School Supplies

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 When I was a child, no, not quite all the way back to the Flintstones era, but close, August was back-to-school month.  To me, that was an exciting time!  The promise of a new school year, seeing old friends again, wondering about my teacher.

As soon as I learned to sew, I was in charge of making my back-to-school clothes.  There was a man who came to the neighborhood driving a paneled van full of “dress-length” fabrics.  (How Little House, right?) He arrived early summer, so we had plenty of time to make some skirts, tops or dresses.

But in August, the entire family went to Kmart!  We all got new sneakers or shoes (whichever we needed).  But then it was off to the really exciting aisle—the stationery supplies!!  Oh my! Standing in that aisle, pencils and pens, erasers and markers on one side and all the notebooks, tablets and paper on the other!  I was in heaven!  The possibilities!! I picked up a spiral notebook, imagining all I could write in it!

While my mom helped my sister and I load up on what we’d need—3 ring binders, paper, spiral notebooks, pencils, pens, some report covers, a glue stick—my dad kept my younger brother busy.  We clutched our treasures and dutifully placed them on the cashier’s conveyor.  My brother struggled to put his new box of crayons on the belt too— no one was left out!  And the cashier gave us each our own bag!

As we got older, we would need to buy slide rules and calculators, and the accursed gym suits!  Boys were lucky, their gym period only required shorts and a T-shirt, but girls?  We were ruled by the whims of the gym teacher.  Since I had an older sister, I already saw the gym suit she had to wear.  It wasn’t bad: a navy-blue crisp cotton all in one suit that snapped up the front, and was slightly gathered at the waist.

I thought that was what I would have to wear…no such luck!  I got the new gym teacher—younger, definitely, but one who demanded comfort over style.  So off we went to the local sporting goods store to try on and purchase one.  Oh my goodness!  It was hideous!  It had navy-blue and white HORIZONTAL stripes, elastic waist and a stupid short back neckline zipper.  Not a single girl in my class liked the uniform.

Fast forward…a few years…(let’s leave it at that…lol)  …school shopping is completely different!  My granddaughter doesn’t have to wear a gym suit. A T-shirt and shorts are acceptable. She still needs a few pencils, but since cursive is no longer taught in school, she needs no pens or spiral notebooks.  She did need folders—to keep all her “handouts” together.  If she wanted to take extra notes, she would do it on the handouts or on the Chromebook she was “given” from the school district to take notes and do assignments.  She would be required to turn the Chromebook back into the school when she graduates.  She brings a water bottle with her every day and she is REQUIRED to have a backpack. 

*By the way, before I typed this into wordpress, I wrote it out longhand…in a spiral notebook! Grandma is still “old school”…LOL

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  1. Good morning y’all! I remember back to school shopping as a kid in the 80’s. I grew up with my dad, so he is the one that would take me to the mall in Annapolis to shop. New shoes and clothes were my favorite part.

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  5. first they seized perry’s phone…now subpoenaing fellow lawmakers…
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    In yet another act of despotism, Biden’s FBI target state elected officials who disputed his controversial election. https://t.co/8waLOOWTj8

    — Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) August 11, 2022

    Federal investigators delivered subpoenas or paid visits to several House and Senate Republican offices in the Pennsylvania Capitol on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to multiple sources.

    Some of the individuals receiving subpoenas were told they were not targets of an investigation, according to six sources reached by PennLive, but that they may have information of interest to the FBI. The information being requested pertains to U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., and the effort to seek alternate electors for 2020.

    https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/breaking-fbi-delivers-subpoenas-to-republicans-who-questioned-the-steal/

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    1. this was in the comments on the same story on CFP

      Josh

      ….. According to Miranda Devine:

      The boxes contain documents and mementos from Trump’s presidency, reportedly including letters from Barack Obama and Kim Jong Un, and other correspondence with world leaders.

      A legal source said that the boxes had been packed up by the General Services Administration and shipped to Mar-a-Lago when Trump left office in January 2020.

      That’s right, folks: the federal government itself (GSA) had collected and shipped these boxes of signed autographs and keepsakes to President Trump in January.

      Four months later, the FBI was already harassing President Trump about these boxes that were shipped to him by the federal government in January:

      In May, [Trump attorney] Corcoran granted access into Mar-a-Lago’s windowless storage room to FBI agents who spent several hours searching through the boxes. Trump stopped by the basement to say hello at one point, says someone who was there.

