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WGSN and Coloro are betting on a dark, moody navy alternative in 2025.

The trend forecasting firm and its sister color company named Future Dusk the Color of the Year for 2025 Tuesday. WGSN described the shade as a dark, moody and intriguing hue with a sense of mystery and escapism. The tone, it added, will be important for classic styles and investment pieces, adding opulence and functioning as a gender-inclusive purple.

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For several seasons now Coloro has seen brands shifting towards palettes with long-lasting appeal, Future Dusk is an inspiring color that supports this trans-seasonal approach, Caroline Guilbert, creative content lead for Coloro, said in a statement. It appears warm and deep which makes it feel moody, mysterious and timeless.

Situated between blue and purple, Future Dusk feeds into themes of transition, WGSN said, making it perfect for a period of immense change. The firm also tied the color to what it called the second space age, citing the potential of extraterrestrial commercial opportunities, such as space tourism and asteroid mining.

Synthetic creativity will be a primary driver, it noted, as creative tools like AI art generators become widely available. It can be elevated with metallic finishes to create a celestial allure or applied to 3D renders in the metaverse, it added.

Colors that bring a sense of reassurance will be key for 2025 and we will see captivating tinted darks gaining momentum, Urangoo Samba, head of color for WGSN, said in a statement. In the near future, the lines between reality and fantasy will become more blurred than everFuture Dusk is an immersive and transformative color, aligned with this direction.

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Other key 2025 colors include barely there Transcendent Pink, an elevated, balancing and commercially dependable shade already filtering into virtual environment. Aquatic Awes transformative turquoise pits the strange and wondrous aspects ofnature against a synthetic quality suggestive of digital environments. Energizing Sunset Coral riffs on conscious hedonism and escapism. Ray Flowers radiant yellow is inspired by regenerative practices that protect biodiversity.

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Future Dusk follows Apricot Crush, WGSN and Coloros pick for Color of the Year for 2024. The energetic, vibrant color ticks a lot of the boxes, WGSN head of womenswear Sara Maggioni said, offering versatility across seasons, genders, market levels and product categories. In December, the WGSN and Coloro unveiled their Fall/Winter 2024-2025 color palette. Joining Apricot Crush were Intense Rust, Midnight Plum, Sustained Grey and Cool Matcha.

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Though it really shouldnt have taken her so long, local woman Daisy Simmons [32] has finally figured out how to have the perfect weekend, which balances both her need for hedonism and inability to function on a hangover anymore get shitfaced on a Friday, recover on a Saturday, and run errands/ have a coffee date with a friend on a Sunday.

Not only does this allow her to feel more refreshed for work on Monday, but also gives the illusion of a longer weekend.

Friday is absolutely the best night to get pissed, Daisy explains, I cant believe I used to be a Saturday person.

Saturday just feels like a weird day to do chores, especially because Ill just procrastinate and leave it all until Sunday anyway.

But if I go out Saturday night, then Im probably too hungover to do anything productive on Sunday.

You get me?

Daisy goes on further to explain how exciting it feels to wake up on a Saturday after a night out, knowing that she still has a lot of her weekend left.

Theres nothing worse than being hung or having a comedown on Sunday, knowing you have work the next day.

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Every day, investigators uncover potential evidence that President Joe Biden sold out the country for personal gain, yet even when on full display, the corporate media refuse to call out the Democrats corruption, deliberately choosing to ignore the scandal.

Sir, there is something personal thats affecting you. Your son, while theres no ties to you, could be charged by your Department of Justice. How will that impact your presidency? MSNBCs Stephanie Ruhle twice asked the president on Friday during one of his rare sitdown interviews.

First of all, my son has done nothing wrong. I trust him. I have faith in him. It impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him, Biden replied.

Bidens nonchalant dismissal of Hunters long history of hedonism and criminality is problematic for several reasons. But far more shocking than his redundant affirmation of his not-so-prodigal son was the question that led the president to that answer.

