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Wednesday, 16 April 2014

293 Missing As South Korea Ferry With Students On Board Sinks

293 people, mostly students who were on a high school trip, are missing after a ferry capsized & sank in dense fog off South Korea's coast last night, local media reports.

A South Korean government spokesman told reporters this morning that there had been 459 people on board the ferry, including 325 students, 15 teachers, 89 other passengers and a crew of 30.

So far 164 people have been rescued, three confirmed dead, while hundreds are still unaccounted for. One rescued passenger told The Associated Press he believed that many people had been trapped inside the ship when it sank.

The ferry had been traveling to the southern tourist island of Jeju when it sank just three hours from it's destination. The distress call was made around 8p.m last night, 11 hours into the trip.

Dozens of boats, helicopters, 30 navy and coast guard vessels and divers are around the area trying to find survivors. The ferry has a capacity of about 900 people and was built in Japan in 1994.

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Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Woman Beaten, Forced Into Sex Trafficking And Held Captive For 7 Years By Her

Former Sex-Trafficking Victim Speaks Out: A brave Massachusetts woman is coming forward to share her story after spending 7 years as a victim of sex trafficking.

According to NY Daily News: When it comes to sex trafficking, it can happen anywhere and to anyone. That’s the frightening message a Massachusetts mother and former prisoner of America’s sex trade is hoping to get out while sharing her own story of being beaten and intimidated for seven years.

Jasmine Marino-Fiandaca was 18 years old and part of a big working-class family in Revere, Mass., when she says she was targeted by a man whom she thought was her boyfriend.

“He groomed me,” the now 32-year-old recently recalled to SeaCoastOnline. “He bought me fancy clothes and shoes, spent money on me. He drove a Mercedes. I felt very special. He said, ‘You could make a ton of money if you just worked in these massage parlors.’”

The Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), has commended the efforts by the management team of Sony Music Entertainment Africa, on their partnership in trying to work with the organization in strengthening the Nigerian music industry.

The delegation led by the Managing Director, Mr. Sean Watson met with the Chairman of COSON, Chief Tony Okoroji and the society’s General Manager, Mr. Chinedu Chukwuji to discuss the landscape for the licensing of musical works and sound recordings in Nigeria.

Welcoming the delegation to the COSON office, Chief Okoroji said, ‘At COSON, our mantra is ‘Let the music pay’ and this mantra provides the energy that drives everyone at COSON to do everything we can 24 hours every day to ensure that music is profitable for all those who invest their talent, ingenuity and financial resources to create and make available the music that the world enjoys.’

Suspected members of Boko Haram sect yesterday while the country was still mourning the death of those killed at Nyanya motor park blast, abducted 103 students in a daring raid at the Girls Secondary School in Chibok; a town on the border between Borno and Adamawa States.

A soldier guiding the school was killed, while several villagers were wounded in the process, before they made away with the girls. The police commissioner in Borno State, Lawan Tanko, has confirmed the incident. Very sad. I don’t know if they intend to train these girls as well, but from previous reports, most of them are kept and used as sex slaves.

Her face is so spotless now that you won't have ever believed she went through what you see above. The rapper in a step by step explanation revealed how she won a 6-year battle against acne on her face. Learn!

Isn't it sweet that after so many months, that'd would be 6 years of battling severe Acne, i am suddenly getting great compliments on my skin? Who would have thought! Now i get the "Oh you are so fine" "Chai, God took his time to make you sha" "You are the girl i have been searching for" - Na so. Thank you gbogboyin! LOL.

It would be really a waste of an experience for me to have gone through battling Acne and bad skin, finally getting through it and not be able to share it with you - Whoever you are, dealing with your acne issues one new product off the shelf at a time. I just want you to know, i have been there, done that, Look at me now! I may be clueless as to how severe your Acne is or isn't, but as you can see from my progress photos, i battled with really severe acne. Continue after the cut.

Directed by Biyi Bamidele. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Onyeka Onwenu, Genevieve Nnaji and OC Ukeje.

