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TC-109: Technology for Conflict Management and Peacebuilding
I'll be teaching a course for TechChange on ICTs and peacebuilding next month. I'm really excited to be facilitating it, and I was really thrilled to see the final cut of the course introduction video we produced today:
Hopefully you'll join us, it's going to be a lot of fun and some awesome guests will be joining us to talk about their work in the peacebuilding and technology spaces!
Putting the 'political' back in political economy
I stumbled across an article in the New York Times a few days ago by Tyler Cowen of George Mason University and a regular contributor to the blog Marginal Revolution. Entitled "Income Inequality Is Not Rising Globally. It's Falling.", it takes a crack at attempting to indicate that while country-level income inequality is increasing the overall effects of globalization are leading to less aggregate income inequality globally, and that this is a good thing. I always enjoy reading Cowen's stuff even when I don't agree with him, and in this case I have a few contentions as a political scientist about his argument.
These contentions developed after seeing a comment from a friend on Facebook about the article. He noted that the key problem isn't income inequality, but wealth inequality. The way that income and growth are structured in the modern world, if you start from a position of higher wealth and asset ownership, the more you benefit from the structure of the global economy. If you rely on a bi-weekly paycheck though you face nothing but downward pressure on your economic position, unless you work in the information, research, governance, or financial sectors (which happen to all play key roles in globalization). Cowen though says that while this country-level trend is unfortunate, we shouldn't miss the point that globally income inequality has dropped. This is where I have my biggest contentions with the argument, since economics is about politics, and like Tip O'Neill said all politics is local.
To make his argument Cowen has to invert the relationship between people, politics and economic systems. In effect, he argues that we should be happy that while at the local (or national) level the economy might be a mess, it's important that at a global system level income inequality is decreasing. For this to hold up, we have to assume that systems, in this case the global economic system, are what people are responsive to, things that people can't or shouldn't be motivated to change. While Cowen is more humane than many of his libertarian counterparts, believing that safety nets should still exist for the workers who lose in national wealth inequality, he still makes what I think is a problematically common mistake in economics. Implicit to Cowen's argument is that economic systems exist in parallel or outside the impact of politics. Instead of discussing the tangible problem of increasing wealth and income inequality at the national level as something that can be changed through policy and intervention, he finds an abstract way to claim the system is working. This is a huge problem from a public policy perspective.
At a fundamental level Cowen's argument subverts the notion of representative democracy. The models of economy have become the ends in themselves, things that politicians and policy makers have applied normative value to, and thus try to shape laws and policy for. This is where the democracy problem comes in. In the United States, we ostensibly elect officials to create policies that support the public interest. When those representatives make economic policy that is based on a set of models that actually lead to massive inequality and economic hardship, they are no longer representing their constituents and instead are representing the abstract notion of market economics. If my congressional representative's response to a total failure of the economy in my district is to say "there may be no jobs and wages might be way too low, but at least on a global scale income equality is down" then they are not representing the needs of their constituents.
This is the inherent problem with Cowen's argument, and it has knock on effects since policy makers listen to him and other's from his school of thought. Essentially he is arguing that a system that has failed at the level where it matters (the citizen level) due to particular aspects of the socio-political nature of finance-driven markets shouldn't be changed at the local level because it seems, depending on how you
cook define the numbers, to be working at an abstract global level. It dehumanizes economics, which is an inherently very human enterprise. In case we forget our history, such things as the Reign of Terror, Communist revolutions, and Jesus's life and teachings were in response to fundamentally broken and/or exploitive economic systems. If tally the score in those three cases, it would be: System Maintenance 0 : 3 Revolutionary Uprising (and Violence).
Politicians and public intellectuals who focus on abstract and contorted ways to justify the maintenance of an economic system that tangibly fails the public would do well to heed the lessons of history. Abstract arguments about the way the global system is working won't mean much when the pitchforks come out at the local level.
Quick thoughts from the #Tech4PP Twitter chat
I followed (and even participated!) in NDI's Twitter chat today on using technology to increase political party and electoral participation. If you're interested you can find the thread by searching the hashtag '#Tech4PP'. There were a lot of good examples of tech being used to increase participation, make processes more transparent, and boost inclusion in the political process. Below are a few quick thoughts that supersede the character limit:
1) I thought it was interesting that the chat tended to center around software and hardware, of which there were many interesting examples, but I tended to see less about the human or legal components of the process. I think it's going to get really interesting to do experimental and empirical research on changes in political participation as social media and mobile based tools become increasingly available. ProTip for my academic friends who study political participation: look at this thread since it has a ton of examples you'd be interested in.
2) I saw a theme in the chat that asked about how we transition from digital outreach to human participation. I thought the framing was interesting since it set up technology as the causal mechanism of participation. I'm not sure I buy that directionality in a generalizable way; perhaps there are examples of this, but on average across cases I'd be inclined to think that the technology/participation relationship hinges more on the intervening variable of pre-existing political interest and knowledge of the issues within the community. I see a use for regression analysis here.
3) I threw a comment into the mix about the need to understand the regulatory and legal environment in a country where any kind of digital political participation software is being used. I'll admit I'm surprised I didn't see more on this topic, since it's a pretty fraught space. Some of the more interesting questions around data ownership, regulatory effects on access to technology, and the cost of broadband could play a significant role in the overall impact of technology on political participation.
These are just a few questions that came to mind as I followed the thread – it was a good one, and I think there are some really good examples of tech for political participation that can be pulled out of it by researchers who are interested in learning more about the space.
When Radio Goes Bad: RF communications and the increased violence in South Sudan
I was reading an update about the increasing ethnic violence in South Sudan forwarded to me by a colleague, and noted the fact that radio is being used to organize and encourage violence in South Sudan. For those who have studied or read about the genocide in Rwanda, radio was one of the key mediums employed by Hutu extremists for encouraging and organizing violence. I think there are significant socio-political differences between the increasing violence in South Sudan and the genocide in Rwanda, so I just want to focus on the challenges related to preventing the radio-driven organization of violence, since radio broadcasts encouraging targeted violence against civilians were heard during the recent massacre in Bentiu, South Sudan.
