Dr. H.C. “Blue” Hill, Executive VP/Senior Partner, of M. R. Cox, Inc., is a graduate of Kirby High School, Woodville, Texas; Southeastern Louisiana University with a B.S. in Agribusiness: Louisiana State University with a M.S. in Soil Chemistry, a M.S. in Phytopathology and a PhD in Entomology. He also holds numerous other advanced degrees in various fields. Blue’s work ethic and tenacity to see things through are a result of his parents’ influence and being reared in rural Southeast Texas. He served his country during the Vietnam War and returned home to attend college on the GI Bill. He finished his degreed programs through academic scholarships in record time while maintaining a 3.7 GPA.
He has traveled, worked, and lived all over the world as a Project coordinator, Manager and Consultant to individual mega-farmers, commercial farmers and foreign governments on agribusiness enterprises. He has served as an expert witness in agriculturally related deaths. He has written many published articles on a wide range of subjects. He and his wife, Dr. Patricia Hill, have also traveled extensively, conducting seminars on Family and Life Skills. Blue’s Sales Training Seminars and his Motivational and Life Skills Workshops have always been well attended.
Blue has recently completed 20+ years of managing single and multiple franchised automobile dealerships. Overseeing and directing the day-to-day operations of multi-million dollar inventories and customer driven service facilities has given Blue a tremendous insight into what it takes to build a successful business. He has been the consummate professional, attending several hundred hours of business, sales, management, creative thinking and writing, business and employment law, and negotiating seminars presented by the top experts in the field, at his own expense.
Blue’s exposure to the oil and gas industry dates back to January 10, 1901 on a knoll outside Beaumont, Texas. His Grandfather, Ezra Estes Bellar, a Cajun, was a young roughneck, working with Anthony Lucas drilling the well that would create Gulf Oil, Amoco, and Exxon. That knoll was called Spindletop. Blue’s Grandfather and uncles went on to become involved in every aspect of the emerging oil and gas industry of Southeast Texas an Southwest Louisiana. All male members of the immediate and extended family worked in these oil and gas fields. The down turns and the wildcat nature of the business took its toll. The “bust” of the 1980’s ended the family’s endeavor. Their last well stopped pumping in the mid 1990’s.
Blue and Patricia moved from Atlanta, Georgia to a 200+ acre farm in South Central Kentucky in 2004. They met Marty Lile that year and the oil and gas flame was reignited. Blue became heavily involved in working with investors on drilling projects in the Appalachian Basin. He also pursued and increased his personal investments in lease plays in Texas.
By early 2006, through his own personal success, it became apparent that the oil and gas lease plays in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma offered his clients better opportunities for profit. He and Marty Lile joined forces and launched M.R. Cox, Inc. with a common goal of offering investors more lucrative investment options, maximum tax advantages and an open door policy. Thus the Mission Statement: “M.R. Cox, Inc. offering investors the advantages of a Direct Participation investment with the transparency of a public held company.”
Blue is an avid gardener and family man who spends his leisure time with his wife on their farm with their menagerie of rescued animals. They do have an extensive collection of photos which they will readily share of their two daughters, tow son-in-laws and five grandchildren that they visit often.

Hundreds of millions of scam dollars are being laundered through Texas banks and distributed throughout the Texas government and its politicians?

Who id behind it: "The Texas Trinity": John Morgan, Ronak Patel & Joe Rotunda!

Is Leadership at Texas State Securities, "Weak, At Best"!

No, it Is actually non-existent!

Texas State Securities has thousands of complaints filed by victims of Texas based oil and gas investment Scams and others, but refuse to move against the oil companies, especially the major players.

Millions in illegally obtained money is now and has been laundered through, apparently, a corrupt and complicit Texas Banking system, as result of the documented culpability of the organization’s attempt to cover-up millions in securities fraud.

Where do the vast majority of oil and gas scams originate? Texas!

More specifically? Dallas, Texas!

Where do the vast majority of oil and gas telemarketing calls originate? Texas!

Why? Because there is no law west of Houston or east of El Paso!

