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McDonald's is putting its own briny twist on marathon weekend in Chicago.

The fast-food giant is handing out limited-edition bottles of "Pickle Boost" to runners and spectators during Chicago Marathon weekend, starting Oct. 9 and continuing through race day on Oct. 11.

McDonald's said the promotion is inspired by pickle juice's popularity among athletes who use it when muscle cramps strike during workouts.

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Runners can pick up the bottles at a Friday morning pop-up on Chicago's Lakefront Trail, then at five McDonald's locations along or near the marathon route on race day, while supplies last.

The promotion taps into a longstanding belief that pickle juice can help prevent muscle cramps, which science partially backs up.

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"Pickle juice may help relieve muscle cramps, but the research is mixed," said Jena Brown, RD, CSSD, a Texas-based sports dietitian and owner of Victorem Performance Nutrition, which works with endurance athletes.

One small study found that pickle juice appeared to help electrically induced cramps subside more quickly than water in dehydrated participants, said Brown, who is a longtime runner herself. But that research did not examine runners during an actual marathon, and another study found no benefit.

"Muscle cramps are not fully understood and are likely not induced by a singular cause for all runners," she said.

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Electrolyte losses may contribute to cramps in some athletes, but pickle juice's possible benefit may not be as simple as replacing sodium, Brown said. Another theory is that vinegar may stimulate receptors in the mouth and gut and affect signaling between the nervous system and muscles.

The evidence for that explanation is limited, and it should not turn pickle brine into a runner's primary race-day strategy, Brown said.

"Pickle brine is not a replacement for a hydration and fueling plan," Brown said.

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A typical sports drink supplies fluid and carbohydrates for energy, while a small sip of brine offers little fluid and no fuel, even though it contains electrolytes lost through sweat, she said.

Runners who have tried pickle brine in training may tolerate it well and believe it helps, Brown said. But she cautioned against debuting the sour, salty remedy on the day of the marathon.

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"I would not recommend trying pickle brine for the first time on race day," she said.

If a severe cramp hits and a runner opts to try it, Brown recommends taking small sips rather than chugging it and gently stretching the affected muscle. Runners who are sensitive to salty or acidic drinks should be especially careful, she added, particularly later in a race when heat, fatigue and stomach upset can become bigger concerns.

Fox News Digital reached out to McDonald's for further comment.

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Theatergoers filed into the Cahn Auditorium at Northwestern University on Tuesday to see a play comprised of testimonies from those impacted by the 2023 Hamas attacks in Israel. As the attendees sat at the edge of their seats waiting to hear the fate of the people whose stories were told, a fire alarm went off, disrupting the evening.

Ann McElhinney, who co-wrote the play "OCTOBER 7" with her husband, Phelim McAleer, told Fox News Digital that many audience members initially remained seated, believing the alarms were part of the show.

"Initially, they thought it was part of the play because they heard these sirens going off, and the dialogue prior to that had been about sirens going off, rockets going off, the red alarm going off," McElhinney explained to Fox News Digital. "They were like 'Oh, this is part of the play,' until they realized it wasn't."

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After the theater had been evacuated and cleared by authorities, many people left, according to McElhinney, who told Fox News Digital that she believed that people were scared by the incident. However, she said others who chose to stay, feeling "defiant" and refusing "to be terrified by this."

McAleer noted that the performance ended with a standing ovation, which he believed was both a tribute to those who worked on the show and those who returned after the alarm went off.

"The standing ovation was for the actors, the standing ovation was for the director, the standing ovation was for the stories. But it's also, I think people were giving themselves a standing ovation that someone had tried to intimidate them, that someone had tried to say to them, 'You're not going to tell the truth. We don't want to hear the truth, we want to shut you up, we want to shut down, we want to frighten you and intimidate you.' And they didn't succeed," McAleer told Fox News Digital.

In response to Fox News Digital's request for comment, Northwestern Media Relations said in a statement, "At approximately 8:12 p.m., a fire alarm at Cahn Auditorium was activated, which caused the evacuation of the building. Upon a fire and police investigation, the building was determined safe, and guests invited back in. The event continued as planned and concluded at 9:45 p.m. The Northwestern University Police Department will continue their investigation."

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While the play was disrupted, McAleer and McElhinney said there were no protesters outside the venue at the start of the show. McAleer told Fox News Digital that while "people are perfectly entitled to protest outside the venue," what happened inside the theater was "more insidious."

