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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 17h

After pivoting to planting crops under solar panels, farmers in 🇪🇬 Egypt are seeing their plants “growing well for the first time.” Called #agrivoltaics, the additional shade reduces evaporation and stress on the plants, all while generating clean electricity.

grist.org

Why Egyptian farmers are growing crops under solar panels

The additional shade reduces evaporation and stress on the plants, all while generating clean electricity.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 17h

🇬🇷 Athens, Greece is turning its old airport into one of the largest parks in Europe. Planners designed each connecting space in Ellinikon Park to maximize thermoregulation of the air temperature with the goal of keeping it 7.2°F or 4°C cooler than surrounding asphalt and concrete areas.

goodnewsnetwork.org

Athens Is Turning its Old Airport into One of Europe's Largest Parks

it won't only add an unforgettable attraction to the birthplace of Democracy, but also a shaded refuge for residents of Europe's hottest city

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 17h

A critically endangered bird in 🇳🇿 New Zealand just had a record breeding season. The population of the world’s heaviest parrot, the #kākāpō, has surpassed 300 birds for the first time in 75 years.

theguardian.com

Kākāpō rising: 90 chicks swell population of the world’s heaviest parrot

Critically endangered New Zealand bird enjoys record breeding season triggered by mass fruiting of native tree, pushing its numbers to 325

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 17h

The student team behind the world's first #solar-powered ambulance tested their vehicle in 🇰🇪 Kenya to see if it could manage long distance travel across tricky terrain. They found that even while stationary, it generated more energy than it consumed while using all its onboard medical equipment.

cnn.com

‘World’s first solar ambulance’ just proved it works | CNN

The team behind Stella Juva hopes it can help bring healthcare to people in remote areas who are struggling to access it.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 20h

Decades after they were hunted to near extinction, #BlackBears are now rebounding in Southern US. Mississippi stopped hunting in 1932 after its populations dropped to an estimated 12 bears. Arkansas banned hunting with a population surge from 40-50 to around 5K.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 20h

🇷🇼 Rwanda welcomes 22 baby mountain #gorillas in a naming ceremony. In the early 1980s, fewer than 250 mountain gorillas survived in the Virunga Massif, a transboundary area shared by Rwanda, Uganda and the DR Congo. Today, it’s home to more than 600, out of around 1,000 mountain gorillas worldwide.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Global #mpox vaccine stockpile now lets any country request doses on need, not purchasing power. #Gavi now pre-finances the stockpile, with the International Coordinating Group assessing requests within 48 hours; lower-income countries get vaccines free, wealthier ones repay afterward.

gavi.org

How a new global mpox vaccine stockpile could help the world respond faster to outbreaks

The launch of a global mpox vaccine stockpile creates a long-term mechanism to ensure timely and equitable access to vaccines during outbreaks.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mexico’s door-to-door health workers have reached 10.9M people in the last year. The Health House by House program logged 22.8M home visits between July 2025 and June 2026, with over 21K workers checking blood pressure, updating vaccinations and referring roughly 900,000 people to specialist care.

mexicobusiness.news

Bienestar Home-Care Program Reaches 10.9 Million People

Health House by House reached 10.9 million people with 22.8 million home visits, feeding Mexico's 2027 Universal Health Service credential rollout.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England widens free school meals to another half a million children. Any household receiving Universal Credit now automatically qualifies, ending what campaigners called a postcode lottery that left eligibility inconsistent across councils. The expansion is the result of 7 yrs of advocacy.

foodfoundation.org.uk

New era for Free School Meals in England

The Food Foundation: Free School Meals are extended in England helping around half a million families struggling with the cost of living

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🇹🇯 Tajikistan’s access to water in health facilities has more than doubled in five years. Before an EU-funded project began in 2021, just 36% of the country’s 3,297 health facilities had basic water access, 12% had handwashing stations and only 1% met basic sanitation standards. 💧

unicef.org

Clean Water and Safe Care

How WASH Is Transforming Health Facilities in Tajikistan

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🇬🇧 Imperial College London researchers, funded by the British Heart Foundation, trained an AI model on over 1.6 million ECGs to catch #heart-failure and #valve-disease that clinicians typically miss. The detection rates for each of those conditions wad at 81% and 90% respectively. 🩻

theguardian.com

‘Superhuman’ AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 seconds

Technology trained on millions of routine ECGs could fast-track high-risk patients for treatment

