june 2016

from yes magazine summer 2016:
average cost 2012 for losing campaign for US house of reps = 540,022
                              for winning = 1,567,379
for losing US senate = 7,434,819
for winning = 11,474,362


delivering normal baby in US = 10,002
                                       in netherlands = 2,824

Michigan Loses ‘Right To Farm’ This Week: A Farewell To Backyard Chickens and Beekeepers

June 20, 2016   Other   5 Comments

Michigan residents lost their “right to farm” this week thanks to a new ruling by the Michigan Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development. Gail Philburn of the Michigan Sierra Club told Michigan Live, the news changes “effectively remove Right to Farm Act protection for many urban and suburban backyard farmers raising small numbers of animals.”

Backyard and urban farming were previously protected by Michigan’s Right to Farm Act. The Commission ruled that the Right to Farm Act protections no longer apply to many homeowners who keep small numbers of livestock.

Kim White, who raises chickens and rabbits, said, “They don’t want us little guys feeding ourselves. They want us to go all to the big farms. They want to do away with small farms and I believe that is what’s motivating it.”

The ruling will allow local governments to arbitrarily ban goats, chickens and beehives on any property where there are 13 homes within one eighth mile or a residence within 250 feet of the property, according to Michigan Public Radio.

The Right to Farm Act was created in 1981 to protect farmers from the complaints of people from the city who moved to the country and then attempted to make it more urban with anti-farming ordinances. The new changes affect residents of rural Michigan too. It is not simply an urban or suburban concern.

Shady Grove Farm in Gwinn, Michigan is the six and a half acre home to 150 egg-laying hens that provide eggs to a local co-op and a local restaurant. The small Michigan farm also homes sheep for wool and a few turkeys and meat chickens to provide fresh healthy, local poultry.

“We produce food with integrity,” Randy Buchler told The Blaze about Shady Grove Farm. “Everything we do here is 100 percent natural — we like to say it’s beyond organic.

We take a lot of pride and care in what we’re doing here.” Shady Grove Farm was doing its part to bring healthy, local, organic food to the tables of Gwinn residents, and it mirrors the attitudes of hundreds of other small farming operations in Michigan and thousands of others popping up around the nation.

The ruling comes within days of a report by The World Health Organization that stated the world is currently in grave danger of entering a post-antibiotic era. The WHO’s director-general Dr. Margaret Chan argued that the antibiotic use in our industrialized food supply is the worst offender adding to the global crisis.

“The Michigan Agriculture Commission passed up an opportunity to support one of the hottest trends in food in Michigan – public demand for access to more local, healthy, sustainable food,” Gail Philbin told MLive.

Meanwhile, neighboring Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed Senate Bill 179 a few weeks before which freed up poultry and egg sales from local and state regulation.

Yesterday, the USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced massive funding to support research about small and medium-sized family farms, such as small farms ability to build-up local and regional economic systems. “There’s a lot of unnecessary legal action being taken against small farms who are doing good things in their communities,” said Randy Buchler, who is also on the board of directors for the Michigan Small Farm Council.

The Michigan Small Farm Council  actively fought to support Michigan farming freedom, but ultimately the Commission voted to approve the new restrictions.

“Farm Bureau has become another special interest beholden to big business and out of touch with small farmers, and constitutional and property rights of the little guy,” Pine Hallow Farms wrote to the Michigan Small Farm Council.

The Michigan Farm Bureau endorsed the new regulatory changes. Matthew Kapp, government relations specialist with Michigan Farm Bureau, told MLive that the members weighed in and felt that people raising livestock need to conform to local zoning ordinances. The Farm Bureau did not feel Michigan’s Right To Farm Act was meant to protect the smaller farms, and ultimately the Michigan Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development agreed.

may 2016

from graves newsletter--our state gov at work

Oversight Subcommittee on Unemployment Reform

I have been named to chair a special subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Ethics that will develop solutions to make the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency more efficient and effective. There have been two Auditor General reports that have showed that there are several serious flaws in our current UIA system and we need solutions that will make the process work properly. Among the discrepancies found in the reports were security and accessibility issues with the Michigan integrated Data Automated System (MiDAS), and problems with the phone center that caused 89 percent of the 263,726 calls made to the center to go unanswered during a two week period. This is unacceptable and we seek to effectively address the shortcomings and come up with realistic solutions.

