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SAS, iSCSI and even InfiniBand offer alternative ways to connect servers to storage and are starting to steal some of Fibre Channel's thunder. But while they are, respectively, cheaper and faster than Fibre Channel for direct-attached storage, that doesn't mean the technology is doomed.
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After waking up feeling no discomfort in his shoulder — or anywhere else — Pedro Martínez is officially a part of the Mets’ rotation.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar was stuck in familiar ranges on Wednesday as the market awaited U.S. employment figures, while the yen came under pressure from another round of soaring oil prices.
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REDS coach Carlos Quieroz believes Wayne Rooney has received an excessive amount of criticism due to being a Manchester United player.
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SEATTLE - No. 258 for Ichiro Suzuki was like so many others, a little ground ball up the middle...
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian mining giant Vale said on Monday it has held takeover talks with Anglo-Swiss rival Xstrata, which analysts said could lead to deal worth more than $100 billion.
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Reuters - Stock futures declined on Monday, suggesting a lower opening for Wall Street, hit by weakness in global markets and concern that credit problems may be having a wider impact on earnings.
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Gallows humor apparently has become reality, with unconfirmed reports circulating that Washington football coach Keith Gilbertson and his staff were fired late Sunday night.
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Reuters - Germany's BMW , the world's biggest premium carmaker, said in Sunday it saw no sign of a slowdown in the United States and aimed to sell at least as many cars in 2008 here as in 2007.
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By Acton, Ryann SYRACUSE - Organic products arc popping up everywhere from the local fruit stand to supermarket shelves. Organic alternatives are available for almost every conventional food product - fruits, vegetables, cereal, coffee, milk, meat, and even pet food. U.S.
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Microsoft is aggressively moving into Google's traditional turf, making its own search engine to challenge the Internet search king.
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. (Reuters) - An aging U.S. population will strain public finances and hurt the economy without swift fixes to the social safety net, such as raising the age for full retirement benefits, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Friday.
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Reuters - Starbucks Corp. on Wednesday reported a 31 percent increase in quarterly net income and raised its earnings forecast for the year on strong sales of holiday products like Christmas Blend coffee beans.
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In case you missed it, Scott McNealy's big on the subscription model. And, Sun Microsystems is weighing a new desktop hosting initiative to go along with already-announced hosting options.
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Analysts have offered their latest judgment of the Christmas shopping season: good, but not great, although online sales set records.
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AFP - Chief financial officers at American companies have turned pessimistic on US economic prospects, a survey released Thursday showed.
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In the CBS program "60 Minutes" on Sunday, the former major leaguer Jose Canseco will say that he injected steroids into some of baseball's top players.
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Ninety-six days after his last competitive game Wayne Rooney was handed his Manchester United debut in tonight’s Champions League clash with Fenerbahce.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat made a rare acknowledgement of mistakes under his rule Wednesday and urged reforms to end corruption after an unprecedented wave of turmoil.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft released Service Pack 2 (SP2) for SQL Server 2005 on Tuesday, a free upgrade available for download, in addition to new virtualization licensing for the database.
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This week’s schedule includes Monday’s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and auctions of five-year notes and four-week bills on Tuesday.
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How do you protect a home network against a hacker’s attack?
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Though Electronic Arts' Madden NFL video games have always set the standard for how the game is played on the virtual field, this year's edition makes its biggest strides by incorporating what teams go through off it.
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(Source: Symantec) A Business Value Analysis Study identifies $97 million in business value, from a Symantec Enterprise Vault deployment. Faced with regulatory compliance and litigation requirements and greater operational efficiencies, a North American financial services organization engaged Procedo for an email ar...
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VAL GARDENA, Italy (CP) - Michael Walchhofer and the Austrian "Wunderteam" restored skiing to its normal pecking order Friday.
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Another trip to the New Orleans Superdome, another beating at the hands of a heavily favored NFC foe, right?
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THE unidentified bodies of a decapitated man and a woman who died of bullet wounds have been found south of the Iraqi capital, hospital officials said today.
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Google, the operator of the world's most popular Internet search service, plans to announce an agreement Tuesday with some of the nation's leading research libraries and Oxford
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( InfoWorld ) - Researchers from Intel and the University of California at Santa Barbara have found a way to build low-cost "laser chips" that could eventually shuttle data around PCs at much higher speeds than today's copper wire interconnects. The researchers combined the properties of a compound semiconductor materi...
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We're the dirty old men of Europe
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Reuters - President George W. Bush told lawmakers on Thursday he wants tax rebates for families and breaks for businesses in a rescue plan for the struggling U.S. economy that could total up to $150 billion.
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Valeri Bojinov - Bulgaria’s answer to Wayne Rooney â€-etted twice as Lecce took a conditional Serie A lead with a 4-1 cruise past Brescia.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Wednesday said September sales growth was smaller than the company estimated just four days earlier, sending its shares 2 percent lower and holding back the broader market.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Matt Bradley scored in the 12th round of a tense shootout to give the Washington Capitals a 5-4 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday.
