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  • 20 1 TODAY Monday January 4, 2010 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking MICA (P) 160/10/2009 A PublICAtIon of nEWS HotlInE 6822 2268
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    243 1 3 the uS and britain closed their embassies in Yemen yesterday in the face of Al Qaeda threats after both countries announced an increase in aid to Yemen to help fight the group. 8 the issue of the Malay-Muslim underclass in Singapore should be handled nationally as
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  • 644 1  -  TODAY EXCLUSIVE Could former sprinter’s mix of talents be enough to save SAA? LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE wft Under fire in recent weeks for the lack of success from Singapore’s track and field athletes, veteran sports administrator Loh Lin ~ok now faces the biggest challenge
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  • 795 1  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE For all the millions of people who stop by the Lion City each year, only four in 10 do so on holiday. Now, with the Marina Bay Sands and Resorts World at Sentosa to finally throw their
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    • 46 1 6333 9888 MEDIACORP ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES CAugHt on CAMErA At Holland Village At orchard road At bukit batok interchange He defaced mailboxes in full public view over the new Year weekend, but revellers and commuters chose not to confront this vandal. they videotaped him instead. Page 4
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  • NEWS
    • 469 3  - AND THE STORY OF THE YEAR WILL BE PoinT oF VieW DERRICK A PAULO derrick@mediacorp.com.sg WITH the year that 2009 has been, clouded as it was by the recession, it would be no surprise if Singaporeans are generally looking forward to a new year. And 2010 in Singapore will have
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    • 491 4 war on Terror security concerns emerge as both countries step up efforts to combat al Qaeda AP SANA’A The United States and Britain closed their embassies in Yemen yesterday in the face of Al Qaeda threats, after both countries announced an increase in aid
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    • 297 6  -  PM aT TeCK GHee LIN YANQIN yanqin@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Annual economic growth of 7 to 10 per cent is a thing of the past, but does that mean the slice of the pie will get smaller for Singaporeans? The government will focus
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    • 208 6  -  NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE As New Year revellers looked on and walked on he brazenly spraypainted a mailbox on Orchard Road. But that was not the only mailbox defaced. A vandal struck at SingPost mailboxes across the island over the New Year
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
      • 64 6 A Singapore Armed Forces serviceman is in critical condition after falling victim to an apparent hit-and-run accident in Pingtung County, Taiwan. The accident occurred on New Year’s Eve, and local police arrested the driver the following day. Media reports said the serviceman was
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      • 87 6 The Singapore Consulate-General in Johor Bahru has begun operations. It will provide consular services for Singaporeans visiting, living and working in Johor, and process visa applications for entry to Singapore. Open daily from Monday to Friday (except public holidays), 8.30am to 1pm and 2pm to
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    • 735 8  -  naTIonaL arTS CounCIL SCHEME Practitioners agree on need for review, but wary of economic slant NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE It is likely the first in-depth study to be conducted on the dollars and cents of arts housing and facilities here. With artists
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    • 536 10  -  PoinT oF view underclass issue should be handled nationally as strapped Malay community groups struggle ZUL OTHMAN zul@mediacorp.com.sg AS EXPECTED, Minister in Charge of Muslim Affairs Yaacob Ibrahim’s recent lament about the state of the Malay-Muslim underclass has attracted a lot of attention from the community.
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    • 22 10 Fireworks ushering in the new year during last Thursday’s celebrations at Marina Bay Countdown 09/10. Trevor Tan TREVOR TAN
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    • 116 6 CHIN GAY PARADE 2010 Fjjj|19 Feb 2010, 8.3 >pm Sat 20 Feb 201^,J/Qgpi?i Pit Building (Next Fireci J UJl exhilarating, a LARGESt OPI 5<V O WLf k^r am M-W fe 9m WE W #1 i, China isJiIqi]| i\-r T cers on Horse r 4 tit If A if L *1
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    • 251 8 MONEY-MAKING CAN BE A PROFESSION! rfe admission Limited rt mission jmitedw 3 50 callefSj^ There are 77,000 millionaires in Singapore who got rich not by buying TOTO or 4D but by understanding the mindsetand strategies of the rich. Making money can be easy if you know how to make your
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    • 176 8 Healthy Male Female Participants Needed! Pfizer Clinical Research Unit (PCRU) needs healthy participants for a scientific study involving an experimental drug to treat solid tumors. The purpose of this study is to compare two different strength formulations of the same medicine. The safety and tolerability are also being assessed. Pre-requisites:
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    • 125 9 Ill i E I I I k DON'T RISK COMPLICATIONS FROM HINT Ask your doctor about H1N1 vaccination. If you belong to one of the high-risk groups, you are more likely to be severely affected by H1N1 and its complications. High-risk groups include: Pregnant women Those with chronic medical conditions
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  • WORLD
    • 188 12 JOHOR BARU Kidnappers in Johor are targeting man’s best friend and demanding several thousand ringgit in ransom money which some dog-owners pay to get their canine companions back safe and sound. The size of the ransom varies according to the rarity of the breed,
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    • 414 12 rELIGIouS ConTrovErSy AFP KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia’s minister in charge of Muslim affairs has said the government will appeal a court ruling allowing a Catholic paper the right to use the word “Allah”. Malaysia’s high court ruled last week that the Catholic weekly, Herald, had the
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    • EYE ON MALAYSIA
      • 37 12 The sign displaying the name “Umno”, located prominently at the headquarters of Umno, the Malaysian ruling party, was found to be missing a few letters over the weekend, the New StraitsTimes reported yesterday.
