Update
More on Phishing
Hi, Bob. I was surprised when I read Sharon 's comment on phishing. I have also
gotten those calls from "Rachel" and other names. I am also on the Do
Not Call lists at the state and federal levels. After the first few years
of getting them, I acquired a phone that lets me "block"
annoying callers. After I had blocked 10 or 15 different numbers, all from
them--and the calls still kept coming--I stayed on the line until I got a live
human being. Ever so politely, I asked what company he was representing. He
told me it was Chase Bank. I then asked not to be called any more. He responded
that since I had had a relationship with Chase within the past 36 months, they
were permitted to call regardless of my DNC status. I don't know if that's true
or not, but it seemed fruitless to yell at him, so I hung up. That was last
Spring. The calls have become less frequent, though they are still coming once
or twice monthly. Then, I read an article on-line called "You Can
Make Big Money From Those Annoying Telemarketers" ( http://www.dailyfinance.com/2014/10/07/you-can-make-big-money-from-those-annoying-telemarketers/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmaing9%7Cdl5%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D541569 ).
Excerpt: "Every call or text made without your permission is worth a
minimum of $500, and if it's intentional, which 99 percent are, each one is
worth $1,500," said attorney Billy Howard of the Morgan & Morgan law
firm. "These unwanted texts are one of the biggest invasions of our
privacy. (...) The senator who wrote the Telephone Consumer
Protection Act called them the "scourge of modern
civilization." (...) When Congress passed the Telephone
Consumer Protection Act, it put a big part of the enforcement role in
the hands of consumers. The idea was that if telemarketers crossed the
lines (there are a lot of rules they have to play by, including when, how, and
by whom calls can be placed) they would be penalized $500 to $1,500 for every
time they did -- and those fines were to be paid to the affected
consumers. But the customers have to speak up. That 1991 law -- and
consumers -- got a big boost last year with provisions that further restrict
companies about when they can call you. Even companies that you've done
business with before are not allowed to solicit you unless you've explicitly
provided consent. I haven't yet had the chance and motivation to do as the
article suggests, but Sharon
sounds far more irritated with them than I feel. Perhaps she'd like to give it
a try and report back to us? --Ron P.
General News and Comment
Daley will uphold the
constitution. By Robert A. Hall
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/opinion/mailbag/daley-will-uphold-the-constitution----robert-a/article_acb4a6da-efc2-52be-a3d9-8981660078aa.html
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/opinion/mailbag/daley-will-uphold-the-constitution----robert-a/article_acb4a6da-efc2-52be-a3d9-8981660078aa.html
Thank you for the balanced article about the upcoming Supreme Court election between
Judge James Daley and Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, in the Jan. 1 State Journal. I
recently met and talked with Judge Daley, was impressed, and will be supporting
him in the election. This may seem natural because like Daley, I served in the
Marines in Vietnam ,
though with not such a distinguished record. But I'm for Daley because this
election, like so many for the judiciary, will be between a judge who believes
the laws should be interpreted according to what the constitution clearly says,
and a judge who believes the law and constitution say whatever she wants them
to say on any particular day. Judge Daley and I are of the former opinion. But
I'm sure most Madison
voters will prefer rulings based on feelings, not law. They should be careful.
They might find that, having set a precedent, others may rule according to what
they feel the constitution should say. Thankfully, Daley will not be such a
justice.
Said I'm Clint Eastwood. ~Bob
Bureaucracy: Government fires employee who skipped
work for 24 years
Excerpt: Even in India , where government jobs are
considered to be for life, A.K. Verma was pushing it. ... Even after an inquiry
found him guilty of "willful absence from duty" in 1992, it took
another 22 years and the intervention of a cabinet minister to remove him, the
government said. (You laugh, but such is our future, as government becomes ever
more obsessed with protecting the "rights" of government employees at
the expense of the citizens. ~Bob)
Religious freedom
crucial to national security. By Nilay Saiya
Excerpt: This week especially, we should remember the plight
of millions of people around the world who are subjected to harassment,
intimidation, or violence because of their religious beliefs - or those of
their persecutors. Though religious freedom is enshrined in various
international human rights covenants and most national constitutions,
successive reports by the Pew Research Center have found that government
restrictions on and social hostilities to religion have been steadily increasing
since 2007. Religiously based beheadings, crucifixions, assassinations, forced
conversions, jail sentences, beatings, and attacks on property have become
daily occurrences. (This is good, but unrealistic in its expectations that
extremists will be able to see they are wrong. They are illogical and
unreasonable. --Bonnie M.)
