Today, 14 July 2003, Afternoon Edition

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    12 1 TODAY SHARE YOUR FREE COPY Monday www.todayonline.com July 14, 2003 mita (p)002/11/2002
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  • AFTERNOON EDITION
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      Lock icon Iraqi nightmare continues for US forces
      380 1 Agencies BAGHDAD There seems to be no end in sight to the sporadic violent attacks targeted at US forces in Iraq. A Baghdad bombing yesterday aimed at a police station which had US forces inside killed an Iraqi and wounded another. Meanwhile, with former
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      Lock icon The Kra Canal threat
      881 1  -  Lee Han Shih Spore, which has much to lose if it is built, plays its Thai, Chinese cards by peccaviol3@yahoo.com TIME and again, over the last three centuries, the vision of a vital waterway linking the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea has surfaced along
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  • HOT NEWS
    • AFTERNOON EDITION
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        Lock icon KL ads add fire to water row
        313 2 Agencies KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia's advertising campaign to discredit Singapore over the water spat used a language that everyone understands cold, hard cash. The advertisements in the four major Malaysian newspapers announced that Singapore made RM5662.5 million ($306 million) from raw water supplied by
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        Guard dog on leash?
        993 2 News Comment/Lee Ching Wern Has tripartism shackled the role of the NTUC, workers ask THINK supermarket rebates, discounted dental care and holiday chalets and the acronym, NTUC, comes to mind. Over the years, the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) has ventured into almost every arena of
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        Lock icon A jazz legend is no more
        76 2 Reuters LOS ANGELES Legendary alto saxophone player, jazz composer and big band leader Benny Carter (picture) died at Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, a spokeswoman for the medical centre said yesterday. He was 95. Carter, who was credited with breaking Hollywood's colour bar
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    • Article
      Lock icon Buangkok, Woodleigh closed until...
      137 3 Channel News Asia IN spite of a public outcry over the closure of the Buangkok and Woodleigh stations on the North-East Line, Transport Minister Yeo Cheow Tong says the shutters will remain down for now. But he gave an indication as to when the stations will
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    • Article
      Hot spots are good for business
      108 3 KABUL Budding Singapore entrepreneurs can take the lead from Thai businesswoman, Ms Lalita Thongngamkan. She has turned catastrophe into a thriving business by bringing Thai food to some of the world's hot spots such as Somalia, Rwanda, East Timor and Kosovo. Her newest restaurant
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      Cashing in
      589 3  -  Derrick A Paulo Innovation Singapore Redefining performance by derrick@newstoday.com.sg TAKE one never-ending queue, blend in several heavy bags of grocery and top it off with customers in a rush. What do you get? A recipe for stress. "The cashier's job is a stressful one I've worked the till
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      13 3 K1 WM Wff \ffl _L -4 Ml NUMBERS TO REMEMBER EjJHH E3*£*] J
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      73 3 Organisations committed to the NSRS constantly redefine work performance. illltlilllr reco 9n'se their people to scale new heights. ilujl** More than 5,000 companies are implementing the NSRS. More than Jjr 100,000 have been trained, assessed, certified. And recognised for achieving high performance standards. S C| The NSRS or National Skills
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  • HOME NEWS
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      Lock icon Stigma that lingers on
      391 4  -  Joy Frances Transsexual on mission to educate society by joy@newstoday.com.sg SPURRED on by the recent publication of her no-holds-barred book, My Sisters, Their Stories, transsexual author Leona Lo (picture) is on a mission to educate society about gender dysphoria. Although Singapore is fairly open on paper
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      Lock icon When earlier treatment could have helped ...
