Christmas Time, Mistletoe And Another Gallagher Whine...

The griping Gallagher brothers are at it again, with Liam today cruelly dubbing Noel a tight-fisted Scrooge.

In an eXSplosive interview Liam ranted: "He's miserable all year round so imagine him at Christmas when he's got to f***ing buy you a present."

The lads haven't spent a Christmas together since they were nippers, said Liam, 37, who added: "You don't want to be around him for Christmas. The last one we had together was when we lived with mam."

Oh dear, I hope Liam hasn't started another ding-dong merrily on high after the ruck of rucks that led to the acrimonious Oasis split.

So to get Noel in the Christmas spirit and prove his bro wrong I've transformed him into one of Santa's cheeky elves.

Liam went on: "Noel gets really miserable on birthdays and at Christmas because he's got to get his hand in his pocket and buy you a present. Flash the cash and that sort of thing."

Must be tough when you're only worth £25 million, eh Noel?

And with a name like Noel we wouldn't expect him to be grumpy at Christmas. Liam said: "I love my brother without a doubt. But I also think he's a bit of an idiot sometimes."

Liam also accused Noel, 42, of staging the argument that led to Oasis splitting in the summer.

He said: "He didn't have the balls to tell the band or the fans so he sort of over-analysed or dramatised a little argument that we had and said it was the worst one ever.

"That was the worst one ever? Well, I think that's pretty poor because we've had some ding dongs.

"I just think basically he wanted out. That's the way it is."

The brothers' public spat focused on Liam smashing Noel's guitar. Liam explained: "He treated my guitar poorly, which is a present off my wife, so I thought, it's only fair to repay the compliment. So I smashed up one of his. It was a lot more expensive than mine."

Buy him a new one for Christmas, Liam - and let there be peace on earth for ALL mankind.

Source: www.newsoftheworld.co.uk

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Noel Gallagher To Sign Record Deal With Parlophone?

"All you lads still wishing it was 1998, stop crying your eyes out. After Liam's announcement that the ex-members of Oasis were recording *shudder* a new album, we hear that Noel Gallagher is in the process of putting a new band together and that label Parlophone are close to agreeing a deal."

Source: www.holymoly.com

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Lily Allen Covers Oasis In The Live Lounge

Lily Allen covers Oasis' I'm Outta time in the Live Lounge.

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BBC Seeking Film Footage Of The Britpop Scene

BBC - Home Movie Roadshow

Next year, BBC TWO is launching a new series which will travel the country in a hunt for the nation’s home movie archive.

This is the nation’s story through the eyes of its most important historians: the British people.

We are looking for any amateur-filmed footage that reflects the events of the 1990's and the Britpop scene. We are interested in seeing footage from gigs or signings, or anything that might include the members of Oasis or other prevalent Britpop acts.

We are throwing the net very wide, and we are really interested to hear from individuals or organisations about what they think is of importance and what deserves to be seen on the small screen.

If you have old video or film footage we would love to hear from you. We are happy to take it on any format. We guarantee its’ safe return.

At this point, we are still at the research stage – so we are keen to hear about what people have. If any clips are used in the series, then a fee will be paid.

Please contact the production team at

rachel.james-bailey@diverse.tv or on 0203 189 3229.

Or you can post your footage to: Home Movie Roadshow,

1 Ariel Way, London W12 7SL"

Source: BBC

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Win A Limited Edition 'Pretty Green' Goody Bag

We have been lucky enough to be given a pair of these strictly limited edition 'Pretty Green' Goody bags, to give away to two lucky visitors to the site.

The bags contains the extremely limited edition and much sought after Pretty Green 09Autumn/Winter launch collection book and a red Pretty Green Polka Dot Scarf.

Housed in a Pretty Green bag the original bag did contain a small bottle of Patron Tequila, that will not be included due to age restrictions and customs.

Also included is a menu to make Liam Gallagher's own cocktail, that he made for his guests at the Pretty Green launch party earlier this month.

