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	<title>Stop the Checkpoints &#187; Lois</title>
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	<description>Defending civil liberties &#38; immigrant workers on the Olympic Peninsula of WA. Say NO to a police state &#38; racial profiling!</description>
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		<title>Fall Meeting Series &#8211; Stop The Checkpoints</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/09/fall-meeting-series-stop-the-checkpoints/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/09/fall-meeting-series-stop-the-checkpoints/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 02:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please see the poster linked below for information on a 3-part series of meetings in Port Angeles, WA on the first Saturdays of October, November, and December! Forum 1 Oct 2011 flyer]]></description>
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		<title>Dicks office aims for meeting with Border Patrol over ‘concerns&#8217; from public</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/09/dicks-office-aims-for-meeting-with-border-patrol-over-%e2%80%98concerns-from-public-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/09/dicks-office-aims-for-meeting-with-border-patrol-over-%e2%80%98concerns-from-public-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Salinas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border patrol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Border Patrol expansion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Border Patrol station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forks WA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeland security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigrant rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norm Dicks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[police state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Graham immigration reform]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Gottlieb  Aug. 14, 2011    Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES — Staff members from the North Olympic Peninsula&#8217;s congressional delegation plan to meet this month with the U.S. Border Patrol&#8217;s top supervisor for the Blaine sector to discuss a sore point among some Peninsula residents: stepped-up Border Patrol activities in Clallam and Jefferson counties. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three new BP stations in WA state; Oroville, Colville, Port Angeles</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/three-new-bp-stations-in-wa-state-oroville-colville-port-angeles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/three-new-bp-stations-in-wa-state-oroville-colville-port-angeles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[border patrol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Border Patrol expansion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[immigrant rights]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=421</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Article published Jul 5, 2011  Peninsula Daily News news sources OROVILLE — The U.S. Border Patrol will begin work at a $15 million, 22-acre complex outside of Oroville next summer. Agents and support staff work out of a small office in downtown Oroville, near where U.S. Highway 97 ends at the Canadian border in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whistle a Halt to Border Patrol Expansion &amp; Fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/whistle-a-halt-to-border-patrol-expansion-fraud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/08/whistle-a-halt-to-border-patrol-expansion-fraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border patrol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Border Patrol expansion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border wars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forks WA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigrant rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[police state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Port Angeles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial profiling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=414</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday, August 15th from noon till 1:00 pm Stop The Checkpoints will picket the construction site of a 50 agent Border Patrol Station at the eastern edge of the City of Port Angeles, WA.  Recent whistleblower information verifies what we have suspected &#8211; the number of agents has risen from 4 to 40 in the last few years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protest of L.A. police checkpoint &#8211; stealing cars from immigrants</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/03/protest-of-l-a-police-checkpoint-stealing-cars-from-immigrants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/03/protest-of-l-a-police-checkpoint-stealing-cars-from-immigrants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[checkpoints]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigrant workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[police state]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial profiling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This great video is of the Southern California Immigration Coalition&#8217;s disruption of a police checkpoint last Saturday night.  L.A. Radical Women members participated. Enjoy,  Lois http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0lf4kENkxo]]></description>
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		<title>30 days to comment &#8211; Environ. Impact Statement on Port Angeles BP Station</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/30-days-to-comment-eviron-impact-statement-on-port-angeles-bp-station/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/30-days-to-comment-eviron-impact-statement-on-port-angeles-bp-station/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[border control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[border patrol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Border Patrol expansion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[border wars]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[surveillance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=354</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ This is a link to the full 127 page impact statement.  Fascinating reading &#8211; especially the last part which shows the actual  signin sheet from that late-notice public meeting and has all the comments submitted by all of us last time around.  They basically say there is minimal impact of a new station.  Also mention future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angry Arizona, Again</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/angry-arizona-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/02/angry-arizona-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[anti-immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizenship by birth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nativism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bill to chop up the 14th Amendment to deny citizenship to children born in Arizona to undocumented mothers. A bill requiring hospitals to check every patient’s citizenship status, turning doctors and nurses into the immigration police. A bill to deny education to undocumented children by requiring proof of citizenship to enroll in any public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is your state considering an Arizona copycat law?</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/01/is-your-state-considering-an-arizona-copycat-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2011/01/is-your-state-considering-an-arizona-copycat-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[anti-immigrant]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[immigration reform legislation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SB1070]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Liz Goodwin liz Goodwin Fri Jan 21, 11:32 am ET More than a dozen states are considering following in the footsteps of Arizona and requiring local police officers to check the immigration status of people they suspect may be in the country illegally. Mississippi could soon become the first to do so. The state Senate handily passed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigrant vets face deportation despite service</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/10/immigrant-vets-face-deportation-despite-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/10/immigrant-vets-face-deportation-despite-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[deportation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeland security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I.C.E.