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NK

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December 25, 2019 8:25am
- Scott
  
  According to Google that translates into “Happy order”. Did you mean Merry Christmas and good will to all man and on the earth peace? 🙂
  
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  December 25, 2019 8:51am
- Tall Man
  
  Happy Order?
  
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  December 25, 2019 10:03am
- Jack5
  
  Put this into Google Translate, NK, and it transcribed it as “happy order”.
  
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  December 25, 2019 10:10am
- NK
  
  Oops. Stuffed that up!
  
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  December 25, 2019 1:11pm
  - Kiwi Dave
    
    Yes. Merry Christmas in Chinese sounds like ‘shengdan (4th tone) kuaile’, literally, ‘be born, emerge, joyful,’ but it looks as if you’ve used the characters for ‘shangdan (1st tone) kuaile’, literally, ‘up, single, joyful.’
    
    That said, it was a diverting puzzle.
    
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    December 25, 2019 2:19pm
    - NK
      
      Yes. Shang rather than sheng.
      
      不好
      
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      December 25, 2019 2:33pm
waitakereman

Merry xmas from west auckland
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December 25, 2019 8:25am
Paulus Gnome

Merry Christmas to the crew of the good ship Kiwblog and all those who sail in her (from darkest Tirau this morning where our first grandson – 9 months – so this is where we are!)

Best wishes for the New Year for you and yours!

I look forward to the political and other sparings here for another twelve months! (Mods permitting!)

Play nicely ☺
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December 25, 2019 8:53am
Hugh Pavletich

For Lease navidad!
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December 25, 2019 8:56am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  That’s funny, HP
  You’ve scored an uptick.
  
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  December 25, 2019 10:53am
- Tall Man
  
  Your best post of the year 😉
  
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  December 25, 2019 10:55am
- pdm
  
  Too many upticks here and Hugh will be in intensive care which is no place to spend christmas.
  
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  December 25, 2019 11:27am
- Pharmachick
  
  Well done Hugh 🙂
  
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  December 25, 2019 4:48pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

You don’t realise how old you are until you sit on the floor to unwrap Christmas gifts, then try to get up
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December 25, 2019 9:34am
- David Garrett
  
  Steve: Yes indeed! Occasionally I am lucky enough to interest a much younger woman…they invariably say “age is just a number”…My reply is “Not when you try to get up out of a low chair it bloody isn’t!”
  
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  December 25, 2019 9:43am
  - Wangas Feral
    
    I fake it in those circumstances and deal with the pain later.
    
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    December 25, 2019 9:58am
  - Tall Man
    
    Good luck in your endeavours…..Interesting them is the easy bit 😉
    
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    December 25, 2019 10:04am
  - Inandout
    
    Getting up from a chair is just a series of numbers..1..2…3..4.. go.
    
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    December 25, 2019 10:40am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Yup
    Growing old, certainly is NOT for sissy’s.
    
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    December 25, 2019 10:46am
  - tavita
    
    You are lucky DG, mine thinks age is a barrier. But maybe it’s because I am like you – I have problems getting up.
    
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    December 25, 2019 1:01pm
  - Pharmachick
    
    Ahhh, well it’s all about the mindset DG.
    
    My partner is celebrating (?) his 60th on December 31st, Hogmanay has always been good to the Scotsman. I am a quite a bit behind him… and certainly always behind him when he’s trying to get up from a low couch/chair/convertible BMW Z4 (in past years) ha ha ha 🙂
    
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    December 25, 2019 4:57pm
- Michael
  
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  December 25, 2019 2:33pm
igm

Even Christmas Day can upset one when reading yet more ratepayers being penalised by letting non-ratepayers vote and elect left-wing fiscally dyslexic and social disruptive losers.
Once again this is making a mockery of property owners at the behest of CoL compliant leeches.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/118420856/manawat-district-councillors-divided-over-introducing-39000-health-and-safety-representative
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December 25, 2019 9:41am
mandk

I’m waiting for Sonny Bill Williams to speak out against his Moslem brothers killing Christians in various parts of the world every single day.
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December 25, 2019 9:54am
- oldfella
  
  Me, too…
  
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  December 25, 2019 11:16am
- Michael
  
  don’t hold your breath mandk.
  
