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• Former FBI chief lashes out at Trump, Republicans

  17-12-2018 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Former FBI director James Comey lashed out at Donald Trump on Monday for telling "lies" and undermining the rule of law, and urged Republicans to stand up to the president."The FBI's reputation has as taken a big hit because the president of the United States, with his acolytes, has lied about it constantly.In the face of those lies, a whole lot of good people... believe that nonsense," Comey told reporters in the halls of the US Senate.
  
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• Trump reviewing case of former Fort Bragg soldier charged with murder

  17-12-2018 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A recent tweet by President Donald Trump could jeopardize the murder case of a former Fort Bragg Green Beret who is charged with killing a suspected bomb maker.
  
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• J&J announces $5 billion share buyback after shares extend losses

  17-12-2018 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Johnson & Johnson said on Monday it plans to buy back up to $5 billion of its stock, after a Reuters report on Friday that the company knew for decades that its Baby Powder contained cancer-causing asbestos wiped about $40 billion from its market value.J&J knew about the presence of small amounts of asbestos in its products as early as 1971, a Reuters examination of company memos, internal reports and other confidential documents showed.The share repurchase was just the latest effort the
  
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• Battlefield Dev Says It's Been "A Challenge" For Years To Onboard New Players

  17-12-2018 23:47 via gamespot.com
  
  One of the reasons why DICE updated Battlefield Vto make it easier for new players was specifically to help the game appeal to new players--this did not go so well. After a wave of criticism from veteran players, DICE announced that it is rolling back the time-to-kill changes to restore the values to their original state. The Swedish developer has now also acknowledged that it has been a struggle for years now to get people into Battlefield games."It's important to acknowledge that we have a cha
  
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• Construction company fires workers over CA wildfire destruct

  17-12-2018 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Three construction workers were fired after posting inappropriate pictures surrounded by wildfire aftermath; Claudia Cowan reports from Paradise, California.
  
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• Renault-Nissan board meets amid deepening leadership crisis

  17-12-2018 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Renaultand Nissanexecutives will gather on Tuesday for a board meeting of their car making alliance, two sources said, amid tensions over the future of the partnership in the wake of Chairman Carlos Ghosn's arrest last month.The two days of talks in Amsterdam come after Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa rebuffed a demand from parent Renault for an extraordinary shareholder meeting that would have offered the French carmaker a chance to weigh in on Ghosn's replacement as chairman and on other Nissan boar
  
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• Girl's death shows communication issues on US-Mexico border

  17-12-2018 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Shortly before a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl died in U.S. custody, her father signed a form stating that his daughter was in good health. But it's unclear how much the man understood on the form, which was written in English and read to him in Spanish by Border Patrol agents.
  
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• Epic Sued Over Fortnite Again, And It's Once More About A Dance

  17-12-2018 23:22 via gamespot.com
  
  The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air's Alfonso Ribeiro, who starred as the show's Carlton, is suing Epic Games. Ribeiro's law firm said the the actor is accusing the studio of stealing his dance--commonly referred to by fans of the show as the Carlton dance--for the "Fresh" emote in Fortnite.According to TMZ, Ribeiro is currently in the process of filing for the copyright for the dance. This announcement comes on the heels of another lawsuit filed against Epic. Terrance Ferguson accused Epic of stealing
  
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• Michael Flynn associate charged with illegal lobbying for Turkey

  17-12-2018 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The former national security adviser Michael Flynn is due to be sentenced on Tuesday after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI.A one-time business partner of the former national security adviser Michael Flynn has been arrested and charged with illegally lobbying to have a Turkish exile returned from the US.Bijan Rafiekian, who also goes by the name Bijan Kian, made an initial appearance on Monday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.
  
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• The Latest: Ex-archbishop denies claim, welcomes probe

  17-12-2018 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Latest on a U.S. archbishop's request to address sexual misconduct allegations against former St. Paul and Minneapolis Archbishop John Nienstedt (all times local):
  
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• Battlefield 5 Backtracks On Controversial Time-To-Kill Changes

  17-12-2018 23:18 via gamespot.com
  
  The latest chapter of the Battlefield V TTK drama has unfolded. DICE has announced that it's backtracking on the controversial changes it made to the multiplayer shooter's time-to-kill values that made the game more forgiving for new players and angered veteran players in the process.In a post on Reddit, DICE said it made the choice to roll back the changes after listening to player feedback and reviewing internal statistical data. The TTK changes were released in an update that came out last we
  
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• Wall Street tumbles with Dow closing down more than 500 points, S&P closing at 14-month low

  17-12-2018 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Wall Street's three major indexes each slid more than 2 percent on Monday, with the benchmark S&P 500 closing at its lowest level in 14 months.
  
