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• Crucial Utah vote on Facebook tax-break plan postponed

  19-08-2016 23:51 via krqe.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A crucial vote on a Utah plan to lure a Facebook data center with up to $240 million in tax breaks will be postponed at least a week.
  Several cities and school districts were set to meet Monday to vote on whether to join forces to offer the tax incentives, but documents released Friday show the meeting has been canceled.
  It’s tentatively rescheduled for the following week.
  The Salt Lake City suburb of West Jordan is competing with Los Lunas, New Mexico to attrac
  
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• ‘Black Olives Matter’ continues to draw flak

  19-08-2016 23:51
  
  Clever word play or insensitive marketing tool? An Albuquerque restaurant owner’s “Black Olives Matter” slogan has drawn attention worldwide for its take-off on the “Black Lives Matter” organization. Rick Camuglia of Paisano’s Italian Restaurant says the slogan, posted on a sign in front of his restaurant recently, “struck a nerve” and has drawn overwhelming support. […]
  
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• Sierra Club ties raise questions in PNM rate case

  19-08-2016 23:50
  
  A hearing examiner’s past Sierra Club membership has raised questions in an increasingly contentious rate case involving New Mexico regulators and the state’s largest utility. In a 2015 filing with the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission, hearing examiner Carolyn Glick disclosed she and her husband were members of the Sierra Club and led hikes with […]
  
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• City of Albuquerque wins $4M appeal against MB Oil

  19-08-2016 23:36 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – The City of Albuquerque’s battle over a mult-million dollar contract has ended with wholesale fuel distributor MB Oil.
  In 2010 MB Oil won a city contract to provide oil and gas for city vehicles however, to make up for a budget crunch, the city decided to terminate the contract and find cheaper fuel.
  MB Oil sued the city for breach of contract.  A judge initial found the city was a fault but the city appealed the decision and last month the court ruled in fa
  
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• Public funeral plans set for fallen Hatch officer

  19-08-2016 23:30
  
  LAS CRUCES — The body of fallen Hatch police officer Jose Chavez will make one final patrol of the village before being transported by motorcade to a public funeral on Sunday. Final patrol A contingency of motorcycles will gather at Hatch Valley High School and escort the hearse through the village and past the village […]
  
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• UNM will sell booze at games

  19-08-2016 22:59
  
   The University of New Mexico has announced it will start selling beer and wine at all home football games in the fall.
  
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• Updated: Uncertain future for crumbling former Port Arthur mansion

  19-08-2016 22:44
  
  PORT ARTHUR, Texas — Rose Hill Manor, once a popular site for social events at Port Arthur’s seawall, now has holes in its windows and a balcony unfit to stand on. It’s a shell of itself — a microcosm of the city’s past, present and future. Symbolic of Port Arthur’s greater predicament, the once-elegant home […]
  
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• Updated: Spacewalking astronauts install new front door for visitors

  19-08-2016 22:44
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Spacewalking astronauts installed a new front door for visitors at the International Space Station on Friday, the crucial first step in welcoming commercial crew capsules as soon as next year. The two Americans, Jeffrey Williams and Kate Rubins, hooked up the docking port — their major objective — in just a […]
  
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• Updated: Officials: Zika found in South Beach; spraying not possible

  19-08-2016 22:44
  
  MIAMI — South Beach has been identified as a second site of Zika transmission by mosquitoes on the U.S. mainland, and containing it there will be difficult because high-rise buildings and strong winds make it impractical to spray the neighborhood from the air, officials said Friday. Five cases of Zika have been connected to mosquitoes […]
  
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• Missing Utah man’s body found in Arizona, 3 face charges

  19-08-2016 22:44
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — Searchers say they’ve found the body of a southern Utah man whose disappearance has brought charges against three people. Authorities said Friday a Bureau of Land Management geologist found the body believed to be 30-year-old David Heisler in a remote area on the Arizona strip, near the Utah border. The identity […]
  
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• NM unemployment up to 6.4 percent

  19-08-2016 22:06
  
  State's rate is third highest, behind Alaska and Nevada
  
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• First National, Main Bank name new presidents

  19-08-2016 21:51
  
  Two New Mexico banks this week announced significant leadership transitions. On Thursday, First National Bank of Santa Fe said William “Pablo” Sanders has been appointed president and chief executive officer. On Friday, the board of directors of Albuquerque-based Main Bank said it has named Alan Shettlesworth president, taking over from his father, Ron Shettlesworth, who […]
  
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• Updated: Kanye West’s weekend pop-up stores in NYC, 20 other cities

  19-08-2016 21:41
  
  NEW YORK — Kanye West fans waited in line overnight in lower Manhattan on Friday for the chance to buy pieces from a new clothing line centered on the rapper-turned-fashion mogul’s latest album. The store was among 21 that opened worldwide just for the weekend. Brittany Fletcher, who said she waited more than five hours […]
  
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• Albuquerque burger joint recognized by foodie website

  19-08-2016 21:12
  
  Delish recently named Holy Cow as the burger joint everyone is talking about in New Mexico.
  
