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Swedish Parliamentary Committee Terms Minister’s Claims on Casinos Unfounded

June 8, 2021 Published by
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A Constitutional Committee formed by the the Riksdag, the Swedish parliament, has rejected the the claims of Minister Ardalan Shekarabi that gambling at online casinos would have increased during the covid-19 pandemic.

Temporary restrictions were enforced on casinos functioning on several occasions, following the minister’s claim.

The Constitution Committee concluded:

“The review has also included Minister for Social Security Ardalan Shekarabi’s (S) statement on the basis for temporary gambling regulations. It has become clear that the Minister has based his statement on information that does not allow for a definite conclusion as to whether gambling had increased or not. The Minister is responsible for his opinions and also for the information he provides being correct.”

Gustaf Hoffstedt, is the Secretary General of the Swedish Trade Association for Online Gambling (BOS) criticised the minister and urged the government to remove the restrictions:

“Everyone has known that there was no basis for the statement about the alleged increased online casino gambling. It is welcome that the Riksdag’s Constitutional Committee now confirms that. Ministers must have a basis for their statements, it is not enough to say things just because it fits into the policy you want to pursue. The Minister’s statements about the alleged but unfounded increase in online casinos during the pandemic are the main reason why this form of gambling is still subject to very strict temporary restrictions. The next step must reasonably be for the government to quickly end these restrictions.”

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Powering an Inclusive Future of Work: Cisco Unveils Webex Innovations that Enable Hybrid Work and Events, Ensuring Equal Opportunity and Voice

June 8, 2021 Published by

 

  • Webex velocity of innovation continues, introducing more than 800 new features and devices since September.
  • All-new Webex Suite, including a new look and feel, supports hybrid work collaboration at 40 percent lower cost than a-la-carte.
  • The integration of Slido’s audience engagement capabilities and soon Socio’s hybrid event management tools provide the most comprehensive events platform for any physical, virtual or hybrid event.

As the world transitions to hybrid, organizations require solutions that are flexible, supportive and inclusive. Today, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) unveiled an all-new Webex Suite with innovations to serve as the foundation for inclusive hybrid work and events, delivering unmatched levels of flexibility and personalization for everyone.

With 98 percent of future meetings expected to include at least one remote participant, this mixed mode of working (blending remote and in-person interactions) is fueling long-lasting implications on work culture, event engagement and technology. This requires investing more broadly – beyond the traditional conference room – to fundamentally reimagine the new requirements of hybrid events and a hybrid workforce. The way organizations worked pre-pandemic and during the pandemic will be starkly different in this next wave of work – where good enough is simply not enough.

“Cisco’s collaboration business is incredibly essential to our customers,” said Chuck Robbins, CEO, Cisco. “With all the integrations the team has added – 800 new features and devices since September – we truly have the most comprehensive meetings, calling, messaging, and event management solution on the market powering the future of hybrid work.”

“To be successful in the era of hybrid work, organizations need to make sure their solutions are flexible, inclusive, supportive, secure, and easily managed on the backend by IT,” said Jeetu Patel, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco Security and Collaboration. “The all-new Webex Suite ensures everyone in a hybrid workforce has equal opportunity and voice.”

New Webex advancements include:

  • Increased Value: The all-new Webex Suite is the industry’s first suite for hybrid work to combine meetings, calling, messaging, polling and events in one offering for up to 40 percent less than a-la-carte. The new Webex identity and logo unveiled today were reinvented to reflect the powerful purpose and value Webex brings to the market, its customers and people’s lives.
  • End-to-End Events: A complete events execution and management platform necessary in the next era of hybrid events. Full capabilities of the industry’s first end-to-end event experience at scale will become available upon completion of Cisco’s Socio acquisition. 
  • Audience Interaction Tools: Polling, quizzes, Q&A and more powered by Slido, is the industry’s first audience engagement solution to be integrated across all collaboration experiences. Polling is available now in Meetings and will be coming soon to Events.
  • Audio Intelligence: Building upon Webex’s market-leading noise removal and speech enhancement capabilities, users will have the new ability of speech optimization for remote and shared workspaces through My Voice Only to eliminate background noise, including speech from people in the background, and solely focus on the main speaker’s speech. My Voice Only will be available worldwide in August 2021.
  • Camera Intelligence: People Focus, announced earlier this year, is coming to Webex in 2021. People Focus uses machine learning and AI technology to individually re-frame meeting participants who are spread across a meeting room allowing remote participants to feel more connected and everyone in the meeting to benefit from seeing body language, facial expressions and more.
  • Next-level Devices: The Webex Desk provides a powerful all-in-one collaboration device designed for the desk at work or home. Immersive collaboration experiences will also be available with modern touch interactions via RoomOS that connects workflows with less context switching, as well as Webex Assistant Skills platform that opens up a universe of voice-powered extensions to seamlessly and easily integrate more controls, content and applications for Webex Devices.
  • Secure Experiences: Real-time data loss prevention for Webex, which automatically blocks and removes confidential information, will be available in Messaging. With this real-time data loss prevention, users are prohibited from posting classified content rather than redacting or deleting content after it is posted. Additionally, European Webex customers will be able to host and process their content within the EU. Webex users will also benefit from our strengthened end-to-end encryption options, including augmenting our end-to-end encryption with end-to-end verified identity. In other words, customers will not have to choose between usability and security, they get both.

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Pricing and Availability

  • Webex Suite is available today and will be priced at 40 percent lower than a-la-carte.
  • Webex Desk will be available to order later this month at the Cisco suggested resale price of $1249 for customers and a standard price of $2495.
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Klarna says “Salut!” to France with unique shopping experience

June 8, 2021 Published by

 

Klarna, the leading global payments provider, bank and shopping service, currently serving more than 250,000 retail partners and 90 million consumers globally, officially launches in France today by introducing “Pay in 3”. The Swedish fintech, founded in 2005, is now making its mark in a booming e-commerce market, with the ambition of revolutionizing the online shopping experience.

With the launch of “Pay in 3” (“Paiement en 3 fois”) French shoppers will be able to securely purchase their products from their favorite online stores and spread the cost of their purchase over three interest-free payments, charged every 30 days. Klarna is also introducing the Klarna app which offers consumers convenience, inspiration and value throughout the whole shopping journey. In the app, consumers will be able to see pictures of purchased items, keep track of and manage their payments, save favorite items to wish lists, receive price drop notifications on saved items as well as track their carbon emissions.

“The French retail and payments landscape is one of the fastest evolving markets in the world, as consumers embrace digital payments and online shopping at record pace. This is an exciting time to launch in France and I believe Klarna can really make a difference to French consumers, making it easy to shop and pay in a way that suits them – allowing them to take control of their money and purchases with complete security, transparency, with no interest and no hassle. We already work with leading French brands on a global level. I can’t wait to start working with more French retailers to help them grow their business both in France, and internationally”, said Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO and co-founder of Klarna.

“We are very excited to bring our shopping solutions to France. Our seamless online shopping experience for consumers combined with our global expertise from working with over 250,000 retailers will help French retailers meet consumers’ rapidly increasing demand for smarter, flexible and more personalized shopping experiences. We are absolutely focused on becoming French retailers preferred growth partner and help them build loyal and satisfied customers in the long term”, said Eric Petitfils, Head of Sales and Partnerships France at Klarna.

Klarna is launching in France at a time when online is gaining momentum. According to a study conducted by Kantar, 2.5 million new online shoppers were registered in the first half of 2020 and 30% of them want to repeat the experience. Online purchases in 2020 are estimated at €112 billion, an increase of 8.9% compared to 2019, and more than 17,400 additional e-commerce sites have already launched this year, according to recent data published by the Federation of e-commerce and distance selling (Fevad).

Klarna will set up shop with a local team and office in Paris adding to its European offices in Germany, the UK, the Nordics, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Italy.

