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When will it all end?
mindsayEven after we have instituted what we wanted......the ability to put in adult content on our pages, another of my friends has been TOS'ed.
I am beginning to believe that there is no place in the country for free speech. Or may I rephrase......free speech is accepted IF you're views, feelings, or passions do not rub against the grain of the silent majority living dead.
Recently, I was visited by one of the folks I feel is responsible. This person was concerned for my soul. My fear is that one of his next cats would be to try to save my soul...or those of my friends...by having me removed.
I will NOT stop posting and expressing myself. And if, one day, I am not around, you can find me at olybi@gmail.com">polybi@gmail.com. I also have other places where I can hang out, and I will let you know them....but please bookmark http://polybi.mindsay.com , which is where a lot of my blogging is going to go.
I value all my friends and I hope to keep you. I also value my freedom, and I will be damned if someone will take that away from me...or you.
The first salvo in this War on Freedom was fired nearly five years ago on a sunny day in New York City. Since then, the forces of evil have been working overtime to control people like myself and others. Some have capitulated. I have not. I just basically tell the truth, which, as you know, is more dangerous than any ballistic.
We need to stick together....we need to take back our freedoms, our minds, our bodies, our voices, our thoughts. The "or-else," I feel, is too horrible to imagine.
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What happned to us....?
I hope this does not turn into a ramble, and I am wondering if this is the proper forum, but since a lot of it deal with sex, I'll start it here.
As you know, I occasionally have a party or two. I do ask for donations to help with the room rate. And considering what I am asking, I am being pretty reasonable.
But lately, its been like pulling teeth. I am about 48 hours close to cancelling a party because of real low interest. I am not the only one. Other friends who old parties are experiencing the same thing.
I sense this is connected to a general malaise in the country. People, as a whole, seem internally dead for some reason. ATtendance at movies, sporting events, heck even churchs are down. TV ratings are plummetting. No one is buying music, and downloading's down so you can't blame that.
Dovetailing to sex, I am wondering if we have become walking corpses. I wonder whatever happned to the wonder and joy we had before 2000. It can't be all W's fault. It just seems that we, as a people have gone into hibernation.
Heck, even here, I have found it hard to start a conversation sometimes.
What HAS happened to us? Have our juices run dry? Have we all become spectators looking for an event to happen?
And should I join them?
polybi
As you know, I occasionally have a party or two. I do ask for donations to help with the room rate. And considering what I am asking, I am being pretty reasonable.
But lately, its been like pulling teeth. I am about 48 hours close to cancelling a party because of real low interest. I am not the only one. Other friends who old parties are experiencing the same thing.
I sense this is connected to a general malaise in the country. People, as a whole, seem internally dead for some reason. ATtendance at movies, sporting events, heck even churchs are down. TV ratings are plummetting. No one is buying music, and downloading's down so you can't blame that.
Dovetailing to sex, I am wondering if we have become walking corpses. I wonder whatever happned to the wonder and joy we had before 2000. It can't be all W's fault. It just seems that we, as a people have gone into hibernation.
Heck, even here, I have found it hard to start a conversation sometimes.
What HAS happened to us? Have our juices run dry? Have we all become spectators looking for an event to happen?
And should I join them?
polybi
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10,000 Counts of Murder?
(If this was a single person, and this happened, the people responsible for this would be charged with capital murder...or at charfed with being an accessory. This was the deliberate murder of 10,000 people and the atteomted murder of another 100,000. Who do we charge? The President? The Adminsitration? The Governor? The Mayor? Us??-polybi) 
Louisiana official haunted by drowned woman
2 hours, 26 minutes ago
A New Orleans official was overcome by emotion on national television on Sunday when describing how a woman was abandoned and eventually drowned after repeated promises she would be rescued.
"The guy who runs this building I'm in, the emergency management, who's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said are you coming, son, is somebody coming," Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish, said as he burst into heavy sobbing on NBC's Meet the Press program.
