Tuesday, February 11, 2020

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  • In the 1700s a Danish naval captain documented and sketched a fourth great pyramid of Giza, along with the three that we know about today. The mystery of that lost fourth pyramid may...

  • Fungus Found Growing at Chernobyl that Actually EATS Radiation

    19 hours ago
  • The walls at Chernobyl are being covered by a strange fungus that actually eats and grows on radiation. In 1986, the reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were undergoing routine...

  • The Sad Downfall of a Genius – What Went Wrong for Nikola Tesla?

    2 days ago
    • Nikola Tesla started his career with much promise as one of the foremost intellects of his (or any) time and ended it broke and despairing in a New York City hotel room in 1943. Why did...

      Utopia – you are standing in it!


  • Paths of Glory (1957) – “I pity you”

    2 hours ago

  • #climateemergency #globalwarming @GreenpeaceAP @Greens don’t remember Cyclone Tracy

    5 hours ago

    •   TARPLEY.net

  • No Blue Collar Boom, but a Bubble Close to Bursting: Wall Street’s Demands for Subsidized 14-Day Repo Money Exceed Offerings from New York Fed on Tuesday and Thursday; Suspicions...

  • Coronavirus Expanding Rapidly Thanks to Leadership Vacuum; World Mourns Heroic Chinese Doctor from Wuhan Who Tried to Warn Humanity of Looming Scourge but Was Arrested by Dictator Xi’s Secret Police; Trump Has Plenty of Time to Wallow in Self Pity and Issue Threats Against His Opponents, but No Time to Halt Flights from China to U.S.

    5 days ago
  • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, February 6, 2020 Trump’s East Room Performance Packed with Sinister Threats to Romney...

  • Moscow Mitch and His Corrupt and Blackmailed GOP Senate Majority Fail to Render Impartial Injustice Against High Crimes of Trump; First Article on Abuse of Power Fails by 48-52, with Romney Joining All Democrats; Second Article on Obstruction of Congress Defeated on Straight Party Line Vote of 47-53; Manchin, Sinema, and Jones Vote with Dems; Collins Deserves Defeat for Claiming Incorrigible Trump Has Learned His Lesson

    6 days ago
    • United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, February 5, 2020 In State of the Union Address, Trump Raves About Best U.S. Economy in History...

      Sustainable Pulse

  • Fraud in a German laboratory has cast additional doubts on the 2017 re-approval of glyphosate and on the entire EU pesticide safety evaluation procedure, Pesticide Action Network...

  • Chemical Toxicity and The Baby Bust – Jeremy Grantham

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  • In today’s society people are choosing to have fewer children, and delaying having children at all into later, less fertile years. These two factors have driven fertility rates...

  • Main US Manufacturer Stops Production of Pesticide Chlorpyrifos after Links to Child Health Damage

    5 days ago
    • Corteva Agriscience will end production of the highly toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos by the end of this year. The company, formerly part of Dow Chemical, has been under increasing...

      sunshine hours

  • South / North

  • Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 40 – 2020

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  • South / North

  • Arctic Within 1 Standard Deviation – Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 39 – 2020

    2 days ago
    • Arctic is within one Standard Deviation and it’s the 15th lowest. 2018 2017 2005 2019 2006 2014 2016 2011 2010 2007 2012 2015 2013 2004 2020 South / North...

      Stagecraft and Statecraft

  • The world’s rivers are under unprecedented pressure from contamination, damming, and diversion, which are straining water resources, destroying ecosystems, jeopardizing...

  • The China Factor Behind India’s Pullout from RCEP

    4 days ago
  • The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership was set to become the world’s largest free trade agreement. But India’s withdrawal from it has thrown the negotiated trade...

  • Interview with Brahma Chellaney

    5 days ago
    • Brahma Chellaney Says More… Project Syndicate, Feb 4, 2020 This week, Project Syndicate catches up with Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the New Delhi-based...

