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    21 1 weekendTODAY August 15 -16, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking Weekend TODAY August 15 -16, 2009 www.todayonline.com we set you thinking
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    Lock icon Dear readers
    189 1 Welcome to the revamped Weekend Today. I hope you like the new design and the added convenience of the two separate sections. It should make it easier to share the paper at home. Apart from all the news, the first section the one you're holding right now includesThe
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    Lock icon Meet the six new 'sceptics'
    565 1  -  LINYANQIN WEETECKHIAN yanqin@mediacorp.com.sg IT'S not "yes men" that the Public Service Commission is looking for, said its chairman Eddie Teo, who recently urged aspiring scholars to show their critical and sceptical sides. So, how do this year's six President's Scholars measure up to this call?
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      65 1 fi l\f)JNGi Failed on I It's the Proud to I I 'AexT his watch? bigldck-off beS'porean FOOD mL' HALF THIS ID'S i SORRY, MAN CITY, BRIAN RICHMOND, IJi rwT* FIRMS HAVE BEEN YOU CAN'T BUY BABY BOOMER AND JUg^yv SUSPENDED 22 EPL SUCCESS 26 PROUD OF IT 34 at>tA\eA for
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Touchline ban for Teo Hock Seng after S-League clash
      235 2  -  SHAMIR OSMAN TAMPINES Rovers chairman Teo Hock Seng has been banned from the touchline for the rest of the S-League season, announced the Football Association of Singapore Disciplinary Committee on Friday. During a tempestuous S-League clash between Tampines and SAFFC on
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      Loanshark busters
      464 2  -  LEONGWEEKEAT Residents play key role in foiling moneylenders' acts of vandalism weekeat@ mediacorp.com.sg LOANSHARK lackeys planning their vandalism runs along the HDB corridors of northern Singapore, now face their nemesis not just in the form of the men in blue but also eagle-eyed residents. Close to 200 Neighbourhood
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  • THE BIG STORY
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      Lock icon I APPLIED FOR 100 JOBS
      1981 3 and I only landed four, says Venessa Lee IT WAS a case of mixed signals when my boss asked me to look for another job. On the one hand, he told me to apply for 100 jobs. On the other, he said I would be
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      Lock icon SIZING UP A WALK-IN INTERVIEW
      192 4  -  VENESSALEE I hadn't been to a walk-in interview before, and the experience proved memorable. Having shown up at the seafood eatery in question, I was asked to fill out a job application form. It always seems 1 so pointless to have to provide the i»names
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      404 5 Expect more with convenient 7-day banking at our new lON Orchard branch. We know you enjoy shopping and hassle-free banking in the heart of town. That's why we've opened our latest branch at Singapore's newest shopping mall —lON Orchard. Bank with us anytime as we're open seven days a week.
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      255 7 "Live Near The Sea!" 3 T Who said investing in a resort style 0 paradise home needs millions? w% o n v e 3 oasis 'jfe Mal(& All the great things you love in life for wesmLa 1 \^/^wrtWrket your family is right here at Oasis El ias. Exuberant Beach
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  • NEWS
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      WHAT IS ONE POLICY YOU DISAGREE WITH?
      368 8 Mr NicolasTay, Victoria JC, SAF Overseas Scholarship: One issue I disagree with is the amendments to the Human Organ Transplant Act to allow payment for transplants, because I don't think it should be a money thing when it comes to the human body,
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      First local Tamiflu-resistant case
      244 10  -  KIERSTEN OW, NtU LHAI LHIN SHE fell sick towards the end of May, but her resistance to Tamiflu was discovered only two months later, after laboratory tests were done locally and in the United States. Even more interesting about Singapore's first such case: Her HINI virus
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      Lawsuit over blog post
      329 10  -  ALICIAWONG IN A rare case of its kind here, a defamation lawsuit over a blog post is headed for the courtroom. Former teacher Janet Wong is suing Ms Jayne Goh for alleging online that she had been sacked as a teacher and lost her retirement benefits
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      8 weeks'jail forteacher
      272 12  -  ZULOTHMAN ACCORDING to District Judge May Mesenas, the case of the teacher who altered the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) test papers of three pupils is the first of its kind. Given the importance of the exam, one thing must be made clear: Cheating cannot be tolerated,
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      More locals wanted
      190 12  -  ALICIAWONG IT ATTRACTED students from various countries and academic backgrounds, including anthropology and psychology. While its third, and largest, cohort on Friday was no different, a sharper focus is setting in at the DukeNUS Graduate Medical School. It has scaled back efforts in going overseas to attract
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    • SINGAPORE ROUNDUP
