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EU expresses confidence in Ghana’s economy

By: Stephen Odoi-Larbi

The European Union (EU) has expressed the confidence that Ghana will take up her responsibilities, and put in place appropriate policies to cope with her budget deficits, and also ensure that the deficits do not go beyond a certain threshold.

Mr. Koos Richelle, a co-chair of the Working Party on aid effectiveness, currently meeting in Ghana, disclosed this on Friday September 24, in response to a question on his views on reports that the government was running the economy on deficits, at a joint press conference in Accra, prior to his departure.

He said the EU had no indication that Ghana was acting in an irresponsible way, stressing that in the face of world economic downturn, and the difficult times faced by all countries, including those in Europe and Africa, the government of Ghana cannot be blamed for running on a deficit.  “Being a global issue, it is necessary to see how government is reacting to the shocks.”

Mr. Richelle, who is also the Director-General .

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Ife Sculpture : Ancient West African Treasures on a Journey round America

AFTER acclaim in Spain and Britain, “Dynasty and Divinity”, the first big exhibition devoted to sculpture from the Kingdom of Ife (in present-day Nigeria), begins an 18-month tour of America in Houston on September 19th. The show, which consists of works in stone, terracotta and metal made between the 9th and 15th centuries, is a revelation and a treat. Art from dramatically different cultures is often hard to connect with, but these sculptures are naturalistic and remarkably accessible. Whether the subject is an animal, a person or a mythical creature, each image is well observed and has tremendous presence.

More than 100 works are on view. All are loans from Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments. Some have left Africa for the first time. Text and photo murals on the walls instruct visitors about the kingdom, an unbroken monarchy for more than 800 years. Today Ife is a city of 600,000 people. Its present ruler or Ooni is Alayeluwa Oba Okunade Sijuwade, Olubuse II; now aged 80, he studied in Britain, became a businessman and is enjoyably wealthy…

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Ghana : Celebrates 101st birthday of Nkrumah

Accra, Ghana (PANA) Ghana on Tuesday celebrated the 101st birthday of the country's founding president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, with a call on the citizens to work towards the realization of what he fought for but could not achieve in his life t ime.
Vice President, John Dramani Mahama President noted the relevance of Dr Nkrumaha’s ideas and said the validity of his vision for Ghana and Africa had gained more and more recognition and legitimacy as the years go by.
He urged Ghanaians to emulate his life and vision saying: “For most of us the celebration of the birth of Dr Kwame Nkrumah raises questions of patriotism, vision and loyalty to one’s country ideals and humanity on one hand and conspiracy and betrayal of one’s compatriot on the other'”
Dr Nkrumah, a fiery leftist who was close to the then socialist Soviet Union and its allies and constantly lashed out at the west as imperialist was ousted in a military coup instigated by the US Central Intelligence Agency on 24 February, 1966.
Nkrumah noted as a pan-Africanist died in exile in Romania in 1972. His body was later brought home for burial.
His birthday was declared the founder's day in Ghana last year and is observed as a public holiday. The centenary of his birthday was celebrated last year.

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Eteignez les Lumières… Dossou Lètriki a été Conduit à sa Dernière Demeure

Inhumé le week-end à Adjarra:Dossou Lètriki vit désormais à travers ses œuvres

Assogba Dossou Migbogonhé alias Dossou Lètriki a été conduit dans sa dernière demeure le samedi 18 septembre 2010 à Adjara, département de l’Ouémé. Mais avant son inhumation en son domicile et selon les us et coutumes de sa famille, la dépouille mortelle du génie du rythme « Massègohoun » a reçu tous les honneurs dus à son rang. La présence des personnalités du monde culturel, notamment celle du ministre Galiou Soglo, constitue un acte de reconnaissance des mérites de Dossou Lètriki.

Veillée de prières, exposition du corps à la Maison des jeunes d’Adjarra, témoignages des acteurs du monde culturel, escale de la dépouille mortelle dans sa maison maternelle et …

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Road accident leaves 30 people dead in Ghana, 80 injured

At least 30 people were killed and another 80 injured after a passenger truck overturned in the north of Ghana, a country located in West Africa, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday.

The accident occurred on Saturday evening in the town of Zagyuri as a result of the wrongful overtaking by the driver of the passenger truck, the agency said.

The injured were taken to a hospital in Tamale, some 700 km (435 miles) north of the country's capital, Accra, the agency said.

