History of the English Language 4 unread articles // actions
Texts in Transition
The mid-thirteenth century saw something rarely known in the
annals of the conquerors and the conquered: the re-emergence of written
texts in English from amidst a people still ruled by Norman
French-speaking aristocrats. Perhaps the rulers were too few in number,
or too many had, generations before, taken Saxon wives and raised their
children in bilingual households. And yet the English which e
Everyday life in Anglo-Saxon England
In some ways, it was the best of times: The Anglo-Saxon élite
founded monasteries and nunneries, in which many great works of art and
literature were copied and preserved; land under tillage increased, and
there was a gradual shift from a war footing to a comfortable peacetime.
Women enjoyed nearly equal status with men: they could own and bequeath
property, work in a profession, and if they neede
Old English
The land now known as England was originally inhabited by an
unknown culture of people, sometimes referred to as "Megalithic" people
(a reference to the standing stones they left at, among other places,
Stonehenge). These people were displaced by Celtic tribes, who in their
turn were pushed back to the peripheries of the island by three
Germanic tribes -- the Angles, the Saxons, and the
Introducing .... the International Phonetic Alphabet!
One of the things that makes English so distinct from most of the
other languages on the planet is its unusually inconsistent and
unpredictable spelling. Due to changes in the sounds of English over
time, many letters once pronounced are now silent -- particularly our
old friend "silent e." Add to that the fact that, as our vowel system
changed, many words that use the same vowel are pro
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Cryptozoology: An Extraordinary Fishfall Over Honduras
Source: Diario Popular (Honduras)Date: 05.23.2014Cryptozoology: An
Extraordinary Fishfall Over HondurasThe mysterious phenomenon affected
the region of Yoro. While there is no evidence that can scientifically
explain this fact, it could be due to a meteorological phenomenon.A
torrential storm left a "fishfall" in a village of northern Honduras.
This curious phenomenon has caused both inc
Mexico: Unusual Light Photographed over Airliner
Source: www.analuisacid.com.mxDate: 05.28.2014Mexico: Unusual
Light Photographed over AirlinerContributing Editor Ana Luisa Cid has
kindly provided us with this photograph. She writes: "In Mexico City
airport, before the arrival of the flight to Veracruz. A UFO? Small
spheres are also visible in the upper left hand corner of the photo. The
original [photograph] is very large. This is a reduce
Argentina: Possible CE-3 - New Humanoid Presence in the Necochea
Source: Planeta UFODate: 05.24.2014Argentina: Possible CE-3 - New
Humanoid Presence in NecocheaBy Guillermo GiménezInvestigation is
underway. Witnesses speak of the strange presence of a humanoid-type
being in the beaches of Necochea on 20 May 2014 (date to be confirmed)
at 23:00 hours (approx.). It seemed to float, was very large as its
strides were quite long. It was seen from an apartment in th
Argentina: Pinpoint of Light Over Tucumán
A mysterious dot of light - manmade, natural or alien, take your
pick - was photographed by Javier Lopez Posse on May 24, 2014 in
daylight on a cloudy fall day in the Southern Hemisphere. Our thanks to
contributing editor Guillermo Giménez for providing us with these
photos.Inexplicata Podcasts covering items from UFO / paranormal history
in
Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean
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Mexico’s Climate Laws Ignore Women
The Ajusco forest, one of Mexico City’s green lungs and water
sources. Credit: Emilio Godoy/IPS By Emilio GodoyMEXICO CITY, May 8 2014
(IPS) The rural communities of San Miguel and Santo Tomás Ajusco, to
the south of Mexico City, are preserving 3,000 of their 7,619 hectares
of forest in exchange for payment for environmental services. But the
inequality in the communities is far from ecological.
T
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Davis City Council candidates Q&A
Two questions for the 2014 Davis City Council candidates:1. The
City’s unit labor costs* have been growing faster than the City’s
revenues have been growing for many years. Do you believe that is
sustainable?2. If you think the growing unit cost of labor is
unsustainable, what reforms, if any, to the City’s labor contracts would
you suggest the next City Council pursue to make these costs sustaina
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Fukushima Steaming May 30
I was out of town for over a week and couldn't watch the webcams.