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  13. he was a useable scubag

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    1. THIS must be one of the first organizations to be de-funded and kicked into the dustbin of history!!!!!

      EXCERPT: “The Senior Executive Service (SES) lead America’s workforce. As the keystone of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, the SES was established to “…ensure that the executive management of the Government of the United States is responsive to the needs, policies, and goals of the Nation and otherwise is of the highest quality.” These leaders possess well-honed executive skills and share a broad perspective on government and a public service commitment that is grounded in the Constitution.

      Members of the SES serve in the key positions just below the top Presidential appointees. SES members are the major link between these appointees and the rest of the Federal workforce. They operate and oversee nearly every government activity in approximately 75 Federal agencies.

      The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) manages the overall Federal executive personnel program, providing the day-to-day oversight and assistance to agencies as they develop, select, and manage their Federal executives.”

      https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/

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      1. AGREED!!!
        and REALPOTUS’s EO would have moved these scum into a “fireable” category. he just implemented it too late in his presidency. he needs to resurrect it day one!

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  18. this is troubling…they requested security footage of the locker –so they could figure out where the cameras where and how to work around that?
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    The subpoena requested any remaining documents Trump possessed with any classification markings, even if they involved photos of foreign leaders, correspondence or mementos from his presidency.

    Secret Service agents were also present and facilitated the visit, officials said.

    Trump signaled his full cooperation, telling the agents and prosecutor, “Look, whatever you need let us know,” according to two eyewitnesses. The federal team was surprised by the president’s invitation and asked for an immediate favor: to see the 6-foot-by-10-foot storage locker where his clothes, shoes, documents and mementos from his presidency were stored at the compound.

    Given Trump’s instruction, the president’s lawyers complied and allowed the search by the FBI before the entourage left cordially. Five days later, DOJ officials sent a letter to Trump’s lawyers asking them to secure the storage locker with more than the lock they had seen. The Secret Service installed a more robust security lock to comply.

    Around the same time, the Trump Organization, which owns Mar-a-Lago, received a request for surveillance video footage covering the locker and volunteered the footage to federal authorities, sources disclosed.

    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/trump-got-grand-jury-subpoena-spring-voluntarily-cooperated-home

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  20. Oh, my, yes – August was definitely back-to-school month not only for me for both clothes and supplies but my Mom, who taught 1st & 2nd grade – she spent a LOT of her own money for extras for her class. We made our annual trip to the Crossroads Mall in Omaha for school supplies – it was a BIG deal – we even got to go out to eat at the nice restaurant at the mall. We didn’t have a mall in Norfolk yet – not until I was in my teens – nor did we have a Wal Mart. Some of my dresses were ordered from Sears. I always yearned, oddly enough, for the deluxe box of colored pencils instead of the cheap box – never got it until I was an adult and bought my own! What an odd memory…..!

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    1. Morning Filly!
      OH…the Sears catalog!!! I remember lying on the floor in the living room with my sister paging thru it!! oh the wonders back then!

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  21. HA! rose colored glasses for sure on this one…a different perspective on the 87,000 irs agents
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    And with any luck, we will have a Republican president in 2025. If there are still more hands at the IRS available, I suspect that a President Trump or President DeSantis will have a more productive task for them — namely, tracking down all the illegal aliens and their employers, who take credits and deductions using phony tax numbers to which they are manifestly not entitled.

    Doing such a job properly would actually mean the IRS hiring some more people, and that would be well worth it.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/a_slightly_optimistic_take_on_all_those_new_irs_agents.html

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  23. LOL…the rumors are flying now!

    Oh snap…. This is only rumor (right now, and from a great source), but one of the Trump documents seized *is suspected to be* the 2017 fully unredacted 99-page report from FISA Judge Rosemary Collyer, outlining who the DOJ and FBI allowed to use the NSA database. pic.twitter.com/8d0Q0425MN

    — TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) August 11, 2022

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  24. Cute chocolate Aussie, Kea! This was my Aussie, Jax, with HB’s cat, Go-Tee:

    After I sold him and he had gotten a shave (with Tom at the farm):

    He was a completely different dog out on the farm – he was sooooo much calmer and happier herding his horses and goats! They were a retired couple whose own Red Aussie had died of cancer. Jax inspected the fence lines with her every morning, and kept their grandkids happily occupied during their visits. It was THE perfect place for him! He stood out there with his head up into the wind, surveying his domain and looked so proud and happy.

