Liberty Maritime Sues Marad Over MSP

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Liberty Maritime Corp. sued the Maritime Administration, accusing the agency of awarding slots in the Maritime Security Program to companies whose ships dont qualify for MSPs U.S.-flag subsidies.

Liberty and its affiliated companies, based in Lake Success, N.Y., filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

The lawsuit claims Marad improperly transferred operating agreements for two ships in the MSP program to companies that arent U.S.-controlled.

The suit also claims Marad violated its regulations in approving an MSP replacement vessel that wasnt at least as militarily useful as the ship it replaced, and that Marad ignored Libertys requests for information explaining the agencys decision.

Liberty contends that at least one of its ships should have been received one of the MSP slots that Marad awarded during the last several years. Liberty Global Logistics, one of the lawsuits plaintiffs, has one ship in MSP.

MSP was established in 1999 to provide annual subsidies to help offset the higher costs of U.S.-flag merchant vessels that would be available for defense needs. The program provides 60 ships with annual subsidies of $3.1 million apiece. MSP was extended this month through 2025.

Most MSP contractors are U.S.-based units of overseas companies, but hire U.S. seafarers are considered by Marad to be under control of U.S. citizens.

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TORONTO , Jan. 23, 2013 /CNW/ - Liberty Mines Inc. (LBE:TSX) ("Liberty" or the "Company") today announced that it has identified the presence of chrysotile in its ore body at its McWatters Mine.

As announced previously, McWatters Mine, which was intermittently operated from 2009-2012, is currently in care and maintenance mode following the Company's decision to suspend operations due to low spot prices for nickel. As chrysotile, a form of asbestos, is a designated substance under Ontario Health and Safety Regulation, the Company is investigating these matters further and is taking all required measures.

The Company expects to conduct additional testing and further independent analysis to determine the impact on the economic feasibility of restarting mine operations at the McWatters Mine having regard to this information.

The Company is also reviewing conditions at its former operating Redstone Mine, its Hart project and its Mill.

Liberty expects to provide additional updates as material information becomes available.

About Liberty Mines Inc. Liberty Mines Inc. is focused on the exploration, development and production of nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum group metals from its properties in Ontario, Canada . It owns a nickel concentrator near Timmins, Ontario.

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Roe, Libertarianism, Moralism: Bring Back the Seamless Garment

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When human life is considered cheap or easily expendable in one area, eventually nothing is held as sacred and all lives are in jeopardy. Cardinal Joseph Bernardin spoke those words in the early 1980s as he expounded what he termed a consistent ethic of life and what many of us came to know as the seamless garment approach to life issues, the idea that the Church should not focus exclusively on abortion, but see that issue in the context of a culture that had begun to cheapen life and, thus, made abortion thinkable.

Other members of the hierarchy, most notably Cardinals Bernard Law and John OConnor, took issue with the seamless garment approach. They were worried that by expanding the focus of the Churchs concern, the Churchs commitment to fighting abortion might be diluted. They wanted opposition to abortion to remain the central, preeminent focus because they understood, correctly, that in terms of sheer numbers and in terms of the horror of the act, abortion really was a graver sin against humanity than, say, capital punishment. But, however correct they were on the true magnitude of the abortion horror, they were wrong about the culture. It has been thirty years since Bernardin first invoked the seamless garment approach and met with a rebuke from his colleagues, and the pro-life movement has not made any significant advances. It is time for the leaders of the pro-life movement, and especially the leaders of the Church, to give Bernardins seamless garment another try.

I do not say this because I think our chances will improve politically from such a shift, although it is my hope that such an improvementmight come about. I say this because I think the seamless garment approach holds open the possibility of engaging in dialogue with those who do not share currently our concern for the fate of the unborn, but who have, in other areas of life, shown a deep and abiding concern for the suffering of the weak and the marginalized. In short, those we need to convince need to hear an appeal not to what they got wrong but what they got right. When a bishop meets with local legislators, instead of chastising those who are pro-choice, might it not be more effective to say something like, I so value your concern for these undocumented workers. How I hope someday your concern will extend to the unborn children. Or, again, I fully support and applaud your commitment to a living wage for all workers, but I hope someday you will also show a commitment to the right-to-life without which a living wage makes no sense. I think Cardinal Dolan was attempting something like this in his remarks at the Al Smith Dinner, in which he firmly stated the Churchs concern for the uns in our society the undocumented, the unemployed, the unborn, the undereducated, etc.

