Freedom Parade makes its return to Harrow

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The Freedom Parade will return to Harrow for the first time in 18 years this weekend.

The borough will welcome the parade on Saturday, September 20, in which serving soldiers from Independent Commando Squadron Royal Engineers, Signals and veterans of the Royal British Legion who already hold Freedom of the Borough - will march with the 1,454 Harrow Air Training Corps and The Girls Brigade.

The parade will be led by the band of Royal Engineers, British Legion band and the Glen Trew Pipe band.

The event was lastheld in 1996 when freedom of the borough was granted to the Royal British Legion. This yearHarrow Air Cadets and the Girls Brigade will be presented with commemorative scrolls by Mayor of Harrow CouncillorAjay Maru.

He said: This is a special and unique occasion for Harrow and its residents which will give an opportunity to show our appreciation to soldiers from 131 Commando who have fought in Afghanistan and Iraq.

We also honour veterans from the Royal British Legion who served our country in the Second World War. The day is also special as we grant Freedom of the Borough to two organisations who have served Harrow well.

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Reflections on Rapid Response to Unjustified Climate Alarm

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The Cato Institutes Center for the Study of Science today kicks off its rapid response center thatwill identify and correct inappropriate and generally bizarre claims on behalf of climate alarm. Iwish them luck in this worthy enterprise, but more will surely be needed to deal with this issue.

To be sure, there is an important role for such a center. It is not to convince the believers. Nordo I think that there is any longer a significant body of sincere and intelligent individuals whoare simply trying to assess the evidence. As far as I can tell, the issue has largely polarized thatrelatively small portion of the population that has chosen to care about the issue. The remainderquite reasonably have chosen to remain outside the polarization. Thus the purpose of a rapidresponse Center will be to reassure those who realize that this is a fishy issue, that there remainscientists who are still concerned with the integrity of science. There is also a crucial role ininforming those who wish to avoid the conflict as to what is at stake. While these are importantfunctions, there are other issues that I feel a think tank ought to consider. Moreover, there is adanger that rapid response to trivial claims lends unwarranted seriousness to these claims.

Climate alarm belongs to a class of issues characterized by a claim for which there is noevidence, that nonetheless appeals strongly to one or more interests or prejudices. Once theissue is adopted, evidence becomes irrelevant. Instead, the believer sees what he believes.Anything can serve as a supporting omen. Three very different previous examples come to mind(though there are many more examples that could be cited): Malthus theory of overpopulation,social Darwinism and the Dreyfus Affair. Although each of these issues engendered opposition,only the Dreyfus Affair led to widespread societal polarization. More commonly, only thebelievers are sufficiently driven to form a movement. We will briefly review these examples(though each has been subject to book length analyses), but the issue of climate alarm issomewhat special in that it appeals to a sizeable number of interests, and has strong claims on thescientific community. It also has the potential to cause exceptional harm to an unprecedentednumber of people. This has led to persistent opposition amidst widespread lack of interest.However, all these issues are characterized by profound immorality pretending to virtue.

Malthus peculiar theory wherein the claimed linear growth of food loses out to the exponential growth of population has maintained continuous popularity in the faculty lounge for about twocenturies. It is, therefore, worth noting that Malthus had no evidence that food supply wouldincrease only linearly. Nor did he have evidence for exponential population growth. Malthusinitially went so far as to estimate an e-folding time for population of 25 years, based on thepopulation of North America, and ignoring the role of immigration. Although Malthus, himself,eventually acknowledged these problems, the enthusiasm for his anti-human conclusions remainsstrong. Neither the green revolution nor the diminution of famine amidst increasing populationdissuades them. The fact that Chad is poor and the Netherlands is rich never strikes the believeras odd. Apparently, the growth of cities, the movement of workers from the farm to the city,and, for much of the developed world, immigration, all served to convince people of means thatthere were too many other people around, and Malthusian theory formed a framework forsomething they were (and are) eager to believe.

Social Darwinism and its corollary, eugenics, represents another case of a theory without supportthat was widely accepted with, at times, horrid consequences. Darwins The Origin of theSpecies had immense influence. It presented a theory whereby natural selection and what wereessentially mutations could account for biological evolution. While it offered valuable insightsinto the development of finch beaks, it was hardly meant to describe societal evolution.Nevertheless, the notion of survival of the fittest applied to society had obvious appeal to thosewho perceived themselves to be the fittest and who naturally regarded the application asscientifically justified. It was a small step to eugenics which was the counterpart of modern dayenvironmentalism during the first third of the twentieth century, and was supported by all thebest people (including George Bernard Shaw, Margaret Sanger, Alexander Graham Bell, andTheodore Roosevelt) despite the fact that there actually was a mathematical theorem (the Hardy-Weinberg Theorem) that showed that the impact of eugenics on the gene pool would benegligible. Needless to add, mathematics is of no importance to the best people. Malthusianpopulation fears continue to the present, but eugenics was rendered unfashionable by the obviousimplications presented by the Nazis.

