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This designer creates magic from everyday materials - MIT Technology
Review (No paywall)

Skylar Tibbits coined the term “4-D printing” – then immediately
moved on to his next blue-sky idea.

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Please Don't Drink and Swim. Adult Drowning Deaths Often Involve
Alcohol - Scientific American (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=55791&nl=daily]
More than 4,500 people in the U.S. lost their lives in drowning
accidents in 2022, the most recent year for which data are available,
and more than 70 percent of them were adults. There have been several
notable adult drowning cases this summer, including a beach incident
in Florida that killed three young men in June and a river tubing
accident in Oregon that killed award-winning chef Naomi Pomeroy in
July.

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Migration to Ireland at highest level since 2007
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The number of immigrants in the last year was the highest since 2007
and consisted of 30,000 returning Irish citizens, 27,000 other EU
citizens, 5,400 UK citizens, and 86,800 other citizens, including
Ukrainians.















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Eli Lilly just halved the price of its weight-loss drug -- declaring
war on the booming market of knock-offs - Business Insider (No
paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=55791&nl=daily]
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly announced in a press early Tuesday that
Zepbound, its brand of the drug tirzepatide designed specifically for
weight loss, would be sold in single-dose bottles.

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Gen Z is redefining sick days - Business Insider (No paywall)
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The kids are calling in sick to work. Not actual kids, who (hopefully)
are not working, but Gen Zers. They're racking up sick days and taking
more mental-health days. In the spring of their careers, they're even
going on sabbatical. Gen Zers are setting a boundary, and that
boundary is not being at work when they're not feeling up to it.














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Kamala Harris's housing plan is the most aggressive since post-World
War II boom, experts say
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Vice President Kamala Harris’s plan to boost the U.S. housing supply
could represent the biggest push since the end of World War II,
according to housing expert Jim Parrott and Mark Zandi, chief
economist at Moody’s Analytics.

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Ants May Amputate Other Ants to Save Them - Is This a Sign of Empathy?
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Up until recently, humans have been known as the only species to
surgically remove limbs to increase a wounded individual’s chances
of survival. Chimps have medically treated injuries of the wounded,
ants have carried inebriated nest mates home to sleep it off — but
selectively amputating limbs to save the life of another is distinctly
a human behavior.

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How a new kind of vaccine could lead to the eradication of Alzheimer's
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Promising new vaccines are designed to be given to patients at risk of
developing Alzheimer's disease. If they perform well in clinical
trials, they have the potential to one day rid society of dementia














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Keep Strategy Simple - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)
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Few companies have a clear idea of where strategy making ends and
execution begins. As a result they develop strategic plans where
they’re not required and fail to develop strategic plans where they
are. To help prevent this happening to your Graham Kenny offers a few
dos and don’ts: (1) Don’t develop strategic plans for functions;
(2) Confine “strategy” to the business level; (3) Keep strategy
and action separate; and (4) Be careful how you use the terms
“strategy” and “strategic.”

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Centene eliminates brokers' commissions for Medicare drug plans - STAT
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“We have made a difficult decision — effective Jan. 1, 2025 — to
cease new and renewal commissions for [Medicare Part D plans]
beginning with the 2025 plan year,” Centene’s WellCare subsidiary
said last Friday in an email sent to brokers, which was obtained by
STAT. 














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Labor Day Gas Prices Could Be Lowest In YearsAnd May Keep Dropping
This Fall - Forbes (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=55791&nl=daily]
Travelers hitting the road over Labor Day weekend are in for lower gas
prices than last yearâand potentially the lowest prices since
2021âas the cost of gas continues to drop as it typically does at the
end of summer.

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Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 18 including 8 children, Palestinians say
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According to Gaza's health ministry, over 40,000 Palestinians have
been killed in Israel's ongoing offensive that began on Oct. 7, when
Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel, killing around 1,200
people and taking some 250 hostages.