Expectations are running high for this movie among fans of author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and particularly Nigerian audiences, who will have to wait another two weeks for general release, risking a field day by the country's rampant pirate DVD industry.

It brings to the big screen Adichie's Orange Prize-winning novel, and also stars the "man of the moment" Chiwetel Ejiofor, who partnered with the Oscar-winning Lupita Nyong'o to such stunning effect in the recent movie "12 Years a Slave".

A set of twins, Taiye and Kehinde Balogun, (pictured above) have been arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Lagos for robbing a factory belonging to Reckitt Benckiser, Punch reports.

Police authorities said the brothers, who were welders, were hired by a robbery gang to break into the company's warehouse in May last year. The robbery gang robbed the company of soap, noodles and chemicals worth N17million. They were arrested, after much investigation, in February 2014. How sad for their parents.

After their arrest, the 27 year old twins claimed that they were not aware that they were being hired for a robbery operation. Continue.....

Photos: Distorted Emotions by LarrieO

Releasing Its Debut Menswear Collection on the premise of a popular quote that"Out Of Chaos Comes Beauty", Distorted Emotions by LarrieO is inspired by a more practical philosophy that applies to every individual with focus on those inclined in the Arts. The Clothes give an overall presentation of The Confused State of "Being" as an Artiste".

The Designers Use of Lines, Shapes, the Celluloid Shade and Versatility allows him to achieve his vision,painting the perfect Chaotic mind of an Artiste. This Collection Mirrors the Artistes state of mind as that which is Eccentric, Artistic, Adventurous,and Fearless.

A 22-year-old woman had a close shave with death last Saturday at a hotel in FESTAC Town, Lagos. She was allegedly drugged by a South African businessman until she went into coma.

The incident occurred at Carlton Gate Hotel, 7th Avenue area of the town in the evening on that day. It was gathered that the victim, Awe Rebecca, a resident of 21, Gani Adams Street, Shoba Town, came into the hotel about 3pm to meet a guest who was already lodged in a room.

The hotel’s manager, Andrew Iyere, said after about two hours in the room, the guest came down and stood by the stair-case, inviting a porter into his room.

The Lagos State Police Command has apprehended a 20-year-old man, Ngwuta Nweke, for allegedly killing his friend in their apartment in the Sawmill area of Ebute Meta.
According to the police, the suspect strangled Emeka James during an argument over a cooking pot on March 22, 2014. But the suspect says he did not mean to kill his friend, but only strangled him in a bid to overpower him in a free fight.
He said:

“James is the owner of the apartment, I only started living with him about a month before the incident. I sell fuel pump for a living at Idumota and I did not have the money to secure an accommodation so James took me in.

Two blasts at Nyanya Motor Park on the outskirts of Abuja this morning April 14th has killed several people with many injured. The blast occurred at the crowded bus station around 6.30am today during rush hour as commuters were about to board buses and taxis to go to work in central Abuja. Two buses full of people were struck. It is believed that one of the buses, which was parked overnight at the motor park, was loaded with the bomb that went off this morning.
The explosion occurred in a section of Nyanya park allocated to luxury buses. An eyewitness said he saw at least 50 bodies being removed from the scene.. Now there are some really horrible photos from the ugly incident this morning. Find it after the cut. *viewer discretion advised*

Boko Haram Massacres JAMB Students, Kills 200 Others in Borno, Nigeria

Many students travelling at the weekend to sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, in Borno State, were reportedly killed by the dreaded Boko Haram sect, in various attacks believed to have claimed over 200 lives in the past two days.

The UTME, conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) was held nationwide yesterday. The students, according to sources, lost their lives as the sect embarked on multiple attacks that affected no fewer than four communities in the state.

Sources disclosed that the insurgents laid in ambush for the students, who were in eight vehicles and who were on their way to Biu from Maiduguri, to write the exams. It could not be ascertained if all the students in the eight vehicles were killed during the attacks.

Policemen attached to the Ogun state Police Command Saturday morning arrested two ladies and three men for possessing human heads and some pieces of human flesh.

