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Hat Frau #Buyx oder der #ethikrat denn eigentlich jemals zum damaligen Strategiepapier der BMI „Wie wir Corona unter Kontrolle bekommen“ Stellung bezogen?
Street lighting like led warehouse lighting high bay is one of the most essential services provided by municipalities, yet it can also be one of the most energy-intensive. Managing street lighting effectively not only improves public safety and livability but also plays a key role in reducing energy consumption and lowering operational costs. With thoughtful planning and modern technology, cities and towns can achieve both safety and sustainability.
Traditional street lighting systems often rely on outdated technologies that consume large amounts of electricity and require frequent maintenance. In contrast, modern systems using LED fixtures offer greater efficiency, longer service life, and better quality of light. Transitioning to LED lighting can significantly reduce a city's energy footprint while maintaining or even enhancing illumination standards.
A smart energy management strategy starts with an assessment of the existing street lighting infrastructure. Municipalities should consider the age, condition, and energy use of current fixtures. This helps identify opportunities for upgrades, retrofitting, or complete replacement. Many cities begin with pilot projects in selected areas to evaluate performance and build community support.
Lighting control systems are another important part of modern energy management. These systems allow cities to adjust lighting levels based on real-time conditions such as traffic flow, pedestrian presence, or time of night. Dimming lights during low-traffic hours or using motion sensors in less active areas can lead to substantial energy savings. Moreover, these systems offer remote monitoring, which simplifies maintenance and reduces response time to outages.
Energy-efficient lighting also contributes to broader environmental goals. Reducing electricity usage helps lower greenhouse gas emissions and supports climate action initiatives. Additionally, thoughtful lighting design can minimize light pollution, protecting natural habitats and improving nighttime quality of life for residents.
Financing these upgrades may seem daunting, but various funding models are available. Energy savings performance contracts, government grants, and public-private partnerships can ease the financial burden. In many cases, the long-term energy savings and reduced maintenance costs can offset the initial investment.
Public engagement is also important. When residents understand the benefits of energy-efficient street lighting — including cost savings, environmental impact, and improved safety — they are more likely to support new initiatives. Transparency in planning and implementation helps build trust and ensures that changes reflect the needs of the community.
In summary, effective energy management in street lighting is a vital responsibility for municipalities seeking to modernize their infrastructure and improve quality of life. By embracing energy-efficient technologies and smart lighting controls, cities can create safer, more sustainable, and economically resilient urban environments.
A fundamental guideline for spacing is that the height of the LED fixtures should equal the distance between them. For example, if lights are mounted at a height of 20 feet, they should also be spaced 20 feet apart.
LED Track Lights have revolutionized interior lighting by offering flexibility in directional light control, especially when combined with systems like Magnetic Track Lights for modern aesthetics. ronselighting.co.uk/track-ligh…
#Palestine / Illegal outposts erected in villages in Masafer Yatta in attempt to expel residents
In early May, most homes in the village of Khalat a-Daba in Masafer Yatta were demolished by the Civil Administration, forcing residents into tents and caves. Settlers then established an outpost inside two caves, displacing families and bringing hundreds of sheep and goats that damaged trees.
After the settlers left, residents feared they were promised something in return for dismantling the outpost themselves. According to Jaber Dbabsa, this mirrors the situation in Mughayyir al-Deir (a small Palestinian Bedouin community located about 5 kilometers southeast of the village Yatta, was inhabited by around 25 families from the Ka’abneh tribe). Despite the destruction and confiscation of property, the residents of Khalat a-Daba remain.
Following the demolition of homes, settlers attacked the village, leading to arrests. A resident was arrested for filing a complaint after settlers occupied his cave. Attacks by the army and settlers have increased in recent years, with homes burned and pogroms [note the use of the loaded term #pogrom in the original text in Hebrew] committed.
Since the start of the war, residents of over 60 communities in Area C have been displaced, and more than 80 outposts have been established. According to Souod Dbabsa, settlers want to control the village to disconnect the other villages in Masafer Yatta.
