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College hoops season starts with a military flair

The college basketball season gets under way Friday with a game at a Europe military base, two more aboard Navy ships and another featuring a reshaped national champion playing in a brand new building.

No. 14 Michigan State plays Connecticut, in its first game since the retirement of coach Jim Calhoun, at Ramstein Air Base in Kaiserslautern, Germany. It's the first game between Division I teams held in Europe.

Then it's on to the decks for No. 4 Ohio State against Marquette on the USS Yorktown in Charleston, S.C., and Georgetown facing No. 10 Florida on the USS Battan in Jacksonville, Fla.

No. 3 Kentucky, the defending national champion with a heralded freshman class, plays Maryland in the first college doubleheader at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Associated Press

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3 Online Marketing Tips from a Traveling Entrepreneur | Small ...

Posted on 08. Nov, 2012 by Betsy Talbot in Blog, content marketing, Entrepreneurship, Featured, Small Business Internet Marketing, Small Business Marketing

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When we last traveled together, we learned a few things about business from Asian food carts, ancient ruins in Peru, and Chinese dumpling shops.

You picked up handy souvenirs for your business like getting started as soon as possible, creating a catalog, and getting personal with your customers.

On today?s tour, we?ll be visiting the remote outpost of Siberia, stylish apartments in Denmark, and discover why you can find an Irish pub in every city in the world.

For those of you new to our 3-part tour, my name is Betsy Talbot, and in 2010 my husband Warren and I left the US for an open-ended trip around the world.

As we?ve simultaneously traveled and published and promoted our books, we?ve learned invaluable marketing lessons from some unlikely sources and today we?re sharing three more of those with you.

Got your walking shoes on?

The tour starts now.

Neutralize stereotypes

Siberia is an isolated place. It takes 48 hours to get there by train from Ulan Bator, Mongolia, in itself not an easy place to get to. It is truly the middle of nowhere, earning its rightful place in every joke about about remote destinations.

But once you finally get there, you?ll be surprised to find groves of birch trees and wildflowers wherever you look, one of world?s largest freshwater lakes, and clean, well-constructed cities with skinny-jeaned hipsters sharing the broad sidewalks with traditional babushkas in headscarves. The middle of nowhere is a surprisingly modern and colorful place.

You know what else you?ll find? Blazing fast Internet.

We were so surprised by this fact that we asked a US friend if it was the new norm and we had just missed it by traveling in remote areas for so long. She was as surprised at our speeds as we were, and we marveled at how such an isolated place could be so ?ber-connected.

When I think about Siberia now, I think of bright colors, crisp, cold tap water from Lake Baikal and screaming fast Internet, 3 things I would not have associated with it before. Had I known Siberia was so connected, I might not have waited so long to visit.

Your potential customers may harbor similar incorrect stereotypes about your business. ?They dismiss your products and services as an option for them because they have outdated or false information.

It?s up to you to correct this.

  • Surprise people with a reality check. Your business may catch a lot of unfair heat due to outdated media portrayals, such as ambulance-chasing lawyers, slimy used-car salespeople, or even money-grubbing Internet marketers. (And yes, if you sell a product, idea, or service online, you are an Internet marketer.) Proudly proclaim what you do and just why you were drawn to it in the first place.
  • Turn your quirks into talking points. Your business may not get fully colored by these false perceptions, but you may be battling the stereotypes that go with your age, sex, or geographic location. Instead of trying to ignore it, speak up and tell people why they should work with a female auto parts store owner, a 25-year-old life coach, or a filmmaker in Siberia.
  • Challenge your own stereotypes about your audience. Do you know why they buy from you? Why they don?t buy from you? We often think we do, but we neglect to do the one thing that would give us the answer: asking. Bust the stereotypes you have of your customers by emailing or phoning a few and simply asking them what they like about your offers and what?s missing for them. Gain fresh understanding and build a whole new product at the same time.

Case Study: Copyblogger?s Internet Marketing for Smart People?de-sleazes the maligned art of selling online. For those who want to sell something online but not be that guy, this is a powerful and common-sense approach, and this is how they appeal to their market.

