This week (by Thursday at midnight), you will do your first Weekly Science Article Report.
Here's what to do for this assignment:
1) Citation: Here you will put the name of the article, the author, and where you found it (for example, the New York Times or Science News for Kids).
2) A brief summary: Here you will summarize the article in one or two sentences. This is to give your readers (including me) a sense of what you have read.
3) Reflection: This is the biggest part of your report. I am interested in your response to the article. Please address the following questions in your reflection:
a) What did you think about the article? Did you like it or not? Why?
b) What interested you or surprised you about the article?
c) What questions do you have about what you read? What would you like to know more about what you’ve read?
I am really looking forward to reading what you write.
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Here's what to do for this assignment:
1) Citation: Here you will put the name of the article, the author, and where you found it (for example, the New York Times or Science News for Kids).
2) A brief summary: Here you will summarize the article in one or two sentences. This is to give your readers (including me) a sense of what you have read.
3) Reflection: This is the biggest part of your report. I am interested in your response to the article. Please address the following questions in your reflection:
a) What did you think about the article? Did you like it or not? Why?
b) What interested you or surprised you about the article?
c) What questions do you have about what you read? What would you like to know more about what you’ve read?
I am really looking forward to reading what you write.
What we found
All of the better-for-you versions are quite tasty. The lower-fat Häagen-Dazs was actually a bit better than the regular alternative, and the two Breyers ice creams were very close in quality.
If you're interested in literal or figurative belt-tightening, buy the lighter versions of Breyers or Edy's (Dreyer's in the West). Per half-cup serving, they cost less than half as much as those from Häagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry's and have far fewer calories—a reminder that "light" is relative. The lighter Häagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry's we tried actually have more calories and sugars than the regular Edy's and Breyers.
this article is about wich ice cream is healthy and also taste good.what i think about this data is that it shows some oof the regular ones are healthy and others just are bad but healthy.
"Arctic ice melt to third-smallest area on record" by Steve Gorman, Science Daily.
This article is about how, the amount of ice this year is the third smallest area of the arctic, that has been recorded. It also is about why, we should be concerned about this.
I thought the article was overall good. I think it could’ve been improved, by informing the reader more about the overall topic and including more facts, and personally I thought certain part of the article should be stressed some more. The article grabbed by attention because, it had to do with the Earth, and so immediately I was interested, but the title was what really grabbed my attention because it was shocking.
The article surprised me in one way because, I never knew that a mere two degrees in temperature change could result in such a drastic manner, and it spoke about how the arctic plays an important role in the Earth, sort of like a giant air conditioner, and that if the amount of ice and snow melts then it will increase the amount of global warming. If there was anything more that I would’ve liked to know, are statistics, such as the amount of increase in the global temperature and etc., I think it really would’ve been pleasing to see some numbers in the article.
With Genetic Gift, 2 Monkeys Are Viewing a More Colorful World
by Nicholas Wade
New York Times
This article was about Jay and Maureen Neitz at the University of Washington, and their studies on two lab male squirrel monkeys, which ended up allowing the monkeys to see more color. Male squirrel monkeys have two of the color pigments (ospins) when people have 3. The Neitzes did some genetic therapy, and judging from color eye tests they gave to the monkeys, they could see more of the reds, and oranges.
I liked the subject of this article, and I thought it was cool that the scientists could altar the way the monkeys saw, however the article was targeted for a more adult age, and I was lost at some parts of the article where they really got into the genetics and parts of the eye.
I was surprised that you could altar an animal's vision by gene therapy, which is something I had never heard of before. The scientists were able to introduce the gene for the missing red pigment that the monkeys didn't have, and put it into the cone cells of the monkey's eyes.
I'm curious more about how the scientists actually did perform the gene therapy. How were they able to introduce a whole new gene into the monkey's eye? I know that the gene was carried on a virus for gene therapy experiments, and when it was injected into the eye of the monkey, the virus gave the ospin gene and a piece of DNA to the cones in the retina (which allow the monkey to detect color.) But I want to know more about how the gene and the eye interacted.
