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• Vancouver Art Gallery welcomes $40-million Chan family donation

  23-01-2019 23:52 via vancouversun.com
  A new home for the Vancouver Art Gallery took a big step towards reality Wednesday with a $40-million donation from a family with a history of supporting the arts in B.C.
  The gift was from the Chan family, the same family that donated $10 million to the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts more than 20 years ago.
  With this announcement, the new Vancouver Art Gallery will be located in the building to be called the Chan Centre for the Visual Arts.
  The donation means the Vancouver Art Gallery has r
  
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• B.C. auditor general unhappy MLAs want outside audit of legislature

  23-01-2019 22:09 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C.’s auditor general says she’s disappointed Speaker Darryl Plecas didn’t tell her about alleged misspending in the legislature and is unhappy that MLAs are hiring an auditor from another province to review the situation.
  Carol Bellringer said she was surprised when MLAs from the NDP, Liberals and Green parties voted unanimously Monday to ask an outside auditor general to conduct a forensic audit into spending concerns in the legislature. That move came follo
  
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• Former Mountie involved in Taser death at Vancouver airport suing government - North Shore News

  23-01-2019 21:59
  Former Mountie involved in Taser death at Vancouver airport suing government  North Shore NewsVANCOUVER — A former Mountie involved in the death of a man jolted by a Taser at Vancouver's airport is suing the federal and provincial governments for ...
  
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• School trustee, teacher among 47 nabbed in VPD teen sex sting

  23-01-2019 21:50 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police arrested 47 men last month as part of sting, led by the VPD’s counter exploitation unit, that targeted people who were willing to purchase sexual services from youth.
  Deputy Chief Const. Laurence Rankin, who addressed the media at the VPD headquarters on Cambie Street on Wednesday morning, says the covert operation was carried out over nine days and involved 25 officers.
  “The safety of our youth is a priority for the VPD,” said Rankin. “Last year, our det
  
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• B.C. company fights court order to allow public access to fish in Nicola Valley lakes

  23-01-2019 21:46 via vancouversun.com
  MERRITT — A legal battle between a B.C. fish and game club and one of the world’s largest cattle firms has taken another twist as the two sides fight over access to two public lakes.
  Nicola Valley Fish and Game Club director Rick McGowan says the Douglas Lake Cattle Company intends to appeal a B.C. Supreme Court ruling that found the company illegally blocked access to Stoney and Minnie lakes east of Merritt.
  McGowan says grounds of the appeal aren’t yet clear and he expects it
  
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• Study ranks Canada #1 in the world for quality of life

  23-01-2019 21:15
  
  This is the country’s fourth year in a row in the ranking’s top spot
  
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• Feds’ mortgage policies ‘deny homeownership’ to young Canadians: report

  23-01-2019 20:07
  Measures such as mortgage stress test are “at cross purposes” with federal promises to support the middle class, asserts Mortgage Professionals of Canada
  
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• B.C. judge releases convicted murderer pending review of his case

  23-01-2019 20:02 via vancouversun.com
  A judge has ordered that a man convicted of murdering his wife in 1994 be released on $100,000 bail pending a review of his case by the federal justice department.
  Wade Skiffington, 52, was found guilty in 2001 of the second-degree murder of Wanda Martin following an undercover police operation in which he confessed to fatally shooting her.
  In June last year, the federal justice minister ordered an investigation into the case after a preliminary assessment found that there may have been a miscar
  
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• The life of Pancho Villa gets the operatic treatment for 2019 PuSh

  23-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Tenor Paul Sanchez in a scene from chamber opera Pancho Villa From A Safe Distance.
  Pancho Villa From A Safe Distance
  When: Jan. 31, 8 p.m.
  Where: Vogue Theatre
  Tickets and info: From $36 at eventbrite.caThe name Pancho Villa instantly conjures up the image of Francisco “Pancho” Villa (a.k.a. José Doroteo Arango Arámbula), with his giant sombrero criss-crossed cartridge belts and trusty pistol by his side.
  Depending on what side of the U.S.-Mexican border you hail
  
