UK museum revives first-ever film shot in color

LONDON (AP) ? The earliest movies known to be shot in color have been revived by film archivists, who on Wednesday gave an audience at London's Science Museum a glimpse at cinema's first attempts to show us the world as we see it.

The obscure film segments were long considered failed prototypes, blurry flickers of color seen by no more than a handful of people before being consigned to an archive. But the National Media Museum in the northern England city of Bradford said digitization had effectively rescued the footage, unlocking remarkably modern-looking images created more than a century ago.

The scenes, screened at the Science Museum, ranged from roughly 5 to 40 seconds and showed a parrot, a London street scene, and three smiling children sitting around a table covered with a burgundy cloth batting at a goldfish bowl with large sunflowers.

"No one really has seen it until more or less today," said Michael Harvey, the Media Museum's curator of cinematography. "Look at the age of it. Here you've actually got color film from the early Edwardian period."

He said he hoped the movies would change people's perceptions of "what was possible back then." The film is slightly jerky but of decent quality. With the exception of the kids' frilly turn-of-the-century clothes and some mild discoloration, the sun-drenched clip of children playing might have been something shot by a baby boomer in his or her back yard with a 1970s Minolta camera.

Experts have dated the movie segments back to 1901 or 1902, when cinema was still in its infancy and inventors on both sides of the Atlantic were racing to produce ever-more realistic films. American inventor Thomas Edison led the way with peep-show-like Kinetoscope; the Lumiere brothers had wowed French audiences with moving images projected onto screens in 1895. The next challenge was to shoot a film in color.

That was no mean feat.

Working in London, inventor-photographer Edward Turner devised a complex, three-color process which would shoot black-and-white negatives through red, green and blue filters alternating in rapid succession. The idea was to project three differently filtered frames at a time on to a screen to create the illusion of a single, colorful movie.

In theory, anyway.

In practice the timing of the filters and distance from the screen had to be perfectly calibrated or the movie became "a horrible mess," according to Bryony Dixon, the curator of silent film at the British Film Institute's National Archive.

Turner never quite got the hang of the process, and when he died of a heart attack in 1903 his footage was passed on to American film entrepreneur, Charles Urban, who partnered with film pioneer George Albert Smith to develop a modified (and much more successful) system, dubbed Kinemacolor, in 1906.

Harvey said that Urban donated Turner's footage to the London Science Museum in 1937, where it stayed until about four years ago, when it was sent to the National Media Museum. Experts digitized the footage, finally allowing it to be shown.

Dixon noted that earlier films had been colored artificially ? sometimes by painting right onto the black-and-white film ? but said that the movies displayed Wednesday were "the first natural working color film in the world."

Film historian Mark Cousins said in an email that he was excited not by the technology or what he described as the "firstism issue," but by what he said might be called "the drive to beauty in the early inventors of cinema."

"They saw from the start that cinema could make you gasp at the beauty of a fish or a sunflower," he said.

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U.S. says Iran oil exports down dramatically

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. economic sanctions against Iran have slashed the country's crude exports and oil revenue, the U.S. Treasury said on Wednesday as it vowed to keep up the pressure on Tehran to prevent the Iranian government from getting nuclear weapons.

Since the beginning of the year, the United States has threatened to block certain foreign financial entities from U.S. markets unless Iran's major trading partners reduced their purchases of Iranian crude.

U.S. efforts have paid off with Iranian crude exports down to about 1 million barrels of oil per day from the approximately 2.4 million barrels last year, the U.S. Treasury said.

"This decrease in exports is costing Iran about $5 billion a month, forcing the Iranian government to cut its budget because of a lack of revenue," said Treasury Undersecretary David Cohen in remarks to be delivered at the New York University School of Law.

U.S. sanctions were designed to crimp Tehran's oil revenues by stopping financial institutions from conducting oil transactions with Iran's central bank, which handles most of the country's oil payments.

However, if countries significantly reduced their Iranian oil imports, they won a temporary reprieve from the U.S. law. More than a dozen countries, including Iran's biggest oil buyers China and India, earned exemptions.

