David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Methinks a local cop I have exposed before thinks I'm dumb as he continues dogging me I mention my missing mail to the RCMP and he shows up to attack my words with the same name Now that is stupid N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/public-safety-minister-wants-to-know.html
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/public-safety-minister-wants-to-know.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/ups-call-centre-layoffs-1.5476117
UPS lays off 168 people at Moncton call centre
Statement from company said decision 'does not reflect the quality of work being done by employees'
CBC News · Posted: Feb 25, 2020 8:41 PM AT
'We understand that this is a difficult time for our employees in Moncton,' said the company in a statement. (Google Maps)
UPS has confirmed that 168 people working at a call centre in Moncton have lost their jobs.
CBC News has learned the employees were informed of the layoffs earlier Tuesday.
UPS said in a statement the layoffs were part of a "company-wide transformation" and that the changes would "improve our responsiveness to customers."
"We understand that this is a difficult time for our employees in Moncton," said the company in the statement.
"These decisions are not made lightly and does not reflect the quality of work being done by employees."
UPS said the employees affected by the change may be able to find employment within the company by applying for "open positions that they qualify for."
The company said it would assist employees with finding employment, but did not say whether the workers would be offered any severance pay.
CBC's Journalistic Standards and PracticesCBC News has learned the employees were informed of the layoffs earlier Tuesday.
UPS said in a statement the layoffs were part of a "company-wide transformation" and that the changes would "improve our responsiveness to customers."
"We understand that this is a difficult time for our employees in Moncton," said the company in the statement.
"These decisions are not made lightly and does not reflect the quality of work being done by employees."
UPS said the employees affected by the change may be able to find employment within the company by applying for "open positions that they qualify for."
The company said it would assist employees with finding employment, but did not say whether the workers would be offered any severance pay.
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Mike Bookman
My wife has worked for them 24 years in Moncton. Her termination is September. They have moved their call center in 'blocks' to the Phillipines. 5 years ago there were 500+ people, now dwindled down to 167. Gotta remember that giant corporations are heartless greedy entities who's shareholders are banks and insurance companies. They could care less about any human toll, it's always about the bottom line at all costs. People are much better off working for a smaller company that at least has a conscience about how they treat employees.
Julie Arbeau
Reply to @Mike
Bookman: I remember those days walking around looking for a seat to log
in, take a few calls and the person whose seat I took came back from
break. We were busy then.
David Amos
Reply to @Mike Bookman: Remember when UPS sued us?
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos:
David Amos
Reply to @David Amos: However Canada Post has yet to deliver my tracked mail to the RCMP but UPS always got through
Peter C. Shearer
Reply to @David Amos: No.
Peter C. Shearer
Reply to @David Amos: Who cares.
Cleve Gallant
But i thought these call centres was supposed to be attractive to this bilingual province,Well kiss that theory down the drain,
Mike Bookman
Reply to @Cleve Gallant: UPS Moncton is/was English services.
Julie Arbeau
Reply to @Cleve Gallant: Some reps were bilingual. Most of those calls got routed to Montreal though.
Marguerite Deschamps
Reply to @Mike Bookman: Cleve Gallant, another one who has no clue what he is talking about.
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @Cleve Gallant:
That's just a bedtime story they tell the kiddies to keep them sweet.
That's just a bedtime story they tell the kiddies to keep them sweet.
David Peters
liberals block resource development and then set up fly-by-night call center jobs that are taxpayer dependent.
Economic hard times are the liberal way...for everyone but a few 'elites'.
Kevin Cormier
Reply to @David
Peters: Many of these jobs offer years of steady employment for NBers
and in many cases, open doors to others positions in large international
companies. UPS is/was not a "fly-by-night" call center. Payroll perks
have been offered by all parties.
David
Peters
Reply to @Kevin Cormier:
That doesn't jive with reality. It's an artificial marketplace propped up by the taxpayer...and by many accounts, an awful place to work.
That doesn't jive with reality. It's an artificial marketplace propped up by the taxpayer...and by many accounts, an awful place to work.
Kat Burd
Reply to @David
Peters: According to my brother and sister-in-law what you just said is
bogus. They both have worked in the Moncton office for decades, and
enjoyed it.
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David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
Methinks some folks must have enjoyed Urquhart on the radio this morning Too Too Funny N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/public-safety-minister-wants-to-know.html
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2019/01/public-safety-minister-wants-to-know.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/safety-minister-investigates-red-light-camera-1.4974457
Public safety minister wants to know 'downside' of red-light cameras
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David R. Amos
Methinks some folks must have enjoyed Urquhart on the radio this morning Too Too Funny N'esy Pas?
