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          <link:labelArc xlink:type="arc" xlink:arcrole="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/arcrole/concept-label" xlink:from="loc_dei_PreCommencementIssuerTenderOffer" xlink:to="lab_dei_PreCommencementIssuerTenderOffer" />
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          <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:label="lab_dei_Security12bTitle" xml:lang="en-US">Title of 12(b) Security</link:label>
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          <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2025/dei-2025.xsd#dei_SecurityExchangeName" xlink:label="loc_dei_SecurityExchangeName" />
          <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:label="lab_dei_SecurityExchangeName" xml:lang="en-US">Security Exchange Name</link:label>
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          <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2025/dei-2025.xsd#dei_SolicitingMaterial" xlink:label="loc_dei_SolicitingMaterial" />
          <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:label="lab_dei_SolicitingMaterial" xml:lang="en-US">Soliciting Material</link:label>
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          <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:label="lab_dei_TradingSymbol" xml:lang="en-US">Trading Symbol</link:label>
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          <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2025/dei-2025.xsd#dei_WrittenCommunications" xlink:label="loc_dei_WrittenCommunications" />
          <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:label="lab_dei_WrittenCommunications" xml:lang="en-US">Written Communications</link:label>
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          <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2025/dei-2025.xsd#dei_LegalEntityAxis" xlink:label="loc_dei_LegalEntityAxis" />
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          <link:loc xlink:type="locator" xlink:href="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2025/dei-2025.xsd#dei_EntityDomain" xlink:label="loc_dei_EntityDomain" />
          <link:label xlink:type="resource" xlink:role="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/label" xlink:label="lab_dei_EntityDomain" xml:lang="en-US">Entity [Domain]</link:label>
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  <import namespace="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/linkbase" schemaLocation="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/xbrl-linkbase-2003-12-31.xsd" />
  <import namespace="http://xbrl.org/2005/xbrldt" schemaLocation="http://www.xbrl.org/2005/xbrldt-2005.xsd" />
  <import namespace="http://fasb.org/us-gaap/2025" schemaLocation="https://xbrl.fasb.org/us-gaap/2025/elts/us-gaap-2025.xsd" />
  <import namespace="http://xbrl.sec.gov/country/2025" schemaLocation="https://xbrl.sec.gov/country/2025/country-2025.xsd" />
  <import namespace="http://xbrl.sec.gov/currency/2025" schemaLocation="https://xbrl.sec.gov/currency/2025/currency-2025.xsd" />
  <import namespace="http://xbrl.sec.gov/exch/2025" schemaLocation="https://xbrl.sec.gov/exch/2025/exch-2025.xsd" />
  <import namespace="http://xbrl.sec.gov/naics/2025" schemaLocation="https://xbrl.sec.gov/naics/2025/naics-2025.xsd" />
  <import namespace="http://xbrl.sec.gov/sic/2025" schemaLocation="https://xbrl.sec.gov/sic/2025/sic-2025.xsd" />
  <import namespace="http://xbrl.sec.gov/stpr/2025" schemaLocation="https://xbrl.sec.gov/stpr/2025/stpr-2025.xsd" />
  <import namespace="http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/negated" schemaLocation="http://www.xbrl.org/lrr/role/negated-2009-12-16.xsd" />
  <import namespace="http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/net" schemaLocation="http://www.xbrl.org/lrr/role/net-2009-12-16.xsd" />
  <import namespace="http://www.xbrl.org/2009/arcrole/fact-explanatoryFact" schemaLocation="http://www.xbrl.org/lrr/arcrole/factExplanatory-2009-12-16.xsd" />
  <import namespace="http://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2025" schemaLocation="https://xbrl.sec.gov/dei/2025/dei-2025.xsd" />
  <import namespace="http://fasb.org/us-types/2025" schemaLocation="https://xbrl.fasb.org/us-gaap/2025/elts/us-types-2025.xsd" />
  <import namespace="http://fasb.org/srt-types/2025" schemaLocation="https://xbrl.fasb.org/srt/2025/elts/srt-types-2025.xsd" />
  <import namespace="http://fasb.org/srt/2025" schemaLocation="https://xbrl.fasb.org/srt/2025/elts/srt-2025.xsd" />
  <import namespace="http://www.xbrl.org/dtr/type/2024-01-31" schemaLocation="https://www.xbrl.org/dtr/type/2024-01-31/types.xsd" />
  <import namespace="http://xbrl.org/2020/extensible-enumerations-2.0" schemaLocation="https://www.xbrl.org/dtr/type/2020-01-21/types.xsd" />
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