However, I've seen plenty of ugly looking screenshots posted by
Enenewsers over the last week in the webcam discussion forum here.I had a
chance to view for myself today Fukushima steaming away. Close-Up of
Unit 3, which appears to be glowing in the shot above I don't know what
extent atmospheric conditions contributed to this stea
Autism and Ionizing Radiation
Diagnoses of autism are increasing and more researchers are
concluding that environmental causes are contributing in significant
ways to the rising diagnoses. Environmental injuries that are suspected
to play a role in autism include DNA damage, primarily in the form of de
novo mutations, epigenetic changes in how genes encode proteins, and
endocrine system disturbances. The environmental culprits
Unit 4 Emissions April - May 2014
Unit 4 has had MAJOR emissions over the last two months. I
remember that nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen told us that the
zirconium encased nuclear fuel rods could off-gas radionuclides in the
absence of outright 'fire' if damaged fuel becomes hot enough.I think
these screenshots are pretty strong evidence that fuel in the vicinity
of unit 4 has become hot enough to produce massive emission event
WSJ: Japan's Abe Moves to Bolster Military
Wall Street Journal Friday May 16 page 8:"Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe took a significant step toward removing six-decade old
constraints on Japan's military, a move that could enable Tokyo to play a
greater security role in an increasingly tense East Asia......Abe said
his government would kick of discussions to determine whether to change
the interpretation of the constitution to perm
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Basics: Is That a Good Economic Development Deal? A Checklist
In my last post, I discussed one of the most important sets of
questions regarding any proposed economic development subsidy: How much
does it cost? Is that too much? The answer, assuming that we are not
going to overhaul our broken subsidy system overnight, was that we see
if we're paying too much by looking at what other states and cities have
paid for similar projects.This presumes, of course,
Basics: Is that a good economic development deal? Using the Megadeals database
It's a familiar situation: business and government officials are
promoting a new economic development deal which naturally includes
subsidies for the investor. They may be touting a consultant's study
touting massive ripple effects and fantastic taxpayer return on
investment. Should you believe them?Of course not. Consultants, whether
they technically are working for the company or the government,
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Kim Kardashian Flashes her Blue Underwear En Route to Met Gala—Take a Look!
Uh-oh! Kim Kardashian suffered a wardrobe malfunction before even
stepping foot on the red carpet!
According the source of the E! star was running late to the 2014
Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala and accidentally
flashed her navy blue panties while rushing out of the Lanvin store in
New York and into her car with fiance Kanye West.
However, Kim will have to be extra careful wit
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UKIP - Sleepwalking the UK into Talmudic Servitude
UKIP is a notorious party operating in the UK. It is portrayed
by the media as some sort of racist 'nazi' organisation, but remarkably,
is afforded endless publicity by the same media which operates a 'no
platform' policy with anyone who rejects (or even questions) multi-culti
'political correctness'. In this respect alone, those who are familiar
with the absolute censorship of the UK media, sh
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Dear Everyone, You're Part of The Problem
As everyone in Canada is aware (whether they want to be or not),
Ontario is having a provincial election. Support for the current Liberal
minority was tenuous, and the unofficial Liberal/NDP coalition fell
apart.
I felt it was about time. Especially as, in my view, the Wynne Liberals
had introduced a budget that tried to out NDP the NDP. People called it
the most progressive budget ever. I
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Maybe we could have an @OntarioPCParty online butthurt form, just to save time | #onpoli
Well, I guess when you're reduced to using whiny 21-year-olds for
staff, this is what you get.Not only lashing out at others for their own
fuckups, but doubling down on the stupidity and ignorance. I know, easy
targets, but hey, if they're going to leave the evidence there for
anyone to come along and use ...Teabagger Timmy's been having a rough
week, evidently. Getting called out on his bad math
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MH370 shot down in South China Sea - gains traction
First book on MH370 mystery blames US war gamesEXCLUSIVEOne
theory: Flight MH370 posits that there was a cover-up.Seventy-one days
after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared, the first book about
the disaster will go on sale on Monday with a theory about what might
have happened.And as the international search continues for the aircraft
Irene Burrows, the Queensland mother who lost her son a
God's Dilemma: The reason God can't save the 21st century world.
- by Joyce BTwo thousand years ago, it might still be possible for
God to appear in 3D form to save the world. Today it would be nigh
impossible for God to do the same. So, if you have been praying for God
to appear, pray no more. You have only yourself to blame. God can't help
us until we, collectively as humans, do so. To illustrate:If God were
to appear before us today, which form would he take
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Private schools, the strike/lockout and inequality
Not all parents are worried about school closures in the current
teachers’ dipute.Christy Clark and thousands of others have opted out of
the public school system and pay large fees for children to go to
private schools. They are not affected by the strike/lockout.But they’re
still a factor. About 76,000 children are enrolled in private schools,
about 12 per cent of all students. Their parents ten
Killed After Office Golf Party Nightmare Of Crashes
I’ve been doing some research that led me into the Toronto Star
online archives of the mid-1950s.It wasn’t any golden age of
journalism.But boy, they knew how to grab readers.The headline at the
top of the post was from the Star’s line story on June 25, 1955. It was
screaming, two-deck head across the top of the page, and the story
delivered. After a company golf party, the boss - drunk - insisted
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Bits and Pieces - May 25, 2014
More Ukraine and nuclear-related links can be found here (and
scroll up).How the NRA Enables Massacres. When will we ever learn, when
will we ever learn?The NSA's unofficial org chart.Part of the NSA's
damage assessment of Snowden's actions.An open letter on feminism in
tech. How many times does this have to be said?Arvo Pärt in DC and New
York.
