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Lian Cheong/Sara Grosse Channel NewsAsia 4 Apr 11;
SINGAPORE: Floods in southern Thailand have made it more expensive for businesses to import fish and vegetables into Singapore.
Vegetable importers said that there has been a delay in their supply due to heavy rains which affect transportation.
This is why, for every 15kg of vegetables brought in, the price has increased by S$2.
Transport woes have also affected the supply of popular fish and fish-based products.
Some importers said that the prices of such fish have doubled.
Lee Boon Cheow, President of the Singapore Fish Merchant's General Association, said: "From S$3-4 a kilo of our wholesale up to S$6-7. So we expect when the weather is better or the flood is over, the price will go back as normal."
-CNA/ac
Vegetable and fruit supply to Singapore affected
Prices up in wet markets but supermarkets ensure supply at old prices
Ng Kai Ling Straits Times 7 Apr 11;
THE floods in the south of Thailand have affected the supply of vegetables and fruit to Singapore, causing prices to rise about 20 per cent in wet markets and delaying delivery.
Importers told The Straits Times that the prices of young corn and Chinese parsley from Thailand have risen and orders of fruit have not arrived on schedule.
'It's mango season and we were supposed to have a batch coming in from Thailand on Tuesday but it did not arrive,' said a spokesman for fruit importer and distributor Heng Teck Huat Fruits.
At wet markets, Chinese parsley for example is going for up to $8 per kg. It used to cost between $6 and $7.
Vegetable importers at Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre said that they import vegetables such as young corn, yam, chives and Chinese parsley mostly from Thailand.
Leafy greens such as cai xin and kai lan usually come from Malaysia.
Heavy rain hit southern Thailand last month, which led to severe flooding and mudslides in Nakhon Si Thammarat and Krabi provinces.
So far, more than 50 people have died and close to two million people have been affected.
Importers said that whenever there is a flood in a country that supplies Singapore, prices go up. To ensure a steady supply, they look to other countries like Malaysia and China to make up for the shortfall.
The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) said Singapore imports vegetables from 39 countries, with the largest suppliers being Malaysia, China and India. The three account for 86 per cent of vegetables here.
Last year, vegetable imports from Thailand added up to 3 per cent or 13,300 tonnes.
Importers such as Mr Rat Ang said that customers prefer produce such as Chinese parsley and mangoes from Thailand because they taste better than those from China or Malaysia.
Over at the supermarkets, supply is being kept stable as they source from different countries. They have not passed on any price increase to customers.
Cold Storage, which sells mangoes and durians from Thailand, also stocks the same fruits from India and Malaysia respectively.
'Supply of these fruits has been affected by the flood but the impact is minimal for Cold Storage as these account for less than 5 per cent of our range,' said a spokesman for the 50-outlet chain. He added that the stores still have existing stocks of these Thai fruits.
NTUC FairPrice also assured consumers that they can still get their favourite greens at the same price.
Mrs Mui-Kok Kah Wei, the supermarket chain's director of purchasing, merchandising and international trading, said it is anticipating a smaller supply of mini- cucumbers from Thailand and even though it imports corn from the country, consumers can still buy those from the northern part of Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.
'We assure our customers that in the event that our suppliers choose to increase their prices, we will check to ensure that the increase is reasonable,' said Mrs Mui-Kok.
Meanwhile, consumers are not too worried.
Mr Norman Chew, 62, who shops for his family weekly at supermarkets and wet markets, said: 'The prices of vegetables like cai xin and cabbage, which we eat more often, are not affected, so it's okay.'
Garden strips flourish, even 'unofficial' ones
Grace Chua Straits Times 5 Apr 11;
IN THIS fast-paced, highly urbanised island, the call to cordon off a patch of land and coax things to grow can still be heard.
Sometimes, these gardens flourish without having been given official clearance to do so: They sit on state land, or on land belonging to Malaysia's Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) railway, the lease on which will revert to the Singapore Government from July 1.
On a sleepy weekday afternoon near Zhenghua Park in Bukit Panjang, for example, a handful of middle-aged and older men potter around in their vegetable patch, which sits on state land beneath an expressway. Traffic thunders overhead.