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• Today in History: August 19

  19-08-2016 20:55 via krqe.com
  
  Today’s Highlight in History:
  On Aug. 19, 1991, Soviet hard-liners stunned the world by announcing that President Mikhail S. Gorbachev had been removed from power. (The coup attempt collapsed two days later.)
  On this date:
  In A.D. 14, Caesar Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, died at age 76 after a reign lasting four decades; he was succeeded by his stepson Tiberius.
  In 1812, the USS Constitution defeated the British frigate HMS Guerriere off Nova Scotia during the War of 1812, earning
  
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• Updated: San Francisco to honor Tony Bennett with statue, festivities

  19-08-2016 20:43
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — A few hundred people are gathered outside the Fairmont hotel atop San Francisco’s Nob Hill waiting for legendary singer Tony Bennett as his music plays in the background. For as long as anyone can remember, Bennett has been giving to the city where he first sang “I Left My Heart in San […]
  
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• Morgan Stanley accused of mismanaging its 401(k) plan

  19-08-2016 20:41
  
  NEW YORK — Even Wall Street workers are unhappy with how their retirement plans are run. A participant in Morgan Stanley’s 401(k) plan filed a lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court in New York alleging that it offers investment options that have too-high fees and poor track records, including some mutual funds run by Morgan […]
  
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• Updated: What to do with an Olympic gold medal? Give it to the king

  19-08-2016 20:32
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — After winning Jordan’s first Olympic medal ever — a gold, no less — Ahmad Abughaush has an unexpected plan for it: The taekwondo champion intends to give it to his king. Many members of King Abdullah’s family stayed up late Thursday night to watch Abughaush’s historic victory in the men’s 68-kilogram […]
  
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• Charges: Producer hit sour note with fake play on opera star

  19-08-2016 20:32
  
  NEW YORK — A Broadway producer has been charged with scamming seven people by getting them to invest $165,000 in a nonexistent play about opera star Kathleen Battle supposedly starring Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o. Roland Scahill pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of criminal possession of stolen property, grand larceny and scheming to defraud. His […]
  
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• Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks in Santa Fe

  19-08-2016 20:31
  
  It was like a rock concert for attorneys and judges, with an enthusiastic standing ovation, hoots and hollers and cell phones aloft capturing the star’s performance. “Obviously our key notes speaker is quite a big deal and we are quite excited to be here,” Brent Moore, State Bar of New Mexico president, said with a […]
  
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• Police: Driver pointed gun, ran red light before crashing

  19-08-2016 20:26 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – Las Cruces police say a 45-year-old man was arrested after pointing his gun at driver and running a red light in front of an officer during a road rage incident.
  Scott Swearingen of Organ, New Mexico, faces one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
  Police say they were called to a road rage incident on Thursday night. Swearingen was swerving and driving extremely slow in a pickup when another driver passed him and honked to get his attention. Swearingen
  
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• Updated: Mental scars showing on youngest victims of Louisiana floods

  19-08-2016 19:55
  
  DENHAM SPRINGS, La. — Michelle Parrott’s children hear thunder when there is no storm. When rain does fall, they ask their mother if the floodwaters are rising again. In flood-ravaged pockets of south Louisiana, mental scars are already showing on the youngest victims of a disaster that prompted more than 30,000 rescues and left an […]
  
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• New: Colin Powell told Clinton he used private email at State

  19-08-2016 19:54
  
  WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Friday he once sent Hillary Clinton a memo touting his use of a personal email account for work-related messages after she took over as the nation’s top diplomat in 2009. In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Powell said he emailed Clinton describing his use […]
  
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• Updated: Pole vault record holder Isinbayeva retires from competing

  19-08-2016 19:15
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Yelena Isinbayeva, the pole vault world record holder, says she is retiring from competing in the sport. Isinbayeva was prevented from seeking a third Olympic title in Rio de Janeiro after the IAAF banned all but one Russian track and field athlete from the games over their country’s state-sponsored doping scandal. […]
  
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• Updated: Florida officials: Zika spread by mosquitoes in South Beach

  19-08-2016 19:15
  
  MIAMI — South Beach has been identified as second site of Zika transmission by mosquitoes on the U.S. mainland, Florida officials said Friday. But Gov. Rick Scott said the state does not plan to advise people to stay away from the beaches, nightclubs and pedestrian thoroughfares that form the heart of South Florida’s travel industry. […]
  
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• Crews make major gains against Southern California wildfire