Thunderstorm!
Saw this cloud to the south earlier this evening.It moved to the
northeast.And we got some rain, fairly heavy but not as wild as the
cloud looked. There's still a storm to the south. This one seems to have
spun off from it.
Bits and Pieces - May 22, 2014
As usual, posts about Ukraine, why nuclear plants cost so much,
the Kremlin may be watching you on Facebook, and more at Nuclear
Diner.Could it be possible that we are coming to a time when we discuss
some of the issues we need to discuss? The Atlantic has two impressive
articles on two issues: Ta-Nehisi Coates on reparations for black
Americans and Mary Adkins on rape. Lt. Col. Robert Bateman dis
Kazakhstan's Ancestral Apples In Trouble
We haven't had a post on fruit in a VERY long time.National
Geographic has a long article on apples and their birthplace in
northeastern Kazakhstan. They are ancestral to all the apples we know,
and they are endangered. A few excerpts:One of these threatened species,
Malus sieversii—a wild apple that Newton describes as "small but highly
colored with a very nice sweet flavor"—is one of t
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Fraction of the Globe in Drought: 1982-2012
The graph above shows the proportion of the planet in drought, by
intensity, 1982-2012. The graph comes from a paper in a new Nature
publication called Scientific Data and is open access. You can see it
here.
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Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home 5 unread articles // actions
Management-Side Firm Whines Because EEOC Mediators Are Doing Their Jobs
The law firm Fox Rothschild, LLP has posted a series of blog posts
where they complain bitterly about EEOC mediators. They claim the
mediators are unfair because they have the nerve (the noive!) to tell
employers that EEOC could enter a cause finding in their case. The
whining began with a survey by Merrily Archer where she asked
management-side folks who participated in EEOC mediations whether or
My Readers Change The World! ObamaCare COBRA Gap Fixed
I wrote a few weeks ago about The Little-Known ObamaCare COBRA
Catch-22. I thought this issue was so important that I asked AOL Jobs
readers for help. I asked you to sign a petition I started to alert the
President to this issue. I asked you to tell the President to close the
gap. And you came through.Not only did you sign the petition, but some
of you took action to help. Members of the National
6 Ways Same-Sex Marriage Will Affect Florida Employees
There are multiple lawsuits pending in Florida challenging the
state's ban on same-sex marriage. There's one in Key West, one in Miami,
one in federal court in Tallahassee, and there are probably some more
out there. It's almost inevitable that the ban on gay marriage will be
overturned here soon.So why does an employment lawyer care about gay
marriage? Here are just some of the laws that will aff
Who Do I Complain To About Discrimination If I'm HR?
An AOL Jobs reader asked me: I am a minority female HR
professional who has been working in the field for 18 years. I have
faced race based discrimination, and sexual harassment continuously
during my career. I'm often hired into a management role based on my
degree, experience and my SHRM certifications, only to be hidden and
given no real responsibilities. Over the years I have learned to identi
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Syrians in Lebanon Vote in Presidential Elections
My brother voted 'no' in the Syrian embassy in Moscow during 1980s
Hafez 'election'. His passport was revoked & never able to go back
since
— اغين الزعبي (@agh_yan) May 28, 2014
As Syrians abroad have been gathering to vote in the presidential
elections at Syrian embassies around the world, Anne Barnard tweeted
from the scene in Beirut. These tweets were very interesting, and I am
providing
Syria: The West Should Stop Raising False Expectations – By Nikolaos van Dam
Syria: The West Should Stop Raising False Expectations
By Nikolaos van Dam*
Delivered at the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin, 19 May 2014
Discussion series “Understanding Syria”. Discussion 3: German and
European policy towards Syria: “Look the other way and wait as a
strategy?
In my view there are two main ways of ending the conflict in Syria:
1. Further negotiations between the regime and the p
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Hard Men of Letters
Mary Beard’s insightful (and suitably uncomfortable) lecture on
the suppression of the public voice of women is a good starting point
for a more general discussion of oppressive language in the digital age.
