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 <title><![CDATA[Central authentication gateway plan is history]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The administration is scrapping plans for a centralized E-Authentication gateway, which has been touted as a cornerstone of e-government.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Warfighting systems to get Clinger-Cohen treatment ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[HERSHEY, Pa.&#151;The Defense Department&#146;s warfighting systems have always been beyond the reach of most federal management policies and practices. That&#146;s about to change.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Helping hand]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Postal Service managers can look across 39,000 facilities and spot dangers to employees and customers. By spending the last two years automating its safety inspection process, USPS has made work easier for its 600 safety inspectors. It also has opened a view into post offices and processing centers that managers never had before, said Samuel Pulcrano, USPS&#146; manager of safety performance management.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Piece by piece]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Recent changes in the structure of network management software could be a boon for buyers looking for better performance and prices.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on network management]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What are they? Midrange network management software suites have a limited set of features for handling specific network management problems. In size and scope, they fall somewhere between the all-encompassing suites offered by BMC Software Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM Corp., and small, single-solution programs offered by niche vendors.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Veteran federal IT manager Deborah Diaz has been named CIO of the Homeland Security Department&#146;s Science and Technology Directorate.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23985-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Executive Leadership Conference on a roll]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Industry Advisory Council&#146;s Executive Leadership Conference last week had a bit of everything.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Will retiring boomers bust Medicare apps?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Aging technology and the millions of baby boomers set to begin collecting benefits in a few years threaten to overload the Medicare system.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Major programs within CMS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Telephone Customer Service. CMS has awarded contracts totaling $1.5 billion to six vendors to boost service for Medicare beneficiaries using the 800-Medicare help line. The agency will use the Next Generation Desktop application to give all customer service representatives the same Medicare information, instead of operators at different call centers having different information. The program includes a national interactive voice response system, scripting for customer service representatives and call center operation for the Medicare Choices Helpline.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NIMA looks to secure its role in satellite imaging]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Imagery and Mapping Agency has awarded a contract that promotes R&amp;D of next-generation tools that will produce images captured by commercial satellites as well as strengthens the government&#146;s alliance with the remote-sensing industry.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23929-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DISA shuffles IT staff for infrastructure work]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Information Systems Agency has begun reorganizing its IT staff to focus on the Defense Department&#146;s enterprise infrastructure efforts.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[New office. The Air Force has opened a Business Modernization Systems Integration Office that reports to CIO John Gilligan. This month, the office expects to release a plan for its business enterprise architecture and modernization.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23931-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FGIPC raises the curtain on a new ACT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federation of Government Information Processing Councils is now the American Council for Technology.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NIST readies new security documents]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A new National Institute of Standards and Technology method for categorizing systems security risks is on the cusp of final approval.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23966-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army Guard and FBI sign up for Peerless IP net]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two security-conscious agencies are signing on to Sprint Corp.&#146;s Peerless IP fiber network, which operates independently of the public Internet.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23967-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Report details federal systems R&amp;D spending ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The administration wants to pump $2.15 billion into the government&#146;s Networking and IT R&amp;D Program next year, a $171 million increase over this year, according to a new White House report.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Enforcement is toughest part of spam regulation]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Although the Senate voted last week to create a no-spam registry,  Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) says enforcing antispam regulations will be difficult.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GSA will link many pieces of e-procurement]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[By spring, the General Services Administration will begin to connect some of the pieces of the Integrated Acquisition Environment e-government project.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NOAA extends Raytheon lab deal ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has extended Raytheon Co.&#146;s contract to manage the Princeton, N.J., lab&#146;s high-performance computing cluster.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Through his lens, less is more]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As area vice president of government systems, Mark S. Goldman manages federal, state, local and educational business for Citrix Systems Inc. The Fort Lauderdale, Fla., vendor sells remote-access and infrastructure management products.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23915-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: Revenge, a dish best served cold&#151;and wet]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Information just wants to be free, as the freeware freaks say, but there are limits. Armed with camera-equipped mobile phones and weblogs, digital voyeurs have been posting snapshots of health club locker rooms and personal pimples, complete with Global Positioning System coordinates.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23987-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Personal Space: GSA&#146;s hat guy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Hats off to the IT ScheduleCharles Popelka has spent seven years marketing the General Services Administration&#146;s IT Schedule far and wide to grow its yearly sales from $1.6 billion in 1995 to $13 billion last year. He gave hundreds of agency and vendor presentations, wearing different baseball caps as an icebreaker. Popelka's motto: &#147;It's all because of the hats.&#148; ]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Taking measure of e-gov projects]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As many agencies struggle to define ways to measure the performance of their IT investments, the General Services Administration seems to have found a method that works.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23943-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Policies and Practices: President&#146;s Management Agenda&#151;slip or grip?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Clay Johnson, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, has been quoted numerous times over the last few months saying that the President&#146;s Management Agenda has gained &#147;traction&#148; with federal employees.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23944-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Calendar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[18-19 Enterprise Architecture: Enabling Results-Oriented Government Conference.Washington. Contact PostNewsweek Tech Media; e-mail: cwelborn@postnewsweektech.com; phone: 202-624-1752.