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TRIAD Local fitness leaders have launched a race series set to start April 29.

In a unified effort to promote physical fitness in High Point, Thomasville, Archdale and Trinity, four local races have joined forces to launch the Southern Triad Race Series.

The series will be led by the High Point-Thomasville HiToms, Grubb Family YMCA, High Point University Panther Club and the Trinity Run 5/Feed 5 5K. It will debut this spring with the Run 5/Feed 5 on April 29.

This new series, targeting both competitive and recreational runners and walkers, was created to inspire yearlong fitness and shared community experiences, according to a press release.

"The HPT HiToms growth has been directly tied to our commitment to improving the community's recreational and competitive opportunities," said HiToms President Greg Suire. "Through this quest, our partnerships with the Archdale YMCA, HPU Panther Club and the Run 5/Feed 5 have blossomed enough to create a unified series of exercise opportunities. All four of our charter organizations understand that we must take a leadership role in developing area fitness programs that inspire, motivate and unify."

The following three races include the Bush Hill 5K on Sept. 9, HiTom Home Run on Oct. 7 and the HPU Panther Club 5K on Oct. 28, all of which can be accessed at http://www.southerntriadraceseries.com starting April 1.

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Touchstones 4-Minute Fit: The Metabolism Accelerator for the Time-Crunched, Deskbound, and Stressed Out will hit the shelves on Tuesday.

Author Siphiwe Baleka, a 1996 Yale graduate known as the fittest truck driver in America, will discuss the book Tuesday live on Good Morning America.

In 2008, Baleka, a collegiate swimmer who had Olympic aspirations, became a long-distance truck driver. His health suffered as a result. Within weeks, he gained 15 pounds. He became determined to take control of his health and help countless other truckers struggling with the same issues reclaim their well-being.

Baleka founded Fitness Trucking and became the full-time fitness coach for Prime Inc., one of the nations largest trucking companies. He has since helped thousands of Primes long-haul truck drivers with his 13-week nutrition and exercise plan, according to the books publisher.

But Balekas plan is not just for truck driversits for all sedentary Americans.

In the book, Baleka demonstrates his intense 1-minute workout he does in place at truck stops to stay fit. He also discusses his story and offers tips such as:

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Perhaps you didnt lose weight as quick as you expected or your business isnt taking off as much as you expected.

Each and every one of us will experience a setback and disappointment in life, its unavoidable.

Setbacks are a normal part of life, especially when it comes to our health and fitness.

Setbacks arent the same as a failure. Failure is only when you wave the white flag and give up. Setbacks and difficult obstacles are what makes you a better man and separates you from the average man who isnt striving to better himself.

Setbacks are a necessary part of your journey of growing because to level up in your career, fitness, and relationships require you to step outside of your comfort zone.

How you handle these obstacles is the difference between moving forward, achieving your goals, and getting exactly what you want out of life.

You cant choose what life throws your way, but you can choose how youll react in each of those situations.

As Henry Ford remind us, Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Here are four ways to handle your fitness setback (and other life setbacks) and not let it stop you on your journey to bettering yourself.

First and foremost, its important to realize that things happen. You can prep and think about all the potential scenarios that could get in the way of your fitness goals, but the unexpected will always happen.

If you never experience any setbacks or obstacles along the way, are you actually pushing yourself as much as you could? Losing weight, building muscle, or any other fitness goal brings about its fair share of adversity. Let this adversity become a useful lesson that will only make you a better man in the long run. Speaking of that

After accepting the situation for what it is and not letting yourself wallow in the past, its time to learn from this situation.

Take a moment to put things into perspective and investigate why this particular situation happened. Maybe your nutrition wasnt good this week. But, why wasnt it good?

Was it due to lack of boundaries this week, not being prepared, or other stressful events in life that caused this lack of ideal habits?

You past week of nutrition cant be altered, but you can use that experience to become more self-aware of your psychology that plays a pivotal role in your behaviors.