Weed Heroes: The War on the Invader Cogongrass
By Dan Barry
The New York Times
The article I read was about a project in Alabama, dedicated to stopping the growth of cogongrass, the grass can totally take over an ecosystem, and Ernest Lovett is committed to getting rid of the grass. The grass spreads quickly, can grow up to 6 ft. tall, and is difficult to kill, only certain weed killers work on it, and after the first application, another has to be applied months later.
I thought the article was well written, and I liked most of it, but at some parts it got a little wordy and technical. I thought it was interesting that a weed could cause so much trouble, and destroy crops and native plants too. It was a little surprising to me that a weed could be so difficult to kill, as well. Usually people can just use a weed killer and be done with it, but this weed needs two applications, which is probably why it is spreading so far without being stopped. I would like to know if there are any other sorts of weeds that could do this much damage to an environment, and what other weeds have an impact on in different ecosystems. I also wonder why the weed would be allowed to spread this far without an attempt to be stopped.
The article I read is called “A Work in Progress: The Teen Brain” by Debra Bradley Ruder. I found this article in Harvard Magazine online.
This article explains the growth of the teenage brain and why teenagers think the way they do. It also compares a teenager’s brain to an adult’s, like how the adult’s brain can withstand alcohol and recover quicker then the teenager’s brain. And what was also covered in this article was how the stage in development causes more influence to their surroundings and the tendency to more irresponsible behavior.
I really enjoyed this article because I learned a lot from it and it was very interesting. I never thought about the brain development and how our brains are quite similar to adult brains. I found it interesting when the article mentioned this generation’s use of technology and how going online and texting can cause a delay in a teenager’s ability to remember words. I also found it interesting was the gender differences in the brain’s development. The part of the brain that processes information begins to thin between ages 12 and 14 for girls and about two years later for boys. That may cause girls and boys to understand more challenging things at different ages. I find that this topic is very interesting and I’d like to learn more about how the brain develops at different ages and the differences in a female’s and a male’s brain.
The Littlest Lemur
By Emily Sohn
Sciencenewsforkids.org
The article was about how a group of researchers are studying a type of lemur called a mouse lemur. The researchers think that the our earliest relatives might've looked like mouse lemurs, so the researchers think that if we study them more we might find out more about ourselves.
I liked the article a lot. I thought it was very informative and I learned a lot about the mouse lemur. I liked the fact that the article started out as a story but then went into facts, but throughout the facts there were little bits of dialogue and some more stories. I've always been very interested in lemurs so when the article popped up I immediately read it. I was very surprised by the fact that our earliest relatives could've looked like the mouse lemur. They're so small! I was very interested in the fact that if we study them a lot we could learn a lot about ourselves. Another thing that interested me was that one of the researchers said that even though mouse lemurs look a lot like most rodents are about the same size as most rodents, rodents fear everything while mouse lemurs only fear certain things. The researchers say that mouse lemurs have the ability to differentiate, just like humans. They say that the ability to differentiate is a sign of intelligence. Researchers have also found that mouse lemurs have the ability to learn. I find this very interesting because these little creatures have a lot of same abilities that we have. I would like to know how they figured out that mouse lemurs have the ability to differentiate and to learn. I want to know what type of testing they used on them. Because this article was written more than 2 years ago, I would like to know if they have found out anything else about the mouse lemur.
What we found
All of the better-for-you versions are quite tasty. The lower-fat Häagen-Dazs was actually a bit better than the regular alternative, and the two Breyers ice creams were very close in quality.
If you're interested in literal or figurative belt-tightening, buy the lighter versions of Breyers or Edy's (Dreyer's in the West). Per half-cup serving, they cost less than half as much as those from Häagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry's and have far fewer calories—a reminder that "light" is relative. The lighter Häagen-Dazs and Ben & Jerry's we tried actually have more calories and sugars than the regular Edy's and Breyers.
this article is about wich ice cream is healthy and also taste good.what i think about this data is that it shows some oof the regular ones are healthy and others just are bad but healthy.
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Why are we annoyed by Nails on a Chalkboard?
Rowan Snyder
Scientific American
The article is about why people hate the sound of nails on a chalkboard. It explains what is unpleasant about the noise, and is characteristics.
I liked this article. I liked it because it was very descriptive about what actually produces the sound. Also, it talked about all the things that a person does not like hearing in sound, like roughness, and the presence of high frequencies.
