Chris DeRose | Hotels, Housing, History
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NYT Bestselling Author of THE FIGHTING BUNCH and 4 other books. President of CivicGroup multifamily and hospitality. Former Senior Counsel AZAG. Dad. Husband.
Phoenix, Arizona
Joined April 2007
2024 Highlights: Completed my Downtown Phoenix multifamily project. - Signed Hilton to my Downtown Glendale location. - Put four commercial pads into escrow. One LOI in hand. - Started a major adaptive reuse project that will make headlines in 25. HNY - thanks for following
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The Wonder Years premiered 33 years ago today (1988) depicting events 20 years earlier (1968). A similar show today would be set in 2001.
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Oppenheimer is sure to revive some debates about the end of WWII. Worth noting: Purple Heart medals awarded in Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf, War on Terror—all 370,000 since 1945—were manufactured for the anticipated invasion of Japan. We have 120,000 remaining.
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Milei ends rent control. Supply increases 200% in six months. Prices go DOWN. It is this easy.
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@curious_founder @ruthbenghiat You made an entire chart with the wrong criteria for measuring a win.
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Jennifer, this is totally inaccurate. The Maricopa County Attorney is totally independent of the Sheriff’s Office. Sincerely, the Maricopa County Clerk of the Superior Court.
Only this crowd of clueless old white guys wold pick someone from Sheriff Joe's operation. I was saying no self-respecting lawyer would take the job of giving cover to GOP cowards. I was right.
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@commbankerguy It’s a heavy check in my view. I don’t think there’s any coming back from cutting someone’s pay and if you’re doing to do that I think you have to be prepared to lose him.
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“And while we’re at it, it’s time to stop giving the citizens of Geneva the power to write our laws of war. A neutral country, no less.”.
By rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, President Biden indicates he’s more interested in the views of the citizens of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh. This agreement will do little to affect the climate and will harm the livelihoods of Americans.
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@lifesafeast G-grandfather born prior to parents marriage in Italy. They had more kids but he was ostracized and lived in an orphanage. One day a villager said: you’ll never overcome the stigma if you stay - come to America with me. He did. And took the man’s last name - my name - DeRose.
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Took an interest in his daughter’s education, singing, and sports. Had the tough conversations. Responsive to his son’s cries for help. Children went on to practice law and work in show business. (Seen here taking his daughter on a perfectly ordinary college visit).
Who was the best TV dad of all time?.
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@derrickvanorden Pretty sure most Wisconsinites don’t get drunk at work and terrorize teenagers.
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@chrishlad Absolutely what I’d expect from someone who followed the conventional path from Ivy to financial sweatshop. Sounds like more of a way to justify how you wasted your 20’s than good advice.
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If you don't work in development you will never believe what government puts you through, simply to build homes for people to live in and spaces for them to enjoy life. You will never believe it.
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@curious_founder @ruthbenghiat At least we’re using electoral votes now. Not sure many are claiming “landslide,” but certainly decisive, and only one person has won bigger in the past 25 years. At a certain point of looking back it’s no longer a useful comparison.
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America is a young country.
Harriet Tubman was 4 years old when Jefferson died, and she died when Reagan was 2 years old
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@realEstateTrent Coach doesn’t get to decide how my son and I interact, especially off field.
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@SpaceCoastCRE I lose respect for people who spread medical and scientific disinformation online.
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I wrote a book about the WWII veterans who won the only successful rebellion on American soil since the Revolution. Many of whom came home early and in one piece because of Robert Oppenheimer.
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That escalated quickly. I wrote a book about something incredible that happened 75 years ago.
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You won’t believe this. A local government built a state of the art special events venue. It hemorrhaged cash year after year. But how? It was always booked when people called to rent it out. One guy who tried and failed multiple times grew suspicious. Who booked the venue on.
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The report is credibly sourced and doesn’t appear to be challenged. It concerns a major public issue. Why are @Facebook and @Twitter trying to prevent people from reading and where does this stop?.
.@Facebook I want to know on what grounds you are actively censoring a news report about potentially illegal corruption by the Democrat candidate for president. If you have evidence this is “disinformation,” disclose it immediately. Expect a formal inquiry from my office.
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@AriFleischer Are you still making predictions after the one about Nikki Haley running as the No Labels candidate for president?.
