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MANILA, Philippines—Petron Corporation sent an emergency response team as an oil spill spread a large reddish stain over Manila Bay and in the municipal waters of Cavite province, the giant oil firm said Friday.
"We immediately deployed our oil spill response team to see the extent of the oily sheen and begin containment and recovery operations of what we suspect is diesel," Petron said in a statement posted in its Facebook page.
"We have also notified the local government of Rosario and the Philippine Coast Guard," Petron said.
It said the oil spill may have come from M/T Makisig, a vessel owned by a third party contractor, which had earlier unloaded fuel at Petron's terminal in Rosario, Cavite.
"According to initial information, the leak may have come from the vessel but this will have to be investigated further," it said.
The fuel tanker is suspected of having dumped half a million litres of diesel into the country's busiest waterway on Thursday, said Philippine Coast Guard environmental protection chief Commodore Joel Garcia.
Petron said it has checked its receiving pipeline for possible leaks but results showed no leaks.
"To ensure safety and product integrity, we always conduct pressure tests for all our pipelines before we receive any fuel product. This is part of Petron's standard operating procedures," it said.
Even then, Petron said that they have deployed manpower and equipment to ensure that the oily sheen "is contained and recovered."
"We are also conducting our own investigation to see how this happened and to prevent such an occurrence from happening again," it also said.
The militant fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas on Friday called for the removal of the Petron depot in Rosario.
"The removal of Petron oil depot in Barangay Poblacion is a necessity to avoid such kind of environmental mishap to be repeated again and again with impunity. For the sake of the fisher people and the marine environment, we ask the mayor, the vice-mayor and councilors of Rosario to declare the Petron oil depot," it said.
An oil spill also affected the waters of Rosario in 2010 after a submarine pipeline of Petron was damaged during the onslaught of Typhoon Basyang.
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Weekend Warriors - Set List 1 (Bass) (Standard Choirs All Tunes). By Tim Smith. For bass guitar. Blues, pop, R&B, rock 'n' roll, soul. Book and accompaniment CD. Published by Music Minus One (MO.MMOCD7151).
There are millions of musicians who don't make their living playing their instruments. Many of these folks have an unbridled passion for music and performing--they just happen to do something else--but they are really musicians at their core. When the weekend rolls around, it is incredible how many of these teachers, doctors, lawyers, civil servants, plug in or climb behind the drum kit and launch into their favorite songs in a venue near you. We call those musicians weekend warriors. I can go to my social network pages at any time and find out where my doctor or the owner of my favorite music retailer are performing. They take music seriously, and believe me, many of them are great players–they just chose to make music an important hobby instead of their profession. Earlier this year, I taught at a great bass camp in Nashville. Every student at that camp was a weekend warrior. I asked the group, "what do you want to accomplish as a bass player?" Expecting to be met with answers demanding I turn them into the next Jaco or Victor Wooten, I was encouraged by the responses. Warren, a manager in the Florida Health Department gave me the answer that inspired this book. He said, "we want to be able to go play a gig, to know the songs that all the bands play, and to be able to perform them." He then gave me some song requests, all of which I knew by heart. I have taken that for granted for so long. So these books are for Warren, and all the players like him.
This is NOT a karaoke project. We record karaoke or background tracks for this company every week. We spend a huge amount of time to try to faithfully recreate every part of a record. It is not unusual to have 6 tracks of guitars, 6 passes of keyboards, multiple percussion passes, as well as 10-20 tracks of background vocals. What does that mean to you? It means that if you go to a weekend gig with a 5 piece band, that you are going to have to condense those things and find a way to perform the signature grooves, lines, riffs, and rhythm tracks. That is what the Weekend Warriors series will do for you. We are true to the original tempo, key, and parts. In songs where there are multiple guitar or keyboard parts, we will demonstrate how to pick out the most important parts to be true to the song. Each book is customized for the individual instrument with instruction on determining those parts. You will find the signature parts of each song notated along with helpful hints on everything from sounds to style. Each song will also have a complete chord chart with measure numbers so that we can help you find where the licks happen in context. We are going to be borrowing from the set lists of working bands around the country as well as your requests to bring you future volumes. I have been asked how many songs I know. I have no idea. I have played in a society band that had a 400 song set list–and that is a fraction of what I know. More importantly within the musicians creating this series for you, that number is incredibly high. But the goal here is to give the weekend warrior the repertoire to be able to sit in with most any band, to handle common requests, and to ultimately start creating their own set lists.
