Actually, there are quite a few reasons to be in space. In addition to GPS, weather satellites, and warnings of solar flares [which, if large enough, can fry your iPod, your computer, and the entire electrical grid], the space program can warn about continent-killing asteroids. And, if we do
On Sep 11, 2009, at 12:56 AM, Steve at Verizon wrote:
An 11.4 Trillion National Debt represents government living wayy beyond its
means.
Nonesense. What are you comparing that number to? Your pay check? Properly you
look at it as percent of GDP. A proper analysis is here:
The reason that all the rest of the world who have universal health care has a
5% admin overhead and our non-universal health care has an admin overhead of
18-25% is exactly demonstrated by your experience with your wife's
prescription...
No matter how the world's varied universal health
...Oddly, though, there was no point-and-shoot analogue in video
cameras...Home videocams were almost without exception expensive,
complicated devices loaded with features like image stabilization,
night-vision mode, and onboard color correction...even with tools like
Apple's iMovie, it was a
Huh? I thought NASA's moon program is, unfortunately, still alive and sorta
on schedule. We're abandoning our plans for a space station after our
commitments are done and putting all our eggs into Ares/Orion.
As of this moment, it still is alive. However, a White House panel of experts
has
Wow, when did Spirit and Opportunity learn to work on their own? I
wonder if the people who get paid to drive them know this. If they
are working on there own, what do you think they're thinking?
There's a rock, let's flip it over. Or maybe, damn it's dusty
today. Or maybe, Hey Opportunity,
As one with family from Cuba and some friends remaining, I can assure
you that Jeff W. has no idea about Cuba, considering his comments. It's
their health care insurance system and outcomes that are better than
ours, not the high tech gadgets and expensive doctors. The Cuban
government,
Actually, you will find the banks that survived were the ones who were more
diversified in their holdings. The one that went tits up were the old
investment houses that only recently started banking businesses.
And why does the federal government have Medicaid administered by the
states? You
On Sep 6, 2009, at 11:16 PM, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
Futura is more attractive than Verdana. The real problem here is that IKEA
switched to a M$ font. M$ a company that is not renown for really good
design.
Actually Verdana is one of two fonts that M$ had designed by Mathew Carter, who is
There's no free market. Never has been. Get over it. Deal with the
economy as it exists, not in some utopian, fear-inspired fantasy. Good
health, quality education, a stable economy with manufacturing, and a
clean environment are as important to our security as diplomacy and our
military.
One side of it is that Doctors did not need to purchase it and did not.
Professionals are notorious (I mean Doctors etc.) in keeping up with the latest
technology.
With all the doctors I get to see with my wife We have only seen one clinic
(Othopods) who used tablets and kept all their
Have you tried popping off the keys to see what the problem might be?
In the past I've found that keyboard malfunctions have been physical
problems and not computer/circuit board problems. Notice the pattern?
Did you spill something on your computer?
Both the white and the black Apple
Did they do a line test?
Allegedly. But as I was all ready aware, the problem wasn't with
the line per se. I had clean dial tone and could establish a dial up
connection at 48-50 kbps, meaning that the line wasn't compromised.
I all ready knew it wasn't the router, since I have a second
I use Gmail for one of my boxes, but can someone tell me why I constantly
have to tell my Mac to accept the email when I restart the computer and or the
mail program? It keeps telling me permissions aren't something or other. I
can't remember exactly and don't feel like restarting at the
Where do you come up with these figures? Have they been fed to you or are
they just off the top of your head?
You did get to the meat of the problem however. We might have great medical
care here in us. But getting it and being able to have access to it is a
totally different story.
We have the same problem from time to time, but get much better service
here in the boonies. It's usually not in our house. They can test the
lines from the main office. I can test the lines at point of entry. Did
they do a line test? I know there's a minor short somewhere in the house
and
I am also losing faith in Obama... he is not standing up for what he believes.
He is afraid of big business. I understand, he is not independently wealthy
like JFK.
Marcio
Let's all get a handle on this Mario, et al. You and others are losing
faith in President Obama. Why? Because he may
Search youtube for obama single payer, should be the first hit posted by nakedemporer. I'd post the link but I still can't copy/paste.
