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Admit it. You've all seen it already. People have been going crazy about Bernie's mittens. But the greatest part is, he has capitalised on the hype, and raised money for charity out of it. Lots of money. Sanders' mitten creator is making socks inspired by the famous meme, and the proceeds go to hunger-fighting charities. $1.8M so far, and counting.

( Some of the memes )

fridi

Jeff Bezos Donating $10 Billion Barely Dents His Surging Fortune

Jeff Bezos obviously has no sense of irony. By vowing to donate 10 billion dollars for fighting climate change, he must imagine himself a true champion of the environment. In fact, that's only drawing the public attention to the ecological madness behind Amazon's business model. In this situation, to throw money around and claim you're fighting for the environment is just insanely hypocritical.

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Born of the European mid-winter festivals, the countries of historic Christendom and those they colonised, will celebrate the very nominal birth of their founder today. A large portion of those will engage in truly gluttonous levels of feasting and inebriation, and engage in the ritualised and comercialised exchange of mass produced gifts that carry a hefty price-tag, working on the selfish principle that charity begins at home. A few perhaps, in more private moments, may have thoughts of gratitude at their good fortune in life. But gratitude by itself is not enough; recognition of one's own beneficial circumstances is merely a metaphysical prayer unless combined with an altruistic resolve for transformative justice; the peace, security, and wealth of the few must become the same for the many. With such thoughts in mind, a survey of the sufferings of 2017 and their trajectory is an apt reminder.

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Crossposted from my usual source.

farmerz-agent.livejournal.com

[Before you tare apart my post, please try to do so constructively. I am new in the insurance industry but not new to sales. I sold my first policy on 11-28-12! My Agency is bound to Farmers Insurance Exchange but I paid for this franchise so, keep in mind my heart and soul is in what I do, it feeds my family. With that said I am looking for ways to do things that will help people and make a better America. My agency is involved in a lot of local charities and events. We've raised money for the March of Dimes as well as bought a booth at their charity walks and gave away free digital photo ID software to the parents.]

One of the major goals of our government is to help the poor. This is an admirable goal and as nation we’ve spent $15 Trillion dollars on the War on Poverty. We are a very giving nation and we do a lot for the poor but a lot of what we do is spent on making their lives comfortable not helping them get out of poverty.
All of the welath we've redistributed and we haven't even made a dent in poverty. In fact, welfare has grown 19% under President Obama, that’s two and a half times greater than any other welfare increase in the history of the country.
One of the problems with our effort to help the poor is that we aren’t giving them help that will get them out of their situation only help that will keep them comfortable (relatively speaking) than we do on actually helping them get out of their situation.
I do not consider this the fault of our government though, they simply aren’t equipment with a means for wealth redistribution that would we be fair and equitable to all. However I think there might be a simple pro-capitalism solution to poverty: Term Life Insurance.

The rates for term life insurance has fallen by 50 percent.

( Sales pitch! )

telemann.livejournal.com

There is a new remake of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan and Joel Edgerton; and directed by Baz Luhrmann. Click here to view the official movie trailer.The novel is typically required reading for most American high school students, and considered by literary critics to be one of the best novels written by an American author.

The remake has captured the attention of several political comedians, include Steven Colbert, who initiated an Oprah Winfrey styled "book club of the month" themed show, based on the novel and the newly released movie, including interviews with Carey Mulligan and LaVar Burton, and the director Baz Luhrmann, as well as a literary critic who explained why the book is so important.

Bill Maher took note of the new movie on Friday night in his editorial:

Since the average CEO now makes $380 times the wage of the average worker, if you want to modernize The Great Gatsby, don't just show the rich exploiting the poor, show the rich eating them. Yes, a new version of The Great Gatsby opened today, a fond look back at a gilded age when the very rich ran their big pretty cars right over the very poor. And that was supposed to make you sad — for the rich, or the car, I can't quite remember. But the point is, Gatsby isn't really accurate for today, because the wealth gap now is so much more profound than it was, even in the 1920s.

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zebra24.livejournal.com

1% of income to charity vs 13,45% to charity.
Guess who paid less?
BTW what media reported about this fact?

