If you liked our report on the bizarre handwritten lawsuit against Google from a guy worried that his social security number was too similar to Google's name, here's another one for you. Once again, special thanks to Eric Goldman for passing this one on. This time, at least, most of the lawsuit is typed (there are some handwritten parts at the end), though, there are numerous typos. The lawsuit is being filed against both Google and Yahoo by a guy who is apparently being detained by Immigration services in Houston. He claims that both Google and Yahoo stole their names from Tanzanian tribes -- and now they should pay up. Specifically, he claims that Google took its name from the Gogo tribe and Yahoo took its name from the Yao tribe. Conveniently, this guy happens to be a descendant of both tribes. He's merely asking for both companies to pay $10,000 each to every member of both tribes, going back three generations. Simple!
While it is true that many companies are using foreign words (Swahili is especially popular) in choosing company and product names (Kijiji, Joomla, Renkoo, Wiki, Tafiti, Jambo, etc.), both Google and Yahoo have pretty well-documented histories of their names, and the names of these Tanzanian tribes clearly have nothing to do with either one. Not that the guy doesn't try: "The court is now been asked to answer a common sense question: Is "Google" much more related, semantically and lexically, with "Gogo" or with "Googol"?" Once again, the chance of this lawsuit getting anywhere is basically nil (even if they had taken their names from the tribes, which they clearly did not), but as Goldman points out to us: "There is, of course, a serious problem here about the courts getting clogged up with lawsuits brought by prisoners/detainees with too much time on their hands and nothing to do but file lawsuits, and companies having to spend money to stomp out these lawsuits." In the meantime, this seems mighty close to life imitating The Onion।
With several private companies launching businesses to provide customers with unprecedented access to their genomes' secrets, legislation protecting people from genetic discrimination is more timely than ever. But Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahama) is single-handedly stalling federal legislation to do just that.
The Senate passed earlier versions of the bill twice before, but they were blocked from coming up for House floor votes. This year, the House passed it by a bipartisan landslide, but Coburn has held up the legislation in the Senate, saying it could place too much strain on businesses.
"We're not really clear on what Coburn wants, because his excuses don't make sense," said the bill's original sponsor, Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-New York). "But if this bill got to a floor vote in the Senate, I think it'd pass almost unanimously."
Coburn spokesman John Hart said his boss supports the intent of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, known as GINA. Coburn voted for a nearly identical bill in 2005, but now says the bill's language exposes employers to too much liability. Supporters of the bill see Coburn's new beef as another in a string of inconsequential objections to the legislation.
23andMe, Navigenics and Decode Genetics have recently launched programs to scan individual's genomes and provide access to the information online. Customers will have to spend a for 23andMe's service.
In the absence of federal legislation, most states provide some degree of protection against discrimination. Many have gone further, explicitly providing genetic-privacy protections. Alaskan law (.pdf), for example, says DNA samples are an individual's private property. Still, companies offering personal genome scans, as well as biotechs offering genetic diagnostic tests, worry that their businesses will not gain traction without a federal law.
Slaughter introduced GINA in the House 12 years ago, but Republican leadership repeatedly blocked a vote, even as it passed the Senate twice. Under this year's new Democratic majority, the House passed GINA, 420-3 (H.R. 493), and it appeared ready to sail through the Senate (S. 358). But Coburn, exercising a prerogative available to all senators, placed it on hold, which requires a supermajority of 60 senators just to bring the bill up for a relatively rare floor debate.
An internal memo obtained Thursday from Coburn's office said the senator's make-or-break objection was the possibility that an employer who provides health insurance for its workers could be sued both as an insurer and as an employer. That means employers could be hit for much higher damages than insurers.
Representative Slaughter said she'd never heard that particular objection from any company in 12 years of campaigning on behalf of GINA. "But it's pretty creative," she said.
Coburn is a physician. He picked up the nickname "Dr. No" from pundit George Will, because of his frequent contrarian positions and use of the hold prerogative. Coburn has consistently opposed bills that enable lawsuits against businesses and his fellow medical doctors.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and trade associations like the National Retail Federation are GINA's main opponents, claiming it would spur frivolous lawsuits.
