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Suspect slain in Mojave Desert shooting spree
RIDGECREST, Calif. (AP) — A man shot two people, one fatally, and then led police on a wild chase through the Mojave Desert with two hostages in his trunk before being killed in a gunbattle with police.
Ridgecrest police were investigating a shooting scene shortly after 5 a.m. Friday where a woman was found dead and a man was found injured, with multiple gunshot wounds. During the investigation, a police officer got a call on his cell phone from the suspect, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said at a press conference. The suspect said he wanted to come to the department and kill officers but, because police had too many guns, he would "wreak havoc" elsewhere. He also told police he has a package for them, but it was unclear what he meant by that.
Nearly two hours later, a sheriff's deputy spotted the suspect's car and a pursuit began over roughly 30 miles of highway, through arid stretches of desert. The suspect ran traffic off the road, firing at least 10 times from inside his black Dodge Dart with a shotgun and a handgun. No motorists were hurt, Youngblood said.
At one point during the chase, which lasted more than 40 minutes, the suspect pulled over and the car's trunk popped open, revealing a man and woman inside. They appeared to shut the trunk, the sheriff said. It's unclear if he opened the trunk or if they opened it from inside. The man then got back in the car and continued driving.
At some point, the man made a threat that he was going to kill the two people in the trunk, Youngblood said.
In the end, the man pulled over again on U.S. 395, turned in his seat and began shooting into the trunk. As many as seven officers opened fire and killed the man.
The hostages were flown to a hospital. Their conditions were unknown, but the sheriff said he believed the two will survive.
The suspect apparently knew all of the victims at the original crime scene in the city of Ridgecrest, about 150 miles north of Los Angeles, Youngblood said.
There was some information that the suspect was using Facebook during the pursuit, but it wasn't immediately clear what the postings were, Youngblood said. Investigators recovered the shotgun and a handgun.
A crime scene was set up along U.S. 395 at Kramer Junction, where two police helicopters landed amid numerous law enforcement vehicles. The CHP said the highway was closed from Kramer Junction for 10 miles north because of the investigation. Youngblood said the highway would likely be closed into the night while the investigation continued.
Schools in Ridgecrest were placed on lockdown as a precaution but were later reopened.
The city of about 27,000 people is adjacent to the vast Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, which sprawls over more than 1,700 square miles of desert. U.S. 395 runs through the western Mojave, below the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada.
Ridgecrest Mayor Dan Clark called the incident disturbing, especially because the small city is relatively crime free.
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It's time for OpenStack to hit the accelerator
OpenStack's new release, Havana, is the eighth major release of this open cloud-infrastructure project. Havana emerged from beta last week with tasty new features.
You can think of OpenStack as a soup where the ingredients come from many major enterprise software players. Hopefully the taste will improve enough to attract enterprises and even public cloud providers that have hesitated to take a nibble.
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InfoWorld's Serdar Yegulalp has provided a great overview of what's new in the Havana release, including:
- The previous release of OpenStack, Grizzly, had load-balancing functionality, but Havana expands on it and adds firewall as a service.
- OpenStack sports a component named Heat, a new addition to Havana, that can talk to other components through their APIs and use templates to organize how they're put together and how they behave.
- Havana features a metering and data-collection framework (code-named "Ceilometer"), originally devised for customer billing but since expanded to include functions like alerting, for a broad range of data-collection drivers for big data systems (such as HBase and MongoDB).
As I've pointed out before, the hype around and vendor interest in OpenStack has not driven the desired level of enterprise adoption. In large enterprises I deal with, people like the concept of OpenStack, and some are using the distributions. However, I see a few bumps in the road in terms of implementations and even some missing features. In general, enterprise users want to wait for both the standard and the distribution instances to bake a bit longer.
Although the new features, such as APIs for orchestration and use-based accounting, are needed, I have a fundamental problem with Havana: There should be more in such a major release. That said, a standard IaaS platform with so many cooks in the kitchen will always be slow to evolve. I'll withhold my final judgment until this release is in production.
