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Date Sent: 2010-07-16
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, July 16, 2010 |
BP: No oil leaking into Gulf from busted well -- Senate passes financial overhaul bill
Bush Aide Calls Some C.I.A. Torture Methods Unauthorized -- U.S. Says Scientist Aided C.I.A. While Still in Iran -- Goldman Paying $550M to Settle Civil Fraud Charges -- Democrats block amendment to ensure press access to oil spill -- The Evil History of the British Royal Family -- Government Mules - by David Galland -- ATS’ Dirty Corporate Family -- DARPA’s Crowdsourcer-in-Chief Bolts for Microsoft -- JPMorgan profit leaps nearly 80% -- Education Indoctrination -- Lieberman’s Model For America: Purging The Internet of Dissent -- Synthetic Biology: Great Promise and Potential Peril
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
BP: No oil leaking into Gulf from busted well
07-15-2010
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m.apnews.com/ap/
A tightly fitted cap was successfully keeping oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in three months, BP said Thursday. The victory - long awaited by weary residents along the coast - is the most significant milestone yet...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Senate passes financial overhaul bill
07-15-2010
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Washington Post
The Senate passed the financial overhaul package in a final vote, ending a year of wrangling over the shape of the landmark legislation. The focus now shifts to implementing the new regulations over coming weeks and months.
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Torture
Bush Aide Calls Some C.I.A. Torture Methods Unauthorized
07-15-2010
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NY Times
A former Bush Justice Department official who approved brutal interrogation methods by the C.I.A. has told Congress that he never authorized several other rough tactics reportedly inflicted on terrorism suspects " including prolonged shackling to a c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. Says Scientist Aided C.I.A. While Still in Iran
07-15-2010
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NY Times
The Iranian scientist who American officials say defected to the United States, only to return to Tehran on Thursday, had been an informant for the Central Intelligence Agency inside Iran for several years, providing information about the country’s n
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Climate Change
Record Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere Puzzles Scientists
07-15-2010
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Space
An upper layer of Earth's atmosphere recently collapsed in an unexpectedly large contraction, the sheer size of which has scientists scratching their heads. The layer of gas " called the thermosphere " is now rebounding again. This type of collapse i
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Goldman Paying $550M to Settle Civil Fraud Charges
07-15-2010
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NY Times
Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $550 million to settle federal claims that it misled investors in a subprime mortgage product as the housing market began to collapse, officials said Thursday.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Free Speech
Democrats block amendment to ensure press access to oil spill
07-15-2010
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The Washington Examiner
Democrats block amendment to ensure press access to oil spill. . . . Media outlets such as The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, and NPR have written damning reports of the government's unreasonable attempts to limit access to the spill.
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • Immigration
Wow! A solution to the border problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyPk6fSh-bY&feature=channel
07-10-2010
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Real News Tucson
One candidate running for Congress in Az actually has a solution to the border problem, no rhetoric!
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Reported by:
Chris Haskell
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News Link • Events: Arizona
"Indocrinate U" Screening
07-15-2010
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Phoenix Objectivists
For their last July meeting which will take place on the 29th, Phoenix Objectivists will host a free screening of the documentary "Indoctrinate U".
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Mike Renzulli
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News Link • European Union
EU FOREIGN POLICY POWERS INCREASED! CLOSER TO PERMANENT SEAT AT UN! US MUST PROTECT SOVEREIGNTY an
071510
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www.varight.com
The Tory/LibDem coalition government was forced by the terms of the Lisbon Treaty to support the increase of power for the EEAS, the foreign ministry of a non-nation. The US must reconsider its support of the EU and stand with the Constitution and n
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Money Bomb
(MoneyBomb) Ron Paul Endorsed David Fitzgerald AZ for State House
7/15/10
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davidfitzgerald2010.com
Hello fellow freedom lovers; my name is David Fitzgerald. I'm a
Constitutional Conservative who is running for Arizona State House
of Representatives in LD 6. I'm excited about the Tea Party movement
that is sweeping across America. For me it
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Anonymous Watchman
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News Link • History
The Evil History of the British Royal Family
07-15-2010
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The Real News
There are people who believe they have a God given right to rule over others. They harbor selfish ambitions to be rich, and to have power over what they describe as (common people.) They lie, cheat steal, strangle, stab, and slash their way to power.
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News Link • United Nations
WHAT ELSE IS NEW: SAN FRANCISCO VIOLATES THE CONSTITUTION!
