Lawsuit filed over American Fork sewer plant’s ’humanure’ piles

AMERICAN FORK — Several Utah County cities and businesses are raising a stink over compost piles made from human waste at a sewage treatment plant, saying it's no way to treat the neighbors.

They filed a $425 million lawsuit against the Timpanogos Special Service District in American Fork seeking relief.

"As the foul odor permeates the surrounding areas, it regularly causes physical illness among residents, workers and visitors," says the complaint in 4th District Court. It was filed earlier this week by American Fork, neighboring Pleasant Grove, the American Fork Chamber of Commerce and businesses including a BMW dealership and an RV park.

Citizens have lodged complaints for years, and the sewer district has responded by trying to keep odors down. By 2010, officials said they were wrapping 160-foot-long sludge piles in Gore-Tex tarps that reportedly eliminated as much as 97 percent of the odor while hastening composting.

The lawsuit, however, says workers who uncover the piles to mix chopped vegetation with human waste are releasing "substantial, obnoxious and foul odors through several miles of surrounding commercial and residential areas."

Utah County commissioners were named in the lawsuit because they oversee the Timpanogos Special Service District.

"I'm sad and disappointed in it, and I think there are other ways to work on it," Commissioner Larry Ellertson told the Daily Herald of Provo. "I think there has been much progress made and continued to be made."

The service district collects sewer waste from about 40,000 households across a wide area of northern Utah County, said Walter Baker, director of the Utah Division of Water Quality.

"They've got a massive concrete pad for their composting operation and water stops to prevent any groundwater contamination," said Baker, listing his agency's only concerns with the operation. "As far as the management of it — the odors of it — that's not under our purview."

The odors are driving down rents in nearby office buildings, the lawsuit says.

"For example, commercial building owners have greater difficulty leasing their spaces, lease rates are lower than they otherwise would be, and tenants have either left or have threatened to leave if the odor continues to plague the area," it said.

The sewer plant reportedly keeps hundreds of tons of sludge onsite for compost, saving money on disposal. In 2010, officials told the Deseret News they earned $375,000 from compost sales, offsetting costs for hauling away remaining sludge.

District Manager Jon Adams didn't return a phone message Wednesday from The Associated Press.

 

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Alex Morgan face of future for U.S. Soccer

NEW YORK — Alex Morgan and her U.S. soccer teammates are on a victory tour after winning the gold medal at the London Olympics. Morgan's late header against Canada propelled the Americans into the gold-medal match, where soccer's version of the Redeem Team edged Japan 2-1 before 80,203 fans at Wembley Stadium in a rematch of the World Cup final. On Wednesday, the U.S. team will play Australia in an exhibition match near Denver.

The 23-year-old Morgan recently participated in a youth soccer clinic in Rochester, N.Y. — hometown of teammate Abby Wambach — that focused on warm-up techniques to help prevent injuries. She walked the runway at Fashion Week in New York, biting her gold medal in a blue and brown vertically striped dress with a bouffant updo while on stage at the Just Dance fashion show. She also made the morning talk show circuit, inked a book deal and rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 11.

The Cal graduate with a major in political economy and 942,000 followers on Twitter discusses winning gold, returning from a knee injury and what's next without a pro league in the U.S.

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GOLDEN MOMENT

Morgan says the team is proud to wear the gold medal after "a heartbreaker losing to Japan last year" in the World Cup. The U.S. topped Japan in the rematch in London, and Morgan called it "fate that we met up together in the final in the Olympics. Getting that gold medal, wearing it around our necks, makes it even sweeter." On Sunday in Carson, Calif., Morgan celebrated her 50th international appearance by scoring a team-best 22nd goal of the year in a 2-1 win, also against Australia. She played before more than 100 friends and family, who came from nearby Diamond Bar, where she led her high school team before going on to be the top scorer at Cal.

