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    13 1 TODAY /A=£j]j-\Copp MICA(P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Wednesday August 29, 2007 todayonline.com
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    Lock icon Sands IR: The glitz, the glamour, the spiralling cost
    640 1  -  JASMINE YIN IN MACAU jasmine@media corp.com.sg AT US$3.6 billion ($5.5 billion), it was touted as one of the costliest casino-re-sorts ever, out-glitzing even the newlyopened Venetian Macao (picture). Now, the development bill for the Marina Bay Sands integrated resort (IR) could
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    Rafidah vows to bust Johor crime
    719 1  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI Plans to make M'sian state an economic powerhouse won't be railroaded: Minister nazry@mediacorp.com.sg LEFT unchecked, the crime situation across the Causeway not only threatens to scare away visitors but also undermine Malaysia's ambitious plans to turn southern Johor into a thriving commercial and
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      53 1 NEWS COMMENT RESIST CUTTING CPF DURING ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS HOT NEWS PAGE 3 MIDDLE-AGED SUICIDE RATE UP 'WORRYING TREND' LOCAL PAGE 4 NO KLANG DEBATE M'SIAN PARLIAMENT SLAPS GAG ORDER WORLD PAGE 10 BUSINESSMAN, PARTY-LOVER, DAD MEET INDOCHINE'S MICHAEL MA PLUS PAGE 30 SEVILLA PLAYER DIES AFTER HEART ATTACK ON PITCH
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  • hot news
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      En bloc: New frenzy in offing?
      638 2  -  LOH CHEE KONG Orwill rule changes draw out time to close a deal, ask analysts cheekong@media corp.com.sg AS PROPERTY stocks fell yesterday in reaction to the proposed new rules on collective sales, less certain is what kind of impact the changes will have on
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      Lock icon USE CPF ONLY AS A CUSHION FOR RETIREMENT
      838 3  -  SIEWKUMHONG Also, resist temptation of cutting contributions during economic downturns THE Prime Minister announced sweeping changes to the Central Provident Fund (CPF) scheme at last Sunday's National Day Rally. The past week has seen more details being disclosed, and Minister for Manpower
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      Lock icon Middle-age suicide rate up
      457 4  -  LEE U-WEN But it is still lower than that of other developed nations, says Minister u-wen@media corp.com.sg THE figures point to a worrying trend more men in their 40s and women in their 50s have committed suicide since 2003. In that year, there were 14 suicides
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    • SINGAPORESNIPPETS
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        ASSURANCE ON MAID INSURANCE
        100 4 Employment agencies selling Foreign Domestic Worker (FDW) insurance will now have to be registered with the General Insurance Association of Singapore (GIA). GlA's executive director Mark Lim said this should boost transparency in the sales process and professionalism. From Nov 1, GIA member companies will only
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        HIGHEST BID OF $12,000 FOR SEAT ON A380 FLIGHT
        104 4 As an online auction for seats on the first commercial flight of the Airbus A3BO began in earnest, eßay's Singapore website reported yesterday that the highest bid was U558,159 ($12,419) for a business class seat. Another bidder offered US$5,OOO for a
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      Lock icon POWER OF ARREST
      316 6 CHANNEL NEWSASIA Soldiers patrolling key areas get their powers FROM today, the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) soldiers (picture) you see patrolling key installations such as Changi Airport have the power to arrest suspects they think could be plotting a terrorist attack. The Defence Minister has invoked the
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      Lock icon Self-employed workers can apply for WIS
      244 6 IF YOU are a Singaporean self-employed person (SEP) or informal worker earning less than $1,500 a month, and above 35 years old on Jan 1 next year, you can now register at any Singapore Post branch or Central Provident Fund (CPF) service centre to
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      Alleged killer loses his cool in court
      338 8  -  LEONG WEE KEAT Defendant gets agitated when asked repeatedly about assault on Nonoi weekeat@media corp.com.sg HE HAD been calm, almost emotionless, on Monday as he demonstrated twice to the High Court how he had allegedly caused the death of his stepdaughter. But yesterday,
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        MEDIACORP RECOGNISED FOR GOOD EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE RELATIONSHIP
        118 8 MediaCorp has been honoured for its outstanding employer-employee relationship. It was one of five companies from the Asia-Pacific to receive the inaugural Uni Apro outstanding employer-partner award from Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Uni Apro is the regional arm of the world's largest
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        'BLACK BOX' READOUT FACILITY
        64 8 Singapore's Air Accident Investigation Bureau has acquired a $300,000 "black box" readout facility. Used by aircraft accident investigators after an incident, it can download data from the cockpit voice and flight data recorders and provide an animation of what could have happened in the final moments
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        DOWNPOUR CAUSES FLASH FLOODS
        90 8 Yesterday's heavy downpour between 7am and 2pm over central Singapore caused sporadic flash floods. Some 143mm of rain fell over seven hours, compared to the average total monthly of 175mm for August. The rainfall coincided with a high tide of 2.6m at 11.45am. Affected areas included
