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« Reply #520 on: June 26, 2013, 11:19:57 PM »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10141479/Costa-Concordia-will-not-be-moved-until-May-2014.html
Costa Concordia will not be moved until May 2014
The wreck of the Costa Concordia will not be towed away from the island of Giglio until next Spring at the earliest – more than two years after it capsized, claiming the lives of 32 people.
June 25, 2013

The timetable for removing the 950ft-long cruise liner has continually slipped, to the dismay of the island’s inhabitants, who want it towed off as soon as possible.
It was originally intended to refloat the ship and tow it away with tug boats early this Spring.
 

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« Reply #521 on: June 28, 2013, 10:45:50 PM »

http://ohsonline.com/articles/2013/06/28/costa-concordia-update.aspx?admgarea=news
Salvors Confirm: Costa Concordia Upright by Early September
Engineers from the joint venture hired to refloat the cruise ship updated the mayor and residents of the island of Giglio on June 25.
June 28, 2013

Titan-Micoperi, the joint venture of two companies hired to refloat the stranded cruise ship Costa Concordia, posted an update that says they intend to turn the ship upright by early September. <snip>


What will be completed by then is the parbuckling, which uprights the ship so it rests on six giant platforms that have been anchored to the granite sea floor to support the ship. This event finally will expose the inaccessible starboard side of the ship that is now underwater. Fifteen caissons, called sponsons, then must be attached to the starboard side to match the 15 on the port side, so the ship can be refloated.

The sixth and final underwater platform is being positioned this week, according to the release.
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« Reply #522 on: July 09, 2013, 10:59:04 PM »

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/09/cruise-ship-italy-trial/2504299/
Captain of wrecked cruise ship on trial in Italy
July 9, 2013 

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« Reply #523 on: July 12, 2013, 10:32:19 PM »

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/354233
Trial of captain of Costa Concordia, Francesco Schettino, begins
July 12, 2013

Grosseto - The trial of Francesco Schettino, charged with manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning his ship in the Costa Concordia tragedy, finally got underway on Tuesday. Four other officers had been charged but were given plea bargains.
The trial got underway in the Tuscan city of Grosseto for one hour before it was adjourned due to a lawyers strike. The strike is a protest of new government regulations meant to accelerate civil trials and is expected to be brief and meant as a show of strength. Schettino's trial is expected to get back underway on July 17.
 
The proceedings are taking place in a theater made into a makeshift courtroom to accommodate the huge crowds expected, most of whom will be relatives of the dead who say they are there to see justice prevail.
Outside the courtroom, Schettino's lawyer, Demenico Pepe, told media he and his client seek only the truth in the matter. "The idea that he abandoned the ship is a wrong interpretation," Pepe said. "We want the truth to come out of this trial."
The ship remains 300 meters off of the shore of Giglio, a massive hulking thing visible all over the town. It is being prepared to be refloated by the American firm Titan Salvage and the Italian firm, Micoperi. Once raised sometime next spring, the Costa Concordia will be towed to the port of Piombino to be scrapped.
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« Reply #524 on: July 17, 2013, 07:00:25 AM »

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/world/europe/his-ship-still-aground-captain-goes-on-trial.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
His Ship Still Aground, Captain Goes on Trial
July 16, 1013

ROME — He was the focus of Italians’ rage and embarrassment 18 months ago, when he was accused of abandoning his ship after it ran aground and capsized off the Tuscan coast, killing 32 people. On Wednesday the ship’s captain, Francesco Schettino, will finally appear in a courtroom.
 
Captain Schettino became infamous the world over a few days after the wreck of his ship, the Costa Concordia, when a wiretapped conversation surfaced that indicated he was standing on a rock next to the vessel before the extremely chaotic evacuation was complete.

His dispute with a port authority official who tried to cajole him into getting back on board and taking command of the evacuation was played over and over again on Italian news outlets and Web sites. Captain Schettino admitted he was on the rock but said he was there because he had fallen overboard. Nevertheless, British newspapers called him “Captain Coward.”

Captain Schettino, the only defendant in this trial, denies wrongdoing and has said that he took the vessel close to the shore only after the initial impact, a maneuver that he says saved many lives. If found guilty, he could face up to 20 years in prison.

Five other defendants, a company official and four crew members, are accused of complicity in the shipwreck and manslaughter, charges that carry potential prison terms of less than five years. Their expedited trials will begin Saturday.

