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Sterling banned for life by the NBA
(Professional Sports ~ 04/30/14)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been banned for life by the NBA in response to racist comments the league says he made in a recorded conversation...
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SEMO District Fair moves parade day, makes other changes
(Local News ~ 04/30/14)
The 159th SEMO District Fair is changing its schedule. The fair's theme is "Sew it, Grow it, Show it!" and will take place from Sept. 6 to 13. Its annual parade is moving from its traditional Monday evening slot to 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 6. The new Tuesday evening performer is contemporary Christian artist Jeremy Camp...
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Lawmakers OK lines of credit to casino gamblers
(State News ~ 04/30/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri casinos could begin offering lines of credit to high rollers under legislation given final approval Tuesday by state lawmakers. It now goes to Gov. Jay Nixon. The bill would allow casinos, including Isle Casino in Cape Girardeau, to extend a minimum line of credit of $10,000 that would be considered an unsecured, no-interest due loan due within at least 30 days. Credit could not be extended to someone who is intoxicated...
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Autism awareness, treatment options increase in area
(Local News ~ 04/30/14)
Alex Shrimplin is 4 years old. He likes drawing with sidewalk chalk, music and dancing, and gives bear hugs with surprising strength. He was diagnosed with autism at age 3. The Shrimplin family moved to Cape Girardeau from Columbus, Ohio, about two years ago, before Alex's diagnosis. Upon receiving the news, his mother Carmen instantly began her research...
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Former SEMO Health Network CEO pleads guilty to conspiracy
(Local News ~ 04/30/14)
The former CEO of Southeast Missouri Health Network pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge Monday in federal district court in St. Louis. Court records show Cheryl Ann White, 56, of New Madrid, Mo., pleaded guilty to falsifying grant paperwork, misusing funds and violating federal regulations in awarding a construction contract to a co-conspirator identified in court documents as "B.M.," the owner and operator of Jackson-based Moore Mechanical Contracting LLC...
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Advance softball team quiets Charleston comeback to reach district final
(High School Sports ~ 04/30/14)
SCOTT CITY -- The Advance softball team was supposed to build an early lead and cruise into today's Class 1 District 5 spring softball championship. Except somebody forgot to tell that to Charleston...
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Noon Optimist Donate $30,000.00 to Levi's Children's Charity
(Submitted Photo ~ 04/30/14)
The Cape Girardeau Noon Optimist donate $30,000.00 to Levi's Children's Charity presenting the check to Levi's grandmother , Viney Mosley during their weekly meeting. The Noon Optimist donation will sponsor the sand & water play area. pictured left to right Noon Optimist members Brock Alspaugh, Rodney Hurt, Pat Young, Phil Moore, Lonnie Lusk, Danny Dohogne and Cord Polen...
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2nd Annual Scavenger Hunt May 10th Levi's Seek & Snap
(Submitted Story ~ 04/30/14)
Join us Saturday May 10th at noon for fun, food, and prizes. Children under 10 are free with a paid adult who raises at least $25 in sponsorship. 1 adult per 5 children. Follow your treasure map to lot's of historic sites in downtown Cape, snap your picture when you find the treasurer. ...
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Heartland Talent Showcase
(Submitted Photo ~ 04/30/14)
Heartland Talent Showcase Senior Division: Bailey Schnurbusch, Maria Drury, Kevin Harbison, Alyssa Robinson, and Mariah Adams
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Hartland Talent Showcase
(Submitted Photo ~ 04/30/14)
Heartland Talent Showcase Intermediate division: Front row: Noah Orr, Amber Vandeven, Will Graham, Kelsey Landewee, Landon Schnurbusch, Lucas Hurley, and Madeline Essner. Back row: Connor Missey, Evan Missey, Mackenzie Barger, Mariah Dirnberger, Sylvia Kern, and Jennifer Hathaway...
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Heartland Talent Showcase
(Submitted Photo ~ 04/30/14)
On Thursday, April 24 Christ Church of the Heartland hosted Heartland Talent Showcase first talent show of the season. Junior division contestants are Annabelle Rhodes, Evan Missy, Jacy LeGrand, Grace Morgan, Aston Reed, Elise Edwards, Victoria Collom, Tori Burger, Sienna Hahn, Grace Petzoldt...
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Cape Girardeau Noon Lions Club Melvin Jones Award Winners
(Submitted Photo ~ 04/30/14)
Dr. Kyle Brost, Don Beckham, and Mel Van de Ven were awarded the Lions Club International Foundation Melvin Jones Award. They received the award for outstanding service to the Lions Club and community.
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Pi Kappa Alpha Dads Day
(Submitted Story ~ 04/30/14)
On Saturday, April 26, 2014, The men of the Epsilon Iota chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha at Southeast Missouri State University invited their dad's down for a fun day of golf and barbecue. Dads and their sons golfed until around 1 pm and competed in events such as the longest drive, closest to the pin, and lowest score. ...