While science is a common vehicle for such misuse, the Dreyfus Affair shows that other vehiclesexist. In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was accused of passing secret French militaryinformation to the Germans. There was, in fact, no evidence to support this accusation.Nevertheless, there was again a strong desire on the part of many people in France to believe theaccusation. To be sure, there was the endemic anti-Semitism in France. However, there wasalso the humiliation of Frances loss in the Franco-Prussian War, and the desire to blame suchloss not on the army, but on the perfidy of a group that some considered to be outside. (TheNazis stab in the back theory for the German loss in WW1 represents a similar instinct).Dreyfus was tried (several times) and sentenced to Devils Island. Prominent Frenchmen (EmileZola in particular) , incensed by the obvious injustice campaigned for Dreyfus, and the issueliterally split France in half (partly because the conflict between Catholics and Secularists alsoentered the Affair). Dreyfus was eventually exonerated after the identification of the actual spybecame undeniable.

The current issue of global warming/climate change is extreme in terms of the number of specialinterests that opportunistically have strong interests in believing in the claims of catastrophedespite the lack of evidence. In no particular order, there are the leftist economists for whomglobal warming represents a market failure, there are the UN apparatchiks for whom globalwarming is the route to global governance, there are third world dictators who see guilt overglobal warming as providing a convenient claim on aid (ie, the transfer of wealth from the poorin rich countries to the wealthy in poor countries), there are the environmental activists who loveany issue that has the capacity to frighten the gullible into making hefty contributions to theirnumerous NGOs, there are the crony capitalists who see the opportunity to cash in on theimmense sums being made available for sustainable energy, there are the governmentregulators for whom the control of a natural product of breathing is a dream come true, there arenewly minted billionaires who find the issue of saving the planet appropriately suitable to theirgrandiose pretensions, etc., etc. Strange as it may seem, even the fossil fuel industry is generallywilling to go along. After all, they realize better than most, that there is no current replacementfor fossil fuels. The closest possibilities, nuclear and hydro, are despised by theenvironmentalists. As long as fossil fuel companies have a level playing field, and can passexpenses to the consumers, they are satisfied. Given the nature of corporate overhead, the lattercan even form a profit center. The situation within science itself is equally grim. Huge sums ofgovernment and private funding have become available to what was initially a small backwaterfield. Science becomes easy when emphasis is on malleable models supported by hugelyuncertain data that can be readily found consistent with the models supplemented by fervidly imagined catastrophic implications. Indeed, uncertainty is often exaggerated for just thispurpose. Opposition within the scientific community is immediately met with ad hominemattacks, loss of funding, and difficulty in publishing.

Of course, science is not the only victim of this situation. Affordable energy has been theprimary vehicle for the greatest advance in human welfare in human history. This issuepromises to deny this to the over 1 billion humans who still lack electricity. For billions moreenergy will be much less affordable leading to increased poverty. Poverty, itself, is a majorfactor in reduced life expectancy. It requires a peculiarly ugly obtuseness to ignore thefundamental immorality of this issue.

Although all these issues have strong political consequences, it is by no means clear that theirorigin is, itself, political. I would suggest that a more likely situation is that politics is alwaysopportunistically seeking some cause that fits its needs. However, once an illusional issuebecomes a passionate belief, it becomes impervious to argument. Given how dangerous someillusional positions are, it is an important problem to know how to avoid them. This is a problemthat is truly worthy of Catos attention. Rapid response can only do so much; belief seems toinevitably trump objective reality when one is free to choose ones narrative.

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Earth has an 80% chance of hitting 11 billion people by 2100

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Are we running out of room? This is a key question when assessing the impact of global population change, and your intrinsic feeling about the answer may vary based on your country or even city of origin. Myself, Im from Canada we have roughly 11% the US population spread over 102% the physical space. To me, someone who has to drive at least 10 hours East (10 fastdriving hours) to get to the nearest major metropolitan city, the idea of running out of room is a bit odd. To someone living in Tokyo? Less so.

New research from the United Nations tries to projectoverall global trends, however, and it makes thealarming prediction that the world population will reach 11 billion by 2100. Most of that growth will come in areas that still enjoy lower population density such as Africa, which is projected to explode from 1 to 4 billion people.

