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The level of skill being displayed in all of the Whistler Blackcomb Parks is astonishing these days. The progression we are seeing in athletes is at light speed and tricks formerly reserved for the rare mutants are now being thrown with ease by local kids skipping school to ski and ride. (Don’t skip school!) This week I witnessed 16-year-olds throwing double back flips, 19-year-olds spinning corked 10s and a 4-year-old slide a four foot round bar. This progression has pushed the Park crew to step up and create the best possible playground for these athletes and then work backwards to ensure we have a smooth progression. The bar is being set high for the next generation and we are doing our best to evolve at the same rate.

The Parks all got new set-ups this week, some even seeing changes daily. On Whistler Mountain we changed up the top section to include a new barrel bonk in addition to the stump jibs as well as freshening up Bobcat with a never-been-tired-before combo box with a quad kink. There are also new jump styles on Chipmunk and two “Skate Style” spines with log and metal coping for every transfer trick imaginable.

The Choker Park saw the addition of the Quicksilver and Nintendo boxes set up in series as mellow up-boxes as well as the addition of a mini shack booter style step over jump. The Superpipe rebuild has resulted in the best pipe I have ridden in a long time and special props go out to Andy Morrison for his epic 17 hour shift grooming the pipe se we can all rip it this week!

The Terrain Garden continues to be one of the busiest parks with hordes of newbie riders getting their legs on the small jumps, mini spine, boxes and rails offered up in this line. We are hoping to add a few more basic flat boxes to the mix so trick development can progress here too.

The HL Park has basically been split into Lucas Land’s rail line for metal grinders and the main park for jumpers. The left line continues to be the BIG XL line while the right side offers up the L / XL multi-takeoff options.

If you have not been up in the parks yet this year, you are missing out! Don’t wait to see it in next year’s vids, come on up today.

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Published On: 2/29/2008
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Dont really know what to say anymore. I dont know what im anymore. You ever have those days(well maybe longer)that every moment you feel like laughing, crying, screaming, and staying silent all at the same time?
Then, at the same time I know why and yet i dont know why i feel this way. Like as of right now I want to love You so badly but i also want to throw up just by thinking of You.


One day we'll get in the car and just drive; with the contents of our bank accounts in the trunk and nothing to look back to. No destination. One day we'll leave, and we'll never come home and we'll never get hurt again.
Not even each other. Not even ourselves.
 
 
But anywho    Talking to my mom at all is very frustrating. I just don't know how to deal with a lot of negativity right now. but wats new


I need some thinking time..lol
 
 nice updated blog right ?.........i think so.. i love the title (look for the song)
 
 
xoxo-brianne


Published On: 2/2/2008
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my blog: yay
By: black_voodoo


with Colten && partying sooo... yeah..little update
 
 
 
 
xoxo -brianne


Published On: 1/11/2008
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 Babecakes lets be RANDOM
I just feel... feel like:

-Changing everything ??
-Having everything go perfectly ?
-Sharing my newly updated secrets with u ?
- i'll leave that up to u to fill out this one
-making u come back to me ???


              <3  [nope]
 
 
have u ever felt rushed ? like theres no room to breathe
 
 
My tears are steady falling, I can't stop make em' stop.
I keep falling deeper baby.
I ain't been the same since ya left with my heart.

One minute it was good the next it was bad.
I wonder what happened to what we had.
 
 
Why does it seem like u don't give a damn about me anymore?  && thanks for not listening 2 me u totally helped me out when i needed  to tell u all the shi*t thats been going  on w/ me and wats been up
 
              damn i must be trippin ?       ----    >        : ' (
 
must of my blog titles are song titles just thought id let u know [this in my fav]
 
xoxo- brianne


Published On: 1/5/2008
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just to get your way keep screaming you'll never have anything


spare an apology
:D


Published On: 12/29/2007
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With traces of snow falling, the Liquid Boardwear team is getting focused on the season. From pre-season tattoo’s, to gopher hunting, to working on the set of a major motion picture, our team has been doing what it takes to get thru the hot season. This season it will be easier than ever to find out what the Liquid team is up by checking out their blogs on www.liquidriders.com.  