To win the above prizes answer this simple question.

In the Pretty Green Autumn/Winter collection, what Beatles track is also the name of a coat on sale?

Send all entries to scyhodotcom@gmail.com
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Please include your name in your email
The competition ends at Midnight GMT on the 5th December 2009.
Two winners will be picked at random on the 6th December 2009.

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Watch Leona Lewis Cover Oasis And More

X-Factor winner Leona Lewis performed for Radio 2 Live in the Morning on Ken Bruce on Thursday 3rd December 2009.

Watch the five tracks performed by Leona.

Live from the Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House, this session featured some of Leona Lewis' chart topping songs and tracks from her new album, 'Echo'.

The set list was as follows:

Bleeding Love
I Got You
Happy
Better In Time
Stop Crying Your Heart Out

You can also listen again to the full show and see the photos.

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Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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Liam Gallagher: ‘Me And Our Kid, We Were Never Close’

His last public appearance in Manchester was as front man of Oasis. Now Liam Gallagher returns as head of clothing label Pretty Green. Paul Taylor talked to him about fashion and fraternal love.

'Tis the season of goodwill, and I'm wondering whether now may be the right time for Liam and Noel Gallagher to patch up their differences and get back to bestriding the world as Oasis.

“I haven't spoken to him. I don't think he'd speak to me either. That's life,” says Liam Gallagher, with characteristic bluntness

Not even a Christmas card, then?

“Listen we never sent Christmas cards before the split. I don't think we're going to start now,” says Liam. “We were never that close as a family. I got on well with my other brother. I got on well with my mam, obviously, and they've (Noel and mam) got a great relationship. But me and our kid...we were never that close. The only thing that kept us together was the band. It's sad, but that's life. There's more dysfunctional families than just ours.”

And yes, it is sad. For most of us came to regard Liam and Noel as rock 'n' roll's version of Waldorf and Statler from the Muppet Show – bad-tempered men who would grow old bashing their heads together, turning mutual animosity into an unbreakable bond.

But after 18 years of era-defining music and some of the most entertaining soundbites rock has ever known. Noel, aged 42, departed Oasis in August, saying he could not work with his younger brother Liam a day longer. Noel later cited “verbal and violent intimidation towards me, my family, friends and comrades”.

Liam's response: “He can't work with me. Apparently, I'm the f***ing devil; he's the herald angel, whatever. The truth will out. I'm a good person. I've got a lot of nice people around me and they wouldn't be around me if I was what people say I am.

“What I will say...I dig our kid and I know he digs me, and in the future, who knows. But at the moment, no f***ing chance.”

Not far from the windowless back room at Selfridges store in Manchester where we speak, there are 200 people queuing patiently to tell Liam they think he's a good person too. He's here to launch the more luxurious, pricier Black Label range of his Pretty Green fashion house, and there are autographed limited edition postcards for the first 200 purchasers. The range includes t-shirts from £35, a paisley kaftan shirt at £180, a “Fool on the Hill” coat at £675 and – Liam's own fashion choice today – a green herringbone tweed overcoat at £325.

He insists he has strong input into the label's designs, and that he is in the fashion business for the long run. It's mod-influenced, timeless clothing, likely to work for a broad age range.

“It's classic. You can look cool. It's like the Italians, man. There's nothing worse than seeing a 50-year old geezer in a pair of trainers and track suit...unless he's going for a run.”

So what were Liam's own style inspirations?

“Quadrophenia, without a doubt,” he says, mentioning also the Stone Roses and football fan fashion of track suits and Adidas trainers. But there is another less likely suspect in the Gallagher style DNA.

“I was into Paul Newman growing up,” he admits. “I thought he looked f***ing great. You know Fort Apache, The Bronx? I saw that film once when I was 14 and he looked cool, man.”

