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Father Arrested Getting Kids from School

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Boston PD Now on GPS

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/11/18/gps-now-monitor-bpd/Vc6qOHTlvehT2YzYWIQkiP/story.html

Man Arrested Picking Up Children from School

http://www.realfarmacy.com/man-arrested-for-trying-to-pick-up-his-kids-from-school/

Hey everybody, Welcome to Peace News Now, your daily journal of peaceful resistance! I’m DerrickJ. Today’s tuesday, November 19th 2013. 1 ounce of silver is 21 dollars. 1 Bitcoin is 585 dollars. This episode is brought to you by friends of http://WeUseCoins.com . You’ve probably been hearing a lot about bitcoin in the news. If you’d like to learn more about how you can use this new currency, I recommend you visit http://WeUseCoins.com . It’s the perfect launching pad to get started. That’s http://WeUseCoins.com

The Boston Police will be getting GPS trackers added to their cars, and they’re NOT happy about it. The Police Union and the City Bureaucrats struck a backroom deal in which it was agreed that the GPS’ would be added to police cruisers for more accurate monitoring and faster response time, and in return, the police would get more pay, government goodies, and other special benefits. It’s good to be muscle for the king.

As part of the new changes, cameras will be equipped in district booking stations to record cops booking suspects. But it’s the GPS devices that have stirred the most anxiety. Cops are worried that commanders will monitor their every move. They worry that under such a system they will have to explain themselves and possibly compromise their ability to strongarm snitches to rat on their friends.

One cop who spoke under the condition of anonymity said, quote, “No one likes it. Who wants to be followed all over the place? If I take my cruiser and I meet [reluctant witnesses] to talk, eventually they can follow me and say why were you in a back dark street for 45 minutes?”

As part of sweetening the deal for the cops, they cannot be disciplined based on any information collected by the GPS devices in the first six months following their installation. They also get more than a month’s notice before the GPS’s are even installed. And the department must alert an officer if anyone from the public requests his or her GPS records. So if you ask for Officer Joe’s GPS route because you saw him engaging in some possibly criminal behavior, now Officer Joe knows that you’re keeping an eye on him. Hopefully this doesn’t result in police intimidating those who seek to hold them accountable.

A lawyer for the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association says, quote “If he goes a mile over the speed limit, someone can question that. It’s quite an intrusion on people’s lives.” Irony sure isn’t lost on this lawyer.

Some fear it could make police vulnerable to tech-savvy criminals, but any criminal with a smartphone can already tap into nearly any police department’s radio transmissions.

“How long is it going to be before some criminal mastermind . . . gets some kids at MIT to figure out how to break into the GPS system?” he asked. “Then they know where the cops are and can go rob banks.” It’s like the cops live in a cartoonish version of reality with mad scientists and criminal masterminds working out of MIT to go Dillinger on the banks… How out of touch are the modern crime-stoppers from modern crime?

The City Council must decide whether to force residents of the city to pay a 14% tax hike for the package. That includes raises, additional money for longevity benefits, bonuses for officers with college degrees, and other perks. This amounts to a 25 percent increase in police pay over six years. Not bad for an empire in decline.

Speaking of empire in decline, a father in Tennessee was arrested for picking up his kids from school. The police charged the man with disorderly conduct, a popular catch-all charge that is difficult to dispute in court and often carries a penalty of one year in jail. Fortunately for the man, someone was recording the interaction, where he can be seen conversing with school employees and a police officer. Although the police officer several times raises his voice and threatens to do bad things to the man, the man keeps a calm attitude. The man, named Jim Howe, says, quote, ““I’m not raising my voice, I’m not confrontational, I want my kids.” The father is threatening a lawsuit against the police for wrongful arrest. Will a lawsuit make it right? Will a lawsuit stop this from happening in the future? How do we balance peaceful non-compliance with strategic victories?