“The mistakes of the crew members influenced the accident,” said the chief prosecutor of Grosseto, Francesco Verusio, in a telephone interview. “But they are not the main actors here. The captain is the one who bears the heaviest responsibility. He was navigating at 16 knots an hour with no route, at night, by the stars. That’s way too fast so close to shore.”

Francesco Pepe, one of Captain Schettino’s lawyers, argues that his client thought he had set the ship at a safe distance from the shore and that miscommunication with the Indonesian helmsman could have played a role in the accident.
 
In April, the Concordia’s operator, Costa Cruises, a unit of the Carnival Corporation, agreed to pay the state $1.3 million to resolve a number of minor charges against its employees. However, the company is facing civil suits from passengers and crew members who have refused compensation — about 20 percent of those on board — though settlements are still being reached in Italy and abroad.

In the meantime, patience is running out on the island of Giglio, where operations to remove the 54,000-ton vessel could be further delayed by the Italian authorities.

Local residents complain that the hulking shipwreck has crushed the island’s economy, which depends on tourism. And there is growing nervousness that the salvage operation, already recognized as among the most complex ever undertaken, may be even more complicated than anticipated.

The vessel was supposed to be removed before this summer, but the difficulties of drilling holes into granite in 35 feet of water, in addition to an extraordinarily long and rough winter, forced salvage workers to modify the original timetable.

For the past year, nearly 500 divers, technicians and engineers have worked to stabilize the ship using anchors and cement-filled bags. A submerged platform was erected to rotate the ship onto, and most of the 200-plus-foot gash in the vessel’s side has been welded shut.
 
Mr. Sloane, an engineer with Titan Salvage of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and his team are preparing for the so-called parbuckling operation, an 8- to 10-hour process that will try to lift the vessel upright in one day and then float it away.

The operation is risky, a one-shot deal, he said, because if the attempt fails, the ship cannot be put back on the seabed to begin from scratch.

“We are quite confident in the whole operation,” which is scheduled to take place in September, Mr. Sloane said in a phone interview. “But until we get it upright, we can’t know the damage and can’t say how fast we can get it out. We have to keep in mind that the parbuckling will cause some damage, too.”

Last week, the director of Italy’s Civil Protection Agency, Franco Gabrielli, voiced concern over the uncertainties surrounding the ambitious project and suggested that the removal operations could be postponed to next year.
 
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« Reply #525 on: July 20, 2013, 06:35:25 PM »

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/20/italy-costa-concordia-cruise/2570735/
Italy: Court convicts 5 employees in deadly shipwreck
July 20, 2013

 

The court in Grosseto on Saturday handed down the highest sentence to the crisis coordinator for Costa Crociere, Roberto Ferranini, who was sentenced to two years and 10 months. The ship's hotel director was sentenced to two years and six months while two bridge officers and a helmsman got sentences ranging from one year and eight months to one year and 11 months.

The plea bargains were handled separately from the trial of Costa Concordia captain, who is charged with manslaughter for causing the January 2012 shipwreck of the Tuscan island of Giglio and abandoning the vessel with thousands aboard.

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« Reply #526 on: July 21, 2013, 01:36:03 PM »

TY for the updates MB
wow he's leaving,and wants help to come aboard to help passengers

Costa Concordia captain's 'phone call with port authority' - video
Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Costa Concordia, was ordered by the coastguard to return to the stricken ship after claiming that the evacuation was almost complete when it had scarcely begun, according to this recording of what Italian newspaper say is a telephone conversation between the captain and the port authority
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/jan/17/costa-concordia-captain-phone-call-video

Francesco Schettino: the captain who refused to return to ship
John Hooper in Rome
The Guardian, Tuesday 17 January 2012 14.47 EST
 
Recordings of radio and telephone calls made by Italian coastguards indicate that they were twice assured the vessel was suffering from only a "small technical failure", that Schettino claimed the evacuation was almost complete when it had scarcely begun, and that he abandoned ship long before the last of his passengers.

"No. I'm not on board because the bows of the ship are coming up. We've abandoned her," he tells an incredulous coastguard, who replies: "What do you mean? You've abandoned ship?" Schettino then appears to do a volte face: "No. No way have I abandoned ship. I'm here."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/17/francesco-schettino-captain-costa-concordia
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« Reply #527 on: July 24, 2013, 11:55:50 AM »

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/07/haunting-images-of-costa-concordia-shipwreck-show-up-on-google-maps/
See Haunting Images Of Costa Concordia Shipwreck On Google Maps
July 22, 2013
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« Reply #528 on: August 06, 2013, 09:50:36 AM »

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/08/01/Grounded-ship-Costa-Concordia-must-be-righted-by-winter-official-says/UPI-75521375383988/
Grounded ship Costa Concordia must be righted by winter, official says
August 1, 2013

ROME, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The cruise ship Costa Concordia, lying half-submerged near Tuscany since January 2012, must be righted before winter, an Italian government official said.