George Santayana states that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

While the past provides lessons to implement for the future, its important to not get trapped in the past. Dwelling over the past only brings about guilt, shame, regret, doubt, and self-loathing which arent conducive to making you a better and healthier man. Shifting to the future only brings about anxiousness and numerous what if scenarios.

Your actions and mindset need to be focused on the present momentwhich ultimately is the engineering factor into a desirable future.

By focusing on the present moment, youre becoming process oriented which is completely under your control. Being process oriented keeps you from being overwhelmed with the variables of the future.

The glass is always full, not half empty because the air takes up the other half. Things could always be worse. Focus on the opportunities in front of you and what has gone right for you instead of what isnt going well.

Maybe the weight isnt coming off as quick as you like, but think about where you were months ago (and even a year ago). Odds are youre in a better position that you were then.

Therefore progress has been made, maybe not at your preferred rate, but progress is still progress.

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Julian Hayes II is the founder of The Art of Fitness & Life. He is an author, health and wellness consultant, and speaker operating at the nexus of creativity, health, and business. His mission is to help you integrate health and wellness into a life you love without having to use tricks or lose your identity through the process. His book, Body Architect, is a real-world guide designed to help you create a life you love while creating a body you love.

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Italian rookie Antonio Giovinazzi will stand in for Pascal Wehrlein for the rest of the weekend after the German admitted he didnt feel fit enough to do a race distance.

Ferraris third driver Giovinazzi will thus get a chance to make his F1 debut after testing for the Swiss team in Barcelona.

Ferrari protgs Giovinazzi and Charles Leclerc have both been linked with FP1 running for Sauber and Haas, with the Sauber reserve role obviously of interest to the latter given the potential problems for Wehrlein.

Pascal Wehrlein stressed that his withdrawal was purely due to concerns over his fitness, and that there are no issues with his back injury, sustained in the Race of Champions in January.

Although he had been approved to compete this weekend by the FIA, it was while doing long runs in Friday practice that Wehrlein realized that his preparation had been badly compromised, and that he would struggle to perform at his best over the race.

He told the Sauber team in the post FP2 briefing, Ferrari agreed that Giovinazzi could drive, although the FIA paperwork for the Italian was only completed at 3 a.m. Australian time.

I just feel like I cant do the whole race at my best performance, thats what I told the team yesterday, said Wehrlein. So we decided together that it would be best to skip this race, to not take any risks, and to be back then in China.

Wehrlein admitted that his training had been badly disrupted by his recovery.

The injury happened I think nine weeks ago, and that was the time where you just have to prepare as good as you can for the season. It took me a step backwards, of course, the injury, and now Im just catching up. I felt like everything was OK, but just not for the whole race distance.

You never drive under race circumstances, and yesterday in the car in the long run you feel it more than in testing or in shorter runs. I just told the team yesterday in the meeting that I cant do the whole race at my best performance.

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Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 26 : When it comes to new moms' workout programs, less is more and so, according to a Kansas State University researcher, new moms may need a bit more flexibility and support to ease back into exercise after giving birth.

Emily Mailey said when a mom has survived the first several weeks of having a new baby and is ready to start adding exercise and all of its benefits, back into her life, a more flexible approach works better than a specific regimen. That's according to Mailey's study.

"Specific exercise programs can seem like an insurmountable barrier to new moms," Mailey said. "The results of this study suggest that the idea of encouraging new moms to fit in any kind of activity any way they can might be the best approach for easing back into exercise after giving birth."

As part of the intervention study, Mailey hosted workshops for mothers who had given birth between six weeks to 12 months before the start of the study to discuss strategies for increasing physical activity. All participants wore accelerometers for a week to measure activity before the workshops, immediately after the workshops and six months later. Mailey also specifically measured mothers' perceptions of barriers to exercise.

"Even people who were really active before having kids tend to decrease their physical activity after having kids because they prioritize the baby's needs first," Mailey said. "In the workshops, we talked specifically about guilt and the idea that doing something for yourself is not selfish -- it actually might help you be more patient or have more energy for your kids."

