The New Paper, 26 December 2014

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  • 17 1 the new paper FRIday DECEMBER 26 2014 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION 70 CENTS MCI (P) 137/12/2014
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    • 134 1 2014 SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARDS BEST IN OVERALL REDESIGN SPORTS REDESIGN NEWS-BREAKING PHOTO FEATURE DESIGN PAGES CHEW CHOR MENG’S WIFE RECallS tHE tIME dOCtORS tOld HIM: You have only 18 months to live 6 years on, they ar still counting their blessings. The actor says... ›2 *****1 *****1
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    • 48 1 0 FRIDAY DECEMBER 26 2014 Jamie Yeo’s online firm draws flak for late delivery of Xmas orders ›6 FLAME AWARDS Here are your Duke and Babe 6 PAGES INSIDE VETERAN US SWIMMING COACH OF CHAMPIONS: Schooling is the most talented I’ve ever seen ›S2 TNP PhoTo: PhYLLICIA WANG
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  • news
    • 1592 2 / 3  -  Six years after being told he had 1½ years to live, actor Chew Chor Meng has defied the odds and celebrated his 46th birthday. His wife says they couldn’t have made it without the kindness of strangers Reports by MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg It was two
      TNP FILE PHOTO; TNP PHOTO: CHOO CHWEE HUA; PHOTO: LIANHE WANBAO  -  1,592 words
    • 38 4 15.79m The number of illegal publications seized by China’s anti-pornography authorities this year, reported Xinhua news agency yesterday. The National Anti-Pornography and Anti-Illegal Publications Office had dealt with 8,344 cases involving pornography and illegal publications.
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    • 271 4 AFP Reuters Pope Francis called for an end to “brutal” religious persecution by Islamic State insurgents, killings and hostage-taking around the world and violence against children in his annual Christmas message yesterday. Denouncing conflicts in Ukraine, Libya and elsewhere, and noting last week’s
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    • 340 4 M’sia DPM says no need to declare emergency The flood situation in West Malaysia continued to worsen yesterday, forcing more than 90,000 people to be evacuated from their homes, especially in Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang, said Malaysian media. Authorities warned of continuing heavy rain in
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    • 161 4 Thousands attended a memorial in Indonesia’s Aceh province yesterday, the epicentre of the Indian Ocean tsunami, marking a decade since the disaster took 220,00 lives and laid waste to coastal areas in 14 countries. On Dec 26,2004, a 9.3-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia’s western coast
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    • 151 4 Hong Kong police said yesterday they arrested a dozen prodemocracy protesters after clashes in the first sizeable rally since the last protest camp was cleared last week. Police used pepper spray and batons to disperse hundreds of protesters who crowded the pavements on Wednesday night,
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    • 871 6  -  Mums.sg customer buys substitute gifts after online order fails to arrive Reports by RONALD LOH rloh@sph.com.sg She thought she had ordered the perfect Christmas gifts for her nephews. Having ordered three Lego sets from local shopping website Mums.sg late last month, the woman, who wanted to
      TNP PHOTO: CHOO CHWEE HUA  -  871 words
    • 585 8  -  Team leader at A*Star tells students to pursue interest instead of trends Report by LINETTE HENG linheng@sph.com.sg His interest in biotechnology was piqued by shows such as The X-Files and Jurassic Park. Although biotechnology was not trendy in 1999 when Dr Samuel Gan, then a teenager,
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    • 409 10 Three people, including two children, were killed in a blast at a house in Kedah on Wednesday. One of the victims, a man in his 30s known only as Mr Ayob, died in the explosion that took place at 4.30pm. He is believed to
      PHOTO: THE STAR  -  409 words
    • 546 11 Kristina Pimenova, 8, has 2.5 million Facebook fans She has been called “the most beautiful girl in the world”. Russian supermodel Kristina Pimenova, eight, has been on catwalks since she was three. She models for Armani and Roberto Cavalli and is famous for
      PHOTO: AFP  -  546 words
    • 2004 TSUNAMI 10 YEARS ON
      • 1044 12 / 13  -  Dentist who identified S’porean victims recalls horror Reports by RONALD LOH rloh@sph.com.sg Ten years on, the sight and smell of widespread death still remains fresh in his mind. Although he was no stranger to dead bodies, forensic dentist Tan Peng Hui admitted to being numb with
        TNP PHOTO: CHOO CHWEE HUA; PHOTOS: COURTESY OF DR TAN PENG HUI  -  1,044 words
    • 160 14 AFP Taiwan’s President Ma Yingjeou will file a lawsuit against a radio host for alleging that he accepted political donations from a company implicated in food safety scandals, his office said yesterday. Ms Clara Chou accused Mr Ma of accepting under-the-table funds
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    • 215 14 oN TNP FACebook On the war of words between blogger Xiaxue and Gushcloud, which she accuses of inflating page views and likes RHyde Hyde Cheap publicity at its best. Sheron Oh It’s an eye opener. I guess it’s good for bloggers to sit up and become (hopefully) more
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    • 405 15 What happens if you give a homeless person US$100 (S$130)? You get a feel-good story that surprised even serial video prankster Josh Paler Lin. In a video uploaded on Monday, the