The couple said they believe someone deliberately activated the fire alarm after sitting through much of the performance.

"This was someone, we believe, someone sat through the play and then came out at the most emotional time," McAleer told Fox News Digital.

"It's something very insidious that someone decided to disrupt this rather than even, by the way, have a protest, make their voice heard. But no, they decided they didn't want their — they did the sneaky, cowardly, insidious, nasty thing of setting off a fire alarm, causing huge fear and just absolute nervousness among the people who were there and caused this trauma on the anniversary of October 7th," McAleer added.

McAleer pointed out that while it was still Oct. 6 in Chicago where the play was held, it was already Oct. 7 in Israel when the fire alarm was activated.

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The spoken-word play is a collection of testimonies that McAleer and McElhinney compiled when they went to Israel shortly after the Oct. 7 attacks. McElhinney told Fox News Digital that the couple had been in Ireland as the attacks took place and were stunned to find that people were criticizing Israel's response the following day, seemingly overlooking the attacks themselves.

"We realized that if we didn't go and tell the story and do this work that, you know, it looks very much like nobody else was going to do that," McElhinney told Fox News Digital.

McAleer echoed a similar sentiment, saying that shortly after the attacks, they noticed that "everyone from journalists from the establishment, from university campuses — they all wanted to talk about the war in Gaza, but nobody wanted to talk about October 7th."

"Journalism is supposed to be the first rough draft of history. Nobody was writing that draft," he added.

The couple traveled to Israel — a place neither had visited before — rented a car and began trying to contact people willing to share their stories. McElhinney recalled that their hotel in Tel Aviv had a makeshift memorial for an employee who had been killed at the Nova music festival.

McAleer and McElhinney ultimately interviewed approximately 20 people, with testimony from 15 included in the play.

In addition to Northwestern University, the play, titled "OCTOBER 7," has been performed in New York City, Princeton, UCLA, Bowdoin College and the Kennedy Center. While the incident at Northwestern was noteworthy, it was not the first time the couple had to deal with security for their production.

McElhinney explained that during the play's New York City run, the production had a daily NYPD presence. She said she believed it was the only New York play in living memory to require police protection every day.

"That tells you something about free speech in New York City," McElhinney said. She pointed out that the play, which focuses on the experiences of Israelis, including Jewish survivors of the attacks, needed security while being performed in a city with a large Jewish population.

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Ultimately, McAleer said the incident at Northwestern revealed something about the state of American college campuses.

"American campuses are deeply strange, dangerous places at the moment for a Jewish person," he said. "You mean, you can't mourn your dead. You can't mark your anniversaries. You can't walk the campus without fear of being attacked or having your event disrupted."  

"You know you can have an event without massive and expensive security," McAleer added. "What does that say about the campus idea of freedom and free speech and free thought? Free thought is dead on American campus[es]. Free speech seems to be dead on the American campuses."

McAleer told Fox News Digital that the couple planned to file a police report about the incident and that "we hope that whoever did this feels a full force of the law because this cannot be allowed to stand."

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On Wednesday, I traveled to the Pnyx, a hillside overlooking the towering columns of the Acropolis in Athens. There, I delivered a simple message: The West is at a crossroads. The decisions we make in the next decade will define the next century – and determine whether our civilization maintains its place at the head of the world, or resigns itself to a future of servitude and decline.

For thousands of years, the Parthenon has stood as a testament to the Western spirit, captivating the imagination of our civilization’s artists, philosophers, and statesmen. The American Founding Fathers were fascinated by classical antiquity: The most commonly cited author in the Federalist Papers was Plutarch, the Greek biographer of Greece and Rome’s greatest men. The legacy of ancient Greece is carved into the architecture of our capital city itself, immediately visible in the famous columns and domes of Washington, D.C.

We all know the familiar history. Athens gave us democracy. Plato and Aristotle gave us Western philosophy. The Greek city-states shaped our ideas of citizenship, law and republican government.

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But our debt to Greece runs deeper than any particular political system or theory.

Ancient Greece was the birthplace of all the essential qualities that would come to define the West: fierce individuality and relentless ambition; restless curiosity, creativity, and invention; an insatiable desire for adventure, glory, and exploration, straining to test the limits of what man can know and do.

What the West inherited from classical Greece is not just the ambition to explore the unknown; it is the conviction that the unknown can be known. 