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• Side Dishes: When cocktails go geeky

  23-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Cameron Brown of Clough Club mixes lustre dust cocktails in a vortex machine. (Photo Mia Stainsby)
  The fourth annual Science of Cocktails fundraiser takes place Feb. 7 at the Telus World of Science with drinks that will blow your mind. (A few other explosions will go off in the science area, including the ping-pong cannon and a Tesla coil that plays music.)
  Geek bartenders will make ultrasonic gin and tonics, smoked Old Fashioneds, diffused Penicillin (cocktail, not medication), and carbonated g
  
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• Q&A: Nicola Lipman is looking for love in The Matchmaker

  23-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Matchmaker
  When: Jan. 24 to Feb. 24
  Where: Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage
  Tickets: from $29 at artsclub.comWhat does a 1880s-set play have to say to today’s Tinder-happy audience? Plenty, according to Nicola Lipman. In Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker, the Jessie-winning actor portrays Dolly Levi, the matchmaker of the title, who is (ostensibly) trying to find a wife for her rich friend Horace Vandergelder. We talked to Lipman about the 1954 ensemble comedy.
  Nicola Lipman in T
  
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• Honesty comes before inspiration as This is the Point puts spotlight on disability

  23-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Tony Diamanti, Liz MacDougall and Dan Watson in This is the Point (at the Cultch Historic Theatre Jan 29 – Feb 2 as part of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival.
  This is the Point
  When: Jan. 29 – Feb. 2
  Where: Cultch Historic Theatre
  Tickets: from $24 at tickets.thecultch.comThis is the Point is about people with disabilities. But it’s primary purpose is to be honest, not inspirational.
  “It’s a question of representation,” Ahuri Theatre&rs
  
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• Multi-family rental market booms as demand chases short supply

  23-01-2019 19:55
  
  Nearly $3 billion of Metro Vancouver purpose-built rental properties exchanged hands last year, finds report
  
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• LIVE: Vancouver police sting nets 47 men preying on youth sex workers

  23-01-2019 19:43 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver police arrested 47 men last month as part of sting, led by the VPD’s counter exploitation unit, that targeted people who were willing to purchase sexual services from youth.
  Deputy Chief Const. Laurence Rankin, who addressed the media at the VPD headquarters on Cambie Street on Wednesday morning, says the covert operation was carried out over nine days and involved 25 officers.
  “The safety of our youth is a priority for the VPD,” said Rankin. “Last year, our det
  
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• B.C. Auditor unhappy MLAs want outside audit of legislature

  23-01-2019 19:37 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA – B.C.’s Auditor General says she’s disappointed Speaker Darryl Plecas didn’t tell her about alleged misspending in the legislature and is unhappy MLAs are now hiring an auditor from another province to review the situation.
  Carol Bellringer said she was surprised when MLAs from the NDP, Liberals and Green parties voted unanimously Monday to ask an outside auditor general to conduct a forensic audit into spending concerns in the legislature. That move came follow
  
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• New Westminster toddler's noisy play triggers family's eviction

  23-01-2019 19:36 via vancouversun.com
  A dispute over the noisy play of an active two-year-old boy has ended in eviction for a New Westminster family.
  Matt Astifan and his son Marcus have until Jan. 31 to find a new place to live after a Residential Tenancy Branch arbitrator sided with his neighbours and the landlord at the Shoreline development in Port Royal.
  The social media trainer is anxious and sleepless at the thought of re-entering the rental market on just 10 days notice and disputes that “child noise” is a legiti
  
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• Lounge around during a layover in Hong Kong

  23-01-2019 19:36 via vancouversun.com
  There are worse places in the world than Hong Kong to have a long layover when travelling. And if you’re fortunate enough to be flying on Cathay Pacific, you won’t even need to leave the airport.
  Hong Kong is Cathay’s travel hub and home to five exclusive airline lounges for passengers in Terminal 1. Here’s a gate-by-gate way to spend the day between flights at four of them.
  The Tea House in the Business Class lounge is the perfect place to sit and sip a cup of tea b
  