We have to start with the laws, regulations and norms of radio broadcasting and spectrum management. Broadcast spectrum has traditionally been treated as a public good, managed by governments. Indeed if we look at the language from the preamble from the recent revisions of the International Telecommunications Union's 2012 Radio Regulations, it's pretty state-centric. This gives broadcast spectrum a certain level of sovereignty, and traditionally there is a respect for that sovereignty – generally, jamming another country's broadcast frequencies is frowned upon, even though there's a long history of doing so for the purposes of tactical advantage during wartime or in pursuit of psychological operations during the Cold War. Basically, radio jamming historically isn't something that friendly or neutral countries (openly…) do to each other.
This is important, because along with apparently being expensive and inconvenient, the U.S Department of Defense used the spectrum sovereignty argument to avoid jamming hate-radio broadcasts during the Rwandan genocide. Would jamming hate radio have prevented the escalation and organization of violence? Unfortunately it's rhetorical question since the U.S. never tried, but I'd be inclined to say that it wouldn't have helped the organizers of the Rwandan genocide. In fairness, much of the organization on the ground was developed over extended periods of indoctrination and training of youth militias, so blocking radio wouldn't have stopped pre-determined operations that didn't rely on it. If anything it likely would have had the effect of a panopticon, forcing the organizers to realize there was a much bigger player involved that had the military capacity to selectively jam national communication infrastructure. At the very least this would have caused break downs in vertical communication, possibly giving some nominal advantage to the peacekeeping mission.
So how does this help us frame the disturbing news that radio is being used in South Sudan to encourage or organize violence? Unfortunately it's unlikely we're going to see large scale radio jamming operations; the governments with the ability to do that still have ongoing diplomatic missions in South Sudan, and using their military assets to jam transmission frequencies would probably be interpreted as a violation of sovereign control of spectrum, as well as a likely violation of South Sudanese airspace. There could be a role for SMS text and multimedia messaging to provide early warning, but the problem is that even if peacekeepers get the text messages, it's questionable whether they'd be able to protect at risk populations.
Unfortunately once violence hits a certain scale local violence prevention efforts, ICT supported or not, won't be enough to stop it. Crowdsourcing and ICTs merely become tools that aid in accounting for the violence unless the international community is willing to provide a peacekeeping mission that is manned and equipped to realistically protect the population.
NATO, the U.S. and Ukraine: A political economy of bad options?
Since I'm not an expert on Ukraine, the greater region it's situated in, or much of the history, I've primarily observed and absorbed the various op-eds, arguments and blog posts I've seen from others. I don't really have much to add about Ukraine or the politics of the region itself, but I have found the debate about what the best options are for the U.S. and NATO to be interesting. It seems that we're encountering the limits of security-centric foreign policy, and profit-at-all-costs national economic outlook. Russia isn't playing a complex game, the problem is that NATO and the U.S. don't have the right tools to counter Russia's fairly straight forward behavior.
As part of foreign policy, security is important, but it has limits. In the U.S. we have big military, big intelligence community, and relatively small everything else. Our military is powerful, but that's only useful if we're willing to use it; Russia knows we're unlikely to put troops on the ground in Ukraine, so they can be pretty provocative along the Ukrainian border and with their special forces. We have big intelligence, but so what? We're not going to put boots on the ground, and we're not winning the diplomatic game…so what's our massive intelligence apparatus gaining us? We're not going to invade, and our token support to Kiev in terms of materiel, Geneva agreements and IMF packages doesn't help much when the U.S. and NATO have no real leverage to change Russia's behavior.
If we're honest with ourselves, the U.S. has let it's diplomatic capacity and creativity wane quite a bit the last 20 years. I wouldn't say that U.S. diplomats are less talented, but I do think we have a pair of political economic problems that keep them from being able to be creative and offensive. We just unpacked one in the last paragraph; foreign policy is increasingly viewed as a security problem, so funding goes to security apparatus over diplomatic capacity. This has a knock on effect of causing anything not directly security related to effectively not be part of foreign policy. In principle energy policy, monetary and banking policy, and trade would be part of a strong foreign policy; in practice, they aren't really. I'd argue that this is a unfortunate outcome of a national economic zeitgeist that favors short term profit and privatization above all else.
Let's look at energy. To keep it simple, Russia provides a lot of gas to Europe; if NATO gets too aggressive, Russia will turn off the gas. Russia has the leverage because the U.S. and NATO don't really have any viable energy alternatives. The diplomats don't have much to work with because, particularly in the U.S, natural gas and petroleum interests work hard to prevent the expansion of renewable energy sources, and the export of gas and oil, with the help of compliant policy makers. This makes sense for those industries since they want to protect their market caps and profit margins. The problem is that this takes energy policy out of a NATO diplomat's toolkit. Thus we end up with limited capacity to quickly scale a market for alternative energy, which could replace as least some of the need for Russia's gas while also driving the price down (gas supplies don't decrease but demand does). There's potentially serious leverage for the U.S. and NATO here, but we can't take advantage of it.
I've simplified these issues quite a bit to make my point, but perhaps some simplification is in order. Russia doesn't need to play a complex game in Ukraine because they have a solution that the U.S. and NATO can't effectively respond to. Perhaps the West's real problem is continuing to make increasingly complex arguments to justify our drift toward a one dimensional foreign policy, when what we need to do is make fundamental changes to how we think about the role of domestic investment, research and development, not exclusively as profit-making pursuits, but also as keys to our ability to project power in an increasingly multi-polar world.
The Prevention Problem: Thinking about Rwanda 20 years later
Of my areas of interest, the two that stand out are violence prevention and technology. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide, and I've been keeping track of the media coverage which has included the usual themes of never again, and a call to seek the tools and capacity to prevent such events in the future. To really make this happen though there needs to be a differentiation between patterns of smaller atrocities and genocide. This presents a challenge for localizing peacebuilding, especially for those of us who work in the technology space.
