Why won't Gov. Tim "Mayor Daley" Pawlenty let
Minnesota have two senators?
Right wing satirists don't spread the
love
Haven't heard from Paul Shanklin about We Hate
The USA, as discussed last week. Not everyone sends me a CD,
even if it means a review and airtime. Oh well. I don't care enough
to take major action, but I'll get around to digging out a cut or
two.
Generic comment #1: Free speech means free speech for
all.
Generic comment #2: "The right to be heard does not
automatically include the right to be taken seriously." -- Hubert H.
Humphrey
So there.
Meanwhile, my opinion of Chip
Saltsman remains the same: A right-wing blowhard with no values
worth promoting, who is pandering to the mean-spirited "base" of the
GOP. If the goppies are smart -- and they rarely are except by
accident -- they won't let him run the Republican National
Committee.
Thugs and murders
*sigh*
I've
been putting off writing about the current conflict in Israel, and
I'm mostly going to continue putting it off. Just a few comments
here. Israel is one of the weaknesses of the liberal movement. In
their rush to out-compassion the right, they have glommed on to the
"Palestinians" as a cause, even though they don't deserve any respect
and their wounds are largely self-inflicted.
Every time I
defend Israel and Israel's actions, however grudgingly, I get accused
of being in cahoots with the far right elements of the Bush
administration. Yeah, well fuck you too.
You on the left
can't whine, "Oh, every criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic" and
then judge us on the same one-note sound bite that you don't want to
be judged by. The fact remains that all those who hate the Jews are
sympathetic to the "plight" of the residents of Gaza/West Bank. In
discussion recently, the neo-Nazis have come out and they don't sound
all that much different than the screeds from the left or from the
knee-jerk Muslim community. No, you aren't necessarily a Nazi if you
condemn Israel for some actions, but you are in very bad company and
you have to separate yourself from your worst elements. In just the
same way that those of us who support Israel must separate ourselves
from the worst anti-Muslim hatemongers. You can't hold a double
standard without losing credibility.
Hmm... I'm madder than I
thought. Geeze, some of the "dialog" is disgusting, and very
reminiscent of Germany about the time of Kristolnacht. So let me try
to explain my position as calmly and dispassionately as possible in a
frenzied and emotional situation.
I don't like what Israel is
doing. But I understand it. I hate what Hamas is doing, and I don't
understand it.
Hamas could have had peace... the refugees
could have had a country... several times over the last 60 years and
kept throwing away the opportunity. I'm with Golda Meir: "There
will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their
children more than they hate Israel."
Hamas refused to
continue the ceasefire. The people of Gaza/West Bank knew exactly
what they wanted, which was to fire missiles and continue attacking
Israel. And they knew retaliation was going to happen. They relied
on comments like many expressed here, full of fury at the side
defending itself. As an American, I support the lone democracy in
the region. As a person who wants peace, I'm tired of thugs
pretending to be a legitimate political force. If the radicals
refuse to negotiate, all civilized people should push them into
negotiations or punish them when they go on murderous
sprees.
No, it's not that simple.
Rosa Brooks wrote a
pretty good commentary, only a little biased in favor of the
refugees. The
Gaza Blame Game:
How to be stupid . .
.
. . Hamas style
Refuse to recognize Israel.
Remind the world that the establishment of Israel in 1948 was
accompanied by the often violent displacement of 700,000
Palestinians, but ignore the fact that more than 60 years have gone
by, making it a bit late for a do-over. Ignore the fact that most
Israelis weren't even born in 1948, and that Israel is recognized as
legitimate by an overwhelming majority of the world's states. Keep
insisting on its destruction.
She goes on, and you
should read the whole thing, if you haven't already. But she left
out a major aspect of the conflict, one that the left routinely
ignores. The "Israeli/Palestinian" conflict isn't solely between
Israel or those claiming to be Palestinians. To separate this
conflict from similar murderous sprees in Egypt, Morocco, Jordan etc
etc is foolish and blinds you to any real solution. So let me add to
Brooks' list:
How to be stupid . . .