"And he said 'yeah mama, somebody's coming to get ya, somebody's coming to get ya on Tuesday, somebody's coming to get ya on Wednesday, somebody's coming to get ya on Thursday, somebody's coming to get you on Friday.'
"And she drowned Friday night, she drowned Friday night. Nobody's coming to get us."
"Nobody's coming to get us, nobody's coming to get us," Broussard said through tears.
Broussard, president of the parish just south of New Orleans, did not give the woman's name.
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina "will go down as one of the worst abandonments of Americans on American soil ever in U.S. history," he said.
Local and federal officials said they expected to find thousands of corpses still floating in flood waters or locked inside homes and buildings destroyed by the devastating storm that struck the U.S. Gulf Coast last Monday.
Broussard said the government must acknowledge the part it played in senseless deaths.
"It's not just Katrina that caused all these deaths in New Orleans," he said. "Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now."
He demanded congressional hearings on what went wrong in the chaotic aftermath of the hurricane.
"They've had press conferences. I'm sick of press conferences. For God's sake, shut up and send us somebody."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050904/ts_nm/drowning_dc
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Day 18 at Camp Casey
Day 18
Here is how sausage is made. Cindy writes about the emotion she felt and the changes to Casey II since she went to tend to HER ailing mom. Here is the EXACT quote from her Blog on Huffington Post.
Here is how sausage is made. Cindy writes about the emotion she felt and the changes to Casey II since she went to tend to HER ailing mom. Here is the EXACT quote from her Blog on Huffington Post.
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| I got to Camp Casey and I arrived with a mom whose son, John, was killed on January 26, 2005, and his wife and baby, who never met his dad. We arrived in Waco at about 4:30 to the local press. The White House Press Corps was still with the president. When I arrived at Camp Casey II this afternoon I was amazed at what has changed since I was gone. Now, we have a huge tent to get out of the sun; caterers; an orientation tent; a medic tent (with medics); a chapel, etc. The most emotional thing for me though was walking through the main tent and seeing the huge painting on canvas of Casey. Many things hit me all at once: That this huge movement began because of Casey's sacrifice; thousands, if not millions of people know about Casey and how he lived his life and the wrongful way in which he was killed; but the thing that hit me the hardest was how much I miss him. I miss him more everyday. It seems the void in my life grows as time goes on and I realize I am never going to see him again or hear his voice. In addition to all this, the portrait is so beautiful and moving and it captures Casey's spirit so well. I sobbed and sobbed. I was surrounded by photographers, I looked around until I finally found a friendly face, then the news people crushed in on me and I couldn't breathe. I didn't mean to have such a dramatic re-entrance to Camp Casey, but the huge portrait of Casey really surprised me. I can take all of the right wing attacks on me. I have been lied about and to before. Their attacks just show how much I am getting to them and how little truth they have to tell. What really hurts me the most is when people say that I am dishonoring Casey by my protest in Crawford. By wanting our troops to come home alive and well, that I am somehow not supporting them. |
But what are Drudgie and his homies at POX....er.....FOX focusing on?
