Oskarshamn
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Swedish police smoke out major marijuana find
National: 28 Apr 13
Police in Oskarshamn in southern Sweden unearthed a large-scale marijuana farm on Saturday night.
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Sea water shutters Swedish nuclear reactor
Business & Money: 21 Dec 12
Sweden shut down another nuclear reactor on Thursday, this time at the country's biggest nuclear plant near Gothenburg after an infiltration of sea water, operator Vattenfall and a nuclear industry watchdog said.
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Cracks found in Swedish nuclear waste pools
Science & Technology: 12 Dec 12
The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority has asked contractors at the Oskarshamn nuclear plant to review their security requirements after cracks were found in on-site nuclear waste storage pools.
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New winter storm batters southern Sweden
Science & Technology: 11 Dec 12
Heavy snow and blustery winds prompted new weather warnings for southern Sweden on Tuesday morning as a winter storm stopped trains and sent cars skidding, with up to 40 centimetres of snow expected in some areas.
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Sweden forced to shut down nuclear reactor
National: 6 Dec 12
A nuclear reactor in southern Sweden was forced to shut down on Thursday after officials found the plant had failed to meet safety requirements.
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Swedish teen footballer charged after pitch attack
Sport: 31 Oct 12
A 19-year-old man from southern Sweden has been charged with assault after he allegedly jumped on and kicked another player who was lying down on the pitch during a game.
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Greenpeace report slams Swedish nuclear plants
Science & Technology: 2 Oct 12
Security risks at Sweden’s nuclear power plants are so high that the facilities should all be taken out of operation, according to a new report from environment organization Greenpeace.
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Busy Midsummer's Eve for Swedish police
National: 23 Jun 12
Police forces across Sweden had a busy evening on Friday with widespread drunkenness, fighting, a mugging, and a stabbing reported as the country celebrated Midsummer.
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Man leaps from ferry to swim back to port
Society: 10 Jun 12
A 25-year-old man jumped from a ferry departing Visby on Gotland on Saturday to swim back into harbour, explaining that he had changed his mind about his trip.
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Swedish opposition to nuclear energy on the up
Science & Technology: 28 Apr 12
Swedes have become more negative towards nuclear power in the year since Japan's nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima, a new survey shows.
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Whiplash-injured Swede loads crates of drink
Business & Money: 15 Mar 12
When officers did a spot check at a customs ferry control in southern Sweden, they found more than thirty people on some form of sickness or parental leave benefits, returning from an alcohol run to Germany.
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Stranded 'Phantom' menaces Swedish coast
National: 16 Feb 12
Helicopters from Sweden's coastguard were deployed on Wednesday night to rescue the crew of a ship stranded off the coast of the Baltic island of Öland.
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Juholt resigns as Social Democrat leader
Politics: 21 Jan 12
Håkan Juholt on Saturday announced his resignation as leader of the Social Democrats in a hastily called press conference in his home town of Oskarshamn in southern Sweden.
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Juholt expected to resign as Social Democrat head
Politics: 21 Jan 12
Despite Friday’s announcement by the Social Democrat Executive Committee that embattled leader Håkan Juholt will remain at the helm, many now believe that he will announce his resignation on Saturday afternoon.
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Håkan Juholt survives to lead another day
Politics: 20 Jan 12
The Social Democrats' executive committee expressed its continued confidence in embattled party head Håkan Juholt on Friday following two days of intense meetings about his leadership.
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Busy Christmas weekend for the Swedish police
National: 25 Dec 11
Murders, break-ins and accidents made it a busy Christmas holiday weekend for the police and emergency services across Sweden this year.
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Fire shuts down Swedish nuclear reactor
Science & Technology: 23 Oct 11
A nuclear reactor at the Oskarshamn plant in southern Sweden was closed down late on Saturday night after a fire broke out at the plant.
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Juholt probed over rental payment scandal
Politics: 8 Oct 11
Social democratic leader Håkan Juholt has spent years pocketing accommodation reimbursements he wasn't entitled to, amounting to a total of roughly 160,000 kronor ($23,500).
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Drunken Swedish sailor forgot his wife was on shore
Society: 3 Jun 11
A Swedish sailor called sea rescue services on Thursday morning believing his wife had fallen overboard when in fact she had never been on the boat.
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Sweden critical of German nuclear decision
Politics: 30 May 11
Sweden's environment minister Andreas Carlgren has criticised Germany's decision to decommission its nuclear power stations by 2022 as "unrealistic", predicting that it will be forced to import nuclear power from EU partners.
