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• French Catholic board considering partnership to build football dome at Stittsville high school

  09-03-2018 23:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  An artificial football turf field could be constructed under a sports dome at a Stittsville high school in a potential partnership between the French Catholic school board and a local football club.
  The Ottawa Sooners is the latest sports organization looking to establish a high-calibre playing surface and secure dedicated playing time through a deal with a school.
  Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est has submitted a municipal planning application for an artificial field and a per
  
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• Reevely: Ontario Tories' voting turns up thousands of 'missing' members in just a few ridings

  09-03-2018 23:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario Progressive Conservatives still have tens of thousands of iffy names on their rolls, with well under 10 per cent of their supposed members turning out to vote for a new leader in some ridings.
  On Friday, party people were putting out total provincewide numbers: about 70,000 people had gone through the cumbersome process the party laid out for members to prove their identities and get online ballots to pick a successor to ex-leader Patrick Brown. About 64,000 had actually voted.
  
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• Police need help to locate woman with PTSD, missing since February

  09-03-2018 22:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais police are seeking to locate a missing 51-year-old woman who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.
  Diane Lafontaine was reported missing from her Chelsea residence around 6:15 p.m. on Feb. 28. Police said Friday her family has “reasons to fear for her safety.”
  Lafontaine’s white Mazda 3 with the license plate Y99 MLF is believed to have been seen on St. Joseph Boulevard on March 6, travelling south in the Hull sector, near
  
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• Man dies after collision with cement truck near Ottawa Hospital

  09-03-2018 22:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are investigating Friday after a pedestrian in his 50s was fatally struck by a cement truck as he walked toward The Ottawa Hospital’s General Campus.
  The collision happened around 10 a.m. at a crosswalk on Smyth Road between Highland Terrace and Lynda Lane near the entrance of the hospital.
  Kevin Bradford of the Ottawa police collision investigation unit said the man was alone when he stepped off of the south sidewalk and was struck by the eastbound cement truck.
  The man was
  
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• Collision near Ottawa General Hospital turns fatal ottawamatters.com/police-beat/pe… https://t.co/jD5W1MefnR

  09-03-2018 22:45 via twitter.com
  
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• Fury keeping Canadian forward Reid for 2018 ottawamatters.com/local-news/fur… https://t.co/5qZN0G9Cyp

  09-03-2018 22:15 via twitter.com
  
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• ICYMI: Local police union concerned over new provincial rules ottawamatters.com/police-beat/lo… https://t.co/8UN2hWPA9o

  09-03-2018 21:45 via twitter.com
  
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• Herbie Hancock, Boz Scaggs, Alison Krauss to play 2018 TD Ottawa Jazz Festival

  09-03-2018 21:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Keyboard legend Herbie Hancock, soulful soft-rocker Boz Scaggs and bluegrass-country singer Alison Krauss have been added to the 2018 TD Ottawa Jazz Festival’s lineup.
  The American music stars were among more than 50 bookings unveiled Friday for the event, which runs June 21 to July 1. They will be headlining acts playing the festival’s main stage, which, because of sewer construction work in Confederation Park, will move across Laurier Avenue to Festival Plaza.
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• Ottawa air traffic controller guilty of sexually abusing young girl

  09-03-2018 21:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s Kenny Tattersall, a 48-year-old air traffic controller, has pleaded guilty to molesting a girl at his private airport hangar. 
  Tattersall started molesting the girl when she was 12 and wasn’t arrested until three years later when she summoned the courage to expose the sex predator. 
  The child-sex criminal was arrested and charged with a series of offences on Oct. 9, 2015 — days after he apologized to the girl by text.
  He texted that he had betrayed her trust,
  
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• A timeline of key events in the Ontario Tory leadership race ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/TN3Vn2ooEu

  09-03-2018 21:18 via twitter.com
  
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• STORY: Mounties charge Vice-Admiral Mark Norman with breach of trust ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/HBflMbUrZC

  09-03-2018 21:08 via twitter.com
  
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• Male taken to hospital with serious injuries after being stabbed on North River Road

  09-03-2018 21:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  A male was taken to hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries after being stabbed in the stomach on Thursday evening.
  The incident took place on North River Road near Donald Street at about 6 p.m., Ottawa police said.
  No one was in custody Thursday night, but the investigation continued.
  Tips can be submitted by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or by downloading the Ottawa police iOS app.
  