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| CINDY BLOGS: 'WE NOW HAVE CATERERS'... |
Oh how hoity-toity ofher to have caterers at CC2, even though they came AFTER she left for Hawaiian Gardens and that they barley rated a mention in her blog. Bu ohhhhh, the sheeple saw this and they said it was good for another freep:
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| You are creeping into your 16th minute, Enough already!!! We get the point. You are now just a mouthpiece for Michael Moore and all the rest of the leftist wackos. Stop letting yourself be used. Posted by: mark in ohio on August 25, 2005 at 08:03AM |
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| You can put aside the kindly mother face, the US population knows what you are, and sees you for who you really are. Posted by: avatar on August 25, 2005 at 08:57AM |
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| Cindy, WHEN WILL YOU GET OUT OF CRAWFORD! We demand our headlines be returned to us! We want an EXACT time schedule for when you will leave Texas alone! We are NOT going to settle for your overly ambiguous "When Bush goes back to work, I'll leave Crawford" garbage! We want an exact timeframe for you pulling out of Crawford NOW! We don't care if your "job" isn't finished, Cindy. In fact, we don't even know for sure you HAD any real reason to go to Crawford in the first place. You claim it is because Bush is insensitive and dishonest, but after you originally met with him, you said nothing of the sort. You are in Crawford because of a LIE, Cindy! When will you pull out??? **** See how silly that sounds? I hope you are entirely embarassed by your own comments about getting out of Iraq. Just because people speak a different language, pray to a different god, or wear different clothing doesn't mean they can't appreciate freedom and democracy. It was for this cause that your son died. You are making a mockery of him and his values. How do you even sleep at night knowing the dishonor you are heaping upon his grave? Posted by: Anthony(not OUR Anthony-polybi) on August 25, 2005 at 08:58AM |
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| Wow, Camp Casey Has caterers.. What next..a swimming pool.. Unreal ! Posted by: Brian H on August 26, 2005 at 01:47AM |
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| As a parent I can feel your pain. As an American I feel that if you don't like this country....leave Posted by: Wayne Morrison on August 26, 2005 at 01:51AM |
But as Paul Harvey would say, "wash your ears out with this....":
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| Honestly, I just stumbled onto this link from the Drudge Report a minute ago and was intrigued by the posts. Amazing to me are the differences in people who leave comments to Cindy, and their transparent motives for doing so. unbelievable to me and everyone I know is that in this day and age, in this technologically superior wealthy country, a place where people have almost limitless opportunity for achievement, a general knowledge level above most other peoples around the globe, that our county's citizens have allowed themselves to become a pseudo democracy ruled by cooperate agenda based politics, and about half are liking it. Don't get me wrong, I love my country. BUT, I believe in the original visions of our forefathers to live fight and die for freedom, and yet to question authority when necessary. For some of these people here to say that you are doing our country a disservice by stating your opinion seems to me the highest form of anti-democracy guided by blind faith or just blatant stupidity I’ve ever observed. I'm actually ashamed by some of these so called "right wingers" and "Patriots" which seem to flourish in our government and her on this blog. Fear and intimidation by fools of this sort is not what I want my country banner waving across the globe. Many before Bush, Democrat & Republican alike, have taken personal liberties with their abilities in office, but I truly believe George will be remembered as the one president who went too far. His negative legacy will be deeply impressed on the office of president, and the reputation of the USA around the world will be staggeringly disturbing for years to come. I truly believe that Bush has destroyed many good people’s faith in the system by his tactical treason he totes as spirit guided and morally justified. What may be even more disheartening is with all of the information out there, some Americans still choose to believe 9/11, WMD and Osama "Been Forgotten" had ANY relation to this war....do you people READ …ever? Oh, and by the way...."Get 'er Done!" aint that funny. Your Son did die for a worthy cause. He died to help expose the seemingly endless nosedive this country is currently experiencing in all that it originally stood for, and to expose the greed, hate and self gluttonous bigotry of our republican -or tyrant- biased governing body stands for. The world is watching and waiting for the guard to change. Good luck and please stay the course. Posted by: A True Democrat on August 25, 2005 at 07:47PM |
Now all of this, Cindy's FULL Blog, and all of the comments to it can be found here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cindy-sheeha...-18_b_6184.html
I will comment on something. We have all partaken of somebody'd Kool-Aid and we have all justified what are positions are, how ever right or wrong they are. Fpr me, I still can't get out of my mind these facts..
9/10/01: Bush Approval rating falls to 48%. Newsweek cover story about how the Bush faction help steal the election with help from the Supremes.
9/11/01: That..
9/13/01: Bush approval ratings skyrocket.
8/26/05: Bush approval rating plummets to near 40%. Osama Bin Laden still on the loose. Iraq, liberated from oppressive dictator, writes constitution to for even more oppressive theocracy. Casey Sheehan and over 3000 other troops die.
