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MTV Movie Awards 2014 Winners List: 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Takes Top Honors

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Because awards season never ends, the 2014 MTV Movie Awards were handed out on Sunday night. "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" won Movie of the Year, while the film's stars, Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, took home top acting honors. Conan O'Brien hosted the annual celebration of blockbusters and tween favorites (holler, Bella Thorne and Tyler Posey), where "The Wolf of Wall Street" and "American Hustle" tied for the most nominations with eight. "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" earned seven nods.

Below, a full list of MTV Movie Awards winners for 2014.

Movie of the Year: "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"
Best Female Performance: Jennifer Lawrence, "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"
Best Male Performance: Josh Hutcherson, "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"
Best Fight: Orlando Bloom and Evangeline Lilly vs. Orcs, "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"
Best Kiss: Jennifer Aniston, Will Poulter and Emma Roberts, "We're The Millers"
Best Shirtless Performance: Zac Efron, "That Awkward Moment"
Best Villain: Mila Kunis, "Oz The Great And Powerful"
Best Comedic Performance: Jonah Hill, "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Best Onscreen Transformation: Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club"
Breakthrough Performance: Will Poulter, "We're the Millers"
Best Scared As Sh-t Performance: Brad Pitt, "World War Z"
Best Onscreen Duo: Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, "Fast and Furious 6"
Best #WTF Moment: Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Best Musical Moment: Backstreet Boys, "This Is The End"
Best Cameo: Rihanna, "This Is The End"
Best Hero: Henry Cavill, "Man of Steel"
Favorite Character: Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley), "Divergent"

MTV Trailblazer Award: Channing Tatum
Generation Award: Mark Wahlberg

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Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts & Will Poulter Win Best Kiss At 2014 MTV Movie Awards

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If you could steal a smooch from any person in Hollywood, it would probably be Jennifer Aniston, Emma Roberts and Will Poulter. The trio won Best Kiss at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night for their make-out session in "We're The Millers."

Poulter, who earlier won Best Breakthrough Performance, accepted the award on behalf of the winners.

Nominees in the category included Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams (for "American Hustle"), Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson (for "Don Jon"), James Franco, Ashley Benson and Vanessa Hudgens (for "Spring Breakers") and Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller (for "The Spectacular Now").

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Josh Hutcherson Honors Philip Seymour Hoffman During MTV Movie Awards

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"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" won Movie of the Year during Sunday's MTV Movie Awards. Stars Josh Hutcherson and Sam Claflin accepted the award, and Hutcherson used the win to pay tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman. The Oscar-winning actor, who died in February, played Plutarch Heavensbee in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" and the forthcoming, two-part "Hunger Games" finale, "Mockingjay."

The Hoffman portion of Hutcherson's speech is transcribed below:

I know that if Philip were here, he would really think this is really cool. To have him in our movies was one of the coolest things in the world. He's one of the actors I've looked up to my entire life. We think about him every day on set. Wherever he is, this definitely goes out to him as well.

Benedict Cumberbatch Apparently Told A Crowd Of Fans He Isn't In 'Star Wars'

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Cross him off, then. According to reports from Australian entertainment news site The Iris, Benedict Cumberbatch told an Oz Comic Con crowd that he was not going to star in "Star Wars: Episode VII."




HuffPost Entertainment contacted Cumberbatch's representatives to confirm that the actor did indeed make this statement during his appearance. This post will be updated if and when they respond.

Cumberbatch was first rumored for "Star Wars" in September of 2013. At the time, the actor's reps shot down the report, but Cumberbatch did allude to the fact that appearing in the J.J. Abrams film was something he was interested in doing.

"I worked with J.J. [Abrams]. Obviously, he knows," Cumberbatch to THR. "Everyone who wants to be part of that film, they know about."

In December, Cumberbatch told Conan O'Brien that he was calling Abrams and leaving him messages about starring in "Episode VII."

"I would leave casual messages on his phone as a light saber," Cumberbatch said.

"Star Wars: Episode VII" is out in theaters on Dec. 18, 2015.