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    • Article, Illustration
      322 16 $2.6m in cash falls out of van in HK, causing scramble on major highway Money doesn’t fall from the sky, but it was as if it did for these people in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Boxes filled with more than HK$15.23 million (S$2.6m) in cash spilled out
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    • 335 16 He is ashamed of his son’s drug abuse. And Hong Kong movie star Jackie Chan hopes that one day, his son Jaycee Chan will speak out about the dangers of taking drugs. “I hope that in the future, he could become an anti-drug spokesman
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    • 422 17  -  FlashPay users can now use app to activate top-up Report by LEE JOON LEI joonlei@sph.com.sg Need to top up your FlashPay card? Android phone users can now do so through their mobile phones, thanks to a new Auto Top-Up (ATU) activation service launched by
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    • 496 18 / 19 of The New Paper’s photojournalists pick their best pics of the year JEREMY LONG I had to hide behind a wall to get this shot, all the while fearing that I would cause two raging men to get even angrier if they spotted me
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    • 571 20 / 21  -  XU BIN DUKE OF THE YEAR There were many firsts for the annual The New Paper Flame Awards 2014. For the first time, our year-end tongue-in-cheek awards had categories such as Cutest Celeb Baby, Transformer Of The Year, Favourite Viral Music Video and Duke
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    • 367 20 / 21 REBECCA LIM BABE OF THE YEAR Local actress Rebecca Lim could not stop laughing when we told her she had won the Babe Of The Year award. She had bagged the same award in 2011. Lim garnered 2,050 votes, beating fellow nominees Fann Wong
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    • FLAME awards 2014
      • 290 22 / 23  -  ZED CUTEST CELEB BABY Reports by JOCELYN LEE jocelee@sph.com.sg With his jet black hair and photogenic smile, it wasn’t difficult for cutie Zed to win the hearts of our readers. The four-month-old offspring of Singapore’s most high-profile celebrity couple, Fann Wong and Christopher Lee, received 2,262
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      • 427 22 / 23 JASPERS LAI TRANSFORMER OF THE YEAR “I really think miracles do happen.” This was what acting newcomer Jaspers Lai blurted out when he was told the results. The formerly chubby 27-year-old, who lost 10kg and shed three inches off his waist this year, beat fellow
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      • 367 22 / 23 PAN LINGLING SHOCKER OF THE YEAR 2014 has been a roller-coaster ride for actress Pan Lingling. Her father died of lung cancer in February. A month later, the 44-year-old mother of two revealed to the public that she had battled breast cancer in private last
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      • 450 24 / 25  -  MUNAH AND HIRZI FAVOURITE VIRAL MUSIC VIDEO Report by NOOR ASHIKIN ABDUL RAHMAN ashikinr@sph.com.sg It was a close fight. When voting was first opened, singer Taufik Batisah was leading by a mile. But at the last minute, votes surged in favour of YouTube darlings
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      • 304 24 / 25  -  JESSLYN TAN TURN-OFF THE YEAR Noor Ashikin Abdul Rahman We get it now thefts by celebrities have you cringing in disbelief while opinionated know-it-alls plain annoy you (see local singer Aliff Aziz and online personality Stephanie Koh, respectively). But nothing gets under your skin more
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      • 222 24 / 25  -  JESSICA JUNG OUSTED FROM GIRLS’ GENERATION K-POP CRISIS OF THE YEAR Report by JOCELYN LEE jocelee@sph.com.sg Surprises and shocking news plagued the K-pop industry this year, keeping anxious fans on the edge of their seats. And it seems like the biggest crisis for them was seeing
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    • 780 26  -  Touched by story of boy suffering from rare incurable disease, S’poreans send gifts, treats to his family Report by FOO JIE YING fjieying@sph.com.sg With their hands full caring for their ill son and worried he would catch a virus, Mr Lam Kam Choy and his wife
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    • 345 27 It looks like any ordinary bottle of chilli sauce. But read the label carefully and you will see why the company behind it is now at the centre of an online storm. The controversy started after Darwin Chilli Co, from Australia, shared a photograph of
      PHOTO: FACEBOOK  -  345 words
    • Throw back 2014
      • 276 28 / 29  -  Throwback2014hrowback With 2014 coming to an end, The New Paper looks back at the biggest news stories in the past year. Today, we look at the stories that shook the month of July JULY 11 Reports by MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg The National Library Board (NLB)
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      • 118 28 / 29 JULY 25 Details of a simplified Individual Physical Proficiency Test (IPPT) was announced by army chief Perry Lim, who also gave the assurance that while it might be easier for servicemen, it will still ensure that they meet fitness standards to perform their operational roles. The changes,
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      • 126 28 / 29 JULY 18 The news rocked the world. Malaysian Airlines (MAS) flight MH17 went down over rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers on board. Citizens of 11 countries died in the disaster. The Boeing 777 was apparently hit by a surface-to-air missile. Ukraine and the
