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-  For questions and support please visit the <a href="https://babel-slack.herokuapp.com">slack channel</a> or <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/babeljs">StackOverflow</a>. The Babel issue tracker is <strong>exclusively</strong> for bug reports and feature requests.
+  <a href="https://travis-ci.org/babel/babel"><img alt="Build Status" src="https://img.shields.io/travis/babel/babel.svg?style=flat"></a>
+  <a href="http://issuestats.com/github/babel/babel"><img alt="Issue Stats" src="http://issuestats.com/github/babel/babel/badge/pr?style=flat"></a>
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+  <a href="http://badge.fury.io/js/babel-core"><img alt="npm version" src="https://badge.fury.io/js/babel-core.svg"></a>
+  <a href="https://npmjs.org/package/babel-core"><img alt="Downloads" src="http://img.shields.io/npm/dm/babel-core.svg"></a>
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-  Issues without instructions to reproduce <strong>will be immediately closed<strong>.
+  For questions and support please visit the <a href="https://babel-slack.herokuapp.com">slack channel</a> or <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/babeljs">StackOverflow</a>. The Babel issue tracker is <strong>exclusively</strong> for bug reports and feature requests.
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