The Greeks believed the world could be observed, measured, mapped and understood. That conviction became the foundation of Western science, medicine and philosophy. It prepared the fertile soil for Christianity to take root and flourish into European Christendom, and helped form a civilization with a distinctive understanding of truth, virtue, beauty, duty and the natural order – carrying a code that dictates how men ought to live, and objective standards and ideals to strive towards.

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The ancient Greeks organized their civic life around the pursuit of those ideals. They believed men should strive and compete for excellence in athletics, war, art, philosophy, statecraft and every other field of human endeavor. The classical Greek city was an arena for great men to test and prove themselves through perpetual contest and struggle – to be the best, the strongest, the most beautiful, straining to surpass all those that came before.

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These are the qualities that shaped the West, pushing its descendants to create and achieve things that others could not – distinguishing us from the many cultures of the world where stability and subsistence were the highest ends of life.

But today, too much of the West has come to feel ashamed of the very things that made us exceptional. Over time, we began to view our achievements as an embarrassment; our power and prosperity became a source of guilt. So we opened our borders, outsourced our once-great industries, and allowed our militaries to wither and decay. And with every passing year, we transferred more of our sovereignty to global bureaucracies beyond our control.

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Other nations were all too happy to fill the vacuum left by our weakness. They continued competing for territory, resources and influence, building up their own wealth and power in our stead.

Today, we find ourselves at an inflection point – not just in the United States, but across the whole of Western civilization.

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Under President Donald Trump, the United States has chosen to take back control of our national destiny: rebuilding our defense, reindustrializing our economy, and fighting to dominate the technologies and industries that will define the future.

It is our sincere hope that the rest of the West will choose the same path.

There are encouraging signs across Europe. Defense spending is rising. Manufacturing and industrial capacity are returning to the center of political debate. European nations are beginning to recognize that sovereignty, borders, and military power are not relics of an irrelevant past, but prerequisites for a decent future.

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We do not believe the transatlantic friendship should be zero-sum. Quite the opposite: our vision is of an alliance whose strength is greater than the sum of its parts. We are many nations, but one civilization – born in Athens, forged in Rome, baptized in Christendom. Together, we must build an alliance capable of confronting the threats of our age.

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To do so, we must rediscover the spirit of the men who built the Parthenon, and rekindle the fire that was first lit in Athens millennia ago.

Ancient Greece does not just offer a glimpse of our institutions in their earliest form; it shows us an image of ourselves.

It shows us that ours is the inheritance of great heroes, and that we should be proud – fiercely proud – of where we came from. The story of our civilization is the greatest story ever known to man. But we must fight to defend it. 

Together, the nations of the West can choose to reject decline, defend our shared heritage, and defeat the dangers of our time.

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A former Missouri probation and parole officer who later worked at a state correctional center allegedly killed his wife in front of some of his children, even making some of the youngsters help him abuse their mother.

Jonathan G. Houston, 44, was arrested after one of his children called 911 from a hotel and discreetly whispered to dispatchers that her father had "captured" her and her six siblings and had physically abused them for years, according to charging documents, KOMU reported.

Deputies responded to the report and found the children on Sunday at the Baymont Inn & Suites in Kingdom City.

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One of the children told the deputies that their father had strangled their mother while some of the children were present 10 months earlier, according to the documents. Another child, who also recalled witnessing the strangulation, said her father told her he planned to kill her mother, who was later identified by deputies as 37-year-old Aunika C. Houston.

During that attack, Houston was allegedly gripping his wife by the throat when he forced one child to pour hot water down the woman's legs and another child to cover her mouth to muffle her screams, the documents show.

Houston had locked his three youngest children in the bathroom and instructed the children in the room to play loud music, so others could not hear their mother's screams, according to court records, KOMU reported.

The man allegedly put his wife’s body in a trash bag and threw it into a dumpster on the hotel's property.

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The woman was never reported missing after the killing.

"Aunika Houston was originally from the State of California and is believed to have been residing in the Central Missouri area for the past several years. Her next of kin has been notified," the Callaway County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release.

Houston allegedly admitted to investigators that he killed his wife and had planned the killing in advance, according to the charging documents.

"There is no danger to the community. This seems to be an act of domestic violence and it's very unfortunate for everybody involved," Chief Deputy of the Callaway County Sheriff’s Office Curtis Hall told KOMU.