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      • 46 12 The Democratic Action Party (DAP) has criticised the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission for lodging a police report against Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand, who had said that a political aide who died in mysterious circumstances could have been murdered, the Star reported yesterday.
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      • 62 12 AFP Two South Korean tourists drowned at a seaside resort in Sarawak while trying to save a woman in their tour group, a report said yesterday. The two, identified as Kim Sung Hyun, 20, and Jung Yo Han, 24, had just arrived at
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    • 245 13 SnoW STorMS channelnewsasia.com/video AFP BEIJING A freezing front swept over much of northern China yesterday with snowstorms snarling New Year traffic and air travel, and some of the lowest temperatures in decades are forecasted for the next few days. Snow storms were expected to continue
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    • 139 13 AFP BEIJING A burst oil pipeline in northern China has spewed thousands of litres of diesel into a major tributary of the Yellow River, state media said yesterday. The spill occurred on Wednesday last week on the Chishui river in Shaanxi province when a pipeline
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    • 180 13 AFP BEIJING One of China’s former top judges will be tried for taking up to 4 million yuan in bribes. It will be one of the nation’s most high-profile graft cases, the state press said yesterday. Huang Songyou, former deputy head
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    • 174 14 AGENCIES LONDON Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that full-body scanners will be introduced at Britain’s airports in the wake of the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt of a United States airliner. Mr Brown told the BBC yesterday that airport security would be
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    • 310 14 VIOLEnCE In PaKISTan AFP PESHAWAR Pakistan faced a furious backlash yesterday after a suicide bomber struck a volleyball match killing 99 people, and the latest violence left a former provincial minister and seven others dead. The authorities rounded up 41 suspects after the volleyball attack and
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    • 274 14 AP WASHINGTON A top coun-ter-terrorism official is warning that Al Qaeda and other extremists are working to test United States defences and launch an attack on American soil. National Counterterrorism Center director Michael Leiter says the failed Christmas Day attempt to bring down a US
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    • 286 15 AP STOCKHOLM The Somali man who attacked an artist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad in a controversial cartoon had previously been arrested in Kenya, the Danish media reported. The Danish intelligence agency PET knew that the 28-year-old Somali man was
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    • 400 15 aFghan POLiTics AFP KABUL Afghan President Hamid Karzai (picture) suffered a new blow with the rejection by Parliament of most of his cabinet nominees, further prolonging the political crisis in the war-ravaged country. Of the 24 people Karzai put forward for the Cabinet, only
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    • 107 16 AP DUSHANBE About 20,000 people in Tajikistan were left homeless by an earthquake that hit a mountainous region of the impoverished nation, officials said yesterday. No deaths were reported after the magnitude 5.1 quake struck the Pamir Mountains on Saturday, the Emergency Situations and Civil Defence Committee
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    • 187 16 Murder of Student Police say no indication that murder was racially motivated AFP SYDNEY Australian police yesterday played down suggestions the fatal stabbing of an Indian student in the southern city of Melbourne was racially motivated. The 21-year-old was apparently attacked as he walked through parkland west
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 89 16 AP Remains of the first airplane ever taken to Antarctica, in 1912, have been found by Australian researchers from the Mawson’s Huts Foundation on New Year’s Day. The plane was brough to Antarctica by Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson during his first expedition there in
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      • 76 16 AFP Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has taken time out of his busy schedule to pen a children’s book featuring his family pets, a spokeswoman said yesterday. Titled Jasper and Abby and the Great Australia Day Kerfuffle, the book, co-written with Australian children’s television star
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      • 49 16 AFP More than 1,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes in south-eastern Australia yesterday as the worst floodwaters to hit the area in a decade threatened to swamp Coonamble, a remote farming town in central New South Wales, after days of punishing rain. afP