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@who.int Bhutan eliminates dog-transmitted #rabies, a southeast Asian first. The WHO validated the milestone on 4 September after Bhutan recorded zero human deaths from dog-mediated rabies since June 2023, the result of over a decade of free post-exposure treatment in all 20 districts.

who.int

WHO validates Bhutan for eliminating dog-transmitted human rabies

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Bhutan’s elimination of dog-transmitted rabies as a public health problem in the country. Bhutan is the first country in the WHO South-East Asia Regio...

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

California lawmakers passed a bill to make #balcony solar easier and cheaper to install, even for renters! No rooftop needed, just a small #solar setup to help power your home and lower your electric bill. 🔌

canarymedia.com

California Legislature passes balcony solar bill

Unless Gov. Newsom blocks the bill, it will legalize plug-in solar in one of the world’s biggest economies. But the rules are more restrictive than some…

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@nytimes.com Since the Iran war began in February, the price of Brent crude, a global benchmark for oil, has increased more than 25%. Over that timeframe, E.V. sales have roughly doubled in Australia, Brazil, India and South Korea compared with the same period in 2025.

A chart showing electrical vehicle registration from 2020-20206 of approximately 50 countries around the world.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🇨🇳 China's CO2 emissions fell 1% in the second quarter of 2026. Oil consumption fell by a whopping 9%, with transport emissions down 16%. The amount of oil displaced exceeded the 🇬🇧 UK's total oil consumption over the same period.

carbonbrief.org

Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🇬🇧 London surgeons have removed a brain tumour with an AI system guiding them over their shoulder. Rhys Hibbert, 48, faced blindness from a tumour on his pituitary gland; the AI, trained on hundreds of past operations, colour-coded the nerves and blood vessels around it in real time. 👁️

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🇦🇺 Australia’s Northern Territory has legalised assisted dying, completing a nationwide rollout 3 decades in the making. The bill passed reinstates the right for Territorians, alongside strict rules including a 12-month prognosis limit and a ban on doctors raising the option unprompted.

abc.net.au

Voluntary assisted dying legal nationwide after laws pass NT parliament

Voluntary assisted dying laws have passed the Northern Territory Parliament tonight, in a move that will legalise the practice across Australia.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@nytimes.com A #pancreatic cancer pill now has full FDA approval. The pill doubles median survival for deadly pancreatic cancer, with some patients living for years. The approval compressed a process that normally takes months into weeks because the benefit was so large, and the need so urgent.

nytimes.com

F.D.A. Approves Drug Poised to Transform Care for Pancreatic Cancer (Gift Article)

In a key clinical trial, patients who got the pill, daraxonrasib, lived twice as long as those who got chemotherapy.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The world’s first solar-powered ambulance has hit the road in the 🇳🇱Netherlands. A team of students at the Eindhoven University of Technology created an EV powered entirely by solar panels called #StellaJuva. It has medical equipment and is designed to deliver health services to remote areas.

euronews.com

A sun-powered siren: Inside the world’s first solar ambulance

Solar ambulance Stella Juva could transform access to healthcare in regions that lack reliable infrastructure, electricity and fuel.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🇮🇳 India is refilling its #aquifers with an engineering technique that long predates the arrival of the British. India holds 18% of the world’s people but only 4% of its fresh water, so it’s now turning to its johads and stepwells, structures built to store water or slow it down until it soaks in.

bbc.com

India is turning to ancient water systems as modern ones run dry

Water scarcity and climate change is driving communities to restore traditional water structures built centuries ago, bringing them back into use in the 21st Century.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The #NatureConservancy spent years pushing for tighter limits on the Atlantic menhaden catch, hoping it would help fish and seabirds. Nobody was thinking about whales, until they came back too. Now, a tourism industry has developed to watch them.

nature.org

Sound Solutions

From a crashing fishery in the 1990s to whales in New York harbor today—what has it taken to clean up tristate waters?