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        1 BLOOD DONATION DRIVE
        157 14 Good response to rare blood type appeal Singaporeans heard the urgent plea for donations of rare blood types and responded. Within three weeks, nearly 100 units of both A-negative and O-negative blood have been collected, bringing the national stockpile back to "a comfortable level", according to
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        2 A MONDAY PICK-ME-UP
        77 14 Enjoy a cuppa in Changi Airport Passengers can now perk up their Monday mornings with a free cup of freshly-brewed coffee in Changi Airport. "Java Mondays with Changi" runs every Monday for the next six months, from 6.30am to 7.30am. The complimentary coffee will be Starbuck's
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        3 WILDLIFE SMUGGLING
        110 14 Seven merbok found in tour bus A 66-year-old man who tried to smuggle seven live songbirds into Singapore was nabbed on Wednesday. He arrived attheWoodlandsCheckpointataboutiamona Malaysianregistered tour bus. During routine inspection, an Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officer found two colourful cloth bags hanging on a seat lever
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        Lock icon 4 EDUCATION
        115 14 A hub on energy conservation Opened on Friday, the Energy Learning Hub in Greenridge Secondary School is a resource centre where students learn about the importance of sustainability and energy conservation. The MP for Bukit Panjang and Mayor of North West Community Development Council, DrTeo Ho Pin (picture),
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        It's jet vs Porsche at the airport
        107 15 \S CHANGI GP FESTIVAL It is being billed as the "race of a lifetime" between a Porsche Carrera Cup race car and a Boeing 747 jet from JettB Airlines. This highlight of the Changi GP Festival will take place on Sept 5 on
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        Lock icon 5 TIPS FORTHE FAMILY
        98 15 338 LIVE Network launches Ramadan project With Ramadan coming in about a week's time, followed by preparations for Hari Raya Adilfitri, Malay leaders are concerned that Malay families may overspend and find themselves in financial straits. So, the Family Development Network of the Community Leaders Forum
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        7 CHARITY WORK
        108 15 Mercy Relief's Vietnamese projects The humanitarian charity Mercy Relief is making its maiden venture into Vietnam with several projects. One education project aims to boost the capability of English-language trainers and teachers in Vietnamese primary schools. The nine-month project costs $80,000. Another $120,000 scheme will aim to
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        Lock icon 8 RECREATION
        79 15 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Show features 140 booths GardenTech 2009 has returned to HortPark in Hyderabad Road. The biennial carnival now on is part of the landscape industry's effortsto develop Singapore into a centre for horticultural excellence. With environmental sustainability as its theme, it also hopes to encourage gardening as
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  • WORLD
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      Lock icon The cost of Morakot
      244 16 AGENCIES Taiwan President says typhoon has killed about 500 people TAIPEI Floods and mudslides unleashed by Typhoon Morakot last weekend have killed about 500 people on the island, said Taiwan's President on Friday as he called on rescue crews to step up their efforts. President Ma
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      Lock icon S Korea to renew aid offer to North
      227 16 AGENCIES SEOUL South Korea plans to renew its offer to give aid to North Korea if the impoverished communist country gives up its nuclear ambitions, the president's office said on Friday, a day after the North freed a South Korean worker who
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      China really means business
      741 17  -  MICHAELWINES Recent events show that when business and politics collide, it is business that wins NEWS ANALYSIS SO FAR this week, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has rebuffed China in an important case involving Chinese restrictions on imported books and movies. The Chinese government dropped explosive
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      Lock icon A message of defiance
      278 18 AFP Indonesia will not be m defeated in the fight against terrorism: SBY JAKARTA President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono sent a message of defiance on Friday to Islamist extremists, saying Indonesia would not be defeated by terrorism after police uncovered a plot to assassinate him. In an
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      Lock icon Webb in Myanmar to meet junta chief
      231 18 AFP YANGON United State Senator Jim Webb arrived in Myanmar on Friday for historic talks with General Than Shwe, the first such meeting between a senior American official and the junta chief. According to an Myanmar official, Mr Webb will meet the general
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      Lock icon Taliban agree to ceasefire deals for Afghan election
      244 19 THEGUARDIAN KABUL A series of secret ceasefire deals have been agreed with Taliban commanders to ensure that voting can go ahead in Afghanistan's volatile south during next week's presidential elections. Under the deals, brokered by Mr Ahmed Wali Karzai the controversial brother
