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Sunday, February 10, 2013

In letter, Sue Paterno defends late husband

This Feb. 6, 2013 photo released by ABC shows Sue Paterno, widow of legendary football coach Joe Paterno, right, with Katie Couric for an exclusive interview for the "Katie" show in New York. Paterno is fighting back against the accusations against her husband that followed the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Her campaign started with a letter sent Friday to former Penn State players. She wrote that the family's exhaustive response to former FBI director Louis Freeh's report for the university on the Sandusky child sex abuse case will officially be released to the public at 9 a.m. Sunday on paterno.com. The interview with Couric will air on Monday, Feb. 11. (AP Photo/Disney-ABC, Lou Rocco)

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) ? Breaking more than a year of silence, Sue Paterno is defending her late husband as a "moral, disciplined" man who never twisted the truth to avoid bad publicity.

The wife of the former Penn State coach is fighting back against the accusations against Joe Paterno that followed the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Her campaign started with a letter sent Friday to former Penn State players.

She wrote that the family's exhaustive response to former FBI director Louis Freeh's report for the university on the Sandusky child sex abuse case will officially be released to the public at 9 a.m. Sunday on paterno.com.

Freeh in July accused Joe Paterno and three university officials of covering up allegations against Sandusky, a retired defensive coordinator. Less than two weeks later, the NCAA levied unprecedented sanctions on the program that Joe Paterno built into one of the most well-known in college football.

"When the Freeh report was released last July, I was as shocked as anyone by the findings and by Mr. Freeh's extraordinary attack on Joe's character and integrity. I did not recognize the man Mr. Freeh described," Sue Paterno wrote. "I am here to tell you as definitively and forcefully as I know how that Mr. Freeh could not have been more wrong in his assessment of Joe."

The family directed its attorney, Washington lawyer Wick Sollers, to assemble experts to review Freeh's findings and Joe Paterno's actions, Sue Paterno wrote.

She did not offer details on findings in the letter, "except to say that they unreservedly and forcefully confirm my beliefs about Joe's conduct.

"In addition, they present a passionate and persuasive critique of the Freeh report as a total disservice to the victims of Sandusky and the cause of preventing child sex offenses," Sue Paterno wrote.

Sue Paterno said neither Freeh's report, nor the NCAA's actions, should "close the book" on the scandal.

"This cannot happen," she wrote. "The Freeh report failed and if it is not challenged and corrected, nothing worthwhile will have come from these tragic events."

In a statement released through a spokesman, Penn State called Sue Paterno "an important and valued member of the Penn State community.

"We have and continue to appreciate all of her work on behalf of the university," the school said. "She has touched many lives and continues to be an inspiration to many Penn Staters."

The Associated Press left messages Friday for representatives for Freeh.

Sandusky's arrest in November 2011, triggered the sweeping scandal, including the firing of Paterno and the departure under pressure of Graham Spanier as president days later. Prosecutors filed perjury and failure to report charges against former athletic director Tim Curley and retired vice president Gary Schultz.

Sandusky, 69, was sentenced last fall to at least 30 years in prison in after being convicted in June on 45 criminal counts. Prosecutors said allegations occurred on and off campus.

"The crimes committed by Jerry Sandusky are heartbreaking," Sue Paterno, who has five children and 17 grandchildren, wrote. "It is incomprehensible to me that anyone could intentionally harm a child. I think of the victims daily and I pray that God will heal their wounds and comfort their souls."

Freeh released his findings the following month. His team conducted 430 interviews and analyzed over 3.5 million emails and documents, his report said.

"Taking into account the available witness statements and evidence, it is more reasonable to conclude that, in order to avoid the consequences of bad publicity, the most powerful leaders at Penn State University ? Messrs. Spanier, Schultz, Paterno and Curley ? repeatedly concealed critical facts relating to Sandusky's child abuse" from authorities, trustees and the university community, Freeh wrote in releasing the report.

Less than two weeks later, Penn State hastily took down the bronze statue of Paterno outside Beaver Stadium. The next day, the NCAA said Freeh's report presented "an unprecedented failure of institutional integrity leading to a culture in which a football program was held in higher esteem."