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• We Play "Real Or Fake Transformer" With Bumblebee Star John Cena

  17-12-2018 22:48 via gamespot.com
  
  We quizzed Bumblebee star John Cena to see if he knew the difference between real Transformers and ones we made up! See if you can pass our quiz.
  
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• The 2020 Mercedes-Benz CLA Debuts Next Month

  17-12-2018 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The second generation of Benz's smaller four-door coupe will be revealed at CES.
  
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• Trump Defender Alan Dershowitz Argues That Lying To The FBI Isn't A Crime

  17-12-2018 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  On the eve of Michael Flynn's sentencing for lying to the FBI, retired Harvard
  
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• To Fund Trump Border Wall, Ally in Congress Floats Selling Bonds

  17-12-2018 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican Representative Steven Palazzo of Mississippi is introducing legislation to direct the Treasury Department to issue government savings bonds to pay for a physical barrier between the U.S. and Mexico, one of Trump’s signature issues.“This legislation would allow for the patriots of today’s era to help support American security in the same way as previous generations,” Palazzo said in a statement on the legislation, known as The Border Bonds for America Act.Bonds
  
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• Markets Right Now: Another steep drop pulls Dow down 500

  17-12-2018 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  
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• Global stocks drop, where is 'Santa Claus rally'?

  17-12-2018 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Wall Street's Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 506.71 points, or 2.1 percent, to 23,593.8, the S&P 500 lost 54.09 points, or 2.08 percent, to 2,545.86 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 156.93 points, or 2.27 percent, to 6,753.73."If Santa Claus doesn't turn up very soon, U.S. stocks may end this year in negative territory", wrote Rabobank analysts as the Nasdaq remained the only benchmark in the black for the year, with the Dow and the S&P 500 down between 2 and 3 percent.Some investors
  
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• 22 Minutes of Below Combat And Exploration Gameplay

  17-12-2018 22:12 via gamespot.com
  
  We explore through the first few areas of Below.
  
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• Apology And Update Roadmap Outlined For Maligned RPG Underworld Ascendant

  17-12-2018 22:10 via gamespot.com
  
  OtherSide Entertainment has issued a mea culpa for the rough launch of Underworld Ascendant, and explained how it plans to improve the game going forward. In a lengthy blog post, the studio acknowledges it was buggy and flawed at launch, and that players may have expected something more similar to Ultima Underworld. Underworld Ascendant was released in November following a successful crowdfunding effort."Despite the game’s flaws at launch, we believe there is a core of goodness to Underwor
  
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• 160-strong classic car collection on sale due to museum closure

  17-12-2018 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  From (a replica of) the first production car in the world through to a 12-mile Dodge Viper, the 160-strong Tupelo collection has some fine pickings
  
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• US accepts Assad staying in Syria -- but won't give aid

  17-12-2018 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  James Jeffrey, the US special representative in Syria, said that Assad needed to compromise as he had not yet won the brutal seven-year civil war, estimating that some 100,000 armed opposition fighters remained in Syria.It's not regime change -- we're not trying to get rid of Assad," Jeffrey said at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank.
  
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• Jesuits release list of 89 US priests accused of sex abuse

  17-12-2018 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Jesuit authorities for 20 US states on Monday released the names of 89 priests with credible allegations of child sexual abuse dating as far back as 1950.The disclosures by the Jesuit provinces of Maryland and USA Midwest are the latest chapter in the ongoing sexual abuse scandal roiling the Catholic Church and come after 153 Jesuits were publicly identified by two other provinces earlier this month."On behalf of the Midwest Jesuits, I apologize to victim-survivors and their families for the har
  
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• Here's When Fortnite's Next Update Releases, But Not With The New Driftboard

  17-12-2018 21:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Update 2: Fortnite's 7.10 update will be arriving a little later than originally planned. Epic Games announced that it has delayed the rollout of this week's patch "due to last minute issues discovered within the build." It's unclear if the update is still slated to arrive on December 18, but Epic says it will provide further details on the timing of the update once it has more information.Update: Epic has delayed Fortnite's new Driftboard vehicle. While the developer had teased that the snowboa
  
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• Here's When Fortnite's Next Update Drops, Possibly With The New Driftboard

  17-12-2018 21:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Like clockwork, a new update is on the way for Fortnite. Developer Epic Games confirmed that this week's 7.10 patch will roll out for all platforms--PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices--tomorrow, December 18, and it looks like it's set to introduce the recently teased snowboard to the title.According to the official Fortnite Twitter account, the 7.10 update is scheduled to go live at 2 AM PT / 5 AM ET / 10 AM GMT. Among other things, it'll likely add the Driftboard, a brand-ne
  
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• Fortnite Update And Driftboard Have Been Delayed, Here's What We Know

  17-12-2018 21:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Update 2: Fortnite's 7.10 update will be arriving a little later than originally planned. Epic Games announced that it has delayed the rollout of this week's patch "due to last minute issues discovered within the build." It's unclear if the update is still slated to arrive on December 18, but Epic says it will provide further details on the timing of the update once it has more information.Update: Epic has delayed Fortnite's new Driftboard vehicle. While the developer had teased that the snowboa
  
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• Could a Grand Jury subpoena be issued for Trump by Mueller?