We cannot be nave about what we are up against. Forty years of propaganda have planted the idea firmly in the national consciousness that, at the end of the day, the decision to procure an abortion must rest with the pregnant woman. It is her body. Of course, that framing of the issue begs the question. If the unborn child is a person, why should the stronger person be able to decide the fate of the weaker? Normally, liberals of all people understand that might does not make right! But, in this instance, for a variety of complicated historical reasons, on this issue, the liberal moral compass gets it profoundly wrong. On this issue, liberals become libertarians, and resist any attempt at regulation.

The consequences are sometimes curious to watch. Last spring, if you tuned in to MSNBC, Rachel Maddow and her line-up of guests were simultaneously defending the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act and the contraception mandate from HHS while denouncing as somehow extreme the Virginia law that mandated pregnant women have an ultrasound before an abortion. Over at Fox, Sean Hannity and his line-up were denouncing the individual mandate and the HHS contraception mandate as putting the government between a patient and their doctor but applauding the Virginia ultrasound law. Alas, these are the kinds of outcomes one gets when a formal ethics of rights replaces a substantive ethic of the good as determinative in crafting public policy, but let us leave that discussion for another day.

I have said it before and repeat it today, on the eve of the March for Life. The enemy dare I say, the Enemy today in our nations political and cultural life is libertarianism, the idea that no one has any right to tell anyone else how they should live their lives, an excessive focus on the importance of freedom at the expense of other social goods, a liberty run amok. It is found on both sides of the political aisle: Republicans talk about their income the way Democrats talk about womens bodies: Its mine, you cant tell me what to do with it, hands off! Libertarianism is coarse and it is hoary but is amazingly, shockingly attractive, especially to so many of our young people. And, how could it be otherwise? In our culture, children look at TV and every five minutes they see an ad that tells them, no matter what is being sold, that here is a quick, purchasable item that can solve any given problem. Acne? Buy this ointment. Want to listen to the hippest new music? Get this app. Lonely? Sign up for this dating service. Why should we be surprised that when they face an unwanted pregnancy, they look for a solution, and the quicker and easier the better. And, why should we be surprised that a culture that has tolerated legalized violence against the unborn for forty years should also be a culture in which a disturbed young man thinks that the solution to his problems is to take a gun a shoot up a school? Bishop Cupich was spot-on in his Respect Life Sermon, in which he linked the killings in Newtown with the tragedy of abortion. A culture of gun violence and a culture of violence against the unborn stem from the same, evil root.

That evil root is not, fundamentally, moral. It is deeper, prior to moral judgment. It is the inability to see human life as a gift. And here, the co-conspirators in the culture of death include some surprising culprits. Remember these words from George Weigel on Pope Benedicts encyclical Caritas in Veritate: the encyclical states that defeating Third World poverty and underdevelopment requires a necessary openness, in a world context, to forms of economic activity marked by quotas of gratuitousness and communion. This may mean something interesting; it may mean something nave or dumb. But, on its face, it is virtually impossible to know what it means. Weigel could not see what was plainly staring him in the face: A culture in which the fact that all is grace is not affirmed, and affirmed at the beginning, at the root and core of our understanding of the human person, such a culture is askew, such a culture that is forgetful of gratuitousness and communion as intrinsic to the human person, that is a culture that doesnt think twice about exploiting Third World workers or killing unwanted children, and, in both instances, creating euphemisms to obscure the reality of the deed.

