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Date Sent: 2011-01-20
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Thursday, January 20, 2011 AM edition |
U.S. Prepares to Lift Ban on Guantánamo Cases -- House votes to repeal health-care law
Last Christians Ponder Leaving a Hometown in Iraq -- Higher Taxes Wouldn't End Some Deficits
-- The "libertytrade.net" project - trade using sound money for a sound
future -- Biometrics authentication in worldwide financial services
markets -- Muni Bloodbath: Meredith Whitney Has Wall Street Unhinged -- Muni Bloodbath: Vallejo Offers Unsecured Creditors 5 - 20 Cent Recovery -- Summer 2011: China To Devalue US Buying Power by 30% -- Chris Hellman - budget analyst for the the National Priorities Project -- Foreclosure-Gate: The Final Solution According To Sheila Bair -- Bill would make Coloradans organ donors by default -- Gerald Celente looks to 2011 free energy breakthroughs as the beginning of a new revolution -- The Identity Ecosystem: Obama’s Plan for Internet Control -- Our Choice: State Secession or Washington Debt Depression -- U.S. Housing Starts Fell in December to One-Year Low -- Goldman’s Facebook Offering: Americans Need Not Apply -- Goldman profit slides as bond trading wilts -- Analysis: What is Plan B if China dumps its U.S. debt? -- U.S. push for Israeli, Palestinian intelligence: WikiLeaks
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News Link • Torture
U.S. Prepares to Lift Ban on Guantánamo Cases
01-19-2011
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NY Times
The Obama administration is preparing to increase the use of military commissions to prosecute Guantánamo detainees, an acknowledgment that the prison in Cuba remains open for business after Congress imposed steep new impediments to closing the facil
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Reported by:
Powell Gammill
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News Link • Healthcare
House votes to repeal health-care law
01-19-2011
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Washington Post
In the first major act of the new Congress, the Republican-led House voted Wednesday to repeal the Democrats' health-care overhaul, fulfilling a pledge that GOP candidates made during the fall midterm campaigns. Three Democrats sided with a unified G
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Iraq
Last Christians Ponder Leaving a Hometown in Iraq
01-19-2011
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NY Times
The last Christian man in town goes to church each morning to clean the building and to remember the past. Romel Hawal, 48, was born in this town in Anbar Province back when most of the population was Christian. Now, he said, his 11-year-old son know
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TAXES: State
Higher Taxes Wouldn’t End Some Deficits
01-19-2011
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NY Times
As state governments struggle with the fiscal damage caused by the recession, an income tax increase has become a rarely used remedy.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Giant crayfish found in Tennessee is new species
01-19-2011
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Reuters
A new species of giant crayfish literally crawled out from under a rock in Tennessee, proving that large new species of animals can be found in highly populated and well-explored places, researchers said on Wednesday.
The new crayfish should not h
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Powell Gammill
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Feature Article • Casey Research Articles
'Fear and Love Make Gold Strong'
Jeff Clark
For the BIG GOLD annual gold forecast survey published in January, Jeff Clark surveyed seven gold experts and nine top economists and fund managers, along with Doug Casey himself, to provide their best insight on what to expect in 2011 and how to inv
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News Link • Surveillance
Biometrics authentication in worldwide financial services markets
01-19-2011
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thirdfactor.com/
These programs may be shaping the future of how financial services are delivered and provided in the U.S. as well. With the explosive increase of online transactions, retailers, credit card companies and financial services providers must look for...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Muni Bloodbath: Meredith Whitney Has Wall Street Unhinged
01-19-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
Is Meridith Whitney the most hated person on Wall Street right now? It seems like it. Ever since her big star turn on 60 Minutes last December, one investors after an other has come out of the woodwork to slam her forecasts.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Muni Bloodbath: Vallejo Offers Unsecured Creditors 5 - 20 Cent Recovery
01-19-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Unsecured creditors will receive 5 cents to 20 cents on the dollar for their claims under a reorganization plan Vallejo, Calif., filed Tuesday in federal court.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Summer 2011: China To Devalue US Buying Power by 30%
01-19-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
The Chinese have decided to devalue the US dollar’s buying power, without devaluing the US Treasury holdings they hold. It is an elegant solution to their issues. It will be interesting to see if they can pull it off...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: The Final Solution According To Sheila Bair
01-19-2011
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mortgagenewsdaily.com
The foreclosure claims commission envisioned by Bair would follow the model used to settle claims arising out of the BP oil spill and the events of 9/11. It would be set up and funded by servicers to address claims submitted by homeowners who...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Legislative Mischief
Bill would make Coloradans organ donors by default
01-19-2011
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Kristen Wyatt, AP
Some Colorado lawmakers say their state should be the first one where people become organ donors by default, even though other states' efforts have been halted by worries about making such a personal decision automatic.