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• SkyTrain best option for rapid transit to UBC: TransLink staff

  23-01-2019 19:28 via vancouversun.com
  A SkyTrain line is being recommended instead of light rail to extend rapid transit from Arbutus to the University of B.C.
  The endorsement is in a staff report that will be considered by TransLink’s Mayors Council at their meeting Thursday, and Vancouver council next week.
  “Once the technology has been approved, it will allow us to go to the federal and provincial governments and start securing funding for this,” Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart said at a media availability Monda
  
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• Former Mountie who fired Taser at Robert Dziekanski files suit against government

  23-01-2019 19:22 via vancouversun.com
  Kwesi Millington, one of the former Mounties who tasered Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver airport more than a decade ago, has launched a civil suit claiming the RCMP failed to provide training to employees.
  In documents filed in B.C. Supreme Court this week, Millington alleges the attorney general of Canada and the government of B.C. were negligent in providing adequate training, including training RCMP members to properly use a Taser.
  The suit claims the negligence resulted in
  
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• Where to eat in San Francisco

  23-01-2019 19:20 via vancouversun.com
  A perennial favourite with foodies, San Francisco has long been known as a culinary mecca. With the recent spate of stars awarded by the 2019 Michelin Guide (eight three-star restaurants, more than any other city in the U.S., including New York) confirming it the country’s fine dining capital, San Francisco’s food scene is now hotter than ever. Here’s what’s cooking.
  Twinkle, twinkle
  Now boasting three Michelin stars is Atelier Crenn in Cow Hollow, where chef Dominique Cr
  
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• We’ve looked for her & she doesn’t exist. There’s no #PooFairy, so bag & bin it! Thank you #NorthVan.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  23-01-2019 18:00 via twitter.com
  We’ve looked for her & she doesn’t exist. There’s no #PooFairy, so bag & bin it! Thank you #NorthVan.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The 10 best travel apps to plan your next vacation

  23-01-2019 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Whether you’re travelling nationally or internationally, travel apps make negotiating flights times, hotels and even meals a lot easier. Plus, there are a few apps that can make your trip — and your stay — more enjoyable. So we’ve gone to a few people who use them most: A couple of travel writers and business travellers who share their best picks.
  1. Kayak
  Kayak is touted as the geek favourite, largely because you can change your filters endlessly without re-querying. Kay
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you agree SkyTrain is the best option out to UBC?

  23-01-2019 15:40 via vancouversun.com
  Planning is underway for a SkyTrain line instead of light rail to extend rapid transit from Arbutus to the University of B.C. An endorsement of this plan will be considered by TransLink’s Mayors Council at their meeting Thursday.
  Read Jennifer Saltman’s story here.
  What do you think? Are you on board with this plan? Is SkyTrain the best option or would you rather see light rail? Perhaps you have another idea. Take our poll and leave your comments below.Take Our Poll
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Cloudy, drizzly, with sunny breaks

  23-01-2019 14:39 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Wednesday’s weather is expected to be mainly cloudy with a high of 9 C. There’s a chance of rain or drizzle early this morning, but that should dry up a bit later on for a mix of sun and cloud, according to Environment Canada. Thursday looks similar, with a slight chance of drizzle, a high of 8 C, and mainly cloudy skies. Friday is cloudy with a high of 7 C. Then overnight Friday the fog is expected to roll in and stick around on Saturday. On Sunday, the
  
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• Sun Run 2019: How to stay safe when training early and in the dark

  23-01-2019 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Safety was the last thing on my mind when training for last year’s Vancouver Sun Run.
  On the road after work on a weekday, I was surrounded by random people heading home, dog walkers, grocery shoppers, skateboarders, cyclists, motorists, bus drivers, and, of course, other runners.
  Knowing nods were exchanged (maybe a euphoric double guns from someone really feeling a runner’s high).
  Since I’ve started my early-morning-run routine, I’ve realized that there are 10-to-15 min
  
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• The Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver Presents "Handful of Dust" - Hyperallergic

  23-01-2019 09:00
  The Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver Presents "Handful of Dust"  HyperallergicCurated by David Company, the exhibition examines dust and debris as an indicator of time, action and consequence.
  