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Now I will tell you why I am so serious and severe
about this. I despise irresponsible people. I don’t want to deal with them
or help them in any way. An irresponsible person is a person who makes
vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects
other people to forgive it. A responsible person does not make a promise
without thinking of all the consequences and being prepared to meet them.
This Woman Just Found
Out the Hard Way How Alabama
Excerpt: Thursday was not a good day for Wendy Holland. The Alabama woman was
sentenced to 219 years in prison for sodomy and sexual abuse. She was
convicted of participating in an incestuous sex ring accused of molesting
children for years. It gets even worse. ... Holland and Brownlee were part of a group of
friends and relatives who not only sexually abused children, but
traded their own kids for sex for years.
Excerpt: ) There is no free lunch: There is no such thing
as “free” birth control, “free” community college, “free” health care or “free”
anything else. Someone ALWAYS has to pay and if you’re not sure who that
“someone” is, the person paying may be YOU. Even if you’re sure it’s not you
this time, it may be you the next time, which is why people who work hard, play
by the rules and take care of themselves run from “free” offers like a deer who
catches sight of Ted Nugent off in the distance. (When the government gives you
something "free," it only means that you got it and they forced
someone else to pay for it. ~Bob)
More Evidence against
Big-Spending Keynesian Economics. By Daniel J.
Mitchell
Excerpt: Keynesian economics is a perpetual-motion machine
for statists. The way to boost growth, they argue, is to have governments
borrow lots of money from the economy’s productive sector and then spend it on
anything and everything. ... Heck, Krugman even asserted
the 9-11 attacks were good for the economy because governments then spent
more money. And Nancy Pelosi actually argued that paying
people not to work was a great way of creating jobs. I’m not joking.
Paul Krugman Rejected
by His Peers. By John C.
Goodman
Excerpt: Since 2011, the United States has followed what
Krugman correctly calls a policy of “austerity.” For example, the federal
budget deficit has declined from 8.4 percent of GDP in 2011 to a predicted 2.9
percent of GDP for all of 2014. All along the way Paul Krugman protested that such
policies would prolong the recession and even push us into a “low-grade
depression.” In fact the opposite occurred.
Quotes
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most
aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. --Plato
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned
his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that
increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation,
meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling,
grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void
spreads on like a gray vegetation. --Jean Arp
School punishes blind
child by taking away cane, replacing it with a pool noodle
The modern American education establishment. ~Bob
Idiot: Delauter to The News-Post: Don't use my name
without permission
Excerpt: Frederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter
wrote on social media that he plans to sue The Frederick News-Post if
his name or any reference to him appears in print without his permission. In a
Facebook status posted Saturday, Delauter said he was upset with reporter
Bethany Rodgers for “an unauthorized use of my name and my reference in her
article” published Jan. 3 about his and Councilman Billy
Shreve's concerns over County Council parking spaces. “So let me be
clear............do not contact me and do not use my name or reference me in an
unauthorized form in the future,” Delauter, R-District 5, said in a Facebook
status update.
Gun News
Drugs the cause?
Bob, I wish we could get more background on these stories. I
imagine a good percentage of these armed robberies are perpetrated to support
drug addiction. I always found it specious to hear people argue that drug
offenses are "victimless" crimes. They ignore the fact that putting
these people away is one of the correlating factors in the long term decline in
violent crime. Increased private ownership of guns is another. Tilting the
benefit/cost ratio against the sociopath really does work. --Steve
Masked man killed in Gainesville
Excerpt: Police said two masked men tried to rob an
apartment that was occupied. One of the masked men, identified as 23-year-old
Taylor William Killingsworth, was shot by the resident of the apartment,
according to the Sheriff's Office. Killingsworth was found dead at the scene.