Whatever is finally delivered, we'll see vendors that sell OpenStack distributions add the missing features -- so that they can sell more OpenStack distributions. That means more nonstandard features, moving further away from OpenStack's core concept of being a standard. So far, that fracturing beyond the core has not been an issue, so maybe it won't become one in Havana.
Overall, OpenStack is a good thing. The market likes to use technology based on standards, and OpenStack seems to fit that bill. But at the end of the day, it has to deliver features that enterprises expect. It's time for OpenStack to hit the accelerator.
This article, "It's time for OpenStack to hit the accelerator," originally appeared at InfoWorld.com. Read more of David Linthicum's Cloud Computing blog and track the latest developments in cloud computing at InfoWorld.com. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.
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How Lego Is Building Its Brand in Hollywood
Illustration by: Aaron Meshon
This story first appeared in the Nov. 1 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
In 2007, Warner Bros. producer Dan Lin and writers Dan and Kevin Hageman flew to the tiny town of Billund, Denmark -- population 6,155 -- to pitch Lego executives a movie based on the classic interlocking blocks.
At the time, toy properties were all the rage in Hollywood thanks to the $710 million worldwide box-office haul of Transformers, a surprise hit spun from the Hasbro alien robots. But when Lin and the Hagemans presented their vision, they were greeted with skepticism.
"Every year, Lego's sales were seeing 25 percent gains, and that was during a major recession," Lin recalls. "So, they asked us the tough question: 'Why make a movie when we already have a successful toy line?' "
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Six years later, Lego, which recently became the second-biggest toy company in the world behind Mattel, is making a play to dethrone Hasbro as the hottest toy brand in Hollywood. Warners' Lin-produced The Lego Movie is set for a Feb. 7 release. Lego has two hit Cartoon Network series -- Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu, which the Hagemans also wrote, and Legends of Chima -- and more than 85 million video game units sold for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, including Lego Batman. At the same time, Lego is leveraging the strength of its brand (and willingness to say no) to score more favorable treatment in Hollywood.
Even though the company doesn't work with an agency -- unlike Hasbro (WME) and Mattel (CAA) -- its film deal eclipses competitors'. Sources say Lego enjoys an escalating first-dollar gross deal on the upcoming film (Hasbro received only a producer's fee for the Transformers and G.I. Joe franchises and Battleship). Lego's Jill Wilfert, the brand's gatekeeper and Hollywood liaison, also has been cutting shrewd licensing deals with studios, bringing diverse characters from Lucasfilm's Han Solo to Disney's Jack Sparrow to Warners' Harry Potter to Marvel's Avengers into the Lego toy and video game universe.
"That kind of dealmaking should be beyond the realms of possibility, but with Lego, it gets done," says Jon Burton, managing director of TT Games, the Warner Bros.-owned developer of the Lego video games. "Warner Bros. has made a Pirates of the Caribbean video game thanks to Lego. That kind of inter-studio collaboration is unheard of."
The Lego Movie, which sources say was made for $60 million to $65 million and co-financed with Village Roadshow (cheap for a CG-animated feature), will test the full potential of the Lego-Warners union. The story of a Lego minifigure (Chris Pratt) who joins a quest to stop an evil Lego tyrant (Will Ferrell) from gluing the universe together, it's a colossal undertaking, with a simultaneous release for the movie, video game and a new toy line -- the most expansive line Lego has attempted.
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"It has been an unbelievable partnership," says Greg Silverman, Warners' president of worldwide production. "What's so unique about Lego is, they have a deep understanding of their consumer. Because of that, we have gone way beyond our contractual obligation with them and have constantly solicited advice."