What Weigel and Catholic neo-cons (and some Catholic liberals too!) have never understood about either Pope Benedict or Pope John Paul II is that both men wanted the Church to get past a moralism that was already compromised by the culture, to understand that the New Commandment to love one another as He loved us is not New because it features another add-on to the Mosaic law, as if the Law of Moses was somehow incomplete. What is New in the New Commandment is the presence of the Lord Jesus. Pope Benedict has a beautiful passage on this in the second volumeof his trilogy on Jesus of Nazareth when he discussed the washing of the feet at the Last Supper. When we celebrate the liturgy of Holy Thursday, we call the washing of the feet, the Mandatum rite. Mandatum is the opposite of libertarianism, but it is also the opposite of moralism. There is no calculation, no cost-benefit analysis, not assessment of probability. There is a command, not a moral command but something deeper, something that requires us to evaluate not our deeds but our most essential stance towards the world. Is that world something for us to manipulate as we see fit, or are we to view the world as Gods great gift? Only a culture that sees Creation as a gift is a capable of generating a culture of life. A true culture of life is horrified by both abortion and climate change. A true culture of life cares for the right-to-life and the right to a living wage. A true culture of life cares for all the uns of the world. A true culture of life must make room for suffering, for humility, for the poor, for obedience, for all the things that our modern, protean culture does not celebrate.

That is why we need the seamless garment back. Not as a media strategy or a political posture. We need the seamless garment back because it belonged to Christ. Tomorrow, I hope you can march for life, but whether you can or not, pray for life. Pray for the culture. Pray that the author of life, in whom all was created, will effect the conversions of hearts we need, firstly for ourselves for conversion is never a one time thing, but secondly for our friends and family and our neighborhoods and our towns and our nation and our culture. Pope Benedict was right: Only recovering a sense of the intrinsic gratuitousness and communion of all human relations will save us from ourselves by calling our attention to Him who has already saved us.

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Tea party groups, libertarian Super Pac vow to challenge McConnell re-election bid

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LOUISVILLE, Ky (WHAS11) -- With speculation rising about actress Ashley Judd challenging U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) in the 2014 general election as a Democrat, Kentucky's senior senator is also hearing some footsteps from the right.

The leader of a coalition of 14 Kentucky tea party groups, United Kentucky Tea Party, said Wednesday he is considering mounting a primary challenge against McConnell and a Libertarian Super Pac is pledging to support a challenger "should the right candidate emerge."

Dissatisfaction from some tea party groups comes despite McConnell's partnership with tea party darling U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) and McConnell's leading role as Republican Leader of the Senate fighting for tea party priorities of lower taxes and spending and against the national debt.

"This is the mega issue of our time and the time to fix it is now," McConnell told a business gathering in Lexington on Friday. "This is the one issue that can keep us from leaving behind for our kids and our grandkids the kind of country that our parents left behind for us."

Yet, a coalition of 14 Kentucky tea party groups is vowing to work against McConnell's re-election next year, led by former state auditor candidate John Kemper of Lexington.

"We're looking for the best possible candidate we can get to retire Sen. McConnell," Kemper told WHAS11. "This is probably his last race."

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Check your gear, keep our islands pest clear

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Check your gear, keep our islands pest clear

The Department of Conservation is appealing to people visiting islands in Wellington Harbour and Kapiti Coast this summer to do their bit to help keep them free of introduced pests.

David Moss, DOC Biodiversity Ranger said the most common way pests such as rodents can get to islands is by stowing away on boats.

Rats or mice can devastate an islands wildlife and have the potential to breed rapidly. It has been estimated that under ideal conditions, a source population of rats could produce 15,000 offspring in one year."

Mr Moss said making sure that rats and mice are not on board when people head out for a day on the water is the most important thing. If the boat is small then a quick scan is generally sufficient. However, with bigger vessels it is sensible to maintain rodent bait stations or traps on board.

By taking this simple step, fishers and boat owners can make all the difference in keeping pests off our precious off shore islands, he said.