Just this week, Republicans Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. James Comer subpoenaed the FBI over a document they say alleges a criminal scheme between now-President Joe Biden and a foreign national during his years in the Obama White House.

The allegation that Biden appears to be implicated in an international bribery scheme is merely the latest piece of evidence uncovered by GOP legislators investigating whether Biden sold out the American people to the nations foreign enemies to line his own pockets. So far, Republicans have warned itdoesnt look good for POTUS.

The latest news was so big even corporate media outlets that chose not to cover the Hunter laptop scandal until well beyond the 2020 election highlighted it.

Yet, instead of covering bombshell stories like that Biden-appointed U.S. attorneys in California and D.C.recently blockedtheir offices from filing criminal tax charges against Hunter, Ruhle willfully turned a blind eye to them. Ruhle is so unbothered by the ongoing Biden corruption scandal she even tried to discredit it with no ties to you caveats about the presidents connection to Hunters potential wrongdoings.

That strategy is scandalous yet unsurprising given the corporate medias track record of covering for their preferred candidates.

The reasons for former President Donald Trumps 2016 victory are many, but calling out the fake news press for their shenanigans like Ruhles is one of the most memorable. Trumps penchant for taunting the media is likely why corporate chatterboxes and the Democrats continue to keep their spiteful sights on him.

During Trumps time in office, the corporate media criticized his tweets, twisted his words, and intentionally undermined his authority with a constant stream of lies. For their unscrupulous scheming, the press were awarded Pulitzers.

Even before Trumps presidential win, Hillary Clintons campaign hired a team to sell a narrative that Trump colluded with Russia. This tall tale was subsequently fed to the Obama administration, which used it to justify spying on Trump and his aides, despite the obviously false pretenses.

While the Russia collusion hoax and discredited Steele dossier still dominated corporate media coverage about Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr., Democrats orchestrated two sham impeachments against the president, whom they claimed was guilty of treason. Despite an incredulous lack of evidence, these political attacks were sustained with plenty of negatively framed press coverage about Trumps sons, daughters, andson-in-law.

Fast forward four years. Our current presidents children and family members are at the center of a well-evidenced probe suggesting that Biden and his family jeopardized U.S. national security to engage in potentially criminal enterprises. This is in addition to the news that Hunter exploited his fathers political reputation to strike business deals with oligarchs in Ukraine and China and then likelygave a cutto his dad.

Biden is a known serial liar and but it was Trump whose every word was fact-checked. Biden harbored classified documents from his time as vice presidentin a box by his1967 Corvette Stingray, but it was Trump who was on the receiving end of the media and the FBIs public scorn.

Even before the Democrat took office in January of 2021, the media repeated dishonest narratives created by the Biden campaign to downplay damning evidence from Hunters laptop. When Bidenrepeatedly lied on the campaign trail about Hunters overseas business dealingsto cover hisfamilys tracks and bank accounts, the press did not press him.

Instead, corporate media persistently allied themselves with the Biden White House and against the American people. When they arent going after the former first family, the corporate mediaare amplifyingthe current presidents excuses, shilling for his son, and claimingover andoverandover andoverandover that the Republicans investigation is politically motivated even though it is not.

Trump isnt the only victim of the media and the Democrat media complexs double standard.

Under Biden, liberty and justice are for all unless youre a pro-life Christian, concerned parent, MAGA Republican, or victim of Democrats deadly covid policies.

For years, members of the corporate media scrounged for dirt on their political enemies, like Trump and his voters. Yet when an actual scandal sits down for a one-on-one interview with them, they gloss over it. Do not mistake the presss lack of attention to the flailing presidents loving father facade as blissful ignorance to the extent of Bidens corruption.

Ruhles dishonest line of questioning proves that the corporate medias motivations when it comes to bombshells about the Bidens remain pure deception.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.

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Brandon Cronenberg has established himself as one of the most unique and daring filmmakers working today. The son of David Cronenberg (Scanners, The Fly, History of Violence, Crimes of the Future), Brandon quickly made his mark with the 2012 body horror Antiviral and the 2020 award-winning psychological horror Possessor, films that saw Cronenberg Jnr. push the boundaries of violence and sex while establishing his own unique visual style.

