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Terpstra pips top guns to win Paris-Roubaix Posted: 13 Apr 2014 08:42 AM PDT April 13, 2014 Niki Terpstra of the Netherlands seized his opportunity to pip the pre-race favourites and clinch the biggest victory of his career when he won the Paris-Roubaix classic race today. Terpstra, one of the in-form riders going into the 257-kilometre race featuring 51.1 kilometres of cobbled sectors, attacked a group of favourites with six kilometres left and never looked back. He crossed the line on the outdoor Roubaix velodrome some 20 seconds ahead of German John Degenkolb. Swiss Fabian Cancellara, who was bidding to become the first rider to achieve three Paris-Roubaix/Tour of Flanders doubles, came up third after failing to make his move earlier in the race. Belgian Tom Boonen, Terpstra's team leader at Omega Pharma-Quick Step, was the most aggressive rider of the day but he crossed the line in 10th place and failed to become the only man with five Roubaix titles. – Reuters, April 13, 2014

Liverpool boost title hopes with victory over City Posted: 13 Apr 2014 07:42 AM PDT April 13, 2014 Liverpool's Raheem Sterling (right) challenges Manchester City's Javi Garcia during the game today. Liverpool won 3-2 against Manchester City. – Reuters pic, April 13, 2014Premier League leaders Liverpool took a huge step towards becoming English champions for the first time in 24 years when they defeated third-placed Manchester City 3-2 at Anfield on today for a tenth successive win. The Merseyside club have not finished top since 1990, two years before the Premier League began. Raheem Sterling and Martin Skrtel put them 2-0 up in 26 minutes before David Silva led a City revival. The Spaniard reduced the deficit and an own goal by Glen Johnson brought an equaliser only five minutes later. But Brazilian midfielder Philippe Coutinho drove in the winner after a mistake by City's captain Vincent Kompany. Liverpool's Jordan Henderson was sent off in added time and will miss three of the four remaining games. Liverpool are now seven points ahead of City, having played two games more, and five ahead of their next visitors Chelsea, who play at Swansea in the later match today. Their manager Brendan Rodgers hailed "a remarkable performance" and said the team were "incredible today". It was an emotional day for the club, who commemorated 25 years since the Hillsborough disaster in which 96 of their supporters died at an FA Cup semi-final. There was a minute's silence before kickoff, after which the home fans roared their team into a sixth-minute lead. Luis Suarez outmuscled his marker Gael Clichy and fed Sterling, the teenager cleverly dummying Kompany and England goalkeeper Joe Hart before scoring. Twenty minutes later Hart saved well from a header by Liverpool's unmarked captain Steven Gerrard but from the resulting corner Slovak defender Skrtel headed in. Toure injured In between, City had lost their influential Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure and not until shortly before halftime did they threaten. Johnson and Sterling had to clear off the line in the same attack and Fernandinho's half-volley was saved by Simon Mignolet. City, champions two years ago before losing their title to neighbours Manchester United last season, continued to improve after halftime with James Milner then Sergio Aguero coming on. In the 56th minute Milner set up Silva to score from close range and five minutes afterwards Silva and Samir Nasri worked a neat passing move that ended with Johnson deflecting the ball past his own goalkeeper. Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge, a former City player, and Suarez both wanted a penalty in separate incidents but television replays suggested the ever controversial Suarez had dived and, having already been given a yellow card, could have been sent off. City were beginning to look the more likely winners despite their poor start and Mignolet had to save well from Edin Dzeko before Silva just failed to reach Aguero's inviting cross. But Liverpool came again. Kompany miskicked a clearance and Coutinho beat Hart with fine low shot from 15 metres. Henderson's red card came for a lunging tackle on Nasri and his suspension will rule him out of three vital games, including the visit of second-placed Chelsea in two weeks' time. At the final whistle, Gerrard gathered his team in a huddle in the middle of the pitch as the home supporters celebrated wildly. Liverpool may still need to beat Chelsea in order to take the title but this thrilling victory has undoubtedly made them favourites. – Reuters, April 13, 2014

