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		<title>Kristin Cavallari expecting first child</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erin Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a momentary lapse in their relationship, Kristin Cavallari, of the Hills, and Jay Cutler are with child. The couple separated in July, but were soon reunited and announced their new engagement in November. Cavallari said of the break “Sometimes, in order for things to get better, they have to end – even if it’s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/KristinCavallariSept10-189x300.jpg" alt="" width="189" height="300" />After a momentary lapse in their relationship, Kristin Cavallari, of the Hills, and Jay Cutler are with child.</p>
<p>The couple separated in July, but were soon reunited and announced their new engagement in November. Cavallari said of the break “Sometimes, in order for things to get better, they have to end – even if it’s momentarily.”&#8217;</p>
<p>Cavallari and Cutler announced the pregnancy to <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20562488,00.html" target="_blank">People</a>, saying “We are thrilled to announce we are expecting our first child together. It’s an amazing time in our life and we can’t wait to meet the new addition to our growing family.”</p>
<p>Cavallari&#8217;s former “Hills” costars have been supportive, Heidi Montag <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/heidimontag/status/161294476160151552" target="_blank">tweeting</a> “@KristinCav congrats on your life changing news!!!! You are going to be such an amazing mommy!! Sending you So much love!! Xoxo.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt divorce is dismissed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eiko Watanabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Court records show divorce proceedings between Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have been dismissed. &#34;The Hills&#34; star Montag requested the action Wednesday without prejudice, meaning she could refile it later if necessary. The dismissal was first reported Thursday by TMZ. Montag filed for divorce in July, but the couple spent time recently in Costa Rica. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="KonaBody"><p>Court records show divorce proceedings between Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have been dismissed.</p>
<p>&quot;The Hills&quot; star Montag requested the action Wednesday without prejudice, meaning she could refile it later if necessary.</p>
<p>The dismissal was first reported Thursday by TMZ.</p>
<p>Montag filed for divorce in July, but the couple spent time recently in Costa Rica.</p>
<p>According to ABC News, the couple &quot;Speidi&quot; announced they were trying to make their marriage work.</p>
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		<title>Speidi breaks up, world rejoices</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 16:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seemed this moment would never come, but how wrong we were. Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag broke up. Does this mean world peace is within reach? Maybe not, but it must be a sign of good things to come. Of course, the big question is whether the split was mutual. It wasn&#8217;t, and I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="KonaBody"><p>It seemed this moment would never come, but how wrong we were.</p>
<p>Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag broke up. Does this mean world peace is within reach? Maybe not, but it must be a sign of good things to come.</p>
<p>Of course, the big question is whether the split was mutual. It wasn&#8217;t, and I&#8217;m somewhat satisfied to say that Heidi walked out on Spencer.</p>
<p>&#8220;Heidi is looking to move out due to all the fake bad press that Spencer controls,&#8221; Heidi&#8217;s rep told <a href="http://www.tmz.com/" target="_blank">TMZ</a>. &#8220;She&#8217;s tired of it and is looking for a place and wants to focus on her acting career.&#8221;</p>
<p>On Tuesday, Heidi tweeted, &#8220;I am not Heidi Pratt, I am Heidi Montag.&#8221; She&#8217;s also reportedly looking for a new home in Malibu.</p>
<p>TMZ also reported that Heidi has been complaining about Spencer&#8217;s controlling ways. She said he keeps her from her friends and family, and earlier this month, he called the cops when her mom came to visit.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there is no way this is the last we&#8217;ll hear from the pair, even if they&#8217;re no longer a pair. Brace yourselves for days, if not weeks of publicized bickering.</p>