In fact, Lego negotiated only to approve the film's treatment. But the studio kept the toy company involved in every step of the process. Wilfert, based in Carlsbad, Calif. (near the Legoland theme park), provided script notes to directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs). Artists in Los Angeles drew ideas for characters and sets, which prompted Lego designers in Connecticut and Denmark to create prototypes. Animators at Australia's Animal Logic melded the two visions.
"I think other toy brands are looking at Hollywood as another revenue stream," Wilfert says. "But for us, it's a way to build and enhance the brand. We really don't approach Hollywood as a way to sell a toy."
But at least one Lego success clearly has spurred toy sales. After Ninjago debuted on Cartoon Network in 2011, it quickly became the company's highest-grossing original launch. Though Lego doesn't release figures, it says Ninjago sales grew exponentially in its second year, and demand continues.
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By contrast, Hasbro has had mixed results in Hollywood. The fourth Transformers film is due in 2014 and G.I. Joe's second outing grossed $376 million worldwide last year, but Battleship flopped big in 2011 and a planned Stretch Armstrong film was scrapped Oct. 12 by Relativity. In addition, the Transformers and G.I. Joe franchises, which skew older than the toys' core consumer, never translated into sustained sales. On Oct. 21, Hasbro announced that its boys' toy business, which includes Transformers and G.I. Joe, fell 17 percent in the third quarter, its sixth straight quarter of decline.
Lego, instead, allows its brand to be attached only to content that is made for its core consumer, boys and girls ages 5 to 12. Its video games are a huge seller for Warners, including Lego Star Wars, Lego Harry Potter and the slightly older-skewing Lego The Lord of the Rings. The Lego game franchise only slightly trails Mario, Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto.
On TV, Chima ranked No. 1 on Wednesdays among boys 6 to 11 and 9 to 14. For 2012, Ninjago ranked No. 1 in its time period among kids 6 to 11. In July, Cartoon Network and Lego unveiled Mixels, with animated content, a digital game and a toy line. The initiative is unique because the IP was developed jointly.
Says Cartoon Network's Rob Sorcher, "Most animators have a love for Lego second only to their mothers, so this has been a creative sync from our first trip to Denmark."
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Madagascar holds 1st post-coup vote to end crisis
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Residents of the island nation of Madagascar cast their votes Friday in a presidential election that many hope will restore security, improve lives and mark the end of political and economic turmoil suffered since a 2009 coup.
More than sixty percent of eligible voters in the country's capital, Antananarivo, went to the polls, election officer Martin Rakotofiringa said.
"This is the first time in several elections that I have seen a turnout this high," he said, after most polling stations closed.
Officials at some stations started to count ballots to the cheers of voters who came to watch.
Rakotofiringa said the high number of voters is a sign that "people really want progress and change" in a nation with high levels of poverty and a wage of less than $2 a day.
"I came to vote because it's time for this crisis to end, and I am happy that this transition will finally end," said Ando Razakafiononana, 33. "I hope with the new president there will be more growth, more jobs and more security. Change must finally come."
Emilienne Ravaonasolo, 65, said she also had hope for the new leader.
"Hopefully the person I vote for will have the experience to restore security and improve the lives of the people," she said.
Poverty is a serious problem on the hilly East African island nation, with a population of about 22 million people. Half of the nation's children under five are severely malnourished and 1.5 million children are not in school, according to the U.N.
"Here in Madagascar, if you don't work, you don't eat," a resident said.
Government officials declared Friday a holiday to allow voters to cast their ballots. But in the morning residents in the capital started the day by working before they voted.
Goods were carted in ox-drawn carts past the polling booths. Women at a river near a station did laundry, and local markets selling chicken and building materials remained open.
Madagascar, off Africa's east coast on the Indian Ocean, plunged into turmoil after current President Andry Rajoelina, a former disc jockey and mayor of the capital Antananarivo, seized power from ousted President Marc Ravalomanana with the help of the military in 2009. Ravalomanana went into exile in South Africa.