 

“This blog was created to make my life easier,” states Team Manager Hugh Jasse. “The team is spread out all over the place, which makes tracking them down next to impossible. This blog allows them to post whatever they want to post whenever they want to. So simple.”

 

So go now, go often and never quit.

 

 

About Liquid Boardwear:

Liquid Boardwear is focused on supporting upcoming riders.    Liquid Boardwear is a convergence of tech and style. It’s a company reflective of its passion on snow, building real life clothing for real life riders. Check it out at www.liquidboardwear.com and at www.liquidriders.com.    



Published On: 9/25/2007
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im changing....i promise
I believe that love and trust are one in the same
I don't think you can truly love somebody unless you trust them
                            but anywho
Funny how things work out.  i mean really wat are the odds of me talking 2 him agian ???
 
...What can you do? when i or  we  f*ck up it could be a honest mistake or it could of jus happend
 
Im tired once agian && im sick & i had a bad night lets just say that umm i felt like i needed to updated cause of the long blog yesterday
 
xoxo -brianne


Published On: 9/8/2007
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The Liquid Boardwear winter website is alive! Now you can get your fix of the new products, team rider blog updates, and get involved with the sponsorship program. We have taken the site to new heights.

 

Liquidboardwear.com is the central hub for the brand. Follow the team throughout the season via their blog pages. Who knows what you’ll find there.

 

The sponsorship program has been updated and improved. Now you vote on the best footage posted and invite your friends to do the same. We have enlisted a slew of industry insiders as judges to critique the footie and help determine who the next team rider is going to be. Two new riders will join the team each month based on the footage uploaded.

 

And then there is the product. Check out our entire product line, and determine what kit you are going to rock this year on the hill.

 Go check it out.  www.liquidboardwear.com

About Liquid Boardwear:

Liquid Boardwear is focused on supporting upcoming riders.    Liquid Boardwear is a convergence of tech and style. It’s a company reflective of its passion on snow, building real life clothing for real life riders. 

 



Published On: 9/4/2007
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The Life and Times of Joe: Life Changes
By: Joe


So yeah, it's time for another one of those "life update" blogs that everyone does.

I've moved to Vancouver. Finally. Heh.

I love Whistler, and I'm going to try to stay close to it, but it was finally time to make the move to the city. I think in the long run it'll be a good idea, I've lived around it all my life, from Victoria, Nanaimo and Whistler. I guess I have kind of circled around the city for a long time without ever really coming over here. I haven't found a place to live yet, but I'm sure that'll happen soon. I looked at a RAD townhouse on saturday, but like any of the places I've looked at so far, a million people were looking at it as well. Heck here, you have to fill out a two to three page "application" to rent from someone. This might be standard for a lot of people, but for me, it's pretty ridiculous. Hell, most of them even ask for info that they aren't allowed too, I don't fill it out, but what are you supposed to do?

Why am I looking for a place down here you may ask? Well I found a new job down here. I'm doing a lot of the same things I was before, web and graphic design, fun computer stuff, etc. Should be pretty cool for sure. Big change, but hey, sometimes you gotta do it.

Everyone here rules, and it's been a ton of fun. I'll still be around for sure, but not as the admin guy you know me of. I've met a ton of friends on here, and will continue to meet more!

Joe



Published On: 9/3/2007
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Colonies.com Network Wide News: We are getting even better!
By: Colonies.com


We are proud to announce that we have made more improvements to the website:
 
1.  Faster Photo upload: Now you are able to upload a bunch of photos at one time!  We have created a simple mass photo upload tool that will allow you to add photos to Colonies.com quicker than ever before.  Get ready to start uploading your photos at warp-speed!
 
2.  Profile Management: We have also overhauled the profile settings page making it easier to manage your personal information, update your mugshots and edit your profile privacy.
 
3.  Faster Pages: Plus our pages are loading even faster as we have made performance improvements to the entire site.
 
 
We hope you enjoy!
The Colonies.com development team


Published On: 3/27/2007
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My Blog: my life.
By: lil_sam


Quick Update:

I live & work in downtown Toronto.  I am going to school for Fashion Business studies.  
Although, I haven't been out snowboarding at all this season, and that would be why you will rarely find me online anymore. It's sad, I know, but that's the way it has been for a few reasons. 
Anyways,
 


 

 ~Sam~* 




Published On: 3/25/2007
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My Blog: Advice
By: l_lexy_l


For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" Here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!
 
Bwahaha!


Published On: 3/5/2007
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PNW by Theory-3 Media and Poorboyz Productions & Distribution: PNW presented by Theory-3 Media and Poorboyz Productions & Distribution
By: Theory3Media


For immediate release:

PNW -

Turn Left, Turn Right, Exit Here, Entering, Welcome to...change the
song, pass the chips, are we there yet? From the creators of
[PHOTO]PLAY, we present to you…PNW... Through the creative vision of
Theory-3 Media, in association with Poorboyz Productions &
Distribution we bring to you a 2 Disc, 2 version, high-definition
skiing documentary covering the uncontrolled locations and the endless
possibilities held by the Pacific Northwest.

PNW will not be just your typical rider segmented film, but rather a
production documenting the travels and locations visited by focusing a
unique group of athletes and an entire season on endless areas of
Alaska, British Columbia, and Washington. The film's layout will be
broken up into segments covering the intricate highway systems, with
the joint travels of a few select athletes and crew linking the areas
of the PNW into a smooth flowing production. With lots of research,
and the impulsive choices of athletes and crew, we expect the body of
the film to be made up of random highway towns and certain specific,
but also unplanned backcountry sledding/touring locales. The skiing
within the film will cover all aspects of backcountry jumping, big
mountain skiing, urban/terrain park skiing, and the ideal combination
of all the above.

→NOTE: We will also include 1-2 additional segments within the PNW
documentary covering special event's, super park shoots, special trips
from outside of the Pacific North West. These segments will be tied
into the film with a PNW hook to be used as a recess between other
segments for issues with weather, athlete schedules, etc within the
Pacific North West.

In addition to the feature 'documentary', the PNW product will include
a 2nd DVD focusing on a re-edited, rider segmented film, with new
footage from outside of the PNW, and a slightly more 'typical' layout.
The riders will be giving his folder's worth of footage, and will
choose each specific shot for his ideal additional segment. It will
also include an athlete commentary covering who, what, when, where and
why, that rider chose those shots for his specific segment. We hope to
achieve two exciting films that can truly cover the dynamic that makes
up the sport of skiing, the Northwest and everything the riders, and
production crew put into their short run snow filled season.

Check www.theory-3.com for week by week updates, and more information!


Published On: 1/20/2007
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Park & Pipes - Whistler Blackcomb: So Much SNOW
By: WhistlerBlackcomb


Whistler is having on of the best seasons ever! Endless fresh snow keeps falling (27+ feet and still counting) and we are well over a 3 meter base now.

 
Yep, that's a rail.

The fresh pow makes for epic riding but is actually slowing down the Parks expansion as we have to continuously dig out the rails, features & rebuild the park almost weekly! The park staff do their best to clear off snow on the rails & hits so our park riders can still hit the features each day. At night, our park groomers are plowing the snow off, rebuilding table tops and rail platforms.

 

Huge thanx to the day & night Parks team for making the effort each day to offer you the best park riding experience. Fences buried to the top & waist to chest deep drifts around the rails is giving the Parks team a work out almost every day.