The five suspects were apprehended in Joju area of Ota in Ado Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State in a joint operation conducted by the a team from Otta Divisional Police Headquarters led by Mr Gabriel Dibie and the Special Anti Robbery Squad from the Lagos Command.

It was gathered that the police team from Ota assisted the SARS, Lagos, who got the first hand information the activities of the suspects at the Joju area where they were arrested following a tip off from the people of the area.

A policeman, Anthony Ibemere, has told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos, Lagos State, that his wife should return the N1.2 million bride price if she insisted on divorce.

Thirty-eight-year-old Anthony was responding to a divorce suit filed by Uloma, his wife of four years, who accused him of battery.

“Uloma should return the money I gave her parents during our traditional marriage if she insists on the dissolution of our four-year-old marriage,” he told the court.

He accused his wife of hiding her marital status by telling people she was single.

THE people of Barakin Ladi local government area of Plateau State were shocked to the marrow last Friday when a 70-year-old man, Adamu Vou was alleged to have raped a 13-year-old girl.

Two weeks ago, a mobile policeman attached to the Special Task Force was caught raping an underage girl at his duty post in the same local government. The man had since been dismissed and charged to court by the Plateau State Police Command.

Sunday Tribune learnt that the 70-year-old man allegedly lured the young girl into his apartment and forcefully defiled her, but was caught in the act by the son of his landlord, Kelvin Abraham who alerted other people in the house on the illicit act going on.

According to a report by the Movement for Solidarity and Peace in Pakistan, up to 700 of these women are Christian and 300 are Hindu.

“The true scale of the problem is likely to be much greater, as a number of cases are never reported or do not progress through the law-enforcement and legal systems,” the authors claim. The Christian community in Pakistan is over two million in size, accounts for 42 per cent of Pakistan’s minority population, and is mostly resident in Punjab.

Christian girls — usually between the ages of 12 and 25 — are abducted, converted to Islam, and married to the abductor or third party. The victim’s family usually files a First Information Report for abduction or r*pe with the local police station.

Afrobeat king, Femi Kuti, has once again opened up on his crashed marriage. The musician, who is currently in Paris, France where he is due to perform at the biggest African music festival in Europe, went down memory lane and recalled how he met and married Funke, his ex-wife and mother of his first son, Made. Read the interview granted exclusively to Sunday Sun below...

Because of Made, maybe you and Funke see to talk about common things but we are shocked to see her sitting next to you at ‘Femi Segun’s burial?
She is the mother of my child and we are very friendly, we even call each other. At least, what I manage to do is not to let the breakup affect Made first of all, and our relationship. Human beings must fight. There must be misunderstanding sometimes. It is now left to us if we are matured enough to overcome these problems. To some people, breakup is so bitter that they end up hating each other. I manage to take my hatred and throw it away, and still respect her as a human being and the mother of my son, and most importantly for the love of my son who needs his mother. Continue...

Co-Pilot of Flight MH370 Tried to Make Call After Plane Vanished but 'Was Abruptly Cut Off'

The Malaysian plane has not been found 35 days after it went missing and according to new reports, the co-pilot of the missing flight tried to make a desperate call from his mobile phone after the aircraft went missing but was abruptly cut off... UK Daily Mail reports

Investigators have learned the call was made from a mobile phone which belonged to Fariq Abdul Hamid (left) as the Boeing 777 flew low near the island of Penang, on the north of Malaysia's west coast. It was understood the aircraft, with 239 people on board, was flying low enough for the nearest telecommunications tower to pick up Fariq's signal. The call ended abruptly. However, contact was definitely established with a telecommunications sub-station in Penang state. Experts have said it is possible for a mobile phone to be connected to a telecommunications tower at an altitude of 7,000 feet - which is low for a large jet like the Boeing 777 unless it was flying at high speed to maintain height. Yesterday it looked like the black box may had been located deep in the Indian Ocean.

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Clerical Error Makes State Forget To Send Man To Prison For 13 Years

According to CBS News: Most fugitives go to great lengths to avoid the police, but one convicted criminal didn’t have to try. He was allowed to stay free for more than a decade. But the long arm of the law finally did reach out.