      402 4 When earlier treatment could have helped -Jose Raymond HER right leg was amputated in 1998 after gangrene enveloped it due to complications of diabetes. Four years later, her left leg was amputated as well. Jobless and without money, Mdm Rozeni Awang (picture) stopped visiting the hospital for follow-up treatments. She
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      Lock icon See and be seen in red at this year's NDP
      290 6 Tor Ching Li IN a confession to Today, National Day Parade 2003 creative director Glenn Goei says he feels like a "National Day baby". No, the 40-year-old writer-cum-director does not share the same birthday as Singapore. It's just that he
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      WIN TICKETS
      100 6 WIN a pair of NDP preview tickets if you answer the following questions correctly. Five pairs of tickets are up for grabs this week. Shell vouchers worth $50 each will be given as consolation prizes. The questions: 1) Who is the creative director for the show segment? 2)
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      The new help-seekers
      736 6  -  Ng Boon Yian Better-educated at meet-the-people sessions, say MPs by boonyian@newstoday.com.sg IT USED to be the "old, poor, can't write, can't read" Singaporeans who sought help from their MPs at their meet-the-people sessions (MPS). These days, the sessions are seeing a different mosaic of help-seekers from young
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      Customers speak
      403 9 MR CHAN Heng Wing, Singapore's Ambassador to Thailand, always zooms into Fair Price if he wants to feel he has truly come home. Mr Chan (right) has been a firm supporter of Fair Price since it opened. "My wife was one of the early group of people to
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      Growing with FairPrice
      126 9 Madam Harbin Kaur (above) remembers buying titbits for her siblings when she accompanied her parents to the Fair Price outlet in Serangoon Gardens more than 20 years ago. "It was a small shop. We bought milk, biscuits and cereals. The goods were stacked and some of them
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  • LETTERS
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      RJC head too harsh
      247 10  -  Angeline Teoh Tan Ping Principal should have been more neutral about teacher in video I REFER to recent reports on the online video clip of a Raffles Junior College (RJC) teacher ticking off her student The reports seem to suggest that the General Paper teacher had
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      A winning idea but ...
      195 10  - A winning idea but Chris Soh I REFER to Mr Lee Han Shih's article, "This is like killing entrepreneurship, URA" (Today, July 11). Mr Lee must realise that entrepreneurship is not as simple as rewarding the individual who comes up with the best idea. The ideal free market, too, has
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      Youthful face of vice
      216 10  -  Aravind Ratnam Ganesh I REFER to Mr Gerald Giam's letter, "Axe the S-fac-tor" (Today, July 8). Mr Giam is right when he urges the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) to "resist calls to use morally questionable activities to attract tourists". My disagreement arises when he writes that
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
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      Wonder Horse returns
      384 12  -  Vasu Menon Investors pin hope on Van der Horst's relisting on local bourse by) news@newstoday.com.sg INDONESIAN-RELATED companies on the Singapore stock market surged on Friday, following talk that Indonesian-owned Van der Horst Limited (VDH) will be relisted on the local bourse this week. The company, once dubbed
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      Lock icon Asean to cooperate on customs procedures
      173 12 Bloomberg JAKARTA South-east Asian nations will harmonise customs procedures and dispute settlement mechanisms in an effort to boost trade and investment within the region. Economic ministers of the 10-member Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) agreed to cooperate in settling issues such as the
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      Lock icon Strong Q3 recovery: Yeo
      127 12 Bloomberg SINGAPORE'S recovery in the third quarter will be "significantly better" than the same period last year or the previous three months, when the Sars outbreak led to its biggest contraction on record, said Minister for Trade and Industry George Yeo. Advance estimates released last Thursday
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    • Market Watch
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        Lock icon Singapore
        84 12 AFP SINGAPORE shares are expected to trade higher in the week ahead on hopes of a stronger economic performance in the second half of the year. Second-quarter gross domestic product shrank 4.3 per cent year-on-year but analysts said the worst was likely to be over for the Sars-hit economy,
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        Your S$1 buys
        36 12 US$ 0.5699 UK£ 0.3494 Yen 67.1768 HK$ 4.4452 RM 2.1658 Euro 0.5045 Rupiah 4682.1 Baht 23.7212 Peso 30.458 A$ 0.8646 Indian Rs 26.2788 Won 671.682 C$ 0.7708 Yuan 4.7176 NZ$ 0.9635 Nls 19.5891
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        Lock icon Commodities
        23 12 SGX Bloomberg Gold uss/oz 345.100 Silver uss/oi 4.805 Platinum uss/oi 675.200 Rubber cents/kg 177.75 Palm Oil RM/tonne 1400 Brent crude uss/barrel 29.18
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      Lock icon Stock as reward OK
      262 14 Bloomberg But not options, says SIA chief SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) chairman Koh Boon Hwee (picture) said he favours granting stock to employees, rather than options, so executives will focus on the longer term and on the company's performance relative to its rivals. Mr Koh, who was
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      Lock icon China growth likely in spite of Sars
      96 14 Bloomberg BEIJING China will probably report that its economy expanded by eight per cent in the first half as strong export and fixed asset investment growth offset the effect wrought by the outbreak of a deadly respiratory disease, Xinhua news service reported. China's
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      Lock icon Currency shift
      461 15 Bloomberg JP Morgan strategists predicted change in MAS policy JP MORGAN Chase's Ms Chong Hui Chin was convinced that Singapore was primed to change its currency policy when she saw the local currency fall, last month, past the level she had estimated the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
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      Lock icon Oracle up against people power
      31 15 Bloomberg photo People Soft's employees pose outside the headquarters in Pleasanton. California, to form Power to the People, a group that opposes Oracle's hostile takeover bid.