[via Indiewire/The Playlist]

This Juggler Created An Utterly Mesmerizing Optical Illusion With Just Four Rings

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French juggler and illusionist Lindzee Poi has released this video titled "Amelymeloptical illusion" involving just four rings and a whole lot of visual trickery.



Watch the short clip above to see the incredible performance for yourself. Afterwards, if you have an explanation for how this illusion is created, feel free to leave us a comment. But remember, a good magician never reveals his secrets.

Photo Series Captures The Part Of A Teacher's Day You Never See

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It is the calm after the storm.

After the last school bell rings and rowdy children shuffle out, teachers are left with a few silent moments to soak in or let go of the day's triumphs and disappointments.

Last year, photographer Aliza Eliazarov captured these often-unseen moments for her photo series "See Me After School," which features New York educators.

Eliazarov is no stranger to the unseen lives of teachers; she was one before becoming a full-time photographer.

"In the minutes after the classroom emptied I would be consumed by many feelings as I processed the day and began to plan for the next, and of course these feelings change from day to day," she told The Huffington Post via email. "The sentiments expressed by the teachers in my photos are indicative of their feelings during a specific moment on one day. In this respect, I identify with all of my subjects."

Look below for a glimpse into the after-school moments:

Childish Gambino Upset At Record Company After 'Sweatpants' Video Release

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Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, is not happy with his record label. The rapper took to Twitter on Monday to slam Glassnote Records following the release of both the video for the song "Sweatpants" and a blog post about Childish Gambino's Deep Web Tour.




























This isn't the first time Childish Gambino has had problems with Glassnote Records over "Sweatpants," a track from his latest album, "Because The Internet." Last year, following a leak of the song, Gambino was similarly unhappy.













Watch the new video for "Sweatpants" below:

In Memoriam: Joffrey Baratheon's Bitchiest Moments

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Oh, Joffrey Baratheon ... where to begin?

Spoiler Alert: If you have not seen Season 4, Episode 2 "The Lion and the Rose" of "Game of Thrones."

On the April 13 episode of "Game of Thrones," best known as the Purple Wedding, King Joffrey was murdered during his own wedding party. The golden-haired 19-year-old was believed to be the child of former-king Robert Baratheon and Cersei Lannister, and thus the rightful Lord of the Seven Kingdoms. However, young Joffrey was actually the love child of brother and sister Jaime and Cersei Lannister.

Although the cause of death is currently inconclusive, King Joffrey was slain on the day of his marriage by a mystery killer in an apparent poisoning. King Joffrey died as he lived ... like a little bitch. In honor of the late King, watch our tribute to his horrendous life and bitchiest moments above.

Video created with blood, sweat and dragon tears by Oliver Noble of The Huffington Post.

"Game of Thrones" airs Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT on HBO.



Inside Timor-Leste

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"The Other Hundred" is a unique photo book project aimed as a counterpoint to the Forbes 100 and other media rich lists by telling the stories of people around the world who are not rich but whose lives, struggles and achievements deserve to be celebrated. Its 100 photo stories move beyond the stereotypes and clichés that fill so much of the world's media to explore the lives of people whose aspirations and achievements are at least as noteworthy as any member of the world's richest 1 percent.

This project has a special meaning for me because for as long as I can remember, lists of the rich and famous have had a perverse hold on me. Populated with figures unlike anyone I had ever met with lifestyles the opposite of what I had always been taught was the right way to behave, they clearly could not be held up as models for emulation. And yet, with their wealth, power and influence, weren't they also meant to be models of success -- figures we should be looking up to? Clearly there was confusion here -- possibly even a contradiction. My conclusion was that rich lists were built around a lie. The reality is we can't all be rich. Most people on this planet can't even aspire to having even the tiniest fraction of wealth; 8 out of 10 live on U.S. $10 or less a day.

This is not something to celebrate, but nor should it have us despairing. Rather, it should tell us that if we want to look for success, then we should look elsewhere than those celebrations of excess epitomized by the Forbes' billionaires list and its many imitators. From this insight emerged the idea of "The Other Hundred": to turn the notion of a rich list on its head and celebrate instead not just those at the other end of society, but also the myriad ways in which people around the world use multiple means to gauge their own success and satisfaction -- some material, others not. Developing this idea took a while. I knew I didn't want to celebrate poverty. Being poor is a bad thing; everyone should have enough to satisfy his or her fundamental needs. But nor do people wake up with the dream of becoming millionaires; rather, people set about realizing more concrete, local tasks with the ideas and materials at hand.

