And to take an even longer view, here's Meade's photograph of me getting into the weeds:
I should admit that mushroom was also "The 4th of July Fungus," the one that looked disgusting at first and then, 21 hours later, flipped into something pleasingly jaunty.The July 5th photo of the mushroom, above, shows it in decline. And now, here's how it looked today:
If they could only see its shocking, advanced state of decline, the other mushrooms would surely demand that it withdraw from the ongoing "Fungus of the Day" race.
UPDATE, July 8th. In tatters:
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/world/europe/ukraine-russia-killings-us.html
In Ukraine, Killings of Surrendering Russians Divide an American-Led Unit
Hours after a battle in eastern Ukraine in August, a wounded and unarmed Russian soldier crawled through a nearly destroyed trench, seeking help from his captors, a unit of international volunteers led by an American.
Caspar Grosse, a German medic in that unit, said he saw the soldier plead for medical attention in a mix of broken English and Russian. It was dusk. A team member looked for bandages.
That is when, Mr. Grosse said, a fellow soldier hobbled over and fired his weapon into the Russian soldier’s torso. He slumped, still breathing. Another soldier fired — “just shot him in the head..”
Ryan O’Leary, the de facto commander of Chosen Company and a former U.S. Army National Guardsman from Iowa denied that members had committed war crimes. He said that his fighters had killed wounded Russians, but only those they wanted to.
Desperate for personnel, the military opened its ranks to thousands of international volunteers after Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Fighters with varying degrees of experience and professionalism, some of whom would not have been allowed near a battlefield in an American-led war, were welcomed and armed.
Mr. O’Leary wanted Chosen to be a home for professional, disciplined fighters. The unit — a mix that included deserters, thrill seekers and aging soldiers — became a hub for volunteers seeking combat.
Benjamin Reed, a former Chosen member from Massachusetts, said that even the unit’s recruiter told him that it “was OK to kill P.O.W.s
The mushroom should focus on what can be, unburdened by what has been.
Squint and the younger mushroom looks exactly like JD Vance.
Shall we pretend to be our media lords and make the professional effort to hide the decline? Our host chooses truth over marketing.
@Meade: with or without the beard?
Which of the following first ladies exuded class while her husband was in office? Pick no more than 2.
A) Hillary Clinton
B) Laura Bush
C) Michelle Obama
D) Melania Trump
E) Jill Biden
Tcrosse ☺️
So, I’d imagined if you’re in Kamala’s staff, what must be that like right now?
Who’s call do you pick up, who do let it ring and who do you block?
History is happening… unburden by what has been.
“If they could only see its shocking, advanced state of decline, the other mushrooms would surely demand that it withdraw from the ongoing "Fungus of the Day" race.“
What did the other mushrooms know and when did they know it?. Scandalous. Fungusgate.
Meanwhile, the vice president every move is being considered and puzzled over as to its significance.
Hunter (Biden’s Steve Bannon) probably has people tailing her everywhere.
The NYT, gilbar? Really?
What's that French phrase . . . oh yeah, c'est la guerre.
Apparently gilbar doesn't know that the Russians have been murdering surrendered prisoners all along, at least 90 so far, that just a few weeks ago they cut off the head of a prisoner, took pictures of it resting on the hood of their vehicle, and uploaded it to social media, that they have castrated some prisoners, that they torture and starve all of their prisoners, so that many of those who are exchanged are 80-100 pounds underweight. (The Red Cross makes sure that Russian prisoners in Ukraine are well-fed and well-treated, but they have no access to Russian prison camps and don't seem to mind that.)
If some Ukrainians and allies have sunk part-way to the Russian level, it would not be surprising. It would also not be at all surprising if what gilbar quotes turns out to be a lie and a fraud, like so many anti-Ukraine stories. (No, Mrs. Zelenskyy did not buy a $4,800,000 Bugatti last week, and Bugatti is suing the lying assholes who said she did.)
If they could only see its shocking, advanced state of decline, the other mushrooms would surely demand that it withdraw from the ongoing "Fungus of the Day" race.