Last time I showed that 78% of USA tax returns are paying less than $15k.
They are paying much less than their fair share in Welfare, pensions, Medicare, Medicaid.
They still angry at Romney for his notion that 47% are irresponsible enough and not paying income taxes.

Now we are getting two candidates: Obama claims he is "more responsible" and helpful to community, and his contributions to charity is .... ~1%
Another paid 13% in average to charity through over decades?
Why "wealthy fat cat", during last decades was 13 times MORE socially responsible than our president-socialist?

Romneys paid an average annual effective tax rate of 20.2% during the entire 20-year period. The lowest they paid was 13.66%.
Are you seriously talking about Obama being more socially responsible after that?

Taking into account that all dividends (that's how you usually getting low effective tax rate) are in fact subject to double taxation:
at least you must pay your income taxes to buy shares after that your dividends will be additionally taxed [after paying corporate income tax and other business taxes].

F.e. you got 10 000 in savings, if you buy shares of GE, and after GE will pay corporate income and other taxes, your tiny dividends (about 3% annually = $300) will be in addition taxed at 15% to 39% rate. [Thanks for Obama's tax increase].

I wonder why socially irresponsible people like Obama are talking to much about social responsibility? What was HIS share during 20 years? Do you know was his contribution (both in %% and in $$), compared to Romney?

Why Romney deeds for 20 years is less important than Obama's falsehood?

BTW
I wonder how easy is to obtain your tax returns history for 20 years?
Is it usual to keep those for 20 years?

vehemencet-t.livejournal.com

So I read today that in Orlando, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, Dallas, Houston, and New York City measures have been introduced to ban people from feeding the homeless, and some church groups and local Food Not Bombs cells have even been arrested for defying said bans. Authorities seem to claim the purpose is to protect the homeless from "unsafe" food and their "dignity". I am sure the homeless heartily agree and thank their benevolent overlords.

Real motivations seem to be that the wealthier classes are tired of seeing the homeless and hungry assemble in visible public spaces where such charitous groups and individuals feed them. But why should we need the permission of the government to feed the hungry?

Despite how horrible this alone is, for me it just seems like part of a long ongoing and unnerving trend--the criminalization of just about all free, independent meaningful conduct, or turning what were once inalienable freedoms into licensed/permitted privileges which can be granted selectively. Take a look at these ignominious stories and cringe. It seems like the ruling class continues to tighten its grip on free independent action by individuals and micromanage, regulate and control further minutiae of our daily lives.

How long are U.S. citizens going to just accept these restrictions, these arrogant "laws"? I think the respect for the law ethical citizens have has become nothing short of detrimental to society. Laws are not sacred--they are made by the ruling class to serve their selfish interests and as such often serve to oppress and tightly control the quite frankly rising numbers of the lower ones. Remember the racist Jim Crow codes? The Nazis had laws too, that didn't make them anymore respectable or useful. All I am saying is if people do not collectively disobey and refuse to comply with these laws, those who do follow their conscience will be easily arrested and imprisoned for doing so, while the rest silently suffer under them and add another link to their children's chains. Is that a logically fallacious slippery slope? That remains to be seen.

But if we publicly assert our right to determine the kinds of rules we wish to adhere to for the actual good of society, we may just find out that is enough to have a voluntarily organized and free society all at once and we don't really need all their stupid controls.

essius.livejournal.com

The other day I noticed the Kony 2012 video by Invisible Children that has been receiving a great deal of attention on the Internet as of late (it’s received over 56 million views on YouTube). I watched the video and was immediately curious. Evidently, the video has received multiple lines of serious criticism. No one denies, of course, that Joseph Kony must be brought to justice. But Invisible Children’s methods (and in some respects even intent) are highly questionable. I’ll mention just a few of the criticisms brought against the film and the movement.