  19-08-2016 19:05 via krqe.com
  
  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Lisa Gregory has kept a close eye on the weather since fleeing her home in the woods as a wildfire advanced in Southern California. She doesn’t know when she can return or whether her house was still standing.
  The uncertainty “is an awful feeling,” Gregory said as she lounged in a lawn chair under a tree outside an evacuation center.
  Firefighters made major gains Thursday against the wildfire that broke out Tuesday in the mountains and desert
  
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• Updated: CDC warns pregnant women to avoid South Beach

  19-08-2016 18:59
  
  MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — The Latest on Zika infections in Florida (all times local): 1:45 p.m. U.S. health officials are warning pregnant women to avoid Miami Beach, where Florida officials say mosquitoes have spread the Zika virus to five people. In a statement Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said pregnant women […]
  
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• Florida officials: Zika spread by mosquitoes in South Beach

  19-08-2016 18:34 via krqe.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — South Beach has been identified as a second site of Zika transmission by mosquitoes on the U.S. mainland, Florida officials said Friday.
  The discovery prompted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to announce that it was expanding its travel warning for pregnant women to include the tourist-friendly area of Miami Beach.
  In a statement issued shortly after Gov. Rick Scott and health officials released the latest information, the CDC said pregnant women may also w
  
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• City manager: 2 Zika cases linked to Miami Beach

  19-08-2016 18:34 via krqe.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Two Zika cases have been linked to Miami Beach, according to an email sent by the city manager to local officials.
  Jimmy Morales wrote Miami Beach’s mayor and city commissioners on Thursday morning that his office was in “constant communication” with Florida’s Department of Health regarding mosquito control and investigations into Zika cases outside a previously identified infection zone in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood.
  “I have bee
  
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• New Mexico-Israel economic forum Sunday

  19-08-2016 18:06
  
  The Jewish Federation of New Mexico is holding a New Mexico-Israel economic forum on Sunday. The event will consist of three panels: “The State of the New Mexico-Israel Relationship: an update from New Mexican and Israeli civic leadership,” “Water Resource management and Hydrotechnology: the New Mexico-Israel connection,” and “The New Mexico-Israel Business Connection: what drives […]
  
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• Ice cream shop scooping up the taste of Olympic gold

  19-08-2016 18:04
  
  BALTIMORE — A Maryland ice cream shop is giving patrons a taste of Olympic gold. Baltimore’s The Charmery created a flavor in honor of swimmer Michael Phelps’ 23 Olympic gold medals. The shop started serving the limited-edition flavor Phelps Phlapjack Gold this week. The chocolate chip pancake-flavored ice cream was made using pancakes from Pete’s […]
  
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• Remains found near Houston are teen missing for 25 years

  19-08-2016 18:03
  
  WHARTON, Texas — The remains of a body found last year among trees and brush about 75 miles southwest of Houston have been identified as a 15-year-old girl who went missing from her job at a rural general store in 1990. Wharton County Sheriff’s Detective Scott Grosser says forensic testing confirms the remains of Rosemary […]
  
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• Updated: Text of the apology from US swimmer Ryan Lochte

  19-08-2016 18:01
  
  U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte issued an apology Friday morning about an incident that occurred early Sunday at the Rio Olympics. Lochte initially said he and three teammates had been robbed at gunpoint, but Rio police discounted that on Thursday and instead said the swimmers vandalized a gas station bathroom and then paid some guards before […]
  
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• Nebraska assistant suspended, miss 4 games after DUI arrest

  19-08-2016 18:00
  
  LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska receivers coach Keith Williams was suspended without pay until Aug. 31 and won’t be allowed to coach or attend the first four games after his arrest on suspicion of third-offense drunken driving last weekend. Coach Mike Riley made the announcement on Friday. Williams apologized for his actions and will enter counseling. […]
  
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• Texas unemployment rate for July up slightly to 4.6 percent

  19-08-2016 16:48
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Workforce Commission is reporting the Texas unemployment rate rose slightly in July to 4.6 percent, continuing a recent trend. The June statewide jobless rate was 4.5 percent, up one-tenth of a percentage point from May. The nationwide rate is 4.9 percent. Numbers released Friday show the Amarillo and Austin-Round Rock […]
  
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• Probation extended for southern Colorado DA Frank Ruybalid

  19-08-2016 16:48
  
  PUEBLO, Colo. — A southern Colorado district attorney who has admitted to mishandling more than a dozen criminal cases will remain on close supervision for another year but won’t have his law license suspended. The Pueblo Chieftain http://bit.ly/2b9jaPF) reports that Supreme Court’s Office of Attorney Regulation had recommended that Frank Ruybalid, the top prosecutor for […]
  
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• Southwestern Colorado officials search for abandoned llamas