JSO: Woman uses 2
guns to shoot man she called 'robber'
Excerpt: Porter said when he told the man he didn't know who
that was and began closing the door, the man pulled out a gun and said,
"This is a robbery, give it up." Officers said his wife, Jessica
Porter, heard the commotion, came out of the bedroom with a gun and
started shooting at the robber, who returned fire. According to the
report, the Porters said the man started shooting back, so Jessica went back
into the bedroom to get a second gun, then continued to fire at the intruder. The
alleged intruder, whose name has not been released, was shot more than a dozen
times.
Woman Thwarts Holdup
By Shooting Would-Be Robber
Excerpt: According to Kneeland, police were flagged down and
told that two men — one armed with a rifle — tried to rob two people in a
hallway. A female victim took a handgun from her purse and fired at one of the
men, shooting him in his arm, Kneeland said.
Excerpt: Two of the four suspects that attempted to rob a
store clerk are now behind bars; the other two were shot and killed by the
clerk. Police said the men went into the Ryan's convenience store near 21st and
Mingo Wednesday night, wearing masks and carrying guns. They said they fired
one shot at the clerk but he fired back twice, killing two of the suspects.
Why cops shoot first: Arizona
Excerpt: Rookie Flagstaff Police Officer Tyler Stewart’s
camera caught the entire, deadly encounter with Robert Smith, whose girlfriend
had called police on Dec. 27 to report he had trashed her apartment. The video,
released by the police department in response to Freedom of Information Act
requests, begins with Stewart getting out of his squad car and ends with Smith
pointing the gun at him and firing.
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Dem Lies are the Life
Support for Obamacare. By Michael
Schaus
Excerpt: The news got somewhat lost amidst all the headlines
about Jonathan Gruber duping the American voters, but the Obama Administration
lied about the number of people who are enrolled under Obamacare. Well, maybe
“lied” is a strong word. But we were definitely “Grubered” over the number. In
their desperate attempt to inflate the number of Obamacare enrollees to 7
million (the number forecasted by the Congressional Budget Office), the
administration included enrollees who merely applied for dental coverage. (no,
"lied" is the right word. ~Bob)
Undocumented Democrat News
Je Suis News-Press: California
Excerpt: A California newspaper
will continue to use the term "illegals" to describe people who enter
the U.S.
without permission, despite an attack on its building by vandals believed to
object to the term. The Santa Barbara News-Press's front entrance was sprayed
with the message "The border is illegal, not the people who cross it"
in red paint, sometime either Wednesday night or early Thursday, according to
the newspaper's director of operations, Donald Katich. The attack came amid
wider objections to a News-Press headline that used the word
"illegals" alongside a story on California granting driver's licenses to
people in the country illegally. (It's not just Muslims who will go outside the
law to shut up opposition. ~Bob)
Attack of the Open-Borders Mau-Mau-ers. By Michelle Malkin
Excerpt: I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How
about you? The newspaper is under fire for refusing to kowtow to left-wing word
police and militant propagandists who demand unfettered illegal immigration.
Last week, in the wake of angry protests against the publication, vandals threw
paint bombs and spray-painted graffiti on its offices. So, what exactly is the
News-Press' unforgivable crime? Calling illegal aliens "illegals" in
a headline for a story about illegal aliens descending on California DMVs. (The
insanity in CA just continues to grow. I do like the fact that the
"Aztlan" activists are so open and frank about what they believe in
and what they want to accomplish. Personally I'd parachute them all into the
remotest province
of Mexico California .
