Today, 9 April 2009, Afternoon Edition

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  • 20 1 TODAY Thursday April g, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking TODAY Thursday April g, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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  • 193 1 2 Does Barisan Nasional's defeat in Tuesday's Kedah by-election signal the end of the road for Malaysian Indian Congress president S Samy Vellu? 1 C^k "'9 cars eac'tne sur9e n IUcOE premiums in the latest round of bidding, driven by a 24-per-cent reduction in supply. ■"I Q
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  • 793 1  -  ESTHER NG GEYLANG FOOD POISONING estherng@mediacorp.com.sg WHEN it comes to keeping clean, temporary markets like the one in Geylang Serai linked to last week's 146 food poisoning cases, at last count present a tougher challenge, admits the National Environment Agency (NEA). "Their stalls are smaller, more cramped and
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  • 569 1  -  LAN DE COTTA fl correspondent ian@mediacorp.com.sg AS PROMISED, downtown denizens will encounter less disruption to their travel routines ahead of this year's Formula 1 Sing Tel Singapore Grand Prix in September. Road closures have been whittled down to a week, instead of the
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  • NEWS
    • 703 2 SAMYVELLU KUALA LUMPUR He attributed the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) defeat in Tuesday's Kedah by-election to reasons such as ground sentiments. But for many, the defeat signals the end of the road for Mr S Samy Vellu, the longestserving head of a Malaysian political party. The
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    • 557 3 AGENCIES INDONESIAN ELECTION Polls to determine if President can secure second five-year term JAKARTA Indonesians head to the polls today for parliamentary elections that could determine if President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will have enough support to win a second five-year term and push through aggressive economic and
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    • 398 4  -  NEOCHAICHIN GEYLANG FOOD POISONING First signs of illness among victims surfaced as early as April 1 chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg AS SHE lay comatose and fought for her life at Alexandra Hospital over five days, more than a hundred friends and relatives turned up to visit Mdm Norani Kassim, 59.
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    • 298 4 THE rojak vendor whose stall has been implicated in the food poisoning outbreak has no idea how it happened. He does not think it was a case of sabotage, either. After 27 years operating his stall, Mr Sheik Allaudin, 69, is simply "stunned, scared and sorry",
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    • 492 8  -  CHEOWXINYI PINK-SLIP PARTY cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg IT WAS touted as a "pink-slip party" for those who had been handed the dreaded retrenchment letter to meet potential recruiters. But as it turned out, some 150 of the 200 attending yesterday's social networking event organised by local recruitment magazine Headhunt,
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    • 353 10  -  ALICIA WONG ON-SITETRAINING Workers and bosses give thumbs up for training at worksite alicia@mediacorp.com.sg THEIR lean manpower and mode of operation made it difficult for these retail companies to send their staff for training programmes. Retail outlets cannot just close an outlet and send their employees
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    • 669 12  -  LEONGWEEKEAT ECONOMIC DOWNTURN weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg FOR four days last September, he wandered the streets, sleeping at void decks and bus stops and lived mainly on water. Mr Sim Leng Boon, 30, had lost his j ob as a waiter and was driven out of
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    • 438 12  -  ZULOTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg HE was only 13 when the 32-year-old woman met him through his mother. But that did not stop the former canteen stall assistant from starting an intimate relationship with the Secondary school boy. The woman, who admitted that she had done
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    • 278 16  -  LEONGWEEKEAT CERTIFICATE OF ENTITLEMENT Big cars lead the surge, premiums up by 50 per cent weekeat@mediacorp.com.sg CERTIFICATE of Entitlement (COE) premiums headed north in the latest round of bidding yesterday, driven largely by a 24-per-cent reduction in supply, starting this month. The premium for big
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    • 115 16 772 Police have arrested 22 drink drivers in a three-hour ringfencing operation in the Geylang area, bringing the total number caught so far this year to 772. Yesterday at about 1.45 am, simultaneous road blocks were set up to encircle the entertainment outlets and drinking
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 123 16 938 LIVE A Malaysian man who did not know howto tell his family they had no money for the Chinese New Year has been fined $3,000. Wong Chee Peng, 40, admitted to making a false police report in January. He had gone to Bedok
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      • 80 16 938 LIVE Temasek Foundation is partnering Standard Chartered Bank to tackle blindness in Asia. The philanthropic organisation has agreed to provide $550,000 for specific projects by the bank's Seeing Is Believing programme in India and Bangladesh. The foundation will fund the training of vision technicians
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      • 84 16 The first 1,000 visitors who walk in and buy the $29.50 adult basic ticket from 6pm to gpm today, can treat a companion to a flight for only $1 on the Singapore Flyer, which is marking its first anniversary. And from