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VXPass opens blockchain-based COVID-19 vaccination verification program to licensed medical practitioners and their patients

June 8, 2021 Published by

 

VXPASS,  a blockchain-based platform built to manage, store and verify records for global COVID-19 vaccination programs, has today announced that it is opening its Digital Covid Card replacement to licensed medical practitioners and their patients all around the world. By opening the service to medical professionals directly, licensed practitioners can now offer patients the ability to record their vaccination records to a shared database on-chain, enabling them to hold and securely share their vaccination records digitally as needed, such as via a smartphone, without exposing their personally identity.

VXPASS as a platform allows medical professionals to securely document a patient’s status during the course of their personal COVID-19 vaccination program by creating a digitally signed version of the COVID-19 vaccination cards. Without storing any personally identifiable information, VXPass creates a record of all relevant vaccine data (including the type of vaccine given, the time each dose was administered) on the BSV blockchain, using techniques that protect patient privacy.  The data application enables government bodies and health organizations to better monitor their vaccination programs in real-time while also giving control over access to

The process of writing the vaccination details to the blockchain using VXPASS can be undertaken by the medical practice as part of the service they offer to their patients, meaning that patients will not need to interact directly with the blockchain. With today’s new service offering, medical practitioners can now use the service to create digital records of new vaccinations as they occur, as well as digitizing existing vaccination records.

VXPASS will offer tokens (built using RelayX and available for pre-sale immediately on both RelayX and VXPass.com) which will entitle users to have their vaccination records written to the blockchain using the VXPASS platform at participating medical practices starting at $4.99. Participating medical practitioners may offer this service directly within their practices also. In the future, VXPASS will begin rolling out virtual visits with local doctors for those patients whose doctors are not currently enrolled.

Speaking on today’s announcement, Zachary Weiner, founder of VXPASS, said:

“At present,  paper cards are the only way that most people are able to keep a record of their vaccinations. They’re not only inconvenient and unreliable, but in many places, not acceptable as a valid proof of vaccination. With VXPASS, we solve that issue by digitizing vaccination records and placing them in the patient’s custody, on the blockchain. This creates an immutable and verifiable signed record of a patient’s vaccination which can be accessed and securely shared by them, anywhere at any time. Initially, VXPASS focused on creating secure patient owned records at the time of vaccination, but with today’s announcement, our platform is now able to offer that same simplicity and security to all patients holding a valid record of vaccination record – something we see as a crucial step to putting the pandemic in the past and moving forward with our collective futures.”

Also speaking, Jimmy Nguyen, Founding President of Bitcoin Association – the global industry organization that works to advance business with the BSV blockchain, said:

“The team at VXPASS have built an effective tool which leverages the power of the BSV blockchain to track vaccination records in a way which is more accurate and more efficient, without sacrificing patient privacy – demonstrating the tangible benefits that blockchain technology can offer today to empower personal health care data.”

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Broadridge Collaborates with AWS to Extend its Private Market Hub, the Industry-Leading Private Equity Blockchain Solution

June 8, 2021 Published by

 

Utilizing distributed ledger technology (DLT) to better streamline and connect the private equity ecosystem and assets, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) today released the latest evolution of its industry-leading Private Market Hub platform, using Amazon Managed Blockchain from Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS). The updated platform, the industry’s first deployment of blockchain technology for the private equity market, now has added connectivity to existing industry tools and technologies to help further automate workflows between front-, middle- and back-office functions providing a consistent, secure, real-time view of the data.

“We are leveraging blockchain technology to drive further innovation, removing industry friction in workflows and delivering real savings in terms of cost and time, by offering seamless connectivity to critical applications and solutions that industry participants rely on,” said Eric Bernstein, Broadridge’s President of Asset Management Solutions. “The trends around digitization and data and analytics are only growing, and digital assets mark the start of an exciting new era for the private markets industry and fund managers and investors alike, accentuating the need to access best-in-class products to address the evolving landscape.”

