In Honor of Epstein's "Suicide"...

A repeat post:

Pizzagate Rabbithole: Who Feeds The Pigs?

By Professor Doom

     A recent “suicide” leads me to write again of things besides higher education, and seeing as it’s Friday, let’s have a little thought experiment:

Mark Salling committed suicide and his cause of death was asphyxia by hanging, coroner’s report reveals

     This is the second Glee actor to commit suicide. This particular guy was under investigation for pedophilia, and was mere days away from providing a list of names regarding how he got his pictures and stuff. Man, what a lucky break for those other pedophiles. In following these types of stories, I see these kinds of lucky breaks where people commit suicide right before testifying against the bad guys happen often.

It had earlier been revealed that the man's corpse had been found in a riverbed.

     Wait…what? Apparently, after hanging himself, he decided to take a walk, eventually coming to a riverbed where, realizing he was dead, he stopped. And, yet, this is a suicide. I’m not a doctor, but my understanding of how death works is you generally don’t go for walks after you die. But since it’s ruled a suicide, there won’t be much of a murder investigation.

      The site I’m quoting from doesn’t allow comments, so I can’t get a feel for how other readers are buying this story, but I do find myself wondering just how many times the public will get the “we’re calling this a suicide and there’s nothing you can do it about because we’re the law…IN YOUR FACE!” line before a large segment of the public outright riots at the insult to their collective intelligence.

     I have a different sausage to fry today, if you’ll forgive the mangled metaphor.

He was arrested in December 2015 and was found to have downloaded more than 50,000 images and videos of child abuse to his computer and another 4,000 on his flash drive.

    The gentle reader should understand that this “suicide right before turning state’s evidence” is very common, so common that it’s very difficult to understand why these important witnesses to horrific crimes are not provided some measure of protection…almost as though those who should be providing that protection are the same as those who keep deciding these are suicides are the same as those who are involved in the crimes, somehow.

     Ok, that’s a little conspiratorial and it’s considered bad form to do much beyond worship law enforcement, so let’s just call the consistently strange suicides and consistent lack of prudent protection coincidental.

     So, enough theorizing, let’s consider a quantitative detail:

…50,000 images…

     The above is the part that I want to address. In many pedo cases, the suspect is found to have tens of thousands of pedophilic pictures and videos on his computer.

     Tens of thousands. Even the most famous porn stars with long careers only have hundreds of videos, and one would suspect the career of a child in this situation to be very brief.

     This suicide had a typical stash compared to other, similar arrests, and it’s a safe bet that he didn’t have a complete collection of every single pedo pic/video in existence.

    Maybe it’s just a wild conspiracy theory about the suicides, but you don’t produce tens of thousands of videos from some guy with a Polaroid camera molesting his kid in a garage. You don’t distribute tens of thousands of videos by word of mouth, selling one copy at a time in the alley behind the adult bookstore.

     It’s very, very clear that there must be an infrastructure, a large and professional industry, manufacturing and distributing these. Now, in order for tens of thousands of these things to be manufactured and distributed, you must get a large supply of child victims. Where are they getting the kids?

According to the FBI, in 2016 there were 465,676 NCIC entries for missing children. Similarly, in 2015, the total number of missing children entries into NCIC was 460,699.

     Now, only a fool takes government numbers at face value. The above numbers are almost certainly inflated—a kid runs away twice in the same year, and you have two reports, for example. Many of the above are likely “kidnapped” by family members in court disputes…there are many reasons for a missing person report that don’t have anything to do with the sex industry. Let’s get a better feel for what’s going on:

Of the nearly 25,000 runaways reported to NCMEC in 2017, one in seven were likely victims of child sex trafficking. Of those, 88 percent were in the care of social services when they went missing.

--hmm, 88% of child trafficking sex victims are provided by the same government that determines the suicides of people about to turn state’s evidence. A coincidence, I’m sure.

     So here was have a “small” sample of about 25,000 runaways, and over 3,000 of them were likely involved in sex trafficking, and that’s just in one year. So, absolutely we have enough kids right here in this country.

      These pics and videos were on the computer so almost certainly relatively recent. That said, for there to be tens of thousands of such videos, it’s safe to assume it’s been going on for years.