  17-12-2018 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump lawyer rules out Mueller interview; Judge Napolitano weighs in.
  
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• Get This Free Game On Steam, But Hurry

  17-12-2018 21:51 via gamespot.com
  
  Do you have a Steam account? Do you like free games? If you answered yes to both questions, you should probably head to Steam and grab Geneshift immediately. That's because this early-access title is free to everyone for a limited time. Between now and December 19, you can get a copy to keep and play forever, which is not a bad deal, considering the normal price is $10.Geneshift is an online battle royale game that's inspired by 1999's top-down crime sim Grand Theft Auto 2. In it, players have t
  
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• Challenge to Hungary's strongman Viktor Orban as 'slave law' protests rock Budapest

  17-12-2018 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Viktor Orban, the populist prime minister of Hungary, is facing a rare challenge to his grip on power as protesters demand an end to controversial labour reforms and and what they call his assault on democracy.    The Hungarian capital has been rocked by nearly daily protests and opposition MPs have called for Mr Orban's overthrow since the country's parliament adopted a bill liberalising overtime rules on Wednesday.   As part of the reform, which critics have dubbed "the sla
  
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• Even Obamacare Haters Think Friday's Court Ruling Is Terrible

  17-12-2018 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Friday's court ruling against the Affordable Care Act is so bonkers that even
  
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• General Dynamics Warns Trudeau Over Exit Penalties in Saudi Deal

  17-12-2018 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  In a television interview Sunday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the government was looking for a way to halt the sale of armored vehicles manufactured by a unit of U.S.-based General Dynamics Corp. “We are engaged with the export permits to try and see if there is a way of no longer exporting these vehicles to Saudi Arabia,” Trudeau told CTV, without elaborating.The company’s Canadian unit, in a written statement Monday, warned that doing so could leave the govern
  
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• Michael Flynn's ex-business associate charged in illegal lobbying effort to extradite Turkish cleric

  17-12-2018 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Federal prosecutors allege Bijan Rafiekian sought to conceal the Turkish government's role in the effort to extradite cleric Fethullah Gulen.
  
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• Poll: Americans don't want another government shutdown, will blame the GOP

  17-12-2018 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  A USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll shows Americans do not want to see another government shutdown by a double-digit margin.
  
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• UPS Store offers to shred children's letters to Santa Claus in viral tweet

  17-12-2018 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The stress of the busy holiday season appears to be taking its toll on the UPS Store's employees.
  
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• Reminder: Government Shutdowns Are Costly And Stupid

  17-12-2018 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The federal government may be partially shut down later this week if President
  
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• Goldman fires back after Malaysia charges bank in 1MDB probe

  17-12-2018 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Malaysia authorities charged the bank and two former Goldman employees in connection with an investigation into suspected corruption and money laundering related to the scandal.Attorney General Tommy Thomas said in a statement that it will seek jail terms as well as billions in fines from Goldman Sachs and four other individuals who allegedly diverted about $2.7 billion from 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB).This is the first time Goldman Sachs, which has consistently denied wrongdoing, has faced
  
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• Goldman’s Woes Mount as Malaysia Slaps First Criminal Charge

  17-12-2018 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The country filed the first criminal charges against the U.S. bank in the global corruption probe on Monday, after publicly urging Goldman to come to the negotiating table or face litigation.The firm already is in the thick of investigations by U.S. prosecutors and regulators over Goldman’s conduct in the controversy.Malaysian authorities allege that Goldman misled investors when the bank knew that proceeds from 1MDB bond sales it arranged would be misappropriated.
  