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KNEE INJURIES

Morgan tore a knee ligament in high school while making a move without the ball, had surgery and was back on the field after five months of rehab. In high school, she says players typically warm up with the ball and dribbling. Now she's telling younger players about techniques that include balance and core exercises. Morgan says the biggest difference in soccer training is "the agility exercises. We also raise awareness of the importance of aligning the foot, knee and hip." She says it's important for her "to reach out to that teenage group" and share advice.

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SAFER HEADERS?

Soccer is a contact sport that involves tangling for possession of the ball and launching airborne for headers off corner kicks. Concussion prevention is part of the effort to avoid head injuries. Is it possible to perform a safe header? Morgan thinks so, by "jumping off of both feet and landing on both feet, making sure you protect your head with your body if going up against a header with someone else or a goalkeeper."

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FACE OF THE FUTURE?

After the victory tour, players such as Hope Solo, Morgan and Wambach won't have the option of playing for a U.S. pro league. The Women's Professional Soccer league folded this year, with no replacement so far. There's talk of upgrading a semipro league in the states or providing 25-30 games per year in an extended residency program for the U.S. national team before the 2015 World Cup. Other options include playing overseas in leagues in Europe or Japan. Meanwhile, the U.S. Soccer Federation is looking for a new coach after Pia Sundhage announced she will return to Sweden to coach the national team. Morgan called Sundhage a "great coach" who taught her about "enjoying the journey and living in the moment — it really made me have fun." Morgan, the heir apparent to high-scoring Wambach, is "hopeful" there will be a new U.S. pro league soon.

 

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Ask Babe: What’s the value of signed 1941 Dodgers ball?

Dear Babe: I have a 1941 Dodgers ball. I understand the Dodgers played the New York Yankees in the World Series that year and lost. Some of the names on the ball are Chuck Dressen, Leo Durocher, Lew Riggs, Curt Davis, Pee Wee Reese, Hugh Casey, Cookie Lavagetto, Dolph Camilli, Dixie Walker, Pete Reiser and Mickey Owen. It's an official Spalding National League baseball with "Ford C. Frick" stamped on it.

-- Joan Keefer, Wurtsboro, N.Y.

Babe: As you noted, the Brooklyn Dodgers were the National League pennant winners in the last season before many major leaguers headed off for military service during World War II. It was their first title in 20 years. They faced off against the Yankees in the first of seven "Subway Series" matchups, featuring the two New York City rivals. The Yankees rolled over the Dodgers in five games to win the title. The Dodgers would win only one of those crosstown matchups -- in 1955.

Durocher was the player/manager of the club, although he appeared in only 18 games. He managed the team from 1939 through 1946, but the '41 pennant was the only time the team finished first.

We've got a pretty wide range when it comes to value. Here's what the experts had to say:

"The 1941 Dodgers ball is worth around $750 in average condition. A near-mint example could sell for $2,000 or more," said Mike Heffner, president of www.Lelands.com.

"Not a very popular signed baseball, but it is definitely scarce. In better than average condition, about $800-$1000," said Mike Gutierrez, consignment director for Heritage Auctions (www.ha.com).

"If it is decent, $300-$500," said David Kohler, president of www.scpauctions.com.

Dear Babe: Years ago I saved some sports cards. Included is a 1954 Yogi Berra card.

-- Ruth Freel, Redding, Calif.

Babe: Not much to go on here. Fortunately, there weren't a lot of manufacturers back then.

It looks like Berra had four cards in 1954 -- Topps (No. 50), Bowman (161), Red Man Chewing Tobacco (AL20) and New York Journal American (41).

Let's work our way up the value scale. Red Man cards had a tab. Fifty tabs could be redeemed for a Red Man big league style cap. That's why it is hard to find cards with the tabs still attached.

Beckett's Almanac of Baseball Cards lists Berra's Red Man card at $100 with the tab and $40 without. The Standard Catalog of Vintage Baseball Cards from the editors of Sports Collectors Digest has it at $65 and $45.

Beckett lists the Journal American card at $150.

More than likely you have either his Topps or Bowman card. The guides agree on the values of both cards. The Bowman card books at $175.

