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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 00:18:37 JST Information Is Beautiful

Rising up. In 1960, life expectancy in nearly every African nation sat below 50. By 2025, nearly every one sits above 55. That's not a trend. That's a transformation.
via Beautiful News
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2. Vertical beeswarm chart called 'Life Expectancy in Africa is Soaring' comparing African countries across three time periods: 1960, 1990, and 2025. Bubble size represents population. In 1960, most countries clustered between 30–50 years, with Sierra Leone and Mali lowest around 28–30. By 1990, the cluster shifted upward to 35–70, with Mauritius leading at nearly 70. By 2025, most countries sit between 55–75 years, led by Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritius above 70. Notable risers include Rwanda and Ethiopia, now above 65. Nigeria, the largest bubble, moved from around 37 to 53. Source: World Bank. Beautiful News."
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-May-2026 23:58:10 JST Information Is Beautiful

Interesting. The evolution of conflict in literature / society
(by Instagram user: @grantdraws)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DBOlpAuRj9c/
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1. A nine-panel cartoon grid titled "CONFLICT IN LITERATURE" depicts different types of conflict, categorized into "CLASSICAL," "MODERN," and "POSTMODERN" literary periods. Under "CLASSICAL," panels show "MAN vs. NATURE" (a person with a pitchfork against a pack of wolves), "MAN vs. MAN" (two people in a sword fight), and "MAN vs. GOD" (a person pointing a stick at a giant hand from the sky). The "MODERN" column shows "MAN vs. SOCIETY" (a person standing alone against a crowd with protest signs), "MAN vs. SELF" (a person facing a mirror image of themselves), and "MAN vs. NO GOD" (a person pointing a stick at an empty sky). The "POSTMODERN" column depicts "MAN vs. TECHNOLOGY" (a person with a baseball bat facing an array of computer screens), "MAN vs. REALITY" (a person standing in a surreal landscape of melting colors and shapes), and "MAN vs. AUTHOR" (a person standing on an open book, looking up at a giant hand holding a pen). The artist's signature, Grant Snider, is at the bottom right.
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  Grant Snider on Instagram: "Today on the Incidental Comics newsletter: How I Became a Meme. Read the piece at the link in my bio about how this comic spawned endless variations: Conflict in Daffy Duck, Conflict in Seinfeld, Conflict in Spongebob..."
  
  11K likes, 40 comments - grantdraws on October 17, 2024: "Today on the Incidental Comics newsletter: How I Became a Meme. Read the piece at the link in my bio about how this comic spawned endless variations: Conflict in Daffy Duck, Conflict in Seinfeld, Conflict in Spongebob...".
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-May-2026 12:17:57 JST Information Is Beautiful

Participatory tax return from Australia shows exactly where one's tax money goes...
(from Reddit user: u/heapsgoods)
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1. This graphic shows Australian government spending breakdown based on where personal tax was allocated during 2018-19 budget estimates, displaying gross debt levels of $533 billion this year compared to $501 billion last year with $16.3 billion in interest payments on gross debt this year, followed by a horizontal bar chart showing spending categories with welfare receiving the largest allocation at $846 billion including aged care at $346 billion, disability at $200 billion, families at $196 billion, unemployed at $60 billion and other welfare at $44 billion, while health received $420 billion, defence $203 billion, education $183 billion, general public services $105 billion, interest on government debt $92 billion, transport and communication $50 billion, fuel and energy $41 billion, industry assistance $32 billion, foreign affairs and economic aid $30 billion, housing and community $29 billion, public order and safety $28 billion, immigration $21 billion, recreation and culture $21 billion, and other purposes $89 billion, with the total tax assessed shown as $2190 at the bottom right, along with a note that figures include transfers to state and local governments except for GST and other economic affairs, with estimates and categories based on information from the Department of Treasury, and a reference to visit www.ato.gov.au/taxreceipt for more information.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-May-2026 06:20:39 JST Information Is Beautiful

Visualizing the USA's $29 trillion economy by state. California is now the 4th largest economy in the world, recently surpassing Japan.
https://www.voronoiapp.com/economy/Visualizing-Americas-29-Trillion-Economy--4103
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1. Pie chart titled "AMERICA'S $29T ECONOMY BY STATE". The chart is segmented by US regions (New England, Mid-Atlantic, Great Lakes, Plains, Southeast, Southwest, Rocky Mountain, and Far West) and further divided to show the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of each state within those regions. Each state segment is labeled with its name and GDP in trillions or billions of dollars. California has the largest economy at $4.1T, followed by Texas at $2.7T and New York at $2.3T. Smaller states like Delaware ($104B) and Vermont ($41B) have proportionally smaller slices. An additional segment indicates "$160B Overseas Activity*". The source is listed as the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, with data as of Q3 2024.
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  Visualizing America's $29 Trillion Economy 🇺🇸💰
  