Chris Blattman, a Poly Sci & Econ Assistant Professor at Yale, argues not only against the style of the film (“the hipster tie and cowboy hat” and the “macho bravado” tend to detract from the message) but also against the notion of rescuing or saving African children: “It hints uncomfortably of the White Man’s Burden. Worse, sometimes it does more than hint. The savior attitude is pervasive in advocacy, and it inevitably shapes programming.” One result, says Blattman, “is a lot of dangerously ill-prepared young people embarking on missions to save the children of this or that war zone. At best it’s hubris and egocentric. More often, though, it leads to bad programs, misallocated resources, or ill-conceived military adventures.” Finally, Blattman is also troubled by the film showing the faces of child soldiers, as well as implying (erroneously and incredibly) that the US and Invisible Children “were instrumental in getting the peace talks to happen.”

Grant Oyston, Sociology and Poly Sci student at Acadia University, has made several criticisms—such as the fact that “[m]ilitary intervention may or may not be the right idea, but people supporting KONY 2012 probably don’t realize they’re supporting the Ugandan military who are themselves raping and looting away” (q.v.)—and also provided links to many others as well. Among the latter, perhaps the most important are lawyers Kate Cronin-Furman and Amanda Taub’s article, “Solving War Crimes With Wristbands: The Arrogance of ‘Kony 2012’,” which raises methodological criticisms, and writer Joshua Keating’s post “Joseph Kony is not in Uganda (and other complicated things),” whose chief argument is that IC “has made virtually no effort to inform” concerning important details (such as where Kony is located, where the LRA’s members are currently distributed, and how many “mindless child soldiers” the LRA presently has).

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Meanwhile, IC has responded to some of the above criticisms, and the group certainly has its defenders (e.g.), but it would seem IC has yet to address one of the main claims many are raising: that it is working with groups that are guilty of the same atrocities as the LRA.

Here is another recent source attempting to make sense of the issue.

I’m still wading through some of the various criticisms and IC’s response, but I tend to think IC’s basic motives are pure, but their methods and strategic intent are questionable and in various ways even dangerous. What do you think?

enders-shadow.livejournal.com

JPMorgan Chase recently donated an unprecedented $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation. The gift was the largest in the history of the foundation and will enable the New York City Police Department to strengthen security in the Big Apple. The money will pay for 1,000 new patrol car laptops, as well as security monitoring software in the NYPD's main data center.

New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly sent CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon a note expressing "profound gratitude" for the company's donation.

- http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/Home/home.htm

The timing of this sure is useful.

Seriously, I wanna pose this to you:

how much $$ do you think the NYPD has to spend on babysitting the 99%?
will they just keep getting propped up by the 1%?

Anybody have any figures on what other big protests cost? I know the blue-shirt NYPD officers are making 83/hour for overtime--well, I know that's what one specific blue-shirt said he was getting. how long do you think before cops get fatigue of this? working a double shift everyday for a month has got to get to some of these guys. if they have to do it for two months, four months, eight months?

soliloquy76.livejournal.com

I stumbled across a site last night called Kiva, and thought I'd share it with the community. Here's a short description from their site:

We are a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions, Kiva lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world.

Essentially, you can choose from thousands of people who request small loans from regional Kiva partners and lend $25 or more to them. They use the money to run their businesses and eventually repay the loan. You can then use that money again to loan to someone else. Kiva shows the repayment schedule, the risk and history of the lending partner, and lots of other useful information. Every bit of the money you spend goes to the borrower. The site is funded through donations that you can opt in or out of.

I think this is a great way to empower entrepreneurs in impoverished countries. And the concept seems to be a success. Here's a video illustrating Kiva's loan activity over the last 6 years:

So if you have some disposable income burning a hole in your pocket, give it a try.

nairiporter.livejournal.com

Not only the people from the Western countries are helping the poor. Today, the number of donors from the emerging economies and even the developing countries has been increasing faster than that from the traditional sources of charity.

Almost a year has passed since the devastating earthquake in Haiti. The private donations for the Carribbean country have reached 3.4 billion dollars by now. After Katrina in 2005 the donations reached 4.6 billion, and after the floods in Pakistan, 1.6 billion.

The rapid economic growth of some countries like China and India in the years to follow could lead to a drastic change in the ratio of donations on a global scale. The group of sponsors is constantly expanding and diversifying. It is also possible that the new philanthropists will generally alter the destination of the donated funds, because there is a rising trend that they are getting more involved with problems in their own countries.