the week may 13,2016  "for firms in the s&p 500 the gap bet official profits and 'adjusted 'ones is now about 20% well above the long term trend.  more than ever, investors need to read between the lines.  a mature company that can't make a profit using standard accounting rules should be approached w/a barge pole.  companies need to be reminded that it's their responsibility to accurately report their performance, not to polish reality as if they were selling second hand cars"
(the economist)  (adjusted profits = way of making the bottom lines look more flattering)

show to watch -- the night manager

one of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.   plato

list of 102 million in trump's charitable donations compiled by his campaign, he did not make a single gift of his own money.  most of the 4844 donations listed were free rounds of golf at his courses for charity auctions and events.  he also claimed that decisions not to fully develop his properties as charitable donations--washington post

requested dark money, homage to catalonia by george orwell

sonnerie aux morts--for french funerals

harvestright.com = freeze dryer, expensive

freywine.com/near-you = can order wines from frey also


cabinet cleaner -- orange oil polish or =  2 tablespoons olive oil, 4 TBLS white vinegar and enough water to fill 16 oz spray bottle.  shake to mix, spray on 1 area at a time, use soft cloth to remove any dirt, then buff.   shake before spraying again

american farm bureau federation pres bob stallman said the organ looks forward to working closely w/the new speaker....he highlighted some of the new speaker's successes in the eyes of farmers and ranchers like his support for sensible changes in enforcement of the endangered speciies act as well as open and fair trade.  in addition ryan has 'fought chronic overreach by the EPA and has been working to bring needed relief on the tax burden farmers and ranchers face'


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Fear amid the labels: Let’s change things

May 9, 2016 Category: Opinion

by Carl Bednarski

Carl Bednarski

Why should people keep things in their heads when a Google search quickly brings everything they want to their fingertips? Here's why: Much of what they find is false.

Falsehood runs rampant in the debate over genetically modified organisms, most commonly and in some circles pejoratively called GMOs.

This process by which some crops are grown (there are only nine that use this technology) has been so maligned and slandered that most of the consuming public has no idea what it is, why farmers use it or why the world needs it. Instead, unsuspecting consumers go to the Internet. Almost instantly, up pops bad information, most of it propaganda from anti-agriculture sources with friendly-sounding names.

It wouldn't be so bad if people were questioning the technology, actually looking for answers and then accepting the best, most unbiased information from the most trusted sources. But often, the first things they see plant fear and fertilizes it with propaganda.  These opportunists seek financial gain from sowing fear, and they're succeeding.

Some people say there is no bad information. Their opinion is that we can only make a decision after we know everything.
First, it's impossible to know everything. Ask the Internet to define love or tell you where the laws of motion came from; or grow a tree from nothing.

Second, we can't know the future. Thirdly, when information contains deceit, it's bad information. If it's bad information, it's wrong, and it leads us to some very wrong conclusions. It's like planting crops without knowing what seed is in your bag.

Similarly, there is no productivity in the vitriol against the GMO process. But let's step back from the lies and fear and look from a thousand-foot perspective.

That view tells me we need to fight the misinformation, not the technology. It is misinformation, and fear of that misinformation, that has paralyzed Congress on the issue. Most lawmakers, being privy to the best information about the technology — that is, the unbiased, scientific data — know that the GMO process does not produce poison, does have time-tested, careful scientific evaluation behind it and does provide a service to feed a hungry world.

But our lawmakers also understand that there are a lot of voters who have chosen to believe the bad information and will vote based on the deceit. So the lawmakers, at this point, won't sow any seed.

What can we do about it?

We have to step up. Sadly, many people don't know any better. Instead of going to the universities or the scientists who performed the tests, they look to the self-proclaimed experts (quite often celebrity "experts") to tell them what they want to hear.

We need to be more aggressive on issues we know are being fertilized by wrong information. We need to go beyond our social circles to people who are being deceived, and offer them the right information. We need to ask them if they'd prefer to listen to an expert or the Internet? The answer could tell us a lot about our culture.