CBS News’ Dean Reynolds met “Prisoner 1039699″ at the Southeast Correctional Center in Charleston, Mo.

Mike Anderson is nine months into a 13-year sentence for an armed robbery that took place in 1999. He should have gone to prison in 2002 after his conviction and unsuccessful appeals, but Missouri made a mistake. It forgot about him.

Anderson said he’s been told it’s all a clerical error.

Nigerian Hollywood star, Chiwetel Ejiofor, has said that he's proud to be identified as a Nigerian.

Ejiofor said this in Lagos at the premiere of a movie “Half of a Yellow Sun’’ based on a novel written by a Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Adichie.

He said that there was a wrong impression that he claimed not to be a Nigerian.

“During the period of publicising “Twelve Years a Slave”, I was asked where I was originally from. I suppose I was trying to give an honest answer about where I was born, and so, I said London, which is where I was born.

“And to me, it was a surprising reaction that people then concluded that I didn’t identify as Nigerian.

A 23-year-old pregnant woman, Jennifer Ogbonna, raised the emotion of people recently at Zone 2, Police Headquarters, Abeokuta, Ogun State, when she narrated how her sister tricked her into slavery and sold her off with her 7-month old pregnancy. She was then transported from Aba to Abeokuta after a couple who allegedly specialized in buying human beings from all parts of the country paid N100,000 to her sister. She told Vanguard

“I was brought to Abeokuta by the woman’s husband. I don’t know that they had already paid money on my head. I only got to know in Abeokuta when I overheard the woman and her husband talking about child trafficking and I felt bad. I decided not to eat any of their food. There is one lady

in that building, they call her Adeola, she would bring food for me and I would not touch it to the extent that the woman’s husband pleaded with me to eat and still I refused and said I am going back to Aba where she brought me from.

You must have read it by now that Afrocandy needs $9000 to pay her daughter's University fees..She said the marketers duped her..Now she revealed to Nigerian Tribune that her daughter got admission into an Ivy League school but didn't go because she didn't want to be alone..An Ivy League school is every student's dream and only a select few are accepted. Infact when you are accepted into one,it's news because you have to have a GPA of about 4.0 to get admission ....let alone a scholarship...

Pope Francis Asks Forgiveness For Priests Who Abused Children

Pope Francis on Friday asked for forgiveness for priests who molested children in some of his strongest words ever on the Roman Catholic Church's sexual abuse crisis.

"I feel compelled to personally take on all the evil which some priests, quite a few in number, obviously not compared to the number of all the priests, to personally ask for forgiveness for the damage they have done for having sexually abused children," he told members of a children's' rights group according to Vatican Radio.

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M.I Proposes To Female Fan

It was fun all through , as one of Nigeria’s top music concert Star trek hit state capital of Benue, Makurdi , as different music artistes thrill their fans with their different hit tracks .
But something happened, when Nigerian music star M.I was at Makurdi for the on-going Star Trek and there's this female fan of his also present there. She's a dwarf and M.I asked her to come on stage as he performs.
Then he asked her if she has a boyfriend. She said no. He asked if he can be her boyfriend, and of course, the girl knew he must be joking. She shyly didn't say anything and guess what; M.I carried her like a baby!

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Video: Woman throws shoe at Hillary Clinton in Vegas

A woman threw an object — reported to be a shoe — at Hillary Clinton during a speech in Las Vegas on Thursday, but it missed and Clinton laughed off the incident, video footage showed.

The woman launched the projectile at the former secretary of state as she was addressing a meeting of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI).

Clinton, the 66-year-old presumed frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, ducked as the object whisked past at head height to her left.

“Good thing she didn’t play softball like I did,” Clinton joked, drawing cheers from the audience at the Mandalay Bay hotel/casino, according to the video by KTNV. Video after the jump:

Oscar Pistorius has been accused of "tailoring his evidence" at his murder trial, where he denies murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Prosecutor Gerrie Nel repeatedly challenged the Paralympian's account of events while questioning him about whether the alarm in his home was activated on the night he shot Ms Steenkamp.