More misinformation. The single payer plan Obama supported was for
Illinios, not nationwide--had nothing directly to do with current
propose legislation
Do you have a link from a group that doesn't skew conservative?
New Scientist is considerably more unbiased than party hacks like Rasmussen.
Dueling links?
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/august_2009/32_favor_single_payer_health_care_57_oppose
Hmmm I am considering this...going Gmail. But will I find all that Eudore
offers?
No.
GMail is an email provider with both online webmail and POP/IMAP service
for an email client of your choice on your computer[s]. The webmail
interface is too limited for my use [i.e., how do I sort the
Yes, Reverend... something like this. Look my old, very old web page:
http://pw2.netcom.com/^mvp1/soloproviders1.htm
I made it when I as working as MD under Managed Care in the USA.
In case Marcio's link doesn't work, try this:
http://home.netcom.com/~mvp1/soloproviders1.htm
It's worth
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Jeff Wrightjswri...@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds like paradise. Why aren't you living there?
I was just waiting for the old love it or leave it bullshit to
start. Why can't an intelligent and respectful conversation take
place without descending into the pit of
You are free to move to Cuba, collect your $3 a month wage and enjoy that
health care.
Travel restrictions have been lifted?
You can travel to Cuba from Mexico, or on a European package tour from
the UK, Germany, etc. Unless you can get permission from the US State
Department, they
FedEx and UPS have been using the US Postal Service for final delivery
of many of their packages. This is private carriers using the _public
option_ to save money.
They ship long distance on their planes or trucks to the local or
regional post office. Then the postal carriers deliver packages
Tom is right in a way that conservatives have been wanting for a long
time, but Mike is wrong--it's everybody's money except the wealthiest
people who remain mostly untaxed. Social Security and Medicare are flat
taxes, no exceptions, just what they love. However, there's a huge
exception that
ob·fus·cate
* Synonyms: baffle, becloud, befuddle, bewilder, *cloud*, complicate,
conceal, confound, darken, fog
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_Not every cloud has a silver lining_
There's something you won't see mentioned by too many advocates of cloud
computing – the main attraction is making money from you
Eric S. Sande escribió:
..A friend of mine was on his way to Tierra del Fuego from Fairfax
County, VA. On a motorcycle with a GPS. He got lost in the
Atacama Desert, which isn't exactly good. He said later, I knew
exactly where I was, but I didn't know which way to go.
Hence the map and
Interex is one that I have.
Here's a newer model:
http://gooeydoobooks.com/Interex-UMPC900TF-Surge-Suppressor/M/B001YS0EXK.htm?traffic_src=froogleutm_medium=organicutm_source=froogle
The Kensington MasterPiece model was discontinued years ago. Will a used
one still provide the protection
Subject: Power strip
Does anyone know of a power strip that has separate power switches for
each outlet? Doesn't absolutely have to have surge suppression, although that
would be a plus. The ones I can find are either
all on or all off.
Go to a music instrument store or look on line
...(Yes, I have gone to the tools menu and made all the changes, but
they have been ignored - it is as if the ability to change the
various options have all been locked out.) I am afraid that my only
choice may be to uninstall Firefox and start all over from scratch,
but I don't want to loose my
I mean, if someone buys a Mac and runs their PC on it, are they a Windows user
or a Mac user?
YES!
We can do both. We are 'ambidextrous'. We have Macs.
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That's yet another reason to send email as plain text and avoid HTML
email like the plague.
Thunderbird has a Options/ Composition word wrap setting for Plain
text (72 characters is what I put there) but for HTML I don't see any
options except the manual Edit/ rewrap command for a particular
I had a similar issue after I upgraded where I got an error message stating
that Firefox was already open, and I needed to close before I could open a new
browser. Booted in safe mode and still had the issue. I ended having to
uninstall (delete files option), delete the registry keys under
I live in No. Va. also and use T-Mobile pre-paid for uses like you describe.
Advantages:
- low cost: first year I paid $100 for 1000 min. Used 500 in first year,
second year is $50 for another year. Hard to beat $4 per month.