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Juholt confirmed as Social Democrat leader
Politics: 25 Mar 11
As expected Håkan Juholt has been confirmed as the new leader of Sweden's Social Democrat party, following a vote at the party congress in Stockholm on Friday.
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Swedes oppose new nuclear power: poll
Science & Technology: 19 Mar 11
The ongoing catastrophe at Fukushima nuclear power station in Japan has prompted renewed debate over nuclear power in Sweden, with a new poll indicating that a majority of Swedes are opposed to its expansion.
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Thinking about Sweden's nuclear future
Analysis & Opinion: 16 Mar 11
Swedish nuclear safety expert Frigyes Reisch from the Royal Institute of Technology speaks with The Local's Gabriel Stein about how the situation in Japan may impact the nuclear energy development in Sweden.
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Sweden launches major nuke accident exercise
National: 2 Feb 11
Sweden's largest-ever crisis management exercise on how to act in the event of a nuclear accident was launched on Wednesday.
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Webcam paedophile sentenced to year in jail
National: 26 Oct 10
A district court in southern Sweden sentenced a man who lured 45 young girls and adolescents to pose in front of webcams to one year in prison on Tuesday.
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Massive boar shreds leg of Swedish elk hunter
Society: 25 Oct 10
A Swedish elk hunter is recovering in hospital after being attacked by a wild boar weighing more than 200 kilogrammes.
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Snow causes slick roads in southern Sweden
Science & Technology: 21 Oct 10
The year’s first snowfall has resulted in slippery roads in many parts of southern Sweden, with some areas received up to 10 cenitmetres of wet snow.
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Fredrik, 35, overjoyed as police find mountain bike stolen 12 years ago
National: 22 Aug 10
Police in Gävle in eastern Sweden have recovered a mountain bike that was stolen from a student twelve years ago – in a town 1,350 kilometres further north.
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Climbers set to discover Västervik
Travel: 11 Aug 10
A town in south-eastern Sweden has all that enthusiastic rock climbers could need - but until now relatively few climbers have known about it. A new project means all that could be about to change.
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Dutch crime writer backs Swedish theme park
Society: 16 Jun 10
Dutch crime thriller writer Ton Theunis is the initiator of a project to establish a new "WitchWorld" theme park in Mönsterås, a rural municipality in southern Sweden.
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Nuclear plant heads propose armed security
National: 3 Jun 10
The heads of Sweden's nuclear power plants have called for the installation of armed rapid reaction forces to be put in place in order to increase security.
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Icebreakers do battle with Swedish waters
National: 4 Jan 10
All but one of Sweden's icebreakers have been called into action as half of the Gulf of Bothnia separating Sweden and Finland freezes over.
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Couple sues municipality for Hultsfred 'inferno'
Society: 1 Aug 09
A couple from Hultsfred in southern Sweden is demanding 38,000 kronor ($5,000) in compensation from the local municipality to cover 19 years worth of disturbances associated with town's annual music festival.
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Ferry delays continue following collision
National: 25 Jul 09
Disruptions in ferry traffic between the island of Gotland and the Swedish mainland will continue following the Thursday collision of two passenger ferries near the port of Nynäshamn off Sweden's east coast.
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Östhammar wins bid to store nuclear waste
Science & Technology: 3 Jun 09
The eastern Swedish town of Östhammar has seen off rival bidder Oskarshamn and secured a lucrative deal to store nuclear waste for the next 100,000 years.
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Sweden poised to bury nuclear waste for 100,000 years
Analysis & Opinion: 2 Jun 09
Two towns in eastern Sweden are competing to be the first in the world to store nuclear waste for hundreds of thousands of years, writes AFP's Pia Ohlin.
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New cracks found in Swedish nuke plant rods
Science & Technology: 27 May 09
New cracks have been discovered in control rods a nuclear reactor at the Oskarshamns nuclear facility in southern Sweden, less than six months after all the rods were replaced.
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Fire erupts onboard nuke plant boat hotel
National: 17 Apr 09
A fire onboard a passenger ferry used to house workers at the Oskarshamn nuclear plant in southern Sweden forced the evacuation 240 people late Thursday night.
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Man dies at nuclear power station
National: 15 Mar 09
A 61-year-old man died while working on the O3 nuclear reactor at Oskarshamn nuclear power station in southern Sweden on Sunday morning.