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      Lock icon Man gets permission to end 'living hell'
      185 19 AFP PERTH An Australian court on Friday ruled that a quadriplegic man, who has begged to be allowed to die, has the right to order his careers to starve him to death. In a landmark judgment, Western Australia's chief judge Wayne Martin said
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      Lock icon iPhone explodes
      174 19 AFP SAN FRANCISCO A French teenager's claim that an Apple iPhone shattered in his face is the first involving the device but similar incidents have occurred with the iPod according to a US television station. Ms Marie-Dominique Kolega, whose 18-year-old son was struck in the eye by a
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    • GLOBAL ROUNDUP
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        Lock icon Lotto jackpot climbs to $280 million
        101 20 AP rr italy Italy's record-breaking state lottery on Thursday once again disappointed millions of Italians (below) as well as foreigners who had crossed the border to join the hunt for the rising jackpot. No one guessed the winning six-number combination of the Superenalotto game
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        Lock icon Taking tribal politics mainstream
        106 20 AP [T PAKISTAN Pakistan lifted a ban on political activities in its tribal regions on Friday, granting the areas close to Afghan border parliamentary representation for the first time in the hopes it would reduce the grip of the Taliban and Al Qaeda militants there. Pakistan's
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        Lock icon A You Tube singing sensation
        80 20 THEDAILYTELEGRAPH Pakistan's General Musharraf has talent, a YouTube video clip of the ousted dictator has revealed (picture). The film, which features the former President singing a duet with the Sufi singing maestro Ustad Hamid AN Khan has become an Internet sensation in Pakistan where Members
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        Lock icon Lockerbie bomber drops appeal
        188 20 AGENCIES I3| SCOTLAND LOCKERBIE bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet Al Megrahi is abandoning his appeal against conviction, his lawyers said on Friday, following reports he is set to be freed on compassionate grounds. His decision, which will be confirmed in the appeal court in Edinburgh next week,
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        Lock icon I love the NHS too, 'tweets' PM Gordon Brown
        99 21 AP UNITED KINGDOM Prime Minister Gordon Brown has joined thousands of Britons in an online campaign to defend his country's healthcare service against attacks by Republicans in the United States. Opponents of US President BarackObama's healthcare plan said he seeks to
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        Lock icon Revered guitar player-inventor Les Paul dead at 94
        89 21 AGENCIES UNITED STATES Musicians worldwide are paying tribute to Les Paul, virtuoso guitarist and inventor who shaped the sound of rock 'n roll, who died on Thursday in New York at age 94. Les Paul "passed away today from complications of severe
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        Lock icon Feeling sleepy? Scientists say blame your genes ...
        96 21 Feeling sleepy? Scientists say blame your genes AFP The amount of sleep needed each night may depend less on fluffy pillows than a single genetic mutation. A team of scientists claim they have identified a mutation in the DEC 2 gene that regulates the optimum amount of human sleep each
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        Lock icon China child lead poisoning cases double to 615: report
        96 21 AFP HBSRIHFM The number of children showing lead poisoning which has been blamed on a nearby smelting plant in northern China has doubled to more than 600, Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday. Tests showed at least 615 children out of
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        Lock icon China sacks nuclear chief over graft probe
        103 21 AFP China has sacked a top nuclear power official Kang Rixin, state press said on Friday, following reports he was being investigated for allegedly squandering public funds and taking bribes of up to US$26O million ($375 million). Mr Kang, was removed as party
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        Lock icon Watch out for peeping Toms here, says HK party
        98 21 AFP Hong Kong's largest political party has compiled a list of escalators across the city where women are vulnerable to unwittingly exposing themselves to peeping Toms, the South China Morning Post reported on Friday. The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and
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      Lock icon New compound hits cancer bull's eye
      140 21 AFP A NEW study conducted on mice has uncovered a chemical compound that effectively targets cancer stem cells the key cells that spread malignant tumours and are usually resistant to treatment. In a study published in the journal Cell, researchers said they had discovered
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  • BUSINESS
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      Lock icon Sleeping on the job?