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Summer Art Academy at Southeast Missour State University
(Submitted Story ~ 04/30/14)
The Art Academy Summer Art Workshops at Southeast Missouri State University are fun, engaging, and creative learning experiences in a wide variety of media for ages six through adult. University Art Professors and Master Art Educators focus on developing the student's creative processes and visual literacy skills through exploration and the creation of ideas. ...
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Hospice Orientation Classes Available
(Submitted Story ~ 04/30/14)
VITAS is hosting three opportunities to be trained as a hospice volunteer in St. Louis, St. Charles & St. Louis, St. Francois, St. Genevieve, Washington, Franklin and Jefferson Counties. The free orientation classes will take place on May 16 from 1 to 5 p.m., May 17 from 8 a.m. ...
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Minimum-wage bill causes concern among business owners
(Local News ~ 04/30/14)
A recent bill introduced in the U.S. Senate to increase the federal minimum wage has some local business owners concerned. Sponsored by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, the bill would raise the federal minimum wage gradually. The $7.25 base would increase to $8.20 six months after official approval, $9.15 after one year and $10.10 a year after that. In Missouri, minimum wage is set just above the federally mandated level at $7.50 an hour...
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National Infant Immunization Week spotlights need to vaccinate
(Local News ~ 04/30/14)
Outbreaks of diseases such as measles are rare in this day and age, and much of that has to do with keeping children vaccinated. It is National Infant Immunization Week, a week that promotes vaccine awareness not only to parents for their children, but also for adults...
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Cape using sports for summer school classes
(Local News ~ 04/30/14)
While still offering course credit repair for the upper grades, Cape Girardeau's summer school this year will incorporate sports across the curriculum, as well as art and computer coding in the middle school and lower grades. In 2013, about 570 students attended summer school, but in an effort to attract more, assistant superintendent for academic services Sherry Copeland said summer school will be offered at the traditional time, starting May 28, and won't feature a "jump start" school just before regular school resumes.. ...
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House fire erupts in Cape Girardeau
(Local News ~ 04/30/14)
A fire broke out about 1 p.m. Wednesday at 710 Morgan Oak St. in Cape Girardeau. No one was in the home at the time, and the blaze was resolved quickly, said assistant chief Mark Hasheider of the Cape Girardeau Fire Department. The house is divided into two apartments...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 04/30/14)
Today is Wednesday, April 30, the 120th day of 2014. There are 245 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On April 30, 1789, George Washington took the oath of office in New York as the first president of the United States...
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Accepting amnesty is not good for GOP leading
(Column ~ 04/30/14)
Politics is little more than a game of numbers. Winning elections is less about issues and policies than it is about simple math. So I'm puzzled why the Republican leadership is softening to some form of amnesty for an estimated 12 million undocumented illegal immigrants in this nation...
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Derby parties to raise money for LFCS, Big Brothers Big Sisters
(Editorial ~ 04/30/14)
A couple of organizations that do good work locally will raise some important funds this week when two separate Kentucky Derby parties are hosted in Cape Girardeau. The Boas & Bling Kentucky Derby Party is scheduled for 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday at The Venue. The party includes giveaways and music, and there will be contests for the Bling Queen and best derby hats. Vendors will have booths set up. Money raised benefits the Lutheran Family and Children's Services Foundation...
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Okla. inmate dies after lethal injection is botched, halted
(National News ~ 04/30/14)
McALESTER, Okla. -- An Oklahoma inmate whose execution was halted Tuesday because the delivery of a new drug combination was botched died of a heart attack, the head of the state Department of Corrections said. Director Robert Patton said inmate Clayton Lockett died Tuesday after all three drugs were administered...
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Mother's Day has another side for loss survivors
(National News ~ 04/30/14)
NEW YORK -- Kristine McCormick has spent the years after the sudden death of her newborn trying to forget Mother's Day exists. Cora was five days old, seemingly perfect, when an undetected congenital heart defect claimed her as she fed at her mother's breast Dec. 6, 2009...
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Apple-versus-Samsung patent infringement case goes to California jury
(National News ~ 04/30/14)
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- It was Apple versus Samsung but Google loomed large Tuesday during closing arguments at the monthlong federal trial involving claims of patent infringement exchanged by the world's two largest smartphone makers. A lawyer for Apple accused Samsung of "slavishly" copying key features of its iPhone and iPad products and demanded $2.2 billion in damages...
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U.S. home price gains slow for third straight month
(National News ~ 04/30/14)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. home price gains cooled in February from the previous year for the third month in a row, as harsh winter weather and high buying costs have slowed sales. The Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 12.9 percent in February compared with 12 months earlier. While healthy, that is down from a 13.2 percent gain in January...