Environment Undersecretary Flavio Cirillo told the environment committee of Parliament's Chamber of Deputies Thursday the removal operation would be at risk if the ship stayed at its location for another winter.
 
Civil Protection Department chief Franco Gabrielli said in June he hoped the ship could be righted in September, then towed away. Last month he said operations could be stopped until next year unless the salvage company responsible for the ship's removal provides additional protections, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.
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« Reply #529 on: August 06, 2013, 09:53:10 AM »

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/355861
Costa Concordia must be raised by winter or could break apart
August 4, 2013

Flavio Cirillo, Italy's undersecretary for the environment told the Italian Parliament this week that the Costa Concordia must be removed before the winter. Cirillo said another winter where it now sits could spell disaster, but not everyone agrees.
While the date of removal has changed many times - initially it was thought it would be long gone by now - until earlier this month the fall was being floated as the date it will be ready for towing. However, Civil Protection Department chief Franco Gabrielli now says that the companies doing the job must provide greater assurances the environment won't be harmed if the Costa Concordia to be removed by then.
He has said the removal won't come until the Spring of 2014.

Gabrielli and his department want assurances that when the operation does take place the ship, already in danger of breaking up under its own weight, will not break apart. That could see much of its contents spilled into the protected waters of the Tuscan Bay.
But Cirillo believes a delay past the fall would create an even more dangerous situation. He fears winter storms could tear the boat apart where it sits. It has survived one winter there, 300 meters from the island of Giglio and with 65 percent of the ship lying underwater.
 
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« Reply #530 on: August 06, 2013, 09:55:30 AM »

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/06/uk-munichre-results-costaconcordia-idUKBRE9750GT20130806
Insurer payout for Costa Concordia disaster rising - Munich Re
August 6, 2013

(Reuters) - Insurance industry payouts related to last year's sinking of cruise liner Costa Concordia have continued to rise and are likely to top $1.1 billion (716.1 million pounds) as salvaging of the wreck continues, reinsurer Munich Re (MUVGn.DE) said on Tuesday.

 

The ship had a value of $500 million, Munich Re said.

"That's already been paid for," Munich Re board member Torsten Jeworrek told a news conference on the reinsurer's second-quarter earnings.

The salvage operation aims to remove the vessel intact rather than cutting it into pieces, which adds to the cost and time involved in removing the wreck, Jeworrek said.

Munich Re raised its estimate for its own share of the burden to 100 million euros ($132 million) from 80 million previously.
 

($1 = 0.7553 euros)
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« Reply #531 on: August 09, 2013, 02:25:13 PM »

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-italy-giglio-20130809,0,6836556.story?track=lat-pick
Costa Concordia: A hulking reminder of tragedy sits off Giglio, Italy
Nineteen months after the Costa Concordia ran aground, locals and tourists work and play in the shadow of the wreck. Salvage crews, meanwhile, toil furiously.

August 9, 2013
 
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« Reply #532 on: August 13, 2013, 03:34:06 PM »

(My bold in blue)  I continue to hope the remains of the two victims can be recovered. 


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10238561/Salvage-chief-warns-Costa-Concordia-could-fracture.html
Salvage chief warns Costa Concordia could fracture
The man in charge of salvaging the wreck of the Costa Concordia which crashed off the coast of Tuscany last year has warned the massive luxury cruise ship could fracture when it is rotated in early September.

August 12, 2013


The Costa Concordia is twice as heavy as the Titanic and lies impaled on two giant outcrops of undersea granite with a 160-foot gash in its hull.  Photo: FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP

Nick Sloane, the 52-year-old engineer who heads the world's most biggest-ever marine salvage operation, is awaiting final approval from Italian authorities to rotate the ship in the first week of September.
"When we raise it you will hear the noise from the wrenching and of the fracture of internal sections but we hope that the external structure remains intact," Mr Sloane said.
 

