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As this very nice lady, who was our guide around this small historic Monastery, carries on her routine work at her outside table, I do a bit of shadow-hopping. The Monastery entrance to the right.
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Description: The Taylor home near Montello.
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GMZ Energy today announced the availability of a breakthrough material designed for a new generation of cleaner, more energy-efficient products. The new thermoelectric material, nanotechnology-based and environmentally friendly, effectively turns waste heat into electrical power and paves the way for greener consumer and industrial products that can contribute to a more sustainable future.
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Infectious Causes of Cancer
Persistence of newly detected human papillomavirus type 31 infection, stratified by variant lineage
Version of Record online: 11 JUL 2012
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.27689
Copyright © 2012 UICC
International Journal of Cancer
Volume 132, Issue 3, pages 549–555, 1 February 2013
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How to Cite
Xi, L. F., Schiffman, M., Koutsky, L. A., He, Z., Winer, R. L., Hulbert, A., Lee, S.-K., Ke, Y. and Kiviat, N. B. (2013), Persistence of newly detected human papillomavirus type 31 infection, stratified by variant lineage. Int. J. Cancer, 132: 549–555. doi: 10.1002/ijc.27689
Publication History
- Issue online: 26 NOV 2012
- Version of Record online: 11 JUL 2012
- Accepted manuscript online: 22 JUN 2012 07:34AM EST
- Manuscript Accepted: 30 MAY 2012
- Manuscript Received: 14 MAR 2012
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- human papillomavirus;
- variants;
- persistence
Variants of human papillomavirus (HPV) type 31 have been shown to be related both to risk of cervical lesions and racial composition of a population. It is largely undetermined whether variants differ in their likelihood of persistence. Study subjects were women who participated in the ASCUS-LSIL Triage Study and who had a newly detected HPV31 infection during a two-year follow-up with six-month intervals. HPV31 isolates were characterized by sequencing and assigned to one of three variant lineages. Loss of the newly detected HPV31 infection was detected in 76 (47.5%) of the 160 women (32/67 with A variants, 16/27 with B variants and 28/66 with C variants). The adjusted hazard ratio associating loss of the infection was 1.2 (95% CI, 0.7–2.1) for women with A variants and 2.1 (95% CI, 1.2–3.5) for women with B variants when compared with those with C variants. Infections with A and C variants were detected in 50 and 41 Caucasian women and in 15 and 23 African-American women, respectively. The likelihood of clearance of the infection was significantly lower in African-American women with C variants than in African-American women with A variants (p = 0.05). There was no difference in the likelihood of clearance between A and C variants among Caucasian women. Our data indicated that infections with B variants were more likely to resolve than those with C variants. The difference in clearance of A vs. C variants in African-Americans, but not in Caucasians, suggests a possibility of the race-related influence in retaining the variant-specific infection.


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At Rhode Island College, students have held teach-ins where professors are brought in to give lectures on topics like the history of student movements. Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur, a sociology professor at the school, said faculty are brought in to offer their expertise but participate as equals.
"We have things we can offer by virtue of our study in these areas," Arthur said. "But that doesn't make us any more qualified to speak than they are."
Arthur said it's fairly typical for social movements to have large student participation, in part because they have more time available. But that isn't the case at her school, where a majority of students work and are from working or lower class families.
"We have students that aren't available and they are still making the time to be part of a movement," said Arthur, whose research focuses on student activism.
Debt from college loans and poor job prospects after graduation are two of the main points of contention for student protesters. The unemployment rate for students who graduated from college in 2010 was 9.1 percent, among the highest levels in recent history, according to the Project on Student Debt, a nonprofit research and policy organization dedicated to making college more affordable. Students graduated with an average of $25,250 debt, 5 percent higher than a year before.
The group Occupy Student Debt, another offspring of the protests, has started a website where students and graduates are posting pictures of themselves with a piece of paper detailing the amount they took out in loans and the amount they still owe. Many students describe taking out tens of thousands of dollars for school, and owing even more because of high interest rates.
