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City543 » Dig Into The Archaeology-Themed Fossil Jurassic Chocolate Box This Winter (http://city543.com/taipei... https://d1a5r6c009tu0u.cl... )

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"Upon opening the box, you’ll be greeted with a solid slab of bitter chocolate. But hold your dinosaurs; don’t bite into the chocolate just yet. First put on your archaeologist hat and crack the bitter chocolate surface with a small hammer. Then brush and sweep away the sweet, fine chocolate dust to reveal the fossil of a terrifying (but delicious) tyrannosaurus rex beneath, made from white chocolate. And in case you were wondering, everything in the box is edible." - JustDuckie - -

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"Each branch will sell only five boxes of Fossil Jurassic Chocolate each day starting at 3pm, with customers limited to purchasing one box a day." - Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo - Andrew C - [ 2 ] -

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Police video: 73-year-old man snorts cocaine in front of officer during traffic stop | News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | KBOI (http://kboi2.com/news/off... http://kboi2.com/resource... )

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"When officer Abts-Olsen knocked on the driver's car window, he apparently startled the man, leading him to spill cocaine all over his hands and the floor of his vehicle, police said. "What's in your left hand?" Abts-Olsen asked the driver. "Nothing," replied the driver. "Are you kidding?" Abts-Olsen said. "You're about to snort coke on the side of the road?" "No!" the man replied. "It's nothing." "I'm watching you do it," Abts-Olsen said. "It's nothing.... it's vitamin pills, that I take?" the driver asked, not sounding very sure that would fly. "That's not a vitamin," Abts-Olsen said. "I know!" came the reply." - JustDuckie - -

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How Corporations Profit From Black Teens' Viral Content | The FADER (http://www.thefader.com/2... http://res.cloudinary.com... )

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"Put plainly, there is no recognized ownership. The phrase Newman gave the world was used to sell breakfast foods and party cups, but it only belongs to her in an intangible sense, on the rare occasions in which people choose to give her credit. “I gave the world a word,” Newman said. “I can’t explain the feeling. At the moment I haven’t gotten any endorsements or received any payment. I feel that I should be compensated. But I also feel that good things happen to those who wait.”" - JustDuckie - -

"Part of the reason the originators of viral content are stripped from their labor is because they don’t technically own their production. Twitter does, Vine does, Snapchat does, and the list goes on. Intangible things like slang and styles of dance are not considered valuable, except when they’re produced by large entities willing and able to invest in trademarking them. Dana Nelson, founder of D.F. Nelson PLLC, a New York City firm specializing in copyright and music law, says outmoded intellectual property law needs updating for the digital age. “Copyright law and intellectual property in America does not follow the creative production of artists. Rather, it protects the interests of companies,” she says. “I think it is now harder to distinguish a non-commercial (fair) use from a commercial one.” Whereas Meechie’s dance videos are considered a threat to record companies’ bottom line, his cultural production—and Kayla Newman’s “on fleek,” too—is treated as ripe for the taking by those same companies." - JustDuckie - -

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Some Fun, Nasty, Dreadful Facts About Victorian Shits (http://pictorial.jezebel.... http://i.kinja-img.com/ga... )

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"Until the advent of sewers, “night soil”—which sounds like a species of beautiful, precious luminescent flower but was in fact their term for human waste, because it could only be carted off at night—went into cesspools somewhere underneath or out back of the home. If you were superrich, you might not even bother cleaning yours out: “In grander houses, when one cesspool became full, it was also customary to arch it over and dig another, ‘to avoid the expense and trouble of removing the soil.’ Some of the best homes in the West End were ‘literally honeycombed’ in their foundations, with chambers full of ancient ordure.”" - JustDuckie - -

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OMG someone just interviewed them. It's like they're never going away: http://www.collectorsweek... - JustDuckie - [ 2 ] -

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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: It’s Rotting Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers. (http://www.mcsweeneys.net... )