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‘Captain America’ soars above ‘Rio 2’ to win box office Posted: 13 Apr 2014 08:57 AM PDT April 13, 2014 Marvel's red-white-and-blue superhero soared to a second straight box office win in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," beating out new animated movie "Rio 2," the story of a family of Brazilian birds on a trip to the Amazon. Walt Disney Co's "Captain America," which set an April ticket sales record when it opened a week ago, pulled in another US$41.4 million from Friday to today at American and Canadian theatres. The "Rio" sequel from 20th Century Fox debuted with US$39 million in ticket sales, according to estimates from tracking firm Rentrak. Low-budget horror flick "Oculus," a new film from "Paranormal Activity" producer Jason Blum, finished in third place, collecting US$12 million. "Rio 2," a sequel to a 2011 film, features the voices of Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway as parents of a bird family that travels to the Amazon to try to save their endangered brothers and sisters. "Captain America" stars Chris Evans as a scrawny World War Two reject given superpowers from an experimental serum. The film is a follow up to 2011 hit "Captain America: The First Avenger." Privately held Relativity Media released "Oculus." – Reuters, April 13, 2014

Muse, Pharrell headline Coachella amid dust storm Posted: 13 Apr 2014 06:17 AM PDT April 13, 2014 Pharrell Williams perform some of his hits during the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival yesterday. – Reuters pic, April 13, 2014British rockers Muse and R&B singer Pharrell served up musical highlights at the Coachela Valley Music and Arts Festival yesterday amid windy weather and cooler temperatures. Muse frontman Matt Bellamy delivered high-energy performances of the bands hits songs including "Hysteria," "Resistance," and "Magic," but a large portion of the Coachella crowd left the field early as high winds swept sand and dust across the festival field. Muse performed a catalogue of its hits including "Time is Running Out," and "Starlight," where Bellamy walked through the crowd and climbed onto a platform among the audience during the song. The band also sang a cover of grunge rock band Nirvana's "Lithium," dedicating it to Nirvana's late lead singer Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide 20 years ago. Festival goers in the desert town of Indio, California, were alerted by text message of high winds on the field. Ahead of Muse, R&B singer Pharrell brought uptempo tracks to the festival, kicking his set off with "Lose Yourself To Dance," his collaboration with French electronic music duo Daft Punk. The singer sang some of his older hits with his group N.E.R.D., such as "Lapdance" and "She Likes To Move" and songs from his new album "GIRL" such as "Marilyn Monroe." The 41-year-old singer got the crowd dancing with his 2013 hit collaborations, including "Blurred Lines" with Robin Thicke and "Get Lucky," with Daft Punk. Pharrell performed both solo yesterday. Pharrell brought out some star power for his set, collaborating with rapper Nelly on his 2002 hit "Hot In Herre," Busta Rhymes on the rapper's song "Pass The Courvoisier Part 2," Snoop Dogg for the rapper's songs "Drop it like its Hot," Gwen Stefani for her hit "Hollaback Girl," and DJ Diplo, part of the electronic music collaborative Major Lazer, for "Aerosol Can." The dust storm caused problems for Pharrell, whose voice started cracking by the end of the set. "I want you to be patient with my, the dust is messing with my voice right now," he said before leading the crowd into a sing-a-long of his Oscar-nominated song "Happy." One of the biggest draws of the day was 17-year-old New Zealand newcomer Lorde. The singer has had a stellar year in which she saw her single, "Royals," top charts across the world, and won two Grammy awards. Her style of pop is infused with hiphop beats, making her a dance floor staple. The annual three-day Coachella music festival, which featured the same line-up over two consecutive weekends, kicks off the summer live music season. – Reuters, April 13, 2014

