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The Hollywood awards season kicked into high gear early Thursday as the nominees for the Golden Globe Awards were announced.
Leading the pack are The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, about a man born old who grows young, Frost/Nixon about a series of revealing television interviews of the notorious US president and Doubt, a searing...
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 With no clear leader yet to emerge in the bid for their party's
nominations, US presidential contenders face key tests in South
Carolina and Nevada later Saturday as they scramble for their party's
presidential nomination.
Most of the focus will be on the centre-right Republicans in South
Carolina, the first southern state in the...
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 Senator Barack Obama, who is waging a fierce battle for the Democratic
presidential nomination, Saturday said his drug use as a teenager was
not "relevant" to his bid for the White House.
"I do think that the average American believes that what somebody
does when they were a teenager 30 years ago is probably not...
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 Christian conservative Mike Huckabee boosted his up-and-coming
presidential bid Friday by naming Ronald Reagan's former campaign chief
to head his 2008 bid for the White House.
Ed Rollins, a veteran political strategist, boasts decades of
campaign and fund-raising experience as well as his link to Reagan, the
late 1980s president...
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Former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced in Oslo on Friday.
The prize was awarded to Ahtisaari, 71, for his efforts to solve conflicts on several continents and over three decades, the Nobel Committee said.
Committee Chairman Ole Danbolt Mjos said...
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Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish ex-president and veteran peace broker, has been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced in Oslo on Friday.
Ahtisaari, 71, was cited "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts," the...
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Human rights activists from China, Russia or Vietnam topped speculations on the eve of the announcement of this year's Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
The five-member Nobel Committee advises nominators not to announce their proposals but there are no rules against the procedure, allowing fodder for speculation before Friday's...
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Germany has nominated a true-life film about the 1970s Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang for an Oscar as best foreign movie of the year, its film export board said Tuesday, just hours before the VIP premiere of the movie in Munich.
Launched under the German title Der Baader Meinhof Komplex, the movie describes the rise and fall of a group...
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 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it has established a rules change that could affect who gets nominated in the Best Original Song and Best Foreign Language Film Oscar categories. This could result in the foreign-language film category becoming more inclusive and the original song category becoming more...
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 US Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, who is to
lead US forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, says that diplomacy is the
best option with Iran.
The US
must work on developing more diplomatic and economic tactics to pressure
Teheran to abandon its nuclear program and must retain military strike options
as a “last resort.” He said...
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 Filmmaker Spike Lee has teamed up with Nokia in a project that consists in making a movie composed of cell phone footage recorded by regular people. The film will be made up of three acts; each of them will have a certain theme that will be made public online in due time, so that cell phone users would have four weeks to record and send...
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 The Oscars have always captured the public’s attention.
However, this year’s 80th annual Academy Awards are thought to have low
ratings. The reason for this situation is the Writers Guild of America strike
and the primary political season which is the most interesting one in a
half-century.
Even though the strike is over, the...
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 The tense wait for the unveiling of the next leader of South Africa's
ruling African National Congress (ANC) began after voting ended Tuesday
in a tight contest between incumbent President Thabo Mbeki and ANC
deputy leader Jacob Zuma.
Zuma was expected to quash Mbeki's controversial bid for a third
five-year term at the party helm...
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 Embattled South African President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday used a speech
to members of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) meeting to
elect a new leader to lash out at corruption in party ranks.
Mbeki is attempting to remain on as president of the party but is
expected to be routed by party deputy Jacob Zuma. Zuma's victory...
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 The mood was ebullient Saturday among supporters of the man tipped to
oust Thabo Mbeki as leader of South Africa's ruling African National
Congress (ANC), as party members poured into the northern city of
Polokwane to pick their president for the next five years.
Cattle herders leaning on their sticks watched as dozens of...
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 Alicia Keys is nominated for five awards during the 2008 American Music Awards. Her nominations include artist of the year and favorite female artist in pop, rock, soul and R&B categories. The 27-year-old singer had her debut album “Songs in A Mirror” in 2002. The album was a total success which brought her five Grammy Awards in the...
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 Scarlett Johansson’s album “Anywhere I Lay My Head”
represents her full-length debut as a singer, and it consists almost entirely
of Tom Waits covers. The album also includes one original track written by Johansson
along with David Andrew Sitek. David Bowie makes an appearance on two songs, “Falling
Down” and “Fannin...
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 Apparently, this was an extraordinary year for young singer
T-Pain,whose real name is Faheem Najm. His collaboration with other artists got
him five nominations at the Black Entertainment TV Hip-Hop Awards. The 22-year-old
singer is the one who got the most nominations in this ceremony, which will
take place in Los Angeles
on 24...