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Ice Church in Swedish Lappland offers white winterland wedding
Dating: 11 Feb 09
With Valentine's Day fast approaching, AFP's Nina Larson witnesses wedding ceremonies performed in a Swedish winter wonderland.
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Flasher suspect claims public masturbation was 'groin massage'
Society: 11 Dec 08
A 60-year-old Swedish man who says he was massaging his groin is on trial for sexual harassment after three teenage girls claim they saw him masturbating at a public pool.
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Nuke plant faulted for using janitors as guards
Science & Technology: 31 Oct 08
A decision by management of Sweden’s Oskarshamn nuclear power plant to have custodial workers stand in as guards has drawn a sharp rebuke from the country’s nuclear regulatory authority.
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Safety check forces Swedish nuke plant shutdown
Science & Technology: 21 Oct 08
Sweden shut down one of its nuclear reactors on Tuesday to check the plant's control rods after cracks were found in the rods at an identical plant, the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM) reports.
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Pair held for using scissors to remove man's tattoos
National: 29 Jul 08
Two men were arrested on Monday in Kalmar in southern Sweden on suspicions of assault for using a pair of scissors to cut away another man’s tattoos.
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O’boy: airport ‘bomb’ was chocolate milk mix
National: 2 Jul 08
The suspected bomb which resulted in large sections of Stockholm’s Arlanda airport being blocked off Wednesday turned out to be a package of O’boy chocolate milk mix wrapped in duct tape.
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Nuke scare 'caused by shaving cream'
National: 9 Jun 08
Two contractors suspected of smuggling explosives into a nuclear power plant in southern Sweden last month were in fact carrying nothing more sinister than a can of shaving cream.
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Night security lacking at nuke plant
National: 29 May 08
Night security is often non-existent at Oskarshamn nuclear plant, where two men are suspected of trying to smuggle in explosive material.
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Key nuke evidence stuck in the mail
National: 28 May 08
Police investigating last week's security incident at the Oskarshamn nuclear power are at odds over a decision to send the key piece of evidence by regular mail.
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Nuclear sabotage suspects released
National: 22 May 08
Two men being held on suspicions of preparing acts of sabotage against the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant have been released.
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No explosives found at nuclear plant
National: 22 May 08
Swedish bomb experts have not found any traces of explosives at the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant after two men were arrested on suspicion of sabotage.
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Two arrests in nuke plant bomb plot
National: 21 May 08
Two Swedish contractors were arrested on Wednesday suspected of preparing to sabotage the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in southern Sweden, police said.
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Man arrested over woman's balcony fall
National: 18 Sep 07
A woman died on Tuesday morning after falling from the balcony of a third-floor apartment. Witnesses say she was pushed. A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
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Camera thief caught on film
National: 10 Aug 07
Note to all self-respecting thieves considering stealing a surveillance camera: it is watching you while you work.
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Gotland steps back in time
Lifestyle: 10 Aug 07
Fiona Basile dons her tunic and watches Gotland turn back the clock hundreds of years for Visby's Medieval Week.
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Cooks snubbed on Reinfeldt visit
Society: 4 Apr 07
Pan-fried herring was judged not to be good enough for the prime minister, when he visited a hospital in south-eastern Sweden. Now cooks say they are hurt that their food was passed over.
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Christian Democrats signal Swedish shift to nuclear power
Analysis & Opinion: 2 Apr 07
As Sweden's Christian Democrats shed their opposition to nuclear power, the unthinkable has become possible: Sweden may well reinvest in nuclear energy, argues Nima Sanandaji of think tank Captus.
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Snow and ice causes transport chaos in south
National: 1 Nov 06
Poor weather has led to many buses in Stockholm being cancelled, with flights delayed at airports in both Stockholm and Gothenburg.
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Nuclear reactors to restart on Friday
National: 28 Sep 06
The Forsmark 1 and 2 nuclear reactors will be restarted on Friday, two months after they were shut down following an incident at the plant, says Sweden's nuclear power inspectorate.
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Nuclear watchdog blocks Forsmark restart
National: 14 Sep 06
A series of measures must be taken before three nuclear reactors shut down in July can be brought back into operation, the Swedish nuclear power inspectorate (SKI) has concluded.
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Power firms stung by cost of nuclear shutdown
National: 25 Aug 06
The shutdown of the nuclear reactors at Forsmark and Oskarshamn after an incident at Forsmark on July 25th has so far cost the plant owners 600 million kronor.