Michael Eastman, executive director of labor policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, applauded the Senator's move to stop the bill.
"Coburn has been willing to put his name out there," he said.
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After all this, you must be more than ready for the penis size "facts". Note: When it says "men" or "women" then that is what it says, otherwise it would say "all men" or "all women". So think about this before making a comment. There are exceptions to everything in life… Enjoy! If you are a woman and you don't prefer bigger than average penises, then you are... an exception.
Women prefer bigger penises more than men prefer bigger breasts.
The average penis measures 6 to 7 inch long and 5 to 5 ½ inch in circumference (about 1 ¾ inch wide).
When you think you have a small penis, you are generally right.
Shorter and thinner than average flaccid penises are averagely shorter and thinner when erect than average erect penises. (Does that make any sense?)
Penis size is not just a locker room issue.
Women care about the size of flaccid penises.
Women love touching and looking at big flaccid penises.
Women love touching and looking at big erect penises.
Women love giving oral sex to big penises, if they are able to of course.
Big penises cause more vaginal pleasure for women.
What about this: Twenty percent of all women stay with a man for his big penis...
forty percent stay with a man for his money...
forty percent stay with a man because of who he is...
...eighty percent would like their partner to have a bigger penis!
...eighty percent of women don't orgasm from intercourse alone!
...eighty percent of men have an average or small penis!
If your penis slips out often during intercourse, you probably have a small penis.
Women find small penises frustrating.
Women find small penises annoying.
Women find small penises boring.
Women find small penises embarrassing.
Women look for bulge when meeting men.
Women look up to men with big penises.
Women find big penises impressive.
Women consider men with big penises more masculine.
Men with big penises are more self secure.
Women prefer men who are self secure.
Most women consider men with a big penis a sex object.
Most men don't mind to be considered a sex object by women.
Women pretend they want a sensual and sensitive man no matter his size.
Women know they want a macho and masculine man with big penis size.
Women want to sleep at least once in their life with a man with a very big penis.
Men with bigger penises date more women than men with smaller penises.
Men with a big penis have more chance to have sex with two or more women at the same time.
Women brag to other women if their partner has a big penis.
Women have more patience when it comes to well hung guys.
Men with a big penis get dumped less by their girlfriend than men with a small penis.
Most women are sexually very active with different partners between the age of 17 and 21.
Most women have had many more sexual partners than they are telling you.
Consequently, the probability that a man's new date has seen a bigger penis than his is very high.
If a woman doesn't make a comment about a man's penis it means she is not impressed, …or worse.
Women make favorable comments when they discover their new mate has a big penis.
If you haven't heard any great comments about your penis size when having sex the first time with a woman, you don't have a big penis.
If you have never heard a complaint about your penis being too small, it might be because the complaint was muted while pronounced.
Asking a woman if she thinks your penis is big is useless.
If a woman tells you your penis is nice, it means usually it is rather small.
If a woman tells you your penis is big, it means usually it is plain average.
If a woman tells you your penis is so huuuuge, it usually means it is just big.
If a woman lowers your pants, utters a shriek, takes off her clothes and hugs your penis, it usually means you are too big.
However, if a woman lowers your pants, utters a shriek, puts her clothes back on and leaves, it usually means you are too small.
Women don't tell you that you are average. They will tell you that you are big, the rest is small and very few are humongous.
If your girlfriend's previous lover was above average thick, she will not feel you inside if you are below average thick.
If your girlfriend's previous lover was way above average thick, she will not feel you inside if you are average thick.
Most vaginas prefer thick penises.
Most penises prefer tight vaginas.
If your woman purposely squeezes her vagina very tight during intercourse, she wants to make you feel big.
Women have to strain themselves to get off on a thinner than average penis.
Men with a short penis have to work harder to give pleasure to a woman.
Men with a long penis have to work less hard during intercourse.
Men with a long penis have more fun during intercourse.
Men with a long penis cause more fun during intercourse.
Men with a long and thick penis cause the most fun during intercourse.
Women consider a penis between 7 and 8 inch in length and between 6 and 6 1/2 inch girth ideal.