Madagascar lost a lot of the foreign aid it depends on because of sanctions imposed after the 2009 coup. The nation was suspended from the African Union and the 15-nation Southern African Development Community, or SADC, until a constitutionally elected government was restored.
Outgoing president, Rajoelina, told reporters after casting his vote in Antananarivo, that it was time Madagascar "returned to the constitutional order."
"The crisis has lasted too long...we feel the need of the Malagasy to fulfill their duty," he said.
Rajoelina tried to calm fears of a repeat of the 2009 coup saying "the results come from the choice of the people, we must accept it."
With 33 candidates running in the election, it could prove difficult for a clear winner to emerge in the first round. If none of the candidates garners more than 50 percent of the votes, the two top candidates will compete in a runoff scheduled for Dec. 20.
The two front-runners are backed by rivals Rajoelina and Ravalomanana. Former finance minister Hery Rajaonarimampianina has been endorsed by Rajoelina and medical doctor Robinson Jean Louis is Ravalomanana's candidate.
Nine candidates, including three key politicians, were barred from taking part in the polls as part of a plan to resolve the political crisis. Former presidents Rajoelina and Didier Ratsiraka and former president Ravalomanana's wife, Lalao, were excluded for failing to comply with the country's electoral laws.
Observers said at the end of Friday's voting that the polls "seemed well-organized."
"As a reminder, the election commission of this country is running their first polls, we can only assess the situation at the end, but so far so good," said Denis Kabina, an election observer with the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa.
A European Union representative in Madagascar, Leonidas Tezapsidis, said that voting appeared to be fair.
"There were police outside the polling booths. We didn't see any signs of campaigning or voters being influenced," he said. Armed guards also stood outside polling stations.
The electoral body says more than 7.8 million eligible voters would cast their ballots at 20,000 polling stations.
The election results will be announced within 10 days.
Madagascar is renowned for its rain forests that feature a rare level of biodiversity, including endemic lemurs. The country's tourism industry, however, has also been badly hit by the political turmoil, further battering a nation that is one of the world's poorest countries.
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Associated Press writer Gillian Gotora in Johannesburg contributed to this report.
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At least 22 people suspected of having polio in Syria - WHO
By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA (Reuters) - At least 22 people are suspected of having polio in Syria, the first outbreak of the crippling viral disease in 14 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
Most of those stricken with acute flaccid paralysis, a symptom of diseases including polio, in Deir al-Zor province are children under the age of two, WHO spokesman Oliver Rosenbauer said. More than 100,000 children under the age of five are deemed at risk of polio in the eastern province.
There is no cure for the highly infectious disease, it can only be prevented through immunization, usually three doses.
"The main concern right now is to quickly launch an immunization response," Rosenbauer said. Vaccination campaigns are being planned across Syria from November but the logistics were still being discussed, he said.
The city of Deir al-Zor is partially controlled by Syrian government forces while the countryside around it is in the hands of rebels fighting to remove President Bashar al-Assad.
"Everybody is treating this as an outbreak (of polio) and is in outbreak response mode," Rosenbauer said.
The WHO, a U.N. agency, said on Saturday that two suspected cases of polio had been detected, the first appearance of the disease in Syria since 1999.
Initial tests came back positive for polio in two of the 22 cases and final laboratory results due next week from a WHO reference laboratory in Tunisia are "very, very likely" to confirm presence of the virus, Rosenbauer said.
Most of the 22 victims are believed never to have been vaccinated or to have received only a single dose of the oral polio vaccine.
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With about 4,000 refugees fleeing Syria's civil war daily, polio immunization campaigns are also planned in neighboring countries, where there may be gaps in coverage, he said.
Polio invades the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis within hours. It is endemic in just three countries, Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan, but sporadic cases also occur in other countries.
Asked whether the virus may have been imported into Syria by a foreign fighter, Rosenbauer said: "The first step is virological verification that it is the polio virus. The next step is that every isolated virus gets looked at genetically to see where is the parent. Hopefully that will provide some clarity on where it would have come from."