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Forsmark 'could restart soon'
National: 7 Aug 06
The closed reactor at the Forsmark nuclear plant could be restarted soon after experts manage to simulate July's incident at a facility in Germany.
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Left Party demands nuclear shutdown
Politics: 4 Aug 06
As Sweden's nuclear energy crisis deepens, the Left Party has put further pressure on the government by demanding the closure of another nuclear power station by 2010.
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Energy prices reach record high
Society: 3 Aug 06
Swedish electricity prices were at record levels on Thursday following the reactor shutdowns at Forsmark and Oskarshamn. But experts said there was no risk of an energy crisis.
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Two more Swedish reactors close
National: 3 Aug 06
Five of Sweden's ten nuclear reactors are now offline after faults were found at two of the reactors at the Oskarshamn plant in southern Sweden. Two reactors at Forsmark were shut down last week.
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Sweden's oldest person turns 111
National: 15 May 06
The cakes, biscuits and coffee flowed generously as Astrid Zachrison celebrated her birthday on Monday. Born in 1895, she is Sweden's oldest person.
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Most Swedes favour nuclear power
Politics: 12 Apr 06
A majority of Swedes want to keep atomic energy, a new survey shows, marking a turnaround in public opinion, which formerly favoured closing all the country's nuclear power stations.
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Swedish designer sues Hollywood star
Smörgåsbord: 8 Apr 06
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ABB to upgrade Swedish nuclear facility
Business & Money: 31 Mar 06
ABB Ltd said it has won a 24 million dollar contract from Sweden's OKG to help upgrade its Oskarshamn Unit 3 nuclear reactor on the southeast coast of Sweden.
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Power station could get armed guard
National: 29 Mar 06
The environmental court in Växjö has decided that armed guards are needed to protect the nuclear power station in Oskarshamn. But the law does not allow for such a measure.
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Lethal bird flu suspected in Swedish farm duck
Science & Technology: 17 Mar 06
A new case of the potentially lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu is "strongly suspected" in a duck in Sweden. It would be only the second case on a commercial farm in the European Union, officials said on Friday.
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Swedish bird flu confirmed as H5N1
Science & Technology: 15 Mar 06
The first two dead ducks from Sweden to be tested in the EU's bird flu laboratory had the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus. In its most aggressive form, the virus has killed 100 people worldwide.
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Birds on Gotland have flu
Science & Technology: 10 Mar 06
The first cases of a highly pathogenic strain of H5 bird flu have been found on Gotland, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Sweden to 13.
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Bird flu found in two Swedish towns
Science & Technology: 8 Mar 06
The aggressive form of bird flu has been found in birds in two towns in south-eastern Sweden. Experts say that they expect more cases to be found elsewhere in the country.
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Experts 'very sure' flu is deadly strain
Science & Technology: 3 Mar 06
Two ducks that died of bird flu in the Oskarshamn area of Sweden were almost certainly carrying the deadly H5N1 strain, the EU reference laboratory in the UK has confirmed. Another eight ducks were also very likely to have been infected.
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More Swedish birds carrying bird flu virus
Science & Technology: 3 Mar 06
Eight of the 31 dead birds from the Oskarshamn area which were tested for bird flu have been found to be carrying the virus, according to the National Veterinary Institute on Friday.
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Bird flu: "Keep cats indoors"
Science & Technology: 2 Mar 06
The Swedish government raises the classification of the H5N1 variant of bird flu to "constituting a public danger". At the same time, EU veterinary experts advise people to keep cats indoors and dogs on a leash.
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Bird flu controls tightened
Science & Technology: 1 Mar 06
Bird flu reaches Sweden
Examination of the area where birds were found with possible H5N1 virus is stepped up as controls are introduced across Sweden. Bird owners in many parts of the country are being asked to register with local officials.
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Bird flu reaches Sweden
Science & Technology: 28 Feb 06
Bird flu 'doesn't worry Swedes'
An aggressive form of bird flu has been found in Sweden. The virus was found in wild birds near Oskarshamn, in Småland in the south of the country. "Serious but not unexpected," says Sweden's agriculture minister.
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Environmentalists slam Swedish nuclear waste export
National: 6 Aug 05
For the first time in over 20 years, Sweden is to send nuclear waste for reprocessing at the much-criticised Sellafield plant in England.
"There's no alternative," says environment minister Lena Sommestad.
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