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Siri Favors Ron Paul

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct-xOwS2Sdk

First Bitcoin Meeting

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304439804579205740125297358

Anonymous Bitcoin Cold Storage

http://www.anonymousbitcoinbook.com/2013/11/17/become-your-own-banker-bitcoin-cold-storage-tutorial-part-1/

New Home Food Law

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/nov/12/home-business-food-cottage-state-law/

Fined for “Unfit” Lunch

http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/mother-fined-unhealthy-lunch-gave-children/#axzz2l33j2jtN

Siri what are your political views? Hey everybody, Welcome to Peace News Now, your daily journal of peaceful resistance! I’m DerrickJ. Today’s Wednesday, November 18th 2013. 1 ounce of silver is 21 dollars. 1 Bitcoin is 650 dollars. This episode is brought to you by friends of http://WeUseCoins.com . You’ve probably been hearing a lot about bitcoin in the news. If you’d like to learn more about how you can use this new currency, I recommend you visit http://WeUseCoins.com . It’s the perfect launching pad to get started. That’s http://WeUseCoins.com

Siri is the voice-activated personal assistant feature in Apple’s iPhones. In a video going viral this week, one iPhone user discovers that asking Siri, “What are your political views” yields the result Ron Paul. Siri also provides a brief excerpt from Ron Paul’s Wikipedia page.

Some suggested the phenomenon was arising from a mere coincidence: Ron Paul supporters are a vocal, tech-savvy group, making the politician’s name particularly likely to pop up in search results. But even when the memory is completely wiped and a brand new iPhone is started up, even with no other information about the user, Siri’s reply is the same.

On a related note, Ron Paul’s son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, recently defended Apple’s tax practices, and called on Congress to apologize for berating, quote, “one of America’s greatest success stories.”

Apple hasn’t explained why Siri favors Ron Paul, but as one Reddit reader cheered, quote, “Siri understands the plain language of the Constitution.”

In other news, bitcoin rose over one hundred and fifty dollars today. This mostly occurred during and after the historic first-ever Congressional Hearing on Virtual Currencies. Peace News Now and The Bitcoin Group collaborated on a special live-broadcast commentary of the hearing. Guests featured Jeffrey Tucker of Laizes Faire Book Club at LFB.org and Adam Levine of Let’s Talk Bitcoin. Davi Barker of ShinyBadges.com and Michele Seven of MicheleSeven.com also lent their expertise to the discussion. The meeting centered around antiquated bureaucrats at the Federal Government doing their best to control something they don’t understand. In the end, it was decided there will be more hearings in the future. Most if not all of the 7 panelists interviewed proclaimed that bitcoin had positive, legitimate uses, despite the potential for misuse. Bitcoin was the #1 search trending on Google today. A historic day for bitcoin.

Speaking of bitcoin, a friend of the show is writing a book that you should check out at http://AnonymousBitcoinBook.com — There you’ll find tips to help you navigate the world of bitcoin, a little bit safer. Most recently, the author blogged about how to secure your bitcoins offline, in a practice called “Cold Storage.” How do you implement cold storage on your own…and do it securely? http://AnonymousBitcoinBook.com

In other news, a tricky new law in California repeals some old restrictions on operating a food business out of your home. Those who wanted to make fudge, lollipops, sugar cones, and other sweet treats used to be forbidden. Now, in an attempt to raise more tax revenue for California, the lawmakers are allowing individuals to work for themselves at home. Isn’t that nice of the bureaucrats? To ALLOW you to make food in your own home and then trade it with people? So long as they get a cut, of course. You might be better off not asking their permission.

Speaking of permission, Austin Peterson at LibertarianRepublic.com writes this week that Big Brother fined a mother $10 after she failed to include Ritz crackers in her kids’ school lunch. If a child’s lunch is deemed “unbalanced,” parents are fined. Lunches are required to conform to the government’s Food Guide.

What was the criminally inadequate lunch? Leftover roast beef and potatoes, an orange, carrots and milk. But she failed to supply “grains”. The school provided the child with supplemental Ritz Crackers and sent home the $10 fine.

Kristen wrote that, quote, ‘had she sent along lunches consisting of, “microwave Kraft Dinner and a hot dog, a package of fruit twists, a Cheestring, and a juice box” those lunches would have sailed right through. But her whole food, homemade lunches? They lacked Ritz Crackers.’