One year later the end result of this musing was "The Other Hundred" (www.theotherhundred.com), the first book in what I now know will be a series -- a collection of 100 photo stories from 91 countries across six continents and selected from more than 12,000 images from 156 countries.

Many other ideas, themes and questions came up in the making of this book, and I hope it takes readers on a journey that helps them understand the world a little bit better. But the main goal remains to show the incredible variety of human life that exists in the world and which we almost never hear about. I would like to think that we succeeded.

We are currently working on the second edition of "The Other Hundred" for a December 2014 publication, focusing on the entrepreneurs left out of the mainstream media. These are the millions of people around the world who have ventured out and done things their own way without ever graduating with an Ivy League MBA, hiring an investment bank, planning an IPO or dreaming of fame and fortune.


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Photographer: Scott Woodward


Timor-Leste is a young country with a young population. Colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century and invaded by Indonesia in the 1970s, it finally claimed control of its own territory in 1999 after a long and bitter war. Formal establishment of the new state followed in 2002. At least half of the country’s population of 1.17 million has been born since it regained its sovereignty, giving the country a median age of 18.4 years, and making education a priority.

One of the country’s biggest post-independence successes is an 85 percent primary school enrollment rate, especially considering that around nine-tenths of Timor-Leste’s education infrastructure was in ruins by 1999.

But much remains to be done. Most children don’t start school until six or seven, and nearly two-thirds suffer from malnutrition. Only 37 percent go on to secondary school.

The country is home to a host of languages -– five Papuan and 22 Austronesian. While that’s good for diversity, it’s not good for schooling. Many children find themselves with teachers who speak another language from them. Four out of 10 can’t read a single word after two years of primary school.

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Don't Read Yahoo Answers For The Answers. Read It For This Guy.

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Yahoo Answers is a den of idiocy, where strangers ask other strangers for advice, often with hilarious results. And Ethan T. Berlin is its biggest troll.

Berlin is an Emmy Award-nominated comedian who's written for "Da Ali G Show," "Crank Yankers" and other TV series. In his spare time, he gives hilariously unhelpful advice to people on Yahoo Answers under the name "Puploveheart."

When someone asked how to bake good, chocolate-y cupcakes, Berlin gave a detailed recipe. The fourth ingredient was cupcakes. When someone asked for suggestions for puppy names, Berlin suggested "Pepsi" and "Diet Pepsi" (but only if both are black and one is skinny).

You can remain anonymous on Yahoo Answers, so you can ask anything you want and make your answers as ridiculous as you please. It was only a matter of time before a comedian started using this platform to joke around.

"I started doing it mostly because when you're searching for information, Yahoo Answers is one of the top Google results," Berlin told the Huffington Post. "And you think this will be good information, but it ends up being idiots asking questions and idiots answering questions."

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"What struck me was that about 50 to 60 percent of the questions would easily be answered by using Google," Berlin said. He was also disturbed to see so many people asking medical questions on the anonymous site. "I think, 'No! Go see a doctor! That is not a good way of diagnosing a heart attack!'"

"The times that I'm the happiest are when I'm chosen as the best answer," he said. Yahoo Answers determines the "best" responses to questions by letting users vote on them. "My percentage is oddly high."

It's not just fun and games, though. Sometimes Berlin includes helpful links between jokes. "I'm helping people," he says. "It's definitely something that will continue."

You can check out Berlin's podcast about crowdfunding, KickieGoGo, on iTunes.

Alexa Ray Joel Collapses On Stage After Announcing She's Taken Ill, Is Recovering Just Fine

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Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, collapsed on stage Saturday night, April 12, mid-performance.

The 28-year-old was two songs into her set at New York City's Cafe Carlyle, reports The New York Times, when she suddenly collapsed. She was taken to the emergency room where she was diagnosed with Vasovagal Syncope, a common and usually harmless cause of fainting, per New York Post's Page Six.