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      • 126 28 / 29 JULY 30 Joseph Schooling touched home in a record 51.69sec to became the first Singapore swimmer to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games in Scotland. The 19-year-old clinched the silver in the 100m butterfly at Glasgow’s Tollcross Swimming Centre, erasing his
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  • 24 PAGE PULLOUT sports
    • SWIMMING
      • 1160 2 / 3  -  University of Texas swim coach Eddie Reese says he has not seen a swimmer like Schooling in his 47 years of coaching LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com. sg In his 47 years as a swim coach in the United States, Eddie Reese has produced former worldrecord holders and
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      • 727 4 / 5  -  Schooling aims to better his 2013 sixgold haul at next year’s SEA Games LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com. sg He was the most successful swimmer at the South-east Asia (SEA) Games in Myanmar last year with six gold medals. But he wants more. Don’t be surprised if Singapore’s
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      • 808 4 / 5  -  GODFREY ROBERT godfrey@sph.com.sg The writer is consulting editor of The New Paper. COMMENT It is the biggest and certainly rarest compliment any Singapore athlete can get. To say that a Singaporean is the biggest talent among a pool of worldclass American swimmers is something out of the ordinary.
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    • EPL
      • 944 6 / 7  -  Mourinho’s genius is simply defined by simplicity NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg A year ago this week, Chelsea’s title challenge began in earnest. Jose Mourinho cut a despondent figure. He was tired, haggard and irritable. His boyish grin was giving way to a permanent snarl. He was not
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      • 487 6 / 7 AFP Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho wants his players to show the world why they are on top of the Premier League table when they host fourthplaced West Ham today. A victory will ensure they stay in the driver’s seat. Chelsea then play Southampton on Sunday,
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      • 1000 8 PA Sport Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney has welcomed manager Louis van Gaal’s decision to give his players Christmas Day off. Unlike his predecessors David Moyes and Sir Alex Ferguson, van Gaal instructed his players to stay at home yesterday, even though they have a
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      • 975 9 AFP Manchester City’s attacking injury problems remain ahead of today’s trip to West Bromwich Albion, but manager Manuel better Pellegrini expects better news concerning on-loan midfielder Frank Lampard before 2015 arrives. Lampard’s (left) loan move from City’s sister club New York City in Major
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      • 703 10 / 11  -  Our writer picks his team of the season so far GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg GOALKEEPER DAVID DE GEA (Man United) This is a straight fight between de Gea and Chelsea’s Thibaut Courtois. But de Gea, 24, edges it simply because he is playing behind a hapless defence
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      • 1028 18 / 19  -  Our columnist plays Santa Claus and checks his Premier League list to see who’s been drawing attention for the right or wrong reasons... NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg 1SAM ALLARDYCE Last season, the West Ham manager was oh-so naughty, skulking along the touchline and pouting like a
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    • racing
      • 279 12 / 13 NST Penang course specialist KIM PROTECTOR, engaged in tomorrow’s Beautiful Dreamer Handicap for Class 5 horses over 1,700m, showed a liking for the wet track with a smart workout at Batu Gantong on Wednesday. Taken out by his trainer Asogan Thangaraju,
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      • SOUTH AFRICA RACES
        • 572 12 / 13 FAIRVIEW PREVIEWS RACE 1 (800M) A juvenile race of unraced runners. The Alan Greeff yard has a great record in early juvenile races, so his two charges, (4) CITY EXPRESS and (6) QAHIRA, have to be considered. Trainer Gavin Smith has three entered and, in the
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        • 565 12 / 13 6:40 Race 1 Maiden Juvenile Plate 800M 1 AGTERSKOT G Funeka (1) 58 2 BOOTY ISLAND J Merwe (6) 58 3 CHESTEVIN T Gould (5) 58 4 CITY EXPRESS K Minnie (2) 58 5 MOCK MAMBO S Naidoo (3) 58 6 QAHIRA C Ndlovu
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      • 1305 12 / 13 Friday Next Europe Meeting Friday 2nd January 2015 EUROPE 6:55 PM Deauville 1 CLASS €29,000 DU HOME STAKES 1900m No Form Name 1 *****3 2 7731 3 32 4 *****8 5 *****2 6 152 7 261 8 964 9 782 10 67 What A Party
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      • 1414 12 / 13 26-12-2014 (Friday) Live telecast of Korean races from Race 4 onwards. Coupon Betting please mark “MAL”. 12:25pm 4 Domestic 5 (Korean-bred) ₩27,000,000 sand1400m 1 432Terius 2-kor-c 1] Chae Gyu Jun 8.1% 53 Kang Hyoung Gon 5.8% 2 773Hwanggeumbit Bada2-kor-f 2] Choi Si Dae 17.0% 53 Min Jang
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      • 2237 14 / 15 COMMENTS COURTESY OF THE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS RACE 1 RANDWICK (1,400M) 7 UNEQUIVOCAL (5:1-0-2): Jumped awkwardly and hampered near 100m mark when beaten fav 3¾-len 4th (53.0) Peace Force 1,400m R’wick F&M (Bm80) Soft trk Dec 13. Has a wide alley but must respect.