  19-08-2016 16:47
  
  DURANGO, Colo. — Hikers are being asked to keep an eye out for two llamas who are loose after being left behind in the Weminuche (wehm-ih-NOO’-chee) Wilderness in southwestern Colorado. The Durango Herald reports (http://bit.ly/2bCYuQw ) that Dawson and Chai had to stay behind when their handlers were rescued by helicopter on Sunday. Their handlers […]
  
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• Breaking: Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigns

  19-08-2016 16:43
  
  Trump campaign chairman and chief strategist Paul Manafort has resigned from the campaign. GOP nominee Donald Trump confirmed the resignation in a statement Friday morning: “This morning Paul Manafort offered, and I accepted, his resignation from the campaign. I am very appreciative for his great work in helping to get us where we are today, […]
  
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• Prescott officer, driver collide

  19-08-2016 16:41
  
  PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Prescott police say one its officers suffered minor injuries after colliding with a 42-year-old woman while driving his police cruiser. The crash happened around 4:40 p.m. on Thursday as the officer was travelling east on Gurley Street approaching Bradshaw Driver in Prescott. The woman was heading west and attempted to turn left […]
  
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• Trump travels to Louisiana to survey flood damage

  19-08-2016 16:35 via krqe.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence were in Louisiana Friday to survey the flood damage that killed at least 13 people and displaced thousands more.
  The visit comes amid an ongoing staff shakeup. Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigned Friday following revelations about his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine. In a statement, Trump praised Manafort’s work on the campaign and called him a “true professional.”
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• Trump in Louisiana to survey floods as Manafort resigns

  19-08-2016 16:35 via krqe.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence were in Louisiana Friday to survey the flood damage that killed at least 13 people and displaced thousands more.
  The visit comes amid an ongoing staff shakeup. Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigned Friday following revelations about his work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine. In a statement, Trump praised Manafort’s work on the campaign and called him a “true professional.”
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• Early morning fire destroys Albuquerque mobile home

  19-08-2016 16:19
  
  The Albuquerque Fire Department is investigating a fire that destroyed a mobile home in the early Friday morning.
  
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• 2 killed in 550 crash

  19-08-2016 15:54
  
  Two people were killed in a Sandoval County crash Thursday.
  
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• Phoenix police shoot man who got into altercation with officer

  19-08-2016 15:42
  
  PHOENIX — Phoenix police say they fatally shot a man who got into a fight with an officer and broke his nose. Sgt. Vince Lewis says an officer was investigating a suspicious car parked at a Phoenix park around 2:30 a.m. on Friday when the suspect approached him. A physical fight ensued between the suspect […]
  
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• Updated: Trump arrives in Baton Rouge to tour flood areas

  19-08-2016 15:41
  
  WASHINGTON — The Latest on campaign 2016 (all times Eastern): 9:40 a.m. Donald Trump has arrived Baton Rouge Louisiana for a hastily planned tour of the flood-damaged city. The Republican presidential candidate’s plane landed Friday morning at a private facility at the Baron Rouge airport. He was joined by his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike […]
  
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• Updated: Ex-Wahlburgers employees sue, claiming denied wages and tips

  19-08-2016 15:40
  
  NEW YORK — Five former employees of the burger chain founded by celebrity brothers Mark and Donnie Wahlberg are suing the company over what they call “rampant” violations of labor laws. The ex-employees who filed the class-action suit in New York federal court Thursday previously worked at a Wahlburgers location in Brooklyn. They claim Wahlburgers […]
  
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• Updated: Crews make major gains against Southern California wildfire

  19-08-2016 15:40
  
  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Lisa Gregory has kept a close eye on the weather since fleeing her home in the woods as a wildfire advanced in Southern California. She doesn’t know when she can return or whether her house was still standing. The uncertainty “is an awful feeling,” Gregory said as she lounged in a […]
  
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• Turkish foreign minister pays surprise visit to Iran

  19-08-2016 15:40
  
  ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s foreign minister says he has paid a surprise visit to Iran just days after the two countries agreed to greater cooperation on Syria despite their differences. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told Turkish state media on Friday that he stopped in Tehran on his way to India on Thursday. The Turkish and […]
  
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• Justice Ginsburg takes off-season breather in New Mexico

  19-08-2016 15:29 via krqe.com
  
  POJOAQUE, N.M. (AP) – She was nominated by Bill Clinton, and has made regretful comments about Donald Trump.
  This week, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is spending time far from Washington in northern New Mexico, where she will address a gathering of the state bar association on Friday.
  The high court is out of session but it continues to be thrust into the presidential campaign spotlight by the refusal of Senate Republicans to hold confirmation hearings for President Barack Obam
  
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• New Mexico lawyer appointed DA in 12th Judicial District

  19-08-2016 15:21
  
  Attorney John Sugg has been appointed by Gov. Susana Martinez to serve as district attorney for the judicial district that covers Otero and Lincoln counties in southern New Mexico.
  
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