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• Sept. 11 memorial motorcycle ride ending on a sour note

  14-08-2016 22:44 via krqe.com
  
  HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Leaders of a massive, annual motorcycle procession to the three Sept. 11 crash sites said this year’s fundraising ride, Aug. 19-21, will be their last.
  Ted Sjurseth, founder of the nonprofit America’s 911 Foundation, said he’s tired of battling Maryland and Virginia state police and highway agencies’ reluctance to block Washington-area traffic for 1,200 motorcycles.
  The agencies say they support Sept. 11 memorial events but must maintain safe
  
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• Updated: Declining energy sector jobs switching to solar power

  14-08-2016 22:41
  
  DENVER — A program is underway in Colorado to retrain people who lost their jobs in the coal or oil and gas industry so they can get the skills they need to install solar panels. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment gave a company based in Paonia on the Western Slope a $400,000 matching […]
  
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• Declining energy sector jobs switching to solar power

  14-08-2016 22:41
  
  DENVER — A program is underway in Colorado to retrain people who lost their jobs in the coal or oil and gas industry so they can get the skills they need to install solar panels. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment gave a company based in Paonia on the Western Slope a $400,000 matching […]
  
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• Eastbound Montgomery Boulevard reopens after crash

  14-08-2016 22:36
  
  Eastbound Montgomery Boulevard has reopened after a rollover crash closed the roadway, an Albuquerque Police Department spokesperson said.
  
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• Sen. Udall representatives hold office hours in Cuba

  14-08-2016 22:00
  
  Sandoval County residents who need help with issues related to federal agencies can touch base with a representative from U.S. Sen. Tom Udall’s office this week. The Udall Serving YoU office hours will be held from 8:30 to 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 16, at the Cuba Senior Citizens Center, 16 East Cordova St., Bldg. […]
  
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• Updated: Police: 2 Houston kids found dead under home; mom in custody

  14-08-2016 21:43
  
  HOUSTON — Two children were found dead under a neighbor’s house Sunday after their mother matter-of-factly told someone helping her move that she had drowned them in a bathtub, authorities said. The 30-year-old mother was in custody and not yet charged but “all indications are she is the one who acted alone” in the deaths […]
  
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• Rollover in NE Albuquerque sends 2 people hospital

  14-08-2016 21:33
  
  A rollover at Montgomery and Pennsylvania just before noon sent two people to the hospital.
  
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• Obama’s playlist earns rave reviews from DJs

  14-08-2016 21:25 via krqe.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — After he’s finished working in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama could find employment behind a pair of turntables.
  Obama’s summer playlist is earning praise from music tastemakers. The White House released the track listing Thursday during Obama’s family vacation. Several critics are boasting about the commander in chief’s attention to detail and diverse taste in tunes.
  “When I went through his playlist, I immediately wished we could
  
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• Updated: US men’s basketball edges France 100-97; Thompson scores 30

  14-08-2016 21:13
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Three wins from gold, and still no reason to think it will be easy for the U.S. men’s basketball team. Klay Thompson ended an Olympic-long slump with seven 3-pointers and 30 points, and the Americans needed almost all of them to hold off France 100-97 on Sunday. The U.S. won its […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Lochte describes robbery by armed men in Rio

  14-08-2016 21:13
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — The Latest on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local): 3 p.m. Ryan Lochte says armed robbers posing as policemen put a gun to his head and took his money in Rio de Janeiro. Lochte described the late-night encounter to NBC’s “Today” show. The U.S. swimmer, who won gold […]
  
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• Updated: Simone Biles dominates vault to win 3rd gold in Rio

  14-08-2016 21:13
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Simone Biles’ golden run in Rio is picking up steam. So, surprisingly, is Great Britain’s. Biles added a third gold medal to her rapidly rising haul on Sunday, easily capturing the women’s vault final. The 19-year-old helped the “Final Five” to team gold and also dominated the all-around competition last week, […]
  