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  December 25, 2019 2:34pm
- MH
  
  and with Gay abandon.
  
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  December 25, 2019 3:17pm
- kloyd0306
  
  I’m waiting for him to sing the National Anthem.
  
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  December 25, 2019 4:46pm
Jack5

The Iron Curtain, the Bamboo Curtain, and now the Electronic Curtain.

Russia says its test to disconnect from the internet has been successful.

The techie site, ZDNet, reports:

The tests were carried out over multiple days, starting last week, and involved Russian government agencies, local internet service providers, and local Russian internet companies.

The goal was to test if the country’s national internet infrastructure — known inside Russia as RuNet — could function without access to the global DNS system and the external internet.

Internet traffic was re-routed internally, effectively making Russia’s RuNet the world’s largest intranet.
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December 25, 2019 10:14am
- Michael
  
  they need to with the coming Chinese dominance and password and IP access.
  
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  December 25, 2019 2:36pm
jcuk

at least while I am sitting in my chair I can wish everybody seasons greetings 🙂
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December 25, 2019 10:15am
mikenmildagain

Here’s a Xmas present for fans of demented ranting:
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/a-conversation-with-rudy-giuliani-over-bloody-marys.html
It’s wild AF. Sample content:

As we sped uptown, he spoke in monologue about the scandal he co-created, weaving one made-up talking point into another and another. He said former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, whom he calls Santa Maria Yovanovitch, is “controlled” by George Soros. “He put all four ambassadors there. And he’s employing the FBI agents.” I told him he sounded crazy, but he insisted he wasn’t.
“Don’t tell me I’m anti-Semitic if I oppose him,” he said. “Soros is hardly a Jew. I’m more of a Jew than Soros is. I probably know more about — he doesn’t go to church, he doesn’t go to religion — synagogue. He doesn’t belong to a synagogue, he doesn’t support Israel, he’s an enemy of Israel. He’s elected eight anarchist DA’s in the United States. He’s a horrible human being.”
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December 25, 2019 10:23am
- Batman
  
  What the damn hell??
  
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  December 25, 2019 10:46am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Turns out AG Barr thinks Rudy might have a point.
    Video interview with McCullum in the link
    https://www.independentsentinel.com/ag-barr-calls-out-george-soros-for-subverting-our-legal-system/
    
    Of course you Window Lickers are so dumb you just sneer.
    Hey, still reading Trumps mind about what he ‘really meant’ in the phone call.
    So funny
    https://babylonbee.com/news/donald-trump-proposes-harnessing-liberal-tears-provide-clean-energy
    
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    December 25, 2019 10:56am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Oh btw Yovanovitch perjured herself in her Testimony to Congress.
      Let’s see how that works out for her.
      Lol
      
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      December 25, 2019 10:59am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        So funny
        LOL
        *licks window*
        
        When his mouth closed, saliva leaked from the corner and crawled down his face through the valley of a wrinkle. He didn’t notice, and it fell onto his sweater.
        
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        December 25, 2019 11:04am
    - Stephieboy2
      
      ‘A Liar’ And ‘A Fanatic’: Calls To Impeach AG Barr After Speech Attacking ‘The Resistance’ | MSNBC
      
      “Attorney General Bill Barr is facing impeachment calls after attacking ‘the Left’ for their ‘shredding norms,’ and “attacking the rule of law.” Barr is blaming PROGRESSIVES for its legal impeachment probe while seemingly supporting Trump who is facing bribery allegations. Former Federal Prosecutor Danya Perry calls Barr’s ‘highly unusual’ speech ‘authoritarian,’ adding he should not have spoke out in such a ‘partisan’ way. Aired on 11/19/19….”
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-wqJqGadZ8
      
      LMAO!
      
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      December 25, 2019 5:58pm
- Tall Man
  
  Why bother mikey.
  
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  December 25, 2019 10:57am
Lee C

.Christmas is cool.
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December 25, 2019 10:35am
Maggy Wassilieff

This is the last Christmas that I’m stuffing figs!!!
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December 25, 2019 10:41am
- MH
  
  yule forget next year and it will just become a figment of your imaggynation.
  
