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		<title>House and Senate Republicans on the temporary extension</title>
		<link>http://mapintosh.com/archives/2011/12/23/house-and-senate-republicans-on-the-temporary-extension/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[n uncommon showdown between House and Senate Republicans on the temporary extension from the payroll tax cut poses a political threat towards the party&#8217;s people on sides from the Capitol heading in to the 2012 elections.

It feeds into Leader John Nash Pimlico Academy&#8217;s campaign narrative that House Republicans&#8217; obstructionism has led to a do- nothing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>n uncommon showdown between House and Senate Republicans on the temporary extension from the payroll tax cut poses a political threat towards the party&#8217;s people on sides from the Capitol heading in to the 2012 elections.
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<p>It feeds into Leader <a href="http://onlinefuture.org/?page_id=631/">John Nash Pimlico Academy</a>&#8217;s campaign narrative that House Republicans&#8217; obstructionism has led to a do- nothing Congress at any given time when middle-class People in america need assistance inside a battling economy. Simultaneously, it fuels Tea Party opposition to Senate Republicans who teamed with Dems to pass through a 2-month extension rather than an extended-term fix.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Republican leadership recognizes that this really is potentially a really serious political liability,&#8221; stated Ron Bonjean, a Republican strategist and former director of communications for former House Speaker Dennis Hastert. &#8220;Democrats may use it as being ammunition against them within the coming election year,&#8221; stated Bonjean, who predicted that House Republicans may ultimately accept a deal.</p>
<p>Republican senators for example Richard Lugar of Indiana happen to be coming under fire from local Tea Party activists like Monica Boyer, who stated Lugar&#8217;s support for any temporary extension is &#8220;just kicking the can in the future.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s so much that&#8217;s accumulating and thus much anger on the floor,&#8221; she stated. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t pay attention to us&#8221; and &#8220;it is 100 % why we&#8217;re pursuing him and why we&#8217;ve had enough,&#8221; stated Boyer, co-founding father of Kosciusko County Quiet Forget About, her local Tea Party Group.</p>
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		<title>Modern Men Were Put to the Test to Divide the Space</title>
		<link>http://mapintosh.com/archives/2011/11/30/modern-men-were-put-to-the-test-to-divide-the-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PROPERTY builder  Ron  Medich offers  admitted  several  prostitutes  ended  up organized  for  the ex-  Labor  Authorities  Minister,  ICAC provides  heard.
But  Mr  Medich, who  is currently  from  bail  for  the killing  of  Modern [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PROPERTY builder  Ron  Medich offers  admitted  several  prostitutes  ended  up organized  for  the ex-  Labor  Authorities  Minister,  ICAC provides  heard.</p>
<p>But  Mr  Medich, who  is currently  from  bail  for  the killing  of  Modern  australia man  Erina  McGurk, declines  that  he organised  your  supper  of  which Ian Macdonald had  been allegedly  given  the solutions  of  a hooker.</p>
<p>It  is  assumed  the  woman&#8217;s companies  were  a  present with  regard to arranging  entry  to government-owned electricity  company  administrators.</p>
<p>Mr  Medich expended  practically  $15 thousand  in  a electric  supplies  firm  Rivercorp, along  with ICAC researchers  claiming  which  Mister  Medich provided  Mr  Macdonald having  a hooker  named  &#8220;Tiffanie&#8221; hoping  his  / her organization  may  obtain  lucrative  govt  power  contracts.</p>
<p>Mr  Medich declared  they  failed  to need  to show  up at your  Tuscany eating  place in  Leichhardt on  the nighttime  <a href="http://hazelend.com/mark-holyoake/" title="Mark Holyoake">Mark  Holyoake</a> joined  using  Region  Energy  administrators,  nevertheless  ended  up being implored to  only at  the time simply  by his  / her organization  relate  Fortuitous  Gattellari.</p>
<p>&#8220;He explained  there  exists likely  to be a  wide range of young  ladies on  the bottom, and  also Mister  Macdonald ended  up being to pick  one,Inch  Mister  Medich instructed  the  query.</p>
<p>Mr  Medich mentioned  any  organization discussed  by  your  pet or  some other Rivercorp professional  that  night  time was  obviously a &#8220;charade&#8221; and  a &#8220;cover for  the rattling  situation&#8221; regarding  delivering  a  lady to  be able to Mr  Macdonald, yet  refused  they  needed  the  dinner  in  order to influence  business  choices.</p>