Provide unexpected delights

When we reached Copenhagen, Denmark, we were on the next-to-last leg of our 6-month journey from Thailand to Portugal. It had been an 11-hour train travel day, and we were looking forward to a couple of days of downtime before boarding the ship that would stop at our official end-point of Lisbon, Portugal.

As we did in many locations in Russia and Europe, we booked an apartment through a service for our short stay. Many times this option is cheaper and more comfortable than a hostel or small hotel, and it allows us to ?live like a local.? We exchanged emails with Martin, the apartment owner, and he said he would meet us at the train station to take us there. We were a bit surprised since no apartment owner had ever offered to do this before.

Along the way, he told us bits about the history and geography of Copenhagen and suggested things to do during our short stay. He pointed out landmarks that would make it easy for us to orient ourselves, and he told us how to work the bus and metro systems.

He pointed out the closest grocery store and bakery for our shopping. Once there, he offered us coffee or beer to drink and showed us the breakfast supplies he had stocked in the refrigerator for us.

We were not expecting this level of hospitality in a short-term rental, and we were blown away by Martin?s attention to detail.??As long-term travelers, we are heavy users of this kind of rental service, and we have never had such a welcoming experience with a host.

These rentals thrive on positive reviews, and visitors to major cities like Copenhagen have dozens of apartments from which to choose. Martin has invested very little time and money to make sure his reviews are always terrific, which is why his apartment is almost always rented.

Small, unexpected delights do not have to cost you a lot of time or money, but they will pay big rewards in loyalty and referrals from your clients. For instance, here I am writing a post about Martin to thousands of international readers who might just rent from him some day.

  • Put yourself in your customer?s shoes. What would make the use of your product or service more pleasant for them? A small touch like a card, a followup email, or an unexpected article on a related subject can bring a happy customer to loyal fan status.
  • Overcome any objections to your service or product before they have a chance to be voiced. Martin knew his apartment was a bit hard to find at night from the train station, so he took us himself. He neutralized a possible negative in a customer review (critical for his future sales).
  • Show customers how to best enjoy your product or service. Martin helped us enjoy our time better in Copenhagen by explaining the bus and metro system, highlighting Danish foods we should try, and recommending sights for our limited time frame?. He?s selling more than a bed for a night, and he knows it. You are also selling more than just your product or service. You are selling an experience.

Case Study:?When we published our last book, Strip Off Your Fear: Slip Into Something More Confident, we included a book club party planner?with?a suggested menu, a playlist on iTunes, and a custom cocktail recipe designed by a friend. The topic of worrying about what other people think is important, but it doesn?t mean it has to be dull.

Keep it familiar

It doesn?t matter where you travel in this world, you can almost always find these 3 things: Kit-Kat bars, orange soda, and an Irish pub. It?s a little bit of comfort to see this trusty trio in a far-flung destination, and more often than not you?ll also find plenty of Western ?traveler-friendly? restaurants.

These restaurants always sell pizza, spaghetti, hamburgers, and coffee. In areas heavily visited by Aussies, you?ll also find vegemite and marmite on the menu. The Brits get their gin & tonics plus proper English breakfast tea. Shops catering to the French will always have bread and imported cheese, and of course the Belgians and Germans get their beers from home. I?ve read that there are more Irish living outside of Ireland than in it, so that explains the abundance of Irish pubs in the world.

You?ll see signs out front of these shops like ?We speak English? to call out to passing travelers. These places are always busy, even when there are better and cheaper food options from local merchants. The food often isn?t even that good in comparison to home (try getting a delicious hamburger in a country that doesn?t eat much bread or beef), but it doesn?t stop travelers from stopping in.

Whether they?ve been gone for a week or a year, these foreigners just want a taste of home, a reminder of where they came from, and something easy in a land that is sometimes complicated for them.

If your type of business is complicated or unusual to a segment of your market, making it familiar using their language and customs or showing you understand their needs will go a long way in recruiting new business.

