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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 video FBI Arrests Musician For Streaming Fraud, Claiming He Collected $10M From Hundreds Of Thousands AI-Generated Songs which were then played by AI bot streams The indictment alleges at a certain point from about 2017 up to and including 2024, Smith estimated that he could use...
on Sep 6
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9 o'clock Hashtag Games (@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @paul Let's play! #AdviceFromABadComedian #HashTagGames How to play: Write something, Use the HashTag, Toot/Post and Repeat!
on Thu, 2AM
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9 o'clock Hashtag Games (@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @paul People are celebrating metal music today. Let's play! #MetalASongOrPoem #HashTagGames How to play: Write something, Use the HashTag, Toot/Post and Repeat! Tip: Either do metal music or the material that, when polished...
on Tue, 2AM
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image @lancetay@universeodon.com Trump's original "Make America Great Again" plan. Donald Trump, on Fox and Friends, 2014: “When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster, then you’ll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we...
on Oct 30
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9 o'clock Hashtag Games (@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @paul Let's play! #OddReasonsToBeCranky #HashTagGames How to play: Write something, Use the HashTag, Toot/Post and Repeat!
on Oct 28
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image I have heard so much lately that, 'if you didn't have sex you wouldn't get pregnant' from the religious right lately that it is time to pull this meme out. #USPol
on Oct 21
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Remember the lockdowns? Some still are lockdowned. Due to my rare disease, for a decade before the COVID lockdowns, I was homebound. For the five years preceding COVID, I was completely homebound. I still am. During and after the COVID lockdowns, I received more empathy from friends, family...
on Oct 20
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image Jeebus. The right has made a fantasy "biographical" movie, purel pop-culture propaganda film, about Ronald Reagan, with a cast of MAGA has-beens, including Dennis Quaid, Kevin Sorbo, Jon Voight, etc. Bilge Ebiri of Vulture said the film was "pure hagiography, but it's not...
on Oct 17
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Why did you wreck our body? #DMsWithMyYoungerSelf #HashTagGames
on Oct 3
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image Kris Kristofferson, American country singer, songwriter and actor, dead at age 88. A highly educated man, who, in 1958 was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford. He joined the Army and taught English literature at West Point until he grew bored and left to...
on Sep 30
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext | Ars Technica Officials in Ireland have fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company...
on Sep 28
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image Eastern Kentucky judge shot, killed in his chambers; sheriff arrested The Mountain Eagle is reporting that Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines is accused of shooting District Judge Kevin Mullins in his office. As a judge, Mullins gained attention for his efforts to treat...
on Sep 20
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image 2/ Also, of note, most of these 275 churches accept #Ohio school vouchers, EdChoice, tuition and operate their own schools. Many use the PACE, Accelerated Christian Education, educational system that I posted about recently. Here's an actual lesson used for teaching cursive...
on Sep 6
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Content warning: Wife heart attack
on Aug 27
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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FTC bans fake reviews, social media influence manipulation Influencers can no longer pay for bots to inflate their follower count, among other things. Penalties come with fines that can quickly add up. "Rather than prosecuting individual cases through the Department of Justice, this rule...
on Aug 16
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 2 images '1st map of Antarctica's green space unveiled.' via Livescience "Warmer temperatures are melting the glaciers and the meltwater allows the seed to start growing. #Antarctica is in the grip of some of the world's fastest #ClimateChange. Its melting ice could contribute up...
on Aug 12
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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I saw on the local news that k through 12 school starts this week in our area. In my #GenX years, We didn't start back until after Labor Day. Our school year was basically a week after Labor Day through a week before Memorial Day. Since we're going down this route, I miss Genx school...
on Aug 12
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image Trump/Vance team are openly racist and weird #USPol Trump’s campaign spokesperson, Steven Cheung, replied to a JD Vance tweet, after Vance weirdly approached Air Force 2 after it landed in an airport saying it was going to be his in a couple months and he wants to check it...
on Aug 8
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Elon Musk Super PAC under fire for alleged register to vote data harvesting scheme: report · #USPol https://www.alternet.org/elon-musk-super-pac/
on Aug 3
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Good lort, I thought I bricked my Mastodon instance I think I am going to start doing HashTagGames from my WordPress blog at https://HashtagGames.Online Anyone know how I can upload my @hashtaggames posts from the archive as WordPress posts without spamming the Fediverse? I don't want a...
on Jul 25
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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@hannu_ikonen@med-mastodon.com Good luck. I am in a specialty practice where primary care is done in the home. My practice sold out to venture capitalists at the start of the year, and it's been horrible ever since. Apparently, they bought several other different types of providers but kept...
on Jul 9
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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@petethomas@mastodon.social I'm in a nursing home level care at home program, including primary care, labs, basic radiology like ekg's, ultrasounds, etc. After nearly a decade, my provider was sold to private equity in January and the level of care has declined. My health started declining....
on Jul 9
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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@MissConstrue@mefi.social @DataDrivenMD@fedified.com It's been over 6-months since they sent me their first ACO form. Since then, they send me one every month. Now, April 2024, they are offering a $50 Walmart Gift card. Since the investment bros took over, they consolidated care primarily to...
on Jul 9
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image The #medical practice that provides my primary medical care at home through a special 2014 #Medicare experiment program was purchased last year by the investment bros. Since then, they started making cost-cutting changes to their model, service has gone downhill, and my...
on Jul 9
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Chrome will distrust CA certificates from Entrust later this year Chrome 127+ will no longer trust new TLS server authentication certificates from Entrust (or AffirmTrust) on November 1. End users will see a “Your connection is not private” warning (ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID) when they attempt...
on Jun 28
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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US Bans Kaspersky Software The US Commerce Department has banned the sale of Kaspersky’s antivirus tools to new customers in the US, citing alleged threats to national security. The company can continue to provide updates to existing customers through the end of September. Kaspersky has...
on Jun 26
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Georgia GOP vice chair booted for illegally voting 9 times as a convicted felon. He was convicted for felony check forgery in the past. Voter fraud aside, the GOP voted him is as vice chair in 2023, the number two spot, knowing he had been convicted of a $38,000 bad check forgery scheme,...
on May 12
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9 o'clock Hashtag Games (@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @paul O. Henry Pun-off Day is held on the day before Mother’s Day each year in the United States. Let's play! #PunAnything #HashTagGames How to play: Write something, Use the HashTag, Toot/Post and Repeat! Hint: make a joke...
on May 12
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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@JeanPDeliet@mastodon.social @GreenFire@mstdn.social @w7voa@journa.host I was just reading about this. 130 million (54%) adults are now below the 6th grade level and 54 million are functionally illiterate. Also, 40% of students across the US cannot read at the basic level for their...
on May 2
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9 o'clock Hashtag Games (@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @paul Today is 'Refresh your goals' day. Let's play! #FictionalCharacterGoals #HashTagGames How to play: Write something awesome, Use the HashTag, Toot/Post and Repeat! Hint: Think about a ficional character. Its life,...
on Apr 20
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9 o'clock Hashtag Games (@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @paul Let's play! #OddPinataFillingsOrCharacters #HashTagGames How to play: Write something, Use the HashTag, Toot/Post and Repeat!
on Apr 19
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Content warning: Eclipse Twitter Conspiracy led to Filicide
on Apr 12
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Trump might have to pull out Chachi, Kid Rock and that kid from Growing Pains who grew up to be a TBN religious cash predator and do a LIE AID benefit concert😜 🤭 'Are they giving?' Trump hounding staffers to raise cash quickly as legal bills pile up ·...
on Apr 6
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9 o'clock Hashtag Games (@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @paul Let's play! #PeanutButterAndJellyASongOrPoem #HashTagGames How to play: Write something, Use the HashTag, Toot/Post and Repeat! (Game posting a little early due to unstable local weather.)