Penn State was given a four-year bowl ban, strict scholarship cuts and a $60 million fine. The NCAA also vacated 111 victories under Paterno, meaning he no longer held the record of most wins by a major college coach.

Since then Spanier, Curley and Schultz have also been charged with obstruction and conspiracy, among other charges. They have vehemently denied the allegations. So has the Paterno family, though they have promised a more detailed response when its own investigation was complete.

Paterno's legacy wasn't his statue or his 409 wins, but family and players, his widow said. Less than an hour after the letter was released, a copy was circulating on social media and websites, including one belonging to Seattle Seahawks fullback and former Nittany Lion Michael Robinson.

"The great fathers, husbands and citizens you have become fulfill the dreams Joe had," she wrote to the former players. "All that we want ? and what I believe we owe the victims, Joe Paterno and everyone who cares about Penn State ? is the full record of what happened."

Paterno died in January 2012 at age 85, about two months after being diagnosed with lung cancer. The way university leadership handled his ouster ? over a late-night telephone call ? and its handling of the Freeh report and NCAA sanctions remains a sensitive topic for factions of dissatisfied alumni, former players, staff and community members.

"I think Sue hit it directly on the head with everything," Robinson said in a phone interview. "Personally, I've been feeling this way for the past year. The Joe the media was portraying was so different from the Joe I know."

Trustee Anthony Lubrano, who joined the board last year after drawing support from disgruntled alumni, has been among more vocal critics who say that school leaders rushed to judgment on Paterno. Critics have also said Freeh's report downplayed failures of Pennsylvania's child-protective services.

"I knew Joe Paterno as well as one human being can know another. Joe was exactly the moral, disciplined and demanding man you knew him to be," Sue Paterno wrote. "Never ? not once ? did I see him compromise his principles or twist the truth to avoid bad publicity or protect his reputation."

The Paterno family has remained supportive of the football program and Paterno's successor, Bill O'Brien. Sue Paterno has been active in organizing Special Olympics, which was again held on campus last summer; and son and former assistant coach Jay Paterno has done speaking engagements with students and attends sporting events.

On Monday, a recorded interview Sue Paterno did with Katie Couric for her "Katie" show will air nationwide. A preview was posted on the show's website this week.

"It is still hard to accept," Sue Paterno told Couric when asked about hearing the Sandusky news. "But when I read the first charge, I actually got physically ill.

"I've had so many sleepless nights."

In the preview, Sue Paterno elaborated.

"These are children," she said. "Our lives have been about children. We have five children. We have 17 grandchildren. Our lives are about children, making them better, not hurting them."

The family's response comes a month after Gov. Tom Corbett filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA to overturn the sanctions. The NCAA this week asked a judge to throw out the suit.

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Sue Paterno letter: http://realmikerob.com/pdf/sues-letter-2-8-13.pdf

Monday's show preview: http://www.katiecouric.com/

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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Paul Giving 'Tea Party Response' to Obama

President Obama will once again face two rebuttals, after his State of the Union address on Tuesday.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., will deliver the "tea party response" to Obama from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Tuesday night. Following in the footsteps of Rep. Michele Bachmann (2011) and Herman Cain (2012), who delivered the last two alternative State-of-the-Union responses, Paul's speech will be staged by the national tea-party election group Tea Party Express, the same group that sponsored the 2011 and 2012 rebuttals.

Sen. Marco Rubio will deliver the official Republican Party response.

"We are excited to have Senator Paul deliver the 3rd Tea Party State of the Union response next week. Americans are fed up with Washington politics that fail to address America's fiscal woes," Tea Party Express chair Amy Kremer said in a prepared announcement sent to reporters. "We are happy to see that the Republicans have selected Tea Party conservative Senator Marco Rubio to deliver their response. Both Senator Rubio and Senator Paul will articulate pro-growth messages that will resonate with the American people."

Paul's office confirmed he will deliver the speech. Logistics are still being worked out, according to a spokeswoman, but the speech will not overlap with Rubio's.