For most of us, the true joy of music is sharing it. While there are millions of musicians "jamming" in their basements with headphones and an audience of the family pet, the true experience is walking into a venue and playing songs that put people on the dance floor or at least to put a lot of smiles on their faces as they sing along. This series is a wonderful tool to help facilitate that, whether you are a teenager wanting to figure out how to make some gas money on weekends, to a working band that wants to actually capture the essence of the original hits, Weekend Warriors Set List is for you. For the individual musician, this helps make you marketable and useful. For an entire band, this becomes a perfect rehearsal tool to put the whole band on the same page. --Tim Smith.
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- Stand By Me (in the style of Ben E. King)
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- Under the Boardwalk (in the style of the Drifters)
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Rated 4 out of 5 by SantaFeJim Nice airport hotel with one exception Friendly, accommodating staff,, well appointed comfortable rooms, reasonable prices. My biggest complaint is the cost to use the Internet. A slow broadband service is free in the lounge, but $13 in the room. There is no EV charging station for guests with electric vehicles,unlike the other Sheraton in Albuquerque January 15, 2015
Rated 3 out of 5 by brjay Parking Fee? Really? I have stayed in this hotel many times and have been losing my liking of it because of deteriorating maintenance, HVAC noise, and uncomfortable beds. Now the newest nail in the coffin is the imposition of a nightly parking fee of $5 ("at the insistence of the Starwood property owners" according to staff). I was not informed of this new fee on my online booking or on check-in at the hotel, but only at checkout. I complained and it was removed. This latest outrage is in addition to the fact that WiFi is $13 a day in the rooms but is FREE if you use it in the lobby!! Huh??!! You can find a better hotel almost as close to ABQ airport. I know I will. January 15, 2015
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A custom story for Amnesia: The Dark Descent in which you once again take on the role of Daniel, roughly one year after his ordeal at Brennenburg. Daniel has been doing quite well since his escape, but one night, a loud crash awakens him. It is up to you to investigate the source of the disturbance, and find out what it all means. IMPORTANT: YOU MUST HAVE JUSTINE FOR THIS STORY.
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I finished Abduction and I feel like I should express my thoughts on it.
Overall, it's decent. It has some good and new ideas (like the boss fight, that was awesome), however with many mistakes it decreases its quality, could've been much better.
Continuing Amnesia's story seemed quite a wrong choice at the start. Until chapter 3, it was so. Then it turned out to be not a bad story, and even made some sense at some points, especially at the end.
Traveling through realms was a good idea too. Some of the level designs (like spider lair) that is not rip off of main game was wonderful. Other level designs was repetitive, and at one point I was like "Oh God! Not another hub!" or "not another key!".
Too many monsters gradually killed the immersion and removed all the fear factors at the end. I started to have fun with AI because every time I enter a room, every time I picked up a key (yes, too much key) a monster spawning was quite annoying. I only got scared by two times through all play-through. I'm a person screamed by fear through Amnesia.
Simply, enter a hub, some of the doors are locked. Go get the keys. Pick up the key, monster spawns. Monster is supposed to break the door, so wait for him to break the door. Look up every corner because there might be a key, and if you miss it you will miss it forever. There is one locked door, you need to go get the key from another hub room.
By the way, you mentioned the difference between chapters. So I can see the improvement you had through chapters. It can be seen clearly. Though, same mistakes repeats themselves.