It was all various Indian tribes, who had their land taken away from them by
the Spanish. So I guess morally it really all has to go back to the Indians and
everyone else has to leave, whether they speak Spanish or English. --Del )
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Scientists Balk At ‘Hottest Year’ Claims: Ignores Satellites Showing 18 Year ‘Pause. By Marc Morano
Excerpt: Any temperature claim of “hottest year” based on
surface data is based on hundredths of a degree hotter than previous “hottest
years”. This immeasurable difference is not even within the margin of error of
temperature gauges. The claim of the “hottest year” is simply a political
statement not based on temperature facts. “Hottest year” claims are based on
minute fractions of a degree while ignoring satellite data showing Earth is
continuing the 18 plus year ‘pause’ or ‘standstill’. (But Global Warming made
Al Gore $300M and brings in lots of taxpayer grants to "researchers"
who find the right things. ~Bob)
Excerpt: The “crisis” was global cooling, until Earth
stopped cooling around 1976. It was global warming, until our planet stopped
warming around 1995. The alarmist mantra then became “climate change” or
“climate disruption” or “extreme weather.” Always manmade. Since Earth’s
climate often fluctuates, and there are always weather extremes, such claims
can never be disproven, certainly not to the alarmists’ satisfaction. (When Al
Gore reduced his carbon footprint to say, twice mine, I'll know he at least
really believes in the stuff he has peddled for $300M. ~Bob)
Religion of Peace News
Excerpt: The insurgents got a clear message; no one was
ready to act for a full year as the earliest date for intervention was
announced to be September 2013. It was with this assurance from the United
Nations that pushed the Malian insurgents to conquer more territory while human
rights training was being planned. On Thursday 10th January 2013, they captured
the town of Konna , a gateway towards the
capital, Bamako
to the south. It was the signal that told the world clearly that the ambition
of the insurgents was not just to keep Northern Mali
but also to conquer the whole country and extend the repressive governance they
have introduced beyond the North. Alarmed that the terrorists would completely
take over the country before the human rights training had commenced, France had to
intervene and the rest, as they say, is history. What is important to point out
is that the terrorists that took over much of Mali
and the ones that are currently occupying more and more of Nigeria ’s
territory were/are engaged in massive human rights violations, far in excess of
anything that has been associated with our armed forces. The logic of saying
that help will not be rendered to a military that has been challenged by
terrorists is a political choice the unintended outcome of which is to help the
insurgents. It makes it easier for the terrorists to take over more territory
and widen their base for massive human rights violations.
Worth Reading
http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20150111_Worldview__The_world_must_now_confront_Salafi_teachings.html#R7MXxdcB4KCHBXJm.03
http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20150111_Worldview__The_world_must_now_confront_Salafi_teachings.html#R7MXxdcB4KCHBXJm.03
Excerpt: On Friday, the day French police killed the
terrorists who attacked Charlie Hebdo, the liberal Saudi blogger Raif Badawi
was publicly flogged in Jeddah for insulting Islam.
The two cases are bookends. The terrorists, who apparently
had links to al-Qaeda and ISIS , murdered 10
journalists in the name of Islam because the journalists "insulted"
the prophet Muhammad. Badawi, a brave human-rights activist, was sentenced to
15 years by a Saudi court - and 50 lashes once a week for 20 weeks - because he
critiqued the way Saudi clerics interpret Islam. The Saudis export their harsh
Wahhabi version of Sunni Islam, which disdains or denounces other religions or
variants of Islam.
Balanced Column: Don’t sugarcoat Islamic terrorism.
By Colbert I. King, Washington
Excerpt: Still, there’s no denying that there are Muslims
who regard it as their duty to subjugate non-Muslims and other Muslims with
whom they, for theological reasons, are in conflict. ... Within the
Obama administration, “Islamic terrorism” is an offense that dare not speak
its name. The administration referred to the Fort Hood
French Prime
Minister: 'I Refuse to Use This Term Islamophobia.' Manuel Valls argues
that the charge of 'Islamophobia' is often used to silence critics of Islamism.
By Jeffrey
Goldberg
Excerpt: The prime minister of France, Manuel Valls, has
emerged over the past tumultuous week as one of the West’s most vocal foes of
Islamism, though he’s actually been talking about the threat it poses for a
long while. During the course of an interview conducted before the Charlie
Hebdo attacks, he told me—he went out of his way to tell me, in fact—that
he refuses to use the term 'Islamophobia' to describe the phenomenon of
anti-Muslim prejudice, because, he says, the accusation of Islamophobia is
often used as a weapon by Islamism's apologists to silence their critics.