Both Paul and Rubio have been mentioned as possible Republican candidates for president in 2016.

China to compensate woman for detention in old morgue

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will compensate a woman who was held in a disused morgue as punishment for going to Beijing to petition against her husband's jailing, state media said on Friday, in an unusual case of the government overturning an extra-judicial detention.

Chen Qingxia was held for three years in an abandoned bungalow once used to store bodies in northeast China's Heilongjiang province after being abducted from Beijing by security officials, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

She had gone to the capital to seek redress for her husband, Song Lisheng, whom she said had been mistreated while serving an 18-month sentence at a re-education through labor camp, Xinhua added.

While China routinely dismisses Western criticism of its human rights record, the government does respond to some abuses, especially the more egregious ones reported by domestic media, in an effort to show that authorities are not above criticism

Chen's plight came to public attention in December after media reported that people found posters she had put on a window of the building pleading for help, it said.

Four officials, including three police officers, had been fired in connection with the case, Xinhua added.

The government will pay medical bills and living expenses for her and her husband and step up efforts to find their young son, who became separated from Chen when she was abducted in Beijing, it said.

The amount of compensation has yet to be decided.

Chen's case is the second reported in a week of the authorities taking action over illegally detained petitioners. A court in Beijing sentenced 10 people to up to two years in jail for illegally detaining petitioners from another city, state media said on Tuesday.

Petitioners often try to take local disputes ranging from land grabs to corruption to higher levels in Beijing, though only small numbers are ever able to get a resolution.

In many instances, they are rounded up by men hired by provincial authorities to prevent the central government from learning of problems in outlying regions, forced home or held in "black jails", unlawful secret detention facilities.

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Robert Birsel)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/china-compensate-woman-detention-old-morgue-093330980.html

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Valentine's Day love quotes quiz: Who said these romantic things?

Are you ready for Valentine's Day? Well then test your ?love? I.Q.! See how well you do matching these 19 quotes on love with who said (or sang) them.

- Stacy Teicher Khadaroo,?Staff writer

Question 1 of 19

1. ?If you would be loved, love and be lovable.?

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Friday, February 8, 2013

ParaNorman Team Announces Boxtrolls

Laika and Focus Features -- the companies behind the Oscar-nominated animated feature ParaNorman -- are reteaming for a third project, The Boxtrolls.

Boxtrolls, which is in production at Laika's animation studio in Portland, Ore., is a 3D stop-motion/CG hybrid feature based on Alan Snow?s fantasy adventure novel Here Be Monsters. The film is a comedic fable that unfolds in Cheesebridge, where beneath its cobblestone streets dwell the Boxtrolls. Legend has it that they are foul monsters, but in truth, the Boxtrolls are a community of oddballs who have raised an orphaned human boy.

Anthony Stacchi (Open Season) and Graham Annable (story artist on Coraline and ParaNorman) are directing, and David Ichioka and Laika president and CEO Travis Knight are producing. The voice cast includes Ben Kingsley, Toni Collette, Elle Fanning, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Jared Harris, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade, and Tracy Morgan.

Describing the story as ?Dickens by way of Monty Python,? Laika president and CEO Travis Knight said in a statement: ?The Boxtrolls is a visually dazzling mash-up of gripping detective story, absurdist comedy and steampunk adventure with a surprisingly wholesome heart. ? At its core, like all Laika films, The Boxtrolls is a moving and human story with timelessness and powerful emotional resonance.?

As on the previous animation collaborations ParaNorman and Coraline, Focus will hold worldwide distribution rights, and Universal Pictures International will release the movie overseas (with eOne Distribution handling Canada). An Oct. 17, 2014, release is planned.

?We are delighted to be embarking on a third wondrous adventure with the Laika artisans, who transform everyday materials into living creatures infused with dimension, humor and soul,? said Focus CEO James Schamus in a statement.

In addition to an Academy Award nomination, ParaNorman won two Annie Awards on Saturday and is nominated for a BAFTA Award.

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1926805/news/1926805/

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How 2 Ad Agency Guys Brought Down Chile's Pinochet - Business ...

