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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monica Hesse: How should we talk about Stephen Miller’s hair?

  18-12-2018 23:47 via sportspyder.com
  How should we talk about Stephen Miller's hair?
  
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• Patti Davis: A child occupies the White House. And the world knows it.

  18-12-2018 23:28
  Lately, I’ve been looking at home movies and photographs of my childhood years; I’m working on a documentary about my family’s life before politics claimed us. A time before the world moved in.There is something transformative about looking back at your parents when they were younger than you are now and seeing yourself as a small child gazing up at them, reaching for their hands. It resonates in some deep part of us — they were the first adults we knew, and we relied on
  
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• [Yahoo Sports] - Andre Iguodala tweets at NBA refs regarding James Harden's stepback

  18-12-2018 23:16 via sportspyder.com
  Andre Iguodala saw what James Harden got away with in the final minute of the Rockets game Monday night.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Real Salt Lake re-signs Tony Beltran

  18-12-2018 23:06 via sportspyder.com
  Real Salt Lake re-signed veteran defender Tony Beltran, the team announced Tuesday.
  
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• Monica Hesse: How should we talk about Stephen Miller’s hair?

  18-12-2018 23:00
  How should we talk about Stephen Miller's hair?Mock it? Ignore it? Understand it as a metaphor for our own vanity and mortality? The smart thing would be to simply refuse to touch it with a ten-foot pole ... but then how could we make sure it's really dead?Facile jokes aside, there are times in which describing something accurately also means describing it grotesquely, and what we're left with is this: On Sunday morning, the White House senior policy advisor appeared on "Face the Nation" with a
  
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• [KSL] - Ben Anderson: Should the Jazz take another look at Jabari Parker?

  18-12-2018 22:44 via sportspyder.com
  Jabari Parker is struggling in Chicago and is available in trades. Should the Jazz look to acquire the one-time rising star?
  
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• [Fansided: The J-Notes] - Utah Jazz: NBA Officials admit to missing egregious James Harden travel

  18-12-2018 22:32 via sportspyder.com
  The NBA's officials came forward and admitted that they missed a crucial call in Monday's contest between the Utah Jazz and Houston Rockets. The disappoint...
  
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• The Jazz host the Warriors on Wednesday — and get another opportunity to measure themselves against the top of the league

  18-12-2018 22:20
  Two months ago, the Jazz lost their home opener in heartbreaking fashion, with one of the rare players they didn’t bring back from last season’s roster — Jonas Jerebko — flying in for the game-winning tip-in, as the reigning champion Warriors prevailed 124-123.After the game, Jazz center Rudy Gobert had some telling words.“We’re gonna keep getting better — it’s just one game,” he said. “They came out ready tonight, we came out ready. We
  
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• Meet Mary, a melanoma & breast cancer survivor who uses her experience to advocate for other cancer patients. "..… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  18-12-2018 22:13 via twitter.com
  Meet Mary, a melanoma & breast cancer survivor who uses her experience to advocate for other cancer patients. "..… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Real Salt Lake re-signs Tony Beltran

  18-12-2018 22:12
  Real Salt Lake re-signed veteran defender Tony Beltran, the team announced Tuesday.“Tony is part of the fiber of this club,” RSL general manager Craig Waibel said in a news release. “Even as our roster evolves with a young core in place, it’s important to have players like Tony who are more than capable in their positions and excellent leaders in the locker room as well.”Beltran missed the entire 2018 season due to his recovery from a knee injury. While he did not p
  
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• Utes will grab a bigger chunk of their recruiting class this year as early signing day commences

  18-12-2018 22:02
  The Utah football program's first experience with December's early signing period produced a celebrated quarterback, but no coach's news conference last year.Ute coach Kyle Whittingham will address the media Wednesday, although he probably won't have a quarterback to discuss.Whittingham's plans are meaningful, in this sense: Utah is joining the national trend of making December the more significant window, as the “traditional [February] signing date is going to be very anticlimactic,&rdquo
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - The Jazz host the Warriors on Wednesday — and get another opportunity to measure themselves against the top of the league

  18-12-2018 21:55 via sportspyder.com
  Two months ago, the Jazz lost their home opener in heartbreaking fashion, with one of the rare players they didn’t bring back from last season’s roster — Jonas Jerebko — flying in for the game-winning tip-in, as the reigning champion Warriors...
  
