tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87701622011-07-08T11:35:40.433+10:00Political opinions. You'll never think fully again. Everything must go. Liamnoreply@blogger.comBlogger591100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1104640877159927542005-01-02T15:39:00.000+11:002005-08-19T11:14:43.196+10:00

Cut Price Commentariat now has a new home at:http://commentariat.redrag.net/Update your aggregators, bookmarks, and blogrolls, come and visit.

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The Olympia Traveller C is, unless I can find any others, the last manual typewriter being manufactured anywhere in the world. Yes, it's totally obsolete technology but then, it doesn't need batteries, the kernel will never panic, there's no screen to have the BSOD, and no self-respecting thief would ever look twice. My second-hand typewriter (made by the unknown company ABC) is nice, and very

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I found it more than a little tasteless this morning to find Glenn Reynolds from instapundit lecturing on what the governments of the wave-hit coastlines could have done to stop the disaster being so disastrous. Apparently there should have been better early warning systems. We've all woken up to the news, and we, all of us who live in coastal cities, have the common sense of mutual

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1103847782161750132004-12-24T10:58:00.000+11:002004-12-24T11:23:02.160+11:00

Thanks to Weezil at S'truth? STREWTH! for this article on a new guerrilla radio station operating in Washington DC. Pirate radio is a fascinating political phenomenon. On the one hand, it's a challenge to the dominance of the state. Every country has its own system of licencing and apportioning different sections of the spectrum. In Australia the ABA manages the licences for all different kinds

Liamnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1103787495455228082004-12-23T18:21:00.000+11:002004-12-23T18:38:15.456+11:00

Marilyn Lake has an interesting and fair review of The White Australia Policy by everyone's favourite academic outcast Keith Windschuttle in the latest SMH. I read with interest especially the bracketed note where KW mistakes the American historian Richard White with the left-leaning Australian historian Richard White. You know, you'd think as a professional Australian historian you'd be up to

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1103720972202869482004-12-23T01:08:00.000+11:002004-12-23T00:09:32.203+11:00

We had solidified into solid blocs of pro- and anti-deal. Of course political arguments were made to cover it; the anti-dealers stressed their left credentials and commitment to 'solidarity' with the NBL, and the abstract Left. Pro-dealers stressed the importance of sticking by political deals, once made, and the importance of loyalty as a genuinely idealistic virtue. Political arguments circled

Liamnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1103705463106882492004-12-22T19:49:00.000+11:002004-12-22T19:51:03.106+11:00

Melbourne to me will always be the image of Spencer Street covered in grit and rain slime. I arrived at the station in early December of 2000 and, confused by the tram lines I'd never encountered before, nearly stepped in front of the city circle service. Now trams are pretty cool, but when a driver leaned out of his window to tell me that my sleeping bag had fallen under the one that I'd just

Liamnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1103593032637302622004-12-21T13:29:00.000+11:002004-12-21T12:37:12.636+11:00

Space madness II is coming out soon (to a feed aggregator near you!) but by the sounds of Keith Tan's wrap of NUS 2004 I think my story is up against some competition from more recent history. Alex White's nostalgia is also pretty touching--especially in the sections where he dishes out the compliments to Comrade Hogan. Ta mate. You rock. :) KT, a final note. Though I sympathise with your

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1103444162929255612004-12-19T19:14:00.000+11:002004-12-21T12:41:01.416+11:00

I think of it as a kind of space madness that afflicts people who go to NUS. Space madness of the kind that might have brought low heroes of bad kids' cartoons. Space madness that sets in when young men and women leave Melbourne from their precaucuses to go to Ballarat, where there is no longer any social contact with the outside world. Space madness that hits the lonely and the sociable alike.

