AAP Internet Bulletin 1845 Tuesday Dec 22, 1998

AAP General News (Australia)
12-22-1998
AAP Internet Bulletin 1845 Tuesday Dec 22, 1998





[I][IRAQ][MID]

UN relief staff return to Baghdad

About 100 United Nations relief staff set out by road from Jordan today to return to Iraq
and resume work disrupted by last week's US-led air strikes, witnesses said.

Reuters reported that three buses and seven cars carrying the UN staff left an Amman hotel
at the start of the 900 km drive to the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

The UN staff had left Baghdad for Jordan last Friday during the US and British air strikes
after their UN base was rocked for two consecutive nights by nearby attacks.

The chief UN humanitarian officer in Iraq, Hans von Sponeck, said yesterday he hoped his
staff could be working effectively again within days.

But he said UN weapons inspectors, whose critical report last week triggered the US and
British attacks, were unlikely to be allowed back into Iraq without changes among key members.

Iraqi officials earlier said that US-British airstrikes killed 62 soldiers, demolished key
missile factories and severed phone lines, but insist that the attacks have failed to
seriously harm the military or government.

Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz said yesterday that civilian casualties were "much, much
higher" than the military toll but refused to give details. Iraq earlier said that 42 people
were killed in the four-night barrage, which was suspended early on Sunday.

The attacks targeted key military bases, government buildings, communication centres and
factories that could be used to manufacture weapons of mass destruction. The strikes were
launched after Iraq refused to allow UN weapons inspectors into certain sites.

In Washington, US Marine Corps General Anthony Zinni said the strikes hit 85 percent of
their targets, 74 percent of them successfully. He said a damage assessment from the series of
cruise missile and bombing attacks is continuing and would probably take a few more days.

Zinni, commander of Central Command which oversees US military operations in the Middle
East, said the United States will maintain a presence in the Persian Gulf to protect its
interests.





[A][TAX LEES][FED]

Democrats continue GST food fight

Treasurer Peter Costelloa today ruled out exempting food from the GST as the Australian
Democrats seized on a new survey showing overwhelming opposition to a tax on food to harden
their position ahead of next year's Senate vote.

The Melbourne Institute survey found support for a GST had recovered to around 45 per cent,
close to the level of support the tax received when the government's tax package was released
in August.

However opposition to a tax on food remains fairly solid at around 66 per cent.

Democrats Leader Meg Lees said the survey showed the government's arguments that food had
to be taxed had failed to convince voters and toughened her resolve to demand food be exempted
from the tax.

"Very much so, and it certainly isn't surprising as Treasury itself well knows, we can take
the GST off food and get all the other benefits that a GST will give to us, and hopefully this
will get the government thinking again," Senator Lees told Radio National.

"Australians don't need lengthy surveys to tell them that those hardest hit by a tax on
food are going to be those at the very bottom."

A spokesman for Opposition Leader Kim Beazley said the survey made little difference to
Labor's stand on the tax.

"We don't support a GST on food, we don't support a GST on anything," the spokesman told
AAP.

"We will continue to oppose it lock, stock and barrel."

However Treasurer Peter Costello today again made clear that while the government was
prepared to make some compromises to get the GST through the Senate, exempting food was not an
option.





[T][CRICKET ENGLAND][CRIK]

Blewett joins elite as Aust XI wins

Greg Blewett today joined two elite groups of Australian cricketers as he led an Australian
XI to a crushing win over an English side that its manager Graham Gooch blasted as "totally
abject".

Blewett and Corey Richards humiliated the English bowlers as they turned a big run chase of
almost five an over into a slaughter.

Blewett hit 213 and Richards 138 as Australia rocketed to 376 to win by nine wickets with
22.4 overs to spare.

The win was meaningless in one sense as it required a series of declarations on a benign
Bellerive Oval wicket in Hobart.

In all 1,337 runs were scored while only 14 wickets fell.

But the ease with which the Australians reached their targets of a minimum of 78 overs, a
rate of almost 4.9 an over, underlined both the rich depth of Australian batting and the
ineffectiveness of the English bowlers.

That is what angered Gooch who had made it clear before the match that good bowling
performances could win places in the team for the fourth Test starting in Melbourne on Boxing
Day.

