MEDCARE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT
THIS REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is entered into as of June
20, 1997, by and among Medcare Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), Xxxxxx Investments, LLC, a Georgia limited liability company
("Xxxxxx") and the subscribers (hereinafter referred to as "Subscribers") to the
Company's offering ("Offering") of up to Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000) of
Series A Preferred Stock (together with the Series A Preferred Stock issuable
upon exercise of warrants to purchase Series A Preferred Stock of the Company
issued in the Offering, the "Preferred Stock") pursuant to the Regulation D
Subscription Agreement between the Company and each of the Subscribers
("Subscription Agreement(s)").
1. DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this Agreement:
(a) The terms "register," "registered," and "registration" refer to a
registration effected by preparing and filing a registration statement or
similar document in compliance with the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Act"), and
pursuant to Rule 415 under the Act or any successor rule, and the declaration or
ordering of effectiveness of such registration statement or document;
(b) For purposes hereof, the term "Registrable Securities" means the
shares of common stock, $.001 par value per share, of the Company (the "Common
Stock") together with any capital stock issued in replacement of, in exchange
for or otherwise in respect of such Common Stock (i) issuable or issued to the
Subscribers upon conversion of the Preferred Stock and (ii) issuable or issued
upon exercise of the Warrants issued to the Subscribers and to Xxxxxx or its
designees in the Offering.
Notwithstanding the above:
1. Common Stock which would otherwise be deemed to be Registrable
Securities shall not constitute Registrable Securities if those shares
of Common Stock may be resold in a public transaction not subject to
volume limitations without registration under the Act, including
without limitation, pursuant to Rule 144 under the Act; and
2. any Registrable Securities legally resold in a public transaction
shall cease to constitute Registrable Securities.
(c) The number of shares of "Registrable Securities then outstanding"
shall be determined by the number of shares of Common Stock which have been
issued or are issuable in connection with the Offering and which are issuable
upon exercise of the Warrant(s) at the time of such determination;
(d) The term "Holder" means any person owning or having the right to
acquire Registrable Securities or any permitted assignee thereof;
(e) The term "Due Date" means the date which is four (4) months after
the Last Closing (as defined in the Subscription Agreement) of the Offering;
(f) The terms "Warrant" and "Warrants" refer to the warrants to
purchase Common Stock of the Company issued or to be issued to Subscribers as
securities in connection with the Offering and the warrants granted to Xxxxxx or
to persons designated by Xxxxxx in connection with the Offering.
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2. REQUIRED REGISTRATION.
(a) The Company shall, no later than sixty (60) days after the Last
Closing (as defined in the Subscription Agreements), file a registration
statement (the "Registration Statement") on Form S-l (or other suitable form, at
the Company's discretion but subject to the reasonable approval of Subscribers)
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The Company shall,
within ten (10) days of the filing of the Registration Statement, send a copy of
the Registration Statement to Subscribers. Such Registration Statement shall
initially cover the resale of a number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon
conversion of the Preferred Stock and exercise of the Warrants equal to at least
one million five hundred thousand ( 1,500,000) shares of Common Stock, allocated
and reserved pro rata among the Subscribers and Xxxxxx or designees of Xxxxxx,
and shall cover, to the extent allowable by applicable law, such additional
indeterminate number of shares of Common Stock as are required to effect the
full conversion of the Preferred Stock and the full exercise of the Warrants,
due to fluctuations in the price of the Company's Common Stock. The Company
shall use its best efforts to have the Registration Statement declared effective
as soon as possible. In the event that the Company determines or is notified by
a Holder that the Registration Statement does not cover a sufficient number of
shares of Common Stock to effect conversion of all Preferred Stock then eligible
for conversion, including Preferred Stock issuable upon exercise of warrants to
purchase Series A Preferred Stock of the Company, and exercise of the
outstanding Warrants, the Company shall, within five (5) business days, amend
the Registration Statement or file a new registration statement to add such
number of additional shares as would be necessary to effect all such conversions
of the Preferred Stock and exercises of the Warrants. If the Registration
Statement is not declared effective within five (5) calendar months after the
Last Closing or if any new or amended registration statement required to be
filed hereunder is not declared effective within two (2) calendar months of the
date it is required to be filed, the Company shall pay Subscribers an amount
equal to two percent (2%) per month of the aggregate amount of Preferred Stock
sold to Subscriber in the Offering, compounded monthly and accruing daily until
the Registration Statement is declared effective (the "Late Registration
Payment"), payable, at each Subscriber's option, in either cash or Common Stock.
