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• Taste of Edmonton launches at new location on legislature grounds

  18-07-2018 23:38 via edmontonjournal.com
  Albertans descending on the Taste of Edmonton can eat, drink and be merry on legislature grounds previously governed by rules reminiscent of the Prohibition-era.
  “We realized our 1985 policy was a little bit out of date,” said Infrastructure Minister Sandra Jansen at a Wednesday news conference to launch the festival.
  The antiquated rules banned food, liquor and dancing on the Alberta legislature grounds, drawing comparisons to the movie Footloose.
  “We really had an opportunity
  
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• Proud housewife Andrea Nixon bringing lovely voice to K-Days Tuesday night

  18-07-2018 23:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  When it comes to taking leaps, Edmonton country-roots singer Andrea Nixon doesn’t hesitate — and it’s paying off.
  With enviable vocal dynamism, she’s gone through both the Project Wild artist-development band camp and Canada’s Music Incubator program. She won a fan-voted, $10,000 Storyhive video prize to make You Didn’t Make Me — which was then nominated for an Edmonton Music Award, then picked up by Air Canada.
  This Tuesday, she’s one of four
  
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• Prepare to parade: Need to knows for Friday's K-Days parade

  18-07-2018 23:15 via edmontonjournal.com
  Jasper Avenue will be lined with colourful floats Friday morning with more than 100 entries in the annual K-Days parade and the city is asking parade-goers to give themselves extra time to get to the festivities.
  The parade starts 10 a.m. at Jasper Avenue and 108 Street before travelling east down Jasper to 101 Street and finishing northbound to 103 Avenue.
  The parade assembly area from 105 Street to 108 Street will be closed between Jasper Avenue and 104 Avenue from 6 a.m. until 2 p.m. Access t
  
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• Edmonton Oilers flesh out 50-man list, sign a known commodity in Josh Currie

  18-07-2018 22:51 via edmontonjournal.com
  Edmonton Oilers added one more piece to the puzzle on Wednesday, inking 25-year-old forward Josh Currie to a two-year, two-way contract.
  If that name sounds familiar, it should. Currie has been in the Oilers system for the past several years, having signed minor league contracts with the team in recent seasons. Now for the first time he’s been added to the 50-man list.
  The undrafted Currie bears many of the signs of a classic late bloomer. As a member of the Prince Edward Island Rocket of
  
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• Alberta man dies in B.C. lake trying to rescue swimmer in distress

  18-07-2018 22:46 via edmontonjournal.com
  The body of an Alberta man was pulled from a southeastern B.C. lake Monday after he drowned trying to rescue a swimmer in distress.
  RCMP in Sicamous were called to Mara Lake in British Columbia’s Shuswap region Monday morning after a 26-year-old Alberta man was reported missing.
  He was last seen on the lakeshore at about 4 a.m. Investigators believe the man heard another person yelling for help in the water and swam out to help. While the first swimmer later made it back to shore safe
  
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• Derek Fildebrandt says UCP too 'vanilla,' starts new Freedom Conservative Party

  18-07-2018 22:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  Outspoken independent conservative MLA for Strathmore-Brooks Derek Fildebrandt has started a new party in reaction to what he sees as a single, “vanilla” choice for Alberta conservatives.
  And he’s “pretty pumped” about it.
  Called the Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta, it will comprise of what Fildebrandt labels “unapologetic conservatives, libertarians and Alberta patriots.”
  Fildebrandt left the United Conservative Party caucus last year and was
  
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• Documents: Read Alberta Education's draft K-4 curriculum

  18-07-2018 22:29 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta’s education ministry on Wednesday released draft documents to Postmedia of the proposed new K-4 curriculum in seven subjects: English and French Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, Science, Arts, and Health and Wellness.
  These documents were presented to parents at meetings in May and June to gather their feedback, and are currently being updated to reflect that feedback.
  The education minister expects to approve the new K-4 curriculum by December 2018.View this document on Scribd
  