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      • 107 16 Police on Tuesday arrested three men, aged 26 to 43, for suspected involvement in a loan shark syndicate believed to be linked to 250 harassment cases since last April. Officers raided premises in Yishun, Henderson andTampines and seized, among others, ATM cards, bank books and
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      • 79 16 Women had their chance to dine with outstanding industry leaders and other women of influence as part of MediaCorp's annual event, A Celebration of Women, held at Indochine Waterfront on Tuesday night. Owner of 77th Street Elim Chew (left), managing director, MediaCorp Publishing, Zita Ong
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  • WORLD
    • 380 18 AP ANTI-GOVT PROTESTS ioo 000 demonstrators pile pressure on Thai PM to step aside BANGKOK As many as 100,000 demonstrators staged an anti-gov-ernment protest yesterday —ahead of a key Asian summit tomorrow. They were rallying outside the home of the Thai King's 88-year-old top
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    • EYE ON MALAYSIA
      • 99 22 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER Despite increasing its margin of victory by almost 100 per cent in the Bukit Gantang by-election, Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) yesterday admitted that it lost some support among Malay voters. Party officials said it was partly due to Barisan Nasional's strategy of
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      • 84 22 The Malaysian government, the InspectorGeneral of Police and the AttorneyGeneral failed yesterday to stop a RMioo-million ($42-million) defamation suit brought against them by Hindraf legal adviser P Uthayakumar. He is suing the three defendants for defamation, which linked him with the Sri
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    • 385 22 AGENCIES, THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER MALAYSIAN POLITICS PR says wins are proof of opposition's good work PETALING JAVA The massive wins by the opposition in two by-elections are a clear referendum on the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) government's divisive politics and proof that the opposition has
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    • 774 23  -  001 KEEBENG NEWS COMMENT THE results of the triple by-elections that the Election Commission took so much trouble to put on the same day, and a weekday at that, and suitably after the dominant United Malays National Organisation (Umno) had held what was expected to
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    • 282 23 AGENCIES PUTRAJAYA At least three ministries could be merged with others while Parliamentary secretaries will make a comeback when Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak names his Cabinet today, reported New Straits Times (NST). Mr Najib is said to have received consent from the palace
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 92 24 AP China said yesterday that it would build a clinic in each of its 700,000 villages within three years, part of a 850-bil-lion yuan (sigo-billion) investment in health care reform. The programme is part of an even more ambitious plan to provide basic
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      • 91 24 AFP Federal prosecutors charged a Chinese businessman on Tuesday with conspiracy in the sale of materials to Iran that could be used in missiles and atomic weapons. The 117-count indictment charged Li Fang Wei with conspiring to conceal bank transactions through New York. His
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      • 84 24 AFP News Corporation said on Tuesday that entertainment columnist Roger Friedman was sacked for writing a review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine from a stolen copy of the film that had been posted on the Internet. Fox News last week published at its website a column
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    • 250 24 AFP N KOREAN POLITICS SEOUL North Korean leader Kirn Jong II is set to strengthen his grip on power when the new parliament convenes today amid a fanfare over its rocket launch, said analysts. Mr Kirn is certain to attend the inaugural meeting of the new
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    • 189 26 AGENCIES LONDON British police have come under pressure after video footage emerged, showing police shoving to the ground a man who died during the G2O summit protests last week. The video will be assessed by a police watchdog body as part of an
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    • 226 26 AGENCIES ITALY QUAKE L'AQUILA Strong aftershocks two days after central Italy's devastating earthquake jeopardised desperate search efforts yesterday as the death toll rose to 260. The jolts added to a night of misery for more than 200 homeless survivors of the quake who were unable to find
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    • 299 28 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH WASHINGTON Foreign spies have infiltrated the US electrical grid, leaving behind software programs that could disrupt the system in a time of war, American national security officials have claimed. The intruders from countries including China and Russia, were believed to be attempting to
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    • 348 28 AP afternoon latest US warship headed to scene as captain held hostage NAIROBI (Kenya) The American crew of a hijacked Americanflagged ship retook control of the vessel from Somali pirates yesterday but the captain was still being held hostage in a lifeboat, according to
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    • 722 30  -  ZAHIRTANIN NEWS COMMENT AFTER a week during which the eyes of the world were on the G2O summit and the state of the world economy, we should not forget that our international peace and security institutions are in equal need of reform first and