Disadvantages: T-Mobile coverage is spotty. OK here. Non-existent
Actually, that's $8.33/mo the first year. Hard to say how long you could
keep renewing minutes after that as the networks change and to get the
better coverage you may need a new phone.
Still, $4.15/mo for 10 minutes of phone calls is pretty bad. Not so long ago
that used to cost about $0.25
So if you are using Google voice across the data plan as you describe does that
essentially free you from the expensive daytime minutes restriction?
Can you get a cell phone with a data plan AND WITHOUT a talk plan?
Dan
Yes, it's called T-Mobile's SideKick--also Blackberry, other PDAs,
Time for a REAL reality check. Apple has rejected many apps that it
later accepted. They're not lying. They're being cautious. Apple
developers prefer to delay a questionable app until it will work nicely
with other apps and the OS. Google Voice does neither. They'll work it
out like they've
And yet still things leak.
The leakers have been fired. One of the things that Apple does is to
spread a lot of false rumors. When one of those rumors gets out, they
know exactly who is responsible and fire them. There's a huge difference
between leaks and rumors. The leak about the large
Eric S. Sande escribió:
They're as secretive about their projects as the NSA.
How do you know?
Friends at both NSA and Apple.
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One of the things that Apple does is to spread a lot of false rumors.
Deliberately? I'd question the ethics of a company that did this.
Internally only. Plenty of other companies do the same including ones
where I've worked. When a company has a unique product or a special
formula,
OPINION
AUGUST 19, 2009
Why ATT Killed Google Voice
By ANDY KESSLER
Earlier this month, Apple rejected an application for the iPhone called Google Voice. The uproar
set off a chain of events—Google's CEO Eric Schmidt resigning from Apple's board, and the
Federal Communications Commission
OPINION
AUGUST 19, 2009
Why ATT Killed Google Voice
By ANDY KESSLER
Earlier this month, Apple rejected an application for the iPhone called Google
Voice. The uproar
set off a chain of events—Google's CEO Eric Schmidt resigning from Apple's
board, and the
Federal Communications Commission
*Analysis: Apple, ATT and Google Voice*
08.21.09
by Sascha Segan
PCMag.com
Apple on Friday posted its response to the Federal Communications
Commission's Google Voice iPhone app inquiry on their Web site, and the
company finally made it clear what they have against Google Voice-type
apps: Apple
Apple's response to the DOJ inquiry looks a lot more plausible than
the explanations proffered by the conspiracy theorists. In a
nutshell, adding Google Voice to an iPhone significantly changes the
operation of the iPhone. It replaces so many of the iPhone's
functions that it left Apple wondering
I have several Yahoo email accounts. Since I usually retrieve my email
with Thunderbird, I didn't notice that the online email now requires
using the full email address instead of the user ID for login. Flipped
through 3 accounts before I bothered to read the new rules on my
online-only
One Man wrote:
I want to add some songs on my iTunes playlist to my friend's iPod, which is
already synced to another iTunes How can I do this, as I keep getting the
message that iTunes will erase the friend's iPod in order to sync? With thanks
in advance ...
Before
I've got an older Dell that hasn't been used much for a year or so, but now I
need it. It works fine, but after I hit the power button it takes a couple of
minutes before it starts the boot process.
It just sits there, its little power light flashing rapidly, for about two
minutes, then it
The important info on NiMH batteries is mAh, milliampere-hour--the
charge that a battery will hold. An 850 mAh battery will hold a charge
for much less time than a battery labeled as 2600 mAh.
I keep a variety of brands for AA and AAA batteries--Duracell Ray-o-Vac,
Radio Shack, EverReady,
Where did all this money come from that they can so cavalierly pass on $4.7
billion. Are we being overcharged?
Of course we are being overcharged. I am sure that you already know
that. To wit, we pay, on average, five times what users in the
Netherlands pay, and our broadband bills are
Plus, when broadband-neglected communities try to roll their own broadband
[example: Lafayette, LA, http://lafayetteprofiber.com], the Telcos fight it
tooth and nail, secretly funding no socialism campaigns (much like the
health insurance industry is now doing nationally.)