The confrontation led Pistorius to admit he could be giving inconsistent answers because he was tired - prompting the judge to ask if he was able to continue with his evidence.

Mr Nel also claimed the athlete was lying about an incident when he claims he was shot at while driving on a highway in 2008 or 2009, because he could not remember who he had called for help that night.

Five persons, including a pregnant woman were electrocuted on Thursday in Lagos after a PHCN high-tension cable fell, causing fire and explosion.
An eyewitness told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the incident happened around 2.00 a.m. at Oworonshoki, Lagos. The source said that fire broke out when the cable fell on a Toyota Camry car loaded with petroleum products. The victims rushed out of their homes when they heard the explosion and ran into the live cable unknowingly.

“As they rushed out, they all embraced the cable in front of their house and they were electrocuted. The corpses were taken to Yaba General Hospital by policemen from Oworonshoki and some residents of the area.“

The police have said that a child bride forced into marriage in Kano State prepared a poisoned meal that has killed her groom and three of his friends.

According to AFP, the police quoted 14-year-old Wasila Umaru as saying she used rat poison in the food because she was forced to marry a man she did not love. The couple was married last week.

The 35-year-old groom had invited a dozen friends to celebrate at his village 100 kilometres from Kano, the state capital, over the weekend.

Video: Timaya – Bum Bum Remix ft. Sean Paul

It’s here people! Just a few hours after we released the audio of Timaya’s Bum Bum Remix with Sean Paul, we happy to bring you the official video for this soon to be hit track. This one is sure to bang in the clubs just like the original did, and this one might get more international acclaim. Video after the jump:

Nigerian actress and producer, Afrocandy, looks like she is broke as she proved it by going online asking people for money to send her daughter to school.
Afrocandy, real name Judith Okpara Mazagwu shared a link yesterday asking for donations, claiming she needs the money to pay the school fees of one of her daughters who just got admission into the university.
According to Afrocandy, her movie, Destructive Instinct, which she released early this year, was not financially rewarding as her distributors in Nigeria made away with money made.
At first many thought it was a scam, but when asked she wrote on twitter that the post was true, dispelling any tale that her facebook account might have been hacked...Afrocandy needs your help!

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Oscar Pistorius: 'If Reeva Had Spoken I Would Not Have Fired'

Oscar Pistorius has told a court he fired his weapon "by accident" after hearing a noise in his bathroom and thinking he was about to be attacked by an intruder.

The court in Pretoria heard the athlete say he fired four shots in quick succession after hearing someone inside the bathroom.

Fighting back tears, the 27-year-old said: "When I heard a noise, I didn't have time to think and I fired my weapon. It was an accident.

"If Reeva had come out or she had spoken to me I wouldn't have fired. The noise coming from the bathroom made me pull the trigger."

During a second day of cross-examination, prosecutor Gerrie Nel claimed Pistorius' version of events on the night of February 13 last year "is a lie" and the barrister accused him of "adapting" events to suit his account.

PMNews is Reporting: For allegedly trying to steal a year old girl from her parents’ house early this morning, a 31-year old woman is currently being interrogated by the police at Ajuwon Station for kidnapping.

The suspect, Blessing Aransiola, was caught by the girl’s father, Mr. Seye Adanri, 34, as she attempted to escape with the girl, Oreoluwa Adanri.

Narrating the incident to P.M.NEWS this morning at the Ajuwon Police Station where the suspect was taken to, mother of the girl, Mrs. Adebisi Adanri, 29, who lives with her husband at 21, Ademola Coker Street, Alagbole, Ogun State, said she was woken up by the cry of her daughter in the hands of the suspect around 4.a.m.

Gustav Potthoff has a cross to bear: He’s a self-proclaimed atheist accused of attacking his roommate whom he thought was Jesus.

Via HuffPo reports: As such, he believes that only an atheist attorney can defend him properly.Police in Orlando, Fla. allege that Potthoff attacked his roommate, Raymond Hernandez, with a glass cup and a butter knife on Monday.