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JULIANA BARBASSA, Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO – When Rohan Coombs joined the U.S. Marine Corps, he never thought one day he would be locked up in an immigration detention center and facing deportation from the country he had vowed to defend. Coombs, 43, born in Jamaica, immigrated to the United States legally as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rally Sept. 29th-Labor Unity Across Borders</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/09/rally-sept-29th-labor-unity-across-borders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/09/rally-sept-29th-labor-unity-across-borders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[guestworkers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigrant rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigrant workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor solidarity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workers' rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No, to Border Divisions Based on Discrimination, Harassment, and Militarization .. Yes, to Border Unity for Peace, Justice, and Workers&#8217; Rights&#8230; On Wednesday, September 29, at 5 pm, a rally will be held at the corner of First and Race streets in Port Angeles. This event is to express solidarity with the massive number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another letter opposing new Border Patrol Station</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/another-letter-opposing-new-border-patrol-station/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/another-letter-opposing-new-border-patrol-station/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Port Angeles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial profiling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=282</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This explosion in the size and scope of the Border Patrol is extremely troubling.&#8221; Dear Mr. Parsons, We are writing in opposition to the plan by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to spend $8 million on a major expansion of its Port Angeles facility in order to accommodate 50 agents. The current number is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border patrol proposal draws support, criticism</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/border-patrol-proposal-draws-support-criticism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/border-patrol-proposal-draws-support-criticism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[local]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[KONP Radio News &#8211; August 20th, 2010 &#8211; 6:09 am (Port Angeles) &#8212; A proposal that would move the local border patrol headquarters into what is now the Eagles Building has drawn support and ire in the community. Earlier this week members of &#8220;Stop the Checkpoints&#8221; a group critical of the U-S Border Patrol took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Both sides of Border Patrol controversy demonstrate on street</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/both-sides-of-border-patrol-controversy-demonstrate-on-street/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/both-sides-of-border-patrol-controversy-demonstrate-on-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Article published Aug 19, 2010 By Tom Callis Peninsula Daily News PORT ANGELES &#8212; Opponents of expanding the Border Patrol&#8217;s presence on the North Olympic Peninsula came out this week, as they did two years before, to say no to the placement of more federal agents in Clallam and Jefferson counties. But this time just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letters against a new Border Patrol station in Port Angeles, WA</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/letters-against-a-new-border-patrol-station-in-port-angeles-wa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/letters-against-a-new-border-patrol-station-in-port-angeles-wa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mr. Parsons, I&#8217;m worried that our country is becoming too militarized.   Aside from all the money the US military industrial complex is spending on wars in foreign countries, taking away from sorely needed basic human services like health care, education, jobs and food needed here at home.  Therefore, I resent the encroachment of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Arizona Went, So Goes Virginia</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/as-arizona-went-so-goes-virginia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/as-arizona-went-so-goes-virginia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/?p=263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[August 14, 2010 In Virginia — and in other states like Florida, where officials and candidates have been aping Arizona — creating a local dragnet for illegal immigrants is a popular slogan. It is not a solution. Virginia has long had localized tensions over immigration: places like Prince William County and towns like Herndon where influxes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government Documents Reveal Pattern of Dishonesty by I.C.E.</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/government-documents-reveal-pattern-of-dishonesty-by-i-c-e/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/government-documents-reveal-pattern-of-dishonesty-by-i-c-e/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Secure Communities&#8221; program automatically runs fingerprints through immigration databases for all people arrested and targets them for detention and deportation even if their criminal charges are minor, eventually dismissed, or the result of an unlawful arrest&#8230;.   This week, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), along with the National Day Laborer Organization Network (NDLON) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>14th Amendment birthright debate is just politics not constitutional law issue.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[14th Amendment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Victor Goode  Thursday, August 12 2010, ColorLines Republican leaders have spent the last couple of weeks reigniting a 140-year-old constitutional debate: Whether the 14th Amendment should grant citizenship to everyone born inside United States territory. South Carolina’s Sen. Lindsay Graham, who was once considered an immigration ally for Democrats, demanded Senate hearings on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Immigrant Zealot Becomes GOP&#8217;s Colorado Senate Nominee</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/anti-immigrant-zealot-becomes-gops-colorado-senate-nominee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/08/anti-immigrant-zealot-becomes-gops-colorado-senate-nominee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ari Berman &#124; August 11, 2010  &#124; The Nation At dawn on December 12, 2006, the holiday of Our Lady of Guadeloupe, a heavily armed fleet of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers stormed the JBS Swift Greeley Beef Plant, the largest employer in the sleepy city of Greeley, Colorado. They arrived in riot gear, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increased Border Enforcement vs. Environment?</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/increased-border-enforcement-vs-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/increased-border-enforcement-vs-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GOP: Border Patrol should control federal lands A group of House Republicans say Border Patrol agents should be granted direct control over U.S. borders, even on federal lands managed by other agencies. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011604810_apusbordersafety.html]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Make It Real! Planning meeting-Apr. 12</title>
		<link>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/lets-make-it-real-planning-meeting-apr-12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stopthecheckpoints.com/2010/04/lets-make-it-real-planning-meeting-apr-12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the April 3rd meeting of Stop The Checkpoints it was decided to hold a Planning Meeting on Monday, April 12th at 4:00 pm at the Port Angeles Library (their week-long furlough days are over now).   Planning will take place for actions on May 1st to promote real immigration reform based on human rights and workers&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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