All the more evidence
Port 25 is often blocked for security reasons.
For SMTP, we've been using port 465 SSL for smtp.correo.yahoo.es, port
465 TLS for smtp.gmail.com, port 587 TLS for outgoing.verizon.net. I can
send from any of my email accounts through all three, but the gmail SMTP
server renames the sender with
Apple cooks up a scheme so creepy that it would give me second thoughts
about buying one of their products. A built-in system of sensors to monitor
and log customer abuse which apparently includes jailbreaking your iphone
that has the ability to shut down the product and void the warranty.
Your cell phone already has the water detector..works find in humidity.
Cavan's cell phone didn't work after he dropped it into a Big Gulp. His
iPod didn't work after he dropped it into water. Those kinds of mishaps
cause the malfunctions that people try to get fixed or replaced under
There are no reports that these dots activate in humid weather, or at least
that there is any inherent problem with that.
Perhaps--depends on how sensitive these dots are. What if the shock
detector [sudden motion sensor] in your MacBook Pro gets set off when
you drop your laptop bag after 6
What's missing from the keyboard other than a numbers pad--and comfort?
Is the keyboard just annoying as it is? Do you also want to use an
external mouse?
You can get a separate numbers keypad that plugs into USB. Or you can
raise the notebook closer to eye level and put a keyboard underneath
I live in a small town with a full cross-section of people. It wouldn't
do any good to say one car is better than another, any more than to say
a chainsaw or a computer or a bicycle or motorcycle or a rifle is better
than another.
It's important to keep in mind what's appropriate for each
But gun control only takes guns away from the victims. It doesn't take guns
away from the criminals. Fact of life.
Au contraire. Gun control makes it harder to buy guns, legally or
illegally. That decreases the number of guns available to both criminals
and victims. So they use knives and
I have a question. If guns are such a menace, why do we require cops
to carry them? And please don't use the excuse they're trained to use
them. I'm thinking of the 49 shots at the guy in New York where only
17 hit. And he was cornered in a porch.
Wasn't that an innocent man who asked an
We used to have neighbors who took out their guns and shot each other
when they had family feuds. Most of them ended up in the ER with
treatable wounds. A couple were killed. Doesn't make us feel safe to
have any neighbors like that whether we have our own guns/rifles
ourselves. Stray bullets
They don't carry guns?
Of course the cops carry guns. Many don't have to shoot them, ever. They
know the neighborhoods, and the residents. They use diplomacy. It often
works.
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On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:22 AM, rleesimon rleesi...@gmail.com wrote:
We live just beyond the county seat city limits and FIOS came there
but not
here ...we'll surely get FIOS in our card before we ever get it at our
house, can't even get dsl, only cable... and I was so proud of
having
I'm sorry I misunderstood. So you have an older dial-up connection
that's charged by the minute? Yes, that was the heyday of mailing
lists. They were actually designed around that type of scenario. But
since most everyone has unmetered connections, or always-on broadband
these days, that
Wow. What a wacky take on things. I think the distortions we're seeing
are due to the fact that you're asking the question on a mailing list,
which still has some members that have never done it any other way.
But 'web' forums are much older than mailing lists (they used to be
called 'bulletin
And, a parking one:
3. Also, they could link the thing to one of those websites that does
the parking lot thing and tell you where to park and if they're full
or not before you get there and adjust your route accordingly so you
don't waste time goin'round the block.
Now THAT is a
On Aug 9, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote:
I'm thinking we should go to a tax person to deal with this.
Yes you should. I found that fighting the software distracted me from
other important tax issues, causing a mess. I filed and then had to
hire a human to refile a correct form.
I'm in the process of uploading my cd library into iTunes so I can
download it into my iPod. Before the upload begins I'm often getting
the question as to which version of the upload I want to use (for
example). This sounds like I'm uploading the cds from iTunes, not
from my cds, and iTunes
No, it's asking which version of the cd to use
Is there a preference in the import settings to use error correction
when inserting a CD? If so, is it selected?
