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Does the New Swift Initiative Represent the Future of Travel?

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Does the New Swift Initiative Represent the Future of Travel?

It was Margaret Thatcher who was once reported to have opined that anyone who travelled by bus beyond the age of 26 could be considered as a failure in life, and this reflects both the nature of her tenure and the negative way in which public transportation was once perceived.

Buses and trains have evolved considerably during the last two decades, however, with the
emergence of touchscreen kiosks and smart technology playing a central role in this change.

Thanks to various collaborations between travel and technology brands, public transportation is now entering a brave new era.

The latest example has seen UK touchscreen kiosk company cammaxlimited.co.uk launch the ITSO SMART ticketing initiative at various points throughout the UK, as part of a six month pilot project that will change the nature of travel in Britain.

The ITSO SMART Initiative: Why and How Will it Change Public Transport in the UK?

Essentially, the new project has been launched to satisfy the rising demand for self-service retail points at train and bus stations nationwide. The initiative itself has been pioneered by Cammax in collaboration with Transport for West Midlands (TfWM), which is a vast and influential public authority that governs the organisation of travel in the UK.

At its heart are Swift Kiosks, the first of which has been in action at Wolverhampton Bus Station since April. These touchscreen and intuitive kiosks will offer an easy-to-use interface to travellers, while enabling them to access various products, tickers and travel cards that are relevant to their region.

These include Swift Pay As You Go tickets and season tickets for buses, trains and even trams. The Swift Kiosks will also offer access to multi-day travel passes and e-Daysavers, while passengers will have the unique opportunity to leverage any real-time promotions and regional discounts that are active at the time of purchase.

It will be possible for travellers to top-up their smart cards from these kiosks, establishing each one as a one-stop platform from which you can manage your trips and daily commute. The kiosks will also ensure that individual products and top-up services are available from 24-hours from physical locations, creating a more convenient and seamless experience for customers across the board.

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The Last Word for UK Travellers

There is no doubt that consumers are becoming increasingly accustomed to smart technology, and this is beginning to influence their expectations across a host of experiences and activities. In this respect, the launch of the ITSO SMART pilot and the installation of Swift kiosks in Wolverhampton have come at the ideal time, while creating an accessible and technology-led solution that can bring public transportation in the UK kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

With relevance for both existing and new customers, these new kiosks can serve multiple consumer needs at the touch of a button while contributing to a quicker, more efficient enjoyable travel experience. In conjunction with the Swift App, this should ultimately lead to higher levels of customer satisfaction and increase boarding times, ultimately easing the burden on operators in the process.

With the potential for further roll-outs and innovation throughout the year, this could be the beginning of a brand new dawn for travel in Britain.

Jacob Rees-Mogg: Soft Brexit Means No Brexit

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Jacob Rees-Mogg: Soft Brexit Means No Brexit

The meddling traitorous Remainers within the Conservative party as well as the Labour party are treacherously trying to derail Brexit.

The Brexit vote by the people on June 23, 2016, will probably not be delivered as there are many traitors in Britain who would gladly sell the country down the river to our enemies.

Britain’s enemies within

We have a Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, who puts a spanner in the works at every turn, we have numerous Remoaners, like Nicky Morgan who are given preference over real Brexiteers, like Jacob Rees-Mogg, and we have the treachery of former Labour PM, Tony Blair, sticking his foul stench into every part of the negotiations. The horrible reality is that this fucking traitorous anti-British shister, Hammond, might even take over from lame duck Theresa May.

The elements of treason are thus stronger than the Brexit contingent, who seem to have been sidelined in the political wilderness. Where is Nigel Farage? He spouts on LBC, but what can that do? In this hour of need, we do not need mere words, we need fucking action.

Where’s IDS? He does pop his head out sometimes with a good word to say about Brexit but is it enough?

What happened to Michael Gove? He unfortunately is a switcher, and goes from one end to another in a second. First he was for a Brexit, and now he is for a Soft Brexit, i.e. a Brexit in name only, and has even gone as far as to say he wants Labour to get involved in negotiations.