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      • 1479 14 / 15 12:20 Race 1 RANDWICK—1400M 1 CROOKED STICK MS P SCHMIDT (10) 61 2 WHITTEN’S DELIGHT BRODIE LOY (11) 60 3 PIAMIMI MS W COSTIN (2) 59.5 4 SPINNING DIAMOND T ANGLAND (4) 58.5 5 SENSUALISM LESTER GRACE (9) 58 6 PASSIONFLOWER MS K O’HARA (3)
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    • EPL BETTING
      • Article, Illustration
        778 16 / 17 GARY LIM BRIAN MILLER ALI KASIM BANKER Back Arsenal on all fronts It’s a little surprising to see that Arsenal can be backed at-1.5 goals against Queens Park Rangers. The Gunners are going to win this match, but can they clear the handicap with a margin of at
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      • 1544 16 / 17  -  RICHARD LENTON npsports@sph.com.sg *Richard Lenton presents the best of the European action on Football 360 every Monday on MioStadium, plus “live” games on MioSports. CHELSEA v WEST HAM Chelsea have won four in a row and have amassed seven wins and no defeats in
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    • NBA
      • 500 20 But Golden State Warriors suffer shock loss to LA Lakers Reuters LA LAKERS 115 GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS 105 Blessed with one of the purest shooting strokes in the NBA, Stephen Curry is on track to end his career as one of the best
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    • SEA GAMES
      • 680 22 / 23  -  S’pore U-23 coach Aide reminds his charges of their ultimate mission the 2015 SEA Games final Reports by ALI KASIM aakasim@sph.com.sg Dec 9, 2013. Courts Young Lions coach Aide Iskandar recalled the date instantly. It marked, he said, the first day of the Under-23 team’s 18-month preparation
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    • 214 22 / 23 Much of S’pore’s hopes will depend on this quintet SHAHFIQ GHANI (Playmaker) A stylish midfielder with a sweet left foot, Shahfiq hasn’t been in his best form all year though he did come alive during the Asian Games. “The brain” of the U-23 outfit, Shahfiq will orchestrate
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    • 298 22 / 23 and one wildcard? Teen Irfan could be the ace up Aide’s sleeve He is only 17, but he’s already one of Singapore football’s hottest property. Irfan Fandi, the eldest son of Singapore football legend Fandi Ahmad, could be part of Singapore’s Under-23 South-east Asia (SEA) Games squad for next year’s
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    • ON TV
      • 297 22 / 23 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Today: CHELSEA v WEST HAM SingTel mio TV Ch 102 StarHub TV Ch 227 (mio Stadium), 8.45pm WEST BROM v MAN CITY SingTel mio TV Ch 103 StarHub TV Ch 228 (mio Stadium), 10.55pm BURNLEY v LIVERPOOL SingTel mio TV Ch 104 StarHub TV Ch 229
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      • 29 22 / 23 NBA Tomorrow: SACRAMENTO KINGS v PHOENIX SUNS StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports 2), 11am Sunday: CHICAGO BULLS v NEW ORLEANS PELICANS StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports 2), 9am
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      • 31 22 / 23 COPENHAGEN MASTERS Tomorrow: SEMI-FINAL 1 StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports 1), 8pm Sunday: SEMI-FINAL 2 StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports 1), 3am FINALS StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports 1), 9pm
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    • 555 24  -  Singapore No. 1 hoping to sign for Thai club via trial with EPL club Leicester Report by ALI KASIM aakasim@sph.com.sg Singapore’s No. 1 Hassan Sunny could have both his dreams of playing for a foreign club and training with a Premiership side come true. The
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    • 83 4 / 5 For the latest live’ telecast listing, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg I w Ifciis'iirc] Livewire (MBS) Livewire (RWS) (21 years and above) LVV Livewire (Singapore Pools) (21 years and above during live’ telecast) SB SportsBuzz@Kranji (18 years and above) Ip A, Always ploy with care. [responsibiyj Do not bet illegally. Singapore Pools Account
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