  • Use case studies or testimonials to show customers how your product or service has worked for other people just like them. When they see another mother, writer, salesman, traveler, or homeowner using your product successfully, they can envision themselves using it, too.
  • Call out to your less savvy customers so they know you understand them. Dali SEO Company?promises ?SEO so easy your mother could do it.? The thought of learning SEO can be daunting for a solo entrepreneur already overloaded with work, but since we all think we?re more Internet-savvy than our moms this is a powerful line.
  • Sell the end result, not the product. A grandmother who has always talked to her grandkids via phone won?t necessarily see the benefit of Skype until she realizes she can see them as they talk. She may not care about the technology, but she does care about seeing her grandkids as they grow up, especially if she lives far away. Make your product or service relatable to your customer?s existing lifestyle.

Case Study:?PEMCO Insurance in Seattle, Washington has a funny campaign called, We?re a Lot Like You (A Little Different). It highlights the quirky people in the Pacific Northwest, like Sandals and Socks Guy, Accidental Tech Millionaire, and Relentless Recycler. The ads are funny, and they inspire Pacific Northwesterners to choose a local company for their insurance needs rather than a national one.

Taking your souvenirs home

This concludes today?s tour. In summary, your souvenirs include:

  • A used train ticket to Siberia to prove to everyone you?ve actually been to the middle of nowhere (and a reminder to counter the stereotypes in your own business)
  • A delicious slice of Danish bread to inspire unexpected delights for your own customers
  • A Kit-Kat bar to recall the need to make your offerings familiar to the visitors who come to your site

When you get back home, you can use this trio of reminders to bash stereotypes in your business, add unexpected perks to people who do business with you, and instantly communicate with visitors who don?t necessarily speak your business language.

Remember, no matter where you travel, even if it is just to your local bakery to buy a Danish for breakfast, there are business lessons all around. Learn to view the world like a traveler and you?ll pick up every one.

About the Author: Betsy Talbot and her husband Warren provide realistic advice for unrealistic dreamers every week at Married with Luggage. They?ve been traveling the world since 2010 and have no plans to settle down.?Find out how to harness your own big dream ? mentally, socially, and financially ? in their how-to guide, Dream Save Do.

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The Death of a Slave-Catcher


The Death of a Slave-Catcher - William Grigg

Ogden Police Officer Jared Francom was fatally shot during a raid on the home of Matthew David Stewart last January 4. Francom was part of a twelve-man SWAT team attached to the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force, a federally subsidized counter-narcotics squad.

A few weeks earlier, a woman named Stacy Wilson who had broken up with Stewart called the Strike Force snitch line to report that Stewart was cultivating marijuana on his property. After three attempts to conduct a ?knock and talk? search of the home, the Strike Force obtained a warrant for a nighttime paramilitary raid ? despite the fact that they didn?t even bother to do a background check on the accuser.

In familiar fashion, the SWAT team knocked on the front door, shouted ?Search warrant!? and immediately broke into the home with a battering ram. Stewart barricaded himself in a room and began shooting. Francom was shot six times, although it?s possible he was hit by ?friendly fire.? Five other officers were wounded, as was Stewart, who was arrested in a shed outside his home. He has been charged with one count of aggravated murder and seven counts of attempted aggravated murder. The state intends to seek the death penalty.

A search of the home turned up a handful of marijuana plants. Stewart, a veteran, insists that he used marijuana to treat a variety of physical and psychological conditions that are the residue of his time in the military. He also maintains that he didn?t know that the armed invaders ? some of whom had long hair intended to make them look like gang-bangers -- were police officers.

Would you let them into your home? Strike Force members receive an award.

This is a potentially significant detail.

In early September, Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill determined that a man named Priest Jemelle Mitchell was justified in killing an intruder named Brandon Saunders ? despite the fact that Saunders was unarmed. Infuriated to learn that Mitchell was involved with his ex-wife, Saunders broke down the door of her apartment. Mitchell responded by fatally shooting Saunders.

After reviewing the evidence, Gill concluded that the act of kicking in the door constituted trespassing with intent to commit an act of violence, and Mitchell was justified in believing that he faced ?imminent peril and threat of injury.?
If this is true of a situation in which an unarmed, jealous ex-husband threatens a man who was in his ex-wife?s apartment, how would the same standard not apply to a man confronting six heavily armed strangers who had broken down his door in a nighttime raid?