. . Arab
style
Treat the residents of Gaza/West Bank like political
pawns. Since they arrived in the area around the 1900, the
migrant workers were in a lower caste. They were never "brothers" of
other arabs. They were the last hired and first fired under any
circumstance. They were told, by the arab states, not to accept the
UN agreement in 1947 and told to stay put in the war of 1948. They
are not treated like brethren by Muslims or arabs. They exist for
propaganda purposes.
Don't allow residents of Gaza/West
Bank into your country, even if their family has roots and close
relatives. The reason the people in Gaza have no hope isn't
because of Israel, it's because they can't go home. None of the
other countries will take them. When they did, they learned to
regret it. More "Palestinians" have died at the hands of other arabs
and other "Palestinians" then from Israeli action.
Pretend
that the conflict with Israel is unique, and completely separate from
your own conflict with radicals. Be careful what you wish for.
You might get it.
Don't include your country's refugee
situation in any peace agreements with Israel. Egypt an Jordan,
to name two, have co-existed with Israel for sixty years. Yet their
treaties don't say anything about accepting those of Egyptian or
Jordanian ancestry back into their home country. Jordan tried that,
and would up killing 10,000 of expatriates. If the arab states won't
let them come home, they should find a place for
them.
Israel, surrounded on all sides by people who have
vowed ethnic cleansing, has given land for peace under many
circumstances. It is time for the arab states to give a little land
for a lot of peace. And the land they should give up is Gaza and the
West Bank. The time for any "two state" solution is long passed,
destroyed by the second Intifada and children who are suicide
bombers.
To make peace, the arab states must take some
responsibility for the problem.
I'm gonna take a break for a week or two to catch up from the holidays and focus on some personal affairs (mainly relocation closer to my immediate family).
I'll be back soon, I assure you!... Meanwhile, don't let the bastards get ya down!
Nat Hentoff's Last Column: The 50-Year Veteran Says Goodbye (villagevoice.com)
I've borrowed Woody Guthrie's 1942 song to report that this is my last column for the Voice. I'm not retiring; I've never forgotten my exchange on that decision with Duke Ellington. In those years, he and the band played over 200 one-nighters a year, with jumps from, say, Toronto to Dallas. On one of his rare nights off, Duke looked very beat, and I presumptuously said: "You don't have to keep going through this. With the standards you've written, you could retire on your ASCAP income."
FROMA HARROP: Onus Now on Dems for Ethical Government (creators.com)
There are those who regard politics as sport and those who see it as an adjunct to government. They frame things very differently. When New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson exited as commerce secretary nominee, the sports fans saw a dropped ball by an otherwise flawless player, Barack Obama. The good government crowd deemed it a save.
FROMA HARROP: The Mortgage Thieves Return (creators.com)
First come the shady operators, then comes the collapse, then comes the bailout, then come the shady operators. That, too often, is the sad history of financial meltdowns and their cleanups.
STEPHEN MIHM: Dr. Doom (nytimes.com; from 15 August 2008)
On Sept. 7, 2006, Nouriel Roubini, an economics professor at New York University, stood before an audience of economists at the International Monetary Fund and announced that a crisis was brewing. In the coming months and years, he warned, the United States was likely to face a once-in-a-lifetime housing bust, an oil shock, sharply declining consumer confidence and, ultimately, a deep recession.
"The Donna Reed Show: The Complete First Season": A Review by Jake Meaney (popmatters.com)
Am I arguing for a contemporary relevance of a 50-year old program? Perhaps. But perhaps also its impossible now to see what was there; perhaps we no longer have the ears to hear its gentle message, to appreciate its lack of cynicism. Perhaps we no longer have the capacity to entertain its impossible idealism. But if there's a ray of hope left, if we are able to find some sort of resonant chords of optimism and decency within ourselves, then Donna Reed has arrived on DVD not a moment too soon.