First, we have to differentiate atrocities from genocides. There are books upon books worth of arguments about semantics (which are important from a legal standpoint!), but I want to generally focus on differences in scale and intent. A militant group might commit a one-time atrocity to make a political statement, a riot could lead to a military crackdown that spins out of control, one ethnic group might target another over land rights, etc. These can be atrocities, especially if there's a pattern of events. Genocide, what happened in Rwanda 20 years ago, is different in scale and intent. The scope of violence is an entire identity group, and the intent is the elimination of that group. Unlike an atrocity, this requires state-grade organization and capacity. Indeed, these are rather blunt definitions that ignore a lot of semantic detail, but bear with me.
If our goal is the prevention of atrocities and genocide, and our preferred method is to empower local communities with the tools and skills to prevent violence before it starts, then scale and intention matter. If we take the example of election violence in Kenya in 2007/8, there were many atrocities committed, but the intent wasn't overtly genocidal. Since that election there have been efforts made to reinforce peace keeping (not 'peacekeeping') capacity at the local level through training programs and innovative approaches to information sharing using mobile phones and social media. In this scenario the communities that would be affected by discrete events of violence could prevent the spark at the local level. Compare this to Rwanda in 1994, where the Hutu-led government provided the weapons and logistics to the militias that did the killing, and the aim was the elimination of the Tutsi ethnic group. There had been atrocities at the local level leading up to the genocide (particularly in the north where the Tutsi RPF militia was fighting Rwandan government forces), but when the genocide started in earnest the violence was top-down and totalizing. Local-level violence prevention and peacebuilding methods weren't going to stop that level of organized killing.
So where does this leave us now? If the goal is violence prevention, then we have to recognize where the local strategies work, and be willing to push for international intervention when necessary. Start by asking,"is the violence extrinsically motivated, and localized?" Are people fighting over a tangible thing (e.g. land, access to water, representation in government)? If so, there are going to be opportunities for local-level peacebuilding and violence prevention. Public information and discourse will play a major role in this kind of peacebuilding, and communication technology can have a significant positive multiplier effect. Is the violence extrinsic and national, for example election violence? This is where intervention from the international community probably needs to happen, but there's also a large place for localized peacebuilding too. For example, peacekeepers might come to enforce stability but local level peacebuilding needs to happen if the gains from a ceasefire are going to hold up in communities. Communication technology can play a role in linking communities to each other, as well as providing a conduit for sharing needs and information with the national government and international intervenors.
What about intrinsically motivated national level violence? This where local solutions start to lose impact, especially when we're talking about the violence being carried out by the state against a minority. At this point, it's unlikely communication technologies are going to be much use; either they'll amplify negative messages in an already politically volatile space, or they won't matter as violence becomes ubiquitous. Large, international intervention becomes necessary at this point to force the sides apart and impose stability while a peace process is undertaken.
Localized peacebuilding and technology are at their most effective before large scale violence starts. Communication technology in particular can play a powerful role in connecting communities, and breaking down narratives that can reinforce the kinds of intrinsic, dehumanizing narratives of violence that open the door to genocide. When we think about 'preventing genocide' we actually need to be thinking about how we prevent or intervene in the small atrocities which build up to a Genocidal event, because once that event has started it's too late.
Learnings from ISA
Another March, another ISA conference. 2014 has been good, especially since the networking and socializing was matched by excellent feedback on what I presented. The highlights:
What I thought was a failed experiment in getting Twitter to love me actually teased out some interesting methodological challenges that other panelists on the Crowdsourcing Violence panel faced. Basically, the problem is how to encourage participation in the crowd when there isn't an emergency. Whether it was crowdsourcing using Twitter or crowdseeding using trusted reporters, we all faced a challenge in getting participants to respond. This makes crowdsourcing and crowdseeding difficult to use as research methods. It'll be interesting seeing how we all approach this challenge in our different papers and projects, to see if there are ways that incentives or networks can be tapped to get more consistent participation.
My paper on using crowdsourcing to support peacekeeping operations also got some good feedback. The paper was my attempt to think about technology in the context of peacekeeping operations, as opposed to peacekeeping being responsive to the technology available (e.g. how do we avoid deploying a technology solution seeking a problem). I'm going to take this in an institutional analysis direction, and focus on interviews with peacekeeping staff and experts since there is a paucity of documentation on the few crowdsourcing and crowdseeding projects that have been undertaken by missions.
This was an overall excellent week, with solid panels, fascinating topics and good conversation. If you have thoughts or feedback on my papers, feel free to share in the comments section, or shoot me an email!
Kristof, Columbia, and the 'Public Intellectual-Professor': Part 2
Earlier this week I wrote the first half of this pair of posts, focusing on the problems in Nicholas Kristof's piece on why professors should be more engaged in the public debate. I came down pretty hard on it, not because I disagree with the general sentiment (my doctoral research and interests are very policy relevant and I make an effort to be in the policy space as much as the academic), but because his logic was surprisingly faulty and he didn't seem to have any understanding of the institutional culture and expectations of academia. In effect, he missed an opportunity to discuss the actual problems facing the academy, and how these prevent professors from being more publicly engaged.
Fortunately, Michelle Goldberg wrote an excellent rejoinder about the plight of two highly respected public intellectual-professors being let go after long careers with Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health for failing to raise 80% of their salaries in external grants. While Kristof went off on confused, ill-informed tangents about what makes an academic or academic field relevant in to the public space, Goldberg focused on what Kristof should have been writing about: the corporatization of universities, where pulling in external funding is the difference between having a job and not. Doing ground-breaking research counts for nothing it seems, unless you hit the your fundraising target. I'll take this a step further; the problem facing universities and researchers isn't just the outcome of bad business planning at the university level. It's the politicization of research, and by extension validity and truth.
