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• Puppies stranded on cliff in B.C. find 'forever' homes with rescue crew members

  04-11-2018 23:59 via vancouversun.com
  Two St. Bernard-cross puppies who spent four days trapped partway down a cliff near Mission have landed what the local SPCA branch manager says are their best possible “forever” homes.
  Krista Shaw of the Mission SPCA says two of the search-and-rescue crew members who rescued the 16-week-old dogs from the side of the cliff have been selected to adopt them.
  Shaw says the branch received dozens of applications following coverage of the rescue, but staff felt giving the pups to their res
  
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• Top Five: Quintet to watch as Canada-Russia Series visits Kamloops, Langley

  04-11-2018 23:46 via theprovince.com
  The CIBC Canada Russia Series, which Hockey Canada tags as part of its process in putting together Team Canada for the world juniors, visits the Sandman Centre in Kamloops on Monday and the Langley Events Centre on Tuesday.
  Here’s a look at five notable players from the Team WHL side that will face the Russians on those two nights:
  Jett Woo
  Defence, Moose Jaw Warriors
  There will undoubtedly be Vancouver Canucks fans at the LEC Tuesday specifically to check out Woo, 18, a Winnipeg native wh
  
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• Rescued pit bull bites three people in Colwood party basement suite

  04-11-2018 23:29 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A rescue dog adopted this past summer by a woman in suburban Colwood has been seized and is being assessed after it bit three people early Saturday.
  RCMP said they and paramedics answered a call for a dog attack at a house in the 3000 block of Pickford Road about 12:30 a.m. Several people, including children, were at the house at the time.
  Kyla Johnson, 22, who lives in the basement suite of the house with her fiancé, said she adopted Rex, a four-year-old pit bull, last s
  
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• What we consider garbage is just a waste: Food Network's Bob Blumer

  04-11-2018 23:07 via vancouversun.com
  When it is time to scrape leftovers and the odds and ends from the cooking process into the garbage, Bob Blumer likes to imagine he is under surveillance.
  “Every time I go to throw something out, I stop and I think about it for a second,” he said. “And you know what? That last eighth of the onion can be used for something.”
  And so the end of an onion and the bottom from a bell pepper find their way into another dish down the road — a fried rice, soup, or a frittata.
  
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• ‘Screaming like a banshee’: 3 people in hospital after Port Coquitlam double stabbing

  04-11-2018 23:03 via globalnews.ca
  Neighbours on the 2300 block of Atkins Avenue described being woken up early Sunday morning to sounds of screaming from the basement of a home.
  
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• ‘Screaming like a banshee’: 1 man dead, 2 people in hospital after Port Coquitlam stabbing

  04-11-2018 23:03 via globalnews.ca
  Neighbours on the 2300 block of Atkins Avenue described being woken up early Sunday morning to sounds of screaming from the basement of a home.
  
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• Bowen Byram’s quest for a spot on Team Canada goes through LEC on Tuesday

  04-11-2018 23:01 via theprovince.com
  Let the Bowen Byram and Aaron Ekblad comparisons begin.
  Ekblad, the 2014 NHL Draft first overall draft choice who’s now a key part of the Florida Panthers core group, was the last 17-year-old defenceman to make Team Canada at the world juniors, sticking with the 2014 side. There’s a case to be made that Byram, the Vancouver Giants sophomore rearguard, could do the same this coming tournament, which will be held in Vancouver and Victoria starting Dec. 26.
  For perspective, all seven de
  
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• Proposal for new UBC real estate development draws community opposition

  04-11-2018 22:51 via vancouversun.com
  The University of B.C. campus has been transformed in recent decades by clusters of mostly market condos and townhomes, along with retail space and thousands of new residents.
  By providingland to real estate developers, on 99-year leases, the university has been able to significantly increase its endowment fund.
  Now, there is a proposal to develop another major campus neighbourhood known as Stadium Road.
  Even though some are in favour of increasing the supply of on-campus housing, especially for
  
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• Metro's downpour causes North Vancouver parks washouts, slides