"Many people at the protests which I'm going to are out there because of the student debt crisis," said Kyle McCarthy, 29, who started the website.
Like the larger Occupy protests, the students have not articulated specific goals, but say that isn't necessary, at least for the time being.
"If you look at successful social movements, their role has never been to lay out the specifics of policy details," said Guido Girgenti, 19, a sophomore at Occidental College.
He pointed to Martin Luther King, Jr. as one example.
"Dr. King traveled around America dramatizing the moral crisis that was the disenfranchisement of blacks in America," he said. "The Occupy Wall Street movement in the same way is dramatizing the moral crisis of economic injustice and the corporate takeover of democracy."
Girgenti, who has been working with Occupy Colleges, says students are working on a draft statement on a commitment to nonviolence and training organizers.
"Our core student organizers are coming together and asking, how do we make the transition from moment of protest to moment of movement?" Girgenti said.
In order to go from protest to movement, Self said students must shape grievances into demands. He noted that issues like finding a way to lower tuition are complicated by the fact that many fees at public universities are set by individual state boards and legislatures and would be difficult or impossible to address at a federal level.
Arthur, however, said the changes protesters are seeking go beyond fixes like lowering tuition.
"Those things are nice, but it's not going to change fundamentally the things that are at the root of the grievances the movement has," she said. "Those kinds of changes are much harder to enact politically, it's culturally where the change has to happen. And that cultural change is something already happening every day in the encampment, in the participatory nature of the meeting."
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One student sat in a chair looking at the professor, while the others were scrambling in the background worried about how to pay and dropping out.
Tarafa, an organizer with the group Seed305, went up to each one asked what they were feeling.
"Backwards," said one.
"Awkward," said another. "It's not enough."
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bmrqkk/iptv_market) has announced the addition of the "IPTV Market Leader Report - Year-end 2013" report to their offering.
The IPTV Market Leader Reports (MLR) identify which IPTV systems and software companies are leading each of the six IPTV market segments: access systems, video headend systems (VHE), video-on-demand server software (VOD), set-top boxes (STB), middleware (MW), and content protection/digital rights management (CP/DRM). The data is further segmented by geographic region as follows: North America, Latin America/Caribbean, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East/Africa.
Among the global leaders, the big winner was ZTE taking the top position in VOD, STB and middleware. Alcatel-Lucent continues to lead in access, while Verimatrix continues to lead in the CP/DRM segment and Harmonic leads in video headends. ZTE has been successful in working with many Asian IPTV operators.
Among the major changes in this report are acquisitions that have closed recently. Ericsson acquired the assets of Microsoft's Mediaroom technology so all Mediaroom customers are now under Ericsson in this report. In addition, ARRIS completed its acquisition of Motorola's assets from Google so ARRIS now appears in new product categories. Interestingly, ZTE has taken the lead in middleware in this report, replacing Microsoft's Mediaroom (now Ericsson) which led for about five years in a row.
The report features complete IPTV vendor rankings for each product category with totals for each region, as well as globally. The report also breaks down service providers by tier (1 - 5) and identifies how many service providers are in each tier where each vendor has products deployed. In addition, vendors that are working with the top 25 global service providers (as measured by total IPTV subscribers) are highlighted in order to better gauge future growth prospects.
More than 80 vendors and 955 IPTV service providers are tracked in this report.
Market leaders are determined by the number of deployed IPTV subscribers using a given vendor's products, except for the IPTV video headend segment which is calculated on input channels.
The author is the only company to track and rank IPTV vendors for each of the six product categories, and has been doing so for many years.
The deliverable is comprised of a 62-page Word document and an accompanying Excel file.
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bmrqkk/iptv_market
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New book on Governors 1972 assassination points finger of guilt
A new book investigating the assassination of Governor Richard Sharples and Police Chief George Duckett is set to hit the market next month.
Justice Denied: Bermuda's Black Militants, the 'Third Man' and the Assassinations of a Police Chief and Governor by Mel Ayton will be published on February 1.
