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This is why bloody minded martial arts is a good skill for young girls to be taught. The weird things is that psychos like this guy are attracted to women who are helpless, so they would never approach a girl with training in the first place.
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I was curious about this and was amazed to see how many were defending him on IMDB.
His story?
He went over to her home and forced his way in, then stabbed her over 20 times cause he thought she was someone he couldn't see clearly about to attack him.
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Longest session, not longest match. The longest match was back before the invention of the tiebreaker. At the 2010 Wimbledon Championships John Isner (left) defeated Nicolas Mahut (right) 6-4, 3-6, 6-7(7), 7-6(3), 70-68 in the world's longest tennis match. The match lasted 11 hours, 5 minutes.
Kim Il-Sung went on a tour of the countryside and met an old man. Kim Il-Sung asked: "When were you happier, before the revolution or after the revolution?"
"I was happier before the revolution."
Kim Il-Sung was displeased, but asked again:
"Why is that?"
"Before the revolution I had two pieces of clothes, but now I only have one."
Kim Il-Sung laughed and said: "That's it? Just because of clothes? There are many in Africa who walk around with no clothes at all."
The old man widened his eyes and said: "Africa had two revolutions already?"
A leftist agitator from South Korea visited North Korea. To welcome him, there was a grand feast at Pyongyang Mokran-gwan. The feast had an amazing selection of rare food and drinks: roasted eel, a whole roasted calf, ginseng liquor...
The agitator was impressed and said: "I am very surprised. I have never seen this kind of feast."
The North Korean representative, in a quivering voice, replied: "Same here. Thank you so much, comrade. We will never forget this."
A: There is a new power plant in Hamheung-si.
B: No, I'm just coming back from there, but I didn't see a power plant.
A: And there is a new chemical factory in Kimjeongsuk-gun.
B: I was there a week ago but I didn't see any factory...
A: Comrade! Stop running around and read the newspaper once in a while.
A CNN reporter visited Pyongyang and met North Koreans.
"America is a free country. If the president is not doing a good job, you can go out to Times Square and say out loud, 'Down with Barack Obama!'"
A North Korean gave that a lot of thought, and proudly replied:
"North Korea is a free country as well. We North Koreans can also go to the Kim Il-Sung Square and say out loud, 'Down with Barack Obama!'" More at link.
[Bangla Daily Star] Two outlawed groups traded heavy gunfire in Chatmohor upazila of Pabna on Friday night, leaving an operative killed, police said.
What - did the RAB have the weekend off and hired temps?
Sub-inspector Sirjul Haque, acting officer-in-charge, of the Chatmohor Police Station, told The Daily Star that the activists of the banned Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-Lal Pataka) and Noxal Bahini got into the firefight at Saratgajn Bazar around 9:30pm.
Are the Noxal Bahini also Maoists, like the Purbo Banglars?
After the battle, police around midnight recovered the body of Md Rakibullah, 25, son of Sorab Ali of the same upazila. Police said he was belonged to the Noxal Bahini.
Police also found several cartages of bullet and a machete on the scene, reports our Pabna correspondent.
The outlawed outfits have been fighting themselves for long for capturing control over the area.
However, locals said in addition to firing shots, the criminals used a huge number of bombs during the clash, creating panic among residents on the eve of the Eid-ul-Fitr.
Shopkeepers at Saratganj closed the shutters.
Police detained a man named Bakur for interrogation, but it was not known if he belongs to any of the groups.
Police is due to send the body to Pabna General Hospital morgue for autopsy.
"He really is dead, Jim. Happy Eid!"
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[Washington Times] The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Barack B.O. Obama's watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching 1960s levels that led to the national war on poverty.
Census figures for 2009 -- the recession-ravaged first year of the Democrat's presidency -- are to be released in the coming week, and demographers expect grim findings.
It's unfortunate timing for Obama and his party just seven weeks before important elections when control of Congress is at stake. The anticipated poverty rate increase -- from 13.2 percent to about 15 percent -- would be another blow to Democrats struggling to persuade voters to keep them in power.
"The most important anti-poverty effort is growing the economy and making sure there are enough jobs out there," Obama said Friday at a White House news conference. He stressed his commitment to helping the poor achieve middle-class status and said, "If we can grow the economy faster and create more jobs, then everybody is swept up into that virtuous cycle."
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He stressed his commitment to helping the poor achieve middle-class status...