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From the BBC: A cabin in the US state of Georgia believed to have inspired the party hit Love Shack by cult band the B-52's has burnt down. Fire officials in Athens-Clarke county are investigating the possibility of arson at the cabin, once inhabited by band member Kate Pierson. Perhaps the fire officials should find out whether the shack was still 'as hot as an oven' at the time of the fire,

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1103178670369294292004-12-16T17:21:00.000+11:002004-12-16T17:31:10.370+11:00

Political personality tests are totally inaccurate, and ones like the political compass are highly US-centric, as well, for other places in the world that place less emphasis on 'liberty' in their political cultures. I'm still a sucker for them, but I feel highly slighted because I came out from the political stereotype quiz as: Green - You believe that small economic units should control the

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1103115369995700302004-12-15T23:23:00.000+11:002004-12-15T23:56:09.996+11:00

I had to put my old 35mm camera in for servicing today. The shutter fails at the higher speeds; and leaves a stripe of overexposed white on prints. I suppose this is fair enough, the camera is older than I am. Going into the camera shop got me thinking, though, as the shelves were stocked high with digital camera gear for Christmas, and the posters on the walls advertised strictly non-35mm

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1103033228141007802004-12-15T01:00:00.000+11:002004-12-15T01:07:08.140+11:00

First things first. Whoever navigated to this page with the google string 'truth about NOLS' has made my week. Seriously. Second, the NOLS I'm blogging on is the Australian incarnation of the National Organisation of Labor Students; not the North Olympic Library System or the National Outdoor Leadership School. Perhaps my last four years might have been better spent with either of them--perhaps

Liamnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1103012014647981332004-12-14T19:07:00.000+11:002004-12-14T19:17:49.290+11:00

This picture is brought to you courtesy of a late night very strange IM conversation with Rob Corr, whose bucket hat--which I taunted inexcusably--frames his head quite well actually, and Nic White, who appears to be a hat collector/fetishist. It's not a beret in the Resistance/Green Left Weekly sense of the hat. It's a 'boina', the characteristic article of clothing of the Basques. So there.

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1102673806652011752004-12-10T20:57:00.000+11:002004-12-10T21:16:46.653+11:00

I hate to link to this instapundit article--there, I did it. It's a bunch of letters about having an 'immigration debate' in the US. So far, so good. Who can tell me the historical problems with these two paragraphs? If people want to become just plain ordinary Americans, come on over. If they want to be hyphenated Americans and make little enclaves of where they came from, stay home.

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1102657965534328672004-12-10T16:32:00.000+11:002004-12-10T16:52:45.533+11:00

It's true. I am a regular reader of Adam Yoshida. Yes, he scares the hell out of me, and I often wonder whether there's some hoaxer cacking themselves over the thought of fooling offended readers across the globe. I don't really care if he is the work of someone out to discredit the right. You just can't make shit like Yoshida's up. If I could have one political wish it'd be that Adam Yoshida

Liamnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1102506335175232292004-12-08T22:19:00.000+11:002004-12-08T22:45:35.176+11:00

It's like having a whole new computer. It's fast, it's not too difficult, it's even quite good looking. I'm getting to enjoy the apple-centric linux distribution (yellowdog) I've installed. My computer can take it without any troubles. It's the user, though, who's feeling the pressure of self-education. Trading a slow OS for a quicker one is pretty good but I wish I'd also traded up my own

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Postmortem caucuses are the worst. A faction sits in the room and decides what everyone has done wrong. This one was the worst I had ever been to, with a filthy nasty shine to everybody's attitudes and a shared short temper, threatening to close some electrical connection and become mad fist-fighting. Appropriately, our chair were arranged in a circle, putting us geometrically at the greatest

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1102314469482360492004-12-06T17:23:00.000+11:002004-12-06T17:27:49.483+11:00

Some very very very strange short stories on the end of the above link. 2 clicks from nowhere "tango seven, come in tango seven" the radio crackled to life in the darkened foxhole. "this is tango seven over" i managed in a muffled whisper. "we got movement about two clicks southeast of your position captain." fuck. doesn't charlie ever sleep? i slowly poked my head up and gave the hand signal

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Meetings are one thing, elections another. When people meet they do not make any real commitment to acting together or identifying as a group. Just signing an attendance book does not make for factional membership--or anything else. Something more is required to get people thinking about politics and power. It's a cliche that we should not judge politicians by what they say but by how they act:

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I've just installed linux on a half-partition of my iBook. Oh, man am I on a steep learning curve.

