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Charter-House opens nominations for 20th Ghana Music Awards

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Porcia Oforiwaa
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Charter-House Productions Limited, organizers of the Ghana Music Awards Festival have officially opened nominations for the 20th edition and anniversary of the event.

Making the announcement via their official twitter page the company said “it’s time to be recognized.

Nominations are officially open for the special 20th anniversary edition of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards. Nominations close January 31st 2019.”

Interested stakeholders are therefore entreated to pick up nomination forms from Charterhouse Productions Limited office, partner radio and TV stations or download from www.ghanamusicawards.com.

Alternatively, forms can also be filled and submitted online via www.entry.ghanamusicawards.com.

Ghana | Atinkaoanline.com | Ishmael Atiemo

Top Rwandan model ‘murdered’

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Porcia Oforiwaa
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Rwandan model and actress Alexia Mupende was killed on Tuesday evening at her father’s house.

The 35-year-old showcased Rwanda’s clothing brands on the international scene.

Preliminary reports suggest she died after being stabbed by a domestic worker, Rwanda’s private pro-government paper the New Times reports.

It has emerged that she was due to get married next month and wedding invitations had been sent out, it says.

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Dbanj meets President Akuffo Addo

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Porcia Oforiwaa
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Nigeria's music icon Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo popularly known as Dbanj on Monday 7th January, 2018 paid a courtesy call on Nana Akuffo Addo the President of the republic of Ghana.

The visit according to sources forms part of the musician’s project of boosting the relations between the creative art industry of Ghana and Nigeria.

The “Oliver Twist” hit maker posted on his Instagram page a picture of him and the president at the Jubilee House in what seemed like a conversation

He captioned his post

“Ghana 2019. It was an amazing meeting with the president of Ghana. Can’t wait to share with you all what’s coming…… Content is the New Crude”

The second caption also said “Meeting with Mr. President “Nana Akufo-Addo”

Let’s take the creative industry to the next level…….. 2019 …… power moves!!!”

Ghana | Atinkaoanline.com |Whitney Johnson

BoG, gov’t complicit in MenzGold scandal –Victims' lawyer

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Daniel Opare
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Lawyer for aggrieved customers of MenzGold, Amanda Clinton, has accused Ghana’s Central Bank of failing to do potential due diligence.

On September 12, 2018, the SEC first told Menzgold to stop gold trading operations with the public.

According to the SEC, Menzgold had been dealing in the purchase and deposit of gold collectables from the public and issuing contracts with guaranteed returns with clients, without a valid license from the Commission.

In an interview with Host of AM Drive, Kaakyire Ofori Ayim Wednesday Morning, Lawyer for the aggrieved customers of MenzGold, Amanda Clinton explained that BoG cannot escape blame in the MenzGold Scandal.

She noted that that the Central Bank’s failure to stop the Gold trading firm in its first year of operations makes them complicit in the whole scandal.

Citing Anas’ Number 12 expose as an example, Amanda Clinton stated that government should be interested in the MenzGold saga just like the effort they placed in the expose.

“What is reality however is that 1.8 million Ghanaians affected in the last five years in the region of $200 million invested in an unregulated company. The reality of the situation is that people just want their money and that is what we are pushing for.”

Menzgold customers in the Ashanti Region, Tuesday staged another demonstration in Kumasi to display their displeasure with their locked up investment with the embattled gold dealership company.

Meanwhile, Menzgold Customer, Nana Adwoa, who invested Ghc70,000.00 has threatened to poison herself if the embattled gold dealership firm fails to pay her dividends.

Ghana | Atinkaonline.com | Vivian Adu Boatemaa

10 wrong reasons to walk down the aisle

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Porcia Oforiwaa
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Kobina Ansah

When you come from Africa, you need not to be told how important weddings are here. Your parents can get so involved as though they are the ones walking down the aisle. As if that’s not enough, you can actually lose friends you don’t invite… forever. Yes, you heard me right. Forever!

This sheds light on the fact that weddings are such a big deal here in Africa. They are looked-forward-to events. And of course… there are expectations to be met.

Ironically, would-be couples sometimes get so busy organizing their nuptials that they forget to sit to analyze the reasons behind such a big investment. It’s indeed a huge investment because it involves not only your money but your mind, heart and soul, too. Time will expose our intentions and it would be unfortunate if those intentions are wrong.

Are you about to walk down the aisle? Don’t do so for these reasons. Wrong intentions become wrong foundations.

  1. “I am not growing any younger!”

Any man/woman with such a mindset is vulnerable because they are desperate. When desperation sets into our lives, we take decisions without carefully thinking through such. When a woman fears old age may catch up with her, she wouldn’t mind settling with just anyone.