  04-11-2018 22:47 via vancouversun.com
  Stormy weather and mudslides this weekend have prompted the closures of a popular park in North Vancouver.
  Metro Vancouver says winds of 80 kilometres per hour and high river levels made Lynn Headwaters Regional Park dangerous and debris flow has blocked the entrance road.
  The regional district says the entire park is closed due to damage and hazardous conditions, although the weather cleared by Sunday.
  The full closure follows partial closures earlier this weekend.
  On Saturday, the Lower Lynn L
  
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• Vancouver Showcase NCAA basketball tournament to be beamed around the globe

  04-11-2018 22:45 via theprovince.com
  It may not be the Madness, but it’s still a crazy idea.
  Bringing 12 NCAA basketball team’s — four men’s, eight women’s — to play a tournament on a purpose-built temporary court at the Vancouver Convention Centre, becoming the first NCAA men’s and women’s tournament outside of the U.S. seems to be an idea rooted in fantasy. But that crazy idea will become reality when the Vancouver Showcase tips off later this month.
  The men’s bracket (Nov. 18
  
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• Canucks road trip preview: Six games, two weeks … how many wins to come?

  04-11-2018 22:32 via theprovince.com
  When we first saw the Canucks’ schedule earlier this summer, three things stood out right away: that big six-game trip in October to open the season, then a similar six-game trip a month later and another six-gamer just after Christmas.
  The Canucks, of course, went 3-3 on their season-opening swing through Calgary, Raleigh, Tampa, Sunrise, Pittsburgh and Winnipeg last month.
  That was a fine start to the 2018-19 season. This week, they embark on the second big sojourn around the league.
  It&
  
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• Cooking with Mushrooms

  04-11-2018 22:01 via globalnews.ca
  Chef Ian McHale from Wildebeest demonstrates the joys of cooking with mushrooms with a delicious and seasonal pasta dish.
  
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• ‘Worst nightmare’: Vancouver Fall Classic half-marathon participant struck by transit bus

  04-11-2018 21:52 via globalnews.ca
  Race organizers confirmed that one man was taken to hospital.
  
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• Pressure on government to recognize physician assistants

  04-11-2018 21:48 via vancouversun.com
  On the other side of most B.C. borders — four U.S. states plus Alberta — patients can see a physician assistant for many health concerns.
  But not in B.C., where the province does not recognize physician assistants as health professionals, even though they’re trained to do some of the same work that family doctors do.
  Pressure is mounting, however, now that B.C. Green leader Andrew Weaver has become a vocal champion of physician assistants.
  In a speech he gave recently to the an
  
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• New West teen on the ball, makes bats in family garage betting if he builds it they (customers) will come

  04-11-2018 21:42 via vancouversun.com
  Oscar Porcellato is a bit of a wonderboy, making his own baseball bat just like Roy Hobbs did in the movie The Natural.
  Hobbs, played by Robert Redford, named the bat he made Wonderboy; Porcellato stamps his with a stylized OP.
  “I’ve always been into woodworking,” Oscar, a 6-foot-1 left-hitting slugger with the Whalley Chiefs of the B.C. Premier Baseball League, said in a backyard workshop that used to be the family garage. “I made magic wands for my friends when we were
  
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• Recipe: Soy-marinated wasabi and ponzu tuna on Peruvian causa

  04-11-2018 21:20 via globalnews.ca
  This tuna and potato dish is the perfect marriage of Japanese and South American cuisine.
  
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• Ex-Canucks coach Desjardins back behind bench with L.A. Kings after Stevens fired

  04-11-2018 21:18 via theprovince.com
  LOS ANGELES — Head coach John Stevens has been fired by the struggling Los Angeles Kings just 13 games into his second season in charge.
  Former Vancouver Canucks bench boss Willie Desjardins was named the Kings’ interim head coach Sunday by general manager Rob Blake.
  Desjardins was the Canucks’ head coach from 2014 to 2017, missing the playoffs in two of his three seasons. He then coached the Canadian men’s national team to bronze medals at the Pyeongchang Olympics last F
  
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• Ryan Shtuka search: Family, friends mount renewed campaign before winter

  04-11-2018 20:57 via globalnews.ca
  The 20-year-old was last seen on Feb. 17, leaving a house party in Sun Peaks.
  