Moms that were in the flexible group - that chose their favourite exercise, increased physical activity slightly more than the regimented running group over six months, but all moms became more proficient at planning exercise into their lives as new moms and perceived time and guilt to be more surmountable barriers.

"It's difficult for a mom to get out of this mindset that her main role is to care for her family," Mailey said. "In the workshops, we talked about how that didn't necessarily need to be at odds with exercising. Being active might actually help moms be better equipped to care for their family by enjoying some of the mental health benefits of exercise."

Time and type of physical activity may have been why the flexible approach had a slight increase in prolonged physical activity.

The exercise shouldn't be something the person hates to do, Mailey said. In the flexible group, she discussed the importance of finding an activity that the moms enjoyed doing and talked about how that activity can be broken into three 10-minute bouts of activity if needed instead of one 30-minute session a day.

She also advised moms in the flexible group to set realistic measurable goals. For example, the 10,000 steps guideline may be too much for new moms.

Overall, the workshops gave mothers support and strategies to overcome barriers, but Mailey also tried helping mothers see exercise differently.

"Modelling healthy behaviours for our children and talking positively about exercise will help them have a healthy view of exercise, what it is and what it is for," Mailey said.

The study is published in the Journal of Health Psychology.

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1 Jan 2017, 3 p.m.

This year you're going to lose weight. Really. Not like last year, when you tried to eat less and exercise more and ended up no lighter.

This year you're going to lose weight. Really. Not like last year, when you tried to eat less and exercise more and ended up no lighter, but by approaching the problem differently. Because calories in and calories out is probably the worst way to think about it.

Here's another one.

Excluding waste and sweating, it's true that the calories we take in have to be turned into either energy or weight. So it ought to be true that taking in less will cut weight. But what usually happens first is that we get hungry (and add back the calories, leaving our weight unchanged) or lethargic (expending less energy so that more of what we take in is directed to maintaining our weight).

It's almost as if our weightwantsto be maintained; as if it has a will of its own and manipulates the rest of us to get what it wants.

Which is probably what happens.

Tumours act as if they have minds of their own. They press-gang whatever they can find into making themselves grow. Children do it. During growth spurts their growth hormones direct whatever's coming in to building bones and muscles, leaving the rest of the body bereft or hungry.

Only in a trivial sense is it true to say that children grow because they eat more. They eat more because they are growing. And that growth is regulated by hormones.

In 1977 Rosalyn Yalow won the Nobel Prize for tracking the hormone insulin. When it's released, fat cells start packing in fatty acids. And they also close the exits so the fatty acids can't escape while the insulin is there. It's why, oddly,we often feel weak or hungry after having sugar. The energy we thought we'd get isn't accessible. So we want to eat more, which also gets tucked into fat cells if there's insulin around; which there will be if what we've eaten is rich in sugar or other carbohydrates.

Veteran science journalist Gary Taubes has just set out his findings in a book entitledThe Case Against Sugar, which followsWhy We Get Fat, andGood Calories, Bad Calories. He is more of a forensic examiner of evidence than he is a purveyor of diets, and his main finding is that much of the evidence has been buried.

He says in the 1960s it was fairly widely accepted that carbohydrates (especially sugar) boosted the production of fat and increased appetites. It's one of the reasons we use bread as a starter at meals; it prepares us to eat.

Fat, by contrast, doesn't bring on the production of insulin at all. It may eventually be stored in fat cells, but it doesn't make those cells pack fat in and prevent them letting fat out. It's one of the reasons it rarely makes us hungry. Try eating half a slab of butter and see whether it boosts your appetite.

But in the 1970s, in the United States and in Australia, where ourdietary guidelines follow the US, a new more plausible theory took hold. It was that fat causes fat. Nutritionist Ancel Keys laid it out in the massiveSeven Countries Studywhich compared nations including the US, Finland and Japan and concluded that the nations that ate the most fat suffered the most heart disease.