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  December 25, 2019 3:20pm
Engelbert Humperdink

When life is tough
And doors are barred
Use the sledgehammer
In this Christmas card
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December 25, 2019 10:41am
Aunty

Merry Christmas, bitches!

Hey, I’m just trying to be young and hip!
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December 25, 2019 10:56am
- MH
  
  your’e sick – again being hip talk
  
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  December 25, 2019 3:22pm
Maggie Pie

The ducks in the oven, sherry trifle in the fridge. Just about to go and pick up Ma from the village.
We had an abfab meal last night at our fave Japanese restaurant GION.
On Odakyu-Sen’s advice, when we arrived my partner greeted the wait-staff with a really loud,”Irrashaimase!”
The girls obviuosly loved it. They all giggled and bowed and even responded with what sounded like “Baka gaijin”. They are such beautiful polite people.
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December 25, 2019 11:29am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Nooooo.!
  It’s the staff who deliver the ”Irrashaimase!” (Lit: “Welcome to our store/restaurant/pub/hotel, etc.”
  
  It sounds so weird for the customer to say it to the staff member!
  
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  December 25, 2019 7:35pm
Sydney Alvarado

I was flying today and, looking down, reflected on the achievements of our forebears who built roads, railways, and bridges up and down the country. And houses that most people could afford. And then huge hydro stations.

Fast forward to today we are much richer as a nation and we are totally paralysed. We can’t get a couple of desperately needed, but very short road tunnels built in Wellington. Our achievement is fitting “rumble strips” to roads.
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December 25, 2019 11:41am
- coge
  
  The reclamations, the Wellington wharves, the airport, the Johnsonville line. Ngauranga gorge. All built in a relatively short timescale.
  
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  December 25, 2019 3:01pm
- MH
  
  sit back turn on Prime and watch NZ go south, how settlers transformed NZ. not updated since a few earthquakes.
  
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  December 25, 2019 3:24pm
Lee C

.. as long as you never turn your back on pheasant plucking, Maggy…
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December 25, 2019 12:01pm
- Pharmachick
  
  ? Who plucks pheasants… one opens the breast cavity and takes the meat. What would I know, we have a mandatory hunting permit tied to our small holding…
  
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  December 25, 2019 5:48pm
Sydney Alvarado

“I know for me, I’m going to be focused on continuing the work we’ve done this year, to keep going and keep making progress on some of those big challenges.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/118455542/pm-jacinda-ardern-reflects-on-tough-year-for-new-zealand-in-christmas-video

??????
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December 25, 2019 12:15pm
- Prince
  
  More magazine covers, more overseas triumphant tours, more disaster photo ops, more ‘I wasn’t aware…’ responses to Cabinet failures. Oh joy.
  
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  December 25, 2019 6:53pm
MH

to Greta, lizzie et al
may all you Xmas’ be white.
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December 25, 2019 12:35pm
- MH
  
  its Bing Crosby not Bill singing – Gee.what is the matter with you 3 ?
  3 downers timed at 3.29pm
  
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  December 25, 2019 3:29pm
  - MH
    
    but you are right and did see thru my european eurocentric bias, how dare I.
    
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    December 25, 2019 3:32pm
RW Capitalist

Anyone see the “santa tracker” on TV 1?
Especially the one where, “Baby neive” got a mention.
Using public TV for your own publicity AGAIN, even at Christmas?
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December 25, 2019 12:52pm
- Batman
  
  I’m no fan of neive promotion but I don’t think they would have asked or ordered TVNZ to do that. It’s just those Jaffa knobs at TVNZ trying to be cool and topical… Which is pretty sad
  
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  December 25, 2019 1:44pm
  - Tall Man
    
    They would have to be asked so they must have said yes.
    
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    December 25, 2019 1:59pm
  - Michael
    
    not sure about that….
    just saying.
    