Maybe the on line contest www.ifullrwasagirl.com is causing Ullr to be vengeful with the all the snow this season!?

So if you’re up here and in the park, enjoy it, and props to the team for keeping it in shape. If you’re up here and out of the park, well, you know how good it is, we don’t need to remind you. And if you're not here, well, you know what to do...



Published On: 1/8/2007
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Park & Pipes - Whistler Blackcomb: ULLR GIRLS - THE CONTEST AND NOW THE BOX
By: WhistlerBlackcomb


You probably already know about the contest currently going down with $25 grand up for grabs. Whistler Blackcomb is running an on line contest called if ullr was a girl, and still with almost 2 months to go there’s 200+ girls vying for top spot, and more signing up daily. What does it have to do with the park?

Finalists will win a trip to Whistler during the Telus Ski & Snowboard Festival & all kinds of events & activities are planned to finally choose one winner for the Open & Amateur Categories.

To get the stoke on here in Whistler, Anto Orts custom painted a down box with the Ullr contest artwork. The ifullrwasagirl down box is set up in the Highest Level park & is open to guys & girls to hit.

Check out the website
& help choose who you think is the ultimate female Ullr! Meanwhile for the ladies… start hitting the Ullr box, who knows, it may be one of the challenges for the finalists!
 
Stay tuned for the photos once the darn uploader works again... meanwhile they're at http://www.whistlerblackcomb.com/mountain/parks/updates0607/dec30_ullr06.htm


Published On: 1/5/2007
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Events/News - Whistler Blackcomb: Happy New Year - 72cm!
By: WhistlerBlackcomb


Just in case anyone thought 2006 was the reason for all our epic snowfall... we're in luck. It's 2007 now and starting off with a bang. Here's today's snow report, and more on it's way. Pretty warm today but this should make for unreal coverage up top and more New Year's faceshots to come.
 
Last Updated:

Jan. 02 at 06:09

Goretex
NEW SNOW from whistlerblackcomb.com
Snow:
New 24 Hours 48 Hours 7 Days Snowbase
50 cm 72 cm 73 cm 80 cm 295 cm
20 in 28 in 29 in 31 in 116 in
Total cumulative snowfall *Snow depths are measured at Pig Alley Weather
Station - 1650m (Mid-Mountain) on Whistler Mtn.
764 cm
301 in


Published On: 1/2/2007
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My Journal: journal..
By: Fedje


Well, here i go again, i dont usually update this very often so, thaught i'd give it a go again ;) This year i live in Ålesund, on the north-west coast of Norway, pretty far from were i live. I attend something called a "Folkehøgskole". I have practically taken a year off between college and high school. So i live in a dorm, and have a lot of fun really. The school is a travel school, and my destination is North-America, so ill be going there in march :D really excited! Now im at home in Tønsberg for my christmas holiday, so it is a lot of partying, and catching up to do with my friends and family back home. But school starts again 3rd of january, and I can't wait! hehe. Snow this year is bad! and havent skied yet, and there is not much snow anywhere! f*ck global warming!! But im going to trysil for my wintervacation, hoping to do a lot of skiing and snowboarding and partying than! :D :D well, that was a little update in my life nowadays :D so if theres anything more, dont hesitate to ask :D later! Hanne :)

Published On: 12/27/2006
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Hey just updated my myspace. Check it out.

www.myspace.com/wickedwes52



Published On: 12/19/2006
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LOS ANGELES - ESPN Winter X Games 11 announces new sports, new athletes and more coverage going into the eleventh annual event. In addition to Skiing and Snowboard and ESPN‚s announcement last month of Snowmobile Freestyle being added to the sports lineup, Winter X Games 11 will include its first ever disabled discipline, Mono Skier X. First introduced as a demo event at Winter X Games Nine, this year‚s event will be modeled after Winter X mainstays, Skier X and Snowboarder X. It will feature the top 16 disabled men and women racing in individual sit-skis in heats of four. Snowboarding will add the discipline of Snowboard Best Trick Showdown, and Moto X will not be in the Winter X Games lineup but remain a pillar in summer and international events. Fifteen hours of live programming on ESPN and ABC will be offered as well as Winter X Games 11 coverage on ESPN International, EXPN.com, ESPN Classic, ESPN360, SportsCenter and ESPN2‚s X Center.