Later research concluded that the results derived were particularto the seven countries chosen. Had Keys chosen other countries, such as France and Switzerland with high rates of fat consumption and low rates of heart disease, the correlation would have disappeared. But by then an abhorrence of fat had been written into the guidelines.

Consuming less fat meant consuming more carbohydrates, especially sugar which improves the taste of low-fat foods. So obesity climbed. The University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre is one of the few that disputes the connection. It produced a paper defending sugar thatlater had to be correctedafter economist Rory Robertsonripped into it for misuse of statistics. Columnist Peter Fitzsimons details links between sugar and those dietitians promoting sugar in his bookThe Great Aussie Bloke Slimdown.

Just last month anindustry-funded paper purporting to defend sugarfell apart when one of the funders, Mars Inc, disassociated itself saying it madeall industry-funded research look bad.

Naturally, I am unable to guarantee that giving up sugar will make you lose weight. But I can guarantee that if you are anything like me it'll make you less hungry. I ditched sugar several new year's days ago, lost weight, and never got it back.

Peter Martin is economics editor ofThe Age. This story was first published on The Age.

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Evelyn Gilbert Manziello, For Living & Being 12:02 p.m. ET March 25, 2017

Check with your health care provider before taking dietary supplements.(Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

As the weather warms and we shed our winter coats, some of us worry about looking good in our spring clothes. After all, weve been covered up for months, but now its time to show some skin and enjoy the season.

Unfortunately, losing weight is not an easy task for many. If only there was a magic pill that could speed up the process.

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH)approximately 15 percentof U.S. adults have used a weight-loss dietary supplement at some point in their lives. But do they work?

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Dietary supplements are not a magic bullet when it comes to weight loss.(Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Some experts say taking supplements may boost dieting efforts. However, the effectiveness and safety of them is a matter of debate. Several have been debunked as useless. While others, such as ephedra, also called ma huang, were actually taken off the U.S. market due to safety concerns.

Ephedra is a plant thats native to China. It contains substances that stimulate your nervous system, increase the amount of energy you burn, increase weight lossand may suppress your appetite. Once found in weight-loss supplements, ephedra was taken off the market in the United States in 2004 because of safety concerns. On the flip side, its hard to watch TV without seeing an ad for a pill that supposedly enables you to lose lots of pounds with little effort. Could these claims be correct or are trying these products a waste?

Studies and anecdotal evidence suggest that the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

Matt Johnson,owner of House of Nutrition in Poughkeepsie, saidweight-loss supplements are almost in demand as much as multivitamins. However, there is no magic bullet, no substitute for a clean diet or hard work.

However, some of his customers who take thermogenic fat burners have seen results, he said.

Certain combinations of supplements can create heat within the body," Johnson said. "The bodys natural response is to try and cool itself and as it does it releases body fat.

Ingredients in these products include caffeine from a natural source, such askola nut or guarana.

They are the core ingredients to create the heat needed, he said, noting that the formulas may also contain green tea and chromium.

Jason Asper lost 176 pounds in a year by working out with a trainer in the gym and not taking supplements.(Photo: Courtesy photo)

One of Johnsons customers is Jason Asper. The Wallkillresident works out with his trainer, Rob Wolfe, at Golds Gym in Newburgh.

I started working with Rob back in October 2015. I weighed 450-plus pounds, and within a year, I weighed in at 274 pounds, he said, without takingsupplements during that year

Rob wanted to see what my body was naturally capable of before we started using weight-loss supplements," he said. "Around the 14-month mark my body slowed down the weight-loss and maintained that weight.

Once his weight-loss progress stalled, Wolfe suggested he try a thermogenic supplement.

Right now, I'm using a basic one that has caffeine and green tea extract," he said. "While my weight has not drastically changed since using them, I have noticed my energy in the gym is much higher, which allows me to have a better workout.

On your quest to shed pounds, its tempting to run to a health food store to check out the supplement section, but before you do, its best to have a complete medical exam, said Dr. Kelly G. Jennings, a naturopathic doctor in Rhinebeck. She recommends comprehensive blood work for her patients who want to lose weight, since oftentimes blood sugar levels need to be stabilized before one can meet his or herweight-loss goals. Examining and correcting unhealthy diets and sleep patterns are also key.