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        MORE KIDNAP SCAM CASES
        71 8 Five more cases of a kidnap scam have been reported, bringing the total to 10 since Saturday. Phone calls were made to victims, alleging that a family member had been kidnapped and would be harmed if money was not transferred to the caller. One person lost
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  • world news
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      Lock icon We are united: PM Abdullah
      353 10 —AGENCIES Malaysia's not perfect, but it's not as bad as naysayers make out, he says KUALA LUMPUR Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (picture) has strongly defended the unity of the country as it marks 50 years as a nation this week, accusing critics of
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      Parliament slaps gag order on Port Klang bailout debate
      360 10  -  NAZRYBAHRAWI KUALA LUMPUR The Malaysian government has banned debate on what is allegedly the nation's multi-billion-dollar bailout of another failed government venture. Calls for a parliamentary debate by senior opposition politician Lim Kit Siang on the Port Klang Free Zone bailout
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      Lock icon A FRAGILE STATE OF UNITY
      787 11 —AGENCIES Calls mount for the M'sian govtto redress imbalances in communal relations AS MALAYSIANS gear up for celebrations held in conjunction with the country's 50th Merdeka Day, a growing sense of uncertainty seems to be looming over the outward show of revelry. Since winning independence
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      Lock icon 'Taliban to free hostages'
      317 12 BLOOMBERG SEOUL Taliban militants have agreed to free the 19 South Korean hostages they are holding in Afghanistan, the government in Seoul said. "The meeting with the Taliban ended successfully," Mr Chun Hosun, spokesman for South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, told reporters. "They have agreed to
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      Lock icon Monks join Myanmar demonstrations
      218 12 —AGENCIES YANGON The United Nations warned that fuel price hikes in Myanmar could worsen the dire economic situation for many people in the military-ruled country, as dozens of pro-democracy activists, including monks continued defiant protests against the rise. The protest marked the first time that Buddhist
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      Lock icon M'sia to probe police beating
      201 12 —AFP JAKARTA Malaysia's Foreign Minister and police chief pledged yesterday to fully investigate four policemen accused of beating an Indonesian karate referee attending a championship in Malaysia last week. The attack, allegedly by four plain clothes police who said they were hunting for illegal immigrants,
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      Copycar blast
      400 15  -  JASON LEE Angela Merkel tells China to respect intellectual property jasonlee@media corp.com.sg FROM fake software to pirated DVDs and luxury goods, it seems there is nothing that China's piracy industry cannot reproduce. China's counterfeiting industry came under the spotlight yesterday when German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised Chinese copies
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      SPOT THE DIFFERENCE
      10 15 CHINA'S SHUANGHUAN NOBLE 1 GERMANY'S SMART FORTWO
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      Lock icon PROTEST NIPPED IN THE BUD:
      73 15 Over 300 construction workers gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square yesterday for a rare protest over unpaid wages. However, they were bussed away by police before the demonstration could begin. While labour disputes are common in China, strikes and demonstrations remain rare in the capital, the
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      Lock icon Equine flu unseats Aussie mounted police
      412 16 BLOOMBERG SYDNEY Security at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Sydney next week was dealt a blow yesterday when the city's mounted police horses were diagnosed with equine flu, ruling out a major crowd control measure. Six police horses in Sydney tested
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      Lock icon FRESH LEGS FOR BUSH'S FINAL LAP?
      654 18 NYT NEWS SERVICES WASHINGTON The back-to-back resignations of Karl Rove and Alberto Gonzales, two long-time aides of President George W Bush who have become lightning rods for controversy on Capitol Hill, amount to a political housecleaning for the White House, providing Mr Bush a
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      Lock icon Americans score an F in latest obesity report
      346 18 —AGENCIES WASHINGTON Americans are already among the fattest people in the world, and they just keep packing on the pounds. A new report by the Trust for America's Health, a non-profit health organisation, said that obesity rates have swelled during the last
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      Lock icon Iran to yield data
      221 19 —AP VIENNA Iran has offered to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (lAEA) in its probe of an al- leged secret uranium processing project linked by United States intelligence to a nuclear arms programme. The pledge was made in a memorandum agreed to by Iran
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      916 14 f^_ ADVERTISING FEATURE science. 07 ft month of Science, Technology and Biomedicine j&&fios&sit'~~--25 Aug -30 Sept 07 j^ ;/J| SCIGnCG is life in Be moved by the wonders V science.O7, Singapore's annual a Wild X-periment! <S~^\ Discoveries for Young J^rT^'cf^ Battle of Science Science Month, is here once *J EMfS.
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      387 22  - The train door trap FERNAN GONZALES Operators should review duration doors are left open Letter from LAST week, I found myself in a dangerous situation when I had to alight at Paya Lebar station with my baby in a stroller. Coming from the centre of a crowded cabin, it was
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      FOCUS ON THE FAMILY
      278 24  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY I DANGERS ON THE ROAD TO ADULTHOOD Some years ago, my family and I visited the magnificent wild animal preserve known as the Serengeti in Tanzania. It had rained all day, and we eventually came to a stretch of road that was
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      Lock icon Why not credit insurance?
      414 24  -  EETECKSIEW Companies can protect themselves from bad loans, minimising economic fallout Letter from THE Government is drafting new rules for banks to take up mortgage insurance to protect them from default risks. The measure is timely given recent sub-prime mortgage woes in the US that caused
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      Should swords be on sale?
      126 24  -  ISHWAR MAHTANI Letter from I READ with some concern an advertisement selling weapons in Singapore. CES Novelty Swords had advertised that they were selling several weapons, including rifles and swords. A company representative told me that the rifle was not real and that the edges
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      Lock icon Seniors, movies and fast food
      241 25  -  TAN KIM HIAN Letterfrom THANK you Neil Humphreys for suggesting that senior citizens in Singapore get a discount to the movies on Tuesdays ("Early bird specials the way to go", Aug 25-26). You may be pleased to know that we do get a 50-per-cent discount
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      Begging bogus monk returns
      190 25  -  TEO KIAN LAM CHRISTOPHER Letter from SEVERAL weeks ago, a newspaper carried a report on bogus monks from Thailand who were photographed begging for alms publicly. The report revealed that a syndicate was in operation. Following the report, these bogus monks kept a low profile, some
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      139 22 Alert us. Seen something newsworthy in your neighbourhood? Call the MediaCorp Hotline at 6822 2268. Have your say. Have a view to share? Email us at news@newstoday.com.sg with your full name, contact number and address. Get your copy. Contact our circulation department at 1800 my Today (1800 698 6329). Advertise.
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      88 22 MediaCorp Press Ltd MTV A A 7" 24 Raffles Place #28-01/06 I II l/\ Clifford Centre *****21 XV/l/TU 1800 236 4888 Fax 6534 4217 MEDIACORP Editorial Director P N Balji TODAY Managing Editor Walter Fernandez Night Editor Yvonne Lim Editor-At-Large Clement Mesenas Chief Sub-Editor Richard J Valladares Section editors News
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  • Business
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      Lock icon Trust critical for investor confidence
      100 26 SINGAPORE is positioning itself as a trusted regional financial hub and practises global accounting and audit standards that are recognised and trusted internationally. According to Mrs Lim Hwee Hua (picture), Minister of State for Finance and Transport, it would be "of limited use if companies
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      Lock icon Food safety? S'pore has the lab
      434 26  -  JOHNSON CHOO International research firm Covance opens first testing facility outside United States johnsonchoo@media corp.com.sg ONE of the world's largest independent contract research organisations (CROs) has expanded its operations here, in a move which boosts Singapore's reputation as a trusted food manufacturing hub. Yesterday,
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      Markets slide on proposed changes to en bloc law
      283 27  -  CHEOWXINYI cheowxinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE property stocks fell yesterday, hurt by the Government's proposed changes to laws on collective property sales. The Singapore Property Equities Index fell 1.13 per cent to 1445.27. CapitaLand fell 0.7 per cent to 557.40, while luxury developer Wheelock
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      Lock icon S'pore shares close lower
      276 27 —AGENCIES SINGAPORE share prices closed 1.34 per cent lower as concerns resurfaced over the US economy and its troubled housing market Sentiment took a hit after existing US home sales fell in July to the lowest level in nearly five years. While the data was within
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        Expressions, Pastamania vie for Franchiser of the Year award
        250 28  -  JOSEPH YADAO joseph.yadao@media corp.com.sg WILL it be beauty specialist Expressions International or restaurant chain Pastamania? The two Singapore names are vying for the local Franchiser of the Year 2007 award. The winner will go on to fight other big boys such
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        197 28 HSBC mixes social values with business VISITING a nature enclave isn't justfun. Itis also corporate social responsibility (CSR), as some businesspeople will discover on Sept 28 when they take part in HSBC's latest community involvement project on Pulau Semakau. The nearby island, a landfill for Singapore's