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  25. EXCERPT from EpochTimes: “From the early days of the pandemic, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has been trying to hold U.S. public health agencies accountable on many issues, including why the agencies censored early treatment options for COVID-19, pushed vaccine mandates, and demonstrated a lack of integrity and transparency involving the vaccine data and reporting.

    After conducting two years of oversight, Johnson said that the U.S. medical system has been compromised by money from Big Pharma.

    “We have a corrupt medical system in this country,” Johnson said in a recent interview for NTD’s “Capitol Report” program. “From the pharmaceutical companies down to the federal health agencies through to the research centers and medical journals. It should concern every American.”

    Agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Drug Administration have not freely provided the public with accurate data about the vaccine’s origin, efficacy, and adverse effects, said Johnson, and he and others conducting oversight have had to rely heavily on other countries’ data.

    “We’ve had to look to either Israel or Public Health England, Public Health Scotland. Now they’re shutting down their information streams as well,” he said. “One of my biggest concerns is our federal health agencies have not been honest. They’ve not been transparent.”

    He called what the CDC is doing “willful ignorance.”
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    “I’ve always been supportive of the pharmaceutical industry,” because the drug companies need billions of dollars to develop new drugs that are important for improving lives, said Johnson. “But now I’ve just witnessed the capture of U.S. regulatory agencies by Big Pharma.”

    Video of Johnson: https://www.ntd.com/sen-ron-johnson-questions-remain-over-vaccine-efficacy-side-effects_819196.html

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  26. EXCERPT: “Below is my column in the Hill on the raid on Mar-a-Lago. Questions continue to grow over the necessity for the raid as opposed to the use of a subpoena or other means. According to the Trump counsel, the former president was given an earlier subpoena and complied with it and then voluntarily gave the FBI access to a storage area and agreed to add a specified lock on the room. It is not clear why a second subpoena would not have sufficed if there were other covered material under the Presidential Records Act.

    There is also a report of a confidential informant or source used in the operation. The only thing clear is that, while the J6 Committee does not appear to have changed many minds, the raid has. Any possibility that Donald Trump might not run seems to be evaporated with any likely challengers in the wake of the raid. That could change as we learn more details but the raid has galvanized Trump’s supporters. Ironically, Newsweek reported that the FBI was hoping the raid with Trump out of town would be a “lower profile” option — a notion that borders on the delusional. The lower profile option is called a subpoena.”

    https://jonathanturley.org/2022/08/11/the-mar-a-lago-raid-criminal-prosecution-or-political-indemnification/

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    1. “There is a documented history of bias against Trump by top FBI officials, including prior falsification or misrepresentations used to facilitate the Russia conspiracy investigation. Thus, Attorney General Merrick Garland surely knew this raid would rekindle suspicions that this could be another example of what fired FBI official Peter Strzok once called an “insurance policy” against Trump becoming president in 2016 — only this time in 2024. For that reason, the Justice Department has an added burden to show this raid was a step toward actual criminal prosecution and not just a political indemnification.

      We will soon learn if a criminal case can be brought on the fruits of this search. Absent such charges, the empty safe at Mar-a-Lago could become the most indelible and embarrassing image since Al Capone’s safe.”

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    2. EXACTLY!
      and sorry to say it but desantis’s continued silence other than that weak tweet from his personal acct is not narrowing the split between the two in voters’ minds imo…

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  36. not sure i got this all right…i watched this earlier…trump was suing hitlery among others…reinhart was the judge on that case till he had to recuse. on 8/4 trump turned DOWN dismissing the case, the next day reinhart signs the warrant to search his house which wasn’t executed till the 8th…

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  39. look who’s sitrring the pot…I hope he gets burned

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  42. what is the Fair Tax?

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    1. This is an “investing for millennials” site.

      EXCERPT: “The Fair Tax system is a tax system that eliminates income taxes (including payroll taxes) and replaces them with a sales or consumption tax. The 23% sales tax would apply to all retail and service transactions.

      Under the Fair Tax system, individuals would no longer be required to file taxes. Individuals simply pay tax each time they purchase something from a store or a service provider.