At 37, Liam looks sharp as ever – lean, taller than you expect, beetle-browed, with chiselled features, pure mod hairstyle and firm, sinewy handshake. He fidgets like a man who doesn't quite know what to do with all his energy.

The remainder of Oasis soldiers on Noel-less. Liam says there are many songs written, and six or seven recorded in demo form. Bass player Andy Bell has now switched to guitar and Liam has brought in a new bassist, whom he refuses to name except to say that he comes from Bury.

“We've got some studio time booked after Christmas and we're going to go in, bang it out. We're not going to fart around with it. It's going to be lean, not over-indulgent and I think people are going to like it,” says Liam. “It's rock 'n' roll, man. The melodies are totally different from Noel's. It's going to sound like Oasis but a touch different.”

The big question is, will this band still be called Oasis?

“We don't know, man,” says Liam. “We've got a lot of names floating about. None of them are sticking. None of us can agree on it. What's the word...democracy.

“Listen, everyone's always going to recognise me as Oasis, so at the moment, it's Oasis. And I know a lot of people will go 'Oh, it'll never be the same without Noel'. No s***, you know.

“If we come up with a supercool name that we all agree on, then away we go. If we don't then I'm not going to f***ing beat myself up about it. We're Oasis. If people like it, they like it. If people don't, then don't buy the record.”

Source: www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

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Win With Sky's Liam Gallagher Competition

One lucky Oasis fan is in line to win a goody bag selected from Liam Gallagher's new fashion range.

The former Oasis frontman insists there is no chance of the band getting back together after its split three months ago.

Instead, he is setting up on his own group and has just launched a new fashion line - Pretty Green - from which he's chosen a few little surprises for the winner.

All you have to do is answer this simple question: Who's the drummer in the band Liam is now working with?

Watch Sky News showbiz correspondent Steve Hargrave's interview with the man himself and you'll get the answer.

Email the answer to Sky News Online along with your name, address and contact phone number by 10am, Thursday, December 10, 2009.

Enter by clicking here.

Source: www.sky.com

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Liam Gallagher Interview

Recorded at Selfiridges, Manchester, Liam interviewed about the Oasis split, his Pretty Green clothing range, and his future in music.

For anal fact fans, this is the Five 'Live from Studio Five' edit. The same interview, with a couple of specific Sky News mentions, was broadcast on the same night, you can see that at their website.

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Liam Gallagher To Start Vigilante Group

If you thought Liam Gallagher’s clothing range Pretty Green was dubious, wait until you hear of his latest ambition.

A close pal of Liam Gallagher told us: “He told me he wants to make a list of the most evil criminals and start a vigilante group.”

It comes after he launched an angry tirade against estranged brother Noel, 42, calling him a fake.

Liam, 37, who is reforming the band without Noel, also vowed he’d never sing a song penned by his sibling again.

He said: “Noel’s fans will sneer at it but if they don’t like the music, don’t buy it.”

Forget the crims, we reckon it is Noel who should be beware.

Source: www.dailystar.co.uk

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Liam Gallagher Speaks Out At The Manchester Launch Of Pretty Green

Liam Gallagher has spoken out about his love for his brother and former Oasis bandmate Noel.

Talking at the launch of his Pretty Green clothing line at the Manchester branch of Selfridge's today (December 2), the singer revealed his feelings towards Noel, despite previously saying that he had no interest in speaking to him again.

"He's doing his thing, we're doing our thing, I wish him all the best," Liam told Sky News. "I don't wish him any bad, I'm his brother. I love him to death." He added, but did warn Noel by saying "Don't release it [Noel's solo album] the same day, 'cos we'll ave ya."

Asked whether he had a message to pass onto his brother, Liam cheekily said: "Good luck mate - see you in the next world. Don't be late!"

As previously reported, Liam said his new band "May still be called Oasis", but he did reveal that they had been thinking of a new name.

"We're sorta going through the mill of getting a new name, nothings sticking, so we've drawn the line on the names at the moment." He explained. "People are still gonna go 'Its still Oasis, but its not Oasis without Noel' - life's too short to be arsing about with what people think and that. We'll see what happens, we're concentrating on the music at the moment." He added.