In short, you killed your mod's potential with so many immersion breaking mistakes. While it could be an equal experience to Amnesia, it's a monster spawner. Your good ideas are buried down under broken immersion.
I liked the note puzzle where you put boxes, spider lair, boss fight, final hub rooms, end of the story.
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I agree with @Tanshaydar, so I won't repeat what he wrote.
IMHO the author made what seems to be an Adventure Game closer to D&D/RPG only with some missing components: like fighting (preferably with weapons), gaining exp. points, skills, gold collecting and wizardry
... or were they really missing?
Weapons: there was a knife and our hero was using it (twice!) and not just for peeling apples.
Exp.: However we couldn't see them directly our hero earned XPs along the way and the points manifested themselves with stronger and faster monsters roaring on each level.
Skills: Our hero could master the Wardrobe Hiding Routine, which at the end he perfected so well, he acquired a skill that allowed him to summon a wardrobe whenever he only felt that a monster could pop his head out of the next dark corner. He also learned the Silly Walk specialty to survive the depths of the Vicious Spiders' Mine maze.
Gold: At one point our hero became very rich after collecting 60 tinderb... gold coins that is. He had to spend some lately but ended up with more than 45.
The wizardry: some spells were used - detect secret doors, dimension door (this one with a gruesome component - Blood of the Twisted), close wounds, mental stability and raise dead (used extensively during the Boss Fight). The opponents were using even more powerful ones I just couldn't possibly name.
And the last but not least the boss fight, with special boss music, enormous boss' power and spawned monster as expected from the decent Boss Wizard.
And there were enormous labyrinths with hundreds of boxes and barrels and thousands of books and bottles and there were peaceful cities and murky caves... ok I may have exaggerated here a little bit, but did you get my point?
It definitely wasn't a horror game. Not even close.
And yes I was writing about Abduction that aspired to be the main story continuation. But for me it was some kind of experiment to make an RPG game with the Amnesia's lvl editor and it deserves
Mar 16th, 2013 0 people agree 0 people don't
I loved this mod so I gave it a 7, I basically set my reasons for 5 reasons which is Length, Scares, Story, Lag and Quality, you'll see my opinions down below of all these (I know there is no atmosphere and stuff in the reasons but I include them in the quality :3)
The Quality was very good and creepy and all in all of that, very good. The Story is a little like the original story, but twisted it a little which is kinda a good thing, but also a little bad thing. The Length of this cs, in my opinion, it is WAY to long to be a cs, you should have made it into a full conversion instead. Scares aswell was I dont really know, it wasn't so many of them in my opinion, a few very good ones, I have a full playtrhough of 16 episodes, the first scare was in episode 1 which is my biggest jumpscare I have ever had from a cs. And then the Lag, at some areas it was lagging a little but not so much so it was pretty much almost no lag at all.
Quality: 8, Story: 7, Length: 7, Scares: 9 and Lag: 10 - So in overall I chose 7 because of these reasons
Aug 22nd, 2012 0 people agree 0 people don't
This was a good CS, has a good story, and a lot of good bits in it, but the major drawback to this was far to many monster in it, to a point where it began to get annoying rather than scary, took away the fear factor to what could have been a excellent CS. Still the level were well laid out, and well worth a play.


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Pune: It took two lives in two months before the Pune International airport at Lohegaon could get its 24X7 emergency medical facility in place for passengers. On an average, the airport handles 9,000 passengers daily.
KP Padmanabham, a Spicejet technician in his forties, lost his life on April 4 after he fell unconscious and in the following month Laxman Thirpaa Natekar, 29, a book vendor, died of a cardiac arrest.
On Friday, joint commission international and College of American Pathologists, USA, Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital in association with Airport Authority of India has launched a medical room at the Pune airport terminal.