Population is an interesting problem for statisticians, in that projecting its changes on the large scale requires that you think about your data points (people) as both data points and people. If you think of the actors of population change (people) too literally as people like yourself, you act naively and make bad predictions based on an incorrect understanding of their incentives; this has been the bane of birth control in the third world, as reality has challenged the assumption that that all poor women would necessarilychooseto limit the number of children they have, when given the chance. On the other hand, ignoring the human aspect of these global issues leads to even moreunproductive strategieslike the evil and unscientificschemes of old-school eugenics.

The top panel shows total world population projected to 2100. Dotted lines are the range or error, while shaded regions are the uncertainties. The darker shading is the 80 percent confidence bars, and the lighter shading shows the 95 percent confidence bars. At the bottom are the population projections for each continent.

In general, the solution to ballooning population isnt complex, its just difficult: fix world poverty. Across the board, by far the best predictor of a populations birth rate is its affluence; as a people become progressively more comfortable generation over generation, more likelyto be happy with what they see whenthey focus on their own life experience, the fewer children they have. Bringing it back to my native Canada, the birth rate for born Canadians has fallen well below replacement, and our population is only sustaining itself thanks to immigration from countries that still breed i.e., countries that are or were recently very poor.In line with this thinking, the report predicts that the now-ascendant Asian continent will plateau in population and grow from todays 4.4 billion to only about 5 billion by the centurys close. Europe,North America and Latin America are all predicted to stay under a billion people a-piece.

This study used sophisticated analytical techniques to draw some (hopefully) reliable predictions from raw data about fertility and mortality. Thats basically all these studies are doing: adding up the people wholl probably be born and the people wholl probably die, with a bit of accounting for how the living will move around the world over that time period, and youve got your number. By bringing some hard data into the conversation the team tried to give us a margin of error, calculating an80 percent probability that by2100 the world will be home to between 9.6 billion and 12.3 billion people.

Of course, any prediction looking fullyeighty-six years into the future has to be taken with a grain of salt. Global climate change could throw virtually every assumption in this paper into the garbage heap. Given breakthroughs in energy production and agriculture, we could very plausibly see a population of 50 billion, and given breakdowns in the same areas we could inherit a sparsely populated hell-world. We could end up adding the Moon, Mars, or beyond to our list of inhabitable areas. We could invent immortality and end up issuing licenses to bring a finite number of new, permanent people into the world. Remember that this paper looks ahead almost a hundred years; perhaps by then well all be plugged into a neural meta-network and physical reproduction will be a quaint and mildly disgusting idea.

Frankly, these studies mean more for the trends of today than for the realities of tomorrow, showing us the path were on so that we may intentionally step off it and onto another.

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Cris Cyborg: 'Uneducated' Ronda Rousey is running away from me

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Ronda Rousey took a shot at Cris Cyborg during her recent trip to Rio de Janeiro, and the Invicta FC featherweight champion has decided to fire back.

Rousey criticized Cyborgs "horrendous" technique, said the Brazilian takes steroids because she "lacks self-confidence."

"And the way that she is on the ground, its absolute horrendous. And her distance is absolute horrendous," Rousey said. "The only thing that she has is pace and power, and I have pace, precision and power."

Cyborg, who tested positive for stanozolol in 2011 following a 16-second knockout victory in Strikeforce, responded in an interview to MMAFighting.com.

"What she says means nothing to me," Cyborg said. "A person is visiting my country and trying to defame me with my fans to get attention shows you how uneducated she is. Shes a low-level person. She feels she has to step on someone in order to rise."

Rousey said she was open to fight her, but the Brazilian "asked to be released from the UFC 24 hours after the announcement of out-of-competition drug testing."

Cyborg is not so sure she would fight her, though.

"As always, (Rousey) is trying to pick her next opponent. She is running away from me and asking to fight Bethe (Correia)," she said. "If she was so sure about everything she says, she would have already accepted to fight me like she accepted to fight Gina Carano at any weight, fight Cain Velasquez, (Floyd) Mayweather. Grow up, Ronda."

According to the Brazilian, Rousey is jealous about the attention a non-UFC fighter gets from media and fans.

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Anomabo residents defecate along beaches to pacify gods

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Sanitation has become a major problem in Ghana in recent times. Many reasons have been assigned for the insanitary conditions that have engulfed virtually every community in the country. Our general reliance on polythene bags for packaging of food and all kinds of merchandise has compounded the problems because materials used for the production of these bags are not bio-degradable.

Despite the campaign launched by the NshoreNa Project this year to clean the beaches the metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies appear not to be up to the task although they have laws that spell out sanctions against deviants.