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• Former BC Lion Josh Boden charged with 2009 murder of former girlfriend

  04-11-2018 20:43 via globalnews.ca
  Halgarth was found dead in a Burnaby home in March 2009, seven months after she'd testified against Boden in an assault trial.
  
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• Runner hit by bus while racing in Vancouver half-marathon

  04-11-2018 20:42 via vancouversun.com
  A man was sent to Vancouver General Hospital Sunday morning after he was struck by a transit bus while racing in a half-marathon.
  The accident happened around 9 a.m. on Southwest Marine Drive during the 21.5-kilometre Vancouver Fall Classic half-marathon at UBC.
  Jon Major, a fellow runner, says the accident occurred 50 feet away from him.
  “I didn’t actually see the lead-up to it but I heard the noise,” Major said. “Right away I looked up and saw the bus slam on the brakes
  
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• Letters to The Province, Nov. 5, 2018: Proportional representation will give political power back to the people, reader argues

  04-11-2018 20:00 via theprovince.com
  The reason we are having yet another referendum on changing our electoral system is very simple. The majority of voters are not satisfied with the kinds of governments our current first-past-the-post electoral system is producing.
  The sad part about this referendum is that voters have become so disillusioned about our politicians and governments that they have failed to become informed about either system.
  The No side is acutely aware of this handicap and has engaged in fear-mongering, insisting
  
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• John Redekop: Proportional representation is a good idea but the options offered in referendum are lousy

  04-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Recently, The Vancouver Sun carried John Egan’s excellent column describing New Zealand’s simple mixed member proportional representation electoral system. That option makes good sense. It’s easy to understand and it combines the best of our present single member plurality system — misnamed first past the post — and the best of proportional representation (PR). Unfortunately, the three so-called PR systems offered B.C. voters are all less meritorious. In fact, all a
  
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• Lynn Headwaters Regional Park on the North Shore closed due to storm damage

  04-11-2018 19:51 via globalnews.ca
  The entrance road to the park has been blocked by a debris slide.
  
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• Recipe: Wildebeest’s Vacche Rosse raviole

  04-11-2018 18:40 via globalnews.ca
  With all the rain in the forecast, there's nothing like a rich pasta to make you feel cozy inside.
  
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• One dead, three injured in early-morning accident in Surrey

  04-11-2018 17:19 via vancouversun.com
  One person is dead and three more are in hospital following a motor vehicle accident in Surrey early Sunday morning.
  Surrey RCMP responded to an accident in 13400 block of 88th Avenue just after 12 a.m. Police say one of the driver’s involved was pronounced dead at the scene, while the three other occupants of the vehicle were taken hospital with injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening.
  No names were released.
  Police continue to investigate and anyone with information about the acc
  
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• Former B.C. Lion Josh Boden charged with 2009 murder of ex-girlfriend

  04-11-2018 17:03 via theprovince.com
  A Facebook photo of Kimberly Errand Hallgarth, who was found dead inside her Burnaby home on March 15, 2009.
  Former Canadian Football League prospect Josh Boden is due in court Monday facing a charge of first-degree murder related to the death of his ex-girlfriend nearly a decade ago.
  Boden’s former girlfriend, Kimberly Hallgarth, was killed in her home in March 2009. Police at the time would not say whether Boden was questioned and the case has remained unsolved.
  In August 2008, Boden had
  
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• ‘World’s most beautiful duck’ spotted in Metro Vancouver

  04-11-2018 16:30
  
  The Mandarin Duck, as it's known, has been causing a stir in the media lately
  
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• Big Elf Run returns to Vancouver for fourth year of festive fun

  04-11-2018 16:20
  
  Join a massive pack of elves on this magical fun run through Stanley Park
  
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• Report highlights connection between property values, planned Surrey LRT boost

  04-11-2018 15:56 via globalnews.ca
  Office space located within walking distance of rapid transit stations also showed lower vacancy rates.
  
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• RCMP investigating after overnight crash in Surrey kills 1, injures 3 others

  04-11-2018 15:11 via globalnews.ca
  Four people were reportedly in the vehicle. The driver was pronounced dead on scene, while three others are in hospital with injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening.
  