It’s better to wait forever than to hasten into a “happy never after” marriage. It’s better to wait for a longer period than walk down the aisle in haste just because age is at your heels.

  1. “He is the only one who can give me my dream wedding!”

As you read this, you’d be utterly amazed that a potential couple somewhere is on the brink of going their separate ways because the man can’t afford the woman’s dream wedding. In today’s world, many women find themselves locked in some seriously uncomfortable marriages because all they wanted was a man who could give them their dream wedding, not dream marriage.

All one needs to give you your dream wedding is money. However, for a dream marriage, a lot, especially maturity, comes to play. You pre-sign your divorce papers, as a young woman, when all you want is someone who will give you that luxurious wedding you’ve always dreamt of. You may get the wedding… but not the peace thereafter.

  1. “I am pregnant!”

Back in the day, marriages started with, “When can we come see your parents?” These days, it is, “I am pregnant oo!” I call such marriages “emergency weddings” because everything is done in haste to avoid public ridicule. It even gets to a point in the marriage that one or both realize the foundation of the institution was the pregnancy… not love.

Love is patient. Marriage is not a crash course which should be rushed through. Walking down the aisle is great but be certain it’s not because of pregnancy… and even if it is, there should be love!

  1. “I want to put my ex and my enemies to shame!”

Ever met someone who has still not gotten over their past relationship? At the least opportunity, they want to take a swipe at their exes. They would flaunt their promissory ring on social media with a lousy caption, “He thought I was finished…”

When their fiancé gives them a lift, they’d share a photo, “Observers are worried.” Every little move of theirs is to get the attention of their exes and some supposed enemies (oftentimes non-existent).

When you are in this state of indecision, you are very likely to make a wrong partner choice because you are doing everything with your ex/enemies as a measuring gauge. You just want to outcompete them. You want to impress them.

Later on in the marriage when reality comes slapping you in the face, you’d know that marriage goes beyond your pettiness. When it’s been said and done, the only person who would have been put to shame would have been you!

Get over your ex. Get over your enemies. 

  1. “I feel pity for him/her!”

If you feel pity for someone, let them go… not stay. Marriage is too serious a business to run on pity. At the least challenge in the marriage, you’d make reference to this so-called pity you had for them.

Pity is a short-lasting feeling. However, marriage is supposed to be a permanent decision. Just as you can’t buy one-gallon fuel for a journey that will last days, you can’t run your marriage on the wheels of pity.

If what you feel is pity (and not love), it is better to let them go. When the storms rage, love is what you will need, not pity.

  1. “He/she is my ‘last chance’!”

The only person who has a “last chance” at love is a corpse. If you don’t intend on committing suicide yet, never assume someone will ever be your last chance in life!

Many have rushed down the aisle despite all the red flags that were shoved into their faces because they thought they never may have been successful at love again. As long as there’s life, there are chances— a lot of them.

If you see all the red flags you can’t live with, let them go. It’s better for them to indeed be your last chance than worst chance!   

  1. “I can’t wait to own those big breasts!”

Charm attracts us but what keeps any relationship is character. That is why it is very deceptive to be seduced to the altar because of someone’s outward appearance. If her breasts are all you want, what happens when they begin to sag after delivery? If all you’re after is her beauty, what happens when wrinkles ambush her face at 40?

Beauty fades. What stays when everything is gone… is character!

  1. “We’ve dated for far too long!”

Yes, if you have dated for far too long, you both need to settle down. The challenge, however, is when there are glaring “buts” but you still dare to overlook such because of how long you’ve dated. Interestingly, all the red flags we overlook before marriage only become more conspicuous after marriage.

It doesn’t matter how long both of you date. It’s better to lose a man/woman before marriage than after it. Both have consequences but the latter is worse.

  1. “I am going to be happier!”

You see, marriage doesn’t come along with a certificate of happiness. An unhappy single will still be an unhappy double. Happiness is something we should be intentional about. It’s not some kind of anointing that falls on us while we exchange our rings at the altar.

Be intentional about your happiness, whether you’re walking down the aisle or down a football field!

  1. “I want to flee fornication!”

Wait. Have you ever heard of adultery before? You think if marriage was a cure to sleeping with people we’re not married to, such a word as adultery would exist?

You’ll only be disappointed that the urge to sleep around doesn’t evaporate into thin air after a wedding. Marriage is not the solution to your fornication. Self-control is!

#WedTalk

#AyefroInc

 

Kobina Ansah is a playwright and team leader of Scribe Communications (www.scribecommltd.com), an Accra-based writing firm.