By law, all landlords are required to provide places of convenience in their houses but they do not, resulting in extreme pressure on public facilities. Residents who cannot stand the long queues at these public places of convenience defecate in open places and along the beaches.

The situation has become so grave that a phenomenon has emerged among city dwellers who do not have access to places of convenience to defecate in polythene bags which they sarcastically call take away which they throw about.

Residents along the beaches in Ghana have given various reasons why they defecate along the beaches. While some say they enjoy the breeze, others say they do not have any place to attend to the call of nature.

Another group of residents along the beach particularly in the Central Region have assigned superstitious reasons. Whatever the case may be, environmental practitioners and health professionals have attributed the present cholera epidemic to open defecation particularly along the beaches. This negative practice is also affecting tourism in the country as the stench from the faeces has affected the serenity along the beaches.

The garbage that are thrown into open drains that are washed into the sea and the open defecation have reduced the patronage of recreational activities on the beaches from Half Assini to Aflao. Those who continue to enjoy the fun are not spared the stench from faeces and garbage washed into the sea.

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Plastic is endangering marine and birdlife along South West beaches, according to a report from the CSIRO released this week.

The research into the amount of litter on beaches around Australia pinpointed a South West beach as the worst in the State for the amount of rubbish collected on it.

Researchers from the CSIRO visited 170 sites and did 575 surveys around the country to measure the amount and type of litter.

CSIRO scientist Denise Hardesty said the litter problem typically became worse, when compared to population density, on stretches that had few people living nearby.

Beaches, like Bunburys Back Beach, were often cared for by members of the community who used it regularly, Dr Hardesty said.

The worst beach in the State for litter was Ellensbrook Beach near Margaret River and the best was 80 Mile Beach in Broome.

Dr Hardesty said people liked to think the litter was washing onto shores from other countries, but the reality was most of it originated in Australia.

She said the biggest issue they saw was from plastics and fishing gear.

Soft plastics like bags were often eaten by animals such as turtles, whales and dolphins and the same animals also became entangled in fishing lines and nets.

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Event will be Saturday all over Volusia, Flagler

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Published: Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 6:50 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 10:28 p.m.

The International Coastal Cleanup will take place Saturday along coastal beaches and the Intracoastal Waterway, and many participants may follow up those efforts with a climate protest.

Volunteers with the cleanup, an annual event sponsored by the Ocean Conservancy, will gather at two dozen staging areas throughout Volusia and Flagler counties beginning at 8 a.m. Armed with bags, gloves, theyll fan out along beaches, parks and river shorelines.

County officials are coordinating this years cleanup in Volusia County. In Flagler, Friends of the A1A Scenic and Historic Coastal Byway are coordinating efforts.

After the cleanup winds down, local supporters of the international Peoples Climate March will gather at 11:30 a.m. at SunSplash Park in Daytona Beach for a march on the beach to bring attention to pressing concerns about the hazards of sea level rise as a result of global warming, said Elizabeth Camarota, with the Volusia Flagler Sierra Club Executive Committee.

The local march is one of roughly 2,000 satellite events for a much larger gathering taking place Sunday in New York City expected to draw hundreds of thousands, Camarota said.

For more information about the coastal cleanup in Volusia, contact Stacey Bell at sbell@volusia.org or 386-238-4716. In Flagler, contact Gerald_Yule@scenica1a.org .. Online, go to oceanconservancy.org.

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Astronomy – Ch. 3: Motion of the Moon (4 of 12) Why do we have 3 Types of Solar Eclipses? – Video

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Astronomy – Ch. 3: Motion of the Moon (9 of 12) Difference Between Sidereal & Synodic Month – Video

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Astronomy – Ch. 3: Motion of the Moon (11 of 12) Why Do We Only See One Side of the Moon? – Video

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Winning images of Astronomy Photographer of the Year revealed

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Overall winner was photographer James Woodend who took an image of aurora in Iceland's Vatnajokull Park The judges were also impressed by a rarely seen hybrid solar eclipse, taken by Eugen Kamenew from Germany Another stunning image shows the Horsehead Nebula standing out against a red glow 1500 light-years from Earth Images will be shown in free exhibition in the Royal Observatory's Astronomy Centre in London underFebruary

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Published: 06:05 EST, 18 September 2014 | Updated: 05:31 EST, 19 September 2014

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From clouds dancing across the Milky Way to a stunning solar eclipse over Kenya, the annual competition showcasing the mysterious depths of our universe has revealed some incredible images.