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• Utah Jazz: NBA Officials admit to missing egregious James Harden travel

  18-12-2018 21:49
  The NBA’s officials came forward and admitted that they missed a crucial call in Monday’s contest between the Utah Jazz and Houston Rockets. The disappointment that has been the 2018-19 Utah Jazz season only continued Monday night as the Jazz fell once again, this time to the Houston Rockets, a team they’d played quite well […]
  Utah Jazz: NBA Officials admit to missing egregious James Harden travel - The J-Notes - The J-Notes - A Utah Jazz Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - Utah Jazz look to move on after NBA officials admit to James Harden’s missed traveling violation

  18-12-2018 21:44 via sportspyder.com
  "I didn't see it live, I saw that video,” said Jazz center Rudy Gobert. “I mean that's a new move. I haven't seen it before."
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utes will grab a bigger chunk of their recruiting class this year as early signing day commences

  18-12-2018 21:41 via sportspyder.com
  The Utah football program's first experience with December's early signing period produced a celebrated quarterback, but no coach's news conference last year.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Dana Milbank: This week in Trump inhumanity: Keeping a mother from her dying toddler

  18-12-2018 21:41 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • The Trump administration is making a fool of Chief Justice John Roberts.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Alexandra Petri: Job posting: White House chief of staff

  18-12-2018 21:41 via sportspyder.com
  Do you like to be insulted, both to your face and behind your back? Do you fantasize about someday being fired "like a dog"? When you sit in public, do people tell you that you have the resting face of Rodin's Thinker, With A Horrible Toothache, Who...
  
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• Utah Jazz look to move on after NBA officials admit to James Harden’s missed traveling violation

  18-12-2018 21:30
  HOUSTON — Basketball games aren't decided by one particular play, but NBA officials are now admitting that they missed a critical call late in Utah's 102-97 loss to the Houston Rockets on Monday.Reigning MVP James Harden ended with 47 points, including the game-winning dagger with 13.3 ticks remaining, but it was the possession before that where he got away with an illegal move.Matched up in an isolation situation with Ricky Rubio, Harden made two consecutive stepback moves before hoisting
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah customers complain when CenturyLink interrupts their service with a pop-up ad

  18-12-2018 21:17 via sportspyder.com
  Utahns who get their internet service from CenturyLink are complaining about a recent interruption in their service, which included a pop-up ad for the company’s security filters.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Actress and director Penny Marshall dies at age 75

  18-12-2018 21:17 via sportspyder.com
  Los Angeles • Penny Marshall, who starred in “Laverne & Shirley” before becoming one of the top-grossing female directors in Hollywood, has died. She was 75.
  
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• Dana Milbank: This week in Trump inhumanity: Keeping a mother from her dying toddler

  18-12-2018 21:13
  Washington • The Trump administration is making a fool of Chief Justice John Roberts.Administration lawyers told the Supreme Court that Trump's travel ban was not a "Muslim ban" in large part because it grants waivers to those in hardship who don't pose a national-security threat — and Roberts fell for it. In his majority opinion upholding the ban, he cited the waiver program, which helped give the ban "sufficient national security justification" and was similar to "humanitarian excep
  
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• Utes will grab a bigger chunk of its recruiting class this year as early signing day commences

  18-12-2018 21:01
  The Utah football program's first experience with December's early signing period produced a celebrated quarterback, but no coach's news conference last year.Ute coach Kyle Whittingham will address the media Wednesday, although he probably won't have a quarterback to discuss.Whittingham's plans are meaningful, in this sense: Utah is joining the national trend of making December the more significant window, as the “traditional [February] signing date is going to be very anticlimactic,&rdquo
  
