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Staten Island's Number One Women's Boutique Turns 30
On Tuesday April 24th, 2012 Emily's Boutique (1654 Richmond Rd.) held it's 30th Anniversary cocktail party. Since 1982, Emily's has been Staten Island's premiere shopping destination for women who want to look their best and this was a special occasion for Emily Afendoulis, the owner and found of the establishment.
Making the event even more remarkable, was the support of renowned designer Carmen Marc Valvo, an American designer who specializes in evening-wear and high-end cocktail dresses. Emily's has been carrying Carmen Marc Valvo for quite some time now, and his form-fitting dresses never fail to impress when Emily's staff exhibits them to customers.
Overall, this small, tasteful celebration was a lovely way for Emily to share her success with her longtime clients, friends, and supporters. INDUSTRY was pleased to be involved and show our support as well.
Here's to 30 more years!!!
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- Can't Miss: Soju houses and talking to the locals.
- To Avoid: Hooker Hill and drunk soldiers.
- Tipping: Tip the normal 10%-15%.
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Seoul is the land of plasma screens, high heels and evolutionary ooze brought to life with a shot of espresso -- or soju. It is kinetic. The sidewalks of affluent Apgujeong-dong are catwalks where lithe beauties dressed in frills, fetish wear and lace oscillate on impossibly high heels while men with telescopic lenses snap shots. Every moment in Seoul you run the risk of whiplash from looking at all the gorgeous women. It is a land where Japanese and American tourists come in order to get high-quality/low-cost plastic surgery, dental work and Lasik surgery. Skyscrapers are completed on a daily basis and Seoul is home to one of the most extensive and well-organized public transportation systems in the world. The top-selling foreign car is BMW, followed by Audi and Mercedes Benz. Every man, woman and child has a technological jewel of a cell phone. A foreigner is given an all-access pass to the upper echelon of society just for being different. We asked a gorgeous tall girl with long jet-black hair what she found attractive in her gangly, buck-toothed, pock-faced English boyfriend. She answered: "His voice."
The No. 1 reason you should live in Seoul is simple: Money. Seoul's economy seems to go up and down every 10 years. There was a huge increase in wealth during the years leading up to the 1988 Olympics, and then there was a financial crash in 1998 and again in 2008. In 2007, the won (the Korean currency) was stronger than the dollar and was trading very well compared to most other currencies. Though it was weakened in the crash, you can get a cushy job in Seoul and use the left over time to study Sumido or go to a luxury karaoke room where beautiful women serve you whisky bombs. For music lovers, there is the Jarasum International Jazz Festival with 30 jazz groups from 12 different countries. There are also festivals for kimchi, ceramics, fish, giant crab, and numerous others. Oh, and if you want to get more in touch with the Earth, then you can go to the Boryeong Mud festival and roll around the mire with bikini-clad mud ladies (the event usually takes place in July).
There are also leagues for baseball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, and golf in Seoul and throughout the country to keep you busy and almost forget about your NFL. Plus there are custom tailors in the city that have made suits for Hines Ward, George Bush, Paris Hilton, Steven Segal, and many other celebrities.
There are also leagues for baseball, basketball, soccer, volleyball, and golf in Seoul and throughout the country to keep you busy and almost forget about your NFL. Plus there are custom tailors in the city that have made suits for Hines Ward, George Bush, Paris Hilton, Steven Segal, and many other celebrities.

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Not for the faint-of-heart, ghost hunters seeking a Halloween thrill should get their paranormal gear ready for the second Hacker's Haunted Broadcast at the Worley Hospital and Asylum in Pampa.
On Oct. 29, AGN Media is teaming up with Tommy the Hacker, DJ at 96.9 KISS FM, the Pampa News and Palo Duro Area Paranormal Society to investigate whether or not the hospital is really haunted.
Shuttered for more than 30 years, the abandoned Worley Hospital still presents mysteries that even the residents of Pampa can't answer, including why the hospital was mysteriously closed in the late 70s.
Strangeusa.com, a website dedicated to scary places around the world, said that the hospital is truly haunted.