Infinity Pool, his latest sci-fi horror, sees the filmmaker plunge into the choppy waters of social satire. Alexander Skarsgrd stars as James Foster, a struggling writer who seeks inspiration while on vacation at an exclusive seaside resort with his wealthy wife Em (Australian actress Cleopatra Coleman). A day into his holiday, James meets Gabi (Mia Goth), a mysterious and seductive actress who guides him into a nightmare-fuelled playground of consequence-free violence and hedonism.

A surreal and disturbing yet utterly captivating descent into a world where narcissism and madness drown the soul, Infinity Pool also features the subject of cloning, with the films rich antagonists creating duplicates of themselves who bear the brutal brunt of punishment for the grizzly crimes of their originals. While Infinity Pool can be described as science fiction, it should be seen as more of a distorted and disfigured fairy tale.

(Infinity Pool) is technically a sci-fi movie in the sense that there is a science fiction element to it, but its not predicted science fiction, says Brandon Cronenberg. Its not like a story that in any way accurately builds a world where cloning exists. It is a bit more like magic realism in the sense that there is something kind of resembling our own world that has this one absurd element to it; this one kind of twist to it that makes it a bit more of a fever dream version of reality and the cloning in the film is really there to talk about other things, to drive the plot and action and make a lens to look at the real world and create the satire in the film.

Cronenberg has long encouraged those who watch his films to define the themes for themselves, and Infinity Pool is no exception, with its surreal nature and social commentary on class and violence encouraging much thought and discussion, if the confronting imagery doesnt prove to be too overwhelming (Infinity Pool has an R rating for a reason). As for Cronenberg himself, Infinity Pool presents how even the most banal of souls can descend into the most decadent and depraved behaviour.

(Infinity Pool) is more generally about what happens to people when they can operate without general consequences, he says. In the film, these are very bland people who are capable of doing very horrible things when they are allowed to, and I think history is full of very normal people doing incredibly horrible things when they find themselves in the context of when that is possible.

Filmed in the seaside city of ibenik in Croatia, and in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, in an interesting twist, both Croatia and Hungary were once under tyrannical communist rule throughout the mid to late 20th century, a historical footnote that was not lost on the filmmaker while shooting Infinity Pool.

The reason we chose those countries wasnt because of their histories, he says. But once we were there, I think that kind of old communist aspect to the fictional world, that quality was really enhanced. The real-world histories of those places really started to creep into the film and really define it. The (Kelenfld) power station in Hungary is very much a location that was built under communism. Even the police cars were used by communist politicians in Hungary. The resort we shot at was incredibly strange, but the bones [of it] were from the communist era. It has this sort of brutalist structure that was originally created under communism and was wildly renovated by this eccentric Croatian businessman who wanted to turn each aspect of the resort into another part of Croatia its even weirder as a resort in reality. Those histories really do shape the film and really did play a big part in what it became.

Cronenbergs unique approach to visuals and colour in his films have long been a subject of discussion and admiration, and Infinity Pool is no exception. Where does the filmmaker get his inspiration and ideas for his visual approach?

Part of it is a hard-to-articulate sense of aesthetics that we all sort of have, and as you work in a visual medium there are certain things that just ring true to you, he clarifies. Some of it is more calculated and intends to be pretty collaborative. For instance, when I have a finished script, before we have a cast or locations or sets or anything, my cinematographer Karim Hussain and I will spend a great deal of time making a kind of theoretical shot list where we really discuss scene by scene what the visual language of the film is and its usually motivated by narrative and other elementswe go through a very long process of exploring visual effects, playing with gels and lighting and filters and glass and projection feedback, and we stumble on interesting stuff that starts to define the film. So, some of it is innate, some of it is very calculated, and some of it is found art.