“We are excited to support Broadridge’s Private Market Hub, which accelerates the digitization of a critical part of the financial services infrastructure,” said Saman Michael Far, VP, Financial Services Technology, Amazon Web Services. “Private Market Hub’s use of Amazon Managed Blockchain, a fully managed blockchain service, allows us to help Broadridge scale efficiently and more effectively serve its customers.”

Bringing together private equity ecosystem participants, Private Market Hub not only reduces friction for fund managers, investors and administrators, but also allows for easier auditability. Funds can manage, communicate and engage with investors and other stakeholders with far greater efficiency. These innovations are enabled by distributed ledger technology, which streamlines traditionally disconnected and inefficient processes and facilitates visibility and trust.

Making private investments is a highly manual and time-intensive process for all parties involved, due to disconnected communication and data-sharing channels. For funds, managing investor communications and other documents is a burdensome task and functions for managing processes like capital calls are both time- and resource-intensive. Back-office reconciliation between systems often requires extensive manual steps and, as a result, there is no single view of fund performance and investor details.

The newest version of the Private Market Hub solves these challenges and extends the feature set available to platform participants, including independent auditor access, and adding connectivity to existing industry tools and technologies via Private Market Hub’s open API architecture.

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Triple Cherry collaboration with Veikkaus!

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Triple Cherry is proud to announce its new partnership with Veikkaus Oy.

Veikkaus Oy started its operations in 2017, it merged into a single gaming company owned by the Finnish State. The Finnish system is based on the exclusive right principle, with the purpose of operating games responsibly and mitigating the possible risks involved in gambling. Veikkaus operates all the gambling games that are offered in Finland. The games fall into three major categories: Lucky Games, Slot Machines and Instant Games, and Skill Games.

The Valencian game development studio will have the honour of developing the greatest video slots for Veikkaus and making them available in the Finnish territory. This means an important commercial opportunity that allows Triple Cherry to continue growing every day.

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OneThree Biotech Joins Forces with SPARC to Characterize a Key Oncologic Pathway

June 8, 2021 Published by

OneThree Biotech today announced a collaboration with Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company Ltd. (SPARC) (Reuters: SPRC.BO), (Bloomberg: SPADV IN), (NSE: SPARC), (BSE: 532872) to enhance understanding of the biological mechanisms driving a key oncologic disease pathway.

The collaboration will entail application of OneThree Biotech’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform to fully characterize an enzyme pathway that metabolizes specific salts or esters involved in oncogenesis. The two companies thus aim to facilitate the discovery and development of innovative anticancer compounds and combination therapies to advance precision oncology.

“Understanding the underlying biological mechanisms that drive cancer progression and response to therapy is the new frontier in oncology research, and artificial intelligence can be instrumental in unlocking the puzzle,” said Neel S. Madhukar, Ph.D., chief executive officer and co-founder of OneThree Biotech. “Applying our biology-driven AI platform in collaboration with SPARC should yield interpretable mechanistic insights as well as highly accurate predictions, allowing us to quickly understand new potential ways to treat cancer and why certain treatments may work.”

“We are very excited to partner with OneThree Biotech on this unique project, as insights gleaned through their biology-driven AI platform will give fresh impetus to our drug discovery programs,” commented Rajesh Ranganathan, vice president, partnerships and portfolio strategy at SPARC. “By combining SPARC’s data and biological understanding with OneThree Biotech’s backend AI technology, we hope to identify specific mechanisms that drive response to small molecules developed by SPARC, thus allowing us to develop new treatments and combination regimens tailored to individual patients’ needs.”

As part of the collaboration, OneThree Biotech will use its proprietary database – which integrates over 40 types for data from 100+ different sources – in combination with its AI platform to identify key drivers in the oncologic pathway the two companies are investigating, identify optimal cancer subtypes based on predicted vulnerabilities, and identify new ways to treat these subtypes. The analysis is expected to generate insights that can be used to identify patient populations that are likely to be sensitive to each type of inhibition, as well as potential single and combination therapies for SPARC to pursue into further preclinical and clinical development.