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• Readers share their random acts of kindness

  04-11-2018 15:00
  
  Friday was Random Act of Kindness Day, with the Victoria Foundation inviting everyone to help inspire smiles. The Times Colonist has invited readers to share their experiences. Here are some of the “random acts of kindness” stories received over the past few months
  
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• Review: Drake live might be a gamble, but this Vancouver show popped

  04-11-2018 06:48 via vancouversun.com
  Drake live is a gamble. You can bet his fans will love whatever the rapper does. But his past concerts have been uneven, to be kind.
  Given the global news about the events at the casino at the Parq, it was being discussed angrily by the audience who packed Rogers Arena.
  It would be hard to ask for an emotional kicker to what was already a highly anticipated performance on the Scorpion world tour.
  As the beer and bathroom lineups vied for arena records, the giant centre-ice stage was cleared off
  
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• Ed Willes: Buono’s B.C. Place bon voyage filled with tributes, and an anti-climactic non-contest

  04-11-2018 06:24 via theprovince.com
  Prior to his final game as a CFL head coach, Wally Buono was asked what he’ll miss about the game.
  “For sure I won’t miss losing,” he said. “I’m not sure I’d miss much else.”
  Then he damn sure won’t miss games like Saturday night. Here’s what we learned from the Calgary Stampeders’ 26-9 victory over the Lions in Buono’s farewell to B.C. Place in front of 24,114 fans.
  • On the Lions first play from scrimmage, Travis Lula
  
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• Storm batters Metro Vancouver with wind and rain Saturday night

  04-11-2018 05:42 via vancouversun.com
  Runners were preparing for soggy shoes and sopping spandex ahead of the annual Fall Classic at UBC, as a storm was expected to batter Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley with rain and wind Saturday night and Sunday morning.
  Environment Canada predicted up to 60 millimetres of rain Saturday, with wind up to 70 kilometres/hour starting early Sunday morning. The wind was expected to increase up to 90 km/hr. before easing around midday.
  The nasty weather forced the cancellation of a ferry sailing
  
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• UBC falls in heartbreaking Hardy Cup grid semifinal to Saskatchewan

  04-11-2018 03:03 via theprovince.com
  It was the end of the UBC Thunderbirds season. It could also be the end of the Michael O’Connor era.
  It’s also the beginning of a new chapter for the T-Birds’ football program.
  After his team’s heartbreaking 31-28 overtime loss to Saskatchewan in the Hardy Cup semifinal on Saturday afternoon, UBC coach Blake Nill wasn’t thinking about the immediate and painful past, but the future.
  “In the end, this game reflected how our entire season has gone. We’ve be
  
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• BC Evening Weather Forecast: Nov 3

  04-11-2018 02:54 via globalnews.ca
  The Saturday, November 3, 2018 evening weather forecast for Vancouver, British Columbia and the surrounding area.
  
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• Drake accuses Vancouver’s Parq Casino of profiling him and denying service

  04-11-2018 02:23 via globalnews.ca
  Toronto rapper Drake took to Instragram early Saturday calling Vancouver’s Parq Casino “the worst run business I have ever witnessed” and accusing the it of profiling him and not allowing him to gamble. Julia Foy explains what happened and how the Parq Casino is responding.
  
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• BC Liberals unveil new logo at convention in Vancouver

  04-11-2018 02:23 via globalnews.ca
  The BC Liberal party is switching up its image, unveiling a new logo and party message to delegates at the annual convention in Vancouver this weekend. Our legislative bureau chief, Keith Baldrey, has more.
  
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• St. Bernard-cross puppies rescued from Fraser Valley cliff find forever homes

  04-11-2018 02:22 via globalnews.ca
  In less than one week, the cries of two adorable puppies found alone atop a Fraser Valley cliff have come full circle.
  
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• B.C.’s Jewish community joins ‘Show Up for Shabbat’

  04-11-2018 02:13 via globalnews.ca
  A week after a mass shooting at Pittsburgh synagogue claimed 11 lives, Vancouver’s Jewish community paid its respects to the victims. Nadia Stewart reports.
  
