Today, 20 October 2008, Afternoon Edition

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  • 20 1 TODAY Monday October 20, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Monday October 20, 2008 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    • NEWS LATEST
      • 35 1 Members of the bloc of oil producing nations could cut crude oil output by up to 2 million barrels a day, a drop of 6 per cent, warned its president. Page 3
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      • 35 1 In early voting two weeks before the election, Republican McCain holds the edge in Florida, while Democrat Obama looks to be taking Georgia, lowa, North Carolina and Ohio. Page 13
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      • 27 1 Dutch financial services giant becomes latest to get a helping hand from the government following its warning of steep Q_3 losses. Page Bl
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      • 23 1 The chairman of Caisse d'Epargne, France's most popular savings bank, has quit following a $1.2-billion derivatives trading scandal. Page Bl
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      • 23 1 Bankrupt Lehman Brothers is subject to at least three federal criminal probes and 12 subpoenas, said a source. Page B2
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    • 835 1 AGENCIES AFTERNOON LATEST Parts of US could already be in recession; analysts expect sharp decline inUUsK #s Q3 GDP figures WASHINGTON, DC The West has received stark indications that the financial meltdown is transitioning into a full-blown economic slump with depressing news that the United
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    • SPORTS LATEST
      • 21 1 Tottenham's Spanish boss is odds-on for the chop following his team's 2-1 loss to newlypromoted Stoke. Page 29
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      • 25 1 Reports that he had turned down a new contract offer from Arsenal are nothing more than 'mischief-making', said the Spaniard. Page 29
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        24 1 David Villa's brace helped Valencia romp to a 4-0 rout of hapless Numancia. His team are now top of the table. Page 31
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    • 724 2  -  ERICJ BROOKS NEWS ANALYSIS China used melamine before the Sanlu dairy incident was ever exposed DESSERT cakes in Japan, strawberry-fla-voured milk in Singapore, iced coffee in Germany, Cadbury chocolates in the United Kingdom, White Rabbit-brand candy in the United States and thousands of other
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    • 275 3 AFP QUEBEC CITY The poorest countries in the Frenchspeaking world yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) welcomed a drop in energy costs amid global financial woes, but also expressed concern about a drop in demand for their natural resources. The summit of 56 French-speaking
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    • 137 3 BLOOMBERG Mr Chakib Khelil, president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), said members may agree to cut crude oil output by 1 million to 2 million barrels a day as demand drops in a weakening world economy.
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    • 382 4  -  ONG DAI LIN How a mother is nourished during pregnancy and how her baby is nourished in the first few months of life may profoundly affect the child's risk for some diseases later in life, says Associate Professor Chong Yap Seng of the National
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    • 467 4  -  ONG DAI LIN INVESTING IN RESEARCH Avoid other areas where Singapore might not be as competitive, he says dailin@mediacorp.com.sg TO ESTABLISH itself as a research hub, Singapore has to make focused investments in research areas that the country can be competitive in, says Nobel
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 142 4 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Two male teenagers were grievously injured after they were stabbed during a clash between two groups of youth outside Plaza Singapura on Saturday night. An eyewitness said about eight teenagers were quarrelling at around 10pm at The Atrium Orchard. A scuffle ensued, and
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      • 83 4 Pokka Corporation's drinks are safe, the company said, in response to reports that its milk melon, cappuccino coffee and milk coffee in Vietnam are contaminated with melamine. The three drinks contain about o.i parts per million (ppm) of melamine, 25 times lower than the US Food
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    • 305 6  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg EACH trip seldom takes more than 30 minutes, but cabbie Yus Ghulam wanted to make sure his passengers could make good use of the time shuttling between destinations, be it by working or keeping up to date with breaking news.
