The family of Joe Paterno bought a 238 page bullshit report that says he was not at fault in the destruction of the lives of a dozen or so young boys. When the news about Jerry Sandusky broke in November 2011, I immediately wrote an article saying that Joe Paterno should be put in jail. What happened at Penn State is exactly what happened in the Catholic Church. Powerful MEN decided to sacrifice the lives of little boys in order to preserve their wealth, power and reputations. Sandusky is a monster. Paterno and anyone else within the heirarchy knew what Sandusky did and they covered it up. They are equally guilty. I have firsthand inside knowledge about Jerry Sandusky and his “retirement” from Penn State at the age of 55. Joe Paterno ran Penn State. The President and Athletic Director didn’t take a shit without JoePa’s approval. He was a dictator. To come out with a report saying he knew nothing is beyond laughable. It is so fitting that this report comes out on the same day the Pope resigns in disgrace for the same reason. I’ve been consistent in my vitriol towards the heirarchy of the Catholic Church and Penn State, as you can see here.
http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=24680
For all the Penn State/ Joe Paterno apologists out there, read this post and make a rational case for Joe Paterno’s innocence in this matter.
http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=24721
No rescuing Paterno’s reputation
TIM DAHLBERG , The Associated Press
Posted: Sunday, February 10, 2013, 7:14 PM
Go ahead and read all 238 pages of the Paterno family report, if you’re so inclined. People who believe Joe Paterno’s statue should still be standing in Happy Valley probably will, and feel pretty good about it at the end.
The summary weighs in at just four pages and does its job of giving Paterno a posthumous cleansing, too. Turns out he was a trusting sort who knew nothing about anything , and no one else did, either.
Or just read this headline and save yourself a lot of time: Critique of the Freeh Report: The Rush to Injustice Regarding Joe Paterno.
Pretty much sums it up, though widow Sue will go on Katie Couric’s show Monday to make sure everyone understands. A year after his death, the campaign to resuscitate Joe Paterno’s name is under way with a hefty document that savages the Freeh report implicating Paterno as a silent enabler of Jerry Sandusky as “rank speculation, innuendo and rhetoric.”
Was there any other way this was going to turn out? Months in the making and paid for by the Paterno family, this is as much a public relations campaign as it is an answer to accusations against him.
You have a former FBI director; we’ll top you with a former attorney general. You say JoePa knew things and conspired to keep them silent, we’ll say there was no conspiracy at all.
At times the defense of Paterno is almost laughable, such as this from former FBI profiler Jim Clemente: “Paterno, like everyone else who knew Sandusky, simply fell victim to effective `grooming,’” Clemente wrote.
Utter hogwash. Paterno himself would have probably said the same thing if he was as honest with himself as the family contends he was with others.
There are no excuses for not following up on Mike McQueary description of the sickening things he saw in the locker room showers of the Lasch Football Building. No way of getting around the fact Sandusky was allowed to hang around the locker room for years after that, molesting who knows how many other young boys.
And no special dispensation for any of it simply because Paterno was a coaching legend who ran not only a football program, but a university and a town.
Not that you can blame the family for trying. The legacy that Paterno so carefully built up over 46 years as head football coach at Penn State was left in tatters by the scandal, and they’re trying desperately to restore his good name.
What they don’t understand is that Joe Paterno is not the real victim here. What he lost in the final months of his life surely pains the family, but it was the cult of Paterno itself that created the atmosphere that allowed a monster like Sandusky to roam freely.
The young boys who were sexually abused by Sandusky are the true victims. They’re the ones who pay every day of their lives, while trying their best to erase terrible scars that just won’t go away.
Sadly, no one can write a report giving them back the innocence Sandusky stole while Paterno reigned supreme at State College.
If you believe the Paterno family report , and it is an impressive, though flawed document , former FBI director Louis Freeh acted as “judge, jury and executioner” when he was hired by Penn State to deliver the definitive report on the involvement of the university and its officers in the Sandusky scandal. Freeh concluded last July that four of the most powerful people at Penn State , including Paterno , failed to protect children from Sandusky for more than a decade as part of an effort to protect the university and its reputation.
“That bell can never be unrung, but the many associated errors can be corrected,” the Paterno report states.
Just what those errors are is a bit unclear, though former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh took particular offense in his portion of the report claims by Freeh that Paterno did not have empathy for the safety of children. Not only did Paterno like children, Thornburgh wrote, but made sure to participate in a Penn State dance marathon charity for children with cancer and was a supporter of the Special Olympics.
So Paterno wasn’t some kind of monster after all. Glad we could get that cleared up.
The bottom line is the Freeh report wasn’t perfect. It jumped to some conclusions, and took some liberties that would not hold up in court.
That’s what prosecutors do, but it’s important to note that Penn State has implemented a majority of the changes recommended in the report. The NCAA waited just 10 days after its release to impose landmark sanctions on Penn State that include $60 million in fines and a four-year postseason ban on football.
Nothing in the Paterno report is going to change that. If Freeh was the prosecutor, Thornburgh and others are the defense attorneys, trying their best to declare Paterno innocent in the court of public opinion.
But the bottom line of the Freeh report was accurate. There was a core of top university officials that knew things and didn’t act.
And there were children who paid for it. Young boys who paid dearly because the people in charge didn’t stop Sandusky when they could.
The Paternos may find it hard to swallow because they can’t reconcile it to the man they knew, the man who over the years became a near deity in State College. And certainly some people will agree with them that Paterno was the scapegoat for a scandal, an old man railroaded and unceremoniously dumped by the very university he loved and served so ably on the football field.
Unfortunately for them, the statue that once stood outside the football stadium is not coming back.
And neither is Paterno’s reputation.
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Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg(at)ap.org or http://twitter.com/timdahlberg
IndenturedServant says:
Give ‘em hell admin! The gene pool has needed a dose of chlorine for quite some time!
I_S
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11th February 2013 at 5:18 pm
Work-In-Progress says:
Fuck Joe PaPafuey and the horse he rode in on. As for the Pope, oh man, is he gonna get it.
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11th February 2013 at 5:18 pm
llpoh says:
My only surprise in all of this is that it happened at Penn St and not Notre Dame. If Paterno had been coaching there, and it would have made more sense. May he rot in hell.
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11th February 2013 at 5:25 pm
Robmu1 says:
The family should sue their lawyers for getting 238 pages of nothing. As for the university and the fans of the football team, it goes something like this: Sorry about those kids that got raped and all, but those scholarship reductions really suck, so can we gang up on the NCAA and force them to cut our punishment so we can get more good players? Oh, and again, sorry that our coach forcibly raped those kids and that our beloved head coach and the president of our school and the governor and some other guys covered it up.
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11th February 2013 at 5:29 pm
Eddie says:
I could write 20, 000 words about what’s wrong with football at all levels, from Pop Warner to the NFL, but it wouldn’t keep the faithful from loving Joe Pa. I pretty much abhor the game, so that makes my POV suspect anyway.
All I can say is that I grew up in a time and place where football wasn’t everything, it was the only thing. And that was a shame, really.
The world of kids athletics has changed a lot, and by my reckoning, gotten better since I was kid.
But these football ( and basketball) dynasties with their beloved coaches that walk on water…they are just another symptom of our national disease. Too much money involved not to end up corrupted sooner or later. So many examples…Joe Pa, Woody Hayes, Bob Knight…a quick search produced a list of over twenty college head coaches who were busted by the NCAA in my adult lifetime.
These guys are not the guys I want my son to look up to as heroes. (Not that i seem to have to worry about that. As best I can tell his hero is Banksy.)
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11th February 2013 at 5:33 pm
Anonymous says:
Well, in his defense he did win a lot of football games.
Those things matter man.
-TPC
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11th February 2013 at 5:40 pm
WYOMING MIKE says:
Assholes! My cousin is a PiSSU apologist. Never have I seen bigger blinders on a person. Other than that, don’t know a soul.
The hipocrisy of these people is mind boggling.
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11th February 2013 at 6:19 pm
SSS says:
“ANY JOE PATERNO APOLOGISTS OUT THERE?”