Jamie Hall
This is another Government
rip. The owner of the car gets the ticket..not necessarily the driver.
The bill is issued by the company who owns the cameras, and one is
guilty until proven guilty. What the province hopes to gain will be
lost in court costs.
David R. Amos
@Jamie Hall "This is another Government rip".
YUP
YUP
Jeff LeBlanc
Don't run red lights and
there won't be an issue. Also while you're at it NB, the left hand lane
on the TCH is not for pleasure cruising, it's for passing.
#themoreyouknow
Emery Hyslop-Margison
@Jeff LeBlanc There will soon be cameras on the hwy for drivers exceeding 110 km/hr. Better slow down.
Tim Trites
@Jeff LeBlanc
that's not correct. you can drive or pass in either lane. that's why you don't see those "keep right except to pass" signs as in some other jurisdictions.
that's not correct. you can drive or pass in either lane. that's why you don't see those "keep right except to pass" signs as in some other jurisdictions.
David R. Amos
@Tim Trites Methinks most
folks from other jurisdictions are accustomed to passing on the left etc
Hence common sense and decent manners should rule the day without
having laws to govern everything we do in Canada's only bilingual
province N'esy Pas?
Tim Trites
@David R. Amos
no. you come off as a moro n to me with your foolish self important way of commenting.
common sense is pass in a safe and responsible way.
all jurisdictions have passing laws.
no. you come off as a moro n to me with your foolish self important way of commenting.
common sense is pass in a safe and responsible way.
all jurisdictions have passing laws.
Noah Hathaway
The issue is that these have
historically been used as a cash grab by cities. Some cities after
installing them found that not enough people were running red lights to
justify the cost, so they shortened the yellow lights by a few seconds
and red light tickets went up drastically. The city gets their fine
revenue and the company that runs them takes a cut. There is nothing to
prevent abuse and there is a lot for them to gain from it.
The other problem is false positives are common with these. You have little to no recourse and are usually stuck paying the fine even if you aren't guilty.
The other problem is false positives are common with these. You have little to no recourse and are usually stuck paying the fine even if you aren't guilty.
Tim Trites
@Noah Hathaway
sounds ridiculous. how do you get a false positive if the plate matches? if it doesn't match why couldn't you prove it ?
would a few false positives outweigh the deterrence?
how many dead people versus those who are in a rush cause they sat around the house having one more coffee are justified?
don't want a ticket don't run the light. then the city can't "grab" your cash.
sounds ridiculous. how do you get a false positive if the plate matches? if it doesn't match why couldn't you prove it ?
would a few false positives outweigh the deterrence?
how many dead people versus those who are in a rush cause they sat around the house having one more coffee are justified?
don't want a ticket don't run the light. then the city can't "grab" your cash.
Emery Hyslop-Margison
@Tim Trites False positives
or, more correctly, errors occur when the camera is improperly triggered
by the movement of a vehicle. I lived in Florida and people were being
ticketed for making a right hand turn on a red light even after
completely stopping. More police camera surveillance is seldom ever a
good idea in a free and democratic society.
David R. Amos
@Emery Hyslop-Margison I wholeheartedly agree
Shannon Hallett
LOL..I am not sure why it requires a visit. I am sure their system has reporting capabilities they would share. This is stupid.
David R. Amos
@Shannon Hallett "This is stupid."
Welcome to the Circus
Welcome to the Circus
Stephen Long
Two points. One, the city is
not remotely interested in reducing collisions but will see this as a
cash grab. Two, the system will be foiled by those drivers who stick an
opaque cover on the licence plate. Or perhaps don't bother even having
a licence plate. I've never seen anyone pulled over for not properly
displaying a plate, surely it's not legal?
Peter Shearer
@Stephen Long The cameras in Fort McMurray captured the plates even with those plastic covers on them.
David R. Amos
@Peter Shearer Are you a member of the RCMP?
David R. Amos
@David R. Amos
https://www.ashcroftcachecreekjournal.com/news/rcmp-and-cvse-went-above-and-beyond-to-rescue-people-stranded-by-mudslides/
"RCMP Central Interior Traffic Services Cst. Dan Caston and Peter Shearer of Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement, responded to calls from stranded motorists"
https://www.ashcroftcachecreekjournal.com/news/rcmp-and-cvse-went-above-and-beyond-to-rescue-people-stranded-by-mudslides/
"RCMP Central Interior Traffic Services Cst. