Friday Night Video: A Tour of Six Flags New Orleans
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The Six Flags theme park in New Orleans was closed in 2005 for Hurricane Katrina, and it’s been abandoned ever since. It will be demolished in January 2011.
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:03:10pm |
bummer…as an amusement park buff, a lot of good times and daydreams are going to the junk pile….never a good thing in that regard
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brookly red Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:09:34pm |
re: #1 albusteve
bummer…as an amusement park buff, a lot of good times and daydreams are going to the junk pile…never a good thing in that regard
I think destroying it is premature…
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:12:04pm |
re: #2 brookly red
I think destroying it is premature…
what an awful meme…a place of fun and fantasy, reduced to this….I inadvertently reached for my Stoeger….very depressing
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brookly red Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:14:14pm |
re: #4 albusteve
what an awful meme…a place of fun and fantasy, reduced to this…I inadvertently reached for my Stoeger…very depressing
well if your feeling up yer Stoeger over this I guess this would be a bad time to bring up the G 20…
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:16:52pm |
re: #5 brookly red
well if your feeling up yer Stoeger over this I guess this would be a bad time to bring up the G 20…
.20g?….I want to saw off an autoloader for home D…ATF might not dig it tho
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PhillyPretzel Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:17:00pm |
I have to agree with the tags of eerie and creepy. I hope someone can find another use for the land.
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:18:04pm |
re: #7 PhillyPretzel
I have to agree with the tags of eerie and creepy. I hope someone can find another use for the land.
rebuild it!….nothing like a fast coaster full of screaming kids
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PhillyPretzel Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:19:46pm |
re: #8 albusteve
That would be nice but I do not think that is going to happen. The Six Flags group has not done anything since the hurricane.
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researchok Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:20:15pm |
re: #8 albusteve
rebuild it!…nothing like a fast coaster full of screaming kids
Or, build a school campus- one that actually taught science.
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brookly red Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:20:29pm |
re: #6 albusteve
.20g?…I want to saw off an autoloader for home D…ATF might not dig it tho
G 20, 20g… one may lead to another.
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:21:52pm |
re: #11 brookly red
G 20, 20g… one may lead to another.
dig that…meanwhile I’ll hunker down in the bunkhouse thanks…but DO NOT breech the gate out front after dark
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CuriousLurker Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:22:53pm |
re: #3 researchok
Depressing.
Has a haunting element.
I agree. There are few things more depressing or creepier than an abandoned amusement park.
Heh, this really creeps me out. Not only and abandoned amusement park ride, but also an evil demented looking clown. *shudder*
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:23:51pm |
re: #14 CuriousLurker
I agree. There are few things more depressing or creepier than an abandoned amusement park.
Heh, this really creeps me out. Not only and abandoned amusement park ride, but also an evil demented looking clown. *shudder*
hey!…that’s the back of my day care center!
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CuriousLurker Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:25:03pm |
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:25:21pm |
an amusement park is a school of a sort….not a dime or a minute spent better
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brookly red Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:29:13pm |
re: #17 albusteve
an amusement park is a school of a sort…not a dime or a minute spent better
well if you factor in 1. the game is rigged you can’t win & 2. the ride is way overpriced… then you have taught better than many schools.
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reine.de.tout Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:30:22pm |
re: #14 CuriousLurker
I agree. There are few things more depressing or creepier than an abandoned amusement park.
Heh, this really creeps me out. Not only and abandoned amusement park ride, but also an evil demented looking clown. *shudder*
We took our daughter to that park, when it first opened.
Honestly - it was a little bit creepy even then. Way out of town, surrounded by swamp-ish sort of land. And not particularly well-maintained and by the looks of it, not particularly well-attended. Very few folks were there, and it was a brand-new park!
But that video really is creepy, and sad.
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:30:29pm |
re: #19 brookly red
well if you factor in 1. the game is rigged you can’t win & 2. the ride is way overpriced… then you have taught better than many schools.
you cannot be a mizer and raise two kids…and I really dig thrill rides, a twofer
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:30:40pm |
I remember a “creepy story” comic book where a ride designer is worked to death by his boss wanting scarier and scarier rides. His ghost comes back and takes the boss on the scariest ride ever.