"Worley Hospital was abandoned many years ago. It lies in the middle of downtown Pampa. It has been broken into several times, and graffiti covers the walls. There is an incinerator on the third floor that shakes violently when opened. There is usually a distant female scream immediately after opening it. The eeriest room in the building is the nursery. It is extremely cold, and is the only room that has not been touched by vandals."
Frank McCoy, the leader of the Palo Duro Area Paranormal Society, said he was only familiar with a few tales of the mysterious hospital, but is ready to explore.
"I understand that people have heard little kids' footsteps and a baby crying in the nursery," McCoy said. "We're going to go all out and set up our equipment in the nursery, psychiatric ward and morgue. Along with our equipment, we will be taking tour participants into each of the rooms and giving them challenges."
The brave souls on the tour will be blindfolded and wear headphones connected to digital recorders made to pick up paranormal sounds as the group plays out different scenarios in each of the targeted wards of the hospital, McCoy said.
The society will setup equipment such as digital recorders and cameras, laser grids, night-vision cameras and a spirit box, a digital radio that scans through channels quickly allowing spirits to talk through the waves, McCoy said.
Tommy the Hacker can't wait to experience the legendary hospital in person.
"Reality television, like Ghost Adventures, has really become a popular thing," Tommy said. "I thought it would be really cool to get a team together and let them explore a haunted place for Halloween. The Worley Hospital hasn't been open to the public since they mysteriously closed it down, so this is a great way to prove or debunk the myths surrounding this landmark."
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College Hockey:Wisconsin upsets top-ranked Minnesota
MADISON, Wis. — Playing against a Minnesota squad that had allowed a WCHA-fewest 16 goals in 10 prior games this season, Wisconsin forward Mark Zengerle knew his team needed to take advantage of just about every scoring chance they saw against Golden Gophers' senior goaltender Kent Patterson.
So in the second period when those opportunities came early and often, Zengerle and the Badgers capitalized, scoring three goals on the way to a 3-1 upset victory over top-ranked Minnesota Friday night in front of 11,445 fans at the Kohl Center.
"We did a really good job creating turnovers and making things hard on their goalie (Patterson)," Zengerle said. "But overall, we just really did a good job of playing our game in the neutral zone tonight."
Wisconsin's offensive barrage began five-and-a-half minutes into the second period when Tyler Barnes and Zengerle skated in on their second two-on-one chance of the game. With Barnes flying down the left wing, Zengerle raced to the right post just in time to deflect a perfect pass behind Patterson.
"I like to think that (Barnes and I) have pretty good chemistry," Zengerle said. "We play a pretty similar game with the puck and we both see the ice really well."
Just 45 seconds later, Wisconsin doubled its lead, when sophomore forward Keegan Meuer came skating in on the right wing. The Madison native unleashed a seemingly innocent shot from the top of the right faceoff circle, but the puck deflected off of Golden Gophers' freshman defenseman Ben Marshall's stick and then in over Patterson's left shoulder.
"Any time you can jump on a team when maybe they're a little down and shell-shocked it's real big," Meuer said. "In our good starts this season, we've scored early and our team has really fed off of that momentum."
Just under five minutes later, Badgers' sophomore forward Michael Mersch got into the scoring act, capitalizing on his second breakaway chance of the period. Sprung loose on a 100-foot pass by junior defenseman Justin Schultz, Mersch calmly faked a shot and then tucked home a backhand deke between Patterson's legs.
"In the second period, Michael took his game to another level," Wisconsin coach Mike Eaves said of Mersch. "We're starting to see these glimpses of him playing that way. If we can string more of those (glimpses) together, we are going to have a special player."
Multiple defensive breakdowns torpedoed Minnesota's chance to stay in the hockey game in the second period. Despite a 12-8 shots advantage during the middle frame, the Golden Gophers hit the locker room in a 3-0 hole.
"In many ways, it was not an emotional game (for our team)," Minnesota coach Don Lucia said. "Most of our mistakes were mental and we had some guys that really fought that tonight."