Berra's '54 Topps card has a top book value of $300.

Dear Babe: I have a Dale Earnhardt 5000 series 1994 Gold Card Press Pass. I purchased my card from QVC. In addition to Earnhardt, the back mentions Geff (sic) Gordon, Kyle Petty, Mark Martin, Ernie Irvan and Rusty Wallace as being part of the set.

-- Annie Beasley, Greenville, S.C.

Babe: Keeping track of all the items that were packaged for the cable TV shopping shows is no easy task. This one shouldn't be hard to track, since they misspelled Jeff Gordon's first name.

Dan Hitt, senior manager for the Collectibles Data Group at www.beckett.com, said he didn't think these cards had real gold in them. He valued your Earnhardt card at $150, which isn't bad for an item sold on cable TV with a print run of 5,000.

I spotted a similar card on eBay. It was being offered for $99.

Babe Waxpak is written by Bill Wagner. If you have a question for Babe Waxpak, include your full name and hometown, the card number, year and manufacturer or send a photocopy. Please do not send cards. The address is: Babe Waxpak, Box 492397, Redding, CA 96049-2397 or email babewaxpak@charter.net.

 

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Moulton: Sabol leaves indelible mark on NFL and its fans

He may not be the reason you are a National Football League fan, but he's got to be part of the reason why you love it to the extent that you do.

He was for me.

Steve Sabol, co-founder (along with his dad) of NFL Films, romanticized football on television the way writers and play-by-play broadcasters did baseball in print and on the radio.

Growing up, despite baseball being my favorite sport, my favorite sports show was not "This Week in Baseball." It was "This Week in the NFL", with Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier. A weekly, one-hour program that aired Saturday during the season at 7 p.m.

At the time I was too young to stay up and watch Cosell's highlights at halftime of Monday Night Football (roughly 10:30). So my introduction to the NFL was this show. I got to see all the teams in the league and learn all the players.

As I got a little older, the show of choice became HBO's "Inside the NFL." In the early days of ESPN, all the Football Follies, Super Bowl highlight shows and each team's season recap shows made the game so exciting that by high school, no sport had the emotional connection with me that the NFL had.

All of this was produced and conceptualized by the Sabols. Ed and Steve.

Ed took his rightful place in the Hall of Fame last year. Steve should be there, too.

The first voice of NFL Films was John Facenda, a baritone that could read the phone book with soothing authority. Steve Sabol once joked, "If God has a voice, I imagine he sounds an awful lot like John Facenda." Steve won 40 Emmys and helped revolutionize sports on television.

Nearly 50 years ago the combination of his words, Facenda's voice, the showing of the game, all accentuated by music from a symphony orchestra, grabbed hold of millions of us.

And we have not let go since.

With the violins playing at first slowly only to have the trumpets build to a fever pitch, in 1974 "the Voice of God" read this:

The Autumn wind is a pirate

Blistering in from sea

With a rollicking song he sweeps along

Swaggering boisterously.

His face is weatherbeaten

He wears a hooded sash

With a silver hat about his head

And a bristling black mustache.

He growls as he storms the country

A villain big and bold

And the trees all shake and quiver and quake

As he robs them of their gold.

The Autumn wind is a Raider

Pillaging just for fun

He'll knock you 'round and upside down

And laugh when he's conquered and won.

Steve Sabol wrote those words.

And no one will ever do it as well as him again.

It's a strange sadness many of us felt when we heard the news of his passing. I felt this way when former U.S. Olympic hockey coach Herb Brooks died in a car accident n 2003.

Most of us never met him yet felt as if we knew him. More than that, he contributed to a part of our lives that we hold dear.

So here's a toast to Steve Sabol.

Thanks for making the NFL more than a game.

You made it a passion.

 

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Still time to get back into NASCAR title hunt

It doesn't take long for the pretenders to be separated from the contenders in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

Sometimes, through bad luck or mediocre performance, a driver leaves the Chase opener sentenced to an also-ran status for the remainder of the season. This season may be an anomaly — the field is too stacked to start crossing names off the list of legitimate title contenders.