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1996 was a diverse year for film. While not quite as memorable as 1994 or 1999, it still featured an impressive mix of box office titans and indie gems. Commercially, Independence Day, Mission: Impossible, and Twister raked in big returns. For viewers with more niche tastes, directors like Alexander Payne, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Wes Anderson burst onto the scene with electric debuts.

The finest films of the year range from musicals to slashers, gritty dramas to black comedy. Many of them have aged remarkably well, and remain engaging and vivid almost three decades later.

Waiting for Guffman is a mockumentary following the residents of the fictional town of Blaine, Missouri as they prepare for their 150th-anniversary celebration. The town's amateur theater group, led by the enthusiastic but clueless Corky St. Clair (Christopher Guest), who also directs), is determined to put on a show that will put Blaine on the map.

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The ensemble cast features several frequent Guest collaborators including Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Fred Willard, and Parker Posey, who are all on top form. It makes for a hilarious satire of small-town life and the eccentric characters who inhabit it.

Based on the Michael Ondaatje novel, The English Patient tells the story of a critically burned man (Ralph Fiennes), and his memories of his past. As his nurse Hana (Juliette Binoche) takes care of him in an abandoned Italian villa, the patient begins to reveal his history to her.

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The film also features notable performances by Kristin Scott Thomas as the patient's lover Katharine Clifton and Willem Dafoe as a thief named Caravaggio. It won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Anthony Minghella, and Best Supporting Actress for Binoche. It's a sweeping, beautifully filmed epic and possibly Fiennes's best performance.

Billy Bob Thornton wrote, directed, and starred in this drama about Karl Childers, a man with intellectual disabilities who was committed to a mental institution for murdering his mother and her lover when he was a child. After spending most of his life in the institution, Karl is released into the world. He befriends a young boy named Frank (Lucas Black) and his mother Linda (Natalie Canerday) and begins to build a new life for himself.

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As Karl becomes more involved in their lives, he must confront his past and the demons that still haunt him. It works because of Thornton's committed, authentic performance. A sleeper hit, Sling Blade catapulted Thornton to the forefront of Hollywood.

Paul Thomas Anderson's debut follows John (John C. Reilly), a down-on-his-luck gambler who meets a mysterious older man named Sydney (Philip Baker Hall) in a Reno diner. Sydney takes John under his wing and teaches him how to gamble and make a living off of it. Along the way, they encounter Clementine (Gwyneth Paltrow), a cocktail waitress with a troubled past, and Jimmy (Samuel L. Jackson), an acquaintance of Sydney's with a violent streak.

As the plot unfolds, the characters become entangled in a web of deceit and double-crossing. While it only hints at the powers Anderson would unleash on later projects, Hard Eight is still a stylish and gripping exploration of the seedy world of gambling with a cast of three-dimensional characters.

"You had me at hello." Tom Cruise stars in this romantic comedy-drama as a successful sports agent who has a crisis of conscience and writes a mission statement advocating for fewer clients and a more personal approach to the business. After being fired from his job, Jerry sets out to start his own agency and enlists the help of Dorothy Boyd (Rene Zellweger), a single mother who shares his ideals.

Along the way, Jerry and Dorothy fall in love but face numerous obstacles as they try to balance their personal and professional lives. Cruise and Zellweger have great chemistry, but the real star is Cuba Gooding Jr., who won an Oscar for his performance

After helping to create the slasher film back in the 70s, Wes Craven revolutionized the genre yet again with this self-aware horror starring Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott, a high school student who becomes the target of a mysterious killer known as Ghostface. Along with her friends, including Tatum (Rose McGowan) and Randy (Jamie Kennedy), Sidney tries to unravel the identity of the killer and stop them before it's too late.

Scream is unusually funny for a horror of its time, and delights in subverting genre tropes. It spawned a mega-franchise that continues to dominate the box office today and more than deserves its place in the horror pantheon.