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"Next thing I know, I’m rearranging my table horn and my fingers wind up two digits deep in gourd goo. And that shit smells like Fall’s crotch after a long jog through a fucking cornfield. And Fall’s like, “You like that smell? Huh? Is that the harvest you’re lookin’ for? Take a good whiff, asshole.” And I’m like, “But the shellack… it’s still so shiny…” And Fall just gets up real close on me and whispers, “The shellack lies.”" - JustDuckie - -

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Dissecting the Dream of the 1890s: My Skype Date With Those Curious Neo-Victorians | Collectors Weekly (http://www.collectorsweek... http://cf.collectorsweekl... )

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They're baaaaaack! - JustDuckie - -

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omg these tools - Soup - [ 2 ] -

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If you enjoyed a good book and you're a woman, the critics think you're wrong | Jennifer Weiner | Comment is free | The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.co... https://i.guim.co.uk/img/... )

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"Call it “Goldfinching”, after Vanity Fair’s 2014 yes-but-is-it-art interrogation as to whether Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer prize-winning, mega-bestselling book The Goldfinch is or is not literature. It’s the process by which a popular and previously well-regarded novel and, more importantly, its readers, are taken to the woodshed, usually by a critic who won’t hesitate to congratulate himself on his courage, as if dismissing popular things that women like requires some special kind of bravery – as if it doesn’t happen all day, every day." - JustDuckie - -

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There's the context, and also not everything "good" is going to be to people's taste, and so many just can't seem to handle that sometimes. I hate Dickens and Twain. That doesn't mean they're bad, I just don't make Twain or Dickens' mistake of assuming that my dislike equates to an actual reflection of quality. So much of the dismissal seems to be rooted in the belief that if you don't like what they like, in the way that they like it, then you must be faulty in some way (which is easier to apply to people that you don't respect opinions from already.) - Jennifer D. - [ 1 ] -

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Opinion: Do We Honor Girls’ Stories? The Double Standard of YA Lit | School Library Journal (http://www.slj.com/2015/1... http://www.slj.com/wp-con... )

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"It’s hard not to think it’s because they’re female-driven, female-centric stories. They do not bend to a male gaze, and they are unabashedly about being girls in today’s male-friendly world. These are girls’ voices that we don’t hear—ones of love and victimhood, of friendship and social change—and they’re voices we won’t hear lauded as unique, powerful, memorable, or life-changing. We may label them as “strong,” but it’s hard not to wonder why we label some female voices “strong” and not others? Perhaps we also need to wonder why we don’t use the label “strong male voice.”" - JustDuckie - -

"When women take risks in their writing, when they choose to write female-driven narratives with take-no-bull girls who may not care at all whether you like them or not, they’re not seen as brave. They’re not seen as doing something new or inventive or award-worthy. They are instead dinged because they portray girls who aren’t “likable.” Because the stories are not always “nice.” Because those girls aren’t “realistic.” But when men write girls—any kind of girls—they’re seen as special. As empathetic. As doing new, creative, amazing things. As pushing the YA world forward." - JustDuckie - -

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C.S. Lewis’ Greatest Fiction: Convincing American Kids That They Would Like Turkish Delight | Atlas Obscura (http://www.atlasobscura.c... http://assets.atlasobscur... )

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"In the book, Edmund is tempted by Turkish Delight into an alliance with the White Witch, who has brought eternal winter to Narnia. When Edmund first meets the witch, she asks him "what would you like best to eat?" He doesn't even hesitate. England's wartime sugar rationing probably figured into that choice. The reason the Pevensie children were staying in an old house with a portal to Narnia in its wardrobe was that it was World War II, and kids were being relocated due to bombing risks. Candy, too, was a casualty of the war. During WWII, and well into the postwar period, sugar was strictly rationed in England; in 1950, when Lewis published the first Narnia book, the allowance was half a pound of candy and chocolate per person per month. It's no wonder that, when the White Queen asked him what he liked best, Edmund's answer was a confection that is almost entirely sugar." - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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For years I thought it was baclava. - JustDuckie - [ 3 ] -