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    • 392 32  -  Chris Yau GEYLANG FOOD POISONING Bring back standards of hygiene applied during Sars Letter from LIKE many people, I am saddened by the deaths caused by the food poisoning at Geylang Serai Temporary Market. However, looking back, I can see how the mass
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    • 147 32  -  Ramchand Jagtiani Letter from Head of Technical Division, Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore WE REFER to "Why so coy about exec's pay?" (April 6). The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS) would like to highlight that it had agreed with more and
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    • 159 32  -  Law Lee Beng Letter from Jeffrey THE report, "Getting a warm meal in tough times" (April 7) with a photo of NTUC FairPrice's managing director offering lunch packets to foreign workers is heartening. NTUC's donation of $300,000 to help migrant workers in various ways is a
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    • 194 34  -  DR BILL MAIER ...BY RECONNECT WITH FAMILY NIGHT Having trouble remembering what your teenager looks like? Maybe it's time to rein in their busy schedules and preserve a little family time. With all the activities available to kids these days, it's easy for families to lose
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    • 403 34  -  Dayal Prabhhal AN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT SAYS Letter from I AM a 16-year-old in Grade 10 at an international school in Singapore and have been here for two years. I want to say that I really love Singapore. This is what happened to me on March
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    • 208 34  -  Letty Aw Siew Hua Letter from I REFER to the Horizon Towers saga. The concept of en bloc sales should be reviewed. En bloc should mean "all agree to sell". The premise that you can sell away another's right to live in peace, provided
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    • 59 34  -  Angeline Koh Letter from I WOULD like to express my appreciation for the Today team who put together "Happiness is... lending a helping hand" (April 6). All it takes is an ordinary person with an extraordinary heart to do what those people did. It also takes
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    • 793 52  -  YVONNE LIM ABU DHABI Fi The final run will be held for the first time in the world's richest city. Can't make it? Play with speed in the Ferrari theme park yvonne@mediacorp.com. sg WHEN the planners behind Abu Dhabi's Yas Island got cracking, they
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    • 94 54 THE Immigration and Checkpoints Authority expects heavy traffic at the land checkpoints today as travellers head north for an early start to their Good Friday weekend. To ease traffic congestion, it recommends that drivers maintain lane discipline and Singaporeans with registered passports to use the eIACS
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    • 789 60  -  LOW LIN FHOONG SINGAPORE SPORTS Funding for sports up 24 per cent, bad news for athletics and silat linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE'S sports fraternity had cause for celebration yesterday after the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) revealed their annual grant to National Sports Associations (NSAs) for FY2009.
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    • 279 60  -  LOW LIN FHOONG Boxing, handball, modern pentathlon and wrestling featured in the Singapore Sports Council's (SSC) annual grant exercise for the first time this year. All four NSAs will receive up to $50,000 for the upcoming year. They were set up last year in
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    • 594 61  -  LEONARDTHOMAS SPORTS MATTERS sports editor leonard@mediacorp.com.sg Loh and his team need to press the restart button to revive track and field I AM sure Loh Lin Kok and his officials at the Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) would have expected the cut in funding by the Singapore
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    • 491 61  -  SHAMIR OSMAN GREAT EASTERN-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2009 Tampines Rovers v Young Lions Tampines Stadium, 7.45pm shamir@mediacorp.com.sg TONIGHT could be Isa Halim's last game for the Young Lions, when the 22-year-old leads the side out at Tampines Rovers in a Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League 2009
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    • 611 62 AP afternoon latest Ivanovic, Drogba take next step to the semis CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUARTER-FINAL, FIRST LEG Liverpool 1 Chelsea 3 LIVERPOOL Chelsea took a big step toward the Champions League semi-finals yesterday, rallying to beat Liverpool 3-1 in the first leg of the quarter-finals. Branislav Ivanovic scored
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    • 330 62 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE QUARTER-FINAL, FIRST LEG Barcelona 4 Bayern Munich o BARCELONA Lionel Messi scored two goals and set up another as Barcelona routed Bayern Munich 4-0 yesterday in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals. Bayern had no response to Barcelona's unrelenting offensive rushes and
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    • 536 63 MCT MASTERS 2009 Woods and Mickelson set to lock horns, amidst some bold, fresh-faced teens AUGUSTA They've danced around each other in previous Masters, trading victories and top-5 finishes, but they've never had the stage to themselves on the weekend. Perhaps it
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    • 316 66 AGENCIES SHANGHAI In response to government calls for growth-boosting measures, Chinese banks lent a record amount of money last month, state media said yesterday. New loans from all banks in March totalled an estimated 1.87 trillion yuan ($414.9 billion), the most ever lent in