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• Updated: Matz’s no-hit bid for Mets broken up in 8th inning by Padres

  14-08-2016 21:12
  
  NEW YORK — Steven Matz’s no-hit bid for the New York Mets was broken up in the eighth inning Sunday on a one-out single by San Diego’s Alexei Ramirez. The rookie left-hander was lifted by manager Terry Collins immediately after Ramirez slapped a sharp single the other way just inside first base. The ball appeared […]
  
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• APD searching for driver involved in three-vehicle crash

  14-08-2016 20:43
  
  The Albuquerque Police Department are searching for a hit-and-run driver that caused a three vehicle crash Saturday night on San Pedro near Central, police said.
  
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• Usain Bolt tells parents he’s ready to race on Sunday

  14-08-2016 20:35 via krqe.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The health of Usain Bolt has been a question as the showman enters his final Olympics nursing a sore hamstring.
  His parents paid him a brief visit in the athletes village and insisted Friday he’s ready to run and defend his gold medals.
  Wellesley and Jennifer Bolt both inquired about their son’s health in their Thursday night visit with the sprinter. Bolt pulled out of his national championships last month because of the hamstring injury, but has insisted
  
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• Rollover crash shuts down Montgomery Blvd.

  14-08-2016 20:35
  
  The Albuquerque Police Department is investigating a rollover crash that currently has eastbound Montgomery Boulevard shut down at Pennsylvania Street.
  
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• Rollover at Montgomery and Pennsylvania halts traffic

  14-08-2016 20:26 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A rollover vehicle crash has caused eastbound Montgomery to be shut down at Pennsylvania.
  Police are on scene at the accident and investigating. They said the accident involved two vehicles, a car and a truck, and may be a result of driver error. Two people were transported to the hospital, one of which is the driver of the car. Alcohol does not appear to be a factor.
  Police said the road will open as soon as the crash is cleared.
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• Arizona court rejects tribe’s appeal in girl’s adoption case

  14-08-2016 19:48
  
  PHOENIX — A state appeals court has ruled that Arizona’s Gila River Indian Community acted too late in trying to intervene in the adoption of a Native American girl to a non-Native American couple, with a move that would have shifted custody proceedings to its own tribal court. The tribe had aimed to transfer the […]
  
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• Hostess launches “Deep Fried Twinkies” as first frozen treat

  14-08-2016 19:47 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The deep-fried Twinkie is jumping from the state fair to the home freezer.
  Hostess Brands is launching packaged “Deep Fried Twinkies” starting Friday that mark its first foray into frozen foods.
  The cream-filled snack in vanilla or chocolate is the result of a yearlong collaboration between Hostess and Wal-Mart, as both companies look to spark food sales with innovative products. Hostess says the Twinkie is a bigger business now than even right before the compan
  
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• Albuquerque family wants to share grief, help promote change

  14-08-2016 19:45
  
  An Albuquerque family is in mourning, they want people to see their grief and the reason for that grief.
  
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• Updated: Ryan Lochte, 3 other US swimmers robbed by armed men in Rio

  14-08-2016 19:22
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Ryan Lochte and three other American swimmers were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday by thieves posing as police officers who stopped their taxi and took their money and belongings, the U.S. Olympic Committee said. In the latest security incident to hit the Rio de Janeiro Games, Lochte told NBC that one […]
  
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• Ryan Lochte, 3 other US swimmers robbed by armed men in Rio

  14-08-2016 19:22
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — The U.S. Olympic Committee says Ryan Lochte and three other American swimmers were robbed by armed men who stopped their taxi. USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky says Lochte and the others left the French Olympic team’s hospitality house early Sunday in a taxi headed for the athletes village, hours after the last […]
  
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• Friends call imam slaying a hate crime; cops say no motive