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• Edmonton Remand Centre on lockdown as staff search for 'contraband' following string of deaths

  18-07-2018 20:25 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Edmonton Remand Centre is on lockdown following a string of inmate deaths, including at least one apparent overdose.
  A spokesman for the the union representing correctional officers at the provincial jail said Wednesday that the remand is locked down “while staff perform a thorough search of the entire facility for contraband.”
  “This lockdown is in an effort to protect the safety of staff and inmates during the search,” Alberta Union of Provincial Employees spokesman
  
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• 'It's good news': Notley pleased with Edmonton MP Sohi's appointment to natural resources minister

  18-07-2018 20:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta now has a local voice for the oil and gas sector at the federal cabinet table.
  Edmonton—Mill Woods MP Amarjeet Sohi was appointed Natural Resources Minister Wednesday as part of a cabinet shuffle by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
  Sohi takes the contentious pipeline file from Jim Carr, who has been moved to international trade in a bid to diversify Canada’s trade interests beyond the United States.
  Carr’s job will be to kickstart Canada’s stalled efforts
  
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• St. Albert boy's specialty bike returned home - Globalnews.ca

  18-07-2018 18:54 via globalnews.ca
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  WATCH ABOVE: A stolen specialty trike has been returned to Caleb, a St. Albert boy with autism. As Kendra Slugoski reports, the happy ending isn't stopping here. X. - A A +. Listen. A 12-year-old St. Albert boy with autism and mobility issues has his ...
  
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• St. Albert boy’s specialty bike returned home

  18-07-2018 18:52 via globalnews.ca
  A missing specialty bike has been returned to a 12-year-old with autism and mobility issues.
  
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• Snowbirds arrive in Camrose

  18-07-2018 16:42 via edmontonjournal.com
  Camrose — They’re cheerful and chatty, with a wary eye on the weather forecast.
  Volunteers and aviation buffs in Camrose have spent six months preparing for this week, when the Canadian Forces’ Snowbirds jets will perform its first aerobatics show at the airport in the city of 19,000 people.
  As the group of nine Canadair CT-114 Tutor jets go on their annual summer tour, Camrose Airport’s 4,500-foot runway is one of the smallest airfields to host one of the 60 appearances.
  
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• Edmonton weather: BANG! CRASH! This is your morning thunderstorm wake-up call

  18-07-2018 14:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Wednesday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station measure 16.2 C with a 11 km/h wind coming from the east.
  Today: A few showers ending this morning then a mix of sun and cloud. 30 per cent chance of showers late this afternoon. Risk of a thunderstorm. Wind northwest 20 km/h gusting to 40 becoming light this morning. High 25 C. Humidex 28. UV index 8 or very high.
  Tonight: Partly cloudy. 30 per cent chance of sho
  
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• Wednesday's letters: Dental fee guide means consumers paying more

  18-07-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Recently my son and I had our teeth cleaning and checkups. What used to cost me $20 now costs $125. Why? Because when the new, optional dental fee structure which has lowered recommended fees was introduced last November, all the insurance companies grabbed that as the maximum cost they would cover. The insurance companies pay out less and collect the same premiums. The consumer is now going to pay more for services.
  The only way the new fee structure benefits consumers is if we change
  
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• Opinion: Trump 'appeasement' of Russia a sad moment for democracy

  18-07-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  This week’s Donald Trump-Valdimir Putin summit in Helsinki brought together the world’s most powerful leaders in military terms. On his Twitter account, the American president attributed previous cool relations to “many years of US foolishness and stupidity.” Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded with a concise “We agree.”
  To many Western observers, Trump’s premise was misguided, if not downright foolish. He appears to have rejected the co
  
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• Opinion: Even climate-change deniers can help protect the environment

  18-07-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  American Conservative commentator Candace Owens recently declared that she did not believe in climate change, saying the issue had become over-politicized and that the lack of scientific consensus justified her denial.This kind of thinking might frustrate environmental activists. But I believe we’re at a time when, rather than writing off climate-change skeptics as a lunatic fringe that can’t be helped, we need to think about how we can engage them so that they can still li
  