The men who barged into Stewart?s home insist that they identified themselves as police. But the same was true of the people who raided the Sandy, Utah residence of Clayton Green in early October. In that case, however, the assailants were private sector criminals posing as their state-licensed counterparts.

Mr. Green was greeted at his door by a man wearing police garb, displaying a badge, and demanding access to their home. A few seconds later, Green and his wife were thrown to the floor and handcuffed with zip ties. They were held gunpoint while burglars ransacked the home. Although the Sandy Police Department admits that this incident was not an isolated case, they refuse to say how frequently this kind of thing happens in Utah.

A few days after the incident at the Green family?s home, another armed raid was carried out against an elderly couple in Salt Lake City. Michael and Teresa Ryan were terrorized by an armed gang that busted down their front door and held them at gunpoint. This time, it was the police ? specifically, a federally supervised joint narcotics task force ? who committed this act of terrorism.

According to Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank, the only problem with the second raid was that it took place at the wrong address. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Frank Smith, whose agency participated in the assault, blithely explained that ?law enforcement, unfortunately, is not a perfect science.?
Todd Blair of Roy, Utah was another victim of the imperfect ?science? of paramilitary drug enforcement.

At about 10 PM on September 16, 2010, Blair was in the basement of his home when he heard footsteps and the voices of strangers at the back door. Apparently thinking that he was being robbed, Blair grabbed a golf club and went upstairs to confront the trespassers ? who were agents of the same Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force that would invade Michael Stewart?s home roughly a year and a half later.

The no-knock raid at Blair?s home was carried out on the basis of a single, anonymous tip that he was selling meth and heroin. After gunning down Blair, the officers were able to scour up less than half an ounce of marijuana.

Following the standard perfunctory and predictable official review, the fatal shooting of Blair by Sgt. Troy Burnett was ruled a ?justifiable? use of force by Weber County Attorney Dee Smith ? the same official who is now determined to execute Matthew Stewart.

The institutional response to the needless violent death of Todd Blair was the equivalent of a ?sucks to be you? shrug. This was decidedly not the case after the death of Officer Francom.

?We have lost and brother and will grieve this loss knowing that officer Francom laid down his life for his friends and community,? lamented Weber County Sheriff Terry Thompson during a press conference following the shooting. He also praised ?all of our heroes in the public safety family who have stepped up this day to the task of caring for our wounded warriors.?

That expression shouldn?t be dismissed as a specimen of melodramatic rhetoric: Like nearly everybody in their profession, Sheriff Thompson and the members of the Strike Force see themselves as waging war on the population they supposedly serve ? and they demand the unqualified support and admiration of that same population.

Carrying out its duty as a state-aligned media organ, the Deseret News used the death of Jared Francom as an excuse to lecture Mundanes about what we are to consider the peril-forged bond of shared by our uniformed overlords:

?When the shots were fired in a Wednesday night drug raid, killing one officer and wounding five others, the shots may as well have been fired at all of Weber County law enforcement. Those shots also may as well have been fired at all of Utah law enforcement and police officers in this country ? such is the solidarity, such is the bond. The men who work the streets, those who moved on to desk jobs, the women on patrol or the detectives who work sex crimes come from one family. And you don't understand unless you've been there.?

Salt Lake City NBC affiliate KSL described Francom?s death as ?a startling example of the dangers drug enforcement officers face.? Naturally, it didn?t describe that fatal paramilitary raid ? or the one that resulted in the murder of Todd Blair ? as a ?startling example? of the dangers drug enforcement officers pose to the public.

The Sunday following the shooting, the entire Ogden Police Department was allowed to take the day off ? with pay ? in order to deal with its collective bereavement. Utah Governor Gary Herbert ordered flags to be flown at half-staff. The following month, the Utah Legislature held a brief ceremony to honor Francom. During the ceremony, Representative Brad Dee, who represents Ogden, praised Francom for answering the call ?to step between good and evil.?

Francom?s funeral at Ogden?s Dee Events Center was attended by 4,000 people, including hundreds of police officers, Governor Herbert, and Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee.

In his remarks at the event, Troy Combs, who was Bishop of Francom?s Mormon congregation, recalled that the officer had grown his hair long as part of his undercover work. In addition to being a police officer, Francom was a Sunday School teacher, Bishop Combs related, and for the kids the experience was like ?being taught by Jesus.? This assumes, of course, that the Savior?s day job involved kicking down doors and terrorizing people for consuming substances of which the government disapproves.