Mac or Windows version of iTunes?
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Unlimited data for $30/mo., tethering to your PC or Mac. Is this a deal?
I suppose you could do this with any unlocked 3G phone. Combine with
DuoSIM, SIM Doubler, SIM Max cloner and/or WiFi, and use one
Unlimited data for $30/mo., tethering to your PC or Mac. Is this a
deal?
I'm not getting it. The N3555 is a very uninteresting phone. Is the
idea that I have to carry a laptop with me all the time to get the
benefits of the data connection. Can I tether it to a smart phone
that will make use of
The website I was referring to is this: What is an SAR rating http://www.sarvalues.com/what-is-sar.html
That site is ancient history, and mostly irrelevant if you're tethering
your phone or using a wired headset. Most [none?] of those phones aren't
being sold any more.
I'd love to have a
I don't use GPS. I use a compass and map--not while I'm driving,
usually. They don't talk, however some GPS units do, so you don't have
to look at them. I have E-Z Pass as well as a bar code decal for the
Susquehanna bridge on US 40. The E-Z Pass instructions show the pass
attached to the
Mark A. Metz mam...@aol.com escribió:
Thanks for the link to the article on the DC Bus iPhone app (Cavan
any relation?). I use the Fairfax Connector so it doesn't help for
me, but I'm sure it is advantageous for some. I used the
commuterpages with my WM phone (free), but it doesn't seem to
For DC area residents and commuters who use iPhones/iPods, SMS, some PDAs:
http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=3090
More:
http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=2595
http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=2586
http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post.cgi?id=1786
It's your job to provide IT/network support.
Yeah? So what?
Tom's point was that he would have to hire additional staff to handle PCs.
Your experience notwithstanding, my experience proves him decidedly wrong.
Our businesses involve work other than IT. Your business is IT. Ours
isn't.
Kinda like all those Windows users who tell me that they would love
to switch to Macs but for the fact that they have too much money
already invested in Windows apps.
Sunk costs is a reasonable ...er... reason for not investing in a new
platform.
Unlike Uncle Moneybags Piwowar, some of us
Jeff
It's your job to provide IT/network support. Those of us with small
businesses can't afford IT staff or outside services. The computers are
tools that we use in our businesses and must work seamlessly with as
little tech support as possible. That's why we use Macs, even when we're
Safari sucks. Use Firefox or SeaMonkey.
I've have MacBookPro Ver 1.1 about 3½ years old. A friend just got a current
gen 17 MPB. I still use a Vista machine that has a hardware printer. On my
bank's website, a print request generates a *.aspx file for open with
application or save file as
On Aug 4, 2009, at 2:21 PM, mike wrote:
Ok, this coming October I was pretty much set on the iPhone..the apps, full
HTML browsing etc was worth going to AT$T. At least from what I know.
Which phone company has the best reception where you live and travel?
That should determine your choice.
Alsoft DiskWarrior, http://alsoft.com/. You'll need it very rarely, but
when you do, this works well.
I use PC Inspector Smart Recovery products for recovering data from media and
hard drives on PC's.
Can anyone recommend similar products for Mac hard drives?
(In case of corruption of the
On Aug 5, 2009, at 7:57 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
Safari sucks. Use Firefox or SeaMonkey.
Some people get really bent out of shape about Safari, but Safari is
innovating while others are not. While others boast of W3C
compatibility, Safari is not only the first to achieve that, it also
pushes W3C
Yes, I trust Google to store my stuff. And Amazon. I may store other
stuff with MS when they start offering the service.
In a separate thread, please tell us about your own redundant backup
strategy and why it's better than cloud storage.
I wouldn't trust any free online company to store my
Is the problem online only? Can you get your mail using POP or IMAP?
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That will happen when people start thinking for themselves and seeing
through corporate propaganda enough to vote for representatives who will
work for us not corporations. Why is our health care [insurance] system
so bad? How did we get the DMCA? How did the Supreme Court get stacked
with
Sue in a vast majority of cases they do pay taxes.
I do not know of any employer here in America (legitimate) who does
not withhold taxes out of paychecks, unless they consider the
worker a contractor.