Not long ago, I had a conversation with a woman during a visit to a county Farm Bureau president's farm. She is a highly educated career person with a stable mind, but she'd been buffaloed by fear amid the labels.

She said she would always choose non-GMO labeled food, would always choose natural (thinking it is organic, which it is not), and would never buy milk with hormones in it.

We asked her if she knew what a GMO is, and she said "it's bad for you." She didn't know why. Conversely, she assumed that food labeled as "non-GMO" must be a good choice.

We explained to her that genetic modification is a process, not an ingredient. We asked her if she would deny her children antibiotics when they're sick. We explained that all milk has natural hormones.

After our conversation, she admitted that she never knew these things. No one had ever explained them to her. She trusted the label, not thinking that labels are marketing tools, not endorsements for health.

That conversation showed me just how important it is to educate the public about their food, to make them aware of deceptive labeling and to help them understand that farmers deal in food and nutrition, not marketing and labeling.

On an even bigger scale, we need to educate consumers and change our culture. The overall culture needs to be more like farmers. We don't listen to celebrities. We look at science, and for many of us, we're uncomfortable making decisions until we have the scientific facts. And we don't take the first person's word we find on Google.

We need to take opinion further, too. We need to understand that there is profit in marketing misunderstanding. There also is profit in variety, and there's the paradox. If everyone was selling the same product, prices would all be the same. But because things are slightly different — conventional, organic, local, etc., marketing comes into play.

I understand that it's sometimes easy to fall for marketing ploys. But just because a product claims something on the label doesn't mean it has any reality behind it.

Sugar is a good example. Soon you're going to see labels that say this package of sugar is GMO-free. However, there is no scientific test that can prove it. GMO tests come from protein, and sugar has none of it. So marketers can make all the claims they want. I simply ask them to prove it. I ask the celebrity mouthpieces to show us where they obtained their "expertise."

The overall point is this: Let's get our minds churning toward a solution to the public's confusion about things we farmers know well. As you spend time in your fields this spring, think about solutions to the public's woefully inadequate and manipulated thinking about the food you grow. Remember it's the best-quality food in the world, and you should be rewarded for doing that, not cowed by marketing campaigns that create doubt over everything you do.

I highly recommend that your visit gmoanswers.com or a number of other websites that will give the truth about technology. More importantly, you as farmers need to tell deceived consumers the truth. You don't need a public relations degree. You just need the truth and the willingness to share it.

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EPA scrutiny on fruit insecticides called ‘pseudo-science’

May 18, 2016 Category: Fruits & Vegetables

by Farm News Media

“These review processes that EPA facilitates are important, and needed, Robson said. “However, there needs to be a scientific part to the process, and a multi-year data-set created, to aid EPA in making their determination on whether or not to re-register a certain product.”

Four insecticides important to Michigan's fruit industry are under fire by the Environmental Protection Agency this summer, but the EPA scrutiny is not because of its supposed mission to protect the planet, according to Kevin Robson, horticulture specialist with Michigan Farm Bureau.

"All too often, EPA makes decisions based on false truths, emotions, and theoretical pseudo-science, provided by small-interest activist groups," he said. "These groups are most likely made up of folks who regularly consume the safe, healthy, fruits and vegetables that are free of insects and pathogens because of the very crop protection materials they are speaking out against."

The following are fruit insecticides under EPA regulatory action, according to John Wise, MSU Extension entomologist. More information may be found atMichigan State University Extension bulletin E0154, "Michigan Fruit Management Guide," product numbers are in parenthesis ().

Lorsban (32) (chlorpyrifos). There are a number of actions ongoing that are impacting the future of Lorsban, including review by the EPA Scientific Advisory Panel, Wise said.

"Dow AgroSciences expects that chlorpyrifos products will continue to be utilized and sold under the existing labels and tolerances through at least 2017. If EPA actions are taken such that chlorpyrifos becomes immediately unable to be sold, Dow will work with growers and distributors to manage inventory of DAS chlorpyrifos at that time," he said.