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      Lock icon US to challenge WTO on steel tariffs
      224 15 Bloomberg WASHINGTON The Bush administration will appeal a World Trade Organisation ruling that the United States' tariffs on steel imports since March last year violated global trade rules. The WTO reaffirmed an earlier ruling that the US failed to show the imports harmed
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      Lock icon 'Surgery' on mega banks?
      354 16 -AFP Tokyo will not hesitate to take drastic steps to reduce bad loans TOKYO Economics and financial tsar Heizo Takenaka said yesterday he would not hesitate to take drastic action to restore the health of Japan's mega banks, saying they were "not in a healthy condition".
      -AFP; Bloomberg photo  -  354 words
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      533 16 I Every Monday, we will carry a table of dividends declared by companies listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). The list, compiled with the assistance of Telekurs Financial, will appear every Monday on our business and finance pages. The new service is in line with the efforts of the editorial
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • AROUND THE WORLD
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        Lock icon NEW IRAQI LEADERS MEET
        34 18 Reuters Iraq's new Governing Council seen as a first step in establishing democratic rule began its inaugural session yesterday. The 25 council members roughly reflect Iraq's religious and ethnic make-up
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        Lock icon FELINE SLEUTH KILLED
        69 18 -AFP Russia's crime-fighting cat has been run over and killed, perhaps the victim of a contract killing. Rusik, a former stray whose sniffing skills had reportedly led to several smugglers being arrested, died under the wheels of a car which moved as he was about to detect
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        Lock icon TAMIL TIGERS READY FOR WAR
        57 18 -AFP Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger guerrillas are ready for war in case of a change of government in Colombo, reported the pro-rebel Tamilnet.com. The political wing leader of the Tamil Tigers, SP Thamilselvan, was quoted as saying they were still committed to the deadlocked peace
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        Lock icon MAN ATE OWN PENIS
        83 18 AFP A 34-year-old Malaysian man, believed to have been high on drugs, reportedly severed, cooked and ate his own penis. The man, who was diagnosed previously as mentally unstable, is said to have heard voices telling him to do so. "The man then wrapped his penis
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        DEADLINE FOR BLAIR
        34 18 Sceptical Labour MPs have given British Prime Minister Tony Blair an autumn deadline to find unconventional weapons in Iraq or face calls to step down, London's The Independent reported on Sunday.
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      Lock icon Bail for Anwar?
      326 18 -AFP He needs surgery abroad, say lawyers KUALA LUMPUR Lawyers for Malaysia's jailed ex-Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will argue for bail today to enable him to undergo spinal surgery in Germany. Mr Anwar, 56, is suffering from a slipped disc in his back, which was allegedly
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      Lock icon It's a love parade
      46 18 AFP photo Techno fans danced through the streets of Berlin on Saturday at the world's biggest street party the Love Parade. Around half a million people from all over Germany and the world attended this year's parade under the motto: "Love Rules".
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      Burp! And a client is lost
      275 18 BANGALORE (India) Software professional Sudhir Udayakanth, who heads a company managing web content, lost a foreign client when one of his Indian engineers burped repeatedly at the negotiating table. So he set up an academy seven months ago in India's technology hub of Bangalore
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  • COMMENTARY
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      Lock icon A less dangerous dole
      724 19  -  Choo Ai Leng Unemployment insurance will help those who lose their jobs by news@newstoday.com.sg JOBLESS Singaporeans going on the dole is an idea whose time has come. Perish the thought that we should reward folks who are out of work but providing a crutch to help
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      Lock icon 64 years on, Washington is still the bad guy for Hollywood
      668 19  -  Andrew Ferguson by news@newstoday.com.sg I SUPPOSE it is no surprise that Legally Blonde 2 (LB2), the new Reese Witherspoon (picture) movie that opened in US theatres recently, is almost unwatchable a limplywritten and incoherentlydirected film. So lame is it
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  • WATZUP?
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      Band aid
      495 20  -  Jeanine Tan I 30 local bands get a rare chance to showcase own music in Bay Beats at the Esplanade by jeanine@newstoday.com.sg LOCAL bands have one less reason to complain when it comes to the lack of performing opportunities Bay Beats at the Esplanade Waterfront is back. From
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      But J.Lo's back in Vogue, no?