Well, first of all, end the government programs and acts that are helping middle class Americans become poor in ever increasing numbers. The Tea Party is an indication that the alligators are about to reach ass level.
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Expect to see more class warfare talk from the dhimocrats as the election nears.
Empty class warfare talk; as far as I'm concerned the Democrats have made their Molotov-Ribbentroff pact with the Class system, especially with the laws and regulations they've enacted to make it prohibitively expensive to employ someone.
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helping the poor achieve middle-class status by making the entire middle class just as poor as the poor currently are. And 0 is succeeding beyond his wildest dreams.
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Well, as far as Mexican nationals go, I doubt he can claim credit for the profound exodus they are making from Arizona. Some of the neighborhoods are described as half the houses up for sale or rent, and the other half with moving yard sales.
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Lex made a good comment regarding the definition of what the 'Middle Class' actually is back in August. Lex, if you're out there, I bookmarked this whole thread as the discussion was extremely lively and informative.
Check out Lex's comment at Post #45.
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Well, as far as Mexican nationals go, I doubt he can claim credit for the profound exodus they are making from Arizona.
Yes, but... the question is, how many are returning to Mexico, and how many are moving deeper within the United States? We seem to have a growing problem with illegals here in the Cincinnati area, and I just read that the mayor of Hazleton, PA is going to fight for his anti-illegal ordinances all the way to the Supreme Court, having lost at the appeals level.
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tw: Impressively few are returning to Mexico, because they are very aware that it is becoming a civil war.
Many are terrified specifically of being "thrown across the border", because that is the worst place to be--so much so that Arizona is even offering to fly planeloads direct to Mexico City. (Also because from there it is 1350 miles back to Nogales.)
Many would rather barely scrape by in the US, instead of making more money in Mexico.
I like to point out that in their last civil war, from 1910-'20, over 900,000 Mexicans fled to the US, and when it was a LOT harder to cross that desert.
In 1910, the population of Mexico was a scant 15,000,000.
[Jerusalem Post] France on Saturday responded to former Cuban leader Fidel Castro's comment that it was committing a "racial Holocaust" against Roma living in the country.
Paris has been criticized by many within Europe and elsewhere for its recent deportations of 1,000 Roma from French territory.
"The use of the word 'holocaust' by Mr. Castro demonstrates his ignorance of history and disdain towards its victims," French foreign ministry spokesperson Bernard Valero was quoted by AFP as saying.
He added, "What it is truly revolutionary is that Fidel Castro is showing an interest in human rights."
Ouch. So true. The French do have a way with words when they so choose.
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A thousand?
How does that compare to his own little handiwork?
Each death entered into the archive must be confirmed by at least two independent sources and documented, to the extent possible, with photographs, eyewitness testimony, and the recollections of survivors. ’‘We don’t want to just record names and numbers,” says Maria Werlau, the president of the Cuba Archive. ’‘We want to tell each story. We want the world to know the magnitude of the Cuban tragedy.”
Gun rights advocates are up in arms that a Texas gun dealer was sentenced to six months in prison for selling a firearm to an illegal immigrant, but a "middle-man" who bought the gun for the immigrant -- and who was in the U.S. illegally himself, but had a valid driver's license -- was never arrested, charged or deported in the case.
Paul Copeland, 56, a Vietnam veteran, was sentenced to prison time and two years probation in federal court last week for selling a gun to an undocumented alien, Hipolito Aviles, at the Texas Gun Show in Austin in January.
But Aviles wasn't the man who handed Copeland the money for the gun. That man was Leonel Huerta Sr., who presented as identification the valid Texas driver's license he had obtained before his visa expired in 2007.
Copeland claimed he was presented with a valid driver's license and had no way of knowing that the man he was selling the gun to was an illegal immigrant, or that he intended to give the gun to another illegal immigrant.
Huerta, in a phone interview with Copeland's attorney that was included in court documents, said he showed Copeland his driver's license in order to purchase the gun, and it wasn't until he was leaving the building that he handed the gun to Aviles.
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So, apparently, the Federal Government wants private gun sellers to profile suspected illegals, but not Arizona Law Enforcement officers.
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Following the WACO fiasco, what little regard (and it was quite miniscule) for the BATF completely evaporated. They are, or have become little more than another federal law enforcement bureacracy, and surrogate for the FBI and DOJ.
