Sometimes there are those news events that take place which are so bizarre that you wonder why some people engage in such stupid and idiotic behavior.
A good example of this can be seen South Dakota when state troopers arrested Marguerite Engle for having a blood alcohol level of .708.
What happened was a stolen van was spotted on the side of the road on December 1st. When officers approached the vehicle they found Engle passed out and behind the wheel of the vehicle.
After giving her a blood alcohol test it was determined that her blood alcohol level was nearly nine times that of the legal limit for South Dakota (which is .08) and is above the safe limit for safely consuming alcohol of .40.
Perhaps the most astonishing part of the story was that she was even alive. Levels of .40 are considered lethal.
“She was almost double that,” Meade County State’s Attorney Jesse Sondreal told the Daily News Thursday. “The BAC is almost incomprehensible.”
The highest blood-alcohol level previously recorded in South Dakota was .56, reports the Daily News.
To make matters even worse when Engle was out on bail she was found again in another stolen vehicle, with her passed out behind the wheel. The blood alcohol level of the latest incident is still yet to be determined.
What this shows is that some people engage in such irresponsible behavior that they take some of the most dubious honors, in the case of Engel hers is having the highest blood alcohol level ever recorded.
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Curvy Kate Winslet has topped a national poll to find the perfect celebrity body of 2009.
The Oscar-winning actress, who has been praised for promoting a more realistic body shape, took the top spot with 16% of the overall votes - narrowly pipping shapely Kelly Brook into second place with 15%.
Kelly Brook
And super thin celebrities Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss finished bottom of the poll carried out with 2,000 respondents by Slimming World and YouGov, scoring just 1% each of the votes.
Kate Moss
Former Casualty actress and Slimming World Woman of the Year, Rebecca Wheatley, who herself lost over 12 stone with the slimming club, believes this marks a shift in people’s perception of what is attractive – especially for women, with whom Winslet scored two thirds of her votes.
“It’s fantastic to see that finally women seem to be aspiring towards a healthy body shape that is realistic and achievable,” she says.
“Kate Winslet has always spoken out about the importance of accepting your body. After all, healthy women come in all sizes. It’s definitely a step forward that rather than persuading women to set their sights on being super thin, which can lead to misery when they fail to achieve their target, more celebrities are encouraging inner confidence and a positive body image and showing women how they can be happy with their shape. I found my positive body image at my Slimming World group, where you’re able to choose the weight you want to be without fear of judgement. I’m now a healthy size 12, and loving it.”
Dr Jacquie Lavin, Slimming World’s Head of Nutrition and Research, added: “It shows a positive shift that women are more likely to see Kate Winslet and Kelly Brook as the ideal body shape rather than Kate Moss or Victoria Beckham and perhaps suggests that it’s not being ‘skinny’ that’s most important to them anymore, it’s being healthy.
“However, there still remains a great deal of pressure on women to conform to an unrealistic ideal and our survey showed that a massive 85% of women are at least occasionally unhappy with their weight. By helping women to improve their self confidence and giving them the freedom to set the target weight that they feel most comfortable with, as we do at Slimming World, we can help thousands of women to discover their own perfect body shape – just like Rebecca Wheatley has.”