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 Music superstars Beyonce and Jay-Z took out a marriage
license in Westchester’s Scarsdale
Village yesterday morning,
a source reportedly told People.com. According to the report, the license is
valid for 60 days in New York.
It appears that the pair told their friends that they would
like to marry in May, after the end of...
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 Kenny Chesney received Tuesday 11 nominations for the Academy of Country Music. Some of the nominations
are entertainer of the year, album of the year, top male vocalist, song of the
year and video of the year. Chesney is followed by Rodney Atkins with six
nominations and Brad Paisley, Big & Rich and Sugarland each of...
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 The talented multi-platinum
selling singer Alicia Keys managed to top the U.S. album chart for a fourth,
non-consecutive week, with her hit single “As I Am,” Billboard.com reported
Wednesday.
”As I Am” recorded sales of 61,000 copies last week, according to Nielsen
Soundscan, while “Juno”...
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 The troubled 24-year-old soul
singer Amy Winehouse was questioned yesterday about a video in which she smokes
crack cocaine, Police reported on Wednesday.
The video, allegedly filmed at
her London
home, was posted online by the British tabloid the Sun last month. The video
features Winehouse saying she has taken “six valium,”...
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 Bronx rapper Remy Ma has
something new and more serious to face, apart from Grammy nominations. A $10
million civil lawsuit was filed against her after she shot an acquaintance
twice in the abdomen.
She was described as “willfully, wantonly and maliciously”
shooting Makeda Barnes-Joseph after leaving a New York nightclub in July....
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 Brad Paisley and George Strait lead the nominations for the 41st
annual Country Music Association Awards, with five nominations each.
Both musicians are up for Entertainer of the Year, Male Vocalist, Album of the Year and Single of the Year.
Paisley is also nominated for Video of the Year, while Strait is in
contention for Musical...
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 The nominees for this yea MTV Video Music Awards have been announced and pop stars Justin Timberlake and Beyonce are topping the list with seven nominations each, followed by rapper Kanye West and Rihanna who both got five nods. The nominations were revealed during a special broadcast of Total Request Live Tuesday.British neo-soul singer...
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 The MTV Video Music Awards set its show last night. It seems that for its 25th anniversary, the VMA chose to back up Britney Spears’ comeback. And she did it! She won three awards for all her three nominations, including video of the year with the single “Piece of Me.”But let’s be honest. After she stumbled in her words, announcing the...
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 The 15-year-old actress Miley Cyrus, who
rose to fame as the star of the Disney’s Hannah Montana, will host this summer’s
“Teen Choice 2008.” Despite the scandal around her Vanity Fair photo session, the
15-year-old star was also nominated for four awards across the TV and music
sections, including Choice TV Actress: Comedy and...
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 With the ongoing screenwriters strike causing the cancellation of the
Golden Globes ceremony, industry reports Thursday said the Oscar show
could be next.
The Oscar show is set for February 24, with nominations scheduled
on January 22. According to The Hollywood Reporter preparations for the
biggest night in the Hollywood calendar...
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 Amy Winehouse, the talented British retro-soul singer whose year has been stymied by a litany of legal and substance abuse problems, earned six Grammy nominations Thursday including nods for Album of the Year and Newcomer of the Year.
Famous for her beehive hairdo and extravagant tattoos, Winehouse also earned Song of the Year and...
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 It has been a rich year if were talking about cinema animation,
and the Academy Awards shortlist on the category certainly is a subject of
debate.
The list might as well start with the last week’s launch
that gained $38 million, Seinfeld’s Bee Movie, a DreamWorks-Paramount
production that stands a good chance to become a hit or...
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 The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, or more commonly, the Tony Awards, have announced their winners for 2007. "Spring Awakening," a dark rock musical based on a 19th century German play about sexually anguished teenagers, snatched 8 prizes, including best new musical, leading the pack. The play had led the...
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 “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” remains a cult film and its star, Academy Award-winning Audrey Hepburn, a legend. One of the customs worn by the actress in the movie was sold Wednesday at an auction for almost $200,000.
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” remains one of Audrey Hepburn’s most well known movies,...
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 Kate Winslet, 31, told Vanity Fair magazine that she had never wished to be famous. It seems that the Titanic star has always had a weight problem that didn’t help her with her self-confidence. "I was fat. I didn't know any fat famous actresses. I just did not see myself in that world at all, and I'm being very sincere. You know,...
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 In early 2009, actress Jane Fonda will return to Broadway to perform 33 Variations. This will be her first performance after 46 years of stage absence. Moises Kaufman will direct the play she also wrote. She tells the story of Beethoven who is fascinated by a trivial waltz. Katherine Brandt, interpreted by Fonda, will be a modern...