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		<title>The Top 10 Worst People in Hollywood</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ashley Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of bad people out there. A whole lot, actually. Celebrities pale in comparison to most of them, but let&#8217;s be honest, they&#8217;re much more fun to watch. Rich, pretty and talented (but not necessarily all three) people are regularly screwing up on a national and global stage. Most of it is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="KonaBody"><p>There are a lot of bad people out there. A whole lot, actually. Celebrities pale in comparison to most of them, but let&#8217;s be honest, they&#8217;re much more fun to watch. Rich, pretty and talented (but not necessarily all three) people are regularly screwing up on a national and global stage. Most of it is forgivable, some of it isn&#8217;t, but all of it makes roll our eyes and shake out heads. And so because we can never get enough of captivating train wreck that is fame, here are the top 10 worst people in Hollywood (in no particular order).</p>
<p><strong>Chris Brown</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44598" src="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/chrisbrown3-70x70.jpg" alt="" width="70" height="70" />Everyone has pretty much moved on from the Chris Brown drama. It was a lot harder for Rihanna to move on, though, and that&#8217;s why Brown is one of the worst people in Hollywood. The seemingly squeaky clean R&amp;B singer was arrested for and convicted of assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna before the 2009 Grammy&#8217;s. He&#8217;s since tried to clean up his image by apologizing and laying low, but after the world saw photos of Rihanna&#8217;s facial bruises, he&#8217;s not likely to succeed.</p>
<p><strong>Tiger Woods</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44588" src="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/tigerwoods-70x70.jpg" alt="" width="70" height="70" />He may not technically be in Hollywood, but Tiger Woods is a major celebrity. Unfortunately, that celebrity has only recently reached Hollywood status with the revelation that he&#8217;s cheated on wife Elin Nordegren countless times. The number is certainly ambiguous, since a steady stream of hotties have claimed they&#8217;re among the ranks, but estimates are around 20. Not only is that a horrible thing to do to Elin, it&#8217;s a terrible thing that his baby son Charlie will have to reckon with someday. Of course, he&#8217;s apologized and tried to scrape up some dignity by returning to golf, but it&#8217;s fairly certain he&#8217;ll never live this down. A cheater is scum; a cheater times 20-something &#8230; there aren&#8217;t appropriate words for that.</p>
<p><strong>Kate Gosselin</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44586" src="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/kategosselin-70x70.jpg" alt="" width="70" height="70" />This woman just can&#8217;t control herself. She didn&#8217;t get off to a great start as the bitchy wife and slightly unfit mother of eight of &#8220;Jon and Kate Plus 8.&#8221; Her children became her ticket to fame, and she paraded them around endlessly. The country collectively shifted its hatred to Jon Gosselin after the couple split, but she hasn&#8217;t stopped being a greedy attention-whore. She recently appeared on &#8212; and even more recently voted off of &#8212; &#8220;Dancing With the Stars.&#8221; Rumor also has it Kate will have her own new show on TLC, without Jon or the kids. Thanks for ditching that awful hair Kate, but you probably shouldn&#8217;t ditch your children too.</p>
<p><strong>Jon Gosselin</strong></p>
<p>The<img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44585" src="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/johngosselin-70x70.jpg" alt="" width="70" height="70" /> Gosselins are probably the most obnoxious former-couple out there. Knowing that, it&#8217;s particularly nauseating that Jon has actually managed to sink way lower than Kate. He started off as the bitchy Kate&#8217;s push-over husband and everyone felt a little bit bad for the guy. Then suddenly, they were on the brink of divorce and the world realized he definitely deserved what he got from Kate. Since their split, he&#8217;s very publicly been with younger, trashy women. For some unfathomable reason, he began to see himself as a playboy, and acted like one. Nevermind that he&#8217;s an unattractive, still married father of eight &#8212; he ditched the family for parties and ladies (a term used extremely loosely here). He allegedly drained the couple&#8217;s bank account last October and the nanny said she was sleeping with him. Now he&#8217;s battling over money and custody with Kate &#8230; as if either of them wants the kids anymore.</p>