What happened to Boris Johnson? He has fled the parapet, and is now resolved to a cushy job of International flight, luxurious hotel rooms, and top totty delivered to his rooms after the day’s business has concluded. Brexit is thus furthest from his mind, as he digs in deep to the lovely dollies delivered to his door every night.

The only Brexiteer that is visible in parliament at the moment is Jacob Rees-Mogg, who has been left out by Theresa May and her Remainer team, but is surely a true contender to take over from the current ailing PM if there ever were a leadership contest.

Amongst all the mixed messages, the atrocious reportage by the main stream media amounting to nothing but Remoaner propaganda and Project Fear, there is a real fatigue building up about Brexit, and this fatigue is what the Remoaners are counting on.

Brexit fatigue must be fought with all our might if Britain is to get out of this unholy mess.

In the words of Rees-Mogg:

“Soft Brexit means remaining within the European Union, it means rejecting what voters said on June 23, 2016.

“It is just a code word they use because they don’t want to admit that they’re trying to punish the electorate.”

The Castration of Islam by Europe

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The Castration of Islam by Europe

 

“The Christian church now accepts homosexuality, transgenders, and all other facets of bestial behaviour originally condemned by the Holy Bible. The book of Christianity has been defiled by the progressive liberal clergies who see fit to add anything they wish with their socialist inclusive culture. The Christian church and religion is now overrun by sodomites, paedophiles and other satanic elements. What do you think we will do to Islam, who the EU and UK wishes to change, to subjugate, to alter in a Western way?” a Christian Arch Deacon, revealed in a recent communique about the role of Islam in the West.

The Syrian crisis has seen refugees coming from all over the Middle East into the EU zone. These millions of predominantly Islamic refugees bring with them a religion that is wholly incompatible with Western liberal values.

“In the West we drink alcohol, we eat pork flesh, we do not mutilate our genitals through circumcision or FGM, we enjoy drugs, adultery is accepted as a part of life, we enjoy pornography everywhere, our women dress scantily in public and are not ashamed of nudity and feminism is encouraged. We live in a Western promiscuous society where every sexual fetish is celebrated, where sodomites and lesbians have their own festivals, where transgenderism is seen as normal, we love debt, we have no morality when it comes to bombing countries where Muslim people live to take their resources and embed our forces deep in their territory.

“Your Islamic religion is against all of that, but our role is to subvert your religion, to Westernise it, to water it down so it will too become a reformed, rewritten liberal religion. We will use those who have come to Europe as examples, their core religion will be watered down Islam, let us say that all that is haram, will be permitted soon, and the Muslims in Europe now are subscribing in their millions to our version of the new European Islam.

“Today, the original Christian Ten Commandments are all permitted to be broken by the liberalised church, and so we have turned our eyes onto the Holy Quran. It will take some years, through the European mosques and through daily European indoctrination, but we will convert you to our ways sooner than later.”

Emasculation of Islam

The massive feat to change Islam so that all Western values are accepted may take many years, however Muslims who live in the West are targets for change day in day out and cannot escape from the constant indoctrination around them.

“It is akin to water dripping on a stone. That water droplet after centuries creates a large hole in the rock, and this is what we are doing to the Muslims trapped in the EU. Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor has seen it upon herself to mould the Muslims with progressive Christian socialist values. Already, there are many Muslims in Germany who are adopting full Western lives, including all the vices and evils prohibited by Islam.

“Within generations, Islam in Europe will be nothing but name, as the Quran itself will be altered to accept the things the Christians are accepting. The only part of Islam left in the world will be in Middle Eastern countries which are under conditions of perpetual war engineered by the Christian Western allies. Our role in the West is to change Muslims living in the West to adopt our ways, and we will do this through indoctrination over time, and to decimate Muslims living in the Middle East through war, so that their religion will not continue further.

“In the West today, those prescribing to the actual tenets of the Quran are the ones who are persecuted whilst those who seek to subvert Islam’s pure form are encouraged and given great publicity when doing so.”

