creditors and the requirements of other applicable law.
−Removed: There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to our warrants, which will expire worthless if we fail to consummate an initial business combination by February 8, 2023 or by the end of any Extension Period.
+Added: There will be no redemption rights or liquidating distributions with respect to our warrants, which will expire worthless if we fail to consummate an initial business combination by December 15, 2023 or by the end of any Extension Period.
Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provides that, if we wind up for any other reason prior to the consummation of our initial business combination, we will follow the foregoing procedures with respect to the liquidation of the trust account as promptly as reasonably possible but not more than ten business days thereafter, subject to applicable Cayman Islands law.
−Removed: Our initial shareholders and each member of our management team have entered into an agreement with us, pursuant to which they have agreed to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to any founder shares and placement shares (but will retain such rights for any public shares) they hold if we fail to consummate an initial business combination by February 8, 2023 or by the end of any Extension Period (although the initial shareholders, and each member of our management team will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to any public shares they hold if we fail to complete our initial business combination within the prescribed time frame).
−Removed: Our initial shareholders and each member of our management team have agreed, pursuant to a written agreement with us, that they will not propose any amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) that would modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of our Class A ordinary shares the right to have their shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination by February 8, 2023 or by the end of any Extension Period or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares, unless we provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem their public shares upon approval of any such amendment at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account and not previously released to us to pay our taxes, if any, divided by the number of the then-outstanding public shares.
+Added: Our initial shareholders and each member of our management team have entered into an agreement with us, pursuant to which they have agreed to waive their rights to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to any founder shares and placement shares (but will retain such rights for any public shares) they hold if we fail to consummate an initial business combination by December 15, 2023 or by the end of any Extension Period (although the initial shareholders, and each member of our management team will be entitled to liquidating distributions from the trust account with respect to any public shares they hold if we fail to complete our initial business combination within the prescribed time frame).
+Added: Our initial shareholders and each member of our management team have agreed, pursuant to a written agreement with us, that they will not propose any amendment to our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) that would modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of our Class A ordinary shares the right to have their shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination by December 15, 2023 or by the end of any Extension Period or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares, unless we provide our public shareholders with the opportunity to redeem their public shares upon approval of any such amendment at a per-share price, payable in cash, equal to the aggregate amount then on deposit in the trust account, including interest earned on the funds held in the trust account and not previously released to us to pay our taxes, if any, divided by the number of the then-outstanding public shares.
However, we may not redeem our public shares in an amount that would cause our net tangible assets to be less than $5,000,001 either prior to or upon consummation of an initial business combination (so that we do not then become subject to the SEC’s “penny stock” rules).
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This redemption right shall apply in the event of the approval of any such amendment, whether proposed by our initial shareholders, any member of our management team or any other person.
−Removed: We expect that all costs and expenses associated with implementing our plan of dissolution, as well as payments to any creditors, will be funded from amounts remaining out of the $1,100,000 held outside the trust account, together with up to $100,000 of funds from the trust account available to us to pay dissolution expenses, although we cannot assure you that there will be sufficient funds for such purpose.
+Added: We expect that all costs and expenses associated with implementing our plan of dissolution, as well as payments to any creditors, will be funded from cash held outside of the trust account of $129,186, together with up to $100,000 of funds from the trust account available to us to pay dissolution expenses, although we cannot assure you that there will be sufficient funds for such purpose.
If we were to expend all of the net proceeds of our initial public offering and the sale of the placement units, other than the proceeds deposited in the trust account, and without taking into account interest, if any, earned on the trust account, the per-share redemption amount received by shareholders upon our dissolution would be $10.20.
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Further, there is no guarantee that such entities will agree to waive any claims they may have in the future as a result of, or arising out of, any negotiations, contracts or agreements with us and will not seek recourse against the trust account for any reason.