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• Alexandra Petri: Job posting: White House chief of staff

  18-12-2018 21:00
  Do you like to be insulted, both to your face and behind your back? Do you fantasize about someday being fired "like a dog"? When you sit in public, do people tell you that you have the resting face of Rodin's Thinker, With A Horrible Toothache, Who Has Just Received Disturbing News? Do you leap at opportunities even Chris Christie has refused?If so, you might be just the right candidate for White House chief of staff! The position combines the job security of a redshirt with the welcoming workp
  
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• Utah customers complain when CenturyLink interrupts their service with a pop-up ad

  18-12-2018 20:44
  Utahns who get their internet service from CenturyLink are complaining about a recent interruption in their service, which included a pop-up ad for the company’s security filters.CenturyLink claims the interruption was to give a security notice required by a recent Utah law — though even the Utah legislator who sponsored the law says the company didn’t need to cut into web service to deliver it.Eric Rathofer said he was using his smartphone when it displayed an error message th
  
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• BYU has commitments from 16 football recruits, and all but a couple are expected to sign Wednesday when early signing period begins

  18-12-2018 20:43
  Provo • Tight end Dallin Holker was sure he wanted to sign with BYU when the inaugural college football early signing period began last December.But the freshman who has made an immediate impact in 2018 with 18 receptions for 215 yards and a touchdown held off until February’s traditional signing period because he wanted to sign with his Lehi High School teammates in a ceremony at the school.His message to any prep and junior college players who have committed to BYU is simple: Don&rs
  
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• Tribune editorial: Run some new ideas up the Utah flagpole

  18-12-2018 20:39
  Utah’s leaders and fans like to think of their state as unique. And, in many ways, it is. Some of them good.But just try to pick our official state flag out of a line-up of all 50 state standards, and suddenly we don’t seem so special.The Utah state flag is what vexillologists (folks who dig flags) call a Seal on a Bedsheet or, to be even more condescending about it, an S.O.B. Like the flags of Kansas, New York, New Hampshire, Kentucky and others, the Utah flag is a big blue field wi
  
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• BYU grad invents glitter bomb with fart spray to discourage package thieves — and millions are watching the video on YouTube

  18-12-2018 20:30
  A BYU grad/engineer/inventor, frustrated about packages being stolen off his porch, came up with an “over-engineered monstrosity” — a fake package that explodes with glitter and sprays fart smells on the thieves.And he’s gotten more than 10 million views on YouTube with his video about the device as of Tuesday afternoon.Mark Rober, who graduated from BYU with a degree in mechanical engineering, got a master's degree from USC and spent nine years working at NASA's Jet Prop
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - UCLA, Utah picked to finish 1-2 in Pac-12 gymnastics coaches’ poll

  18-12-2018 20:28 via sportspyder.com
  The competition for the Pac-12 Gymnastics Championship looks like a familiar one as UCLA and Utah were picked to finish first and second, respectively, in the preseason coaches’ poll announced Tuesday.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - BYU has commitments from 16 football recruits, and all but a couple are expected to sign Wednesday when early signing period begins

  18-12-2018 20:28 via sportspyder.com
  Provo • Tight end Dallin Holker was sure he wanted to sign with BYU when the inaugural college football early signing period began last December.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Salt Lake City unveils the shops that’ll be in the new airport and promises prices will be as low as elsewhere in the city

  18-12-2018 20:26 via sportspyder.com
  A mix of 29 local and national retail, news and gift stores will pack the rebuilt Salt Lake City International Airport when its first phase opens in late 2020 — and by contract they will keep prices there as low as in stores elsewhere in the city.
  