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Nancy Mechling
(Obituary ~ 04/30/14)
Nancy L. Dixon Brown Mechling, 66, of Jackson, formerly of Golconda, Ill., went home to be with our Lord Monday, April 28, 2014, at Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 18, 1948, in Fort Benning, Ga., daughter of Wilburn Earl and Lillian Louise Lievers Dixon...
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Cape police report, 4/30/14
(Police/Fire Report ~ 04/30/14)
The Cape Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests Summonses Thefts Property damage Robbery Assault Miscellaneous...
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Geraline Roberts
(Obituary ~ 04/30/14)
Geraline Faye Roberts, 72, of Jackson passed away Monday, April 28, 2014, at her home. She was born Oct. 14, 1941, in Vulcan, Mo., daughter of Ernest and Eliza Mae Adams Morris. Geraline was a member of Christ Gospel Church. Loving survivors include three sons, Mark Bennett of Bonne Terre, Mo., Damon Brand of Cape Girardeau, Jimmy Hodge of St. ...
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Alfred Kirn
(Obituary ~ 04/30/14)
Alfred Kirn, 77, of Jackson died Tuesday, April 29, 2014, at Monticello House. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.
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Births 4/30/14
(Births ~ 04/30/14)
Son to Steven James and Joy Lynn Hunn of Jackson, Southeast Hospital, 6:54 p.m. Saturday, April 12, 2014. Name, Joshua Foster. Weight, 6 pounds, 15 ounces. Second child, first son. Mrs. Hunn is the former Joy Barnes, daughter of Neal and Joyce Barnes of Selmer, Tenn. She is a sonographer. Hunn is the son of Danny and Patsy Moore of Michie, Tenn., and the late James Hunn. He is an electrical engineer with Holcim (US) Inc...
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Melbourne Roach
(Obituary ~ 04/30/14)
Melbourne W. Roach, 86, of Sikeston, Mo., formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, April 19, 2014, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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William Green
(Obituary ~ 04/30/14)
William J. "Bill" Green, 80, of Old Appleton died Monday, April 28, 2014, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday and 6:30 a.m. until service time Friday at Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville, Mo...
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Janice Taylor
(Obituary ~ 04/30/14)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Janice J. Taylor, 72, of Perryville died Monday, April 28, 2014, at St. Louis University Medical Center. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday and 6:30 a.m. until service time Saturday at Young and Sons Funeral Home. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Milton Ryan officiating. Burial will be in the Taylor family cemetery...
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Tornado toll hits 35 in South; tens of thousands in dark
(National News ~ 04/30/14)
LOUISVILLE, Miss. (AP) -- Ruth Bennett died clutching the last child left at her day care center as a tornado wiped the building off its foundation. A firefighter who came upon the body gently pulled the toddler from her arms. "It makes you just take a breath now," said next-door neighbor Kenneth Billingsley, who witnessed the scene at what was left of Ruth's Child Care Center in this logging town of 6,600. "It makes you pay attention to life."...
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Police investigate suspicious fire
(Local News ~ 04/30/14)
Cape Girardeau police are looking for suspects in a possible arson on Montgomery Street. About 9:50 a.m. Monday, officers responded to a call about a suspicious fire in the 1700 block of Montgomery Street, said public information officer Darin Hickey...
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Square Inc. founder to appear at Southeast Missouri State University
(Local News ~ 04/30/14)
More than 200 Southeast Missouri State University students from all academic disciplines will have a chance to meet with Jim McKelvey, co-founder of Square Inc., at noon Wednesday in Glenn Auditorium of Dempster Hall. Lunch will be provided, and the event is free for students...
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Families can enter to win 529 plan worth more than $5K
(Local News ~ 04/30/14)
Missouri's 529 college savings plan, known as MOST 529, will award one family $5,290, Missouri State Treasurer Clint Zweifel announced Tuesday. From Thursday through May 31, residents 18 years or older may enter to win the $5,290 account for a minor child. 529 plans are usually sponsored by states and 529 refers to the Internal Revenue Service code that specifies the plan's tax advantages...
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Scott City shooting ruled accidental
(Local News ~ 04/30/14)
A 17-year-old girl was accidentally shot in the face early Friday morning in Scott City, according to the Scott City Police Department. The shooting has been ruled accidental pending further investigation, Scott City Police Chief Lt. James Dodd said in a phone interview on Tuesday. The newspaper had been trying to contact Dodd since the incident occurred...
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Employee opens fire at FedEx sorting center
(National News ~ 04/30/14)
KENNESAW, Ga. -- A FedEx employee wearing ammunition draped across his chest "like Rambo" opened fire Tuesday at a package-sorting center outside Atlanta, wounding six people before apparently committing suicide, police and witnesses said. Three of the wounded were hospitalized in critical condition, including two who were in surgery with life-threatening injuries...
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Protesters seize building in Ukraine
(International News ~ 04/30/14)
LUHANSK, Ukraine -- Protesters demanding more power for Ukraine's regions stormed the government building in Luhansk with baseball bats Tuesday, seizing control of a key site in one of the largest cities in Ukraine's troubled east. The move raises tensions in the east, where pro-Russia militias have seized city halls, police stations and other government buildings in at least 10 cities and towns...
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Italian court: Amanda Knox struck fatal blow in killing
(International News ~ 04/30/14)
MILAN -- The Italian appeals court that reinstated the conviction against Amanda Knox in her roommate's 2007 murder said in a lengthy reasoning made public Tuesday that Knox delivered the fatal blow, and that overwhelming physical evidence precluded any need to determine a clear motive...
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Missouri Senate passes sales tax rise for roads
(State News ~ 04/30/14)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Senate passed a scaled-back sales tax increase for transportation funding Tuesday as supporters sought to make the bill more palatable to the chamber's Republican majority. Senators voted 22-10 to send the proposed constitutional amendment to the House. It would levy a three-fourths cent sales tax if approved by voters at the November election. The state sales tax would rise to just below 5 percent, but in most areas the overall tax is higher...
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Court wary of unlimited cellphone searches
(National News ~ 04/30/14)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court seemed wary Tuesday of allowing police unbridled freedom to search through cellphones of people they arrest, taking on a new issue of privacy in the face of rapidly changing technology. The justices appeared ready to reject the Obama administration's argument that police should be able to make such searches without first getting warrants...
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'A Gentleman's Guide' leads Tony nominations
(Entertainment ~ 04/30/14)
NEW YORK -- The musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," a comedic romp in which a poor man eliminates the eight heirs ahead of him for a title, nabbed a leading 10 Tony Award nominations on Tuesday. Nominations were spread out for most other shows, reflecting the lack of a juggernaut this year...
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Missouri tops Southeast Missouri State baseball team in 11 innings
(College Sports ~ 04/30/14)
The Tigers tied the game with two out in the ninth inning and later won 6-5 on a throwing error
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Anderson embraces coming home to 'dream job'
(College Sports ~ 04/30/14)
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- No sales pitch was necessary for Kim Anderson. The new Missouri coach has wanted this for a long time. Anderson welled up a few times and paused to collect himself at his introductory news conference Tuesday, a day after the school hired him to replace Frank Haith...
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Supreme Court upholds EPA's rule on cross-state air pollution
(National News ~ 04/30/14)
WASHINGTON -- In a major anti-pollution ruling, the Supreme Court on Tuesday backed federally imposed limits on smokestack emissions that cross state lines and burden downwind areas with bad air from power plants they can't control. The 6-2 ruling was an important victory for the Obama administration in controlling emissions from power plants in 27 Midwestern and Appalachian states that contribute to soot and smog along the East Coast...
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Attacks in 2 Syrian cities kill at least 54
(International News ~ 04/30/14)
DAMASCUS, Syria -- Two car bombs exploded in a pro-government neighborhood in the central Syrian city of Homs on Tuesday, killing at least 40 people just hours after one of the deadliest mortar strikes in the heart of the capital, Damascus, killed 14, officials and state media said...
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High school roundup: Sikeston hands second loss to Notre Dame baseball team
(High School Sports ~ 04/30/14)
All the local events reported Tuesday to the Southeast Missourian.
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Scott City softball breezes past SCC in district semifinals
(High School Sports ~ 04/30/14)
SCOTT CITY -- If coaches want their teams peaking at tournament time, Scott City softball coach Kaitlin Zink must feel pretty good about her squad. The host Rams coupled 10 hits with 10 walks in racing past Scott Country Central 18-0 in a Class 1 District 5 semifinal Tuesday afternoon...
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Brewers defeat Cardinals in extra innings for second straight night
(Professional Sports ~ 04/30/14)
~Milwaukee beat St. Louis in extra innings for the second straight day ST. LOUIS -- Lyle Overbay singled in Khris Davis with the tiebreaking run and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the St. Louis Cardinals in extra innings for the second straight night, winning 5-4 in 11 innings Tuesday...
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Out of the past 4/30/14
(Out of the Past ~ 04/30/14)
The Rev. Miles H. White is installed as pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in the evening, with a reception following in the McCutchen Fellowship Hall; a native of Bartlesville, Okla., White comes to Westminster from Faith Presbyterian Church in Harvey, La., where he had pastored since 1984...
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Prayer 4/30/14
(Prayer ~ 04/30/14)
O Heavenly Father, may the joy of the Lord Jesus fill our hearts. Amen.
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