John Morgan, the Commissioner of the Texas State Securities Board has refused all communications attempts regarding his organization’s apparent attempt to protect Charles Couch and Couch Oil from legally being held accountable for allegedly defrauding investors out of millions of dollars. John Morgan, along with the Securities Board, chaired by Beth Ann Blackwood, a minor Dallas attorney, apparently, believe that they are above the law and, definitely have no responsibility regarding the victims of the Texas Securities Board. Morgan was furnished with a complete communications dossier, multiple complaints with evidential documentation, including recent correspondence from his Deputy Commissioner, Ronak Patel, regarding his Securities Teams apparent intentional and willful attempt to cover-up Charles Couch’s alleged illegal and, possibly, criminal activities. John Morgan and Beth Ann Blackwood and the Securities Board (listed below) have proved to be totally apathetic towards the victim’s plight.

Ronak Patel, the Deputy Commissioner of the Texas Securities Board did correspond with our initial inquiry regarding, what appears to be a concerted effort, by the Enforcement Division’s Dallas Field office’s Jay Oman, to provide a “safe harbor” for Charles Couch’s alleged illegal securities and criminal fraud activities. The key issues, addressed to Ronak Patel were:

1. How did Texas Securities arrive at the decision that the Couch complaint was, “weak, at best” and, therefore, would take no further action, when the SEC, 90 days later, filed 50 plus securities violations against Couch?

2. . How did Texas Securities arrive at the decision that the Couch complaint was, “weak, at best” and, therefore, would take no further action, when their Corpus Christi office working with a very similar complaint had achieved 2 criminal indictments, in Collin County, Texas?

3. What was the current status of Colt Ledger’s other 350 plus complaints filed with Texas Securities, most of which, were being “processed” in Dallas?

Ronak Patel’s response clearly demonstrated we were dealing with the typical, “pass-the-buck and cover-up” bureaucratic hack. Patel never addressed a single issue regarding our concerns but did instruct us to correspond with Joe Rotunda, Director of the Enforcement Division.

Joe Rotunda, Director of the Texas State Securities Enforcement Division: To state that Joe Rotunda has proven to be a totally and complete waste of humanity, when addressing the further victimization of the victims of Texas Securities Fraud, would be a tremendous overstatement. Joe Rotunda has conducted himself as a man who has a lot to hide. Joe Rotunda has never responded to calls, messages, emails, etc., etc., etc., despite, Ronak Patel’s written instructions. Apparently, Joe Rotunda is a “free spirit” that answers to no one. However, that may be good for those held accountable for his in-actions.

The Enforcement Division appears to have no leadership, no discipline, no direction which creates the chaos Rotunda requires to manipulate the system; giving the appearance of doing something while accomplishing little or nothing, legally. However, this provides perfect cover for the illegal activities of “processing” complaints until they are null and void.

While Joe Rotunda continues to offend thousands of investors, he, apparently, has made many friends of oil and gas con men. The lengths, to which he has clearly demonstrated he will go to, to protect those defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions, may well prove criminal, if, in fact, anyone at the Texas Attorney General’s Office or the Federal agencies we are currently filing complaints with, should decide to take action!

Please remember hundreds of millions of dollars, if not, billions, have been for years and currently are being funneled into Texas by alleged Texas based oil and gas scams every year. These illegal funds are being laundered through an apparent corrupt Texas banking system and redistributed at all levels of State and local government. The Texas State Securities Board’s Enforcement Division knows each and every perpetrator, they know about the money laundering and the corruption and they choose to do nothing! This massive illegal machine is operating openly under the watchful and direct supervision of Joe Rotunda, Director of the Enforcement Division.

This manipulation requires 3 elements:

1. Apathetic Texas State Securities Board. Check!
2. Apathetic Commissioner and deputy Commissioner. Check!
3. A savvy and well paid Director of Enforcement and his minions! Check!

Joe Rotunda’s wanton disregard for the law and doing his job, appears to be motivated, in my opinion, by the fact he is attempting to take apathy and incompetence to an all-time high, even for a “government worker” or he is on someone’s payroll. No one can be this ineffective by accident!

Joe Rotunda and his Deputy Director, Jay Oman of the Dallas Field Office, are currently using Patel’s instructions to gather all of Colt Ledger’s client complaints in Dallas, including those filed with Federal agencies in Dallas. This covert activity is being carried out with absolutely no contact with the Colt ledger or the victims.