Belt (89) (flubendiamide). EPA requested Bayer CropScience to voluntarily withdraw registrations for flubendiamide-containing products. Bayer refused that request and have asked for a formal hearing before the EPA's Administrative Law Judge, which is expected to be finalized by July 2016.

The Administrative Law Judge agreed to a 22-day extension of the before-mentioned 75-day deadline for the administrative law hearing regarding BELT insecticide and has now communicated the "Order Scheduling the Hearing and Prehearing Procedures."

With this extension, Wise said, "we now expect a final decision about the future path forward for the registration of flubendiamide on or about July 6, 2016. While under review, farmers and retailers can continue to buy, sell and use the product in their operations."

Closer (8) (sulfoxaflor). On Nov. 12, 2015, EPA cancelled the registrations of sulfoxaflor-containing products as required in a Sept. 10, 2015, decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The cancellation affects Transform WG, Closer SC and Seeker insecticide products, which contain sulfoxaflor.

"It is our understanding that Dow AgroSciences is working with EPA to achieve new registrations, and submitted new labels for consideration to EPA in late 2015," Wise said. "In addition, it is our understanding that several states are now in the process of submitting or developing Section 18 applications for the 2016 use season. According to the terms of the existing stocks provision of the cancellation order, any Transform, Closer or Seeker that have been in the grower's possession since Nov. 12, 2015, may be used according to the previously approved labeling. There is no deadline for this product to be applied by the grower. The product in grower's hands may also be used for any Section 18 Emergency Exemption that may be granted."

Calypso (62) (thiacloprid). Bayer CropScience notified EPA of a voluntary cancellation of the Calypso insecticide registration, including the technical registration of thiacloprid. This decision has to do with EPA's registration review process and the new water model, adopted by EPA in early 2013. Bayer CropScience has notified states and requested that Calypso be allowed for use through the existing stocks provision. Bayer CropScience will plan to maintain the state registrations through 2016.

"It is critically important that we file comments to EPA regarding these fruit insecticides," Robson said. "Michigan Farm Bureau has filed comments in support of the re-registration of Chlorpyrifos, has submitted comments in support of Bayer's refusal to withdraw Flubendiamide, and just recently submitted comments supporting the use of Paraquat-dichloride, and its application techniques."

It seems, Robson said, that the EPA is intent on promoting the radical environmentalist agenda rather than examining real evidence with an unbiased view.

"It's so frustrating," he said. "I look forward to a time when we can submit comments to EPA, thanking them for a job well done, making decisions that are based on FIFRA guidelines.

"These review processes that EPA facilitates are important, and needed, he said. "However, there needs to be a scientific part to the process, and a multi-year data-set created to aid EPA in making their determination on whether or not to re-register a certain product."

    

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april 2016

visited oscar 4-4-2016 before vacation and got info for christina about wedding gift chest.  it was made by the man living south of uncle max who worked for a woodshop in oxford.  oscar thought he died about 2 years ago.  i believe max told me he had to sell his personal tools sometime after 2007 when the family ran into financial problems.  chest is the walnut plus oak trim and the walnut was cut from the hill area on the south side of bristol rd west of the old circus ranch in 1946.  oscar thinks grandpa bought the trees to cut.  wood was milled on walker rd w/their sawmill.  i knew that a log got away when they were cutting the trees down and rolled downhill but i didn't remember anyone saying that oscar was lifting the log on the john deere (no water in the left tire) and as he turned the tractor to load it maybe on the truck the tractor tilted and went over, the log rolling downhill. (i think max told me he had to run to not get hit by the log.)  i think a gear or loader shift was behind oscar on the left but he couldn't reach back to it fast enough.  oscar got thrown into a thistle bush.  i asked how they righted the tractor and he said w/the truck.

oscar then related a sawmill incident on walker road.  he rode the 'carriage' on the mill to move the spacer over after each slice.  it jumped the track and he was heading toward the blade w/his knees.  he said the blade was probably 12-15 inches above the log but he was able to put his knees on the log and go over backwards. he told grandpa floyd that was the last time he'd ride it like he had been doing for about a year.  they bought a log setter so someone could stay on the ground and shift the blade from there

floyd sold sawmill--didn't tell al until someone came for it and sold the oil pull tractor when someone flew over the land, spotted the tractor, offered to buy it for scrap, and he sold it for 250.  they came and cut it up.  (after wwII)  said he needed money to go out to chesaning.