      Although the IRS would no longer be required to collect money from individuals, an enforcement agency would be required to ensure businesses appropriately collect taxes from consumers. Keep reading to learn about how the Fair Tax would work.”

      https://thecollegeinvestor.com/35525/what-is-the-fair-tax/

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      1. “The Fair Tax System most commonly refers to abolishing income taxes and replacing them with sales taxes. The system is deemed fair because people are taxed based on their spending rather than the money they earn.

        Americans for Fair Taxation is a policy group dedicated to promoting the Fair Tax plan within the United States. According to its research, a 23% sales tax could effectively replace all income and payroll taxes.

        It is important to know that the 23% sales tax is a “tax-inclusive” rate. If you buy something for $1,000 you’ll pay a 30% or $300 tax on it. Your total price will be $1300. Since $300/$1300 is 23%, it is “fair” to call this a 23% rate. However, the effective sales tax rate would be 30% of the purchase price.

        One of the first objectives of this sales tax relates to people living near or in poverty. Those individuals can barely afford food and rent as it is. A fair tax system would put them into indigence. The Americans for Fair Taxation propose a monthly “prefund” which proactively gives each individual some money. Every person would receive a monthly check from a government agency. This money could be used to offset taxes up to the poverty level.

        While the Fair Tax system is not part of the US tax code, proponents of the law drafted bill H.R.25. The 2017 bill calls for a massive overhaul of the United States tax code. It would replace all income and payroll taxes with a single consumption tax.”

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  43. EXCERPT: “Judge says DOJ can’t stay quiet: Justice is ordered to UNSEAL warrant FBI used to search Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home after Eric said agents refused to provide a copy – and as Republicans demand an explanation”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11100783/Justice-Department-ordered-respond-requests-unseal-warrant-FBI-used-raid-Mar-Lago.html
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    “Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who allegedly approved the FBI raid, ordered the DOJ to file a response to motions to unseal the warrant by Monday. Reinhart made sure to give the DOJ some wiggle room, however, adding that the response may be redacted ‘as necessary to avoid disclosing matters already under seal.’

    https://republicbrief.com/doj-ordered-to-respond-to-requests-to-unseal-warrant-the-fbi-used-to-raid-trump/

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  46. EXCERPT: “Texas joined a group of Republican-led states accusing BlackRock Inc. of putting woke investment criteria above shareholder profits in state pension funds.

    In a letter to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, 19 attorneys general, mainly from conservative states, challenged his company’s reliance on environmental, social, and governance criteria at the expense of investor returns. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in an Aug. 8 news release that ESG climate goals harm Texas’s oil and gas economy and state pension fund performance. The release said that BlackRock’s actions might also violate state and federal law.

    ​​BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, recently sent a letter to several states, claiming it has joined climate organizations merely for “dialogue” and is focused solely on its fiduciary duty.

    Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich led the charge in responding to the investment firm by pointing out inconsistencies and conflicts between BlackRock’s letter (pdf) and its public statements and commitments. According to a news release from Brnovich’s office, BlackRock’s focus goes beyond “dialogue.” The descriptions on the company’s website include ensuring the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters take necessary action on climate change and support the Paris Agreement.

    Anyone purchasing a BlackRock fund is forced to support ESG, whether they like it or not, Brnovich alleged. Brnovich’s Aug. 4 letter said BlackRock’s actions raise anti-trust concerns and appear to intentionally restrain and harm the energy markets’ competitiveness.

    “Our states will not idly stand for our pensioners’ retirements to be sacrificed for BlackRock’s climate agenda. The time has come for BlackRock to come clean on whether it actually values our states’ most valuable stakeholders, our current and future retirees, or risk losses even more significant than those caused by BlackRock’s quixotic climate agenda,” the letter states.

    Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, representing the coal-producing state of West Virginia, accused the company of coercion. “Again, this is an example of a company pushing their climate agenda, using investments to force companies and people to abide by their ideology,” Morrisey said in a statement.

    BlackRock has denied wrongdoing, saying it offers a wide range of products and strategies.

    Across the country, conservative and fossil-fuel-producing states have taken aim at financial firms for what is perceived as an attack on U.S. energy.”

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/texas-joins-18-other-states-opposing-blackrocks-woke-agenda_4656983.html

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  48. SATIRE (Entire Article @ TheFederalist):

    “Nine-and-a-half hours of secret snooping, 15 evidence boxes, and a jaunt through the former first lady’s closet later, it’s unclear what exactly FBI agents were looking for and ultimately recovered during their raid of former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida.