That could be good news for Matt Kenseth and Jeff Gordon, who each had mechanical problems in the Chicago opener. Kenseth had a shock fall off his car, Gordon crashed after his throttle stuck and the two head to Round 2 of the Chase in New Hampshire ranked 11th and 12th in the standings.

"I think even Jeff Gordon, even though he had a disappointing finish, he still can't count himself out," said defending champion Tony Stewart. "Everybody can have a bad race, so it's way too early to predict after one race."

There's usually room for a mulligan in the Chase: Stewart limped to a 25th-place finish last year in Round 3 at Dover and still won the title. Jimmie Johnson overcame not only a 39th-place finish in the 2006 Chase opener, but also a crash at Talladega. An early crash at Texas in 2009 led to a 38th-place finish, and he still won his fourth title. And in 2010, he opened with a 25th-place finish and rallied over the remaining nine weeks for his fifth-straight championship.

So nobody is expecting the champion to have a flawless 10-race run.

"You're probably going to see guys having a little bit of trouble here and there," said Greg Biffle. "I think with this field, people are going to be climbing back in this game because other guys may have trouble or may have a mediocre race and a guy wins. I think there will probably be more guys in it for a longer period of time in this Chase."

Those at the bottom of the standings have no time to waste.

"If those same guys continue to have trouble, that might start eliminating a few," said Biffle, who counts himself among those needing a strong rebound this Sunday at New Hampshire.

He was the points leader at the end of the "regular season" but opened the Chase in fifth after the field was re-seeded based on bonus points. He figured a strong race at Chicago would push him back into the points lead, but he struggled all weekend and had to settle for a 13th-place finish. It cost Biffle another three spots in the standings.

"It was an unfortunate race for us. We felt like we were going to be on the money there and we just ended up off a little bit," he said. "It's a very, very tight points battle going on right now, so we know a couple good finishes and we're going to be right back in the top three in points."

Biffle finished third at New Hampshire in the second Chase race a year ago; he was ninth at the track when NASCAR stopped there in July.

Kenseth, his Roush Fenway Racing teammate, is in a deeper hole. His 18th-place finish Sunday marked the third consecutive year Kenseth opened the Chase with a finish of 10th or worse. And New Hampshire hasn't been all that good to him of late. He was 13th there in July, but has just one top-10 in his last nine starts.

"Loudon has been a place that I've struggled at, but our goal is to get a good clean run on Sunday in order to make up some of our position in the point standings that we lost last weekend at Chicago," Kenseth said.

And then there's Denny Hamlin, who isn't in danger of falling out of title contention just yet. He was disappointed after running out of fuel late at Chicago — his gas man didn't get the tank full on the final stop and it cost Hamlin a top-10 finish.

After opening the Chase as the points leader, Hamlin's 16th-place finish dropped him to fifth in the standings. Only 15 points behind Chicago winner and new points leader Brad Keselowski, Hamlin is confident about his chances.

"This is 1 week of 10. We will win next week," Hamlin tweeted.

Maybe he will. Hamlin might have won at New Hampshire in July if not for late race miscommunication with crew chief Darian Grubb, who changed four tires when Hamlin only wanted two changed. The longer pit stop dropped Hamlin deep in the field, and despite a frantic final push, he finished second to winner Kasey Kahne.

He had a good attitude after the race — "I've been through this long enough now (that) you're going to have plenty more chances in the future, especially the way we're running," he said — and gets a chance to prove it Sunday.

 

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BYU, Boise State mark the start of 12 straight games

BOISE, Idaho — Boise State and Brigham Young have only met twice before, and it's been eight years since the last matchup.

But both teams are about to get to know each other a little better.

When the Cougars visit No. 24 Boise State (1-1) Thursday night, it will mark the first of a dozen games scheduled between the two programs over the next 12 years.