Sometimes, they just sit in the garden - among sweet potato leaves, banana trees, lady's fingers, herbs and flowers - for a good old yarn.
One of the gardeners, retiree Tan Boon Kwong, 71, said he is not interested in the activities organised for senior citizens in his estate. He prefers this patch of green, where he has been tending to plants for the last two to three years 'just for fun'.
He may have to give it up, as his garden patch is in an area earmarked for the development of sports and recreation facilities.
A similar story can be heard at a garden patch near the KTM railway tracks, across from the Ulu Pandan Canal. This one has been around for two decades.
Another retiree who gave his name only as Jeloni, 72, was weeding his tennis court-sized garden when The Straits Times visited.
He said he is the sort who cannot just sit around doing nothing, adding: 'I want morning exercise. Gardening is even better - I can have bananas or fruit. On Sundays, all my friends come.'
He is hankering for the old days when he used to live in a village off Sixth Avenue, but he and his fellow farmers are ever aware that the fate of their respective plots are up in the air.
The KTM land will soon go back to the Government, and the Ulu Pandan Canal near his garden is to be upgraded too, under national water agency PUB's Active, Beautiful, Clean Waters programme to develop the waterways.
The Singapore Land Authority (SLA), which oversees the use of state land, said members of the public who wish to cultivate state land have to seek its approval - and the answer may not necessarily be 'no, you cannot'.
Said an SLA spokesman via an e-mail message: 'The SLA has worked with a number of Citizens Consultative Committees (CCCs) on the use of state land that is not required for immediate development for community gardening/cultivation activities. The CCCs are issued temporary occupation licences for these activities, which promote community bonding.'
This is what has been allowed in a narrow garden strip under the tracks between the Paya Lebar and Eunos MRT stations, where residents from the housing blocks on Eunos Road 5 tend to a garden with the Housing Board's blessings.
The Housing Board owns the land beneath MRT tracks.
Today, more than 40 residents tend to plots along the kilometre-long, 4m-wide strip, where they plant lady's fingers, brinjals, bananas and other plants, and even check the site for mosquito breeding.
Their permit is renewed every year, with their residents' committee (RC) paying the rent of between $400 and $500.
Academics unequivocally agree that community gardening - whether 'official' or not - creates a sense of community and identity.
In 2005, the National Parks Board started its Community in Bloom gardening programme with town councils and RCs. Four hundred such gardens are blooming today.
National University of Singapore (NUS) geographer Harvey Neo pointed out, however, that with the Community in Bloom programme being coordinated through the town councils and RCs, people may get the impression that it is a politicised programme and stay away from it.
NUS sociologist Ho Kong Chong agreed, saying that an official hand in things is sometimes neither necessary nor desirable.
The bigger danger, he added, is 'if people just keep within the four walls of their home and not worry about common space outside'.
Dylan Loh Channel NewsAsia 4 Apr 11;
SINGAPORE: Residents in Punggol Place have some unwelcome visitors, with creepy-crawlies worming their way into several common places.
A caller to the MediaCorp hotline said the millipedes started appearing last December and that he has raised the issue with the area's Town Council which has promised to take action.
Apparently, these creatures are "sharing the public space" because soil in the area has not been treated with certain chemicals.
-CNA/ac
Malaysian company looks south to plug temporary shortfall
Ronnie Lim Business Times 5 Apr 11;
(SINGAPORE) Malaysia's largest electricity group, Tenaga Nasional, has approached Singapore to buy some electricity from power stations here. This is to help Tenaga tide over some capacity shortages 'for a few months' due to problems with its natural gas feedstock supplies, BT has learnt.
While the details are sketchy at this point, the Malaysian company is scheduled to meet Singapore generation companies this week to flesh out its proposal.
Operationally, some 200 megawatts of electricity can be transmitted through two 230 kV submarine cables linking Malaysia's national power grid with Singapore's transmission network at Senoko. And there have been previous instances of cross-country electricity supplies during emergency outages.
BT understands that the Singapore gencos were appraised of the Malaysian request at a meeting with the Energy Market Authority last week. Tenaga is said to require some 2O0 MW of electricity supplies 'as soon as possible'.