Women whose partner is smaller than average, wish sometimes he would wear a big strap-on.
A big strap-on causes less pleasure than a real penis of the same size.
Women whose partner is larger than average never think of him wearing a strap-on.
Men with small penises masturbate more often.
Over-masturbating causes your penis to shrink by eventually depleting your sexual energy.
Men with small penises are getting masturbated more often than getting laid.
Not using your penis by getting laid might cause it to shrink as well.
If a woman publicly says that size doesn't matter, it is often because she is with a small penis guy.
Women who believe size is a non-issue tend to be more spiritual than sexual.
Women who believe size is a non-issue tend to be more insecure and are looking for long-term relations.
Women who believe size is a non-issue care less about sex to begin with.
Women who believe size is a non-issue usually want flowers, candies and long walks under the moonlight instead of wild sex.
Women who believe size is a non-issue only want to make love.
Normal women want to make love on some days and have sex on the other ones.
Making love is spiritual..., having sex is physical attraction, size and technique.
Men with a big penis can be just as good or bad in technique as smaller endowed men.
If a smaller endowed man has great technique, it might be because he doesn't have much choice.
Most women who always prefer receiving oral sex to penetration, do so because of either mental or physical causes.
In general, women prefer vaginal penetration above oral stimulation.
The main reason some women feel pain from penetration by a large penis is that the guy rushes without waiting for the vagina to be expanded.
Other reasons a woman can feel pain from penetration by a large penis is that she is not relaxed enough or that the guy has bad technique.
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Open-Realty® is free web based listing management application. It is intended to be both easy to setup and use. Written in PHP, Open-Realty® is designed to be a fast and flexible tool for your website. With a large open-source community working with this application, and solid management from Transparent Technologies open-realty is the top choice for use on your website. Open-Realty® is released free of charge, to help support the continuing development please consider using Transparent Technologies for your web hosting provider. Transparent Technologies is owned by Ryan Bonham, the lead developer for Open-Realty®.
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Requires: PHP 4.3.0 or higher PHP GD Support or Imagemagik is required for thumbnail creation. MySQL (4.0.2 or higher) or PostgreSQL 7(may work with older versions but is not tested)
Download Open-Realty® 2.4.3 (Released 9-19-2007) (Zip from here) Download Xinha WYSIWYG Page Editor for Open-Realty® ( Zip from here) Last Update: 9-18-2007 Download FCKEditor WYSIWYG Page Editor for Open-Realty® ( Zip from here) Last Update: 9-18-2007 Download TinyMCE WYSIWYG Page Editor for Open-Realty® (Zip from here) Last Update: 9-18-2007
As of Open-Realty® 2.1.4 we are no longer packaging the Xinha or FCKEditor WYSIWYG page editors with the Open-Realty core download. If this is a first time install, you will also need to download these packages and upload the contents to your install, to be able to use the WYSIWYG page editors in open-realty.
To upgrade from any previous 2.x.x stable release, upload all files except the common.php file, you need to leave your common.php file intact. Then run the installer and select the "Upgrade from Open-Realty® 2.x.x" option.
Please note: As of Open-Realty® 2.1.x some addons for 2.0.x will not be compatible, this upgrade removes the "type" field from all listings and replace it with our new class system. Any addons built to use the "type" field will not work, until they are updated by the addon developer. 2.0.X Templates will need a few minor changes to them, also to be 100% compatible with Open-Realty® 2.1.
Major rewrite of the upload functions including image handling and resizing. Several new configuration options relating to new image handling features
Added support for admin defined charset. Requires template change to add {charset} template tags to main.html
Fixed bug where user manager was not allowing agent's with permissions to edit users to add new users.
Updated a lot of previously hardcoded layout items with flexible and compliant CSS code. May require copying the new 2.4.2 CSS code from the default template to custom templates to keep the default layout..
Added {listing_field_FIELDNAME_block} tags to allow more ability to customize listing detail templates
All WYSIWYG Editors have also been updated, see links above for latest versions.