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  What We're Showing A breakdown of the U.S. economy by state, including DC and overseas activity. Overseas activity is define as economic activity taking pla…
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-May-2026 00:56:41 JST Information Is Beautiful

Beautiful UK rainfall-as-elevation map
Wind direction plays a big role in UK rain.
(By Alasdair Rae @undertheraedar)
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alasdair-rae-17640a124_reposting-my-great-britain-rainfall-map-in-activity-7350067721176317952-zOAz/
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1. This image is a detailed three-dimensional relief map of the United Kingdom, visualizing rainfall levels rather than elevation, though it uses a similar topographical style. The map shows the outline of Great Britain and part of Ireland (only Northern Ireland's northern coast is visible at the top right) with varying heights representing the amount of annual rainfall. The color palette is a gradient of greens and yellows, with taller, darker green peaks indicating higher rainfall and flatter, paler yellow areas indicating lower rainfall. The map vividly highlights the classic UK weather pattern: the highest rainfall occurs in the western and northern mountainous regions, particularly the Scottish Highlands, the Lake District in England, and the mountains of Wales, where dramatic, tall peaks dominate the landscape. In contrast, the Eastern side of England, especially the southeast, appears much flatter and paler, indicating it is the driest part of the country. The visual effect makes the rainfall data look like a highly textured landscape.
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  Reposting my Great Britain rainfall map in the hope that normal service returns soon - bring it on! (it's an exaggerated 3D surface map of rainfall volume across Great Britain, with a touch of… | Alasdair Rae | 28 comments
  
  Reposting my Great Britain rainfall map in the hope that normal service returns soon - bring it on! (it's an exaggerated 3D surface map of rainfall volume across Great Britain, with a touch of shadow as a visual nod to the old rain shadow effect) | 28 comments on LinkedIn
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 17:25:35 JST Information Is Beautiful

Headache-inducing map of the world where only land borders matter
(by Fernando Gómez via @Civixplorer)
https://x.com/Civixplorer/status/2010747261467410503
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1. A stylized diagram titled “Topological World Map” presenting the countries of the world as a network of adjacent blocks rather than geographically accurate shapes or sizes. The map uses simple beige rectangles and irregular polygons to represent countries, arranged so that shared borders and relative positions are preserved while distances, coastlines, and true proportions are heavily distorted. Large countries such as Russia, Canada, China, the United States, Brazil, and Australia appear as oversized blocks, while smaller nations are shown as much smaller rectangles clustered in their respective regions. Europe is densely packed with many small adjoining shapes, Africa forms a broad central cluster, and Asia stretches across the right side dominated by a large Russia and China. The Americas are arranged on the left with North and South America stacked vertically, while island nations and archipelagos such as those in the Caribbean and Pacific are depicted as small boxes grouped near their regions. Antarctica appears as a long horizontal strip along the bottom. The background is a muted blue representing oceans, which are not mapped precisely but serve as empty space between land clusters. The emphasis of the diagram is on topology, showing which countries border each other, rather than geography, with labels placed inside each shape naming the countries and a small explanatory paragraph at the bottom describing the concept of topological mapping.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 22-May-2026 06:43:27 JST Information Is Beautiful

In 1975, just 50 years ago, one in three young women worldwide couldn't read. Today, nine in ten can. That’s the highest level in human history.
via Beautiful News
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2. Column chartt titled 'Female Youth Literacy is Up, Up, Up' showing the global literacy rate for females aged 15–24 rising steadily from around 68% in 1975 to approximately 90% in 2024, a gain of 22 percentage points. Bars are dark blue against a blue-to-yellow gradient background. Source: World Bank. Beautiful News."
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-May-2026 18:42:59 JST Information Is Beautiful

400,000 → near zero. Polio cases worldwide, 1980 to 2023. One of humanity's quietest victories.
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1. Stacked column chart titled 'Polio is very nearly wiped out' showing estimated polio cases from 1980 to 2023, broken down by region: Asia (purple), Africa (pink), and Americas & Europe (teal). Cases peaked at around 400,000 in the early 1980s and have fallen dramatically to near zero by 2023, with only small numbers of cases remaining, mostly in Africa. Source: Our World in Data. Beautiful News.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2026 05:58:28 JST Information Is Beautiful

Some data on Ebola 🦠
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1. Scatter plot titled 'Ebola: How Contagious & Deadly is it?' plotting diseases by fatality rate (y-axis) against R0 contagiousness (x-axis). Ebola sits at around 50% fatality and R0 of 2–3, described as 'very deadly and very contagious'. Only bird flu is higher in fatality at ~60% but less contagious. Nearby: MERS (~35%, R0 ~1), Hantavirus Andes strain (~30%, R0 ~2), smallpox (~30%, R0 ~5). Lower-fatality diseases include COVID-19 pre-vaccination (~7%, R0 ~3) and measles (~1%, R0 ~9). A note explains the 2026 DRC outbreak involves the Bundibugyo variant, one of four Ebola virus species, with no vaccine currently available. Sources: WHO, New York Times. Information is Beautiful.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 22:47:22 JST Information Is Beautiful