Mr Sloane said there are huge challenges in rolling the 950 ft cruise liner upright and the salvage team is seeking to minimise any impact on the precious marine environment surrounding the island.
Asked whether he had any fears about the operation the South African salvage expert said: "We have dealt with them in the best way possible – by conducting serious evaluations and putting in place all the possible technical and engineering measures."
The ship is twice as heavy as the Titanic and lies impaled on two giant outcrops of undersea granite with a 160-foot gash in its hull.
The scale of the operation is unprecedented engineers have constructed a huge artificial seabed beneath the 114,500 tonne ship, on which it will be rolled upright.
Earlier this year the operation was delayed by bad weather and the challenges of drilling into the granite seabed to secure anchor blocks and pylons.
Mr Sloane said explosives could not be used because of the quantity of chemicals and pollutants inside the vessel as well as its precarious position.
When the ship is rotated, debris and dirty water is expected to pour out of its interior.
"With explosions there would have been a greater risk of it slipping," he said. "And let's not forget that the bodies of two people are buried inside." Pulling the semi-submerged ship upright is just the first phase of the salvage operation. The next stage is to attach giant steel compartments to the formerly submerged side of the vessel to help refloat it before it can be towed away but that is unlikely to take place before the spring of 2014.
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« Reply #533 on: August 16, 2013, 09:34:06 PM »

http://www.enca.com/world/costa-concordia-be-raised
Costa Concordia to be raised
August 16, 013

ROME - The Costa Concordia cruise ship will be raised up next month near the Italian island where it still lies keeled over more than a year on from the deadly disaster, the salvage coordinator said on Friday.
 
"If things go as we are expecting. I think September will be the month of the rotation," prefect Franco Gabrielli told Italian news channel SkyTG24, declining to give a precise date.
 
The raising of the Concordia had been programmed for September 2012 but was then delayed to May 2013 and then put off again because of technical difficulties.
 
The salvage is the biggest ever attempted for a passenger ship.
 
The plan is initially to rotate the 114,500-ton vessel, then attach flotation tanks to the side that is currently under water like the ones already welded to its exposed side.
 
The tanks will then be emptied of water to act as flotation devices before the ship is towed away to be scrapped in a port that is yet to be determined.
 
Salvage operators say the rotation has to occur in September at the latest because otherwise there would be a risk of bad weather later in the year.
 
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« Reply #534 on: August 17, 2013, 04:29:32 PM »

http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/57994/Concordia-raises-concerns-for-environmental-group.html
Concordia raises concerns for environmental group
August 16, 2013

Wrecked Costa cruise ship 'creating a national emergency'




Grosseto, August 16 - The partially submerged Costa Concordia cruise ship has been left off the coast of Tuscany for far too long and is becoming a national emergency, an Italian environmental group said Friday. Legambiente accused government agencies of playing games with what threatens to be an environmental disaster as the massive cruise ship, which sunk in January 2012 killing 32 people, remains on the rocks around Giglio Island. "581 days, the Concordia is still here," read a 12-meter-long banner upheld by protesters aboard a ship off the island Friday. Authorities have extended the deadline several times for the safe removal of the ship and Legambiente suggested the delays are dangerous. "We are seriously concerned," said group president Vittorio Cogliati Dezza. "We are faced with a real national emergency that seems ignored by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport". Earlier this month, Italy's Environment undersecretary warned that the semi-submerged vessel needs to be at least righted before the winter, or the ship's removal from Giglio will be in danger.
 
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« Reply #535 on: August 20, 2013, 05:20:08 PM »

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/356699
At last! Costa Concordia to be rotated, sometime in September
August 19, 2013

 
"If things go as we are expecting. I think September will be the month of the rotation," Franco Gabrielli told news channel SkyTG24 in Italy. He did not give a specific date but said September must be stuck to or bad weather might prevent rotating the ship until Spring.
Flotation tanks on Costa Concordia
The ship is currently listing over and 65 percent of it is underwater. By "rotation" Gabrielli referred to the plan of Titan Salvage and Micoperi, the American and Italian companies doing the work, which is to raise and rotate it. Once rotated, they will weld floatation tanks to the side that is now up against the ocean floor. Floatation tanks have already been welded onto the side of the ship facing up.
When the Costa Concordia sits up in the water the flotation tanks will be emptied and will provide buoyancy to keep the ship upright while it is being towed. The Costa Concordia will be towed to the port of Piombino, where it will be salvaged for parts and material, with the towing likely to take place in the Spring.
 
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« Reply #536 on: August 20, 2013, 05:25:02 PM »

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57599101/grounded-costa-concordia-cruise-ship-is-ready-to-roll-literally/
Grounded Costa Concordia cruise ship is ready to roll, literally
August 19, 2013

GIGLIO, ITALY The biggest engineering feat ever to be attempted on a ship of its size is a few weeks away. After months of planning, design, fabrication and installation, the 114,000-ton Costa Concordia cruise ship, which ran aground off the island of Giglio on January 13, 2012, is practically ready for parbuckling or rotation to an upright position. Months of work for close to 500 salvage operators have suffered some delays caused by weather conditions and by complications in efforts to drill and level the uneven granite seabed.

