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<ul><li>Netflix decided to advance the release of their much-awaited show Sacred Games 2 by 12 hours. </li><li>Netflix has reportedly backed <keyword id="6897968" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="sacred-games-season-2">Sacred Games season 2</keyword> with an investment of ₹1 billion. </li></ul>In a surprise move, Netflix decided to advance the release of their much-awaited show Sacred Games 2 by 12 hours. The show is going to air as soon as the clock ticks 15 August at 12 am. The series was reportedly going to release on the 15 August during the day with 12 episodes 
	
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 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/netflix-invests-rs-100-crore-in-sacred-games-season-2/articleshow/70660972.cms">Netflix has reportedly backed Sacred Games season 2 </a>₹1 billion (₹100 crore) on the second season -- so far the highest on the production of any original content on any OTT platform in India. The success of the first season of the show with its ensemble cast has led to a lot of expectations both from users and producers. reported LiveMint. Global Popularity Sacred Games has gained popularity in India and around the world. The New York Times also <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/arts/television/whats-on-tv-wednesday-dannys-house-and-sacred-games.html">recommended the series on Wednesday TV watchlist.</a> "The interesting part is that two out of every three Sacred Games viewers were from outside India. It gained a lot of traction in Latin America, the US and Europe," Netflix told Business Insider India. The company further added, "The anticipation for season 2 has been immense and the trailer has racked up over 12.7 million views on YouTube. " See also: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/netflix-invests-rs-100-crore-in-sacred-games-season-2/articleshow/70660972.cms">The ₹1 billion Sacred Games 2 is Netflix’s biggest bet in India so far </a>

Netflix advances Sacred Games 2 release by 12 hours —  can be viewed at midnight

Movies and books continue to be the main source of entertainment for us. And Indian authors have become a tribe to reckon with. While international authors have always successfully transited from books to movies; for e.g.; JK Rowling’s ‘<keyword id="6357995" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="20" keywordseo="Harry-Potter">Harry Potter</keyword> and the Philosopher’s stone’ not only sold more than a 100 million copies, but also grossed over 2 billion in revenues as a movie; we are hoping to see more Indian authors do the same. 
 
This got us thinking; what makes a book appealing for adaptation by film or TV producers? How can you tell if a book is screen-worthy? Books that are extremely popular, have a great deal of mass appeal, are intriguing and keep you captivated. 
 
And so a really good book is bait for a lot of people — on the strength of a book you're able to attract really great talent to work on its adaptation; because readers want to get closer to the characters they love. 
 We shortlisted 5 such books, who have already won the <keyword id="23919" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="crossword">Crossword</keyword> Book Award, and here goes; 
 1. The Hungry Tide by <keyword id="23798" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="amitav-ghosh">Amitav Ghosh</keyword> - The Hungry Tide is a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on the earth. Off the easternmost coast of India, in the <keyword id="55869" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bay-of-Bengal">Bay of Bengal</keyword>, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. 
 2. Sacred Games by <keyword id="160167" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Vikram-Chandra">Vikram Chandra</keyword>: The novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh—and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. It is is a story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side. 
 3. Past Continuous by <keyword id="628756" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Neel-Mukherjee">Neel Mukherjee</keyword>: Set in 1970s and 80s India, 90s England and in the first decade of twentieth-century Bengal, on the eve of Lord Curzon’s infamous Bengal Partition of 1905, Past Continuous is a scalding book about dislocations and alienations, about outsiders and losers, about the tenuous and unconscious intersections of lives and histories and about the consolations of storytelling. It is also a book about the impossibilities of love. 
 
4. Sea of Poppies (The Ibis Trilogy) by Amitav Ghosh: The story is set prior to the First Opium War on the banks of the holy river Ganga, and in Kolkatta. The author compares the Ganges to the Nile, the lifeline of the Egyptian civilization, attributing the provenance and growth of these civilizations to these selfless, ever-flowing bodies. He portrays the characters as poppy seeds emanating in large numbers from the field to form a sea, where every single seed is uncertain about its future. 
 5. The Bankster by <keyword id="150696" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ravi-Subramanian">Ravi Subramanian</keyword>: The uneasy calm in <keyword id="3881458" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="greater-boston-global-bank">Greater Boston Global Bank</keyword> (GB2) is shattered when a series of murders rock the façade of the compliant and conforming bank that GB2 has built up over the years. Who is to blame? Who is driving these intriguing and bone chilling murders? What is the motive behind these gruesome killings? No one has a clue. 
 