−Removed: In order to protect the amounts held in the trust account, our sponsor has agreed that it will be liable to us if and to the extent any claims by (A) a third-party for services rendered or products sold to us (other than our independent registered public accounting firm), or (B) a prospective target business with which we have discussed entering into a transaction agreement, reduce the amounts in the trust account to below the lesser of (i) $10.20 per public share and (ii) the actual amount per public share held in the trust account as of the date of the liquidation of the trust account if
−Removed: less than $10.20 per public share due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case net of the interest that may be withdrawn to pay our tax obligations, provided that such liability will not apply to any claims by a third-party or prospective target business that executed a waiver of any and all rights to seek access to the trust account nor will it apply to any claims under our indemnity of the underwriters of our initial public offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act.
+Added: In order to protect the amounts held in the trust account, our sponsor has agreed that it will be liable to us if and to the extent any claims by (A) a third-party for services rendered or products sold to us (other than our independent registered public accounting firm), or (B) a prospective target business with which we have discussed entering into a transaction agreement, reduce the amounts in the trust account to below the lesser of (i) $10.20 per public share and (ii) the actual amount per public share held in the trust account as of the date of the liquidation of the trust account if less than $10.20 per public share due to reductions in the value of the trust assets, in each case net of the interest that may be
+Added: withdrawn to pay our tax obligations, provided that such liability will not apply to any claims by a third-party or prospective target business that executed a waiver of any and all rights to seek access to the trust account nor will it apply to any claims under our indemnity of the underwriters of our initial public offering against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act.
In the event that an executed waiver is deemed to be unenforceable against a third-party, our sponsor will not be responsible to the extent of any liability for such third-party claims.
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We cannot assure you that claims will not be brought against us for these reasons.
−Removed: Our public shareholders are entitled to receive funds from the trust account only (i) in the event of the redemption of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination by February 8, 2023 or by the end of any Extension Period, (ii) in connection with a shareholder vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of our Class A ordinary shares the right to have their shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination by February 8, 2023 or by the end of any Extension Period or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares, or (iii) if they redeem their respective shares for cash upon the completion of the initial
−Removed: business combination.
−Removed: Public shareholders who redeem their Class A ordinary shares in connection with a shareholder vote described in clause (ii) in the preceding sentence shall not be entitled to funds from the trust account upon the subsequent completion of an initial business combination or liquidation if we have not consummated an initial business combination by February 8, 2023 or by the end of any Extension Period with respect to such Class A ordinary shares so redeemed.
+Added: Our public shareholders are entitled to receive funds from the trust account only (i) in the event of the redemption of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination by December 15, 2023 or by the end of any Extension Period, (ii) in connection with a shareholder vote to amend our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association (A) to modify the substance or timing of our obligation to provide holders of our Class A ordinary shares the right to have their shares redeemed in connection with our initial business combination or to redeem 100% of our public shares if we do not complete our initial business combination by December 15, 2023 or by the end of any Extension Period or (B) with respect to any other provision relating to the rights of holders of our Class A ordinary shares, or (iii) if they redeem their respective shares for cash upon the completion of the initial business combination.
+Added: Public shareholders who redeem their Class A ordinary shares in connection with a shareholder vote
+Added: described in clause (ii) in the preceding sentence shall not be entitled to funds from the trust account upon the subsequent completion of an initial business combination or liquidation if we have not consummated an initial business combination by December 15, 2023 or by the end of any Extension Period with respect to such Class A ordinary shares so redeemed.
In no other circumstances will a shareholder have any right or interest of any kind to or in the trust account.
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While this may limit the pool of potential acquisition candidates, we do not believe that this limitation will be material.
−Removed: We will be required to evaluate our internal control procedures for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2022 as required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
−Removed: Only in the event we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer or an accelerated filer and no longer qualify as an emerging growth company would we be required to comply with the independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirement on our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: We evaluated our internal control procedures for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2022 as required by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and determined that we should not be deemed to be a large accelerated filer or an accelerated filer and continue to qualify as an emerging growth company.
+Added: Therefore, we are not required to comply with the independent registered public accounting firm attestation requirement on our internal control over financial reporting.
A target business may not be in compliance with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act regarding adequacy of their internal controls.
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