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23945-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Spirit&#151;not  deadline&#151;of GPEA met]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The deadline for the Government Paperwork Elimination Act came and went last week with the government falling short of 100 percent compliance.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23972-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DHS piggybacks on Customs&#146; efforts to build secure network]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department later this year plans to begin building a network to transmit classified data across its agencies.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23973-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Feds plan for common IDs by 2006]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Identity Credentialing Committee will develop governmentwide standards to make machine-readable IDs acceptable throughout the federal government by 2006.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23978-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Fitting new IT into architectures proves tough]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Here&#146;s a new enterprise architecture wrinkle: How, if at all, should agencies incorporate emerging and new technologies?]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23979-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Veterans Affairs says it has turned IT operations around ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[About two years ago, staff at the Veterans Affairs Department did not have the information they needed, when they needed it. But they did have information they didn&#146;t want.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23980-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Be more like Land&#146;s End, Army chief tells Materiel Command]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Let soldiers order their desert camouflage uniforms just like they&#146;d place an order for a parka online with the Land&#146;s End clothing company. That&#146;s the challenge Gen. Peter Schoomaker, Army chief of staff, has issued to the Materiel Command.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23981-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Single small-business contract goal gains favor]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Defense Department and NASA procurement officials are backing a plan to create a single small-business contracting goal.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23982-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Feds say first responders lack data-sharing tools]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The homeland security effort needs an &#147;interstate information expressway&#148; paid for by the federal government but that state and local first responders can use to share information, Steve Cooper said. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23984-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[History&#146;s trash heap]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Anthropologists study trash to better understand defunct civilizations and lost cultural phenomena. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23918-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Another View: Wake up before FISMA kicks you out of bed]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies guilty of snoozing through the Federal Information Security Management Act requirements will get a rude, if predictable, awakening when the compliance alarm sounds this Dec. 17. Federal agencies must by that date develop, document and implement FISMA programs to secure information and systems that support their operations.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23919-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Delving into the history of federal computing can lead to intriguing side trips, such as the book collections of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. The museum, with a site at www.computerhistory.org, has scanned and entered some early surveys of systems available at the dawn of the modern computing era and other artifacts.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23920-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[All-in-one PCs make a speedy comeback]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A few years back, every PC maker was working on an all-in-one prototype, and the GCN Lab got to test many of them. Despite the space savings, however, all-in-ones never caught on in the marketplace.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23940-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Studio MX 2004 fills out Web developer toolkit]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Whether you&#146;re new to Web development or an old pro, Macromedia&#146;s Studio MX 2004 suite can streamline your work.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23941-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Changes to stackable Cisco switch are all good]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Years ago when networks began to expand rapidly, Cisco Systems Inc. came up with the idea of stacking up an inexpensive switch so that its service life could extend beyond immediate demands.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23942-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[N.Y. center tests e-gov gateway]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany is helping different levels of government connect, a type of e-government it says has been overlooked as agencies focus on services to citizens.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23912-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Feds rate regional, state traffic sites ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Highway Administration has rated Web sites for Georgia, Washington, Louisville, Ky., and the Gary, Ind.-Chicago-Milwaukee region highest among 276 state and regional sites for giving drivers easy access to current traffic information.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23913-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[HIPAA happy. Arkansas&#146; Employee Benefits Division is using software from Physmark Inc. of Dallas to put health care benefits data on the Web. The division is creating a centralized system for health care enrollment for the state&#146;s 160,000 active and retired state and school district employees and their dependents.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23914-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Easy data mart]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Without any procurement effort, a pair of computer-savvy General Accounting Office officials have put together a data mart to track the office&#146;s studies of homeland security projects.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23922-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Computing will become service &#145;you buy by the drink&#146;]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two industry leaders speaking last month at the Commonwealth of Virginia IT Symposium 2003 acclaimed Web services as the next big thing, despite the juggernaut of hardware and networking innovation.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23923-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Microsoft and cotton: What&#146;s the link?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A report last month condemned Microsoft Corp.&#146;s dominance in desktop software as inherently unsecure and called on government to mandate diversity in operating systems and applications.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23924-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Cyber Eye: Leveraging federal purchasing power is tricky]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Rep. William Lacy Clay made a familiar plea at a recent congressional hearing about cybersecurity.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23925-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Info.Policy: Tag! Your privacy&#146;s it]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Technology doesn&#146;t invade privacy. People who use and misuse technology invade privacy.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23926-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Security best practices get the nod]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Network Reliability and Interoperability Council has endorsed a set of best practices to preserve networks during manmade or natural disruptions.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_31/23927-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Lucent begins rebuilding Iraqi phone system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Lucent Technologies Inc. has begun installing 13 central office switches, optical transport and network management systems for voice and high-speed data transmission in the Baghdad region of Iraq.]]></description>
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