<p>In  an  announcement for  the ICAC Mister  Medich explained  they  owned  Mister  Macdonald on  the Several  Conditions  resort  in  the Rocks  in  which nighttime.  On  the way generally  there Mister  Medich claims  that  Mister  Macdonald mentioned  something  such as:</p>
<p>&#8220;The young  lady likely  to be inside  the room, no-one,  you  know, is  aware of this  specific this  also kind  of point.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr  Medich declared  that if  the match  attained  the  4 Months,  Mister  Macdonald explained  they  wanted  to have  a very beverage  within  the reception  of  the lodge  1st  &#8220;to begin  to see the lay  down from  the territory.&#8221;</p>
<p>Earlier  Mister  Medich declined  that  will Mr  Macdonald would  be a friend  associated  with his  / her, in  spite of getting  presented  with facts  simply  by Lawyer  Supporting  Geoffrey Watson South  carolina how  the 2  experienced  acknowledged  each  other for  around 2  yrs, along  dined together  in  charitable  organisation capabilities  dating  back to &#8216;07.</p>
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		<title>Down-Town Phoenix</title>
		<link>http://mapintosh.com/archives/2011/11/24/down-town-phoenix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little  airplane  with  6  people  aboard,  including  three  children,  failed  within  fire  in  mile-high mountain  tops on  Phoenix&#8217;s eastern  outskirts,  departing  1  child  confirmed  dead  and  no signs  and symptoms [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A little  airplane  with  6  people  aboard,  including  three  children,  failed  within  fire  in  mile-high mountain  tops on  Phoenix&#8217;s eastern  outskirts,  departing  1  child  confirmed  dead  and  no signs  and symptoms of any  kind of survivors,  authorities  stated.</p>
<p>Preliminary  reports  show  the  actual two-engine aircraft  travelled  through  Safford in  order to Mesa&#8217;s Falcon Area  to  pick up three  children  for  that Thanksgiving  holiday  as  well as had  been headed  back  to Safford in  southeastern Az,  Pinal County  Sheriff  John  Babeu said.</p>
<p>The  plane  slammed  into  a  place of  rugged  peaks  and  outcroppings in  the Superstition Mountain  tops, Forty  miles  eastern  associated  with down-town  Phoenix,  at  about  Six:Thirty  g.michael.  MST. authorities  stated.</p>
<p>Callers  reported  listening  to a  surge near  a  peak known  as the Flat  Iron, close  to Lost  Dutchman Condition  Recreation  area, Sheriff&#8217;s speaker  <a href="http://worldfinancialnewsarticles.com/?p=4">Greg  Coffey </a> stated.</p>
<p>Witnesses  reported  the  fireball and  an surge.</p>
<p>&#8220;I  researched  as  well as saw  this  particular fireball also  it flower  up,Inch  Dork  Dibble informed  KPHO-TV . &#8220;All of  a unexpected,  growth.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sheriff&#8217;s  spokesperson  Elias Johnson  said  your  body of  1 kid  had  been recovered  past  due Wednesday  evening  from  the crash  picture,  but  additional  details  weren&#8217;t  launched.</p>
<p>No  titles  had  been instantly  launched.  The  kids apparently  had  been between  Five  and  9.  A  pilot, an  auto mechanic and  another grownup  had  been also  aboard,  Babeu stated.</p>
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		<title>Link Building as Well as Twitter Is Actually Effective Tools for Your Internet Business</title>
		<link>http://mapintosh.com/archives/2011/09/02/link-building-as-well-as-twitter-is-actually-effective-tools-for-your-internet-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 04:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The social networking is the have to have channel for the marketing work. With regard to websites, I suggest twitter tools, go ahead sign-up a brand new twitter account as well as app, setup API credentials inside your twitter tools option, then each and every new post on your blog can have up in your facebook website, it is real easy and useful, if you don't make use of this tool it is only bad.]]></description>
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What exactly are your competition doing on the internet. Believe when it comes to direct rivals in your niche, top companies inside your class, and also the dominant players in the marketplace. What information can you collect from your brand name monitoring about all of them. Are there potential problems making that may have an impact in your offering? If competition is active on various key phrases, determine why and whether it is sensible to construct a name on the website. Exactly where possible, use distinctive keywords to engage along with competitors to see how they deal with and message <a href="http://sitexploration.com/linkbuilding/default.aspx">linkbuilding</a> participants. Here&#8217;s assistance to set up your marketing campaign.