To start: I don't have a problem with the idea of encouraging professors in research-oriented fields to seek external funding. Part of my dissertation studies were funded by money my dissertation supervisor pulled in; he was able to hire me as a research assistant when the department didn't have funds immediately available to give me a stipend. At a much larger scale pulling in something like a National Science Foundation (or National Institutes of Health) grant can give a department the latitude to fund students (saving money in the core budget), hire post-docs, pay visiting scholars, and generally increase the capacity to do research. This can be a useful model for certain projects, especially in the natural sciences where the costs of equipment and logistics can run into the millions of dollars. But there's a danger to universities placing a demand that professors raise significant portions of their salaries through external grants, while not maintaining core budgets to keep them on during lean times.
One is the business model. The Mailman School, like many large research schools, relies heavily on government research grants. These days its not good to be relying on federal research grants, especially if you're in the social and behavioral sciences. If an academic institution decided to hitch its financial wagon to the soft money strategy of external funding, then politics in Washington is currently delivering a harsh lesson in how the political economy of ridiculous budget battles affects university staffing. But this isn't merely a technical budgeting and forecasting issue; budgets and Federal spending don't live in an otological bubble, disconnected from politics and popular sentiment. This is where Kristof fell off the wagon and Goldberg hit the nail on the head. To quote:
"Kristof is right that universities have become inhospitable places for public intellectuals, but he misses the ultimate cause. The real problem isn't culture. It's money."
Basically it was the only thing Kristof was right about, which is why it's unfortunate that he only dedicated one short paragraph at the beginning of his article to it. But it's not just money, it's the interplay between Congressional politics and how we proxy the public interest with Federal (and State) budgets. Congress is the policy representation of our societal id, and as Kristof notes there's a strong current of anti-intellectualism in that id these days. This is where the political economy of how we define validity, truth and public good comes in, and why we're in such a pickle even though at times we've been leaders in natural and social science research.
Let's start with the obvious; a Senator or House member doesn't get elected by telling their rabidly anti-intellectual constituents that they're wrong or ignorant. They also don't get elected by telling their corporate funders that truly empirical research based on first principles has indicated that their business model or industry is god-awful for the public good. In combination, this is a solid reason for a member of Congress to be unsupportive of Federally funded research, since most of it points out uncomfortable truths about our economic system, global warming, poverty, infrastructure, system of government, etc. But let's assume that a member of congress really wanted to understand what was going on in all that natural and social science research. How many are trained to properly evaluate science (social and natural) research?
Thanks to Business Week, we can find out. In the House, we have 1 microbiologist, 2 engineers, and 1 physicist, out of 433. In the Senate, there's 1 engineer, out of 100. That's a grand total of 5 out of 533 members of the Legislative branch. It's important that we know this, since Senator Tom Coburn passed a bill that effectively gives Congress the ability to pick and choose with research gets funded through the National Science Foundation. Essentially, Coburn politicized the process of scientific and empirical inquiry. Don't like research about homeless people because it shows that your anti-poverty policy prescriptions are fanciful lies? You can cut funding for it. Running for office and your petroleum industry donors find climate research distasteful? No problem, you can eliminate that in that NSF funding stream. We have allowed politicians, only 1% of whom might be even remotely qualified to understand science research, to be the ones who decide what is worthy of scientific inquiry even if they have no idea what a P-value or co-linearity is.
This is what was so infuriating about Kristof's article; while peddling insulting caricatures of zany academics and their ethereal models and theories, it failed to address the real problems facing academia and universities. Goldberg hit on the problem of funding and what it means for the vibrancy of a research community, but the problem goes farther than that. As a nation we've allowed ourselves to be duped into believing that we can be world leaders in research, commerce, and foreign policy among other things, while simultaneously dismantling and defunding the institutions that for the last 70 years have been key to our success.
Fundamentally this isn't a problem of university funding structures or academics doing their jobs, those are just symptoms. At it's core, this is a problem of an American society that has given into cynicism and handed the reigns to politicians who prey on fear and ignorance. The only way to beat this slump is to regain our national spirit of inquiry, adventure, and critical thinking, the exact things made us leaders in research and discovery for much of the last 70 years.
Kristof, Columbia, and the 'Public Intellectual-Professor': Part 1
This will be a two-parter since there's a lot in it. It's been interesting reading the initial article about why professors need to be involved in public debate from Nicholas Kristof and seeing the rejoinders, particularly Michelle Goldbergs' article about Columbia University's decision to let two of their best professors of public health go. I'm a doctoral candidate whose research agenda is a hybrid between political science and public policy, and I haven't decided yet on whether I want to go into academia or public policy, so I've found this debate interesting. Starting with Kristof, who I usually enjoy reading, I agreed with his sentiment at a meta level, but found the article generally ill-informed and at times oddly contradictory. Continue reading


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Freeing Captive Whales - Is It The Right Thing?
We now know that whales in captivity are a bad thing. But wouldn't it be best for us to make the last years of Keiko�s life as enjoyable as possible instead of trying to make ourselves feel better? Back to Article
GloWorm202 wrote:report
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Release every dolphin!
GloWorm202 wrote:report
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No! No orcas or dolphins in captivity! No no no no no!
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Of coarse!!!in an animals last year of living they would want to seewhere they were born for a last time!!i would.keeping animals captive is kind of like animal abuse!if scientists want to study a certain animal they should just study it in it's own habitat! NOT keep it in a cage!!it's not right!animals should be able to live in their own habitat not in cages or jars!if you think this is wrong too please leave a comment to!!


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Cablevision, owner of the Long Island newspaper Newsday, has offered a new union contract that provides for an increase in every Newsday employee's pension fund after the contract ends in 2013.
The 1,100 members of the Local 406 of the Graphic Communications Council of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters will vote on the proposal Sunday, reports Keith Kelly for the New York Post.
The pact offered by Cablevision contains the same 5-to-10 percent salary cuts that the union voted against by a 2-to-1 margin on June 6, 2010. But the new proposal provides for a pension contribution of 1 percent of a worker's salary after the contract ends in 2013. After the union voted against the first contract, Newsday publisher Terry Jimenez wrote the union to say it was the "last, best and final offer."