<p><strong>Spencer Pratt</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44589" src="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/spencerpratt-70x70.jpg" alt="" width="70" height="70" />It&#8217;s rare to hear or read the name Spencer Pratt without it being accompanied by &#8220;tool,&#8221; &#8220;douchebag,&#8221; &#8220;asshole,&#8221; or &#8220;prick.&#8221; Unfortunately for Spencer and everyone who has to interact with him (or even watch him on TV), these descriptors are all very accurate. He just can&#8217;t keep his mouth shut, and it just keeps spewing obnoxious nonsense. In the past year or so, he&#8217;s continued to be the resident evildoer on &#8220;The Hills,&#8221; made a stink over tough conditions on &#8220;I&#8217;m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here,&#8221; boasted he&#8217;d be the next big rapper (what ever happened with that, Spencer?), and been fired as his own wife&#8217;s manager. Ouch. The list could go on, but really, why bother? Spencer Pratt isn&#8217;t worth that much thought.</p>
<p><strong>Heidi Montag</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44591" src="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/heidimontag1-70x70.jpg" alt="" width="70" height="70" />If Jon and Kate are the most obnoxious former-couple in Hollywood, Spencer and Heidi are definitely the most obnoxious couple. Marrying Spencer and being a bad friend and person on &#8220;The Hills&#8221; was pretty bad. Then she joined her hubby in throwing a ridiculous fit over &#8220;I&#8217;m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.&#8221; Then she fired him as her manager. She released an album (who knew?) that only sold 658 in it&#8217;s first week, and her body is as fake as her personality. It&#8217;s only fitting that she join her equally stupid husband on this list.</p>
<p><strong>Kanye West</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44593" src="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/kanye-70x70.jpg" alt="" width="70" height="70" />It seems like everyone either loves or hates Kanye, and arguments for both side are reasonable. Overall, he&#8217;s really not so bad, but the &#8220;interrupting Kanye&#8221; incident gave the haters plenty of fuel. When he snatched the microphone from sweet, 19-year-old country girl Taylor Swift during his acceptance speech at the 2009 VMA&#8217;s and proclaimed that Beyonce had &#8220;one of the best videos of all time,&#8221; poor Taylor and the rest of the country was stunned. Several humble and occasionally tearful apologies followed, but it&#8217;s a bit hard to move on from a grown man ruining the biggest moment in the life and career (so far) of a 19-year-old girl. And as a result, everyone had to deal with endless &#8220;interrupting Kanye&#8221; jokes and memes for months. He&#8217;s not as bad as most of the others on this list, but he definitely earned a spot.</p>
<p><strong>Paris Hilton</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44594" src="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/paris-70x70.jpg" alt="" width="70" height="70" />Paris has faded from the celebrity gossip scene a bit, but she&#8217;s still out there, reeking havoc on Hollywood. She&#8217;s been humiliating and degrading dumb, fame-hungry girls (and even a few guys) on &#8220;Paris Hilton&#8217;s My New BFF&#8221; for two seasons. She threw a fruit and a serious tantrum at a girl who was talking to ex-boyfriend Doug Reinhardt. Oh yeah, and remember when she went to prison for drunk driving with a suspended license? True, every celebrity seems to be driving drunk, but that doesn&#8217;t make it any less wrong. And honestly, this girl is a whole lot of wrong.</p>
<p><strong>Perez Hilton</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44595" src="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/perez-70x70.jpg" alt="" width="70" height="70" />How fitting that Perez should fall onto this list with his (sort of) namesake. Perez is mostly harmless, though definitely annoying. What earned him a spot on this list, though, is his battle with Will.I.Am. The Black Eyed Peas star assaulted Perez when Perez called him a faggot, and there are a few problems with that. First of all, Perez is using a derogatory term for a group of people he belongs with. Really? That&#8217;s either some serious self-loathing or just plain stupid &#8212; probably both. Then, Perez decided to publicly whine about it as if he were a victim, especially when GLAAD called for an apology. So for insulting his own kind and helping to perpetuate the use of &#8220;faggot,&#8221; Perez is one of the worst people in Hollywood.</p>