“As we move into the eleventh Winter X Games, we couldn‚t be more excited with our lineup of sports and the new group of athletes we have participating with Snowmobile Freestyle and Mono Skier X,” said Ron Semiao, senior vice president, ESPN Original Entertainment. “We are dedicated to bringing a variety of original and compelling content to the sports fans and confident with these sport additions we will do so at Winter X Games 11.”

The annual Winter X Games is the premier action winter sports event in the world and showcases more than 250 of the world‚s top athletes including 28 Olympians who competed in last year‚s Winter X Games 10 prior to traveling to Turin, Italy. In addition to Snowboard SuperPipe (added in 1998), the Olympics added Snowboard Boardercross an event that has been part of Winter X Games since the beginning. Last month, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that Skicross, known as Skier X in the Winter X Games, would be added to the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Skier X was introduced to Winter X Games in 1998 with 30 competitors and was the first competition of its kind for the sport of skiing.

Buttermilk Mountain at Aspen/ Snowmass will continue to host the Winter X Games through 2010. Winter X Games 11 is scheduled for Jan 25-28, 2007 with free entrance to the public.
 
Ski Schedule:
 
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
For media planning onlyˆthis day is closed to the public but open to the media
8:00 a.m. ˆ 12:00 p.m.Skiing SuperPipe Men‚s & Women‚s Practice
 
Thursday, January 25, 2007
8:00 a.m. ˆ 9:45 a.m.Skiing SuperPipe Men‚s & Women‚s Practice
9:00 a.m. ˆ 12:00 p.m.Skiing Skier X Men‚s & Women‚s Practice
10:00 a.m. ˆ 12:00 p.m.Skiing SuperPipe Men‚s Elimination
12:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.Skiing Slopestyle Practice
 
Friday, January 26, 2007
12:15 p.m. ˆ 1:15 p.m.Skiing Skier X Men‚s & Women‚s Practice
1:30 p.m. ˆ 4:00 p.m.Skiing Skier X Men‚s & Women‚s Qualifying
5:00 p.m. ˆ 6:00 p.m.Skiing SuperPipe Women‚s Practice
6:00 p.m. ˆ 7:00 p.m.Skiing SuperPipe Women‚s Final
7:00 p.m. ˆ 8:00 p.m.Skiing SuperPipe Men‚s Practice
8:00 p.m. ˆ 9:30 p.m.Skiing SuperPipe Men‚s Final
 
Saturday, January 27, 2007
2:00 p.m. ˆ 4:00 p.m.Skiing Slopestyle Practice
2:00 p.m. ˆ 4:00 p.m.Mono Skier X (Men‚s & Women‚s Combined) Final
 
Sunday, January 28, 2007
8:30 a.m. ˆ 10:15 a.m.Skiing Slopestyle Practice
9:00 a.m. ˆ 11:45 a.m.Skiing Skier X Men‚s & Women‚s Practice
10:30 a.m. ˆ 12:30 p.m.Skiing Slopestyle Elimination
12:00 p.m. ˆ 1:30 p.m.Skiing Skier X Men‚s and Women‚s Final
12:30 p.m. ˆ 1:15 p.m.Skiing Slopestyle Practice
1:30 p.m. ˆ 3:00 p.m.Skiing Slopestyle Final
 