The new facility will provide free medical services to all the passengers. There will be a trained doctor and a nurse will be available 24x7 at the medical room at Pune airport. They will cater to all the basic and primary health care need of the passengers by providing free consultation, medication, first aid for any minor injuries.
COO of Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital, Rekha Dubey, said, "Beside providing free medical aid, Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital will also organise periodical awareness sessions for passengers to have safe air travel. We will also be educating and training the airport staff about the Basic Life support to handle any medical emergency at the airport."
Dhairyashil Vandekar, chairman of Pune Airline Operators Committee (PAOC), said, "We are happy that the persistent followup by PAOC with AAI for providing emergency medical service at Pune airport have finally grown fruit while no airlines are invited for the opening of clinical at the airport we still welcome as it is in the interest of the passengers."


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poohbini on April 21, 2014 at 4:13 pm
Does anybody know what became of the twin screen in the mall? I believed it closed down in the early 90's but I may be mistaken. I remember a lot of people were upset when it closed. I remember the last movie that played there was "The Firm. Is it still vacant or did the mall turn it into something else?
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I uploaded the grand opening ad from July 25th, 1986 in this theatre's photo page.
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Former England fast bowler Simon Jones is set to return to former county Glamorgan on a one-month loan from Hampshire.
The deal, which must be approved by the ECB on Monday, sees the former Ashes winner return to his home county after injury-troubled spells at Worcestershire and the Rose Bowl.
The 32-year-old Jones said: "It's nice to be back in Wales and always nice to be home. Now I want to do my best for Glamorgan."
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JUBA, South Sudan (AP) - A battle between South Sudan soldiers and rebels allegedly backed by neighboring Sudan killed 163 people, most of them rebels, government officials said Thursday.
South Sudan's military spokesman, Col. Philip Aguer, said government forces also captured an airstrip in the town of Okello, which he claimed the rebels have been using to import most of their military supplies. Okello is in South Sudan's southeast Pibor County, where rebel leader David Yau Yau hails from.
"This airstrip has been used by Khartoum (Sudan) intelligence to transport and supply arms and ammunition to David Yau Yau. Some of the arms that were being dropped by Antanovs were captured, AK-47s. Some are broken, some are in good condition," Aguer said.
He said 143 rebels led by Yau Yau died in the battle Tuesday, and that 20 soldiers were killed and 70 wounded.
South Sudan peacefully broke away from Sudan in 2011 but is still dealing with violence inside its own borders. Military battles and fights between tribes kill dozens of people with alarming frequency. After decades of war with Sudan, the country is flooded with assault rifles.
Death tolls are almost impossible to verify without months of investigations, given how remote the country is and the complete lack of infrastructure. In late December 2011 and early January 2012, cattle raid attacks between tribes killed at least 600 people in Jonglei. A government disarmament campaign afterward collected more than 10,000 weapons.
Aguer said South Sudan's military will continue to "deal with the militia group" and that it would be a matter of time before Yau Yau's rebels are cleared from Pibor County.
South Sudan accuses Sudan of arming the rebellion to block South Sudan's plans to build an oil pipeline eastward through Ethiopia to a port in Djibouti.
A dispute with Sudan over oil transit fees led South Sudan to shut down its oil industry last year and look for alternative ways to transport its crude. The two governments recently reached an agreement that is supposed to restart South Sudanese exports through Sudan's oil pipelines.
Sudan has repeatedly denied having any ties to the rebels. It accuses South Sudan, in turn, of supporting rebels in Sudan's South Kordofan and Blue Nile states.
Yau Yau first rebelled against South Sudan after he failed to win a parliamentary seat in the 2010 general elections. He accused the ruling party of rigging the vote. In 2011 he accepted an amnesty offer and was promoted to a general. But last year he fled to Sudan and started a rebellion in Pibor against South Sudan's government.