      Ramani's blog

  • When we reflect what had given us joy or pleasure, they are not the instruments of pleasure like relationships or Money but small instances that have given us Sublime joy...

  • Shiva Linga Absorbs Oil Five Leaves Bilva Thiruneelakkudi Neelakanteswara

    a month ago
  • There is yet another temple where the Shiva Linga absorbs entire Oil when abhisheka is performed.

  • Home Where Kannagi Kovalan Lived Madurai Kadaichanendal

    a month ago
    • The original name of the place was Kadai+Chilambu+Endhal, meaning 'the place where the Anklet was held in Hands for the last time' I am unable to find the photo of the house...

      Diane Ravitch's blog

  • No U.S. Attorney General in history has ever turned the Department of Justice into a political tool belonging to the president. Until now. Bill Barr has totally politicized the Department...

  • Laura Chapman: A Few More Trump Budget Cuts to Think About

    8 hours ago
  • Trump proposes to eliminate the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, which are very small appropriations, but which Republicans have always hated. I seem to recall that...

  • New Jersey: Is Chris Christie Still Governor?

    9 hours ago
    • The Education Law Center is suing to block former Governor Chris Christie’s 2016 decision to expand charters in Newark:   About Us News ‌ ‌ February 11, 2020 NJ SUPREME COURT...

      Pasco Phronesis

  • This past week has been dominated in late night (and daytime) talk with a lot of political content.  Of note for these pages is the failure of the Iowa Democratic Party to effectively...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of January 27

    9 days ago
  • Things ticked up for science and technology on late night in the last week of January.  On the January 26 repeat of The Late Show, you could catch host Stephen Colbert lacerating a recent...

  • Science and Technology Guests on Late Night, Week of January 20

    12 days ago
    • The ongoing dearth of science and technology content on the late night programs continues.  This past week was pretty light, though as is often the case, you could count on The Daily...

      NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

  • By Paul Homewood       When we talk about the impact of household energy bills of switching from gas to electricity, we need to bear in mind that electricity prices are going to be forced...

  • Oceans Warmer Than Ever Before–Claim BBC

    10 hours ago
  • By Paul Homewood     I spotted this on the BBC Newsround site, when I picked up the Greta story. BBC Newsround is the pretendy-serious news programme for kids. And this is the sort of...

  • Open Letter To Greta

    11 hours ago
    • By Paul Homewood h/t Phil Wood   Greta is to get her own BBC series! Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is getting her own TV series about the environment. The 17-year-old has...

      NoTricksZone

  • Germany’s onslaught on its famed automotive and production industries appears to be taking an economic toll as the country pushes ahead to go green by phasing out internal combustion...

  • Scientists: Oxygen & Nitrogen ‘Radiatively Important’ Greenhouse Gases With IR Absorption Temps Similar To CO2

    2 days ago
  • Earth’s atmosphere is made of 78% nitrogen (N2) and 21% oxygen (O2). The “consensus” view is N2 and O2 are not greenhouse gases (GHGs) and don’t absorb infrared radiation...

  • Germans On Course To Permanently Ruining Remaining Forests – To Protect The Climate

    3 days ago
    • Of good trees and bad trees: an unimaginable story By Die kalte Sonne (Text translated by P Gosselin) We have already reported about the very different views on trees in this blog. Perhaps...

      NEPC Blog Post of the Day

  • Mike Rose’s Blog: Some Thoughts on Character Education, Non-Cognitive Skills, Grit, and the Formation of Public Discourse about Education Beginning several decades ago with...

  • Gadfly on the Wall: The Ongoing Study of How and When Teachers Should Praise Students

    a day ago
  • Gadfly on the Wall: The Ongoing Study of How and When Teachers Should Praise Students Should teachers praise their students? It’s a simple question with a multiplicity of answers...

