Dr William Russell Massingham Pridgeon (right) being driven to the Brisbane Watchhouse Photo: (AAP: Darren England), from ABC News under the heading Doctor accused of masterminding child-stealing syndicate

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

In the legal profession, we always enjoy saluting a past or occasionally a present master of the art. On entering the main building of Harvard Law School, for example, you are greeted by a huge painted portrait of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr (1841-1935).

I have only recently discovered the work of Wilfred Massingham Seymour whose main law textbook preceded World War I. Not that I came by it randomly it was called to my attention by the grandson of the master. The book is entitled:

Native law and custom; being a compendium of the recognised native customs in force in the native territories of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, together with legislative amendments, and reports of some of the more important decisions of the native appeal court of Griqualand East, 1901-1909

It is about the native law of the people of South Africa, and has sparked my interest to find a similar work on the native law of indigenous people in North America, Australia, Philippines, or anywhere. With regard to the Philippines, Id be curious to find what principles of law were on the books before the unruly takeover by American military forces in 1898, when the...

The findings are shocking. What's worse is how easily the media and establishment have accepted it as OK. https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/statement-on-report-by-special-counsel-john-durham

Monarchists Pursue ABC Through FOI 16 May 2023 The Australian Monarchist League has made a formal FOI request under the Commonwealth Freedom of Information Act (1982) (FOI Act) which provides a right to request access to certain documents held by the ABC in regard to its pre-Coronation broadcast. Details of...

Stephen Crothers, is an Australian Scientist, Occupational Hygienist, and Forensic Investigator (11 October 2021). Here is a link to his Open Letter to the Australian people in full Open Letter. False Information Provided by the Australian Government about a Medical Intervention Professor Skerritt has stated before Parliament that the COVID-19 vaccine programme is an experiment.... [Read more]

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There will be airspace restrictions in Sydney and Canberra between 22-25 May as the cities host a significant event. Drone owners are urged to check one of the CASA-verified drone safety apps if planning to fly a drone within 28 km of Sydney Airport and 21 km of Canberra Airport...

My mum took her first job in 1980, when she was fourteen. In my childhood, she worked as a medical receptionist. For every hour she worked, she was almost certainly paid less than a man in a job of comparable value. For every curtailed pay check, there was a lower superannuation benefit, a lower amount left for savings at the end of each week and, inevitably, a lower amount to put towards a house deposit.

The post The gender pay gaps grim legacy: homelessness among older women in Australia appeared first on Overland literary journal.

Microsoft is again engaging in anti-competitive behaviour without any court action.

It's 'forcing' its users to use the inbuilt browser, instead of allowing the user to freely choose competitive products.

Last time this occurred, Microsoft was in the courts and as a result it was fined.

No such action even after months of this fraudulent activity?

See more within the link:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/02/16/discover-new-ways-to-multitask-with-microsoft-365-and-edge/

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Their ABC Four Corners 'Story Of The Century'. Unlike the FBI's opening of a full investigation of unknown members of the Trump campaign based on raw, uncorroborated information, in this matter involving a Clinton campaign, the FBI never opened any type of inquiry, issued any taskings, employed any analytical personnel,...

Story of the Century - live coverage from their ABC?

The federal government has pledged $236 million over 10 years to fund a national flood warning network, in a bid to protect communities from the types of flooding which took place last year in the Northern Rivers.

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek said the funding would be used to purchase and upgrade flood gauges in disaster-prone areas, such as the North Coast.

For almost a decade, experts have been telling us that we have to upgrade Australias flood warning infrastructure, Ms Plibersek said.

Weve seen really terrifying examples in recent years where communities were left with not enough information; they were unprepared during floods because of broken or outdated flood gauges.

Ms Plibersek said the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) owned about a third of Australias flood gauges, but the rest were operated by state or local governments or private entities.

Many of them are old, they have to be read manually, so youre sending people out into dangerous weather to read flood gauges, she said.