"Sanctions have effectively terminated international access for most Iranian banks," said Cohen. "Today, the Iranian government is relegated to the backwaters of the international financial system, and they know it."

Although U.S. sanctions have squeezed Iran from global markets, Israel has demanded that the Obama administration take a tougher line against Iran. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has accused the administration of being too tough on Israel and not hard enough on Iran.

The Obama administration recently unveiled new sanctions that target foreign banks that handle transactions for Iranian oil or handle large transactions from the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) or Naftiran Intertrade Company (NICO), two players in Iran's oil trade.

(Reporting By Jonathan Spicer and Rachelle Younglai; Editing by Bob Burgdorfer)

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Zuckerberg ready to 'double down' on Facebook

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hasn't enjoyed seeing his company's stock get pummeled on Wall Street this summer, but he is relishing the opportunity to prove his critics wrong.

"I would rather be in a cycle where people underestimate us because I'd rather be underestimated," Zuckerberg said Tuesday. "I think it gives us the latitude to go out and make some big bets."

Zuckerberg, 28, made his remarks before a standing-room-only audience at a tech conference in San Francisco in his first interview since Facebook Inc.'s rocky initial public offering in May.

The social networking leader's stock has lost nearly half its value since the IPO. More than $50 billion has been lopped off Facebook's market value as the company's shares have fallen from $38 to Tuesday's closing price of $19.43.

No one has lost as much as Zuckerberg, who has seen the value of his Facebook holdings fall about more than $9 billion. That while hearing more skeptics second-guess his ability to lead the company that he founded eight years ago in his Harvard University dorm room.

Since speaking during Facebook's first earnings conference call as a public company nearly seven weeks ago, Zuckerberg has remained largely out of the spotlight.

Wearing a gray T-shirt, jeans and sneakers, Zuckerberg looked at ease through his half-hour appearance. He smiled frequently and even chuckled a few times before a San Francisco audience composed largely of fellow geeks who, like him, tend to enjoy talking about computer coding and building cool products instead of discussing revenue growth and business strategies.

Yet Zuckerberg clearly was aiming many of his remarks at investors. He emphasized that Facebook cared about making money as well as pursuing his mission to make the world a "more open and connected place." He also repeated his belief that the company would figure out numerous ways to profit from the growing number of its 955 million worldwide users who visit is online hangout through mobile applications instead of Web browsers on desktop computers.

Zuckerberg said the performance of Facebook's stock "has obviously been disappointing," and will probably cause some demoralized employees to defect. But he said he hopes most workers will stay and "double down" on Facebook's future.

"I think it is really easy to for folks to underestimate how really fundamentally good mobile is for us," Zuckerberg told his interviewer, former blogger turned venture capitalist Michal Arrington, at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference.

Zuckerberg shouldered some of the blame for the misperceptions about Facebook's mobile prospects, saying he made a mistake by initially relying on a computer coding called HTML 5 so the company's applications could run on a multitude of different mobile operating systems without making a lot of changes. That resulted in sub-par experiences for many users, Zuckerberg acknowledged, prompting Facebook to use more customization tools to account for the differences in the software that run different devices such as the iPhone and Android phones.

Some investors evidently liked what Zuckerberg had to say. Facebook shares gained 66 cents, or 3.4 percent in Tuesday's extended trading after he took the stage.

The ubiquity of smartphones has created problems for Facebook and other advertising-dependent Internet companies because the smaller screens on those devices have less space to show commercial messages around the main content.

One way Facebook will address that challenge is by inserting more ads into the mobile news feeds that highlight status updates and photos shared by users' friends and families, according to Zuckerberg. He once again tried to shoot down recurring speculation that Facebook is developing its own smartphone like Apple and Google Inc.

"It is so clearly the wrong strategy for us," Zuckerberg said. "It doesn't move the needle for us."

But that doesn't mean Zuckerberg doesn't appreciate the power and allure of a sleek smartphone. He said he even used one to write a lengthy manifesto about his vision for Facebook that was included in the company's IPO documents.