What surprised me was that the noise is in the 2 to 4 kilohertz, which is the same noise as produced in the highest octave in a piano. The reason we like the piano sound is because it is a very smooth sound. This brings in the next factor, roughness. Because nails on a chalkboard are a rough and high pitched sound, we hate it. But weirdly enough, primates, don’t mind the sound of it. One, monkey species (they didn’t specify which) was tested and it didn’t care about the noise.
I only have one question about the article. Why did primates not care about the sound, but humans, an evolved form of primates, hates it? Also, What species of monkey was it?
With Genetic Gift, 2 Monkeys Are Viewing a More Colorful World
Nicholas Wade
The New York Times
This article is about two Squirrel Monkeys named Sam and Dalton who only had two out of the three opsins(which are pigments in the eye that allows us to see color) that are used to see things in color. They could not see any red color until Jay and Maureen Neitz injected both Monkeys’ eyes with the third red pigment and DNA to tell the new cones how to make the new red opsins.
I thought the article was very interesting. I thought it was really fascinating how only the female Squirrel Monkeys inherit two different versions of the X chromosome which allows most of them to see in full color while the males, having only the one X chromosome, can only see either green or reds depending on which version of the X chromosome they get. It began to confuse me just before this paragraph when the article talked about Sam and Dalton’s ancestors and how there are New World Monkeys and Old World Monkeys. I want to know more about the therapy and color tests Sam and Dalton had to go through. What did they have to do? I also want to know why only the female Squirrel Monkeys get another X chromosome when the males only get one.
Immune response to spinal cord injury may worsen damage. Daniel P. Ankeny, Zhen Guan, and Phillip G. Popovich. Science daily, science news. This article talks about how scientists discovered that antibodies might worsen spinal cord damage.
I like this article a lot. It had tons of information and a lot of facts. One reason why I am so interested in this article is because I want to be a physical therapist when I am older and this article talks about injury and what is good or bad from it. There are also facts about rehabilitation in this type of injury. What interested me was that the cells that produce antibodies could promote healing and the long-term effect of spinal cored injury. Something I would like to know about this article is how this type of injury could happen and what would damage the injury more?
Tie to Pets had Germ Jumping to and Fro
By: Brenda Goodman
New York Times
This article was about how an infection called MRSA is carried to and from people and animals. People can get the infection from birds, cats, dogs, horses, pigs, rabbits, and rodents. People who spend more time with these animals are most likely to get the infection, the article said. Also, cats carry the infection the most, and their owners have 8 more times likely to have the infection at home. People supposedly give MRSA to animals, and then the animals spread it into the environment again. But a doctor, J. Scott Weese said that getting MRSA was relatively rare.
When first reading this article, it leads you to believe that this MRSA is common among households, but then you find out it’s rare. When I first read the article I got worried because I thought that I could get the infection from my dog, I was thinking about making small differences with the way I act around my dog, but not huge ones. I also realized that other people reading the article who don’t have pets probably get really worried about MRSA and become really aware of everything when they’re around animals; especially people who are naturally nervous about things. Being someone who owns a dog, and who’s always around pets a lot, I didn’t worry too much about this infection; I see that nothing has happened over the years, so why would it happen now when I just happen to read the article?
I thought that this article was really interesting and different. All I could think about when I was reading the article was how weird it was that you could get an infection from you own pet. You never hear anything about that, and you never even think about how or if it’s even possible. When I read this article I was shocked. The questions that I now have about the article are: What kinds of dogs do they travel on most? Are there other ways now that you could get it from animals? How do people or dogs get it (is it from the environments that they live in)? But now I know that we don’t have to worry about the infection that much.
Mini T. Rex by Stephen Ornes
Science News for Kids
This article is about a discovery of a new dinosaur that looks a lot like a T-Rex. It is exactly like a T-Rex in many ways but one big difference is the size.
I like this article. I liked because it gave you a lot of information on the Raptorex. But it didn’t just give you facts it made you think and what to learn more about the topic. It also gives you quotas of what paleontologist say and do.