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Mass PD Pays Bitcoin Ransom

http://www.wwlp.com/news/massachusetts/mass-pd-pays-ransom-to-reverse-virus

Prosecutor Says “Government” is Derogatory

http://reason.com/blog/2013/11/13/prosecutor-asks-that-she-not-be-called-t

Boston PD Drops Charges Against PINAC

http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2013/11/15/boston-pd-folds-doubling-withdraws-felony-complaint-pinac/

FR33AID Campaign to Help Phillippines

http://www.fr33aid.com/1311/aid-for-phillippines-typhoon-victims/

Bureaucrat Steals from Library, Gives to Jail

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/15/louisiana-official-wants-to-take-librarys-money-to-build-new-jail-theyre-teaching-mexicans-how-to-speak-english/

For the first time ever, police paid a ransom in bitcoin. Hey everybody, Welcome to Peace News Now, your daily journal of peaceful resistance! I’m DerrickJ. Today’s Sunday, November 17th 2013. 1 ounce of silver is 21 dollars. 1 Bitcoin is 438 dollars. This episode is brought to you by friends of http://WeUseCoins.com . You’ve probably been hearing a lot about bitcoin in the news. If you’d like to learn more about how you can use this new currency, I recommend you visit http://WeUseCoins.com . It’s the perfect launching pad to get started. That’s http://WeUseCoins.com

Police in Massachusetts paid several hundred dollars in bitcoin this week in order to reverse a virus that locked up their computers. Known as a “ransomware virus,” it allows its creators to lock the affected computers from a remote location. This particular ransomware program was named “Crypto-Locker” It cost the department $750, or a little under two bitcoin at the time of this report, to unlock its computers. The virus did not seek anybody’s personal information, but police have asked computer analysts to tighten the department’s security protocols. That’s a fancy way of saying, “They need a class on learning not to open random email attachments.” This is a historic first, however, in that bitcoin is mainstream enough for police to get their hands on and use to pay ransoms to hackers.

In other news, Reason.com reports that last month a Tennessee judge overseeing a burglary case rejected an unusual pretrial motion. The Prosecuting attorneys for the state wrote to the Judge asking not be referred to as “the Government” because that term is “derogatory.” The request was rejected on first amendment grounds, and the answer back from the judge was snappy and well worth reading. Link in the show notes at PeaceNewsNow.com

Speaking of government courts, the Boston Police finally folded on their case against Carlos Miller. They charged the man behind PhotographyIsNotACrime.com with felony wiretapping for allegedly recording a phone conversation without consent of the officer on duty. After a flood of phone calls from concerned readers of the popular blog, the police relented. They asked that people stop calling. They get the message. Phone floods are a popular, cheap, and effective form of peaceful resistance. Kudos to everyone who made this possible!

The FR33AID campaign to help victims of the typhoon in the Philippines continues! Dozens of online donors have opened their hearts and their bitcoin wallets to those who need food, water, and shelter in the wake of this disaster. Donate some bitcoin today at FR33Aid.com. That’s F-R-3-3-A-i-d.com.

In other news, http://NoArmyCanStopAnIdea.com reports that a hilariously out-of-touch politician in Lousiana wants to close down the library and open a jail. This is a town where nearly half of the homes don’t have internet. More than half its residents have library cards. One local bureaucrat named Lindel Toups pushed the measure because he disapproves of some of the library’s programs. The politician said, Quote, “They’re teaching Mexicans how to speak English. Let that son of a bitch go back to Mexico. There’s just so many things they’re doing that I don’t agree with. Them junkies and hippies and food stamps (recipients) and all, they use the library to look at drugs and food stamps (on the Internet). I see them do it.” Voters in Lafourche Parish will decide in a special election whether to devote their library funding to the jail. Special election indeed. In defense of the proposal, the politician told the local paper, quote, “They’ve got too much money. We’re giving the public the chance to raise the jail money without raising taxes. Any blind man can see that.” The library’s director thinks Toups may have personal reasons for seeing its conditions improved. She said “He does have family members that are incarcerated,” — Toups’ son and grandson, who were charged in 2009 with possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia If voters agree to the proposal, the library will lose a million dollars every year for 30 years, which would create a deficit within three years.