The Golden Gophers ended Wisconsin freshman goaltender Joel Rumpel's shutout bid with just over a minute remaining in the contest. After Marshall's initial shot, senior forward Jake Hansen slapped home a loose rebound.
"(Wisconsin) has a strong defense," said Hansen describing why Minnesota struggled offensively. "But we really got away from our systems and just came out tonight with no energy."
Despite allowing the late goal, Rumpel picked up his fourth win of the season in just his sixth start.
"(Joel) was in control, he was moving well and played big," Eaves said of Rumpel, who came just 1:09 away from his first career blanking. "I think the trust factor he has with his teammates and with his coaching staff (certainly) went up with this performance."
Wisconsin (5-5-1, 4-4-1 WCHA) will try to complete the sweep when the teams rematch Saturday night. Meanwhile, Minnesota (9-2-0, 6-1-0) expects a much better effort in the rematch after the school's first league loss of the season.
"A lot of our young guys have to learn to come to play every night," Hansen said. "Tomorrow, we will definitely be ready to play."
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For many parents, snow days are akin to a trip to the dentist - necessary but fortunately infrequent. Not this year! Holy cow, depending on the area of Middle TN, public schools are working on 10 or more snow days this winter according to WSMV News Channel 4! While those moms and dads who have all their children in full-time school are, without a doubt, cursing the weather report, those stay-at-home parents with kids in school only part-time are ready to throw a shoe through the TV! (Please do not do this - it won't change the weather!) The two or three days that these parents "get off" from having the kids around full-time recently have been wisked away with any thoughts of Spring. Not to mention that many of these parents pay for Mother's Day Out or Tuesday/Thursday school and are not getting reimbursed or credited in any way for these snow days.
This is not to say that stay-at-home parents do not love their children or their choice to be stay-at-home parents. Or that parents whose kids are in school full-time have it "easy". They have had to deal with lining up alternative care while they are at work or figuring out how to pick up their kids early with little or no notice. However, parents who stay at home and send their children to "school" a couple days a week look at those days as time to get things done more easily, and as a little bit of a mental break from constantly corralling toddlers. Fortunately it looks like the weather is going to finally break this weekend - just in time for Spring Break!


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Here's an easy and free way to demonstrate your concern about global climate change: participate in Earth Hour 2010 by turning out your lights for one hour tonight, beginning at 8:30 PM. You will join the world's largest global climate change initiative by expressing your concern about our environment, and feel good that you did.
Leave it to the Aussies; Earth Hour started in 2007 in Sydney, Australia when 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off for one hour to make their stand against climate change. Only a year later, Earth Hour had become a global sustainability movement with more than 50 million people across 35 countries participating. Global landmarks such as the, Sydney Harbour Bridge, The CN Tower in Toronto, The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, and Rome's Colosseum, all stood in darkness, as symbols of hope for a cause that grows more urgent by the hour.
The movement has gained serious momentum. In March 2009, hundreds of millions of people took part in the third Earth Hour. Over 4000 cities in 88 countries officially switched off to pledge their support for the planet.
Sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund, Earth Hour is an initiative to unite the planet in boldly stating their concern about climate change by doing something quite simple: turning off their lights for one hour.
The State of Hawaii had not signed on to Earth Hour, but you can sign up individually on the website, and join me and other concerned Hawaiian residents who have pledged to turn the lights off on pollution and climate change, and switch to a cleaner, safer and more secure world.
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College Hockey:Migliaccio Turns Back Quinnipiac
Spartans Complete Weekend Sweep of First-Ever MAAC Opponent
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Quinnipiac players had to be gushing like teenage girls at a Backstreet Boys concert when they saw freshman Matt Migliaccio start in goal for MSU instead of Hobey Baker winner Ryan Miller on Saturday.
Unfortunately, the results proved to be the same for Quinnipiac against Migliaccio as it was Friday against Miller, as No. 6 Michigan State came away with a 3-1 win Saturday at Munn Ice Arena to complete the weekend sweep of its MAAC foes.