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I ended my speech, on the 26 November 2004, at the University of Ballarat with these words: I do not believe it is fair to the people who argued for past difference ideologies, such as White Australia, to imagine their history as backward. The women and men who imagined white and assimilative Australias were no less enlightened about society than we can claim to be. They thought, imagined, and

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1102050114698377002004-12-03T15:47:00.000+11:002004-12-03T16:01:54.696+11:00

I got my 2004-2005 Party card in my PO Box today. Well, actually I got two, and a following letter from Sussex St apologising for the administrative error--pffft--but that is not the point. They've done exceedingly well in picking someone to be on it. Call me a history geek and a pathetic sucker for the Party that constantly threatens my mental health but... I'll be very proud to carry a picture

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1101878973986953072004-12-01T16:26:00.000+11:002004-12-01T16:32:35.990+11:00

Faction is a nasty word. Opponents are always factional, never friends. Factions bicker. Factions are about pointless quarelling. Factions can never do any good. Factionalism works against the best interests of anything. Factionalised things are always less than they could be. A faction is always a sign that things are not right. Factions are a waste of energy. People should not join factions

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1101813998712067872004-11-30T22:08:00.000+11:002004-11-30T22:26:38.713+11:00

Bloggers Darp and Mark Bahnisch have made some pretty big calls about Eureka and its contemporary social meaning. Gerard Henderson had a crack at it as well in the SMH, and Andrew Leigh made the blog/book/opinion-article trifecta for his effort. Personally I could care less about the Eureka mythology in Australian history. It doesn't do it for me, lefty as I am. There is one thing I'd like to get

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Alex White of Psephological Catechism laid down the challenge to me, that I should set my student political memoir down. I follow this challenge, by encouraging others, with longer and more interesting stories than mine, to do the same. In fifteen years those people who pass for student politicians will simply not believe the stories their predecessors tell: we must give them some evidence. This

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Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

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Oh, and I come back from four days away and all of my comments--innocently entrusted to haloscan--appear to have vanished. Ta to all of you who've previously left a comment. If you can still see them, leave a comment. Wait a minute... no, don't do that. I won't know if you have or not. [sigh] Oh, I'm counting the days until I can get of my arse to fix myself up a wordpress or moveable-type

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Right, I'm back from Ballarat with a spiffy conference bag, a lanyard name badge and a hearty exhaustion of Eurekaria (Eureka kitsch, stockade hyperbole and blue-and-white flag ear cheese). I think I did OK in the paper I gave. I'm quite exhausted now. Can I get an extension on this blog entry?

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I'm with Alex White, sticking it to the powers that be of the bloggariat (my word). To quote: There are people however who are keenly aware. Some of the right-wing blogs realise that page views and unique visitors are the life-blood of blogs. They link to each other regularly and systematically to increase their overall stats. There is no similar tactic amongst the left bloggers... I agree with

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I've just finished the first draft of the paper that I am giving at the Eureka 150 Democracy Conference in Ballarat on Friday. Here are the first two paragraphs to show you how interesting it is: This paper is concerned with some of the ways that scholars and historians have understood the ideological approaches to immigration in the twentieth century. We are familiar with the ideas—-White

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1101036298448105082004-11-21T22:22:00.000+11:002004-11-21T22:24:58.446+11:00

Sierra Oscar, this is Commentariat. We now have trackback pings operative, over. It seems to have done away with all previous comments. But then there weren't that many anyway, over. This is Commentariat over and out.