Somehow, I am really scared about what happens next.
polybi
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The Status Quo Is Not Acceptable: Interview with the Woodhull Freedom Foundation
| The Status Quo Is Not Acceptable: Interview with the Woodhull Freedom Foundation by Theresa Reed (Darklady) http://www.ynot.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=profile&mode=viewprofile&u=3865 Free Speech / Industry Viewpoints: Interviews Date: Aug 18, 2005 - 12:24 PM |
| Ricci Levy is the Executive Director of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation (www.woodhullfoundation.org). She has been involved in sexual freedom activism for nearly a decade, helped found the Woodhull Freedom Foundation in 2003, and is dedicated to seeing it become a leader in the sexual freedom movement. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” –Wendell Jones, abolitionist Q: What does the Woodhull Freedom Foundation do? A: Our purpose is to affirm sexual freedom as a fundamental human right. We do that by protecting and advancing freedom of sexual _expression and speech. Q: You’re not real well known yet. Why the low profile? A: We’re newer. And, unlike the Free Speech Coalition (www.freespeechcoalition.com), we’re! not an industry organization. Like them, we’re a lobbying organization but that isn’t the only thing that we do. While the NCSF (www.ncsfreedom.com) has focused a great deal of its attention on the Barbara Nitke vs. John Ashcroft anti-CDA case, Woodhull focuses on an assortment of issues and cases that cover both self _expression and speech. We’re not limited to any one community, although we serve all communities, because sexual freedom is the backbone of every other piece of work that anyone is doing. That’s why we have such a close alliance with the Free Speech Coalition, with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, with the National Organization of Women. That’s why we’re part of the Coalition for a Fair and Independent Judiciary which, by the way, is a coalition of about 75 progressive organizations including the ACLU, AFL-CIA, People for the American Way, the National Council of Jewish Women… It’s all progressive organi! zations that have come together to ensure that we are able to accompli sh a fair judiciary through these hearings and nominations. Q: What is the point of working with so many groups? A: It’s through some of these alliances that we are able to help affect change. We work with a coalition in Washington to try to change laws in Washington. These laws are enormously punitive and restrictive against sex work and they’re under the guise of sex trafficking, which is this administration’s buzz word. Mention sex trafficking and they mention child pornography and you’ll find (Kansas Senator) Brownback standing behind the word. We are on the Hill every single week. We’re at the Senate Judiciary hearings monitoring a number of bills that affect all of us, including the adult industry -- and most particularly the adult industry because that’s the easiest target. We’re not just looking at a single case. We’re there at the hearing for the Patriot Act, we’ve testified in Congress at t! he obscenity hearings, we’ve challenged Senator Brownback to allow the adult entertainment industry to testify at the hearings. Q: That’s a lot of work. Aren’t brochures and fundraisers enough? A: Because of my experiences doing these things, I believe that outreach and education aren’t enough. They’re important, but distributing information is only part of the job. Unless we teach people how to make change, we’re only creating job security. Incident response is very important. People in crisis need help; they need someone that they can turn to. But without work to create sex positive legislation it is just maintaining the status quo -- and this is not an acceptable status quo. Q: Why do we have this status quo? A: Let me go back to 2003 when the Supreme Court ruled that private acts of sodomy were no longer a crime. I think it’s possible that some people thought that we’d won the fig! ht for sexual freedom. Anthony Kennedy declared in that ruling that &# 8220;liberty gives substantial protection to adult persons in deciding how to conduct their private lives in matters pertaining to sex,” so if you just read that you think we've won and now we should be able to sit back and just do outreach and education, establish some mechanisms for incident response, and settle in to live with the new status quo. But that’s wrong. Our battle is really just beginning. We have to meet the challenges of sexual freedom proactively. I think we do that by arming ourselves with research, model legislation, and a determination to help craft sex positive legislation while we continue to fight antiquated sex laws. The Woodhull Freedom Foundation has taken a leadership role in creating a sexual freedom movement by forming alliances, partnerships, and coalitions. Q: Can you give me some examples of what we’re up against? A: One of the most exciting projects that we’re involved with right now is the joint ! project to analyze