Freshman winger Steve Jackson, junior winger Brian Maloney and junior defenseman John-Michael Liles provided the offense, and the staunch Spartan defense only forced Migliaccio to make 11 saves in helping Miller's freshman backup get his first win of the year.
The Spartans earned the sweep after beating Quinnipiac 4-1 on Friday night.
"I thought tonight's game in the second period had a little more spunk to it," MSU head coach Ron Mason said. "When they started to get some offensive opportunities, it opened up and that's what we really needed because we were playing in their end so much. We couldn't get to the front of their net and their goalie was making some really good stops, so consequently an up and down game favored us."
Taking advantage of Miller's presence on the bench instead of in the crease, Quinnipiac struck first 4:49 into the first period when sophomore winger Ryan Morton skated in on the wing off a nifty pass from freshman winger Chris White and slipped the puck past Migliaccio.
MSU answered just 1:02 later when Jackson fired a shot from a bad angle that somehow eluded Quinnipiac Jamie Holden to tie the game 1-1.
Most of the second period featured a festival of good goaltending by Migliaccio and especially Holden, whose 13 saves in the period to kept his team in the thick of things.
One shot Holden couldn't stop came with 1:15 left in the second, when Maloney fired a rocket from the left faceoff circle that perfectly landed in the net just underneath the crossbar for a 2-1 MSU lead.
The momentum seemed to carry over to the third period, as Liles scored his second goal in as many nights when he found himself all alone in front of the Quinnipiac net after taking a perfect centering pass from freshman winger Brock Radunske and beat Holden to make it 3-1 MSU just 1:17 into the third.
Maloney said his eventual game-winning goal was the boost the Spartans needed to carry them the rest of the game.
"It was a 1-1 tie there for a while and it's always important to get one late in [periods] or early in [periods]," he said. "That was a bonus for us."
The weekend marked the first time Quinnipiac had ever played against a CCHA opponent and, likewise, the first time Michigan State had ever gone up against a team from the MAAC.
Despite the enormous challenge of playing David to Michigan State's Goliath, Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold said his team gained a lot this weekend despite the two losses.
"I think the biggest thing that we're going to take out of it is the confidence," he said. "With the right bounces, we could have tied or beat Michigan State."
Quinnipiac will next play a home-and-home series against AIC next weekend, while Michigan State will also have a home-and-home series next week against in-state rival Western Michigan.
Afterwards, Mason was relieved to have the weekend series against an underdog opponent over with and was already looking ahead to the heavy brunt of conference action coming up.
"Obviously, it was a no-win situation for us," he said. "We had to win these games. If we didn't, it would have been right up on (U.S.) College Hockey Online for example. I thought our kids played the way they had to tonight and now we're going into the regular season of the CCHA, which is a lot tougher hockey."
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Register with the government. Submit fingerprints. Pass background checks. Pay fines, application fees and taxes. Remain employed. Wait 10 years to apply for a green card. Learn English.
Those are among the major hurdles immigrants currently in the country illegally would have to clear to eventually become citizens under the sweeping immigration-reform bill introduced last week by a bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators, including Arizona Republicans John McCain and Jeff Flake.
The pathway to citizenship is expected to be the most contentious and scrutinized section of the proposed legislation as the debate in Congress and among the public unfolds over the coming weeks. The 844-page bill also calls for billions of extra dollars in border-security spending to prevent illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexican border. And it calls for overhauling the U.S. immigration system to make it more responsive to economic growth and labor needs at both the high and low ends of the labor market.
The pathway portion of the bill was crafted carefully in an attempt to draw support from both parties.
"It's critically important," said Louis DeSipio, a political-science professor at the University of California-Irvine. "If we are going to see any major — or, for that matter, even minor — immigration legislation this year, there has to be some legalization in order to ensure its passage in the House and Senate."
Most Democrats will not support a reform bill that offers legalization but stops short of providing a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants because they don't want to create a permanent class of second-class residents with no hope of becoming citizens. They also want to maintain support from politically important Latino voters.