[…] Dababsa claims that the settlers and the army are working together: "They say it is a firing zone, but the law applies only to us and not to the settlers. The goal is to expel us. They do not care about our ownership documents. They brought the herding outposts to take from us everything we need to exist. There is nowhere to go with the sheep. It's all one plan, in Gaza and here. They want to expel everyone. But we have nowhere else, we will not leave."
Apropos Mughayyir al-Deir, which is mentioned as a precedent, in May 2025, settlers, with the support or acquiescence of the Israeli military, set up a new outpost inside the village, leading to the displacement of the community. Over 100 settlers and hilltop youth attacked nearby Palestinian villages, burning homes and vehicles, while the military seized additional land purportedly for security reasons. The evacuation was marked by violence against residents and human rights activists attempting to protect them. Hebrew mistaclim.org/en/articles/the-…
Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 06/06/25: Israel Arming ISIS-Affiliated Militia in Gaza, Israel Hospital Strike Kills 4 Journalists, and More youtube.com/watch?v=9z_E1wi_gE…
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The relentless bombing of Gaza, with its gut-wrenching toll on civilian lives – children buried under rubble, families torn apart, entire neighborhoods reduced to ash – has become a grotesque spectacle on the global stage.
After twenty months of horror in Gaza, political rhetoric in Western countries is finally starting to shift – but will words translate into action? And what exactly can other countries do when the United States still shields Israel from efforts to en…
Er weiß, dass Zurückweisungen an der Grenze rechtswidrig sind – und macht trotzdem weiter. Damit stellt sich Dobrindt bewusst gegen den Rechtsstaat. Wir lassen das nicht durchgehen – und stellen gemeinsam mit Equal Rights Beyond Borders Strafanzeige.
Die Strafanzeige wegen Verleitung von Untergebenen zu einer Straftat richtet sich nicht nur gegen den Innenminister, sondern auch den Präsidenten der Bundespolizei, Dieter Romann: fragdenstaat.de/artikel/strafa…
Der Bundesinnenminister hält an den rechtswidrigen Zurückweisungen an der Grenze fest. Deswegen muss sich jetzt die Staatsanwaltschaft mit ihm beschäftigen.
Weil Zurückweisungen an der Grenze rechtswidrig sind, können sich Bundespolizist*innen strafbar machen, denn: Beamt*innen haften persönlich – selbst bei einem Befehl von oben. Deswegen stellen wir Vorlagen zur Remonstration für Bundespolizist*innen sowie für Dienstaufsichtsbeschwerden bereit!
“We’re at a new point in human history,” Wagner says. Up until the last decade, “the major drivers of biodiversity losses around the planet were really land degradation and land loss, habitat loss. But I think now that climate change is by far exceeding that.”
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
Wegen möglicher Kriegsverbrechen im Gazastreifen überprüft die EU das Assoziierungsabkommen mit Israel. Doch ein geleakter EU-Bericht lieferte schon vor sechs Monaten Belege für das völkerrechtswidrige Vorgehen Israels. nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1191738.…
Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.
Reprinted from Yves Engler’s website. Does it represent a blow to the legal exceptionalism granted Israel in Canada? Or is it Kabuki theater? Yesterday the Toronto Star reported that the RCMP opened a Gaza related investigation under its Crimes Again…
Die #Geburten haben eine starke Saisonalität: Mai bis Oktober gibt es viele, November bis April wenige.
Wenn man die Daten sainsonbereinigt, ist der Effekt noch viel auffälliger, Absturz Anfang 2022:
Ging es darum bei der sogenannten #Impfung? #Bevölkerungsreduktion wie ihn der Club of Rome immer bewirbt? Die Genbrühe macht unfruchtbar. Wer das angesichts der Zahlen leugnet ist dumm oder ein Verbrecher. Wir müssen die Täter zur Verantwortung ziehen.
Eine vom Bundeskanzleramt initiierte Gruppe spezialisierter Forscher traf sich mehrfach beim Bundesnachrichtendienst. Nach ausgiebigen Untersuchungen liegen zahlreiche Indizien für eine Laborherkunft vor.
Die Kontroverse um die COVID-19-Impfstoffe nimmt eine neue, beunruhigende Wendung. In einem explosiven Brief an den US-Gesundheitsminister Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warnt der slowakische Regierungsbeau…
Hintergrund: Die typische Reaktion im #Vakzinismus ist leider dieselbe wie im #Faschismus: Die meisten schweigen, nur wenige leisten #Widerstand.