Controversial filmmaker Lars von Trier directed this drama featuring Emily Watson as Bess McNeill, a young woman who falls in love with Jan (Stellan Skarsgrd), an oil rig worker. After Jan is injured on the job and left paralyzed, Bess becomes convinced that God is calling her to perform sexual acts with other men in order to heal Jan. As she becomes more and more desperate to save her husband, Bess begins to lose touch with reality and faces increasing opposition from her religious community.

Breaking the Waves is a challenging film, but it works thanks to Watson's raw and fearless performance. Cinematographer Robby Mller also deserves praise. Edgar Wrightdescribed him as a "wizard" and "a true poet of the screen."

Secrets and Lies is a powerful drama from the master of realism Mike Leigh. Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) is a working-class woman in her 40s who discovers that she was adopted and sets out to find her birth mother. Along the way, she meets her estranged brother Maurice (Timothy Spall) and his wife Monica (Phyllis Logan), and the three of them must confront painful family secrets.

As with most of his movies, Leigh's direction is understated and naturalistic, and he expertly captures the everyday rhythms of life and the complexities of family dynamics. The result is an empathetic portrait of ordinary people struggling to come to terms with their past and find a way forward.

While not his first film, this black comedy-drama is the project that put Danny Boyle on the map. Ewan McGregor is Mark Renton, a young heroin addict living in Edinburgh who is trying to kick his addiction and start a new life. He and his friends, including Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller) and Spud (Ewen Bremner) take part in various harebrained criminal schemes as they struggle to find meaning and purpose in their lives.

Trainspotting is a visceral movie that captures the anarchic spirit of the 1990s counterculture. McGregor's performance as Renton is compelling, and Boyle's direction is innovative and stylish. He infuses the film with a frenetic energy that perfectly captures the hedonism and nihilism of the characters.

Among the Coen brothers' most beloved projects, this black comedy stars Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant police chief in a small Minnesota town who investigates a series of murders connected to a botched kidnapping scheme. She's joined by William H. Macy as Jerry Lundegaard, a car salesman who orchestrates the kidnapping, and Steve Buscemi as Carl Showalter, one of the criminals involved in the scheme.

Suspenseful and darkly funny, Fargo influenced many crime films that would follow, not to mention its own TV spinoff. The highlight is McDormand, whose quirkiness, sharp wit, and accent rightly won her the Academy Award. She has innumerable iconic lines, like "Sir, you have no call to get snippy with me. I'm just doing my job here."

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While bands like Tame Impala and whatever name Thee Oh Sees are going by in 2023 remain popular in the persevering psychedelic rock scene, there are a plethora of underground bands and labels working away underneath to try to keep the genre alive. One of these labels is Rocket Recordings, with a roster full of bands such as Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs and Bonnacons of Doom, trying to do just that. One of these bands is not The Shits, the newest addition to Rocket, who proclaim that psych-rock is dead and they are the executioners.

Hailing from the industrial city of Leeds in West Yorkshire, The Shits are rallying against a psychedelic transcendence by creating sounds youd likely hear if you were locked in a dungeon. Continuing my Leeds x Everything Is Noise collaboration for the year, I wanted to learn more about them and get an insight into what went wrong leading up to and following the release of their grimy new album Youre A Mess. Safe to say I got what I bargained for.

To get to know the band a little better and delve into their deranged minds a bit, I was joined by vocalist Callum Howe who, when discussing the beginnings of the band and their mission statement, told me:

You know, were a bunch of slack-jawed yokels from the provinces. The band was started by Jack, Henry and Harry (bass, guitar and drums respectively) in late 2017, we began by practicing in Harrys basement. There was another guitarist at first, who has since been replaced by Sam (we then added Tom on third guitar following our devastating performance at Supernormal Fest last year, hed agreed to play with us for the one gig; obviously it went very well). I joined on vocals at the second or third practice, I only really knew Jack at the time but naturally we all now occupy the greatest portion of each others hearts. The mission wasnt ever really discussed, though I suppose now you could ascribe such adjectives to the band as talented, obnoxious, brilliant or salacious we try to maintain these aspects.