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Northern elders warn against fielding Jonathan, insist on Northern President

AS Saraki picks presidential form, declares on Monday
By Uduma Kalu
Some elders within the People Democratic Party, (PDP) have warned that fielding President Goodluck Jonathan as the party’s presidential candidate may affect the peace and unity of the country. It will also destroy the ruling party.

More so, the Kwara state governor, Dr.  Bukola Saraki, has picked the PDP presidential form for the 2011 election.

Saturday Vanguard gathered that he will declare on Monday.. This makes the number so far to four with Jonathan, IBB, Atiku leading the pack. The form costs N10m

The People Democratic Party, (PDP) elders, warning contained in a petition to the PDP Chairman, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo and his members of the National Working Committee (NWC) was signed by  a group calling itself Concerned Members.

It is signed by Adamu Ciroma, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, Alhaji Lawal Kaita, Madakin Fika, Alhaji Bello Kirfi, Amb. Yahaya Kwande, Bashir Yusuf Ibrahim, Wazirin Bauchi.

Entitled  RE: REQUEST FOR DECLARATION TO RESERVE THE PDP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION FOR NORTHERN ASPIRANTS AND TO RESTRAIN PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN FROM PARTICIPATING IN THE 2010 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY AS AN ASPIRANT, the group noted that Article7, section 7.2(c) of the party’s constitution prescribed the policy of rotation and zoning of public elective offices, enforced by the executive committee at all levels.

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Image du jour : Pure Water

A Ghanian girl carries water in the northern city of Tamale

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Suspicious phone calls, breaking love relationships in Ghana - Research

Accra, Aug 10, GNA - A research conducted by Adam Research Centre, an Accra-based Consultancy firm, has indicated that about 25 percent of break ups in love relationships in Ghana were caused by suspicious phone calls and text messages.
It said 33 percent of respondents, who were interviewed, also confessed telling lies to their partners regarding their locations and general movements.
Dr. Karim Adam, Chief Executive Officer of the Centre, disclosed these research findings to Ghana News Agency in Accra.
He said although 67 percent of respondents confirmed that mobile phone had enhanced their relationship, most of them said that phones had also given people the opportunity to tell lies.
Dr Adam, who is an Information Systems Security and IT Governance Consultant, said the Centre used over 800 respondents from all sectors of life in Accra to research on "the Impact of Mobile Phones on Love Relationships in the Country" due to the daily problems that erupted from the use of telephones.
The research indicated that 46.9 percent of respondents said they received their break up news from their partners through text messages, while 26 percent of them indicated that they had heartbreaks as a result of those messages.
Thirty-five percent of the respondents said that they communicated more than thrice a day, while 22 percent of them communicated twice a day.
Forty-five percent of the respondents confirmed quarrelling with their partners over suspicious phone calls and messages more than three times a week….

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Quintessence, Festival International du Film de Ouidah- 2010 /2011

    2010 /2011

Une initiative de Jean Odoutan
Site : http://www.festival-ouidah.org/  /  Site : www.45rdlc.com
« La Culture sans ma Culture m’Acculture »
Mercredi Topo 08/09/10
En provenance de Ouidah (Gléxwé) au Bénin

 

Cher Z’ Amis !
Mi fon an !
Tradition pour Tradition ! Salut ouidahnier à nos partenaires:
Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie,
Ministère français des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes,
UNESCO, Ministère de la Culture du Bénin,
Fonds d'Aide à la Culture du Bénin, Commune de Ouidah et 
Commune de Melun en France (jumelée à la commune de Ouidah)

 

Quintessence s’invite à Melun
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Inutile de rappeler que la ville de Melun est jumelée avec la ville de Ouidah
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« Quintessence s’invite à Melun »
tous les ans dans une formule ciselée sur mesure :
Les films primés à Quintessence sont diffusés à la médiathèque Astrolabe !

Le 25 septembre 2010, les films ci-dessous seront projetés avec la présence de
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2011: Enemies of Jonathan presidency will fail, says E.K. Clark

By James EZEMA
It was supposed to be a cultural day event as organised by United Rivers and Bayelsa States Indigenes Association, Lagos, but it was understandably turned into a campaign ground for President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s presidency come this January.

The tone of the occasion changed after former Minister of Information Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, unequivocally declared that the President shall be a candidate in January presidential election.