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 Britney Spears won’t perform this year at the MTV’s VMA, her manager, Larry Rudolph, said in a report on Monday. He added that the troubled pop star tries to erase her memories about the terrible performance she made last year. A spokesman for Rudolph added that "She did the promo for them, but there never were any plans for her to...
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 Ethan Hawke has married his girlfriend and former family
nanny, Ryan Shawhughes, the actor’s publicist confirmed on Thursday.
While Hawke’s ex-wife Uma Thurman got engaged last month, the
actor married his pregnant girlfriend in New York City, Mara Buxbaum said in an
e-mail to The Associated Press.
Buxbaum added that no further...
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 “Grey’s Anatomy” actress Katherine Heigl has taken herself
out of the running for the upcoming 60th Annual Emmy Awards, Reuters
reports.
29-year-old Heigl explained her absence from the ballot when asked by Tom
O’Neil, columnist for the Los Angeles Times’ showbiz awards website
TheEnvelope.com.
“I did not feel that I was given...
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 It appears that Paramount Pictures decided to give the
go-ahead for the fourth installment of its “Beverly Hills Cop” franchise,
Reuters reports. Eddie Murphy will return to the role that launched his movie
career, the Detroit
detective Axel Foley.
Brett Ratner is in talks to direct the film, which is due to
begin shooting...
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 Actor James Gandolfini, who played Tony Soprano on the hit
HBO series for six seasons over 8-1/2 years, is selling his personal costume
wardrobe in a Christie’s pop culture auction in New York on June 25, Reuters
reports. The collection is expected to raise $36,500.
It seems that proceeds from the sale will go to charity...
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 Vanessa Williams, the actress and singer mostly known for
being the first African-American miss America, has graduated Saturday from Syracuse
University, 25 years after she dropped out. Williams attended Syracuse's drama department as a musical
theater major from 1981-1983. Afterwards, also in 1983 she was named the first
black woman...
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 “Sex And The City” actress Cynthia Nixon told ABC’s “Good
Morning America” on Tuesday she had a secret battle with breast cancer two
years ago. It appears she was diagnosed with the illness in 2006, while starring
in the off-Broadway play “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.”
Nixon did not want to make her condition public and she...
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 Amy Winehouse wasn’t able to obtain a US visa in
order to attend the Grammy Awards on February 10.
The American Embassy in London
declined to grant her the necessary visa which would have enabled her to take
part at the Los Angeles
ceremony. The artist’s disappointment is easily comprehensible, as she received
six nominations...
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 Amy Winehouse’s mother believes in healing in the middle of
one’s family, as she addressed her daughter a public letter that appeared in a
Sunday newspaper.
The letter of Janis Winehouse was published by News Of The
World, and was meant to tackle the soul artist’s return home as the resolving of
a series of personal traumas. Amy...
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 It is indeed very cool to be shortlisted at different
ceremonies and receive awards. What is even cooler is to miss the ceremony and
to be thought too busy and important to attend them, and people will think
higher of you.
And this is the sole reason rapper TI got arrested and
charged with weapon offenses just a few hours before...
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 American Music Awards has its first nominations leaders. R&B
star Beyonce, rock band Linkin
Park, pop singer Justin
Timberlake and “American Idol” contestant Chris Daughtry homonymic band each scored
a hat-trick in this year’s nominations for the 35th edition of the AMA.
Artists that earned a pair of nominations include...
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 Academy Award-winning film actress Julia Fiona Roberts has given birth Monday to her third child, a boy named Henry Daniel Moder. Henry weighed 8 1/2 pounds and was born at a hospital in Los Angeles, spokeswoman Marcy Engelman said.The 39 year old Julia Roberts and her husband, 38-year-old cinematographer Danny Moder, have married in...
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 Hollywood legends Al Pacino and Robert De Niro are set to reunite on screen once more, in a serial killer thriller.
The two actors have played together before but not alongside each other for long, in “The Godfather Part II” and “Heat.”
This time around, “Righteous Kill,” directed by Jon Avnet and...
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 American television drama series “Mad Men,” which premiered on July 19 2007, kicks off its second season tonight. The AMC series won the 2007 Golden Globes for the best TV drama and best actor in a television series and captured 16 Emmy nominations. The show has attracted the eyes of the critics and it received considerable critical...
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There were some rumours about a big screen
adaptation of “Friends,” but rights holder Warner Bros has denied speculations
saying that there is no such movie in the works.
The studio’s head of UK publicity
Jayne Trotman today told the BBC there was “no truth in the story.”Earlier this week, an unknown source claimed
that...