Worldwide, cases of polio decreased from an estimated 350,000 when the campaign began in 1988 to 223 reported cases in 2012, according to the WHO. So far this year, not including the cases in Syria, there have been 296 cases worldwide.
The United Nations' Children's Agency (UNICEF) said on Thursday it had chartered a plane filled with vaccines and food to combat the rising threat of other types of disease and malnutrition among Syrian children.
The cargo, which has landed in Beirut and will be trucked into Syria, had vaccinations for measles, mumps and rubella as well as 'supercereal', a fortified food for children.
"Hospitals visited by UNICEF staff are reporting an upward trend in the number of children being admitted with moderate and severe acute malnutrition compared to two years ago," a UNICEF statement said.
The United Nations says more than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria's 2-1/2-year conflict, more than 2 million Syrians have fled the country and millions more have been displaced inside Syria. The fighting has caused a sharp deterioration in services and infrastructure and many people are trapped in areas of fighting in unsanitary conditions with little food or medical supplies.
(Additional reporting by Erika Solomon in Beirut; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
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Kennedy cousin Skakel to seek release on bond
Kennedy cousin Skakel to seek release on bond
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN and DAVE COLLINSBy JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN and DAVE COLLINS, Associated Press
FILE - In a Friday, April 26, 2013 file photo, Michael Skakel, right, talks to Jessica Santos, one of his defense attorneys, during his appeal at State Superior Court in Vernon, Conn. On Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, Skakel's conviction in the death of Moxley was set aside and new trial ordered by a Connecticut judge, Thomas Bishop, who ruled that Sherman failed to adequately represent him when he was found guilty in 2002. Skakel's current attorney, Hubert Santos, said he expects to file a motion for bail on Thursday. If a judge approves it, Skakel could then post bond and be released from prison. (AP Photo/The Stamford Advocate, Jason Rearick, Pool, File)
FILE - In a Friday, April 26, 2013 file photo, Michael Skakel, right, talks to Jessica Santos, one of his defense attorneys, during his appeal at State Superior Court in Vernon, Conn. On Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, Skakel's conviction in the death of Moxley was set aside and new trial ordered by a Connecticut judge, Thomas Bishop, who ruled that Sherman failed to adequately represent him when he was found guilty in 2002. Skakel's current attorney, Hubert Santos, said he expects to file a motion for bail on Thursday. If a judge approves it, Skakel could then post bond and be released from prison. (AP Photo/The Stamford Advocate, Jason Rearick, Pool, File)
FILE - Martha Moxley, shown at age 14 in this 1974 file photo, was murdered on Oct. 30, 1975. Michael Skakel's conviction in the death of Moxley was set aside and new trial ordered Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 by a Connecticut judge, Thomas Bishop, who ruled that Skakel's trial attorney failed to adequately represent him when he was found guilty in 2002. Skakel's current attorney, Hubert Santos, said he expects to file a motion for bail on Thursday. If a judge approves it, Skakel could then post bond and be released from prison. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - In a Thursday, April 18, 2013 file photo, former Michael Skakel defense attorney Michael Sherman testifies at Michael Skakel's habeas corpus hearing at State Superior Court in Rockville, Conn. On Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, Skakel's conviction in the death of Moxley was set aside and new trial ordered by a Connecticut judge, Thomas Bishop, who ruled that Sherman failed to adequately represent him when he was found guilty in 2002. Skakel's current attorney, Hubert Santos, said he expects to file a motion for bail on Thursday. If a judge approves it, Skakel could then post bond and be released from prison. (AP Photo/Stamford Advocate, Jason Rearick, Pool, File)
In a Wednesday June 5, 2002 file photo, Thomas Skakel, stands outside the court in Norwalk Conn., during a coffe break for the jury deliberation phase of his brother Michael Skakel's trial for the October 1975 murder of Martha Moxley. On Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, Michael Skakel's conviction in the death of Moxley was set aside and new trial ordered by a Connecticut judge, Thomas Bishop, who ruled that Skakel's defense attorney failed to adequately represent him when he was found guilty in 2002. Among other issues, the judge wrote that the defense could have focused more on Thomas Skakel, who was an early suspect in the case because he was the last person seen with Martha Moxley. Had Sherman done so, "there is a reasonable probability that the outcome of the trial would have been different," the judge wrote. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey, File)
FILE - In this April 30, 2013 file photo, Michael Skakel leaves the courtroom after the conclusion of trial regarding his legal representation at State Superior Court in Vernon, Conn. A Connecticut judge on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, granted a new trial for Skakel, ruling his attorney failed to adequately represent him when he was convicted in 2002 of killing his neighbor in 1975. (AP Photo/The Greenwich Time, Jason Rearick, Pool, File)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — With a new trial ordered for Michael Skakel, a defense lawyer for the Kennedy cousin serving time in the 1975 slaying of a neighbor said he will seek his release from prison on bond.