 
(This article is authored by Sonal Gandhi , Buying and merchandising- Head books at Crossword book stores)

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Mehjabeen Shaikh, Dawood Ibrahim's wife, inadvertantly let slip to an Indian TV channel that the gangster was indeed living in <keyword id="6587" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="karachi">Karachi</keyword>, peacefully though the Pakistani government had repeatedly denied reports of sheltering him 

	This is the conversation that the Times Now channel played out.
 

	"Am I speaking to Mehjabeen Sheikh?" the reporter asked.
 

	"Yes", the woman confirmed.
 

	"Are you talking from Karachi?"
 

	"Yes".
 

	"Can I speak to Dawood?"
 

	"He's sleeping," Shaikh said before hanging up.
 

	By the time a second reporter called the number, another woman who answered the phone was cautious and asked her to call back later without confirming if it was the residence of Dawood.
 

	Pakistan has repeatedly denied that it has sheltered the underworld don, wanted in India for orchestrating the 1993 bomb blasts that killed 257 people in Mumbai. Even in May this year, Pakistan High Commissioner, Abdul Basit, said the dreaded gangster "was not in Pakistan", when Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh told Parliament that India knew about Dawood's whereabouts.
 

	Times Now reported that according to details of bills available with Indian security agencies, the phone was installed in 2006.
 

	An exclusive report in the Hindustan Times today exposed several discrepancies in the Pakistani narrative.
 

	The HT report, quoting intelligence inputs, stated that Dawood, his wife Mehjabeen Shaikh, son Moeen Nawaz and daughters Mahrukh, Mehreen and Mazia are living in the upscale Clifton neighborhood of Pakistan's Karachi. Dawood's daughter Mahrukh is married to Junaid, son of former Pakistan cricket captain Javed Miandad.
 

	Indian intelligence agencies have an April 2015 telephone bill in the name of Dawood's wife Mehjabeen with D-13, Block-4, Karachi Development Authority, Sch-5, Clifton, as the address, according to the report. Dawood has three Pakistani passports and two more residential addresses in Karachi.
 

	Dawood's family members have travelled to Dubai in January this year. According to the image that HT published of Dawood's Pakistani passport photo, the 59-year-old crime syndicate chief is now cleanshaven, has a receding hairline and has not had plastic surgery done on his face.
 

	Sleuths also have his passport numbers, flight and passenger details.
 

	"Pakistan's Dawood lie is also nailed from the fact that the mafia don's close associates like Jabir Saddiq, Jawaid Chotani and Mumbai blasts accused Javed Patel a.k.a Chikna are also based in Pakistan and are frequent visitors to Dubai. There are flight details to show that Saddiq travelled to Dubai from Karachi on July 20, 2015 and returned four days later," Shishir Gupta wrote in the report for HT.
 Now, if they meet on Monday, Indian <keyword id="43858" type="POSITION" weightage="100" keywordseo="National-Security-Advisor">National Security Advisor</keyword> <keyword id="115253" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ajit-Doval">Ajit Doval</keyword> will confront his counterpart <keyword id="1679706" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sartaj-Aziz">Sartaj Aziz</keyword> with the documentary evidence, the report said. 
	 
	(Image credits: Indiatimes)

Dawood
Ibrahim’s wife let slip the secret of the world’s most wanted terrorist’s
whereabouts

Former Union home secretary RK Singh’s disclosure about aborting the plan to take out fugitive underworld don and mastermind of Mumbai serial blasts <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/DawoodIbrahim-his-Money-and-Lifestyle/articleshow/48655004.cms">Dawood Ibrahim</a> throws fresh spotlight on <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/The-Indian-Govt-has-no-clue-about-Dawood-its-most-wanted-criminals-whereabouts/articleshow/47162037.cms">Dawood's links with sections of Mumbai cops</a>.
 Singh said the plan, prepared by national security advisor A K Doval when he headed the <keyword id="6364687" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Intelligence-Bureau">Intelligence Bureau</keyword> under the Vajpayee government, involved using members of the rival underworld gang led by <keyword id="6398539" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Chhota-Rajan">Chhota Rajan</keyword> to target Dawood when he was set to travel to Dubai for the wedding of his daughter in 2005. However, the plot was disrupted by a posse of Mumbai cops who mysteriously emerged in Delhi to arrest Rajan's accomplice <keyword id="208531" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Vicky-Malhotra">Vicky Malhotra</keyword> and <keyword id="328738" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Fareed-Tanasha">Fareed Tanasha</keyword>. 