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Jeremy Hammond Sentenced 10 years

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/11/hammond-sentence/

FR33Aid Help the Philippines

http://www.fr33aid.com/1311/aid-for-phillippines-typhoon-victims/

Ex-CIA Agents Suing Feds over Pot Bust

http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/ex-cia-agents-suing-feds-screw-marijuana-raid-420-video/#axzz2kSwMR58I

Hey everybody, Welcome to Peace News Now, your daily journal of peaceful resistance! I’m DerrickJ. Today’s Saturday, November 16th 2013. 1 ounce of silver is 21 dollars. 1 Bitcoin is 438 dollars. This episode is brought to you by friends of http://WeUseCoins.com . You’ve probably been hearing a lot about bitcoin in the news. If you’d like to learn more about how you can use this new currency, I recommend you visit http://WeUseCoins.com . It’s the perfect launching pad to get started. That’s http://WeUseCoins.com

Wired.com reports that Hacker Jeremy Hammond was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release for a computer intrusion at the private intelligence firm Stratfor in 2011. The 28-year-old Chicagoan pleaded guilty earlier this year to hacking the servers of Strategic Forecasting, Inc., where he wiped out files and databases and stole 5 million private email messages and 60,000 customer credit card numbers. The emails went to WikiLeaks, while the credit cards were used by Anonymous to rack up $700,000 in fraudulent donations to non-profit groups.

Jeremy’s lawyers sought a sentence of 20 months time-served. They described Jeremy as a whistleblower working to expose wrongdoing at private contractors tied to law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Before sentencing, Jeremy said, quote,

“I targeted the manufacturers and distributors of military and police equipment who profit from weaponry used to advance U.S. political and economic interests abroad and to repress people at home. I targeted information security firms because they work in secret to protect government and corporate interests at the expense of individual rights, undermining and discrediting activists, journalists and other truth seekers, and spreading disinformation.”

Jeremy Hammond has a long history of liberal activism and direct action, including work for the anti-war group Food Not Bombs. May the rest of us on the outside continue his important work.

When the disastrous typhoon hit the Philippines this week, FR33Aid responded right away. F-R-3-3-A-i-d.com is a stateless charity that specializes in mutual aid. Never before has the importance of a stateless currency been made so apparent. Fr33Aid stopped taking donations in US dollars last year, and since then, they’ve been 100% funded by bitcoin. That’s had some pretty amazing advantages this year. One of the organizers, Teresa Warmke, was able to put up a quick blog post with a unique QR-code at the bottom where people can donate bitcoin. She offered to match donations up to 10 BTC. In just one week, that goal has nearly been achieved. Despite the climbing bitcoin price, concern for others won out over greed, and dozens of people donated. There is someone on the ground in the Philippines exchanging the bitcoin for local currency and using it to buy thousands of kilograms of rice, sardines, instant noodles, saws, matches, and sterile alcohol. The donations have been delivered around the clock for days with constant updates at Fr33Aid.com. How will we help each other in a free society? It might look like jackboots on the ground sent by governments and militaries, or it might look like neighbors helping neighbors. You decide what reality we see when you vote with your dollar…or your bitcoin.

Armed bureaucrats stormed into the home of Adlynn and Robert Harte searching for marijuana on April 20th 2012, but all they found were some innocent tomato plants. The couple believes they were illegally targeted after purchasing indoor hydroponic systems to raise vegetables. Now these two ex-CIA agents are considering making this lawsuit into a federal civil rights case.

Government agents acquired a search warrant to inspect their home because they purchased equipment that allows gardeners to grow plants indoors.The lawsuit reads, quote, “With little or no other evidence of any illegal activity, law enforcement officers make the assumption that shoppers at the store are potential marijuana growers, even though the stores are most commonly frequented by backyard gardeners who grow organically or start seedlings indoors.”