While he thought England's morning declaration at 3-199 was generous he was upset by the
failure to protect the total.

"It was not the loss, but the manner of the loss," he said,

"We bowled both sides of the wicket, it was very disappointing."

When Blewett reached 38 he became the sixth Australian to score more than 1,000 first class
runs before the new year. When he had completed his innings he had amassed 1,175 runs at a
staggering 146.88 average for the most runs ever scored by an Australian before Christmas.

The other Australians to have reached the milestone are Bill Ponsford, Bob Simpson (twice),
Graham Yallop, David Hookes and Allan Border.

When he reached his century he became the sixth Australian to score first class centuries
in four successive innings.

The others are Don Bradman (three times), Charlie McCartney, David Hookes, Allan Border and
Michael Bevan.





[A][OLY PRIMO][OLY]

Auditor criticises Olympic site lease

A private company was paid $37.9 million of taxpayers' money to relocate from the Olympics
site at Homebush Bay, according to the New South Wales Auditor-General's annual report
released today.

The payout came after Ian Armstrong, then agriculture minister and now opposition Olympics
spokesman, extended the company's lease against legal advice in 1989.

Auditor-General Tony Harris said Mr Armstrong had approved the extension by 21 years of a
10-year lease for P&S Smallgoods, carriers of the Primo brand. The lease had originally been
due to expire in September 1995.

He said Homebush Bay had been recommended to the government as the site for the mooted bid
for the 1996 Olympic Games in June 1989, the month before Mr Armstrong approved the lease
extension on July 28. Sydney won the right to host the 2000 Games in 1993.

Mr Harris quoted legal advice from the Crown Solicitor which said:

"Any substantial extension of a lease at Homebush Bay would have significant financial
implications and create further unnecessary obstacles to the implementation of government's
preferred development strategy."

But Mr Armstrong said he had no choice but to extend the lease because advice from the
Department of Agriculture said the government could be sued if it did not formalise an
agreement entered into by the former Labor government.

This conflicts with legal advice from the Crown Solicitor, quoted by Mr Harris, which said
Mr Armstrong was not obliged to formally approve the lease extension.

The $37.9 million payout included $23.9 million for the construction and fit out of a new
"state of the art" food processing facility, replacing a building that had not complied with
the building code and was in poor condition.

The government also paid $6.9 million for the 3.9 freehold hectares for Primo's new site on
the Hume Highway at Chullora, in Sydney's western suburbs this year.





[F][DOLLAR]

Record low commodity prices hit $A

Commodity prices at 21-year lows weighed heavily on the Australian dollar today, pushing it
to its lowest level for two weeks.

The local currency closed just off its low for the day at 61.47 US cents from 62.01 late
yesterday.

"The commodities situation is still looking quite bleak," Colonial State Bank treasury
manager Nick Volanakis said.

"That certainly hasn't helped the Aussie."

The Commodity Research Bureau Index closed down 2.29 points at 188.28 overnight.

The CRB index is an index of 21 US futures markets. It is not weighted to Australia's
exports and does not include coal, iron ore and wool but traders follow it as an indicator for
the commodity price-sensitive Australian dollar.

Today the Australian dollar traded between 61.40 US cents and 61.71.

Mr Volanakis said large option plays on the Australian dollar this afternoon had also
pushed it down.

"That also caused the Aussie to go down," he said.

Asset buying and sales were behind the option plays.

Meanwhile, the Australian dollar was buying 71.95 Japanese yen from 71.20 and 1.0296 German
marks from 1.0282.

Another factor working against the Australian dollar was a run up in the US dollar against
the Japanese yen.

The US dollar was trading at 117.06 Japanese yen from 114.83 yesterday and 1.6747 German
marks from 1.6588.

On the Reserve Bank's Trade Weighted Index the Australian dollar closed at 53.3 points from
yesterday's close of 53.4.





[F][STOCKS]

Share market closes firmer

The Australian sharemarket took its lead from Wall St today to close firmer, with Christmas
window dressing by fund managers the driving force behind the surge in key industrial stocks,
brokers said.

The benchmark all ordinaries index stacked on 21.8 points to close at 2759.8, coming off an
intra-day high of 2772.3.

