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	<title>Cultural Shifts</title>
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		<title>This one has a name</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/333</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 17:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mejuan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[consumption]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

	

Mejuan, 2008.
Barcelona, Spain

	Tags: art, consumption, environment, painting, Spain
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		<title>From Nelson to Castlegar on Steel</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/334</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[freight train]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFcdgBbbbAc


	Tags: Canada, freight train, travel
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		<title>Sars Palace</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/317</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat Thompson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[

	

Sars Palace
By Pat Thompson, 2003
Latex on found image, 5&#215;25

	Tags: art, sars
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		<title>Left Side of the Story: Labour, Welfare, and Workplace</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/332</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cultural Shifts</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The fourth panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.]]></description>
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		<title>From Disabled to Dispossessed: CPP Disability Benefits and the Decline of Social Citizenship</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/328</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/328#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Rita Holland</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Essays &amp; Articles]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Canada Pension Plan]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[neoliberalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What were formerly considered ‘entitlements' of highly vulnerable citizens are increasingly viewed as charity]]></description>
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		<title>Resisting and Reinforcing the &#8216;Entrepreneurial City&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/330</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/330#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Nelson</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[geography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[labour]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[resistance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[scale]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Resisting and Reinforcing the &#8216;Entrepreneurial City&#8217;: Labour’s Contradictory Role in the Upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver 
As Vancouver prepares for the upcoming Winter Olympics in 2010, the bid process has dominated urban discourse with its aim to transform Vancouver into a &#8216;world-class,&#8217; competitive global-city. This essay will use the Olympic Games as an empirical case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gazing Back Into the Closet: Theorizing about Queer Women in the Workplace</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/329</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lesley Vaage</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[access]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[gender]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[labour]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[queer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[surveillance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How frustrating it is to step out of that suffocating Closet only to find yourself in a hall of two-way mirrors—undoubtedly, a common experience for queer women who &#8220;come out&#8221; in the workplace. This paper will attempt to tease out some of the regulatory forces that inform the coming out process for queer women in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear and Copyright</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/327</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/327#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mejuan</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[copyright]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[graffiti]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mural]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[style]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

	



	

Fear, copyright and a side order of mind-numbing &#8220;art&#8221;
Royal, 2008
Spraypaint on concrete

	Tags: art, copyright, graffiti, mural, style
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		<title>Periodizing our Current Moment: Work-Well-Fare As a New Mode of Social Regulation</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/331</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/331#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Lymburner</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[campaign]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[class]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[elites]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The title of my paper contains an assortment of words relevant to current labor studies – networks, struggle, unions – but one word, or more aptly, one concept, will certainly stand out as peculiar: work-well-fare. What is this concept? What does it mean? I argue that work-well-fare is a tendency towards a renewed class compromise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From within Canada: Identity and Public Policy</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/325</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/325#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cultural Shifts</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[animal welfare]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[urbanization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The third panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.]]></description>
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		<title>Perilous Light</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/320</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/320#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fuyuki Kurasawa</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Editorials &amp; Interviews]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[visuality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A public lecture on the visual representation of distant suffering in various parts of the world.]]></description>
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		<title>Governance 2.0: Virtual Space, Virtual Economies</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/297</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/297#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eliot Che</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[governance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[identity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[virtual worlds]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[virtualization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What do virtual worlds mean for governance, production and identity? What is the relationship between these new spaces and contemporary capitalism? In this paper, I explore some of the political-economic implications of technological transformation and reflect on the social effects of producing, communicating and existing in virtual space. Although the use of online social networking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travelling third class: regulating the transport of farm animals in Canada</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/322</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/322#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Barrett</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[animal welfare]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[transportation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My thesis research looks at how &#8216;animal welfare&#8217; as an idea or a goal is framed through the process of developing public policy and regulation in Canada. As a case study, I am looking at the current proposed amendments to the Health of Animals Regulations, which govern the transport of farmed animals. By examining how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Global Genders:  Mapping gender-based struggles in the global geographies of local marginality</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/321</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/321#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lithgow</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[globalization]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Montreal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[standpoint]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[urbanization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The over-valorization of the global spatial has created renewed interest in recovering the role of the &#8216;local&#8217; in the creation, maintenance and expansion of global flows and networks. Global place(s) are the urban territories where global networks &#8216;touchdown&#8217; and organize material capabilities. This reorganization of urban space also creates new geographies of marginality and new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Identity Examined: A Study of the Quebec Nation</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/323</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/323#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Ariey-Jouglard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In today’s political life, nations are unquestionably legitimate. The nation is immutable, it has always existed and its members must impede its violation and ensure its future existence by putting it at the top of their priorities. Using critical geography theories, this paper questions the necessity of one of today’s most unquestioned assumption. To begin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Prosperous Uncertainty: The Canada Border Services Agency, risk management, and the not-so-new political imagination of spatially-bound identity</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/324</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/324#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Alderson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The creation of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) in 2003 marks an attempt to integrate all of Canada’s various border-controlling agencies and acts under one enforcement organization; it’s function is to provide “integrated border services that support national security and public safety priorities and facilitate the movement of persons and goods.” In taking on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Oppenheimer and Gen. Leslie Groves</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/316</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/316#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat Thompson</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[collective memory]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