David Bruce: The Funniest People Who Live Life (Free Download)
This book contains 250 anecdotes, including these: 1) Like other satirists, Mort Sahl is angry and he wants other people to be angry. (Certainly we have enough things to be angry about, and getting angry about them may result in change.) He once advised, "You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candles and curse the darkness." Mr. Sahl was a good friend of jazz musician Paul Desmond, a sax player. Mr. Sahl once gave Mr. Desmond a cigarette lighter inscribed, "To the sound from the fury." 2) Comedian Pat Henning once toured England, then many years and a toupee later, toured England again. The toupee did its job-theater managers told him that he was much funnier than his father had been.
A Miltie
B Froggy
C Peewee
D Herbie
E Ice-T
Source
Note from MD -
The answer is Froggy, but Peewee is also correct.
mj was first, and correct, with:
B, Froggy
Bill K answered:
Smilin' Ed McConnell said it...."Pluck your magic twanger, Froggy!" The show's sponsor was Buster Brown shoes.
Alan J responded:
B Froggy
Jim from Ca said:
Froggy...
Charlie replied:
On Andy's Gang (1955 - 1960), the magic twanger (whatever that was), was plunked by
B Froggy
Sally, I got maybe 10 inches of snow, and it ain't pretty, it isn't going to melt anytime soon and I have a lot of shoveling to do. After seeing Vic's post, I must agree that things could be worse. Trouble is, there is a tendency for Vic's weather to hit me eventually, though the temperatures moderate a good bit by then. The forecast says I'm going to be in single digit territory here in a few days, and get more snow in the meantime.
joe b (or should I say his wife?) nailed it:
The Boss (my wife) told me it was Froggy and
I hope everybody is coping with the real winter
or normal winter we used to have every year.
Adam in NoHo replied:
B Froggy
This is the stuff Google was made for. Enter three nonsensical words, get back
a fourth word in answer to a question that makes no sense to me, then spend
(waste) the rest of the afternoon watching video clip after video clip of stuff
I have never heard of but now seems oddly compelling.
Marian the Teacher responded:
Froggy
BGRDDAD answered:
Froggy
wahiawa john said:
b- froggy on the buster brown show.
Tom Loud )O( Yer Friendly Neighborhood Folksinger
[AKA: Obi-Zen Folksinger]
(Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. … [T]hose who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience . -- C.S. Lewis) responded:
Hey Mike Dare!
Greatings on, this, Alexander Hamilton's B/D
"I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect men." Alexander Hamilton (01/11/1755 - 07/11/1804)
Hope you have fun filling in as trivia master.
It was, of course, Froggie who was called upon to pluck his magic twanger by Andy Devine on his show Andy's Gang from 1955 to 1958. This was a majical time that produced some of the classics of American Pop Culture including me. (1957 and no I don't have fins)
bebo replied:
I think I remember that was B. froggy on the" buster brown "show.
Colby in Frostproof, FL answered:
Plunk Your Magic Twanger, Froggy!
Sally saod:
Froggy the Gremlin (B) would appear when Smilin' Ed yelled his famous catch-phrase, "Plunk your Magic Twanger. Every parent (or Muppet aficionado) remembers THAT!
PS: Note to B2BB: The "fierce" snow storm sailed gently by us here in NEW JERSEY (smile).
PPS: Hey, Professor Charlie, got that snow plow out?? Kidding aside, I saw that Ohio got hit hard by ice and snow, I hope all our Midwestern reader's faired as well as we did here on the mid-Atlantic coastline.
MAM responded:
B Froggy
Froggy appeared on the Buster Brown Show (Smilin' Ed's Gang, Andy's Gang) every Saturday, first on radio (1944 - 1952), and then on TV. Smilin' Ed McConnell was the first host on both radio and TV, and then Andy Devine appeared on the TV shows. (1952 - 1960)
Froggy the Gremlin lived in a clock. He would always be up to something and the kids would sometimes see what it was and try to alert the host to no avail. "Hiya, kids! Hiya, hiya, hiya!" was the customary greeting of Froggy. The Magic Twanger was the thing which, when plunked, brought on the cartoons and other kid-friendly fare.