    I think it likely many of these sorts of pics and videos were created in the last 5 years, or at least have been around for 5 years, and with thousands of kids involved, we should have loads of witnesses, victims of this sick sex industry, who have aged into adulthood, or at least too old to be of much value to the pedo-industry.

     But we don’t have nearly so many survivors. Oh, there are a few people saying they were victimized by a system when they were children…but I could find only a handful when poking around online. There should be thousands. I don’t reckon they all commit suicide, but I’ve been to enough rodeos to guess the physical status of these victims who are telling no tales.

     Where might the bodies go? We’re talking thousands of victims here, I just don’t accept someone’s digging many graves or burning them all. Simply dumping them randomly in the countryside or ocean just wouldn’t work, as those bodies would turn up eventually (we already regularly find bodies in the woods, and body parts washing ashore)…and we’re talking thousands here, with no reports of a bunch of kid’s bodies found in the woods or at low tide.

     Let’s summarize:

First, it’s absolute fact that pedos are being caught with large quantities of pedophilic material, so large that there must be industrial level production of that material.

Second, we’re missing so many kids that it’s quite reasonable, and supported by data, to assume that thousands of them are involved in the industrial level production of that material.

Third, this has been going on long enough, with enough kids involved, that we should have hundreds, more likely thousands, of victims, if they were alive, coming forward to say they were victimized.

Fourth, we don’t even have dozens of victims coming forward.

      We definitely have an industry, we definitely have thousands of victims. The most straightforward explanation for the lack of living witness is they aren’t living any more so, again, where might the bodies be?

Some Hot Dogs, Sausages Studied Contain Human DNA, Says New Report

     The above report made the rounds a few years ago, and the evidence was passed off as “skin flakes.” Yeah, maybe. If this explanation held true, then we’d have similar studies for chicken and beef.

    We don’t. And the bodies are disappearing somehow.

     Now, hot dogs and sausages are ground up meat, typically pig meat, so it’s possible that the meat packing plants are part of a big conspiracy here—the workers would absolutely notice a shipment of dead kids coming in to be made into sausages. Besides, the percentages found were pretty low…I don’t buy this.

     But the bodies are disappearing somehow. How else might human DNA be getting into our sausages and hot dogs? Cows and chickens have no real chance of eating human beings, but pigs might…maybe it’s just coincidence that we’re only finding human DNA in pig meat products.

      Can pigs really eat humans?

Hungry hogs eat Oregon farmer in grisly scene

…the swine — weighing about 700 pounds each — may have knocked Garner down, overwhelming him before killing him, authorities said….

     Most people think of pigs as cute little pink things waddling around, but they can easily grow quite large. They’re quite capable of eating vulnerable humans, and there are a number of criminal examples of bodies being fed to pigs.

14 lactating sows would be enough to disappear a grown man in an hour or two.

-theoretically, I hope. From the above estimate, you’d only need around 50 pigs to get rid of a 1,000 bodies a year.

     Now, obviously this is all speculation on my part, and, sure, Pizzagate investigators have made similar guesses:

What do Alefantis, Pig Farms and Podesta all have in common?

     Now, absolutely, it’s possible that mainstream media is right about Pizzagate just being a huge hoax—considering how many things they’ve been dead wrong about, I concede they’ve got to be right about something, at some point.

      But I again want to look at the big picture. There must be a huge industry, there must be thousands of victims, these victims are disappearing. It’s clearly possible to check to see if a pig has been eating humans, and it’s clearly possible that one way to get rid of a human corpse is to feed it to pigs. It seems prudent to check the pigs.

      We have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend on the Trump-Russia collusion investigation. Mainstream media assures me repeatedly this collusion is not a hoax, despite the lack of evidence or even coherent arguments explaining why this collusion must exist.

      On the other hand, we have evidence and a reasonable argument to lead us to believe that a huge industry exists which kills off large numbers of children…why is there no money to investigate the pig farms and see if anything can be found?

      Something worries me even more. I’m not particularly bright, I managed to connect the dots of “40,000 pics/videos,” “thousands of victims,” and “insufficient living witnesses” to arrive at “where are the bodies?”…and yet we have police detectives and Federal investigators by the tens of thousands across this country.