Zuckerberg indicated Facebook is likely to intensify its rivalry with Google Inc. by developing more ways to search on its website. As it is, Facebook already processes about 1 billion search requests a day, Zuckerberg said, "and we basically are not even trying."

That laid-back attitude toward search will eventually change, Zuckerberg said, although he wouldn't provide specifics. A more robust search engine "would be one obvious, interesting thing for us to do in the future," he said.

Google is already trying to maintain its dominance of its Internet search engine with an alternative social network called Plus that it launched last year largely to gain more insights about its users' preferences.

Zuckerberg has signaled his faith in Facebook's stock by pledging not to sell any of his more than 503 million shares for at least another year, even as some of the company's early investors and employees reduce their holdings.

Tuesday gave him an opportunity to deliver a reminder that Facebook has overcome past adversity when changes to its website's design and privacy policies provoked strident objections from users who threatened to abandon the social network. Facebook overcame those protests to keep on growing.

"Facebook has not been an uncontroversial company," Zuckerberg said. "It's not like this is the first up and down we have ever had."

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Judge Britney rules on 'X Factor,' Demi charms

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Judge Britney Spears is in control on "The X Factor."

During the season debut airing Wednesday on Fox, the audience cheers her, Simon Cowell defers to her and Spears is crisp, if not a wit, in her contestant verdicts.

We get the pop princess who knows how to hold the spotlight, not the young woman who has struggled in her personal life, in the taped premiere of "X Factor." Live episodes start airing in November.

In the episode screened Tuesday night at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Spears frets that it will be difficult to "sit there and be opinionated."

Not so much.

"I want to know who let you onstage," she says to a contestant who insulted Demi Lovato, the other freshman joining Simon Cowell and Antonio "L.A." Reid as a judge.

"I felt I was listening to Alvin and the Chipmunks," she tells one singer. "You're flawless," she says to another.

Jitters may be making her matter-of-fact, and even stern, but she appears unlikely to morph into a Paula Abdul-style pushover even if she gets more comfortable. Her "X Factor" style: sleek, form-fitting dresses and an impressive array of frowns and surprised smiles.

Cowell, the show's creator, executive producer and the Scrooge of compliments, practically beamed as he tended to give Spears the last word on contestants ? which often is "no," at least as this episode has it.

"You're very good at this," he tells Spears at one point. "Everyone says I'm the mean one," he adds later.

At one point, when a pained-looking Spears joins the panel in rejecting a singer she'd recorded with, and who is attempting a comeback, she hangs onto her composure.

There are more changes to "X Factor" than the addition of Spears and Lovato, who replaced season one Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger after the show fell short of Cowell's high-flying ratings predictions.

The revamped "X Factor" retains the pro forma mix of oddballs and genuinely talented singers, but it's less grandiose. One example: The addition of a reality TV-style backstage glance at contestant rivalries, but with a light touch.

Fox's show isn't the only game in town. NBC expanded this week's return of "The Voice" to three days, with an episode airing Wednesday against "X Factor."

Spears, 30, who reportedly got a one-season, $15 million contract to join the show, appears to be its top draw. She earned the loudest audience applause at the public screening, held after Cowell and company put their mark on the cement outside Grauman's on Hollywood Boulevard.

"I love you, Britney," one fan called out. "We all love you, Britney," chorused others.

She went from child performer to international star with her 1999 debut album, "Baby One More Time." More hits followed, including "Oops! ... I Did It Again" and "Toxic," but her life was difficult, including rehab spells and time in a psychiatric ward.

Last fall, as she toured in support of her seventh album, the hit "Femme Fatale," she told The Associated Press in London: "I hear the older you get, the wiser you get and the more you know what you want ? so hopefully it'll be a good year."

Lovato, who has faced her own personal challenges, looked at ease on "X Factor." The 20-year-old singer showed poise, warmth ? and a sense of stagecraft.

A contestant told of being bullied in school and taking comfort from Lovato's own challenges and her anti-bullying efforts. When the young woman, who wowed the judges with her performance, broke down sobbing, Lovato beckoned her over for a long hug.