  14-08-2016 19:22 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The daylight slaying of a mosque leader and his associate set off fear and anguish among the Bangladeshi Muslim community in a New York City neighborhood and some say the killings appear to be an anti-Muslim hate crime.
  But police say there is no evidence of that so far a day into the investigation.
  Mashuk Uddin just couldn’t believe it was true, shaking as he heard the news that his brother, Thara, a devout Muslim, had been gunned down alongside an imam just blocks f
  
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• Body of swimmer found in Lake Waxahachie

  14-08-2016 19:18
  
  WAXAHACHIE, Texas — Authorities say the body of a swimmer has been recovered after he went underwater a day earlier in Lake Waxahachie. A spokeswoman for the city of Waxahachie, located about 30 miles south of Dallas, says the swimmer’s body was recovered Sunday morning. She says after the man was seen going underwater Saturday, […]
  
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• 3 years into nation’s hemp experiment, crop’s future is hazy

  14-08-2016 18:32 via krqe.com
  
  PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Three years into the nation’s hemp experiment, a 20-acre farm in southern Colorado exemplifies the crop’s hazy potential.
  Hemp could be enormously profitable, but right now there are just as many questions as answers for Will and Ally Cabaniss, two Florida natives who moved to southern Colorado to embark on the hemp business.
  “Every day brings something new and different,” said Will Cabaniss, holding up a red plastic cup containing a hemp seedli
  
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• Mom who fought for her son remembers Jonah’s journey

  14-08-2016 18:02 via krqe.com
  
  KENTWOOD, Mich. (WOOD) — If a person’s existence is measured by the lives they touch then Jonah Puruleski’s three months was a lifetime, indeed.
  Jonah’s Journey lasted for 99 days and it was documented on Facebook by his mother, Heather who stayed by his side away from her home, her job and her three other children who were cared for by their father — Greg — a state away.
  “I’d do it all over again,” said Heather. “I had three wonderful
  
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• Rio Rancho mayor picks new District 5 councilor

  14-08-2016 18:00
  
  Mayor picks Flor as District 5 councilor RIO RANCHO — Jennifer Flor has been selected by Mayor Gregg Hull to fill the District 5 City Councilor vacancy, the city announced Friday. Flor’s appointment requires Governing Body confirmation, which Hull will seek at the body’s Aug. 24 meeting, the city said. “Flor will bring to this […]
  
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• US announces plans to protect rare Colorado, Utah birds

  14-08-2016 17:29 via krqe.com
  
  DENVER (AP) — Federal land managers announced long-awaited plans to protect the rare Gunnison sage grouse, a bird found only in Colorado and Utah.
  The Bureau of Land Management released a nearly 1,000-page document late Thursday proposing restrictions on energy development, roads and grazing.
  The proposals include closing or limiting the use of some areas during the birds’ mating season, from mid-March to Mid-May, and during harsh winter weather. That could affect exploration for oil
  
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• Wisconsin man fatally shot by police in traffic stop

  14-08-2016 16:37 via krqe.com
  
  Baton Rouge, La. (AP) – Community volunteers have turned out to clean up after violent protests ransacked a north Milwaukee neighborhood following a police shooting.
  Two to three dozen people are sweeping and picking up debris Sunday morning around a BP gas station that was burned and largely destroyed near the intersection at the center of the violence Saturday night.
  Darlene Rose, who is 31, says she understands the anger that sparked the protests but that violence won’t solve anyt
  
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• Ofc. Chavez’s family gathers for candlelight vigil

  14-08-2016 16:31 via krqe.com
  
  HATCH, N.M. (KRQE) – A dream job ended far too early for Ofc. Jose Chavez. His family said he dreamed of being a police officer since he was a boy.
  “I can’t believe it yet,” said Chavez’s sister, Patricia Ramirez. “I keep hoping that they’ll tell us this isn’t real and we miss him a lot.”
  The 33-year-old leaves two daughters.
  Saturday night, hundreds gathered outside the Hatch Police Department for a candlelight vigil to remember the off
  
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• Studies shine light on mysterious placenta, how it goes awry