Neulich fragten mich Unternehmer, ob sie Nachteile zu befürchten hätten, wenn sie ab und zu an alternative Medien spenden. Noch nicht, aber vor allem die #Grünen wollen bei #Geheimdiensten, #NGOs und #DSA groß aufrüsten, außerhalb der #Schuldenbremse natürlich.
Das gestern beschlossene Schulden- und #Kriegspaket macht das möglich. Die #Politik weiß nur zu gut: Je weiter sie sich von den Wünschen der #Bevölkerung entfernt, desto mehr #innere #Repression braucht sie.
🪷 🐊 Big finds in Upper Egypt: A Ptolemaic sphinx has been unearthed following a Romanized-Egyptian bust of #MarcusAurelius (born 26 April 121 AD), both found at #KomOmbo, famous for mummified crocodiles at the temple of crocodile god #Sobek. More: antinousgaygod.blogspot.com/20… 🐊 🪷
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Federal Report Simulates July 4th 2025 Bioterror Attack as the FDA Goes Rogue
In April 2024, the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense released The National Blueprint for Biodefense: Immediate Action Needed to Defend Against Biological Threats, a little-known but deeply alarming federally commissioned report. It outlines a simulated bioterror attack on July 4, 2025, using a genetically engineered Nipah virus that kills 280,000 Americans in a single day and devastates livestock. The virus, in the scenario, is modified for high transmissibility and retains a fatality rate exceeding 40%.
No one talks about extreme centrists. They should, because they're the people who want to maintain the status quo when it's glaringly obvious that we need change.
No one talks about extreme centrists. They should, because they're the people who want to maintain the status quo when it's glaringly obvious that we need ch...
Eines dieser beiden Bilder löste eine bundesweite Pressewelle aus, welche der Erstellerin unterstellte einen Staat, oder eher das Volk was darin lebt, auslöschen zu wollen.
Ich habe so meine Probleme mit beiden Bildern. Inzwischen. Zunächst muß "I stand with Israel" nicht gleichbedeutend mit "Ich finds geil, was die Israelische Politik und die IDF gerade so treibt", sondern schlicht und einfach für das Existenzrecht Israels zu stehen. Im Gegensatz geht es um "Free Palestine". Was heißt das? Waren die Palästinenser unter der Hamas frei? Unter der Fatah? Ich bezweifle das. Mindestens die Hamas ist eine Terrorgruppe, vom Iran bezahlt, die zum Unterjochen und Indoktrinieren der Palästinenser eingesetzt ist. Daß im Gegenzug die IDF ihren eigenen Anspruch als "moralischste Armee der Welt" total aufgegeben zu haben scheint, macht die Gemengelage nicht besser. Auch nicht, daß Israel weiterhin einfach Land im Westjordanland klaut. Geht nicht. Punkt. Ganz klar. Auch nicht, was im Gazastreifen mit den Menschen passiert - mit anscheinend offenkundigen Genozidplänen seitens Netanjahu - und nicht zuletzt das Unterdrücken der israelischen Demokratie.
Like, there's a world where a bunch of christian communists squatted their way to overthrowing the government of England, and I wanna see that shit again. They basically became the Quakers, who are fucking rad by the way, but like... I wanna see some Quakers get back to their roots and start squatting shit again.
Honestly, I feel like someone could almost just brush off a bunch of Gerrard Winstanley's Digger works and start preaching that shit in the US and it would actually go hard. These modern evangelicals aren't preaching shit people want to hear. Fuck all that "repress your identity, sexuality, and anything fun." Acts 4:32 has always been radical, and Acts 5:1-10 is straight up Luigi shit.
There's also an argument to be made that Dulcinians and Diggers were not just right in their understanding of the objectives of Christianity, but were actually carrying forward in the footsteps *of the original churches*. One can argue that Christianity was originally a radical proto-libertarian socialist movement aimed at overthrowing a colonial dictatorship.