The people of Turkey are set to vote in a referendum on changing the nation's constitution. The government wants to make a number of alterations that would bring the constitution more in line with the European Union's standards.
Some critics say the changes would give the government too much control over the judiciary, others that the process has been rushed. Supporters of the move say the 28-year-old military constitution must change.
They are mostly small and somewhat technocratic alterations, which many find difficult to understand, says the BBC's Jonathan Head in Istanbul.
The ruling conservative religious Justice and Development Party (AKP) led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed the changes will strengthen Turkish democracy.
The EU has backed the changes.
The secular opposition say that they will vote against the plan and accuse Mr Erdogan's party of trying to seize control of the judiciary as part of a back-door Islamist coup.
The changes are small and important, but are not the dramatic democratic leap forward that the government claims, says our correspondent.
The opposition might be joined by critics voting "no" to protest at the speed at which the reforms have been pushed through.
Opinion polls suggest the vote will be close.
The present constitution was introduced in 1982 by the military. Significant amendments have been made to it since then, but this is the first time it has been put to a referendum.
Some of the changes end the immunity the Turk military had for their 1980 coup and would make the military 'more accountable' to civilian courts. Understand that and you understand why Erdogan wants this, and the seculars don't ...
Mr Erdogan has been travelling around Turkey for the past three weeks, trying to drum up support for his reforms. The AKP has clashed repeatedly with Turkey's highest courts, which see themselves as guardians of the country's secular values.
But Mr Erdogan told the BBC last week his party had never discriminated between secular or non-secular Turks. He said he believed that secularism should apply to the state, not the people.
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Read an article this morning - Turkish gov't is saying the changes have been approved by the people - not sure if the vote has taken place yet......
Today the President once again discussed his proposals to boost America's economic recovery -- from rebuilding America's roads and bridges, to giving businesses incentives to invest, to help for small business. If one sat back and tried to think of the most bipartisan idea the President could possibly propose to boost job creation, it would probably be providing tax breaks for small businesses, and yet even this has been blocked by the partisan Republican minority from even coming up for an up-or-down vote for months.
But for any who thought that blocking even such common sense measures was the limit of how far Republicans in Congress could go in putting partisanship ahead of getting Americans back to work, the Vice Chairman of the House Republicans' campaign committee (the NRCC) was across town making clear that they were prepared to go much further. While the President was laying out bipartisan
That's bi-partisan defined as having the input and agreement of only one party, not both.
solutions to continue creating jobs, this Republican Congressman was rallying his political base in favor of his preferred solution -- simply shutting the government down altogether:
Speaking to hundreds of activists gathered at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington for the Faith and Freedom Conference, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) urged the audience to stand with House Republicans when they go toe-to-toe with President Barack Obama.
Westmoreland said his caucus -- presuming it takes control of the House come November -- aims to pass spending bills that Obama is likely to veto. He predicted Republicans would not be able to override such a veto, creating a standoff that could cause Congress to grind to a halt.
"If the government shuts down, we want you with us," he said.
The congressman recalled a similar shutdown that took place in 1995, when Newt Gingrich -- also a speaker at the conference -- was serving as House speaker.
This is far from the first time shutting down the government has been put forth by prominent conservatives. Newt Gingrich himself has been urging Republicans to follow the strategy laid out above, and Fox News correspondent Dick Morris recently gave a speech in which he said: "There's going to be a government shutdown just like in '95 and '96, but we're going to win it this time."
We have already heard the head of the same NRCC say "we need to go back to the exact same agenda" they supported during the past 10 years on the economy. And we have heard the House Republican Leader John Boehner promise to push for repeal of Wall Street "Reform", allowing huge banks to go right back to the reckless gambling with our economy that led to the crisis the President is leading America out of.
While the President is offering a vision about how to move the country forward
Or perhaps it's backward, but let's not quibble about directions...
and help middle class Americans and small business owners,
That is to say, increase in the direction of harm,
Republicans in Congress are busy telling partisans and Republican party activists to get prepared for the same stalemate and gridlock they brought the last time they were in charge. The President, like most Americans, is open to hearing new ideas to create jobs and boost the recovery from anybody in any party
Hear? Possibly. But definitely not listen -- we saw how our president refused to meet with the governor of Texas about that little illegal alien problem they have on the border the president refuses to control.
-- unfortunately Americans are not hearing those ideas from Republicans in Congress.