It really only matters if it is in charge of the codes to generate the mushroom clouds.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/07/07/biden-visits-black-church-n2176484
War in the steppes and thd caucasus have always been brutal
...me getting into the weeds
Well, you are a law professor, as the coined meme "and you, a law professor" reminded us, all those years ago.
I am impressed by your ability to squat like that. Takes good and agile hips to do that!
X, formerly known as Twitter: Would it fair to characterize Biden's black church visits as the only time he sees black people?
God knows how early that young woman got up and stood in line to be able to be up the front rope, only to be sidestepped by the man she went there to see.
RFK via X: Because of some recent irresponsible journalism, I’m in the dog house
A bad week for Europe’s right wing populists. Le Pen dropping to third place in France, and a landslide majority for Labor in the UK. The grownups are back! What a wonderful week for rational people!
Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.
Unlike the smaller one, it kept its head in adversity! Fungus of the Week!
The capper is, we're at the mercy of the Chief Gardener and Botanist, and his 25 soil amendments.
Several memes of Biden not blinking during the debate. About half a minute between blinks.
Watching TV characters, five to ten seconds seems normal.
OK, the song lyrics definitely do not say
There's a fungus among us,
There's a penis between us..
Inga made it up
The ants obviously have DirecTV.
Rich thinks it is the grown-ups that gave the hard left a win in the French elections.
There was a good question asked a few posts ago, namely, who co-ordinated the media "stampede" following on Joe Biden's debate debacle and why did it happen? I propose that Biden lost the black vote and the black leaders knew it at once. Of course, the media took pains and is taking pains to say that only the high-ups are being consulted, only world leaders and campaign leaders and the VP and state governors and US Senators. But the media lies so if that's the lie they are telling that means that they've heard from a key voting group and I bet it was the black community. In fact, I think they're doing everything they can to keep journalists from interviewing people in the black community on their reactions to the debate. Take a look at the video Narciso posted:
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/07/07/biden-visits-black-church-n2176484
The comments within the video are about how Biden is looking at notes, etc. But what I notice is how silent the church people are and how Biden is isolated. Remember that great video where Dave Chapelle talks about Jussie Smollett and how the black community IS supporting Jussie, they AREN'T SAYING ANYTHING? Well, perhaps that's happening now. Perhaps they AREN'T SAYING ANYTHING.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZXoErL2124 Chapelle on Jussie Smollett.
Great Britain, now France rejected the extreme right. Who is next?
France:
PARIS (Reuters) -France faced potential political deadlock after elections on Sunday threw up a hung parliament, with a leftist alliance unexpectedly taking the top spot but no group winning a majority.
Voters delivered a major setback for Marine Le Pen's nationalist, eurosceptic National Rally (RN), which opinion polls had predicted would win the second-round ballot but ended up in the third spot, according to pollsters' projections.
The results were also a blow for centrist President Emmanuel Macron, who called the snap election to clarify the political landscape after his ticket took a battering at the hands of the RN in European Parliament elections last month.
He ended up with a hugely fragmented parliament, in what is set to weaken France's role in the European Union and elsewhere abroad and make it hard for anyone to push through a domestic agenda.
The election will leave parliament divided in three big groups - the left, centrists, and the far right - with hugely different platforms and no tradition at all of working together.
This was probably mentioned in the other comment section:
A severe decrease in blinking is seen chiefly in Parkinson’s disease, a brain disorder that impairs movement and coordination. The decrease in blinking may be accompanied by facial paralysis and apparent staring or lack of facial expression (masked facies).
Trump is not "extreme right:" - to say so is laughable.
Biden is, however, Extremist mob-Soviet Leftist.
"HOLY CR*P. PA radio station “cut ties” with Andrea Lawful-Sanders, the host who revealed that the White House sent her the questions before interviewing Biden."
Mob-Soviets gotta Mob-Soviet. Do not embarrass the king pin. Even if he is a husk.
LOL - Ann.
SECOND LOCAL RADIO HOST SAYS HE WAS GIVEN QUESTIONS AHEAD OF BIDEN INTERVIEW:
“Yes, I was given some questions for Biden,” Earl Ingram of CivicMedia told ABC News. Ingram, a prominent host of a Wisconsin radio station, interviewed Biden this week in the wake of his debate performance.