Constantine saw a political opportunity to subvert this movement by controlling the Bible, and took it in order to save the Roman state that it *existed to topple.* The appropriation of these ideas by the chief oppressor, even as he continued worship Apollo until his death bed, led to the lineage of "christian" states that picked up the behavior of Rome under the name of the Church.
Socialists tend to want to avoid religion as a topic beyond "it's a problem" and "it must be destroyed." But as Dawn of Everything points out, property is itself a religious assertion. The "stuff fedishism" (using the full weight of entomology here) that allows people to control other people through things and the idea of ownership of ideas is itself a kind of religious magic.
Even Marxist arguments about property are fundamentally engaging in a religious debate that operates within the framework of the dominant religion. Christian rejections of property are at least as valid, if not more so by the fact that they are at least honest in their grounding.
Just so I don't go too far down this Rabbit Hole without also paying appropriate respect to Muslim comrades, it's also worth recognizing that if we follow this logic then the socialist elements of Islam are, perhaps, more true to what Christianity set out to do before being appropriated by the Romans. In this way, and in its actual wars against those who picked up the Roman banner, there are parts of Islam that remain more true to Jesus than Christianity itself even when one assumes a Christian frame of reference.
But there's worthwhile radicalism all over, and it's worth acknowledging and respecting. I'm not religious anymore (at least not in a way most people recognize), but I've also grown past the knee-jerk rejection of religion that I developed as a response to religious trauma. We have a lot of comrades if we can learn to respect them.
The entire concept of the labor theory of value is a theological debate about the nature of the god of property. Marx's arguments against capitalism were operating within the religious paradigm of property fedishism. An equally valid response to the religious assertion that property allows people to control other people is just "nah, I don't believe in that shit."
No greater argument is needed, because the assertion of the property fedishists is itself founded on nothing and can therefore be rejected with nothing.
Also, why is it all these evangelicals want to interpret everything literally, except Matthew 16:28? Take that with 1 Corinthians 12:27, and suddenly shit gets really interesting. Basically it would mean that "the second coming" is actually the church itself, but only insomuch as it behaves as a conscious being (as a literal body, sharing all things in common, etc) that behaves as "the Christ" (as described in Acts 4:32).
I did know about them, but didn't actually have a ton of depth. This really hits hard given that I've been reading Dawn of Everything, which starts by talking about this time period. Basically, they took the indigenous critiques that led to the enlightenment full on.
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merdezuth.bandcamp.comWords and music by Leon Rosselson (1975)In 1649 to St. George’s HillA ragged band they called the Diggers came to show the people’s wil...
'The World Turned Upside Down' from Billy Bragg's 1987 compilation album 'Back To Basics', re-released by Cooking Vinyl in 1993. The album collates the relea...
Die #USA haben einzelne Richter des Internationalen Strafgerichtshof #ICC auf die Sanktionsliste gesetzt
Damit eine offene Kriegserklärung gegenüber allen Staaten die Strafgerichtshof ratifiziert haben.
»The US has sanctioned four #ICC judges, PTC and AC, connected to the Netanyahu and Gallant arrest warrants: Hohler (Slovenia), Alapini-Gansou (Benin), Carmen del Luz (Peru), Bossa (Uganda). Notably, Guilou (France) and Tomoki (Japan) were not sanctioned.«
@tobi82 Während bisherige US Präsidenten den ICC wenigstens als Tool einigermaßen sinnvoll hielten, ist man jetzt sehr offen damit dass man diesen bekämpfen will, weil's den verbündeten Kriegsverbrecher betrifft.
Deutschland hat den ICC immer unterstützt. Aber seit dem Krieg in Gaza hat deutsche Außenpolitik das ganze Standing was sie sich über Jahrzehnte aufgebaut haben wieder eingerissen, weil sie sich selbst als Heuchler markiert haben.
Ja der Westen hatte die Idee des ICC unterstützt bis dieser selbst beurteilt wurde. Das dürfte dann das Ende dieser Idee sein. Zurück zum Recht des stärkeren, was zwischen Staaten auch die Regel ist.