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Let the boxing match begin!…In the near corner, we find deflation, with its furious fists of debt liquidation and credit contraction… And in the far corner, we've got Ben Bernanke's printing press, with its menacing inflationary uppercut.
Inflation will win this contest eventually, but the match might go the full 12 rounds.
Deflation is no slouch. He packs a mean punch. Borrowers of all types – from single-family mortgage-holders to national governments – are defaulting on their loans…or moving rapidly in that direction. As the weakest of these borrowers fails, asset prices fall and confidence wanes, both of which produce additional defaults. Once this vicious cycle gains fury, all but the strongest – or least leveraged – borrowers endure.
If Greece defaults, for example, Ireland might follow…and so might Portugal and Spain, etc. If Greece defaults, a contagion becomes quite likely, as the folks who are kicking in their tax dollars to the European Central Bank and the IMF begin to realize that their bailouts are futile. Eventually, the taxpayers from relatively solvent nations resist pouring their capital down Greek, Irish or Portuguese rat holes. Eventually, the bailouts end and the defaults – politely known as "restructurings" – begin.
Aware of this grim prospect and fearful of deflationary forces in general, the Central Banks of America and Europe have been counterpunching with various combinations of money-printing, subsidized lending and debt-financed bailouts. In other words, all the classic inflationary responses, plus a few innovations like quantitative easing.
The match between deflation and inflation looks like a draw so far. The global economy is not slipping into a deflationary abyss. On the other hand, inflationary effects are popping up in numerous inconvenient places.
Based on official US data, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is up 3.2% over the last 12 months, while the Producer Price Index (PPI) is up 6.8%. Both numbers are higher than in recent history, but neither one seems particularly terrifying…on the surface.
When you dig down into the numbers, however, you discover that these inflation rates are accelerating rapidly. During the first four months of this year, the CPI has jumped 9.7% annualized, while the PPI has soared at a 12.8% annualized pace.
Import prices are also rocketing higher – up 2.2% in April, after a 2.6% jump the previous month. Year-over-year, import prices are up a hefty 11.1%. But once again, the trend is accelerating. For the first four months of this year, import prices have increased at a 26.7% annualized rate!
Let's put these facts and figures into a real-world context. Based on the lowest of these various inflation data, the CPI, the average US wage earner has made no progress whatsoever during the last four years…
US average per capita weekly earnings have increased about 12% since the beginning of 2006. But since the CPI has increased the same amount, that means inflation has wiped out all the growth of weekly earnings.
If, as we suspect, the forces of inflation continue to prevail in this contest, hard asset investments should perform well, at least relative to most other options. But this analysis is not new news to faithful Daily Reckoning readers. It's probably not even new news to unfaithful Daily Reckoning readers. (You know who you are!)
We've been singing the praises of hard assets like gold and silver for many, many years. In fact, we've been talking up had assets for so long that our analysis would be growing tiresome by now…if not for the fact that it has been profitable.
Even so, your editor does not wish to grow tiresome to anyone – not to his kids, not to his girlfriend and certainly not to his Daily Reckoning readers. So he will add a nuance to his monotonous "buy hard assets" mantra.
Here goes: If inflation takes hold as we expect, the allocations in your portfolio that are not hard asset investments should, nevertheless, possess hard asset attributes. When allocating to specific stocks, for example, insist that those stocks possess two key attributes:
1) Significant exposure to non-dollar revenues.
2) Significant pricing power, even in an inflationary cycle.
A strong balance sheet and solid cash flow also help.
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"1) Significant exposure to non-dollar revenues.
2) Significant pricing power, even in an inflationary cycle."
(checking google) so "pricing power" means people have to buy it no matter what. yep, that follows the general infestment principles of 1) find out what people need, 2) buy it before they do, and 3) make sure they can't get it unless they pay you first. got it.
"And in the far corner, we've got Ben Bernanke's printing press, with its menacing inflationary uppercut."
since the dollar is not mere fiat currency but DEBT currency, just how is printing benny bucks inflationary? the dollar is a debt pyramid scheme and the whole thing is coming apart. just where is the inflation going to come from?
Inflation comes from having to use more and more benny bucks to get the goods and services we need and want.
Have you ever made a bid at an auction only to see someone else (say someone from China)outbid you? To have won the bid you would have had to bid a lot more than you may have wanted, or been able, to bid. That's inflation.
Whether it's a fiat currency or a debt currency, the US dollar is dropping in purchasing power with each spin of Ben's printing press. I just don't think we can take much more help from Ben.
We'll likely get a lot of inflation on some things and a lot of deflation on others. It will be Jimmy Carter's stagflation on steroids.
You are right, BK, and well stated.
I would add, for the benefit of gman, that a debt is really only a debt if there is some intention of repayment. Otherwise it is nonsense.
That is the mistake that the "Prechterites" and other deflationists make. Also, analyzing charts from when the country was constrained by a gold standard and applying that to today (Elliot wave) is a huge mistake.
" You are right, BK, and well stated.
I would add, for the benefit of gman, that a debt is really only a debt if there is some intention of repayment. Otherwise it is nonsense. "
bk does not understand the question. no matter how many dollars benny prints, all it means is we owe more. and if as you say there is no intention of repayment then as soon as that intentional default is taken into account by the people using dollars then the currency will outright collapse leaving us with no currency at all. default means the debt vanishes, meaning the dollar vanishes.
an elegant weapon. not only is the debt dollar designed to fail, it is designed to take down everything associated with it as well.
A good example of that strategy would be Coca Cola.
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The latest victim of the crude rout is none other than the stalwart tech stocks. These are the go-to trades that have held up all year long. I'm talking about stocks like Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft. Like I said before, these aren't no-name stocks you're seeing drop more than 10% from their highs last month.
By the time you do… Kaboom! It's too late. They've already blown up your retirement. There are three time bombs the mutual fund industry has planted within your 401(k). By the time you're done with this article, you'll know how to identify them. And, more importantly, how to disarm them. Dave Gonigam has the scoop...