Asaawase Killings: 250k compensation fee peanut – Spokesperson

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Daniel Opare
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Yussif Ganiyu, spokesperson for Justice for Zongo community in Asaawase says the group is more interested in justice than the GHS250,000 as compensation fees.  

Seven men were killed in Asaawase in the Ashanti Region in July 2018. The seven were allegedly mistaken by the police for members of an eight-man armed robbery gang that attacked a sprinter bus, shot dead a police officer with the SWAT Unit of the Ashanti Regional Police Command near Manso Nkwanta in the Amasie West District of the region.

The deceased officer, Lance Corporal Daniel Teiku, was on duty with his colleague, Lance Corporal Eric Nsiah, when eight armed men attacked the vehicle they were travelling in at Ayirebikrom near Manso Nkwanta on July 13.

The killings on July 7, 2018, which did not go down well with some irate youth of Asaawase, led to the blocking of all roads leading to the area from the Kumasi Central mosque. They argued that the 7 were not armed robbers.

A seven-member committee was finally instituted to investigate the killings. The committee has in a report, interdicted some twenty-one (21) police personnel and are to be subjected to a formal criminal investigation for their alleged role in the killing of seven Zongo youth at Manso Nkwanta in the Ashanti Region on July 17, 2018 on the grounds that it found no evidence that the deceased persons were armed robbers.

The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo in a meeting with the Asaawase Zongo community, announced that the government has released a sum of GHS250,000 which will be allocated to families of the 7 men.

Speaking to Kaakyire Ofori Ayim on Atinka AM Drive, Yussif Ganiyu, spokesperson for Justice for Zongo community in Asaawase noted that although the money is only a compensation, the Zongo community will be more appreciative if justice was served.

“We understand that the monies will cushion the families but ultimately, we want to see Justice, not the monies. We want to see that the wicked people who were behind these killings are brought to book," he added.

The group also called on government to ask the former Ashanti Regional Police commander, DCOP Mensah Doku to resign with immediate effect from the police service.

The Ashanti Regional Police Command had initially claimed that the seven, all residents of Asaawase Zongo in Kumasi were armed robbers who exchanged fire with the police. 

Ghana | Atinkaonline.com | Vivian Adu Boatemaa 

 

 

Kotoko can’t travel to Cameroon by Unity Air

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Porcia Oforiwaa
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Asante Kotoko’s initial plan of flying to Cameroon by Kwame Kyei’s Unity Air has been canceled following the airline’s inability to secure international Clearance Certificate.

The Porcupine warriors are the only team representing Ghana in Africa, thus the CAF Confederation Cup and will soon leave the shores of the country ahead of the much-anticipating game with Coton Sports de Garoua.

Kotoko is slated to play as visitors to Cameroon side Coton Sports in the final play-off of the Confederation Cup after eliminating Sharks.

The Kumasi-based outfit planned on leaving Ghana to Cameroon with charted flight owned by club chairman, DR. Kwame Kyei, according to Greater Accra Representative.

However, a source revealed to Kumasi based radio station, Ashh FM that, the Porcupine warriors cannot make the trip to Cameroon with the club’s Chairman, Dr. Kwame Kyei Unity Airlines following their inability to get International Clearance Certificate to airlift to Cameroon.

The doubleheader is slated for January, however, Kotoko will honor the first leg on Sunday, January 13 in Cameroon.

The return leg will be played in Kumasi at the Baba Yara Stadium a week after.

Ghana | Atinkaoanline.com

Nana Appiah Mensah's life is under threat – PRO

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Porcia Oforiwaa
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The life of the CEO of Menzgold Ghana Limited, Nana Appiah Mensah, is under threat, thus, the opacity surrounding his whereabouts, Nii Armah Amaterifio, the acting Director of Communication of the now-troubled firm, has said.

The troubled company, since August last year, has not been able to pay its 1.8 million clients’ extra values or principal investments totalling $200 million dollars following a directive to the company by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to stop its gold vault market operations over regulatory infractions.

Since that period, NAM1 has not been seen in Ghana. He only tweets or speaks to his radio station, Zylofon FM on the telephone.

There have been claims by some of the company’s aggrieved customers as well as certain people who claim to be close to NAM1 that he is hiding in South Africa or Nigeria.

Already, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has described the customers of Menzgold as “greedy” people, adding that the government will not spend a pesewa of taxpayers’ money to compensate the aggrieved clients.

Meanwhile, the founder of think tank Danquah Institute (DI), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has revealed that Nana Appiah Mensah (NAM1) has fled Ghana and gone into hiding.