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Kursk invasion: Did Ukraine call Putin's nuclear bluff?
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Three weeks ago, Ukraine’s military launched a stunning operation to
take the war in Ukraine back onto the territory of the country that
launched it. Three weeks later, the Ukrainians still occupy hundreds
of miles of territory in Russia’s western Kursk region.

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How to Read Political Polls Like a Pro
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No poll is predictive. Every single one of them is a measure of a
specific window inside a specific space. No one wins—or
loses—based on the polls, and it’s often irresponsible to say that
someone is winning in the polls. It’s trite, but when strategists
say the only poll that matters is the one taken on Election Day,
they’re not wrong.














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Nuclear reactors a mile underground promise safe, cheap power
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Startup Deep Fission has come up with a new way to deal with the
economic and safety problems of nuclear power that is, to say the
least, novel. The idea is to build a reactor that's under 30 inches
(76 cm) wide and stick it down a mile-deep (1.6-km) drill shaft.

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Tips for Leaders Balancing Purpose and Profit - Inc.com (No paywall)
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There have never been more B Corp companies. Mission and culture
have become such common startup parlance that the discussion can
border on clichéd, and despite the political pushback and
macroeconomic headwinds, the global environmental, social, and
governance market is projected to exceed $40 trillion--more than a
quarter of all assets--by 2030. Still, leading with purpose beyond
your profit-and-loss statement is no easy task for founders, says
executive coach and author John Blakey, who has spent more than two
decades advising entrepreneurs, CEOs, professional sports teams, and
gold-medal Olympic squads. 













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What Across-the-Board Tariffs Could Mean for the Global Economy
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Mr. Trump’s broad-brush tariffs frequently evoke comparisons with
the destructive global trade war that the United States helped to
initiate in the 1930s with the Smoot-Hawley tariffs passed by
Congress. The Senate Historical Office has called that law “among
the most catastrophic acts in congressional history.”

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The World's Largest Wetland Is Burning, and Rare Animals Are Dying
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The Pantanal is a maze of rivers, forests and marshlands that sprawl
over 68,000 square miles, an area 20 times the size of the Everglades.
About 80 percent lies within Brazil, with the rest in Bolivia and
Paraguay.

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Mexico Pauses Relations With U.S. Embassy Amid Clash Over Judicial
Overhaul
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It was unclear what such a pause with the State Department and the
embassies would mean in practical terms. Mr. López Obrador did not
specify how the pause would play out. But on Tuesday afternoon
Mexico’s foreign affairs minister, Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, said on
social media that the relationship “with our friends and neighbors
in North America is a priority and fundamental, and on a daily level
remains fluid and normal.”

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The Special Counsel Filed Revised Charges Against Trump
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But much of the old indictment, which was filed last year, remained
untouched. Trump is accused of overlapping conspiracies to defraud the
U.S., obstruct the certification of the election at the Capitol on
Jan. 6, 2021, and deprive millions of Americans of their rights to
have their votes counted.

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Home improvement retailer Lowe's latest U.S. firm to end some
diversity policies
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Over the past few years, U.S. companies including JPMorgan Chase have
faced a larger conservative backlash against diversity initiatives
which multiplied after widespread protests following the police
killings of George Floyd and other Black Americans in 2020.

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Genetically modified wheat moves closer in U.S. after Bioceres grain
deemed safe
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Bioceres (BIOX) must still complete additional steps, including field
trials, that will take years before it can commercialize HB4 wheat,
industry group U.S. Wheat Associates said, but the USDA's finding
moves GM wheat closer to production in the U.S. in a potential win for
farmers combating drought and severe weather.

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Google's Gemini AI can now take notes on your Meet video calls
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The tech company announced plans to include generative AI in more
services last year, and has been aggressive in putting AI features
into its hardware and software since then. Its Gemini AI assistant is
getting baked into Android and into its Workspace apps. As always, the
usefulness of these features may vary depending on how well the AI
works and how accurate it is. The specter of Google's AI Overviews
telling people to eat glue pizza will likely continue to hang over its
ongoing efforts in this space.