What interests me about the article was the title Mine T-Rex. The title interests me because the T-Rex is the biggest strongest dinosaur and to have a mine one it would be weird. What surprised me was at the end of the article they other said that the Raptorex was 125 million years older the t-Rex so scientists think that Raptorex might have evolved into T-Rex. I only have one Question what could have made Raporex get so big if he is the early verstion of T-Rex.
The article I am reporting about is entitled "Spacecraft see 'damp' moon soils" by Jonathan Amos, a science reporter for the BBC News.
An Indian probe orbiting the moon has detected minute amounts of water embedded within the outer crust of the moon.
The Indian moon probe Chandrayaan recently detected trace amounts of H20 within the moon soils. The water amounts increase more towards the moon's poles, but the Apollo missions landed mostly near the moon's equator, so the puny amounts of water that they did find in their soil samples were concluded to have gotten in by human hands, and until now, scientists thought that the moon was bone dry. The Indian Chandrayaan probe has been backed up by two other moon probes, the US deep impact probe and the European/US Cassini probe, so we now beleive the moon is somewhat moist. Scientists believe that the water molecules on the moon were a result of the 'solar wind,' which is a fast moving bombardment of radioactive particles that are ejected from the sun. This radiation triggers chemical reactions that force oxygen molecules to gain hydrogen molecules, making H20 and the simpler hydrogen-oxygen molecules, OH. Scientists say that there is one attainable liter of water per cubic meter of moon soil. They also say that any future astronauts wishing to live on the moon may use this as a resource, and/or rocket fuel by seperating the hydrogen and oxygen.
I thought this article was interesting, and I liked it because it brings back an almost forgotten topic, the moon.
This article intersted me because it is yet another instance of humans finding water on someplace that is not Earth, and I would be interested to know more about it.
“A Bird that keeps the Beat”
Science News for Kids
This article is about birds that can bob their heads, stomp their feet, etc. in time with music.
I thought this article was very good. I liked this article because I thought it was really funny and interesting. I also liked it because it was different from any other articles I saw. The title really caught my eye. When I read the blurb, I thought it sounded really cool. I also liked it because it talked about two things that I liked birds and music. What surprised me about this article is how birds and other animals can actually keep the rhythm of a song by bobbing their head and stomping their feet. I think that it is amazing how animals can actually listen to music and dance along to it just like a person.
I would like to know more about other animals that can keep a beat while listening to music. I would also like to know more about the other types of birds that can do this.
Questions:
Can birds only keep a beat to their “favorite song” or only a few songs?
Does it matter what type of music that they’re listening to?
How long can they keep the rhythm for?
How do other animals express their way of keeping their body with the tempo of the music?
Space craft see “damp” moon soil
By Jonathan Amos
BBC News
Three different satellites picked up data that says that there is a thin layer of h2o that makes up the lunar soil. When soil was returned from the Apollo mission they found traces of water in it but couldn’t be sure it wasn’t from earth until now. The US is on track to have a space craft make impact with the moon to see if there is more water underneath it.
I liked the article. I thought that the article was interesting I thought they knew for a fact that there was no water on the moon. I was also surprised that not only did India have a space program but that they beat America in finding the water. Why did it take them this long to figure out that there was water on the moon? What I would like to know more about is when is this US space craft going to hit the moon.
“How do Guitar Amplifiers Work?”
By: Max Cane
Found: www.ArticleAlley.com
The article I chose explains how a guitar amplifier works. This article may be boring to anyone else but is interesting to me. Also. I do consider this scientific! Technically its mechanics. This article talks about how an amplifier can amplify a guitar to over 50 times its original sound. A guitar amplifier works by putting the strings into “minute electrical signs” through the chord that I plugged into both the guitar and the amplifier, the M.E.S. are played into the amp like a loud speaker.
I definitely liked the article, to a guitarist like myself its interesting to read. I think this article may be less interesting to anyone who doesn’t play guitar, unless they are interested in mechanics. What interested me about this article was really how complex an amplifier really is! There are tons of bits and pieces that go into amps that really make the guitar sound its best. I would really like to know about different brands (Fender, Vox,ect) and if they do anything differently. I would definitely like to know more about what I read, its an interesting topic in my opinion and I think its kind of cool knowing that all I have to do is plug my guitar in! it’s a well written article and I highly recommend it for guitarists who actually care about what they are doing.