"We're obviously strong on the back of what happened on Wall St overnight," Macquarie
Nevitts client adviser Steve Mayne said.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average index in New York closed up 85.22 points at 8,988.85 after
reaching a high of 9,079.22.

On Australian equities markets, the all resources index added 1.7 points to 962.5, while
the all industrials index climbed 44.8 points to 4957.4.

Mr Mayne said resources stocks had a mostly subdued day on the back of weaker commodity
prices overnight.

Most of the buying activity was contained within top 50 industrial stocks such as Lend
Lease, Brambles, News Corp and AMP, he said.

"There was a bit of Christmas window dressing from fund managers," he said, who were trying
trying to make their books look better for the end of the year.

The bank index added 18.3 points to 6327.5, with ANZ the only major player to lose ground,
shedding seven to $10.68.

National Australia Bank rose 11 to $24.71, Commonwealth Bank rallied 9.1 to $22.291 and
Westpac firmed two to $10.47.

AMP halted its recent downward slide, bouncing 59.5 cents higher to $19.955 as investors
warmed to its $3.6 billion acquisition of UK life mutual National Provident Institution.

Takeover target GIO eased two to $5.36, as did Colonial falling to $5.47, while National
Mutual retreated seven to $2.88.

Among the telcos, AAPT added 11 to $3.88, Telstra firmed four to $7.47 and Cable & Wireless
Optus strengthened three to $3.09.

C&W Optus topped the turnover table with 51.47 million shares traded for $158.6 million.

One.Tel Ltd tumbled 85 to $5.10, ending a recent bull run sparked by rumours that a foreign
telecommunications company may be looking to take a stake in the newly-listed mobile phone
reseller.

News Corp surged 39 to $10.45, its preferred scrip stacked on 30.5 to $9.42, while Kerry
Packer's Publishing and Broadcasting rallied 14 to $6.93.

Elsewhere among the industrials, Lend Lease soared 48 cents or 2.18 per cent to $22.48 and
Brambles jumped $1.043 or 2.71 per cent to $39.50.

ASX shot up 50 to $8.25, announcing today that it had started merger talks with the Sydney
Futures Exchange and may explore closer ties with the New York exchange NASDAQ.

In the resource sector, Rio Tinto defied the downward trend among the diversified stocks,
surging 59.4 to $19.42.

BHP offloaded 6.9 to $12.031, WMC tumbled 12 to $4.78 and MIM eased one to 71 cents.

Petsec Energy added seven to 50 cents after announcing it would raise $US68.5 million ($110
million) with the cash sale of 50 per cent of certain US oil and gas assets in the Gulf of
Mexico.

The gold index eased 2.9 points to 1094.1.

Newcrest jumped 10 cents or 4.59 per cent to $2.28, Goldfields gained 11 to $1.35, Normandy
eased one to $1.51 and Lihir shed six to $1.75.

The spot price of gold bullion in Sydney this afternoon was $US289.65 an ounce, compared to
a close of $US289.90 yesterday.

Preliminary national turnover was 387.52 million stocks changing hands for $1.09 billion,
with rising stocks outnumbering falling stocks 587 to 460 and 405 stocks remaining steady.

On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract gained seven points
to 2761.0 - representing a 1.2 point premium on the cash market - with 20263 lots traded.





[A][GAS][VIC]

Esso compromised safety: worker

Esso had compromised safety at the Longford gas plant by cutting maintenance levels before
September's fatal explosion, an Esso worker said today.

Process technician Stephen Bennett told the Longford Royal Commission that while the size
of the Longford plant had increased in recent years, maintenance had been in gradual decline.

When asked whether the reduction in maintenance had compromised safety, Mr Bennett replied:
"Yes".

He said maintenance had slipped in the older Gas Plant One, where an explosion on September
25 and killed two people.

"It was very obvious stand-by pumps and other equipment, control systems etc, they haven't
been repaired as quickly as they would have been in the past," Mr Bennett said.

Outside the commission, Esso spokesman Ron Webb denied the company had compromised safety.

"I don't think safety has been compromised, safety has always been our highest priority in
our operation," Mr Webb said.

Mr Bennett also criticised a drop in the number of shift supervisors at the plant, which in
recent years had fallen to one despite an enterprise agreement with Esso to maintain that
number at two.

"We protested, explained our position and Esso wouldn't budge, that's the way it was going
to be," Mr Bennett said.