In retrospect, there is cause for concern, as the Europeanised version of Islam, an extreme watered down liberalised religion is already flourishing in the West with gay Muslims getting married and many other vices forbidden by Islam flourishing. This does not bode well for a religion that is said to be cast in stone, and defended vigilantly by only a few remaining Muslims in the Middle East.

Top Tips to Consider When Renovating Your Home

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Top Tips to Consider When Renovating Your Home

Whether it’s fixing up a room or two around the house in creative ways or even taking on a much bigger project and overhauling your home entirely there is always something to do for the budding fixer-uppers out there. Thousands of homes up and down the country are either renovated or have extensions added each year in the UK so it’s clear that homeowners are always keen to carry out improvements and here are a few useful tips that should help keep you on the right track.

PICKING THE RIGHT PROJECT

One of the most crucial aspects of any project is often based on necessity. Is it a project
that needs carrying out? And if so, then what is the best way to approach it? If you’re
thinking of adding an extension to your home then try to weigh up all the options before
you rush into the job. Research the best way forward and look at other homes in the area
that may have already had extensions put in. Knowing all the relevant details and plans
relating to any restructuring of this kind is vital.

BUYING AND SELLING

If you happen to be buying or selling a property, especially if it’s an old house, it’s key to
fork out for a full structural survey and you can get some advice on how to go about
surveys via the impartial Money Advice Service. This survey could throw up a number of
things that would need to be addressed and could help guide you in how to proceed with
certain renovation-related tasks. This could include roof repair, upgrading the central
heating, rewiring the home or even taking care of more important structural concerns.

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SHOULD YOU REPAIR OR REPLACE?

If you’re are renovating a very old period property then the likelihood is that certain
things around the house will have fallen into disrepair over the years; this particularly
applies to windows and doors.

Many period homes have character features like sash windows and original French doors,
that can become damaged over time. The debate centres around whether or not these
should be restored or replaced and both options should be carefully considered.

It’s no secret that original features can add significant value to your home so unless it’s
unavoidable the best option would be to try and restore them. However, approach with
caution because if you attempt to fix problems yourself then you could cause further
damage.

The best approach would be to hire a specialist like fortishooke.co.uk who offer unique
sash window restoration services or you can find other restoration businesses online.

KEEPING PLANS REALISTIC

More often than not developers can often fall into the trap of over-planning and making
things too complicated. You may have ambitious plans but you need to keep things
realistic. Factor in budgetary requirements and take into consideration how this work
could affect your normal living situation in the home whilst work is being carried out.

How Is Virtual Reality Affecting the Gaming Industry?

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How Is Virtual Reality Affecting the Gaming Industry?

Moreover, this won’t just affect the gameplay of regular video games but is also expected to highly influence the online gambling world.

In fact, online casino play will feel the same as playing in a land-based casino with other players, and a dealer in front of you, except you’ll be at home wearing VR glasses. Many casino sites, like Simba Games UK, are already gearing up for the introduction of VR technology to the mass market that is set to completely change the online gambling industry (and probably hurt the brick and mortar casinos.)

But, before we scratch the surface of this topic, for those who are not familiar with Virtual Reality, here is a brief guide to the basics of this technology. So-called “Virtual Reality Modelling Language” (VRML) was first introduced to the world in 1994. Since then, the progress in this field had an amazing exponential growth, and today Virtual Reality is becoming an integral part of everyday life and activities.

A wide range of fields has already merged with it to improve or modify some components for achieving better results. For example, one can come across VR technology in healthcare and therapy managements, military, space and medical training, fine arts, engineering, etc.

How Virtual Reality Emerged With Gaming

Virtual Reality is currently side by side with the gaming industry and, part of the reason for this happening is that the VR industry tends to change the way how people interact with computers and different types of gaming consoles, which can be considered as a huge step forward in this interaction.

All current games involve the player on the one hand and the fictional main character on the other, who gets controlled by the player using a variety of control pads or sticks (commonly referred as joysticks).