'Tenaga is short apparently because of gas feedstock issues for its plants, with this arising from maintenance of offshore gas production platforms there. They apparently need electricity supplies from Singapore for a few months,' sources said.
An earlier BT report in January said that Malaysia's gas supplies are heavily subsidised and running down in the peninsula because of robust demand.
Tenaga alone has installed capacity of 11,941 MW - more than the combined 10,000 MW of Singapore gencos including the big three, French-Japanese owned Senoko Energy (3,300 MW), YTL of Malaysia's PowerSeraya (3,100 MW) and China Huaneng-owned Tuas Power (2,670 MW).
But the Malaysian utilities giant - which faces rising prices for its fuel oil and gas, as well as coal (the last because of the recent Queensland floods) - has been pressing the Malaysian government for a fuel cost pass-through mechanism, but the latter reportedly appears reluctant to tackle electricity tariff increases.
It is not clear at this time whether the Malaysian request for the 200 MW of Singapore power is for peak or off-peak periods, or for a constant period, the sources add. It also boils down to price issues.
'While the 200MW appears little, in relation to total Singapore generation capacity of some 10,000 MW, it, in fact, represents the capacity of one steam plant here,' one industry source said.
While some 80 per cent of Singapore's electricity is generated from gas-fired units, with steam plants accounting for the remainder, 'this should be seen in the context of steam plant use going up to as high as 30 per cent during peak demand periods', the source added.
Tenaga's request for Singapore electricity will not only require an agreement between the Malaysian company and the supplying Singapore genco, but also that of other stakeholders such as SP PowerGrid, which manages Singapore's electricity and gas transmission and distribution networks, and regulator EMA.
While electricity demand in Singapore has remained 'relatively flat' in the first quarter, this is expected to pick up as 'we move into the hotter months', one industry official said.
Blanketed by haze, Pinang Kampai Airport closed temporarily
Antara 4 Apr 11;
Dumai, Riau (ANTARA News) - Haze from forest burning is blanketing Dumai, Riau Province, where visibility dropped to 500 meters and forced the temporary closure of Pinang Kampai Airport.
The weather on Pinang Kampai Airport became so bad and wind speed was less than five knots, the Operational Chief of Pinang Kampai Airport, Sayed Yoesman Syahputra said here Monday.
"This condition has worsened the weathe. Besides the haze, cloud formation is accumulating and disrupted normal flights," Sayed said.
Pelita had to delay its flight involving employees of Chevron Pasific Indonesia Company, Sayed said.
"The airplane, chartered by Chevron, is now at Sultan Syarif Kasim II Airport, Pekanbaru," Sayed said, adding that the flight, which was scheduled to depart at 8.30 am of local time had been delayed due to low visibility.
According to Sayed, normal condition would be restored if the wind speed reached more than 10 knots and break the clouds which had been accumulating in above the airport.
"However, we could not predict when the weather in Dumai would back to normal," Sayed said.
Usually, around 10.00 -11.00 a.m. the haze would diminish and visibility would reach 2,000 meters, Sayed said.
"If the clouds are reduced and visibility is above 2,000 meters, flights can be restored," Sayed said.
(Uu.KR-AES/H-NG/O001)
Editor: Priyambodo RH
Yahoo News 4 Apr 11;
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – Five Malaysian soldiers on anti-poaching duty face criminal charges after Facebook pictures appeared of them posing with a dead, endangered Great Pied Hornbill bird.
Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the group was part of a force protecting the Royal Belum-Temengor rainforest in the northern state of Perak, when they came across the bird which had been shot by a hunter.
"The bird fell to the ground and upon seeing the dying bird, they slaughtered it," he told state media late Sunday.
He said the five, including an officer, had been suspended and would be charged under the country's wildlife laws.
He did not elaborate but an officer with the Department of Wildlife and National Parks told AFP Monday: "An investigation is still ongoing."
Ahmad Zahid said that although the soldiers were not responsible for shooting the bird, they should have tried to save it rather than killing and posing with it.
The pictures were uploaded onto one of the soldiers' Facebook profile pages and were distributing widely, causing public outrage and the defence ministry to investigate, according to Perak state government news portal Perak News.
It said the soldiers involved were assigned to anti-poaching and anti-smuggling duties in the protected forest, which lies in the border area between Thailand and Malaysia and is home to more than 14 endangered species.