If Subscriber elects to be paid in cash, such Late Registration Payment shall
be paid to such Subscriber within five (5) business days following the end of
the month in which such Late Registration Payment was accrued. If Subscriber
elects to be paid in Common Stock, such number of shares shall be determined as
follows:
Upon conversion of each share of Preferred Stock, the Company shall issue
to Subscriber the number of shares of Common Stock determined as set forth
in Section 5(a) of the Certificate of Designation plus an additional number
of shares of Common Stock (the "Additional Shares") determined as set forth
below:
Additional Shares = Late Registration Payment
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Conversion Price
where, "Conversion Price" has the definition ascribed to it in the Certificate
of Designation.
Such Additional Shares shall also be deemed "Registrable Securities" as defined
herein.
(b) The Registration Statement shall be prepared as a "shelf"
registration statement under Rule 415, and shall be maintained effective until
the Holders of the Registrable Securities have completed a distribution of such
Securities.
(c) The Company represents that it is presently eligible to effect
the registration contemplated hereby on Form S- 1 and will use its best efforts
to continue to take such actions as are necessary to maintain such eligibility.
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3. PIGGYBACK REGISTRATION. If the Registration Statement is not
effective by the Due Date, and if (but without any obligation to do so) the
Company proposes to register (including for this purpose a registration effected
by the Company for stockholders other than the Holders) any of its Common Stock
under the Act in connection with the public offering of such securities solely
for cash (other than a registration relating solely for the sale of securities
to participants in a Company stock plan or a registration on Form S-4
promulgated under the Act or any successor or similar form registering stock
issuable upon a reclassification, upon a business combination involving an
exchange of securities or upon an exchange offer for securities of the issuer or
another entity), the Company shall, at such time, promptly give each Holder
written notice of such registration (a "Piggyback Registration Statement"). Upon
the written request of each Holder given by facsimile within ten (10) days after
mailing of such notice by the Company, the Company shall cause to be included in
such Piggyback Registration Statement all of the Registrable Securities that
each such Holder has requested to be registered ("Piggyback Registration") to
the extent such inclusion does not violate the registration rights of any other
securityholder of the Company granted prior to the date hereof; nothing herein
shall prevent the Company from withdrawing or abandoning the Piggyback
Registration Statement prior to its effectiveness. The election of initiating
Holders to participate in a Piggyback Registration Statement shall not impact
the amount payable to investors pursuant to Section 2(a) herein except that the
Late Registration Payment shall cease to accrue as of the date of the
effectiveness of the Piggyback Registration Statement.
4. LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS TO REGISTER.
(a) In the case of a Piggyback Registration on an underwritten public
offering by the Company, if the managing underwriter determines and advises in
writing that the inclusion in the Piggyback Registration Statement of all
Registrable Securities proposed to be included would interfere with the
successful marketing of the securities proposed to be registered by the Company,
then the number of such Registrable Securities to be included in the Piggyback
Registration Statement, to the extent such Registrable Securities may be
included in such Piggyback Registration Statement shall be allocated among all
Holders who had requested Piggyback Registration pursuant to the terms hereof,
in the proportion that the number of Registrable Securities which each such
Holder, including Xxxxxx, seeks to register bears to the total number of
Registrable Securities sought to be included by all Holders, including Xxxxxx.
(b) In the event the Company believes that shares sought to be
registered under Section 2 or Section 3 by Holders do not constitute
"Registrable Securities" by virtue of Section l(b) of this Agreement, and the
status of those shares as Registrable Securities is disputed, the Company shall
provide, at its expense, an opinion of counsel, reasonably acceptable to the
Holders of the Registrable Securities at issue (and satisfactory to the
Company's transfer agent to permit the sale and transfer) that those securities
may be sold immediately, without a volume limitation and without registration
under the Act, by virtue of Rule 144 or similar provisions.
5. OBLIGATIONS OF THE COMPANY. Whenever required under this
Agreement to effect the registration of any Registrable Securities, the Company
shall, as expeditiously as reasonably possible:
(a) Prepare and file with the SEC a registration statement with
respect to such Registrable Securities and use its best efforts to cause such
registration statement to become effective.
(b) Prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and supplements to
such registration statement and the prospectus used in connection with such
registration statement as may be necessary to comply with the provisions of the
Act with respect to the disposition of all securities covered by such
registration statement.
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(c) With respect to any registration statement filed pursuant to this
Agreement, keep such registration statement effective until the Holders of
Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement have completed the
distribution described in the registration statement.