      Why have none of them been able to see that there’s something wrong on a large scale here? Are they the same ones that keep telling us a man can hang himself and then go for a walk?

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Old White Male Professor Advises College-Bound

By Professor Doom



     I don’t go to American Thinker often, but a recent post there from an “old white professor” has some good advice…though I have a bit to add.


Advice to the College-Bound from the Old, White Professor




     While the advice is good, the professor here doesn’t realize that most battles are decided before the first drop of blood is drawn…what I mean in this case is that picking the right school is most important, and the advice flows from that. 


      Since he doesn’t give that advice, allow me to do so: don’t go to an expensive school unless your family is so rich they can pay for it. Yes, graduates from expensive schools tend to get higher paying jobs and that’s why kids are told getting a loan is a good idea, but bottom line, those higher paying jobs invariably go to the well connected (i.e., the people rich enough to send their kids to such schools without going into debt). 


       So, there’s my advice that trumps everything else: go to a school you can afford. That’ll keep you out of more trouble than anything the old white professor has to say. If you’re not academically inclined (which is why you should take the SAT/ACT even if the college doesn’t require it, so you can know this), seriously consider learning a trade. Even if don’t go into debt, spending a few years learning about things you don’t care about isn’t going to help you anyway.


       Let’s get to his advice:


Nearly all college experiences begin with a series of orientation sessions. Most start with the assumption that you are the cursed offspring of a flawed society. You come to college not to be educated but to be reeducated.




     The above isn’t really advice, but reinforces my idea: if you’re going to a school like this, you’ve probably already lost the battle. In “the olden days” orientation was just an afternoon learning where everything on campus was, but for many campuses, ideology is everything and orientation has blossomed (wilted?) into preliminary re-education.


The brainwashing will begin in orientation but will not end there. If you live in a dormitory, there will be required sensitivity sessions run by minions from the office of residence life.




       Once again: if you’re living in a dorm where you’re subjected to indoctrination every day…you’ve already lost. I really don’t recommend dorm life if any other option is available. Not only are you trapped into indoctrination, you’re also trapped into the paying exorbitant college expenses. 


      Additionally, in my time on campus, I saw more students than I can count also get trapped into the drinking/partying culture on campus, because they can’t leave the dorms where the culture incubates. So, live off campus if you can, and parents be advised that administration has long abandoned their responsibility to the students, and so parents cannot expect their kids to be safe from corrupting influences in a dorm on campus—in fact, they’ll likely be exposed to more than if they lived on the streets around campus.


Many of you will be compelled…to complete a multicultural requirement. These courses are compulsory because no rational person would sit through them.




        Yet again, if you’re on a campus where you’re forced to do this…you’ve likely already failed to select an appropriate school. Yes, universities have always had mandatory courses, but those courses provided a foundation for further education. Even if that were not the case, some rational people will sit through a course in calculus, or Western history, or physics, or quite a few other courses willingly…but only a lunatic or deep ignoramus would willingly take “Gender Studies” at this stage, because the insanity of what goes on there is too well known.


…invoke a stereotype about black people based on their high crime and recidivism rate, and you will be admonished that to brush all black people with a single brush -- especially without context -- is racist. To characterize all white people as racists, however, is not a stereotype but an intellectual incision.




      The issue in the above isn’t merely that you’ll hear the above from “that one guy” in the department, but that there are whole departments now where “that one guy” is instead the one who realizes hypocrisy is a thing and was therefore fired, and so students will instead hear the above in course after course after course with no alternative point of view presented or allowed.


In these classes, you will never say that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was the product of Africans who shifted the trans-Saharan slave trade westward. You will never point out that two African potentates, King Tegesibu of Dahomey and King Alvare of the Congo, were among the wealthiest men in the known world, having gotten rich by selling slaves.




      And the above kills the whole “whites are responsible for slavery” in a single paragraph and a link…but the old white professor here is railing a bit too much against this madness on campus.  Where’s the advice?


It is not that the administration doesn’t know what goes on in these classes, but to intercede would result in charges of racism and violation of so-called academic freedom. If you complain, your grade will crash to the floor.




     Well, finally, some advice: don’t complain about the indoctrination, because your grade is a function of how well you can show you’re indoctrinated. Good advice, but once again you really want to avoid going to such classes in the first place.