Many other changes were also done, please read the changelog for a full description of the changes
FIXED: Google maps treats the entire string as a single address or location and will not attempt to provide directions if "from" or "to" are in the title This is related to bug/feature #920
Fix bug with admins not being able to mark listings as featured unless they also had teh featureListings privilage
FIXED: updated the edit profile function to properly handle password checks and checks of all the user fields to make sure they are filled out properly. This is related to bug/feature #905
All listing images data can be updated at one time. This is related to bug/feature #348
Added more options to filter the edit listings page.
Added Basic RSS Feed support.
Updated Adodb to fix issues with latest PHP releases
Replaced Yahoo School and neighborhood info with greatschools.net and bestplaces.net
Many other changes were also done, please read the changelog for a full description of the changes.
This release contains almost 100 changes. The big changes are virtual tours are now templated thanks Mick. The template engine has been speed up. (THIS CHANGE MAY BREAK SOME ADDONS. PLEASE CHECK WITH YOUR ADDON DEVELOPER ). There have been way to may changes to list here, please read the the full changelog above for more details. Thanks to Mick and pbFlash for all their hard work on this release.
Ability to change main template based on wysiwyg page ID.
Remote File get, now remvoes a few more bad char from the file name. This is not used directly in Open-Realty but some addons use it.
Fix bug where search engine friendly urls from the featured listing to the listing detail page where missing the listing title.
Added missing reference to map_country to common.php file.
FIXED: HTML bug This is related to bug/feature #530
FIXED: Changed form name to contact_friend This is related to bug/feature #532
FIXED: Fixed the misspelled functions and code in listing.inc.php and admin.inc.php This is related to bug/feature #540
Added second and third address field to the map options.
Fixed typo in function name in core file. Mick already corrected the calling page(s) function name, which caused an error as the core function was spelled wrong.
Added Listing Title to Google Map. (Code in place for all map types to do this, just not sure if the others support it and have not had time to look) This is related to bug/feature #492
Added devel_mode install that will report db errors during upgrade/install, but allow the upgrade/install to continue. This should only be used to fix failed upgrades or by developers to upgrade SVN releases.
You can now control page title, meta keyword, and meta description tags from the site config for all listing and standard pages. You can use {listing_field_FIELDNAME_value} and {listing_field_FIELDNAME_rawvalue} use rawvalue for items like home_features and the "||" pipes will automatically be converted to a "," comma.
We used str_ireplace which is a PHP 5 only function. Changed to str_replace This is related to bug/feature #542
Added TinyMCE as a third WYSIWYG editor choice.
Code cleanup and standardization.
Upgrade ADODBLIte to 1.14
Upgrade FCKEditor and Xinha to latest versions
FIXED: Link for global maps were not showing.. This is related to bug/feature #534
The search page now uses two css classes instead of hard coding the strong and align tags.
user_id is now a valid tag to call from the admin main.html template This is related to bug/feature #512
Allow searching of any listing field from the edit listing screen to help agents/admin find listings.
Class ID now shows on the Property Class scree in the admin. This is related to bug/feature #558
Fixed bug in horizontal featured listings template.
User Manger Text now links back to the user manager when on the edit user page.
Fixed bug in IE where nophoto image would not display.
Added Distance From Zip Code Support the the search engine. This currently requires a custom table of zip/lat/long information.
When there are no images for a listing, and use nophoto.gif is set to Yes in the site config the listing detail pages will now display a small nophoto.gif for the thumbnail image position.. and for templates that use a large main image a nophotobig.gif will be displayed in that location
Deleting a user in the user manager now prompts with a confirmation about deleting the user and all of their data and listings.
fixed a bug where additional "location on listing page" options were showing up as blank options on the edit listing template pages.
Search Engine now support looking for fields that are empty or not empty.. For our purpose empty and NULL fields are the same. add fieldname-NULL=1 or fieldname-NOTNULL=1 to the search URL.
Added ability to search for listings within a distance from lat_long. Requires Lat long information be on all listings.
Added new field types for Lat and Long in the edit listing template section.
When editing users from the user manager required fields where not actually being required.
First/Last name now required when editing a user
spelling of seleted fixed in selected options in admin area. Fixed spelling of the default email address in installer for new installs. Removed several unused lang variables.