The international United Way Worldwide network which is the biggest charity organisation in the world in terms of annual funds, has reported that as early as 2008 nearly half of the donations made by non-US donors had come from developing countries. It has been calculated that in terms of per cent from the BNP, the biggest share of charity after the Haiti disaster were not in the most developed countries, but in places like Guyana and Ghana. As the World Giving Index for 2010 shows, the willingness to do charity depends much more on the perception of satisfaction with one's quality of life (which is a complex term containing a myriad of subjective factors along with the objective ones), rather than the mere economic dimensions and results of a country, which may not necessarily correlate to the former.

Still, the US remains a world leader in the global structure of charity, and the funds it generates amount to 2.2% of its GDP, which is remarkable.

The question whether "throwing money at problems" is good or not has been discussed here before, but you are welcome to touch on that aspect of the issue if you like for the purposes of discussion. Still, this was mostly meant to be an informative piece about the current changes occurring in the structure of global charity, and though it lacked a clearly stated opinion (which could be easily deduced anyway) I hope it will be allowed to stay.

ghoststrider.livejournal.com

Fight stokes Planned Parenthood - Sarah Kliff - POLITICO.com

You know, I have engaged in many a debate with left-wing individuals, who scream that if federal funding for social services is ever cut, these charities and nonprofits will collapse, because people just don't donate anymore. These services rely on government funding in order to operate. There is no other way, they say.

Fortunately, I have none other than Planned Parenthood to disprove this thesis:

Online gifts to Planned Parenthood have surged by 500 percent since Republicans passed a budget amendment stripping the group of its federal funding.

Five. Hundred. Percent. Still think that people won't donate to charities or nonprofits?

You see, you don't actually need government to fund these programs. People will do so, contrary to popular belief. And they will do so with vigor. I wonder how many will donate when the budget amendment is passed and government funding is completely cut, not just threatened to be cut.

(And before you send me hate mail, I'm pro-choice. I'm just against the government forcibly taking money from people and giving it to others. It's a government spending/political philosophy thing, not a pro-choice/pro-life thing.)

green-man-2010.livejournal.com

David Cameron's flagship policy, the 'Big Society' has been the focus of intense media discussion in the Uk as he rolls out the detail.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10680062

Although not discussed in this link, the times (which you have to pay to see online these days) was talking about a shift that has already happened. ( Read more... )

evildevil.livejournal.com

There is an article at NoFactZone by DB that needs to be read. The short of it is that Bill O'Reilly was piss off with Colbert because of
this. O'Reilly didnt waste time on attacking the poor while attempting to defend his willfully ignorant, borderline heretical, self justification of being a Christian Grinch during the Christmas Season.

So Bill made whole segment about how Bill and Stephen have a different interpretation of the Bible and how Stephen Colbert's interpretation is wrong, but it didnt stop there. With the Ann Coulter interview they created this narrative that the only reason Stephen Colbert brought the message of Christian charity on his show was to guilt trip the rest of the world to "give and give" while he "does nothing", she even declared that the only time Stephen gave money away was to pay the IRS.

You can say alot about Stephen Colbert, but if you are going to attack him regarding his lack of charitable works, Ann Coulter should fire whoever is feeding her this information.

Stephen Colbert and his fans have helped to raise a lot of money over the years. This is a list of his works, and this is not even counting other minor works that he has done lately for others:

DonorsChoose – $589,792
Yellow Ribbon Fund – $319,000 (PDF link)
Americone Dream Fund (donated proceeds from Ben & Jerry’s Americone Dream) – $440,357 (2007-2009)
US Olympic Speedskating Team – $300,000 (2010)
Gulf of America Fund – $100,000 (Bing), $44,187 (retweeting challenge)

The total amount is $1,493,336, so Stephen Colbert and his loyal fans helped donate one and a half million dollars for charitable organizations; Stephen is even a board member of DonorsChoose. Unless of course there is some unwritten rule that says unless you give away two million dollars it wont count as an act of charity.