Space Craft see 'damp' Moon soils
By Johnathan Amos
BBC News
Recently Three satellites picked up traces of small amounts of water on the moon. Samples were taken back to check but they weren't sure until an Indian satellite had confirmed it. Researchers say this water could be used for astronauts who want to live on the moon. NASA sent out a probe to hit the moon to kick up some of the soil so satellites could check for water underground. I thought this article was really cool because it showed how much we still don't know about the moon and other things in space. I was really surprised that NASA didn't find out that there was water on the moon first and instead India did. I wonder what other things about the moon do we still not know? Could we one day be able to actually live on the moon? Could the moon have supported other lifeforms at one time? If I had the chance I would like to read other articles like this one.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090923133010.htm
Paper Battery May Power Electronics In Clothing And Packaging Material
By: Unknown
Summary: This article was about this small polypro (PPy) and how when soaked in sodium chloride and small allege and how it can make a battery. Not just any battery but one that can be recharged faster than any other rechargeable battery and can still power electronics.
Thoughts:
A) I really thought this was a cool article to read about because it is something that I would love to receive a piece of paper that lights up and says Happy birthday. I think that is what gained my attention the most. I think a lot of new ideas are cool but this the coolest.
B) What surprised me was that the paper could be recharged. Fist how do make a battery out of a paper like material then recharge it. That just seems in possible. I Another thing that surprised me was that it was so thin this material that the battery only looks like the paper itself.
C) I would like to know how they discovered it? It’s not like some guy just thought of it and started making it in house. Also how do you recharge it? What makes it recharge? Also what if the paper can’t recharge more than once or twice would you have to throw it away or a special disposal process.
Shark has out of water operation to find hook. Found at BBC news website, by the editor of BBC.
Florence is a nurse shark that gets a hook lodged in her upper jaw and is taken out of the water to remove it. This was believed to be only the second operation done on a shark.
I liked this article a lot. It was interesting and even had a little video clip next to it of the operation. It wasn’t a boring article but instead kept me reading to see if the shark would be alright. I liked how it described what had happened in the beginning of the article and then went back to give details and the full story. What really surprised me was that it was only the second time an operation was carried out on a shark yet everything went perfect. Another thing that surprised me was that the shark lived through the illness that it got from the rust of a hook. The questions I have include how the hook got stuck in the shark’s upper jaw in the first place, and where and when this occurred? I am also curious to know if age affects a shark’s strength. In other words, how old was the shark and did her age and health have any effect on her ability to stay alive through the illness.
1)In Surprise, Moon Shows Signs Of Water By: Kenneth Chang, New York Times
2)Scientists believe that 3 spacecrafts found either water or the molecule hydroxyl, which instead of having 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen, has 1 of each.
3) I never really thought water could ever exist on the moon. I'm just curious as to why we found this now and not sooner? did it just appear all of a sudden or has it been there all along and we just never noticed it?
Facts about traumatic brain injury
Author not stated just references
http://brainline.org/content/2008/07/facts-about-traumatic-brain-injury.html?gclid=CObl7aWNi50CFdVL5QodsHWt2Q
This article is about TBIs, or traumatic brain injury, when it happens and to whom. In this article internal bleeding and the long term effects of head trauma are discussed.
A TBI is something that I learned happens to about 1.4 million Americans yearly. From previous knowledge of brain injuries, I learned how 1 of every 6 people with severe head injuries die (not mild). I first became interested in the topic from hearing about my dad’s head injury, where he had severe internal bleeding (an epidural hematoma). He was hit in the soft spot of the head with a softball. He also broke his jaw. He’s fine now, so this example really shows how far we’ve come. I believe that the article wasn’t meant to educate you about the actual injury, but it was meant to teach you about the long term effects, and how common head injuries are. This is a good article because it doesn’t use large brain terms that you have to look up every five seconds. It seems like it has been written to inform people. The two types of head injuries described were severe and not as severe. The severe ones resulted in ongoing care for life, slurred speech and memory damage. I also learned that about 30 percent of traumatic injuries are from trips and falls. The second cause is automobile accidents at 20 percent. Over 50,000 people die of trauma related head injuries each year. That’s one of every 6,000 Americans. Of every hundred people treated, 65 of them are males. Something you might find surprising is that kids 0 to 4 and teens 15-19 are most susceptible to these injuries. African American males have the highest risk of traumatic injuries. 1.1 million people in America walk away from the hospital after surgery. 235,000 are further hospitalized. This field is very expensive and as a result in 2004, 60 billion dollars were spent directly and indirectly in the field! Overall, I’d like to be a neurologist and would love to learn more about the topic. I have a lot of questions about the specifics and blood pressure and parts of the brain and membranes.