Halle BerryPerfect celebrity body table*Kate Winslet – 16%
Kelly Brook – 15%
Halle Berry – 12%
Cheryl Cole – 10%
Beyonce – 6%
Megan Fox – 5%
Lily Allen – 4%
Keeley Hazell – 2%
Sienna Miller – 2%
Kate Moss – 1%
Jordan – 1%
Victoria Beckham – 1%SlimmingWorld
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Tracklist:
01. Skillz - The Wrap Up 2009
02. Lil’ Wayne - Burn In Heaven (Feat. Drake)
03. Juelz Santana - Move The Damn Thing (Feat. Lil’ Wayne)
04. Lil’ Wayne - Dance Floor
05. Lil’ Wayne - It’s All 4 You
06. Cassidy - Freestyle
07. Cassidy - Rock Right Now (Feat. Jag)
08. Styles P - I’m A Soldier
09. Styles P - Kick Doors (Feat. Pokerface)
10. Jadakiss, Styles P, Busta Rhymes, And Rakim - Euphoria
11. Lloyd Banks - The Power Pack
12. Cassidy, Lloyd Banks, And Trav - Baby Ride The Wave Pt. 2
13. Hell Rell - Criminal Minds (Feat. A-Mafia)
14. Hell Rell - It’s Ruga
15. J.R. Writer - Whiteowl Drop That
16. J.R. Writer - Freestyle
17. Cam’ron - Dedicated 2 My Boo
18. Drake - My Pleasure
19. Jay-Z - This Is The Life
20. Nas - The Essence Pt. 2 (Feat. AZ)
21. Nicki Minaj - Come On Whiteowl
22. Lil’ Wayne And Nicki Minaj - Knock Me Out
23. Nicki Minaj - Whiteowl Interlude
24. Lil’ Wayne - I’m Runnin’
25. Lil’ Wayne - Paradise City
26. Styles P - Don’t Be Scared Freestyle
27. A-Wall - Get It Poppin’ In The Club
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With all the controversy surrounding the latest video from Jay-Z "On To The Next One" and its supposed blasphemous images. This is bound to make some people feel uncomfortable as well.
According to a story reported by HipHopWired. New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne will appear in an Adult Swim cartoon titled "Freaknik" as Jesus Christ
The name "Freaknik" is taken from a former annual event held in Atlanta for mostly African American college students from around the country.
Adult Swim is known for edgy cartoons generally geared for audiences 18 years of age and older. If the creators of "Freaknik" were looking to get a buzz then this should do it. The only question is, will it be a positive or negative buzz?
The cartoon which also features T-Pain and David Banner will air on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim March 1st.
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Chris Brown never turns down an opportunity to party.
The R&B star hosted the 400 Club At Play party in South Beach, Florida Friday (December 1). A Lot of industry cats were in the building including The Snowman Young Jeezy, Bow Wow, E Class, Terrance J, Flo Rida & Lil Wayne.
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Call the RZA hip-hop's foremost alchemist. The self-professed former drug dealer-turned-Grammy-winning rapper-producer has defied all odds to spin not lead into gold, but démodé pop culture and arcane philosophical beliefs into platinum disc upon platinum disc.
And now, after spending years under the tutelage of several high-profile filmmakers, including Quentin Tarantino, he's preparing to unleash his unique mash-up sensibility on the big screen, in a project that will be part chop-socky flick, part spaghetti western and all RZA.
As founding father of the hard-core Staten Island rap collective Wu-Tang Clan, RZA (pronounced "rizza," given name: Robert Diggs) conflated the spiritual enlightenment found in '70s kung fu movies with racially incendiary teachings from the Five-Percent Nation of Islam, adding to the mix references to Taoism and comic books, numerology and snippets of mafia don movie dialogue, articulating a plaintive yet hard-bitten ghetto cri de coeur.
The upshot was an almost unparalleled string of hits that started with the Clan's epochal 1993 debut LP, "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)," and encompasses such releases as Method Man's multiplatinum-selling "Tical," Raekwon the Chef's "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx . . ." (widely regarded as one of hip-hop's greatest albums) and Ol' Dirty Bastard's gold-selling "Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version," another ranking rap classic.
But after the Wu's tightly knit fabric started to unravel around 2004, RZA began to focus more on film. In recent years, he has been scoring such movies as "Blade: Trinity" and making cameo appearances in Jim Jarmusch's "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai" and other films. His encyclopedic knowledge of Hong Kong cinema notwithstanding, the producer didn't have any particular ambition to set moviedom on fire. Until, that is, he got a fateful phone call from then-Miramax Co-Chairman Harvey Weinstein.
"Hey RZA, it's Harvey," the RZA recalled, lapsing into a raspy imitation of Weinstein's cigarette-seasoned growl. "I want you to be in my movie. You got a new career now."