The bill also creates an opportunity for people previously deported for non-criminal reasons to return to the country if they have a U.S. citizen or permanent-resident spouse or child.
But in a concession to Republicans, the bill makes legalization of undocumented immigrants contingent on border security and requires them to go through a long process before becoming eligible for citizenship. That's an effort to convince conservatives that the bill is not a repeat of the 1986 immigration law that granted amnesty to nearly 3 million undocumented immigrants. In another concession to Republicans, the bill requires undocumented immigrants to go to the "back of the line" for green cards to prevent them from getting permanent residency before those who followed the legal process.
"I think they designed a bill that they could market, that they could sell as creating very high barriers to unauthorized immigrants so in a sense (immigrants) are paying for the illegality of their migration," DeSipio said. "It also meets the rhetorical challenge that nobody who is legalizing will be able to jump to the head of the line."
A long path to citizenship is also intended to ease concerns from Republicans that the bill will create millions of new Democratic voters because the majority of undocumented immigrants are Latinos and Latinos tend to vote Democratic, DeSipio said.
Under the proposed legislation, most undocumented immigrants would need at least 13 years to become citizens. They first would have to apply for provisional legal status, a sort of probationary period during which they would be required to remain employed and stay out of trouble with the law. They then would have to wait a minimum of 10 years before becoming eligible to apply for green cards, as permanent-residency visas are known, and then three more years before becoming eligible to apply for citizenship.
"It's a very long and difficult path," said Randy Capps, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research center in Washington, D.C.
The proposal, introduced Wednesday, is already drawing criticism from both sides of the debate. Many immigrant advocates say the pathway is too long; many opponents of illegal immigration, who played a major role in derailing immigration-reform attempts in 2006 and 2007, remain opposed to any legalization program, no matter how long or difficult.
Angelica Salas, a spokeswoman for the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, a national coalition of immigrant advocacy groups that favor immigration reform, said the inclusion of a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants instead of just the opportunity to gain legal status was an "incredible victory."
But she said the pathway is too long. In the coming weeks, the 40 groups in 33 states that make up the coalition plan to push senators to shorten the time requirement.
"The reality is that the legalization component as it exists is not an immediate access to legal permanent residency, which is the ultimate goal. That is the coveted green card," said Salas, who is executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. "And so there is disappointment that the length to get to the (legal permanent residency) status, which eventually gives you access to citizenship, is so long. And it definitely is a very tough path, ... and that is something that we are going to be working on."
Many undocumented immigrants, however, are thrilled to have an opportunity to legalize their status, even if the pathway to citizenship is long.
"It sounds great," Cristal Ceja, 30, said after hearing a summary of the pathway to citizenship outlined in the bill.
Ceja, a Phoenix resident, was brought to the United States illegally when she was 16 and has been living here since. Her husband, Francisco, 32, is also an immigrant from Mexico living in this country without legal status. They have three children who were all born in the United States, making the children U.S. citizens.
Ceja said she is more concerned about being able to work legally in the U.S. rather than gaining citizenship. Her husband supports their family by cutting lawns and other landscaping jobs, but the work is not steady and he makes only about $230 a week. With legal status, he would be able to get a better-paying job, she said.
Immigration-control groups, however, are vehemently opposed to a pathway to citizenship, which they see as providing amnesty to immigrants who broke the law. These organizations generally define amnesty as allowing undocumented immigrants to gain any form of legal status. They would prefer to see more effort on enforcing immigration laws to deport undocumented immigrants or pressure them to leave on their own.
"It's amnesty flat out," said Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Washington, D.C.-based group.
Mehlman criticized the pathway to citizenship outlined in the bill for allowing most of the 11 million immigrants in the country illegally to gain legal provisional status within six months.
"It's going to take some time for them to get green cards and citizenship, but they are going to get irrevocable amnesty almost from day one," he said.
Mehlman also blasted the bill for giving people previously deported the opportunity to return to the U.S. He said it sends the message that "We are really sorry we had immigration laws and we are really, really sorry that we enforced them, so please come back and apply for amnesty."