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
      • 60 18 AP Tens of thousands of North Koreans rallied in the capital Pyongyang on Saturday to support the government’s policies for the new year, including improved relations with the United States and South Korea and a higher standard of living. Video from broadcaster APTN showed
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      • 73 18 AP More than 30 people have died in cold weather-related incidents in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh province in the past 24 hours, the police said, taking the death toll from exposure in the region to 40 over the last week. The cold temperatures
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      • 77 18 AP About 30 works of art, including paintings by Pablo Picasso and Henri Rousseau, have been stolen from the home of a private collector in southern France, the police said. The theft was carried out while the owners of the home in La Cadiere-d’Azur were on
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    • 343 18 BedtiMe StorieS Study finds lack of sleep in teens may trigger depression AFP NEW YORK It seems parents have long been right. Going to bed early is key to getting enough sleep and helping adolescents feel on top of the world, a new study
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    • 200 14 I'm SO going to Si S*' I 1-for-l Lunch Treats for all food items! Indulge your cravings with Swensen's 1-for-1 Lunch Treats now back for the new year! Choose any food item from our tasty selection of culinary delights, every weekday from 11am 2pm, to enjoy this delicious deal. So
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    • 191 15 SIM UNIVERSITY Safety Symposium 2010 Implementing and sustaining safety in people and organisations. n&9Ee\jvuatV 2010 > Sha* f° undot I Mmmi House, WB A V x As Singapore moves forward as one of the safest countries to work in, implementing and sustaining safety systems in people and organisations has emerged
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    • 195 16 JOIN US IN THE FIGHT AGAINST FLU! WWW.CHIP.SG Influenza ('flu'), in particular H1N1, continues to spread in Singapore and around the world. There is an urgent need to develop alternative ways to prevent flu. THE CHIP TRIAL The CHIP trial Chloroquine for Influenza Prevention Trial is investigating whether chloroquine can
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    • 93 16 BABY FOOD FAIR 5th to 11th Jan 2010 at Isetan Scott B1 Supermarket 350 Orchard Road Shaw house Singapore *****8 Highlights: Japanese Registered Nutritionist (Ms Mivuki Sato) to speak on Nursing Nutrition For Baby from 7th to 10th Jan. Sampling of WAKODO Japanese Baby Foods (7th to 10th Jan) 1100
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  • voices
    • 284 20  -  reserveD seaTs IN MrT TraINs Letter from Bill Chua I HAVE sent e-mails to the SMRT and Land Transport Authority (LTA) about my concern for physically-challenged people like elderly citizens and pregnant women who are deprived of the seats meant for them on public transport by inconsiderate
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    • 118 20  -  Letter from Phan LieTjhen I REFER to “A precious resource” (Dec 31) and reports that two HDB blocks in Toa Payoh will be rented out to foreign workers from the integrated resorts for $140 a room each. Mr Leong Sze Hian
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    • 183 22  -  BY DR JAMES DOBSON HANDLING HOLIDAY BLUES This time of year, many people find themselves feeling mildly depressed, even after a happy and exciting holiday with friends and family. Some people wonder if this means they have a problem, but most of the time there’s nothing
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    • 476 22  -  POInT Of VIEw Sarah Sum Campbell PEOPLE who throw killer litter out of their flat demonstrate that they do not care about their neighbours, property or the environment. This has nothing to do with their level of education. Even a child can understand the implications
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    • 217 20 Have your say. email voices@mediacorp.com.sg or visit www.todayonline.com/voices a ‘GreeN’ WoNDerLaND For aLL. 20 f n Best Sound System from Japan Slide-flipping Function Only available at Sole Distributor Outlet K-ULTIMATE PIANO mkll Piano Wood Finished Speaker Now: $1988 UT>:$2388 BIK BM-660 Dynamic Microphone x2 BIK BS-880 PF Speaker (10 Inches)
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  • plus TELEVISION
    • 1247 24  -  Boys do Cry will 2010 be the year men on tV are finally done dealing with their ALESSANDRA STANLEY plus@mediacorp.com.sg THE NEWYORKTIMES THE last decade opened with an alpha male in a psychiatrist’s office and closed with an alpha male committing himself to a psychiatric
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    • 425 27 loVe STory Memoir to reveal the loving centre of ‘angry’ Harold Pinter THE DAILY TELEGRAPH HAROLD Pinter’s poetry is known for being angry and clinical, but the late writer’s wife, Antonia Fraser, will reveal for the first time in her memoirs Must You Go? how he romanced