Jay Oman has been involved in having Colt ledger complaints moved to his Dallas office for years; that appears to be the major reasons that not one “Colt Ledger” complaint has, in fact, ever been addressed by the Dallas office. The complaints are being “processed” by Jay Oman.

“Processed” is Texas Securities for, “holding complaints until they can no longer be prosecuted, thereby, creating a safe haven for alleged felons”! Many, if not most, have been “processed” to allow the civil statutes of limitations to expire. This appears to be the “Rotunda Plan” for handling “special complaints”, such as Colt Ledger’s; hold them until they cannot be prosecuted thus providing a “safe harbor” for alleged crooks. Texas Securities, appears to operate the largest sanctuary for alleged felons in the nation because Texas Securities refuses to move toward prosecution. No one of any notable size of has been prosecuted in years. Almost all the cases that have been prosecuted have been the result of Federal involvement.

THERE IS ONE EXTREMELY NOTABLE EXCEPTION, THE COLLIN COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE IN FRISCO, TEXAS. BASED ON THE DOCUMENTED RECORDS, IF NOT FOR THE COLLIN COUNTY DA, TEXAS SECURITIES WOULD NOT HAVE A RECORD OF ACCOMPLISHMENT, PERIOD!

Joe Rotunda, a graduate of some Kansas law school and a previous assistant district attorney in the Dallas area, thankfully, not Collin County, knows the law and he appears to knowingly and willfully choose to ignore it!

When we requested the status of the Couch Oil complaint, Jay Oman, utilized the full power of Texas Securities and did everything possible to protect Charles Couch. Oman’s infamous “weak, at best” decision was meant for Colt Ledger to walk away and leave Charles Couch alone. If it had not been for the victims of Charles Couch, Jay Oman and the Texas State Securities Board would have successfully harbored Charles Couch from his current charges. John Morgan, Ronak Patel, and Joe Rotunda and the entire Board were advised of Jay Oman’s actions and all choose to aid and abet Oman’s attempts to cover-up for Dallas and provide a “safe harbor” to Charles Couch from prosecution.

To date, the covert operations being encouraged at the Enforcement Division of the Texas State Securities Board is alive and well. Tens of thousands of victims of Texas based securities scams are currently being further scammed by the Texas State Securities Board and its members:

Beth Ann Blackwood, Chair Dallas, TX
Derrick M. Mitchell Houston, TX
E. Wally Kinney Dripping Springs, TX
David Appleby El Paso, TX
Alan Waldrop Austin, TX

P.O. Box 13167, Austin, Texas 78711-3167
208 E. 10th Street, 5th Floor, Austin, Texas 78701
(512) 305-8300

However, all of these activities are condoned with the full participation and direction of, “The Texas Trinity”, John Morgan, Ronak Patel and Joe Rotunda. These three must be held accountable for their orchestrated attempts to “victimize” the victims while simultaneously harboring alleged felons.

We believe corruption will continue at Texas Securities as long as the State of Texas benefits from the hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions, being laundered through Texas banks and distributed throughout Texas government and its politicians, years. All of which is made possible only through the efforts of the Texas State Securities Board, its members, John Morgan, its Commissioner, Ronak Patel, its Deputy Commissioner, Joe Rotunda, Director of the Enforcement Division and, especially, his notorious Dallas Field Office ran by Deputy Director, Jay Oman.

As long as Texas allows Texas Securities to be ran outside the law then Texas will remain a repository for hundreds of millions, if not several billions, in illegal funds obtained from, primarily, the elder victims of Texas scams, and Texas will remain a “safe harbor” for its alleged felonious outlaws!

If you are tired of being a victim of the Texas State Securities Board and its Enforcement Division, contact [email protected] and participate in the petitions, civil actions and criminal complaints Colt Ledger is sponsoring to bring national awareness to the felonious affairs openly operating in Texas, by its Texas State Securities Board.

THE TEXAS SECURITIES BOARD, OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE OR APATHETIC?

Here are the current members of the current Texas Securities Board all appointed by Governor Rick Perry, 2016 Presidential hopeful. Three of these people are attorneys so they know the law. One is a CPA so he can do the math. And the last one is a businessman. These individuals are appointed to staggered term positions, primarily, as with all appointed positions, as payback for their support in getting a politician elected. These folks are not appointed because they are intelligent or civic minded or a patriot or qualified to hold the position, they are given a titled position as a prize for being on the right side, last election! However, they do carry the title, ability and the responsibility of the office they have been appointed to, so they decide how effective they will be in upholding the mission of position they hold.