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With Radamel Falcao missing the tournament, the South Americans have been dealt another blow as Sevilla forward Carlos Bacca took a knock in training and is now suffering from a first degree muscle strain. The treatment period will be 8-10 days. As a result, Bacca would miss the rest of the group stages. Colombia played a 4-5-1 formation in their opening win over Greece, but could go for a more attacking 4-4-1-1 in Thursday's match versus Cote d'Ivoire as they aim to seal qualification for the next round after just two games.
Head coach Jose Pekerman will have to make do without Sevilla attacker Carlos Bacca due to injury, but Inter midfielder Fredy Guarin returns after missing their first match due to suspension. Pekerman is unlikely to make any changes at the back, yet seems ready to give three new players a chance to prove their worth in midfield and up front. The aforementioned Guarin is expected to get the nod in midfield at the expense of Abel Aguilar, while Juan Quintero could also feature from the start in place of Victor Ibarbo. In attack, Pekerman will make a choice between Teo Gutierrez, who scored against Greece, and Jackson Martinez, with the Porto man sitting in pole position to start at this point. Cote d'Ivoire coach Sabri Lamouchi, meanwhile, will have some serious selection headaches as well following his side's hard-fought win over Japan.
The Africans struggled to get going while using their 4-3-3 formation in their opening game and only sprung to life after Didier Drogba came off the bench to effectively give them four attackers on the pitch. Lamouchi stressed after the final whistle that he was satisfied with his side's performance, however, and it seems unlikely that he will make any major changes to his starting XI.That means that both Kolo Toure and Didier Drogba seem destined to start from the bench once more, with the latter having to play for a role as super-sub behind Swansea striker Wilfried Bony.
This will be the first ever game between Colombia and Ivory Coast.
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José Pekerman's first game at the World Cup as manager was in charge of Argentina against Ivory Coast, back in 2006. His side won 2-1.
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Likes: The saddle fits my horse really well which has been a challenge in the past. His gaiting has improved. I love the pre- turned stirrups and wedges in my stirrups.
Dislikes: The saddle caused great pain in my seat bones and even my tail bone. It feels like I am sitting on the edge of the bars. I also had hip pain. The saddle was returned for an adjustment in the crown of the saddle to make it narrower. I also had Doug put padding in the saddle which he advised against. The padding was removed, but I am in great pain after a short time of riding the saddle. My girlfriend also tried the saddle and immediately felt the same pain. The saddle maker told me I just needed to get used to the different position of the saddle. I can't even ride it for 30 minutes without tears in my eyes and I am no wuss! I have had new saddles before and have never had this problem. They need a demo program and need to stand behind their product.
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I respectfully disagree that the majority of people accept losing as easily as winning as long as they have tried their best (please correct me if I have misunderstood your point). I for sure don't and the majority of people I have played sports with are exactly the same. I have never been a pro but have played college level volleyball as well as semi-pro level soccer for many years so I have a pretty large database for reference... Same goes for pretty much every tennis match or tournament I have played in (again, non-pro level)
The vast majority of people who play organized sports would take winning with a sub-par effort over losing after they have given it all. Guaranteed.
If you want to argue that philosophically it shouldn't matter then you may have a point. But sportspeople are seldom philosophical about the outcome of the games... polite and scripted interviews by the stars notwithstanding.
To a degree you are certainly correct. In the heat of the moment I always want to win. And immediately after the match, when I have ground out a victory on a day when my strokes were awful I have a sense of pride for having persevered.
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Here is wiki info on the last 3 IPS standards released.
E-IPS 2009 Wider aperture for light transmission, enabling the use of lower-power, cheaper backlights. Improves diagonal viewing angle and further reduce response time to 5ms.
P-IPS 2010 Offer 1.07 billion colours (30-bit colour depth). More possible orientations per sub-pixel (1024 as opposed to 256) and produces a better true colour depth.
AH-IPS 2011 Improved colour accuracy, increased resolution and PPI, and greater light transmission for lower power consumption.