Joel's publicist told the Times that the singer-songwriter "had taken ill earlier in the afternoon and announced from the stage that she pulled out her back and neck, but wanted the show to go on." Joel, who was set to complete a two-week run at the Cafe the night she collapsed, released a her own statement regarding the health scare:

"I wanted to thank everyone for coming out to support me. I was excited and determined to fulfill my final performance and I really wanted to end my run with a bang, but this was not what I had in mind and hope I have the opportunity to make it up to the wonderful audience very soon. Thanks for all the concern."

In 2006, it was reported that Joel suffered a "fainting spell" which caused her band to reschedule a few gigs, per a Chicago Tribune article from that year. But Joel set the record straight. "That whole thing got blown out of proportion. It was just one show a while ago. I fainted before the show just because I was totally stressed out," she told the Tribune at the time.

Joel made headlines earlier this month after photos from her Cafe Carlyle performance spurred rumors of plastic surgery. Joel took to Instagram to set the record straight yet again.

"I would just like to add that all of the continuously-circulating rumors that I have had extensive 'face-work' and undergone breast-augmentation surgery is simply and entirely 100% false. The only thing I have ever had done is my nose, which I have always been completely candid, honest, and open about," she wrote. "Any visibly-positive alterations in terms of my public-image are an absolute and sole credit to my brilliant makeup-artist and stylist, @darlingcait ... Who is a true beauty-wizard and visionary."

'Nelly' Niel Shows Off On The Electric Slide Guitar

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A couple months ago, Rob Chapman made a fantastic discovery on the streets of Brighton, England: Andrew "Nelly" Niel.

Now, weeks after setting Niel up with a YouTube channel, the talented musician is back out there performing for anyone who cares to watch. This week, he got one of those people to record him on his slide guitar.

The result is one fantastic jam session worth watching more than once.

Remarkable Photos Of An Elderly Love Triangle Will Challenge Your Perception Of Relationships

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Isadora Kosofsky is a 19-year-old photographer from Los Angeles who's been drawn to an unlikely trio of subjects. For her project "The Three," she documented the lives of Jeanie, Adina and Will, three individuals, all over the age of 80, who are in a romantic relationship.

Theirs isn't a love triangle in the classic sense. The trio are in what is better known as a "split object triangle," as Jeanie and Adina "share" Will romantically.

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Kosofsky followed the threesome -- aged, at that time, 82, 90 and 84 respectively -- with their permission, meeting with them each morning at their particular senior-care facilities. Her camera captured the quietly intimate moments Jeanie, Adina and Will share with each other, from a kiss on the cheek to a walk hand-in-hand. The series offers a glimpse into the unique and unconventional connection between the three, a poignant bond that challenges the typical monogamous relationship model and sheds light on the beauty of aging.

Kosofsky began photographing seniors in retirement facilities at the age of fourteen, after the death of her maternal grandmother. She met Jeanie, Adina and Will a few years later, while she was photographing a woman at an assisted-living facility. "I observed Jeanie, Will and Adina for a few weeks and then asked if I could spend time with them," Kosofsky recounted to HuffPost. "Some assume I chose to befriend Jeanie, Will and Adina because they appear unconventional; but, in fact, I recognize a part of myself in each individual. Each day the trio would meet outside their respective retirement homes and search for a new 'adventure,' a purpose. I felt the comfort of being part of the group."

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Though Kosofsky is decades removed from the trio, her lens effortlessly crosses the age barrier, recording tender stares and soft embraces. Never intrusive, she manages to maintain the perspective of an accepted observer, eager to snap shots that communicate the love and devotion encapsulated in this three-way relationship. Yet, at the same time, the series brings attention to the isolation one can experience at the end of life, the distance one can feel in relation to younger society.

"The thrill revealed sadness," Kosofsky added. "I experienced the isolation that one can feel even when part of a group, or pair, of companions. I felt the pain that dwelled just below the surface of their romanticism. My perception of relationships is confirmed, and I interpret this project to be about the struggle to love and feel loved, rather than love itself."