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Shame, grogbloggers. Shame on you for organising and conducting a night of introspection. Shame on you for building and carrying out an orgy of self-congratulation. You expect to be taken seriously as a medium, but you exclude from your ranks all those who are not able to come out on a particular night. You make your organising of networking a once-off rather than a regular exercise of power

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1100838675498483082004-11-19T15:16:00.000+11:002004-11-19T15:31:15.500+11:00

SBS' The World Game reports on the racist chants of Spanish fans against English players at an international game at Alcalá de Henares. By SBS' account the FEF--the Spanish football peak body--apologised. On the other hand, having a quick look at the Spanish news shows a different story. Their account has the FEF saying that the English officials did not complain to them on the night, and that

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Ok, there's three things I have to get off my chest before I go back to writing my conference paper. Damn! How dumb does John Anderson look? Damn! Darren Lehman is such an excuse for a human being. Apparently he's mentally ready for the next test against NZ. How do they know, did they do a CAT scan? Poke him? Whack little rubber hammers on his knees? Damn! How ugly is that freestats

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We've all been reading about this US Marine who is looking to be in a lot of trouble. He might perhaps consider the fate of Lt. Harry Morant, who was court-martialled and executed during the Boer War for having shot Boer prisoners. Lord Kitchener's orders were for prisoners to be shot, and both sides were fighting a messy, informal war. There was a huge public outcry against the sentence in

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1100565444412615562004-11-16T11:31:00.000+11:002004-11-16T11:37:24.413+11:00

Where you lead, Darp, others follow. Darp's posts on the Loopy Left have been both amusing and depressing. The stories of insensitivity, offence and sheer madness should be compulsory reading for everyone considering membership of a political party or group. My own story of protest craziness is luckily one I am far too young to have seen directly. In 1964 a group of Sydney University students

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1100505775472587152004-11-15T18:57:00.000+11:002004-11-15T19:02:55.473+11:00

Who on earth is David Hawker? I suppose this is the 'anyone but Bruce or Bronwyn' pick. Ah well. Ari writes to say that the Speaker should be a non-Parliamentarian. I agree. My pick would be Kamahl. I know he fundraises for the Liberals, I know that he's a conservative, I know he potters about the lower North Shore in a gold-coloured Rolls Royce. It's just that I'd really like to hear him say '

Liamnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1100504319898865052004-11-15T18:33:00.000+11:002004-11-15T21:36:01.276+11:00

I am strongly considering cursing Melblefty for this link, to which I have been wholly sucked in. Consider for yourself the United Socialist States of Commentariat: The United Socialist States of Commentariat is a tiny, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 5 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social

Liamnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1099976737759304012004-11-09T15:55:00.000+11:002004-11-09T16:05:37.760+11:00

He didn't like the tutorial or the lecturer. He probably didn't get very good marks. But instead of writing off the course as a poor experience for all concerned he gets on the internet and gives the lecturer a bollocking in a circular email to all the other students--and now, the rest of the planet. Well that's a way to settle an argument. I was very upset with what had transipred during the

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1099875036417850952004-11-08T11:47:00.000+11:002004-11-08T11:50:36.416+11:00

Craig Minogue is doing a PhD, apparently, and the Police Association are quite rightly annoyed. I wonder if they realise how alienating from society it is to be doing postgraduate study?

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1099871895082296302004-11-08T10:30:00.000+11:002004-11-08T10:58:15.083+11:00

Truly there are few places more bizarre than the politics of the fringe. This is a principle that usually applies off the internet. It applies to the kinds of leather-clad pointyheads who gather with their motorcycles to imbibe spiritous liquors and critique multiculturalism. Also, to certain ex-fish-and-chip-shop operators turned television ballroom dancers. Generally the truly wierd aspects

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Let's stop and think of someone who led his life inspirationally. Johnny Warren not only played football, not only organised much of the growth of Australian soccer, not only supported the growth of the 'world game' in the Australian media, not only wrote about it--and gave us a book title to aspire to. He challenged the dominance of rugby league, rugby union, and Aussie rules in Australia.

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1099529109355405382004-11-04T11:22:00.000+11:002004-11-04T11:45:09.356+11:00

I'm the first to admit my ignorance of how American politics works. I don't understand it and there's little to be gained by non-Americans blogging themselves hoarse about that event. Nothing more tedious. So consider something quite different entirely--Bob Carr's election last year as NSW Premier, again. In 2003 a right wing incumbent defeated a totally hopeless opposition with little in the

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1099481579055140662004-11-03T22:29:00.000+11:002004-11-03T22:32:59.056+11:00

No, I'm not going to mention it. But this is the best call on all of the states that passed anti-gay marriage amendments yesterday.