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@TheTJHelm @HillCountryWDC @HillCountryBBQ Also you didn’t stand up to him. You stood down to his girlfriend.
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@LMarieTX @GovAbbott If seatbelts work so well, why have crash safety standards? This is foolishness.
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Specific Performance Twitter is going to be wild.
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Journalist fired for sharing news. Time to take Walter Cronkite’s name off the school.
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Judge Barrett has an enormous advantage over those who have gone through these confirmation hearings before her - she doesn’t have to hide her reactions while committee members are speaking.
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This is what a violent Election Day looks like. My latest for @POLITICOMag, from my new book The Fighting Bunch, out Tuesday from @StMartinsPress.
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It sounds good to (falsely) say that “hate speech” is prohibited by the First Amendment. The problem - and why we have 1A - is that someone in the political process gets to decide what “hate speech” means and incarcerate the speaker. @Tim_Walz should know this.
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I see Abraham Lincoln is being dragged into Supreme Court politics (erroneously). Let's look at what actually happened. (Thread).
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‘@KamalaHarris is completely wrong about what Abraham Lincoln did with his election year Supreme Court vacancy. Support whatever candidate you want - or any Supreme Court Justice. But Harris didn’t come close to getting this right. (Thread).
I see Abraham Lincoln is being dragged into Supreme Court politics (erroneously). Let's look at what actually happened. (Thread).
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@nhannahjones @JHabeck You just make stuff up and say it. Japan wasn’t going to surrender. We knew they weren’t going to surrender. And if they were so eager to surrender they’d have done it after Hiroshima. Right?.
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If reports are true that a pre-election vote is planned in the senate, then almost certainly every Republican vote has been accounted for, and neither Collins nor Murkowski are needed.
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@TheTJHelm That’s kind of the point here - you’re not fighting Nazis. You’re hysterical because a woman touched you after your brain broke and you felt the need to insult her boyfriend. We couldn’t have defeated the Nazis with such sad facsimiles of men.
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John Adams was invited to speak at the 50th Fourth of July celebration in Quincy. He was too old, too weak, to appear in person, and in fact would die that day, but offered one sentiment: . “Independence forever.” . Anything to add? he was asked. “Not a word.”
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So regardless of your feelings on current events, Lincoln saw it as his responsibility to fill the supreme court vacancy before the end of his term. There is no reason to believe this was contingent on the outcome of the election. (End).
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Oh no.
Arguing for letting businesses ignore local mask requirements, one Arizona legislator questioned why masks are recommended to stop the spread of COVID-19 but were not recommended to stop the spread of AIDS
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Um, wow.
It seems like it should’ve been bigger news that India in 2018 erected a statue of one of the nation’s founders that’s four times the size of the Statue of Liberty.
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Juan Catalan was jailed for a murder he didn’t commit and saved by a tenacious defense and an accidental appearance on Curb Your Enthusiasm. I wrote this to find out: Who really killed Martha? Why arrest Juan? What’s he up to now?
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This is good. We should bring this kind of urgency to other critical infrastructure and housing projects.
They said it couldn’t be done. There was a pessimism in the air — one that’s lingered over our Commonwealth for too long. Today, we proved them wrong. 12 Days. I-95 is open.
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Maybe the best advice I’ll be giving my kids. They’re better off in many ways to be raised by me at 42 rather than 10 or 20 years ago. But man, I think of how much I’m likely to miss having started so late, and it hurts.
Every year you “wait to have kids” is a year you won’t have with them when they are adults, and a year you won’t have with grandkids. Is your brunch life now really so cool as to miss out on that. Doubt it.
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Arizona should change state law and have Election Day voters with early ballots present ID and feed their ballots into the tabulator. The time and cost to verify, open, and tabulate is not worth it. Until the legislature acts, please don’t blame the counties.
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This would be a brilliant idea. Any company that wants to sell your student loan at a discount should be required to let you buy it for the same price.
Just got notice that my loan servicer is changing, which likely means that my loans were once again sold for pennies on the dollar. Can I "buy" my own loans at a similarly stupid discount and then "forgive" them? #studentloans.
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I mean, has anyone outside of cable news done more to create our current political culture?.
“What a horror show” says the talking heads bemoaning a shoutfest who’ve been hosting horrow show shoutfests for the past 25 years.