	Malhotra and Tanasha had travelled to Delhi to work out details of the plan.
 

	It has rekindled suspicions about the manner in which Mumbai cops landed in New Delhi to enlist the help of Delhi Police ostensibly to execute arrest warrants pending against members of Chhota Rajan gang. 
 

	The claim is significant also because of the timing: it comes at a time when evidence has emerged that Doval's interest in the leader of the notorious crime syndicate may not have waned even after a decade he spent outside the government following his superannuation. 
 

	Last week, Indian agencies responded to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Pakistan-does-it-again-Questions-veracity-of-Indias-dossiers-on-Dawood/articleshow/47187565.cms">claims of Pakistani officials</a> here that they had got dossiers showing complicity of Indian agencies in Baluchistan insurgency by releasing a fresh photograph of the ageing don. So far, Indian agencies have used an old photograph - one which was taken in 1993 - in all the dossiers submitted to Pakistan to claim that the fugitive was being sheltered by the hostile neighbour, and to demand his return. The image of the ageing don with a receding hairline showed that Indian agencies have been tracking him with considerable success. 
 

	The dossier which Doval had planned to submit to his Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz had the latter not cried off from his engagement in Delhi, included the will that Dawood has prepared, bequeathing his property to his wife <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/DawoodIbrahims-wife-let-slip-the-secret-of-the-worlds-most-wanted-terroristswhereabouts/articleshow/48621680.cms">Mehzabeen</a>, as well as the precise coordinates of the house Dawood bought next to a hospital in <keyword id="6587" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="karachi">Karachi</keyword>. Dawood's infiltration of <keyword id="36730" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Mumbai-Police">Mumbai Police</keyword> has been part of the lore that has developed around him. A few years ago, <keyword id="6409883" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="wikileaks">Wikileaks</keyword> disclosed that a senior inspector with Mumbai Police had to be cashiered because of his links with the don. 
	 
	(Image credits: Indiatimes)

Former Union Secretary RK Singh’s
disclosure reveals Dawood Ibrahim’s links with Mumbai cops

In Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, UPA chairperson <keyword id="689" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sonia-Gandhi">Sonia Gandhi</keyword> will contest against 14 candidates. 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New Delhi, Mar 12 () Hospitality chains across India, such as domestic majors Indian Hotels Company and EIH and global firms like Hyatt, are taking a slew of measures, including checking temperature of guests and staff, and undertaking additional hygiene procedures to control the spread of coronavirus. "In light of the current situation, we have implemented additional precautionary hygiene measures across our hotels based on the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare advisory and guidelines for prevention and transmission," an IHCL spokesperson said in a statement. This includes training associates as per the protocol prescribed by the Government of India, sanitisation of all areas, increased access to alcohol-based hand sanitizers at prominent locations and body temperature checks for everyone visiting our premises using non-invasive laser thermometers, it added. "As mandated, we are notifying local authorities on travellers coming from affected countries," IHCL said. Stating that its guests and colleagues are well with no symptoms of COVID-19, EIH that runs the hotels and resorts under the Oberoi and Trident brands said it has implemented a guest check-in declaration form at all hotels. This form identifies guests who have travelled to any of the high-risk countries in the past 14 days or have symptoms associated to the virus. "The temperature of each guest is being checked and recorded at the time of check-in. If any of the parameters are not normal, the guest is being requested for a medical examination before completing check-in formalities," EIH said in a statement. For hotels located in remote locations or with little to no non-resident business, entry to the hotel is being restricted to hotel guests, it added. "In our hotels located in key cities across the country, non-resident guests are being requested for their temperature readings before entry," the statement said. Thermal imaging cameras are being procured to monitor the temperatures of each person entering the hotel premises. This should be in place in the next few days in hotels located in key cities across the country, it added. Corporate office colleagues have all been advised to work from home to the extent possible. The colleagues have also been requested to stay at home under self-isolation for a period of 14 days if they show signs of any of the symptoms or have come in contact with someone from a high-risk country, the statement said. At Trident Udaipur, 83 employees are undergoing self-isolation for a period of 14 days as a precautionary measure, it added. Emphasising that it is taking all measures to safety and well-being of its guests and employees, a Hyatt spokesperson said, "We have introduced comprehensive COVID-19 guidance across Hyatt hotels globally, detailing how to protect against transmission of the virus including implementing hand sanitizer stations and frequent cleaning of high-touch areas, and procedures in case there is a suspected or confirmed case among our guests or colleagues." In addition, cross-functional, global response teams, including infectious diseases and occupational health experts, provide guidance to our hotels and help address specific situations, if needed, the statement added. "All precautionary procedures and protocols are in line with the recommendations made by the World Health Organization, US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and local authorities in each country," the spokesperson said. In similar vein, Embassy Group Hospitality Business Head Sartaj Singh said that both "our hospitality partners Hilton and Four Seasons are world leaders of stature. They are bringing in global best practices to ensure that the well being of our guests, our visitors and our staff is protected and we are suitably geared to meet any eventuality arising from the COVID-19 crisis". AKT HRS