This is no small matter of etiquette. Abuse is not everyone’s cup of
tea. While some revel in it, many others are put off from bothering to
contribute. This is not just an infringement of their
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About 'The New American Century'
THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY is a history of neoconservatism and its
influence on US Foreign Policy in the Middle East during the first
decade of the twenty-first century. Written after years of extensive
research, THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY contains over 550 pages, including
more than 1200 footnotes and some 120 pages of bibliography. The book
has been meticulously researched with every aspect of the h
Sick Neocon Propagandists Attempt To Twist Nakba Killings
On 15 May 2014, Nakba Day for Palestinians around the world who
commemorate the loss of their lands to the Israelis, two Palestinian
youths were shot dead in Beitunia, a small town near Ramallah in the
West Bank, while demonstrating against Israeli occupation. The killings
were captured on CCTV and the footage has gone viral around the world to
a point where even the US government are insisting on
Neocons Continue Push For War Against Iran
Top neocon propagandist Jonathan Tobin, writing online in
Commentary today argues that America’s ‘gift’ of the Iron Dome defence
system designed to counter rocket attacks from Palestinians in the Gaza
Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon, does not mean that Israel should abstain
from attacking Iran if Israel believes Iran is close to a ‘nuclear
breakout’. Tobin writes:It’s not clear what, if anything, N
Another Push For War Against Iran
It has got to the point that the only way the US is likely to go
to war against Iran – albeit reluctantly – is if Israel attacks Iran
first. Any hope by the Zionists and their supporters of the US making a
pre-emptive strike against Iran have long gone.The Israeli-Palestinian
stand-off has reached a stalemate as far as talks are concerned. The
Israelis are never going to allow a Palestinian state
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What I Learned (Again) on My Vacation
May 31, 2014
The past two weeks have been busy around here, with some wins and some
losses, a couple of wins I’d thought were going to be losses and vice
versa.
I got the transplants for the backyard garden into the ground just
before it began to rain off and on for most of the two weeks. A definite
win. The critters ate all of the melon, cucumber and okra transplants –
and rain be damned. Pret
I Need a Vacation
May 17, 2014
Since today and tomorrow will be sunny and warmer (sunny mid to high
sixties compared to rainy mid forties and fifties,) followed by
seventies and eighties for all of next week, I am taking a vacation from
the blog to get the gardens ready, planted and off to the best start I
can. After a week of cold, rain and darkness that feels like a bunch of
bricks on my brain, I need one.
B
Reaping the Whirlwind
May 10, 2014
This will be a short post this week as I have spent most of the day
looking at videos and pictures from the terrible Trade Union Building
fire that took so many lives in Odessa, Ukraine, over a week ago.
I do not know the people in those pictures and videos, but they are
horrifying. There was video of people in a crowd in front of the burning
building lobbing more fire bombs into th
Rendering Ourselves Extinct
May 3, 2014
“We are warming, and that comes with consequences. By the way, Earth
will survive this. People say ‘save the Earth.’ No, don’t worry about
Earth. Earth will be here long after we have rendered ourselves
extinct.” Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
From all the various articles I’ve read and all the videos I’ve watched
this week, this quote from Neil d
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Degeneracy Today, or The Coercion of Dogma Versus the Coercion of a Design
Steven Goddard has a post on "A Dark Age of Degeneracy", speaking
about the state of the Democratic party in the U.S. now. This is no news
to me, as I have been referring to them as "The Insane Left" for most
of Obama's presidency, certainly since the passage of "Obamacare" in
early 2010. But the degeneracy is not limited to politics, nor to recent
years. My response
There Is No Valid Climate Science and No Competent Climate Debate
The WUWT site has a post on alarmist "pseudoscientists' claims
debunked", containing a statement that I find absolutely incompetent,
and to which I respond here: "Let us be as precise as They are vague.