He said employers now had regular problems finding a supervisor at Longford.





[A][SHARK][SA]

Swimmer attacked by shark

A 21-year-old woman was attacked by a shark while surfing at one of South Australia's most
popular surf beaches this afternoon.

The woman suffered deep wounds to one of her legs and shock, but was in a satisfactory
condition in the South Coast District Hospital today where she was expected to remain
overnight.

SA Ambulance spokesman Brenton Scroop said the attack occurred shortly before 4pm (CST),
when the woman was about to catch a wave back into shore at Middleton beach, about 80km south
of Adelaide.

"She was chest deep in water and she was about to mount her board again and come back into
the shore when she felt something knock her leg," Mr Scroop said.

"She subsequently felt a bite and something thrashing about near her leg."

A paramedic crew from Victor Harbor treated the woman, from the southern Adelaide suburb of
O'Halloran Hill, on the way to the hospital.

Mr Scroop said that while the lower leg wounds were deep, the shark was probably fairly
small.





[A][SAUDI NURSES AUST][SA]

Gilford slams British nurse's morals

Frank Gilford today spoke of the difficulty of facing Christmas without his dead sister as
one of the British nurses accused of her murder faces jail for theft and fraud.

Mr Gilford said the conviction of Lucille McLauchlan in Scotland for stealing money from an
elderly patient, forging references to get work and handling a stolen bank card showed she did
not have high morals.

Describing the latest twist as yet another chapter in the ordeal that followed Yvonne
Gilford's brutal murder, Mr Gilford also said he was upset McLauchlan and her former colleague
Deborah Parry had made money from selling their stories.

"Just another chapter in the saga is what it boils down to," he told AAP from his home in
Jamestown in South Australia's mid-north.

"I just feel it bears out the facts that she (McLauchlan) is not the innocent party that
she likes to portray she is.

"It makes her look like her morals or her ethics are not very high. It's not for me to say
they should be thrown in jail and the key thrown away, it's up to the courts.

"It would be nice to think that she'd do a time in jail, maybe that's not likely."

McLauchlan and Parry spent 17 months in a Saudi Arabian jail over Ms Gilford's murder in
December 1996 when the three nurses worked at the King Fahd Military Hospital.

McLauchlan was convicted of being an accessory to murder and sentenced to eight years in
prison and 500 lashes, while Parry was convicted of murder but no sentence was passed.

The pair were freed earlier this year after Mr Gilford waived his right under Saudi law to
call for the death penalty in return for $1.7 million in compensation, of which he donated $1
million to an Adelaide hospital.





[A][SURGERY][FED]

Festive fat, wrinkles surgery warning

Sucking out those extra kilos or sculpting skin crinkled by the summer sun was not the
answer for over-indulgent Christmas revellers, doctors warned today.

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons warned against too much eating and sunbathing,
saying cosmetic surgery was not an easy solution because it was real surgery with risks and
potential complications.

Melbourne plastic and reconstructive surgeon Donald Marshall said weight reduction was best
achieved by dieting and exercise.

"People are increasingly using plastic surgery to correct the results of culinary
over-indulgence, but contrary to popular belief, liposuction is an inappropriate tool for
weight reduction," Prof Marshall said in a statement.

"Liposuction produces excellent results in patients who are close to normal body weight
with an abnormal distribution of fat but when it is used to remove large volumes of fat there
are major risks involved."

The need for facelifts and other operations to reduce photo-aging caused by sun could be
avoided by covering up with protective clothing, sunscreen and staying in the shade, he said.

"I see many people who want cosmetic surgery to fix wrinkles and sun damage when prevention
really is the best cure," he said.

College Councillor and Adelaide plastic and reconstructive surgeon Randall Sach urged
people who sought the surgery option to check the qualifications of surgeons.

"There are practitioners in Australia with minimum qualifications undertaking significant
surgical procedures who are putting patients at risk of serious complications," Mr Sach said
in a statement.

Meanwhile, the Australian Medical Association (AMA) today launched a range of fridge
magnets advertising the services of Lifeline and the local family doctor to help depressed
people cope with the festive season.





