Today, 5 January 2004, Afternoon Edition

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    12 1 TODAY sets you thinking todayonline.com Monday 1 January 5,2004 MITA (P) 002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon New Osama tape refers to Saddam capture
      113 1 -AFP DUBAI The Arabic TV channel, Aljazeera, aired an audiotape this morning attributed to Osama bin Laden in which he appeared to refer to the Dec 13 capture of Saddam Hussein and another recent development Gulf leaders "know that their turn is coming"
      -AFP  -  113 words
    • Article
      Retirement eggs – a better plan
      696 1  - Retirement eggs a better plan Tor Ching Li Government hopes that a new proposed CPF investment option will provide better returns WHEN as many as 80 per cent of Central Provident Fund investors or 508,500 of them lost money in their ventures after taking into account accrued interests, a change
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      Don't repeat PTP mistake, says SM
      628 1 SINGAPORE must learn from the lesson of PSA's lack of foresight in handling the competition posed by the Port of Tanjong Pelapas (PTP) in Johor. Underestimating the PTP competition led to the Port of Singapore Authority having to cut wages and port charges and
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      61 1 NEWSX^/lEWS B Healthcare goldmine How Singapore can leverage on India's medical clout/3 BCheckpoint help needed Call for separate queue for elderly/8 BModerate Islam Why it must be given a voice/24 fflfekNOT 1 FOR I I ALL -EYES Louis Koo talks about B/ his contro[class 1 tuesday ved fridaysaturday SHARE YOUR
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      13 1 For more selections on Chinese New Year Order Programme, turn to page 22.
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  • HOT NEWS
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      If a plane were to crash in Toa Payoh...
      408 2 On-board anti-missile device to be co-developed by Spore SINGAPORE is looking into developing a device to deflect surface-to-air missiles fired at commercial planes, Dr Tony Tan revealed yesterday. The Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Defence and Security highlighted the
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      Lock icon Compulsory courses for first-time bosses of maids
      140 2 Channel News Asia FROM this year, first-time employers of maids have to attend compulsory orientation programmes, Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen said yesterday. Maids too have to go through a safety orienta- tion course and will be informed of their rights. "You are
      – Channel News Asia  -  140 words
    • Article
      A goldmine waiting to be tapped
      666 3  -  Shobha Tsering Bhalla ■I Einyocommciit Singapore healthcare firms would do well to team up with their Indian counterparts YEARS ago, a friend who worked for an international airline told me about an incident that now seems apocryphal. On a late night flight from Mumbai
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      190 2 Refer to Page 2 of V\\ /d*§lr tomorrow's paper! Jjkv\sx^ AMSTERDAM KNOW YOUR HEALTH contest TO t:\JJJIi dial 1800 848 1313 Closing date: 11 January 2004 PARTICIPATE HI CHOOSE YOUR LANGUAGE One lucky winner with the correct answer -mi- ix.iam., Press 1 for En9'lsh stands to win a weekly voucher
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      409 3 SIC GRADUATE SCHOOL SIC LAW SCHOOL SIC BUSINESS SCHOOL Singapore Institute masters bachelor degrees bachelor degrees of Commerce y^?™^ London jC^Lm. UNIVERSITY Master of Business Administration Bache or of La WS fli.B) BA (Honours) Logistics Supply Creating Learning Opportunities Master of Arts (Human Resource Management L-( 2ysarGrailuaaEnßyAl ailab s Chain
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Spend $60 at Carrefour, you could win a condo
      163 4 HYPERMARKET Carrefour is offering good cheer for the new year in the form of a brand new condominium unit. For the first three months of this year, Carrefour shoppers stand to win a Lakeshore condo worth $440,000 if they spend more
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      New boon for China tourists
      257 4 Move by STB to tap spending power of visitors from China SINGAPORE has taken another step towards wooing tourists from China and their multi-million-dollar spending power. It is now easier for independent travellers from the People's Republic of China (PRC) to apply for a visa.