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    • 438 6  -  TEOXUANWEI MARINA BAY SANDS Frontline personnel such as security officers and waiters are being sought xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg IT WILL open its doors only at the end of next year, but Marina Bay Sands is beginning its hunt today for the 10,000 employees it will need. Chambermaids, security
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    • 413 8  -  IMELDASAAD CHANNEL NEWSASIA ALTERNATIVE ACCOMMODATION Offshore housing for foreign workers is one alternative imelda@mediacorp.com.sg WITH rising construction costs and a space crunch in Singapore, local researchers are exploring cheaper alternatives to land reclamation. One option is to have very large floating structures that can literally support cities on
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    • 318 8  -  TEOXUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg IT HAS implemented various schemes to instil a "green" mindset in its residents. Now, Sembawang Town Council is embarking on another to weed out the bad eggs whose socially irresponsible actions negate its conservation efforts. By March next year, 1,791 lifts in the town,
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  • WORLD
    • 497 10 AGENCIES MALAYSIAN POLITICS M #sian PM claims his predecessor is trying to stir vp vhatred KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's embattled Prime Minister has lashed out at his predecessor, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, and other critics who want him to hasten his retirement. In a hastily-arranged news conference, Prime
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    • EYE ON MALAYSIA
      • 131 10 ivididybid b lorrner nediLn ivimibLer Mr Chua Soi Lek (picture) has made a political comeback less than a year after he resigned in disgrace over a sex scandal. Late on Saturday, he was elected as the deputy president of the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), defeating
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      • 179 10 The New Straits Times yesterday reported that MrTing Tai Fook, a Perak MCA Youth delegate, has reiterated his call for Mr Khairy Jamaluddin to be detained underthe Internal Security Act for allegedly making racist statements. He said: "Am I afraid he (Khairy) will take
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    • 296 12 AFP RURAL POLICIES Farmers will be allowed to trade, lease out and transfer land rights for profits BEIJING Chinese farmers will be allowed to trade, lease out and transfer their land rights for profit, according to a landmark agricultural policy document released by the
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 82 12 AFP Mr SamakSundaravej, the former Thai Premier, is being treated for liver cancer, local media reported yesterday. The 73-year-old had an operation earlier this month at a private Bangkok hospital to remove a tumour in his liver, the Bangkok Post newspaper reported, quoting a
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      • 68 12 AFP North Korea may make an "important" announcement today, amid rumours that reclusive leader Kirn Jong II has fallen seriously ill, Japan's SankeiShimbun newspaper said yesterday. The Japanese Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the Sankei report, which claimed that North Korea could announce Mr Kirn's death or a
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    • 465 13 AP AMERICA VOTES AFTERNOON LATEST WASHINGTON, DC Almost two weeks before Election Day, Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama is busily banking every early vote he can get in key states. Republican nominee John McCain is, on the other hand, more selectively working to lock in
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    • 139 13 AFP CARACAS A massive blackout left most of Venezuela without power yesterday when a major electricity distribution line failed, officials said. The outage, which began in the morning, has affected several million customers across broad swathes of the country, including in the capital Caracas where passengers
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    • 252 14 AP TORONTO Canada has declared a chemical, widely used in food packaging, as a toxic substance and will move to ban the sale of plastic baby bottles containing bisphenol A (BPA). The toxicity classification, issued in the Canada Gazette, makes Canada the
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    • 253 14 THE SUNDAYTELEGRAPH INCENTIVE SCHEMES UK doctors paid thousands not to send patients for specialist treatment LONDON Dozens of incentive schemes have been uncovered which allow General Practitioners (GPs) to profit by slashing the number of patients they refer for specialist hospital care, sparking fears over
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    • 149 14 THE SUNDAYTELEGRAPH Under British government proposals added to a controversial Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, human tissue can be taken from the mentally infirm without consent, and then used to create human-animal hybrid embryos for stem-cell research. On Wednesday, MPs will vote on the Bill,
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    • 293 16 ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS blogged on theonlinecitizen.com WHEN I read about the increase in subscription fees for one telco's land lines, I just shrugged in resignation and moved on to the next page. Imagine the breath of fresh air I felt when the next day, I opened the newspaper to
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    • 175 16  -  Hong Chew Eng From LIKE many retirees who invest, I, too, was "lured" by a very friendly investment bank officer to switch my fixed deposits account to invest in a then-called "safe" structured instrument. The sales pitch was as robust as that applied by those
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    • 179 18  -  DR BILL MAIER BY MAKE YOUR HUSBAND FEEL SPECIAL (PART 1) All right ladies, stand by for instalment No 1 of "Top ten ways to keep your husband happy". No 1, praise him for his achievements. Most husbands work hard to provide well for their wives
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    • 547 18 Traditional concepts of the family' are re-defined blogged at groundnotes.wordpress.com ACCORDING to a (recent) National Family Council (NFC) survey, more Singaporeans are now aware of the importance of family. As a self-professed Confucian society where "Asian values" supposedly reign supreme, it's a bit surprising that
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    • 48 18  -  Stanley Kong Financial institutions should not abrogate their responsibilities. They research and establish that a financial product is worth having and consistent with the risk tolerance of a client. If not, what is the basis for an upfront fee of up to 5 per cent?
