NEXUS Volume 24, no. 3, April-May 2017

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The petrodollar in crisis Books, Films, Music A new model for pi
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Music of the Plants
Anxiety:
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The EMF plague
Vaccines, biowarfare
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Europe's
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THE ALTERNATIVE NEWS MAGAZINE
CONTENTS
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 6
GLOBAL NEWS 8
We report on a 5480 BC solar event, an earlier arrival
of humans in North America, the Vatican vs the Knights
of Malta, facial recognition for Australian airports, a
time crystal, Europe's war on cash, vaccines linked to
brain disorders, smart meters and consumer profiling,
GMOs and eugenics, the petrodollar crisis, and more.
59
THE EMF PLAGUE: PART 2 OF 2 21
By Donna Fisher. Electromagnetic frequencies from
high-tech electronic devices and systems disrupt our
biological rhythms, causing a range of adverse health
PHOENICIAN STONEHENGE IN AMERICA? 52
effects including cancer. Public health authorities need By Suhail M. Jalbout. There are many indications that
to enforce safer industry standards urgently. ancient Phoenician mariners reached the East Coast of
North America millennia ago. They may have erected
MUSIC OF THE PLANTS 31
their own stone monument to mirror and align with
By Simone Vitale. The Damanhur community in Italy
stone circles in their Eastern Mediterranean homeland.
first utilised an apparatus to show that plants can
create music intentionally. It has opened up exciting ANXIETY: A MODERN EPIDEMIC 59
ways for us to understand plants as sentient beings By Peter Smith. Anxiety is increasingly prevalent today,
and even to engage in musical dialogue with them. but our mental health networks, drug treatments and
therapies can't address the source of the problem. An
VACCINES, BIOWARFARE AND BETRAYAL 39
awareness of how trauma is held energetically in the
By Catherine O'Driscoll. Governments, Big Pharma,
subconscious mind offers a pathway to healing.
oligarchs and the military have seemingly colluded to
turn vaccines into bioweapons to control populations. STRANGE TIMES: ALIEN CONTACTS 67
So is it ethical for our governments to profit from the By Reinerio Hernandez et al. A survey of over 3,000
very industry and products that they regulate? people reveals surprising findings about physical and
telepathic contacts with non-human intelligence. The
SCIENCE NEWS: WHEN PI = 4 47
quantum hologram theory of consciousness provides
By Miles Mathis. The value of 3.14… for pi, the ratio
a framework to make sense of multidimensional reality.
of a circle's circumference to its diameter, does not
apply when circular motion is considered. Instead, the REVIEWS: BOOKS, FILM, MUSIC 73
value of 4 is correct in this new model that uses cycloid INTERNET & MAIL ORDER 89
mathematics and also factors in the time variable. SUBSCRIPTIONS 83
Cover graphics: KreativeHexenkueche, Lee Brogan
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EDITOR
Duncan M. Roads
Email: [email protected] The mainstream media death spiral continues, and as media staff numbers
MANAGING EDITOR dwindle so does the quality of news reports—to the point where it seems
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editor-in-chief Julian Assange recently described, what we are getting is
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"weaponised text"—or, more specifically, weaponised information.
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Lynelle Roads So, back to this issue of NEXUS Magazine. I'd like to draw your attention to
OFFICE ADMINISTRATORS a couple of items which really excite me.
Susie Foster First up is Simone Vitale's article on Imagine what we
Richard Giles "Music of the Plants". Technology has
could learn as a
brought us to the stage where we can
CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE literally hook up plants to a sound system species if we just
Donna Fisher; Simone Vitale;
and hear their responses to words, music
Catherine O'Driscoll; Miles Mathis; started listening to
and other sounds. I see this as a stepping
Suhail M. Jalbout; Peter Smith;
stone to humanity's eventual realisation the life forms that
Reinerio Hernandez et al.
that every life form has some type of
surround us on
CARTOONS "intelligent consciousness" which can
Phil Somerville communicate. More and more people are our planet.
http://www.somervillecartoons.com finding that they are able to communicate
clearly with animals. More and more people are discovering that plants
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detector, used his technology to demonstrate that living cells respond and
communicate. I suggest to you all that everything is aliveand has some form
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE is included in this issue. This study is the first comprehensive multi-language
NEXUS recognises that humanity is investigation of individuals who have reported to have had contact experiences
undergoing a massive transformation.
related to unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and non-human intelligence (NHI).