(d) Furnish to the Holders of Registrable Securities covered by a
registration statement such numbers of copies of a prospectus, including a
preliminary prospectus, in conformity with the requirements of the Act, and such
other documents as they may reasonably request in order to facilitate the
disposition of Registrable Securities owned by them.
(e) Use its best efforts to register and qualify the securities
covered by such registration statement under such other securities or Blue Sky
laws of such jurisdictions as shall be reasonably requested by the Holders of
the Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement, provided that
the Company shall not be required in connection therewith or as a condition
thereto to qualify to do business or to file a general consent to service of
process in any such states or jurisdictions.
(f) In the event of any underwritten public offering, enter into and
perform its obligations under an underwriting agreement, in usual and customary
form, with the managing underwriter of such offering. Each Holder participating
in such underwriting shall also enter into and perform its obligations under
such an agreement.
(g) As promptly as practicable after becoming aware of such event,
notify each Holder of Registrable Securities covered by a registration statement
of the happening of any event of which the Company has knowledge, as a result of
which the prospectus included in the registration statement, as then in effect,
includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material
fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein,
in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and
subject to Section 6 use its best efforts promptly to prepare a supplement or
amendment to the registration statement to correct such untrue statement or
omission, and deliver a number of copies of such supplement or amendment to each
such Holder as such Holder may reasonably request.
(h) Provide Holders of Registrable Securities covered by a
registration statement with written notice of the date that a registration
statement registering the resale of the Registrable Securities is declared
effective by the SEC, and the date or dates when the Registration Statement
is no longer effective.
(i) Provide Holders and their representatives the opportunity to
conduct a reasonable due diligence inquiry of Company's pertinent financial and
other records and make available its officers, directors and employees for
questions regarding such information as it relates to information contained in
the registration statement.
(j) Provide Holders and their representatives the opportunity to
review the registration statement and all amendments thereto a reasonable period
of time prior to their filing with the SEC if so requested by Holder in writing.
6. BLACK OUT. In the event that, during the time that the
Registration Statement is effective, the Company reasonably determines, based
upon advice of counsel, that due to the existence of material non-public
information, disclosure of such material non-public information would be
required to make the statements contained in the Registration Statement not
misleading, and the Company has a bona fide business purpose for preserving as
confidential such material non-public information, the Company shall have the
right to suspend the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, and no Holder
shall be permitted to sell any Registrable Securities pursuant thereto, until
such time as such suspension is no longer advisable; provided, however,
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that such time shall not exceed a period of sixty (60) days. As soon as such
suspension is no longer advisable, the Company shall, if required, promptly, but
in no event later than the date the Company files any documents with the SEC
referencing such material information, file with the SEC an amendment to the
Registration Statement disclosing such information and use its best efforts to
have such amendment declared effective as soon as possible. In the event the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement is suspended by the Company pursuant
hereto, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders whose securities are
covered by the Registration Statement of such suspension, and shall promptly
notify each such Holder as soon as the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement has been resumed. Holders agree to comply with all requirements of SEC
Rule lOb-6, if applicable, or its successor rule during all applicable time
periods.
7. FURNISH INFORMATION. It shall be a condition precedent to the
obligations of the Company to take any action pursuant to this Agreement with
regard to each selling Holder that such selling Holder shall furnish to the
Company such information regarding Holder, the Registrable Securities held by
it, and the intended method of disposition of such securities as shall be
required to effect the registration of the Registrable Securities or to
determine that registration is not required pursuant to Rule 144 or other
applicable provision of the Act.
8. EXPENSES. All expenses other than underwriting discounts and
commissions and fees and expenses of counsel to the selling Holders incurred in
connection with registrations, filings or qualifications pursuant hereto,
including (without limitation) all registration, filing and qualification fees,
printers' and accounting fees for the Company, and, fees and disbursements of
counsel for the Company, shall be borne by the Company.