Actually, Americans are hearing plenty of ideas from the Republicans: shut down Obamacare, reduce paperwork for small businesses, control the border... the creative ideas are coming from those boring Tea Partiers and their even more boring Rebublican targets.
Dan Pfeiffer is White House Communications Director
He's not very good at it, is he? But perhaps he's got the right ideology and went to the right schools.
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Pelosi-Reid failed to pass any Congressional budget this year.
As of today several funding appropriations (spending authorizations) for the 2011 fiscal year which begins 1 October will not be passed before that fiscal year starts or until after the election.
So what's the point? You have the power and control and still fail to get the job done yourself. Maybe, just maybe, this is telling you that government is TOO BIG. Time to go back to the basics.
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Actually, Americans are hearing plenty of ideas from the Republicans: shut down Obamacare, reduce paperwork for small businesses, control the border... the creative ideas are coming from those boring Tea Partiers and their even more boring Rebublican targets.
I think the Dems think the sheer number of their ideas means they are doing more. The Trunks only have a few simple ideas. How could a few simple ideas be called good government when the Dems have so many ideas, even if they are intricate and misdirected?
With an aim of increasing its lethal power, India's tri-services strike force is planning to acquire 40 fighter planes capable of delivering nuclear weapons. The Strategic Forces Command (SFC) has submitted a proposal to the Defence Ministry for setting up two dedicated squadrons of fighter
aircraft which will act as "mini-Air Force", ministry sources said.
This will be the first time that SFC, which at present depends on the Indian Air Force for delivering nuclear weapons under its command, will have its own aerial assets, they said.
The SFC does not want untested fighters but the ones which are battle proven and have capabilities to deliver nuclear-tipped missiles, the sources said.
The aircraft planned to be procured are part of efforts to strengthen the nuclear delivery system which right now is based on land-based ballistic missiles such as the Agni and Prithvi and nuclear-capable fighters such as the Mirage 2000, Su-30 MKI and Jaguars.
Created in January 2003, the SFC is part of the Nuclear Command Authority (NCA) and is responsible for the management and administration of the country's tactical and strategic nuclear weapons stockpile.
Attempts are underway to complete the nuclear triad by developing the indigenous Arihant class nuclear submarine and under-sea launched versions of the existing ballistic missile systems.
India's nuclear doctrine envisages building a credible minimum deterrent for maintaining a 'second strike capability' which will be massive and designed to induce unacceptable damage on the enemy.
The SFC is headed by a three-star officer from any of the three services and is responsible for implementing directives of the NCA. At present, the force is headed by Lieutenant General B S Nagal.
The force manages and administers all strategic forces by exercising complete command and control over nuclear assets, and producing all contingency plans as needed to fulfil the required tasks.
The operational missile groups of the Army are armed with the 150-250 km short-range Prithvi missiles and the others with the Agni missiles of ranges above 1,5000 km form the nucleus of SFC.
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Mirage 200 Range: 1,550 km (837 nmi, 963 mi) with drop tanks
Su-30 MKI: Range: 3,000 km (1,875 nmi) at altitude with no external fuel tanks
Jaguar GR1: Range: 535 km (335 mi)
Can you carry drop tanks and a nuke? I don't think so. No mention of a mini Air Force with refueling tankers. They might want to rethink that one.
Of course the IAF currently operates 6 Ilyushin Il-78MKIs in an aerial refueling configuration.
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Can you carry drop tanks and a nuke? I don't think so.
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...We've got a BUNCH of B-52s in storage, as well as at least one squadron of B-1s - let India put their own electronics in them, and then watch the Paks (and China) soil themselves...
Mike
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Actually, two squadrons of upgraded F-15Es would be sufficient, especially with an aerial refueling capability. After all, nukes aren't exactly pinpoint weapons...
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VARIOUS POSTERS > gener argue that, given the Indian Air Forces penchant at producing local Indian Aces for Enemy Air Forces [IAF air crashes/PAKAF, PLAAF], THIS SHOULD END WELL???
[Jerusalem Post] Iranian news reports on Saturday stated that six workers who were badly burned in a gas pipeline explosion have died.
The ISNA news agency also reported Saturday that 20 people were injured.
Friday night's accident was caused by an earth-moving machine that struck a local pipeline, setting off an explosion and igniting a large fire in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
The pipeline brought gas to the city from a nearby refinery. It took firefighters three hours to bring the blaze under control.