Africa's electricity access, country by country. Some leaps. Some crawls. One notable slide backwards. But a massive shift over just 10 years.
source: World Bank
by reddit user cavedave
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1. Small multiples boxed cartogram titled 'African Access to Electricity, 2012 vs 2022' showing slope charts for each African country. Each chart displays the percentage of population with electricity access in 2012 and 2022, with blue shading for gains and red for losses. North African countries lead with near-universal access (Morocco 96→100, Algeria 100→100, Tunisia 100→100, Egypt 100→100). Notable gains include Kenya (38→76), Ethiopia (55→8→55→65 area), and Rwanda (15→51). Libya is a rare loss, dropping from 100 to 79. Many sub-Saharan countries remain low but improving, such as Chad (8→12), South Sudan (3→8), and DR Congo (29→47). Mauritius (99→100) and Seychelles (100→100) have full or near-full access. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 02:47:19 JST Information Is Beautiful

France, Malta and Luxembourg have joined the 157 nations who recognise a Palestinian state (81% of all UN member states)
source: New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/world/middleeast/palestinian-state-recognition-maps.html
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 01:23:47 JST Information Is Beautiful

Average male height by country plotted over 100 years
by Reddit user: u/CalculateQuick
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1. A line chart titled “Getting taller” showing changes in average adult male height by birth year from 1896 to 1996 across several countries, illustrating how nutrition and living conditions have influenced growth. The vertical axis ranges from about 155 cm to 185 cm and the horizontal axis spans birth years from the late 1800s to the late 1900s. Multiple colored lines track different countries. The Netherlands rises the most, from around 169 cm to about 182.5 cm, becoming the tallest by the end. The United Kingdom and United States both increase steadily to around 177–178 cm, but the U.S. line flattens earlier, indicating slower growth in later decades. South Korea shows a dramatic rise from roughly 160 cm to about 175.5 cm, reflecting rapid postwar improvements. Japan also climbs sharply mid century from about 157 cm to around 170.8 cm before leveling off. India shows only modest growth, increasing slightly from around 162 cm to about 164.9 cm. Annotations highlight trends such as Japan’s rapid postwar increase, Korea’s acceleration, and the U.S. plateau. A note at the bottom explains that Americans were among the tallest in 1896 but were overtaken over the century as other populations grew faster.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-May-2026 08:33:05 JST Information Is Beautiful

A different perspective...
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1. A world terrain map is plotted with antarctica as the centre, casting the remain continents at nearly unrecognisable angles and shapes.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-May-2026 01:15:45 JST Information Is Beautiful

Keeping it toasty coast to coast: How the US keeps the cold at bay
https://www.maps.com/home-heating-fuels/
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1. A map of the United States displaying how people heat their homes, with different heating sources represented by distinct colors. The map highlights regions where oil (dark purple), natural gas (light purple), propane (green), wood (orange), and electricity (yellow) are used for heating. The density of each color indicates the prevalence of a specific heating method in various areas, with the Northeastern and parts of the Midwest regions showing higher concentrations of oil and natural gas use.
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  The Geography of Heating US Homes
  
  from @https://twitter.com/jscarto
  
  Homes in the US are heated by a variety of fuels. The interplay of who, what, and where is on full display in this detailed map.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-May-2026 00:06:55 JST Information Is Beautiful

Africa is BIG
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1. An infographic showing the true size of Africa (30.4m km²) compared to other major countries and regions. Six maps overlay different regions on Africa's outline to demonstrate scale: Russia (17.1m km²), U.S. (9.8m km²), China (9.6m km²), Brazil (8.5m km²), Europe excluding Russia (5.9m km²), and India (3.3m km²). Each comparison is color-coded and labeled with its area.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-May-2026 23:58:16 JST Information Is Beautiful

Charting human migration over deep time
(via https://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/media/2013-01-a-walk-through-time)
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  National Geographic Out of Eden Walk
  
  Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek is retracing on foot the global migration of our ancestors in a 21,000-mile, seven-year odyssey that begins in Ethiopia and ends in Tierra del Fuego.
2. A map titled "A WALK THROUGH TIME" showing human migration patterns from Africa across the globe over 200,000 years. The route is color-coded in rainbow bands from red (oldest, 200-60 thousand years ago) through yellow, green, blue, to pink (most recent, 15-10 thousand years ago). A white line traces the 21,000-mile walking route from East Africa ("Start") to South America ("Finish"). The map uses Fuller projection to straighten the circumglobal route.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2026 06:38:31 JST Information Is Beautiful