—-title of article
Well, when this sordid affair first broke, I tried to go down the road of an apologist for JoePa. It didn’t work out well, particularly after the news broke about Sandusky’s behavior in 1998 which resulted in his “retirement” as a Penn State coach in 1999, yet STILL being granted continued access to Penn State althletic facilities. Only JoePa could have made that happen.
With that, my arguments went up in smoke, so I manned up and said something rarely seen on this site. “I was wrong.”
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11th February 2013 at 6:49 pm
KaD says:
“this is as much a public relations campaign as it is an answer”
That’s exactly what it is; a public relations campaign. Too bad the family doesn’t have as much brains and class as they have money-they’d then know enough to just STFU.
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11th February 2013 at 6:52 pm
Administrator says:
“The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death.”
Lesslie Newbigin
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11th February 2013 at 7:22 pm
llpoh says:
SSS says “With that, my arguments went up in smoke, so I manned up and said something rarely seen on this site. “I was wrong.”
hmmm. “Said something rarely seen”. That is funny as hell. I for one have NEVER seen anything that has been said. Glad SSS is not an English teacher.
But I do get his point. What he is really saying is that no matter how wrong folks are around here (and boy can they be wrong), they never own up to it. It is a sign of weakness.
I await his “blow me” retort.
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11th February 2013 at 7:35 pm
Administrator says:
llpoh
Click the 1st link in the post. You had a ball on that thread as I kicked SSS’s ass all over the site. It might have been the most epic ass kicking in TBP history.
SSS threw in the towel a couple days later.
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11th February 2013 at 7:49 pm
llpoh says:
I think SSS must be related to Yogi:
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11th February 2013 at 7:50 pm
printmemoney says:
This just in: Penn state putting Joe pa statue back up based on the newer and betterer report.
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11th February 2013 at 7:54 pm
printmemoney says:
This just in….Hitler’s descendants have issued a report with the conclusion, “The holocaust did not happen.”
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11th February 2013 at 7:55 pm
llpoh says:
Admin – very fucking funny indeed. Rereading the thread, I think the most telling point that Paterno was neck-deep in this pile of shit was that he was able to summon his boss to his house on Sunday. That is unbelievable. Paterno had all of the power, and could have chosen to do anything to that scumbag Sandusky, but he instead chose to sweep it under the carpet.
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11th February 2013 at 7:57 pm
llpoh says:
http://www.businessinsider.com/penn-state-investigator-louis-freeh-accused-of-heading-a-massive-cover-up-as-director-of-fbi-2012-7
The board of trustees are such a bunch of dumbasses that they had to pay another coverup cocksucking artist 6.5 million dollars to write 275 pages when it could have been said in one.
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11th February 2013 at 8:02 pm
SSS says:
“I was wrong.”
—-SSS
Followed by…..
“I kicked SSS’s ass all over the site. It might have been the most epic ass kicking in TBP history. SSS threw in the towel a couple days later.”
—-Admin
After several years on this site, there are many descriptive phrases I could use to describe you. “Gracious winner” is not among them.
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I await his “blow me” retort.
—-llpoh
Wish granted. Blow me.
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What about flash’s confession that he’s a communist after I waterboarded him 500 times over on the lead article site? Nothing. Sound of crickets. Bunch of pussies.
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11th February 2013 at 8:21 pm
Eddie says:
Flash is not a communist. He’s one of these.
http://www.google.com/search?q=confederates+in+the+attic&hl=en&client=safari&tbo=d&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=wJoZUe2nIqWu2QX29YDADA&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1352&bih=693#imgrc=-6KyPYg8KZfpNM%3A%3Bx3uNXbepK0PXzM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fimages.indiebound.com%252F830%252F525%252F9780553525830.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.orcabooks.com%252Fbook%252F9780553525830%3B232%3B400
Damn that’s a long link. Hope it works.
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11th February 2013 at 8:32 pm
JACKSON on Joe Soap? or Jerry's pal, Joey? says:
“Any Paterno apologists out there?” Adminstrator asks. Well, I’ve been searching.
It looked like I’d found some of those a’s'ses when I read a The Daily Kos headline, “Breaking: Joe Paterno is the Victim of All This.” But the headline, which would have had the Administrator sputtering in rage had he read it, didn’t reflect the article.