The roll out of new flood gauges will start in Queensland, and come under the a...

The first professional one-mile race was held in London on July 26, 1855. Charles Westhall won with a time of 4 minutes and 28 seconds. Over the next 90 years, the time was slowly but surely whittled down to 4:01.4 by Swedens Gunder Hagg on July 17, 1945.

Nine years later, on May 6, 1954, Englands Roger Bannister did the impossible. He ran a 3:59.4 mile. The following month, the impossible was done again. John Landy of Australia ran a 3:58 mile on June 21, 1954.

Within a year, we had three runners breaking the four-minute barrier in the same race.

The current mile world record holder is Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco with a time of 3:43.13. As of this writing, about 20 male high school runners have accomplished the impossible.

So, what changed since July 17, 1945?

Some may point to training or nutrition and perhaps they play a recent role. But remember, Bannister made history in 1954 and his record was smashed just 46 days later. So, yeah its more than training and nutrition.

Could it be that once we choose to envision the possible instead of fixating on the impossible, our power is released? If so, where can we effectively focus this power today?

(FYI: The womens record is 4:12:33 run by Sifan Hassan of The Netherlands.)

by Joachim Hagopian

Recent mass killings in Texas since 2006 show the Lone Star State accounting for nearly 8% of all mass shootings in America, and with this year more than one mass shooting per day, the US is on pace to break all records. Its a perfectly reasonable postulation especially based on history to conclude the unprecedented gun shootings are state-sponsored false flags intent on delivering stricter gun control measures.

Consider what happened three years ago in New Zealand. The false flag in Christchurch on March 15, 2019 the Ides of March was immediately followed by strict gun control.

Of all people, pedophile John Pizzagate Podesta just happened to be in New Zealand 24 hours before the Christchurch shootings, praising WEF groomed dictator Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as a superstar. according to Vatican watchman-author Leo Zagami, Podestas an Illuminati-Vatican asset and according to millions more an unindicted sadist-pedophile.

Alleged shooter Brenton Tarrant, now New Zealands biggest mass murderer, happens to be the same age as Australias biggest mass murderer at the time of the Port Arthur killings, 28-years of age, al...

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Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi announced that his country is considering opening a NATO liaison office, demonstrating that Tokyo is deepening its ties with the US and becoming more hostile to China and Russia. Tokyos rapprochement with NATO would strengthen the anti-China/Russia alliance and advance the US plans to create a NATO-styled organisation in the Far East.

We are already in discussions, but no details (have been) finalised yet, Hayashi said on May 10.

He specifically referenced Russias special military operation in Ukraine as something with repercussions far beyond Europes borders that made Japan rethink regional security.

The reason why we are discussing about this is that since the aggression by Russia to Ukraine, the world (has) become more unstable, he claimed. Something happening in East Europe is not only confined to the issue in East Europe, and that affects directly the situation here in the Pacific. Thats why a cooperation between us in East Asia and NATO (is) becoming increasingly important.

However, the foreign minister failed to explain how events in Ukraine affect those in East Asia. Rather, Hayashi is using this as a weak justification for why Japan is militarising, which directly relates to Tokyos claims against sovereign seas and territories belonging to China and Russia.

The opening of a NATO office in Japan does not mean that the country will join the Alliance, but it does open a path for Japan to become a member of an expanded AUKUS (Australia-United Kingdom-United States). This, in turn, will require Tokyo to strengthen its contacts with NATO.

It is recalled that NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, went to Japan and South Korea in January 2023 to lay the groundwork for strengthened ties. This is one of the reasons why Tokyo is already involved in conflicts that are not directly related to the region, despite some of the mental gymnastics it procures to create a justification.

The Japanese government is also providing $5.5 billion in aid to Ukraine, which can be seen as a step forward for the country to join AUKUS and confirms Tokyos intentions to strengthen its relationship with NATO. However, NATO will not officially expand to include Japan because members of the Alliance, such as Hungary, do not always align their position for the sake of serving US interests.