9. INDEMNIFICATION. In the event any Registrable Securities are
included in a Registration Statement or a Piggyback Registration Statement
under this Agreement:
(a) To the extent permitted by law, the Company will indemnify and
hold harmless each Holder, the officers and directors of each Holder, any
underwriter (as defined in the Act) for such Holder and each person, if any, who
controls such Holder or underwriter within the meaning of the Act or the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "1934 Act"), against any
losses, claims, damages, or liabilities (joint or several) to which they may
become subject under the Act, the 1934 Act or other federal or state law,
insofar as such losses, claims, damages, or liabilities (or actions in respect
thereof) arise out of or are based upon any of the following statements or
omissions (collectively or singularly, a "Violation"): (i) any untrue statement
or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in such registration
statement, including any preliminary prospectus or final prospectus contained
therein or any amendments or supplements thereto, or (ii) the omission or
alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein,
or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and the Company will
reimburse each such Holder, officer or director, underwriter or controlling
person for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection
with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability, or
action; provided, however, that the indemnity agreement contained in this
Section 9(a) shall not apply to amounts paid in settlement of any such loss,
claim, damage, liability, or action if such settlement is effected without the
consent of the Company (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), nor
shall the Company be liable in any such case for any such loss, claim, damage,
liability, or action to the extent that it arises out of or is based upon a
Violation which occurs in reliance upon and in conformity with written
information furnished expressly for use in connection with such registration by
any such Holder, officer, director, underwriter or controlling person.
(b) To the extent permitted by law, each selling Holder, severally
and not jointly, will indemnify and hold harmless the Company, each of its
directors, each of its officers who have signed such registration statement,
each person, if any, who controls the Company
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within the meaning of the Act, any underwriter and any other Holder selling
securities in such registration statement or any of its directors or officers or
any person who controls such Holder, against any losses, claims, damages, or
liabilities (joint or several) to which the Company or any such director,
officer, controlling person, or underwriter or controlling person, or other such
Holder or director, officer or controlling person may become subject, under the
Act, the 1934 Act or other federal or state law, insofar as such losses, claims,
damages, or liabilities (or actions in respect thereto) arise out of or are
based upon a Violation to the extent (and only to the extent) that such
Violation is made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information
furnished by such Holder expressly for use in connection with such registration
statement; and each such Holder will reimburse any legal or other expenses
reasonably incurred by the Company and any such director, officer, controlling
person, underwriter or controlling person, other Holder, officer, director, or
controlling person in connection with investigating or defending any such loss,
claim, damage, liability, or action; provided, however, that the indemnity
agreement contained in this Section 9(b) shall not apply to amounts paid in
settlement of any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action if such
settlement is effected without the consent of the Holder, which consent shall
not be unreasonably withheld.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section
9 of notice of the commencement of any action (including any governmental
action), such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be
made against any indemnifying party under this Section 9, deliver to the
indemnifying party a written notice of the commencement thereof and the
indemnifying party shall have the right to participate in, and, to the extent
the indemnifying party so desires, jointly with any other indemnifying party
similarly noticed, to assume the defense thereof with counsel mutually
satisfactory to the parties; provided, however, that an indemnified party shall
have the right to retain its own counsel, with the reasonably incurred fees and
expenses of one such counsel to be paid by the indemnifying party, if
representation of such indemnified party by the counsel retained by the
indemnifying party would be inappropriate due to actual or potential conflicting
interests between such indemnified party and any other party represented by such
counsel in such proceeding. The failure to deliver written notice to the
indemnifying party within a reasonable time of the commencement of any such
action, if prejudicial to its ability to defend such action, shall relieve such
indemnifying party of any liability to the indemnified party under this Section
9, but the omission so to deliver written notice to the indemnifying party will
not relieve it of any liability that it may have to any indemnified party
otherwise than under this Section 9.
(d) In the event that the indemnity provided in paragraph (a) or (b)
of this Section 9 is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an
indemnified party for any reason, the Company and each Holder agree to
contribute to the aggregate claims, losses, damages and liabilities (including
legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or
defending same) (collectively "Losses") to which the Company and one or more of
the Holders may be subject in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the
relative fault of the Company and the Holders in connection with the Violations
which resulted in such Losses. Relative fault shall be determined by reference
to whether any alleged untrue statement or omission relates to information
provided by the Company or by the Holders. The Company and the Holders agree
that it would not be just and equitable if contribution were determined by pro
rata allocation or any other method of allocation which does not take account of
the equitable considerations referred to above. Notwithstanding the provisions
of this Section 9(d), no person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within
the meaning of Section lO(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from
any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes
of this Section 9, each person who controls a Holder of Registrable Securities
within the meaning of either the Act or the 1934 Act and each director, officer,
partner, employee and agent of a Holder shall have the same rights to
contribution as such Holder, and each person who controls the Company within the
meaning of either the Act or the 1934 Act and each director of the Company, and
each officer of the Company who has signed the registration statement, shall
have the same
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rights to contribution as the Company, subject in each case to the applicable
terms and conditions of this Section 9(d).