According to the police report, Hernandez said he went to the kitchen to get a drink when Potthoff suddenly threw the glass cup at him.

When the cup missed Hernandez, Potthoff allegedly attacked him with a butter knife.

Hernandez avoided injury both times. He told investigators that Potthoff told him he thought Hernandez was Jesus and wanted to kill him, according to the police report.

According to TMZ reports: Chris Brown just checked into the “Four Seasons” of jails … and good news/bad news — he gets to shower as much as he wants!

Chris arrived in Washington, D.C. after a 5-day trek from California courtesy of Con-Air.

An administrator at Northern Neck Regional Jail in Virginia confirms Chris is currently an inmate — and he’s quick to add Chris isn’t getting special treatment.

Chris has been placed in limited general population with no restrictions — meaning he gets to enjoy all the amenities of the facility, including: – Daily showers, TV, Library, Telephone, Exercise, Meals in the cafeteria.

Boko Haram members yesterday April 9th bombed a police station, a bank and a Sharia Court in Gwaram Sabuwa, Gwaram LGA of Jigawa State killing at least 4 policemen, one civilian, with quite a number of others sustaining various degrees of injury.

According to eye witnesses, the men, who were about 20 in number and came in motorcycles and other vehicles, operated from 1am to 2am unhindered. They later told the villagers that they would be back again if they continue sending their children to school, operating football viewing centres and accepting polio vaccines. Continue...

An unemployed engineering graduate of Ekiti State University, Mr. Sunday Omotayo, was on Wednesday prevented from committing suicide by the police and prison officials in Akwa Ibom. Omotayo, who caused a stir along Wellington Bassey Way, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, when he deliberately jumped out of a speeding Toyota Hiace bus, expecting to be crushed to death by other vehicles, said he was tired of life as he had been searching for a job for the past 10 years after graduation.

Some policemen, who were on patrol at the time of the incident, told a Punch correspondent that Omotayo had in the morning gone to the state prison asking the officials to either kill him or make way for him to rot in the prison. A prison officer, who craved anonymity, said they saw him – well dressed and wearing a tie – running towards them. He added that his action forced them to become alert with their guns. He said:

“The next thing he said was ‘shoot me, shoot me, I want to die, I am tired of this world. He added that otherwise, we should allow him to enter and die inside the prison.'

Controversial actress, Cossy Orjiokor, recently got into trouble when she was robbed at Orile Coker, a suburb of Lagos. It was gathered that the actress was robbed in the early hours of Monday, April 7, 2014 while returning from a night party. The robbers carted away with her personal belongings and also left with bruises. The window of her car was also damaged by the hoodlums.

Robbed on d 7th at Orile Coker. They broke my window just to get to my 2 phones and perfume. Had minor cuts to my arms, and leg .hmmm
— COSSY (@Cossydiva) April 9, 2014

The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the draft of the National Tobacco Control Bill 2004 that would be sent to the National Assembly as an Executive Bill for promulgation into law.

The bill recommends a minimum of six months imprisonment or N50,000 or both for individuals that smoke outside public places designated as smoking areas.

The Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, and the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan.

Chukwu said the penalties for corporate offenders varied from N1m to N5m and one year to two years imprisonment for the chief executives of such firms.

The minister added that all forms of advertisements of tobacco were totally banned under the proposed law.

The State Criminal Investigation Department, Lagos State Police Command, has arrested a 27-year-old man, Lekan Adelaja, for allegedly cutting off the penis of his one-year-old nephew, Basheeru Akintoye.

The police also arrested one Obinwanne Onukwo who was accused of sending Adelaja to carry out the dastardly act.

PUNCH Metro had reported last week that Basheeru’s penis was cut off when his 20-year-old mother, Abidemi, went to a nearby house to have sex with one Fatai who was a friend to her husband.

It was reported that the police subsequently arrested Fatai for the alleged crime, while Abidemi was arrested for her negligence.

The baby was said to have been rushed to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba.

Our correspondent, however, learnt that the police arrested the prime suspect and also recovered the penis.

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