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Three Finns have been detained by Iran while fishing in the Gulf, Finnish diplomats say.
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The symbiotic relationship between the major record labels and online music companies is as testy as ever at a digital music conference. Eliot Van Buskirk reports from New York.
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The global mining company Rio Tinto reported a 9 percent increase in its profit for the second half of 2007, in part from record iron-ore production.
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NEW YORK -- Orders for US durable goods declined by the most in more than six years and consumer confidence unexpectedly fell, pointing to a deepening economic slowdown.
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As many of you have noticed, there has been a deluge of recipes and food related stories. It's as if a floodgate of anecdotal recipes and comments has been unleashed upon the queue. Both balsamic vinigga's and Trollaxor's stubble stories were meant to discourage this swell of Christmas time cheer. Now, I present for th...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Treasury prices plunged on Friday after a startlingly strong U.S. jobs report challenged speculation the Federal Reserve might soon pause in its rate hikes.
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The state of California has itemized greenhouse gas emissions into specific categories from pig emissions to household kerosene use to jet fuel burned. Wired Science shows you what the data means.
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The Queen of England seems to be still going strong at the age of 81 2/3.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Pittsburgh Penguins added some grit and experience to their playoff push by acquiring forward Gary Roberts and tough guy Georges Laraque at the NHL trade deadline on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON -- Several lobbying camps from different industries and ideologies are joining forces to fight an overhaul of copyright law, which they say would radically shift in favor of Hollywood and the record companies and which Congress might try to
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Big arena, lots of players, stories at every turn. A week covering a tournament like the Deutsche Bank Championship leaves some lasting impressions. Just a sampling of the sights carried with me from this year's tournament at TPC Boston:
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Apple iTunes now offers Naval Battle, and Chess and Backgammon, for latest-gen iPods.
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Magnus Scheving, who plays a hyperactive, health-promoting hero on television, has become one of Iceland’s best-known figures and biggest exports.
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Democratic Sen. John Kerry said Thursday that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have failed to recognize a deteriorating situation in post-war Iraq and "may well be the last two people on the planet who won't face the truth."
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key gauge of future U.S. economic growth snapped a five-month losing streak and edged up 0.2 percent in November, a private research firm said on Monday.
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Reuters - A Nepali labour union with links to Maoist rebels asked 35 firms across the embattled Himalayan kingdom on Tuesday to shut shop in a move aimed at bolstering the guerrilla campaign to overthrow the monarchy.
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Many of them have been extraordinarily patient; some died waiting. A few are relative newcomers sensing an opportunity.
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By Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle Sep. 15--Teal and tarpon made big splashes over the past week, with waterfowlers enjoying a generally good opening of the 16-day teal season, while a handful of anglers found themselves in the middle of some of the fastest tarpon action of the year.
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King Carl Gustaf of Sweden leads a national ceremony in Stockholm to remember Swedish tsunami victims.
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AP - Dozens of militants sank two military patrol boats in Nigeria's oil-rich, southern delta Monday in an attack that killed five soldiers and left nine others missing, an army spokesman said.
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AP - A U.N. cease-fire resolution has authorized up to 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers. Contributions from European countries so far have been limited:
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AFP - A NATO air strike has killed a Taliban commander behind an insurgent takeover of a small southern Afghanistan town, as a US general took command of the 35,000-strong NATO-led force.
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Sudan's president says he is ready to call a ceasefire with rebels ahead of peace talks on Darfur next month.
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Russia's state prosecutors call their first witness in the long-running trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, former boss of oil and gas giant Yukos.
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NEW YORK (CP) - The price of crude oil continued gurgling up to new highs Thursday, touching $53 US per barrel in morning trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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Sleepy Spokane, Wash., has a secret: it's the wireless hot spot of the future
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NORTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Phil Mickelson survived a double-bogey at the 12th hole and a late challenge by world number one Tiger Woods to win the Deutsche Bank Championship by two shots on Monday.
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Arsene Wenger accused referee Herbert Fandel of double-standards after Arsenal battled to keep their Champions League hopes alive with nine men in Eindhoven.
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Don't look at me looking at you
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BioMarin files a marketing application for its lead compound in development.
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After last night's 3-2 loss to the Florida Panthers before 11,742 at TD Banknorth Garden -- which halted the Bruins' winning streak at four games -- Glen Murray was adamant about one thing.
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Reuters - U.S. helicopters shuttled injured refugees, many of them children, out of some of the worst hit parts of tsunami-devastated Aceh province, even as reports surfaced of trafficking in orphans from the disaster.
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It's something every fourth-grader should know.
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If the measure is approved, New York will become the first city in the United States to impose a broad system of congestion pricing.