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div></div></div><ul><li>"Sacred Games," the first Netflix original series from India, debuted Friday to a 100% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.</li><li>The crime thriller is an adaptation of a best-selling 2006 novel by Vikram Chandra.</li><li>Its first eight-episode season is now streaming on Netflix.</li></ul>Netflix's first original series from India, crime thriller "Sacred Games," debuted Friday to overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics.The show centers on a Sikh cop in the Mumbai police force named Sartaj Singh (played by Bollywood star&#xa0;Saif Ali Khan), and an enigmatic Mumbai criminal, Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui). At the start of the series, Gaitonde calls Singh to inform him of an impending attack on the city that is set to take place in 25 days.Adapted from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Games-Novel-Vikram-Chandra/dp/0061130362">a best-selling 2006 novel</a> by Vikram Chandra, the series currently has a 100% "fresh" rating on the reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.&#xa0;"Sacred Games" is Netflix's first original release in a campaign to reach India, one of the largest potential international markets for the streaming service. Netflix India officially launched back in 2016, but its growth and viewership in the country has&#xa0;<a href="https://www.wired.com/2017/01/how-netflix-lost-big-to-amazon-in-india/">lagged behind</a> its streaming rival Amazon in the intervening years."Sacred Games" represents a renewed effort&#xa0;from Netflix to reach India's&#xa0;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-netflix-turns-to-bollywood-to-script-india-growth-story-2018-7">more than 1 billion potential viewers</a>.&#xa0;Critics lauded the series in advance of its release on Friday, highlighting it as a fresh take on the crime genre and commending Saif Ali Khan's performance as Singh.&#xa0;Mike Hale for The New York Times praised the alternating styles of the show in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/06/arts/television/sacred-games-netflix-review.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftelevision">a review</a>, writing: "The combination of dark humor and operatic violence may call to mind 'Fargo'; the slightly hyperbolic characterizations and stylized dialogue are akin to those in 'Luke Cage.'""'Sacred Games' feels like it could be an especially interesting addition to this genre. The questions surrounding Gaitonde's identity and mortality inject this common story with a dose of supernatural shock," Kayla Cobb from Collider wrote in <a href="https://decider.com/2018/07/06/sacred-games-on-netflix-stream-it-or-skip-it/">a review</a>.&#xa0;Watch the trailer for the series below and catch its <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80115328">first eight-episode season</a> on Netflix.<div></div> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-insects-trained-for-tv-and-movies-spiders-cockroaches-butterflies-mosquitos-hollywood-steven-kutcher-2018-6">How insects are trained for TV and movies</a></h3> <div> </div> </div></hr>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Netflix</div></div></div><ul><li>Netflix's first original series, "Sacred Games," has been under legal pressure for an unflattering reference to an assassinated Indian Prime Minister.</li><li>Netflix was reportedly in the process of changing a term in the subtitles of the show.</li><li>But Netflix counsel told the Delhi High Court on Tuesday that Netflix did not want to change the word. </li></ul> Netflix has been <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/netflixs-indian-original-tv-series-sacred-games-faces-legal-heat-2018-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">facing legal heat for its first original Indian series</a>, "Sacred Games," because of the show's references to former Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated in 1991. But the streaming service seems to be pushing back."Sacred Games" is about a Sikh cop in the Mumbai police force named Sartaj Singh (played by the Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan), and a mysterious Mumbai criminal, Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), caught in a game of cat and mouse after Gaitonde calls Singh to tell him of an attack on the city set to take place in 25 days.In one scene in the show, Gaitonde calls Gandhi "fattu," which is translated in English subtitles as "p----." Since the show streams online, it is not censored by India's Censor Board. But that didn't stop a member of India's Congress political party's legal team from filing a petition in the Delhi High Court for Netflix to delete any scenes that reference Gandhi.<a href="http://time.com/5339495/sacred-games-netflix-india-court/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Time</a> reported last month that Netflix was in the process of replacing "p----" with the word "wimp" in the show's subtitles. But Netflix reportedly still hasn't changed the reference, and doesn't have any plans to do so.According to Indian news outlet <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/television/web-series/story/netflix-has-not-changed-objectionable-word-hc-told-1307846-2018-08-07" target="_blank" rel="noopener">India Today</a>, Netflix's counsel informed the Delhi High Court on Tuesday that Netflix doesn't want to change the word because the series is available in numerous languages that were translated by different people."My instructions are that we don't want to change the word," said Chander Lal, a senior advocate appearing for Netflix.India Today said the issue was scheduled for another hearing on September 20.Netflix did not immediately return a request for comment. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/instagrammer-turns-books-into-art-james-trevino-bookstagram-2018-7">How this Instagrammer turns piles of books into works of art</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