    Given the bureau’s long track record of malfeasance, however — concocting an elaborate Russia collusion hoax, branding conservative parents as domestic terrorists, labeling anodyne right-wing symbols as extremist dog whistles, entrapping Americans in plots to kidnap radical governors, concluding a stand-off by murdering dozens of children, rigging an election by hiding information that harmed their preferred candidate, and egging on protesters and rioters before branding them as insurrectionists, just to name a few — it isn’t too hard to imagine that some of the things the FBI recovered from Mar-a-Lago weren’t recovered at all, but planted.

    We won’t know what the FBI found at Trump’s domicile until somebody leaks it to the media as part of a calculated, pre-election info-op, but here are 20 best guesses as to what they might have, shall we say, contributed.

    1. Cocaine from the Hunter Biden Evidence Shed – Evidence that’s been wrongly labeled as “disinformation” is the easiest kind to inconspicuously lift and plant in the residence of a former president.

    2. Glossy 8×10 of Vladimir Putin – With “I ❤ Putin” scrawled across the front in black marker that just happens to be the exact same color and thickness as the FBI markers used to label the evidence boxes.

    3. Joe Biden Voodoo Doll – Pins are sticking out of its head because, see? Biden isn’t senile! It’s Trump’s fault.

    4. An Inscription in a 2021 Playboy Calendar – It’s the only marking in the otherwise crisp planner. On the little square for Jan. 6, it reads, “Remember to do insurrection.”

    5. Magazine Clippings of Volodymyr Zelensky Photos Marred with Scribbled Devil Horns – Sorry, Zelenskyyy*

    6. A Handwritten Note – It declares, “Ray Epps is a hero and definitely not a fed.”

    7. A Diary – From the entry on page one:

    'December 31, 2021 — I’m so mad. The only reason I colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election was to get close enough to AOC to date her, but she keeps rejecting me. I now have no choice but to project my sexual frustrations onto her boyfriend’s feet and spend the evening curled up watching my fellow white supremacists on Fox News. Wish I could tweet about it.'

    8. Official Typed and Notarized Memo to File – It’s dated two weeks before the 2020 election but includes a notary stamp dated August 8, 2022, and says: “I, Donald Trump, believe that Joe Biden will receive 81,268,924 votes in the safest and most secure election in American history and become our most popular legitimately elected president ever. Also, Joe Biden definitely doesn’t have Alzheimer’s, and his son Hunter is a victim of the vast, right-wing conspiracy.”

    9. Crack from the Hunter Biden Evidence Shed – Also previously labeled “disinformation” and not to be confused with the separate cocaine stash.

    10. Dartboard with Nancy Pelosi’s Face on It – The FBI has it labeled with an evidence tag reading, “Drumpf’s plans to assassinate the Speaker.”

    11. Flash Drive with BOMBSHELL Video of Trump Allegedly Cavorting with Underage Sex-Trafficking Victims –
    Except the video is clearly from Hunter Biden’s laptop, it’s obvious somebody used a free online meme template to replace the crackhead with Trump’s head, and the file properties show it was created on Aug. 9 in the FBI’s Washington Field Office by somebody with the username “cwray.”

    12. Meth from the Hunter Biden Evidence Shed – Not to be confused with the separate cocaine and crack stashes.

    13. A Hideous Women’s Dress, Size 4 – Because we know the FBI didn’t find one of these in its secret pillage of Melania’s wardrobe… and what else are the media supposed to talk about at Christmastime?

    14. A ‘Let’s Go, Brandon’ Foam Finger – It’s sticking out of a box labeled, “VIOLENCE.”

    15. A Framed Transcript of Trump’s Charlottesville Remarks – The phrase “Very Fine People” adorns the top of the page in a title script. But for space, the words, “and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally,” have been edited out.

    16. Heroin from the Hunter Biden Evidence Shed – You know the drill.

    17. A VHS Copy of the Pee Tape – Labeled “this thing I totally did.”

    18. Photocopy of the FBI’s Plans To Kidnap Gretchen Whitmer – Turns out it was Trump all along.

    19. Body Paint – One black tube is labeled “for racist parties only — NO PHOTOS.” And an orange tube is marked “for all other days.”

    20. Professional-Grade Rhinoceros Tranquilizers from the Hunter Biden Evidence Shed – No explanation necessary."

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