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Reductress » Female-Centric In-Flight Movie Downs Jet (http://reductress.com/pos... )

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"“American air simply can’t withstand the leaden weight of a female-centric in-flight movie,” says cinematographer and aviation expert Claude Dopschlinger, whose father is a major director but that has nothing to do with why Claude is so successful. “The conceit of such a film is simply too dense,” he explains. “Had they shown Ocean’s Eleven or Ocean’s Twelve or even Ocean’s Thirteen—taking into account, mind you, that the word ‘ocean’ is in the title, along with unlucky number 13—this still wouldn’t have happened. Whatever their faults, all of the Oceans movies are about guys, and planes love cool guy things and hate girl things.” He adds, “I hope I didn’t use too many technical terms for you.”" - JustDuckie - -

"According to a class action lawsuit brought by shaken and damp passengers, crewmember Lorie Petris showed gross negligence when she failed to consider the effect that two female-centric movies would have on the structural integrity of the jetliner. “I didn’t think about it,” Petris says, contrite. “I just grabbed whatever DVD was sitting there and threw it in. I actually liked Bridesmaids when I saw it! It felt like an honest depiction of female friendship. God, how wrong I was. I’m going to have to live with that oversight for the rest of my life.” She was then interrupted by seven men, who said what she had just said, but better." - JustDuckie - -

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Chief of House Science Panel Picks Battle Over Climate Paper - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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"In a series of letters and public statements, Representative Lamar Smith, a Republican from Texas who is chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, has accused the Obama administration and federal researchers of manipulating global warming research to pursue, as he put it on Tuesday, the administration’s “suspect climate agenda.” Supporters of the scientists and officials in question accuse Mr. Smith, in turn, of starting a sweeping investigation that is intended to quash solid science for political ends. The ranking Democratic member of the science committee, Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, wrote a letter to Mr. Smith on Nov. 19 calling the inquiry an “ideological crusade” premised on “baseless conspiracy theories.” She added, “Your ‘investigation’ appears to have less to do with uncovering waste, fraud or abuse at a federal agency, and more to do with political posturing intended to influence public opinion ahead of a major international climate conference.”" - JustDuckie - -

>.> That, my friends, is a face in need of a punch. - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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Amy Poehler and Tina Fey: When Leaning In, Laughing Matters - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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"From the moment Tina Fey and Amy Poehler walked into a studio green room here to the moment they entered a mind-melded comedy state, two and a half minutes elapsed. There was barely time for hellos and niceties before they were off, imagining how they would see their new movie “Sisters” in its opening week. Ms. Fey: “I might stroll into 68th Street” — the theater near her home on Manhattan’s Upper West Side — “and sit in the back once or twice. You should definitely go there, definitely buy tickets, because I might be there.” Ms. Poehler: “I like to wear a very inconspicuous, like, beer hat.” Ms. Fey, laughing: “And you always bring a hoverboard.” Ms. Poehler: “And I’ve got like, a jean jacket with a fan picture of me on the back.” [Loud laugh from Ms. Fey.] “And headshots of myself, just in case.”" - JustDuckie - -

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On Pandering | Tin House (https://www.tinhouse.com/... http://www.tinhouse.com/b... )

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"I wrote Battleborn for white men, toward them. If you hold the book to a certain light, you’ll see it as an exercise in self-hazing, a product of working-class madness, the female strain. So, natural then that Battleborn was well-received by the white male lit establishment: it was written for them. The whole book’s a pander. Look, I said with my stories: I can write old men, I can write sex, I can write abortion. I can write hard, unflinching, unsentimental. I can write an old man getting a boner! Here are the lampposts, here is the single-screen movie theater. It’s all an architecture of pandering. It’s for them. She can write like a man, they said, by which they meant, She can write." - JustDuckie - -