Most often there is a reason why someone isnt losing weight, Jennings said.

Lifestyle choices can impede weight loss.

You have to address underlying health imbalances first," she said. "Then supplements can come down the line.

For some, taking conjugated linoleic acid has helped them jump-start their diet. According to the NIH, studies show that this essential fatty acid may reduce body fat. Various experts feel it could also help build muscle and make you feel full.

It may help optimize the essential fatty acid profile, but its not a wonder drug, Jennings said, noting that it probably wont be effective if it isnt part of a sustainable weight-loss plan.

Another supplement that might help with losing weight is probiotics, which put good bacteria into your digestive tract. Effective digestion and elimination are key to overall health as well as slimming down, according to Jennings. For those who are deficient supplementing with vitamin D, which acts like a hormone in the body, probiotics may be beneficial since it can stabilize ones mood and curb cravings.

Chromium picolinateis another option some dieters try. When used in combination with other herbs and minerals it may stabilize blood sugar and help those on their quest to look their best, Jennings said.

While Jennings said she is not opposed to the use of supplements for some of her dieting patients after they learn how to adjust their lifestyles so they eat and sleep well, and optimize their metabolism, some health care experts are uncertain if they are helpful, and others dont see any merit in them at all.

Dr. Robert Rosenzweig, a gastroenterologist with offices in Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck and Kingston, said theres not enough credible information available to assess the effectiveness of weight-loss supplements.

The products havent been proven to work or not work, he said. Most mainstream physicians dont have faith that theyve been studied enough.

People are wasting their money when they buy supplements, saidRoufia Payman, supervisor of Outpatient Nutrition Education at Northern Dutchess Hospital. Weve become a nation that wants immediate satisfaction, but that doesnt work. Unfortunately, like everything else in life, you have to work at it.

What is effective are lifestyle changes, such asstarting your day with healthy protein and a veggie boost, she said. Eating soluble fiber, such aschia seeds, can also help with dieting, since it makes you feel full.

When you want to lose weight, vegetables are your best friends, Payman said. The best course of action isnt popping a pill. Its paying attention to the type of food and the quality and quantity of food you eat, and how much you move.

Evelyn Gilbert Manziello is a writer and editor based in Kinderhook and Queens. Contact her at Evhotstory@aol.com.

Roufia Payman, supervisor of Outpatient Nutrition Education at Northern Dutchess Hospital, says when you want to lose weight fruits and vegetables can be your best friends.(Photo: Courtesy photo)

The following are supplements that research and anecdotal evidence suggest aid in weight-loss. Before taking any its best to check with your health care provider.

Caffeineeither added to a weight-loss supplement or as an herbal source that naturally contains caffeine, such as guarana or kola nut, can act as a diuretic and cause thermogenesis. Possible side effects: Caffeine can cause sleep disturbances and feelings of nervousness, jitterinessand shakiness. It can be toxic when used in high doses.

ChromiumPicolinate is a combination of the mineral chromium and picolinic acid. It helps regulate blood sugar. Studies suggest chromium may help you lose a small amount of weight and body fat. Possible side effects: headaches, nausea, dizziness.

Conjugated Linoleic Acid is a fat found mostly in dairy and beef. Studies say that it may help curb body fat, boost muscleand help you stay full. Possible side effects: upset stomach, nausea, loose stools.

Glucomannan comes from the konjac plant. Its a soluble dietary fiber. According to the National Institutes of Health, it absorbs water in the gut to make you feel full but theres little evidence that it directly aids in weight loss. However, it may help stabilize blood sugar levels, which can be helpful when dieting. Possible side effects: diarrhea, flatulence, bloating, abdominal discomfort.

Green Tea Extract may help curb appetite and raise calorie and fat metabolism. Possible side effects: High doses could cause nausea, bloating, gas, diarrhea, dizziness, insomnia, agitation.