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Gold rush threatens west Africa’s cocoa future Posted: 12 Apr 2014 06:08 PM PDT April 13, 2014 Prospectors panning for gold at a new gold mine found in a cocoa farm near the town of Bouafle in western Ivory Coast. With high prices for the precious metal fuelling a gold rush in Ivory Coast and Ghana, diggers are scurrying to cash in. But the drain on the labour market and the harm done to cocoa plantations could endanger cocoa production in the two nations, which account for 60% of global supply. – Reuters pic, April 13, 2014.A month ago, Bouafu Kouassi dug a neat circular hole in the middle of his one-hectare cocoa plantation in western Ivory Coast, and, sifting through the gravel on his shovel, found the unmistakeable traces of gold dust. With luck, it could transform his life, but it could just destroy his farm. And as the story repeats across the cocoa heartland of the world's top producer and neighbouring Ghana, the second-largest, it could do lasting damage to the industry. Today, nearly three dozen vertical shafts plunge down into the soil beneath Kouassi's cocoa trees, branching out into a web of underground tunnels 10m below the surface. The 35-year-old, who once struggled to pay school fees for his five children, has in a matter of weeks pocketed as much as he could hope to earn in five years growing cocoa. "As long as there's gold here, we'll be working," he says, with the giddy smile of a man who thinks he's won the lottery. With high prices for the precious metal fuelling a gold rush in Ivory Coast and Ghana, diggers are scurrying to cash in. But the drain on the labour market and the harm done to plantations could endanger cocoa production in the two nations, which account for 60% of global supply. Kouassi says he is being careful, and his plantation will survive once the gold is exhausted, probably in just a few months, but a stark reminder of the risks lies just a short walk away. Down a dirt track lies a scarred landscape of pits and mounds of brown-red dirt. There are no trees left here to block the sun that beats down on diggers balancing sacks of dirt on their heads and women wading waist-deep in muddy pools to wash gravel, their infant children tied to their backs. After two months, gold output from the site is falling off, and many of the 300 shafts on the 2ha plot have been abandoned as miners move on, leaving desolation in their wake. In some areas, diggers have begun using toxic cyanide and mercury to extract gold from the ore they mine. Severin Konan, a cocoa farmer who manages the land for his family, is unapologetic. "You can make 100 million CFA francs (RM700,000). And with that you sort yourself out. You head to the city. You don't need your fields any more." Prisoners of poverty In Ivory Coast, where artisanal mining has historically been concentrated in the arid north, diggers are moving into cocoa-growing areas around Issia, Duekoue, Zoukougbeu, Bouafle and Daloa – the latter producing a quarter of national cocoa output. In Ghana, Africa's second-largest gold producer, Wassa-Akropong in the west and the central region of Dunkwa have been prime targets for miners. Assin Fosu and adjoining districts have also been hit hard. "It's not just ravaging cocoa crops in those areas but it makes major cocoa districts in the Eastern and Ashanti regions very vulnerable," said Emmanuel Opoku, deputy director of research at Ghana's cocoa marketing board, Cocobod. "The future of our crop is threatened if this continues." He said he didn't have figures to quantify the threat, but the regions at risk are in Ghana's top cocoa-producing belt. Despite its global dominance, the long-term prospects for West Africa's cocoa sector are surprisingly bleak. Plantations are ageing, and so are cocoa farmers. The average age of growers in Ivory Coast is around 50, just four years shy of the average life expectancy of an Ivorian man. While the country harvested a record crop of 1.5 million tonnes of cocoa two seasons ago, the government is now expelling farmers from plantations illegally established during a decade-long political crisis that ended in 2011. Ghana, meanwhile, is phasing out subsidies for fertiliser and pesticide treatments, putting an end to initiatives that many credit for a rapid rise in production over the past decade. But the most serious threat to the sector's future is poverty. The average cocoa grower in Ivory Coast farms 3ha, yielding 450kg per hectare. At the government-regulated farmgate price that yields just US$2,000 per year. After labourers are paid and fertiliser purchased, he will be lucky to keep a third of that. In Ghana, where the government set a farm price on parity with Ivory Coast in October, growers' earnings are being eroded by inflation and the country's plunging cedi currency. At the bottom