Skakel's conviction was set aside Wednesday by a Connecticut judge, Thomas Bishop, who ruled that Skakel's trial attorney failed to adequately represent him when he was found guilty in 2002. Bridgeport State's Attorney John Smriga said prosecutors will appeal the decision.
Skakel's current attorney, Hubert Santos, said he expects to file a motion for bail on Thursday. If a judge approves it, Skakel could then post bond and be released from prison.
"We're very, very thrilled," Santos said. "I always felt that Michael was innocent."
Skakel argued that his trial attorney, Michael Sherman, was negligent in defending him when he was convicted in the golf club bludgeoning of Martha Moxley when they were 15 in wealthy Greenwich.
Prosecutors contended Sherman's efforts far exceeded standards and that the verdict was based on compelling evidence against Skakel.
John Moxley, the victim's brother, said the ruling took him and his family by surprise and they hope the state wins an appeal.
"Having been in the courtroom during the trial, there were a lot of things that Mickey Sherman did very cleverly," Moxley said. "But the evidence was against him. And when the evidence is against you, there's almost nothing you can do."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a cousin of Skakel's who has long insisted Skakel did not commit the crime, said on NBC's "Today" show on Thursday that the ruling was correct.
"His one crime was that he had a very, very poor representation," he said. "If he gets another trial, he's got good lawyers now and there's no way in the world that he will be convicted."
In his ruling, the judge wrote that defense in such a case requires attention to detail, an energetic investigation and a coherent plan of defense.
"Trial counsel's failures in each of these areas of representation were significant and, ultimately, fatal to a constitutionally adequate defense," Bishop wrote. "As a consequence of trial counsel's failures as stated, the state procured a judgment of conviction that lacks reliability."
Among other issues, the judge wrote that the defense could have focused more on Skakel's brother, Thomas, who was an early suspect in the case because he was the last person seen with Martha Moxley. Had Sherman done so, "there is a reasonable probability that the outcome of the trial would have been different," the judge wrote.
During a state trial in April on the appeal, Skakel took the stand and blasted Sherman's handling of the case, portraying him as an overly confident lawyer having fun and basking in the limelight while making fundamental mistakes from poor jury picks to failing to track down key witnesses.
Sherman has said he did all he could to prevent Skakel's conviction and denied he was distracted by media attention in the high-profile case.
Prosecutors said Sherman spent thousands of hours preparing the defense, challenged the state on large and small legal issues, consulted experts and was assisted by some of the state's top lawyers. Sherman attacked the state's evidence, presented an alibi and pointed the finger at an earlier suspect, prosecutors said.
"This strategy failed not because of any fault of Sherman's, but because of the strength of the state's case," prosecutor Susann Gill wrote in court papers.
Skakel, who maintains his innocence, was denied parole last year and was told he would not be eligible again to be considered for release for five years.
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Christoffersen reported from New York City.
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