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

90 million malaria bed nets are going to the 🇨🇬 Democratic Republic of the Congo. Coefficient Giving and #GiveWell have put up $276 million, the largest grant either has made, covering all 26 provinces from 2027 to 2029. GiveWell’s estimates this will avert around 67,000 deaths in a country.

coefficientgiving.org

Coefficient Giving’s Largest Grant Ever: $276 Million, Co-Funded With GiveWell, to the Against Malaria Foundation

Coefficient Giving’s Largest Grant Ever: $276 Million, Co-Funded With GiveWell, to the Against Malaria Foundation The combined $276 million grant — $212 million from Coefficient Giving and $64 million...

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In less than three years, 🇺🇬 Uganda has provided access to #electricity to well over a million people, along with 216 schools, health centres and other public institutions. When we talk about access to electricity we often focus on refrigeration for vaccines...

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Coral is growing back on the #GreatBarrierReef. Cover in the northern section rose from 30% to 35.1% between 2025 and 2026 and in the central section from 28.6% to 31.6%, both now above the long-term average. Of course some of it is luck.

theconversation.com

Reef relief: how a late summer monsoon helped cool the Great Barrier Reef at just the right time

Scientists have been monitoring the reef’s health for the past 40 years.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Children’s lungs in London are getting healthier thanks to its low #emissions zone. A Lancet Public Health study followed 3,400 children aged six to nine, comparing central London to Luton, which has no clean-air zone.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This piece by Sam Matey-Coste made me think of solar power as way more than just electricity. Cheap #solar + #batteries could help us tackle everything from clean water and food to better health and we’re only getting started.

sammatey.substack.com

Solar Solves Everything*

*Or rather, heavily contributes to solving a surprisingly large amount of the world’s biggest problems

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A #ScientificAmerican piece traces the journey. 🇩🇪 Germany provided subsidies in the early 2000s to create a market big enough to build factories for and 🇨🇳 China took over after 2009. Solar cell design got better at converting light into energy, with less land and less wiring for the same power.

scientificamerican.com

How solar became the cheapest form of energy in the world

Here are four reasons solar energy has seen a meteoric rise in recent years

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The IEA says that after reaching near parity with coal in 2025, global electricity generation from #renewables will grow by more than 8% this year. Solar is the strongest driver: output is forecast to increase by the same amount in 2026 as it did during its record expansion in 2025.

iea.org

Executive summary – Electricity Mid-Year Update 2026 – Analysis - IEA

Electricity Mid-Year Update 2026 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Six years after the pandemic, we have personalised #mRNA vaccines for cancer. Researchers sequenced the tumours of 1,137 #melanoma patients, selected ‘neoantigens’ which teach the immune system how to attack the cancer, and then built each person their own vaccine in about six weeks.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

While some African countries have seen their economies decline, 9 are achieving economic #growth, with people’s average incomes more than doubling. This growth has dramatically improved living standards, with the share of people living in extreme poverty and child mortality rates declining. ❤️‍🩹

ourworldindata.org

In these nine African countries, average incomes have more than doubled since 1990

Economic growth is most important for the world's poorest people, and most of the world’s poorest live on the African continent. Are Africa’s economies growing?

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As young people connect with their cultural roots and relatives, African languages are seeing a revival. Africa is home to over 1 billion people speaking roughly a third of the world’s languages, with between 1,500 and 3,000 across 54 countries.

apnews.com

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🇮🇳 India’s power system just passed a major clean energy tipping point. While coal still accounts for around 70% of India’s electricity system, clean energy sources now account for 331.7 GW of installed capacity, surpassing fossil fuels’ 302 GW for the first time.

reuters.com

COMMENTARY: India's power system just passed a historic tipping point

India's power system has crossed a threshold that tells a very different story from the one usually conveyed by electricity generation data.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Under a new law, people in Texas now have the right to repair their electronics. The Texas #RightToRepair Act passed unanimously and took effect on September 1, making Texas the ninth 🇺🇸 US state to guarantee the right to repair their devices.

environmentamerica.org

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thanks to abundant sunshine and smart policy, New Mexico’s electricity prices are some of the lowest in the 🇺🇸 US. The Public Service Company of New Mexico, or PNM, said it delivered 80% carbon-free electricity in 2025 after investing in solar energy, batteries, and wind.