With this in mind, NEXUS seeks to provide
'hard-to-get' information so as to assist It is clear that we humans are just one intelligence among many. Surely our
people through these changes. NEXUS is next evolutionary jump is the global realisation that every life form is sovereign,
not linked to any religious, philosophical or
intelligent and waiting for us to join their conversation.
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LETTERS
Facial Recognition Fiasco Nasal Breathing Oxygenation
Dear Duncan: I couldn't help but Hi Duncan: The very informative
laugh when I read the Global News Newsfeed article on "Rhythms of
item in NEXUS Magazine December Breathing" [NEXUS 24/02] which
2016–January 2017 issue [24/01] focuses on memory function
headlined "One in Two American certainly jogged my memory of a
Adults Already in Facial Recognition time when I researched and put into
Network". I believe that the practice nose-breathing as a way of nitric oxide in various parts of our
problem is a lot more endemic than improving my health. It occurred to body, including our sinuses, from
most people care to believe. me that NEXUS readers may find arginine, a semi-essential amino
With the advent of the "selfie" some interest in the great benefits acid that is present mainly in meat,
combined with high-resolution to be had from really quite simple fish and nuts.
cameras, it means that facial profiles breathing exercises. The second reason is even more
have literally flooded the Internet. What I eventually went on to amazing and can actually assist in
Anyone who has "tagged" discover was that learning to preventing cancer because our
themselves online has literally breathe properly through your nose lungs extract oxygen from the air
assisted any individual/corporation/ is one of the most important things we breathe, primarily on exhalation.
government with data-mining you can ever do for your health. As the nostrils are smaller than the
capabilities by providing not only a My research, and the technique mouth, air exhaled through the
name but also contact details and a that I eventually selected, centred nose creates a back pressure. It
location with a digital copy of their around the works of two teachers: slows the escape of air so that the
face, most often photographed K. P. Buteyko, MD (the Buteyko lungs have more time to extract
from multiple angles. Breathing Method), who showed oxygen from them. The important
What surprises me the most is that how nearly all people with chronic aspect of all this is that when there
for a long time science fiction has diseases are chest-breathers; and is a proper oxygen–carbon dioxide
promoted the human iris as the Artour Rakhimov, PhD, who taught a exchange, the blood will maintain a
ultimate safeguard for high-tech similar technique to Russian balanced pH.
security systems. Yet these same cosmonauts. The reason why this so important
megapixel selfies are also revealing I discovered that the reasons why is that as blood cells pass through
private security keys, which no correct nasal breathing is so our lungs, there is a very delicate
doubt will compromise these important are many, but there are electrical balancing act that takes
security systems before they begin, two main reasons. place between their cell surfaces
should iris recognition security First, a substance called "nasal and the ionic charges of the
become the norm. nitric oxide" is released into the surrounding plasma. As the cells
Bearing this in mind, the one-in- nasal passages and consequently pass through the lungs, the purple-
two-adults figure proffered by the lungs, which is necessary to coloured blood cells have the ionic
Vocativ.com amounts to 50 per cent disinfect the lungs by killing micro- charge that they received when
of the adult population. According organisms that can cause respiratory picking up carbon dioxide. In
to my estimate, this percentage of infections. Nitric oxide (NO) is a contact with lung oxygen, this
adults would be a lot higher, thanks molecule that our body produces to charge is reversed so that the
to the use of multiple social media help its 50 trillion cells communicate carbon dioxide drops off and the
platforms, and the figure for with each other by transmitting reversed charge attracts and picks
children who love to overshare signals throughout the entire body. up oxygen molecules.