on Apr 3
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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More Bad News Boeing news. Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 plane has in-flight windshield crack during landing at PDX Nope, nope, nope Nope, nope, nope. Nope, nope, nope. Nope, nope, nope. https://katu.com/news/local/alaska-airlines-boeing-737-plane-has-in-flight-windshield-crack-during-landing-at-pdx
on Mar 19
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Trump can't secure $454 million appeal bond in the New York fraud case After negotiating with more than 30 surety companies and one of the largest insurance companies in the world,Trump can't secure a $454 million appeal bond in the New York fraud case, according to a court filing from his...
on Mar 18
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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McDonald's ordering systems crashes, taking 1000's of stores offline in multiple nations. Ordering kiosks, registers, etc suffering outage. Workers having to rely on paper and pencil and cash only to stay open. Talk about no redundancy. https://bbc.com/news/business-68573106
on Mar 15
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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@Debideaux@mstdn.social Very true. My sister-in-law has COVID again. This is her 8th time. She is the one that left a 20-year white collar, professional Disney career over their vaccinations policy. I've joke that on the flip side of covid, I've not had to deal with my right-wing in-law...
on Mar 13
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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@mikez@social.umiamz.me DNS switch over went wrong earlier. #universeodon https://mastodonapp.uk/@wild1145/112085394075234684
on Mar 13
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Amazon joins Trader Joe’s, SpaceX in calling the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional Nazi's are mainstream again. Now, they are trying to reboot the Gilded Ages. How far back do these people want to take society. The Ice Age? “Since they can’t defeat successful union organizing,...
on Feb 23
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 video VIDEO: ‘Last Week Tonight's’ John Oliver offers to give Clarence Thomas a $2.4 million dollar motorcoach and $1 million a year for the rest of his life to “Get The F*ck off the Supreme Court” #JohnOliver #USPol #ClarenceThomas #SCOTUS #LastWeekTonight .
on Feb 22
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9 o'clock Hashtag Games (@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image @hashitout@retro.pizza We'll give it a go (Righty, drawn with left hand.) #OffhandedDucks game of #HashItOut. #HashTagGames .
on Feb 20
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9 o'clock Hashtag Games (@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @paul The Fediverse: Mastodon, PixelFed, Lemmy, Peertube & more. Allow users to talk to each other across platforms, often without the special interests of corporate stock performance. Let's...
on Jan 23
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9 o'clock Hashtag Games (@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @paul Whether it's the port town in England, or the capitol of Massachusetts, let's go to Boston. Let's play! #BostonAMovieOrTVShow #HashTagGames How to play: Write something awesome, Use the HashTag, Toot/Post and Repeat!
on Jan 23
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image The cows go "farmer tipping" #HowBarnYardAnimalsLikeToParty #HashTagGames
on Jan 6
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Ohio #transgender candidate disqualified for only including legal name, not former name, on petitions A law going back to the 1990's require former names, if changed within the last 5 years, except if because of marriage. Not only is there nowhere to put it on the petition, but it isn’t...
on Jan 5
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 2 images Video catches 'Parental rights' crusader punching teen in face while hosting 'underage drinking party' She's a former Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, who rails against #LGBTQ+ awareness curriculum in schools. Became MAGA infamous for being...
on Dec 29
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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😂'It's my money!' Trump is trying to shake down a pro-MAGA think tank for 'millions' Of course, if the shake down works, it will probably be illegal if they give him the money. According to Rolling Stone, Trump believes that it owes him "millions" of dollars for supposedly making money...
on Dec 28
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Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content Canceling all my subscriptions. Sorry creators. Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie, "I just want to make it clear that we don’t like Nazis either—we wish no-one held those views. But some people do hold those and...
on Dec 21
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9 o'clock Hashtag Games (@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live)
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Attached: 1 image Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @paul How would 1990's and older Chatbots respond to questions? Think of a question and share the response as that era. Let's Play. #RetroChatbotSaid #HashTagGames How to play: Write something awesome, Use the HashTag, Toot/Post...
on Dec 7