While fans may be enthused about a burgeoning rivalry between two schools just a five-hour drive apart, Bronco coach Chris Petersen takes a ho-hum approach.

Instead, Petersen is looking ahead, saying new rivals await when Boise State joins the Big East next year.

BYU (2-1) is looking for its first-ever win over Boise State. The Broncos knocked off BYU in 2002 and again in 2004.

 

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Mitt doesn't give a whit about moochers

He should have known that off-the-cuff remarks are always dangerous. Sometimes little bits of truth, like so many crumbs, drop into the cuffs -- only to come out later in the wash and cause embarrassment.

In fairness, patrician gentlemen like Romney can't be expected to do their own wash, and he probably wasn't aware of the cuff danger when he spoke unbuttoned to wealthy donors.

Unfortunately, his remarks were recorded and the video was given to Mother Jones magazine, which despite mother in its title is a left-wing publication that some people think -- to use the word "think" in its most exaggerated sense -- despises mothers and is against apple pie, too.

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," Romney says in the video. "There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it."

To further show his rich friends that he shares their contempt for ordinary Americans, Romney said that 47 percent of Americans pay no income tax and that his role "is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

Romney now admits his words weren't "elegantly stated."

Well, as someone who is inelegant every day, I was just glad to learn that we the people are we the moochers. I have worked all my life, but I am just as guilty as anyone. Goodness knows I like to think I take personal responsibility, but I realize that my whole life is one of subservience to the government here in the United States of Mooch.

Look at what I did today: I got up and had cereal, no doubt the result of farm subsidies; had some tomato juice with the government-mandated nutrition information; jumped into my car with all its socialist safety equipment, such as air bags; and took government-maintained bridges and roads (not well-maintained, thank goodness, giving me the chance to die as an independent citizen in a bridge collapse) all the way here to the word factory.

And what did I find? A workplace maintained according to Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards, leaving me with no chance to breathe asbestos. At lunch I had some chicken, also subject to government oversight that deprives me of the fun of contracting a bacterial disease.

Is this the life of a free man?

Of course not. It would be much better if I rode a horse to work, perhaps a polo pony from the Romney stable, one that came with one of those dandy mallets ideal for hitting the heads of passing ingrates -- you know, the people who think they are entitled to eat and have health care just because America is one of the richest nations on Earth.

How brave of Mitt Romney to come out and say this, albeit in private. This is leadership. I look forward to the day when I retire and can sit freely in front of my very own hovel, earned with the sweat of my own sentence construction, and fan myself with a Medicare voucher given to me by that nice young man, Mr. Ryan -- that being all the voucher will be good for.

It was thoughtful of Romney to be so forthright about his views on his fellow Americans. All the embarrassing phrases that Barack Obama has said -- "cling to guns and religion," "spread the wealth around," "you didn't build that" -- had to be creatively embroidered or taken out of context to make political hay.

Not with His Royal Mittship's pronouncements. They are the stuff of immediate campaign slogans: "I'm OK and I Won't Worry About You," "Get a Job or Get a Trust Fund," "Not a Bar of Government Soap for America's Great Unwashed," "Blame Yourself, Victim."

Still, some of Romney's supporters may worry that showing disrespect to 47 percent of the American people is not the best recipe for victory in November. Not to worry. While journalists are not good at numbers, I know he can win over the other 73 percent of Americans with his uncompromising views.

As for that cat thrown among the pigeons, it was not previously strapped to the top of the Mittmobile, as the government-loving, victim peasants will claim.

 

(Contact Reg Henry at: rhenrypost-gazette.com.)

(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)

 

Ever the contrarian, I feel I must say something supportive about Mitt Romney, who has thrown the cat among the pigeons with his off-the-cuff remarks.

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Car slams into parked school bus in Roy

ROY — A car crashed into a parked school bus at 3550 West and 5500 South, about 8 a.m. Wednesday.