would be even higher again! For the purpose of our subject, it As these cells pick up a full supply
The fact that the new breed of is also a potent vasodilator and its of oxygen, their ionic charge
quantum computers is being synthesis explains why nitroglycerin reverses and their colour changes
designed primarily for "image has been used for almost a century from purple to red. These now-
binary classification" (facial to treat angina and heart oxygenated blood cells are carried
recognition) should be a warning dysfunction. Nitroglycerin converts along through the body until they're
sign of the future that is coming! into nitric oxide, dilates blood in the vicinity of body cells that have
Sincerely, vessels and helps prevent the a surplus of carbon dioxide and
Mark R., Dianella, WA, Australia symptoms. We naturally produce need some oxygen. At that point,
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the ionic charges again reverse as labelled as psychotic was terribly read how these arguments are
the oxygen drops off and the mismanaged. For obvious legal and conceptually and scientifically
carbon dioxide is attracted and other reasons, I cannot identify the expressed. All my posts are backed
sticks to the blood cells, which once patient or the physicians involved. up by verifiable mathematics and/or
again change to a purple colour and Nevertheless, the story is as follows. observations.
are carried yet again to the lungs for R. H. was a 40-year-old female NEXUS Magazine will do its
oxygen replenishment. with a past history of drug abuse readers a favour by exposing these
So you can see how very and psychosis and was the victim of theories as hoaxes.
important this reversing ionic physical violence that had left her Regards,
electrical capability is to this whole with serious muscular and spinal M.R., United Kingdom
body-oxygenation cycle. injuries. As a consequence, she was
However, oxygen (and this is the put on a cocktail of drugs which Electrosmog and Bee Deaths
important bit) cannot stick to blood included Suboxone®, baclofen, Dear Editor: The lead article on
cells if the pH of the blood is acidic. benzodiazepines, pregabalin and colony collapse disorder (CCD),
This is where nasal breathing plays antidepressants, to mention a few. "A bee mogul confronts a crisis",
such an important role in doing Needless to say, she was in and out on the front page of the New York
everything you can to get the pH of hospital. Timesinternational edition (22
back up to a normal 7.4 so that the Three weeks ago, after being February 2017), was published just
blood can do the crucial job of discharged from hospital, she days after 104 nano-satellites were
oxygenating and cleansing your complained of excruciating back launched (by one rocket) in India as
body's tissues. You can breathe pain, lack of sleep and part of a plan by private companies
pure oxygen until the cows come disorientation, all of which she to put 11,000 new satellites, drones
home, but if the blood pH is acidic thought was related to her back and balloons into orbit to effect
then the oxygen will not be able to injuries. She was admitted to a global Wi-Fi coverage.
be picked up by the blood cells; it is general hospital, and given her past Interestingly, CCD incidence
chemically and electrically mental history the clinicians decided started to climb in 2003 after the
impossible. Any traces of oxygen that she should be transferred to a widespread adoption of 3G wireless
that the acidic blood cells manage psychiatric facility. A few days later frequencies, and it escalated wildly
to pick up are stripped off early by she was readmitted to the general after 2009 when the 4G network
the oxygen-starved cells along the hospital, where she died from was introduced. As the intensifying
way and never reach the deeper septicaemia. level of electrosmog is the only new
parts of the body where oxygen is The severe back pain that she pollutant, it is clear that we have the
most needed, creating the ideal experienced was most likely kidney smoking gun—which is very
conditions for cancer to grow. disease, made worse by the worrying, as no bees equals no crop
Learning to breathe through your medications that she took, and her pollination, which equals no food.
nose rather than through your being described as "mental" Dr David Suzuki warned many years
mouth could be just about the most probably impaired the physicians ago that if the bees go, humanity
important thing that you ever do for from making a proper diagnosis. has only four years left. As the next
your health and your life! I sincerely hope that this is an generation of frequencies, 5G, is
Here are some related links: isolated case, but what if it's not? launched over the next three years,
http://tinyurl.com/o2fjre7 Maurice Czarniak, WA, Australia there is no knowing quite how
http://tinyurl.com/jvbx4nv extreme the damage will be. But
http://tinyurl.com/hlcbxpy. Modern Physics Refuted the fact that there willbe damage is
Regards, Dear Editor: Modern physics has not in question because thousands
Peter, Queensland, Australia falsified data in an attempt to prove of peer-reviewed studies have
erroneously that classical physics revealed multiple adverse effects on
Psychiatric Misdiagnoses cannot explain all observed physical all life forms.