On an August day in 1988, Eugenio Garc?a took a call that was to change his life. It was an executive from a rival advertising agency, a slick account man called Francisco Celed?n whom Garc?a knew by reputation but had never spoken to. He had something he wanted to discuss.

As everybody in Chile knew, the president, Augusto Pinochet, had announced a referendum to be held on October 5. After 15 years of brutal dictatorship, in which an estimated 3,000 political opponents had been killed, another 3,000 had ?disappeared? and about 10 times that number had been tortured, abused and raped by Pinochet?s secret police, Chileans were being asked for their opinion of the regime. The vote was going to be a straight choice: ?yes? or ?no? to eight more years of the Generalissimo.

Pinochet thought he had the vote sewn up. The vast majority of the country, he believed, were grateful to him for the firm action he had taken against the ?enemies of the state? and supported his free-market economics, which had reversed years of decline. A devoted nation would flock to the polls to give their assent to his rule, handing him a new, improved mandate and silencing his critics, both at home and abroad. The opposition, such as it was, would be too disorganized to pose a serious threat.

But the president?s overconfidence had given his opponents a glimmer of hope. Proving he could be fair when he wanted to be, Pinochet had promised the ?No? campaign (a ragtag group of 16 left and right-wing parties) 15 minutes of free television airtime every day during the campaign to put its case. Scheduled to go out late at night, the general didn?t think the programmes would make much impression on the voters. And, besides, the government controlled every other programme on television and had the rest of the day ? as well as its own official 15-minute slot every night ? to pump out its propaganda.

Celed?n, a member of the Christian Democratic Party, knew instinctively the dictator had miscalculated. Television may not have played a big part in elections past in Chile, but a lot had changed in the intervening 18 years (since the 1970 election of Allende). The late-night slots were going to have a massive influence. And he wanted Garc?a to be the campaign?s creative director. ?The fool doesn?t realize what he?s done,? said Celed?n. ?This is the chance we?ve been waiting for.?

The story of that campaign and how Garc?a and a small group of fellow advertising executives, the Mad Men of Eighties Chile, risked their lives to stand up against Pinochet and, employing all their advertising nous, inspired a nation to overthrow one of the world?s most repressive regimes, has now been dramatized in a new film, No, which opens in UK cinemas this week and is nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film . For fans of a certain television series about advertising folk in Sixties New York, it?s a reminder that advertising can, sometimes, be used as a force for good rather than a psychological weapon to make people feel bad about themselves and buy things they don?t need. Its hero, played by Gael Garc?a Bernal (a composite of Garc?a and his colleague, Jos? Manuel Salcedo), is no Don Draper.

But the success of the ?No? campaign was far from a foregone conclusion. When Garc?a, then a 36-year-old creative, and harried father-of-five, who had made award-winning commercials for Sony and various Chilean confectionery brands, met Celed?n to discuss their strategy for the first time, he was presented with research showing that large numbers of Chileans were too scared to vote ?no?; either because they feared retribution from the regime or because they feared a return to the Marxism of Allende and all that entailed: strikes, spiraling inflation, queues for food.

What?s more, the ?No? campaign didn?t have a candidate. It wasn?t like a normal general election, in which voters choose between a range of parties and party leaders; it was either ?yes? to Pinochet or ?no? to Pinochet.

?By its very nature, ?no? was a negative concept; it was very difficult to sell,? says Garc?a, now 60 and still living and working in Santiago. ??No? was not a person, not a candidate. It had no personality, no ethics, no aesthetics.? So Garc?a?s first job was to create a ?product? which would have mass-market appeal. What message, his team asked themselves, would unite Chileans, both young and old? Something that would both reassure and fire up the voters? They tossed ideas around. There was a temptation, of course, to go with a hard-hitting campaign ? featuring footage of executions, political arrests and police violence ? to remind voters of Pinochet?s many crimes.

But the ad men knew that wouldn?t ?sell?. However deep the hatred, you didn?t fight negativity with negativity. Instead they needed something upbeat and optimistic that would galvanize the nation; something hopeful to contrast with the fear and oppression of the ruling junta.