of the cocoa hierarchy, labourers – usually young men with no land of their own – typically earn just US$500 per season. With cocoa promising a life of back-breaking toil and grinding rural poverty, many are looking for a way out. No longer thinking of cocoa Five years ago, as world spot gold prices began an unprecedented rally to around US$1,900 an ounce in late 2011, poor cocoa farmers woke up to the possibility that salvation lay beneath their feet. While prices are now back around US$1,300/oz, that is still three times higher than they were a decade ago. Eight months ago, a local farmer discovered a gold vein near the town of Zahibo, west of Ivory Coast's main cocoa hub of Daloa. Within weeks, diggers from all over the country and neighbouring Burkina Faso began flooding in by the busload. Now, often prospecting at night and without the permission of landowners, their open-trench mines rip giant gashes through plantations. The anarchy at the pits, where disputes over stakes have sparked deadly confrontations, recently pushed community leaders to call in the army. While damage to plantations and insecurity are major worries, Michel Gueya, the head of Zahibo's local cooperative, said the main problem for cocoa farmers was a lack of labour. "We're no longer even thinking of doing coffee or cocoa," he said. "This year, there's been no production in our zone." Gueya said every two weeks a buyer from Burkina Faso named Karim arrives in Zahibo and buys its gold production – between 30kg and 35kg – before flying to Italy to offload it. At a conservative price of 7,000 CFA francs per gramme, that translates into a bi-monthly injection of US$500,000 into a local economy where owning a motorbike once marked you as well off. Gueya knows all this because, in addition to heading Zahibo's cocoa co-op, he has become its main gold middleman. At Kouassi's plantation-turned-goldmine, Gervais Alledji, a 35-year-old digger, is waiting to get paid. Under an improvised shelter made of black plastic tarpaulin, an on-site buyer uses a hand scale to weigh a tiny pile of shiny yellow dust. "Day before yesterday, we had 9g at 99,750 CFA francs and yesterday 7g at 77,500 francs," says Alledji, who works a mine with two partners. "Today, we got 3g." Standing off to the side, Francois M'Bra, a cocoa farmer and president of a growers' cooperative in the nearby town of Bouafle, shakes his head. All season he's searched in vain for workers to harvest the pods on his plantation and dry the beans. "This guy just made 30,000 (francs) in a day. If you go and do cocoa, you'll earn 240,000 for a year. Why would you do that?" he says.  "If it continues on this scale, in five years you won't be hearing much about cocoa from this zone." – Reuters, April 13, 2014.

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Johor wujud hab generasi muda Posted: 13 Apr 2014 03:16 AM PDT April 13, 2014 Kerajaan negeri Johor akan mewujudkan Hab Antarabangsa Generasi Muda Johor bagi membolehkan generasi muda membabitkan diri dalam pembentukan serta kemajuan masa depan negeri. Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin (gambar) berkata hab bernilai kira-kira RM20 juta itu akan dibangunkan di kawasan seluas lebih 14 hektar di Tampoi, di Johor Baharu. "Projek Hab Generasi Muda yang masih dalam perancangan lagi akan dilaksanakan oleh Pihak Berkuasa Pembangunan Wilayah Iskandar (Irda) bersama-sama kerajaan negeri dan Kementerian Belia dan Sukan serta beberapa pihak lain," katanya dalam sidang akhbar selepas merasmikan premis perkhidmatan dan barangan kreatif JOHO di Jalan Inderaputra di sini hari ini. Kepada soalan pemberita, beliau berkata hab itu mempunyai persamaan dengan Youth Park di Singapura yang mempunyai pelbagai tarikan kepada golongan muda. Ketua Eksekutif Irda Datuk Ismail Ibrahim berkata hab pertama seumpamanya di negara ini dijangka mula beroperasi pada suku ketiga tahun ini. Antara pengisian di hab yang akan mengekalkan keadaan semulajadi di kawasan itu adalah berdasarkan konsep kreatif, niaga, kesukanan, kajian dan pembangunan serta kepimpinan, katanya. "Sebagai contohnya, di bawah konsep kesukanan, kita akan mempunyai sukan lasak. "Usaha Iskandar Malaysia itu adalah untuk membangunkan golongan muda kerana dalam tempoh 15 tahun lagi apabila Iskandar Malaysia mencapai kematangan, golongan itu akan mengambil alih kepimpinan pembangunan di Iskandar Malaysia," kata Ismail. Golongan muda yang ingin menyertai hab itu boleh mendaftar secara dalam talian di https://www.facebook.com/johoryouthhub – Bernama, 13 April, 2014.