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@BillKristol @RudyGiuliani The guy who never put his name on the ballot is clearly the brave one here.
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I was walking to and from school and letting myself in the house by age seven.
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“Nothing that could’ve been done, policies and leadership don’t matter, it’s just a virus that’s going to take its course.”.
Covid-19 deaths since the pandemic began. South Korea (pop 51M) : 1,557 . South Carolina (pop 5.1M): 8,324.
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Now @amyklobuchar repeating the myth that Abraham Lincoln delayed filling a Supreme Court seat to see who won the election. Lincoln was never, ever going to let McClellan fill this seat. #BarrettHearing #BarrettConfirmationHearing #Barrett.
I see Abraham Lincoln is being dragged into Supreme Court politics (erroneously). Let's look at what actually happened. (Thread).
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$5.9 million today or $28.9 million in 25 annual installments starting in 11 years? Panned as a mistake (after all, who pays a player long after they retire?), with an understanding of compound interest it seems pretty savvy. Happy Bobby Bonilla Day to all those innumerate!
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@bobcesca_go @Noahpinion Woodward also wrote that donors who met Biden in intimate settings in 2023 were terrified at his condition. You might want to keep reading.
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Americans in 1900 worked a thousand more hours a year for effectively a tenth of the pay. It may not be trendy to say, but you’re lucky to be living here right now.
American workers today spend around 2000 hours a year at work, while our 1900 counterparts worked 50% more. Over the same period, real hourly wages have gone up 10-fold, and the inflation-adjusted price of leisure has dropped by more than half.
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@FPWellman @jmart Open carry doesn’t mean you get to brandish and aim at whomever you want. He was also trespassing and I’m sure it doesn’t end there but you get the point.
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I'm starting to think those people who said he was bad at business didn't know what they were talking about.
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99% of the responses to @SenGillibrand announcing for president are Democrats mad at her over Al Franken. Seriously. Read for yourself.
Tonight I announced that I’m preparing to run for president, because I believe we’re all called to make a difference. I believe in right vs. wrong – that wrong wins when we do nothing. Now is our time to raise our voices and get off the sidelines. Join me:
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@ThatEricAlper Concur with others who’ve said Buddy Holly. Dead at 22, he had already changed the course of music history. Probably the biggest influence on the Beatles and had a major impact on Elvis. I don’t think anyone could’ve done more with a little more time.
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I walk my boys to school every morning. On the way home, without fail, someone asks why I’m pushing an empty stroller. Genuinely confused. This is your competition. Go out and play like a champion today. It will work out.
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Wild to think that Clarence Thomas is the longest serving justice. Brennan was the longest serving member when Thomas joined the court (appointed by Eisenhower in 1956). #AmyConeyBarrettSCOTUS
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@Flyersgod113 @nanditab1 If you think Section 8 has anything to do with home buying then I encourage you to focus on more achievable goals like crossing the street.
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Americans spend 6.5 billion hours and $260 billion complying with the tax code every year - an insane amount of time and money wasted, and unique among nations.
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There’s nowhere on earth like the American southwest.
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World War I began today in 1914. Utterly pointless, entirely preventable, the deadliest and most destructive conflict to that point, and the catalyst for nearly every awful thing that followed. It generated what I consider the greatest work of history, The Guns of August.
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This is correct.
Colin Powell didn't die because he was vaccinated. he died because you weren't.
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The Arizona Daily Star told its readers exactly how to find a judge’s home. The information had zero value except to help people locate his address. At minimum this is immoral, irresponsible, and a gross violation of their platform. @TucsonStar.
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Points for not believing everything you read on the internet. I guess.
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@sean_murray1 He didn’t fight at the front. He cowered in bunkers and safe houses knowing that others were being killed because of him.
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Lincoln nominated Chase on December 6, 1864 after the election and before his second term began in March. There is no indication - none whatsoever - that Lincoln would have left this decision to McClellan if the election had gone differently. (7).
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Don’t love anything that can’t love you back. Your employer will probably lay you off when it makes economic sense to do so.
Every time there's a layoff announcement, I can't help but think one thing:. As much as you want to believe otherwise after working that 80 hour week, your relationship with your employer is one sided.