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Enduring Prejudices of Gender Woven Into Chinese Language - The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/20... http://static01.nyt.com/i... )

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"What if “womanwomanwoman” were the English word for rape, defilement, adultery? That is roughly how the Chinese character “jian,” or 姦, translates, as it is made up of three characters for “woman,” 女. (In mainland China, the character 姦 was simplified to 奸 after the 1949 Communist revolution as an aid to literacy, but the three-woman version is still standard in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and overseas Chinese communities, and widely recognized on the mainland.) Troubled by the word’s gender associations, curators made it the symbol of an art exhibition that had been scheduled to open in Beijing on Nov. 25, the United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women." - JustDuckie - -

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"Gender is written into all languages, but it is especially striking in Chinese because of the visual nature of the language, said David Moser, a linguist and the academic director of CET Beijing Chinese Studies at Capital Normal University. “In everyday language, how many Chinese speakers are aware that, in every set phrase with male-female gender reference, the male always comes first?” he said in an email. “A married couple is 一对夫妇, a husband and wife. Your parents are your 父母, father and mother, never 母父, or mother and father. Even a phrase like 男女老少, meaning everyone, literally ‘men, women, old and young,’ subconsciously reinforces a supposedly ‘natural’ hierarchy — men over women, old over young,” Mr. Moser said. In Chinese, tradition weighs heavily, with a language capable of great beauty and subtlety also offering enduring discrimination. “Reversing the order isn’t perceived as just a polarity flip in the interest of equality,” Mr. Moser said. “It would be simply perceived as ‘wrong,’ by most Chinese people.”" - JustDuckie - -

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People Who Post Racist Tweets Are Suddenly Seeing Them on Billboards Near Their Homes | Adweek (http://www.adweek.com/adf... http://www.adweek.com/fil... )

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"Here's a pretty intense outdoor campaign running in Brazil, where a civil rights group called Criola is finding racist tweets online, using geotagging data to determine the location of the offenders, and printing the tweets (with faces blurred) on billboards near their homes. The campaign launched this summer after an incident in which one of the country's well-known weathercasters, who is black, was the subject of racist taunts online. The tweet on the ad above reads, "I arrived home smelling like black people." The tagline on all the ads reads: "Virtual racism, real consequences. Criola. In defense of black women."" - JustDuckie - -

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Nick Offerman's Yule Log for Lagavulin Is 45 Minutes of Silent, Uninterrupted Brilliance | Adweek (http://www.adweek.com/adf... http://www.adweek.com/fil... )

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"Few performers could make staring into a camera for an extended period of time engaging, let alone feel like a treat. But Nick Offerman's love of Lagavulin whisky has been well documented. And now he's filmed a Yule Log video for his favorite whisky brand, in which he sits in a fine leather chair next to a crackling fire, calmly staring into the camera for 45 minutes and moving only now and then. And it's delightful. " - JustDuckie - -

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The Day Jobs That Inspired Famous Authors | Adzuna (https://www.adzuna.co.uk/... https://www.adzuna.co.uk/... )

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"Could Bram Stoker have written Dracula if he wasn’t inspired by an actor at the theatre he managed? Unlikely. Would John Grisham even have picked up a pen if it wasn’t for a career that brought him into the courtroom? Doubt it. If Nicholas Sparks wasn’t a pharmaceutical salesman would Ryan Gosling ever have starred in the film adaptation of The Notebook? Well, probably. For the full list of authors that were – and weren’t – inspired by their day job, check out the infographic below." - JustDuckie - -

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Florida - Naked ‘drunken idiot’ arrested in Fort Pierce (http://offthebeat.blogs.t... http://offthebeat.blogs.t... )

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"Police saw Garcia, described as “naked and intoxicated,” go out a back door. The nude dude hopped a fence and investigators found him in some bushes trying to hide. “I’m a drunken idiot,” Garcia is quoted as saying. He said he couldn’t recall what happened." - JustDuckie - -