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    • 135 18 Diwali Celebration at h Shahi Maharani i -i 11 Bsif 1 Festival of Awadhi Kashmiri Cuisines 20th to the 27th of October 2008 This Diwali, Shahi Maharani brings the best of the rich lavish foods passed down from the palaces of the Emperors of Kashmir and the Nawabs of Awadh.
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    • 1058 20  -  DARREN HO darrenh@mediacorp.com.sg CHRISTY Turlington. Kate Moss. Farm Wong. Zhang Ziyi. These four ladies may herald from different shores, but they have one thing in common: All have graced the covers of EUe Singapore. Local celebrity and MTV VJ Denise Keller is a huge fan
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    • 160 20 DECEMBER 1993 The first issue of ElleSingapore featured Claudia Schiffer at the prime of her career. Apart from beauty tips and Christmas shopping ideas, it also included an article on the mob scene, demonstrating that Elle Singapore wasn't just a shallow magazine for women.
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    • 604 24  -  JEANINETAN TODAY EXCLUSIVE Teri Hatcher tells how she is pretty handy in the kitchen IN LOS ANGELES plus@newstoday.com.sg MOST actors probably use their trailer as a place to relax when they're not required on the set. Teri Hatcher (picture) bakes in hers. The 43-year-old Desperate Housewives
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    • 239 24 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH THE Bee Gees hit, Stay in' Alive, has lived up to its name after researchers in the United States discovered that it has almost the perfect rhythm to help jump-start a stopped heart. The disco anthem runs at a tempo of 103
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    • 224 25  -  CHRISTOPHERTOH CONCERT REVIEW "FUN" appeared to be the keyword for Sandy Lam's concert on Saturday night at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Lam appeared sporting a new platinum-blonde hairdo and wearing leggings, hot pants and a corset something that you'd normally see on Tokyo's young-and-trendy rather than
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    • 19 22 f THE BAKER WIFE REALLY. Desperate Housewives'Teri Hatcher tells how she is pretty handy in the kitchen. 24 A
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    • 60 23 Financial 7^Tsunami !a. Mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mac crippled by billion-dollar losses... Lehman Brothers declared bankrupt... AIG in crisis... Merrill Lynch taken over... I"I O Will this spell the end of the global financial tsunami? Stay tuned as we bring you the latest updates. IhSDIM 59Q23 ISffKii *****
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    • 1133 26 TV LISTINGS qJ^q CHANI^"^ ZZ^EDiAC^LIZ DOCUMENTARY 9.00 AM Sesame Street (PRESCHOOL) 5.00 AM Entertainment Tonight 1.30 Alternative Sports Diary 9.30 News 5 Tonight (Followed by Virtual Adultery and Cyberspace Love 10.00 Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs 6.30 Prime Time Morning 2.00 My Sassy Neighbour 111 Highlights from Parliament)
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  • sports
    • 680 28 AFP SHANGHAI Britain's Lewis Hamilton won the Chinese Grand Prix yesterday but was denied the world championship by title rival Felipe Massa, who finished second. McLaren-Mercedes' Hamilton led throughout for a straightforward win but he remains just seven points ahead of Massa, taking the championship
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    • 292 28 AFP SHANGHAI Renault's two-time champion Fernando Alonso was delighted yesterday after continuing his end-of-year revival with fourth place in the Chinese Grand Prix. The 27-year-old Spaniard was attempting to win his third successive race, but ended up behind British winner Lewis Hamilton in
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    • 512 29 AFP AFTERNOON LATEST English Premiership Stoke 2 Tottenham 1 STOKE (England) Juande Ramos was pushed to the brink as nine-man Tottenham hit a new low when they lost 2-1 to Stoke yesterday (early today, Singapore time). Ramos faces a fight to save his job after
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    • 153 29 AFP PARIS Manchester United's impressive Champions League and Premier League triumph last season has earned four players nominations for the European Footballer of the Year award, organisers announced yesterday. Wayne Rooney, Nemanja Vidic, Cristiano Ronaldo and goalkeeper Edwin Van Der Sar all made the shortlist for
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    • 326 29 AFP LONDON Cesc Fabregas dismissed media reports yesterday (early today, Singapore time) that he had turned down a contract worth £90,000 ($230,000) a week at Arsenal as nothing more than an attempt at "mischief-making". The 21-year-old reacted to a News of the World article which linked him
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    • 293 30  -  LOW LIN FHOONG ON SATURDAY, Singapore swim star Tao Li took a break from training for the Fina/ Arena Swimming World Cup 2008, which will be held at the Singapore Sports School on Nov 1 and 2. And it was for a very good
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    • 224 30  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SILAT exponent Saiedah Said is on track to clinch Singapore's first Asian Beach Games medal in Bali, Indonesia, after qualifying for the semi-finals of the women's tanding class D (60--65 kg). Up against Vietnam's reigning world and SEA Games champion (over 65kg category)
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    • 434 30 THE DAILYTELEGRAPH ENGLISH FOOTBALL Three more games, including two Premier League fixtures, come under the microscope LONDON The City of London's fraud unit is to examine allegations of match-fixing in three more games after information about extraordinary betting patterns was handed to them on Saturday. The Football
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    • 212 31 AFP MADRID Andy Murray (picture) muscled further into the ranks of the tennis elite yesterday (early today, Singapore time) when he lifted his second major title in three months by winning the Madrid Masters with a 6-4, 7-6 (8/6) victory over France's Gilles Simon.