Since the bill was introduced, however, the senators known as the "Gang of Eight" have tried to convince the public that the pathway to citizenship is not amnesty. They acknowledged at Thursday's press conference that undocumented immigrants broke the law but emphasized that most contribute to the economy, doing jobs that many Americans won't take, and that it is unrealistic to try to deport them all.
"Amnesty is an unconditional pardon for a breach of law," Flake told The Arizona Republic. "This is hardly that.
"It's a 10-year probationary period before they have the opportunity to apply for a green card," Flake added, noting the bill's citizenship pathway requires undocumented immigrants to clear several hurdles before they are eligible for green cards, including remaining employed and paying taxes and fines. "So that is not amnesty."
Pathway to citizenship
The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 calls for a pathway to citizenship that would allow immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally to legalize their status temporarily by applying for a provisional visa, and then to seek permanent residency after a minimum of 10 years of residency. Those who receive permanent residency would be eligible to apply for citizenship after three years, so the total pathway to citizenship would be about 13 years.
Registered provisional immigrant status
The bill would create a provisional visa for people in the country illegally. To receive the visa, undocumented immigrants would have to register with the government, submit fingerprints and other biometric information, and pass background checks. The provisional visa would allow immigrants to work legally in the U.S. and travel outside the country on short trips. Undocumented immigrants convicted of felonies, three or more misdemeanors, or who voted illegally would be barred from legalizing their status unless they received a waiver. The provisional visa would have to be renewed every six years.
People in deportation proceedings also would be able to apply for provisional status. So would people previously deported for non-criminal reasons if they are married to a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident or have a child who is a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident.
Only undocumented immigrants who entered the country before Dec. 31, 2011, could apply to legalize their status.
The pathway to citizenship included in the bill is contingent on several triggers.
Undocumented immigrants wouldn't be able to apply for provisional status until the secretary of Homeland Security submits to Congress two "strategies" for beefing up border security and constructing more fencing to achieve the goals of having 100 percent of the southern border under surveillance and stopping 90 percent of people who enter illegally in high-traffic areas, including the Tucson Sector.
Those given provisional status couldn't apply for permanent residency until:
Plans for beefing up border security were "substantially operational" and the border-fencing strategy was "substantially completed."
A mandatory electronic employment-verification system for all employers was in place.
An electronic exit system was established at air and sea ports to track when people who entered the country on visas leave.
Undocumented immigrants granted provisional status would not be eligible for public benefits and would not qualify for health-care benefits under the health-care reform law.
Penalties, taxes and fees
Undocumented immigrants would be assessed $2,000 in fines before they could become permanent residents, paid in installments of $500 when applying for provisional status the first time, $500 when renewing their provisional status and $1,000 when applying for permanent residency. They would also have to pay fees to cover the cost of processing applications and any assessed federal taxes.
Military service
Undocumented immigrants would be eligible to join the military as soon as they receive provisional status.
Back of the line
Undocumented immigrants granted provisional status would have to wait at the "back of the line" for permanent-residency until all legal immigrants, currently about 4.3 million, have received their green cards, as permanent residency visas are called. The government would have to clear those backlogs within seven years.
Other requirements
To apply for green cards, immigrants with provisional status would have to show they worked continuously, except for short breaks, or they were full-time students. They would also have to pass an English test or be enrolled in an English course.
Undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as minors before age 16 would have a shorter path to citizenship. After receiving provisional status, they could apply for permanent residency after five years, instead of 10, as long as they graduated from high school, attended college for two years or served four years in the military. They would be eligible to apply for citizenship immediately after receiving permanent residency instead of having to wait three years.
Agricultural workers
Undocumented immigrants who can show they have worked at least 100 days doing farm work would be eligible for an Agriculture Card giving them legal status. Those granted Agriculture Cards would be eligible for permanent residency in three years if they continued to do farm work for 150 days a year for three years, or 100 days a year for five years. They would also have to pay a $400 fine, be up to date on their taxes, and have no serious criminal record.


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