The YouTubes:
That MadCat, JD wrote:
THAT WOULD BE FROGGY ON THE BUSTER BROWN SHOW.
And, Joe S noted:
Oh take me back to my youth, those wonerful, wonerful, days of yesteryear sitting around the radio.
"Plunk your magic twanger Froggy!"
"Boi-yoi-yoi-yoi-ing!"
"Hi'ya kids, hi'ya, hi'ya."
"I'm Buster Brown, I live in a shoe. This is my dog Tige, he lives in there too!"
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Big Bang Theory', followed by a FRESH'How I Met Your Mother', then a FRESH'2½ Men', followed by a FRESH'Worst Week', then a FRESH'CSI: The 2nd One'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Billy Crystal and Kara DioGuardi.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig is John Corbett.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH 2-hour 'Superstars Of Dance', followed by a FRESH'Momma's Boys'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are David Duchovny, Richard Roeper, and the All American Rejects.
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Daniel Radcliffe, Dr. Drew Pinsky, and Eric Hutchinson.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly it's TBA.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor 13', followed by a FRESH'Samantha Who?'< then a FRESH'True Beauty'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 11/17/08) are Keri Russell, Steve Martorano, and the Fray.
The CW offers a FRESH'Gossip Girl', followed by a FRESH'One Tree Hill'.
Faux has a FRESH'24', followed by another FRESH'24'.
MY has a recycled 'Twilight Zone', followed by another recycled 'Twilight Zone', then a FRESH"Masters Of Illusion'.
A&E has 'CSI: The 2nd One', 'Intervention', followed by a FRESH'Intervention', and another 'Intervention'.
AMC offers the movie 'Hook', followed by the movie 'October Sky', then the movie 'The Hi-Lo Country'.
BBC -
[12:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 1
[12:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 11
[1:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 Momma Cherri's
[2:00 PM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 5 Geoghegan
[3:00 PM] How Clean Is Your House? US - Episode 8
[3:30 PM] How Clean Is Your House? - Episode 1
[4:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 Oscars
[5:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[6:00 PM] Dragons' Den - Episode 9
[7:00 PM] BBC World News America
[8:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[9:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[10:00 PM] BBC World News America - Episode 1
[11:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[12:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[1:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[2:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[3:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 11 John Malkovich, Alan Davies and Sharleen Spiter
[4:00 AM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 17
[4:30 AM] You Are What You Eat - Episode 1
[5:00 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 6 Chislett
[5:30 AM] Cash in the Attic - Ep. 7 Chamberlain
[6:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has a FRESH'Inside The Actors Studio' (Laura Linney), 'Real Housewives Of OC', and the movie 'The Shining'.
Comedy Central has 'Scrubs', another 'Scrubs', last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Futurama', 'South Park', 'Futurama', and 'Drawn Together'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart is TBA.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Anthony Romero.
FX has the movie 'The Devil Wears Prada', followed by the movie 'Hellboy'.
History has 'Modern Marvels', another 'Modern Marvels', followed by a FRESH'Cities Of The Underworld', and 'Ancient Discoveries'.