Dear Duncan: Your extract from effects so as to falsely vindicate If the precautionary principle is
Professor Peter C. Gøtzsche's 2015 special relativity, general relativity not implemented immediately, we
book Deadly Psychiatry, published and quantum dynamics as the only may have to face the predictions of
in NEXUS vol. 24, no. 1, needs to viable theories. the Mayan civilisation, for we are
be taken very seriously by all those For many years I have successfully almost out of time. Can this be
working in the pharmacological and refuted many claims made by turned around so that "progress"
medical professions. relativists, Big Bangers and does not mean killing everything on
As a practising pharmacist, I've quantum theorists. Please see my the planet?
seen at first hand how a patient blog (http://tinyurl.com/hj2vj8n) to Sarah B., Naxos, Greece
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TREE RINGS SHED LIGHT ON features of the 14C change with lava during volcanic eruptions on
5480 BC SOLAR EVENT those of other solar events known to the island, seems to be a tiny piece
An international team led by have occurred over the last couple of ancient continent which broke off
researchers at Nagoya University, of millennia. from the island of Madagascar
Japan, along with American and "Although this newly discovered when Africa, India, Australia and
Swiss colleagues, has identified a event is more dramatic than others Antarctica split up and the Indian
new type of solar event and dated it found to date, comparisons of the Ocean was formed.
to the year 5480 BC. They did this 14C data among them can help us to "Earth is made up of two parts—
by measuring carbon-14 levels in work out what happened to the Sun continents, which are old, and
tree rings, which reflect the effects at this time," said Fusa Miyake of oceans, which are 'young'. On the
of cosmic radiation on the Nagoya University's Solar–Terrestrial continents you find rocks that are
atmosphere at the time. Environment Laboratory. "We think over four billion years old, but you
When the activity of the Sun that a change in the magnetic find nothing like that in the oceans,
changes, it has direct effects on the activity of the Sun along with a as this is where new rocks are
Earth. For example, when the Sun series of strong solar bursts, or a formed," explained geologist
is relatively inactive, the amount of a very weak Sun, may have caused Professor Lewis Ashwal of the
type of carbon called carbon-14 the unusual tree ring data." University of the Witwatersrand in
(14C) increases in the Earth's (Source: ScienceDaily.com, Johannesburg, South Africa.
atmosphere. Because carbon in the 7 February 2017, Zircons are minerals that occur
air is absorbed by trees, carbon-14 http://tinyurl.com/zx3lnmw) mainly in granites from the
levels in tree rings actually reflect continents. They contain a rich
solar activity and unusual solar record of geological processes and
can be dated extremely accurately.
events in the past. The team
"The fact that we have found
analysed a specimen from a
zircons [as old as three billion years]
bristlecone pine tree, a species that
proves that there are much older
can live for thousands of years, in
crustal materials under Mauritius
order to look back deep into the
that could only have originated from
history of the Sun.
a continent," said Professor Ashwal.