I remembered this comic when I saw this video. Was pretty much the same ride.
The bosses end was not pretty.
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brookly red Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:32:36pm |
re: #21 albusteve
you cannot be a mizer and raise two kids…and I really dig thrill rides, a twofer
I don’t need thrill rides… I have the A train.
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:34:34pm |
re: #23 brookly red
I don’t need thrill rides… I have the A train.
I didn’t need those nympho sisters either, back in the day, but I’m glad I rode them
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PhillyPretzel Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:35:10pm |
re: #23 brookly red
I know what you mean by I have the A train. I have had some pretty bad rides during rush hour on SEPTA. Not to mention having to switch from a train to a bus and back again. I call it the SEPTA shuffle.
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:36:21pm |
Mean Streak at Cedar Point, Ohio
ridden it many’s the time….one long, big assed wooden shaker, not for sissies
[Link: www.flickr.com…]
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:37:28pm |
re: #25 PhillyPretzel
I know what you mean by I have the A train. I have had some pretty bad rides during rush hour on SEPTA. Not to mention having to switch from a train to a bus and back again. I call it the SEPTA shuffle.
city slickers…always have a problem
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brookly red Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:38:19pm |
re: #25 PhillyPretzel
I know what you mean by I have the A train. I have had some pretty bad rides during rush hour on SEPTA. Not to mention having to switch from a train to a bus and back again. I call it the SEPTA shuffle.
you know, quick while no one is looking, I support the lefty concept of mass transit… If you tell anyone I might have to hurt you.
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CuriousLurker Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:40:00pm |
re: #20 reine.de.tout
We took our daughter to that park, when it first opened.
Honestly - it was a little bit creepy even then. Way out of town, surrounded by swamp-ish sort of land. And not particularly well-maintained and by the looks of it, not particularly well-attended. Very few folks were there, and it was a brand-new park!But that video really is creepy, and sad.
Wow. Sounds like good fodder for an urban legend about a haunted amusement park. The music in the video makes it even worse!
The park I wen to as a kid has been closed for decades. I just went to check Google street view and it’s completely gone now; just empty land & trees.
I haven’t been back to my hometown since I left around 12 years ago. Boy, oh, boy have things changed! I can barely recognize anything.
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:41:06pm |
re: #30 CuriousLurker
Wow. Sounds like good fodder for an urban legend about a haunted amusement park. The music in the video makes it even worse!
The park I wen to as a kid has been closed for decades. I just went to check Google street view and it’s completely gone now; just empty land & trees.
I haven’t been back to my hometown since I left around 12 years ago. Boy, oh, boy have things changed! I can barely recognize anything.
you can never go home…I know
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brookly red Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:41:13pm |
re: #24 albusteve
I didn’t need those nympho sisters either, back in the day, but I’m glad I rode them
Wow… I didn’t think you were THAT old.
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CuriousLurker Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:42:04pm |
re: #28 brookly red
you know, quick while no one is looking, I support the lefty concept of mass transit… If you tell anyone I might have to hurt you.
HA! Screenshot saved for eternity.
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:42:11pm |
re: #32 brookly red
Wow… I didn’t think you were THAT old.
it takes awhile to get it all taken care of….one step at a time comrade
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brookly red Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:43:27pm |
re: #35 albusteve
it takes awhile to get it all taken care of…one step at a time comrade
attrition. God bless attrition.
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Killgore Trout Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:43:34pm |
A worthwhile update to my Glenn Beck page from earlier today…
Making Sense of Ezra Taft Benson, Civil Rights and Glenn Beck
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CuriousLurker Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:43:58pm |
re: #31 albusteve
you can never go home…I know
Y’know, my head knew that time wouldn’t stand still, but it was still a shock. I can’t imagine how freaky it would be if I actually went back in person.
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:45:55pm |
re: #33 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
[Video]
the most kick ass wooden coaster out there….you rattle all over til you about fly apart….yee haaaa!
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CuriousLurker Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:46:08pm |
re: #26 albusteve
Mean Streak at Cedar Point, Ohio
ridden it many’s the time…one long, big assed wooden shaker, not for sissies
[Link: www.flickr.com…]
Ours was wooden too, but I think I only rode it like half a dozen times. I’m a total wuss when it comes to roller coasters.