The name of the article is Butterfly ‘GPS’ found in antennae
By Judith Burns, from BBC news. New research has found that the monarch butterfly’s antennae navigates the position of the sun to enable them to migrate to Mexico. The Monarch’s antennae keeps track of the position of the sun to help them find out which direction they need to go.
I was very interested in this article because I know a lot about butterflies because my dad is a naturalist. I have raised monarchs from eggs and released them as adults. We have banded the butterflies as well. We have had one butterfly that we caught in our garden that made it to Mexico.
I was really surprised to discover that they discovered the positioning of the sun by their antennae. I thought their brain figured that out. That really surprised me.
I don’t have many questions about the article because it was really easy to read and understand.
Citation: http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20090923/Feature1.asp
Description: this article is about a dinosaur similar to the T. rex but smaller
named the raptorex. This dinosaur had some feature differences and came at least
35 million years before the T. rex.
Reflection:
This article was very interesting to me partially because I'm very interested
in animals and also because I like animals that are different from modern
animals or stick out. I also like new biological discoveries because new animals
found always seem to be cool. This new Dinosaur fully named the Raptorex
Kriegsteini is thought to be the ancestor of the T. rex witch does make sense
considering it came before it and is very similar. The raptorex was a lot
smaller than the T. rex though and it would take about 90 full grown raptorex to
weigh as much as a T. rex. That's a big size difference and scientists are
trying to figure out why they got bigger.
The scientists originally thought the T. rex's arms did not grow so much as
their body did but the raptorex suggests not. All these new discoveries are
being made which change scientific theory either a little or a lot. These kinds
of discoveries are what's evolving science and I think most new biological
discoveries are pretty awesome. The thing is if we keep changing theories for
the better how do we know what we can trust and what we can't. A lot of the
stuff we're being taught could all be not true? How much information is there
out there that we haven't discovered? Not only are the things we have already
discovered possibly not true but there's so much we haven't even seen any of
yet. If we were to go a million years into the future (assuming the human race
still exists) how much would information have changed? If a T. rex originally
came from a raptorex witch we're not sure is true then where did a raptorex come
from?
Lalaland72 says…
Denver to Barcelona: Global cities and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Christopher Kennedy
Environmental Science and Technology
This article was about the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on deferent parts of the earth. Christopher Kennedy studied 10 cities, all over the world, and compared the amount of GHG the city releases.
I thought that the topic was very interesting. Christopher Kennedy surveyed the amount of greenhouse gasses (GHG) released from these 10 cities all over the globe: Bangkok (Thailand), Barcelona (Spain), Cape Town (South Africa), Denver (USA), Geneva (Switzerland), London (Britain), Los Angeles (USA), New York City (USA), Prague (Czech Republic) and Toronto (Canada). Denver was ranked as the city that released the most GHG and Barcelona was ranked last.
Although the article was based on an interesting topic, I didn’t think that the author gave enough information. The article didn’t say how he chose the cities he did. I found it questionable that there were 3 cities from America. He also did not mention how he measured the amount of GHG released, which I think is vital information. The last thing I think the article lacked, was reasoning. Why did Denver release the most and Barcelona the least? What is different about the two cultures that caused these statistics? I would really like to find out this information, so that the statistics would be more meaningful. I would also like to learn about the amount of GHG released from other major cities around the globe.
Overall I thought that Christopher Kennedy had a good topic and interesting ideas, but the article was lacking a lot of important information.
This article is called How Liquid Motion Lamps Work. I found it on howstuffworks.com.
Reflection:
I really liked this article. I was very interested in this article because I have always been mezmorized by lava lamps. I have always wondered how lava lamps function, this artcile explained that very well. I was disapointed that the temperature at which which the waxy compund melts was not included in the article.
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