From these first practice sessions, the band began to make a bit of a name for themselves around the underground with their ferocious and biting live performances. Their debut album Punishment appeared in 2020, with their repetitive and sludgy style already on full show. The sound is full of grit and it gets under your skin, while the razor sharp vocals give just a glimpse into the mind of Howe. 2023s Youre a Mess is their second LP and has upped the ante and honed their style a fair bit from this first album. To me, the mood of the album sums up some of the harsh realities of the UK at the moment with its harsh nature, yet Howe states:

Theres no specific search for harshness when were writing music, nor do we feel the need to channel any generalised notion of negativity. Its all good fun. The lyrics are simple and narratively driven, theres no escaping your environment but at least as far as Im concerned I dont care about directly reflecting it in the music. If it comes across that way then fine. Stylistically; you dont need us to tell you what informs the music, but Ill tell you for nothing that none of us give a fuck about AmRep.

In terms of style, a lot of comparisons could and have been made to classic noise and garage rock, including the AmRep label, but they have created a concoction of their own through these influences. The repetitive nature of the songs has created mesmerizing results with the viscous distortion of the guitar riffs going around and around and around during every song. While 7-minute opener and single In My Hotel Room sets the tone, most of the album has shorter songs with variations in tempo but no letup in intensity.

Youre a Mess is an album that I feel manages to get better across its runtime, culminating in the mammoth closer I Regret Nothing, Pts 1 & 2. While the splitting into parts reminds me of classic soul la James Brown, the song couldnt be much further in feel but for a similar swagger and confidence, clocking in at a smidge under 9 minutes. Its a vital album, with a spiteful attitude that sums up and helps to combat what the album description calls the litany of crushing indignities that life in the 2020s has to offer.

As well as a musical step forward, Youre a Mess also saw a step up to the famed British Indie label Rocket Recordings. The music that The Shits offer up is a nastier prospect than most things on the label, yet they saw more than enough to rush to sign them. Upon the signing, Rocket explained: Witnessing The Shits mind blowing mix of The Stooges, Brainbombs, Lubricated Goat, Drunk in Hell, live on stage, we were totally floored, and we knew this band had to be on Rocket.

The resulting marriage seems to be a fairly happy one, brought together by megalithic walls of distortion and seemingly kept together by a propensity for heavy drinking. From their side, The Shits commented: Rocket were consummate professionals when it comes to releasing the record, and we had a great time getting fucking leathered with them in Tilburg. As far as their track record; we are the best thing on that label. Unsurprisingly, given that theyve executed psych-rock, there is still a bit of a gulf between them and the label stylistically.

As far as a point of difference goes, The Shits bring a snarling attack alongside this clear hubris. It makes for a fascinating proposition, on record and on stage. In terms of their presence on stage, signing with Rocket also gave them the opportunity to play the famed Roadburn Fest in the Netherlands last month (on the Rocket 25th anniversary stage). On the experience Howe was less than glowing, as he affirmed that the catering was fantastic. Playing on a stage that big to so many slobbering losers felt like something we/they deserved.

Back in the smaller spaces that The Shits more regularly dwell, they have consistently involved themselves with exciting DIY spaces which have seemingly become an important part of the band. Ive noted before that these spaces are imperative in building a scene too, on these spaces and the scene though, Howe tells me:

Some of us are working on a space in Leeds and Sam runs a venue in Newcastle called The Lubber Fiend. Despite our international success playing at DIY venues is where we get to have the most fun. When we came back to Leeds (which you can see in the video above) to play in the middle of our European dates the crowd behaved appallingly, it was fantastic. Who cares about a scene?

The Shits attitude is clear for all to see and theyre a hugely intriguing band. Whether you want to listen to their records or experience their wailing hedonism live, youll be far from bored and drowning in their thick garage punk. Theyre a one of one band, and thats how they like it, and be damned if you dont but they wouldnt really care what you think anyway. The Shits have just one call to action for all of you now youve the end of this article, buy the record you stingy twats.

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