Spad minta bas ekspres sentiasa utamakan keselamatan penumpang Posted: 13 Apr 2014 03:08 AM PDT April 13, 2014 Suruhanjaya Pengangkutan Awam Darat (Spad) akan menjalankan siasatan terperinci ke atas syarikat bas yang terlibat dalam kemalangan di Kilometer 11 Jalan Bentong-Raub, Pahang yang meragut tiga nyawa kelmarin. Menurut kenyataan Spad hari ini, antara aspek yang akan diteliti ialah pengurusan keselamatan, pemandu dan penyelenggaraan syarikat bas berkenaan. "Spad tidak akan berkompromi dan pasti mengambil tindakan tegas terhadap pengendali (bas terbabit) sekiranya mereka melanggar syarat yang termaktub termasuk dalam Akta Pengangkutan Awam Darat 2010," kata badan itu. Bas ekspres Transnasional dua tingkat yang membawa 68 orang dalam perjalanan dari Kuala Lumpur ke Kota Baharu, Kelantan itu dilaporkan terbabas sebelum merempuh tiang elektrik dan terbalik. Nahas pukul 12.30 malam hari Sabtu itu mengorbankan pasangan suami isteri Saeed Mohamad Mohamud Abdalla, warga Somalia, 31; dan Zarifah Alias, 26, dari Kota Baharu; serta Suhaisam Che Abdullah, 33, dari Batang Kali, Selangor.  "Spad ingin menegaskan kepada semua pengendali bas ekspres agar sentiasa memberi penekanan serius dalam aspek pengurusan pemandu dan penyelenggaraan bagi memastikan perkhidmatan mengangkut penumpang sentiasa selamat," kata kenyataan itu. – Bernama, 13 April, 2014.

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Pilihan raya Indonesia: Pengajaran kepada parti Islam, PAS dan Malaysia Posted: 12 Apr 2014 03:49 PM PDT April 13, 2014 Amin Iskandar adalah penerima anugerah zamalah Asian Public Intellectuals (API) bagi sesi 2009-2010. Kini merupakan Pengarang Berita bagi The Malaysian Insider. Beliau "berkicau" di www.twitter.com/aminiskandar. Pilihan Raya Legislatif 2014 yang baru selesai memberikan pengajaran besar kepada parti-parti Islam Indonesia apabila kesemuanya hanya mendapat kurang daripada 10% kerusi berdasarkan keputusan pengiraan pantas (quick count) yang diadakan oleh beberapa lembaga dihormati. Lembaga seperti SaifulMujani, Lembaga Survei Nasional dan Lingkaran Survei Indonesia mendapati parti Islam seperti Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) hanya mendapat (6-7%), Partai Amanat Nasional (PAN) (7-7.5%), Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa (PKB) (8.5-9%), Partai Persatuan Pembangunan (PPP) (6-7%), dan Partai Bulan Bintang (PBB) (1-1.5%). Selepas mendapat keputusan buruk, kelima-lima parti Islam ini bertemu di Jakarta bagi membincangkan pembentukan gabungan. "Kalau semua parti Islam bersatu, jumlah sokongan sudah sampai 31%. Ini melayakkan kita mengajukan calon presiden," kata anggota Majlis Syura PKS, Refrizal, di Jakarta seperti dilaporkan Kompas. Undang-undang pilihan raya Indonesia mensyaratkan sesebuah parti untuk mendapat sekurang-kurangnya 20% sokongan sebelum layak mencalonkan calon untuk bertanding dalam Pilihan Raya Presiden. Oleh kerana parti-parti Islam di Indonesia hanya sedar penyatuan akan menjadikan mereka kuat selepas selesai Pilihan Raya Legislatif, maka kali ini mereka tidak layak untuk menghantar calon untuk Pilihan Raya Presiden pada Julai akan datang. Penyanyi folk popular Indonesia Iwan Fals turut menjadi tumpuan media dalam Pilihan Raya 2014. – Gambar The Malaysian Insider oleh Amin Iskandar, 13 April, 2014. Rasuah dan skandal parti Islam PKS merupakan parti Islam yang mula mencipta nama dalam Pilihan Raya 2004 dan muncul sebagai parti keempat terbesar di Indonesia selepas Pilihan Raya 2009 musnah kredibiliti selepas dihujani skandal dan rasuah. Pada April 