[A][WOOL SHRINK][SA]

Aussie shrink-proof wool on the way

Frustrated by their woollen socks always shrinking in the wash, Australian scientists are
working on ways to manipulate sheep genes to produce the world's first shrink-proof wool.

Researchers at the University of Adelaide and the Cooperative Research Centre for Premium
Quality Wool are developing a technique to alter a sheep's DNA to prevent cells from forming a
cuticle around the wool.

The cuticle is what causes the shrinkage, with the cuticle scales rubbing together when a
garment is washed or dried.

Currently, wool is made shrink-proof by a chlorination treatment process, but that causes
hazardous by-products that could harm the environment.

Professor George Rogers, from the university's department of animal science and the manager
of the CRC's transgenic program, said the research project intended to find a way to avoid the
chlorination process.

"What we have come up with are some ideas to use our gene technology to actually alter the
wool in sheep when it grows, so it will produce a wool that won't shrink and doesn't need
(chemical) processing," Prof Rogers told AAP.

"We've begun an investigation to alter the cuticle. The objective is to produce a wool
that's on the sheep's back already that's shrink-proof."

Prof Rogers said the DNA changes might not totally eliminate the need for chemical
treatment, but would lead to a simpler, less hazardous treatment process.

The shrink-proof wool fibre to be produced as a result of the gene technology could also
have other advantages over the current product, including added softness because of the
missing cuticle and a better ability to take dyes.

Prof Rogers said the project, initially to take place over the next three to five years,
would also make the wool industry more competitive.





[X][DRAGON][SA]

Leafy Sea Dragon new tourism star

Scientists are unravelling the mystery of a unique Australian sea creature, the exotic star
of a budding international tourism industry.

Rod Connolly, a marine biologist from Queensland's Griffith University who has travelled to
South Australia just to study the Leafy Sea Dragon, said research into the ecology of the
animal was a priority with the species under pressure from illegal collectors and vulnerable
to coastal pollution.

And he said learning more about the Leafy Sea Dragon would help inform tourists who
travelled from around the world to see them.

"They're just amazing to look at and there is a budding tourism industry where
international visitors come to dive with these creatures," Dr Connolly said.

"They have to come here, this is the only place where they live - in southern Australia."

Leafy Sea Dragons are found mainly in Western Australia and South Australia with a few in
Victoria and are thought to be rare, although scientist are still finding out how rare they
are.

They belong to the same family as sea horses but have a spectacular camouflage of
seaweed-like appendages.

Dr Connolly's latest research, supported by the SA Research and Development Institute, has
involved trials in tracking the animals with interesting results.

He found that while the Leafy Sea Dragons tend to stay in one area for a number of days,
they will swim away to places up to hundreds of metres away before returning to their original
spot, for reasons not fully understood.

"They're homely creatures. This is really important because in terms of management plans
for this species, it's really important to know whether, if you lost the animal for some
reason from an area, there is any chance that they will re-colonise that area," Dr Connolly
said.





[I][ISRAEL][MID]

Israel set for early elections

Israel's parliament has voted overwhelmingly for early elections, signalling the demise of
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ailing hard-line government and effectively freezing for
months the already-troubled peace with the Palestinians.

The elections are likely to take place by the end of April. In addition to Netanyahu and
Labour Party leader Ehud Barak, a half-dozen other figures have indicated they might be
interested in being the next prime minister.

The early elections bill given preliminary approval yesterday must pass two more readings,
but Netanyahu has said he will not try to block its final passage.

His last-minute appeal for a national unity government was laughed out of the chamber by
the opposition during a session that was raucous, even for a parliament not famous for its
decorum.

"It seems the other side is not interested in unity, and possibly less interested in peace
than in power," Netanyahu told reporters afterward.

"It's a little too late," countered Barak, who said the timing made him question
Netanyahu's sincerity.

Even members of his Cabinet who backed the survival of his government were appalled by
Netanyahu's national unity proposal.

"The idea of a national unity government presented at the last moment is really
demagoguery," Transport Minister Shaul Yahalom told Israel TV. "This is serious?"

Netanyahu had steadfastly opposed national unity until it became clear last night that he
had talked himself into a corner with his do-or-die proposal to the Knesset: accept conditions
for resuming the peace process, or go to elections.