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      TOWKAYS IN THE MAKING
      589 6  -  Ted Chen Incubator shop sets out to teach youth the art of becoming entrepreneurs THE people behind the Incubator shop in the basement of China Square Central have a very specific goal in mind: To get youth off the streets and mould them into entrepreneurs. Incubator
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  • LETTERS
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      It's all about blood, sweat and tears
      415 8  -  Datuk Paul Chua The entire bodybuilding fraternity should not be condemned just because of a few rotten apples WE refer to Mr Philip Lee's letter, "Bodydestroying?" (Today, Dec 31). As a physical education teacher, he does not seem to know what is involved
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      Have special lane for the elderly
      180 8  -  Lav Bing I AM one of many Malaysians who travel to Singapore by train. I notice that whenever a train pulls up at the Woodlands Immigration Checkpoint, there is always a big crowd that gathers at the entrance of the building. With everybody trying
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      Safety will not be compromised
      161 8  -  Ms Han Liang Yuan WE REFER to Mr Yak Chin Hua's letter, "Put traffic safety ahead of saving a little time" (Today, Dec 29). The Red-Amber-Green (RAG) scheme was introduced at junctions to improve safety and traffic efficiency. To further improve efficiency, a modified RAG
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • MarketWATCH
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        Lock icon Singapore
        100 10 i Agencies THE ST Index is expected to breach the 1,800-point level this week as the upward momentum continues on the strength of an accelerating economy, dealers said. The ST Index rose for the sixth straight session on Friday to close at 1,791.35, up 61.12 points, or 3.53 per
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 10 US$ 0.5876 UK£ 0.3287 Yen 62.852 HK$ 4.5642 RM 2.2337 Euro 0.4657 Rupiah 4,969.9 Baht 23.268 Peso 32.647 A$ 0.7782 Indian Rs 26.862 Won 702.47 C$ 0.7568 Yuan 4.8636 NZ$ 0.8923 NTS 19.964
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        Lock icon Commodities
        26 10 SGX, Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 415.25 Silver uss/oi 5.97 Platinum uss/oi 815.50 Rubber centsAg 216.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1,800 Brent crude uss/barrel 29.42 Information provided by
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      Lock icon Experts upbeat
      299 10 Dow Jones Q4 dip does not worry analysts, who augur GDP rise with global recovery THE pace of Singapore's economic growth appears to have slowed in the final quarter of last year but economists are optimistic that momentum will revive this year as a global recovery gathers steam.
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      Lock icon CORPORATEbriefs
      156 10 Channel News Asia Phillip Securities said that the mandatory conditional cash offer by its unit, Phillip Assets, for shares of International Factors Singapore (IFS) at 39.7 cents each has lapsed. At the 3.30pm deadline on Friday, Phillip Assets received valid acceptances in respect of 1,312,440 shares, representing about 1.27
      — Channel News Asia  -  156 words
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      Lock icon China's US trade surplus widens to $90b
      333 13 Dow Jones Officially-released figure reflects jump in overall trade volumes in first 11 months of last year BEIJING China's trade surplus with the US widened to U5553.2 billion ($90.5 billion) in the first 11 months of last year as overall trade volumes increased,
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      Lock icon Japanese business confidence soars with companies more optimistic about 2004
      359 13 -AP TOKYO Japanese companies are more optimistic about their prospects this year, reflecting a turnaround in business confidence as the economy recovers from a decade-long slump, surveys in three major newspapers showed yesterday. Seventy per cent of the 112 top
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      Lock icon South Asian free trade zone in 2006
      499 14 -AFP Tariff regime deadline depends on each member state's economic prowess KARACHI South Asian states will start breaking down trade frontiers from 2006 under an agreement set to be approved at a summit that started yesterday to create a free trade zone in
      -AFP; AFP  -  499 words
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      Lock icon IBM Korea in bribe scandal
      184 16 Agencies SEOUL South Korean prosecutors said yesterday 48 people had been indicted for bribery and other irregularities in a corruption probe involving the local subsidiary of US technology giant IBM Corp. The Seoul District Prosecutors Office said 12 people had been arrested and remanded in
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      Lock icon Asahi, Itochu pump $637m into China soda venture
      190 16 AFP TOKYO Japanese beveragemaker Asahi Breweries said yesterday it will establish a soft drinks joint venture in China with Japanese trading house Itochu Corp and China's largest food producer, Tingyi, in the middle of the month. The deal, reportedly the largest investment
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      Lock icon Irregularities lead to seizure of major Chinese trading firm
      208 16 AFP BEIJING A major Chinese securities brokerage suspected of mismanagement and irregularities has been seized by government regulators in the latest probe into China's problem-rid-den stock markets. China Southern Securities based in Shenzhen was taken over by the China Securities Regulatory
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      Lock icon The dissimilar fates of Parmalat and Enron