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• UPDATE: @OttawaPolice report Smyth Road has reopened. #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/OPSDAoust/stat…

  09-03-2018 20:41 via twitter.com
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• Spotlight: Photographer’s sublime works point to foreboding future

  09-03-2018 20:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Spotlight is a weekly look at some of the people who are part of the Ottawa area’s arts community. This week Bruce Deachman talks with photographer J.A. Lamont, whose current exhibition, Hurricane, continues at Exposure Gallery until April 10. Visit exposuregallery.ca or jalamont.ca for more information. 
  “I got my first single lens reflex camera in 1977, an Olympus OM1. I got it because I was going into the Arctic — we did a long ski trip across Bylot Island, just north o
  
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• Some birds flew north looking for spring. Then spring froze

  09-03-2018 20:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Birds have migrated north in large numbers in recent weeks — an early gamble that is now forcing some to do a U-turn, and others to starve.
  A number of people in Ottawa have heard Canada geese fly over noisily, beginning in late February’s mild spell.
  “Thousands of geese showing up in eastern Ontario. A lot of them are actually still here,” birder Bruce Di Labio said. But with snow covering the cornfields and freezing temperatures at night, they aren’t going any far
  
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• Editorial: Keep Trump at home

  09-03-2018 20:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump has agreed to a face-to-face meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. What could go wrong? Just everything.
  For example: Trump, an explicit admirer of global thugs, is duped into a deal that sees him agree to withdraw American troops from the Korean peninsular in exchange for Kim ending the North’s nuclear weapons program. Trump tweets his satisfaction and flies home. The North’s nuclear program continues, under cover and unabated.
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• 'Ontario Cannabis Store' will be the name for the province's pot shops when weed is legal

  09-03-2018 19:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  The name for Ontario’s government-run pot shops has been revealed: Ontario Cannabis Store. That’s the moniker chosen for the dispensaries that will be operated by a subsidiary of the LCBO when recreational pot is legal.
  The logo for the stores is a simple, stark black circle with the acronym inside. The name and logo will be used for the stores and the online sales division, both run by the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corp.
  “The name is designed to convey a safe, simple and approac
  
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• Decision in court injunction in PC Leadership voting case expected later this afternoon. Hearing has adjourned in T… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-03-2018 19:19 via twitter.com
  Decision in court injunction in PC Leadership voting case expected later this afternoon. Hearing has adjourned in T… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Theatre review: How Black Mothers Say I Love You

  09-03-2018 18:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  How Black Mothers Say I Love YouBy Trey AnthonyAt Great Canadian Theatre Company to March 25Reviewed: March 8
  Dysfunctional families make great theatre, and How Black Mothers Say I Love You is no exception. The latest play by Toronto’s Trey Anthony is a powerful and touching follow-up to her popular ’da Kink in My Hair, which was one of those rare productions that went from stage to television a decade ago.
  Once again, Anthony draws from personal experience in developing strong femal
  
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• Obituary: Former golf pro leaves life's course on his own terms

  09-03-2018 18:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Something has to give when a personal wish to die clashes with an innate drive to live.
  Warren Grant, a popular pro who taught golf from a wheelchair at Manderley on the Green, died peacefully on Monday evening, surrounded by loved ones at Bruyère’s Saint-Vincent hospital.
  The usual phrase after a person passes following a lengthy illness is that he “lost his battle.” In this case, Grant won the fight, finding the peace he earned after 71 years of wrestling lif
  
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• Spotlight: Photographer is hooked on natural spaces, troubled about their future

  09-03-2018 18:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Spotlight is a weekly look at some of the people who are part of the Ottawa area’s arts community. This week Bruce Deachman talks with photographer J.A. Lamont, whose current exhibition, Hurricane, continues at Exposure Gallery until April 10. Visit exposuregallery.ca or jalamont.ca for more information.
  “I got my first single lens reflex camera in 1977, an Olympus OM1. I got it because I was going into the Arctic — we did a long ski trip across Bylot Island, just north of Baff
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: @quito_maggi joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Ontario PC leadership race: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-03-2018 18:25 via twitter.com
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• Pedestrian dies in Smyth Road collision near Ottawa Hospital

  09-03-2018 17:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  A pedestrian was killed Friday in a collision on Smyth Road near the entrance to the Ottawa Hospital’s General campus.
  The crash happened around 10 a.m.
  By noon, police were not yet giving any information about the victim, and said the investigation into how the collision took place was still in the early stages. No one else was hurt.
  Smyth Road is closed in both directions between Lynda Lane and Highland Terrace.
  .@opscollisions continues to investigate fatal collision involving a pedestr
  