It is also important to check boats, packs, clothing and boots for insects and weed seeds before going ashore, and to leave pets behind, including dogs, as they are not permitted on conservation islands. Private boats and kayaks cannot visit Kapiti Island and boats can only land in one place on both Mana and Matiu-Somes Islands. Travellers on commercial boats also need to check their gear.

Some of the most popular visitor destinations in the region, Matiu-Somes and Kapiti Islands are free of pests. These islands provide a safe haven for many of our rarest and most endangered animals such as kiwi, takahe, tuatara, giant weta, hihi (stitchbird) and tieke (saddleback).

At the end of the day it is up to all of us to ensure we dont transport unwanted pests to an island, he said. Checklist: Always check your boat for animal pests before leaving port if you are going to be landing on an offshore island. Always check the gear that is to go ashore for any animals that may be hiding amongst it. Set rat and mouse traps, or lay poison baits, on board boats. Do not leave food lying on board when in port, as animals attracted to your boat may stay on board and become stowaways. Place food in rodent proof containers like chillybins. Please ensure no plants or seeds are introduced onto these islands, as some are free of many weeds which are common on the mainland. Check cuffs and socks for seeds and burrs and remove mud from soles of shoes.

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A boat with Taiwanese activists headed for disputed Japanese-controlled islands turned back Thursday after coastguard vessels from the two sides converged and duelled with water cannon.

The boat, carrying seven people including four Taiwanese activists, gave up a plan to land on the East China Sea islands after being blocked by Japanese coastguard vessels as it sailed within 17 nautical miles of the archipelago.

"We fired water cannon at each other," Taiwanese coastguard spokesman Shih Yi-che said of the confrontation.

The disputed islands, in an area where the seabed is believed to harbour valuable mineral reserves, are known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese. Both China and Taiwan claim them.

As the standoff unfolded, three Chinese surveillance vessels were positioned a few nautical miles off, the Taiwanese coastguard said.

It added that it was the first time ships from China had been spotted near a Taiwanese-Japanese incident, and that it had sent a radio message to the three boats to keep their distance in order not to complicate matters.

The incident came at a time of growing regional concern over the intensified friction over the islands between China and Japan, with both Beijing and Tokyo recently scrambling fighter jets to assert their claims to the area.

The Japanese coastguard confirmed that it took action after encountering the Taiwanese vessel.

"Our patrol boat carried out restrictions on the vessel such as blocking its path and discharging water," it said in a statement.

"The vessel left our country's contiguous zone at around 1:30 pm (0430 GMT) and continued sailing west-southwest away from the Senkakus."

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A small boat carrying Taiwanese activists trying to reach a group of East China Sea islands at the heart of a territorial dispute has been forced back by the Japanese coastguard.

The activists were sailing towards the islands, known as Senkaku in Japan, Diaoyutai in Taiwan and Diaoyu in China, to install an idol of a goddess.

China and Taiwan both claim the island chain, which is controlled by Japan.

The island row has left ties between Tokyo and Beijing severely strained.

The fishing boat is reported to have been carrying four activists as well as the Taiwanese captain, an Indonesian employee and a news cameraman. It was being escorted by four Taiwanese coastguard vessels.

They left Taiwan in the early hours and reportedly wanted to place the statue of a Taiwanese sea goddess who is traditionally believed to protect fishermen on one of the islands in the group, which lie south of Okinawa and north of Taiwan.

The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes says this was seen as placing a symbolic territorial claim on the islands. Video footage of the activists before they left Taiwan showed them chanting "Japan, get out of Diaoyutai" and "Return Diaoyutai".

But as the vessel approached the islands mid-morning the Japanese coastguard issued verbal warnings for it to stop, then used water cannon to force it to turn back.

"Our patrol boat carried out restrictions on the vessel such as blocking its path and discharging water," the coastguard said in a statement.

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One area home health care company is trying to keep its clients from catching the flu.

They call themselves "The Visiting Angels," and they come bearing paper towels and hand sanitizer.

Page Cole is on a mission to stop the spread of the flu before it can begin.

He's with the home health care company, Visiting Angels, which has been dropping off flu prevention kits to its clients.