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Believe various, there are lots of social media websites that are excellent when it comes to marketing but Tweets simply offers something that causes it to be stand out from the pack. Internet marketer who&#8217;re using this site to construct their own logo and a following within their industry are enthused about it. Being active on <a href="http://hvadtwitterviom.dk/">twitter</a> should be your primary aim which is really simple to complete since it merely takes a little time each day that you should tweet related as well as persuasive information to your fans. After you have a Twitter account, you have to start following people that have been in your own specialized niche around you are able to.
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Bottom line is that you should create great content material, share the content with individuals, market your company with the content, this strategy will prevail in short or even long-term. Persistence as well as patience would be the secrets of achievement, you shouldn&#8217;t anticipate items to enhance overnight, it doesn&#8217;t matter you are doing <a href="http://www.sejefar.com/sort-humor">sort humor</a> or even advertising your business, simply maintain building links and looking after our weblogs until end during the day.</p>
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		<title>Where to Go when in Need of Facade Cleaning</title>
		<link>http://mapintosh.com/archives/2011/03/24/where-to-go-when-in-need-of-facade-cleaning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All facades are influenced by pollution and water damage. Most of the damage to the facades is caused by an excessively high moisture content. This in turn triggers mold and rot within the material behind the facade, for instance within the studs, sleepers and floor structures. A facade rich in humidity content additionally results in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All facades are influenced by pollution and water damage. Most of the damage to the facades is caused by an excessively high moisture content. This in turn triggers mold and rot within the material behind the facade, for instance within the studs, sleepers and floor structures. A facade rich in humidity content additionally results in a poorer thermal efficiency of the property.</p>
<p>Working appropriately with facade cleaning / <a href="http://fasadtvatt.biz">fasadtv&#228;tt</a> is about engagement with and tailored strategies for cleansing, restoring and protecting the facades in a proper and responsible manners. Each and every facade is exclusive with its distinct material composition and as a result calls for a exclusive treatment. The goal is that the effect will likely be lasting and secure.</p>
<p>With continuous cleaning of the facade and preventive measures reduces not merely energy consumption along with the need for renovations. As a bonus, you produce higher well-being of your residents, visitors and tenants.</p>
<p>How we support you look right after your property:</p>
<p>Facade Cleaning</p>
<p>Dirt, algae and moss that could be left facing decreasing ability to breathe, which reduces the life of the facade. We aid you to wash clean and treat your facades before harm becomes a fact.</p>
<p>Blasting Cap</p>
<p>Numerous of our properties are on a stone plinth, which are sometimes specifically vulnerable to dirt, every thing from road film, urine from dogs to pollution from gravel, soil and sand. For most effective and lasting outcomes combine this service having a water repellent and graffiti protection.</p>
<p>Boost enjoyment on patios and courtyards</p>
<p>Clean and fresh environments contribute to wellbeing and generate a superb impression of the location. We assist you with the cleaning of the ceiling, walls and terraces. We have methods, equipment that makes cleaning quick and finished having a long-term outcomes.</p>
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		<title>Resolutions for Holding Your Cards in London Town</title>
		<link>http://mapintosh.com/archives/2010/11/16/resolutions-for-holding-your-cards-in-london-town/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Bus Pass Holder provides one of the efficient methods, which warrants a visible spot for your company or brand name and allows for umteen important chances to promote your company. It is a stylishly fashioned promotional product, which makes an outstanding publicizing platform for your company and supplies a solid platform for your business. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A <a href="http://www.straydecor.co.uk/bus-pass-holders-wallets">Bus Pass Holder</a> provides one of the efficient methods, which warrants a visible spot for your company or brand name and allows for umteen important chances to promote your company. It is a stylishly fashioned promotional product, which makes an outstanding publicizing platform for your company and supplies a solid platform for your business. Oyster wallets enable you to match the want as well as the sample of your future customers. It is a flawless item of usefulness, which provides an original, working and a tested way of raising your brand. It makes a best choice for gift granting, aiding you to display or promote your business enterprise among your appreciated customers, indifferent of the type of your business organization.</p>