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• Vancouver Art Gallery to update on new building project Wednesday

  23-01-2019 06:13 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Art Gallery will make a major announcement Wednesday morning about its new $350-million building.
  For more than a year, the gallery has been working on raising $100 million from private sources for its new home on the empty lot across from the Queen Elizabeth theatre at West Georgia and Cambie streets.
  The VAG already has a design for the building by the Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron.
  The event at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia will include gallery director Kathleen B
  
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• Plecas report: A look at key players in the explosive document on parliamentary misconduct

  23-01-2019 05:54 via vancouversun.com
  Speaker of the legislative assembly Darryl Plecas’ bombshell report alleging misconduct by two senior legislature officials has set off a string of reactions, including an audit of legislature spending, a review of workplace conditions in the legislature and a demand that the two men accused of misconduct (Craig James and Gary Lenz) respond to the allegations by the end of the month.
  Here is a look at the key players in Plecas’ 76-page report.
  Related Eight things: Some of the more d
  
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• Vaughn Palmer: Plecas report ruffles feathers of well-aged partisan chickens

  23-01-2019 05:41 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — As Speaker Darryl Plecas tells it, he was in his early weeks on the job when he first heard an accusation that the clerk of the legislature Craig James was biased toward the B.C. Liberals.
  Perhaps as unsettling as the accusation itself to the former B.C. Liberal MLA was the source — Sergeant-at-Arms Gary Lenz.
  “Mr. Lenz expressed the view that Mr. James was not impartial and that he was in fact very close with the B.C. Liberal party,” wrote Plecas in a rep
  
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• Greg Wilson: Ottawa should reintroduce a modernized visitor sales tax rebate program

  23-01-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Introduced in the 1990s, the Visitor Rebate Program allowed visitors in Canada to receive a sales tax rebate on items purchased during their travels, including goods bought to take home and money spent on short-term accommodation. The federal government phased out the program in 2007, citing excessive costs and underutilization.
  However, a recent report from the Retail Council of Canada shows that the program’s cancellation has resulted in a GDP loss of nearly $60 billion. The council has
  
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• Commercial Real Estate: Housing challenges continue for younger workforce

  23-01-2019 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Global commercial property brokerage house CBRE’s local managing director Norm Taylor said he once canvassed his Vancouver staff about their housing.
  In the Lower Mainland, there are roughly 92,000 young workers, or those aged 25-39, who live at home with their parents or grandparents in the Lower Mainland, according to the 2016 census.
  “We do have a great percentage in that age category (at CBRE),” Taylor said. “And we do have a number that are living at home (who fit) i
  
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• Plecas report: Deputy speaker recalls account of clerk's 'flippant' comment on China trip

  23-01-2019 02:57 via vancouversun.com
  It was one of the more memorable episodes from B.C. Speaker Darryl Plecas’s 76-page report released this week detailing alleged “flagrant overspending” by two senior staffers at the legislature: while travelling back to B.C. from China last summer Plecas commented to clerk Craig James that, because of free meals provided by the Chinese government on the trip, the B.C. officials wouldn’t need to claim the full amount of their per diems or daily meal allowanc
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP will not face charges in connection with Taser death

  23-01-2019 02:38 via vancouversun.com
  A Chilliwack man who was Tasered during a struggle with RCMP officers last February died from “methamphetamine toxicity” and not from injuries sustained during his encounter with police, the Independent Investigations Office said in a report released Tuesday.
  On Feb. 24, 2018, Upper Fraser Valley RCMP were called to a location near Vedder and Well roads in Chilliwack after a report of a parental kidnapping.
  David Meadows, 43, was having a supervised visit with his
  
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• New Westminster toddler's noisy play, running in halls triggers family's eviction