Ingram said he was given five questions and ended up asking four of them.
“I didn’t get a chance to ask him all the things I wanted to ask,” he said.
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Leftists all over America still wont talk Biden. Good hive cogs!
No, Inga, all of those parties have made huge gains they just haven't yet gotten to a majority because the "center" keeps moving left trying to marginalize them. It will take time but populist right will eventually win- it will take more time for the people in the center to figure out that making coalitions with Marxists is a dead end.
Looks like a leprechaun chair. Do you have leprechauns in Wisconsin?
This video hasn't gotten as much attention as the church one. It's Biden giving a speech in front of a small crowd in Harrisburg today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPQLnqic8Kg .
Biden speaks from 34:58-40:58. He rambles, interrupts himself, trails off, stumbles over his words, etc. Even apart from the debate and the interview, this video reveals he is in no condition for the Presidency.
A bad week for Europe’s right wing populists.
It appears you don't know any more about conservatives in Europe than you do here in the States.
Great Britain, now France rejected the extreme right. Who is next?
And, neither do you.
Yancey Ward: "No, Inga, all of those parties have made huge gains they just haven't yet gotten to a majority because the "center" keeps moving left trying to marginalize them. It will take time but populist right will eventually win- it will take more time for the people in the center to figure out that making coalitions with Marxists is a dead end."
True.
The traditional voters in the center in the UK and France just found out explicitly that the party leadership of the so called "center" and barely "center right" parties are fully aligned with the agenda of the WEF and hard left, So much so that over 200 so called labeled "center" and barely "center right" party candidates dropped out to hand vctory to the hard left.
Precisely the type of electoral shenanigans Paul Ryan pulled in 2018 in terms of strategic retirings of republicans in the House to ensure throwing power to the dems...so they could lead serial shampeachments and lawfare against Trump and to stop transparency and ensctment of America First immigration, economic and cultural policies.
And Ryan received a very, very nice payoff for doing so from Team Globalist, specifically the Murdoch's.
As with Trump, the so called "far right" (falsely labeled again) showed large gains across the board as citizens see the destruction of their societies on the line and just like the GOPe, the "center" in both the UK and France are now fully exposed.
Just pull up the video of Sunak and cabinet in the UK the morning after their historic losses. They were literally whooping it up and celebrating...and it wasnt surprising in the least.
It makes perfect sense that both Inga on the far New Soviet Democratical left and LLR-democratical Rich are celebrating the "victories" of left wing communists aligned with islamic supremacists in France.
It comes as no surprise whatsoever. There were more Palestinian flags at their victory rallies in France than French flags. In the very same way the American flag triggers so many "liberals"/"lefties" in the US.
The good news is that French Jews have a nation that can and will accept them immediately as the western society democratical/communist/islamic alliance has not yet cut off their inevitable needed escape.
Wow! There must have been a huge attendance at Biden's rally at Sherman Middle School in Maple Bluffs.
Gad Saad
@GadSaad
Goodnight France. You’ve always been good at being rapidly conquered.
Blatantly lying, when it is easy to fact check isn't going to help lying corrupt Progressives this time.
"DONNA BRAZILE: It would be very difficult to replace somebody who's been vetted, who knows the job and has done a tremendous -- I think she's done a tremendous job and to ask the delegates elected to the convention, who are Biden-Harris supporters, to bypass Kamala Harris because some Republicans and a few others may not like her, it would be political malpractice. As I tell everyone, Kamala Harris has earned the right to be considered if -- I mean, we got a lot of "what if” scenarios. But- she’s strong, she’s down in Louisiana, she was able- she had a rally last night with 60,000 people, I’ve heard from so many folks including my family- they say she’s fired up and ready to go. And they’re not going to replace her.
Sounds impressive, right? Brazile’s advocacy for Harris was reasonably fine until she got to the “but”, and made a whopper of a claim that doesn’t survive so much as a basic Google search."
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2024/07/07/fact-check-abcs-donna-brazile-invents-kamala-harris-rally-never
Progressives love to riot and burn down cities even when they are winning, don't they??