On the eve of the FOMC's meeting announcement, our CIA financial strategist suggests, "To beggar thy neighbor or not… that is the question." Read on to find out why having a strong dollar is good for you, but not so good for the Fed...
There's an entire parade of metals and energy plays running off the side of Commodity Mountain like a herd of lemmings. Gold cracked $1,200 after a $30 drop. Silver cratered more than 5% on the day. Copper fell another 2% Natural gas is down. Heating oil is down. Oh, and our main culprit, oil, coughed up another 4%. And that's just yesterday's losses...
The current global currency war started in 2010. Our own Jim Rickards published his book, Currency Wars, soon after that. One of the points that he made in the book is that the world is not always in a currency war. But when we are, they can last for a very long time. They can last for 5, 10, or 15 years, sometimes longer. Read on to learn the latest battle phase of the current currency war...


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Merle Lyon (507)
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beautiful view this time with a couple inches of snow.
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Greg Hunter (68)
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Easy for 10 yrs old and up. Well maintained. Nice 1/2 day hike.
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Do NOT take the trail on the same level as the lower parking lot. It has a sign that is marked "Loop" but it is not accurate. We trudged around there for a few hours, found a dead cow, got lost, retraced our footsteps, and eventually made our way back to the parking lot, but never found the loop (others we spoke to had the same experience). The loop trail is above the upper parking lot. We did the loop trail a few days later and it was wonderful. You start in a beautiful pine forest and by the time you reach the summit the area is more rocky and arid. The trail ascent is fairly mild. When we started it was cold and foggy (bring a sweatshirt) but the fog had burned off by the time we reached the summit revealing outstanding views--you feel like you're on top of the world!
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Michael Guest
5 months ago
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Led the RVM group here on June 17. Though the trail was clear we soon found the shrubs and trees to be covered with snow - in mid June! This a great trail for wild flowers, scores of different species in early summer, and deservedly popular. One can depend on seeing other hikers and even school groups. The lower part of the trail can be very slippery after rain. Great views unless there's smoke from wild fires.
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We loved this hike! Amazing vistas, wild flowers and so many butterflies! We hiked it with our 8 year old son. The new growth in the burn area is amazing to see. Vultures, hawks and songbirds all enjoying the views.
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Michael Guest
5 months ago
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Starts soon after milepost 7 on the Ashland Ski Road, parking on the right. Cross the road and follow the Pacific Crest Trail through the forest with occasional meadows giving views towards Mount Shasta. The trail crosses a dirt road and continues across a broad meadow, this is where the wild flowers start, for this trail is a treasure for lovers of native plants. Trail gradually climbs to a highpoint looking across a broad valley, through the trees glimpses can be had of the destination - Grouse Gap Shelter, still about a mile away. The trail traverses a large couloir crossing small contained streams eventually meeting Forest Road 20. The PCT crosses the road on its way to Siskiyou Peak, another good hike. Turn left down the dirt road for about 400 yards to the shelter which contains a good sized picnic table and a fire ring, close by is a Forest Service toilet. Note there is no water here. Return the same route for a 7.5 mile hike.
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Not entirely sure this is the same trail I did, but looks like it. I think I just started it from a lower trailhead. But it was almost 7 miles and on the place I started from was before the trailhead on this map. While hiking it I walked by two other starting points. It is part of the Pacific Crest Trail and it is a beautiful trail. It is late July and it still had some wildflowers and it was like 12 degrees cooler than down in Ashland. It was a moderate hike for me, I'm not used to hiking more than 3 miles so I can't compare, not an expert. But it is beautiful and not very strenuous. I think for more experienced hikers it is an easy hike. My phone has no reception so I can't add actual miles and elevation gain or any of that. But I saw all kinds of people, from ultra marathon runners to photographers strolling around, so judge for yourselves. It is definitely an amazing trail and a beautiful hike, some shaded areas and a few open meadows too. I went from 11am to like 3pm and only got hot in the meadows, but nice cool breaks when in the trees. Absolutely perfect.
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John William "Jackie" Elliott, 42, was executed by lethal injection on 4 February 2003 in Huntsville, Texas for the rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman.
On 13 June 1986, police were called to a crime scene in east Austin. The body of Joyce Munguia, 19, was found under an overpass. An autopsy showed that she had been beaten 16 times on the head and eight times on the face. Fragments of metal were recovered from her head. There were also signs of recent sexual intercourse.
The person who called the police was Danny Hanson, age unknown. According to Hanson, he and three other men -- John Elliott, then 26; Pete Ramirez, 26; and Ricky Elizondo, 20 -- picked up Munguia at a bus stop and invited her to drink with them in Elizondo's house. Over the next few hours, she consumed beer, grain alcohol, and cocaine with the men. She also engaged in sex with Elizondo. Hanson stated that he observed Munguia crying and slurring her speech, and she had difficulty walking. At Munguia's request, he began to walk her home.
While they were walking, Hanson stated, Elliott intercepted them. He took Munguia into a dark, wooded area and raped her. Elizondo and Ramirez followed him and also raped Munguia. This is when Hanson said he left briefly to call the police. He then returned to the scene and observed the gang-rape still in progress. He said that he heard Munguia announce that she was "going straight to the police when y'all get through." Afterward, Elliott beat Munguia to death with a chrome-plated motorcycle chain.
Police officers arrived at Elliott's house early on the morning of 14 June. His shorts and shoes were heavily splattered with blood, which was later matched to the victim.
In addition to Hanson's testimony, Elizondo also testified at Elliott's trial. He testified that he, Elliott, and Ramirez had sex with the victim, but it was consensual. He further testified that Elliott left him alone with Munguia for a moment, then returned with a chrome-plated motorcycle chain, with which he beat the victim to death.
The physical evidence presented at Elliott's trial included the blood on his shorts and shoes. In addition, Elliott's shoes matched shoe prints found at the crime scene.