(e) The obligations of the Company and Holders under this Section 9
shall survive the redemption and conversion, if any, of the Preferred Stock, the
completion of any offering of Registrable Securities in a Registration Statement
or Piggyback Registration Statement under this Agreement, and otherwise.
10. REPORT UNDER SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934. With a view to
making available to the Holders the benefits of Rule 144 promulgated under the
Act and any other rule or regulation of the SEC that may at any time permit a
Holder to sell securities of the Company to the public without registration, the
Company agrees to:
(a) make and keep public information available, as those terms are
understood and defined in Rule 144;
(b) file with the SEC in a timely manner all reports and other
documents required of the Company under the Act and the 1934 Act; and
(c) furnish to any Holder, so long as the Holder owns any Registrable
Securities, forthwith upon request (i) a written statement by the Company, if
true, that it has complied with the reporting requirements of SEC Rule 144, the
Act and the 1934 Act, (ii) a copy of the most recent annual or quarterly report
of the Company and such other reports and documents so filed by the Company, and
(iii) such other information as may be reasonably requested in availing any
Holder of any rule or regulation of the SEC which permits the selling of any
such securities without registration.
11. AMENDMENT OF REGISTRATION RIGHTS. Any provision of this
Agreement may be amended and the observance thereof may be waived (either
generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or
prospectively), only with the written consent of the Company and the Holders of
a majority of the Registrable Securities provided that the amendment treats all
Holders equally. Any amendment or waiver effected in accordance with this
Section 11 shall be binding upon each Holder and the Company.
12. NOTICES. All notices required or permitted under this Agreement
shall be made in writing signed by the party making the same, shall specify the
section under this Agreement pursuant to which it is given, and shall be
addressed if to (i) the Company at: Medcare Technologies, Inc., 000 X.
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Telephone No.
(000) 000-0000, Facsimile No. (000) 000-0000, (ii) the Holders at their
respective last address as shown on the records of the Company, and (iii) Xxxxxx
at: Xxxxxx Investments, LLC, Attn. Xxxx Xxxxxx, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000,
0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000, Telephone No. (000) 000-0000,
Facsimile No. (000) 000-0000. Any notice, except as otherwise provided in this
Agreement, shall be made by facsimile and shall be deemed given at the time of
transmission of the facsimile.
13. TERMINATION. This Agreement shall terminate on the date all
Registrable Securities cease to exist; but without prejudice to (i) the parties'
rights and obligations arising from breaches of this Agreement occurring prior
to such termination and (ii) the indemnification obligations under this
Agreement.
14. ASSIGNMENT. No assignment, transfer or delegation, whether by
operation of law or otherwise, of any rights or obligations under this Agreement
by the Company or any Holder, respectively, shall be made without the prior
written consent of the majority in interest of the Holders or the Company,
respectively; provided that the rights of a Holder may be
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transferred to a subsequent holder of the Holder's Registrable Securities
(provided such transferee shall provide to the Company, together with or prior
to such transferee's request to have such Registrable Securities included in a
Registration Statement or Piggyback Registration Statement, a writing executed
by such transferee agreeing to be bound as a Holder by the terms of this
Agreement), and the Company hereby agrees to file a new registration statement
or an amended registration statement including such transferee as a selling
securityholder thereunder; and provided further that the Company may transfer
its rights and obligations under this Agreement to a purchaser of all or a
substantial portion of its business if the obligations of the Company under this
Agreement are assumed in connection with such transfer, either by merger or
other operation of law (which may include without limitation a transaction
whereby the Registrable Securities are converted into securities of the
successor in interest) or by specific assumption executed by the transferee.
15. GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware applicable to agreements
made in and wholly to be performed in that jurisdiction, except for matters
arising under the Act or the 1934 Act, which matters shall be construed and
interpreted in accordance with such laws.
16. EXECUTION IN COUNTERPARTS PERMITTED. This Agreement may be
executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be enforceable
against the parties actually executing such counterparts, and all of which
together shall constitute one (1) instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Agreement as of the
date first above written.
MEDCARE TECHNOLOGES, INC.
By: ______________________
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx, President
Address: Medcare Technologies, Inc.
000 X. Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Telephone No. (000) 000-0000
Facsimile No. (000) 000-0000
XXXXXX INVESTMENTS, LLC
By: ________________________
Xxxx X. Xxxxxx, President
Address: 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx 000
0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Telephone: (000) 000-0000
Facsimile: (000) 000-0000
INVESTOR(S)
________________________
Investor's Name
By:_____________________
(Signature)
Address: ________________________
________________________
________________________
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