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Homer is probably thinking you can get the American masses whipped into a fighting frenzy without burning their stupid book. That we can get the average Joe to want to go to war in a civilized, orderly fashion to properly dispose of the supposedly few miscreants that have supposedly hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam. Who have either been at our throat or at our knees since its inception.
1) our own multiculti culture. When we first learned who flew the planes into towers, we should have just ended islamic immigration immediately and locked down muslims ie: religious profiling. vigilant surveillance of mosque, movements etc. They should be registered and watched.
then there would be no further problem.
That is what Britain would have done circa 1945, isn't that what we did with Japanese in the war? We actually had internment camps. Tough but necessary.
2) the real enemy is CHINA. we can waste ourselves fighting never-ending battles with the mohammeds in the desert but China is sitting there waiting to crush us. They are getting stronger militarily and they own a big chunk of US Debt.
If they own too much they will be able to smash the US$ at will and hurt the economy even more.
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But why aren't all the muslim-rage-boys raging?
Oh yeah, these koran-burners weren't phoned by SecDef Gates, denounced by Obama and Patreaus, visited by the FBI, and featured all week on every American news network.
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When we first learned who flew the planes into towers, we should have just ended islamic immigration immediately and locked down muslims ie: religious profiling. vigilant surveillance of mosque, movements etc. They should be registered and watched.
We did a lot of that here in America, anon1, shortly after 9/11. The word went out that all Muslim men over the age of 18 had to be legally registered, either with a valid visa, green card, or citizenship, or they would be summarily deported, along with all non-valid dependents. There were actual lines at the Canadian border crossings, people who'd been here for for years, even decades, along with their American-born children who'd never seen the home country (mostly Pakistan). Bugs were quietly installed in the mosques, web sites and phones were listened in on, and the quiet moderates started turning in the radicals. Our public radio had a series of reports about how unfair it was to those fleeing, with heavy weight on the plight of the children being sent back to those benighted countries.
I don't know if anyone kept track of the numbers of those who left, and how many were connected to nefarious organizations. I hope so, if only so the trackers can sleep better at night, knowing what was prevented by those simple actions.
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Too bad that a religion is so devoid of substance that an object made of paper becomes an object of reverence. I think that Allah AND our Christian god warns us about objects being a substitute of faith. A crucifix in urine disappoints me but a crucifix is not the sum total of my faith. Burn a bible? Not going to shake me because I have MORE to that in my faith.
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Here's the transcript of that NPR report. I'm going to post it as an article for tomorrow, too, because it is important to understand why there was no cascade of attacks on U.S. soil after 9/11.
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Burning a book is not something that I would ever consider, but I have to say that if everyone in the world thinks they can tell us what we can or cannot do, I may go cheer this guy on.
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The world burns our flag. We burn our own. Things are simmering. We start burning theirs, they'd better pay attn.
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well said anonmous. Normally rational people have had enough. If our administration does not start supporting the will of the people there will be bigger issues on the horizon.
Before anyone says that voting will change things, and they should, but it is commonly accepted, on both side that what is said during the election process is just "election rhetoric" and the candidates should not be held to it. To fix this we need a fundamental change in accountability with respect to our elected officials.
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To fix this we need a fundamental change in accountability with respect to our elected officials. Posted by: 49 pan|| 2010-09-12 12:14 |
We HAVE a fix - it's called the Second Amendment. It just hasn't been implemented enough lately. We need to publicly hang a half-dozen politicians, and DARE anyone, especially the Government, to do anything about it. The rest will get the message. It may lead to a revolution, it may not. What it WILL do is send an unambiguous message to Washington that we're totally fed up with politicians, and will do whatever it takes to re-take control of this nation at the individual level.
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ION YT, see FREEREPUBLIC > THREE THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT ISLAM.
IOW, VIDEO = the US-WEST is in a DE FACTO TOTAL WAR OF UNILATERAL OR AYMMETRIC DESTRUCTION + ANNIHILATION, NOT "MUTUAL", WAGED AGZ IT BY GOD-FAITH-BASED TOTALITARIANS WHOM HAVE NO QUALMS TELLING THE US-WEST IT IS NOT.
SUB-IOW, to paraphrase HIGHLANDER > "THERE CAN ONLY ONE" in the End, and it is NOT Judaeo-Christianity andor US-Western Democracy = ANY EACH + ALL, ETC. NON-ISLAM.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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