But, in Virtual Reality, the player becomes that main character and gets immersed into the game. Through Research and Development (R&D), new and modern Virtual Realities are being tested and produced, that can stimulate our organism, influencing all our human senses, so a player completely becomes an integral part and the crucial component of the game itself.

The fact that tells the best how fast is the growing tempo of the VR technology is that the global Virtual Reality gaming market size was estimated at USD 4.29 Billion in 2015. That is a result of one of the newest trend in the electronic games industry – use of crowdfunding by start-ups in the VR for developing innovative software and accessories (for example Oculus VR, Sony’s Morpheus Project VR, etc.).

Gambling In the VR World

The progress of Virtual Reality didn’t bypass the online gambling industry, mostly because of the new way of interaction between a bettor and the gambling machine of any kind. In 2016, the Slots Million Casino company designed the first ever virtual casino. It quickly became one of its main attractions, since casino slots, as offered by Prime Slots, are by far the most popular online casino game.

Players who tried this VR casino had only positive impressions about how this technology makes gambling even more enjoyable. The brick and mortar casino experience is becoming more expensive.

Especially in Las Vegas, mega casino operators are trying to cut costs on the expense of the players, even cancelling the long standing Free Drinks policy, as explained in this article, it makes more sense to gravitate toward the virtual experience.

Still, there are benefits for the casino too. Several types of research have shown that players spend more time playing and tend to keep on playing more frequently with VR involved.

Are There Any Downsides?

And the last, but not the least, one ethical problem regarding the conjugation of Virtual Reality and gaming, is the common addiction problem. The very nature of today’s games is that they tend to be hyper-addictive, which is already a global issue. But, with the incorporation of the VR technology, according to some psychologists and scientists, as well as the actual research that is being conducted on some of the leading universities, this new trend can strengthen that dependency.

So the main question remains – will we tend to use Virtual Reality to enrich and to make games even more enjoyable, or will this perhaps take the wrong turn towards developing the new, stronger form of gaming addiction?

Summer Transfer Window: Top Flight Spending Dubbed to Reach New High

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Summer Transfer Window: Top Flight Spending Dubbed to Reach New High

We’ve seen some weird transfers in recent years, and this one seems no different! We have already seen a crazy number of big money moves, thus it is no surprise that the record for Premier League spending is set to be broken.​

We’ve seen Swansea star Gylfi Sigurdsson valued at £50million, with the Jacks rejecting a £30million bid from Everton. The Toffees are certainly reaping the rewards of having a new owner with Ronald Koeman having spent £90million. Then again, Everton did receive £90million from Manchester United for forward Romelu Lukaku. With this, Rafa Benitez cannot be blamed for describing the current window as “a little bit crazy”.

 

Spending in the Premier League has already exceeded the £500million mark since
the conclusion of the season. Last summer, a total of £1.165billion was spent, with
that figure rising to £1.38billion following the January window.

Hyper-inflation, according to football finance expert Rob Wilson, is partly to blame.
This is said to mean that anyone selling to an English club is adding at least 40%,
sometimes rising to 50%, to the deal. Now, a £30million transfer, such as that of
Jordan Pickford’s move from Sunderland to Everton, is said to be the new norm, or
at least that is the consensus of football agent Jon Smith.​
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Business analyst Deloitte released its annual football finances last week. Records revealed that revenues of an unprecedented £3.6billion Premier League clubs in 2015-2016 were recorded. Somewhat shockingly, this was the year just before that TV broadcasting rights kick in with their new and improved payments, now that figure is expected to total the £4.5billion mark. As well as this, overall debt is continuing to fall and in coming years, it is estimated that the 20 top flight clubs combined would accumulate a profit.

Ten years ago, summer spending was at £470million and that figure has now tripled, a stark indication of just how much football is growing. And this transfer window comes one year after the new TV deal kicked in, a deal worth £5.136billion and 71% more than the £3billion deal agreed in 2013. The following year after that initial deal, Lukaku made his move to Everton from Chelsea for £28million, ahead of his move to United, the forward’s fee increased some 168%. In the same year, Swansea signed Sigurdsson for an undisclosed fee, rumoured to be just shy of £7million and now, the Everton target is valued at £50million, an increase of 635%.