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• Should I eat this fish? New app aims to educate Albertans on their questionable catch

  18-07-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  As questions go, it may not have the cache of say, “Why am I here?” or “What happens when I die?”
  Still, “Should I eat this fish?” is a question many an Albertan has likely contemplated at some point, especially when confronted with a catch of the day that seems a bit, well, fishy.
  It’s also a question the Alberta government can help answer, thanks to a new mobile app that can tell anglers whether it is safe to consume the wriggling walleye or trout they
  
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• David Staples: In new social studies curriculum, there's no such things as Albertans

  18-07-2018 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  In the world according to the new social studies curriculum there is no such thing as Albertans or even Canadians.
  In the many thousands of words of the new curriculum prototype document for K-4 social studies, which spells out in detail how and what things are going to be taught in Alberta schools, there’s not one explicit reference to Albertans or Canadians, let alone any notion that there’s value in teaching Alberta history or Canadian history.
  That’s evidently not a priorit
  
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• St. Albert boy’s specialty bike returned home - Global News Edmonton

  18-07-2018 09:00 via globalnews.ca
  St. Albert boy’s specialty bike returned home  Global News EdmontonWATCH ABOVE: A stolen specialty trike has been returned to Caleb, a St. Albert boy with autism. As Kendra Slugoski reports, the happy ending isn't stopping ...
  
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• St. Albert boy's specialty bike returned home - Edmonton - Global News Edmonton

  18-07-2018 09:00 via globalnews.ca
  St. Albert boy's specialty bike returned home - Edmonton  Global News EdmontonWATCH ABOVE: A stolen specialty trike has been returned to Caleb, a St. Albert boy with autism. As Kendra Slugoski reports, the happy ending isn't stopping ...
  
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• Best to chill out on Evan Bouchard's chances as an NHL rookie

  18-07-2018 08:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  He’s got a good shot at being a very good NHLer, but will most likely need another year in the OHL
  This in from Oilers insider Bob Stauffer of the Oilers radio network about Edmonton’s top pick Evan Bouchard: “I would be surprised if we didn’t see Bouchard in Europe at the start of the regular season. Has the ‘processor’ to play at the NHL level, 3 years in ‘Pro’ environment in London.”Now that Evan Bouchard has signed his Entry Level Contrac
  
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• Super Saturday spotlight: rugby premier wins and losses - St. Albert Gazette

  18-07-2018 08:50 via stalbertgazette.com
  Super Saturday spotlight: rugby premier wins and losses
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  The St. Albert Rugby Football Club's premier women emerged victorious over the Edmonton Clanswomen Saturday afternoon, moving up to fifth in the standings, while the premier men came up short. The women won in a blowout, scoring 51-22 against the ...
  
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• City and county tackle recreation - St. Albert Gazette

  18-07-2018 08:50 via stalbertgazette.com
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  City and county tackle recreation
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  The City of St. Albert and Sturgeon County have set up a committee to address how they will handle recreational needs in the future. That could mean examining how they currently work together or working on future projects. It could also mean building a ...
  
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• Directions to city's culture map - St. Albert Gazette

  18-07-2018 08:32 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Directions to city's culture map
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  All members of St. Albert's arts and culture community will soon get their chance to learn more about the Cultural Map during a first public open house event. Andrea Gammon, community cultural co-ordinator with the city's Cultural Services department ...
  
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• Senior B Miners head into the semifinals with a tie - St. Albert Gazette

  18-07-2018 08:27 via stalbertgazette.com
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  Senior B Miners head into the semifinals with a tie
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  Friday marked the team's last game – a 12-12 tie with the Edmonton Warriors – before the semifinals. Assistant coach Todd Lorenz stated afterwards he wasn't happy with the final score. “By no stretch of imagination, every one of our players are ...
  