  • Janresseger: EdChoice Voucher Negotiations Break Down in Ohio: Four Questions Must Be Addressed in 60-Day Delay

    4 days ago
    • Janresseger: EdChoice Voucher Negotiations Break Down in Ohio: Four Questions Must Be Addressed in 60-Day Delay Rancor and confusion over the issue of EdChoice private school tuition...

      Victor Davis Hanson Private Papers

  • Victor Davis Hanson // National Review When candidate Donald Trump campaigned on calling China to account for its trade piracy, observers thought he was either crazy or dangerous...

  • Why Was The Steele Dossier Not Dismissed As A Fake?

    5 days ago
  • Please read the following article by my colleague Paul Gregory in Defining Ideas A cursory examination of the Steele Dossier should have convinced the...

  • Sebastian Gorka Radio: How President Trump broke the Left. Victor Davis Hanson with Sebastian Gorka

    6 days ago

    • The Moderate Voice

  • The post Roger Stone (Cartoon) appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

  • (JPDATED) All four prosecutors quit after Trump complaints about Stone sentencing and D.O.J scaled back sentencing recommendation

    6 hours ago
  • The 21st century may ultimately be seen as the time when Americans decided to inexorably shift the United States to a different form of government and norms than the Founding Fathers...

  • US Justice Dept pushes lower sentence for Roger Stone after Trump complaint

    7 hours ago
    • Washington (AFP) – The US Justice Department is intervening to override its own prosecutors and seek a lower prison sentence for Roger Stone, a former campaign advisor of President...

      Marginal REVOLUTION

  • Ann Lovell had never owned a passport before last year. Now, the 62-year-old teacher is a frequent flier, traveling every few months to Tijuana, Mexico, to buy medication for rheumatoid...

  • Tuesday assorted links

    11 hours ago
  • 1. “Chaos erupted outside a popular Brooklyn brewery Friday night, when an apparently annoyed craft-beer hater pulled a gun on a long line of people who were waiting to buy the latest...

  • Peter Thiel reviews Ross Douthat

    13 hours ago
    • The word “self-recommending” now takes on a stronger meaning yet, here is the review.  Here are the closing two paragraphs: It is a paradox of our time that the path to radical...

      Lloyd Lofthouse

    • Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: I fear we are becoming insensitive to shock in the Trump era. And the very concept of “government ethics” seems to be an oxymoron in this...

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  • VIDEO - At the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid, The New American magazine's foreign correspondent was minding his own business asking people for their...

  • Limbaugh Lung Cancer Announcement Rocks the Right

    8 days ago
  • Near the end of his three-hour long daily program on Monday, radio legend Rush Limbaugh announced that he has been diagnosed with “advanced” lung cancer...

  • Never Trumper Neocon Bill Kristol Declares Himself a Democrat — for Now

    8 days ago
    • Surprising literally no one, former GOP pundit Bill Kristol has declared himself a Democrat — at least for now.

      MintPress News

  • America has been a warring nation—a military empire intent on occupation and conquest—for so long that perhaps we, the citizens of this warring nation, have forgotten what it...

  • Buttigieg Campaign Aggressively Targeting Progressive Activists, Media

    12 hours ago
  • Between efforts to censor information critical of Buttigieg on social media and harass independent media outlets and their reporters at his rallies, it appears that a concerted...

  • How Trump’s “Peace” Plan Will Redraw Israel’s Borders to Exclude to Non-Jews

    15 hours ago
    • Trump's new Middle East "Peace" Plan will redraw Israeli borders to exclude towns with large populations of Arab citizens, an attempt, writes Miko Peled, to force them down the totem...

      Made from Truth and Lies

  • On Children's Books, Pigs and Trains and Why We're Still Talking about Kevin(tags:gender writing books )EU clamps down on free ports over crime and terrorism links(tags:crime terrorism...

  • Interesting Links for 10-02-2020

    2 days ago
  • This is the kind of story that never happens to me. And I'm pretty happy about that(tags:toilets religion mysteries weird )Some fascinating history of "Penny Dreafuls"(tags:publishing...