IFC -
[6:00 AM] Bruce Lee: His Last Days, His Last Nights
[7:30 AM] The Seventh Seal
[9:15 AM] American Splendor
[11:05 AM] Bruce Lee: His Last Days, His Last Nights
[12:35 PM] The Seventh Seal
[2:20 PM] IFC News Special
[2:35 PM] American Splendor
[4:25 PM] IFC in Theaters
[4:35 PM] Bruce Lee: His Last Days, His Last Nights
[6:05 PM] Criminal Law
[8:00 PM] Sweeney Todd
[9:35 PM] La Perra
[10:00 PM] Monkey Shines
[12:00 AM] The Dreamers
[2:00 AM] Sweeney Todd
[3:35 AM] Monkey Shines
[5:35 AM] 2009 Spirit Awards Nomination Special (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[05:15 AM] Ushpizin
[07:00 AM] The Hawk is Dying
[09:00 AM] Lights in the Dusk
[10:15 AM] Look Both Ways
[12:00 PM] Hammer & Tickle
[01:30 PM] A Hebrew Lesson
[03:45 PM] The Last Jews of Libya
[04:45 PM] The Rock and Roll Kid
[05:45 PM] No End in Sight
[07:30 PM] Charging the Rhino
[08:30 PM] The American Ruling Class
[10:00 PM] Secrecy
[11:30 PM] Be Quiet
[12:00 AM] Spectacle: The Police
[01:00 AM] Iconoclasts - Season 4: Stella McCartney + Ed Ruscha
[02:00 AM] Little Odessa
[03:45 AM] Die Mommie Die!
[05:15 AM] Lights in the Dusk (ALL TIMES EST)
Sam Silverman is co-captain of his high school football team - a safety accustomed to bruising collisions. But that's nothing compared with the abuse he gets for being a vegetarian.
"All the time, my friends try to get me to eat meat and tell me how good it tastes and how much bigger I would be," said Silverman, who is 5-foot-10 and 170 pounds. "But for me, there's no real temptation."
Silverman may feel like a vegetable vendor at a butchers' convention, but about 367,000 other kids are in the same boat, according to a recent study that provides the government's first estimate of how many children avoid meat. That's about 1 in 200.
Other surveys suggest the rate could be four to six times that among older teens who have more control over what they eat than young children do.
Actress Laura Linney poses with her award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television in "John Adams", at the 66th annual Golden Globe awards in Beverly Hills, California January 11, 2009.
Photo by Lucy Nicholson
A New Zealand man surfed with three killer-whales at the weekend, saying the waves were too good to be put off by the predators, a local newspaper reported.
Craig Hunter, who has been surfing off New Zealand's North Island for almost 50 years, told the Dominion Post he spotted an adult orca and two young calves lurking just beyond the breakers as was surfing Saturday.
"There was no way I was going in because the waves were too good," Hunter said, adding that this was not the first time he had surfed with an orca. He said he was too old to be bothered by the possibility of being attacked.
"My outlook is they are big enough and quick enough. If they thought I was a seal, I'd be long gone." There have been no known cases of orca attacking humans, the Dominion Post said.
The Dutchess is a bride. Her manager says Fergie and Josh Duhamel have been married.
Manager William Derella said by e-mail that the 33-year-old "Fergalicious" singer-actress, whose real name is Stacy Ferguson, and the 36-year-old "Transformers" actor were married Saturday at the Church Estates Vineyards in Malibu.
The Black Eyed Peas singer launched her solo career in 2006 with the hit album "The Dutchess" - the title is a misspelled variation of the title formerly held by Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson, the Duchess of York.
Actress Rosanna Arquette, left, and her sister, actress Patricia Arquette pose on the press line at a benefit gala for The Art of Elysium in Los Angeles on Jan. 10, 2009.
Photo by Dan Steinberg
Barack Obama may be moving into the White House and the Democrats tightening their grip on Congress, but conservative talk show host Sean Hannity is looking on the bright side.
His self-titled Fox News Channel/Republican propaganda program premieres on Monday, and he hopes some of the 57 million Americans who voted for Republican candidate John McCain will tune in.
"This is an incredible time in our nation's history and as a fiscal and social conservative . . . I won't be hesitant to share my corporate masters views with my audience," he says.
A kite-flying enthusiast flies a kite on the second day of the 19th International Kite festival in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad January 11, 2009. 163 kite-flying enthusiasts from 36 countries are competing in the five-day long festival.
Photo by Amit Dave
The survivors of a group of dolphins living in a New Jersey river have returned after briefly heading toward the sea.
Three of the five dolphins returned to the Shrewsbury River after they were spotted Saturday in Sandy Hook Bay, authorities said. They were apparently frightened by construction noise near the bay, the Marine Mammal Stranding Center said.