<p><strong>Lindsay Lohan</strong></p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-44597" src="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/lilo1-70x70.jpg" alt="" width="70" height="70" />Poor LiLo. She&#8217;s last on this list for a reason, actually. It&#8217;s just too hard to tell when to hate her and when to feel bad for her. Either way, this girl is the definition of &#8220;hot mess&#8221; and has earned a tentative spot on this list. She was busted drunk driving, involved in a car chase on the PCH, accused of stealing jewelry from a photo shoot, and accused of stealing a formula for tanning lotion and selling it as her own. Her mom told the world she cuts her wrists and her dad has to be kept at a safe distance. Her probation since the DUI incident was extended because the judge felt she was still out of control. Her very public break up with Sam Ronson showed her to be a crazy ex-girlfriend. Most recently, she was fired from &#8220;The Other Side.&#8221; There&#8217;s surely a lot more, but the gist is that Lindsay is an irresponsible, emotionally unstable alcoholic who wasted her talent. It&#8217;s not always possible to tell when we should feel bad and when we should be disgusted, but there&#8217;s just enough of both to land her here. Sorry, Lindsay.</p>
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		<title>Al Roker puts Speidi in a corner</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooklynne Kelly Peters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speidi&#8217;s at it again, and this time the reality TV duo is making a big fuss about the interview they had Monday with Today Show Weatherman Al Roker to talk about their experiences on &#8220;I&#8217;m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!&#8221;, according to Ryanseacrest.com. ‚ Roker asked the hard questions that everybody is wondering about, [...]]]></description>
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<p>Speidi&#8217;s at it again, and this time the reality TV duo is making a big fuss about the interview they had Monday with Today Show Weatherman Al Roker to talk about their experiences on &#8220;I&#8217;m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!&#8221;, according to Ryanseacrest.com. ‚ Roker asked the hard questions that everybody is wondering about, and Speidi didn&#8217;t like it one bit.</p>
<p>After playing an insulting reel of Speidi&#8217;s most embarrassing moments on the TV show &#8220;Celebrity,&#8221; Roker proceeded to quiz Speidi with accusationally slanted questions. ‚ &#8221;Are you proud of the way you guys behaved on this program?&#8221; Roker asked Heidi. ‚ When Heidi avoided giving a straight answer, Roker interrupted her time and again, saying, &#8220;Yes, but are you proud?&#8221;</p>
<p>Roker didn&#8217;t let up on Spence, either, saying that because of his behavior on the show, some people might call him a &#8220;jerk.&#8221; ‚ He also implied that his on-screen conversion to Christianity might have been staged, though Spence denied it.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was shocked at how rude he was,&#8221; Heidi told Ryan Seacrest. Heidi said she was crying after the interview because she felt &#8220;personally attacked.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230;he just made it a very uncomfortable and awful experience,&#8221; said Heidi. &#8220;I really would advise women especially to be careful around him because I feel like he definitely came and attacked me and‚ I did not appreciate that at all.&#8221; ‚ Because &#8230; women being verbally attacked by weathermen is really becoming a dangerous problem.</p>
<p>Spence appeared to still be confused about the whole thing. &#8220;I&#8217;m still trying to figure out, was the weatherman asking us questions? I thought we were getting interviewed by Matt Lauer or something,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Well, what was the inspiration behind this tornado of accusations from Weatherman Al Roker? ‚ We&#8217;ll get the answer on Thursday when he talks to Ryan Seacrest about the interview. ‚ Hang tight, folks.</p>
<p><em>Video: TMZ</em></p>
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		<title>Dangerous celebs to Google?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research from security firm McAfee shows that some celebrities are just dangerous to Google and search for around the web because of the litany of fake websites out there that try to infect your computer with viruses and malicious code as you innocently seek out wallpaper and screensavers of your favs. Brad Pitt leads the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="KonaBody"><p>Research from security firm McAfee shows that some celebrities are just dangerous to Google and search for around the web because of the litany of fake websites out there that try to infect your computer with viruses and malicious code as you innocently seek out wallpaper and screensavers of your favs.</p>
<p>Brad Pitt leads the pack on a list that includes Jessica Alba and‚ Katherine Heigl.</p>