  • Interesting Links for 09-02-2020

    3 days ago
    • The assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand: a science fictional expansion(tags:scifi assassination history timetravel viaSteer )Knives Out, Last Jedi DP has a plan to end...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today

  • Scientists have successfully destroyed cancer cells in mice by using copper-based nanoparticles and immunotherapy.  Importantly, the cancer did not return...

  • Medical News Today: Could a probiotic prevent or reverse Parkinson's?

    20 days ago
  • Scientists recently tested probiotics in a roundworm model of Parkinson’s. A particular bacterium had a protective effect and improved symptoms.

  • Medical News Today: Catnip: What do we know about the feline drug?

    21 days ago
    • Catnip is the most famous stimulant for cats. How does it work, why does it not affect all cats, and are there any catnip alternatives? We investigate...

      www.gurukalehuru.com

  • Well, we’ll see in the morning (Central European Time) who won in New Hampshire. I expect a solid Bernie win, but after the bullshit they pulled in Iowa, I am very, very nervous.I did...

  • Rainy Day

    a day ago
  • It was raining like a bastard when I got up this morning and left the flat at 7:30 to catch the train up to beautiful Kralupy nad Vltavou, where I teach for a couple of hours every Monday.My...

  • Red Flag in Nevada

    2 days ago
    • Emma Goldman has been named Voter Protection Director for the Nevada Democratic Caucus. It’s nice that they realize the need for a voter protection director, especially after...

      Fragments from Floyd

  • It is a fact (barring worse-case outcomes in the real estate realm) that this date a year from now, I will not be sitting at this desk in this room at these coordinates on Planet Earth...

  • More Shorts for Cold Weather

    8 days ago
  • Here is served more high-fiber roughage, I suppose, that helps keep the old information digestion system moving regularly. One has to take the time to slow down and spend a few moments...

  • Contagion: Contained?

    9 days ago
    • As a biologist, I’ve always been interested in epidemiology of disease, and as a zoologist, particular those that originate in wild or domestic animals. And so there has been quite...

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    11 February - iGoogle Portal - Tab 8

    Love Is Not Forcing Them To Change But Pushing Them To Do Better

    6 days ago

  • Finding love these days is not easy, yet when we do, it seems everyone wants the other person to change. Accept your partner for who they are, cause that is who you feel in love with. Why...

  • How I Stopped Living While Parenting

    11 days ago
  • The vital part of being a better parent is a good dose of selfishness, self-worth, and self-regard. You may not think so, but it does take a great deal of selflessness to be a parent. There’s...

  • Ways To Shift Your Mental Focus From Negative To Positive

    14 days ago

    • Having a positive perspective is not always easy, as there are loads of things that can take away your positive focus. Yet vibrating higher enables you to align yourself with your higher...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Scientists have successfully destroyed cancer cells in mice by using copper-based nanoparticles and immunotherapy.  Importantly, the cancer did not return...

  • Medical News Today: Could a probiotic prevent or reverse Parkinson's?

    20 days ago
  • Scientists recently tested probiotics in a roundworm model of Parkinson’s. A particular bacterium had a protective effect and improved symptoms.

  • Medical News Today: Catnip: What do we know about the feline drug?

    21 days ago

    • Catnip is the most famous stimulant for cats. How does it work, why does it not affect all cats, and are there any catnip alternatives? We investigate...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetThe raging debate about whether public money should fund private religious education is a very old one. What’s new is the increasingly complex education landscape and the...

  • History Wars: How Politics Shape Textbooks

    20 days ago
  • TweetWhat are students learning about American history in these hyper-polarized times? That’s what New York Times reporter Dana Goldstein wanted to know. And so she set off on...

  • The Rural Schools Conundrum

    a month ago

    • TweetHave You Heard heads to rural Wisconsin to investigate a puzzle. Communities in the “reddest” parts of the state keep voting to hike their own taxes to pay for schools, even...