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        209 29  -  JOHNSON CHOO BLOOMBERG DUKETOURS JURONG ISLAND: The Duke of York (right) Queen Elizabeth's second son-toured Jurong Island yesterday. Prince Andrew, the Britain's Special Representative for global trade, visited acrylics producer Lucite International. Singapore Airlines, Asia's most profitable carrier, will buy a stake i n China Eastern Airlines Corporation, gaining
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        268 29 BLOOMBERG INVESTORS in Asia's credit market expect defaults in the region to rise next year because of slowing economic growth, according to a survey by Morgan Stanley. Almost half of the 52 investors surveyed expect defaults to rise in the latter part of next
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      181 30 —AFP MUMBAI An historical epic is to be filmed about the life and teachings of the Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, a South Asian production team said on Monday. "The message of the movie gives answers to global crises of conflict and
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      131 30 LOS ANGELES Keanu Reeves will star in a remake of the classic 1950s science fiction film The Day The Earth Stood Still. Reeves, star of The Matrix trilogy, will play an alien who arrives on Earth to warn world leaders that their policies
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      969 31 BUT ITS NOT ALL PLAY FOR MICHAEL MA, OWNER OF AN EXPANDING BUSINESS EMPIRE. HE TELLS I THAT IMPOSSIBLE' IS 'POSSIBLE AND THAT HE 'AIMS HIGH'. Another IndoChine restaurant will open in New Delhi on Sept 15. The opening of the IndoChine branch in Phuket's Jungceylon
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      207 32  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW by Evan Almighty LIKE Noah squeezing all creatures great and small into his ark, Evan Almighty crams too many themes into a slim package, with the result that this film misses the boat in being a great comedy. This spin-off from Bruce Almighty (2003) has
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      235 33  -  Felix Cheong FILMREVIEW by I Ratatouille AFTER last summer's sputtering outing, Cars, Pixar is back in top form. In Ratatouille, they've served up a heady and hearty brew. This story of mice and men is a reworking of Cyrano de Bergerac via Kitchen Confidential.
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        372 34  -  MAYO MARTIN Exit Shell, enter ST Electronics into arts scholarships mayo@media corp.com.sg IT WAS a case of goodbye and hello. After 17 years, multinational company Shell, a long-standing supporter of local arts, is discontinuing its Shell-National Arts Council Arts (NAC) Scholarship. Another player, however, will be coming
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      552 36  -  Tan Yo-Hinn Sports School's under-14 boys make football history, now for the gold THE Singapore Sports School's football academy were celebrating yesterday, after the Boys' under--14 side made it through to the semi-fi-nals at the 10th Thailand Sports School Games 2007 here. At the
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      466 36  -  CUBBY LEONG cubby@media corp.com.sg WITH reigning world champions England automatically qualifying for November's World Netball World Championships in Auckland, Northern Ireland had to battle it out with Scotland and Wales in their European qualifiers. The Scots and the Welsh proved too strong for
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      507 37 —AFP African nation continues to dominate the steeplechase, as Isinbayeva soars OSAKA Kenyan runners held sway on the track, as Russian pole vault queen Yelena Isinbayeva won gold yesterday but failed in a world record attempt at the World Athletics Championships. Kenya's formidable men's 3,000m steeplechasers toyed with
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      561 37  -  SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ NTUC INCOME-YEO'S S-LEAGUE 2007 Woodlands v Liaoning Woodlands Stadium, 7.45pm msazali@media corp.com.sg LESS than two months ago, Liaoning Guanyuan were languishing in 11th place in the NTUC Income-Yeo's S-League 2007 standings. Only fellow rookies Super Reds FC were below them. Tonight, when
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      716 38  -  CUBBY LEONG cubby@mediacorp.com.sg HE CANNOT wait to see Fernando Torres catch fire at Airfield, and Steven Gerrard to dominate proceedings from his favourite central midfield role. What is even more exciting for the old boy is the prospect of seeing Liverpool end 17 years of
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      191 39 —AGENCIES MADRID -Sevilla's Spanish international defender Antonio Puerta (picture) died yesterday after suffering a heart attack during a Spanish league match on Saturday, the media here reported. The 22-year-old had been in "very critical" condition in the intensive care unit of Seville's Virgen del Rocio hospital where
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      165 39 THEGUARDIAN LONDON Chelsea skipper John Terry is currently the highest paid player in the English Premiership at £130,000 ($400,000) per week. If Roman Abramovich pulls off the summer transfer deal of the season and lands Ronaldinho, then Terry's contract will be dwarfed. Abramovich already met the
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      440 39 —AFP Reports suggest Anelka's a United target, after Solskjaer's retirement announcement LONDON Alex Ferguson's striker woes just won't go away. Already without Wayne Rooney until mid-October at least, as the England maestro recovers from a broken leg, Manchester United's Norwegian striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (picture) yesterday
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