Though he did tactically avoided mentioning the political platform on which Jonathan was going to emerge as candidate, he disclosed that he had to move to Abuja since 23 December last year when it was discovered that some South-South Governors were opposed to Jonathan, then acting presidency, maintaining that those opposed to him will fail again.

He added that President Jonathan is set to declare his intention to run for president on September 18, even as he said: “Four years ago, Jonathan won by somebody who was his leader. But by next year January, Jonathan is going to contest election as a presidential candidate of this country and I think Nigerians are already feeling the impact of who is there….

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African extractive ministers meet to explore effective strategies

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Some African ministers in the extractive industry are meet ing in Accra, Ghana's capital, to brainstorm on existing extractive laws and challenges, with the aim of fashioning out a work programme for leaders at the highest level of decision making on the continent.
The two-day workshop being attended by representatives from Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Rwanda as well as local and international experts in the sector, is to share experiences and discuss preliminary findings of a rec ent study on the sector in Africa.
The African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET), an organisation that prov ides high level policy analysis, research and advisory support to African countries, conducted the study to enable it to set up an extractive reso urce service on the continent.
Dr Edward Brown, ACET Director of Policy Advisory, said at the opening of the wo rkshop Friday that ''the interface between research and policy advisory is very weak in most African countries,'' which underpins the many chal lenges that prevent optimal impact of policy decisions on the economies.
Currently, he said, ACET is providing policy advisory services to Ghana, Liberia Sierra Leone and Rwanda in several areas of the economy.
The ACET study, which covered nine sub-Saharan African countries in West, Centra l, East and Southern Africa, was limited to oil, gas and mineral resources.
The countries are Ghana, Rwanda, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Uganda, Mozambique, Botswana and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The findings showed that poorly structured tax laws and inconsistent enforcement of provisions when dealing with multinationals costs African governments much needed revenue in the sector….

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Green Revolution plan agreed at Ghana meeting

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Akin Adesina: "This was not a conference, it was not a workshop, it was a 'doing-shop'"

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A private sector-led drive to contribute to a 'Green Revolution' in Africa took a step forward last week with the agreement of a "very clear action plan" to draw the continent out of its food crises.

The plan was drawn up at the first meeting of the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), in Accra, Ghana, which claims that, by including detailed mechanisms for monitoring and review, it will avoid the fate of other plans that have not achieved what they hoped for in Africa.

"This is the first time we have laid out a very clear action plan on what needs to accelerate the pace of the Green Revolution in terms of technologies, policies, finance and infrastructure investments," Akin Adesina, vice president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), and executive co-producer of the AGRF, told SciDev.Net.

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Comment se Purger contre les Saletés et autres Immondices Insanes que Glane Le Matinal pour Aguicher le Lectorat ?

Bien que je m’en défendisse avec acharnement, chaque fois que l’un de ces titres orduriers et suintant d’obscénité perverse que le Journal le Matinal, dans sa découverte mesquine de la nature humaine, se fait fier d’exposer dans ses pages en ligne après les avoir glanées de-ci de-là dans les waters et poubelles des publications du monde entier, au titre de la joyeuse gratuité du net – gratuité qui rime on s’en doute avec paresse et irresponsabilité – chaque fois dis-je qu’un de ces titres à la croustillance crottée et insane tombe sous mes yeux et pénètre un tant soi peu sous mon regard oblique à mon corps défendant, je suis obligé de m’infliger une heure de lecture de versets ardents de la bible, bien que je ne sois pas pratiquant.

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Nigeria : Violence de l’Inégalité

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Oppression Comparée

La disproportion que l’on perçoit au Nigeria entre la morphologie et le faciès du pays réel et les grandes mégalopoles ; et à l’intérieur de celles-ci entre quelques îlots d'opulence et l’océan de survie, de pauvreté voire de misère qui les submerge ; cette disproportion disons-nous traduit la violente inégalité dans le partage de la rente pétrolière en particulier et des ressources nationales en général. Alors qu’entre un pays comme le Bénin et le Nigeria, le train de vie comparé des deux États est à l’avantage écrasant de ce dernier, la comparaison  de l’état réel du pays donne à voir un Nigeria tout aussi sinon plus pauvre ou socialement exsangue que le Bénin ! La supériorité moyenne du niveau de vie social qu’on était en droit d’attendre, à partir  de la différence comparée des ressources nationales et du train de vie des deux États, et de la concentration des richesses au niveau de leurs classes nanties respectives, cette supériorité hypothétique  est battue en brèche par ce qui apparaît côté nigérian comme une plus grande concentration, un confinement extrêmement violent des richesses nationales dans les mains d’une plus infime minorité. Cette violente inégalité est un déni à l’émergence d’une véritable classe moyenne à laquelle les classes urbaines parvenues et le cirque d’une certaine bourgeoisie compradore ne représentent au mieux qu’un succédané, un ersatz ou un masque trompeur