West Midlands-based photographer James Woodend beat over a thousand amateur and professional photographers from around the world to win the title of Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2014.

As well as securing the 1,500 ($2,440) top prize, his image takes pride of place in the exhibition of winning photographs opening today at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.

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Astronomy presentations planned

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Lauren Likkel will present Hot News in Astronomy at 8 p.m. Saturday.

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Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 2014 Opens

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Earth and Space (and overall) winner) James Woodend (UK), with Aurora Over a Glacier Lagoon. A vivid green aurora is pictured above Icelands Vatnajokull National Park, reflected almost symmetrically in Jokulsarlon Glacier lagoon. A complete lack of wind and current combine in this sheltered scene to create an arresting mirror effect, giving the image a sensation of utter stillness. Despite this there is motion on a surprising scale, as the loops and arcs of the aurora are shaped by the shifting forces of the Earths magnetic field.

The annual prizes for best astronomy photography have been announced, and are now on display at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The show always attracts a broad range of images that appeal both to the eye and the mind. This years selection includes a stunning aurora-topped landscape (by overall winner James Woodend), a fresh look at the famous Horsehead Nebula, and the ripples in a pond of the suns surface. The best images, including our selection above, are on show at the Royal Observatory until 22 February. Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 2014is free to visit, although other parts of the observatory require an entrance fee.

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Doctors from Leading Cancer Center Will Discuss Firsthand Experience with MRIdian's Adaptive and Soft-Tissue Tracking Capabilities

CLEVELAND - ViewRay, a privately held medical device company, announced today that it will showcase its MRIdian (me-rid-i-an) system, the world's first and only MRI-guided radiation therapy system, at the 56(th) Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) being held September 14-17, 2014 in San Francisco. With ViewRay's recent announcements of the world's first on-table adaptive radiation therapy treatment at Siteman Cancer Center and the first patient treated at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Center using soft-tissue tracking, a high level of interest is anticipated around MRI-guided radiation therapy at this year's meeting. A number of clinical presentations will be focused on experience with the MRIdian system in the ASTRO-sponsored Scientific Sessions and in the company's booth, including user experience with MRIdian's adaptive and soft-tissue tracking capabilities.

"Clinicians have been waiting for years for an integrated system that can provide continuous soft-tissue imaging during treatment so they can see the dose delivered and adapt to changes and movement in their patients' anatomy in real-time," said Chris A. Raanes, ViewRay president and CEO. "The fact that this dream is now a reality with the MRIdian system is a huge step forward for doctors and their patients. With some of the first users presenting on their experience at this year's meeting, we expect a great deal of discussion and interest in MRIdian."

Of the various presentations featuring the MRIdian system during ASTRO, one was awarded a "Best of ASTRO" designation by the organization and will be given on Tuesday, September 16 during the Physics Scientific Session on MRI Guided Radiation Therapy beginning at 4:45 p.m. PDT. The talk, titled "The Dawn of a New Era: First Ever MR-IGRT Treatments - Initial Experiences and Future Implications" will be given by Sasa Mutic, Ph.D., Director of Medical Physics at Washington University. For a list of other Scientific Session talks that will focus on the MRIdian system please visit: http://www.viewray.com/astro_2014.htm.

The company will be exhibiting at booth 416 where attendees can also hear about clinical experiences and patient workflow during presentations by a number of clinician users of the MRIdian system. Presentations will take place at various times from Sunday, September 14 through Tuesday, September 16, with a detailed schedule available here. Speakers include Rojano Kashani, Ph.D., medical physicist, and Jeffrey Olsen, M.D., treating physician of the first patient treated with on-table adaptive radiation therapy at the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University in St. Louis. Both presenters will discuss their experience with MRI-guided radiation therapy and the clinical impact of adaptive therapy.

Additionally, visitors to the company's booth can receive a treatment planning demonstration and view plan comparisons to see the quality of MRIdian's soft-tissue imaging and understand the value it can provide in adaptive treatment planning.

About ViewRay ViewRay Incorporated of Cleveland, Ohio, is a privately held medical device company developing advanced radiation therapy technology for the treatment of cancer. The MRIdian system provides continuous soft-tissue imaging during treatment, using MRI-guided radiotherapy, so that clinicians are able to see where the actual radiation dose is being delivered and adapt to changes in the patient's anatomy. For more information, visit http://www.viewray.com.

ViewRay and MRIdian are trademarks of ViewRay Incorporated.

ViewRay acknowledges the contribution of the State of Ohio, Department of Development and Third Frontier Commission, which provided funding in support of the MRI Technology Enabling Expansion of MRI into Radiotherapy Guidance Project.

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