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    • 195 27 AFP IRISH rock star Bono yesterday called for tougher controls over the spread of intellectual property over the Internet, arguing that file sharing hurts creators of cultural products. “The only thing protecting the movie and TV industries from the fate that has befallen music and
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    • 256 25 TODAY’s shOrTlIsT fOr SporTSman of The year 28 yii EDIACORP A CHANNEL NEWSASIA WATCH JAPAN HOUR the ever popular lifestyle program featuring delicious food, culture, hot springs and places of interest in Japan. Tune in to Channel NewsAsia every Saturday at 7.30 pm, Sunday 8 am and 1 pm I
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 1208 28 oN MedIaCorP LIfe TraNSforMerS 2 Channel 8, 8pm A family of 3 staying in 1 room flat, father has no strength to stand for long, both brothers are suffering from schizophrenia. See how Christopher Lee, Quan Yi Fong the Ambassadors of love try to make a difference. okTorIGINaL Different Faces
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  • sports
    • 518 29 english Football old rivals, now in 3rd tier, register first win at old trafford since ’81 Fa Cup, third round Manchester United 0 Leeds United 1 AFP MANCHESTER Leeds United produced the shock of the third round by knocking record 11-time winners Manchester United out of the
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    • 328 29 Fa Cup, third round Reading 1 Liverpool 1 AFP READING Rafael Benitez (picture) insisted the FA Cup remains a top priority for Liverpool after his side were fortunate to scrape a 1-1 thirdround draw away at Reading on Saturday night (yesterday morning, Singapore time). Reading, who
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    • 1197 32  -  Today’S aTHleTe oF THe year, 2009 Teenager Hariss is a surprise among a group of five gifted Singaporean athletes TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg PHoToS: don DON WONG, WEETECK HIAN S'PORESAILING SINGAPORE In two days’ time, Singapore will stage one of the biggest football matches in its history. The
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    • 656 33  -  inTErnaTionaL fooTbaLL Wily iran coach arrives here and duly begins the mind games aSian CuP quaLifiEr, GrouP E Singapore v Iran National Stadium, Wednesday 7.30pm IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE ~fter to~ching ~~own at ~hangi ~irport an~~ checking into ~mara Hotel yester~~ay, Iran football coach ~fshin ~hotbi
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    • 371 33 TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE The main target for national sailors ~~stin ~i~ an~~ ~herman ~heng this year is to ~~efen~~ their ~sian ~ames title~ Yester~~ay, the ~~~o began their season on a winning note, when they bagge~~ the International 420 ~lass 2009/2010 ~~stral~
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
    • 47 29 SPORTS ON TV RADIO TODAY 10am Tennis Hopman Cup: Russia v Germany, Ch 24 5.30pm Tennis Hopman Cup: GB v Kazakhstan, Ch 24 toMorroW 8am NHL Bruins v Rangers, Ch 117 9am A Football Fiesta Bowl, Ch 23 6.35am-11.35pm SportsZone Minutes Hourly Sports updates live on 938Live
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  • 651 34  -  TAKING CHARGE succeed JOHN BITTLESTON succeed@mediacorp.com.sg HAVE you ever met someone who appears to have a “sixth sense”, an ability to see what is happening even without essential clues? Successful businessmen, fortune tellers, great soldiers, capable religious ministers have it. All truly great leaders have it. Sensitivity,
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  • business
    • 285 38 AZHAR KHALID SINGAPORE Mainboard-listed life sciences company Transcu announced on Friday that court enforcement officers have sought to seize shares in the company owned by its chief executive officer Akihiko Matsumura to settle a debt of $15.7 million that he owes to facial
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    • 794 38  -  Minority shareholders nature of singapore-listed firms makes it harder for them to protect interests AZHAR KHALID azhark@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE Shareholders activism leapt to the fore last year as several corporate controversies and unsettled governance issues prompted minority shareholders to collectively stand up for
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    • 417 38 Web Meets phone aNdroId SMarTphoNES WASHINGTON Google is expected to ring in the new year by unveiling its own smartphone, the Nexus One, tomorrow. The move is seen as a bid to expand its powerful Web brand in the booming mobile arena. The Internet
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    • 185 37 AGENCIES TOKYO The Japanese government is to double a statefunded credit line for troubled Japan Airlines (JAL) to ¥200 billion ($3 billion). Jiji Press reported that approval for the extra funding was agreed at a meeting of cabinet ministers including Transport Minister Seiji Maehara. The state-run
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