The existence of the greenhouse effect is definitively established both
in theory and in experiment and needs no 'consensus' to prop it up." You
call that precise? The "gre
The Growing Religious Self-Righteousness of Science
Steven Goddard has a post, "My 35th Year as a Global Warming True
Believer". My response is the following: "Global warming" hype is just
the latest step in a creeping degeneracy of science--particularly in the
earth and life sciences--that has been going on since long before I was
born. As a physicist, I am astounded by the poor quality of
introductory university physics texts
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untitled
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy IF you think the
politicians, the beauracrats, the asshole pundits in DC or NY et al, et
al care about you --just REMEMBER VIET NAM!The Kent State, the Woodstock
generation was was a generation not afraid to take it to the streets,
the campuses, the media! Alas --neither Democrat nor GOP administrations
gave a shit! Viet Nam was in no way "improved"
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F-35 and hot air
For anyone who still follows the very expensive comedy of errors
that is the F-35, the latest news is that the air from the big hole what
all the hot air blows out on the vertical take off/land "B" model is
too hot for most landing surfaces. Apparently it requires a special
military grade concrete mix, or a special 30 ton landing pad, which
effectively negates the entire point of a V/ST
Worst Days in canadian Conservative History?
Um.
1 July 1867, aka Canada Day. 1 August 1834, the formal end of slavery in the British Empire.
Eliminating the province's government: The Tim Hudak Plan
The Canadian Press might want to revise their piece. It's all part
of Hudak's larger goal of eliminating the province's projected
$12.5-billion deficit by 2016 — a year before the Liberals say
they can balance the books.
No. Cutting the 100 000 public sector jobs effectively elimates the
Public Service in Ontario, and with it the ability of the government to
do, well, just about anything.
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Diabetes as an Iatrogenic Disease - the Indian Experience
Diabetes and dairy fat in India.
The epidemics of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and related conditions in
India have been called iatrogenic (Raheja B.S. 1994), a product of diets high
in linoleic acid as a result of “chasing the phantom of cholesterol” (Raheja et
al. 1993). The traditional Indian diet (31% fat) supplied 20.3%E as saturated
fats, mainly from ghee, with 5% from linoleic aci
Uffe Ravnskoff, Zoe Harcombe and Aseem Malhotra on the New Censorship
This is just a bookmark for three responses to two recent
incidents of press censorship.ABC withdrew the two episodes of "Heart of
the Matter" Catalyst show, despite nothing substantial in the
complaints being upheld, and the BMJ retracted some comments critical of
statins, including those of Dr Aseem Malhotra, which were opinion based
on his clinical impression, and had been presented a
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How long can uranium last?
If US were to replace fossil fuels with nuclear power we would
require somewhere between 500 GW of reactor power. However this only
looks at the problem from the viewpoint which treats annual demand as
continuous, where as it fluxuates almosrt continuously. The 500 GW is
only useful in determining how much reactor fuel the US would require if
it were to obtain a years supply of electricity solely
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Adding alt, title attribute and caption for photos uploaded to Blogger
I already have a post on uploading pictures in the HTML mode and
adding alt attribute to the picure, so to make it complete, let's make a
post to explain to show step by step how you can add alt and title
attributes as well as caption in the COMPOSE mode.(alt attribute of the
form alt="some text" will cause the "some text" to display when if for
any reasons the picture cannot b
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Enbridge`s Northern Gateway Pipeline Project Is Dead, Reason Number 1, Oil Tanker Wrecks and Explosions
Breaking News not reported in Canada`s Mainstream Media.....May
29th 2014998 tonne oil tanker has exploded today off the coast of
Japan..Fortunately the tanker had just unloaded it`s oil
cargo..._______________________One missing after explosion on Japan oil
tanker"Television footage showed the approximately 80-metre ship listing
heavily as at least two jets doused the badly-charred centre of
British ColumbiaIs Losing The LNG Horserace, or is that British Columbia Lost The LNG Horserace
Japan is now receiving LNG from Papua New Gunea....First
Shipments just left for Japan Papua New Guinea becomes 20th LNG
exporter as shipment leaves for Japan Papua New Guinea, the small
nation in Oceania, has become the world's 20th LNG exporter after an
ExxonMobil Corp.-operated facility constructed near the capital Port
Moresby shipped its first cargo Six years in the making, the PN
Christy Clark Puts On Her Red Shoes And Dances The LNG Blues
Written by Grant GPanic, cold sweat, fear of the cold hard truth
bearing its pearly whites, what to do, call in emergency media
intervention to calm the nerves of an increasing doubtful public, the
dream, the myth, the fantasy of LNG riches must live on... ..Yes I did
read Vaughn Palmer`s article last week where he confirmed that the BC
Liberals proposed 7% tax on LNG exports is gone, caput, off t
The Rise Of Predator Economics And The Fall Of Good Governance
The Rise Of Predator Economics And The Fall Of Good
Governance If the definition of good governance includes the sound
management of public monies and resources, then Canada has very bad
governance.The manufactured health care crisis is a case in point.
Solutions to challenges of cost, quality, and access are fairly
straightforward but wilfully ignored, and current trajectories towards
co
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