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brookly red Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:46:10pm |
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:47:47pm |
re: #9 PhillyPretzel
That would be nice but I do not think that is going to happen. The Six Flags group has not done anything since the hurricane.
Maybe Jerry Jones could come along and hoodwink the taxpayers into paying for it.
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:47:58pm |
re: #38 CuriousLurker
Y’know, my head knew that time wouldn’t stand still, but it was still a shock. I can’t imagine how freaky it would be if I actually went back in person.
our lives are measured in heartbeats….we have only so many, so spend them wisely….look ahead
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CuriousLurker Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:49:04pm |
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:49:06pm |
re: #42 negativ
Maybe Jerry Jones could come along and hoodwink the taxpayers into paying for it.
JJ spent how much on his stadium?…do you know?
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brookly red Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:49:40pm |
re: #39 albusteve
the most kick ass wooden coaster out there…you rattle all over til you about fly apart…yee haaa!
wait… your in charge of the Fed now?
think I will by some more gold now…
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:49:48pm |
re: #28 brookly red
you know, quick while no one is looking, I support the lefty concept of mass transit… If you tell anyone I might have to hurt you.
I’m gonna guess you’re being slightly facetious, but just in case not: how is mass transit a “lefty” concept? It’s hard for me to imagine it being anything other than utilitarian, pragmatic, and apolitical.
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CuriousLurker Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:49:56pm |
re: #43 albusteve
our lives are measured in heartbeats…we have only so many, so spend them wisely…look ahead
True that. So true.
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Four More Tears Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:50:48pm |
Oh, East Hastings was the perfect choice of music for this video.
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:51:43pm |
re: #46 brookly red
wait… your in charge of the Fed now?
think I will by some more gold now…
step over here a minute———>
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brookly red Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:52:25pm |
re: #47 negativ
I’m gonna guess you’re being slightly facetious, but just in case not: how is mass transit a “lefty” concept? It’s hard for me to imagine it being anything other than utilitarian, pragmatic, and apolitical.
yeah? I told you I am a registered Dem… we used to get it right back in the day.
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brookly red Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:53:05pm |
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PhillyPretzel Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:53:35pm |
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:55:12pm |
re: #53 PhillyPretzel
Commodities prices
[Link: www.kitco.com…]
what is that mismash?….my gold is near 10 times what i paid for it, is that a bad thing?….do you pay a mortgage?
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:55:56pm |
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brookly red Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:56:10pm |
re: #54 albusteve
what is that mismash?…my gold is near 10 times what i paid for it, is that a bad thing?…do you pay a mortgage?
/oh look a new thread!
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CuriousLurker Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:56:23pm |
re: #48 CuriousLurker
True that. So true.
Speaking of spending heartbeats wisely, I think it’s time I stepped away from the computer for the day. Thanks for the reminder, Steve.
Nite, everyone.
*pelts brookly with bits of chopped pineapple on the way out…*
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PhillyPretzel Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:56:36pm |
re: #54 albusteve
I follow it. I do not invest in it. I am sorry if you find the page a bit too busy. That is how that company set it up.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:56:36pm |
re: #45 albusteve
JJ spent how much on his stadium?…do you know?
Originally estimated to cost $650 million, the stadium’s current construction cost was $1.15 billion, making it one of the most expensive sports venues ever built. To aid Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones in paying the construction costs of the new stadium, Arlington voters approved the increase of the city’s sales tax by 0.5 percent, the hotel occupancy tax by 2 percent, and car rental tax by 5 percent. The City of Arlington provided over $325 million (including interest) in bonds as funding, and Jones covered any cost overruns. Also, the NFL provided the Cowboys with an additional $150 million, as per their policy for giving teams a certain lump sum of money for stadium financing.
And for their trouble, they got a team that apparently can’t football its way out of a wet paper bag. I’m completely apathetic about football, but just about the only damn thing people around here have talked about for weeks is what a horrible embarrassment the Dallas Cowboys currently are.