Dem Rep, ‘Obama Right
Not to Call Terrorists Islamic Extremists Because It Would Anger Them’
Excerpt: You gotta be kidding me. How are you supposed to
fight an enemy you can’t even properly address? When asked if the Obama
Administration was right to refuse to use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism,”
Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) backed the White House because saying
“Islamic Extremists” would anger the terrorists. (Well, same reason FDR called
the Nazis "Gentlemen of Aryan Extraction." Didn't he? ~Bob)
Excerpt: French and German authorities arrested at least 12
people Friday suspected of links to the Islamic State group and a Paris train station was evacuated, with Europe
on alert for new potential terrorist attacks. The police raids came the morning
after Belgian authorities moved swiftly to pre-empt what they called a major
impending attack, killing two suspects in a firefight and arresting a third in
a vast anti-terrorism sweep that stretched into the night.
How to Fight Alleged Corruption in
Excerpt: Imagine one chilly day the American people wakes up
to news that, in early morning raids, squads of public prosecutors and police
detain the sons of cabinet secretaries, a mayor, a state bank manager and
prominent businessmen -- all with publicly known close ties to the Obama
administration. The mounds of evidence include telephone conversations, video
material, and more -- all unmasking the trafficking of huge amounts of illegal
money and expensive gifts among the suspects, who include a shady Iranian
businessman. Dozens of audio recordings reveal a network of relations among
Obama's closest political and business allies, involving billions of dollars.
And imagine an audio recording of Obama calling his son and ordering
him to get rid of all the cash he keeps at home; and his son, after trying for
several hours, tells him there are still millions left. And Obama claims this
is a coup d'état against his elected administration, and purges all prosecutors
and police officers investigating the charges. This is what exactly happened in
Turkey
in December 2013.
Terrorist Training
‘No Go Zones’ Now In U.S.
Excerpt: They are here and just waiting for the signal to
attack. Check it out: Watch footage taken inside Islamic Terrorist Training
camps in the U.S.
where young Jihadists are taught how to kill guards, kidnap Christians, and
strangle the infidel. Muslim enclaves that are hostile to surrounding
communities are springing up across America . Funded by Pakistani
radicals, 22 villages in 9 states have already been established that are
teaching terrorist tactics to members of their compounds. Find out where they
are. (Have not seen covered elsewhere--needs verification. ~Bob)
The Real Islam: Saudi cleric condemns snowmen as anti-Islamic
Excerpt: A prominent Saudi Arabian cleric has whipped up
controversy by issuing a religious ruling forbidding the building of snowmen,
described them as anti-Islamic. Asked on a religious website if it was
permissible for fathers to build snowmen for their children after a snowstorm
in the country's north, Sheikh Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid replied: "It is
not permitted to make a statue out of snow, even by way of play and fun."
(Next, Obama will outlaw snowmen by executive order to avoid offending Muslims.
~Bob)
Charlie Hebdo: Niger
Excerpt: At least two churches have been set on fire in the
capital of Niger
amid fresh protests against French magazine Charlie Hebdo's cartoon depicting
the Prophet Muhammad.
Saturday's protests began outside Niamey 's
grand mosque with police using tear gas a day after at least four were killed
in the second city of Zinder .
Excerpt: Last week, a Saudi general was killed in a skirmish with ISIS at the border with Iraq , along which Saudi Arabia is constructing a
600-mile-long wall: .. The prospect of this wall separating Iraq from Saudi
Arabia is not a welcome one for ISIS, whose goals include capturing Saudi
Arabia – home to the Holy Mosques of Mecca and Medina . (Well, the
Maginot Line didn't work o well in 1940. n in Vietnam the troops were ridiculing
the McNamara Line we had to try to build. It didn't work either. A wall has to
be defended with mobile forces ready to tackle those who breech it--and they
will. ~Bob)
How Justice is Served
in Even ‘Moderate’ Muslim Nations: Woman Beheaded in Broad Daylight While
Police Watch
Excerpt: In this graphic video taken in Saudi Arabia near the city of Mecca , a woman is punished for having
committed what her husband alleges is the murder of
his 7-year-old daughter. (I wouldn't call most Saudis moderate. ~Bob)
Excerpt: While the terrorists have beheaded people for
cursing and crucified people for leaving Islam, what the Islamic
State did when they found out a man was gay is absolutely heinous. ... The
barbaric jihadists then threw the man off the roof. ... There are many other
countries that punish being homosexual with a death sentence.