 

Because of the rise in broadcast rights, revenues are continuing to rise regularly. Now, every top flight club has more money and they are willing to spend that on new recruits. Already the wealthiest league in the world, with its value forever increasing, it becomes even more attractive to commercial partners and sponsors alike. So far this window, Premier League spending is around £500million and at the same point in the last window, it stood at £340million. After Lukaku, the second biggest fee is Alexandre Lacazette’s transfer to Arsenal, coming in at £46.5million with the potential to rise to £52.6million.

CNN Exclusive: Trump Had Dinner With Russians

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CNN Exclusive: Trump Had Dinner With Russians

Also, Trump’s son met with some Russians for a twenty minute meeting and talked about nothing much in particular.

With calls to impeach president Trump just because he met with some Russian business people over dinner in 2013, there is definitely a feeling of triumphalism amongst the left-wing American press, and democrat party.

“He had dinner with the Russkies in 2013. What more proof do you want that Donald Trump is working for the Russians and is a spy who flipped the elections,” one CNN reporter quipped during a newscast.

The U.S. media has been buzzing with the news for the last 48 hours with constant repetitive headlines about the Trump dinner.

“Yeah, it was in 2013. This proves that Trump and his sons are spying for Russia and rigged the election against Hillary Cliton,” another CNN reporter squawked.

One CNN reporter even went as far as to suggest that Trump had committed ‘treason’ for enjoying dinner with the Russians back in 2013.

“If he enjoyed eating the sushi whilst politely talking to the businessmen on an ongoing deal, that means it is treason and Trump should be impeached, arrested and put in the stockades.”

Next week: CNN finds Russian-made paperclip in Donald Trump’s trousers and calls for more treason proceedings.

End of Free Speech – Daily Squib Censored by Google Once Again

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End of Free Speech – Daily Squib Censored by Google Once Again

As the editor of the Daily Squib from day one, our first major article that went mega global was in 2008 during the famous Obama Vs Hillary Clinton presidential contest.

That article entitled ‘Ku Klux Klan Endorses Obama‘ was meant to portray a simmering in race relations, it was meant to portray a new beginning as even the racist KKK could indeed endorse a black man for president of the United States.

That article was meant to portray hope in a new America where African Americans could be accepted a lot better than before.

Today, we are in the year 2017, a rainy Tuesday the 11th in London, and it was much to my astonishment that I got a message from Google that one of our articles not only displayed ‘Hate Speech’ but derogatory terms and was sexually explicit.

Wondering what on earth could be so offending, the answer was unbelievable.

Here was an article that has been on the Google books for nearly ten years, and they are finding fault with it now?

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The ‘Ku Klux Klan endorses Obama’ article was so huge at the the time that the Daily Squib had to be transferred to three servers to cope with the load.

The story flew across America, and was all over radio stations, local tv networks, and even made it to Obama rallies where protesters held up placards proclaiming ‘Obama endorsed by KKK’.

The ‘Ku Klux Klan Endorses Obama’ article was even mentioned in our Wikipedia page, as it was cited by many respected news organisations including the Sunday Times.

Today is a sad day regarding the basic tenets of human expression, freedom of speech and satire. It is terribly sad to see that a company I thought championed intelligence, like Google, cannot understand simple satire, and has punished the Daily Squib needlessly for something that is an obvious misunderstanding. To take ten years to tell us that one of our key articles is a violation of your terms is in fact not only disingenuous, but wholly suspect in its nature, and malicious to boot.

This nefarious action can only be viewed as anti-satire and anti-free speech. Today is a very sad day…because it means that by threatening our livelihood, Google has the freedom to censor anything it wants at any time. This is not only a gross over reach in enforcing freedom of speech but is a profound injustice to decent human relations, self expression, art and satire.

