Today, 12 July 2003

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  • NEWS
    • 139 2 ChannelNews Asia THE Iranian twins' adoptive father has decided he will not take legal action against Raffles Hospital and doctors who tried unsuccessfully to separate them. But Mr Ali Reza Safaian (picture) still blames them for going ahead with the high-risk surgery. Iran is
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    • 114 2 THE man who delayed a Singapore Airlines flight after making a bomb hoax call, was jailed on Friday for a year. Chia Tiang Xiang, 24, had pleaded guilty to calling the police on March 28, claiming that there was a bomb on board flight SQ 998. The
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    • 743 2 AFP photo News Comment/Elisia Yeo Congress takes aim at FTA for lax standards in some areas WASHINGTON It took months of hard bargaining and careful tweaking before the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA) was fashioned and then described as "gold standard". While it is
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    • 370 2  -  -Jasmine Yin USUALLY, judges hand out sentences and give their rationale in a written or verbal statement But four judges from the Subordinate Courts went a step further by writing a book aimed at raising awareness of juvenile justice and rehabilitation in Singapore. The
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    • 165 3 ChannelNews Asia THE Slim 10 trial entered its 15th day on Friday but there was a twist It wasn't Andrea De Cruz's liver failure that was under the microscope, it was the piercing which the actress has in her navel. The day started with liver
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    • 313 4  -  Tan Hui Leng Local company develops first 5-min test kit for vaginal infection by huileng@newstoday.com.sg GETTING tested for vaginal yeast infection can be an embarrassing experience. It usually involves the doctor having to take a swab from the vagina for testing. However, the condition, also known
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    • 275 4  -  Lim Wei Yi by weiyi@newstoday.com.sg ANOTHER flower has been added to the Singapore bouquet as the industry strives to woo back tourists after the recent Sars outbreak. With an aim to pull four million visitors for the second half of the year,
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    • 138 4 ChannelNews Asia LAST July, a 15-year-old schoolgirl died after she was pinned under a SBS Transit's double-decker bus at the Changi Point Bus Terminal. The Land Transport Authority says she was one of four jaywalkers involved in fatal accidents in the last three years.
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    • 117 4 ALVINTOH MEDIACORP chairman Kwa Chong Seng (right) presenting a token of appreciation to Information, Communications and the Arts Minister Lee Boon Yang (left) during his visit to the Caldecott Broadcast Centre on Friday. The memento consisted of a DVD recording as well
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    • 105 4 THE first chief executive of the Health Sciences Authority (HSA), Dr Clarence Tan, will step down from his position from Aug 1 to return to full-time professional work a forensic pathologist He will be replaced by the Ministry of Health's Deputy Director of
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  • HUMOUR
    • 703 6  -  Neil Humphreys Don't spend $25,000 on a baby by neil@newstoday.com.sg I CANT be trusted with any living creature. Last Sunday, my poor, cancer-ridden hamster needed to be given an injection. Holding the rodent down, I took a syringe and prodded his back with the needle. Startled,
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    • 267 6  -  -Jasmine Yin FANS of local writing should be heartened by this piece of news: A local book is doing well on the bestsellers list in two major book stores. Scribbles From The Same Island by Today journalist Neil Humphreys is a collection of short stories that
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  • LETTERS
    • 380 8  -  Mark Tan It's drawing top soccer events, so what's Singapore doing? I WOULD like to share in the despair of my fellow football fans at the woeful level of quality exposure we have to the sport in Singapore. Football is without doubt one of the
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    • 150 8  -  Anoop K Sharma I REFER to the article, "Remembering Pala" (Today, July 9). It was a very eloquent tribute indeed by Mr Navtej Singh. Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forget. It is people like Pala that make the
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    • 633 11 PASSION and pride is the chapter that airs the voices of the people behind Fair Price's success. "There's more to Fair Price than a well-managed supply chain: It's the contribution of every single person, from the stock buyers to the backroom staff to the cashier and customer. Every
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  • Market Watch
    • 487 12  -  Chew Sutat by news@newstoday.com.sg WHAT a week! Asian markets roared to life on Monday morning, like racehorses out of the docks, rushing to outdo each other in response to large gains in Nasdaq futures during Asian time. True to form, Monday's two to three per cent gains in
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  • 592 12  -  Wong Soo How Man behind S'pore's first no-expenses unit trust on funds which lose money by news@newsto day. com. sg MR WONG Kok Hoi has little tolerance for mediocre performance. This is apparent in the way the chief investment officer of APS Asset Management has structured