Colorado's proposal, intr
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Energy
Gerald Celente looks to 2011 free energy breakthroughs as the beginning of a new revolution
01-19-2011
World-revered trends research expert says: "We're going to see ... an energy revolution. ...We're going to be releasing more information in Trends Journal about breakthroughs in new energy that could shift the whole game. It may be as big as the disc
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Tom Westbrook
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News Link • Surveillance
The Identity Ecosystem: Obama’s Plan for Internet Control
01-19-2011
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rutherford.org
It will eventually allow the government to have control over all internet activity, e.g., acting as a clearinghouse for who can and cannot access the internet and the extent to which they can do so.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Secession
Our Choice: State Secession or Washington Debt Depression
01-19-2011
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Ron Holland via LewRockwell.com
Everyone with any intelligence in the US and around the world knows that there is no way for Washington to manage the tens of trillions in debt and unfunded liabilities short of ultimate repudiation or hyperinflation.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Housing
U.S. Housing Starts Fell in December to One-Year Low
01-19-2011
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Bloomberg.com & CalculatedRiskblog.com
Companies like KB Homes and Lennar Corp. project demand will be slow to rebound as elevated unemployment and mounting foreclosures discourage buyers.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Internet
Goldman’s Facebook Offering: Americans Need Not Apply
01-19-2011
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wired.com
Goldman Sachs has decided to bar private U.S. clients from getting a piece of an oversubscribed $1.5 billion investment in Facebook because of “intense media attention,” the securities firm tells the Wall Street Journal Monday.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Goldman profit slides as bond trading wilts
01-19-2011
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Reuters
Goldman Sachs Group Inc posted a 53 percent decline in fourth-quarter profit as trading revenue tumbled, dashing hopes that the Wall Street bank had bucked a tough trading climate in debt markets.
Bond trading revenue, including commodities and c
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Analysis: What is Plan B if China dumps its U.S. debt?
01-19-2011
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Reuters
When borrowing money it's always good to have a Plan B in case a big creditor pulls the plug. That should be true whether the sum is a few thousand dollars or about a trillion, the size of the United States government's debt to China.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Foreign Policy
U.S. push for Israeli, Palestinian intelligence: WikiLeaks
01-19-2011
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Reuters
The United States instructed its Middle East diplomats in 2008 to gather data on encrypted Israeli communications and build financial and "biometric" profiles of Palestinian leaders, a leaked embassy cable shows. The secret memorandum, signed by then
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Separation of Church and Flake
01-19-11
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The PPJ Gazette
Lynn Swearingen (c) copyright 2011 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - I love political hypocrisy. - Here the Main Stream Media (MSM) is shouting “Why can’t we all just be friends” ala Rodney King and this yahoo with the “little letter” R behind his name
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Marti Oakley
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
First Oversight Hearing - Who Is Testifying About What?
01192011
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www.drscoundrels.com
Darrell Issa is getting ready to start scrutinizing - and his first oversight meeting was just announced today - who is he going after first? This is what we were asking for in November - check it out!
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
It's Not What You Think It Is...
01-18-2011
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MatrixUSA.org
... though you're actually correct thinking that it is when in fact it is not. You are also thinking correctly that it is not when in fact it is. That is because the "Matrix" machinery has worked it's "magic" upon you.That is the whole point, i
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Robert Fisher
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ernie was right! Tampon futures are exploding!
1-19-2011
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NY Daily News
The recent disappearance of a popular tampon brand is really cramping the style of city women.