“The collaboration with SPARC is the latest addition to our growing number of research partnerships, and further testament to our capabilities and expertise, especially in oncology, an area with an enormous opportunity for new biology to advance precision therapies,” added Brad Pryde, chief operating officer and co-founder of OneThree Biotech.

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PingPong Payments launches new PLN and SEK currency exchange services

June 8, 2021 Published by

Global payments and e-commerce services provider PingPong Payments, today announces expanded payments processing and currency exchange services for both the Polish (PLN) and Swedish (SEK) currencies, allowing access to these growing markets for U.S. and international products and services sellers.

Both PLN and SEK are the latest currencies to be added to PingPong Payments’ global payments solutions, which now offers merchants and online sellers, over Amazon and other platforms, the most currency conversion service options and widest international market access for payments transactions. PingPong Payments is currently the only Amazon Payment Service Provider that offers the Polish currency.

Sweden and Poland are two of Europe’s fastest-growing e-commerce markets. Poland has seen unprecedented growth in online sales due to Covid-19, with nearly 80 percent of internet users in Poland making online purchases. Leading Polish e-commerce platform Allegro reports that 20m clients visit its website every month. Similarly, in Sweden, revenue in the e-commerce market amounted to US$11,211m in 2020 and is expected to grow by 5.2% annually, resulting in a market volume of US$13,729m by 2024.

Kenny Tsang, Managing Director at PingPong Payments, comments: “During a year that saw many traditional businesses disrupted by Covid-19, PingPong has been able to successfully support a surging e-commerce market and achieve global growth. Our ability to now offer both Polish and Swedish currency exchange services will provide U.S. and international merchants with access to two of the fastest-growing, richest e-commerce markets in Europe.”

With the addition of PLN and SEK currency conversion services, PingPong Payments now offers marketplace sellers in the U.S. and other geographies support with: the U.S dollar (USD), Canadian dollar (CAD), Australian dollar (AUD), Japanese yen (JPY), Arab Emirates dollar (AED), Euro (EUR), British pound (GBP), Chinese yuan (CNH), Hong Kong dollar (HKD) and Singapore dollar (SGD).

In addition to cross-border payments processing and currency exchange services, PingPong Payments supports U.S. and international seller growth in overseas markets via additional services including lending, payroll and virtual account solutions. This includes tax and customs registration, supplier validation and payment, market intelligence, and marketing and sales support services.

Kenny continues: “Our innovative payment services have enabled us to become the chosen multidimensional partner of growth to hundreds of thousands of professional sellers, who wish to expand sales internationally. We support our merchants in a way the banking system was not built to, by beating traditional rates and reducing cross-border payment friction through our unique virtual accounts, which mitigate anti money laundering challenges.”

Kenny concludes: “Merchants should be strengthening their supply chains for year-round international sales instead of waiting for peak seasons. By partnering with the right network of cross-border payment services, e-commerce merchants can instantly collect, convert and transfer money from all corners of the world, and set their sights on global domination post pandemic. We save cross-border merchants both time and money through innovative services such as VAT processing and opening local bank accounts – allowing them to keep more of their hard-earned profits.”   

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Students from JA Denmark Win First-Ever JA Global Entrepreneurship Award; Receive NFTs, Cash Prize, and Further Educational Opportunities

June 8, 2021 Published by

 

Until recently, the highest award that a JA youth-entrepreneurship company could earn was the coveted first-place prize at one of JA’s six regional competitions. But this year, JA Worldwide has added a global prize for student companies: The de la Vega Global Entrepreneurship Award.

The 2021 award winners were announced today by tech-legend Ralph de la Vega, former President and CEO of AT&T Mobile and Business Solutions. Each of the six finalists were automatically entered after winning Company of the Year at their regional competitions and included teams from Singapore (JA Asia Pacific), Southeast Texas (Junior Achievement USA), Denmark (JA Europe), Oman (INJAZ Al-Arab JA MENA), eSwatini (JA Africa), and Peru (JA Americas).