grandpa's house was rough hewn logs with pine boards as subflooring and walls and the 2 x 4s were really that size, not like today's size.  flooring was angled (visible in 2 unfinished closets)


michigan farm news march 30 edition p3. article by jake ferris professor emeritus w/the dept of ag, food and resource economics at MSU: "the byproducts of mandatory labeling of GE foods are as follows: 1-US food prices will increase 2-the environment will be harmed 3-efforts to enhance economic development in poor countries will be held back 4-the promise of GE to help feed another 2 billion people on this earth will be diminished.....Mandatory labeling of GE food would not only be tragic, but, in my judgement, also outrageous."


painted doubles hellebore--perennial
durban canna --for garden and containers

to attract hummingbirds:  early bloomers = bleeding heart, columbines, coral bells, iris
                                         summer = daylilies, penstemon, garden phlox, bee balm, salvia, cardinal flower
                                         fall = liatris, coneflower
                                         add = clematis, native honeysuckle

moon garden:  moths, native bees, bats like white and pale flowers w/intense fragrance and lots of nectar
try honeysuckle, columbine, amsonia blue star
plants with silver and grey foliage = lavender, woolly lambs' ears, horned poppy, sea kale, helichrysum, , santolina, silver blade evening primrose, pussy toes, sage

after finding a wild turkey nest in the raspberries:

Breed first, nest later

Copulation or breeding must first take place for hens to produce fertile eggs.

The timing of breeding is determined by the female turkey and researchers are now learning that physical conditioning may have a greater influence on reproduction. Reserachers believe a hen is not suited to take on the rigors of nesting unless physically in a condition to do so. Therefore, poor conditioning caused by poor nutrition can be blamed for late nesting.

The nesting period

It takes hens about two weeks to lay a full complement of nine to 13 eggs. Hens will only visit the nesting site long enough to deposit her egg for the day. The rest of her time will be spent elsewhere feeding and roosting.

At the end of the laying period, incubation starts. During this time, the hen puts herself in danger to stay on the nest day and night for about 28 days. She needs to bulk up prior to nesting and may take a brief recess period around mid-day to feed on protein-packed insects.

Little is known about how hens select their nesting sites, but as a general rule hens prefer:

• Nesting cover within 30 meters of an opening of suitable brood habitat, such as a road shoulder, trail, field, food plot, utility right of way, forest canopy gap or other openings
• Nest sites with considerable lateral cover and light overhead cover such as tree limbs, briars, vines, broom sedge or other vegetation
• Nest sites which provide hens good visibility of predators when she raises her head and also good concealment of her body and nest when at rest

Predator problems

Before hatching, nests are in danger of foxes, skunks, bobcats, raccoons, opossums, coyotes, crows, hogs, dogs and some snakes. After hatching, avian predators, such as hawks and owls also threaten poult lives.

Various studies indicate 10 to 40 percent of nests successfully hatch. Then, only about 25 percent of hatching poults will make it beyond four weeks.

 The good news is despite huge predation losses each year. Most areas seem to produce enough surviving young to replenish annual losses. Excluding weather events beyond man’s control, improving brood and nesting habitats can increase the number of young that survive each year.

How you can help:

1. If your landscape is dominated by old growth hardwood forests, consider a light thinning of low wildlife value trees because with more brood and nesting habitat, predators can’t concentrate their search habits.
2. On pine sites, practice thinning and prescribed-burn tactics because research indicates that turkeys favor nesting in open canopy pine sites burned during the previous year’s burning season. 

— Jimmy Stafford

                                     

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Andy Simpson Very true! This could be the biggest turning point in American history in our lifetimes.