Since that appearance with Clive Owen in 2005's "Derailed," RZA has built a respectable filmography with small roles in a number of high-profile, big-budget studio movies, among them Judd Apatow's "Funny People" and Ridley Scott's "American Gangster," as well as a turn in "The Hangover" director Todd Phillips' upcoming comedy, "Due Date," and Paul Haggis' "The Next Three Days" -- a role that reunited him with "Gangster" co-star Russell Crowe.
"I'm working up in the movie business," RZA said. "Maybe in the movie business, I'm working down. How long are you going to be a celebrity? I like the art. I like how it feels to act."
So do such other rappers-turned-actors as LL Cool J, Common, Xzibit, Ludacris, DMX, Ice Cube and even Snoop Dogg. But befitting the producer's magpie ability to glean and repackage cultural stimuli from across the high-low divide, RZA says his acting efforts are in the service of his next career act: a move behind the camera.
With no small amount of backup from a cadre of top-flight filmmakers -- including independent cinema luminary Jarmusch and Hong Kong action movie ace John Woo, but most significantly, Tarantino -- the RZA-rector, as he is sometimes known, is now in final preparations for his debut as a writer-director, "The Man With the Iron Fist." And unlike the fates of some musicians' directorial efforts (say, Madonna's "Filth and Wisdom" or Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst's "The Education of Charlie Banks"), RZA's movie industry backers swear he has the right combination of creativity, chutzpah and discipline to achieve liftoff at the box office.
Planned as a genre-busting opening salvo to the industry, the movie is being produced by "torture porn" poster boy Eli Roth, the writer-director of such low-cost, high-yield horror films as "Hostel" and "Hostel: Part II."
RZA and Eli Roth
(For the time being, though, both filmmakers prefer to remain mum on specific plot points, although Roth allows that "Man With the Iron Fist" should appeal to "an audience that's hungry for kung fu but not grindhouse. Something that's modern, like 'Blade.' ")
"RZA is such a creative fountain. The script is great, he's got characters, jokes. What he does with lyrics, he does with dialogue," Roth said. "And he's done such a great mix: spaghetti western, kung fu, modern fighting infused with hip-hop and multiculture. He has this whole comic book universe figured out. I know he's going to make a brilliant film."
Of course, none of it would be possible without Tarantino, who godfathered Roth's "Hostel" into production as an executive producer and introduced the filmmaker to RZA. A longtime admirer of Wu-Tang Clan's sonic mélange, with his own deeply felt appreciation for the Shaolin monk movie cannon, Tarantino first hired RZA to create the electro-ambient, quasi-hip-hop score for his two-volume kung fu drama " Kill Bill." But their working relationship didn't end there. Tarantino has allowed the RZA to soak up production know-how on the set of every movie he's done since 2003.
Tarantino said he identifies with the hip-hop producer's skill in macromanaging the nine Clan members' unwieldy energies into a cohesive form. "You have to understand that even though they're very different, being a producer on a record is not too different from being a director of film -- especially with something like Wu-Tang Clan," Tarantino said. "All these guys have their different contributions. Everyone has a say. But ultimately, the album is RZA's decision. That's very similar to what a director does. It's a lot like how I was influenced by Phil Spector."
Still, RZA says he would not make the move into filmmaking without Tarantino's explicit blessing.
"Tarantino is my teacher," RZA said solemnly, echoing -- whether intentionally or not -- the kind of dialogue you'd hear in a martial-arts film. "I've watched hundreds of movies with him and spent hundreds of hours learning craft from him. I'm a disciple of Tarantino."
He continued: "When Eli said, 'I want to help you make your movie,' we had to go to Quentin. The teacher. He said, 'You and Eli are ready. You have my blessing.' "
Kanye West's image may have taken a couple of L's in 2009, but the Chicago rapper's ego didn't suffer one bit.
In his latest blog, Kanye reports that he's happy to be back in the studio recording new music "with the same dedication that Kobe (Bryant) has on the court".
