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style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=600 style='width:6.25in' id=templateBody><tr><td valign=top style='background:#FDFDFD;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><p style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><br><img border=0 width=134 height=124 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CEFB2F.7F7C99B0"></span><b><span style='font-size:26.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>No Nukes News </span></b><span style='font-size:26.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><img border=0 width=75 height=125 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.png@01CEFB2F.7F7C99B0"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>Dec. 17, 2013 – Blessings of the season!</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><br><br><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=4299a57f0e&e=45743fde61"><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;color:teal'>Government of Ontario: Stop OPG's 30% price increase</span></a> Please sign my </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'>petition </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>to the ON Gov’t to import low-cost renewable water power from Quebec rather than rebuild Darlington at very high cost<br><br><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=a8a92c3392&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:teal'>Help OCAA move to 100% renewable future</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>Watch Jack and I in this 90 sec. video<br><br></span><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:firebrick'>The World</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ca809212d5&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Nuclear repository could end up in Arctic</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>Ten pre-selected locations in Northwest-Russia are now under consideration, including permafrost sites on Novaya Zemlya and Nenets Autonomous Okrug.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=f8204c9f31&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Japan’s New ‘Fukushima Fascism</span><span style='color:#336699'>’</span></a> Within Japan, a new State Secrets Act makes criticism of Fukushima or gov’t punishable by up to ten years in prison. It’s the cancerous mark of a nuclear regime bound to control all knowledge of a lethal global catastrophe now ceaselessly escalating.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=63ef8db957&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>AECL defends plans to transport liquid nuclear waste from Chalk River to South Carolina</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>The real fear is a spill caused by an accident or sabotage and the environmental catastrophe that would ensue.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=78b87c35eb&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>No Nukes for Climate Change: Ralph Nader and Kevin Kamps</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>60 min. audio recording <br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=c45ced194a&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Why Letter by Hansen et al Misses the Mark on Nuclear Power and Renewables</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>On November 3, four climate and atmospheric scientists issued a letter to prominent US environmental organizations urging them to support extensive build-out of nuclear power to combat global warming. Here’s a response from NIRS and the Civil Society Institute.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=929c31ff75&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>CNSC (Canadian Nuclear Safety commission) had contracts with anti-environmental firm</span></a> At least 13 Canadian government agencies, including the CNSC, have spent $500,000 with a U.S. private intelligence firm that came under fire recently for outlining ways to counter activist groups, according to documents released on Wikileaks.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=dae9bc6b68&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Uranium Mining and Human Rights</span></a> The impact on people, our health and the environment<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:firebrick'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=41827782d5&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:firebrick'>Uranium</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:firebrick'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>Watch the 47-minute NFB film on the history of Canada’s uranium industry<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p style='line-height:150%'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:mediumblue'>Ontario</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:blue'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=9bd7b1fa0d&e=45743fde61">Stop making green power the scapegoat</a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>Subsidies for nuclear power pushed up our electricity generation costs by 43 per cent last year. The real reason electricity bills in Ontario are on the rise is our overbuilt and unreliable nuclear system (with Pickering A being the most expensive nuclear plant to operate in North America).<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:blue'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=758cc0332a&e=45743fde61">Ontario Power executives fired over auditor's report</a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>Overall, 62 per cent of OPG’s employees earned more than $100,000 last year. The number of employees taking in more than $200,000 ballooned to 448 from 117 in 2003. Charges of nepotism, exorbitant payouts and bonuses, and swelling of executive ranks. <a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=e16b33af9e&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:#336699'>On top of it</span></a>, OPG is seeking a 30 per cent increase in rates for the nuclear power it generates. This defies explanation since it has shrunk its unionized work force in response to lower demand for its energy. <br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:blue'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=413dc5aece&e=45743fde61">Activists are Lashing Out at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission</a> “Over the course of this meeting I have heard Toronto residents express to you passionately that the GE-Hitachi uranium processing facility should not be located so closely to a residential region in Toronto… This processing facility should not be located in the City of Toronto because it should not be located anywhere at all. The nuclear industry does not belong anywhere in Canada, nor does it belong anywhere in the world.” “You can claim that the levels of exposure are within current limits, but you cannot say that they are safe.