Mr Ayton has previously written books about the assassinations of John F Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr, focusing on the conspiracies surrounding the events.
Commissioner Duckett was shot and killed outside his home on September 9, 1972, while Governor Sharples and his aide-de-camp, Hugh Sayers, were shot dead on the grounds of Government House six months later.
Victor Rego and Mark Doe were subsequently murdered in an armed robbery at the Shopping Centre in Hamilton.
Erskine Durrant (Buck) Burrows was convicted of all five murders, while Larry Tacklyn was convicted of the Shopping Centre murders. Both men were sentenced to death and hanged in 1977, sparking riots across the Island.
According to the books official summary on amazon.com, Mr Ayton interviewed police and prison officers, and delved into Scotland Yard Murder files, British Foreign Office files, court records, newspaper archives and interviews with the Governor's widow.
A section of the summary reads: Justice Denied points the finger of guilt at a faction of the black militant group, led by the 'Third Man', who controlled the convicted assassins.
The author names the Bermuda businessman, a convicted drug dealer, who assisted the assassins in financing their political aims through drug deals and bank robberies.
He also concludes that the real story about the assassinations was 'whitewashed' by consecutive Bermudian Governments in the interests of racial harmony.
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The country's top public servants - some of whom already rake in more than $600,000 a year - should be paid even more, a new report claims.
At least 25 staffers earn over $500,000 - more than the prime minister - and some pocketed double digit pay rises this year, worth about $50,000.
The union acting for public servants says there's a double standard when it comes to top executives' salaries.
Now a new report on the State Services Commission, which oversees government departments, has found that the relationship between performance and bonus payments for chief executives in the public sector is "not clear".
The review's authors, former ACC boss Garry Wilson and barrister Patsy Reddy, found most chief executives were paid below the "benchmark" against which the roles were set.
As well as recommending an overhaul of bonus payments to properly "incentivise" good performance, they say these benchmarks should be regularly reviewed "so that the state services are able to attract and retain highly qualified and capable leaders".
In the year to June 30, public sector chief executives received an average pay increase of 3.1 per cent.
The State Services Commission, whose head Iain Rennie received a $40,000 pay rise last year to take him to $560,000, refused to be interviewed on the report.
Deputy commissioner Sandi Beatie acknowledged the performance improvement framework report's position, but said people were attracted to the public sector "for wider reasons than just remuneration".
The commission did not believe there was a need to increase "the overall budget" for chief executive pay, she said.
Public Service Association national secretary Brenda Pilott said while average public servants' pay was being held back in the public sector, different standards were being used for top executives.
Chief executives and government ministers were receiving cost of living adjustments, backdating of increases, and comparisons with the private sector - "all of those things that are off the table for ordinary public servants," Ms Pilott said.
Jordan Williams, executive director of the Taxpayers' Union, said the report acknowledged the "tenuous" connection between performance and pay in the public sector, but overlooked difference with the private sector.
"Traditionally public sector employees have expected less pay in exchange for having better job security and it's disappointing that the report doesn't acknowledge that," he said.
Organisations in both the public and private sectors were now in a race to pay senior staff the most.
"Instead of asking 'how much do we need to pay to get this person', the question seems to be 'what's everyone else paying, let's go just above that average', and we have a race skywards."
Aside from plumping for an increase in executive pay, the PIF report found the commission wanting in a number of key areas.
It criticised a lack of diversity, questioned its information security, and said that stakeholders had noticed it was under constant restructure, with not enough action.
Other departments have also come in for similarly sharp criticism this year.
In June, the financial management of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet was described as "weak" and it was claimed it used techniques which "robbed Peter to pay Paul".
A report on the Ministry of Transport found that the number of staff with a deep understanding of aspects of the transport system was "limited".