If you regurgitate this view of the world, apologize for being white, and check your white male privilege, you will do fine.




     Good advice, again, but I’ll better it, yet again: you can easily get the degree program requirements from your school. Before setting foot on campus, see if the mandatory courses are “math, English, science, history” or “gender studies, African studies, child sexuality, Whites are the problem.” If the mandatory courses are like the latter, avoid the campus. I know, it’s usually not that easy, but you could also check out the faculty teaching those lower level courses; if they all have Education degrees, then once again that’s a hint you need to walk away.


       I guess this advice would have better been given six months ago when kids usually start applying to colleges, so I respect that if you’ve already lost, already find yourself on a converged campus, the old white professor has the right of it.


You can get the same politically correct, meaningless education at your local community college for less than a third the money and without the student loan debt. Unless, you have secured entrance to an elite school, the first two years of undergraduate requirements are indistinguishable from the courses in a good suburban high school.




     The professor gives the above advice in the context of getting a job unloading boxes of soap, and I do agree with him that a community college education is sufficient for that, usually. 


     The old white professor finishes with advice I can’t top, and so I yield to him the last word:


If you are an average student, uninterested in participating in a learning environment that will harass you because of your race and was built on the model of the 19^th-century German university, consider trade schools. A certified mechanic is far more in demand than a liberal arts graduate.




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USC Collapsing Under Scandals

By Professor Doom



      Our “leaders” in higher ed have had a blank check for decades, literally able to do whatever they want as long the student loan money kept pouring in. The kind of corruption this has led to is breathtaking, and I assure the gentle reader that the horrific activities at Penn State, the intergenerational fraud at UNC, and widespread systemic plundering of student loan money are really just data points here, and should not necessarily be viewed at outliers.


      Granted, I suspect our obviously corrupt FBI, obviously corrupt CIA, obviously corrupt law enforcement system, obviously corrupt defense department, and, heck, obviously corrupt wide swaths of our government are hardly doing any better. Perhaps if Epstein isn’t suicided we’ll finally get a real peek inside just how foul that system is, but I digress.


      A recent cascade of scandals at University of Southern California highlights just how much can go on in one campus, and the article I’m quoting from misses a few as well as not quite understanding the implications of the exposures. Let’s get it on:

This month, the University of Southern California paid the University of California, San Diego, $50 million and apologized for poaching its faculty.

      Only two sentences, but plenty to unpack in the above.


      First, it’s hard to believe “poaching faculty” is a thing, but if it is, our schools constantly raise tuition because they keep telling us they have no money. But there’s money for poaching faculty?


       Second, if there’s no money, how does the school have a spare $50 million laying around to pay for their transgression, against only one other schools?


      Third, and most critical, why is this even a problem worthy of a fine? Schools “poach” coaches away from each other all the time, it’s part of why the school coach can easily make 7 figures or more, and even Poo-Bahs find themselves being “taken” by other schools. Since when did universities become a cartel where they’re not allowed to bid on faculty like everything else?


      Moving on:


In July 2017, the Los Angeles Times published a jaw-dropping story about the dean of USC’s Keck School of Medicine that involved drugs, prostitutes and criminal behavior.




       The interested reader can click the link but this is just run-of-the-mill stuff, although I point out that, as faculty, I need a pretty much spotless record to get even an entry-level position in academia. But for some reason a Dean can score a $150k a year job despite a record more spotted than my lungs.


The person who replaced the medical school dean was removed for disreputable behavior.




     Replace the scummy dean and you get…another vermin. Why is it that our “leaders” in higher ed are so disreputable?




 A doctor was alleged to have molested nearly 100 young women.




      It isn’t, of course, that the doc molested 100 young women, it’s the very clear evidence of a cover-up, because you can’t get to 100 without at least a few complaints. This is the thing I’m really getting at here, is the whole leadership is corrupted.


The dean of the school of social work allegedly participated in a pay-to-play scheme with a politician and his son, running up a $40 million deficit.




       Our country is bogged down with “open admission” schools, but everyone with half a brain (perhaps 20% of the country?) knows these schools are rip offs. It’s quite fascinating how the big push to make higher education available to “everyone” has only forced the price of legitimate education to rise dramatically, even as the fake education “everyone else” gets also rises dramatically.