As well as promoting his new clothing line, Liam recently announced that his new band had "Got a bit of studio time booked after Christmas".

Source: www.nme.com

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Liam Gallagher: I Love My Brother Noel, But...

Former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher says he is enjoying life after his acrimonious split with brother Noel - and ruled out a reunion.

Speaking at the launch of his clothing label at the Manchester branch of Selfridge's, the singer said he was looking forward to performing with his new band.

He also said he had no animosity towards his brother, beside whom he spent years performing in one of the most successful rock bands of all time.

"He's doing his thing, we're doing our thing, I wish him all the best," he said.

"I don't wish him anything bad, I'm his brother. I love him to death."

He added that stories of wild rows between the two were wide of the mark as they barely spoke to each other when off stage.

He added that his only message for Noel would be "Good luck mate - see you in the next world. Don't be late!"

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Liam Gallagher Meets Fans In Manchester

Liam Gallagher meets fans at Selfridges in Manchester, earlier today.
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'Bonehead' With The Vortex In Movie

Bonehead with in his new band The Vortex guest appear in the movie Freight.

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Scans From Vanity Fair

Scans from the Italian version of Vanity Fair. Thanks to oasisnotizie

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Video Of Liam Gallagher In Milan

Liam Gallagher visited Milan in November, here is the official film of his trip.

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Modern Meditations To Oasis's "Wonderwall"

Featuring the work of renowned producers from across the globe, “Modern Meditations” has transformed contemporary rock favorites into meditatio! n music for the rock & roll generation. Shimmering rock guitar! s and warm percussion create lush instrumental soundscapes. While yoga, Pilates, and meditation have all entered the mainstream, the music has not. The “Modern Meditations” series aims to introduce an alternative to traditional new age fare to the growing modern rock audience.

The first of two compilation releases, “Rock Classics,” features serene instrumental versions of songs from classic rock’s most revered artists including Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Police, Led Zeppelin and many others. “Modern Classics” dives into the contemporary rock catalog with tranquil renditions of songs by The Verve, U2, The Cure, Oasis, R.E.M., Nirvana and more.

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'Reunite Oasis? Noel's Got Another Thing Coming'

Earlier this week Russell Brand penned a glowing article about pal Noel Gallagher, acknowledging his song-writing genius as "a poet of his class".

And I reckon Liam, pretty green with envy, read it.

While Noel maintains a dignified silence after the Oasis split, Liam launched a scud missile at his big brother.

In an interview blaming everyone except himself for the best band of the past 20 years breaking up, his stomach rumbled: "I just think he's sort of turned himself into a fake.

"You don't have 18 years of giving it all this, then wash your hands of it and start going out with Russell Brand, and all these new pals. He's got a lot of people around him giving him false pretences."

Liam, who hangs about with Gok Wan and Adee Phelan from Channel 4 show The Salon, also gave Noel stick for kicking "the doors wide open" of the band's inner circle to "newie" pals.

Liam added: "I'm sure he thinks, 'I'll do my solo career and if it doesn't pan out the way it's expected to pan out, then I'll give our kid a ring 'cos he'll be desperate, and he'll do anything for Oasis.'

"Well, I'll say this right now; he's got another thing coming.

"If he thinks he can ring me up at any given stage in his f****** lifetime, I'll be busy. I'll always be busy when he rings me up."

Liam also said he had been in the studio with Oasis members Andy Bell and Gem Archer and wants to record a new album.

I can't wait to hear more material like Little James from Oasis Lite.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

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Liam Gallagher Interview With Radio 105

A interview with Liam Gallagher for Radio 105 in Italy.