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    • 567 31  -  MILTON TAN NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 Woodlands Wellington vTampines Rovers Woodlands Stadium, 7.45pm sports@newstoday.com.sg WITH a squad that boast nine internationals and four former Lions, it's fair to say that Tampines Rovers have fallen short of expectations this NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2008 season.
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    • 293 31 DPA AFTERNOON LATEST MADRID Valencia went back on top of the Spanish Liga yesterday (early today, Singapore time) with a 4-0 destruction of bottom team Numancia. As usual, the hero in Mestalla was David Villa, whose brace of goals keep him on top of the scorers'
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    • 234 34 SHANGHAI Foreigners investing in China under the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) scheme have not pulled large amounts of funds from the stock market despite a slump in share prices, according to a Reuters report citing the Shanghai Securities Journal. An official
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    • 555 34 AFP FINANCIALCRISIS Global crisis starting to have an impact on country's economy SHANGHAI China's strong economy appeared to put the nation on the global high ground when the financial tsunami first struck last month, but as the storm continues to rage, that position is looking less
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    • 253 35 AFP CAMP DAVID Leaders from the United States and Europe have agreed to hold a series of summits to reform the global financial system to ensure continued prosperity in the world. US President George Bush, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and European Commission President
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    • 97 36 BLOOMBERG The UK government will step up public spending projects and increase borrowing in a bid to curb the country's biggest economic slump since 1991, ministers including Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling said. The UK will prioritise spending on housing, energy and small businesses
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    • 789 36  -  CONRAD RAJ MON DAY BLUES editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg Next quarter should see fall in electricity tariffs, given steep decline in oil prices SHOCKING! No pun intended but that was how the recent 22-per-cent hike in electricity tariffs by Singapore Power (Sing Power) was described by many.
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    • 142 37 BLOOMBERG AFTERNOON LATEST NEW YORK Lehman Brothers Holdings, which last month filed the largest bankruptcy in history, is the subject of three federal criminal probes and at least 12 subpoenas, according to a lawyer for the failed bank. Lead Lehman bankruptcy lawyer Harvey Miller said
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        • 61 38 25 cents Hold Deutsche Bank starts with 25 cents target price. Says company is pure plantation play, has highest leverage to CPO prices among Singaporelisted palm plays. Broker is bearish on CPO prices in near term but says this has been priced in by stock's recent correction. Company's
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        • 87 38 22 cents Fully valued DBS downgrades from "Hold", cuts price target to 24 cents from 40 cents on lower turnover, higher operating expenses. Third-quarter net profit fell 39 per cent on-year to $1.86 million. DBS had expected $3.0 million. House says anticipated 3 cent dividend per share at
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      • 581 38 BLOOMBERG AFTERNOON LATEST Bank won't be nationalised, but Dutch government vwill get a lot of major shareholder rights' AMSTERDAM ING Groep, the biggest Dutch finan-cial-services firm, will get 10 billion euros ($19.8 billion) from the government after warning on Friday of its first quarterly loss and
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      • 397 38 THEGUARDIAN PARIS The chairman of France's most popular savings bank quit last night after a 600-million-euro ($1.2-bil-lion) derivatives trading scandal that shook confidence in a financial system already rocked by global turmoil. Mr Charles Milhaud, who had been in charge of
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      • 434 38 THEGUARDIAN LONDON Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond yesterday (this morning, Singapore time) directly blamed British Prime Minister Gordon Brown for creating the economic "calamity" that has forced the government to find £200 billion ($5lO billion) to bail-out the UK's banks. Mr Salmond ended an
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