The most accurate comparison for most political appointees and their ability or willingness to actual do something appears to align with men’s nipples! This comparison appears to be especially accurate when describing the accomplishments of the Texas Securities Board members. They meet every now and then for lunch with an accompanying, standard, feel good “everything is great” report from the Commissioner, John Morgan, then it’s back to their BMWs, Mercedes and/or private planes and their real jobs, until the next luncheon.

Beth Ann Blackwood, Chair Dallas, TX
Derrick M. Mitchell Houston, TX
E. Wally Kinney Dripping Springs, TX
David Appleby El Paso, TX
Alan Waldrop Austin, TX

P.O. Box 13167, Austin, Texas 78711-3167
208 E. 10th Street, 5th Floor, Austin, Texas 78701
(512) 305-8300

In all fairness to the board members they are just doing what they think is their responsibility as a political appointee. These positions are not created for the board members to actual do something. Quite the contrary, they are created for them to APPEAR to be doing something very important; much like the illusion of men’s nipples!

I think of political appointees much like celebrity “hawkers”. These celebrities are all over the TV begging for money after every natural disaster. The organization they are “Hawking” money for turns out to be a fraud and they disavow all responsibility for “aiding and abetting” the fraud and creating hundreds of thousands of “victims”. It is not their fault! When in reality it is their fault! They chose not to ask questions, check facts and/or demand an accounting for what they were ‘pitching”! They, in fact did, “aid and abet” the defrauding of every single victim because they should have known! Their name and reputation were on the line and they decided to plead “ignorant victim”.

This is apparently the current plea of the Texas Securities Board members, “ignorant victims”, they did not know!
However, they do know! They have, via John Morgan, all the initial facts of the Dallas Field Office’s alleged complicity. They have in their possession all of the Colt Ledger - Ronak Patel correspondence that clearly demonstrates Patel’s complete lack of interest in the growing body of evidence against Texas Securities’ integrity. They are in possession of our unanswered correspondence to Joe Rotunda, Director of the Enforcement Division of Texas securities, asking for an explanation of why the Texas Securities Board is apparently holding victim’s complaints until the statute of limitations have expired, thus, indirectly, providing a “safe harbor” for alleged criminals!.

We take Rotunda’s silence as an admission of guilt and believe he is currently scurrying around attempting to cover his incompetence, ineptness and his inability to get a major Texas oil and gas swindler indicted! In fact, based on his published and documented track record, he is having difficulty getting anyone indicted!

The Texas Securities Board has been apprised, via certified mail, of the situation but apparently, their luncheon does not afford them time for the victims they are responsible for protecting. They appear, by their lack of action, to be” aiding and abetting” Texas swindlers in stealing millions of dollars and ignoring the thousands upon thousands of victims they are responsible for protecting!

So to answer our opening question, “Is the Texas Securities Board obstructing justice or are they just apathetic?” The answer to that question is, unfortunately, unknown at this time.

Politically appointed Board members may not be intelligent enough to comprehend the situation, even after it is explained to them. Do they actually care that there are victims? Do they feel the least bit embarrassed or responsible that they are refusing to act? Who knows what level, if any, Mary Ann Blackwood, Chairperson of the Board, cares about what she accomplishes during her tenure? She may very well prefer a legacy of half ass mediocrity, free lunches and validated parking tickets to stepping on toes, calling for accountability and addressing the truth.

What do you call a person who is scammed by Texas oil and gas swindlers and who is then ignored by Beth Ann Blackwood? Answer: “SCREWED”!

What do you call an oil and gas swindler living in Texas? Answer: “Political contributor”!

If you have information, regarding complaints filed with Texas Securities contact [email protected].