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  • BUSINESS
    • 374 14  -  Francis Kan so Singapore may expense stock options by francis@newstoday.com.sg be complex. Following the spate of accounting scandals last year, a vigorous debate has sprung up in the US and UK over the issue. The British-based International Accounting Standards Board, which sets standards followed generally
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    • Market Watch
      • 110 14 AFX-Asia SINGAPORE share prices closed at nearly oneyear highs, reversing initial losses and defying mostly weaker regional markets, as foreign funds bought up banks in afternoon trade on hopes the economy will do better in the second half. The lack of selling pressure also encouraged buyers, fuelling expectations that
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      • 59 14 By volume July 11 Ipco UniFiber fciaFoodP Reed Thakral Chartered Inno-Pat MultiVis Hongguo Vikay Ind Close 0.170 0.150 0.245 0.130 0.125 1.140 0.055 0.330 0.260 0.110 Change +0.030 +0.015 +0.045 +0.020 +0.040 +0.015 +0.015 +0.015 +0.020 +21.4 +11.1 +22.5 +19.0 +3.6 +37.5 +4.8 +6.1 +22.2 'OOO 218,99;
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      • 36 14 US$ 0.57 UK£ 0.35 Yen 67 HK$ 4.44 RM 2.17 Euro 0.50 Rupiah 4,678 Baht 24 Peso 30.45 A$ 0.87 Indian Rs u Won 671 C$ 0.79 Yuan 4.72 NZ$ 0.97 NTS 19.57
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      • 61 14 Index Value Change Pts Nikkei 225 9635.35 -320.27 -3.22% Hang Seng KLCI Sydney All Ords faiwan Weighted 9911.50 723.90 3022.80 5239.96 -71.81 +0.05 0.10 -42.42 -0.72% 0.01% 0 -0.80% Korea Composite Hiai SET Index 704.15 484.39 +3.64 +10.11 0.52% 2.13% lakarta Composite Philippines Comp Shenzhen B Wumbai 524.69
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      • 23 14 SGX Bloomberg Gold uss/oi 344.60 Silver uss/oi 4.8150 Platinum uss/oi 670.60 Rubber centsAg 177 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1400 Brent crude uss/borrel 28.79
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      • 5 14 Straits Times Index 1,544.84 +25.08
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      • 78 14 By$ July 11 DBS Close Change 11.200 +0.400 UOB 13.600 +0.400 OCBC 10.600 +0.300 Transmarco 1.200 +0.225 SIA 10.600 +0.200 F&N 9.450 +0.150 Robinson 6.550 +0.150 STIETF100 15.560 +0.130 Isetan(S) StamfordTyre 2.520 +0.120 0.850 +0.120 By percentage July 11 Close Change Easyknit 5k HKS 0.250 +85.2 PNE
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      • 80 14 By$ July 11 Close Change IMH400USS 6.250 -0.250 DBS Bk 6% NCPS *****.800 -0.100 GreatEast 10.300 -0.100 ISH500USS 2.970 -0.070 SingamasC 2kHKS 3.450 -0.050 NatSteel 2.700 -0.020 Fri-M 0.210 -0.020 ffl>G 0.230 -0.020 Cathay Org 0.185 -0.015 GPInd 0.835 -0.015 By percentage July 11 Close Change /icplas
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    • 411 16  -  Lee Yew Meng by yewmeng@newstoday.com.sg INVESTORS should relook the allocation of more funds to equities or equitybased funds as the returns in bond investments are showing signs of tapering off. Even so, experts are not advocating getting rid of
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    • 199 16 AFX-Asia Comes up with new plans for IPOs and reverse takeovers THE Singapore Exchange (SGX) has proposed changes to rules governing listing, including new requirements for initial public offerings and reverse takeovers. SGX said the financial position of companies seeking to list on the bourse will be assessed
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    • 119 16 Bloomberg TAKASHIMAYA may buy a 27 per cent stake in Ngee Ann City, which Metro Holdings wants to sell. Metro said in a statement that it has offered the Japanese retailer the first right of refusal. Takashimaya, the anchor tenant at Ngee Ann, must decide
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    • 125 16 KHING CHONG NTUC FairPnce, which has given out about $400 million in rebates and dividends to its co-operative members, has donated $1 million worth of food vouchers to needy families. It will distribute the vouchers through 84 citizens' consultative committees and five community development councils. The donation was
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    • 188 16 Channel NewsAsia THE last of the Singapore Airlines unions concluded its negotiations with the company yesterday. Members of the SIA Engineering, Engineers and Executives Union agreed to take a 7.5 per cent pay cut across the board. They also offered to forego
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    • 91 16 Bloomberg STARHUB will unveil a digital cable-television system by the end of the year that will allow it to offer more channels and features. It has hired Thomson Corp's broadcast unit to instal the new system, which will include components made by Kudelski's
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    • 103 16 AFX-Asia KEPPEL Land said that a consortium of companies here, which it spearheads, has signed an agreement with the Shenyang Hunnan District Government to develop a township in Shenyang City in North-east China. The members include G&W Group Holdings, Dayen Environmental, the Building Construction Authority of Singapore and
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    • 128 16 Francis Kan SINGAPORE'S fledgling entrepreneurship movement is starting to make an impact on society here, Mr Raymond Lim, the Minister of State in charge of entrepreneurship, said yesterday. "A certain societal change in the legitimacy and desirability of entrepreneurship is beginning to gather pace," he told more than