At the same time, France, at least in rhetoric, is seeking a degree of autonomy from the US. French President Emmanuel Macron said on April 9 that Europe needs to limit its dependence on the US.

In this way, the expansion of NATO to Asia is not likely since this initiative could lead to a further weakening of unity within the military alliance. The Americans are aware of this, and for this reason, they are working on a separate Eastern bloc to strength...

• MapLight Therapeutics is currently seeking patients between the ages of 12 and 45 for their IRIS Phase 2 clinical trial. This study is designed to evaluate the potential impact of their ML-004 compound on the social communication deficits and associated irritability symptoms experienced by individuals with autism. For those interested in participating in this trial, please contact Kelly Amaguin at kamaguin@maplightrx.com.
• Dont miss an opportunity to watch SPELLERS, the new film about nonspeakers with autism that asks, What if weve been wrong about every single one of them? The movie answers this intriguing question through the stories of eight nonspeakers who all found their voice using a letterboard to communicate their thoughts and feelings. Screenings of SPELLERS are happening across the country. You can watch the film online if there isnt a screening near you. 
• Researchers from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation have recently identified four distinct sets of alterations in functional connectivity that could help explain clinical and behavioral differences among individuals with autism. Their new study used an extensive collection of neuroimaging data to identify ASD subtypes to produce testable theories about how different biochemical, genetic, and cellular processes may shape the wide range of ASDs clinical manifestations. The researchers found that individuals with ASD clustered into ...

The Disorder of Things is back, and with a symposium too. Over the next week well feature a succession of posts on Joanne Yaos The Ideal River: How Control of Nature Shaped the International Order, followed by a rejoinder from Joanne herself (the full set of posts will be available in one easy spot here). The first post is an introduction to the book and commentaries from George Lawson. George is Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University. He is a global historical sociologist who works primarily on revolutions. His most recent books are: On Revolutions: Unruly Politics in the Contemporary World (with Colin Beck, Mlada Bukovansky, Erica Chenoweth, Sharon Nepstad and Daniel Ritter) (Oxford, 2022), and Anatomies of Revolution (Cambridge, 2019).

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Donald Elley of Bellingen:

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I was at all 13 days of Brian Houstons court case in December 2023. Australias Channel Nine asked me to make comments on the court case on the first day, December 5 for their A Current Affair program. My comments are in the video below. Brian returns to court on June 15 and 16 to hear final submissions from the Prosecutor and Defence. And later comes The Judgment.

I worked hard since 2012 to hold Brian Houston accountable for what he did. Concealing his pedophile father. Depriving his fathers boy victims of justice.

Ash Gardner calls out Cricket Australia for scheduling mens Test against West Indies on Australia Day Indigenous cricket star Ash Gardner says she is disappointed that there will be a mens Test match against the West Indies on Australia Day next summer, saying it is not appropriate. Heres a tip...

As they say in Latin: cacas in cerebro.

celebrating a saudi's wedding in the desert pic.twitter.com/n2kzSCu8wr clips that go hard (@clipsthatgohard) May 15, 2023

Zero-knowledge proofs could be a viable means to address recent network congestion and high fees on the Bitcoin blockchain.

Wonder how much this cost taxpayers and how it was funnelled.

An article based on results from an online survey has been retracted for data issues, and an Australian university is investigating what happened.

The article, International nursing students perceptions and experiences of transition to the nursing workforce A cross-sectional survey, became available online on Jan. 29, 2022.

Published in the journal Nurse Education in Practice, the study reported 110 responses to an online survey of nursing students who came to Australia from other countries and planned to remain there to work.  

The retraction notice, posted this month, stated:

This article has been retracted at the request of the authors because the data reported in the manuscript are likely to have been compromised. It came to the co-authors attention after the publication of the article that a large proportion of the surveys reported in the study had been completed by a respondent using the first authors IP addresses.

The authors would like to apologize to readers for this error.

Della John McKitterick of the University of South Australia, and the first author on the paper, seemed to dispute the information in the notice. 

One of the respondents has used my username (not my IP address) to enter the data, McKitterick told us. McKitterick, whose ORCID profile indicates she is a PhD student at the university, did not tell us how she learned of the data breach or respond to our follow up query about the discrepancy between the retraction notice and her statement regarding the IP address. 

The University of South Australia is investigating the matter, which McKitterick cited as her reason for not divulging further details. None of the articles other authors replied to requests for comment.

Wonderful to celebrate launch of an Aboriginal Culinary Journey - a unique collaboration between @BrevilleAus, the National Museum of Australia & incredible Australian Indigenous artists. Nothing better than celebrating the worlds oldest continuous cultures in @nma @dfat pic.twitter.com/yLTWekVzwL Kevin Rudd AC (@AmboRudd) May 12, 2023

Writing personally about Israel/Palestine, why I have the positions I do, is something I mostly avoid. But a notable exception is my long essay in this weeks edition of the Good Weekend magazine, inserted every Saturday into the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age. The readership is over one million people and its one of the biggest magazines in the country.

The striking profile photo was taken by Wolter Peeters.

The response to my article has been overwhelming, with huge numbers of people writing to express gratitude, support and relief.

PDF: Israel-Palestine conflict_ Antony Loewenstein on being Jewish and critical of Israel

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On Saturday, May 13, the neo-Nazi groupuscule National Socialist Network (NSN) organised a rally at Parliament House in Melbourne. Desperately unhappy at being unable to afford to leave their parents leafy homes in the eastern suburbs, approximately 30 NSN members Continue reading

My book review in The Saturday Paper on the new book by Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives:

Were all complicit. Anybody who uses a laptop, mobile phone, electric vehicle (EV) or tablet has purchased a product that contains cobalt, a rare-earth element. Its largely unknown to the general public and yet 70 per cent of the worlds cobalt is mined annually in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one of the poorest nations on the planet.

Few nations are blessed with a more diverse abundance of resource riches than Congo, writes Siddharth Kara, a senior fellow at Harvards T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an activist against modern slavery. No other country in the world has been more severely exploited.

Every so often a book comes along that completely challenges the way we live. This is a work of courageous reportage that reveals the secrets of a country that rarely enters our consciousness. Kara dismisses the denials of corporate giants such as Apple, Samsung, Tesla, Daimler and Glencore, all of which claim to have zero tolerance for child labour and commitments to supply-chain transparency. Less has changed since colonial times than we might care to admit, he says.

At great risk to his life, Kara travels to places in the DRC where very few outsiders have been. He brings readers the voices of people and communities toiling in subhuman conditions so we can tweet and drive cars that we tell ourselves are good for the environment. When he visits Kolwezi, the capital city of Lualaba Province, he explains that its the new heart of darkness, a tormented heir to those Congolese atrocities that came before colonisation, wars, and generations of slavery.

The view here is apocalyptic, with villages and forests destroyed and massive mines dominating the landscape. Its crowded with underpaid miners including teenagers who work in the toxic environment with no safety equipment such as gloves, closed shoes or masks.

Reform of this broken system is possible, but pressure must be applied on those most responsible. EV manufacturers are the main drivers of the explosion in the demand for cobalt and Kara urges consumers to push them to treat the artisanal miners as equal employees to the people who work at corporate headquarters. He supports the transition away from fossil fuels and the embrace of renewable energy. But should the people of the DRC suffer for our green dreams?

Pan Macmillan, 288pp, $49.99

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You have to do it badly. If it is poetry, even more so, because there is no because. If you write like you were the best in the world, you are the worst because you pretend too hard. Too harsh, too. Why do you want to be the best? Is that because you are a lack or there is a lack in you that you feel like filling up all the time? Even when you are named the best, does that mean anything?