Drugstore shelves have been mysteriously empty of o.b. nonapplicator tampons since late fall, leaving the feminine hygiene product's devotees puzzled a
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Tracy Twyman
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Adult Entertainment Expo Rivals CES 2011 in Tech Advances
01-19-2011
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livescience.com
Every year, while the Consumer Electronics Show displays the newest gadgets for home theaters, computing and cameras, the Adult Entertainment Expo shows off gadgets of another kind.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
10 Things You Didn't Know About the Brain
01-19-2011
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livescience.com
Throughout history, the human brain has been remarkably good at dismissing itself. Everyone from ancient Egyptians to Aristotle has downplayed the role of the mysterious stuff between our ears.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
At 'Robot Japan,' Bots Battle by Breaking Down (On the Dance Floor)
01-19-2011
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popsci.com
Who will win the dancefight, catbot or catgirlbot?
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Amazing Video: A Water Droplet Skitters In A Super-Hot Pan at 3,000fps
01-19-2011
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popsci.com
It's called the Leidenfrost effect, and you've seen it before: dribble a little water onto the surface of a hot, dry pan, and the water forms little drops that skate around until they fizzle out.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Military
The Terminator Scenario: Are We Giving Our Military Machines Too Much Power?
01-19-2011
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popsci.com
Even as we imagine the day when robots finally turn against us, scientists are at work on how best to control them
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Can Our DNA Electromagnetically 'Teleport' Itself? One Researcher Thinks So
01-19-2011
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popsci.com
A Nobel prize winning scientist who shared the 2008 prize for medicine for his role in establishing the link between HIV and AIDS has stirred up a good deal of both interest and skepticism with his latest experimental results, which more or less show
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Technology: Software
Google Translate's Conversation Mode Aims to Break Down Language Barriers
01-19-2011
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popsci.com
Learning a new language is hard. All those new grammatical rules, the new spellings, new tenses, irregular verbs--it's a serious pain. Luckily, Google Translate just issued an update to enable what Google's calling "Conversation Mode."
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Attention Astro-Parents: Your Spacebabies May Be Deformed
01-19-2011
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popsci.com
The Journal of Cosmology recently published a special issue concerning the requisites for and perils inherent in a manned mission to Mars, which appropriately touched upon that taboo topic that NASA never talks about: sex in space.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Technology: Software
Johannesburg Thieves Raid Traffic Lights for SIM Cards, Yielding Free "Burners"
01-19-2011
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popsci.com
In Johannesburg, South Africa, some thieves have found that there's an even cheaper and more anonymous way to make phone calls than buying disposable "burners" (like those featuring so prominently in The Wire): Traffic lights.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
In Warmup Match, Jeopardy All-Stars Defeated By IBM's Supercomputer Watson
01-19-2011
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popsci.com
Can a computer beat a human in the most challenging trivia game on TV? Today, at IBM's headquarters in New York, we learned that the answer is yes
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
New Type Of Entanglement Allows 'Teleportation in Time,' Say Physicists
01-19-2011
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technologyreview.com
Conventional entanglement links particles across space. Now physicists say a similar effect links particles through time.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Internet
Facebook Shares a Little More of Your Data
01-19-2011
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technologyreview.com
Apps built for Facebook can now access your phone number and home address.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Healthcare
The Health Debate - The Right Of It
01192011
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www.drscoundrels.com
Our take, opinion and some facts that bear scrutiny from the left - along with some thoughts that might make you go hmmmm about this latest fear mongering from the left and games they are playing. From Kathleen Sebelius to Harry Reid there is apparen
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Am I Being Unfair to the Republican Liberty Caucus?
01-19-2011
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Laurence M. Vance via LewRockwell.com
My post caught the eye of Dave Nalle, chair national RLC, Aaron Biterman, the vchair of the national RLC, Will Pitts, the state chairman of the Florida RLC, and Philip Blumel, another member of the Florida RLC. They all wrote to me about how unfair I
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Positive News
New Illinois Tax to Yield Higher Quality Corruption
01-19-2011
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RealityReport.TV
http://RTR.org | http://RealityReport.TV | In the 77th edition of the Reality Report, Gary Franchi breaks down the winners and losers in the new Tax scheme imposed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn. HINT: Government wins again. Angie returns to deliver
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Uncle Freedom
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