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  • WORLD
    • 762 18 Agencies Bush promises help for Africans but the key question is: Can he deliver the goods? KAMPALA United States President George W Bush met with the face of Aids on the front line during his visit to Uganda yesterday. The disease afflicts 42 million people
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    • AROUND THE WORLD
      • 52 18 Reuters INDONESIAN police have arrested several people suspected of being linked to the Jemaah Islamiyah network. A leading newspaper quoted unidentified sources as saying that Hambali was shot on the outskirts of Jakarta, but Deputy National Police spokesman Edward Aritonang clarified that Hambali has not
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      • 60 18 -AFP CANADA announced on Thursday that it was banning Myanmar's military leaders and senior government officials from its territory to protest against the detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. It will also impose travel restrictions on diplomats that represent Myanmar and will call
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      • 85 18 Reuters A NEW JERSEY plastic bag company sued New York City on Thursday for refusing to pay for its orders of 100,000 body bags after the Sept 11 attack on the World Trade Center. The suit said Fordion Packaging had received a signed, written
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      • 65 18 Reuters COMIC book publisher, Marvel Enterprises, has decided to let Princess Diana rest in peace, dropping plans to reincarnate her as a mutant comic super hero. The aboutface follows its recent announcement that it planned to introduce the late Princess Diana as
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      • 60 18 Reuters LORD Hartley Shawcross, Britain's leading prosecutor of Nazi leaders at the World War II war crime trials in Nuremberg, died on Thursday. He was 101 years old. Lord Shawcross leaped to public prominence with his detailed and impassioned speeches at the trials in
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    • 116 20 Agencies TOKYO A Japanese minister caused furore when he said on Friday that the parents of a boy whom police said confessed to killing a four-year-old earlier this week should be humiliated publicly and "beheaded". Deregulation Minister Yoshitada Konoike said at a press conference that the
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    • 57 20 Reuters photo An Indian policeman standing guard outside a bus at the Wagah border checkpoint in Punjab on Friday. The bus runs between Lahore in Pakistan and New Delhi in India. The service resumed service on Friday, after it was suspended for 18 months following an attack
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    • 448 20 Agencies US may seek Nato, UN help as casualties mount in Iraq WASHINGTON As his administration is besieged with mounting problems on the ground and increasing pressure over the way it handled the Iraq policy, US President George W Bush admitted that there is a "security
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    • 276 20 WASHINGTON A newly-discovered diary kept by President Harry S Truman in 1947 has revealed traces of anti-Semitism from a man whom many Jews regard as a friend for his support for the creation of Israel, The Washington Post reported on Friday. The diary was discovered
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  • COMMENTARY
    • 1036 22  -  Simon Tay Global influence is a powerful beast that can shape changes in S'pore by weekend@newstoday.com.sg TRADE figures and corruption have nothing to do with gays in Singapore society. And none of these are part of the Remaking Singapore process. Yet recent controversies about these
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  • HUMOUR
    • 778 23  -  Dave Barry SO, the other day I was waiting at a traffic light in my car, which is nice, but, like most cars today, boring. For example, when you turn the key, it starts. Every time! It has one of those modern, quiet, dependable
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  • Article, Illustration
    963 24  -  Yong Shu Chiang Arnold Schwarzenegger is more like David Beckham than you know it RNOLD Schwarzenegger is set to become X Aone of the most well built politicians in American history. At 56, the muscle-bound action star with political leanings is still in tip-top shape, as evidenced
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  • 144 25  -  -Jeanine Tan DIPLOMATS from Asean countries will meet on Sunday at the Singapore Polytechnic to fight it out on the playing field, that is in the name of sport and goodwill. Called Asean@Play!, the campaign aims to encourage Singaporeans get out of the house and have
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  • 200 25  -  -Janice Lee ONE only has to walk into the Asian Civilisation Museum (ACM) at Empress Place to feel a sense of history. Starting this weekend, that feeling will be reinforced. On Sunday, Discovery Networks Asia, which runs the Discovery channel on StarHub Cable TV, along with the
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  • 271 25  -  -ElisaChia COMTEMPLATE this: What if terrorists succeed in wreaking havoc in Singapore? What if those 15 Jemaah Islamiyah members plotting to bomb the Yishun MRT station weren't caught by the ISD? The "what-if" angle is what film-maker Kelvin Tong hopes will
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  • Article, Illustration
    467 27  -  Yong Shu Chiang Butoh as way of life by shuchiang@newstoday.com.sg AS HUMAN beings, we must always seek out new experiences. Veteran dancer Akiko Motofuji (picture), 74, is a firm believer of this philosophy, continuing to travel and perform whilst she teases out new expressions of her art
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  • 302 27  -  Wong Khing Chong Life is great with meaningful relationships by khingchong@newstoday.com.sg same time not too easy too!" said Ivy, who is in her 40s. "When I first joined him, I was an IT illiterate. Raymond forced me to sit in front of the computer
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  • EPICURE
    • 390 28  -  Jeffrey Yang by eatout@newstoday.com.sg THERE'S an air of romance and history associated with port that few fortified wines in the world possess. Port originates from the city of Porto, in Portugal. It is made from native grape varieties likeTinta Barroca,Tinta Roriz and the irresistible Touriga Nacional,
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    • 555 28  -  George Jacobs Vegetarian food in Japanese, Chinese and Western cuisine by eatout@newstoday.com.sg In the following weeks, Today and the Vegetarian Society (Singapore) will bring you a weekly column featuring recipes and restaurants for the green generation. WHAT does the term "vegetarian food" bring to mind? Do
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  • EAT OUT
    • 597 29  -  Katrina Karim A father's wise words on recognising the best chapati by eatout@newstoday.com.sg MY FATHER loves chapati. It was he who first introduced me to this wondrous unleavened bread when I was a little girl. I remember attending the wedding of a police officer who was my
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  • IN CINEMAS
    • 399 30 Reuters Spidey star To bey Maguire vows that sequel will surpass original LOS ANGELES Actor Tobey Maguire, who shot to A-list stardom in 2002 smash hit movie Spider-Man, vowed to fans on Thursday that the web of a tale being spun for next year's sequel will be
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  • Page 32 Miscellaneous
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  • INSIDE OUT
    • Article, Illustration
      513 34  -  Wang Chu Qiao Get a roomy interior through the clever use of light, colour and furniture by news@newstoday.com.sg ONE of the most important criteria for home design these days is the maximisation of space. For some, this means an extensive restructuring of the house, which can be expensive.
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      526 35 Harvey Norman Millenia Mega Superstore offers convenience, value and service, all in one store IT HAS been weeks of dust, noise and anticipation.The renovation works are now complete and you can look forward to moving into your dream home. Now, to find the furniture and accessories for
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  • 728 50 Tour de France gets really tough now as the murderous mountain stage begins L'ALPE D'HUEZ If the first week of the Tour de France was interesting, then get ready for some real action. The first seven days were filled with celebrations, some horrific crashes
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  • 501 51  -  Tan Yo-Hinn The two bottom-placed teams battle for the wooden spoon this weekend by yohinn@newstoday.com.sg TIME is certainly not on their side. With just one win from six matches so far, the Eastern Mannas are the lowest-ranked local team in the NTUC FairPrice 2003 Netball
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  • 332 51 AFP LOS ANGELES Game over. That's what the 2004 NBA season looks like, now that the Los Angeles Lakers have become the scariest-looking force in the history of the game. Desperate to add a championship to his Hall of Fame resume, power forward Karl Malone
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  • 470 52 Reuters Man U has yet to make an official bid for Brazilian: PSG PARIS English champion Manchester United has not made an official offer for Brazilian midfielder Ronaldinho, Paris St Germain (PSG) chairman Francis Graille said on Friday. "Many rumours suggested we have done a deal
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  • 192 53  -  MURRAY BELL Horse Racing Written By I OUTSTANDING filly Zirna will be favourite to confirm a fascinating international trend when she tackles the $650,000 Singapore Derby at Kranji next Friday night. Zirna is owned by the Westbury Farm (NZ) group, managed by well-known
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  • 62 54 LONDON Briton David Coulthard could do with a change of team, according to Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, who feels the McLaren driver has become too comfortable there. Coulthard has been at McLaren since 1996 and was runner-up to Ferrari's Michael Schumacher in the 2001 championship. This year
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  • 76 54 LOCH LOMOND Retief Goosen's build-up to next week's British Open received a setback on Friday when the 2001 US Open champion was forced to withdraw from the Scottish Open with a bad back. Former US Masters champion lan Woosnam and India's Arjun Atwal also pulled out of
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  • 91 54 BEIJING Chinese football fans will have to pay a hefty price for a glimpse of glamour boy David Beckham and his colleagues at Real Madrid when they play in Beijing. Ticket prices for the Spanish team's match against a Chinese XI at the 60,000-seat Worker's Stadium are
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