The Costa Concordia is now expected to be raised in the month of September but no official date has been announced yet by the Italian authorities or by the two companies - Titan Salvage from the United States and Micoperi from Italy - that were awarded the recovery project. The man in charge of coordinating all of the operations is a 52-year-old South African captain and salvage master called Nick Sloane who has worked on some of the world's major maritime disasters during his career.

The final phase of works on the ship, completed during this third week in August, involved the installation of two massive tanks, known as the "blister sisters" on the bow of the ship.

"The blister tanks are like a large cervical collar you put on a patient with a spinal injury, like a neck brace, that will stabilize the whole bow during the parbuckling and reduce any chance of further damage", Sloane told CBS News as the massive tanks stood on one of the many salvage rigs and barges that now surround the Costa Concordia.

Aside from the blister tanks, which provide 6,000 tons of buoyancy, 11 other tanks or "sponsons" have been attached to the port side of the ship. When the ship is rotated, if all goes according to plan, it will come to rest on six steel platforms that have been placed on the sea bed, on the offshore side. Because the ship is lying on two underwater reefs with a valley in between, salvage workers and divers had to pump 18,000 tons of cement into grout bags that were used to fill the gap to support the ship's hull.

"One of the bigger challenges was dealing with the granite slope of mountain underneath the water where we had to cut into the rock and set the anchor blocks which have chains attached to them going underneath the ship", said Sloane. "On the inshore side there are 11 towers and a strand-jack system that has been installed on both sides of the ship. Each one of these strand-jacks can be individually controlled and these will also help support her belly during parbuckling."

Salvage workers will be placing microphones and cameras in at least five different areas of the ship for constant monitoring of the operation, which is expected to take between eight and 10 hours.

"There will be a lot of noise and it's important that we listen to the different sections," said Sloane. "We can take measures and make adjustments depending on any twist and tortion on the ship. We are confident the ship will be coming upright and know the first 20 degrees of rotation are critical. It's going to be a long, nerve-racking day."

Once the parbuckling is complete, the next phase -- removing the ship from its present location and towing it to a mainland port for dismantling -- will have to wait another eight to 10 months for winter to pass.

One of the first priorities after the ship has been turned upright will be very high-definition survey of the whole starboard side, to assess its condition and decide how much more floatation will be needed to move the stricken vessel. The hope is that, with the addition of some further sponsons, the ship will float again.

 

Two of the 32 people killed when the Costa capsized are still missing and authorities hope to recover their bodies after the parbuckling. Officials also still need to empty the safe deposit boxes in the passenger cabins and return belongings to their legitimate owners.

Meanwhile, the trial of the ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, is due to resume in the Tuscan town of Grosseto on Sept. 23. He has been charged with manslaughter, causing the shipwreck by steering the Costa into rocks, and abandoning ship as a senior officer. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of manslaughter.
 

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« Reply #537 on: September 01, 2013, 09:16:07 AM »

http://ohsonline.com/articles/2013/08/29/blister-tanks-installed-on-costa-concordia.aspx?admgarea=news
Blister Tanks Installed on Costa Concordia
August 29, 2013

The latest step to be completed in the project to turn the stranded cruise ship Costa Concordia upright, so it can be floated away from the Italian island Giglio, is the installation of two blister tanks on the ship's bow. An Aug. 27 release posted on the website maintained by the Titan Salvage/Micoperi salvage operation indicated the two steel tanks have been set in place.

Earlier this year, the companies said they expected to turn the ship in September.

"The two blister tanks are special sponsons that provide a net buoyancy of about 4,000 tons and will support the bow during the next three phases of the process: the rotation of the wreck into a vertical position (the so called "Parbuckling"); the resting of the wreck on the artificial seabed; and the refloating," it stated.
 
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« Reply #538 on: September 04, 2013, 11:52:19 PM »

http://skift.com/2013/09/03/inside-60-minutes-report-on-salvaging-the-costa-concordia/
Inside 60 Minutes’ Report on Salvaging the Costa Concordia
September 3, 2013

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« Reply #539 on: September 04, 2013, 11:55:48 PM »

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50154138n
Costa Concordia: Salvaging a shipwreck
September 1, 2013 4:00 PM

After wrecking at sea a year and a half ago, the Italian luxury liner awaits one of the most expensive and daunting salvage operations ever. Lesley Stahl reports.

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