"At this point we’re 48 hours afterwards on a crime that we’re already 10 months behind on," Hall said. "We have to be mindful of what we can release and what we should release."

Houston was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping. He is being held without bond.

His children were taken into protective custody, deputies said.

He is also being investigated in connection with an alleged sexual assault and assaults involving other victims, according to deputies.

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A group of anti-Israel protesters on Wednesday targeted New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, calling him a "traitor," accusing him of "genocide" and claiming he "cannot weaponize being brown anymore."

The crowd of more than 100 demonstrators marched from City Hall to Union Square, where a vigil was held to mark the anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks in Israel. The vigil was organized as an evening of mourning for those killed in the Oct. 7 attacks and the bloodshed that followed, including Israelis and Palestinians.

The anti-Israel crowd was just outside the barricades of the Israelis for Peace Vigil, beating on drums and attempting to drown out the speakers, according to City & State New York.

Mamdani was at the vigil and held a candle as protesters threw various insults at him, including accusations of genocide and "selling all your people out."

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"Zohran, what do you say? How many kids did you kill today?" the protesters shouted, according to the outlet.

"700,000 dead. Mamdani, your hands are red!" they also chanted.

"Traitor, traitor, come on out! You sold all your people out!" the group was also heard chanting.

The crowd also shouted: "Zohran, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide!"

"We don’t care about where you’re from. You cannot talk about being Muslim anymore. You cannot weaponize being brown anymore. Identity politics can only get you so far," they said.

One protester also claimed to be a former intern for Mamdani, saying the mayor "was never working for the people."

Protesters also demanded that Mamdani take action against New York real-estate events that have marketed properties in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which the demonstrators characterize as "stolen" Palestinian land, according to City & State New York.

"Mayor Mamdani, take a stand. Stop the sale of stolen land," the group chanted.

The protesters also called for abolishing the City University of New York's Board of Trustees, whose members are largely appointed by the mayor and governor. Protesters have previously accused the board of ignoring demands to divest investments linked to Israel and criticized its handling of anti-Israel demonstrations on campus.

Despite the protesters' accusations of genocide on Wednesday, Mamdani is a longtime critic of the Israeli government's actions in Gaza and has denounced its treatment of Palestinians in the aftermath of the 2023 attack.

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In a statement on Wednesday, Mamdani condemned Hamas’ attack as a "horrific war crime" while also characterizing Israel’s subsequent military operation as a genocide.

"The suffering did not begin nor end that day," he wrote. "It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians — including more than 21,000 children."

Israel has rejected accusations that it is committing genocide in Gaza, saying its military targets Hamas and other terrorist groups while seeking to minimize civilian casualties.

The mayor's statement sparked bipartisan backlash, with Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., calling it "egregious and insulting."

"There are 364 days of the year to focus on that. This is a day that should just be focused on what was by all agreement a horrific terror attack," Goldman, who is Jewish, told Politico. "What the mayor’s statement did today was to blame Israelis for the attack that they suffered three years ago. Regardless of what you actually think of the conflict and what’s happened either since or before, there’s no excuse for victim blaming."

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The Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, involved more than 6,000 Hamas and related military operatives. The massive damage inflicted by these demons caused a countersurge of angels released by God. There were miraculous recoveries and narrow escapes in the wake of these attacks, as well as good-versus-evil events that continue to this day.

On September 30, 2026, Flydubai Flight FZ1073 (note the coincidence — three years after 10/7) was nearly destroyed by evil as co-pilot Hamam al Hamami, a reported radical extremist, repeatedly attacked the pilot, only to be sidelined himself by several passengers, including a plumber, a dentist (who saved the pilot’s life by treating his wounds) and two off-duty pilots who happened to be on board. The angels of Flight FZ1073 saved not only the pilot but the plane and its passengers. They are messengers from God.

Miracles are often an accumulation of meaningful coincidences guided by messengers. In my new book, "The Angels Among Us," I tell the story of an Israeli medic named Shlomi who, a few weeks before October 7, 2023, gets a question wrong on a paramedic test about the application of combat gauze to a high thigh wound. 

He studies his mistake until he becomes an expert on combat gauze. On January 11, 2024, the 55th Paratroopers Brigade is planning an incursion into Gaza in search of hostages. It is the 99th day of the war. Bezalel is an intelligence officer, drawing up a map with a photograph and a number on each building to help plan rescue operations. "I make a mistake in the number on one of the buildings. I give it the wrong number on the map in terms of the order… One officer peers at the sheet particularly closely. I have no idea at the moment about the role he will play in my survival."