The driver had been travelling east on 5500 South, near Roy, and the Weber County Sheriff's Office believed the driver was using or was about to use her cellular phone, Lt. John Morrow said.

The car struck the rear driver side of the Weber School District bus, which was empty at the time.

Morrow said buses usually wait in the area for their next route.

An ambulance took the driver to the hospital for head, neck, face and back injuries. The driver was alone in the car and no one else was injured in the crash.

Morrow said at this time, the Sheriff's Office believes that the combination of the use of the cellular phone and the sun caused the accident.

"This just shows the dangers of the combination of the two," Morrow said.

The case is still under investigation and a citation may be issued.

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Ex-Yale student arrested for threatening children on ESPN website

LOS ANGELES — A former Yale University student remained jailed on $1 million bail, an amount normally reserved for murder or other crimes that could result in life sentences, after authorities say he made online death threats to children.

Eric Yee, a 21-year-old who recently withdrew from the Ivy League university, posted on ESPN's website that he was watching children and wouldn't mind killing them, Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said Tuesday.

Yee was taken into custody Monday at his parents' home, which is on a street that overlooks two schools in Santa Clarita, Calif. Several guns were found there.

Sheriff's Lt. Steve Low said Yee was arrested for investigation of making terrorist threats.

Experts said the bail amount was very high for a person suspected of making terrorist threats.

"To put it in perspective, $1 million is the presumptive bail for murder," said Hanni Fakhoury, an attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a former federal public defender who is not involved in the case. In comparison, the presumptive bail for making terrorist threats is $50,000 and it would take many specific circumstances to push it much higher, Fakhoury said.

Sheriff's Deputy Josh Dubin told the Los Angeles Times that the department had requested "a bail enhancement because of the totality of the situation," but would not elaborate.

Yee was arrested after the sports network ESPN reported threats were posted in a reader response section to an online story about new Nike sneakers named after LeBron James that cost $270 a pair. Some of the nearly 3,000 reader comments on the story talked about children possibly getting killed over the expensive sneakers, said ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys.

The post that led police to Yee referred to a shooting that would be like the one in Aurora, Colo., where 12 people were killed and 58 others were injured in July, authorities said.

"What he was posting had nothing to do with sports," Soltys said. "We closely monitor the message boards and anytime we get a threat, we're alerting law enforcement officials."

An employee at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Conn., notified local police the same day and they linked the comments to the home of Yee's parents. Sheriff's investigators watched the home until they got a search warrant.

Yee and his family could not be reached for comment. A call to a phone number for him went to voicemail.

Both schools near the home were open Tuesday, although at least three children didn't attend class after they were notified by the school about the arrest, said Dianne Saunders, principal of Santa Clarita Elementary School.

Authorities didn't disclose how serious the threat was, but they were looking to see if the suspect had made similar posts on the Internet. Low also said investigators were trying to determine if anybody else might be involved.

"We take all these kinds of threats serious, especially with the climate of other shootings around the nation over the past year," Low said.

Sheriff's investigators were working with Bristol police and police at Yale University, which said Yee was a student until he withdrew this May for undisclosed reasons. Yale officials said he had been expected to graduate with a bachelor's degree in economics this past spring.

A Yale website listed him as a member of its class of 2012 and a participant in a leadership training program.

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Associated Press writers David Collins and Michael Melia in Hartford, Conn., contributed to this report.

 

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Police Taser UVU student who disrupted play

OREM — When Utah Valley University put on a play Monday night, the most dramatic action came from an audience member.

Police say a UVU student was arrested after disrupting the performance, stealing and breaking a prop and running screaming through the audience after officers hit him with a stun gun.

The Daily Herald reports Robert Fletcher grabbed and broke a spear used in the play after he was asked to leave.

Records say police stunned Fletcher with a Taser. Fletcher then ran screaming into the crowd before he ended up backstage, where police arrested him.

Police say he also slammed his head on a patrol car, leaving a dent.

Fletcher was booked into jail on several charges. Court records show he was previously convicted of assaulting a police officer.

 

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