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Goodness, she is gorgeous. Downtown Phoenix multifamily nearing completion.
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We have people who think they fight fascists by arguing with those who don’t agree with them on Twitter and meanwhile are fine with America ignoring the plight of the Uighurs.
These cases are interesting in light of Joe Biden’s decision to ignore China’s own genocide. Everyone thinks they would have fought Nazis, in reality Biden has endorsed the CCP regime - and his supporters don’t even blink.
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It’s cool how many of these 80’s stars are getting a boost reprising their earlier roles, like the Cobra Kai guy and whichever Bill and Ted isn’t Keanu.
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The Boomers passing the torch directly to Millennials is the most Gen X thing that ever happened.
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Sorry for the language but he’s right. Our public health communication during Covid has run the gamut, and this bleak “Get the shot so nothing will change” message is the worst of a bad lot.
For fuck's sake - tell people the ways in which their lives will improve after they get vaccinated, not the ways in which their lives will stay exactly the same. What the hell is wrong with your brains???.
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When is someone just going to say: "Screw you, if you don't like the book I recommended, don't read it" instead of this groveling and "taking time away" from their band.
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I had a 3rd grade teacher who wrote on my report card: “I know that you’ll be successful, whatever you do in life.” That was 36 years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday.
Sometimes all a person needs is someone that believes in them . No advice.No pressure.No compassion. Just a simple "I believe in you".
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Lots of grim one year anniversaries ahead. This assessment of a virus almost no one had heard about, one year ago today, proved to be on the money.
The “HOLY MOTHER OF GOD” tweet was exactly 1 year ago today. For those who have been with me this past year, I hope and pray your families are safe. Let’s work together to end this pandemic. #COVID19
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@realEstateTrent We mapped this all the way out a few years back. 1 - Serve clients off the island; 2 - Pay yourself a reasonable salary (PR treasury has deemed 10% of profits a safe harbor); 3 - Be physically present in the continental US less than half the year; 4 - Pay only 4% taxes. No IRS.
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Arizona tried letting everyone turn any property into a short term rental. This has been a major driver of our housing shortage. It’s time to acknowledge our mistake and let cities regulate STRs.
@girdley When LA banned AirBnB in most apartment buildings like 5 yrs ago, there was a noticeable increase in inventory & a material decline in rents. (And that was with pretty half-a*sed enforcement of the ban.).
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Almost every little boy at some point dreamed about hitting a grand slam in extra innings to win a World Series game. This guy did it.
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It’s like they’re trying to bait the White House into picking Barrett by promising to only make spurious arguments that will alienate real people.
I would love to know which adoption agency Amy Coney Barrett & her husband used to adopt the two children they brought here from Haiti.
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What kind of conservative gets this excited about taxing people? Especially young people about to get something approaching fair compensation.
If college athletes are going to make money off their likenesses while in school, their scholarships should be treated like income. I’ll be introducing legislation that subjects scholarships given to athletes who choose to “cash in” to income taxes.
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Me a few months ago: Maybe it’s time to buy Chicago multifamily. We’ll rue the day we passed on 9 caps in one of the world’s great cities. Me today: Time to invest in Chicago moving companies.
Progressive allies of Mayor Brandon Johnson have released a financial blueprint titled - and I'm not joking - "First We Get the Money" calling for $12 billion in new taxes, including:. "Head tax" of $33 per worker for companies with 50+ employees. Quadrupling the tax on jet fuel.
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I thought @PeteButtigieg was supposed to be the smart one. Many men who wrote the Constitution understood that slavery was a bad thing. Benjamin Franklin was a member of an abolitionist society in 1787 and became its president (Thread).
"The people who wrote the Constitution did not understand that slavery was a bad thing.". – @PeteButtigieg
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Almost ready for its first tenants.
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@SwannMarcus89 Interested in the methodology for determining black market consumption during prohibition.
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Senator @Wadsack4Arizona claims the State Bar told attorneys they couldn’t take Covid related cases. I hope I wasn’t too subtle with my thoughts.
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@nhannahjones @JHabeck August 6 - Hiroshima. August 9 - Nagasaki. August 15 - Surrender announced.
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@KingJames Now imagine your government forcibly displaces you and puts you in a camp because of your religion and spoiled millionaires in a position to speak out defend the government so they can have a few more million.
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