In the year to June 30, five public sector bosses earned more than $600,000
- Adrian Orr, New Zealand Super Fund: $660,000 - $669,999
- John Allen, MFAT: $600,000 - $669,999
- Geoff Dangerfield, NZ Transport Agency: $610,000 - $669,999
- Gabriel Makhoulf, Treasury - $600,000 - $669,999
- Stuart McCutcheon, Auckland University - $650,000 - $669,999
- Prime Minister John Key: $419,300 (for the same period)
- The Dominion Post
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Karekin II: More practical steps must be taken by Christian churches on the road to searching for peace
Pope to Armenian people: Your sufferings are our own
Pope Francis participates in ecumenical meeting with Patriarch of Armenian Apostolic Church, Karekin II, in Yerevan
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Pope Francis visits Church visits Armenian Apostolic Cathedral of the Seven Wounds and the Holy Martyrs Armenian Catholic Cathedral in Gyumri.
Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J. says Pope Francis speaks about past tragedies not to inflame wounds, but to help create grounds for reconciliation
Federico Lombardi says Pope Francis enjoyed magnificent view of Biblical Mount Ararat
Pope Francis visits Our Lady of Armenia Catholic Educational Center in Gyumri, Armenia
Pope Francis expresses his gratitude to religious and civil authorities of Armenia
Pope Francis talks to the faithful
Pope Francis delivers a homily in Gyumri
Venice Commission experts make remarks about new proposals on Electoral Code of Armenia
Arsen Khojoyan, who was taken captive in Azerbaijan, kills a 17-year-old girl in Armenia
Pope Francis holding his first Mass in Gyumri, Armenia
OSCE MG urges Azerbaijan and Armenia to remove all remaining obstacles to expanding OSCE CiO Personal Representative's mission
Pope Francis and Catholicos of All Armenians arrive in Gyumri
Pope Francis visits Tsitsernakaberd Memorial dedicated to Armenian Genocide victims
Monument to Grigor Narekatsi to be erected in Vatican, Director of Holy See Press Office Federico Lombardi says
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ArmInfo's interview with Hrant Bagratyan, well-known economist, liberal-reformist, former prime minister of Armenia
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Mr. Bargatyan, how much will the West's sectoral sanctions affect the economy of Russia, a country having close economic ties and strategic partnership with Armenia?
Well, the economic growth in Russia in Q1 of the current year was 0.9%, while in May, there was no growth at all. GDP for the second quarter was not published. Actually, the Russian economy is shrinking. Speaking of the direct impact of the sectoral sanctions of the U.S. and Europe on the GDP, by different assessments it starts from a 0.2% growth up to tangible decline. At the same time, share index may decline by up to 25%. Although oil prices are so far stable and make up some $100 dollars per barrel, a budget deficit is quite probable. In this light, both the president and the government are reluctant to use the National Prosperity Fund. And the worst thing in this situation is the predicted capital flight that may reach 150-200 billion US dollars by the end of the year. These are mainly the funds of foreign investors that will be taken off the Russian assets. Foreign investor will be getting rid of the shares of the Russian companies that are affected by the Western sanctions. As sanctions pile up, the Russian economy loses sources of financing and technical development.
I am sure that Russia gave the West a handle to affect and even destroy the Russian economy. Russia fell short thinking that it depends on the West as much as the West depends on it. The West went on more measures even against its own companies operating in Russia. I'd like to reiterate that the major problem for Russia would be the capital flight and restricted access to technologies.
Some Russian analysts have other arguments. They say every dark cloud has a silver lining, and the sanctions will stimulate Russia towards import substitution. They often bring the example of Iran's economic improvement.
As a professional economist and a man that occupied the post of the prime minister for several years, I'd say that any talks about import substitution are pure and unadulterated speculations and even nonsense. We live in the world where there is cooperation and division of labor. If you are involved in these processes, you will keep developing. If you are not involved, you will develop on the model of the USSR, and everything will collapse one day. Iran, of course, showed rather good economic growth from time to time, but its economy failed to sustain the global competition and began shattering. Believe me, economy must be reproduced in a bigger area. For instance, economy of such big state as Russia ought to be reproduced in the global economy to either prove its efficiency or not. If the economy develops locally, like it was in the Soviet Union, it will inevitably lead to empty stores and deficit, despite the economic growth. Sure, import substitution may have a short-term effect, but it will be a very much expensive reproduction. In the Soviet Union construction of a square meter of housing ate up more resources than in the West, because no one even thought of introducing more effective construction technologies that existed at that moment.