      Chicago Boyz



  • There seems to be a very large overlap between the political and social opinions of academics–a group which is very highly-educated, at least if we measure by time spent in the classroom–and...

  • Different Perspective

    9 hours ago
  • Update: There may already be a challenge to some of this at my own site. So feel free. Modern historians like looking at things from different angles.  Though this has been increasingly...

  • How to Think About 2019-nCov

    3 days ago

    • In the wake of Ebola, NVD-68, and Zika, we should have all learned our lesson by now. We haven’t. This is 2020—Iowans took a week to count the votes of 5% of their population, and an...

      Centinel2012



  • THE DEMOCRATS’ VERY BAD, ROUGH WEEK. TRUMP “DOG WALKS” THE DEMOCRATS! PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD HIS BEST WEEK IN HIS PRESIDENCY. AND IT KEEPS GETTING BETTER! Impeachment FINALLY...

  • Immoral Choice? Study Shows Fetus Feels Abortion Pain Earlier Than 24 Weeks

    9 hours ago
  • Bill Whittle 152K subscribers The Patriot Post is America’s News Digest. Find out why: http://bit.ly/2RztXJh —— A Journal of Medical Ethics study, written by a consultant...

  • Chinese Tourism Has Come to a Halt

    10 hours ago

    • Armstrong Economics Blog/China Re-Posted Feb 11, 2020 by Martin Armstrong Anyone who has been traveling these past few years will notice the changes in tourism. Back in the ’90s...

      The BRAD BLOG



  • As usual, we cover far too much on today's BradCast, as New Hampshire voters head to the polls for their first-in-the-nation primary today. Full reported results from NH tomorrow...

  • 'Green News Report' - February 11, 2020

    9 hours ago
  • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Good news and bad news in Australia, as destructive storms extinguish catastrophic wildfires; Bumblebees are disappearing, because of climate change...

  • Dem Battle Rages After Iowa Mess Despite Candidate Calls for Unity: 'BradCast' 2/10/2020

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    • On today's BradCast: We get you all caught up after Friday night's lively Democratic debate in New Hampshire --- which included many calls for unity by most of the candidates --- and...

      bluebird of bitterness



  • A heart is lurking somewhere in this group of snails. See if you can find it.

  • Monday chuckles

    2 days ago
  • An oldie but goodie. (WARNING: CRUDE LANGUAGE)

  • Sunday funnies

    3 days ago


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  • Beyond Nuclear wishes to express our heartfelt congratulations and thanks to the Saugeen Ojibwe Nation (S.O.N.) for its courage and wisdom. See the S.O.N. vote results, as well as...

  • Saugeen Ojibway Nation votes no on deep geologic repository at Bruce Power

    5 days ago
  • From Gordon Edwards in Ontario: The Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON) has voted against Ontario Power Generation’s Deep Geological Disposal (DGR) project, planned to house all of...

  • “Whoops”, take two, Washington State eyes Small Modular Reactors

    6 days ago

    • U.S. NRCEnergy Northwest, Washington State’s public utility, has announced that it will conduct a $2 million feasibility study for the inclusion of Small Modular Reactors (SMR)...

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  • The use of bacteria, viruses and other biological agents as weapons of war has a long and gut-wrenching history. From the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, using corpses...

  • Joaquin Phoenix Rambles About Cow Insemination in Latest Hollywood Bid to Distract From Weinstein

    a day ago
  • People realize the stunts at the Oscars were all about distracting from the fact Hollywood is run by perverted sex criminals like Harvey Weinstein, right?...

  • Journalist Abby Martin Sues State of Georgia Over Law Requiring Pledge of Allegiance to Israel

    a day ago

    • After refusing to sign a pledge of allegiance to the state of Israel, the state of Georgia shut down a media literacy conference featuring journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin at Georgia...

      Research Digest



  • By Emma Young. Children avoided learning from actors who were confident but didn't really have relevant knowledge.