      213 20 POP diva Jennifer Lopez is blaming her former manager, Benny Medina, for her losing the cover of fashion bible, Vogue when the real culprit was the magazine's editor Anna Wintour, according to World Entertainment News Network. The singer split from Medina last month and
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      The business of dating
      316 20  -  -Jeanine Tan BOY meets girl, they fall in love and a beautiful relationship unfolds. This may be the stuff of romantic movies, but the Economic Development Board (EDB) is adapting the concept for its new enterprise dating service, HOTDate. What HOTDate aims to do is create
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      Classy club for writers
      289 20  -  him Wei Vi TWO years ago, the Society of Singapore Writers nearly closed down due to dwindling membership. In a bid to revive the society, plans were made to extend membership to non-writers and abandon its "posh editors' club" image. Today, with more than 100 members,
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  • EAT OUT
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      Wild treasures
      560 21  -  Low Shi Ping Nutritional goodies from The Mushroom Pot by eatout@newstoday.com.sg WHEN I stepped into The Mushroom Pot, a herbal aroma greeted me. It was soothing with a sense of familiarity, bringing to mind tonics brewed with "mysterious" ingredients. But co-owner Liza Wang was quick to point out
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      Fresh from the oven
      456 22  -  Katrina Karim Spizza For Friends where tasty pizzas beckon I by eatout@newstoday.com.sg WALK into Spizza For Friends and the first thing that captivates you is its wood-fire pizza oven. The phrase "fresh from the oven" can't get more apt as all pizzas served in the restaurant
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      Participating outlets – Italian Festival 2003
      197 22 Participating outlets Italian Festival 2003 Cafe Lotus Tel: 6334 1983, 3e River Valley Road #01-09 Lotus Mcd Tel: 6333 5539 3d River Valley Road #01-06 Till July 31, set menus at $48 per person at both restaurants. Domvs Tel: 6839 5622 Sheraton Towers, 39 Scotts Road Fine Italian fare from
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      A taste of our history
      459 23  -  Gurmeet Singh by eatout@newstoday.com.sg ALL tickets for the Central Singapore Food and Heritage Trail 2003, which will be held on Sunday, have been snapped up. Organised by the Central Singapore Community Development Council (CDC) in conjunction with Racial Harmony Day, the event promises to give
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      'Food For Life' drive
      120 23 SHOW up and dine as a family of three generations at the Hong Kong Street Family Restaurant on Friday for a good cause. And you'll be receiving a surprise gift, too. The restaurant chain is organising a one-day "Food For Life" donation drive in aid of
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      457 28  -  Tan Wee Boon by' weeboon@newstoday.com.sg MANY athletes would have called it quits after enduring two major operations in their careers. But Australian swimmer Petria Thomas does not entertain the prospect of retirement Not even after six operations, which included three major shoulder
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      146 28  -  Tan Wee Boon SENIOR Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs Ho Peng Kee kick-started the Nike "Regular Exercise, Active Lifestyle" (REAL) Run 2003 yesterday at East Coast Park. Together with representatives from the Singapore Police Association for National Servicemen and students from the
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      529 29 Agencies Ronaldinho desperate to join Red Devils LONDON Even though he has been linked with almost every major club in Europe, Ronaldinho now claims he cannot wait to be the first Brazilian to wear the colours of Manchester United. After Real Madrid claimed last week that
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      143 29  -  Tan Yo-Hinn THEY may be the top Singaporean sprinters in their age category, but Izwan Firdaus and Tang Yue Han, both 17, still have a lot of catching up to do if they are to reach the standards of their international peers. At the International
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      253 29 Reuters MORZINE, France Lance Armstrong warned the rest of the Tour de France on Saturday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) that he was gearing up to win cycling's biggest race for a recordequalling fifth time. The American allowed Frenchman Richard Virenque to take Saturday's first mountain stage at
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      614 30 Agencies Chelsea chairman linked with Vieira,Veron and Man United LONDON Roman Abramovich, the billionaire owner of Chelsea, appears to enjoy collecting news headlines as much as he enjoys collecting expensive footballers. In just 24 hours yesterday, his club was supposedly preparing bids for both Patrick Vieira
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      216 30 Reuters LONDON Former Manchester United and Northern Ireland winger George Best was arrested after a pub brawl at the weekend amid reports that he has started drinking again. His wife Alex, 30, told The Mail on Sunday: "No one wants to be an alcoholic and
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      342 31 -AFP GATESHEAD Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva (picture) set a new world record in the women's pole vault when she cleared 4.82 metres at the Super Grand Prix meeting this morning. With her second attempt at the height, 21-year-old Isinbayeva added a centimetre
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