@tobi82 Gewisse Formen des internationalen Rechts gibt's ja schon länger als ICJ und ICC. Der Westen ja auch nicht homogen. Der Globale Süden hat an Gewicht gewonnen, und wird häufiger zu einer Macht die Regeln Durchsetzen kann und will. Das Agieren der USA zeigt ja gerade auch auf dass deren Macht zerfällt. Kann sich eine ganze neue Weltordnung einstellen, wie auch immer die aussieht.
Es ist noch nicht ausgemacht wo es mittelfristig oder langfristig hin geht.
Alle Staaten müssten jetzt einspringen und das abblocken.
Behinderung der Arbeit von Richtern des ICC, Vergeltungsmaßnahmen gegenüber Richtern des ICC aufgrund deren Tätigkeit ist ein strafbares Delikt. Egal wer die Täter sind oder wo die Täter sitzen.
ich weiß nicht so recht, wenn man noch Abs. 2 Satz 2 und Abs. 4 dazu liest klingt es schon etwas schwammiger... hier in deutsch: un.org/depts/german/internatre… (nicht wundern, genau der direktlink zu Art. 70 funktioniert auf der Website nicht 😅)
J’ai de ces promenades, baignées de grâce, où chaque pas, chaque virageEst lieu d’émerveillement.Sur le chemin, pourtant, mille fois emprunté,Eclot une joie offerte,l’arbre aux feuilles traversées …
Reps from Fema Region VII capital were trying to lower property taxes in the most taxed county in the state of MO. The Republicans accused them of trying to defund the local government. youtu.be/7G2qIxfKjBU
»Die deutsche Freundschaft gilt in der Regel irgendeinem imaginierten Israel. Die Spezifika variieren je nach Einstellung, der Wahrheitsgehalt bleibt aber immer bescheiden.«
»In his press conference with Israeli FM Sa'ar, German FM @ aussenminister.diplo.de said that support for the annexation of the West Bank is an opinion held by "some" in Israeli politics - but that this view is not the majority view. Well, it is a majority opinion within the Israeli leadership.« bsky.app/profile/m.sappir.net/…
This is #Israel. This is what the Zionist project looks like. The dead kids. The blown-out hospitals. The desperate, starving civilians. This is it.
There is no alternate version of Israel where these things are not happening. The liberal Zionist vision of a two-state solution and a just and peaceful Israel exists solely in the imaginations of the people who envision it. Nothing like it has ever existed. Everything about the modern state of Israel is unyieldingly hostile to that vision.
You either support the existence of the Israel you see before you, or you support the end of the apartheid Zionist entity. There is no hidden third option. There are no other positions on the menu. To pretend otherwise is to live in a fantasy land.
You either want to burn children alive, or you don’t. You either want to deliberately starve civilians, or you don’t. You either want to bomb hospitals, or you don’t. You either want to deliberately assassinate Palestinian journalists while forbidding foreign journalists entry into Gaza, or you don’t. You either want to deliberately #massacre civilians and systematically destroy civilian infrastructure in order to force the removal of Palestinians from a Palestinian territory, or you don’t.
And if you don’t, you must oppose the state of Israel. That’s Israel, the state. Not just Netanyahu. Not just extremist settlers. Not just “far right elements within the Israeli government”. Israel itself. Because everything we are seeing Israel do is the result of everything Israel is as a state.
Everything Israel is doing is the result of everything it has always been. As soon as the west decided to drop a settler-colonialist state on top of a pre-existing civilization wherein the new immigrants would receive preferential treatment over the indigenous inhabitants who were already living there, it became inevitable that Israel would wind up in the condition it’s in today.
Because there was no way to uphold that status quo without mass displacement and nonstop tyranny, violence and abuse. There was no way to set up a tiered society where one tier is placed above the other without indoctrinating the public to accept that apartheid system by systematically dehumanizing the members of the disempowered group.
Set up a status quo of dehumanizing a group of people and manufacturing consent for violence and abuse against them, and you will inevitably wind up with a far right #apartheid state which is committing #genocide, as surely as dropping a stone off a building will result in a stone falling to the ground.
What we are seeing in #Gaza today was baked into the state of Israel ever since its inception.
All those dead kids on your social media feed are the fruit of a tree whose seed was planted after the second world war. That tree has been bearing more and more fruit, and it will continue to for as long as it remains standing. Because that’s just the kind of tree it is. The only kind of tree it ever could have been.