"Isn't it suspicious that a hunter killed the bird when the area is supposed to be protected?" Perak wildlife activist Nabilla Ravina told AFP.
"Here we are thinking that Malaysian wildlife which are on the brink of extinction are very safe and happy in Belum under military protection, but incidents like this make one wonder who the real poachers are," she said.
The Great Pied Hornbill is found in the rainforests of India, Malaysia and Indonesia. The bird's impressive size and plumage have made it an important part of tribal culture and rituals.
Hornbill numbers have declined perilously owing to habitat loss and poaching. Their trade or sale is illegal under the UN's Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
Relevant offences under Malaysia's Wildlife Conservation Act carry a maximum fine of 50,000 ringgit ($16,500) and/or imprisonment of up to two years.
Antara 4 Apr 11;
Pontianak, April 4 (ANTARA) - Pontianak`s Quarantine Office handed back five protected red-crested cockatoos (Lorrius domicellus) to the local Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA) on Monday for safekeeping after the undocumented birds were about to be smuggled to East Java from West Kalimantan, according to the BKSDA office.
"The birds have been returned to the BKSDA because they are a protected species," said Azmal A.Z., head of Pontianak BKSDA.
Azmal added that one of the five birds, however, had been found dead because the cage they were put together was too small to be able to accommodate them healthily before they were handed over to the BKSDA office.
Azmal explained that the red-crested cockatoo is one of protected members of fauna based on the government regulation number 7 year 1999 on the preservation of flora and fauna species. Based on this regulation, this species of birds cannot be for sale or buy nor for being made a pet animal.
In addition, the confiscation of the birds based on local government regulation on the temporary banning of fowl transfers due to measure on containing avian flu. The violation of the regulations carries a penalty of three years imprisonment and a fine of 150 million rupiahs.
In related action on the matter, Niken Wury, Forest Ecosystem Control Coordination, a sub-division under the West Kalimantan BKSDA, said that she will move forward with legal proceeding against the violator of the regulation, Mrs. Sartinah of Bondowoso, East Java, who possessed the birds.
Mrs. Sartinah may face a jail sentence of up to maximum fife years for breaching the regulation based on the Law No. 5 Year 1990 on the conservation of nature resource and the ecosystem.
The birds will be turned in to the Sinka Zoo in Singkawang city as this zoo has been designated as a conservation institution.
"After undergoing a rehabilitation program at Sinka Zoo, the birds will be released back to their habitat," said Wury.(*)
Editor: Aditia Maruli
Thanhnien News 4 Apr 11;
A group of scientists have discovered that Lam Dong Province in the Central Highlands is the habitat of an endangered turtle species, Saigon Tiep Thi reported Monday.
Dr. Bryan Stuart from the US-based North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and scientists from Ho Chi Minh City University of Sciences, found eight southern Vietnamese box turtles (Cuora picturata) in the forests of Langbian plateau during a study conducted from July 2010 to January this year.
Scientists have never spotted the turtle in the wild before.
A representative of the group said the discovery was significant to preserve the endangered animal. The species was first recorded in 1998 during an investigation into wildlife trades in Ho Chi Minh City.
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the Cuora picturata is a “critically endangered” animal.
In other news, Quang Ngai Museum in the central province of the same name Saturday said archeologists have found a group of graves dating back more than 2,000 years.
The graves, belonging to one of the most prominent ancient Vietnamese cultures – Sa Huynh (1,000 BC-200 AD), were unearthed about five kilometers from an excavation site in Tay Tra District’s Tang valley.
They were located about one meter underground and between two-five meters from the Tang River’s banks.
According to the museum, scientists started excavating the Tang valley two months ago and so far have discovered many relics like pottery, jewelry, tools, and nearly 20 graves. The graves included jar and pot ones – a burial tradition in the Southeast Asia.
The relics are between 2,000-4,000 years old.
Turtle Known Only From Asian Markets Finally Found in Wild
Brandon Keim Wired Science 7 Apr 11;
In the early 1990s, biologists in southeast Asia discovered a species of turtle unknown to science. But there was a catch: They didn’t know where it came from. Cuora picturata, as the new turtle was formally named, was found only in markets where it was sold for food.