sex laws throughout the United States. That project has a dual purpose: to educate Americans about the unjust sex laws in the nation and to give grass roots activists policy and organizing tools to change the laws. There are some really archaic laws, like Michigan has laws against unmarried people having sex and living together, like differing age of consent laws in Kansas based on the gender of the persons involved. Almost every state in the country has antiquated laws and regulations that criminalize consensual sex. Massachusetts has a statute that prohibits masturbation and sex toys. In laws passed since 1990 five states criminalized possession of sex toys. Florida prohibits sending sexual images and messages over the Internet. A law enforcement administrator in Texas just got fired from her job recently because she was cohabitating with somebody who wasn’t her spouse and it’s illegal to do that. Q: Yeah, but how often are those ! laws ever used? A: One of the questions we get asked is if the laws aren’t really enforceable or aren’t really enforced, why should anybody be concerned? Because they are used selectively. Sometimes only against LGBT practitioners, sometimes against BDSM-ers, sometimes against people of color. Even more importantly than any of that, the government still uses these laws on the books to deny us all liberty and sexual privacy. Texas hadn’t prosecuted anyone on sodomy charges for years and years and years before they convicted Lawrence and Garner, who were the defendants in Lawrence v. Texas. Q: What’s the Response on the Hill Been to Woodhull’s Work? It’s interesting. We’re now known by a couple of senators, including Brownback, who actually called me by my first name. Some of the Democrats have been at least open to discussion. Russ Feingold is one, for example. It was Russ Feingold who got my testimony accepted in the obscenity trial. We testified, the Free Speech ! Coalition testified, we submitted testimony, we were not allowed in as witnesses, we were present at the hearing. It’s a volatile issue and it goes against the current administration’s wishes. A government that's not afraid of what it's doing doesn't feel a need to censor. Q: Why are they so unwilling to take testimony from us? A: That’s an interesting question and that’s the one that I challenged Brownback with. One person who was an organizer for the second hearing came right out and said “I am not about to give your side a platform for your views.” It was overheard by Mark Kernes. That room was chock full of people who did everything but jump up and yell “amen.” The hand we’ve been dealt is not a great hand, but I don’t think we can fold up our hand and go away. That’s why I’m at the hearings. That’s why my face is there every Thursday. That’s why when I get word -- ! and you don’t always get word – that there’s going t o be a hearing, I’m there. As soon as I know they may bring up a bill, I’m there. It’s not easy to dismiss me. I look like the people Sam Brownback thinks are on his side. That’s why he spoke to me the first time. He thought I was just one of his constituents. Q: How can we deal with ideologues like that? A: I think we need sex positive activists doing exactly what Woodhull is doing. I think that the message that we need to get out is that sex is not a dirty word, that it’s a private matter for adults to decide for themselves. I don’t think that we should let elected officials decide how we conduct our sex lives any more than we should let elected officials discriminate against us because of our consensual sexual acts. I know we are facing an enormous, enormous obstacle in this administration but if we sit silently, if we don’t make our face one that senators know, if we don’t continue to fight to secure t! hese rights and to hold onto the rights that we already have, then all we will have done is created job security for incident responders. Q: What has WFF accomplished? A: We took part in changing local liquor control laws in Washington that were enormously restrictive for things like nudity and flogging. We are in the middle of meeting almost weekly with the DC government working with the Alliance for a Diverse and Safe DC and I think we’re going to be successful in crafting sex positive legislation rather than the onerous, restrictive, punitive legislation that had been proposed to limit sex workers that would have actually targeted many other minority groups in DC. Among the restrictions that were pending was one that would allow an officer to arrest based upon appearance. We were successful in getting our testimony accepted in the obscenity hearing. Q: That sounds positive, so maybe things are improving? A: I believe that! if this administration continues the way it is, unchecked, we will in this country have a level of censorship that no one born here has ever experienced. It’s “national security.” It’s “sex trafficking.” It’s “child abuse.” Republicans are wonderful at framing a message that sounds a lot like “when did you stop beating your wife” because how can you comfortably come out in favor of child