Is Texas Securities Harboring Criminals?
PART I
Apathy, Complicity or Payola the Results are the same!
Colt Ledger & Associates, Inc. has entered into a heated and aggressive complaint against the Texas Securities Board, their Enforcement Division and their Dallas Field Office based on their recent and documented incompetent, inept and/or possible illegal handling of the multiple complaints filed against Charles Couch and Couch Oil and Gas (Couch) by Colt Ledger & Associates.
We began sending Couch documented complaints to Texas Securities 3.5 to 4 years ago, naming Charles and his son Robert and, Dr. Phil’s Financial Guru, Loral Langemeier, as “co-conspirators” in a nationwide securities and criminal fraud complaint. We reworked these complaints in 2013 to reflect additional documented allegations of criminal activity, such as, alleged money laundering, and resubmitted it to Texas Securities’ Corpus Christi office as requested.
The Corpus Christi Office has successfully presented the Garry B. Smith, Robert James Nelson, Triton, Overland and Acorn oil and gas companies, one of our larger complaints, 70 plus victims, to the Collin County DA’s office who has obtained a multiple count indictment. Colt Ledger was extremely encouraged with the Couch complaint going to Angela Cole in Corpus Christi and believed that the Couch victims (approximately 70) were safe with the complaints assigned to Angela Cole. After all, the Couch complaint was virtually identical to the Garry B. Smith complaint! It appeared to be a slam-dunk!
However, we learned a short time later that the Couch complaint moved to the Dallas Office due to “jurisdiction”. One of my female staff members, who is in charge of making sure all of the complaints arrive with all necessary documentation, called the Dallas Office to set up a line of communication with the agent in charge of the Couch complaints to insure he had everything he required to evaluate the complaint. We have followed this same process, with the filing of over 1,000 securities and criminal complaints.
Our staff member contacted Agent Matthew Wise, a rude, vulgar and smart mouth individual that basically, said he was a professional, he required no assistance and IF we wanted to send him anything, “just do it”! Mr. Wise has incessantly and consistently, bitched, whined and complained about his “heavy case load”, every time he has the opportunity. I contacted his supervisor, Jay Oman, about Mr. Wise’s extremely poor attitude, which Oman quickly ignored and dismissed. I also asked why the Couch Case was moved to Dallas and given to someone constantly complaining about his, apparently, unbearable case load. I did not receive a believable reason.
After we had waited an additional 1.5 years and still had not gotten a single comment from Dallas we called. The consistently unpleasant and over worked Mr. Wise told us that our Couch complaints were “weak” and would not, be going to a prosecutor. We asked to talk with the Deputy Director of Enforcement Division, Jay Oman, who official declared the Couch Complaint as, “weak at best” and would not go to a prosecutor for review.
The Dallas Office of Texas Securities has always been suspect when considering their lack of accomplishment and actual performance results. We have givrThey talk a lot but do virtually nothing even though they sit at the very epicenter of the largest and, least challenged, oil and gas swindle in the nation. There are virtually hundreds of oil and gas swindles occurring daily within a 25 mile radius of the Texas Securities Board’s Enforcement Division’s Dallas Field Office! There are thousands of victims and hundreds of millions of dollars stolen each year right under the nose of the Texas Securities’ Enforcement Division with absolutely no consequences or any fear of reprisal!
Colt Ledger knew that if the Couch complaints had remained in Corpus Christi there would have been a very significant chance that there would have been an indictment. In the Dallas Office, these same complaints, were doomed before they every arrived; given the extreme under performance and uninspiring record of Jay Oman, Joseph Oman, Matthew Wise and the entire Dallas Feld Office of the Texas Securities Board’s Enforcement Division. The over-all documentation of the extremely poor performance of the Enforcement Division, in their “Civil and Criminal Action” posts can only be the result of apathy or complicity. In fact, the entire record of activity in the undisputed capital of oil and gas cons, by the Enforcement Division, is so anemic, at all levels, there is little doubt that the Enforcement Division is not to be feared!
Please keep in mind that the Dallas Field Office of Texas Securities could not find one single securities violation in, well over, 2.5 years of “processing” the Couch Complaint!