goodgoodgood.co

New Mexico's electricity prices are some of the lowest in the country. Solar is to thank

Abundant sunshine and smart policy have made New Mexico’s grid far more climate-friendly.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New satellite data revealed that #deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is at a 13-year low, with 1,110 square miles deforested between August 1, 2025, and July 31, 2026, 36% lower than the previous 12-month period. It’s also 55.6% lower than the average area deforested in the last decade.

news.mongabay.com

Amazon deforestation alerts fall to lowest level since 2013, Brazilian data show

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen to its lowest level in 13 years, according to new satellite data from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE), continuing a decline that ...

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🇪🇺 Europe’s largest battery is now online in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland. “Coalburn 1 will enhance the flexibility and resilience of the UK electricity system, support the integration of more renewable power, and contribute to lowering costs for consumers.

pv-magazine.com

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🇳🇪 Niger restored five million hectares of grassland without planting any trees. 33 African countries committed to the African Forest Landscape #Restoration Initiative to jointly restore 129 million hectares of degraded land by 2030, an area larger than Germany and France combined

denkstrom.org

Niger Greens 5 Million Hectares Without Planting Trees | Good News

33 African countries aim to restore 129 million hectares of degraded land by 2030. Niger demonstrates how: five million hectares of Sahel grassland were restored without planting a single tree.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

@axios.com 🇺🇸 Last year, America’s violent #crime rate saw its largest annual drop since the FBI began keeping national estimates in 1936. The decline was unusually broad, touching every population group, from the biggest cities to small towns, suburbs and rural counties.

axios.com

FBI data for 2025 show biggest drop in violent crime in 90 years

Post-pandemic declines in crime accelerated dramatically last year in communities of all sizes.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

@markcarey93.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Canada has scrapped its ban on #gay and #bisexual sperm donors. Health Canada removed the screening questions that disqualified men who’d had sex with men within three months, after a donor sued in 2023. Modern #HIV testing carries “effectively no residual risk”.

lgbtqnation.com

Canada ends sperm donor restrictions for gay & bisexual men in "precedent-setting" move - LGBTQ Nation

One lawyer called the move critical to "ending decades-long discrimination against gay and bisexual men."

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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · 31/08/2026

🎥 We must limit #Globalwarming to 1.5 degrees to avoid the worst of the #ClimateCrisis Time for #ClimateAction! What you’re gonna do?! PL RP this🎵 #video🩷💚💙 Full 3-min video ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHCv... #Endfossilfuels #ClimateChange #climate #Klima #ClimateDisaster

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Engineers building a solar farm near the #ArcticCircle got used to hearing “Who the hell builds a #solar plant in Lapland?” The Simo solar park now runs for almost 22 hours a day every summer. In the winter snow reflecting light onto double-sided panels turns out to be a killer feature.

sungrowpower.com

At the Edge of The Arctic - SUNGROW

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

New energy vehicles made up more than 60% of 🇨🇳 China’s car sales in July, the first time the monthly figure has crossed that line. Two in every three new cars sold last month were the kind you plug in first, rather than fill up, backed by a large #charging network with 23 million posts nationwide.

cnevpost.com

China's NEV sales rise 23.7% in July, with exports surging 1.5 times, CAAM data shows

NEV sales were 1,561,000 units in July, accounting for 60.4% of total new vehicle sales, topping 60% for the first time, according to CAAM data.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🇦🇺 After decades of working together, the Eastern Kuku Yalanji and Western Yalanji have had native title recognised over 3,887 km² of their ancestral Country in Cape York 🌿 That includes parts of the ancient Daintree rainforest. A huge moment for more than 100 family groups.

capeyorkweekly.com.au

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🇱🇧 Lebanon’s parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty, putting it on track to become the first Middle Eastern country to formally end capital punishment. More than 78 people are on death row, and capital punishment would be replaced with hard labour.

bbc.com

Lebanon parliament votes to abolish death penalty

The new law - which next goes to the cabinet for approval - would make Lebanon the first country in the Middle East to end capital punishment.

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