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Since March 2020 I have been revealing the fraud behind the COVID alleged pandemic and the fact that it never had anything to do with health. Now three years later it has been proven to be a hoax created for the purposes of population control and surveillance. This purpose is being driven by the United... [Read more]

The post Open Letter from Steven Crothers, Australian Scientist and Occupational Hygienist: Part 1 The COVID Hoax appeared first on Vaccination Decisions.

From one of Barry's closest lifetime friends.

Despite the continued denial of the Nakba by Zionists, Palestinian refugees have not forgotten what was done to them. And more than four generations later, they have not given up on the hope that they will return.

This article was first published by GR in November 2009.

Despite a treasure-trove of new information having emerged over the last forty-six  years, there are many people who still think who killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and why are unanswerable

The post JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters appeared first on Global Research.

Our weekly documentary film curated by the editorial team at 21WIRE.

This rare documentary film, entitled, THE EYE OF THE STORM: The Inventions of Nikola Tesla, shown only once on Australian television, covers the history of secret U.S. government research into futuristic propulsion and Energy systems. The Film also discusses the work of Nikola Tesla, including information on mysterious devices locked away in safes at the time of his death in 1943. Man made UFOs are also an important feature, as well as the Philadelphia experiment, featuring some classic 80s style sci-fi kitsch dramatized scenes. Watch:

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Narrated by Stan Deyo
Production: Adventures Unlimited (1983)

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Its a lose-lose situation for Ukrainians. While they are dying, financial institutions are insidiously supporting the consolidation of farmland by oligarchs and Western financial interests.

So says Frdric Mousseau, Policy Director of the Oakland Institute, an independent think tank.

Depending on which sources to believe, between 100,000 and 300,000 Ukrainian soldiers (possibly more) have died during the conflict with Russia. That figure, of course, does not include civilian casualties.

But it is not the purpose of this article to explore these issues. Much has already been written on this elsewhere. But billions of dollars worth of military hardware has been sent to Ukraine by the NATO countries and hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainians have died.

They died in the belief that they were protecting their nation their land. A land that is among the most fertile in the world.

Professor Olena Borodina of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine says:

Today, thousands of rural boys and girls, farmers, are fighting and dying in the war. They have lost everything. The processes of free land sale and purchase are increasingly liberalised and advertised. This really threatens the rights of Ukrainians to their land, for which they give their lives.

Borodina is quoted in the February 2023 report by the Oakland Institute War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraines Agricultural Land, which reveals how oligarchs and financial interests are expanding control over Ukraines agricultural land with help and financing from Western financial institutions.

Aid provided to Ukraine in recent years has been tied to a drastic structural adjustment programme requiring the creation of a land market through a law that leads to greater concentration of land in the hands of powerful interests. The programme also includes austerity measures, cuts in social safety nets and the privatisation of key sectors of the economy.

Frdric Mousseau, co-author of the report, says:

Despite being at the centre of news cycle and international policy, little attention has gone to the core of the conflict who controls the agricultural land in the country known as the breadbasket of Europe. [The] Answer to this question is paramount to understanding the major stakes in the war.

The report shows the total amount of land controlled by oligarchs, corrupt individuals and large agribusinesses is over nine million hectares exceeding 28% of Ukraines arable land (the rest is used by over eight million Ukrainian farmers).

The largest landholders are a mix of Ukrainian oligarchs and foreign interests mostly European and North American as well as the...

Must a plane loaded with commercial passengers drop from the sky literally, CRASH, before the airline industry, FAA, NTSB and pilots themselves ONLY enter the cockpit after myocarditis is ruled out? Why not mandate high sensitivity troponin, contrast chest MRIs, D-dimers, EKGs before flying?