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• Today's letters: Harness the wisdom of both genders

  09-03-2018 17:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Readers share views on International Women’s Day, on the Almonte recreational trail, on building (or repairing) bridges, and on many other topics. You can write to us too, at: [email protected]
  Our guidelines are here.
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  Harness the wisdom of both genders
  Re: Ten game changers, March 8.
  Bravo for this outstanding article on addressing gender balance. The writers propose a multitude of well-reasoned options and examples of the types of significant steps that would move the nee
  
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• Coming up 11:50:: @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk @BlueJays: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-03-2018 17:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up 11:50:: @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk @BlueJays:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Pathways: Three more builders launch in popular Findlay Creek, offering towns and singles

  09-03-2018 17:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  The choice keeps growing off Bank Street south of Leitrim Road as Richcraft becomes the ninth builder to launch sales in this popular south-end area.
  Reuniting with fellow builders eQ Homes and Phoenix Homes, who launched in September, the trio presents Pathways at Findlay Creek. In some ways, it’s an extension of the Findlay Creek community pioneered by Tartan Homes and Tamarack Homes more than 15 years ago. Pathways is meant to flow seamlessly south of the Tartan/Tamarack project and bot
  
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• Opinion: Trudeau's Liberals are faltering on foreign policy at the midway point of their mandate

  09-03-2018 16:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  At the midpoint between its ascent to power and the next federal election, the Trudeau government gets an overall grade of B- on its foreign policy, having improved in some areas while underperforming in others.
  The government’s actions and rhetoric have been inconsistent and, at times, contradictory, focused on messaging and advancing the Liberal brand more than fixing real problems.
  These are the findings from our Foreign Policy Report Card, produced annually by the School of Internation
  
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• Cappies review: Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School gives lush, thought-provoking performance of Phantom of the Opera

  09-03-2018 16:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Show #6: Phantom of the OperaWhere: Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary SchoolDirector: Sonya Schrum and Student Olivia MacKeen
  ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Ariella Ruby Lead Critic, Sir Robert Borden High School
  What lies beneath the mask of a tortured virtuoso?
  
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• Gormley: Why Mr. Scheer's trip to London is so impolite

  09-03-2018 16:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  I wonder: What’s the polite way to respond when an opposition leader meets with United Kingdom officials about a post-Brexit free-trade deal several months after the prime minister met with United Kingdom officials about a post-Brexit free-trade deal?
  Are we to thank Mr. Andrew Scheer for belatedly doing that which he was not elected to do and that which was already done by the man who was elected to do it?
  Are we to hope that a trusted loved one will pull him aside and tactfully explain t
  
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• FULL STORY: Canada adds 15,400 net jobs, but loses full-time work; jobless rate dips to 5.8% bit.ly/2tsWuq3 twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  09-03-2018 15:52 via twitter.com
  FULL STORY: Canada adds 15,400 net jobs, but loses full-time work; jobless rate dips to 5.8% bit.ly/2tsWuq3 twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• Coming up at 9:45 @SandraKiss1053 of @kissottawa joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio with the latest entertainment ne… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-03-2018 15:39 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45@SandraKiss1053 of @kissottawajoins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio with the latest entertainment ne… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:30: @cmaconthehill joins @_marksutcliffe with a look back at the week in Canadian politics: 📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-03-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30: @cmaconthehill joins @_marksutcliffe with a look back at the week in Canadian politics:📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• POLL: Does it create a conflict of interest if city councillors say they want to see more women elected? STORY: bit.ly/2FzAJcO

  09-03-2018 15:14 via twitter.com
  POLL: Does it create a conflict of interest if city councillors say they want to see more women elected? STORY: bit.ly/2FzAJcO
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: Ontario PC Party leadership candidate @TGranicAllen joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-03-2018 15:09 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: Ontario PC Party leadership candidate @TGranicAllen joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen:📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• NATO general says there hasn't been any Russian aggression against Baltic States

  09-03-2018 14:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Perhaps it was because Czech General Petr Pavel, chairman of the NATO Military Committee, is retiring this summer. But the general was surprisingly frank and maybe a little off script when he met with journalists in Washington recently.
  A standard line used to describe NATO’s mission to the Baltic States is that the troops are in those countries to deter Russian aggression. Such a line is mentioned in almost all of the news media reports on Operation Reassurance, Canada’s mission to
  