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• Senior killed by driver reversing car in southwest Edmonton

  18-07-2018 06:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 90-year-old woman is dead after being struck by a driver reversing a vehicle in southwest Edmonton last week, police said.
  The senior was attempting to cross from one sidewalk to another in front of a multi-unit residence at 183 Street and Lessard Road around 4 p.m. Friday when she was struck by a 2008 Dodge Avenger, said a Tuesday news release.
  Police say the 61-year-old driver was attempting to back up when the pedestrian was hit.
  The victim died on scene and the city police major collision
  
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• Severe thunderstorm watches issued for western Alberta

  18-07-2018 05:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  Severe thunderstorm watches were issued Tuesday evening for parts of western Alberta.
  Conditions in areas around Hinton, Nordegg, Rocky Mountain House, Spruce Grove, Westlock and Whitecourt are favourable for the development of severe thunderstorms that could include strong wind gusts, large hail and heavy rain.
  Thunderstorms have developed across west-central Alberta Tuesday evening, reads information posted to Environment Canada at 8:21 p.m., and will move east through the night. Some storms m
  
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• Edmonton community garden has global focus with proceeds supporting women in Rwanda

  18-07-2018 04:58 via edmontonjournal.com
  A small, community non-profit garden is making its mark globally having raised more than $290,000 for women’s initiatives in Rwanda.
  Recognizing its 10th anniversary this year, the Green and Gold Community Garden at the University of Alberta donates all produce proceeds to the Tubahumurize Women Association, providing female survivors of violence with trauma counselling and support.
  The Rwanda project was founded by Jeanne Mwiliriza, who lost her husband and more than 50 members of her ext
  
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• One dead in northern Alberta collision

  18-07-2018 03:56 via edmontonjournal.com
  One man is dead after a gravel truck collided with an SUV in northern Alberta on Tuesday, said RCMP in a news release.
  Around 3:15 p.m. McLennan RCMP were called to a collision at Township Road 792 and Range Road 201, approximately 350 km northwest of Edmonton.
  The man driving the gravel truck was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries while the man driving the SUV was pronounced dead on scene.
  The intersection is expected to remain closed until approximately 9:30 p.m. Tuesday as t
  
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• $71,480 prize unclaimed in Eskimos Friday 50/50 jackpot

  18-07-2018 03:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  The 50/50 jackpot from Friday’s Edmonton Eskimos victory over the Toronto Argonauts was not claimed by Tuesday’s 4 p.m. deadline, said a news release from the football club.
  The team will apply to the Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission to carry the $71,480 prize overt to a future game. Fifty per cent of the proceeds of ticket sales goes to charity and 50 per cent goes to the owner of the winning ticket.
  Last year a record-breaking 50/50 jackpot of $435,919.50 went to long
  
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• Community sentence for 89-year-old convicted in historic sex assault

  18-07-2018 02:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  An 89-year-old man avoided a jail sentence for a historical sexual assault of a child Tuesday due to unusual circumstances in the case.
  Ted Elless, who will turn 90 in August, was convicted earlier this year of indecent assault on a male for offences against his son’s eight-year-old friend in 1978.
  On Tuesday, he was handed a two-year conditional sentence order that includes one year of house arrest, following a joint submission on sentencing by the prosecution and defence.
  At trial earlie
  
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• Senior killed by reversing car in southwest Edmonton

  18-07-2018 02:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 90-year-old woman is dead after being struck by a reversing vehicle in southwest Edmonton last week, police said.
  The senior was attempting to cross from one sidewalk to another in front of a multi-unit residence at 183 Street and Lessard Road around 4 p.m. Friday when she was struck by a 2008 Dodge Avenger, said a Tuesday news release.
  Police say the 61-year-old driver was attempting to back up when the pedestrian was hit.
  The victim died on scene and the city police major collision section c
  
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• St. Albert Sailfish swim past 50 years - St. Albert Gazette

  18-07-2018 01:51 via stalbertgazette.com
  St. Albert Sailfish swim past 50 years
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  At Saturday's annual regional swim meet, the St. Albert Sailfish had more to celebrate than winning top points that day. Along with a men and women's combined score of 1418.5, the team also celebrated its 50th anniversary with enough cake to feed more ...
  