West later compares his artistry to two of America's greatest African American poets and one incredible singer/songwriter, writing:
"We will follow in the footsteps of Maya Angelou, Gil Scott Heron and Nina Simone. Their work improved with time."
If Yeezy is to be believed then his future work will sound more like 'The College Dropout' and a lot less like '808's and Heartbreak'
At least we can hope.
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Video After The JumpSnoop D-Oh-Double-G hit up the Chelsea Lately show to talk about everything he's been up to recently.
The hilarious talk show host,(who seems to have a "thing" for rappers) congratulated the rap superstar on getting his Medical Marijuana Licence and asked how she might get one for herself
Chelsea also got the Doggfather to talk about his love for soap operas, the youth football league he sponsers and the possiblity of working with Susan Boyle.
Video After The JumpJamaican sensation Sean Kingston helped ring in the New Year by performing a medley of songs on Billboard's New Year's Eve Special.
Sean got the crowd excited by singing his biggest hit to date "Beautiful Girls" followed by "Take You There" and "Fire Burning"
Tuesday morning, I received the Golden Ticket of journalistic invitations: a summons to Prince's mansion, high atop Mulholland Drive, to hear the new music he'll be releasing sometime after the holidays. At 8 p.m. that evening, I drove my dirty Mazda past the fountain in his courtyard, parked by the limo in the back, and entered his manse. The man himself greeted me in a candelit study, where he was laboring over a laptop with his Web designers, Anthony Malzone and Scott Addison Clay.
The next five hours took me from that room to a car Prince referred to as "Miles Davis," where we listened to one set of songs; into a back room furnished with a round bed, faux-fur carpeting and a plexiglass Rhodes piano, where he played cuts by his new protege, the comely Bria Valente; and into that white limo, where the entirety of "Lotus Flower," the album previewed earlier this month on Indie 103.1, boomed through the speakers as we drove through Hollywood.
Needless to say, it was an amazing experience. After the jump, a few tidbits, including Prince's promise of three albums in 2009 and his thoughts on Proposition 8.
Prince will release not one, but three albums in the new year. He's in final negotiations with "a major retailer" to distribute the music in physical form, and a highly interactive website will also provide an opportunity to buy. He's not working with a record label. "The gatekeepers have to change," he said several times throughout the evening.
He's found his way back to the sound of "When Doves Cry." The first disc, tentatively titled "MPLSOUND," is an electro-flavored solo effort recorded at Paisley Park Studios. Prince experimented with Pro Tools and "new ways of recording" on these trippy, experimental pop songs. One features a Q-Tip rap; another calls a "Funky Congregation" to worship and may become a live set piece.
He's ready to revive the Quiet Storm. "We got sick of waiting for Sade to make a new album," he said, introducing Valente's new album, "Elixir." The tracks are chill, with Valente's buttery voice melding with beats by Morris Hayes and Prince's guitar lines. Some are explicitly sexual. "This music is nasty, but it's not dirty," Prince said, explaining how sensual music fits in with his much-discussed faith -- he's a Jehovah's Witness. "There's no profanity. It isn't promoting promiscuity. She's singing about her lover, who could be her partner for life."
He loves his guitar. As the tracks played on Indie 103.1 indicated, "Lotus Flower" is rooted in the instrument. Prince said he refocused on his playing while performing live dates with the singer Tamar Davis in 2006; with the spotlight trained on someone else, he could fall back in love with solos and riffs. "Lotus Flower" is a varied album, featuring cuts recorded over the course of two years, but standout tracks include some heavy rockers -- especially the apocalyptic "Dreamer," which Prince said was partly inspired by the radical black comedian Dick Gregory.
He did not vote for Proposition 8. In fact, he didn't vote at all. "I didn't vote for Obama either," he explained. "Jehovah's Witnesses haven't voted for their whole inception." The controversy over a recent New Yorker "Talk of the Town" item, which Prince feels implied he supported the gay-marriage ban, has upset him. It's the first thing he wanted to discuss when the Web geeks had gone and we were alone. "I have friends that are gay and we study the Bible together," he said. He added that two sides fighting "only benefit the third person" who instigated the fight.