It’s laughable, because the city of Arlington has, hands down, the most gawd-awful traffic in the entire DFW metroplex (it’s about half the geographical size of Waco, but with 3 times the population), and every time a proposal for mass transit comes up, they vote it down like they were driving the devil out of a day care. Yet they have no problem taxing themselves to help a billionaire make more money.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:57:13pm |
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brookly red Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:57:26pm |
re: #57 CuriousLurker
Speaking of spending heartbeats wisely, I think it’s time I stepped away from the computer for the day. Thanks for the reminder, Steve.
Nite, everyone.
*pelts brookly with bits of chopped pineapple on the way out…*
I love pineapple… just not on pizza.
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brookly red Fri, Nov 12, 2010 6:59:12pm |
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prairiefire Fri, Nov 12, 2010 7:01:05pm |
re: #45 albusteve
JJ spent how much on his stadium?…do you know?
$260 for nose blood seats, I have heard.
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albusteve Fri, Nov 12, 2010 7:02:46pm |
re: #59 negativ
And for their trouble, they got a team that apparently can’t football its way out of a wet paper bag. I’m completely apathetic about football, but just about the only damn thing people around here have talked about for weeks is what a horrible embarrassment the Dallas Cowboys currently are.
It’s laughable, because the city of Arlington has, hands down, the most gawd-awful traffic in the entire DFW metroplex (it’s about half the geographical size of Waco, but with 3 times the population), and every time a proposal for mass transit comes up, they vote it down like they were driving the devil out of a day care. Yet they have no problem taxing themselves to help a billionaire make more money.
been there….bottom line regardless of your bias….the building cost 1.15b, of which Jones paid over 840m out of pocket….the venue is world class and will support X number of jobs supporting gigs from truck races to the NCAA Finals, the Super Bowl and various other money making gigs….Arlington was on board from the beginning as were by far, most of the voters….piss elsewhere
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prairiefire Fri, Nov 12, 2010 7:06:45pm |
re: #33 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
The Prowler in KC at Worlds Of Fun:[Link: video.search.yahoo.com…]
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Nov 12, 2010 7:16:37pm |
re: #36 brookly red
attrition. God bless attrition.
The only thing that feels like its being attritted is me. I work my ass off and I’m still left scrambling trying to pay my mortgage.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Nov 12, 2010 7:20:43pm |
re: #64 albusteve
been there…bottom line regardless of your bias…the building cost 1.15b, of which Jones paid over 840m out of pocket…the venue is world class and will support X number of jobs supporting gigs from truck races to the NCAA Finals, the Super Bowl and various other money making gigs…Arlington was on board from the beginning as were by far, most of the voters…piss elsewhere
Damn you, I say, damn you. You have forced me to take a position in agreement with Americans for Prosperity.
Next step: cats and dogs living together.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Nov 12, 2010 7:25:21pm |
re: #66 Dark_Falcon
The only thing that feels like its being attritted is me. I work my ass off and I’m still left scrambling trying to pay my mortgage.
Always remember: The amount of money you make is directly proportionate your talents, your competence, and to how hard you work.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, Nov 12, 2010 7:34:40pm |
re: #68 negativ
Always remember: The amount of money you make is directly proportionate your talents, your competence, and to how hard you work.
[Facepalm]
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Tigger2005 Sat, Nov 13, 2010 12:48:55am |
Do not let you get this get you down on New Orleans or keep you from visiting this amazing city!
Yes, their mayor is an idiot, and the city is built in a ridiculous location, but it is the most unique city in America bar none. The food… the music… the French Quarter… I fell in love with the place on my first visit and I intend to go back at every opportunity. You do not need a theme park to appreciate New Orleans. It is not a sad ghost town… it’s a vibrant city that deserves our tourist dollars as it continues to rebuild. Go. Hear the blues, the jazz, the rock and roll. Get a Hurricane at Pat O’briens and enjoy the dueling pianos. Enjoy the art galleries, the restaurants. Visit Mardi Gras World.
I love New Orleans. It’s obvious, isn’t it?
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sngnsgt Sat, Nov 13, 2010 12:57:58pm |
We can rebuild it, better, stronger, faster! Get an admission paying ass in every seat in the park!!!
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