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• Fortnite's Snowboard Vehicle, The Driftboard, Has Been Delayed

  17-12-2018 20:17 via gamespot.com
  
  Update: Fortnite's Driftboard has been delayed. Epic had teased that the new snowboard vehicle would arrive in the game as part of this week's 7.10 update, but the developer has now announced it is holding their release back a little longer in order to further fine-tune them."We know we set the expectation for the Driftboard to release in the coming update," Epic wrote in a post on Reddit. "Unfortunately, we've decided to hold the release of this new vehicle to make some final quality of life ch
  
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• Fortnite's Snowboard Vehicle Has Been Delayed

  17-12-2018 20:17 via gamespot.com
  
  Update: Fortnite's Driftboard has been delayed. Epic had teased that the new snowboard vehicle would arrive in the game as part of this week's 7.10 update, but the developer has now announced it is holding their release back a little longer in order to further fine-tune them."We know we set the expectation for the Driftboard to release in the coming update," Epic wrote in a post on Reddit. "Unfortunately, we've decided to hold the release of this new vehicle to make some final quality of life ch
  
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• Fortnite Snowboards Are Coming Soon

  17-12-2018 20:17 via gamespot.com
  
  Earlier this month, Fortnite developer Epic shared a series of teaser images leading up to the start of Season 7, each of which featured a new element that was being added to the battle royale game. The studio has already introduced the biplane, ziplines, and the Ice King skin at the start of the season, and now the last of the teased items--snowboards--are finally on the way as well.Fortnite's in-game News feed is teasing that a new snowboard-like vehicle called the Driftboard is "coming soon,"
  
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• New Free Xbox One Games With Gold Now Available: December 2018

  17-12-2018 20:03 via gamespot.com
  
  We've crossed December's halfway point, which means Xbox Live Gold subscribers have new games available to download for free. The titles in question are Never Alone for Xbox One and Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction for Xbox (it's also playable on Xbox 360 and Xbox One thanks to backwards compatibility). You can add them to your account here.Never Alone is a side-scrolling puzzle platformer about a girl and a fox. Made in partnership with Native Alaskan Iñupiaq elders and storyteller
  
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• Search For Missing Colorado Mom Leads Investigators To Fiance's Ranch

  17-12-2018 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Dozens of state and federal law enforcement officers descended on a rural
  
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• U.N. peacekeepers say two tunnels at Israel border breached U.N. resolution

  17-12-2018 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon said on Monday two of four tunnels found close to the border with Israel crossed the frontier demarcation between the two countries, violating a U.N. resolution that ended a 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel.The U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said it had so far confirmed the existence of four tunnels which the Israeli army discovered in the vicinity of the border demarcation, known as the "Blue Line", adding the finds were of "serious concern".
  
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• Serbia and Kosovo leaders to address UN about Kosovan army

  17-12-2018 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The presidents of Serbia and Kosovo are scheduled to address the U.N. Security Council on Monday afternoon following Kosovo's decision to transform its existing 4,000-strong security force into a regular army and Serbia's threat of armed intervention.
  
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• Everything We Know About 2019's The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part

  17-12-2018 19:46 via gamespot.com
  
  Brick by brick, Emmet fights the system.The LEGO Movie, released in 2014, was a runaway success at the time of its release, grossing close to half a billion dollars worldwide and spawning a film franchise that now includes two spinoffs: The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie. But beyond its jokes and bright animation, what makes the film endure is its deeper meta commentary about creativity and LEGOs themselves, about the joy of unstructured play, and the importance in breaking rules o
  
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• UN force says Israel-Lebanon border tunnels violate truce

  17-12-2018 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon said Monday that two of the four tunnels discovered by Israel and allegedly dug by the Hezbollah militant group cross the border in violation of the cease-fire agreement that ended the 2006 war.
  
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• Southwest Passenger Says She Was Forced To Leave Pet Fish At Denver Airport

  17-12-2018 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  A San Diego-area college student is accusing Southwest Airlines of forcing her
  
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• Why Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse's Comic Book Aesthetic Works So Well

  17-12-2018 19:24 via gamespot.com
  
  The first thing we see after the studio logos in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the "Approved by the comics code authority" stamp. This is not only a great Easter egg that comic book history buffs will understand, but also a subtle and great introduction to the kind of film you're about to see. You see, this is not just another movie about Spider-Man, or another movie about superheroes, but the closest we've ever come to a comic book truly coming to life. As GameSpot wrote in our review,
  
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• Revisiting Red Dead Online Live

  17-12-2018 19:19 via gamespot.com
  
  We jump back into Red Dead Online to see what the new updates have added and more.
  
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• Corbyn Proposes No-Confidence Motion in PM May: Brexit Update

  17-12-2018 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  After his office said first that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn would propose a no-confidence motion in May -- and then said that he didn’t need to because she’d announced a date for a vote -- he has now said he’ll propose such a motion immediately.This is a motion of no confidence in May, not in her government, so it’s not the type that could potentially trigger a general election.For that reason it has a greater chance of passing, as some Conservatives opposed to May&rsquo
  
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