  14-08-2016 16:19 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists carefully probe a placenta donated after birth, bluish umbilical cord still attached. This is the body’s most mysterious organ, and inside lie clues to how this giver of life forms — and how it can go awry, leading to stillbirth, preterm birth, even infections like the Zika virus that somehow sneak past its protective barrier.
  In labs around the country, major research is underway to finally understand and monitor this floppy, bloody tissue that&rsq
  
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• Updated: Southwest Louisiana also bracing for flooding

  14-08-2016 16:16
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. — The Latest on flooding in the Deep South (all times local): 9:20 a.m. In southwest Louisiana, the Mermentau (MER-men-tow) River is expected to rise 3 feet or more above the levees in Lake Arthur, a city of about 2,700. Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff Ivy Woods is advising residents to pack up […]
  
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• Updated: Official says 5,000+ Louisianans in shelters

  14-08-2016 16:16
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. — The Latest on flooding in the Deep South (all times local): 11:25 a.m. A government official says that 5,050 people are currently staying in shelters due to the widespread flooding that has struck the state. The Department of Children & Family Services Secretary Marketa Garner Walters said Sunday that the people […]
  
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• Updated: Gov. says cell phone outages cause ‘problem’

  14-08-2016 16:16
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. — The Latest on flooding in the Deep South (all times local): 12:15 p.m. Louisiana’s governor says cellphone service outages are affecting rescuers’ ability to communicate with residents asking for help — and with each other. Gov. John Bel Edwards said Sunday that it “does present a problem.” The governor says an […]
  
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• Updated: Flooding stands drivers for nearly a day

  14-08-2016 16:16
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. — The Latest on flooding in the Deep South (all times local): 9 a.m. Widespread flooding in Louisiana has stranded motorists for nearly a day on Interstate 12. Alex Cobb of Baton Rouge says she has been stuck since around 11 a.m. Saturday morning. Reached by telephone Sunday, she said she was […]
  
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• Updated: Flooding forces Salvation Army evacuations

  14-08-2016 16:16
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. — The Latest on flooding in the Deep South (all times local): 1 p.m. The Salvation Army in Louisiana is evacuating people from a temporary shelter and their headquarters after floodwaters got into the building in Baton Rouge. Captain Brett Meredith says the headquarters on Sunday now hold 6 to 7½ feet […]
  
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• Metal rod causes six-vehicle accident on I-40

  14-08-2016 16:15 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE)– Police say a metal rod on the road causes a six-vehicle accident overnight.
  It happened Sunday around midnight on I-40 near Carlisle.
  Medics took one driver to a nearby hospital. Their condition is unknown. Everyone else involved in the crash was not hurt.
  Police closed off the area and reopened it around 2 a.m. Sunday.
  KRQE will update provide more details as they are made available.
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• Updated: Milwaukee officials call for calm after unrest over shooting

  14-08-2016 16:14
  
  MILWAUKEE — Simmering anger over the fatal shooting of a man by police erupted in violence on Milwaukee’s predominantly black north side, with protesters skirmishing with officers over several hours and setting fire to at least four businesses in an outburst the mayor says was fed by social media. The uprising that broke out Saturday […]
  
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• Mosque leader, one other shot and killed in Queens

  14-08-2016 16:13 via krqe.com
  
  QUEENS, N.Y. (KRQE)- New York City Police are searching for the man who fatally shot the leader of a mosque and his friend as they left afternoon prayers.
  Police say 55-year-old Imam Maulama Akonjee and 64-year-old Thara Uddin were fatally shot by someone who approached them from behind, at their mosque in Queens, Saturday afternoon.
  “I am deeply sadden to say that a lot of what’s behind this crime and other hate crimes that have happened to American Muslims is the anti-Muslim rhetor
  
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• Toxicologist on cancer warnings: State acted despite science

  14-08-2016 15:05 via krqe.com
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Officials in North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory’s administration are telling a string of misleading half-truths about the safety of well water containing a cancer-causing chemical near Duke Energy coal ash pits, a veteran state toxicologist said Wednesday, and he charged that they are the ones responsible for any resulting fear and confusion.
  Toxicologist Ken Rudo’s comments in a statement issued through his attorney came a day after high-ranking state environ
  
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• Tiny fish behind Rio Grande water plan

  14-08-2016 08:05
  
  More than 19 miles of the Rio Grande dried up in July along the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge so ...
  