Saying “I support Israel but I don’t support the actions of #Netanyahu in Gaza” is like saying “I like this apple tree but only when it sprouts coconuts instead of apples.” That is not the kind of tree it is. The apple tree will only produce apples, and the genocide tree will only produce genocide. Israel’s supporters avoid confronting obvious truths like these. Support for Israel depends on mass-scale psychological compartmentalization. Everything about it revolves around avoiding unpleasant truths instead of deeply and viscerally reckoning with them.
Averting the eyes from the video footage of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza. Averting the eyes from the contradictions between the values they purport to hold and everything Israel is as a state. Averting the eyes from the mountains upon mountains of evidence staring us all in the face. That’s the only way support for Israel is able to continue.
In order to become a truth-driven species, we need to stop hiding from uncomfortable truths. And one of our favorite hiding places for uncomfortable truths at this point in #history is the modern state of Israel, and the western empire’s support for it.
Worrying new COVID variant NB.1.8.1, wreaking havoc in China, is now in Victoria.
COVID cases in Victoria spiked 55% in late May as the NB.1.8.1 variant, which is wreaking havoc in China, hit the state. Flu cases rose 45% and RSV infections jumped 19.3% in the same week.
Hot take one: calling legislation "big" and "beautiful" is branding for simpletons. So it's gonna be insanely effective for its target audience.
Hot take two: trying to ju jitsu it into "big ugly" or whatever language Schumer Dems are using is a nitwit strategy. You can't out-insult Trump. And, it only reinforces Trump branding.
This needs to be attacked with mockery. Couch fucking levels of mockery. Did Dems learn nothing from the election?
I can only imagine what Musk must feel like, having his federal funding for critical work ripped away by someone who doesn't even really understand what he does.
"The process of coding with an “agentic” LLM appears to be the process of carefully distilling all the worst parts of code review, and removing and discarding all of its benefits."
I have never used LLMs in software development. But I have a family member who pushes them for other uses: so far, handwriting recognition, contract law, medical diagnosis etc. In each case the research process is something I would normally enjoy, but the LLM turns it into an exercise in debugging, which I do not enjoy. Telling the LLM its output was wrong leads to even worse results. The one exception so far is long translations, where the LLM often works like a good thesaurus for word choice, but still needs extremely close inspection for plausible but wrong 'translations'.
I read a strongly pro-parrot-programming article recently that boiled down to "the computer does the hard work, all you have to do is review the code!" and that was the moment I lost all respect for the author's ideas and opinions forever. Very few people like doing code review, and even fewer people do it well, so "now you're *just* doing code review" seems like a terrible job that will be overwhelmingly done badly. Great outcome. No notes.
@glyph thank you for sharing this. I am not surprised given that, at the foundation, an LLM is just a large linear correlation machine with randomeness sprinkled on top (some intentional, some not). Reading the article did help locate my own negative response to the technology as adjacent to that of reading a particular fantasy book series where the plots were gamed out using D&D. The first book was fresh as an early spring morning, but each succesive volume asymptotically approach an imagination killing level of ineffable sameness.
Why is there more info on how to cultivate it than remove it? The AI bloat is not helping me sort through actual risk in touching it to rip it out.
I assume it should not be composted, am I incorrect? If drinking the water from a vase of foxglove can kill a small child, it would follow that you shouldn't put it in your compost, right?
I get that it's pretty, but why would anyone want to have digitalis growing in their yards? It's a literal heart stopper. Used in heart medications.
NOT SURE THIS IS A GOOD IDEA, but I have a friend who has a vendetta against jimson weed. Every time he sees it, he layers up a bunch of plastic bags, and rips it out using said bags to cover his hands. Then he uses the bags as a receptacle and just throws it in the trash.
EDIT: Now that I've typed that in and submitted, it sounds like a bad idea, and I think I'm going to check on my friend.
Sounds like that could actually work though. Digitalis can be absorbed through the skin (not super likely, but with my history of reacting to plants, I take no chances with poisonous ones), and I don't think it's like a pineapple that will eat through plastic.
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