What we need to convey, Garc?a said, looking up at a deep blue sky, is the feeling you have when black clouds part and the sun finally breaks through. What is that word? And then he answered his own question: ?La alegr?a!? Joy! That was the slogan: ?Chile, la alegr?a ya viene? Chile, joy is coming.

?In Spanish, alegr?a is a collective feeling,? says Garc?a now. ?It?s not just ?happiness?, it conveys more of a carnival or party atmosphere. That was our philosophy. After years of polarization, we all needed to live together in peace. We bet on the good nature of the ordinary Chilean; that they didn?t like violence, they didn?t like fear.? With the theme in place, Garc?a and Salcedo went into overdrive. Fifteen minutes of television every night for 27 nights was a lot of airtime to fill. Scripts had to be written, actors hired, sets designed. They also had to create a logo ? a simple rainbow ? and print flags, banners, posters and T-shirts.

Today, in the wake of Barack Obama?s 2008 ?hope and change? campaign, Garc?a?s strategy may seem an obvious one. But Garc?a and his colleagues met stiff resistance from the ?No? campaign?s politicians. In the year preceding the plebiscite, the number of reported kidnappings, instances of torture and politically related killings had reached its highest level in seven years. In one particularly ugly case a doctor had been dragged from his car by armed men who tied him to a tree, carved a swastika on his forehead and simulated an execution before ordering him to leave Chile.

So a campaign about ?happiness?, featuring children smiling and dancing in the street, struck many as hopelessly lightweight and deeply disrespectful towards Pinochet?s victims. In the film (which was shot on old U-matic cameras to blend fictional scenes with footage of the original advertisements) a member of the opposition walks out after watching a screening of one of the political broadcasts. ?This is a campaign to silence what has really happened,? he tells Bernal?s character.

Garc?a does not deny things got heated. ?They expected something else,? he tells me. ?They expected us to say that Pinochet was a criminal, and we did talk about his criminal activities, but we knew everything had to be infused with a strong sense of reconciliation. We didn?t want to kill Pinochet; we needed to reconstruct the spirit of the country.?

The first broadcast went out at 10.45pm on September 5. It began with the image of a painted rainbow and the word ?No?, while a catchy song incorporating the campaign?s slogan played in the background. Then the camera focused on Patricio Ba?ados, who had been one of the country?s favourite news readers until he was blacklisted by the government. ?Chile, joy is on its way,? he said. The theme song then struck up again and the screen was filled with images of Chileans showing their support for a ?no? vote: a young man strolling down a country lane; a chef turning around to show a ?no? emblem on his back; a taxi driver waving his finger back and forth in time with his windscreen wipers.

It might sound cheesy to us today, but this first broadcast made an explosive impact. Watched by millions, it electrified the nation and caught the Pinochet government completely off-guard. The ?Yes? broadcast, in comparison, looked hopelessly old-fashioned, out-of-touch and downbeat. ?The ?Si? campaign was terrible,? says Garc?a. One particularly thick-headed film featured a steamroller driving over a television, then a set of table lamps and then a baby?s pushchair to represent the supposed threat to people?s livelihoods posed by Pinochet?s opponents.

But if the ?No? camp had the brains, the regime still had the brawn. In the month leading up to the referendum, Pinochet?s henchmen waged a frightening campaign of intimidation against the opposition. Farmers who had appeared in one of the ?No? programmes were beaten up, a musician who appeared in another programme was fired from her job and Ba?ados lost the sponsor to one of his radio programmes. In her book about the Pinochet years, Soldiers in a Narrow Land, the South American journalist Mary Helen Spooner says Ba?ados also received a telephoned death threat. ?You son of a bitch, I?m going to kill you,? the caller said. A few weeks later, Ba?ados was crossing a street when a man in a car tried to run him over.