Why not?
(by reddit user: @GetDownAndBoogieNow)
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1. Infographic titled "SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE: a visual guide" comparing the current US healthcare system to a single-payer system and its paycheck impact; the current system involves businesses and people paying premiums and taxes to insurance companies and the government, with insurance companies handling administration, billing, and negotiating care, while people pay deductibles and copays for services from doctors and hospitals reimbursed by insurers and direct payments, and the government funds Medicaid, Medicare, and uncompensated care via taxes; a single-payer system shows businesses and people paying taxes to the government, which then pays doctors and hospitals; paycheck comparisons show deductions for federal taxes, state taxes, and FICA income tax, plus premiums/deductibles/copays in the current system, resulting in a "TAKE HOME PAY", while the single-payer scenario shows federal taxes, state taxes, and a potentially larger FICA income tax, leading to a different "TAKE HOME PAY", suggesting the elimination of premiums and out-of-pocket costs might offset increased taxes.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Friday, 15-May-2026 01:14:36 JST Information Is Beautiful

"Weird to think that the entire history of the Roman Empire was tomato-free"
via @simongerman600 and @Civixplorer
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1. This educational infographic illustrates the Columbian Exchange—the transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and crops between the Americas and the Old World (Europe, Africa, and Asia) following 1492. A world map centers on the Atlantic Ocean, with arrows showing bidirectional exchange: a purple arrow labeled “The Americas to Europe, Africa, and Asia” points eastward from the Americas, and a yellow arrow labeled “Europe, Africa, and Asia to the Americas” points westward. On the left (Americas), illustrated items include potatoes, corn (maize), sweet potatoes, pumpkins, cassava, tomatoes, pineapples, avocados, beans, peanuts, cashews, cacao, vanilla, chili peppers, sunflowers, tobacco, quinine, turkeys, and syphilis (marked with a biohazard symbol). On the right (Old World), items include pigs, horses, cattle, chickens, sheep, rats, honeybees, grains (wheat, rice, barley, oats, rye), bananas, sugarcane, olives, citrus fruits, coffee beans, apples, peaches, pears, carrots, grapes, lettuce, cabbage, onions, soybeans, weeds (crabgrass, dandelions, thistles, wild oats), and diseases (bubonic plague, smallpox, typhus, malaria, yellow fever, diphtheria, measles, influenza, whooping cough), the last grouped under a biohazard icon. A small ship graphic sits at the center of the Atlantic, symbolizing the transoceanic voyages enabling this exchange. The image is credited to Civixplorer at the bottom.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2026 08:57:29 JST Information Is Beautiful

Some data on the Hantavirus 🦠
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1. Alt text: "Scatter plot titled 'Hantavirus: How Contagious & Deadly is it?' plotting diseases by fatality rate (y-axis) against R0 contagiousness (x-axis). Hantavirus (Andes strain) sits at around 30–40% fatality and R0 of 2–3, described as 'very deadly and quite contagious'. Nearby comparisons: bird flu (~60%, R0 ~1), Ebola (~50%, R0 ~2), MERS (~35%, R0 ~1), smallpox (~30%, R0 ~5). Lower-fatality diseases include COVID-19 pre-vaccination (~7%, R0 ~3), SARS (~10%, R0 ~3), and measles (~1%, R0 ~9). A note explains the MV Hondius cruise ship outbreak involved the Andes hantavirus — the only type that spreads human-to-human, though rarely. Sources: WHO, New York Times. Information is Beautiful.
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Information Is Beautiful (infobeautiful@vis.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-May-2026 00:48:12 JST Information Is Beautiful
- Our World in Data
What American's die from vs What US Media reports on...
by @ourworldindata
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1. This infographic from Our World in Data, titled “What Americans die from and the causes of death the US media reports on,” compares actual causes of death in the US in 2023 with media coverage of those causes by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. On the left, a stacked bar chart shows heart disease (29%) and cancer (27%) as the top causes of death, followed by accidents (7.8%), stroke (7%), lower respiratory diseases (6.3%), Alzheimer’s (4.9%), diabetes (4.1%), and others including homicide (<1%) and terrorism (<0.001%). Three adjacent charts show media coverage percentages for selected causes: The New York Times covered homicide (42%) and terrorism (18%) most, despite their low mortality; The Washington Post similarly focused on homicide (46%) and terrorism (12%); Fox News gave the highest coverage to homicide (52%) and drug overdose (9.8%). All outlets underreported leading causes like heart disease and cancer relative to their actual impact. The note clarifies data is normalized to 100% across 12 common causes plus drug overdose, homicide, and terrorism, which together account for over 75% of US deaths. Sources include Media Cloud (2025), US CDC (2025), and Global Terrorism Index.
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