And an administrator and three coaches in the athletic department received bribes to help unqualified students gain admittance to the university.




       Granted, this is “the admissions scandal” which I’ve already mentioned a few times, but it’s funny that apparently there’s no scandal USC can not find itself involved.


In another series of embarrassing incidents, the interim president replaced the business school dean for his alleged failure to monitor sexual harassment -- and then encountered dozens of business leaders rallying to the dean’s defense. A member of the Board of Trustees even hired a lawyer to help the dean sue the university. When the chair of the board scolded the trustee, other members reprimanded the chair. The faculty publicly rebuked the board, and in turn, a trustee criticized the faculty as a know-nothing mob.




      Again I feel the need to explain what the immense fustercluck being described above really indicates. USC is incredibly, deeply, corrupt. It’s so corrupt that there isn’t one faction ruling over it all, there are multiple incredibly corrupt factions running incredibly corrupt schemes on this campus, so many that there’s no way to untangle the mess. This is a real “nuke it from orbit” situation, as there’s simply no reason to suspect there’s any legitimacy anywhere on this campus, and no way to find it in any event.


       The article I’m quoting from is utterly clueless as to what’s going on here:


These scandals and fights are all the more remarkable because the university had seen a spectacular rise over the past 20 years. The president had led a $7 billion capital campaign and opened a $700 million new campus in the fall of 2017. The quality of the faculty and student body had surged. The institution had risen in reputational rankings.




      “All the more remarkable”? Nope. That $7 billion dollar campaign only led to 10% of the money being even theoretically spent on higher education. The remaining $6.3 billion paid for massive, massive, corruption and nothing more.


      The article points the finger at the Poo-Bah, who admittedly oversaw much of the corruption but…no, it’s much, much deeper than just one foul demon ruling over a legion of lesser administrators. The signs are very obvious that there are multiple layers of corruption going on here, each so focused on their own vile activity that there’s nothing to stop the other corrupt activities.


      The real issue here is: how much is enough? At what point can a school be shut down as a real menace to the taxpayers supporting it? This place is pure evil on multiple levels, is dedicated to evil, and there’s no talk of simply shutting it, bulldozing the whole place, and letting the fields go fallow. 


       As always, there’s only one reliable method of stopping this evil, and that’s by refusing to fund it any more. End the student loan scam.



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The College Transcript As Confetti

By Professor Doom

     Yes, many college degrees are worthless, but even among those supposed fields where a degree is of value, there’s an issue that I only touch on from time to time: grade inflation.

      Suppose you’re an employer, and you’ve already restricted applicants to some very job-specific degree. Can you narrow it down further than that? Well, there’s GPA, but when everybody always gets the same grades…not only can you not distinguish between candidates, the obvious question must come to mind: “if everybody gets an A, what does this degree stand for?”

      Employers have known of this issue for some time, but not that long:

The 'Other' College Scandal: Grade Inflation Has Turned Transcripts into Monopoly Money

--all paper currencies become “Monopoly money” eventually, so I usually use the word “confetti” to get across the same point.

      They’re not just talking about degrees in Theatre, Communications, or Gender Studies here, but “real” majors have also lost value because you really can’t give a bad grade without risk.

      The National Association of Colleges and Employers reported in 2013 that “66 percent of employers screen candidates by grade point average (GPA).”

     Wow, even 6 years ago employers were trying to use GPA for something. I honestly don’t know how they could:

Consider these facts: A 50-plus-year nationwide study of the history of college grading finds that, in the early 1960s, an A grade was awarded in colleges nationwide 15 percent of the time. But today, an A is the most common grade given in college; the percentage of A grades has tripled, to 45 percent nationwide. Seventy-five percent of all grades awarded now are either A’s and B’s.

     Please understand that we have plenty of write-off students on campus. When the above says “75%” of grades are A’s and B’s, I assure the gentle reader that pretty much any student who tries will get such grades, and while a few students who never even come to class will also get a good grade (roughly 1/3 at a community college) the vast bulk of those “bad” grades go to students who can’t be bothered to even show up the first day of class.

     In case the gentle reader wonders why, allow me to explain. A student complaint is bad for a faculty member’s career…multiple complaints can be a career ender (two can be enough to ruin a chance at tenure). 

     In 30 years of teaching, the only students who ever complained about me were failing students, and I’m hardly alone in making this observation. So, the message is clear: do not fail students.

     Trouble is, a failing grade is no longer an F. Because D grades are so rare now, D’s are also failing grades, so you can’t give those (anyone else remembered Charlie Brown getting a D-, basically a pity grade?). But now C’s become rare…it really won’t be long until awarding a B grade will run the risk of multiple administrators at your door, asking you to justify why you showed such aggression against a student.

      Seriously, if 95% of college graduates have all A’s and B’s, you know full well you’re really hurting a student when you award a C. But we still push the fiction that C is an average grade, even as we all know 95% of all students can’t be above average.

When an A is the most common grade given in college, how hard is it to graduate?

     The article took its time to identify the problem I identified at the beginning of my post. It does provide some history on grading to put things into perspective:

in 1969, only 7 percent of students at two- and four-year colleges reported that their grade point average was A-minus or higher. Yet in 2009, 41 percent of students reported as same. During the same period, the percentage of C grades given dropped from 25 to five percent.

      So basically only one student in 20 is getting a C grade. Yeah, that’s “average.” I’m not a jerk, I’d love for every student to be the best…but I know that awarding A’s to everyone is hurting the top students far more than it’s helping the weakest students. College was supposed to be an opportunity to distinguish yourself but there’s no way to do that when everyone gets the same grade.

       The article presents a different problem with grade inflation:

But grade inflation teaches young people the opposite lesson. It teaches them that life is easy. This cannot help but to contribute to the coddled, “snowflake” mindset for which so many millennials are today blamed by their elders.

     Eh, I concede some truth in the above, and I’ll even share a quick anecdote:

“I want my money back.”

      The above was a complaint by a student in my college algebra course, a course little different than what I learned in the 10^th grade. The student didn’t buy the book, came to class only sporadically, didn’t submit any homework assignments (no book, after all), and missed half the tests (failing the others with grades of 39 and 25 respectively, because…no book). As per my syllabus and any reasonable consideration, I failed her.

      I remember this student because she then complained to admin, who asked me to justify in detail why I dared to fail a student who was “concerned about her grade,” to quote the written complaint which may still be in my permanent record at that community college.   

  

        So, sure, I suppose you could call her a snowflake, but I think money is the issue. The article goes off the rails, however:

…the older generation—my generation—which has been in charge and which was supposed to act like adults? We haven’t. Our children are paying for our moral and educational lapse, which also is fraying the moral fiber of American society as a whole.

     No, the above is rubbish. It’s not the older generation which has caused this. It’s the student loan scam (I trust the gentle reader was sitting down when reading that, because it’s so rare that I make such a claim that my doing so might cause fainting).

     The student loan scam has caused tuition to skyrocket to ridiculous levels, and this in turn is affecting our grading (with administrative pressure, supplied also by the student loan scam).

     If you spent $10 to see a movie, and the movie was terrible, you might well write it off as a loss. How about $500? $5,000? For that kind of money, you’d complain bitterly to management if you didn’t receive an incredible experience.

      Well, suppose you’re spending a mere $3,000, the low end price of a college course today. You’re going to want the best possible outcome there, right? An F is unacceptable…and an A is really what you want for that kind of cash. No need to point fingers at a whole generation when simple economics explains what’s happening.

Under legislation proposed in the House of Representatives, the Texas “Contextualized Transcript” bill calls for adding to transcripts the average grade given to the entire class for each of the courses on a student’s transcript. This would apply to all Texas public, two-year and four-year colleges and universities. Here is an example of what it would look like:

         “Geology: Individual Student’s Grade: A (Average grade for the class: C+)”

       The above is all hypothetical, more accurately, pure fantasy. Granted, schools that did something like the above would demonstrate integrity, and that would help students dramatically…too bad our schools are not run with concepts like “integrity” or “helping students” in mind.

      They used to be run in that manner, but the immense money from the student loan scam makes those antiquated concepts. While the media screams about a few rich people buying their way into Harvard and the like, realize student loan debt is close to $1.6 trillion, and affects fifty million people in this country, if not more…a few kids sneaking into Harvard means nothing next to that, and the grade inflation hurts everyone in any event.

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