If Bill O'Reilly wants to discuss theology with Stephen Colbert, that's fine, Stephen is a Sunday School Teacher and he has no problem in doing that. As a matter of fact he has nailed a lot of his guests on matters of scripture.

"I like talking about people who don't have any power. And this seemed like one of the least powerful people in the United States are migrant workers who come and do our work but don't have any rights as a result. And yet, we still invite them to come here and at the same time ask them to leave. And that's an interesting contradiction to me and, you know, "whatsoever you do for the least of my brothers"... These seem like the lest of our brothers right now -- a Lot of people are "least brothers" right now because the economy's so hard and I don't want to take anyone's hardship away from them or diminish it or anything like that -- but migrant workers suffer... and have no rights."
-- Stephen Colbert, 2010 Congressional Testimony.

“I *teach* Sunday School, motherf*#ker!” -- Stephen Colbert

meus-ovatio.livejournal.com

What do you think about when you think of the impoverished? Interestingly enough, we seem to have a latent bias when talking about or imagining poverty. Even Jesus reverts to a male-centered view of poverty with specific parables about a poor man on the side of the road. We think of hobos and bums. Men downtown. Men riding trains. Men begging for money. Male veterans holding out cardboard signs.
( Poor sad children aren't just for commercials about Africa. )

verytwistedmind.livejournal.com

"I'm trying to find out what human nature is all about," says Shaich, 56, who has converted a former Panera-owned restaurant in an urban area of St. Louis into a non-profit restaurant dubbed Saint Louis Bread Company Cares Cafe.

http://www.app.com/article/20100518/BUSINESS/100518019/Panera-Bread-experiments-with-Take-what-you-need-pay-what-you-can-store-model

What do you think? Will they succeed? I like this story, there us a certain defiance about it. A rich corporate big wig doing exactly what he wants with his store and his money. The libertarian in me loves this. The capitalist in me is doubtful.

This reminds me of the Bagel Man story in the book Freakonomics: http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/WhatTheBagelManSaw.pdf

Not the same moral lesson but such out of the box thinking in regards to retail sales. It also shows what happens when people have the option not to pay for something..

It also reminds me of the story of Thanks Giving.

The colony's leaders identified the source of their problem as a particularly vile form of what Bradford called "communism." Property in Plymouth Colony, he observed, was communally owned and cultivated. This system ("taking away of property and bringing [it] into a commonwealth") bred "confusion and discontent" and "retarded much employment that would have been to [the settlers'] benefit and comfort."

The most able and fit young men in Plymouth thought it an "injustice" that they were paid the same as those "not able to do a quarter the other could." Women, meanwhile, viewed the communal chores they were required to perform for others as a form of "slavery."

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Commentary/2005/11/Pilgrims-Beat-Communism-With-Free-Market

Are there any examples of such a business working?

p.s. For those who take umbrage with the title, it was meant in jest.

telemann.livejournal.com

Debbie Schlussel has finished an investigation of Sean Hannity and the Freedom Alliance charity and it's not pretty.

For the last several years, Sean Hannity and the Freedom Alliance "charity" have conducted "Freedom Concerts" across America. They've told you that they are raising money to pay for the college tuition of the children of fallen soldiers and to pay severely wounded war vets. And on Friday Night, Hannity will be honored with an award for this "Outstanding Community Service by a Radio Talk Show Host" at Talkers Magazine's convention. But it's all a huge scam.

In fact, less than 20%-and in two recent years, less than 7% and 4%, respectively-of the money raised by Freedom Alliance went to these causes, while millions of dollars went to expenses, including consultants and apparently to ferret the Hannity posse of family and friends in high style. And, despite Hannity's statements to the contrary on his nationally syndicated radio show, few of the children of fallen soldiers got more than $1,000-$2,000, with apparently none getting more than $6,000, while Freedom Alliance appears to have spent tens of thousands of dollars for private planes. Moreover, despite written assurances to donors that all money raised would go directly to scholarships for kids of the fallen heroes and not to expenses, has begun charging expenses of nearly $500,000 to give out just over $800,000 in scholarships.