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Liam Gallagher: 'I’ll Always Be Busy When Noel Rings Me Up'

Liam Gallagher is a bagful of energy. We're sitting in a back room at Selfridges department store, where later he'll sign autographs for people who buy T-shirts or parkas from his Pretty Green clothing range, and as we talk he continually stamps his foot - clad in his own-brand desert boot - as though to an insistent, unheard, drumbeat.

Sometimes he leaps up and performs a little mime as he answers a question. And sometimes, so obviously full of anger is he - cursing and gesticulating and bunching his fists - I genuinely fear that he's going to kick a posh leather chair or punch a hole in the wall.

Or maybe I misread him. Maybe he's just very excited. Because Gallagher is at his most animated when he's talking about the new album Oasis will record after Christmas - without his older brother Noel.

"We're halfway there, man," he cries. "We've got all the songs done. Without Noel at all. Me, Andy and Gem [Oasis bassist Andy Bell and guitarist Gem Archer] are doing it. That was the way it was going anyway, even on the last record.

"We were, like, doing most of it and Noel was off doing his own thing. So we've got a bit of studio time booked after Christmas and we're going to get in there, do it quick, with no stewing on it, and I'm feeling really confident about it."

And this, of course, is hugely intriguing - a new album without the band's supposed creative force? Oasis without Wonderwall or Live Forever?

But let's get old business out of the way first. It was in August this year that Noel Gallagher appeared to make his final, final, exit from the band, after a bust-up backstage in Paris that resulted in the smashing of a guitar and an apparently irrevocable exchange of words. The brothers haven't spoken since.

Yet Liam dismisses the scale of the row as a premise for the split: "It wasn't a big thing for me. I've had bigger arguments with me toenails, you know what I mean? I think he just wanted out.

"He'd had enough of this lad thing, and he wants to try something new, and it's not having a dig at him, but I just think he's sort of turned himself into a f***ing fake.

"You don't have 18 years of giving it all this, and then wash your hands of it and start going out with Russell Brand, and all these new pals. I think he's done a Keegan."

Meaning, I think - and this is guaranteed to irritate his brother hugely - that Noel has, as Kevin Keegan supposedly did, walked out on a job without a proper fight.

But the fact that Liam is here, giving this interview as Selfridges officially launch es its Pretty Green concession, and commenting so freely on Noel, is bound to anger him even more.

Liam's voice is suddenly sarcastic: "That's all right - go out and do your own thing, but I'll be keeping it real."

Though others have accused Liam of divisive, prima donna-ish behaviour, he says himself that Noel had "kicked the doors wide open" and invited into the band's inner circle "a lot of newies", including journalists, "who were rude and disrespectful".

It sounds as though Liam felt he was losing control of the band's direction, or perhaps his place at its very centre.

But why is he still so furious? One muso school of thought has always maintained that, for all their high-profile bickering and nasty name-calling, the Gallagher brothers are actually far closer than the average sibling pair, and need each other much more than they'll ever publicly admit, both personally and musically.

"I don't think he thinks that," growls Liam. "He's got lots of people around him giving him false pretences ..."

But of course it can't really be disputed that Oasis's extraordinary worldwide success of the mid-Nineties was built entirely on the dynamism and combustibility of the Gallagher double-act: Liam's voice and charisma coupled with the essential beauty of Noel's songs.

But wait ... um, Liam does dispute it. "Listen, I loved it all. I loved Oasis. I love making records. This is what I do, it's an addiction. It's something you've got to perfect and something you'll never perfect.

"We'll make this [new] record and see where it goes and hopefully it'll put a few dickhead [myths] to bed, about who was what and what was what ..."

Later he says: "People are saying: by rights, you should be putting your feet up and counting your money, but that's not my thing.

"Someone has left the band and I need to go out and prove ..." He hesitates, aware, I think, that he's making himself vulnerable here by admitting Noel's obvious influence. "No, not prove," he goes on. "Not prove anything. I mean, I don't want people who supported our band to think I'm just sitting here doing nothing.

"Obviously it's going to be different without Noel and Noel's fans will sneer at it but then, you know, if they don't like the music, don't f***ing buy it. Don't come to the gig, cos you're not going to be hearing Don't Look Back in Anger ... But I do like to think that the 250,000 people who came to see us at Knebworth didn't come just for Noel."

And he's right - they didn't come for Noel. They came for Liam singing Noel's music.

But if Liam can pull off a musical re-invention, Oasis can survive. Oasis without Liam, on the other hand - that gravelly snarl, that big physical on-stage presence - wouldn't work at all.

He isn't sure yet whether the new album will come out under Oasis's name or not. "We're not using it at the moment, but if we don't come up with something else by the time we're ready to release the album it'll be Oasis.

"I'm not going to call myself something ridiculous just for the sake of it. We're trying lots of new names right now, but nothing's sticking so we're just plugging on with the music. Obviously we won't be playing any of Noel's songs."

So what's the new stuff like? A radical departure? That, surely, would be the bravest way to go. But: "Nah, not radical. No way, man. It's a little bit different, but not too much. It's the kind of music our fans have always liked, you know? But we'll see. I'm not forcing this down anyone's throats. That's not good for the soul."

And these days, Liam is into soul-cleansing. At 37, he looks pretty good - fit and healthy and smooth-complexioned - despite almost two decades of Oasis and its associated hardcore partying.

We are here to talk not about the band but about his clothes, a range of quality menswear, clearly but not slavishly, inspired by mod culture: parkas in green and ivory, polo shirts, pea coats, and a beautiful soft-as-butter collarless leather jacket for £1,000.

Yet when a Selfridges salesperson mentions that someone has bought a single example of every piece available, spending in the process a sum well in excess of £5,000, Liam instantly assumes it must have been Noel.

"That'll probably be our kid, then. I hear he's been in here having a nosey at it, cos someone caught him and asked if they could help him, and he gave them a dirty look and walked off."

But surely it's more likely to have been a well-heeled fan who just really likes the clothes? It's almost as though Liam can't stop scratching at the sore caused by his brother's antagonistic departure.

Liam's day is dictated not by fashion or rock stardom, however, but by the school run, which he does almost every day.

His boys, 10-year-old Lennon (from his three-year marriage to Patsy Kensit) and eight-year-old Gene by his wife, the former All Saint Nicole Appleton, go to the same private school in Hampstead, and he sees Lennon for a day a week and every other weekend. "I buzz off 'em," he laughs. "They're my heroes, man."

His own father, a notoriously violent man whom his mother left when Liam was 10, used to wear Pierre Cardin while leaving his three sons in scruffy hand-me-downs.

"He was pretty stylish. But all his money went on him, he never gave any to the family ... We'd all go to church in matching jumpers knitted by me mam. We looked like Jedward."

Yet Liam admired his dad's "style", and as a teenager got into the football-led "casual" look - Tacchini tracksuits, Lacoste jumpers, Dunlop Green Flash.

Of course his own children have full-to-bursting wardrobes of their own, though "They're not like the Beckhams' kids, man" and aren't dressed head-to-toe in designer gear. They do own two "little parkas", though, especially made for them by Liam's Pretty Green seamstresses.

Liam claims, then, that "life is good". "I'm buzzing. I'm happy. Dead happy." But he'd be happier with Noel back in his life, right? Wrong.

He leaps up, instantly furious. "I'm sure he thinks: I'll do my solo career and if it doesn't f***ing pan out the way it's expected to pan out, then I'll give our kid a ring cos he'll be desperate, and he'll do anything for Oasis.

"Well, I'll say this right now: he's got another f***ing think coming. If he thinks he can ring me up at any given stage in his f***ing lifetime, I'll be busy. I'll always be busy when he rings me up." He pauses, grins sharkishly.

"You can tell I get agitated by all this. Look, I'm just going to keep me head sane with the clothes, the new record and the band ... Whatever the f*** we're called."

Source: www.thisislondon.co.uk

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