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Donna Hart and yet what better entertainment than watching the debate dog fight. a dirty mud fight w/racism, homophobia, sexism, religious sanctimoniousness, penis properties, assaults on the audience, stifling of any viewpoint not wanted by 'the group' led by a corporate 'star' who is going to change america. go donald drumpf

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2-us commodity futures trading commission's search tool smartcheck


us dropped or fired at least 23,144 bombs and missiles in 2015.  at least 22,000 hit targets in iraq and syria.  afghanistan was targeted at least 947 times followed by yemen (58 bombings and missile attacks) somalia (18) and pakistan (110 -- council on foreign relations from the week march 18 2016


same issue of the week (above) 27 profitable companies in the S&P 500 paid no income taxes in 2015 thanks to a combination of tax credits and aggressive accounting.  the list includes general motors (7.7 billion in pre tax profits)  hewlett-packard (1.5 billion ) and telecom Level 3 communications (283 million)



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Education, Emergency Managers, Republican-Fail — March 31, 2016

For Michigan schools, CEO is the new Emergency Manager – Now with more POWER!

by Eclectablog

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The ultimate expression of running government like a business

Earlier this month, I reported about a new approach being taken by Gov. Rick Snyder when it comes to taking over schools with unelected overseers. Because the term “Emergency Manager” is now a national expletive, he has changed the title to school district “Chief Executive Officer (CEO)”. The first school district to be put under the control of an appointed CEO is East Detroit Public Schools:

It’s not clear under what authorization this is being done. However, given that the CEO “will have jurisdiction over all instructional and financial decisions”, it appears to be an Emergency Manager with a new name, one that avoids the now-toxic “Emergency Manager” moniker.

Unsurprisingly, the new paradigm features testing, testing, and more testing as if this was somehow part of the educational process. These poor East Detroit students will now be tested at least once every two months, taking away from precious instructional time.

A new op-ed written by Michigan State Board of Education Vice President Casandra Ulbrich forThe Detroit News reveals just how far this is being taken. In a word, VERY:

Recently, the state school reform officer (SRO) argued before the Legislature that the office needs a $1 million supplemental appropriation this year, and an additional $5 million next fiscal year, to hire school CEOs.

The difference between a CEO and an emergency manager: a CEO has more authority.

The SRO can appoint a CEO to take over any school across the state. In additional to controlling the finances for those schools, an appointed CEO also has the authority over all academics in the school.

Which means the CEO can:

• Assume the financial and academic authority over multiple schools;
• Assume the role of the locally elected school board for those schools they have been assigned;
• Control all funds attributable to pupils at the school without the consent of the locally elected board;
• Permanently close a school without the consent of the locally elected board;
• Sell closed school buildings without the consent of the locally elected board; and
• Convert schools into charter schools without the consent of the locally elected board.

There isn’t much of a role for citizens in this process, the roll-out of which has already begun in the East Detroit School District. And, if these funds are appropriated, this may be coming to your city next.

The renaming of Emergency Managers as CEOs is the ultimate expression of the concept of “running government like a business”. Gov. Snyder claims that, for him, “running government like a business” means using data and metrics to build positive change. However, in actual application, it means putting a single individual in charge of running the show and doing it in a way that prioritizes test scores and cost savings over actual outcomes that will benefit the students.

Keep in mind, too, that just over a year ago Gov. Snyder took the School Reform Office away from the Department of Education and put it under the control of the State Department of Technology, Management and Budget. It’s entirely appropriate given that the focus is not about education and children and is entirely about budgets and financial concerns. And, despite the fact that these school district CEOs will have full control over a district’s academic program, there is nothing in the job description – in fact, there is no job description at all! – requiring these men and women to have a background in the education of children.

Although “running government like a business” has proven to be a utterly failed model – seven years of Emergency Manager-imposed austerity measures on Detroit Public Schools has done nothing to improve student outcomes, fix the dilapidated buildings, or decrease the debt (which has, in fact, risen) – Gov. Snyder is doubling down on the concept. What’s astonishing is how much it has completely flown under the radar. Gov. Snyder is pulling an epic sleight of hand move to cement his policies in place under a new moniker and he’s doing it without new legislation or any of the public dialogue that comes with that. It’s the same lack of scrutiny and public input that led to us having an Emergency Manager Law in the first place.

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