Source: L.A. Times
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Videos After The JumpMs.Keri Baby indeed, being the protege of super producer Timbaland can't be an easy thing but, Keri Hilson has proven she is up to the challenge.
Keri dropped her critically acclaimed as well as fan favorite debut cd "In A Perfect World" in March 2009 and hasn't looked back since.
The Interscope songbird made an appearance on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest special and performed two of her biggest hits "Turning Me On" and "Knock Me Down"
Robin Thicke also made an appearance, performing his new single "Sex Therapy"
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A Florida inmate is demanding he be allowed to receive his smut behind bars, damn the rules.
Jorge Niebla, is currently serving 13 life sentences for six counts of kidnapping with a weapon, two counts of armed robbery, one count of carjacking, one count of burglary with assault and six counts of attempted second degree murder of a law enforcement officer.
He filed the two page lawsuit against Penthouse Magazine in handwritten block letters, complete with misspellings to Manhattan Federal Court.
“I would like to purchase the magazine but staff are being predjudice (sic) and don’t have respect for my basic rights.” Niebla wrote, also adding that Penthouse is not allowing him "access to the media"
The New York Post reports Niebla claims he never heard back after he wrote the company in August 2008 and asked for the price and ordering instructions for its April 2007 issue, which features a nude pictorial of burlesque star Dita Von Teese.
Niebla was ordered by a Florida judge to fill out a form to get a waiver of the $350 filing fee
Penthouse couldn't be reached for comment.
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Rapper Bow Wow isn't "lil" any more, and now that he's of legal drinking age, he seems to think it's cool to drive after a night of getting his drink on.TMZ reports that Bow Weezy partied it up in Miami with Akon and Chris Brown for New Year's Eve, and as they club hopped, he tweeted all about it.
In one Twitter update (@bowwow614), the young rapper said he was a "tipsy as f***", but still drove his Lamborghini after drinks at LIV nightclub at the Fontainbleau in Miami.
"Face numb Im whippin the Lambo. Tispy as f*k. Just left @livmiami," he wrote.
Then just minutes later, he continued, tweeting: "Im f**ked up!!! Ohhhh damn. Y i drive the lambo. Chris might have to drive after next spot."
Those tweets were deleted as of press time. Bow Wow has since apologized, calling his previous updates "immature."
"Apologize for that tweet," he wrote. "It was stupid and immature. Not a way i want to kick my #2010 year off. I got too much good stuff lined up. my bad."
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NEW YORK -- Washington Wizards teammates Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton drew guns on each other during a Christmas Eve locker room argument over a gambling debt, according to The New York Post.
Last week, the Wizards and Arenas acknowledged that Arenas had stored unloaded firearms in a container in his locker, and the NBA said it was looking into the situation.
It was during that investigation that a confrontation between Arenas and Crittenton was revealed, according to a Yahoo! Sports report.
The dispute stemmed from an unspecified disagreement, sources told Yahoo! Sports.
Citing an anonymous source, the newspaper reported in Friday's edition, however, that the standoff was sparked when Crittenton became angry at Arenas for refusing to make good on a gambling debt.
That prompted Arenas to draw on Crittenton, who then also grabbed for a gun, league security sources tell the Post.
Asked by the Post about the confrontation, Arenas denied pulling a gun on Crittenton.
"This is unprecedented in the history of sports," Billy Hunter, executive director of the Player's Association, told the Post. "I've never heard of players pulling guns on each other in a locker room."
The Wizards said on the night of Dec. 24 that Arenas had stored unloaded firearms in a container in his locker at the arena and that the NBA was looking into the situation.
On Tuesday, Washington, D.C. police said they were investigating a report that weapons were found inside a locker room at the Verizon Center.