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The ruling body of gymnastics (FIG) denied Saturday putting pressure on all-round champion Paul Hamm to hand over his gold medal to South Korea's Yang Tae-young, saying the decision should be left to the American.
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Microsoft is set to launch a trial version of its long-awaited Internet search engine, as it reacts to the growing threat of Google.
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BAGHDAD US forces battled insurgents loyal to the rebel Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City on Tuesday, in clashes that killed at least 34 people, including an American soldier, and wounded almost 200, US and Iraqi authorities
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil held steady on Monday after tumbling below $70 as dealers expected several weeks of inaction on Iran's nuclear dispute with the West.
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AP - Cellular giant Alltel Corp. said Monday it is buying Western Wireless Corp. in a $4.4 billion cash and stock deal expected to make it the fifth-largest U.S. wireless company.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The most feared militant group in Iraq, the movement of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, declared its allegiance to Osama bin Laden on Sunday, saying it had resolved a dispute with al-Qaida over strategy and vowing unity against "the enemies of Islam." The question of al-Zarqawi's relationship ...
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AFP - Indian premier Manmohan Singh is set to leave on a trip to strengthen trade ties with Brazil and South Africa as well as attempt a rapprochement with Pakistan at the NAM summit in Cuba.
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Employees at the Tribune Company were notified that hundreds of jobs would be cut at The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and other publications.
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People using Microsoft's instant-messaging software, MSN Messenger, may have been a mite lonely this weekend, with only a virus to keep them company.
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Prosecutors say that Pirate Bay, a file-sharing Web site, helps others violate copyright laws by linking providers of pirated songs and films with people searching for the same material.
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By Grand Forks Herald, N.D. Jun. 7--An urban and small stream flood advisory has been extended in portions of northeast North Dakota and northwest Minnesota including Grand Forks and East Grand Forks because of additional heavy rain.
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Blog: Alex Welch tells CNET News.com that there had never really been any plan to become a MySpace division--Fox Interactive was the prospective buyer the whole time.
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WASHINGTON -- King Abdullah of Jordan urged the United States yesterday to exert new leadership in the Middle East and said the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is still the core problem.
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By Stuart Eskenazi, The Seattle Times Sep.
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By Sona Patel, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif. Jun. 7--Acknowledging signs of progress toward building a sewer in Los Osos, state water quality regulators have agreed to stop ordering thousands of property owners to quit using their septic tanks if a sewer is not built soon.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Inge de Bruijn, two of her three Olympic titles already lost, showed her determination to cling on to the last when she posted the fastest time in the 50 meters freestyle heats in Athens on Friday.
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Reuters - SanDisk Corp. , the world's top maker of flash memory storage cards, plans to more than double its global retail presence as demand for its products rises, its co-founder said on Wednesday.
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ATLANTA -- Security guard Richard Jewell was initially hailed as a hero for spotting a suspicious backpack and moving people out of harm's way just before a bomb exploded, killing one and injuring 111 others. But within days, he was named as a suspect in the blast.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi security forces arrested two suspects after gunmen killed two security personnel in an attack on the guards of a prison in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, Al Arabiya television reported on Thursday.
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BEIRUT: Will Lebanon be able to weather any possible US and European economic sanctions in the future if the US Security Council pushed for sanctions against this country in the coming months?
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Five-time Pro Bowl safety Darren Woodson, the leading tackler in Dallas Cowboys franchise history, is set to retire later this week after missing the entire 2004 season because of a back injury.
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The world's largest media company set aside a $500 million reserve in anticipation of settling government investigations into its bookkeeping.
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Agreement bundles Vonage software with Hewlett-Packard computers.
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AFP - Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Figo have been fingered as the main danger men by England as they prepare to take on Portugal in the World Cup quarter-finals.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil could reach a deal within 30 days that would resolve a dispute over nuclear nonproliferation inspections following a visit by U.N. experts to the country's new uranium enrichment plant this week, Brazilian officials said on Wednesday.
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Receipts and statements may be fleeting, but tax returns are forever.
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A SCIENCE teacher from Powys has completed a prestigious school teacher fellowship at Cambridge University, and learned first hand that science is moving forward at an unprecedented pace.
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Yahoo added a search feature for cell phones Wednesday, just a few weeks after rival Google launched one of its own. While Google SMS (Short Message Service) uses text-only messages to deliver its results, Yahoo's
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Prime Minister Ayad Allawi blamed the U.S.-led military forces for the weekend massacre of 49 freshly trained Iraqi soldiers.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks extended gains on Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said he sees signs of inflation pressures starting to ease.
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Bloomberg - Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Four years ago, as U.S. lawmakers debated going to war in Iraq, Senator Carl Levin offered a measure that would have forced President George W. Bush to either win United Nations blessing for an invasion or return to Congress for a second vote authorizing force.
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