	

Robert Oppenheimer and Gen. Leslie Groves lead a group of reporters to visit ground zero at Trinity Site on Sept. 11. 1945
By Pat Thompson. 2006
Ink on braille paper, 20 x 20

	Tags: art, collective memory, history
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		<title>Imagining the Diasporic Link: The Franco-Algerian Media Dialogues on the 2005 &#8216;Emeutes&#8217; in France</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/306</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/306#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irina Mihalache</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[X-Featured]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[migration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Both France and Algeria have been struggling with the memory of colonialism, adopting various strategies of collective remembering.]]></description>
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		<title>Blurring the Lines: Globalization, Dissent and Democracy</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/302</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/302#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cultural Shifts</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The second panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.]]></description>
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		<title>Spatial Strategies in the Policing of Protest</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/301</link>
		<comments>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/301#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Crosby</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Examining the notion of internal sovereign power in relation to the liberal democratic state and the contestation of public space.]]></description>
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		<title>Imagining the Diasporic Link: The Franco-Algerian Media Dialogues on the 2005 &#8216;Emeutes&#8217; in France</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/300</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irina Mihalache</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In October and November 2005, the emeutes (riots) in the Parisian banlieues re-stated the existing social conflicts between second and third immigrants from former North African French colonies and the French state. These instances of violence brought to life memories of colonialism and of the Algerian War, conveniently forgotten by the French officials. Moreover, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Networks of Power: The World Water Council in Global and Local Contexts</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/299</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elui</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Although knowledge networks can be non-hierarchical, representative and democratic spaces to exchange information and determine policies, (Stein, Janice Gross et al., 2001; Stone, 2000) an analysis of the World Water Council (WWC) and its World Water Fora (WWF) reveals that knowledge networks can also reinforce power dynamics and exclude particular voices. This research contributes to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Internationalization / Transnationalization of the State and its Relation to Low-Intensity Democracy: The Case of Haiti</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/298</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Silvius</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Historical materialist scholarship has, from the time of Marx, reflected the manner in which economics transcends national borders. Bastian van Apeldoorn (2004: 143) encapsulates this sentiment, writing that “the world of international relations has from the start been inextricably bound up with the expanding capitalist world economy and thus embedded within and shaped by transnational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More new features: Abstracts, Related content, RSS</title>
		<link>http://culturalshifts.com/archives/289</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cultural Shifts</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve made a few additions in terms of functionality and usability:

Abstracts: We&#8217;ve added a section to include abstracts of papers that are in the process of being written, or that are being published elsewhere.
Related content: Under the &#8220;What&#8217;s Related&#8221; at the bottom of every post, you&#8217;ll see a link that reads: &#8220;More: See Related Content [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death of a Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Lymburner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of revealing my obsession with the presidential primary season in the U.S., I'd like to draw attention to the collapse of Hillary Clinton's campaign.]]></description>
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