"We measured the 14C levels in
"According to the new results,
the pine sample at three different
this break-up did not involve a
laboratories in Japan, the US and
Switzerland, to ensure the reliability The bristlecone pine forest in simple splitting of the ancient
California from which the pine supercontinent of Gondwana; but
of our results," said Professor A. J.
sample for this study was taken. rather, a complex splintering took
Timothy Jull of the University of
(Photo: Professor A. J. T. Jull) place with fragments of continental
Arizona's Accelerator Mass
crust of variable sizes left adrift
Spectrometry Laboratory. "We 'LOST CONTINENT' REMNANT
within the evolving Indian Ocean
found a change in 14C that was more FOUND UNDER MAURITIUS
Basin," he added.
abrupt than any found previously, Scientists have confirmed the
(Source: ScienceDaily.com,
except for cosmic ray events in AD existence of part of a "lost
31 January 2017,
775 and AD 994, and our use of continent" under the Indian Ocean
http://tinyurl.com/zr7mx3a)
annual data rather than data for island of Mauritius that was left over
each decade allowed us to pinpoint from the break-up of the
exactly when this occurred." supercontinent Gondwana which www.NexusNewsfeed.com
The team attempted to develop started about 200 million years ago.
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TECTONIC PLATES DISCOVERY
TO REWRITE TEXTBOOKS
Plate tectonics is the widely
accepted theory that the Earth's
crust is divided into several sections
that float around on the mantle—
the mostly solid layer between the
core and the crust. But how they
move around has been a subject of
much debate among scientists since
the theory was first accepted in the
1950s. The sections, known as
plates, move at the rate of about
two to five centimetres per year,
which is a similar speed to how fast
your fingernails grow.
The East Pacific Rise: tectonic plates are driven by an additional force of heat
Scientists have wondered for
drawn from the Earth's core. (Source: US NOAA)
many decades whether the plates
are being passively moved around the resultant plate tectonics. northern Yukon near the Alaska
by the mantle or are the active "Based on our models of mantle border. The site had been
drivers of the movement convection, the mantle may be excavated by archaeologist Jacques
themselves, dragging the mantle removing as much as half of Earth's Cinq-Mars between 1977 and 1987.
along with them. total convective heat budget from Based on radiocarbon dating of
A new study, published in the the core," Professor Rowley said. animal bones, he had made the
journal Science Advances, has "The implication of our work is bold hypothesis that human
shown that the additional force of that textbooks will need to be settlement in the region dated as far
heat drawn from the Earth's core rewritten." back as 30,000 BP.
plays a part in plate dynamics. The (Source: Business Insider UK, To set the record straight,
team observed the East Pacific Rise, 21 January 2017, Lauriane Bourgeon examined the
which is a divergent tectonic plate http://tinyurl.com/j257g33) approximately 36,000 bone
boundary which lies along the fragments culled from the site and
Pacific Ocean floor, and also made HUMANS ARRIVED IN NORTH preserved at the Canadian Museum
models of the mantle flow beneath AMERICA 10,000 YEARS of History in Gatineau.
the surface. EARLIER THAN THOUGHT Comprehensive analysis revealed
During their observations, the The earliest settlement date of undeniable traces of human activity
researchers concluded that the North America, until now estimated in 15 bones. About 20 other
movement of the East Pacific Rise at 14,000 years before present (BP) fragments also showed probable
could not be completely explained according to the earliest dated traces of the same type of activity.
by subduction—when one plate archaeological sites, is now Bourgeon submitted the bones to
moves under another—and other estimated at 24,000 BP, at the further radiocarbon dating. The
forces had to be at play. In the height of the last ice age or Last oldest fragment, a horse mandible
paper, they state that buoyancy is Glacial Maximum. showing the marks of a stone tool
created by heat rising up from deep This has been demonstrated apparently used to remove the
within the Earth's core. beyond a shadow of a doubt by tongue, was radiocarbon-dated at
"We see strong support for Professor Ariane Burke, of the 19,650 years, which is equivalent to
significant deep mantle Université de Montréal's (UdeM's) between 23,000 and 24,000 cal BP
contributions of heat-to-plate Department of Anthropology, and (calibrated years before present).
dynamics in the Pacific her doctoral student Lauriane "Our discovery confirms previous
hemisphere," said Professor David Bourgeon, with the contribution of analyses and demonstrates that this
B.Rowley, an expert in geophysical Professor Thomas Higham, Deputy is the earliest known site of human
sciences at the University of Director of Oxford University's settlement in Canada," said Burke.