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Drunk man takes $40G Mercedes after telling valet it's his - NY Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.co... )

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"A drunk Florida man drove off in a $40,000 Mercedes-Benz after convincing a valet it was his. Douglas Middleton allegedly took the car from The Seagate Hotel & Spa in Delray Beach, Fla., on Saturday afternoon after simply telling the valet he was looking for his Mercedes. The bellman and a valet found a white Mercedes in the parking lot and showed the keys to Middleton, who claimed that it was his. Hotel surveillance footage shows the valet delivering the car before Middleton drives away from the luxury hotel." - JustDuckie - -

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Dominic: "I want some clear plastic stick-ons to decorate my laptop, but I don't know which ones I want yet. I like these three designs best." Me: "So you haven't made a...vinyl decision yet?" Dominic: *blank stare* Me: *puts on shades, saunters out*

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Microsoft Makes Peace With Apple in a Holiday Stunt That's Surprisingly Sweet | Adweek (http://www.adweek.com/adf... http://www.adweek.com/fil... )

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"Having weathered plenty of Microsoft attacks over the years—including the well-known Windows Phone spots that mercilessly mocked Siri—Apple might have had reason to feel skeptical, perhaps even hostile, when it saw dozens of Microsoft employees approaching its 5th Avenue store in New York City back on Nov. 16. But Microsoft, it turns out, was coming in peace—to film a holiday spot about overcoming acrimony and embracing harmony and togetherness. Check out the spot that was just released from the footage taken that day:" - JustDuckie - -

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Men in panda onesies carry out armed robbery in Lincolnshire | UK news | The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.co... https://i.guim.co.uk/img/... )

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"Two men dressed in panda onesies have carried out an armed robbery on a newsagent. Lincolnshire police said one of the men who robbed the shop in Louth on Sunday evening was armed with what appeared to be a handgun. Officers said the pair forced a female member of staff to hand over cash from the safe then left the scene on foot at about 7.30pm. The member of staff was shaken but unhurt." - JustDuckie - -

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Thoth Bangs Nut for DAYS | Myths RETOLD (http://bettermyths.com/th... http://bettermyths.com/wp... )

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"Thoth is the bee’s fucking knees like if you have ever looked at a bee and been like why is that bee walking so stiffly the answer is because it has no knees Thoth stole them by being them." - JustDuckie - [ 2 ] -

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The Statue of Liberty Was Originally a Muslim Woman | Smart News | Smithsonian (http://www.smithsonianmag... http://thumbs.media.smith... )

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"The United States has debated immigration since the country's founding, and the Statue of Liberty—a potent symbol for immigrants—is often invoked as an argument for why we should usher in those who seek safety and opportunity with open arms. A little-known fact about Lady Liberty adds an intriguing twist to today's debate about refugees from the Muslim world: As pointed out by The Daily Beast’s Michael Daly in a recent op-ed, the statue itself was originally intended to represent a female Egyptian peasant as a Colossus of Rhodes for the Industrial Age. " - JustDuckie - [ 1 ] -

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Miramar firefighters blow up turkey in safety demonstration - UPI.com (http://www.upi.com/Odd_Ne... http://cdnph.upi.com/sv/b... )

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"During the demonstration held for U.S. Marines, firefighters from the Miramar Fire Department dropped an ice-cold turkey into an overfilled fryer, using the wrong type of oil and cooking at the wrong temperature. The aim was to show exactly what could go wrong if a turkey is cooked improperly. "So we're doing everything wrong here," said John Meyer, the firefighter who led the demonstration. "We want you guys to see how badly things can go wrong just so that you can try and avoid this over the holiday season."" - JustDuckie - -

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Our apartment complex is having problems with wild animals getting into the garbage bags people leave on the sidewalk. The leasing office sent out a mass email saying they were trying to solve the problem with "trap and relocate" and I really hope they were talking about the residents who leave their garbage out.

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