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p style='line-height:150%'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'>Renewables and Conservation</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'>☼ </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=4f4c2728fa&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:green'>Germany shows a thriving green economy is possible</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>Germany, while rising to become one of the globe’s strongest national economies, <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>reduced its emissions by 25% below 1990 levels</span></strong> by 2012. With there being a strong renewables lobby in the country – unlike Canada, where the <a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=c87b169cd8&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:#336699'>fossil fuel industry plays a dominant role</span></a> – the German renewable industry is exercising its clout to suggest a 47% renewables target for 2020. In 2011, there were 372,000 people working in the nation’s clean energy sectors and the projections are such that these numbers are expected to be in the 400,000 to 500,000 range by 2020.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'>☼ </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=5113085412&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:green'>Ontario Liberals scrap local content rules for green energy</span></a> To <a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=86655a6dbf&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:#336699'>comply</span></a> with last year's World Trade Organization ruling, Ontario will <a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=7bf13d7cc8&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:#336699'>remove</span></a> the Green Energy Act’s domestic content provisions. The rule spurred a clean energy manufacturing boom in the province.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'>☼ </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=233e140b9d&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:green'>Ottawa Renewable Energy Co-op (OREC)</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>launches its second shareholder offering today and is seeking to raise $1.25 million to invest in two local solar rooftop projects. Here’s your opportunity to invest in clean, co-operative, renewable energy in Ottawa! Information sessions will be held throughout December and January; details <a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=e56256b491&e=45743fde61" target="_self"><span style='color:#336699'>here</span></a>.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'>☼ </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=a8133aab5e&e=45743fde61" target="_self"><span style='color:green'>Chile Doubles Renewables Target</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>Recently passed legislation directs the South American nation to source 20 percent its overall energy portfolio from renewable sources by 2025.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'>☼ </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=efd5e52c14&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:green'>Madrid's Big Plan to Swear Off Cars</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>The Spanish city will overhaul its core to prioritize the needs of pedestrians, transit vehicles, cyclists, and cars—in that order. Workers will remove vehicle lanes, add bike lanes, and plant trees. Next up, Toronto!<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'>☼ </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=0709f00e71&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:green'>Canadian Solar expands</span></a> Canadian Solar to build a new photovoltaic power plant in Ontario. The Guelph company, one of the world’s largest solar energy firms, has seen its stock increase more than eightfold this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p style='line-height:150%'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'>Take Action!</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:teal'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'> NDP Leader Andrea Horwath</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'> is inviting comments on how hydro rate increases are affecting you. You can email her here: <a href="mailto:yoursay@ontariondp.ca" target="_blank"><span style='color:#336699'>yoursay@ontariondp.ca</span></a> Be sure to let her know that cancelling the Darlington re-build project as well as the Pickering extension, in favour of conservation and renewables such as water power from Quebec, would save us billions per year.<br> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:teal'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=7d44883607&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:teal'>Quebec imports can save us $1 billion per year</span></a> As our <a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=cbf4d93bea&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:#336699'>new pamphlet</span></a> explains, importing clean hydro power from Quebec is a much cheaper way to meet our electricity needs than re-building the Darlington Nuclear Plant. <a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=05fde16535&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:#336699'>Order free copies</span></a> today to distribute to your neighbours, family and friends.<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:teal'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=094589f823&e=45743fde61" target="_blank"><span style='color:teal'>Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:teal'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'>Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is seeking approval to build a nuclear waste dump 1 km from the shores of Lake Huron. <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This dump puts at risk the fresh water of the GREAT LAKES, relied upon by 40 million people in two countries.</span></em> Tell Minister Aglukkaq and the Canadian federal government to stand up for the protection of the Great Lakes. Sign the petition<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p style='line-height:150%'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:purple'>Events</span></strong><span style='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"MS Gothic";color:purple'>☢</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:purple'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#505050'><a href="http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=843076516f&e=45743fde61"><span style='color:#336699'>Webinar: The Rossland Energy Conservation Diet</span></a> What are the Secrets of Their Success? 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