Dr Paul Alexander Substack May 13, 2023

8 other recent Pilot incapacitations in-flight:

April 4, 2023 United Airlines Flight 2102 (BOI-SFO) captain was incapacitated, first officer was only one in control of the aircraft. (click here)

March 25, 2023 TAROM Flight RO-7673 TSR-HRG diverted to Bucharest as 30 yo pilot had chest pain, then collapsed (click here)

March 22, 2023 Southwest Flight WN6013 LAS-CMH diverted as pilot collapsed shortly after take-off, replaced by non-Southwest pilot (click here)

March 18, 2023 Air Transat Flight TS739 FDF-YUL first officer was incapacitated about 200NM south of Montreal (click here)

March 13, 2023 Emirates Flight EK205 MXP-JFK diverted due to pilot illness hour and a half after take-off (click here)

March 11, 2023 United Airlines Flight UA2007 GUA-ORD diverted due to incapacitated pilot who had chest pains (click here)

March 11, 2023? British Airways (CAI-LHR) pilot collapsed in Cairo hotel and died, was scheduled to fly Airbus A321 from Cairo to London (click here)

March, 3, 2023 Virgin Australia Flight VA-717 ADL-PER Adelaide to Perth flight was forced to make an emergency landing after First Officer suffered heart attack 30 min after departure. (click here)

3 recent Pilot deaths:

Pilot death April 13, 2023 Phil Thomas, graduate of Flight Training Pilot academy in Cadiz, Spain (FTEJerez) died suddenly.

Pilot death Ma...

  Photo of me with my mother I think that was snapped after I returned from deployment to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on Desert Shield/Storm/Saber.   Pain There are at least seven answers to the problem of pain or how to be happy. The Buddhist answer. Existence is pain. Happiness is an illusion. Blessedness comes []

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Previously we looked at the BBC News websites initial report concerning Operation Shield and Arrow on May 9^th:

BBC NEWS AVOIDS RELEVANT PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD BACKGROUND

As noted, at no point in that report were BBC audiences told that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a terrorist organisation which is designated by the EU, the US, the UK, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Israel and readers were not provided with any information concerning the financial and military sponsorship provided to the PIJ by Iran.

As the operation continued, the BBC News website published additional reports which, like that initial article, were not tagged with the name of the terrorist organisation that is their topic.

On May 10^th a report by David Gritten that was originally headlined Gaza militants fire rockets after new Israeli air strikes appeared on the websites Middle East page. The headline was later amended to read Israel and Gaza militants in heaviest fighting for "https://camera-uk.org/topic/raffi-berg/" rel="noopener" target= "_blank">Raffi Berg and David Gritten....

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The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of  coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads:

He wrote a book on a rare subject. Then a ChatGPT replica appeared on Amazon. From recipes to product reviews to how-to books, artificial intelligence text generators are quietly authoring more and more of the internet. (Washington Post)

The Crypto Winter Cost People More Than Their Money: Some acolytes lost faith, others blamed devilsand some went even harder. An essay exploring what happens when the prophecy of blockchain fails. (Bloomberg)

Is It Time to Quit Coffee for Good? A growing chorus of concerned former addicts are trying to wake people up to caffeines negative effects. (Esquire)  My answer ius No!

Richard Feynman: The One and Only: Richard Feynman was the Michael Jordan of physics. His intellectual leaps, seemingly weightless, defied explanation. In 1960, in his early forties, restless and unable to find a physics problem worth working on, Feynman taught himself enough biology to make an original discovery of how mutations work in genes. (New York Review of Books)

Your IQ isnt 160. No ones is. Stratospheric IQs are like leprechauns, unicorns, or mermaids. (The Intrinsic Perspective)

The Time Thief Who Stole 106 Rare Clocks in a Daring Heist: Authorities eventually recovered 96 of the lost timepieces, including a $30 million watch commissioned for Marie Antoinette. (Smithsonian Magazine)

On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world: Bulgaria in the 1980s became known as the virus factory, where hundreds of malicious computer programs were unleashed to wreak havoc. But who was writing them, and why? (The Guardian)

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