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This early Labor Day sale discounts Apple's 9th-gen iPad to an
all-time low of $199
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It’s worth keeping in mind that this model uses a Lightning
connector rather than the USB-C that Apple has shifted its product
lineup toward. It includes a charger in the box, but you may want to
consider that if you’ve already chucked all your old Lightning
cables. On the other hand, some may consider it a bonus that it still
includes Apple’s now-defunct headphone jack.

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JD Vance asserts faith in Trump after admitting he once 'didn't fully
believe'
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"I read a story this morning that her advisers are considering just
copying all of Donald Trump's policies," Vance told supporters. "In
fact, I've heard that for her debate in just a couple of weeks, she's
going to put on a navy suit, a long red tie, and adopt the slogan,
'Make America great again' [Trump's signature slogan]."

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How Techstars, Meta helped profitable LatAm startup Mercately raise a
$2.6M seed | TechCrunch
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Given India’s language diversity, digital content companies already
face a challenge in trying to show and translate content accurately.
Google is facing a similar problem with AI Overviews recently
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Eric Ly from KarmaCheck shares his entrepreneurial lessons after
decades in the industry
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“What I realized was that in each of these instances, there was this
kind of underlying problem around how people are able to connect with
each other and how do they establish a basis of trusting each other,
such that more interesting interactions can occur?” he continued. He
said that starting companies become addicting and that from an early
age he wanted to be a founder. 

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Students and Recent Grads: Save on Disrupt 2024 tickets | TechCrunch
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Given India’s language diversity, digital content companies already
face a challenge in trying to show and translate content accurately.
Google is facing a similar problem with AI Overviews recently
rolled…

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Data infrastructure startup Cribl raises $319M at a $3.5B valuation |
TechCrunch
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Given India’s language diversity, digital content companies already
face a challenge in trying to show and translate content accurately.
Google is facing a similar problem with AI Overviews recently
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Food delivery is seeing more consolidation: GrubMarket snaps up
FreshGoGo | TechCrunch
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face a challenge in trying to show and translate content accurately.
Google is facing a similar problem with AI Overviews recently
rolled…

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Move over Hinge and Tinder, there's a new crop of dating apps. Meet
the founders behind 11 startups sparking romance. - Business Insider
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Singles fatigued by major players like Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge are
declaring themselves celibate or simply turning back to their exes.
Just this year, nearly 80% of Americans surveyed by Forbes said they
felt fatigued by dating apps.

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The price of happiness? $200,000, according to one recent survey
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The survey, comprised of 786 employed Americans who are between 18
and 43 years old, found that having money may not buy happiness, but a
safety net does allow one not to worry about a financial emergency.

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The Haditha Massacre Photos That the Military Didn't Want the World to
See - The New Yorker (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=55791&nl=daily]
On the morning of November 19, 2005, a squad of Marines was travelling
in four Humvees down a road in the town of Haditha, Iraq, when their
convoy hit an I.E.D. The blast killed one Marine, Lance Corporal
Miguel Terrazas, and injured two others. What followed would spark one
of the largest war-crime investigations in the history of the United
States.

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Why Texas Republicans are souring on crypto - The Economist (No
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Cryptocurrency is now campaign talk, thanks to Donald Trump. Last
month, in their party platform, Republicans announced plans to bring
an end to the “unAmerican crypto crackdown” and pledged to
“defend the right to mine Bitcoin”. At a bitcoin conference in
Nashville days later, the biggest such get-together in the world, Mr
Trump vowed to make America the “crypto capital of the planet”.

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With Dams Removed, Salmon Will Have the Run of a Western River
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Salmon play an outsize role in nourishing and holding together
ecosystems, scientists say, and their plight has fueled a growing
trend of dam removals nationwide. Of the 150 removals on the West
Coast in the past decade — double that of the previous decade,
according to data from American Rivers, an environmentalist group —
most have benefited salmon. Chinook salmon, or king salmon, in the
Klamath are predicted to increase by as much as 80 percent within the
next three decades.