This schedule is subject to change. Please visit www.espneventmedia.com for the most updated schedule.
ESPN, ABC AND ESPN INTERNATIONAL TO TELEVISE EVENT LIVE
ESPN and ABC will feature 15 hours of live programming January 25 ˆ January 28. ESPN2 will present daily late
night highlight programs from January 26 ˆ January 29, resulting in 19 total hours of original programming for
Winter X Games 11. Additionally, the Winter X Games will also be televised on ESPN‚s International networks to
more than 121 countries and territories in Latin America, the Pacific Rim, Middle East, Africa and Israel.
SportsCenter, ESPN‚s flagship daily news program, will report from Aspen/Snowmass starting Thursday, January
25 through Sunday, January 28. Each of those nights, the 11 p.m. ET SportsCenter will contain event coverage
from Winter X Games 11.


Published On: 12/11/2006
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On the drive back to camp I had a thought. How much fan mail does Mr. T. get these days? He's pretty under the radar now, but brought tears of joy to Mohicans everywhere when he mopped the floor with Stallone in Rocky III. I thought I'd write him tonight. Here's a copy in case I offend him and he hitch-hikes to P.G. and bodyslams me.

 

 

Dear Sir Lawrence Turead aka Mr. T.,

 

In case you hadn't heard, up working off of Mile 90 of the Alaska Highway probing trees looking for pine beetle. The guys I work with are crazier than Murdock. The best way to describe them is if you donated a dozen ATVs and snowmobiles to the people living on the streets around Main and Hastings St. in Vancouver. They're a bunch of wasted ex-cons, ripping around on machines with no regard for personal safety, only stopping to light their cigarettes.

 

The beetles up here are pretty much on a killing spree. They're spreading fast because of the favorable temperatures due to global warming. I know you're an environmentalist- you said you'd rather walk than fly with that crazy sucka Murdock. If you do want to save Northern BC, you could do a bit more hand to hand combat rather than using your tank, or park the A Team van and instead have the crew take the bus on your next mission. I like to think of us as an elite force designed to eradicate entomological boreal domination. We're a bunch of guys straight out of prison for crimes "We swear we didn't commit." Pretty much, we're the A Team of Northern North America.

 

Glad to hear you made it through your battle of cancer. Sorry you had to sell your gold chains to pay for your medical bills, but you said it yourself: "You don't need chains when you got a heart of gold." I get all my facts from the National Inquirer that covered your story so well. I tried to do some fundraising, but used the money to buy some gold tire chains for our Ford Super Duty.

 

I don't get along with a lot of these whiteys in camp. Half are whinos, the other half are complainos. I think a couple of them are starting to befriend me because I'll break trail through the snow and don't eat any of the pork chops. I ain't buying it. I believe it was in the movie Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool that you said, "Be somebody, or you'll be somebody's fool. Or was it in the movie, Baby-Punching Supersuckas for Megabot 9 ? I always get those two mixed up.

 

I know it sounds like I'm messing around but I do care. When I was nineteen I bet a guy ten bucks that he didn't know what your favorite type of music was. How could he have known the answer was Gospel? I was positive he's say Pre-2Unlimited Trantastic Trip-Hop. I paid up, so don't ever say I never stuck my neck out to make a difference.

 

Yours Fooly,

Crease Mansfoo of the Castlegar gang The Supasuckas Relay Erasers, circa 1998.

 

 

Minus twenty five up in the Great White North….

 

 

I've finished up my last shift and, this time, I won't be going back. I'm getting a little too attached to rednecks and have to space myself before I become what I fear. On one of the last days one of them came to be about to cry. "Freezer made fun of me because I thought eight and four equals thirteen. I have mentally problems." Looking at me like a teary eyed puppy dog, with the IQ to match, I'm starting to realize how it can sometimes be harder to part with something you hate than something you love. Why? I haven't a damn clue. When I find out I let you know. But by that time I'll own four quads and be paying child support from my fifth marriage. Yep, I gotta go because I'm starting to fit in.

 

Mentally Yours,

 

Crease

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Published On: 11/16/2006
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