Four dolphins tried to cross again Sunday but turned back, although it wasn't clear why, the center said.
Three dolphins had been confirmed dead out of the original group of 16 that spent the summer and fall in the Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers. Authorities don't know what happened to the others.
French actor Samy Naceri, who starred in the World War II film "Days of Glory," was jailed Sunday after being charged with stabbing his ex-girlfriend's companion in a confrontation on a Paris street, judicial officials said.
Naceri, 47, was charged with armed voluntary violence. He was also charged with making repeated death threats, the actor's lawyer Francoise Cotta said.
Naceri, who suffers from a liver illness, was recently freed from prison for medical reasons.
He has had frequent run-ins with the law. He was most recently convicted in November and given a six-month prison term for striking a police officer with his car as he drove without a license. He is appealing that case.
The full moon rises behind the Sprint Point light house, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009, in South Portland, Maine. The moon is at at its closest point to the earth, making this month's moon the biggest and brightest of 2009.
Photo by Robert F. Bukaty
Birders with binoculars and cameras are flocking to a remote state park in search of a small yellow-chested bird that apparently crossed the U.S. border for the first time from its high-mountain habitat to the south.
At 5 inches with beige and yellow markings, the pine flycatcher doesn't look like much, but its unprecedented migration from Mexico and Guatemala is exciting birders all over the country.
"It's not a thrilling bird visually. It's thrilling because it's a first U.S. record," said Wes Biggs, who flew to Choke Canyon State Park from Orlando, Fla., to catch a glimpse.
The bird, which appears to be alone, was first spotted last month and as recently as Friday. The sightings have been confirmed by photographs and recordings of its chirping. The bird, with a solitary nature, usually stays at high elevations but made its winter home in the low Texas scrubland about 200 miles north of its usual habitat.
Clint Eastwood has had the best movie opening of his long and esteemed career. His "Gran Torino" revved up the winter box office with $29 million in ticket sales in its first weekend of wide release, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Eastwood stole the box-office bouquet from Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson. Their wedding comedy "Bride Wars," released by 20th Century Fox, came in second with $21.5 million. The horror film "The Unborn" from Universal Pictures followed with $21.1 million in its debut.
Focus Features' "Milk," Paramount Vantage's "Revolutionary Road" and Fox Searchlight's "The Wrestler" - all with awards hopes at the Globes and beyond - were among the best performers in screen average. Each hopes to continue to build momentum as the Oscars near.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Media By Numbers LLC. Final figures will be released Monday.
Don Randall, the marketing dynamo who gave Fender's Stratocaster guitar its name and led the brand to onstage ubiquity, has died. He was 91.
Randall was born Oct. 30, 1917, in Kendrick, Idaho, and moved with his family to California when he was 10.
He was managing an electric parts wholesaler in Santa Ana when he learned about the lap steel guitars and small amplifiers Fender was building in his small radio shop in nearby Fullerton. The two teamed up to form what is now the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Fender Musical Instruments Corp.
He named Fender's first commercially available guitar the Broadcaster in 1950, then renamed it the Telecaster following a trademark dispute with another company. In 1954, he tapped into his background as an aviation enthusiast and pilot to dub Fender's newest guitar the Stratocaster.
Randall negotiated the 1965 sale of Fender's firm to CBS for $13 million. In 1970, he founded Randall Instruments in Irvine, which he sold in 1987. Fender died in 1991.
This photo released by the Lincoln Children's Zoo, shows Milla, a Matschie's tree kangaroo, on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009 in Lincoln, Neb. The Lincoln Children's Zoo is celebrating its first set of Matschie's tree kangaroo twins and an official who tracks numbers of the extremely rare species says it's the first documented case in North America among records that go back to the 1970s. The twins born last month to Milla and her mate Noru, brought in from the Toronto Zoo, make up half of the four documented Matschie's tree kangaroo births in 2008. The twins are in her pouch.
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