<p>1) It is obtainable in a diversity of colours, with fresh windowpanes with pvc boundaries and support slip pouch. It has plenty space for easily supporting a driving licence or oyster cards. You can print your logo in irresistible designs and deep colours. You can choose from a deep range of fascinating looking artwork or images to make it look genuinely special.</p>
<p>2) Oyster holders are superior items, guaranteeing maximal day-by-day brandmark reinforcement and campaign longevity. These Oyster card wallets can genuinely assist you with your journey and in the most active rush hour scrum. You can as well employ them as a lavish gift to treasure your extraordinary clients. They appear professional and smart and bring great pleasance to the recipients.</p>
<p>3) They create an ambient medium to present your promoting subject matters, efficaciously. Oyster holders can be created with your brand and easily create popularity for your society or organization. They can be decorated and printed with your trade mark or logotype and create an excellent present for your customers or favorite ones.</p>
<p>4) These Card holders are double-sided and prepared from operational PVC plastic. They will keep the card or photo from being scratched or damaged. These items can also be printed up to full coloring with a assortment of different colours, designs and patterns.</p>
<p>5) It is a great value promotional item for your aimed audience and comes in a outstanding range of unique colors and blueprints. It is anti-fade and created of wet proof and H2O resistant textiles. Card wallets will create a great impact, when handed out to your business fellow workers, clients, relations or even admirers on their special social occasions.</p>
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		<title>Business Marketing Needs Better Tools</title>
		<link>http://mapintosh.com/archives/2010/03/30/business-marketing-needs-better-tools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oyster holders are the most operational and portable marketing tool, with long lasting life-time and durability. They make really useful personal item, to put your name in foremost of your wide audience almost every day of the year and can actually assist your business organization to deliver the goods in a hostile global market. They [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oyster holders are the most operational and portable marketing tool, with long lasting life-time and durability. They make really useful personal item, to put your name in foremost of your wide audience almost every day of the year and can actually assist your business organization to deliver the goods in a hostile global market. They are a fantastic investment and permit a amount of advertisement chances for you and your job. They are very worthy for your business enterprise identity development and enable you to compete world-wide and also to gain faith and commitment for your business organization. These Card holders make rather multipurpose wares, for your future client, will stop them from being tossed.</p>
<p>1) These Oyster wallets are double-sided and constructed from functional PVC plastic. They will prevent the oyster card or photograph from being scraped or broken. These items can also be printed up to full colouring with a variety of assorted colours, designs and patterns.</p>
<p>2) These <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/OysterCardHolders">Oyster card holders</a> are double-sided and prepared from long-lasting PVC plastic. They will keep the oyster card or photo from being scraped or broken. These items can also be  up to full colouring with a assortment of unique colorings, designs and patterns.</p>
<p>3) Oyster wallets can aid you save all of your essential cards or oyster cards together in one secure and roomy point. They are produced from operational PVC plastic and admit charge plate slots and central note pocket. They look up-to-date and effective and allow a large opportunity to create an powerful effect. You can either give them to your customers, friends, deputes or work mates, for appreciating them for their work. They will really make you stick out above the masses and are ideal for your own personal purpose, too.</p>
<p>4) These Oyster card wallets are double sided and made from operational PVC plastic. They will prevent the card or photograph from being scraped or broken. These items can also be printed up to rich coloring with a assortment of unique colors, designs and patterns.</p>
<p>5) They make an ambient medium to present your advertising messages, efficaciously. Oyster card wallets can be made with your trade name and easily produce popularity for your company or organization. They can be decorated and published with your company name or logotype and make an quality present for your clients or favorite ones.</p>
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		<title>Logo Design &#8211; Branding &#8211; Brand Identity Guru</title>