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• Shutdown leaves teen addicts scrambling for help

  14-08-2016 08:05
  
  Turquoise Lodge was only inpatient detox center for young people
  
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• If walls could talk: Stories help keep history of Fort Union alive

  14-08-2016 08:05
  
  Copyright © 2016 Albuquerque Journal FORT UNION NATIONAL MONUMENT – There’s not much left of the walls of old Fort Union and wooden braces resist the final surrender of some that survive. Piles of red-brown adobe rock lie here and there, sad testaments to failed efforts to fight back the tireless onslaught of time and […]
  
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• Explore the 15 NPS properties in NM

  14-08-2016 08:05
  
  Yellowstone, America's first national park, was created in 1872 by way of an act of Congress and the ...
  
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• Death camp survivors learned to transcend evil

  14-08-2016 08:05
  
  The only alternative is to surrender
  
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• Rio Rancho Football hungry for a state title in 2016

  14-08-2016 07:40 via krqe.com
  
  RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE)- Two years ago the Rio Rancho Ram Football team took home the first ever Class 6-A Football State Title. Injuries and three bad games at the end of the season last year prevented the Rams from competing for a second consecutive title and that’s something that this team is using as motivation.
  “The season itself, it kind of left them with a sour taste in their mouth and they have used that as their motivator on a daily basis to just get back to where we be
  
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• Village left heartbroken by Hatch officer’s murder

  14-08-2016 07:37 via krqe.com
  
  HATCH, N.M. (KRQE) – Hundreds came out to a vigil held Saturday night in honor of murdered Hatch police officer Jose Chavez.
  Among those in attendance, the village’s police chief, its mayor and Ofc. Chavez’s family.
  “I can’t believe it yet,” said Chavez’s sister Patricia Ramirez. “I keep hoping that they’ll tell us this isn’t real and… we miss him alot.”
  Officer Chavez was shot in the neck during a traffic st
  
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• Benefit, information fair held for victims of Dog Head Fire

  14-08-2016 07:29 via krqe.com
  
  TIJERAS, N.M. (KRQE) – Two months after a massive wildfire that devastated neighborhoods in the East Mountains, a community is still pulling together to help each other recover. Saturday a benefit was held for those most in need by neighborhood store owners.
  “It’s very important because they’re our neighbors,” said Ernest Gonzales, owner of the Ten Points General Store in Tijeras. “It was horrible, they’ve lost their land, they&r
  
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• Store near the dog head burn scar still helping those that lost everything

  14-08-2016 07:28
  
  The heartache is far from over for so many families who lost their homes in the dog head fire, and two months later those families are still trying to put the pieces back together.
  
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• 1 person stabbed Saturday afternoon, suspect in custody

  14-08-2016 07:27
  
  The Albuquerque Police Department is reporting a stabbing near the 6100 block of Osuna Ave. this afternoon, Aug. 13.
  
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• NM YAFL celebrates 50th anniversary

  14-08-2016 07:05 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQU, N.M. (KRQE)- New Mexico YAFL celebrated their 50th anniversary on Saturday at Bull Head Park in Albuquerque. It was an event that celebrated the past 49 years of this leagues existence, and the future.
  “They had a vision to bring a league to Albuquerque and we continue to honor that league and make it grow and continue to be strong”, said 2016 YAFL President Chad Whitaker.
  The numbers of kids joining YAFL has remained the same coming into this season, even with all the re
  
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