<p>&#8220;Fans searching for &#8220;Brad Pitt,&#8221; &#8220;Brad Pitt downloads,&#8221; and Brad Pitt wallpaper, screen savers and pictures have an 18% chance of having their PCs infected with online threats, such as spyware, spam, phishing, adware, viruses and other malware,&#8221; McAfee said. &#8220;Cybercriminals are using A-listers&#8217; names and images, like Beyoncƒ© and Justin Timberlake, to lure Internet users who surf the Web for the latest gossip, screen savers and ringtones to &#8220;fake&#8221; Web sites that look legitimate.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>The list includes:</strong></p>
<p>1. Brad Pitt &#8211; When &#8220;Brad Pitt screensavers&#8221; was searched, more than half of the resulting Web sites were identified as containing malicious downloads with spyware, adware and potential viruses.</p>
<p>2. Beyoncƒ© &#8211; Inputting &#8220;Beyoncƒ© ringtones&#8221; into a search engine yields risky Web sites that promote misleading offers to gather consumers&#8217; personal information.</p>
<p>3. Justin Timberlake &#8211; Interest in his high-profile relationships makes him an easy target for spammers and hackers. When searching for &#8220;Justin Timberlake downloads&#8221; one Web site advertised free music downloads that were flagged as directly leading to spam, spyware and adware.</p>
<p>4. Heidi Montag &#8211; &#8220;The Hills&#8221; star is a popular search term when it comes to searching for wallpaper. A host of wallpaper Web sites contained hundreds of malware-laden downloads.</p>
<p>5.  Mariah Carey &#8211; Spammers and hackers are using Mariah Carey screen saver Web sites to link to other sites proven to contain spyware, adware and other threatening downloads.</p>
<p>6. Jessica Alba &#8211; Red-ranked risky sites were identified when searching for &#8220;Jessica Alba&#8221; and &#8220;Jessica Alba downloads.&#8221; The sites contained hundreds of malicious downloads, links to other bad sites, misleading offers to gather information, and a high number of spam emails when an email address was provided.</p>
<p>7. Lindsay Lohan &#8211; This young Hollywood starlet is as dangerous to search online as she is famous. Searching for &#8220;Lindsay Lohan downloads&#8221; resulted in several dangerous Web sites laden with hidden adware.</p>
<p>8. Cameron Diaz &#8211; Cybercriminals use download Web sites related to Cameron Diaz&#8217;s image to link to other harmful sites containing spyware.</p>
<p>9. George Clooney, Rihanna &#8211; The technology found one Web site embedded with hundreds of dangerous wallpaper and photo downloads after inputting &#8220;George Clooney downloads.&#8221; &#8220;Rihanna pictures&#8221; was also a risky search term, as McAfee identified a site that spammed its test email address.</p>
<p>11. Angelina Jolie &#8211; When &#8220;Angelina Jolie downloads&#8221; was searched, the software highlighted a risky site with 978 hidden malware-infected wallpaper and photo downloads, as well as links to other potentially dangerous URLs.</p>
<p>12. Fergie &#8211; A Fergie screen saver site was flagged as offering 111 risky downloads that could seriously compromise a PC&#8217;s privacy with unwanted spyware and adware.</p>
<p>13. David Beckham, Katie Holmes &#8211; The &#8220;David Beckham&#8221; search term generated a great deal of wallpaper and screen saver downloads veiled with malware. Consumers should also exercise caution when searching for &#8220;Katie Holmes&#8221; online &#8211; one download site advertised free screen savers that, if downloaded, would infect your computer with malicious programs like spyware.</p>
<p>15. Katherine Heigl &#8211; Hollywood&#8217;s big headliner in recent years is now susceptible to Internet lurkers too. &#8220;Katherine Heigl&#8221; was searched and a site was identified containing hundreds of malware-infected pictures.</p>
<p>‚ &#8221;Cybercriminals employ numerous methods, yet one of the simplest but most effective ways is to trick consumers into infecting themselves by capitalizing on Americans&#8217; interest in celebrity gossip,&#8221; said Jeff Green, senior vice president of McAfee&#8217;s Product Development and Avert Labs. &#8220;Tapping into current events, pop culture or commonly browsed sites is an easy way to achieve this. And because of Americans&#8217; obsession with following celebrities&#8217; lifestyles, they are an obvious target. We have to take precautions in casually navigating the Web since many subtle sites may be rife with malware for consumers&#8217; computers.&#8221;</p>
<p>The list was compiled using McAfee SiteAdvisor, which can be downloaded for free at‚ <a href="http://www.mcafee.com/siteadvisor" target="_blank">www.mcafee.com/siteadvisor</a>.</p>
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