Following a demonstration by aggrieved clients of the company in Kumasi on Tuesday, 8 January 2018, Mr Asare Otchere-Darko tweeted: “I understand the owner of Menzgold, Nana Appiah Mensah, has breached his bail condition and absconded.

“We can’t allow those who allegedly dupe people with such impunity to get away with it that easily. Let’s smoke them out, wherever they are, and throw the book at them!

“While I will not want a pesewa of my tax money to be involved with this Ponzi matter, I believe the majority of Ghanaians will agree with me that the law must come down heavily on those who use such schemes to destroy the lives of many people”.

Mr Amarteifio, however, said: “His life is at risk, and, so, for some security reasons, we cannot disclose where he is at the moment”, he told Kwabena Prah Jnr (The Don) on Ghana Yensom on Accra100.5FM on Wednesday, 9 January 2019.

He further stated that Menzgold is a legitimate business registered under the laws of Ghana, therefore, cannot be a Ponzi scheme as being claimed by some Ghanaians.

Ghana | Atinkaoanline.com

Agric Students to boycott classes on Febuary 8 over ‘neglect’

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Porcia Oforiwaa
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The leadership of Agricultural Colleges Students Union, (ACSU) comprising of Kwadaso Agricultural College, Ohawu Agricultural College, Tamale Animal Health and production college, Damango Agricultural college and Ejura Agricultural College has announced its intention not to resume on February 8, for the next academic calendar.

That’s according to a statement jointly signed and issued by the National President of Agricultural Colleges Students Union, Tokoli Promise Buenortey and the ACSU President, Kwadaso College of Agriculture, Twum Michael.

According to the students, they feel neglected and have no access to government benefit.

The Students leadership in the statement copied to gbcghanaonline on Wednesday, January 9, 2019, said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, then candidate in his 2016 election campaign promised to restore the scrapped allowances, feeding grants, and others but since assuming office, Agricultural Colleges students in the country has seen nothing.

Below Is The Full Statement:

AGRIC STUDENTS TO BOYCOTT CLASSES ON FEBRUARY 8 OVER NEGLECT*

The leadership of Agricultural Colleges Students Union(ACSU)   comprising of Kwadaso Agricultural College, Ohawu Agricultural College, Tamale Animal Health and production college, Damango Agricultural college and Ejura Agricultural College wish to declare its intention not to resume on the 8th February, for the next academic calendar and also help the politicians to collapse Agricultural Colleges in the country, since Teacher and Nursing Training colleges are their priorities.

Agriculture has been and still the backbone and the problem solver but is not under the umbrella and the dinner table of the nation, is the nursing and teacher trainees who are dearly served.

We feel neglected and have no access to government benefit. President Nana Akufo-Addo, then candidate in his 2016 election campaign promised  to restore our scrapped allowances, feeding grants, and others but since assuming office, Agricultural Colleges students in the country has seen nothing.

The leadership of ACSU after several formal attempts at getting the Ministry to properly address the plight of the students of the colleges took a unanimous decision with the concern of the students to embark on a peaceful demonstration at the head office of the ministry at Accra in November, 2018.

The minister, Honourable Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto assured the student body that the ministry had sent the concerns of the students to parliament, and that solutions were being found to the issues.

The student body after receiving no favourable response from the ministry went on an indefinite strike.

The ministry, then called the ACSU leadership for a meeting. At the meeting were SRC representatives from all the colleges. At the meeting, documents were shown to the student leaders which clearly showed that the ministry was indeed making efforts at getting the issues resolved.

The ministry made it clear that it was waiting for clearance from the finance ministry to make allowances accessible to students.

The ministry also promised that it was also working on bringing in the student loan provision in addition to  the restoration of the allowances.

ACSU want to state on record that, the NPP government led by His Excellency Nana Akufo-Addo promised allowances and not student loans as they are saying, and now the question is why is it that only agric colleges are to go for students loan?

Thus, this confirmed what the spokesperson for the Ministry Issah Tanko said the government is paying much attention to the sensitive part meaning, they lied to us to win power but not how to improve the lives of we the Ghanaian or the the education sector.

The ministry prior to this meeting had gone to all colleges to pick data on students. There was therefore every indication that the allowances were going to be restored.

Furthermore, the ministry showed that many processes had gone on towards the restoration of the allowances which would take some bureaucratic processes to happen, so students were rather doing themselves harm by sitting at home.

The  leadership of ACSU then took the decision to call off the strike upon pleas from the ministry as well as agitation by a considerable section of the student body.

Unfortunately, the ministry gave no response as had been previously promised, leading to the dropping out of some students as well as the deferment of courses by some.