The owner of the store stated that he was unhappy that his customers were being watched. He said, quote, ”Why should they be? This isn’t a communist country.”

The Hartes had been under surveillance for months. During the raid, the police accused their son of using cannabis. Has the drug war come so far as to end up on the doorstep of former federal agents? If you disagree with the actions of these individuals, consider your part in it. Do you pay their salaries? Maybe you should stop.

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Homemade Healthcare.gov

http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/11/27061-three-computer-geeks-made-their-own-working-obamacare-website-in-three-days/

Buy Subs with Bitcoin in PA

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1qdviq/customer_2_to_buy_a_sub_with_bitcoin_in_allentown/

Secure Google Alternative

http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/10/arkos-secure-google-alternative/

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Healthcare.gov got you down? Sure, you may be no fan of Obamacare, but one of the things the site promised to do that was actually helpful was to show you the prices of different plans. You want to know how much coverage costs so you can shop around for the best option for you. Well, 3 engineers from Silicon Valley saw the need that Healthcare.gov was failing to fulfill, and what the Federal Government was unable to do in 3 years, they accomplished in a weekend. http://HealthcareSherpa.com makes it easier to navigate the world of confusing healthcare options and find contact info to get the ball rolling on health insurance coverage. These 3 guys with zero budget did in a few days what the Federal government couldn’t do with a few years and a billion dollars. Maybe everyone *can* have health care, but also maybe government shouldn’t be in charge of it.

You can now purchase sandwiches at Subway with bitcoin! Customers in Allentown, PA have been lining up to buy their lunch with the new currency. The owner, Sapal, gave a brief video interview with his second bitcoin customer, a man going by the name “DestroyerOfWorlds” on Reddit. The news appeared at the top of the Reddit page yesterday, and is spreading like wildfire. How soon will it be before regular retail chains near you accept bitcoin? Oh, and as a bonus, the owner offers a free cookie with every bitcoin purchase. Some users are suspicious, however, that the cookies contain malware.

Jacob Cook is a 23-year old university student who is now building an operating system that anyone can use to replace all of the services that Google provides. Email, chat, file sharing, web hosting: With a new Linux-based Operating System for servers called “arkOS,” you’ll be able to run all of those essential services on a secure, private server in your own home that’s about the size of a credit card.

ArkOS is designed to run on the popular Raspberry Pi hardware, a full-blown computer small enough to hold in your hand. Running on top of arkOS is Jacob’s open-source Genesis application, which provides a web-based interface for controlling the different services running on your server. Genesis is open source, and all the files are available on GitHub, and you can also download the arkOS files and install them yourself. However, the project is still at an early, “alpha” stage of development.

Jacob started a crowdfunding campaign to raise money so that he can focus on arkOS full time. He’s hoping to raise $45,000 in the next 24 days, and has already collected $5,645 in pledges from over 100 backers.

In addition to the long-term unreliability of Google’s services, the recent revelations that the NSA can access so much online data, gave Cook’s project an additional impetus. If the NSA is able to extract data from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, AOL, Twitter, and who knows what other services, who can you trust with your data?

Cook said, quote, “The idea that the NSA and its global counterparts can have nearly free reign in the networks of these large companies makes users a target. Moving users out into self-hosted nodes makes sense from this perspective: It makes wholesale data collection many times more difficult. And when coupled with proper cryptography and secure setups by design, it makes NSA-style snooping practically impossible.”

When it’s complete, the arkOS project will provide users with a small device they could plug into an Ethernet port at home in order to host their own cloud services.

Other secure open-source operating systems exist as well, most notably Tails, which gives you a secure desktop environment to do your business. But Tails is a desktop operating system, while arkOS is for servers.

Cook said, quote, “If you host your data with arkOS then access it on your other computers with Tails, it’s a winning combination.” He hopes to have the framework stable enough to use by March, 2014, and will continue adding features for the next year.