For more information, visit the NIH website:https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/WeightLoss-Consumer.

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According to science journalist Gary Taubes, whose best-selling books include his latest, The Case Against Sugar, the sweet stuff is even worse for you than you may think. In fact, as he documents, sugar is linked not only to obesity and type 2 diabetes, it also plays a significant role in heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure and even gout.

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And the issue with sugar, he documents, is not that it contains empty calories, as so many health experts have insisted, but that sugar is uniquely damaging to the human body.

In the past half century, there has been a tripling of the prevalence of obesity and an unimaginable 655 percent increase in the percentage of Americans with diabetes, he writes.

Yet for many years before the medical industry decided that fat in the diet was the real enemy, physicians counseled their overweight patients to avoid sweets and starches, in favor of meat (with the fat) and nonstarchy vegetables. Today, nutrition experts preach the virtues of healthy fats, but lower-carbohydrate regimens like the one Taubes advocates (somewhat like the Atkins and South Beach programs) still remain controversial for long-term health management.

Taubes, who also wrote the bestselling Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat, recently spoke with the Inquirer about his work.

Do you consider this book journalism or advocacy?In the book I indict sugar, but I dont convict it. I say it's the prosecution argument and I bring up holes in the evidence. So its still journalism, not advocacy. The physicist Richard Feynman once said science isnt about proving whats true or false, but whats more or less likely. All science starts with telling stories about what might be true; the hard part is deciding whats likely to be true. By reading data and evidence on sugar, this is whats likely to be true.

Do you find that experts accept the idea that sugar is a catalyst for type 2 diabetes? For a long time diabetes experts advocated a balanced diet that included carbohydrates, including sugar. Do you see that changing?Obesity is clearly a hormonal dysregulation of fat regulation and fatty acid oxidation. Sugar should be a prime suspect in these diseases. But research on this is hard to do. And Ive lost faith in the research community to admit that they might have a wrong answer. Despite the evidence, the idea that a very low carbohydrate diet should be recommended to people with diabetes is still not accepted. Its hard to say why. Maybe because diabetes is associated with heart disease, and there is still this belief that dietary fat or animal fat drives heart disease. And if you cut out fat, the logic goes that you will need to replace it with something, so you replace it with carbohydrates.

The American Diabetes Association now says that low carbohydrate diets are good for short term for weight loss, but it is still not the conventional thinking for long-term therapy. People and physicians still feel that a low-calorie diet is best way to lose weight.

Whats wrong with a low calorie diet?Well, the whole world of physicians knows that no one stays on a low-calorie diet and that the diets they've been putting people on dont work. What I know is that diabetes is a burden and concern and if I give up carbs and live on fat, protein and green vegetables, I can be healthy.

And when it comes to sugar, I wrote this book because the empty calorie idea is nave. As long as we discuss sugar in terms of empty calories we miss the point of the unique effects of sugar in the human body and how different carbohydrates, like glucose and fructose are metabolized differently, leading to different hormonal and physiological responses and that fat accumulation and metabolism are influenced profoundly by these hormones.

When we talk about sugar people act as though all that matters is the dose, but when you talk about it like any other drug you have a paradigm shift. For example: Why does Zoloft do something different than Lipitor? No matter what dose we give a patient of Lipitor its never going to be an antidepressant. We keep talking about the dose rather than how sugar works in the body. We need to look at it differently.

Do you think that by advancing this argument you will make people feel guilty that they gave themselves a disease?I worry about the idea that people think they gave themselves this disease by how they ate I dont want to put this on people. There will be people who will give up carbs and sugars and still remain obese. The damage may have been done through generational effects, passed down from mother to child in the womb. I wonder how much of this obesity and type 2 diabetes was programmed two or three generations back, as mothers became more insulin resistant when they were pregnant, which gave rise to kids who are more likely to be insulin resistant and obese and diabetic. Research shows that such people are more likely to become more diabetic in any environment. They are going to be sicker and more insulin resistant than children not born to such parents.

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Published: March 26, 2017 4:00 AM EDT

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