If government deemed it right to restore allowances to teacher and nursing training colleges, government must as a matter of urgency realise that the Agric colleges deserve same, as the students depend heavily on the allowances for their upkeep and tuition in some extreme cases.

Many final year students under the previous ACSU administration had to drop out due to lack of finances to cover the overly expensive tuition.

The leadership of ACSU has every cause to believe government released monies to be paid to students as allowances and the ministry diverted the funds, owing to the documents that Hon. Oduro showed the executives.

ACSU is therefore demanding for the resignation of Hon. George Oduro for deceiving a student body of over 2,500 and subsequently ask for the restoration of the allowances as promised, improved infrastructure, feeding grants and the provision of buses before 8th February, 2019.

On Tuesday 27th November, 2018, in pursuant to issues arising among  Agricultural Colleges Students Union concerning issues of allowances and other internal matters ranging from utility, feeding grants, health and safety, just to mention but a few, a delegation from the National Secretariat of NUGS led the Coordinating Secretary, Leader Shadrach Owusu paid a visit to the student leadership of the Agricultural Colleges Students Union (ACSU) at Kwadaso in Kumasi to have a dialogue and also to help in bringing up strategic plans in solving the problem at stake.

The leadership of ACSU stated with all emphasis problems they face, core of which are as follows;

1. Lack of allowances; a major problem

Unlike the teacher and Nursing trainees, the agricultural college students allowance have been scrapped off since 2015.

2. Direct employment after school.

This was to express their displeasure on the Government’s interest in moving graduates under the Teacher Trainee and Nursing students into the Job field, seemingly neglecting them who equally contribute to the country’s economic growth through Agriculture.

3. Feeding grant

They stated that aside their allowances being squashed off, they have to pay their own feeding fee which is 3gh a day (and you can imagine what kind of meal 3gh can fetch in 3 square meals)….

4. Buses and Transportation

They stated that they have no busing system in the school and due to the practical nature of their course, they have to be paying to organise transportation when they are going to the field, and with they not getting any allowances it makes it very difficult for them

5. Poor infrastructure and Poor welfare conditions.

The SRC stated that issues concerning health was a major problem as they don’t even have an infirmary.

NUGS assures them that their concerns will be tackled with immediate effect and solutions would be drawn from the appropriate quarters but all proved futile.

ACSU believes the government has shifted it’s attention to the Teacher and Nursing Training colleges and we intend to join them to get the needed attention.

What hurts most was the spokesperson for the Ministry of Food and Agriculture(MoFA), Issah  Tanko telling Agribiz TV that the government want to pay much attention to the sensitive areas before us, as Agricultural students.

We are by this declaring that, we are not going to resume on the 8th February, 2019 until our challenges are addressed and ready to help politicians collapse Agricultural  colleges in the country.

Signed:

Tokoli Promise Buenortey

(National President of Agricultural Colleges Students Union)

Twum Michael,  (ACSU President, Kwadaso College of Agriculture)

Ghana | Atinkaoanline.com | Ishmael Atiemo

Salah is CAF Player of the Year 2018

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Porcia Oforiwaa
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Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah is the 2018 Confederation of African Football Player of the Year – the second consecutive year he has won the award.

Egypt forward Salah, 26, beat Liverpool team-mate Sadio Mane of Senegal and Arsenal and Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to the title.

He received the award at a ceremony in Senegal on Tuesday.

“I have dreamt of winning this award since I was a child and now I have done so twice in a row,” Salah said.

Houston Dash and South Africa forward Thembi Kgatlana was named Women’s Player of the Year.

Salah was voted the BBC African Footballer of the Year for the second time in December.

He scored 44 goals for Liverpool during the 2017-18 season, helping the Reds to the Champions League final before scoring twice for Egypt at the World Cup in Russia.

He has scored 16 goals in 29 appearances across all competitions for Liverpool this season.

Salah, Mane and Aubameyang were joined in the Team of the Year by Manchester United defender Eric Bailly, Manchester City midfielder Riyad Mahrez, Liverpool midfielder Naby Keita and Tottenham full-back Serge Aurier.

On Tuesday, Caf announced Egypt will host the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.

Africa Best XI: Denis Onyango (Mamelodi Sundowns/Uganda), Serge Aurier (Tottenham/Ivory Coast), Medhi Benatia (Juventus/Morocco), Eric Bailly (Manchester United/Ivory Coast), Kalidou Koulibaly (Napoli/Senegal); Naby Keita (Liverpool/Guinea), Thomas Partey (Atletico Madrid/Ghana), Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City/Algeria); Mohamed Salah (Liverpool/Egypt), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal/Gabon), Sadio Mane (Liverpool/Senegal).

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