071510
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www.varight.com
San Francisco seems to have a foreign policy. in 2009 this city adopted the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Why? To protect undocumented juveniles from ICE. This is a clear violation of the United States Constitution. Where's the Just
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Tell Me Another Lie...To Cover the Other Lie. Geeze, "Clean Elections" are at it again.
07-15-2010
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Barry Hess
You'd think, with it being so easy to verify stuff these days, that people in office, (or pretending to be) would at least 'fess up' when they are caught red-handed, but not the good folks at "Clean elections". Same old S*!@, when it comes to Libert
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Barry Hess
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News Link • United Nations
TWENTY-FIVE SENATORS STAND WITH OUR SOVEREIGNTY AGAINST UN CHILD TREATY; WHERE'S SENATORS LIEBER
071510
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www.varight.com
Three more senators have co-sponsored the DeMint resolution condemning the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This bad UN law (is that redundant?) would give immature children all sorts of enforceable rights even against their parents and wou
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Sandy Sanders
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News Link • Food
Food Safety Legislation Update
07-15-2010
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westonaprice.org
Thank you to the many people who have called or emailed their Senators to urge them to amend or oppose S. 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act! The bill continues to be delayed and its future is unclear. But it still poses a threat to producers o
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • Corruption
ATS’ Dirty Corporate Family
07-15-2010
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CameraFRAUD - The Cameras are Coming Down
Exploring the American Traffic Solutions-Goldman Sachs connection: "Single lonely corporation enjoys long walks on the beach and acts of starvation-caused genocide. Quirky side includes voyeurism and government-sanctioned extortion with our family m
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David Alpha
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Hillary Clinton’s Latest Lies
07-10-2010
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antiwar.com via globalresearch.ca
Paul Craig Roberts fills us in on Hillary's latest whoppers and explores the mystery of why most foreign governments are "in the know" but are not speaking out.
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Die Daily
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News Link • Surveillance
ACTION ALERT: Will you be assimilated?
07-15-2010
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DownsizeDC.org & BeatTheChip.org
The so-called Department of Homeland Security, in cooperation with major corporations like Microsoft, has drafted what they call a "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace."
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Sheila Dean
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Spell "Illuminati" backwards, add a dot com to it, and end up on the NSA homepage! (WoW)
07-15-2010
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The Real News
Tonight I was told by a fellow journalist and patriot that if you spell the word Illuminati backwards and add a dot com to it, you will end up on the homepage of the NSA website.
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News Link • Secret Societies
Bohemian Grove is Here: Video - Peter Philips, Ph.D and Mary Moore
07-15-2010
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thebohemiangroveblog.wordpress.com
The Bilderberg meeting just passed and there were many people protesting the powerful elites there. The Bilderberg is seen as the mothership to Bohemian Grove and many other secret cabals of power.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Ex-Bp spill cleanup worker speaks out about worker safety
07-15-2010
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Speak Truth 2 Power
BP worker safety fraud. Okay, let's define the word safety: "Being protected from an event or from exposure to something that causes health or economical losses." Oh, that's not what you meant?
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
Velocity Cruz Android Tablet: 7-Inch Display, $300
07-15-2010
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Charlie Sorrel via WIRED
Until now, the iPad has faced almost no competition. Soon, though, the Android and WebOS tablets will start to ship in bulk, and things may change. Amongst the first will be Velocity Micro’s Cruz lineup, which brings a wide-screen (16:9) tablet runni
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Events: America
Darpa’s Crowdsourcer-in-Chief Bolts for Microsoft
07-15-2010
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Noah Shachtman via WIRED
Darpa’s leading advocate for crowdsourcing and other ways of tapping new talent is leaving to join Microsoft " after only a year at the Defense Department’s top R&D division.
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
July 15, 1954: Boeing 707 Makes First Flight
07-15-2010
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Jason Paur via WIRED
1954: The Boeing 367-80 makes its first flight from Renton Field southeast of Seattle. The jet-powered airliner will become the Boeing 707 and usher in the jet age for passenger travel.
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
Matt Simmons: BP covering up MASSIVE HOLE miles away, cap test is "absurd"
07-15-2010
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Youtube.com & MSNBC Dylan Rattigan show
Today BP announced that they had successfully stopped the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April 22nd, 2010. Oil industry expert Matt Simmons went on MSNBC to proclaim that BP is lying.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
It’s Time Apple Fixed the iPhone 4 Antenna Problem
07-15-2010
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Brian X. Chen via WIRED
The iPhone 4 antenna problem is real. Apple needs to step up and make things right for the customers affected by it, and that may be what the company plans to do during a last-minute press conference Friday.