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• Actress and director Penny Marshall dies at age 75

  18-12-2018 20:26
  Los Angeles • Penny Marshall, who starred in “Laverne & Shirley” before becoming one of the top-grossing female directors in Hollywood, has died. She was 75.Mashall's publicist, Michelle Bega, said Marshall passed away in her Hollywood Hills, Calif., home on Monday due to complications from diabetes.Marshall starred alongside Cindy Williams in the hit ABC comedy “Laverne & Shirley,” which aired from 1976 to 1983. As a filmmaker, she became the first woman to
  
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• Flynn’s sentencing delayed after judge tells ex-Trump adviser he may not avoid prison

  18-12-2018 20:23
  Washington • A federal judge on Tuesday postponed the sentencing for Michael Flynn after he lambasted President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser for trying to undermine his own country and said he could not guarantee he would spare Flynn from prison.The stunning development means that Flynn will have to be sentenced at a later date, when he can possibly convince a judge more thoroughly of how his cooperation has benefited law enforcement.Flynn's attorneys asked for the
  
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• UCLA, Utah picked to finish 1-2 in Pac-12 gymnastics coaches’ poll

  18-12-2018 20:18
  The competition for the Pac-12 Gymnastics Championship looks like a familiar one as UCLA and Utah were picked to finish first and second, respectively, in the preseason coaches’ poll announced Tuesday.UCLA, which won the title in 2018 as well as 2012 and 2016, earned 49 points while the Utes, who won the crown in 2017, 2015 and 2014, had 42 points. The Bruins had seven first-place votes and Utah had the other one.California (36) was picked third followed by Oregon State (30), Washington (2
  
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• [Deadspin] - It's No Fun To Get Stuck Between Superstars

  18-12-2018 20:17 via sportspyder.com
  This excerpt from Sam Anderson’s new book Boom Town, a book on the rapid rise of Oklahoma City and its NBA franchise, joins the team at home for Game 46 of the 2012-13 season, and considers the least-heralded member of what looked at the time like a...
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Tribune editorial: Run some new ideas up the Utah flagpole

  18-12-2018 20:08 via sportspyder.com
  Utah’s leaders and fans like to think of their state as unique. And, in many ways, it is. Some of them good.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Monson: Troy Taylor is gone, and Kyle Whittingham, the Dark Overlord of Utah’s offense, reigns on

  18-12-2018 20:08 via sportspyder.com
  Troy Taylor is gone, and it’s not a matter of him wanting to be a head coach at a place like Sacramento State.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Federal judge delays Flynn sentencing hearing

  18-12-2018 20:08 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • A federal judge has agreed to delay former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s sentencing so he can continue cooperating with the Russia probe.
  
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• Utah’s air pollution could lead to miscarriages, according to one study, but doctors aren’t talking about it

  18-12-2018 20:04
  A new University of Utah study shows a link between air pollution and miscarriage, adding to a body of research implicating bad air in a number of pregnancy risks.But the findings are not filtering into Utah doctors’ offices, according to several obstetricians and patients who told The Salt Lake Tribune that air pollution is not typically discussed in prenatal visits, despite frequently unsafe pollution levels along the Wasatch Front.“I don’t think it's coming up reliably at al
  
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• [Deseret Morning News] - The best reactions to James Harden's 'stepback to his stepback' against the Jazz (including Donovan Mitchell's)

  18-12-2018 20:03 via sportspyder.com
  Twitter users had some great reactions to the end of the Utah Jazz-Houston Rockets game on Monday night.
  
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• Salt Lake City unveils the shops that’ll be in the new airport and promises prices will be as low as elsewhere in the city

  18-12-2018 20:02
  A mix of 29 local and national retail, news and gift stores will pack the rebuilt Salt Lake City International Airport when its first phase opens in late 2020 — and by contract they will keep prices there as low as in stores elsewhere in the city.“It is known as ‘street pricing,’” said John Buckner, director of commercial properties for the airport. “So if something is $3 in our neighborhood, it will be $3 here."He added that other airports that use street pri
  
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• Utah defense attorney who smuggled heroin and cocaine into jail is arrested again for more drug crimes