?Jared?s was a tragic death,? continued Bishop Combs. ?He was murdered in the line of duty. But he did it serving and protecting.?

The first of those statements is an indisputable fact: Jared Francom was an irreplaceable individual ? a husband and father ? who died in a needless and preventable episode of violence. The second statement is morally unsupportable: Michael Stewart was defending his home against armed strangers he may not have recognized as police officers, and who in any case were not acting as peace officers. The third statement is unambiguously false: The actions of Francom and his comrades at Matthew Stewart?s home had nothing to do with protecting the rights of anybody.

Through his work with a paramilitary unit enforcing drug prohibition, Jared Francom ?protected and served? the public in exactly the same sense that 19th Century Deputy U.S. Marshal James Batchelder did in his work enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act.

In early 1854, a young man named Anthony Burns escaped the custody of a Virginia man named Charles Settle, who claimed to ?own? him. After Burns had settled down and found gainful work, an informant recognized him as an escaped slave and contacted the authorities. Batchelder was sent to Boston for the purpose of returning Burns to his previous condition of servitude.(Interestingly, this process was called ?rendition.?) The marshal quickly located Burns and ? after using the pretext of a bogus robbery investigation to place him under arrest -- locked him in the federal courthouse.

News of this abduction provoked an immediate response from local abolitionists, who organized an armed posse to liberate Burns from his captors. In the ensuing skirmish, Batchelder was fatally shot, but the police retained custody of Burns.

Wanting to avoid further bloodshed, Burns ? a devout Christian ? asked his supporters not to attempt another rescue. A few days later, Burns was escorted to a ship bound for Virginia. The rendition took place under the watchful eyes of 1,600-man military contingent sent by President Franklin Pierce to deter any further efforts to liberate Burns.

Like Jared Francom, James Batchelder died in the line of duty. Both of their names are inscribed in the ?Officer Down Memorial Page.?

?To have faced a mob as a law officer, especially in the days of only the gun and the badge -- and little else -- is the very core of bravery no matter the circumstances,? declares a tribute posted in honor of the slave-catcher. ?To have taken a bullet in the name of the law deems one a hero among heroes. Long live such bravery and honor.?

Apart from those who belong to the Sanctified Brotherhood of Official Coercion, is there anybody today who would regard James Batchelder as a ?hero,? and consider his death a noble ?sacrifice??

Anyone burdened with a conscience should recognize that dying in an effort to enslave another human being is ignominious, rather than honorable. Although few police officers are aware of Batchelder?s ?sacrifice,? they routinely celebrate the purported valor of officers who meet their mortal end while employing violence to enforce government policies rooted in a denial of self-ownership.

Drug prohibition is a subset of slavery ? in both its philosophical premise (the denial of individual self-ownership) and its role in creating a huge and growing population of people in chains. A hundred years from now, assuming that Jesus tarries and Americans rediscover rational thinking, drug enforcement officers will be seen for what they genuinely are: The heirs and successors to 19th Century slave-catchers.

Source: http://www.goldismoney2.com/showthread.php?39320-The-Death-of-a-Slave-Catcher

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Charleston Voice: Narco News: The Day the Internet Died

By the Narco News School of Authentic Journalism
An Oral History of the Egyptian Revolution

October?29,?2012

Publisher?s Note: As we were preparing this page for publication on October 29, the post-tropical storm that ravaged the east coast of the United States caused massive power outages and put more than eight million people in the dark. The New York City building that houses Narco News? Internet server lost electricity, our server was successfully transferred to
an onsite power generator, but soon after that flooding downed the fuel pumps to the generator, and all our websites were no longer available online until 6 a.m. this morning.

It was an experience eerily relevant to the title of this page: The Day the Internet Died. One of the reasons we didn?t panic is that we had already heard the testimony of the Egyptians who speak on this page about their own experience ? during the revolution of 2011 ? when it was a regime, and not the weather, that shut down the entire Internet and cell phone system throughout the country.