Netflix is pushing back against a legal petition seeking the removal of an unflattering reference to an assassinated Indian Prime Minister in 'Sacred Games,' its first Indian original series

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Netflix</div></div></div><ul><li>Netflix's first original series from India, "Sacred Games," is facing legal heat.</li><li>A petition has been filed in Delhi High Court for Netflix to delete any scenes that reference India's former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.</li><li>One scene in the show depicts a cop calling Gandhi "fattu," which is translated to "p----" in the subtitles.</li><li>According to Time, Netflix is in the process of replacing the word with "wimp" in the subtitles.</li><li>Another police complaint against the show was filed, but dropped after Rahul Gandhi, son of Rajiv and leader of the Congress party, defended freedom of expression.</li></ul> Netflix wants to be huge in India, but its first Indian original series, "Sacred Games," is facing legal heat. The show centers on a Sikh cop in the Mumbai police force named Sartaj Singh (played by the Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan), and a mysterious Mumbai criminal, Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui). At the start of the series, Gaitonde calls Singh to tell him of an attack on the city set to take place in 25 days. The series has been <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/sacred-games-first-netflix-original-from-india-reviews-rotten-tomatoes-2018-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praised by critics</a> since its release on July 6 and has an 88% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.But the show has also been the <a href="http://time.com/5339495/sacred-games-netflix-india-court/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">subject of controversy</a> surrounding scenes referencing former Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated in 1991. (Gandhi's son, Rahul Gandhi, is the current leader of India's Congress political party.) Because the show streams online, it is not censored by India's Censor Board.In one scene in the show, Siddiqui's character calls Gandhi "fattu," which is translated in subtitles as "p----."According to Time, Netflix is in the process of replacing the word "p----" with "wimp" in the subtitles after a member of the Congress party's legal team filed a petition in the Delhi High Court for Netflix to delete any scenes that reference Rajiv Gandhi. A Congress party member, Rajeev Kumar Sinha, had previously <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/complaint-against-nawazuddin-for-abusing-rajiv-gandhi-on-netflix-show-sacred-games-1880837" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a police complaint</a> July 10 against Siddiqui and Netflix for insulting the former Prime Minister and "misrepresenting facts during his regime." "The use of abusive language is not justified," Sinha told <a href="http://time.com/5339495/sacred-games-netflix-india-court/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Time</a>. "I don't think we can go back into history and abuse people this way."But after Rahul Gandhi released a statement about the show, CNN-News18, an Indian news outlet, reported that Sinha <a href="https://youtu.be/cPYGJksJlBk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">withdrew his complaint</a> about "Sacred Games." Gandhi <a href="https://twitter.com/RahulGandhi/status/1018123203728822272" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> on July 14 "I believe [freedom of expression] is a fundamental democratic right. My father lived and died in the service of India. The views of a character on a fictional web series can never change that." <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/miz-cracker-drag-queen-makeup-tutorial-ru-paul-drag-race-2018-6">Miz Cracker from 'RuPaul's Drag Race' shows her drag queen makeup routine</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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