pornography – and would come out in favor of it? But if you’re coming out in favor of free speech and _expression, that’s what they beat you over the head with. According to Brownback and the people that testify at these hearings, there is no one in the adult entertainment industry who’s there of their own free will, regardless of what they say. So it’s a case of sex trafficking. They had a witness that said they’d interviewed I don’t know how many sex offenders and child molesters in prison and they’d all used pornography. Well, I’m not posi! tive, but I believe that it’s illegal to have pornography in jail – and if they mean beforehand, what’s the adult population that looks at adult material? There was a man probably in his mid 60s who testified that he was a victim of pornography and this is how he described his victim-hood: When he was a 14-year-old boy, he became enamored of women’s breasts. He began looking in the magazines in the drugstores to try to see pictures of women’s breasts. Sometimes when he didn’t have enough money left from his allowance, he actually stole a “dirty magazine.” That’s what he called them. That was the beginning of his road to perdition, through his addiction to pornography. It left him unable to have a healthy relationship with women. He was divorced once but “thank god” he found his way and he found a wonderful woman and “thank god, thank god”… The problem was that there was no one there to chall! enge this testimony. And that is the hearing where I stood up and chal lenged Brownback. I could go and educate Brownback all I wanted, he’s not going to hear anything I say to him. I have done outreach to Brownback. He knows my name. That’s not going to change a thing. But I’m working with the Free Speech Coalition. I’m working with various alliances. I’m working with people in a network in Washington to try to get antiquated laws off the books or at least get legislation that’s pending to try to help craft more sex positive legislation. Q: How can members of the adult industry get involved? A: You can support organizations like Woodhull and do more than send your dues into the Free Speech Coalition. You can call the Free Speech Coalition and find out what you can do. You can lobby your senators. That can be done by phone, because it does matter. I am more in favor of phone than email, but if you can’t make a phone call you can send an email. You can monitor what’s happening! on the Hill. You can do that very easily through the Free Speech Coalition because they have a Washington lobbyist now, whom I work with. The money’s important to keep organizations like Free Speech Coalition and Woodhull doing the really important work that they’re doing, but so are the voices. Other organizations can lobby for you, but you can lobby for yourself. We have sound bytes, the Free Speech Coalition has sound bytes. You don’t even have to think about what you’re going to say, because you’re not going to get to talk to your senator, you’re going to get to speak to an aid in your senator’s office. It’s important to have close to the same message, that’s the point of the sound bytes that organizations distribute. Q: Do they really care if we contact them? A: They really do. And you know why? Because, unlike a Supreme Court Justice, they’re going to have to run for office again. I nev! er give my party when I call. He or she may not have gotten your vote last time but you’re still a constituent and they want it this year. Remember, one election went down the tubes for 500 votes. That would be the presidential election. The one he didn’t win. Every voice matters. Q: When do you think we’ll be able to relax? A: I think no organization can affect change without the participation from those affected by leadership. Sexual freedom, freedom of sexual _expression and speech are global issues that touch every nook and cranny of our lives. Personal autonomy is being removed bit by bit by this administration. Organizations like Woodhull and like the Free Speech Coalition need the support of the people for whom we are fighting. Organizations like Woodhull are fighting for the adult industry in addition to every other community, gender, sexuality, and form of sexual _expression. We are fighting for a human right. And that human right is sexual freedom. I am suspicious of anything coming out of this a! dministration. I don’t anticipate that anything that anyone in the Bush administration proposes bodes well for freedom of sexual _expression and speech. That’s another reason why outreach and education are not enough. Vigilance. Active participation. In addition to writing for YNOT, Darklady is Ms. Oregon State Leather 2004, a freelance sex writer and erotic event coordinator. She has also run for public office twice and is liaison to the adult entertainment industry for the Woodhull Freedom Foundation. Each year she hosts Portland’s most infamous fundraiser, the Masturbate-a-Thon. You can learn more about her plans for world conquest at www.darklady.com and www.masturbate-a-thon.org. |
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