It turns out the whole internet piece is an expose of the Freeh Report experts. One of the savants is associated with the Man/Boy Love Assn., another was appointed by the Catholic bishops to a review board and has argued that priests do care about the well being of children, and the third testified for abusers like Rabbi Jerrold Levi and Jeffrey Dahlmer.
On the chance that Joe can say it ain’t so, I’ll keep looking. But if I don’t find a defender I guess that Coach Paterno will have to hope that St. Peter is as blind and forgiving as the Catholic Bishops, the Church’s Cardinals, and the Pope have been.
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11th February 2013 at 10:12 pm
Penn State Graduate says:
I graduated from PSU in 1985.
All I can say is that I knew Joe Pa first hand. He was a WONDERFUL human being. A man who cared GREATLY about the University, and the young men entrusted to him. Ever wonder why 99% of his players came to his defense? Of course you don’t.
This great man is DEAD, and it was this horrid scandal that did him in because he was so upset with it all. Have you no respect??
I have read the report. Have you??? Of course not. Let me tell you that if you did, you too would be convinced of his innocence. All you lemmings can do is pile on unfounded scorn because somehow it makes you feel beter.
Long live Joe Pa!!
Proud PSU Alum / 1985
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11th February 2013 at 12:09 am
printmemoney says:
I’d be upset to if my acts of cowardice from a decade plus prior destroyed my legacy. But heh, the recruiting classes were strong.
Tickle Monster!!!
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11th February 2013 at 6:59 am
Administrator says:
Penn State Graduate
You are willfully ignorant. Are you incapable of understanding FACTS?
Lemmings is the right word for idiots who believe bullshit. You fit the mold.
Paterno died of cancer you idiot.
The qualifications to graduate in 1985 from PSU must have been pretty low.
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11th February 2013 at 7:45 am
Penn State Graduate says:
Administrator
You ignorant dung slut.
Yes, I know what the great Jo Pa died of. However, the false charges HASTENED his death. Had it not been for these totally false charges he would have coached a few more years, gotten awesome recruiting classes, and probably have gotten another Championship to Happy Valley.
THOSE ARE THE FACTS, you brain dead cretin.
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11th February 2013 at 9:46 am
Administrator says:
Penn State Dunce
Are you really as big a dumbass as you seem?
A man came to Joe Paterno’s home and told him that Sandusky was sticking his dick in a little boy’s ass and your beloved JOE PA – who ran Penn State – DID NOTHING.
Those are the facts you asshole.
Paterno forced Sandusky to retire at the age of 55 because he new he was a pedophile. Those are the facts you dumbfuck.
Deal with reality asshole.
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11th February 2013 at 9:53 am
Administrator says:
Stuck
You’re a prick.
I just figured out you are Penn State Graduate.
Getting my blood pressure this high is dangerous.
Well played.
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11th February 2013 at 9:58 am
Penn State Graduate says:
Administrator said; “A man came to Joe Paterno’s home and told him that Sandusky was sticking his dick in a little boy’s ass and your beloved JOE PA – who ran Penn State – DID NOTHING.”
Bullshit. Joe Pa was going to offer that boy a Tight End scholarship.
You nincompoop.
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11th February 2013 at 9:58 am
Stucky says:
Danke Schoen.
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11th February 2013 at 10:00 am
Olga says:
There are those that suspect Sandusky had many, MANY friends in high places that are equally abusive and enjoy the same level of protection.
Assigning Louis Freeh was an attempt to stop the scandal dead in its tracks. It had to go no further.
http://americanfreepress.net/?p=5136
The focus shouldn’t be on some silly attempt at clearing an obvious criminal’s name – but instead the focus should be on who and where are Sandusky’s “comrade-in-arms”.
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11th February 2013 at 10:01 am
Robmu1 says:
Penn State Graduate – you are an embarrassment to sychopants everywhere. Paterno knew that Sandusky was a sleazeball from the 1998 incident with another victim in a shower when that pussy Mcqueary told him that he saw Sandusky raping another child in the shower. After hearing about this rape, Paterno didn’t want to bother his boss over the weekend. Then, he forgot about the incident. Maybe the ass kissers like yourself should ask Mrs. Paterno how many time Joe asked about that poor kid. Your school is an abomination – you should be complaining bitterly to the Board about the continued cover-up, not pretending that it didn’t happen. Get you head out of your ass.