We, of course, contacted our Couch victims and told them of the Dallas Field Office’s official findings. We also pointed out the fact that a very similar complaint, “processed” out of the Corpus Christi Field Office had ended in multiple criminal indictments. It was apparent that the Dallas Office was not going to pursue and that we were very suspicious of the motivations of the Dallas Field Office’s lack of conviction, commitment and action when dealing with complaints involving major oil and gas scams originating from the Dallas area. Colt Ledger knew we had solid securities and criminal fraud complaints and the Dallas Office was going to hold them until the statutes of limitation expired, intentionally. It clearly appeared that Jay Oman was not going to pass the complaints to other law enforcement agencies for criminal prosecution, thus providing Charles Couch, intentionally or unintentionally, a safe harbor from prosecution.
So, several of the Couch victims, made apparently well placed political calls and we were contacted by the SEC’s Dallas Field Office and in less than 90 days they had official charged Charles Couch with 50 plus separate securities violations based on the exact same complaints that had languished in Texas Securities Board’s Dallas Field Office! Now, remember, Jay Oman, Deputy Director of Enforcement for Texas Securities could not find one single violation in over 2.5 years! The SEC found 50 plus in less than 90 days! Why could Jay Oman not find one single violation, apathy or complicity?
Here is undeniable and irrefutable proof that the Texas Securities Board’s Enforcement Division had complaints containing 50 plus viable securities complaints and Jay Oman chose to ignore all of them! I say, “Chose to ignore them”, because Jay Oman, Deputy Director of the Enforcement Division, a seasoned Texas securities agent, knew the complaints were solid allegations with irrefutable proof of securities fraud and, directed his Dallas office to ignore them, why; apathy or complicity?
REMEMBER, Jay Oman took the complaints from the Corpus Christi Field Office where a very similar complaint resulted in a multiple criminal indictment and had it moved to his “jurisdiction”, assigned to an agent who was “overloaded” with cases and kept it for 2.5 years. Is there any doubt that Jay Oman would still be sitting on the 69 complaints if we had not called for an update? Is there any doubt that these 69 complaints would still be in the Texas Securities’ Dallas Field Office if our clients had not made calls to influential politicians? There is no way to get around Jay Oman’s culpability in this, possible, criminal activity. Jay Oman, intentionally, had his field office “stand down” and betrayed the “victims” of Charles Couch!
I will address those possible answers during the next update, coming soon. We will also be looking at the Texas Securities Board’s answer to Colt Ledger’s inquiry as to how such a colossal screw-up could be explained. Ronak Patel’s, the Deputy Director of the Texas Securities Board, response will amaze you! Hint: There is no one running Texas Securities! In addition, we have reached out to Joe Rotunda, Director of the Enforcement Division of the Texas Securities Board. Joe has just been designated, our new “handler” which should prove interesting. We have many questions for Big Joe! We have already gotten a letter off asking him to explain his divisions, total lack of integrity. You will be surprised at this man of action’s response! Your introduction to Ronak Patel and Joe Rotunda will give you keen insight into why Texas Securities is in shambles and further victimizing the “victims” of Texas Securities lack of action.
However, here is a final thought for you to contemplate until our next installment. Texas Securities agents hold a very powerful legal position over crooked and unethical oil and gas swindlers. We know, through conversations with these agents, that they are very much aware of the, who, what, how, when, where and why of these swindlers.
The swindlers produce hundreds of millions of dollars every year in Texas for tax revenue, campaign contributions, charities and a life style reflective of a Texas Oil Baron. Money buys politicians, judges, elections and power. I ask, is it a quantum leap to suggest the possibility that certain Texas securities directors, agents, or an entire Field Office of the Texas Securities’ Enforcement Division is for sale?
So with my slant I asked myself, “Why would the Dallas Field Office, setting in the most fertile field in the nation for oil and gas swindles have such an abysmal record and clearly demonstrate an unwillingness to pursue and seek justice for the “victims”?
This is where my thoughts take me. Whether this is a valid course of thought, time will tell, however, I believe many will reach this conclusion, without my help, based on the facts.
Let’s face it; it has to be the apathy or complicity. However, no matter which it is, the actual results are the same for the “victims”! No Justice, complements of the Texas Securities Board:
Beth Ann Blackwood, Chair Dallas, TX
Derrick M. Mitchell Houston, TX
E. Wally Kinney Dripping Springs, TX
David Appleby El Paso, TX
Alan Waldrop Austin, TX

P.O. Box 13167, Austin, Texas 78711-3167
208 E. 10th Street, 5th Floor, Austin, Texas 78701
(512) 305-8300
Is Texas Securities Harboring Criminals?
PART II
THE TEXAS SECURITIES BOARD, OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE OR APATHETIC?
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