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2 Are Killed at Delta Maintenance Facility Near Atlanta Airport
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The Federal Aviation Administration said it was aware of the accident
but directed questions to Delta. The International Association of
Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which represents airline workers
across North America, called for Delta and the authorities “to
quickly launch a thorough investigation” into how it happened.

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Pro-Trump Super PAC to Begin $60 Million Ad Campaign Next Week
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The group, Right for America, has raised tens of millions of dollars
but waited until the fall rush to air any advertising.

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Homeowners with low mortgage rates are seeing the 'lock-in effect'
fade. Here's what that means
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And with mortgage rates finally starting to trend downwards, the
“lock-in” effect could ease at a quicker pace than we’ve seen
over the last two years. That said, it still has a ways to go before
Americans feel comfortable taking the leap: Just 2% of homeowners
surveyed by Bankrate in June said they would purchase a home this year
at a mortgage rate of 6% or higher.

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Supio brings generative AI to personal injury cases | TechCrunch
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Given India’s language diversity, digital content companies already
face a challenge in trying to show and translate content accurately.
Google is facing a similar problem with AI Overviews recently
rolled…

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Hugging Face and AI2 to join the AI Stage at Disrupt 2024 | TechCrunch
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face a challenge in trying to show and translate content accurately.
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UK government to spend

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Autumn Budget will be painful, warns Keir Starmer
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"In opposition, they rowed in behind many of the Tory decisions that
have damaged the economy and hurt living standards – whether that is
Brexit, austerity spending cuts or attacks on the welfare state."

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Telegram's Loudest Defender: The Global Crypto Industry
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The app has 900 million users globally and exercises limited oversight
over the content shared on its platform. It is popular in countries
like Ukraine and India, where people use it to text each other and get
independent news. It has also become a crucial tool for people looking
for safe ways to communicate in nations run by authoritarian
governments.

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What We Know About the Telegram Founder's Arrest
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Under French law, Mr. Durov’s detention can be extended through
Wednesday: After that, the authorities must charge or release him. If
he is charged, prosecutors could ask a judge to keep him in custody,
but he could also be released under certain conditions.

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CNN's Dana Bash to Interview Harris and Walz on Thursday
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Ms. Bash, 53, the anchor of “Inside Politics” on CNN, started at
the network as a producer shortly after graduating from college; she
has been a stalwart of the channel’s campaign coverage since 2000.
Ms. Bash and Mr. Tapper received praise for their efforts at the June
debate, where they played a muted role as the candidates clashed
onstage.

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Looking for Information on L.G.B.T.Q. Travel to Florida? Don't Ask
Florida.
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Colin Lienhard, a gay architect and designer who lives in Miami, said
that he had felt a shift in people’s openness toward gay people,
even in liberal Miami, and so he wasn’t surprised by the removal of
the pages. The effort to hide information that could be helpful feels
like a continuation of what he feels has become normal in Florida:
asking L.G.B.T.Q. people to be silent. “It’s another example of
them trying to erase that we are here,” he said.

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Another Icon-of-the-Seas-Style Megaship? Make That 3 More.
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Responding to the demand, Royal Caribbean launched four new ships this
year and has seven more on order. Other major cruise lines, like
Carnival, Norwegian and MSC, are also launching next-generation
vessels through 2027. The trend has drawn criticism from environmental
groups, who warn that the number and scale of the ships undermine the
industry’s commitment to a more sustainable future.

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Trump budget would spike deficits by nearly 5 times Harris proposal,
says Penn Wharton
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That pressure is heightened because the economy has been a consistent
vulnerability for the Democratic campaign this election cycle given
voters' rosy nostalgia for the pre-pandemic economy under the Trump
administration.

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NFL wants a cut of private equity investment profits
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Over the past 20 years, the league's total value has risen from $23.46
billion to $190 billion, a 710% gain, according to Sportico. The S&P
500 index has risen about 660% during the same time span.

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Trump taps RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard for presidential transition team
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Linda McMahon, the former president and CEO of World Wrestling
Entertainment Inc. and the former head of the Small Business
Administration under Trump, has also been named to the transition
team.

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