      623 18 AFP Europe and the US have different ways of handling big company failures PARIS The scandals surrounding Italian food giant Parmalat and US energy company Enron are similar in many ways, but their main difference boils down to opposing cultures in Europe and
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon 18 schools in Thailand torched
      457 20 AFP Attacks seen as ploy to draw guards away from military base, allowing assailants to seize weapons BANGKOK Eighteen schools were torched and four soldiers shot dead by unidentified attackers in what police believe could have been a revenge assault after an ally of a
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      Lock icon It's tourism as usual
      582 24 even as search and rescue operations continue in Sharm El Sheikh SHAEM EL SHEIKH (Egypt) Hundreds of tourists pressed on with their diving holidays in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El Sheikh yesterday, undeterred that they might run into the remains of people who died in
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      Lock icon The first images from Mars
      193 24 AFP Nasas Spirit rover sent its first images of Mars to jubilant scientists in California yesterday after surviving a jarring landing on the red planet. The Mars Rover Exploration A (Mer-Aj, dubbed Spirit, landed in the Gusev Crater, 15 degrees south of the Martian equator,
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      Lock icon Bali militant's sentence upheld
      193 24 Reuters JAKARTA A Bali appeals court has upheld the death sentence against a militant who was convicted for playing a key role in the 2002 bombings on the resort island of Bali, a judge said yesterday. Afghan-trained preacher Mukhlas, also known as Ali Ghufron, was sentenced
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    • GLOBALroundup
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        Lock icon Blair visits troops in Iraq
        106 24 AFP British Prime Minister Tony Blair, fresh from a family holiday in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, paid a morale-boosting surprise visit to his troops in southern Iraq yesterday, stressing the contribution the 10,000 soldiers were making towards building a new
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        Lock icon Thai holiday road death toll
        89 24 -AFP Ihailand's New Year holiday road death toll rose on Sunday to a record 857 and 42,000 injuries, the health ministry reported near the end of an eight-day official tallying period. The figures reflected more than four deaths per hour and four injuries per minute,
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        Lock icon Afghan constitution cleared
        84 24 AFP Afghanistan's grand assembly, or loya jirga, reached full agreement on the country's new constitution, its chairman Sebghatullah Mujadadi said yesterday. The historic document, agreed to after three weeks of heated debate, will pave the way for Afghanistan's first democratic elections later this year. The issue of
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        Philippine bomb attack kills 10
        97 24 A home-made bomb hidden on a motorcycle killed at least 1 0 people and wounded 40 at a gymnasium in the southern Philippines yesterday, police and military said. The target of the attack in Mindanao may have been Mr Vivencio Bataga, the Christian mayor of
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        Lock icon Taiwan's assurance
        64 24 Reuters Taiwan will send delegations to the United States, Europe and Japan to try to assure them that a controversial "peace" referendum would not seek independence for the island from China, a delegation member said.The delegations of senior officials and academics are scheduled to leave Taiwan on Friday
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Let moderate Islam speak
      1033 25  -  KPS Gill if the fanaticism of some Muslims is to be checked THIS is a time when there is a persistent campaign of terror in the name of extremist political Islamism. But while there is no room for complacency, it is useful to note that the
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      Lock icon Causing a COMMOTION
      560 34  -  Yong Shu Chiang Louis Koo's latest movie is a daring Category 111 piece that is strictly for adults LOUIS Koo, in a festive red-and-black plaid shirt matched by beige corduroy pants, is a picture of cool, perfectly posed as if he were in a cigarette ad. Sitting
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    • incinemas
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        Lock icon Ozzy 'died' twice
        217 35 Reuters LONDON Heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne said he "died" twice after an accident on a quad motorcycle that left him in a coma for eight days. Osbourne's life was saved by bodyguard Sam Ruston who gave him mouth-to-mouth when he stopped breathing twice after the Dec
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        Lock icon Oops, I said 'I do'
        141 35 Reuters PASADENA (California) Pop star Britney Spears (picture) has married a childhood friend during an apparently impromptu wedding ceremony on Saturday in Las Vegas, two published reports said. Spears married Jason Alexander at the Little White Wedding Chapel on the Las Vegas strip early on
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    • livinglearning
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        A leap into linguistics
        423 36  -  Jason Chong Three women take on foreign languages in non-English-speaking countries SINGAPOREANS have been venturing abroad to further their education, but more are going to non-English-speaking countries. Kimchi connection An example is Warm Ong, who went to South Korea after she learned the language for a
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        A gala CNY feast