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    December 25, 2019 2:38pm
tavita

I went with my friend to evening Mass last night. We had a sermon about the nativity scene and how it represented the importance of the family. Very modern family too I thought – father of the child nowhere to be seen, another man in the house, relying on the state for gifts of gold etc
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December 25, 2019 12:54pm
Sydney Alvarado

I guess the moderators are entitled to Christmas lunch. ?
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December 25, 2019 1:11pm
Maggie Pie

My partners mum retweetes:

‘…. looks like it was a productive trip to the taxidermists’

https://twitter.com/DailyMirror/status/1209399549569175552
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December 25, 2019 1:26pm
Maggie Pie

Honestly, can you actually believe this sh*t?
We were supposed to be heading up to Tindalls on Boxing Day – until we just get a tweet saying “….lanes on the Harbor Bridge are being closed for repair 26 Dec to 6 Jan”.
I mean, who in their right mind would decide to do something like that during the busiest period of the year?

Anyway, not to worry, as my partner said, “We’ll show the c~~ts, lets get away tonite”
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December 25, 2019 2:37pm
- Brian McDonald
  
  Buy a map Maggie, you’ll find the north shore is not another island. I think a former PM had a batch at Tindalls or somewhere near and managed to drive there before there was a harbour bridge.
  
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  December 25, 2019 4:59pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I’m guessing Twitford, Hands on Jones and that Gender Sheila are just making things as difficult as they can – to enforce public transport.
  Tindalls on a bus? Do they have a bus?
  Anyway, with those 3 clowns how the fuck can I get my caravan, then boat up to Mangawhai?
  Not very bright are they?
  
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  December 25, 2019 5:06pm
  - sooty
    
    There use to car ferrys over to the north shore, in another life time!
    
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    December 25, 2019 9:43pm
Richard

Here’s a happy thought- Its Arderns last christmas as PM.
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December 25, 2019 3:23pm
MH

its Bing Crosby not Bill singing – Gee.what is the matter with you 3 ?
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December 25, 2019 3:27pm
- MH
  
  I deleted this?
  
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  December 25, 2019 3:34pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Dear Santa,
While you are in the US (which is about now) could you have your reindeer spare grandma and just run over Nancy Pelosi? That would be awesome.
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December 25, 2019 4:02pm
- Stephieboy2
  
  abort, abort…
  
  https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-18118136
  
  LOL
  
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  December 25, 2019 4:50pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Thanks stupidboy, Mike, and another moron.
  Merry Christmas you sad downtickers
  
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  December 25, 2019 5:08pm
  - Stephieboy2
    
    Way over your depth! Work on your your dog paddling skills,
    
    https://www.enjoy-swimming.com/dog-paddle.html
    
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    December 25, 2019 6:03pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
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    December 25, 2019 7:03pm
Prince

Dear God, Grant Robertson will present the NZ Cricketers (sorry, Aotearoa Black Caps) with their caps for tomorrows’s test.
That’s that then.
Make alternative plans for Sunday and Monday.
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December 25, 2019 6:57pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Mods. It is time for you to do your job as Mods, with a CAP.
There are a few that get away with sooo much shit, and not questioned by the MODS.
Batman hides behind 3 moderation places.
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December 25, 2019 7:14pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  What are you whingeing about now, snowflake?
  
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  December 25, 2019 8:13pm
Belinda

Condolences to anyone who had to spend time with relations today, who are Jacinda fans.
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December 25, 2019 7:28pm
Max Sky

Merry Merry Christmas to everyone, a happy day to you all. I received a great Christmas book present, Nikkir Haley’s ‘With all due respect.’ Fantastic read, between drinking and eating I’ve read up to page 145.
Definitely not a #turnaround book 🙂 Shows how open and smart Trump is, I hope Nikkir becomes president one day, seems to be a fabulous savvy person.
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December 25, 2019 8:21pm
- Paulus
  
  I received a book on Marilyn Waring.
  I have always admired her – she is still around as is as good as ever.
  I look forward to reading it.
  Beats J Ardern but that is not difficult, and we debating is she better than Helen Clark ?
  Probably my wife says.
  
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  December 26, 2019 2:10pm
chaos

https://www.facebook.com/nznpmwg/photos/a.278023379276944/785486145197329/?type=3&theater
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December 25, 2019 8:36pm
sooty

I saw Cindys kiddie tales on telly tonight with no sound, has she got a lazy left eye, or something?
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December 25, 2019 9:46pm
- bizziebee
  
  Nope – just lazy full stop
  
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