Well, but there is another argument that Russian experts bring calling not to be afraid of the sanctions. I mean the oil and gas incomes of the country. Isolation of Russia's energy facilities will lead to price hikes in the market of energy resources. Russia as a supplier of energy resources to the world markets will manage to recompense its losses from the sanctions.
Over half of Russia's budget revenues are from the oil and gas sector. However, there is not so much oil in Russia. There have been many talks lately about the need to develop new deposits. In the West they are well aware of that and it was for a reason that the sanctions applied to the technological field i.e. the supply of equipment for development of deposits and for the processing industry has been restricted. Generally, Russia's share in the global oil production is significant, but not major. A significant part of it is used to produce fuel oil and aviation kerosene. In the given segment Russia's place is also modest enough. As regards the gas field, the situation may be even worse there. Shale gas recovery has been intensified both in Europe and the USA. Moreover, western countries began actively using alternative sources of energy. By 2020 over 20% of energy in Europe will be based on alternative sources.
In addition, the Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline (TANAP) construction will be launched intensively. The pipeline will cover over 1/4 of Europe's demand for gas…
You are quite right, new projects of energy pipelines passing by Russia are being developed. Some big European countries that very much depend on the Russian gas, for instance Germany and Italy, may demand a guaranteed access to certain energy resources from the U.S. There are enough possibilities for their replacement i.e. Qatar, Norway, Scotland, Northern Sea. I am sure that the trend towards rapprochement with Iran pursues the same goal.
One more argument: if the West turns back on us, we will go to the East. What do you think of the idea to get closer with China and form a huge common market with it - something like a global power center?
It is impossible. China will always be limiting its relations with Russia. China is a country that built the Chinese Wall, don't forget about that. Moreover, Russia is wary of China. These countries have very different demographic situations. Russia will not open its borders to China and will not increase the share of the Chinese ethnos in the Far East, for the known reasons. Hypothetically, I have thought of a triumvirate China-Japan-Russia that could dominate in the global economy, but I realize that such triumvirate is impossible. The Chinese will never have good relations with the Japanese. The relations with the Russians will never be good enough either.
In addition, a 'blow' on Russia is in favor of China. But for the situation with Ukraine, the West would have to make blows on China, as the latter has almost achieved as high level of development as Europe. Furthermore, in such situation, if China gets closer with Russia, the West, and the U.S. first of all, will impose sanctions on China. Taking a deeper look, there are many fields where China and Russia compete. For instance, China seeks to flood the world with its technologies, solar stations, but Russia with its traditional energy is an obstacle on that way. A closer cooperation and partnership is possible, of course, in some fields, but no more. Therefore, it is not within the interests of China to make Russia stronger and act against the West. China is more than the U.S. interested in weakening Russia's economy. China has 4 trillion dollars currency reserves in the USA. A weaker economy in the U.S. and Europe is not in favor of China. These countries are the main sales markets of the Chinese products. That is why it is obvious that China will be waging a very cautious policy. No Russian-Chinese tandem is possible. It is senseless.
How much will the sanctions against Russia affect the Customs Union? Don't you think that the U.S. seeks to kill two birds with one stone? They seek to weaken Russia, on the one hand, and create a mess in the CU and prevent formation of the EAEU, on the other hand. May Russia's allies in the EAEU face any informal sanctions by the West?
I think the West does not plan to hit the Customs Union. The U.S. will not affect the economy of Kazakhstan. They need that country as an energy partner. However, they may make Belarus suffer with Russia. As for Armenia, I am sure they don't care for us. However, if it turns out that Armenia uses Russian companies to get out off the blockade, Armenia will sure get a serious warning.