        434 37  -  Tan Yang ALTHOUGH Christmas decorations are still up in some places, Chinese New Year is upon us. If you are in the mood for festive food, then head to the Mouth Group of Restaurants at Chinatown Point To usher in the Year of the Monkey, the
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        Lock icon Magic in a vadai
        488 37  -  Gurmeet Singh Have a taste of this former magician's delightful recipe Gordon's Katong Vadai 936 East Coast Road Si Qi Na Coffeeshop (next to the old Siglap Market] Telephone: 6448 6703 Opening Hours: Noon to 9.30pm Closed alternate Wednesdays TUCKED deep in a coffeeshop at East
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      162 40 -AFP NFL PLAYOFFS Baltimore 17 Tennessee 20 BALTIMORE Gary Anderson drilled a 46-yard field goal with 29 seconds left to lift the Tennessee Titans to a 20-17 victory over the Baltimore Ravens in the opening round of the National Football League playoffs on Saturday {yesterday morning,
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      493 40 -AFP Waugh's farewell Test could be ruined by record-breaking India CRICKET, FINAL TEST Australia v India SYDNEY Steve Waugh was out for a deflating 40 in his farewell Test as Australia were confronted with a desperate fight to save the fourth and series-deciding match against India at
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      397 40 NBA San Antonio 77 Philadelphia 83 SAN ANTONIO Tim Duncan attempted San Antonio's first eight free throws and missed them all. By the end of the match, the Spurs had thrown away their 13-game winning streak. After struggling from the line in the
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      465 42 Agencies England skipper doubtful for Spanish Cup PRIMERA LIGA Real Madrid 1 Murcia 0 MADRID Real Madrid overcame the loss of injured David Beckham and flustruck Zinedine Zidane to defeat stuggling Murcia 1-0 in the Spanish Primera Liga. Beckham was forced to leave
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      406 42  -  TAN YO-HINN SIX months ago, Mohd Shameer was shaping up well for the recent SEA Games in Vietnam. Last June, a personal best of 10.60 seconds in the 100 m made him the first sprinter to meet the SEA Games qualifying
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        67 42 KUALA LUMPUR Brazilian World Cup winner Rivaldo (picture) has joined Saudi club Al Ittihad on a six-month contract, the Asian Football Confederation reported yesterday. Al Ittihad president Mansour Al-Balawi announced the signing of the 31-year-old forward, freed from his contract with European champions AC Milan
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        70 42 LONDON Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson confirmed that the club were interested in acquiring the services of PSV Eindhoven Dutch international striker Arien Robben. Talks have already begun with the Dutch First Division side and the 1 9-year-old visited Old Trafford on Friday. "We are
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        75 42 PARIS Fabien Barthez made a match-winning debut for Marseille as he saved two penalties and scored the decisive spotkick in a French Cup penalty shootout victory over Strasbourg on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Playing the day after moving from Manchester United, the goalkeeper's new side
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        56 42 PERTH Lleyton Hewitt started the New Year in style, dismantling Attila Savolt 6-2, 6-2 in tennis' Hopman Cup yesterday. The win clinched the tournament's opening tie for Australia after Alicia Molik had earlier scraped past Hungary's Petra Manama 4-6, 7-6 6-2. In the dead mixed doubles
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        57 42 LONDON Juan Pablo Montoya believes he is confident Williams will give him a car capable of winning this year's world Formula 1 championship. The new Williams FW26 car will be unveiled today in Valencia and Montoya said: "The team has done an excellent job, and I firmly believe
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      424 43 Wenger, Eriksson believe EPL break will come next season LONDON English Premiership supporters should enjoy the football their teams have been serving up in recent weeks because this may be the last season they get to see it. Having been advocated for many years, a football
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      188 43 LONDON Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich insists his club will win the race to sign Roma defender Cristian Chivu. The 23-year-old Romania full-back could be available for £6 million ($18.3 million), despite joining Roma from Ajax for £12 million only a year ago. "Chivu
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      141 43 Reuters LONDON Bolton Wanderers are close to signing Atletico Madrid's Javier Moreno on loan, the English Premiership club said on their website yesterday. The 29-year-old former Alaves and AC Milan striker has struggled for first-team opportunities this season and Bolton manager Sam Allardyce is confident
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        380 44 AFP Impressive Gunners stay on course for third consecutive FA Cup title LEEDS FA Cup holders Arsenal got the defence off their title off to a winning start with a 4-1 third round victory away to Premiership rivals Leeds United here at Elland Road this
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        414 44 Reuters MADRID Valencia staged an impressive second-half fightback to secure a 4-2 win over local rivals Villarreal this morning, keeping the pressure on leaders Real Madrid at the top of the table. A well-drilled Villarreal appeared to be on course for
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        358 44 -Agencies ENGLISH FA CUP Third round I Birmingham 4 Blackburn 0 Bradford 1 Luton 2 I Cardiff 0 Sheffield United 1 Coventry 2 Peterborough 1 Crewe 0 Telford 1 Everton 3 Norwich 1 Gillingham 3 Charlton 2 I Ipswich 3 Derby 0
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