"We don't look at this as just a nice little marketing gift, this could be life saving for some seniors, it really could," Cole said.

The kits come with hand sanitizer, Vitamin C supplements, disinfectant spray, paper towels, even pens that seniors can use instead of the ones in public places like grocery stores and banksall designed to fend off the flu.

"It's almost like an emergency preparedness kit for bad weather. This is an emergency preparedness kit for illness, and it would be a good thing to prevent that from ever happening," Cole said.

Visiting Angels has about 75 clients in Tulsa and Bartlesville.

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Canada launches first gene therapy trial for Fabry disease

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Contact: Gregory Harris gregory.harris@albertahealthservices.ca 403-619-3108 Alberta Health Services

CALGARY Researchers in Calgary have launched the first gene therapy clinical trial in the world for Fabry disease, a rare inherited enzyme deficiency that can shorten the lifespan of people who have it by as much as 40 years.

Researchers will first remove a quantity of stem cells from a Fabry patient's blood. Then a working copy of a new gene will be inserted into the stem cells using a specially engineered virus. During the final phase of the trial, researchers hope to transplant these stem cells back into the donor patient and the new, working copy of the gene will make the missing enzyme.

The clinical trial has been prompted by promising gene therapy results in mice performed in the laboratory of Dr. Jeffrey Medin at the University Health Network in Toronto. Dr. Medin is the principal investigator of the pan-Canada team grant that is supporting this trial.

"We hope this will one day become a form of treatment that effectively cures Fabry disease," says Dr. Aneal Khan, a medical geneticist based at Alberta Children's Hospital, who is leading the Calgary segment of the national project.

"It could also help establish a platform on which we can create gene therapies for other illnesses and establish Calgary as a national leader in this experimental field of interventional genetics."

Although several gene therapies have been used in Canada for cancer, this study will be the first in the country to test a gene therapy for an inherited metabolic disorder.

People with Fabry disease have a change in a gene called GLA and can't make enough enzyme to break down a fatty substance called Gb3. The build-up of Gb3 can lead to problems in the kidneys, heart and brain. About 400 Canadians, including 25 Calgarians, have Fabry disease.

Although the project is headquartered in Toronto, physicians and scientists in Calgary will play a major role in the clinical trial. In particular, the lab at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary has specialized expertise in the stem cell filtering process that will be used for the clinical trial.

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Herb OHeron, Canadas own educational futurist, will be providing his insights at the University of the Fraser Valley next week.

OHeron will be speaking on The Value of a Degree as part of the Presidents Leadership Lecture series on Monday, Jan 28 at 4:30 p.m. in Building A, Room 225 (boardroom) at the Abbotsford campus.

He is the first speaker in UFV president Mark Evereds Leadership Lecture Series for the 2013 calendar year.

Herb will be speaking to the value of a degree to an individual and the value of a university to the community said Evered. This speaker is a great fit with the goal of the leadership series to bring speakers that challenge and provoke discussion at the university and in the community.

Although not as famous as American futurist Alvin Toffler, OHeron is doing important work in the field. Working with the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC), as Director of Research and Policy Analysis, he analyzes statistics and trends in education and makes predictions for the future of post-secondary education in Canada.

Universities across Canada have experienced tremendous growth over the last 30 years. Since 1980 the number of full-time university students has more than doubled, while part-time enrolment is up 16 percent, according to AUCCs Trends in Higher Education publication.

In the same time period, UFV has grown from a small regional college to a fully accredited public university that enrolls over 16,000 students per year. The university now offers more than 100 programs, including two masters degree, 15 bachelors degrees, majors, minors and extended minors in more than 30 subject areas, and more than a dozen trades and technology programs.

But can this growth be sustained in the next 30 years? Many programs are full. Buildings are at capacity.

UFV, like many educational institutions, is wrestling with how to provide a better education with shrinking government resources and increased competition in the marketplace. There are changing demographics, new technologies, emerging labour markets, and globalization to consider. In sum, there is no shortage of challenges for educational institutions.