During a Q&A Tuesday, an audience member asked Reid if it was important to make sure aspiring stars can avoid the pitfalls of fame. It's impossible to predict who will withstand the pressure, Reid replied, then lauded both Spears and Lovato as the "complete package" of talent and personality.

The two-hour "X Factor" season debut, airing 8 p.m. EDT Wednesday, is followed by a second episode Thursday.

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[EMBARGO: 9-11-12 9PM ET] Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 Is a Great Tablet and a Great Value [REVIEW]

Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7-Inch

The Amazon Kindle Fire HD is a 7-inch tablet that costs $199 and goes on sale Sept. 20. Like its predecessor, it's a big buggy, but it's also one of the best tablet deals you can find. This is the library screen, which shows your books. Navigation to other media is in the strip up top.

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Going all the way back to the earliest Kindle e-readers, Amazon has shown a penchant for re-imaging its hardware with almost every product update. It?s a notable trait in an era where most other manufacturers seem content to deliver incremental updates.

It?s especially laudable one when the re-imagined device is better than its predecessor in almost every conceivable way. The new Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7-inch is such a device.

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Externally, it?s almost unrecognizable from the first Amazon Kindle Fire launched about 10 months ago. That product had a reference-design look and, in hardware and software, an almost rushed feel. There was one protruding power button that users could trip at the most inopportune times, and the Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" underpinnings that, though Amazon tried to mask them, gave the overall Fire interface a too-small, overly technical feel.

Still, it had that seamless content-consumption environment. The product arrived preregistered with your Kindle account and it was just so easy to buy music, movies, and books.

Building On a Solid Platform

The Kindle Fire HD 7-inch retains much of what was good about the first Fire. It?s still tightly interwoven with your Kindle account and makes gobbling up loads of Amazon-delivered content easier than ever.

It?s all that?s different about this new tablet, though, that sets it apart. First of all, though it?s a 7-inch, the device is actually larger than both the original Fire and competitive 7-inch tablets like the Google Nexus 7. Part of this is because the Kindle Fire HD puts its camera on the landscape side of the device, while the Nexus 7 puts it on the portrait edge. This makes the Kindle Fire HD almost a half-inch wider than the first Fire and the Nexus 7 (the Fire HD?s screen is just a couple of eights wider than the original Fire).

Despite being larger than the first Kindle Fire and the Nexus 7, Amazon?s Kindle Fire HD 7 is actually, at 13.9 ounces, a smidge lighter than the original, and is not uncomfortable to hold or use. The somewhat boxy design has been replaced by a collection of rounded edges and more pronounced curves. The single button is gone. Now there are three: one for power and two for volume control. None of them stick out and it?s almost impossible to hit one by accident. This is an obvious improvement over the first Fire, though I still prefer the iPad?s more visible and easier-to-access home button to all other tablet options.

On the old Fire, you couldn?t find the tinny-sounding speakers. The new Fire HD sports a pair of speaker grilles on the back. Underneath are two powerful, Dolby Digital-controlled speakers that pump out surprisingly rich audio. There simply is no comparison to the old Fire. The Nexus features comparable audio, but from only one side of its body.

The Real Competition

Google?s Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire HD, by the way, share the same 1,280 x 800 resolution. From a components perspective, the Kindle Fire HD has far more in common with the Nexus than it does the original Fire.

They?re also both Android 4 devices, though the Nexus 7 is running 4.1 and the Kindle Fire 4.0. While the Nexus 7 is pure Android, Amazon has pushed Android's look and feel so far down I challenge anyone to find it.

Android 4.1, also known as Jelly Bean, is the best Android tablet interface ever, and yet the Kindle Fire HD?s is better. Where Android 4.1?s home screen can seem cluttered with icons, Kindle Fire HD?s home screen can be boiled down to a main menu across the top (with links to, naturally, Shop, Games, Apps, Books, Music, Videos, News Stand, Audiobooks, Web, Photos, Docs and Offers), and the large carousel of icons below that text-only row.

The old Fire has a sort of dark-wood-paneled background (it was supposed to look like a bookshelf -- how quaint). The Kindle Fire HD drops the artifice in favor of solid black. Both carousels feature a hodgepodge of games, apps, movies, docs... essentially whatever you touched last. The difference on the new Fire HD is that all the icons look better and the scrolling is, thanks to the new dual-core CPU, stutter-free.