Nearly two decades later, a clever piece of biological sleuthing has found the native home of C. picturata. The discovery offers hope not just to C. picturata, but to other turtle species known only from markets.
“It’s frustrating. You see this animal being exploited, and likely facing extinction,” said Bryan Stuart, a biologist at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, whose search for C. picturata’s home was described April 1 in Biological Sciences. “But there’s little that conservation can do, because we’re missing the basic information necessary for conservation: Where does this species occur in the wild?”
Stuart and other researchers weren’t starting from scratch, however. From the location of markets where C. picturata was sold, they figured the turtles were captured in southern Vietnam or across the border in Cambodia. The turtle also resembled two other known box turtle species, Cuora galbinifrons and Cuora bourretti. Genetic comparisons proved their relation.
Those other turtles live in wet forests with closed canopies. The place best fitting that description in southern Vietnam was the Langbian plateau, at the southern tip of the Truong Son mountains — and C. bourreti lived in the central part of the mountains, with C. galbinifrons to the north.
The puzzle pieces were coming together, and there was one more clue. Where C. galbinifrons lived, so did Hylobates leucogenys, a species of gibbon, and Pygathrix nemaeus, a species of douc langur. Likewise, where C. bourretti lived, so did a Hylobates species closely related to the northern gibbons, and a Pygathrix species closely related to the northern doucs. Such so-called “co-occurences” result from historic events — a new river, a climate change — that split ancestral populations into separate groups. The Langbian plateau also had its own unique gibbon and douc langur; if the pattern held, C. picturata should be its box turtle.
But though Stuart could guess where C. picturata might be, he still needed help finding it. Enter Tri Ly, a biologist at the University of Science in Ho Chi Minh City, who had just finished his undergraduate studies and approached Stuart in search of a project.
Ly traveled to the Langbian plateau, where he interviewed villagers and met with hunters. In July of 2010, the first expedition set off. Hunting dogs were used to find turtles in the dense jungle foliage, but their barks were often false alarms: the group found king cobras, mouse deer, squirrels, monkeys — but no turtles.
Finally, on July 5, 2010, hiding from the dogs under a pile of dry leaves at the base of a rattan bush on the slope of a hill, was a single female C. picturata, seen for the first time in the wild. “I was totally amazed and elated,” said Tri Ly.
Three separate expeditions recovered a total of eight turtles, firmly establishing the Langbian plateau as their home. Unfortunately, the turtles’ habitat is being lost to agriculture and coffee plantations, but the findings are an essential first step toward conservation.
Beyond knowing what places need protection, conservationists now know where turtles bred in captivity can be released. Without this knowledge, C. picturata could end up in the conservation equivalent of life support, bred in captivity in perpetuity.
Stuart and Ly hope their efforts will inspire other biologists in southeast Asia, which is currently experiencing what’s known as the “Asian turtle crisis“: Millions of turtles are sent each year to China, threatening many species with extinction. At least three other box turtle species — C. zhoui, C. mccordi and C. yunnanensis — are known only from markets.
“It is hoped that focused field efforts such as ours will soon identify the mysterious origins of these other rare species that are known to scientists only by turtles bearing price tags,” wrote Stuart and Ly.
The Star 5 Apr 11;
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah is set to become a player in an exciting people led initiative to unite three of the most bio-diverse eco-systems on the planet - The Coral Triangle, Amazon Basin and the Congo Basin.
The Borneo-Pacific Rim Hub based in Tanjung Aru will become a meeting point for the exchange of ideas on conservation, promotion of indigenous crafts and food, and a myriad of activities including artwork and music.
A sneak peak of the venture was unveiled on Friday evening at the ‘Power to the People Party’, held at the famed Tanjung Aru beach to celebrate Sabah’s bold move to opt for cleaner sources of energy by saying no to a coal-fired power plant.
The hub will also focus on promoting clean energy production, rain-water collection and green architecture, apart from becoming a platform for performances and healthy living through exercise and the importance of organic food.
Land Empowerment Animals People (LEAP) executive director Cynthia Ong said the hub would link three bio-diverse ecosystems at the equator.