Ultimately, Kosofsky's series provides a complicated portrait of loneliness and belonging, prompting the viewers to address their own preconceptions of love, loss and aging. For Kosofsky, just the act of photographing Jeanie, Will and Adina was a form of comfort in the face of isolation. "I found solace in photography as a way to alleviate loneliness," Kosofsky explained. "Photography not only allows me to feel less solitary, but my subjects also feel less alone through our relationship and the creative process."



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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographers Were Honored For Some Incredible Images

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The 2014 Pulitzer Prize winners for Breaking News Photography and Feature Photography were announced on Monday.

Both awards were captured by photographers from the New York Times.

Tyler Hicks, a staff photographer for the New York Times, received the award in breaking news photography for his pictures documenting the terrorist attack at Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya.

Josh Haner won for feature photography for his essay, "Beyond the Finish Line," on one victim's recovery after the Boston Marathon bombings.

“It’s a huge honor to be recognized in this way, and it’s a reminder to me that these stories, however far away and however remote, are being noticed and that the risks that photographers all over the world take in going to dangerous places are being acknowledged and rewarded," Hicks said.

"It’s a symbol of what we do at the newspaper as a whole — the best of foreign reporting and the best of our enterprise,” NY Times' assistant managing editor for photography Michele McNally added.

Scroll through below to see some of the winning images by Tyler Hicks and Josh Haner:

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You can find all of Haner's winning images and his full piece here.





This Is What The Tribeca Film Festival Looked Like In 2004

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The 2014 edition of the Tribeca Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday with the world premiere of "Time is Illmatic," a documentary about Nas' iconic "Illmatic" album. Over the next two weeks, stars such as Chris Messina, Mark Ruffalo, Keira Knightley and Katie Holmes will descend on New York City for the annual event. Exciting! More exciting? To celebrate this year's Tribeca Film Festival, HuffPost Entertainment got out a time machine and looked back on 2004's gathering of industry favorites. (Apologies in advance to Mila Kunis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Vanessa Hudgens.)

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Steve Buscemi, Meg White and Jack White at the premiere of "Coffee and Cigarettes"

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David Duchovny and Robin Williams at the premiere of "House of D"

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Gerard Butler and Emily Mortimer at the premiere of "Dear Frankie"

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Edward Burns and Christy Turlington at the premiere of "Looking for Kitty"

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Ashley Olsen, Robert De Niro and Mary-Kate Olsen at the premiere of "New York Minute"

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Ashley Olsen and Mary-Kate Olsen at the premiere of "New York Minute"

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Joan Cusack, John Corbett and Kate Hudson at the premiere of "Raising Helen"

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Goldie Hawn, Robert De Niro and Kate Hudson at the premiere of "Raising Helen"

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Ben Chaplin and Claire Danes at the premiere of "Stage Beauty"

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Eva Mendes at the premiere of "Stage Beauty"

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The Black Eyed Peas at a concert sponsored by American Express

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Vanessa Hudgens at the premiere of "Thunderbirds!"

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt at the premiere of "Thunderbirds!"

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Sandy Cohen Peter Gallagher at something called the AMEX Lobby

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Joey McIntyre and Mila Kunis at the afterparty for "Tony and Tina's Wedding"

The 2014 Tribeca Film Festival runs from April 16 to April 27.

Dad's Time-Lapse Video Shows 14 Years Of His Daughter's Life In 4 Whirlwind Minutes

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Two years ago, Dutch photographer and artist Frans Hofmeester condensed 12 years' worth of footage into an elegant 2-and-a-half-minute time-lapse video about his daughter, Lotte.

He updated the original with another year of footage after Lotte turned 13, and now, he's released a third version of "Portrait of Lotte" -- above -- bringing us up to the teenager's 14th birthday.

"I filmed Lotte every week from the moment she was born. She was changing at such a rapid pace, that I felt the need to document the way she looked, to keep my memories intact," Hofmeester writes of the series on his website. "Other people might make a photo book, but I decided to film."

Hofmeester has made similar videos about Lotte's little brother, too -- although they haven't received quite as much attention on YouTube. Check out the latest version of "Portrait of Vince" here:



Talk about a labor of love!

(hat tip: Viral Viral Videos)



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