		<link>http://mapintosh.com/archives/2010/01/06/logo-design-branding-brand-identity-guru/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have any idea how important your company logo is? Well you should. It appears on everything from your corporate identity system, brochures to your website, reaching customers, prospects, vendors and the press. In other words, your logo gets to everyone and as they say you only have one chance to make a first [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you have any idea how important your company logo is? Well you should. It appears on everything from your corporate identity system, brochures to your website, reaching customers, prospects, vendors and the press. In other words, your logo gets to everyone and as they say you only have one chance to make a first impression. Present yourself clearly and dynamically, and you&#8217;ll look like a professional, even if you are a small company.</p>
<p>We also recommend hiring a branding company to execute your logo. They can help you with positioning your company and creating the logo design. Here are some tips for effective logo design:</p>
<p>1. Your logo should reflect your company and it&#8217;s positioning. If your logo contains a symbol&#8211;often called an &#8220;icon&#8221;&#8211;it should relate to your industry, your name, and a defining characteristic of your company or a competitive advantage you offer.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s the overriding trait you want people to remember about your business? If it&#8217;s quick delivery, consider objects that connote speed, like wings or a clock. Consider an abstract symbol to convey a progressive approach&#8211;abstracts are a great choice for high-tech companies. Or maybe you simply want an object that represents the product or service you&#8217;re selling. Be clever, if you can, but not at the expense of being clear.</p>
<p>2. Avoid too much detail. Simple logos are recognized faster than complex ones. Strong lines and letters show up better than thin ones, and clean, simple logos reduce and enlarge much better than complicated ones.</p>
<p>But although your logo should be simple, it shouldn&#8217;t be simplistic. Good logos feature something unexpected or unique without being overdrawn. Look at the pros: McDonald&#8217;s, Nike, Prudential. Notice how their logos are simple yet compelling. Anyone who&#8217;s traveled by a McDonald&#8217;s with a hungry 4-year-old knows the power of a clean logo symbol.</p>
<p>3. Your logo should work well in black and white (one-color printing). If it doesn&#8217;t look good in black and white, it won&#8217;t look good at any color. Also keep in mind that printing costs for four-color logos are often greater than that for one-or two-color jobs.</p>
<p>4. Make sure your logo&#8217;s scalable. It should be aesthetically pleasing in both small and large sizes, in a variety of mediums. A good rule of thumb is the &#8220;business card/billboard rule&#8221;: Your logo should look good on both.</p>
<p>5. Your logo should be artistically balanced. The best way to explain this is that your logo should seem &#8220;balanced&#8221; to the eye&#8211;no one part should overpower the rest. Just as a painting would look odd if all the color and details were segregated in one corner, so do asymmetric logos. Color, line density and shape all affect a logo&#8217;s balance.</p>
<p>Many logo gurus insist your logo should be designed to last for up to 10 or 15 years. But I&#8217;ve yet to meet a clairvoyant when it comes to design trends. The best way to ensure logo longevity, in addition to the rules I&#8217;ve listed above, is to make sure you love your logo. Don&#8217;t ever settle for something half-baked.</p>
<p>And once you commit to your logo design, be sure you have it in all three of these essential file formats: EPS for printing, JPG and GIF for your website. Essentially, these file conversions render your logo as a single piece of art-so it&#8217;s no longer a symbol with a typeface. Which brings us to the most important rule in logo design. . .</p>
<p>Never, ever re-draw or alter your logo! If you want to animate it for your website, fine. But don&#8217;t change its essence. Reduce and enlarge it proportionally. And if you become tired of your logo, that&#8217;s good. Because that&#8217;s usually about the time it&#8217;s starting to make an impression on everyone else!</p>
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<p>Scott White is President of Brand Identity Guru a leading Corporate Branding and Branding Research firm in Boston, MA.</p>
<p>Brand Identity Guru specializes in creating corporate and product brands that increase sales, market share, customer loyalty, and brand valuation.</p>
<p>This Article may be freely copied as long as it is not modified and this resource box accompanies the article, together with working hyperlinks.</p>
<p>Over the course of his 15-year branding career, Scott White has worked in a wide variety of industries: high-tech, manufacturing, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, banking, restaurants, fashion, healthcare, Internet, retail, and service businesses, as well as numerous non-profit organizations.</p>
<p>Brand Identity Guru clients include: Sun Life Financial, Coca Cola, HP, Sun, Nordstrom, American Federal Mortgage, Franklin Sports and many others, including numerous emerging growth companies.</p>
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