The AUCC represents 95 Canadian public and private universities and colleges, including UFV, with a mandate to facilitate the development of public policy on higher education and to encourage cooperation among universities and governments, industry and communities.

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Air New Zealand has added globally acclaimed futurist, entrepreneur and social media authority Ross Dawson to the line-up at the first Social Media Breakfast of 2013 to share his digital innovation forecast.

A best selling author, Ross Dawson predicted the social media revolution in 2002 in the celebrated book Living Networks. He will discuss his early predictions for social networking, the major trends now shaping the future of social media in Australasia, and which emerging platforms to keep an eye out for in 2013.

Dawson is sought after by leading global organisations to share insights on the extraordinary business opportunities presented by digital innovation and how to stay ahead of the curve in the social media space.

Dawson joins headliner Teddy Goff at the Air New Zealand Social Media Breakfast on Wednesday 13 February. Goff was the groundbreaking Digital Director of President Obamas data-driven 2012 re-election campaign. Teddy Goffs team harnessed data effectively to fundraise a ground breaking US$690 million, build online followings of more than 78 million people, and register more than a million people to vote in the largest online promotion programme in political history.

Goffs techniques have been celebrated in some of the worlds biggest news outlets, including the New York Times, The Guardian, The Huffington Post and Rolling Stone for revolutionising political fundraising. At the Air New Zealand event he will share tips on harnessing the growing power of social media and insights fresh from the campaign trail.

Air New Zealand is the 36th largest airline in the world yet is ranked sixth in the world for social media presence and is viewed as a leader and innovator in the digital marketing space.

The first Social Media Breakfast of 2013 is Wednesday February 13 at the Viaduct Events Centre. Breakfast will be served from 7am; the event will run from 8am-10am. The Social Media Breakfast is hosted by Jesse Mulligan, and will include a question and answer session with all speakers following presentations from Ross Dawson and Teddy Goff.

Tickets to the Social Media Breakfast are $75 (including breakfast) from Ticketmaster http://www.ticketmaster.co.nz.

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Futurist joins Obamas Digital Director at Air New Zealand Social Media Breakfast Air New Zealand has added globally acclaimed futurist, entrepreneur and social media authority Ross Dawson to the line-up at the first Social Media Breakfast of 2013 to share his digital innovation forecast.

A best selling author, Ross Dawson predicted the social media revolution in 2002 in the celebrated book Living Networks. He will discuss his early predictions for social networking, the major trends now shaping the future of social media in Australasia, and which emerging platforms to keep an eye out for in 2013.

Dawson is sought after by leading global organisations to share insights on the extraordinary business opportunities presented by digital innovation and how to stay ahead of the curve in the social media space.

Dawson joins headliner Teddy Goff at the Air New Zealand Social Media Breakfast on Wednesday 13 February. Goff was the groundbreaking Digital Director of President Obamas data-driven 2012 re-election campaign. Teddy Goffs team harnessed data effectively to fundraise a ground breaking US$690 million, build online followings of more than 78 million people, and register more than a million people to vote in the largest online promotion programme in political history.

Goffs techniques have been celebrated in some of the worlds biggest news outlets, including the New York Times, The Guardian, The Huffington Post and Rolling Stone for revolutionising political fundraising. At the Air New Zealand event he will share tips on harnessing the growing power of social media and insights fresh from the campaign trail.

Air New Zealand is the 36th largest airline in the world yet is ranked sixth in the world for social media presence and is viewed as a leader and innovator in the digital marketing space.

The first Social Media Breakfast of 2013 is Wednesday February 13 at the Viaduct Events Centre. Breakfast will be served from 7am; the event will run from 8am-10am. The Social Media Breakfast is hosted by Jesse Mulligan, and will include a question and answer session with all speakers following presentations from Ross Dawson and Teddy Goff.

Tickets to the Social Media Breakfast are $75 (including breakfast) from Ticketmaster http://www.ticketmaster.co.nz.

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