The concept of ?Favorites? remains, though you now access them via a star in the lower right-hand corner of the Fire HD?s screen.

Amazon redesigned the keyboard, putting more space between the keys -- an improvement -- and renaming backspace ?Delete.? The latter is an odd choice since ?Backspace? means one thing on a traditional keyboard and ?Delete? another. They?re not actually interchangeable.

In this new interface, the back to previous activity arrow is always present in a narrow column on the right, which also houses Home and Favorites. Because of the design, the arrow can end up sitting next to the keyboard. I can?t tell you how many times I hit the back to previous activity button when I meant to hit ?Delete? (which should be ?Backspace?).

Smart Consumption

Amazon has introduced a number of what I?d like to call ?intelligent consumption? features. They?re all designed to improve your reading, listening and viewing experience and are only semi-successful.

The best of these is easily X-Ray for Movies which is powered by the Internet Movie Database (or IMDb). When you?re watching certain movies, you can tap on the screen and a little IMDb box will appear with the name of the cast members currently onscreen (the movie does not stop at this point). If you want to learn more about them, just tap their image and a larger window will pop up with IMDb cast member information. The movie freezes in the background until you minimize the larger window.

Though the Kindle Fire HD offers an HDMI-out port for playing movies on your large-screen TV, the X-Ray for Movies interface does not travel with the video content and will be absent on your HDTV.

The HD movie-viewing experience benefits substantially from the new MIMO-based Wi-Fi technology (it uses multiple antennas to improve throughput). I purchased a couple of HD movies (Wrath of the Titans and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) and both not only started playing almost instantly on the Kindle Fire HD 7, but there was never a moment?s hesitation in the video stream. By contrast, the original Fire video stream took almost a minute to arrive and start playing. In my experience though, the Google Nexus 7 pretty much matched this playback performance.

Other content features like Immersive Reading are, I think, going to be a matter of taste. Immersive reading combines audiobooks with traditional reading. So you can have Samuel L. Jackson narrate ?A Rage in Harlem? as you read the e-book. Each word he speaks is highlighted. You can even speed up his narration, which makes the iconic actor sound ridiculous. Overall, I found the feature annoying and would never use it again.

A Better Face

Mail worked fine on the old Kindle Fire, but everything about the interface, and the messages within, was tiny. Amazon has managed to make the Kindle Fire HD a higher-resolution device with email that's 10 times easier to read. Everything about the interface is better. It was easy to add two accounts and, just as in iOS, I can view all my mail in an aggregate account if I choose.

Gaming is also better on the new Kindle, and not just because of the more powerful hardware. Yes, the screen is bright, brilliant and graphics are crisp and smooth (even when I played Asphalt 7, the device never skipped a beat). However, one of my favorite new innovations is WhisperSync for Games. Like WhisperSync for books, which can automatically sync your place in a book across multiple devices, WhisperSync for games makes sure that if you?re on level 12 of ?Where?s My Perry? on one Kindle device, you?ll be on level 12 on all Kindle devices. It?s a wonderful innovation that Apple should adopt for all iOS devices as soon as possible.

As I mentioned earlier, the Kindle Fire HD now has a camera. It worked perfectly with the pre-installed Skype for Kindle Fire app. There is, however, no ?Camera? app on the device, which means there?s no way to access the optical device except through Skype. Amazon promised me a new Facebook app that should also access the camera and allow users to capture and upload photos directly to their Facebook accounts.

The absence of a dedicated camera app is especially puzzling because Amazon put so much work into the new Photos menu option. If you add photos to your Amazon cloud account (you get 5GB for free, and unlimited space for all the Amazon content you buy) you can access them on the device, which provides a very attractive mosaic interface and finally supports pinching and zooming for photos. I managed my cloud-based Amazon content, by the way, via a free Windows-based utility that let me drag and drop files (Office Docs, pictures, music files, video, etc.) from my PC to Amazon?s cloud servers and manage folders. All my files were then accessible to me via the Kindle Fire HD?s menu under the Cloud option.