Ultimately, the team from JA Denmark (Fonden for Entreprenørskab) triumphed. The team wins a cash prize of US $15,000, as well as an entrepreneurship course from the institution of their choice. Each team member also receives a non-fungible token (NFT) that represents one of only five copies of a digital graphic specially created for this year’s winner by designer and artist Masha Eizner, with its authenticity verified through the blockchain.

The winning company, Bubbles, improves communication between educators and students who suffer from attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders (ADHD). Students wear noise-cancelling headsets that eliminate audio distractions and create a direct line of communication between teacher and student, thus improving academic performance. Nicklas Stokholm, 19, Christian Ørum, 18, and Kevin Albin, 20, came together in a class called Innovation, which includes the JA Company Program. Their idea originated as Christian watched his sister struggle with ADHD. “We soon realized it was not only my sister who was affected by this,” Christian said. “A lot of other students were influenced, including many other diagnoses that inhibited their ability to focus in class.” Learn more about Bubbles.

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Kinguin partners with popular gaming payment solution Neosurf

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  • Neosurf is a popular payment solution within the gaming and esports community

  • Millions of Kinguin customers in five continents can now purchase products on Kinguin.net with Neosurf

  • Neosurf gives users a safe, secure and private way of making payments online

Kinguin, the world’s first digital marketplace for gamers, has today announced a partnership with Neosurf, a world-renowned payments solution provider. Through this collaboration, Kinguin will give millions of its customers in Europe, Canada, Australia, South America and Africa the option to purchase products on Kinguin.net using Neosurf’s prepaid cash vouchers.

Both brands are titans in the games industry. Neosurf is a proven, popular payment solution with the community giving all gaming fans, even those without a debit or credit card, the chance to purchase their favourite software. It has fostered numerous partnerships within esports by partnering with various esports organisations and has recently hosted its own tournament – The Neosurf Cup. The organisation is also partnered with industry experts like ESE Entertainment to create and expand its efforts in esports and games on a global scale.

Meanwhile Kinguin is a global digital marketplace for gamers that sells video games, software and in-game items to users all around the world. It opened its own Esports Performance Center – which was the first professional facility for teams in central Europe – in 2017 and also sponsors leading Polish esports teams Anonymo and devils.one. As well as continuing to dedicate resources to nurturing talent, the brands share similar core values – the ambition to promote inclusivity in gaming and giving more people access to the industry.

Founded in 2004, Neosurf gives shoppers a safer way to purchase online. It enables users to purchase goods without using a credit card or disclosing personal information. It provides significant support to developing countries by offering a variety of services to cash users that allows them to facilitate online payments, prepaid card reloads, money transfers and bill payments.

Neosurf cash vouchers are available at thousands of local convenience stores around the world and customers can pay for the vouchers using cash or card payments. After purchasing a cash voucher, customers will then receive a 10-character voucher code, which can be used to pay online at Kinguin.net with the added security and privacy of a prepaid card.

Chief Commercial Officer at Neosurf, Andrea McGeachin, commented, “The partnership we have established with Kinguin is an important step for Neosurf and one that supports our  philosophy of putting the gaming community at the heart of everything we do. Whether accessing a whole suite of esports through the Kinguin Lounge, or individual offerings from the extensive Kinguin marketplace, Neosurf gamers can now benefit from amazing cash deals. We look forward to the Neosurf and Kinguin relationship going from strength to strength.”

Head of Payments at Kinguin, Faheem Bakshi, said: “Neosurf is a payment solution provider that is embedded in the gaming community, so we’re delighted to give millions of our loyal customers the opportunity to use Neosurf cash vouchers to purchase all their gaming products securely, while also protecting their identity.”

Kinguin.net currently has more than 250 payment methods available globally, including popular payment methods such as global wallets, credit and debit card payments as well as country specific local payment options. Kinguin is among the first game trading platforms to offer BitCoin, Mobile payments and cash payments. Merchants on Kinguin are able to withdraw their earnings using BitCoin. Recently Kinguin expanded crypto payments by Ethereum, Litecoin and Rippl and it is continually working on expanding its list of accepted payment methods to enhance its user experience.

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