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The officer figures out the right number for the building, and Bezalel corrects it on the map. "This particular building remains etched in his mind." Shlomi is supposed to go on vacation but has a premonition and stays with his troop, the 55th Paratroopers Brigade.

The next day, they conduct an infantry raid on the city of Khan Yunis in Gaza. Bezalel is inside a building, and as he passes near a window, an explosive is detonated outside. "There is shrapnel in my left leg, up at the beginning of the leg, and it damages the biggest blood vessel in my leg, the femoral artery, and there is no way to stop the blood, no tourniquet can help."

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Shlomi happens to be only five meters away from Bezalel. He successfully applies the combat gauze to save Bezalel’s life. He succeeds because he got the test question wrong and memorized the correct answer. The building they are in is the one that Bezalel mislabeled on the map of the area. The officer who comes to rescue Bezalel in the Humvee is the same one who corrected the number on the map. As a result, he gets there in time to save Bezalel’s life.

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Bezalel is taken by helicopter to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, where a team of highly trained surgeons operates on his artery. Afterward, he fights for his life in the ICU, followed by a long rehab process. Bezalel encounters God’s messengers every step of the way.

Many other miracles have taken place in Gaza since the start of the October 7 war. I have discovered countless examples of physical and psychological recovery among severely wounded soldiers and civilians in hospitals in Israel, thanks to courage combined with advanced medical care. Perhaps most striking is the story of one soldier who reportedly had a bullet stopped by a book of Psalms he was carrying in his vest.

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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's attempts to fine migrants up to $1.8 million for failing to leave the country after receiving final deportation orders.

U.S. District Judge George O'Toole in Boston issued the ruling on Monday in response to a class-action lawsuit filed last year by two of the thousands of migrants who have received civil penalties from the Department of Homeland Security.

The judge granted preliminary relief to the plaintiffs, finding that the administration's process for imposing the fines violated federal law, and that migrants in the  "economically precarious position" of addressing the fines could be pushed into "insolvency."

"The plaintiffs live in an economically precarious position even without the imposition of the government’s exorbitant fines," he wrote.

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"They face the possible garnishment of their already modest wages, loss of any vehicles and homes, federal collections lawsuits and other adverse collateral consequences," O’Toole added. "If they were ultimately successful in this suit, there is no indication that simply requiring the government to vacate their fine notices would –– or even could, at that point –– make the plaintiffs whole or return the circumstances to the status quo."

O’Toole, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, described how the plaintiffs worked for low salaries and had come to the U.S. to escape political violence.

"Nancy M. was fined over $1.8 million," O’Toole wrote, referring to one of the plaintiffs. "She is a laborer working over 60 hours a week with two jobs, and she reports feeling serious anxiety affecting her ability to sleep, eat and live a normal life."

The judge also found that the administration's fine notices violated the Administrative Procedure Act by failing to provide specific allegations explaining why an individual's conduct warranted a penalty.

Fox News Digital reached out to DHS for comment.

As recently as July, DHS said it had issued more than 103,000 fines to migrants totaling about $84 billion since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025.

DHS has defended the penalties, saying people who refuse to leave the country after receiving a final order of removal could face fines of $998 per day.

Although Congress authorized civil penalties under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, no administration had attempted to impose the fines until Trump's first term.

Last year, the Trump administration began imposing fines of $998 per day for migrants who did not leave the country following a final order of deportation. The fines have been imposed retroactively for up to five years, with a maximum penalty of $1.8 million.

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In July 2025, DHS and the Department of Justice implemented changes aimed at streamlining the assessment of fines by scrapping a 30-day notice period and shortening the process for challenging penalties.

The plaintiffs successfully challenged that policy and what they described as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy of issuing fines using boilerplate forms without independently assessing whether a person's failure to leave was "willful" or "voluntary."

O’Toole also found that the administration had failed to comply with rulemaking processes in implementing its streamlined fine-imposition process because it did not offer the public a chance to first comment on the policy change.

Congressional lawmakers have attempted to challenge the administration’s fines against migrants through the Immigration and Nationality Act. Sens. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., urged DHS and DOJ to pause the "improper application of certain civil penalties" in the law to "law-abiding immigrants."

Reuters contributed to this report.

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