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Man Nails Scrotum to Ground

http://gawker.com/artist-nails-scrotum-to-the-ground-to-protest-russias-1462191605

Prosecutor Spends 10 Days in Jail over Sending Man to Prison for 25 years

http://www.blacklistednews.com/Corrupt_prosecutor_faces_10_days_in_jail_after_sending_innocent_man_to_prison_for_25_years/30235/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Yesterday, an artist nailed his scrotum to the ground. Hey everybody, Welcome to Peace News Now, your daily journal of peaceful resistance! I’m DerrickJ. Today’s day, November th 2013. 1 ounce of silver is 22 dollars. 1 Bitcoin is 343 dollars. This episode was made possible by S-U-N-S http://SunsOfLibertyMint.com . Trade in your pesky Federal Reserve Notes for their Fine Silver Quarters. They look great, and unlike dollars, they’re actually made of something valuable! If you want truly tradable silver, look no further than S-U-N-S http://SunsOfLibertyMint.com

A Russian conceptual artist known for his extreme political protests shocked tourists visiting Moscow’s Red Square yesterday by nailing his scrotum to the cobblestone pavement as part of a protest marking Russia’s annual Police Day. Petr Pavlensky first gained international attention after he sewed his mouth shut following the arrest of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot. He followed that up several months later with a protest he dubbed “Carcass,” which involved him being wrapped in a “multilayered cocoon of barbed wire,” and “laying still in a half-bent position” outside the building that houses the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg.

His latest political action, called “Nail,” saw Pavlensky sit down naked in front of Lenin’s Mausoleum and proceed to strike a large nail directly into his scrotum, attaching himself to the stone street below. Pavlensky’s performance was ultimately dismantled using a claw hammer. The artist was arrested and taken to the hospital where he declined to be admitted. He stated, quote,

“As the government turns the country into one big prison, stealing from the people and using the money to grow and enrich the police apparatus and other repressive structures, society is allowing this, and forgetting its numerical advantage, is bringing the triumph of the police state closer by its inaction. A naked artist looking to his balls nailed to the Kremlin pavement – is a metaphor of apathy and political indifference and fatalism of the modern Russian society. It’s not bureaucratic mayhem that deprives society of the ability to act. But it is our fixation on our defeats and losses that nails us stronger to the Kremlin’s pavement, creating from people an army of apathetic robots, patiently waiting for their fate.” Petr Pavlensky, Nov 2013

In other news, a corrupt former prosecutor will face a rare penalty for intentionally withholding evidence in a trial that sent a man to prison 25 years ago. For robbing an innocent man of decades of his life, the ex-D.A. will spend now have to spend 10 days in jail.

The prosecutor, named Ken Anderson, was sitting on evidence that could have redeemed the man he was convicting, but he made sure none of the evidence was released during the trial. Even though the prosecution knew that they had the wrong man, Ken convicted him anyway. Michael Morton was given life in prison for murdering his wife, even though he didn’t do it. Ken coldly and knowingly ruined an innocent man’s life to advance his career. The conviction made Ken look like a hero, and he went on to enjoy a fruitful 25 year career, which eventually propelled him to the position of Williamson County State District Judge.

Finally in 2010, DNA testing revealed that Michael was innocent and he was released in 2011, after spending nearly 25 years in prison. The real killer was convicted in March of this year.

A month after Norwood’s conviction, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Judge Ken Anderson.  He was charged with 3 felonies related to evidence tampering.

After initially fighting the charges for several months, Ken finally struck a bargain with prosecutors. They dropped the criminal charges of tampering with evidence, and this week, Ken plead guilty to being in contempt of court in 1987, when he lied to Morton’s trial judge that he had no favorable evidence to give to Morton’s lawyers. Contempt of court is a mild charge that a person might get for speaking out of turn in front of a judge.

The court has sentenced Ken to forced early retirement, community service, and ten (10) days in jail.

Some are celebrating the rare occasion that a corrupt prosecutor is facing any punishment at all.  Others are cringing at the incredibly light sentence. Are the courts incapable of justice? How many others were victims of this man’s criminal conscience?

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