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• BREAKING: Stats Can says the economy added 15,400 jobs in February -- unemployment rate fell a tenth of a percentage point to 5.8%

  09-03-2018 14:38 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Stats Can says the economy added 15,400 jobs in February -- unemployment rate fell a tenth of a percentage point to 5.8%
  
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• Some in LGBTQ community question concert linked to Bruce McArthur case: bit.ly/2FzLjAL https://t.co/soSAgL9Cpu

  09-03-2018 14:33 via twitter.com
  
  Some in LGBTQ community question concert linked to Bruce McArthur case: bit.ly/2FzLjAL https://t.co/soSAgL9Cpu
  
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• That pile of snow is about to get bigger

  09-03-2018 14:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Light snow will continue to fall Friday, adding another two to four centimetres to the pile the city received Thursday and making the morning commute slippery.
  Environment Canada says Ottawa received  7.2 centimetres of snow on Thursday.
  The temperature will be pleasant over the next few days, reaching a high of 1 C on Friday, with partly cloudy skies.
  The normal high at this time of year is just below zero. 
  A pretty white layer, no wind and the sun is trying to peak through the snow
  
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• President Trump plans to meet Kim Jong Un for nuke talks: bit.ly/2G9DC1H https://t.co/9FPLRmHdxM

  09-03-2018 14:19 via twitter.com
  
  President Trump plans to meet Kim Jong Un for nuke talks: bit.ly/2G9DC1H https://t.co/9FPLRmHdxM
  
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• Today's letters: Leaders' debates, and trade follies

  09-03-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Election debates, trade with the U.S., trade with China – readers share their views. You can write to us too, at: [email protected]
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  We need election debate rules
  Re: Don’t fetter political leaders’ debates, March 3.
  Your editorial on election debates ignored the elephant in the room. Big parties manipulate the debates, as no regulations stipulate fair rules. Andrew Coyne once compared excluding the Green Party from debates to the networks meeting with Chrysler,
  
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• Winston: Why #MeToo is not for me

  09-03-2018 12:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Count me out of the #MeToo movement.
  It might be politically correct to support all the “courageous” women who have come forward with stories damning assorted male acquaintances for encounters that happened years ago. Some — perhaps even most — of the accounts may be accurate and may have affected the women’s present and their future. The rest could equally well be fiction or false memory, dredged up to remind the accusers that they, too, were attractive to the oppo
  
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• Kurl: Pharmacare may be good medicine for the Trudeau government

  09-03-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  There are headaches, and there are brain tumours. While pollsters’ steady drip of bad headlines are surely causing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his government and advisers no end of cranial pain, what’s yet to be diagnosed is whether they’re temporarily concussed, or incurably diseased.
  The federal government didn’t exactly start the year in the pink. Cumulative injuries from last fall weren’t fully healed. Then the Liberals failed to vaccinate themselves on that
  
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• Most actively traded companies on the TSX today. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  09-03-2018 04:49 via twitter.com
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• City bus schedules being tweaked for March Break ottawamatters.com/local-news/cit…

  09-03-2018 04:23 via twitter.com
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• Police arrest nine people, seize guns, cash and drugs in Alexandria

  09-03-2018 04:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Provincial police have seized drugs and guns in raids on several residences and a business in Alexandria, police said Thursday.
  Methamphetamine pills, hydromorphone pills, fentanyl patches, marijuana and hash, a pair of hand guns, two Tasers, multiple long guns, ammunition and more than $1,500 in cash were seized in a co-ordinated operation code-named Project Redstart, police said.
  Nine people have been charged with a variety of weapons and drug offences as a result of the operation, which took
  
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• Local women are being honoured for being leaders in the women's rights movement, and advocating for survivors of se… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-03-2018 03:58 via twitter.com
  Local women are being honoured for being leaders in the women's rights movement, and advocating for survivors of se… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Male taken to hospital with serious injuries after being stabbed on River Road

  09-03-2018 03:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  A male was taken to hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries after being stabbed in the stomach on Thursday evening.
  The incident took place on River Road near Donald Street at about 6 p.m., Ottawa police said.
  No one was in custody Thursday night, but the investigation continued.
  Tips can be submitted by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or by downloading the Ottawa police iOS app.
  
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• Mayor: It's not on councillors to encourage women to get into politics ottawamatters.com/local-news/may…

  09-03-2018 03:15 via twitter.com
  Mayor: It's not on councillors to encourage women to get into politicsottawamatters.com/local-news/may…
  
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