PeterSweden
@PeterSweden7
BREAKING: The far-left is rioting and attacking police in France despite winning the elections.
It is clear that they are a threat to democracy.
There is SO MUCH truth in this one statement, because besides his fuckups, they are the only things he is known for...
To close his speech, Biden told the crowd, "Folks, with your permission, I'm going to find out whether you have any ice cream... [incoherent] when you have a President who's known for two things: Rayban sunglasses and chocolate chip ice cream."
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/watch-im-going-find-whether-you-have-any/
“It is clear today that there is no future for Jews in France.
I tell everyone who is young to go to Israel or a more secure country,”--Paris Chief Rabbi Moshe Sebbag
The good thing about having Lewy Body Dementia for Joe Biden is that it can't be proven until an autopsy. So he has that going for him.
Regarding France and Britain, both countries now have had governments that all but completely destroyed their own political parties out of loyalty to Kiev's side in the civil war. The first thing that the new socialist prime minister of the UK said was that his first and most important job was to support Zelensky in the war, Zelensky who refuses negotiations, this is after the last. government got thrown out because Britain is going to Hell in a hand basket, lust like France, due in no small part to their cutoff of cheap energy and resources from Russia. Now they get to pay us double what they were paying Putin! Yay!
"Apparently gilbar doesn't know that the Russians have been murdering surrendered prisoners all along,"
Every accusation is a confession with Dr Weevil. But we do appreciate his breathless recounting of Ukrainian ultranationalist propaganda.
That's not to say that bad stuff doesn't happen in war time. It's just that Kiev has a lot more interest in having the world perceive that the Russians are committing atrocities than the Russians do. These kinds of stories help Kiev, which is why Dr Weevil is here repeating them, and hurt Moscow.
We also know that Kiev is big on manufacturing false evidence and putting it out fhere. For instance the SBU did their own analysis of who fired the shots in Maidan Square to kill demonstrators, after courts of law found that it was the Righ Sector, part of the Maidan movement, who fired them, and lo and hehold, the SBU ran some tests and found that they themselves were actually innocent.
The problem with lying constantly is that the truth catches up with you. The Russians demanded a UN investigation of Bucca, and it was blocked by the US, the Russians demanded a UN investigation of that shootdown of the transport plane full of Ukrainian prisoners, the US blocked it, same with the pipeline, same with that dam that provided water to Crimea, yet we block these investigations each time they are demanded? You know why? Because we know exactly what they would find.
At this point, cell phone video out of Ukraine is useless as evidence, both sides create fake Telegram channels that purport to be aligned with the other side. Certainty about anything that comes out of a war zone is the sign of a fool or a propagandist.
“Regarding France and Britain, both countries now have had governments that all but completely destroyed their own political parties out of loyalty to Kiev's side in the civil war.“
Hard to ignore Biden’s role in committing all the unending support of Ukraine by the EU, including nixing negotiating an end to it early on. I suppose he’s delighted with these recent electoral outcomes, though. Death and destruction is a winning strategy for them.
Not sure Macron's gamble paid off. Probably his idea was to have RN winning with a slight majority and forcing them to govern in cohabitation with him. That would have exposed RN's inconsistencies. But now it's on the center and left to govern. Will they be able?
The left are as surprised and perplexed by their (relative) majority as everyone else. They agree on very little except a tribal identity - and they hold only about 1/3 of the seats. A left wing government would have a half-life measured in weeks - either they explode or they lose a censure vote.
Macron should ask them to name their candidate for prime minister. Not only don't they have one, but they have no agreement on how to select one. And Mélenchon is busy purging again, to get the party atmosphere warmed up.
"Not sure Macron's gamble paid off. "
Well, if you assume that Europe is run, like the United States, by a single corrupt cabal whose members wear different colors depending, but believe the same things, mostly that "the peasants are revolting," it worked out fine, just like it did in the UK. The globalists are large and in charge in both countries, and are in a position to wipe out the national identities of both countries.
Once the Ukrainians see what these people do to France and England, they will switch sides.
Several memes of Biden not blinking during the debate. About half a minute between blinks.
I was trying to keep the same blink pattern - it was painful.
“It is time that the mushrooms do what mushrooms do. And that time is now.”
—- Quemala Harris
“Wow! There must have been a huge attendance at Biden's rally at Sherman Middle School in Maple Bluffs.”
I see three or four people in tha “crowd” who look like they might even have been paying attention.
The mushroom should focus on what can be, unburdened by what has been.
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just what John Galt said to anybody asked
"Several memes of Biden not blinking during the debate. About half a minute between blinks."
Parkinsons symptom, and that's best case for Joe. Other strong possibilities include a disease that causes visual hallucinations, which is one possible interpretation of some of the bizarre video that cam out of Europe.
I remember as a kid my piano teacher had Parkinsons, he would write little notes on the lessons in a squiggly hand that was actually pretty amazing, It would probably take a trained artist to reproduce it. I wish I still had an example of it. But he was teaching elementary students how to play piano, not trying to "run the whole world," as he describes it.
Rich said: "Not sure Macron's gamble paid off."
You haven't been paying attention. It's win at any cost, the lefties will sort out the details later (see the left's current dilemma with the demented one).
It was just having a bad day.
Almost a dozen Democrats are now calling on Biden to withdraw.
The number has doubled since his interview on Friday.
For Rich and Inga - selling the soul of your nation to Islamist supporting Jew haters and Neo-Marxists - is worth the media pimped "win."
Nice you can squat. Many people in the west our age can not squat like that. I am 70. I can do it now, but I had to do yoga and Pilates for a year or so before I could. Started yoga at 65.
why not ask Q to FJB creatively preambled with =
= how Beau's sad death derailed project ABC to benefit XYZ?
I would
Almost a dozen Democrats are now calling on Biden to withdraw.
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but no one has offered to care for him!!!
What many don't seem to realize is that the far right and far left are two sides of the same coin, with much the same disastrous policies when it comes to being anti-EU, anti-NATO, pro-Russia. The main difference is that one is pro-immigration and the other is anti-immigration.
One also has economic policy that if implemented would herald the next eurocrisis, but that does not matter either it seems.
Hurricane Beryl, earliest Cat 5 hurricane to date on record, makes landfall... as a Cat 1. I lean more toward being relieved than toward Schadenfreude, but the alarmism was a bit premature. This time.
DOJ seeks foothold after Supreme Court loss on Jan. 6 obstruction charge (The Hill)
"Swaths of Jan. 6 rioters could face resentencing or additional proceedings this summer after the Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Justice (DOJ) overreached in its sweeping prosecution of the Capitol attack.
The decision has left federal prosecutors scrambling to redefine their use of the newly neutered obstruction charge and maintain their long-held narrative that the riot was a threat to American democracy.
More than 350 rioters accused of interrupting Congress’s certification of the 2020 electoral vote were charged with obstruction of an official proceeding, about a quarter of those charged for their roles in the attack.
Since the Supreme Court issued its decision narrowing that charge, trial-level judges have started to reopen some cases tied to the 2021 Capitol attack. The Justice Department has urged them to slam the brakes.
The arguments put forth by federal prosecutors in the aftermath of the high court’s decision show the Justice Department has latched onto Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s concurring opinion, in which she signaled her belief it is possible for Joseph Fischer — the rioter who challenged the obstruction charge — and other defendants to still be prosecuted under it.
Jackson, the high court’s newest liberal justice, signed onto the conservative-majority opinion and broke from the other two liberals, who were joined instead by conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett in their dissent."
Sure, double down on using § 1512(c)(2) of Sarbanes-Oxley, which was never intended for use in the circumstances at hand for J6, - or was it? - sure, that'll work.
Boeing accepts a plea deal to avoid a criminal trial over 737 Max crashes, Justice Department says (AP)
"Boeing will plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from two crashes of 737 Max jetliners that killed 346 people after the government determined the company violated an agreement that had protected it from prosecution for more than three years, the Justice Department said Sunday night.
Federal prosecutors gave Boeing the choice last week of entering a guilty plea and paying a fine as part of its sentence or facing a trial on the felony criminal charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Prosecutors accused the American aerospace giant of deceiving regulators who approved the airplane and pilot-training requirements for it.