      604 22  -  CHEOWXINYI Independent director of 3 troubled S-chip firms answers the tough questions cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg HE IS an independent director of six China companies listed in Singapore and half of them have been suspended for problems such as alleged fraud and liquidity issues. "Not so good, right?" Mr
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      Lock icon The $1b CEO
      160 22 AFP WASHINGTON The highest-paid chief executive in the United States collected a cool U*****.4 million ($1 billion) in compensation last year even as the recession deepened. The top honour went to Mr Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of investment firm Blackstone Group, whose pay included U*****.7 million in shares
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      Lock icon CitySpring to raise $235.2m
      133 22 CitySpring to raise $235. 2m BLOOMBERG CITYSPRING Infrastructure Trust, a unit of Temasek Holdings, said on Friday that it plans to raise $235.2 million by selling shares to existing stockholders to cut debt and make acquisitions. Investors will be able to buy one new share for every one held at
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    • BUSINESS ROUNDUP
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        1 JURONG TECHNOLOGIES
        154 23  -  ESTHER FUNG Electronics firm posts S^gom loss The 2008 loss of troubled electronics firm Jurong Technologies Industrial Corp has risen more than six times compared to 2007, according to a delayed, restated earnings report. For the year ended December 2008, the net loss was $490 million on
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        2 WILMAR INTERNATIONAL
        110 23 Q2 profits up 23 per cent The world's largest palm oil trader Wilmar International reported that its net profit in the second quarter ended June 30 rose 23 per-cent to U*****.2 million ($5BB million) from a year ago. This was on the back of lower costs of
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        Lock icon 3 US CONSUMER PRICES
        161 23 DOWJONES Fastest fall in almost 60 years Consumer prices in the United States fell last month at their fastest annual pace since 1950, an indication that inflation is not a threat to the world's largest economy. The consumer price index (CPI) plunged 2.1 per cent from
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        Lock icon 4 RETAIL SALES
        82 23 BLOOMBERG Looking up thanks to GSS Retail sales here fell the least in three months in June, as the nation emerged from its worst recession since independence and the annual Great Singapore Sale supported spending. The retail sales index dropped 8.2 per cent from a year earlier
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  • PROPERTY
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      Long-stay 'road warriors'
      537 24  -  CONRAD RAJ Frasers Hospitality's CEO Choe Peng Sum on how he has kept occupancy levels up [editor-at- large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg WHILE most in the tourism trade are lamenting the economic crisis and fall in travel demand, Frasers Hospitality, the serviced apartment arm of Singapore-listed Fraser and Neave Group,
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      RBS calls the top, as residential yields hit 'unsustainble' low
      291 25  -  TAN HUI LENG WHILE some industry watchers have said they feel the current exuberance in the residential property market is sustainable, RBS Singapore is offering the contrarian view that the peak of this cycle is nearing. In a report released
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      On the hunt
      275 25 Look at these suburban homes on offer With the seventh lunar month round the corner, developers are slowing down on new property launches. Still, say industry watchers, the current exuberance may bring some action in this traditionally quiet season. TAN HUI LENG finds out what's in store
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  • SPORTS
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      You can't just buy a Premiership title
      458 26  -  DAVID NGIAU offside City boss Hughes needs time to mould a title-winning team After splashing out a staggering £94 million ($224 million) on new players, Manchester City's Abu Dhabi owners will expect much of their boys in the new English Premier League season,
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      Lock icon A club that stays together wins the title
      500 26  -  STEVE MCMAHON sports@ newstoday.com.sg STRAIGHTTALK It is that time of the year when fans of the clubs in the Barclays English Premier League are full of optimism, dreaming of either a glorious title run, European conquests, a lofty perch in the final
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      Lock icon Torres'taunt, Terry's pledge
      527 27 AGENCIES I^^KBH .LONDON Champions always wear a huge target on their backs, and more than any other team in the Premiership, Manchester United know what it's like to be in the crosshairs. English football's top flight club competition changed from the old Division One to the Premier
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      Lock icon A global mission for the Games
      253 28  -  lANDECOTTA AS THE clock started to count down to the Youth Olympic Games on Friday at City Hall, fireworks lit up the night sky. It marked a new phase for Ng Ser Miang, chairman of the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (Syogoc) steering
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      Lock icon 2010 Youth Games timed to perfection
      300 28  -  lAN DECOTTA FOR most of the world's leading brands, a scramble to sponsor the prestigious Olympic Games is par for the course. They will pay top dollar for the privilege of having their logos associated with the five rings of the International Olympic Committee.
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      Lock icon Fans, it's time to stand up
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      741 30  -  SIMON TAY global citizen No need to blindly accept US political correctness but be ready to be challenged Another column about Professor Thio Li-Ann and gay sex runs the risk of either being ignored or attracting a law suit. Much has been written since her parliamentary
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      676 31  -  MARIASIOW US playing catch up despite long involvement in continent east asia bureau chief maria@mediacorp.com.sg SECRETARY of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Africa was widely reported as an attempt by the United States to revive its influence in the continent. But the former First Lady
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      617 33  -  MAYO MARTIN postscript This column's debut topic was supposed to be decided by the flip of a coin. Should I tickle the fancies of geeks everywhere by squealing with delight about the ongoing Singapore Toy, Games and Comic Convention? Or maybe, as a curtain raiser
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