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1099353013046246232004-11-02T10:41:00.000+11:002004-11-02T10:50:13.046+11:00

At this stage this, I think is how I'll be going: $5 win on Mummify, $5 place on Elvstroem. Readers are advised also of my own form: 1999: won $0 2000: won $0 2001: won $70! 2002: won $0 2003: won $0

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1099312089101988012004-11-01T23:23:00.000+11:002004-11-01T23:34:55.510+11:00

Yeah, you've heard the news. Now read between the lines. Mr Kalugin says that thanks to its man on the inside, the KGB was aware of "practically all steps taken or planned by ASIO against Soviet targets in Australia". Comrades, we have discovered secret Australian plans to infiltrate agents into Gould's bookshop, and to thoroughly read, but not buy, all of the pamphlets on the Resistance tables

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1099210293788501672004-10-31T20:08:00.000+11:002004-10-31T20:11:33.786+11:00

OK, so it's not my own work. But this link of an Oregon blogger is worth forwarding if only as an example illustrating why mail ballots are shit, and how crazy things get on the fringe of politics.

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I'd like to take this offer up. First I just have to finish my research degree, get snapped up by an overseas university interested in Australian history, and then I'll be able to be magnanimous upon my return to the Arts end of the world.Geddit, arts end? Sigh.

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Cute.There's hope for Footscray yet.

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I'd like to take this offer up. First I just have to finish my research degree, get snapped up by an overseas university interested in Australian history, and then I'll be able to be magnanimous upon my return to the Arts end of the world. Geddit, arts end? Sigh.

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1099022811692329962004-10-29T14:04:00.000+10:002004-10-29T14:06:51.693+10:00

If you want to make a whole bunch of young Australians into criminals, not to mention give a huge boost to the growing/manufacturing/selling illicit drugs industry, then I reckon this is an excellent idea.

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When I first saw those Labor TV ads about Peter Costello I thought they were a waste of money. I figured that the national secretariat must have had some kind of polling to justify them. Turns out, unfortunately, I was right after all. I guess if I was a right-wing salaried columnist and not a student I'd be banging on right now about the 'crisis of Labor'. Well here's my 5¢ on this matter. Stay

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Cute. There's hope for Footscray yet.

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Why are the Indymedias of Australia so terrible? Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne at least are all populated by the crazy of the world, the sectarians, the paranoid and the hateful. Sydney indy gets the anti-semitic crap. Brisbane gets student politicians heaping crap on each other (and various shades of offensive pictures). That's not to go into its own factional bunfights. Melbourne is the

Liamnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8770162.post-1098530005419806232004-10-23T21:13:00.000+10:002004-10-23T21:24:06.670+10:00

I know I prefer reading others' blogs which depend on a bit of research and have some kind of commentary to give. The point of Cut Price Commentary was so that I could have a go as well. When you go to the top right hand corner of blogspot blogs and go to somebody's random page it's often sad to see the sheer sadness of what people write. There must be thousands of depressed American (and for

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When we start talking about piping water from the Shoalhaven to Sydney, it's getting a bit silly. I can tell this is a desperate plan from watching John Della Bosca on Stateline last night. Every time the interviewer mentioned recycling water he'd get this narky look and say something like 'well 85% of people surveyed are against recycled effluent as drinking water'. Well yeah, if you put it

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Those of you interested might have noticed how poorly the Greens did in the last federal elections. You might also have heard the arguments used by the Greens blaming Labor, the Democrats, and anyone else for their poor showing, depending on the State. Let's put this one to bed right now. Seven percent of the vote does not a Senator make. I'm as narky as anyone that Family First got in (but

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There comes a time in every internet time-waster's life when they have to get productive. In this case I've been spurred into action by Rob Corr's challenge. Here are my promises to you, reader. This blog will shy away from no strange political argument. This blog will not respect commonsense, democracy or ideas of so-called 'quality journalism'. This blog will bring you points of view with

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