The comments on each are improvements over the previous generation not just different varieties. So while the monitor you linked is somewhat similar it's a different design and it's screen is 2 generations older than the deal models screen.
I haven't had a chance to thoroughly test this monitor yet so no gaming input but did all the full screen test images to make sure there were no bright spots or defective bits and if you're on the fence about this monitor I have to say pull the trigger it looks absolutely fantastic on all the test images, way above anything else I've seen in this price bracket in terms of color accuracy and true to life images.
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First photo is what's being compared, rest of photos are with lights and flash off.
I can go through photo by photo but due to the drastic difference it's pretty obvious which one is the laptop screen and which one is the MX329H.
I didn't notice any input lag at all but honestly I've never noticed input lag on anything I've owned. I've heard of it being an issue on some TVs but none of the crts, laptops, or tvs I've ever used as monitors have had it.
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While I think parenting is the toughest full time job, I believe nannying is a close runner-up. Nannies often do what moms and dads are too tired or busy to do. When a mom finds a good one, she may very well welcome him or her into the home as another family member.
To ensure everyone is getting what they want and are financially entitled to, many families and caretakers sign a contract outlining hours, days, time off, sick days, taxes and household duties. While I love my nanny, I'm not sure I want to be locked into anything so concrete. So far, so good... knock on wood. What say you on the nanny contract: yea or nay?
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susieparker1972 3 years
Definitely 'yea.' They can be a pain to work through, but it's well worth it in the long run. At the start of a nanny's employment, all the talk is about the kids. Months later, though, the 'boring' and 'routine' stuff comes into play -- like transportation issues, scheduling, overtime, etc. That's why it's best to discuss that stuff up front, before it leads to a dispute. Parents looking for a nanny contract can find plenty online, such as at http://www.mynannycontract.com/ or the various nanny payroll companies. You can also ask your nanny placement agency for one.
grablife365 6 years
I would never work for a family without a contract and even further, proper taxes. I would think those would be the hardest areas to deal with if something were to go wrong. If I were to ever hire a nanny which I doubt I wouldn't hire one without a fully drafted contract. Everything in writing for the good of all involved.
dholmas 6 years
I would have a contract. It protects both parties involved. It can be so difficult and expensive to take care of your children. To find a trusted nanny is a job in itself. Once you find one you want to keep them.
mstrauss 6 years
If you are getting your nanny through a service, I think you should have a contract. But if you are being more casual about the nanny experience and you trust the person you work with, I don't think you need it. Doesn't hurt though. I don't have a contract with my nanny.
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ABSOLUTELY!!! It sets the proper expectations for both sides. Be sure that you have a clause about social networking sites. You'd be amazed what your nanny will write about you and your kids on facebook.
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ABSOLUTELY!!! It sets the proper expectations for both sides. Be sure that you have a clause about social networking sites. You'd be amazed what your nanny will write about you and your kids on facebook.
Pinkrabbit 6 years
I'm a nanny myself and love to have a contract. The one I'm in now states things like; I have to give a months notice if I were to quit; and same goes for them. It's really great. And there are some FLAKY people out there. Nannies or Parents; so I just choose contract.
CarlyHP226685 6 years
I love the idea. The people I nanny for are always making up excuses for why they cant pay me on time. They actually owe me about $300 right now. They cant pay for child care but they have no problem going out to eat 5 days a week and buying their 3rd car. (the last one was upwards of $45,000) hmm.
LaurenG22 6 years
When I nannied, I had a contract and appreciated it, everything was laid out.
princess_eab 6 years
Of course - it's an employee? wouldn't it benefit both parties? it's not about love or structure, it's about a fair and legal workplace, right?
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The placement service that we are going through won't place a nanny without a contract, which we think is really the best way anyway. With a contract, everyone knows exactly what is to be expected of both parties. This person is your employee, and I think you really should keep everything on the up and up to protect yourself should any problems arise.


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