It became increasingly clear last week that some in his coalition would not endorse his
peace policies and were happy to oust him as well. He infuriated hardliners when he agreed to
the US-brokered peace accords at Wye River, Maryland, in October.





[T][SHIELD NSW][CRIK]

NSW, Vic draw at SCG

New South Wales and Victoria drew their Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground
today with centuries to Mark Waugh and Michael Slater steering the home team to safety.

NSW batted out the final day and finished on 4-362 in its second innings, a lead of 284
runs, when captains Mark Taylor and Shane Warne agreed to finish the match 25 minutes early
with Shane Lee on 71 not out and Graeme Rummans 31.

NSW started the day only one run ahead at 2-79 with victory a slight hope for Victoria
until Waugh (126) and Slater (113) batted through the first session and a half, putting on a
196-run third wicket stand.

The match was virtually consigned to a draw when NSW went into lunch on 2-176 and then
4-277 at tea was not a big enough target for Taylor to declare and atempt to bowl Victoria out
with a depleted attack.

Victoria took two points for winning on the first innings, declaring late yesterday at
9-438 in reply to NSW's 360.





[T][SHIELD WA][CRIK]

Siddons denies WA outright win

South Australian veteran Jamie Siddons has became the first batsmen ever to score 10,000
Sheffield Shield runs during his knock of 125 not out in the second innings against Western
Australia at the WACA Ground.

The broad bat of the former South Australian captain denied Western Australia any chance of
an outright victory on the final day of the match.

The Redbacks - who picked up the first innings points - declared their second innings
closed at 6-209, leaving WA a target of 355 to win in just 58 overs.

WA is 1-58 with Mike Hussey on 23 and Justin Langer on 1.

Ryan Campbell was caught for 23.





[T][LEAGUE MANLY][RL]

Whiley, Vautin voted onto Manly board

Former player Ed Whiley has been elected Manly rugby league club chairman while
ex-Australian Test player Paul Vautin finally secured selection on the board of his beloved
club, Manly announced today.

Whiley, the former deputy chairman and a long serving official with Manly, takes over the
position from Rupe Hudson who did not seek re-election because of health reasons.

Whiley played 28 first grade games for Manly between 1965 and 1971, scoring six tries.

He praised Hudson's contribution to the club, saying his leadership was inspirational.

"He is a man of strong conviction who always promoted the club's best interest in a most
forthright and diplomatic manner," Whiley said.

Vautin was appointed to fill the vacancy left by long serving club stalwart Graham Houston
who resigned yesterday because of drama surrounding Vautin's narrow failure to win election to
the board at Manly's AGM last week.

Vautin received the same number of votes as Hudson, who used his casting vote in favour of
himself.

Houston said he stood down to ease a potentially explosive situation at the club.

Former player Garry Thoroughgood was elected deputy chairman.





[X][UK TEAPOT][UK]

British dripless teapot spout first

A young inventor today claimed to have topped a recent wave of teatime firsts by coming up
with a teapot spout that does not drip.

Damini Kumar, 22, cracked the problem that had puzzled tea drinkers for thousands of years
in only three months.

The "D-pot", named after its designer's first name, was born as a result of a standard
student project for a course at South Bank University, London, in Engineering Project Design.

But Kumar said she would never sell the now-patented design to the highest bidder.

"I am looking for sponsorship so I can market the D-pot myself," explained Kumar, of
Parsons Green, West London, who graduated recently after completing a first degree in Imperial
College, also in London.

"I don't want to sound arrogant, but to me every teapot one day will look like mine and I
don't want to lose control of the idea.

"I can't say how much I may earn from the design, but even if I do earn millions, I will
never stop inventing," she added.

The D-pot is the latest in a recent scientific wave of tea-related breakthroughs.

Earlier this month, University of East Anglia Maths Professor Jean-Marc Vandenbroeck
announced why tea spills down pot spouts in pages of computerised theory.

And last month, Bristol researchers revealed the perfect way to dunk biscuits into hot
drinks.

Kumar's design works in three ways: the length of the spout is increased to give the pour
greater force, a groove is inserted into the underside of the spout to act as a dam to stop
excess tea leaking out, and the spout's top is squared off to give the pour greater accuracy.

She discovered the ground-breaking mould, which cost a total of Stg300 ($A820) in research
expenses, after watching how rain drips down windows and over sills.

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