  18-12-2018 20:00
  A Utah defense attorney is back in jail on drug charges months after he pleaded guilty to smuggling heroin and cocaine into the Weber County jail.Tony Miles was charged Monday with two counts of drug possession and a charge of possessing drug paraphernalia.Miles, an Ogden-based defense attorney, had been out on bail after he pleaded guilty in October to third-degree felony drug possession. He was scheduled to be sentenced in early January.An Ogden police officer wrote in a probable cause stateme
  
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• Monson: Troy Taylor is gone, and Kyle Whittingham, the Dark Overlord of Utah’s offense, reigns on

  18-12-2018 19:59
  Troy Taylor is gone, and it’s not a matter of him wanting to be a head coach at a place like Sacramento State.Not even close.In keeping with Utah’s legacy of ever-revolving now-you-see-them-now-you-don’t offensive coordinators, Taylor is out of here because Kyle Whittingham wanted him out, according to people close to the program who know. Some will attempt to pretty the thing up, which is to say, power-wash the truth, but it’s just as plain as that.Taylor wanted to sprea
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Catherine Rampell: Republicans’ relentless attempts to undermine Obamacare escalate American anxiety

  18-12-2018 19:58 via sportspyder.com
  "How many times do we have to go through this?"
  
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• The best reactions to James Harden's 'stepback to his stepback' against the Jazz (including Donovan Mitchell's)

  18-12-2018 19:48
  With the Houston Rockets leading the Utah Jazz 97-94 and less than a minute remaining on Monday night, Rockets guard James Harden drew a foul on Jazz guard Ricky Rubio behind the 3-point line and made two of his three free-throw tries to all but seal the victory.But both in real time and especially in slower motion, it appeared Harden rather blatantly traveled, but only Rubio was penalized.HOW MANY STEPS IS THIS HARDEN STEP BACK pic.twitter.com/OFV0DSuFMo— Fastbreak Breakfast (@fastbreakbr
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Utah defense attorney who smuggled heroin and cocaine into jail is arrested again for more drug crimes

  18-12-2018 19:45 via sportspyder.com
  A Utah defense attorney is back in jail on drug charges months after he pleaded guilty to smuggling heroin and cocaine into the Weber County jail.
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - BYU grad invents glitter bomb with fart spray to discourage package thieves — and millions are watching the video on YouTube

  18-12-2018 19:45 via sportspyder.com
  A BYU grad/engineer/inventor, frustrated about packages being stolen off his porch, came up with an “over-engineered monstrosity” — a fake package that explodes with glitter and sprays fart smells on the thieves.
  
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• “At the end of the day, why are we here? We’re here to help others.” #NBACares | @JazzDoingGood » on.nba.com/2R2oBH2

  18-12-2018 19:18 via twitter.com
  “At the end of the day, why are we here? We’re here to help others.”#NBACares | @JazzDoingGood» on.nba.com/2R2oBH2
  
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• [Salt Lake Tribune] - Trump administration moves to ban bump stocks

  18-12-2018 19:17 via sportspyder.com
  Washington • The Trump administration moved Tuesday to officially ban bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like automatic firearms, and has made them illegal to possess beginning in late March.
  
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• Catherine Rampell: Republicans’ relentless attempts to undermine Obamacare escalate American anxiety

  18-12-2018 19:10
  "How many times do we have to go through this?"That’s what Kathy Tomasic wants to know. Painstakingly, she has planned her life — and that of her teenage son, who has a rare genetic disorder — around access to health care. She did so based on a specific set of assumptions about what kinds of insurance would be available to her family, under what conditions and for how many years.But Friday, that careful planning was once again thrown into doubt — this time by a federal ju
  
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• Trump administration moves to ban bump stocks

  18-12-2018 18:52
  Washington • The Trump administration moved Tuesday to officially ban bump stocks, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like automatic firearms, and has made them illegal to possess beginning in late March.The devices will be banned under a federal law that prohibits machine guns, according to a senior Justice Department official.Bump stocks became a focal point of the national gun control debate after they were used in October 2017 when a man opened fired from his Las Vegas h
  
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