Like Elizondo, Elliott claimed that the sex he had with the victim was consensual. He denied killing Munguia and stated that the murder weapon - the motorcycle chain - belonged to Elizondo.
Elliott had an earlier murder conviction. In 1982, he was convicted of intentionally killing a man in a bar fight. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison, but served only 4 months before being released due to prison overcrowding. He also had a 1984 conviction for burglary of a habitation, for which he received a sentence of 10 years' probation.
A jury convicted Elliott in January 1987 of capital murder and sentenced him to death. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction and sentence in April 1993. All of his subsequent appeals in state and federal court were denied.
Pete Ramirez had a lengthy prior criminal history including driving while intoxicated, unlawfully carrying a weapon, and aggravated robbery. He received a 15-year sentence for sexual assault for his role in the Munguia case. He entered prison in January 1987 and was paroled in June 1990. He has kept a clean record since then and was discharged from parole in 2001.
Rick Cruz Elizondo's only prior offense was for public intoxication. He pleaded guilty to sexual assault and received a 10-year prison sentence. No information was available on his time served.
On death row, Elliott maintained his innocence. "I didn't kill Joyce Munguia and I didn't rape, her but somehow I knew I was going to get convicted," he said. "I didn't have the money and I didn't have the best lawyers." Elliott acknowledged that his criminal past made it easy for prosecutors to obtain a conviction. "I should have led a different life," he said.
In his appeals, Elliott's lawyers unsuccessfully sought to have DNA testing ordered on blood spatters found on Danny Hanson's shoes. Hanson had said that the blood was his own and that it was from a previous incident in which he was stabbed.
Elliott was born to American parents on a U.S. air base in Great Britain, so he held dual American-British citizenship. His parents returned to the U.S. with him when he was six months old. His execution was opposed by numerous British public officials and was loudly denounced in the British media. During his stay on death row, Elliott corresponded with European anti-death penalty activists. He accommodated British media's requests for interviews, but declined requests from the American media. For his last meal, he had a cup of tea and six chocolate chip cookies.
Elliott made three clemency requests -- one for a pardon, one for a commutation, and one for a reprieve. All were rejected by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on separate 18-0 votes. The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court also denied Elliott's last-minute requests for a stay. These requests delayed his execution by nearly an hour.
Elliott did not make a final statement at his execution. He was pronounced dead at 7:02 p.m.
By David Carson. Posted on 6 February 2003.
Sources: Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas Attorney General's Office, Associated Press, Huntsville Item, London Times, British Broadcasting Corporation News.


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Spectators watch on Thursday as a 30-feet tall fir tree is removed from its property on Indian Fern Drive. The tree was moved to Main Street in Nashua, and will serve as the city's official holiday tree. (Kimberly Houghton/Union Leader Correspondent)
Mary and Doug Elliott of 2 Indian Fern Dr. donate their large concolor fir tree to the City of Nashua. The tree was cut down on Thursday and is now on display outside the Hunt Memorial Building on Main Street, and will be decorated with lights for the holiday season. (Kimberly Houghton/Union Leader Correspondent)
"I really don't think it would make it through the winter, unfortunately," said Doug Elliott, explaining the small concolor tree planted about 20 years ago has grown tremendously fast.
"I can't wait to see it all lit up for the Christmas stroll," she said.
The tree was cut down on Thursday morning and moved — with a police escort — to Main Street aside the Hunt Memorial Building on Library Hill. In the next two weeks, city workers will decorate the 30-foot high tree with lights that will be lit during the holiday stroll event on Nov. 30.
"But every year the phone rings," he said, adding this year's tree is larger than usual. It also smells like a typical Christmas tree, noted Caggiano as he took a needle, broke it in half and smelled it.
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This weekend, as snow came down in Connecticut and I anticipated the start of Season Four of Downton Abbey, seemed the right time to read Rebecca Eaton's Making Masterpiece (Viking), her entertaining saga of guiding Masterpiece—which, with a nod to its British inflection and contributors, was long known as Masterpiece Theatre, and continues to be television's classiest and longest-running drama programming. After 28 years as the executive producer of the series, Eaton has delivered a memoir that is as full of twists of plot and characters as its scores of memorable adaptions from novels, biographies, and original narratives.
After a fellowship at the BBC in 1969, which was instrumental in shaping her deep appreciation of Britain's dramatic artistry, Eaton landed at Boston's public-broadcasting channel WGBH and was eventually recruited to Masterpiece, which was then funded by Mobil Oil. An early patron of the enterprise was Mobil's colorful public-relations chief, Herb Schmertz, whose goal was to associate the oil company with this special series, which he astutely understood would give "big petroleum" an aura of sophisticated benevolence.
From its opening program in 1971, The First Churchills, Masterpiece affirmed the lasting power of great storytelling that somehow fit the small screen. At the core of Making Masterpiece (and without an excess of self-regard) is Eaton and her colleagues' distinctive talent in selecting those stories and seeing that the ensembles of actors, writers, and directors maintain the standards that have made Masterpiece's programs a pillar of public broadcasting's place in American culture.
What makes Downton Abbey's popular appeal especially notable now, as Eaton's tale unfolds, is that over the decades, top-tier American television drama has evolved from an essentially unique Sunday evening of mainly British historical epics to a selection of dramatic series—consider The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Homeland, Mad Men, and many others—without Masterpiece being downgraded into stately costume relics and miniscule followings. From its earliest days in the 1970s, Masterpiece (joined later by Masterpiece Mystery) benefited from a mixture of superb multi-part period pieces such as Upstairs, Downstairs, I Claudius, and The Jewel in the Crown to more contemporary series such as the gripping and cynical political drama House of Cards (adapted with considerable success to an ongoing Netflix version set in Washington and starring Kevin Spacey).