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 The former “LA Law” and “NYPD Blue” star has
joined the cast of Showtime’s drama series “Dexter.” He will play a powerful
lawyer on the third season of “Dexter” which begins in the fall. Smits will
appear in ten of the 12 episodes approved for the show’s third season.
Jimmy Smits will portray Miguel Prado, “an
ambitious,...
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 The Academy Award-nominated and Inspiration Award Winner film
director Guillermo del Toro is directing “The Hobbit” and its upcoming sequel,
"Hellboy II: The Golden Army," New Line Cinema announced Thursday. He
has directed a wide variety of films, but his fans appreciate him especially for
“Pan’s Labyrinth,” which won...
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 According to a recent announcement, director Anthony
Minghella has died; he was only 54 years old. The sudden death of
the beloved filmmaker has confirmed on Tuesday by Judy Daish, his agent. However,
Daish hasn’t revealed any other details related to her client’s death.
Anthony
Minghella was an Oscar-winning director that...
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 Indie movies have their own Oscar and it bears the name of
Spirit Awards.
This year’s greatest movie based on a budget that hasn’t
outstripped the threshold of $20 million was the teen pregnancy comedy – drama
“Juno.” The movie earned the best feature title, but also its protagonist Ellen
Page and its screenwriter an...
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 Just before the Academy Awards, which is the most eagerly
awaited cinematographic event, another awarding ceremony took place. But not a
star-studded one.
This year’s stars of the Golden Raspberry Awards were
Lindsay Lohan and Eddie Murphy, both of them being ‘winners’ of the worst
actors of 2007. But they haven’t avoided other...
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 Joel and Ethan Coen's "No Country For Old Men" has another award in its basket and gained by now what seems to be unstoppable momentum for the upcoming Academy Awards. The movie has won the top prize in sound mixing at the 44th annual Cinema Audio Society awards on Saturday. Oh, and the best contemporary film at the 12th annual...
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 This week-end the box office’s figures show that movie-goers
still like battles and blood, but they like them more if they’re funny.
This is how the spoof “Meet The Spartans” beat “Rambo” with
a mere difference of half of million. The “Spartans” was the hit of the
cinematographic chart, grossing $18.7 million, a resounding victory...
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 Ethan and Joel Coen were given Saturday the award for the
best directing team by the Directors Guild of America, for the thriller “No Country For Old Men”, based on the novel of
Pulitzer Prize winner American writer Cormac McCarthy. The duo was awarded within
the 60th annual Directors Guild ceremony held at Hyatt Regency
Century...
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 A quixotic look at the life and times of legendary singer Bob Dylan was
nominated Tuesday for four Spirit Awards, the Oscars of the independent
film world.
I'm Not There, which features Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere and four
others playing incarnations of the enigmatic singer, was nominated for
best feature; supporting actress for...
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 Cate Blanchett reaffirms her royal figure in the Hollywood world, with a new portrayal of Queen Elisabeth
I, after almost 10 years from her last experience as the British Queen.
“Elizabeth: The Golden Age”
focuses more on the conflict with Spain and depicts a virtual love
triangle that includes the British Monarch and British...
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 The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, or more commonly, the Tony Awards, have announced their nominations for 2007. "Spring Awakening," a dark rock musical based on a 19th century German play about sexually anguished teenagers snatched 11 nominations, including chances at awards for best musical, director and...
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 Actor Liam Neeson will be among those who will participate at the creation of Bethesda’s highly-anticipated Fallout 3 game, but only by lending his voice.According to Bethesda’s press release, Neeson will actually lead the cast providing voice work in Fallout 3, also having a prominent role during the gameplay. Neeson will bring to life...
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 The music industry has a new favorite, young Miley Cyrus.
She’s popular among preteens, teens and parents, and she’s also becoming one of
the paps’ favorites. Miley has earned huge success with the “Hannah Montana”
show, her 3-D movie and performed impeccably at her sold-out concert-tour.
Besides all these accomplishments, Miley...
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 After playing Detective Ed Green for nine years in the NBC
TV series “Law and Order”, Jesse L. Martin is leaving the show.
Apparently, Martin’s character, Detective Green, will be
written off, and Martin will be replaced with actor Anthony Anderson. Anderson
has appeared before as a cop on an episode of "Law & Order:...
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 Many familiar names and faces have been nominated for this year’s prestigious Emmy TV Awards, including HBO’s mob drama, "The Sopranos" which nabbed 15 nominations leading the field of television series. Besides the best drama nomination, the series, which ended its run in the US this year after six seasons, also has James...
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 This is good news; I like the show so I am in no way complaining. But how many mysteries can you keep adding, layering, inventing?
The fascinating television show has been around for nearly three years now and it has still not lost its momentum. Diehards (and not only) will be relieved to know that ABC has announced three more years...
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