Added the new view agent template. This is a very bad template right now, it is jsut a copy of what we use to display. I will add more template tags down the road to allow this to be modified by the end users more.
Change the way we detect the base path, to help fix windows install issues.
links using pclass=# are now corrected to pclass[]=#
fixed listing view function to correct error when saving featured listings
When adding a listing as admin you can now select yourself for the listing agent. I also changed the selection option to use the first/last name of the agent the same as the edit listing function has been handling that same field.
you can now use the {listing_images_java_caption} tag on the listing detail template to display the vertical column of listing image thumbnails with the image caption below each image.
When deleting listings they were not removed from the classlistingsdb table.
Fix bug in add listings page that was preventing users with a listing limit of -1 from adding listings.
You can now search on last_modified date for listings
Added tags to feature template to allow large image to be displayed.
Added template tag for listing detail for {main_image_java_nodesc} Displays large java main image but without description under it.
added delete confirmation to the property class editor.
Increased the length of the listingsformelements_search_type field form 10 Char to 50. Added two new search types for NULL and NOT NULL searching on fields.
Show Field Captions when selecting the map fields in Site Config along with the field names.
Fix for search page if GET varialbe "listingID" is set.
Fix cleanup_template_sections it was removing {} from Javascript, which it should now ignore as long as the end bracket is on a different line then the opening bracket..
Reduce calls to Addons
Fix SVN error where if you add a listing as an agent you were over told you were over your listing limit, even if you were not.
Fix permission issue, agent fields were being displayed to anyone, no matter what the permission setting on the field was.
Fixed some CSS validation errors in the Admin Template
Added a check in the code and a JS check to make sure the user has selected a property class when adding listing fields.
shows a count of listings in the current property classes. If no property class is selected it falls back to the old display_all_listing link
Electrocardiognosis (short: ECGNOSIS) is an ambulatory 24h ECG monitor, that is a device about the size of a dictaphone which a patient carries with him for a day and which records an electrocardiogram, continuously, for this period. The electrocardiogram is stored in RAM memory and can be later transfered to a Linux computer where it can be processed using the Electrocardiognosis analysis program. This kind of device is also called `a holter monitor' after the name of its inventor, Norman Holter.
Electrocardiognosis analysis software, firmware and hardware blueprints are free for use and development under the GNU General Public Licence, and only depend on open-source software. Below you can download the source code of the analysis program and of the firmware and transfer software. The other components will follow soon.
It used to run on Linux systems with svgalib or on MS-DOS systems. We recently adjusted it to run on Linux systems with X11. To compile, you will also need the following other free packages:
Asterisk is the world’s leading open source telephony engine and tool kit. Offering flexibility unheard of in the world of proprietary communications, Asterisk empowers developers and integrators to create advanced communication solutions...for free.
Asterisk® is released as open source under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and it is available for download free of charge. Asterisk® is the most popular open source software available, with the Asterisk Community being the top influencer in VoIP.
Asterisk as a switch (PBX)
Asterisk can be configured as the core of an IP or hybrid PBX, switching calls, managing routes, enabling features, and connecting callers with the outside world over IP, analog (POTS), and digital (T1/E1) connections.
Asterisk runs on a wide variety of operating systems including Linux, Mac OS X, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Sun Solaris and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX including many advanced features that are often associated with high end (and high cost) proprietary PBXs. Asterisk's architecture is designed for maximum flexibility and supports Voice over IP in many protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware.
Asterisk as a gateway
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Interact is an online learning and collaboration platform designed with the intention of making it easy for students and lecturers to interact online. It focuses on constructivist and Vygotskian views of teaching and learning. The system has been in use at the Christchurch College of Education (New Zealand) for approx 18 months now, supporting approx 1000 sites and 3500 students.
Interact lets content be shared between course sites, so a lecturer can have the same content in many course, but only needs to update it in one place. Students and Lecturers can access all new course material and forum postings from one central place (no need to check every forum for new posts). Students can be given control of 'group' areas to add and manage their own material. Additionally, the system is flexible enough to be used as a full intranet/portal and not just for online course management
Zendesk is a modern help desk system in a hosted environment.