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2011: Jonathan and IBB supporters in verbal warfare

By Simon Ebegbulem
BENIN—SUPPORTERS of President Goodluck Jonathan for 2011 presidency in Edo State and those of former Military Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida, yesterday, traded words over claim that IBB was more experienced to lead the nation than President Jonathan.
It will be recalled that former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Albert Legogie, had Monday, declared that IBB would be the best candidate of the party in the forthcoming 2011 presidential election due to his experience and numerous achievements while he was Military Head of State of the country.
But reacting yesterday in an interview with Vanguard in Benin City, the immediate past Deputy Governor of the state and Coordinator of the President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign in Edo State, Chief Lucky Imasuen, described the claim as untrue and laughable.

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Nigerian experts handle first kidney transplant in Maiduguri varsity

THE University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH), in collaboration with the Bayero University Teaching Hospital, Kano and Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has successfully conducted a kidney transplant on a 31-year old Suleiman Usman. The kidney was donated by his brother, Abubakar Usman at the university’s Kidney Centre.

According to the university’s authorities, the transplant was the first of its kind handled in the institution without the assistance of any foreign surgeons, since the Kidney Centre was established in 1993.

Announcing the successful transplant yesterday at a press briefing at the teaching hospital, the Chief Medical Director of UMTH, Prof. Othman Kyari, said “first ever in the history of Maiduguri Kidney Centre, a team of doctors and surgeons from this hospital and others from Ile-Ife and Kano performed a very successful kidney transplant on Suleiman Usman without the intervention of any foreign doctors and surgeons.

He said with the successful transplant, there will be no more need to send kidney patients for transplant in foreign countries.

The chief medical director also noted that besides overcoming the challenges of transplanting the kidney, the exercise was carried out at the total cost of N2 million, stating that if it were carried out in any of the foreign countries, it would have cost the hospital about N3.5 million.

According to Prof. A. Akinsola of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH), once the kidney is successfully transplanted, normal function returns and the quality of life of the patient is normalised.

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Developing countries urged to pool resources together

A South African academic and activist, Dot Keet has urged countries of the South to work more at developing co-operation among themselves than depending on the rich countries of the North.
This, she said, would end capitalist domination and also open up much greater room for maneuver for governments as against the global system and regimes. "If consciously conceived and skillfully utilized, this could even contribute towards altering the global balance of economic and political power against governmental and corporate forces in the core capitalist countries of the North."
Dr Keet was speaking at an activists training school organized by the Third World Network in Accra, recently.
She said the growing cooperation among Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are illustrative of the different modes of South-South relations that are possible.
"Such actual and potential economic relations could reduce the dependence of the countries of the South on the donor governments' cooperation of the rich North," she said.

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Spotlight on violence against children

DAKAR, 3 September 2010 (IRIN) - After her first year in the job, the UN Special Representative on Violence against Children, Marta Santos Pais, told IRIN her major achievement has been to bring violence against children out into the open.
"Today, talking about violence against children is less taboo; years back, we would not have had the discussions we are having now," she told IRIN at a conference highlighting violence against children, held in Accra, capital of Ghana, on 2 September.

Between 133 million and 275 million children experience violence at home every year, most of whom live in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, according to the 2006 UN Study on Violence against Children.
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General will pursue four priorities in the next two years: to see legislation prohibiting all forms of violence against children passed in more countries; gather more data on violence against children; set up better counselling networks for child victims of violence; and push all governments to follow the plan to eliminate violence against children set out in 2006. 
Children need to start trusting that when they complain about violence, they will not be ignored, which means setting up better complaints systems and follow-up response units in schools and other institutions, said Santos Pais. …

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ICC’ SERVICES n’est Pas Watergate

