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 <title><![CDATA[Tools for data-driven management]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[James Taylor, the Commerce Department&#146;s deputy chief financial officer, didn&#146;t know his boss was unhappy until he read it in a magazine article. Then-deputy secretary Sam Bodman, a veteran executive of several large corporations, bemoaned the lack of financial tools at his government post.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Clean audit in 2007 is DOD&#146;s goal]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Each day the Defense Department seems to uncover another financial or business system to add to its already massive modernization program. But even as the scope of the systems consolidation grows, officials are sticking to the goal of a clean financial audit by 2007.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Show of hands]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Biometrics is the art and science of using a measurable and preferably unique biological characteristic to identify people.There are two main ways to use biometrics.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on biometrics]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What is it? Biometrics is an authentication method based on some physical characteristic. This can be as obvious as a fingerprint pattern or as subtle as a measurement of some repetitive movement, such as how a person types a phrase or writes a signature.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Dawn Meyerriecks, the Defense Information Systems Agency&#146;s chief technology officer since 1999, will leave DISA at the end of the month for the private sector.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Writing EA&#146;s next draft ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Officials from government, business and academia met last week in Washington to discuss the next step for enterprise architectures&#151;taking them from the drawing board and putting them into action.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_19/26632-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[HUD&#146;s blueprint guides investments]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Housing and Urban Development Department is taking a methodical ap-proach to IT investment, in an effort to ensure that the information systems it develops match its enterprise architecture and operations.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Major programs within HUD]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Grants Management Program. This project is designed to consolidate the delivery of services through HUD&#146;s 71 grant programs. It will organize and standardize these programs across the agency. Externally, the project will be part of a governmentwide streamlining process through Grants.gov. Program manager: Tammy Borkowski]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army system tracks ammo from warehouse to crater ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Every mortar shell the Army fires&#151;from the ceremonial shots that went up to salute former President Ronald Reagan to attacks lobbed at targets during fighting in Iraq&#151;starts its journey toward the sky via a Web requisition system.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_19/26593-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Air Force hardware deals are now open to other services]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department&#146;s Enterprise Software Initiative has begun a pilot with the Air Force IT Commodity Council to let the Army, Navy and Marine Corps make enterprise hardware purchases with deep discounts.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army lowers bar for using Small Computer Program]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Army procurement officers looking to buy IT services, hardware or software costing more than $25,000 must first look at making the purchase from the Army Small Computer Program.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Group hopes to standardize geospatial data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The overseers of the Geospatial One-Stop e-government portal want to standardize methods of data exchange among geographic information systems.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_19/26610-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GSA adds Novell to the SmartBuy software plan]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration last month signed up a third vendor to the SmartBuy program.Agencies now can buy networking infrastructure software from Novell Inc. under the enterprise software license program.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_19/26611-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[FCC chairman Powell joins the bloggers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell has started a weblog to elicit feedback about FCC initiatives. He wrote in the first entry that he hopes to hear from the IT community directly rather than from lobbyists who &#147;filter the techies.&#148;]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_19/26613-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB wants lawyers in on software buys]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As if life weren&#146;t complicated enough, the Office of Management and Budget has reminded agencies to consult with their legal counsel before buying software.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_19/26614-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FBI revamps its CIO office, IT projects]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[FBI systems chief Zalmai Azmi earlier this month sent an electronic communication to all bureau employees about the agency&#146;s reorganized CIO office, which has broad authority over IT management.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_19/26616-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Free app to manage Web site content]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A Defense Department intelligence office will offer agencies a free, customized open-source application for Web content management.The Joint Intelligence Center Pacific at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, has hired Zope Corp. of Fredericksburg, Va., to tailor the ZopeforIntranets application, or Z4I. The application itself is a commercial modification of the open-source Zope content management system.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS debuts command center]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department this month took the wraps off an upgraded command center at its Washington headquarters.The new Homeland Security Operations Center houses dozens of officials from more than 35 federal, state and local law enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is also home to a reinforced array of communications and control technology, including 16 flat 50-inch screens that can display detailed geographic data and other information. DHS said the center handles about 22 incidents daily.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[System X designers beat the odds]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Srinidhi Varadarajan, an assistant professor of computer science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, helped make supercomputing history last year.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Hold that Tiger]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Rat made his reputation by seeming to be everywhere at the same time. But late last month, his multitasking abilities were stretched to the limit when he got roped into attending both the Apple World Wide Developer Conference 2004 and Sun Microsystems Inc.&#146;s JavaOne convention.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Personal space: Stars with stripes]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two vets, Ken Force (left) and Chris Rasmussen, demonstrated how to fold the flag last month at the 24th annual National Veterans Wheelchair Games in East St. Louis, Ill. Hewlett-Packard Co. donated computers to keep score for more than 500 events at the games.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Cell phone cigar. Under an $825,000 subcontract with the Air Force Research Laboratory, Universal Display Corp. of Ewing, N.J., is rolling its own metal foil FOLEDs, or flexible organic light-emitting displays, for mobile communications devices. Even fancier PHOLEDs, or phosphorescent OLEDs, glow in the dark. ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Users complain CHCS II is slow, unreliable  ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The military&#146;s new health care system has had so many problems in the past three months that some sites have gone back to old ways of recording patient information.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Business Gateway leaders weigh outsourcing ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Officials managing the Business Gateway e-government project will decide by September whether to outsource the day-to-day management of more than 4,000 federal forms.