The help desk is the single-point-of-contact between your end-users and you as a service provider. With very little effort Zendesk makes it possible for you to offer a professoinal-grade support service and capitalize on the valuable user feedback.
Used in an IT deparment the help desk serves as the ERP system of the IT organization. It encourages and enforces well defined registration and processing of the data that makes the foundation for resource usage, -prioritization, and -strategy. The help desk constitutes the central hub for a company's IT Service Management (ITSM) strategy, which centers on the customer's perspective of IT's contribution to the business.
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Words by: Enoch Sontonga and Cornelius Jacob Langenhoven Music by: Enoch Sontonga and Marthinus Lourens de Villiers Adopted: 1994
At the time that South Africa's multi-racial system of government was adopted, there were two anthems in use among the people, divided by the old racial lines. "N'kosi Sikelel' iAfrica" (God Bless Africa), written and composed by Enoch Mankayi, which also has the same melody and nearly the same words as the anthems of Tanzania and Zambia, (and, formerly, Zimbabwe), was popular with the black population since it was first composed in 1897 for Mankayi's music students. The song was quickly adopted as the "people's anthem" and made the anthem of the African National Congress (ANC), a group that would become the first majority black political party to lead the country. The white South Africans, however, had been using "Die Stem van Suid Afrika" (The Call of South Africa) since the 1920s on an unofficial basis, and was made the state's official anthem in 1957. Even though the latter anthem was seen as too closely tied to the apartheid system by the majority black population, it was decided in the interim to make both anthems the national anthem, "God Bless Africa" was usually played in its entirety followed by the complete "Die Stem".
In 1997, the two anthems were combined, starting with "God Bless Africa" in Xhosa, followed by Sesotho, then a few lines of "Die Stem" in Afrikaans, and finishing the anthem with another few lines from "Die Stem" in English. (The English lines actually do not appear in the official English version of "Die Stem", but are an abridgement of the last few lines of the first verse, with the words slightly altered to reflect South Africa's new freedom.)
Special thanks to: Ermano Geuer for some of this information.
Tanzania, popular for its wildlife and beaches, expects tourism earnings to exceed $1 billion in 2008 thanks to marketing in North America and Europe.
“This year, we are going to embark on an aggressive marketing campaign in our major source markets,” Peter Mwenguo, managing director of the state-run Tanzania Tourist Board, told Reuters on Friday.
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Mwenguo said the accommodation problem was being tackled.
“For instance in the Serengeti there are four new areas that are being offered for investment for lodges. Already there is a lodge being constructed,” he said.
“I know the Aga Khan Group is due to put up three new properties in the southern part of Tanzania.”
The Aga Khan Group has shares in Serena Hotels, which has two hotels and four lodges in mainland Tanzania and one hotel on the semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar.
Tanzania’s visitors come to enjoy its beaches, scale Africa’s highest mountain Mount Kilimanjaro or watch animal migrations, to and from Kenya, in its renowned Serengeti National Park, in the north of the country.
Tourists also have a chance to pursue sport hunting, which Mwenguo said brings an average of $14 million in licence fees.
Canvas™ 11 with GIS+ is the only GIS data visualization solution in today’s market that addresses the need of GIS professionals to communicate the results of their research analysis — quickly, accurately, and effectively — inside a true graphics application.
Simply import GIS project information and then use Canvas’ image editing, illustration, and page-layout features to create, assemble, montage, and annotate, and enhance project data. Tasks that previously might have required days of work - or simply could not be accomplished with other graphics applications - can be completed quickly and with stunning results.
No other graphics application delivers the comprehensive set of features and toolsets needed to make the most of your GIS investment.
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* Pentium® 4 or better * Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ or XP Home or Professional (with Service Pack 2 installed) * 512 MB RAM installed (1 GB RAM recommended) * 250 MB free hard disk space * 16-bit color or higher (True color recommended) * 1024x768 or higher screen resolution recommended * Mouse and keyboard. Scanner optional for importing graphics * Host of industry standard devices supported * CD-ROM drive. DVD drive to use Clipart library DVD
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