One of the most unusual Masterpiece triumphs beginning in the early 1990s were the seven installments of Prime Suspect, starring Helen Mirren as the rivetingly complex police detective Jane Tennison—Eaton describes her as "tough but tenderhearted." Eaton acknowledges that she almost turned down the program for being "too much like an American cop show to be of interest to our audience." But Henry Becton, Eaton's mentor and later a president of WGBH, "happened to read the script," she writes, "and saved me from myself: 'Rebecca are you sure you want to turn this down?' … Even Mobil liked Prime Suspect. What could I have been thinking?"
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Disney releases video of new Lincoln animatronic
Published: November 17, 2009 at 12:47 PM
The close-up of the new Lincoln's face is at the end of the video. Wow.
Disney releases video of new Lincoln animatronic
Published: November 17, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Disney today released a new promotional video, providing a first look at the most life-like facial expressions yet created for a Disney animatronic. It's the new Abraham Lincoln for the soon-to-reopen Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln at Disneyland.Tweet
The close-up of the new Lincoln's face is at the end of the video. Wow.
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Published: November 17, 2009 at 4:03 PMAmazing detail. Most impressive. Despite all the shake-ups at Disney of late, WDI just keeps raising the bar a couple notches at a time.
And the best thing about bringing back the Lincoln attraction is that there won't be any of that embarrassing booing that occurs with the much more polarizing Obama, Bush, and Clinton animatronics at the Hall of Presidents. Everyone likes Lincoln - except John Wilkes Booth, I guess.
Published: November 17, 2009 at 8:55 PMFunny you should say that Rao. I have heard many who have been in a show where Obama is booed. Honestly, just with Bush, its pointless. Its just a robot (or animatronic :) )
I do personally like the old format a bit better, but still amazing.
Published: November 18, 2009 at 3:59 AMIt is not about skin color (black or white) it is about party color (red or blue). Sadly, our nation is very divided and has been for quite some time now. And for the most part, the economy sucks, war sucks, the President (blue or red) gets blamed for everything, and a lot of folks today never learned any manners. No one should boo at a good show, regardless of the actor! What could be more tacky?
And besides, all that Obama booing in HOP disturbs my nap! The only attraction at Magic Kingdom where a guy can get any sleep now is on the Jungle Snooze! =)
Published: November 18, 2009 at 3:16 PMI'm sure Valerie Edwards had a lot to with this before she ways laid off with Tim Delaney for fighting for quality. (Edwards has head of the Sculpture department at WDI)
Published: November 19, 2009 at 8:59 AMWhen I witnessed the new Hall of Presidents, everybody was very quiet and respectful.
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I don't know about anyone else but I think cpr shot JFK.
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How the Universe came from nothing
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Langeveldt: I of course blame their parents.. and unchecked immigration!
GingerFurball: He's Austrian, they tend to produce the odd ****ed up individual
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liberal media will cancel it out
Fox News runs a four minute Obama attack video, then later disavows the video as a mistake
fox news is a joke tbh
And smalishah's avatar is the most classy one by far Jan certainly echoes the sentiments of CW
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Talking about wedding guest attire has made me realize a lot of the fashion guidelines I was raised with are pretty much outdated these days. Things like guys not wearing ball caps indoors, women wearing white only between Memorial Day and Labor Day, no LBDs before 5 pm, and hose with every outfit are gone. Do you adhere to any of these guidelines anymore? Are there any fashion guidelines you DO adhere to?
|Fri, 06-21-2013 - 6:51pm

My fashion guidelines are few:
Does it look good?
Do you like it?
Is it comfortable?
Is it weather appropriate?
Does it cover up the necessary bits?

If yes ... wear it.

...and this is why we are such good friends, my guidelines as well.
|Fri, 06-21-2013 - 6:56pm
<<ducky1st89 wrote:

 Actually you said, and I quote, "The catholic church is one of the most dress down churches there is..."

Do you have proof? A link? Anything to back up your claim?

What kind of link are you looking for? Experiences of many different RCCs, experiences and observations from others - even those on this board support my claim.
No, no, no that is not good enough Jams. You need to find some scientific research, don't you know. Not by ACTUAL experiences. I have been to the local Lutheran church and I can tell you that they dress very casual too for Sunday mass. Do I know what they did years ago, no, but I do know what they do now. >>
...oh speaking of scientific research, I'm working on getting my potato chip findings documented and researched so that you will except them in future debate and won't just toss out my findings as personal experiences only. ;)
I love these types of posts by you spring, they are great!
|Fri, 06-21-2013 - 7:02pm

BeaArthurisMyReligion wrote:
 Jeezus Ducks- I love you but let it go.. .who the F cares? I can vouch that people go to catholic masses in everything from soccer uniforms to cut offs to dresses and hats but the dresses and hats are few and far between... not everything has to be debated... it's too early in the day ;-)

Finally, the voice of reason. Whether dresses have arms or sleeves is apparently going to impact the Dow Jones today.

Well worth posting again for the laugh involved! Great one hardy.
|Fri, 06-21-2013 - 7:44pm
DD1 would not wear panty hose as a teen and in her college years. Now she works for a bank and has not choice, if she wears a dress she must wear hose. If she wears pants then she is supposed to wear knee high nylons but she says that sometimes they will wear regular socks and as long as it does not shoe it is not an issue.
I only wear hose if it too cold to wear sandals because I do not like wearing shoes without some kind of sock. Being in Texas that does not come up too often. Usually only at DH's work Christmas party.
I really don't wear white so that is never an issue. But I have two "dress-up" purses. A black one for winter and a white one (actually an off-white) for summer.
While when I am wearing a sleeveless top or tank I am very careful to make sure that my bra is covered at all times but my DD3 will often have a bra showing if she is wearing spaghetti straps and it does not bother me. I can accept that it is now acceptable to do so but I would not do it.
It has probably been over 30 years since I have worn a slip.
|Sat, 06-22-2013 - 7:06pm
Oh, and the other rule I bling to? The one about your underwear not showing. I cannot stand the look where young women are wearing pretty clothes and their bra straps or the back of their bra shows while they are wearing them.
Oh, I so agree. I will never accept that as acceptable. It's horrible.


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