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11th February 2013 at 10:04 am
harry p. says:
hahaha stuck,
thinking there was someone that f’n stupid was getting me down, atleast now I can be optimistic that it was fake (or going back to falsely believing no one is that moronic).
an interesting part of the Sandusky controversary is the role the PA Guv possibly played, I have heard that he knew about the allegations but haven’t been presented any real facts regarding this. He has recently been challenging the sanctions on the university but that just might be to gain votes in the upcoming elections.
anyone have facts regarding Corbett?
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11th February 2013 at 10:06 am
flash says:
..fucking football worshiping jock-sniffing punks and their coaching idols….what a load of unimportant shit..piss on Paterno…what he ever do for the cause of liberty…he’s no Ron Paul.
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11th February 2013 at 10:11 am
flash says:
Football just leads to damn godless communism I tellz ya!
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11th February 2013 at 10:14 am
Administrator says:
harry p.
Corbett was the Attorney General when Sandusky was first accused. He has blood on his hands. He was also a PSU Trustee.
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11th February 2013 at 10:17 am
Stucky says:
“Penn State Graduate …. Get you head out of your ass.” — Robmu1
Somebody buy Robmu1 a clue.
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11th February 2013 at 10:19 am
Administrator says:
Robmu1 responded before I let him know it was that mangy cur Stuck.
I will get revenge.
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11th February 2013 at 10:28 am
Maddie's Mom says:
There are undoubtedly more then a few other men out there who are admired, even worshipped, by many who are either guilty of the same acts of abuse or of covering them up. They just haven’t been outted. Yet.
Why so much deviant behavior?
Were all these perverts similarly abused as children?
If no one abused/killed children anymore, there would be no need for the evening “news” program. It’s all I seem to hear from our local media.
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11th February 2013 at 10:39 am
SSS says:
Attaboy, Stucky.
Admin ….. is this what you feel like now? Ha. Double ha.
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11th February 2013 at 10:43 am
Administrator says:
I feel like SSS after he misses a 2 foot putt.
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11th February 2013 at 10:46 am
Maddie's Mom says:
Sue is in denial.
Can you even imagine waking up one day and realizing the person you had been married to for many decades was a fraud? That he overlooked the raping of children in order to save his football program, his job, his legacy?
She is desperate to make it not so.
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11th February 2013 at 10:51 am
Robmu1 says:
Stuck – it was still a nice shot. Anyway, congratulations on not being a Penn State graduate.
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11th February 2013 at 11:17 am
Maddie's Mom says:
Former Penn basketball player fatally stabbed in bed by wife after she says she caught him watching child pornography, police say
Published February 12, 2013
Associated Press
MEDIA, Pa. – Authorities say a woman fatally stabbed her husband — a member of the University of Pennsylvania’s 1979 Final Four team — as he slept. Police say she told a friend he had been watching child pornography.
According to court records, 53-year-old Matthew White was stabbed early Monday in his bed at his home in the Philadelphia suburb of Media. Investigators say his wife, Maria Rey Garcia-Pellon, is charged with first-degree murder and is being held in Delaware County jail.
Police say Garcia-Pellon went to a friend’s home afterward and told her she had caught her husband viewing child pornography.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/12/former-penn-basketball-player-fatally-stabbed-in-bed-by-wife-after-finds-him/?test=latestnews#ixzz2KhmKB557
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11th February 2013 at 12:01 pm
nikolai says:
Pisassu is full of vampires. Proof? Tell them that Paterno told the Sandusky grand jury they can count on him as evidence against Sandusky. For a fuking decade. The puss pile said he knew the skunk he walked around with for a decade smelled .. BAD. They’ll go up in smoke.
DON’T TALK TO THESE DEVILS. Very dangerous. They are the REAL EVIL. Sandusky a disease, Paterno a pool of rotten pus, but these things aren’t EVEN HUMAN. They’re spores from outer space.
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11th February 2013 at 3:43 pm