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_19/26575-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[E-Authentication reaches testing stage]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Five agencies will receive funds to attempt nailing down a security architecture for e-government transactions.The departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury and Veterans Affairs, and the Environmental Protection Agency and National Park Service will implement portions of the E-Authentication 1.0 architecture, released last week.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_19/26621-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA tries technology to ease telecommuting]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When Wendell Joice became head of the General Services Administration&#146;s government-wide telework team, he didn&#146;t realize how much the Office of Personnel Management would count on him to douse the fire brewing on Capitol Hill over telecommuting.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Black Hawk in shop? Dashboard tracks parts reuse]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An executive dashboard could track one of the largest efforts ever undertaken by the Army&#146;s Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala.Redstone Arsenal is refurbishing more than 1,200 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. The massive effort requires coordinating work by parts suppliers, helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. of Stratford, Conn., and the military units from which the helicopters will come.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Navy center gets easy access to cost data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Navy Center for Cost Analysis, which operates within the service&#146;s budget office, uses business intelligence software to make sense of everything from supply chain data to aircraft maintenance costs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_19/26624-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[More agencies are green with e-gov success ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It has taken nearly four years, but agencies finally are reaching the administration&#146;s e-government goals.The Environmental Protection Agency, Small Business Administration and Transportation Department have joined the National Science Foundation and the Office of Personnel Management at the top of the President&#146;s Management Agenda e-gov scorecard.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Threat center app to boost data sharing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Intelligence agencies are taking numerous steps to share homeland security information better, officials told a congressional hearing last week.The interagency Terrorist Threat Integration Center plans next month to activate a federated search system called Sanctum that will run an analyst&#146;s query against five information systems. TTIC planners expect to expand Sanctum in the future to reduce the difficulty of querying multiple systems, said Russell E. Travers, the center&#146;s deputy director for information sharing and knowledge development.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[FBI to run old case system while it fields VCF]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The FBI plans to keep its aging Automated Case System running for several months as it begins to activate modules of the Virtual Case File replacement.The bureau&#146;s CIO, Zalmai Azmi, declined to say when he would shut down ACS, which several reports from the Justice Department and the Government Accountability Office have called difficult to use and unsecure.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Army wants to accelerate WIN-T and bring on a single contractor]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army has asked the Defense Department to let it speed up contracting for its massive battlefield network project.The service wants to pick up the pace on the $10 billion Warfighter Information Network-Tactical to bolster combat capabilities, especially in Iraq.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_19/26628-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA deal will share savings with vendors]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration last week took a huge step to improve agencies&#146; acceptance of share-in-savings contracting by awarding blanket purchase agreements worth up to $500 million to six contractors, industry and government sources confirmed.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_19/26629-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Bad ruling on e-mail]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A Massachusetts appeals court has ruled that a private (now bankrupt) Internet service provider was OK in reading e-mail passing through its servers. The company sold books and offered e-mail service, and it wanted to see what customers were ordering from Amazon.com.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_19/26581-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Another View: Five steps to recovering from vacation]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Summertime means vacation. Whether you take long weekend breaks or are fortunate enough to go on an extended holiday, you know that coming back to work is daunting.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Check out the Library of Congress&#146; multimedia collections about the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s. Driven by the lash of dust storms and crop failures, the so-called Okies moved west in search of work in the Golden State. They gathered in squalid roadside camps along their route and sometimes met armed guards aiming to turn them back at the California border. Once in California, the migrant families found field work scarce, backbreaking and poorly paid. Along the way, the Okies grew a rich folk culture. ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Rugged notebooks take the HEAT ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Soldiers train to toughen themselves for harsh environments. Their computing equipment needs to be equally tough to survive vehicles in hot sun and hard floors at airport terminals.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Handheld has lots of bounce per ounce]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The TDS Recon handheld computer kicked the stuffing out of the GCN Lab&#146;s ruggedness tests.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[North Dakota uses GSA grant to bring rural users online]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[North Dakota&#151;with more than 345,000 citizens living outside a metro area&#151;is providing the General Services Administration insight into conquering the digital divide.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Wireless lure. Allegany County, Md., is saving money with a new wireless broadband network that it hopes will draw IT companies to an area hit hard by cuts in manufacturing jobs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_19/26577-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Pushing the limits]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Institute of Standards and Technology is using quantum physics to push the limits of cryptographic key distribution.The quantum communications test bed has succeeded in delivering usable bits in the form of millions of individual photons per second.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[New standard helps sort out large systems]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department and several other nations&#146; defense organizations have settled on a standard for documenting large-system configurations.The Product Life Cycle Support Technical Committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards developed the standard. Military services and contractors can use the PLCS ISO standard to maintain up-to-date descriptions of large systems such as those for weapons.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[XBRL could aid reporting of financial data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Data collection is a crucial part of government operations. All too often, however, it&#146;s relegated to the back of the back office, which can make it difficult for government to support high-quality decisions with good information.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[@Info.Policy: Consumer credit has lessons for terrorism databases]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[GCN readers need to understand how the credit reporting system works. Why? Just about everyone is the subject of a credit file, and lenders, employers, insurers and others use that file to make basic decisions about you.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Cyber Eye: The clock is ticking on cellular vulnerability ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[You don&#146;t have to worry much about the recent appearance of the first worm that spreads via mobile phones.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[West Point&#146;s help desks are all in step]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A help desk application generally does handyman duty, finding lost passwords or summoning assistance to fix what&#146;s broken. Users at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., however, converted their help app into more of a virtual butler.]]></description>
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