2011, anggota Majlis Syura PKS, Arifinto, ditangkap sedang melihat gambar lucah semasa sidang Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR). Sebulan sebelum itu pada Mac, salah seorang pengasas PKS, Yusuf Supendi, hadir Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK) dan Badan Kehormatan DPR untuk melaporkan rasuah yang melibatkan sejumlah ahli parti itu. Pada Januari 2013, Presiden PKS Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq yang juga merupakan anggota DPR, ditangkap terlibat dalam rasuah bagi daging lembu import atau dipanggil "sapi" dalam bahasa Indonesia. Kes ini menyebabkan parti Islam PKS digelar sebagai Parti Korupsi Sapi dan menjadi bahan lawak kebanyakan warga Indonesia. PAS yang merupakan sebuah parti Islam tertua di Malaysia harus belajar daripada pengalaman parti-parti Islam di Indonesia. Syurga dan neraka yang dijanjikan tidak bermakna tanpa ketelusan dalam pentadbiran kerajaan negeri yang dipimpin mereka. Kalau sebelum ini syurga dan neraka yang dijanjikan PKS mampu membuatkan umat Islam Indonesia menyokong mereka, akhirnya rasuah dan skandal menjatuhkan mereka. Lebih hina lagi oleh kerana parti-parti sebegini yang menggelarkan diri mereka sebagai parti Islam, maka imej Islam itu sendiri tercalar di mata penganut agama lain. Oleh itu, pemimpin dan aktivis PAS yang membanjiri Indonesia baru-baru ini untuk menyatakan sokongan kepada rakan-rakan mereka di sana perlu bermuhasabah. Sementara Kelantan masih lagi dalam kekuasaan PAS, lebih baik perubahan dilakukan segera sebelum mengulangi nasib Kedah pada Pilihan Raya Umum ke 14 akan datang. Pengajaran buat Malaysia Saya berkesempatan untuk ke Indonesia dua hari sebelum pilihan raya untuk melihat serba sedikit bagaimana demokrasi berjalan di negara yang mempunyai penduduk Islam teramai di dunia itu. Ternyata kekuatan Joko Widodo atau "Jokowi" tidak terkalahkan dan menjadi pujaan majoriti rakyat bawahan di Indonesia. Seperti dikatakan seorang penganalisis politik dalam TV One, ketokohan Jokowi yang akan dicalonkan sebagai calon presiden bagi Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan (PDI-P) pada Julai akan datang berjaya mengangkat imej parti itu sehingga menjadi parti terkuat dalam pilihan raya kali ini. Secara keseluruhannya, boleh dikatakan pilihan raya di Indonesia berjalan dengan baik. Parti-parti politik dan calon bebas berkempen. Pemantau pilihan raya bebas melakukan tugas. Apa yang membanggakan ialah Komisi Pemilihan Umum (KPU) atau Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) mampu menguruskan lebih kurang 185 juta pengundi untuk menunaikan hak mereka. Tempat pembuangan undi ditutup pada pukul 1.00 petang dan majoriti calon dan parti yang bertanding menghormati tempoh bertenang selama tiga hari untuk tidak lagi berkempen. Sebelum Malaysia bercadang memperkenalkan sistem sebegini seperti dicadangkan oleh Pengerusi SPR Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof selepas pulang menyaksikan pilihan raya Indonesia beberapa hari lalu, perlu ada media bebas dan ruang berkempen yang adil terlebih dahulu. Jika Indonesia yang mempunyai penduduk lebih ramai mampu menguruskan pilihan raya dengan baik, tiada sebab negara kecil seperti Malaysia untuk melakukannya, kerana ianya merupakan tugas yang lebih mudah. – 13 April, 2014. Potret Presiden Sukarno ketika masih muda tergantung di sebuah lembaga di Bandung, Indonesia. Sukarno merupakan presiden pertama republik itu. – Gambar The Malaysian Insider oleh Amin Iskandar, 13 April, 2014.

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