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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def get_image(verbose=False):
 """Get the image as a TensorFlow variable. Returns: A `tf.Variable`, which must be initialized prior to use: invoke `sess.run(result.initializer)`."""

  base_data = tf.constant(image_data(verbose=verbose))
  base_image = tf.image.decode_image(base_data, channels=3)
  base_image.set_shape((IMAGE_HEIGHT, IMAGE_WIDTH, 3))
  parsed_image = tf.Variable(base_image, name='image', dtype=tf.uint8)
  return parsed_image