They triumphed in toppling a dictator not just in spite of the attack on their main communications systems, but also, paradoxically, at least in part because of it. If you doubt that, or think it incredible, you?ll probably find their testimonies about their own lived experience very interesting, or at least very challenging to the assumptions of many that technology ? and not people ? is what makes change happen today.

Since 2000, Narco News has reported about many social movements, community organizing and civil resistance campaigns. Some succeeded in their goals. Others did not. In this work we have found common practices shared by many victorious struggles, and common errors or missteps shared by many that did not succeed.

The sum of lessons learned through reporting thousands of these stories in many lands today becomes the basis for a massive, free, online and multimedia resource that Narco News, with the scholars and professors of our school, have begun preparing for The School of Authentic Journalism?s Manual to Change the World. This page you are reading right now is the very first lesson presented of many to come.

The Manual will feature more pages, like this one, with the testimony of the Egyptians on how they accomplished the first step of their revolution ? toppling the dictator ? and continue advancing toward the longer-term goal of toppling the dictatorship.

The Manual will also include stories of how civil resistance and organizing battles in other lands were won, and also checklists and ?how to? lessons from authentic journalists who reported them to share their skills and experiences so that anyone can learn and apply them ? in writing and reporting, video and audio, and use of the Internet ? to report on the social movements in the present and the future. With this Manual, we are taking another step forward in making the lessons and curriculum of the School of Authentic Journalism available to the entire world, gratis.

Applications to the April 2013 School of Authentic Journalism are due November 18. Consult this announcement for more information.

Egypt: The Day the Internet Died
In March 2011, just weeks after the Egyptian Revolution brought the fall of the dictator Hosni Mubarak, the Narco News School of Authentic Journalism went to Cairo to interview key participants about their direct lived experience during those historic moments.
We asked each of them these questions:
On Friday January 28 the regime turned off the Internet. Did that change your experience of the revolution?
If you are someone who had spent a lot of time online before then, how did you spend those newly free hours during the four or five days that there was no Internet?
And what do you think about claims by some international media that the Egypt resistance was a ?Twitter revolution? or ?Facebook revolution??
Did the shut down of the Internet hurt the cause or did it help? Why or why not?
Hosam El Gohary (member of the Youth for Justice and Freedom Movement): What happened that day was really strange. We were surprised by it. Starting Thursday at nine pm all SMS services were cut off and no one could send any text messages to any mobile network and no one could receive text messages.

The regime and the Interior Ministry in particular announced that on Friday all communications would be cut off for emergency reasons. That meant that all mobile networks would cease operations: there wouldn?t be any mobile communications. There wouldn?t be Internet. There wouldn?t be anything and of course we wouldn?t be able to communicate.

The regime did not want us to gather together and by turning off the Internet and cell phone systems they thought they would prevent us from reaching each other. They assumed that they would be able to separate us and keep us away from each other and that no one would be able to get to the others and therefore everybody going to the protest would not know where to go. They thought people would go all over the place and they would then be able to arrest them in groups or individually.


Ibrahim Mohammed (26-year-old communications worker, not affiliated with any organization or party): I work in one of the communications companies so of course I found out that the Internet would be cut, SMS services would be cut, the networks would be cut. So I started calling all my friends. That day, I had met people from various parties and movements, and also independent people, so I called them regardless of whichever one they were involved with. I started calling them and saying guys, take care, the internet will be cut at 12 o?clock, SMS services will be cut at 10 p.m. and cell phone networks will be cut at 6 a.m.,so whoever wants to send a message to someone should go ahead and do so. And whoever wants to get to someone or to specify a locations should get to them before this happens.Azza Soliman (homemaker): First, the Internet was cut off at night on January 27th. We felt afraid and worried, what will communication be like between people? And will we know how things are going? It was difficult, even the cell phones were cut off. But that didn?t scare us or make us say that we will not go down to the square. We said, ?We will go down. We will go down!? My daughter and son went down by themselves and from early morning, they were in Tahrir Square.

Mohammed Abbas (youth organizer in January 2011 for the Muslim Brotherhood):? Read more>>? Narco News: The Day the Internet Died

Source: http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2012/10/narco-news-day-internet-died.html

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