  23-01-2019 02:19 via vancouversun.com
  A dispute over the noisy play of an active two-year-old boy has ended in eviction for a New Westminster family.
  Matt Astifan and his son Marcus have until Jan. 31 to find a new place to live after a Residential Tenancy Branch arbitrator sided with his neighbours and the landlord at the Shoreline development in Port Royal.
  The social media trainer is anxious and sleepless at the thought of re-entering the rental market on just 10 days notice and disputes that “child noise” is a legiti
  
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• 14 students in stable condition after Mission school bus crash: paramedics

  23-01-2019 01:56 via vancouversun.com
  Emergency Health Services says paramedics are responding to a school bus crash in Mission.
  Spokeswoman Shannon Miller says emergency responders received a report of the crash at about 3:15 p.m. this afternoon.
  She says 14 students were on board and all are believed to be in stable condition.
  She could not say if anyone was taken to hospital, but said five paramedic units responded to the collision.
  The incident occurred on a rural part of Mission on Stave Lake Road.
  
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• 'You think it's a bomb': East Van residents frustrated by noisy trains

  23-01-2019 01:50 via vancouversun.com
  Trains outside Maria Cutchey’s East Vancouver home make her windows rattle, cabinets shake and stacked dishes and glasses vibrate.
  At times, blaring bells jolt her awake at night, and the shunting of cars as they are assembled into trains sound like explosions that make her heart race.
  “You’d think a bomb went off on the rail tracks or you’d think the train has rolled over,” said Cutchey, whose north-side unit in the Still Creek Housing Co-op overlooks Grandview Hig
  
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• Food scraps don't belong in your garbage. Make sure all these items are going in your Green Can/Food Scraps bin, in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  23-01-2019 01:30 via twitter.com
  Food scraps don't belong in your garbage. Make sure all these items are going in your Green Can/Food Scraps bin, in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Squamish Nation, North Vancouver School District sign Indigenous education protocol - North Shore News

  23-01-2019 01:07
  Squamish Nation, North Vancouver School District sign Indigenous education protocol  North Shore NewsThe North Vancouver School District and the Squamish Nation have signed a formal agreement that set out how the two governments will collaborate to improve ...
  
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• Help the District of North Vancouver name a new street - North Shore News

  23-01-2019 01:03
  Help the District of North Vancouver name a new street  North Shore NewsWhere the streets have no name, the District of North Vancouver is taking suggestions. Residents have until Feb. 1 to submit their name suggestion for a new ...
  
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• Miss last night's Council meeting, which included a number of climate-related topics? The video from the meeting is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  23-01-2019 00:42 via twitter.com
  Miss last night's Council meeting, which included a number of climate-related topics? The video from the meeting is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• B.C.'s AG more hopeful of money-laundering action after federal meeting

  23-01-2019 00:22 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia’s attorney general says he’s hoping a federal election campaign won’t get in the way of Ottawa fully co-operating with the province to deal with serious money-laundering issues.
  David Eby says he’s more hopeful after a meeting with Organized Crime Minister Bill Blair, who has agreed to share RCMP information on money laundering that wasn’t given to B.C. but did make it to an international report.
  Blair stood beside Eby at a news conference in Vancou
  
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• How financial checks failed at the B.C. legislature in the spending scandal

  23-01-2019 00:15 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — B.C. politicians are scrambling to figure out how the checks and balances on spending at the B.C. legislature — which the suspended clerk has described as “bullet-proof” against fraud — failed to catch lavish expenses by two senior officials outlined in a new report by the Speaker.
  Improper signatures, duplicated approval forms, expenses pushed through financial services, and a fear of reprisal within the building about speaking up when something loo
  
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• TransLink introduces all-door boarding at Vancouver SkyTrain station

  23-01-2019 00:11 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver’s busiest SkyTrain station is about to get a bit easier to move around.
  Starting Feb. 2, a new platform will open, allowing transit users to get on and off westbound Expo Line trains using the doors on both sides of the train.
  It’s the first time there will be all-door boarding on SkyTrain, and it’s expected to reduce crowding on the platform and improve passenger flow at the station.
  Those riding the Expo Line toward downtown Vancouver will be able to connect t
  
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