Like other Kindles, this is also a reading device. Magazines look amazing on it and the page-turn animation is quite realistic, but you will probably choose to double-tap the content to get to the easy reading mode. Book content looks as good as ever.

On the social side, the promised Facebook app for Kindle Fire did not arrive in time for my review. That's the bad news. The good news is that the native Twitter client arrived just in time. It's clean, clear and worked flawlessly. Better yet, once you add the app to the Kindle Fire HD, Twitter appears as one of the Silk Browser share options.

Looking Good

Let?s talk about the screen for a moment. Amazon spent a lot of time touting all the special technology they added to cut down on glare and make the display readable in direct light (laminating the touch screen and LCD panel into a single pane of glass). Indoors, the new Kindle Fire HD screen is miles better than the old display (colors are definitely truer) and viewing angles are not only better than the old Fire, but slightly better than what you?ll find on the Nexus 7. Outside, however, I still couldn?t read a book on it. An E Ink display will always be better for that activity.

For as much as I like the Kindle Fire HD, and I do like it, it still felt a bit unfinished. The promised Free Time parental control was absent from my test unit, and I ran into a number of system hiccups, including apps that wouldn?t load, like Fruit Ninja (it got stuck on Feint) and a game based on Batman: The Dark Knight Rises (which worked fine on the original Fire). The Silk browser crashed and I even had a full system crash that forced a reboot. My guess is that all those issues can be fixed with a slip-stream system update.

There are a couple of other nits. The device does not ship with a power plug. Instead, you get a USB cable that you can plug into your computer or another USB charger plug you have lying around (I have a lot of them). If you want Amazon?s charger, it?ll cost you $9.99. Next, there are the offers. Amazon has actually subsidized the price of all this powerful hardware with sleep-screen ads. I do not mind them, but if you do, you can opt out -- by paying an additional $15. Me, I?d live with the ads.

These minor speed bumps aside, there is no doubt that the Kindle Fire HD 7-inch is, at $199, a fantastic value. Yes, I realize that the updated standard-def Kindle Fire (which is somewhat faster than the old one) is now just $159, but that device truly pales in comparison to Amazon?s new hardware. The choice, for now, is really between the Kindle Fire HD and Google?s $199 Nexus 7. Both are great, easy-to-use tablets that I could easily recommend but you will get twice the storage on the Kindle Fire HD. It?ll cost you another $50 for the 16GB Nexus 7.

However, for the moment, I recommend you wait a bit. Apple will surely deliver a 7-inch iPad this fall and Barnes & Noble will likely soon roll out a major revision of the Nook Tablet. With those pieces in place you?ll be ready to make your choice. Which do I recommend? Well, it really depends, I think, on whose ecosystem you favor.

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William Moggridge, portable computer and human interaction trailblazer, dies at 69

The next time you hinge open that notebook PC and smile at a feature that makes it easier to use, give a thought to Bill Moggridge, who passed away Saturday from cancer at the age of 69. The pioneering designer invented the modern clamshell design seen in all modern laptops, and is also viewed as the father of human interaction software design.

The Compass Computer he designed for Grid Systems with the screen folded over the keyboard appeared in 1981, flew on the space shuttle, and inspired virtually every notebook design since. Perhaps more importantly, when he tried to use the machine himself, Moggridge was exasperated with the difficulty and decided to take the human factor into account for software design. To that end, he engaged experts from fields like graphics design and psychology, and tried to "build empathy for the consumer into the product," according to former partner, Professor David Kelly. The pair merged their design firms to form Ideo in 1991, and worked with clients like Apple, Microsoft and Procter & Gamble, designing products like the first Macintosh mouse and Palm V handheld along the way.

In 2010, Moggridge became the director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York, and was a recipient of that institution's lifetime achievement award. He also won the Prince Philip Designer's Prize, the longest running award of its type in the UK, given for "a design career which has upheld the highest standards and broken new ground." See why that's true by going to Cooper-Hewitt's tribute video, right after break.

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