?Many of us were intimidated and threatened during the campaign,? says Garc?a. ?Phone calls, people were followed, cars in front of their houses, but we carried on. Once you?re at the party, you have to d Oscars nominations 2013 in full ance.? No one working on the campaign slept much during that period, partly due to fear, partly adrenalin. But the decision of so many people to stand up publicly and oppose Pinochet, especially the actors in front of the cameras (none of whom would have worked in Chile again had the general won), inspired the nation.

On the day of the referendum, October 5, millions flocked to the polling stations. Men and women, many dressed in their Sunday ?best?, queued patiently to vote, in some cases for several hours. Then they went home and waited for the result to be announced. Garc?a was at his ex-wife?s house.

?Everybody was asleep ? my wife, my children. I wanted to be alone. And when the result was announced I cried in silence.? A total of 7.2 million votes had been cast ? the highest number in Chilean history ? with 3.96 million (54.7 per cent) voting ?no? and 3.1 million (43 per cent) voting ?yes?. It was a resounding victory for the opposition.

?The atmosphere in the country was incredible,? says Garc?a. ?The next day, in La Alameda [the main street in Santiago], people were shaking hands and hugging policemen. There were rainbow T-shirts and flags everywhere. It was a carnival.? Grudgingly, but peacefully, the general handed over power in 1990 to a democratic civilian government, and eight years later, on a visit to Britain for a back operation, he was arrested and threatened with extradition to Spain on charges of multiple murder. To the eternal disappointment of the relatives of his victims, however, he never faced those charges; he died in 2006.

Two weeks after the referendum, Garc?a left advertising and now runs his own consultancy. It seems a strange decision after everything that had just happened. ?I felt that chapter of my life had finished,? he says. ?When you have achieved what we achieved, what other challenge is left??

?No? is released on Friday

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Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-2-ad-agency-guys-brought-down-chiles-pinochet-2013-2

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HOTEL HOUSEKEEPER'S CIVIL RIGHTS PREVAIL - Law Offices of ...

Constitutional civil rights trumped diplomatic immunity, opening the door to a legal settlement. A settlement was announced in New York State Supreme Court in the sexual assault civil lawsuit filed against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF,) by Nafissatou Diallo, a hotel housekeeper at the Sofitel Hotel in midtown Manhattan.

A criminal case was previously dismissed against Strauss-Kahn when the Distinct Attorney's office determined that; "questions in regard to Ms. Diallo's credibility would reasonably cause a jury to distrust her." However, with regard to the civil sexual assault case filed against him, Strauss-Kahn failed to convince the State Supreme Court that he was diplomatically immune to the civil charges, and the case continued.

The civil case settlement was reached at a court hearing, with both parties agreeing to keep the monetary terms awarded to Ms. Diallo confidential.

Strauss-Kahn, who was not at the hearing, was arrested in May 2011, after Ms. Diallo reported to police that he had sexually assaulted her in his hotel suite. He was indicted on charges including attempted rape, sexual abuse, criminal sexual act, and unlawful imprisonment. Strauss-Kahn was arrested and first held in jail without bail and won his release to house arrest only under extraordinary conditions. Amid the legal proceedings, he resigned his post as head of the IMF in disgrace and his rumored candidacy for the French presidency was abandoned.

Strauss-Kahn initially stated that the sex with Ms. Diallo was consensual. However, during a French television interview after the criminal case was dismissed, Strauss-Kahn acknowledged that the encounter was "an error" and "a moral failure" that he would forever regret. The former head of the IMF still has unresolved legal issues in France, where he, along with eight other men, were charged with participating in a sex prostitution ring, arising out of organized sex parties.

Ms. Diallo, who was at the hearing when the settlement was reached, announced and proclaimed afterward: "I thank everyone who supported me all over the world. I thank everybody. I thank God, and God bless you all."

As U.S. citizens, we must be ever vigilant in protecting our civil rights, whether it is a diplomat, employer, law enforcement or elected official. An experienced civil rights attorney can help ensure that your fundamental constitutional civil rights are protected and guide you through the legal process in pursuing or defending a civil rights claim.

Source: http://www.nsfogel.com/blog/2013/02/hotel-housekeepers-civil-rights-prevail-settlement-reached-in-sexual-assault-lawsuit-against-strauss.shtml

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