Chicago and lead author of the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit. "It shows that Eastern Beringia was
paper, in a statement. "Heat from The researchers made their inhabited during the last ice age."
the base of the mantle contributes discovery using artefacts from the (Source: ScienceDaily.com,
significantly to the strength of the Bluefish Caves, located on the 16 January 2017,
flow of heat in the mantle and to banks of the Bluefish River in http://tinyurl.com/zcmkh3r)
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members, Professor Magnus controversial—because it marks the
Berggren, head of the Laboratory of intervention of one sovereign state,
Organic Electronics at Linköping the Holy See, in the internal
University in Sweden. "We have not governing affairs of another, the
only shown that energy storage is Sovereign Military Order of Malta,
possible, but also that we can an ancient aristocratic order that
deliver systems with excellent runs a vast charity operation around
performance." the globe.
In 2015, the researchers produced A Vatican statement said that the
their first cyborg rose by filling its Knights' governance would shift
veins with a conductive polymer temporarily to the Order's second-
solution and having it weave the in-command, pending the
material into its living tissue. appointment of a papal delegate.
Fast forward to today, and the The naming of a papal delegate
researchers have managed to tweak signals a Vatican takeover, harking
the polymer solution so that it back to the Vatican's previous
spreads autonomously throughout takeovers of the Legion of Christ
the entire plant including the leaves and Jesuit religious orders when
and petals, not just localised they were undergoing periods of
regions of the stem as in the scandal or turmoil. But those are
previous experiment. religious orders that report directly
When they peered inside the rose to the Holy See. The Knights of
tissue, the researchers found that Malta is a sovereign entity under
the polymer solution had international law, making the
permeated its vascular walls to sit Vatican intervention all the more
between the cell wall and the remarkable.
plasma membrane. The Order of Malta has many
This allowed them to turn the trappings of a sovereign state,
network of wires into a fully issuing its own stamps, passports
functioning electronic device by and licence plates, and holds
A supercapacitor rose is rigged up in
placing several supercapacitors— diplomatic relations with 106 states,
the Laboratory of Organic Electronics
powerful components used in many the Holy See included.
at Linköping University, Sweden.
(Source: Thor Balkhed) different kinds of electronics to As a result, even the Vatican's
store large amounts of electrical statement announcing the takeover
ELECTRONIC PLANTS energy—along the stem. is problematic. According to the
ENABLE ENERGY STORAGE The next step for the team is to Knights' own laws, the Grand
Scientists have figured out how to make the technique work in a living Master is elected by the Order's top
inject a conducting solution into a rose, not just a cutting, so that the leadership and submits his
rose cutting and have it possibility of growing primitive resignation to the Order's top
spontaneously form wires electronic systems inside forest leadership. The Pope is only
throughout its stem, leaves and vegetation or fields of vegetables to informed of the decisions.
petals to create fully functioning harvest energy could be realised. "It's not for the Holy Father to
supercapacitors for energy storage. (Source: ScienceAlert.com, accept the resignation of the Grand
The so-called "e-Plant" was able 27 February 2017, Master; it's for the Sovereign
to be charged hundreds of times http://tinyurl.com/hjwxll9) Council to accept it," noted Dr Kurt
without any loss of performance, Martens, a professor of canon law at
and the team behind the invention VATICAN TAKES OVER The Catholic University of America.
says that one day it could allow us KNIGHTS OF MALTA Dr Martens said that the Vatican
to create fuel cells or autonomous AFTER CONDOM DISPUTE intervention is "dangerous"
energy systems inside living plants. The Vatican has taken over the because it sets a precedent that
"A few years ago, we Knights of Malta in an extraordinary could eventually be used against
demonstrated that it is possible to display of papal power after the the Holy See, which has a similarly
create electronic plants, 'power leader of the sovereign lay Catholic unique status as a sovereign entity.
plants', but we have now shown that order publicly defied Pope Francis (Source: BostonGlobe.com,
the research has practical in a dispute over condoms. 26 January 2017,
applications," said one of the team The move is remarkable—and http://tinyurl.com/gue4924)
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