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    • 240 66 BLOOMBERG SHANGHAI Preliminary figures show that car sales in China reached about 1.03 million in March, exceeding sales in the United States for the third month in a row. Full industry data due to be released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers
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    • 346 66 AFP, BLOOMBERG CURRENCY LIBERALISATION BEIJING China has begun talks with South-east Asian nations on currency swap agreements after signing a string of such deals around the world. "Some Asean nations have proposed, and are discussing with us, similar arrangements," Assistant Foreign Minister Hu Zhengyue
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    • 184 68 BLOOMBERG BANK takeovers worsened the financial crisis by making firms that were already too big even bigger, said Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor who predicted the crisis. "The institutions are insolvent," Roubini said in a Bloomberg Radio interview. "You have to take them over
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    • 186 68 BLOOMBERG AFTERNOON LATEST Credit rating of Berkshire Hathaway cut amid recession BILLIONAIRE Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway had its top-level Aaa credit rating cut by Moody's Investors Service because of the falling value of stock markets and the impact of the recession on profit. The rating was
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    • 340 71 AGENCIES NEW DELHI India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), has filed charges against the founder of Satyam Computer Services Ramalinga Raju for his role in India's biggest corporate accounting fraud. The charges include criminal conspiracy and falsifying accounts, said the CBI, which is the nation's
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    • 320 72 CHANNEL NEWSASIA PRIVATE PROPERTY THE Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras) has reduced the Annual Values of 115,400 private properties in the first quarter or 99 per cent of all those covered by the authority in its accelerated annual review, after recent declines in
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      • 87 72 938 LIVE The second-quarter profit for offshore support and marine services provider, Ezra Holdings, jumped 21 per cent to US$l4.9 million ($22.6 million). The company attributed the result largely to the strong performance of the offshore support and marine services division, as well as the contribution
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      • 91 72  -  CONRAD RAJ Henan-based property developer Sunshine Holdings is said to have breached certain covenants of a bank loan and convertible bond according to its external auditors, Deloitte Touche. The auditors have thus made an "emphasis of matter" without qualifying their opinion, the company said. The bank
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      • 104 72  -  ESTHER FUNG The independent auditors of Eastern Asia Technology have drawn attention to two points in the firm's 2008 financial statement: No impairment loss relating to certain assets, and the receivables, which the firm expects to receive from its customers. In an announcement to
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    • 572 73  -  CONRAD RAJ BUSINESS COMMENT Firm now turns to biggest market, after writing off investment in Brookstone editor-at-large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg WITH United States retailer Osim Brookstone no longer the millstone it once was around massage chair manufacturer Osim International's neck, Osim's executive chairman Ron Sim can now
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        • 76 74 Slightly higher US stocks edged higher in choppy trading yesterday after two days of declines as jittery investors appeared to hedge against possibly a tough corporate earnings reporting season. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 47.55 points to end 7,837.11 after criss-cross-ing between positive and negative territory on
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        • 78 74 First rise in 4 days Crude oil rose for the first time in four days after a United States government report showed a smaller US inventory gain than an industry report. Supplies gained 1.65 million barrels to 361.1 million last week, the highest since July 1993, the Energy
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        • 82 74 Stocks advance European stocks gained for the first time in four days as increased German subsidies for car buyers and the start of a United States financing-sup-port program for vehicle- parts producers boosted car-makers. European stock markets closed mixed on Wednesday, with London's FTSE 100 index of leading
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      • 403 74 Singapore's leading media company, MediaCorp, has been appointed the first global media partner for the World Expo 2010 Shanghai with international news channel Channel News Asia providing coverage in a year-long partnership. This includes the rights to cover the opening and
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      • 545 74 DBS CLAIM PROVISIONS ESTHER FUNG esther@mediacorp.com.sg DBS may have set aside $70 million to settle claims arising from mis-selling of structured products but will it be asked to cough up more? This was one of the issues raised by shareholders at the DBS Group Holdings' annual
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      • 328 74 BLOOMBERG MICROSOFT, the world's largest software maker, allegedly stole a Singapore company's patented invention used to deter piracy and should pay more than US$55B million ($847 million) in royalties, a lawyer for the firm told a United States federal court jury yesterday. Uniloc Singapore and Cali-fornia-based
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