  • Leaders Show Distinct Body Language Depending On Whether They Gain Authority Through Prestige Or Dominance

    2 days ago
  • By Emma Young. Distinct physical displays let others know how to respond to high-ranking individuals.

  • Sad Songs And Smartphones: The Week’s Best Psychology Links

    5 days ago

    • Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web Recent years have seen a proliferation of…

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • Nature photographers often zip on warm coats before lugging their cameras into the wintry outdoors. Dornith Doherty, an artist and professor at the University of North Texas, bundles...

  • How the United Arab Emirates Became the Center of Falconry’s Gyre

    7 hours ago
  • This story is excerpted and adapted from Joshua Hammer’s The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird. In 1839, a 22-year-old aspiring...

  • The Grave of Thomas Thetcher in Hampshire, England

    7 hours ago

    • During the late 18th century, Thomas Thetcher was a much respected soldier by his fellow grenadiers in the North Hants Militia. He was so revered that when he tragically died, his fellow...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • Downed cats.

  • Tuesday Morning Links

    14 hours ago
  • This and that for your Tuesday reading. - Fiona Harvey writes about the perfect storm of environmental crises leaving us at risk of societal collapse. And Tim Flannery calls out the...

  • Monday Morning Links

    2 days ago

    • Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Annie Lowrey writes about the affordability crisis which has left most Americans in dire financial straits even as aggregate economic...
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    11 February - iGoogle Portal - Tab 7 - MSM News

  • The company debuted a premium folding smartphone with a flexible glass screen. Here's what it's like to hold it.

  • The US Fears Huawei Because It Knows How Tempting Backdoors Are

    4 hours ago
  • US officials allege that Huawei has backdoors in its technology. The US knows firsthand how powerful those can be.

  • Coronavirus Has a Name: The Deadly Disease Is Covid-19

    4 hours ago
    • The virus that causes it is SARS-CoV-2. (We didn't say they were *good* names.)

      NYT > Home Page

  • Amy Klobuchar was firmly in third. The Times is providing live updates and political analysis.

  • Andrew Yang Drops Out of Presidential Race

    32 minutes ago
  • Mr. Yang, an entrepreneur with no previous political experience, mounted a long-shot presidential campaign that promoted a universal basic income and persisted well beyond expectations...

  • Michael Bennet Drops Out of the 2020 Presidential Race

    30 minutes ago
    • Mr. Bennet, a senator from Colorado, took a middle path in the race for the Democratic nomination. He failed to make gains in the polls and with donors...

      India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Ti


  • 'Has Cong outsourced task of defeating BJP to regional parties?' Sharmistha slams Chidambaram

    36 minutes ago

  • Delhi assembly elections: What worked & what didn't

    an hour ago
    • In another landslide victory, Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP won 62 of 70 seats, which translates into a strike rate of 90 per cent.

      BBC News - UK

  • Tech firms will need to ensure that illegal content is quickly removed from their platforms.

  • Automatic compensation for energy switch errors

    4 hours ago
  • Victims of switching mistakes will be paid £30 automatically under the new scheme which starts in May.

  • David Hockney's The Splash fetches £23.1m at auction

    8 hours ago


    • The British artist's painting, depicting the moment after a diver hits the water, is sold at Sotheby's.

      Reuters: World News

  • China on Wednesday reported its lowest number of new coronavirus cases since late January, lending credence to a prediction from the country's senior medical adviser that the outbreak...

  • China's aviation regulator hopes countries will lift virus-related travel curbs soon

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  • China's aviation regulator said on Wednesday that it hopes countries will lift virus-related travel restrictions as soon as possible, in line with guidance from the World Health...

  • Mexico City killing sparks fury over violence against women

    28 minutes ago
    • The gruesome murder of a 25-year-old woman in Mexico's capital has unleashed outrage among authorities and rights groups after leaked photos of her mutilated body appeared on the...
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