This act by Google today is another nail in the coffin of internet freedom, not only because they have completely misunderstood the premise of the satirical article but they have threatened us with monetary punishment unless we take down the article.

We now live in a terrible dystopian Orwellian nightmare internet world where satirical content is constantly threatened unless it is deemed kosher and fruitless, thus not making it real satire in the first place. We live in a world today where we are ruled by overseeing stasi forces that answer to no one, make up rules as they wish, have no qualms in utilising unjust methods to shut down free independent speech.

quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Well done to you Google, you have taken your pound of flesh, you have exorcised the internet of one piece of satire which you completely misunderstood, and labelled incorrectly. Well done, we hope you are happy with yourselves, with your octopus grip over every facet of our lives, our every thought, our every movement.

Remember ‘do not be evil’..was that not your motto once, which you have since quietly scrapped?

One can only hope that one day something comes along to restore the internet to how it was before, to sweep away the pestilence and to cleanse the halls of the fermenting totalitarian corporate controlled detritus that is the internet today.

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Think Tank: G20 Violence Tolerated Because Leftwing

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Think Tank: G20 Violence Tolerated Because Leftwing

 

The neatly hoodied black rows of assorted communists, anarcho-communists, and Antifa legions all propped up in the same attire resembled feral rats all vying for position to collect a big crumb of cheese, or in their case a large dose of pepper spray.

The once quaint city of Hamburg was thus reduced to a smouldering rubble heap, as the VIPs and hangers on for the G20 conference found themselves in the middle of a war zone.

The strange part of the proceedings is that the communists, anarchists and Antifa legions are predominantly globalists, in the sense that they do not want borders for countries, much like the globalists in the G20 who oppose borders.

Certainly, it is true that our dear friend, George Soros funds many of the groups fighting in the streets of Hamburg, and as he probably attended the G20, one wonders what goes through his mind as he looks out the window seeing these black clad apes throwing Molotov cocktails about?

In retrospect, the media have been very kind to the rioters, and have calmly followed their every move in the pitch battles with police. There has been little said against the rioters, who are simply tolerated like unruly children. Had the rioters been right wing or dare we say nationalistic in their fervour, no doubt the headlines would have been less jocular, or uncaring.

To this end, it can be concluded that extreme violence and property damage from the left wing is okay. From any other group, towards the right, then there is cause for concern and the rioters are not tolerated in the least.

These are naturally double standards in rioting theory and should be corrected at some time in the future. Why is it fair for one side of the political spectrum to devastate a city, and for another side to be condemned for the tiniest protest?

EU Negotiator: “France Never Wanted to be Liberated in WW2”

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EU Negotiator: “France Never Wanted to be Liberated in WW2”

 

“I have a deep hatred for the British and Americans because they liberated France in WW2 from German occupation. We actually never asked to be liberated and still feel great resentment. This is why we are now so close to Germany, our eternal captors, who rule over us even after the end of the great war,” Barnier told Le Monde newspaper on Thursday.

Reminiscing about the good old days when troops of German Waffen SS marched up and down the Champs-Élysées, Barnier was only a child but he remembers those days with great affection in his heart.

“They would come and give us sweets, chocolate at school. Then they read out a list and some kids were taken away, I think they were Jewish, but I just thought to myself, hmmm, more chocolate for me,” Barnier recalled.

The German occupation of France was delightful for many French people, as the beloved Parisian architecture and boulevards were preserved from bombing, and the Nazis brought many luxury goods. The French collaborated with their captors with great ease, and this explains their endearing attitude towards Germany today. The two nations seem to be locked in some sort of sado-masochistic clinch that befuddles other allied nations.

Sir Winston Churchill envisaged a liberated Europe post war scenario where France and Britain led the new Europe, instead the French rejected Britain at every level and sided with their captors Germany. A sad detrimental partnership where the abused is gladly led by the abuser.

Much to the chagrin of liberators on August 25 1944, there were many French people who held a great resentment at being liberated by the American and British forces. It is a sad note that somehow explains the EU today, and how Britain, as much as it has done for France has always been shunned and denigrated.

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