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• Community sentence for 89-year-old convicted in historic sex assault case

  18-07-2018 01:43 via edmontonjournal.com
  An 89-year-old man avoided a jail sentence for a historical sexual assault of a child Tuesday due to unusual circumstances in the case.
  Ted Elless, who will turn 90 in August, was convicted earlier this year of indecent assault on a male for offences against his son’s eight-year-old friend in 1978.
  On Tuesday, he was handed a two-year conditional sentence order that includes one year of house arrest, following a joint submission on sentencing by the prosecution and defence.
  At trial earlie
  
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• ASIRT says 2017 death at break-in call near Grande Prairie was a suicide

  18-07-2018 01:20 via edmontonjournal.com
  A provincial police watchdog has completed its investigation into a man found dead in a northern Alberta home after a break-and-enter call, saying there are no reasonable grounds or suspicion any officers who responded had committed an offence.
  In a Tuesday news release, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) outlined its findings in the death of a 20-year-old man on Feb. 11, 2017.
  At 9:40 p.m. that night, Beaverlodge RCMP were called to a rural home near Goodfare, 60 km northwest of
  
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• Snowbirds prepare for first aerobatics show at Camrose airport

  18-07-2018 01:05 via edmontonjournal.com
  Camrose — They’re cheerful and chatty, with a wary eye on the weather forecast.
  Volunteers and aviation buffs in Camrose have spent six months preparing for this week, when the Canadian Forces’ Snowbirds jets will perform its first aerobatics show at the airport in the city of 19,000 people.
  As the group of nine Canadair CT-114 Tutor jets go on their annual summer tour, Camrose Airport’s 4,500-foot runway is one of the smallest airfields to host one of the 60 appearances.
  
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• Edmonton weather: Don't leave living things in vehicles

  18-07-2018 01:02 via edmontonjournal.com
  With the temperature hitting 33 C in Edmonton, Tuesday was a fitting day for emergency services to remind drivers a vehicle is not a babysitter.
  As a heat warning went into its third day, police, fire rescue and EMS members gathered on the hot concrete of the Kingsway Mall parking lot to warn against leaving pets and children in a hot car.
  “We understand that sometimes life can get busy,” said Const. Seth Dodson of the Child at Risk Response Unit. “We also understand that when
  
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• Thursday's letters: Helping others an important part of our heritage

  18-07-2018 00:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  My great-grandparents died during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918.  My grandmother was orphaned. My grandfather and grandmother lived in the same tenement building. He helped her out. They fell in love and married. They took in a boy, my father’s friend, after he was orphaned. Throughout my grandparents’ lives they helped other people.
  My mother wrote musical comedies. She had an group called the Traveling Troubadours that performed her plays. The money collected went to charit
  
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• Alberta files notice of appeal after losing beer markup case to Great Western, Steam Whistle

  18-07-2018 00:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  The province has filed a notice of appeal over Alberta’s beer markup regime after a court ruled against it last month, calling the program unconstitutional.
  Premier Rachel Notley confirmed the move at a Calgary Stampede breakfast last week.
  “When you lose, you appeal,” she told reporters, adding that Alberta brewers face difficulties accessing markets outside the province.
  The Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission (AGLC) filed its notice of appeal Monday following
  
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• Senior killed after being struck by reversing car in southwest Edmonton

  18-07-2018 00:22 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 90-year-old woman is dead after being struck by a reversing vehicle in southwest Edmonton last week, say police.
  The senior was attempting to cross from one sidewalk to another in front of a multi-unit residence at 183 Street and Lessard Road around 4 p.m. Friday when she was struck by a 2008 Dodge Avenger, said a Tuesday news release.
  Police say the 61-year-old driver was attempting to back up when the pedestrian was hit.
  The victim died on scene and the city police major collision section co
  
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