“This will become an epicentre for collaboration by engaging with the public, government, industry and politics.
“The hub will connect the different groups at local, regional and global levels. It is an inclusive and transparent initiative,” Ong said.
LEAP and its numerous partners initiated the formation of the hub, having seen how individuals and citizens’ movements were keen to engage with one another to find and offer solutions on issues, especially onenergy production and conservation.
Ong also said Green SURF (Sabah Unite to Re-Power the Future), of which LEAP is a founding member, is taking concrete steps to link different partners keen on pursuing renewable and greener energyoptions.
“We are even looking at the possibility of working with communities who want efficient and sustainable energy.
“The potential for this ishuge,” she said.
Other founding members of Green SURF are Partners of CommunityOrganisations (Pacos), WWF-Malaysia, Sabah Environ-ment Protection Association (Sepa) and the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) Sabah.
The People Party event offered the public a better understanding of on-going work by citizen movements and non-governmental organisations to make Sabah a better place to live in, and the importance ofsustainable living.
The event which kicked off at 5.30pm, featured a renewable energydisplay, traditional food and a chance for the public to donate to Mercy Malaysia Japan Earthquake /Tsunami Relief Fund.
Over 20 organisations and groups took part in the programme, which drew hundreds from all segments of society.
For details on the Borneo-Pacific Rim Hub, call 012-828 1705 (Ong).
Chuah Bee Kim New Straits Times 4 Apr 11;
THE beautiful view of the Leka Beach, near Parit Jawa, Muar, has been marred by erosion caused by strong waves.
Previously, visitors had nothing but praise for the fresh air and breathtaking view of the Straits of Malacca from there.
Now they are greeted by the sorry sight of coastal erosion.
Besides visitors expressing their disappointment, the local fishermen who use the jetty to unload their haul said that they, too, were affected by the erosion.
Raja Ismail Raja Tabar, 55, a resident said the beach is now muddy, stretching almost five kilometres to the sea.
"Leka Beach, which stretches from Parit Jamil to Parit Pecah and Seri Menanti, attracted many picnickers and beach-goers before this.
"The visitors would spend their whole day there and leave only after sunset.
"But that is now a thing of the past as the beach is in a deplorable state," he said.
Raja Ismail, who is also the Muar Joran Emas Fishing Association chairman, said only Parit Penyengat Laut and part of the Seri Menanti Beach is still covered with sand.
Fisherman Roslan Ibrahim, 45, said the Leka Beach, however, still attracts various species of migratory birds which flock there in search of food. He said the presence of the birds lured avid birdwatchers to the beach.
Because of this, the local council had spent RM300,000 to build a bird-watching tower at the beach.
Roslan said a recreation area was also built recently for visitors.
Bernama 4 Apr 11;
KUALA TERENGGANU, April 4 (Bernama) -- The use of prawn trawlers has been identified as one of the main causes of turtle extinction not only in Malaysia but in other countries around the world.
This has forced shrimp importing countries, such as the United States, to issue regulations requiring prawn exporting countries to ensure fishermen install the turtle excluder (TED) device, which releases turtles trapped in trawlers, Fisheries Department director-general Datuk Ahamad Sabki Mahmood said.
"Without the device, prawns that are caught cannot be exported into the United States.
"The regulation referred to is the U.S Shrimp Import Embargo which was enforced in 1996," he told reporters after launching the Turtle and Turtle Excluder Device Workshop here Monday.
His speech text was delivered by Fisheries Department Resource Management and Licensing Division director Gulamsarwar Jan Mohammad.
Ahamad Sabki said the TEDs, costing RM400 a unit, had already been in use in Sabah.
He hoped that the fishing community in the peninsula can use it to help prevent turtle extinction.
He said other threats to turtles include unplanned development activities at turtle landing areas, pollution, erosion, beach embankment, turtle egg trading and destructive fishing methods.
Turtle conservation and management efforts in Malaysia has been carried out since 1960, especially in states which have turtle landings such as Terengganu, Pahang, Johor, Melaka, Perak and Penang, he said.
He added that work carried out by the Fisheries Department from 2000 to 2010 resulted in a total of three million turtle eggs hatched and 1.9 million baby turtles released into its natural habitat.
-- BERNAMA
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