In Iran, gays are hung from the gallows. While in Saudi Arabia, gays are beheaded.
Brushing Aside Media
Criticism, Egypt
Excerpt: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi continues
to be the antithesis of longstanding mainstream media portrayals of him. First
there was his historic speech where he, leader of the largest Arab nation, and
a Muslim, accused Islamic thinking of being the scourge of humanity—in words
that no Western leader would dare utter.
Just Two Bro's
Hanging Out
Good cartoon. ~Bob
Foes of free speech
take down Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs with a huge denial of service attack. By
Robert Spencer, JihadWatch.org
Excerpt: It’s ironic that on the eve of her Rally for Free
Speech in Garland , Texas (join us — RSVP here),
the foes of the freedom of speech would vividly prove her point by taking her
site down. But we cannot let them win. Pamela Geller is one of the foremost
voices for freedom in the world today. Every day’s headlines brings new
confirmation that what she has been saying has been right all along — and has
continued to say, despite an avalanche of ridicule, scorn, and contempt that
would have driven a lesser person into silence long ago. (Je Suis Atlas
Shrugged. ~Bob)
The Real Islam: Muslim cleric in India
Excerpt: A video has come out showing a Muslim cleric in India leading a
funeral prayer, where he praises and endorses the murder of cartoonists and
satirists of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. ... OpIndia.com has found out
that the video was shot in Hyderabad ,
the common capital of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and the cleric is Maulana
Mohammed Naseeruddin, who is a well known and respected cleric
and Khateeb in the old city. ... Later, talking to the reporter
Abuaimal Akram, who uploaded the video on YouTube, Maulana Naseeruddin
justified the act of terror at Charlie Hebdo’s office as a deed sanctioned by
Islamic traditions. In fact, he went out to claim (at 3:26 minutes onward in
the video above) that Prophet Mohammad himself had ordered executions of people
who had mocked or insulted Islam and Allah. (John Kerry better explain to the
respected cleric that he doesn't understand Islam. ~Bob)
Muslim cleric: “We
shall chop off the head of France
Excerpt: Zarouq also said: “All Muslims must kiss the head
and hands of those who killed the journalists.” This is because, he explained,
“According to the sacred texts, and by consensus of the Islamic scholars, those
who curse the Prophet Muhammad should be killed, regardless of whether or not
they repent. Those who curse the Prophet should be killed.” Will one of the legion
of mainstream media Islamic apologists — Reza Aslan? Qasim Rashid? — kindly
explain how this Muslim cleric is misunderstanding Islam? I didn’t think so.
Pat Condell: “It’s
getting hard to keep up with all these Qur’an-inspired atrocities that have nothing
to do with Islam”
Boko Haram terrorists
killed woman while she was giving birth
Excerpt: A woman was killed while giving birth to a baby boy
during a horrific attack by Boko Haram fighters in north-east Nigeria , it
emerged today. Amnesty International said it has collected eyewitness
testimonies to the massacres in neighbouring towns Baga and Doron Baga last
week, in which at least 150 people died and more than 3,700 homes and buildings
were damaged or destroyed.
Shakespeare of Arabia
Interesting history. ~Bob
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Sharon again about "phishing." The phone calls I get come from a large number of numbers. The caller ID has even listed MY number as the caller, a Wells Fargo number that is no longer in service and many other numbers. I have called my local phone company to let them know about what is going on. These people can not be easily traced. Used to be that the calls only came on home phone but now they're coming on my cell phone. Some days I get more than 1 call. Rarely does a week go by that I don't get called. I report some of the calls but it is frustrating to keep reporting and nothing is done. If you google Rachael from Card Services, you will notice that this is a scam used by identity thieves. This has been going on for several years. It must be a profitable scam and I hope that people wise up and hang up when they hear Rachael from Card Services.
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