Selective non-prosecution. DOJ should have filed charges in Manhattan.
"The plea deal, which still must receive the approval of a federal judge to take effect, calls for Boeing to pay an additional $243.6 million fine. That was the same amount it paid under the 2021 settlement that the Justice Department said the company breached. An independent monitor would be named to oversee Boeing’s safety and quality procedures for three years. The deal also requires Boeing to invest at least $455 million in its compliance and safety programs."
Second chances for favored players. They must have had extra Brownie Points for having a DEI program.
LLR-democratical Rich: "What many don't seem to realize is that the far right and far left are two sides of the same coin..."
LOL!
Even dumber than usual for Abacus Boy!
And right after we saw the purposely mislabeled "centrist" and "center right" (wink wink) parties FULLY electorally align with the far left/communist/islamic supremacists to deliver "victories" in the UK and France to the left/commies/islamic supremacists...
....just a few years after the GOPe sabotaged its own electoral chances in 2018 to hand the House over to their democratical allies to sham-peach Trump twice and keep the russia collusion and all the other hoaxes combined going strong.
The establishment types have been fully and completely coopted by the dem/LLR-dem/left/islamic supremacist alliance across the west.
The proof lies directly and openly before us and is now quite irrefutable.
Just last night Rich was celebrating and declared the "adults were back in charge" in France and the UK...that means Rich was celebrating the commie takeover in France and far left Keir Starmer and his lunatic pro-islamic supremacist cabinet in the UK!
That means Rich isn't "the other side of the coin" with the commies and islamic supremacists...Rich is on the SAMR SIDE OF THE COIN with the commies and islamic supremacists.
Just as many of us have observed for many years now.
It seems like only yesterday the democraticals and LLR-democraticals denied up and down they were aligned with the far far left and islamics.
Those denials, like all the other exposed dem/LLR-dem lies, are now visible and littering our narrative highways.
LLR-democratical Rich: "The left are as surprised and perplexed by their (relative) majority as everyone else."
LOL
The lies roll off Rich's keyboard as effortlessly as a butterfly takes flight!
The commie leaders knew they were going to win when Macron came to them after the first round voting and worked out the details to have 210, yes, 210(!), parliamentary Macron party candidates drop out to throw the local race to the commies.
Which they did.
Just like the "conservative" (snort) party did in the UK.
Just like Ryan did in the US.
A full, complete, irrefutable, undeniable, out in the open, alliance between the establishment "center" and the far left/commies/islamic supremacists.
It really cant be said enough.
imTay sounds more like a Nazi revisionist every day, the kind who claim that the gas chambers were only delousing stations and the Nazis were trying to save the prisoners' lives but they had such filthy habits they died in droves anyway. Everything he says in his 5:05am comment is a lie.
To take one example: he pretends that the Russians did not blow up the Nova Kakhovka dam. We know for a fact that they did, because: (a) the Russian battalion that did it bragged about it on social media for the first hour or two, until they realized the flood was so big it was drowning a lot of Russian soldiers downstream, and started denying it; (b) the dam was built to withstand a nuclear explosion (you can find the plans on the web), and could only be destroyed by explosives placed at specific points in tunnels made for the purpose, which could only be done by those occupying the site, who were all Russians, and (c) the Russians like blowing up Ukrainian dams - just yesterday, a top Russian propagandist was complaining that Putin hasn't destroyed the dam north of Kyiv and flooded the whole city to drown tens of thousands.
Why didn't Putin blow up the Kyiv dam? He was too busy hitting the childrens' hospital and maternity hospital in Kyiv and another hospital elsewhere in Ukraine. Last I saw on Twitter, the death toll had gone from 17 to 28 to 36 and was expected to rise further, and the wounded was up 140. This is the sort of thing imTay denies or excuses, like the little Nazi turd he is.
Narciso (8:00pm):
"War in the steppes" may "have always been brutal", but the Ukrainians are not striking civilian targets, while the Russians do that every night. Nor do the Ukrainians behead or castrate or starve prisoners, or do a lot of other brutal things the Russians do very enthusiastically. Your 'both-sidesism' is misguided.
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