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • Agriculture
Pamela Anderson too Risqué for Montreal
07-15-2010
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arclein
Pamela Anderson's risqué advertisement promoting vegetarianism is a tad too sexy " even for the famously sultry City of Montreal.
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robert klein
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News Link • Iran
Back Home, Iranian Scientist Details Capture by US
07-15-2010
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Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com
US Official Claims 'Useful' Information Gained from Scientist
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Freedomsphoenix Reader 2
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News Link • World News
Argentina legalizes gay marriage
07-15-2010
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Agence France-Presse via the raw story
Argentina on Thursday became the first country in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, following a landmark Senate vote carried live on national television.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
U.S. home foreclosures reach record high in second quarter
07-15-2010
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Alejandro Lazo via Los Angeles Times
Bank repossessions increased 38% in the second quarter from the same period a year earlier for a record total of 269,952, according to data to be released Thursday by RealtyTrac.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
JPMorgan profit leaps nearly 80%
07-15-2010
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Agence France-Presse via the raw story
US banking giant JPMorgan Chase on Thursday announced a net profit of 4.8 billion dollars in the second quarter, up nearly 80 percent from the same period last year.
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News Link • Iran
‘Abducted’ Iranian back home, denies spilled secrets to US
07-15-2010
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Agence France-Presse via the raw story
An Iranian scientist who spent 14 months in the United States in mysterious circumstances denied on his arrival in Tehran on Thursday that he had spilled Iran's nuclear secrets to US agents.
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News Link • Internet
Lieberman’s Model For America: Purging The Internet of Dissent
07-15-2010
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Paul Joseph Watson via Prison Planet.com
The Chinese system has nothing to do with “war” and everything to do with political oppression
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
UPDATE " Hoax! Videos Purported to be Flyover of Gulf Oil Spill Hits Internet
07-15-2010
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YouTube via Prison Planet.com
UPDATE: This video is a hoax, it is ripped entirely from a 2007 movie entitled Petropolis. You can see the same footage from the 1:09 mark in the following clip.
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News Link • Environment
World's Cutest Baby Wild Animals
07-15-2010
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Clara Moskowitz via LiveScience
Choosing the cutest baby animals is like trying to name the most beautiful paintings in the world or the most delicious desserts - there are just too many options! But, in the name of journalism, we undertook the arduous task. Here are our choices fo
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News Link • Environment
Animal Sex: No Stinking Rules
Biggest Playaz
07-15-2010
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LiveScience.com
Rate them: Cast your vote here
Animals flout established rules when it comes to the game of love and sex. In fact, the animal kingdom is full of swingers.
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News Link • Environment
Dangers in the Deep: 10 Scariest Sea Creatures
07-15-2010
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Robert Roy Britt & Tuan C. Nguyen via LiveScience
Yes, this list is subjective, but it's based on research aimed at finding the creatures of the deep that conjure the most compelling combination of frightening personas, actual aggression and/or real pain or death to humans.
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News Link • Environment
25 Amazing Ancient Beasts
07-15-2010
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LiveScience.com
There seems to be no end to the odd creatures that scientists find by digging up fossils. Here we celebrate some of the coolest extinct fish, mammals, dinosaurs, birds and other beasts discovered in recent years by showcasing the artistic representat
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News Link • Environment
Video - Showdown at Grizzly River: Bear Sociology
07-15-2010
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PBS Nature/Questar via LiveScience
A two year old Grizzly Bear named Tuffy negotiates the complexities of bear society near the MacNeil River of Alaska. Stephen Collins narrates this excerpt from the award-winning PBS Nature series.
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Synthetic Biology: Great Promise and Potential Peril
07-15-2010
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Jeremy Hsu via LiveScience
Washington, D.C. " Designer organisms created from scratch in genomics labs won't run amok anytime soon, according to scientists speaking at the first public meeting of President Obama's bioethics commission held here in the nation's capital last we
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News Link • Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico
The "Well Integrity Test" Is a Sham: Can American's Figure Any Of This Out?
07-15-2010
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washingtonsblog.com/
Today, an oil and gas industry veteran with 30 years experience who goes by the alias Fishgrease says that the well integrity test is a PR stunt meant to fool the American people:
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