Now, the federal government is also involved. Ben Friedman, a spokesman for the US Attorney's Office in DC, told the Post "we're working with the Metropolitan Police Department on the investigation."
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Videos After The Jump106 and Park had by far the best New Year's Eve Show. They brought together some of the hottest acts in the game today in both rap and r&b.
The star studded show featured performances from Maino, Omarion , Trey Songz , New Boyz, Pleasure P and Dorrough. As well as Yo Gotti featuring Nicki Minaj, Clipse, Jerimih, Day 26 and Mishon
Trey Songz Performing "Say Ahh"
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With the close of the decade here, there is no shortage of “best of” lists reviewing top achievements throughout the pop culture landscape. But when it comes to most noteworthy music of the ‘00’s, one album that has been showing up on just about everyone’s list is 50 Cent’s 2003 debut Get Rich Or Die Tryin’. The seminal release, which has to date sold over 12 million copies worldwide, transformed the troubled Curtis Jackson, a former Queens, New York drug dealer and local mixtape favorite, into one of the biggest musical acts on the planet.
Propelled by the hypnotic Dr. Dre-produced anthem “In da Club” and the backing of hip-hop’s paramount seller Eminem (50 was the first artist signed to Em’s Shady Records, which released the project jointly with Dre’s Aftermath Records), Get Rich represented more than just a commercial triumph. It was a cultural landmark that gave East Coast street rap a fresh platform, opening up a new world for the unlikely entertainment mogul.
Looking back on the album, 50 Cent has a more personal attachment to Get Rich or Die Tryin’.
“With Get Rich I had so much to prove on that album,” recalls the rapper who dropped his fourth studio album, Before I Self Destruct, in November. “Everything had to be perfect in my head. I wanted to make sure that everything I said captured my true feelings at that time. I just felt like it was God’s plan to be where I was at. My mind frame at that point was the music. Anything that would have come in my way at that point I would have removed it the best way I know how. The ‘hood teaches you to do it in a way that’s not sensible.”
One of the aspects that made critics take note of 50 Cent was his surprising vulnerability, a trait that you would not normally associate with a combative, controversial artist who has been involved in high profile verbal sparring with everyone from Ja Rule, Jadakiss, and Game to Kanye West, Rick Ross, and most recently, Jay-Z. But 50 insist he was just keeping it real.
“A lot of rappers don’t write about their fears or point out where they didn’t get the best of a situation,” he says. “So the first time I experimented with it was with songs like ‘Many Men.’ I’m telling folks that there is blood in my eyes and I can’t see. I’m hurt at that point. I’m vulnerable.”
Yet, after Get Rich, 50 Cent’s life would never be the same as his success spun off a multi-million dollar label (G-Unit Records); a successful G-Unit clothing line; a major film (2005’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’); and a stable of platinum acts (a crew that included Game, Lloyd Banks, and Young Buck). But even as the commercial muscle has dramatically declined for 50 Cent, the spitter insists that he is still the same hungry kid who made the music world take notice.
“That’s what people want from me…. to give them the real shit,” he says. “That’s a part of me. It’s necessary to have aggression to survive but that’s not all of me. There’s so much more.”
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Video After The Jump2009 was a standout year for The Black Eyed Peas. Their latest album, 'The E.N.D.' garnered six Grammy nominations. Spawning the hits "I Gotta Feeling" and "Boom Boom Pow".
The hip hop group celebrated by performing "Meet Me Halfway" on the ABC special Dick Clark's New Year's Eve Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest.
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Videos After The JumpRihanna helped warm up a cold night, performing several of her hit songs as the snow fell on New York's Rockerfeller Center.
This segment for NBC's New Years Ever With Carson Daly Special was taped a couple weeks ago, but that didn't make a difference as Riri represented well. The Def Jam R&B princess gave stand out performances of "Hard". "Umbrella & Run This Town" featuring Jay-Z and her new single "Wait Your Turn"
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Rihanna Performing "Wait Your Turn"
Rihanna Perfoming "Run This Town" ft Jay-Z x "Umbrella"
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