In the same way as the U.S. regularly closed our possibilities of cooperation with Iran in some fields. At least, remember the situation with re-export of the so-call double purpose equipment.
Sure. I mean 17% of Armenia's economy is in the hands of Russian companies. Some of them have already been affected by the sanctions. It is very bad. I am sure that the leaderships of those Russian companies have already demanded their subsidiaries, including the Armenian ones, to reduce capital expenses. I would do the same, if I headed one of those companies.
Do you suppose that sanctions will affect also our economy?
These sanctions will affect us, whether we want it or not. As for the Customs Union, it is not favorable for Russia to see Armenia as its member at present. Figuratively speaking, if I were in the Kremlin, I would not do that. Armenia is a chance for Russia to open a small window to the world in conditions of the sanctions. Armenia must not hurry to the CU either. Our country with its liberal regime of WTO membership may still be useful, at least, for the relations with Iran. The U.S. will not punish Armenia. Don't forget about the strong Armenian lobby in the USA that will stand up for Armenia. After all, why should they punish us? What is our guilt? I think Armenia must not join any union now, even if there were no crisis in Ukraine. Another matter that they in Russia may not understand that. It seems to me sometimes that the Kremlin governs very crudely, without any constructive and impartial analysis of the situation. They do not think of the consequences of their steps.
What consequences it will have for our economy? I think, first of all, transfers will decrease. This may affect macro-stability.
Consequences of the sanction will affect Armenia much. As for the transfers, I think they will not decrease, as on the one hand, they should decrease because of falling of the Russian economy and incomes of the population, but on the other hand, it is necessary to take into consideration the growth of the migration flow to Russia. The number of the Armenians which transfer money from Russia to Armenia have been growing every year. This may compensate losses, and everything depends on the falling rate of the Russian economy. About 50 thsd people that left Armenia last year, are not yet able to transfer money, buy in a year or two, they will start transferring money to their native land. However, we are not aware about the specific situation in this sphere, as we have no serious analysis of the situation by Central Bank. Nevertheless, I should say that we shall not have the expected further growth of transfers. I see risks in the energy sector, the great majority of the assets of which belong to Russian companies. There will be no new investments and development. The contracts between Armenia and Russia on energy resources delivery do not let us develop alternative sources. And it is not ruled out that Russian energy companies may again apply for raising of tariffs for consumers. There are certain risks in the financial sphere too, especially in the context of limitation of sources of the Armenian business crediting. There are also risks in the context of narrowing of the export potential of Armenia at the Russian market because of decrease of the consumer demand there. We should not wait for the Russian aid to Armenia in the form of stabilizing credits either, like in 2009. The sanctions may also affect the needed level of preferences when Armenia joins the Customs Union. And finally, if US's approach to the sanctions is extremely harsh, they can also warn us in a harsh way. As you know, US ambassador to Armenia has already made a statement on the matter.
But it is no secret that something useful may be taken from any complex situation. If we take into consideration that Russia may need import substitution, in that case, Armenian companies will have a limitless market for the export of agriculture produce, diary products, mineral water, etc. But unfortunately, experience showed that we are rather unbusinesslike when using such opportunities. Perhaps, Armenian building companies will make use of the open niche at the building market of Russia, where Moldavians and Ukrainians have been actively working now. But the innovation level of our building branch is quite low and lags behind our opponents. Will the Russians seriously take it and how will the West react?
Another positive thing is that in this context, we have to wait for sharp growth of the economic relations with Iran. Iran's role will grow, and the trend of Iran's rapprochement with external world continues, Iranian capitals may inflow into Armenia, including such braches of economy, as engineering, machine tool building, etc, that were earlier non-available because of sanctions. Fortunately, the staff potential of Armenia has not been exhausted yet.
The new geopolitical situation will enhance Azerbaijan's role but may also enhance the demand for Armenia. Therefore, no wonder the West has started speeding up the settlement of the Armenian-Azeri conflict, which should be transformed into an Azeri-Karabakh one. But it is already another matter.
Thanks for the interview.
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