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• St. Bernard-cross puppies rescued off B.C. cliff get forever homes

  04-11-2018 02:09 via globalnews.ca
  Two St. Bernard-cross puppies rescued from a steep cliff in the Fraser Valley late last month have been adopted into forever homes and, as Kristen Robinson reports, the dogs won’t have to worry if they find themselves in trouble again.
  
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• Forgotten First World War veteran finally gets his headstone

  04-11-2018 02:05 via vancouversun.com
  For 79 years, visitors to the Fraser Cemetery in New Westminster have walked past an unmarked grave not knowing it belonged to First World War veteran William A. Stevenson.
  Next Sunday, on the centennial of the war’s end, his name and final resting place will no longer be forgotten.
  Stevenson survived the war and was in his 50s when he died of a stroke on April 14, 1939. He was buried not far from his home on 315 Columbia St., looking over the Fraser River, his funeral paid for by Can
  
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• Vancouver police searching for missing senior with medical issues

  04-11-2018 02:03 via globalnews.ca
  Police say John Armstrong suffers from short-term memory loss and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
  
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• Graeme Lee Rowlands: Exclusion of Indigenous voices in U.S.-Canada water agreement puts salmon restoration in Columbia River at risk

  04-11-2018 02:00 via theprovince.com
  Salmon used to swim all the way up the Columbia River from the Pacific Ocean near Astoria, Ore. to the Canadian Rocky Mountains at the river’s headwaters in Canal Flats, B.C. It was an astounding journey of 2,000 km upstream that cut through a landscape of lush forest, dry desert and high peaks.
  But since the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam without fish passage in Washington in 1942 (which the Canadian federal government consented to), salmon have been blocked from their ancestral spa
  
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• WestJet passenger kicked off plane after falling asleep

  04-11-2018 01:56 via globalnews.ca
  A Burnaby man say he was humiliated when WestJet staff decided he was not lucid enough after taking a sleeping pill and kicked him off the flight. Jill Bennett reports.
  
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• B.C. man planning legal action after being kicked off WestJet flight for sleeping

  04-11-2018 01:48 via globalnews.ca
  A Burnaby man is planning legal action against WestJet, after he says he was kicked off a Cuba-bound flight for sleeping before takeoff.
  
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• Drake accuses Vancouver casino of ‘profiling,’ not letting him gamble

  04-11-2018 01:29
  
  Drake took to Instagram stories at around 3:30am November 3 to complain about his experience
  
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• B.C. Liberal party rebrands at convention, working to broaden appeal

  04-11-2018 01:24 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s Liberal leader says he gives himself and his party an “A for effort” in their work trying to reconnect with the electorate following a devastating loss of power last year.
  Speaking to reporters at the party’s convention in Vancouver, Andrew Wilkinson said the party has about 60,000 members, and pointed to Saturday’s “packed” convention hall as evidence that it’s moving in the “right direction.”
  The party unveiled its new brand id
  
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• Former B.C. Lions prospect Josh Boden charged with 2009 murder of ex-girlfriend

  04-11-2018 01:20 via theprovince.com
  A Facebook photo of Kimberly Errand Hallgarth, who was found dead inside her Burnaby home on March 15, 2009.
  Former Canadian Football League prospect Josh Boden is due in court Monday facing a charge of first-degree murder related to the death of his ex-girlfriend nearly a decade ago.
  Boden’s former girlfriend, Kimberly Hallgarth, was killed in her home in March 2009. Police at the time would not say whether Boden was questioned and the case has remained unsolved.
  In August 2008, Boden had
  
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• Patrick Johnston: Canucks are winning, they’ve got a young star, so is the buzz back?

  04-11-2018 00:56 via theprovince.com
  From the first moment we saw Elias Pettersson, we knew things were going to be different.
  In this very space, the young Swede, still a teenager for another week-and-a-half, was compared in the same breath as one Pavel Bure. And with every stride, he’s just solidified that lofty comparison.
  There is still a great deal of work ahead to build this team into a contender — and one can always look a little to the north and east for an oil-stained lesson in that — but to find a young
  
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