My point exactly. If they are not citizens, they should not pay
taxes. Nor should they
Obama's health reform is an exact copy of Hitler's t-4 program where
he stated that lives not worth of life should be given a mercy death.
There is a very nice pamphlet which explains this more fully at
http://www.larouchepac.com/files/media/Act_NowPOST.pdf so download
that.
No Nazi health
Try different DNS.
On Jul 29, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Bill wrote:
Try clearing your Google cookies, then retry accessing your account. Had
this problem yesterday and found that solution.
Thanks for the suggestion, but no go. Did not work for me. Browser still sez
cannot connect to server.
The people in the rest of the world don't change their health care
system because they are sheep.
Ours is the best health care system in the world. Not perfect -- but
we can't afford a perfect system. The U.S. does better than most
other countries in most things. Many people come to the
I have loaded books on CDs into iTunes. Many of them have dozens or
even a hundred tracks on each CD, and a book might be 10 or 15 CDs
long. These audio files typically have a name like Track 1, Track 2,
and so on, there are no differentiating titles, up to 25 or 99. So
when I first loaded up a
Ellen Rains Harris el...@goodshiptabasco.com escribió:
Single-payer systems work very well for those who are not sick.
You are another person who is confusing single-payer with managed care.
There is no direct correlation; depends on the system. Single payer only
refers to administration
In iTunes, it's easy to join cuts from a CD, as long as they're AIFF or
WAV. iTunes can do that for you for most audio genres except podcasts.
It doesn't join MP3 or AAC files. You need another program to do that. I
haven't had much luck either finding the books on CDDB, and I don't want
to
Did you like the Canadian system when you lived there?
Have you contacted your congessman to show support for public/private
system? Which company 'owns' him?
Countries that have the best health care systems have universal health
care with a combination of public and private [nonprofit]
Back up your iTunes library: File--Library--Back up to Disk, and
Export Playlist
Move and rename the original iTunes library file [database]. Then
reimport your music. The easiest way to do this is to drag and drop the
iTunes music folder into the Music library in the program. Don't do all
Anyone try these chargers for cell phones, MP3 players, video game
controllers?
http://www.powermatdigital.com/
http://www.splashpower.com/
http://www.wipower.com/
http://www.wildcharge.com/
etc.
Good?
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The list of converters/translators appears as soon as you try to open a
file that's not native. Word does the same thing except the converter
list is sorted alphabetically. The OpenOffice list is so long, and the
names aren't exactly what you'd expect for the file types. I looked for
Word
*I see the hobbyist excuse for buying PCs instead of Macs quite often.
It's a misconception*.
This is the comment I've been working from, I didn't buy a pc or a mac, I
said I was building them. I've said repeatedly I've built to run OS X to
solaris to windows or linux. If you *start* with
In the dialog box for opening a document in OpenOffice 3 [Vista], the
list of translators/converters isn't in alphabetical order. It's a long
list--takes a long time to find the right converter.
Can this list be put in alphabetical order?
Betty
Only down spot was Ipod's and they feel that market is moving to
the Iphone (1 million of the new s model, 5.2 million of the $99
model).
The success of the iPhone artificially depresses iPod sales figures
as anyone who buys an iPhone gets an iPod as part of the deal, but
Apple has never been
What are you talking about? You write your own ROMS so you can put os x on
homemade motherboards?
You could build a PC with an Intel board and load Mac OS X if you made
minor code changes. Early versions of OS X Rhapsody ran on Windows NT
PPC servers. Now X can run on HP, Dell, MSI, etc. The
said I had done...which sort of takes complete care of your argument
to buy a mac to tear into instead of just building a pc and run whichever OS
you want.
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:32 PM, b_s-wilk b1sun...@yahoo.es wrote:
However, there's no reason for building PCs because you imagine you
I don't have any misconceptions, I don't have a mac tower laying around to
build some hacintosh. I get most my computer parts either free or
wholesale...I've built a whitebox hacintosh. I've said that twice. I don't
know why you keep pushing the mac angle. Hardware hobbyists are not going
to
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