And then, there are the 2008 Freedom Alliance tax forms, which were signed in November 2009 and filed only recently. That year, Freedom Alliance took in $8,781,431 in revenue and gave $1,060,275.57 total-or just 12%-to seriously wounded soldiers and for scholarships to kids of the fallen. Remember, this is well below the 75% required to be considered a legitimate charity.

There are some caveats: it's not clear if Hannity has made any claims that all donations are given directly as money to students in the form of scholarships; and Schlussel has had some credibility issues in the past, but Media Matters has looked into this story and finds it factually correct, BUT caution is urged, with a request that more mainstream media outlets look into this.

EDIT: This isn't the first time Hannity's charity has been called a scam.

drcruel.livejournal.com

Wouldn't that make for great copy somewhere? Seems so natural, but I didn't see it in any of the coverage.

OK, so here's the thing about the ad. Yes, it avoided negativity and yes, it was a far cry from picketing abortion clinics. I feel CBS set a terrible precedent and has now placed itself in the position of arbitrating advocacy, which is not only an awfully clunky turn of phrase but a terrible position in which to be. And I have faith that anyone who hadn't previously heard of Focus on the Family and was fooled by the innocuous ad into visiting their website will immediately click on (no pun intended) the fact that they are a bigoted, hateful group. In short, while they can claim a propaganda victory for having arm-wrestled CBS into airing their ad, this will not help their eternal fund-raising efforts; the only people who care about their tiny victory are the ones who already donate to them. And we should therefore all be happy, because they spent $2,800,000 to accomplish absolutely nothing.

Which brings me to my point. If I did donate to Focus on the Family, I might reasonably be upset that they squandered $2.8m for a shallow and empty victory. Their budget is not unlimited, after all-in fact, they laid off 200 people towards the end of 2008, many of whom presumably have families upon which to focus. But even assuming that the castaways interrupted their busy schedules of peeping on their neighbors to see whether or not they really are nudist lesbian witches, blamed their unemployment on Obama or Illegal Immigrants or Jews and went out to find work in a more honest field such as used-car sales, one must question what a group that is so interested in children could have accomplished with $2.8m

Here's a short list of some of the things that Focus on the Family might have focused on with $2,800,000:

Giving flu shots to 560,000 at-risk family members in America
Distributing malaria nets to 280,000 at-risk families in Africa
Paying the annual salaries of 5,833 teachers in Afghanistan
Paying the annual fuel cost to heat 28,000 elementary school classrooms in Afghanistan
Providing 186,666 one-on-one weekly reading tutoring hours to inner city children in America
Installing 7,671 computers in girls' schools in rural Cambodia
Giving 77,777 of the children in refugee camps outside Darfur one year of schooling

This is why Focus on the Family disgusts me. It's not their odious views, their bigotry or their ignorance of basic Psychology. It's their hypocrisy, their shallow-minded obsessions and their constant, self-aggrandizing, media circus. It's the way they completely ignore the example of quiet, selfless service that Jesus set and twist his words so as to best suit their political agenda. I'm no theologian, but it was my understanding that the Scriptures they constantly cite as self-justification should be a shield, not a sword. And it should be finally obvious to the followers of Jesus that this despicable group is only Focused on Itself.

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Entries tagged with charity

Benefit Concert for Ukraine

Friday fun. The Bernie meme

Thanks a lot, Mr Bezos!

It's a Wonderful Life

My solution to class warfare / wealth redistribution.

The Great Gatsby and the dangers of the new guilded age

Obama vs Romney

When are people going to stop cooperating?

Invisible Children, Kony 2012, and criticisms

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Kiva

Donors of the future

Fight stokes Planned Parenthood - Sarah Kliff - POLITICO.com

Can Cameron's ' Big Society' work?

Selfish Colbert Helped to Raise Money for Charity: The Monster

The hidden face of poverty.

Will they succeed? Penera Bread red diaper, tree hugging, pink commie style!

Sean Hannity's Freedom Concerts = A big scam?

CBS Should Have Punted on Focus on the Family Ad (xposted from my journal)

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