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Wait and See

Les révélations de tel ou tel Ministre ou témoin en vue dans les scandales qui, depuis quelque temps, éclatent au grand jour au Bénin, auront quels effets sur qui et quand ? Quand on aura fini de dire ou de prouver par a+b que Yayi boni ou un de ses proches ont détourné x ou z milliards de francs dans l’Affaire α ou β, on fait quoi après ? On dresse l’échafaud pour le décapiter comme cela se doit ? Non, bien sûr que non ! Alors, arrêtons de prendre le populo pour un con ! La presse à sensations politiques et les journalistes qui trafiquent ces info nous font croire à des choses inénarrables que ces révélations vont provoquer. Comme si des montagnes allaient s’écrouler, un tsunami ravager le landerneau politique emportant tout ou presque sur son passage, etc. Comme si nous étions dans un de ces États de droit occidentaux ou asiatiques où la loi est la loi ; comme si nous étions en Amérique où un Watergate peut emporter un Nixon ; comme si nous étions dans un système de pensée où une infraction ou un crime sont poursuivis, jugés et punis conformément à la loi. Or, il n’en est rien ; et tout le monde le sait, à commencer par les journaux et les journalistes qui attisent et se réchauffent de ces feux médiatiques.

Après ces révélations sensationnelles et croustillantes, disons-le tout net sans revendiquer le moindre statut ni la moindre stature de prophète du bonheur ni du malheur, il n’y aura ni grand soir, ni grand jour de vérité, mais la longue nuit béninoise de l’impunité et de l’arbitraire d’une venimeuse engeance de pirates et d’accapareurs des biens publics. Les seuls qui en tirent quelque bénéfice sont les journalistes et la presse pour augmenter leur audience, entretenir leurs clients et vendre du papier truffé de vraies fausses informations croustillantes débitées à coups de révélations plus ou moins inédites et dont le suspens et le sensationnel qu’ils exaltent ne sont fondés que sur un consensus frauduleux, à savoir : que les crimes commis auraient des conséquences dévastatrices ! Faux ! Archifaux !

Les tenants du régime ne s’en sortiront certes pas grandis aux yeux de l’opinion.  Et la réponse à terme peut sortir des urnes mais à condition qu’elles ne soient pas truquées, ce qui est une autre affaire … de corruption…Wait and see

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L’Afrique à l’Épreuve de l’Afrique

Les Africains ont le mot “Afrique” plein la bouche, mais il suffit qu’une guerre, un sinistre ou une calamité quelconque éclate dans un coin quelconque de cette même “Afrique” pour se rendre compte de ce que cette “Afrique” signifie vraiment pour eux. Car sans exception, tous se croisent les bras, ne s’imaginent pas qu’ils peuvent, avec les moyens du bord pour le coup africains, s’unir pour apporter leur aide humanitaire à leurs congénères “africains” dans le malheur. Les yeux hagards, ils regardent les Occidentaux – parce qu’ils sont riches ? – intervenir seuls comme de grands sauveurs ; car sans doute ces Occidentaux sont-ils les seuls dépositaires de cette Afrique incantatoire, facile à invoquer mais difficile à assumer. Quelle est cette Afrique qui ne résiste pas à l’épreuve de l’Afrique ?

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No more Africa time: Nigerian federal government locks out snoozing employees over tardiness

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Snoozing Nigerian federal employees who reported late to work have gotten a rude awakening.
As part of a push to end tardiness, a number of federal offices in the nation's capital Abuja locked out hundreds of tardy workers Tuesday. The move is part of an ongoing government effort to end chronic late arrivals among employees in Africa's most populous nation.
The offices opened their doors an hour later to let the late employees in.

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First Lady expresses concern about low awareness creation on cancers

Accra, Aug. 30, GNA - First Lady, Ernestina Naadu Mills, on Monday expressed concern about the little or no attention at all given to cancer as a disease compared to malaria, HIV and AIDS, and other communicable diseases.
She said a strong cancer prevention campaign and programme would greatly reduce the number of new cases that were occurring today and which continued to increase according to a research by the World Health Organisation.
"It is essential for government agencies to work with hospitals to create an avid and widespread cancer awareness campaign. It is through early detection, early screening, change in lifestyle and diet that we can successfully battle some of the prevalent cancers facing Ghana and Africa as a whole".
The First Lady expressed these concerns when she opened a two-day conference on "Cancer in Africa: Prevention, Cure and Treatment" in Accra.
She said cancer had been a serious public health issue affecting many people and was gradually gaining root, causing devastation and needed to be uprooted.

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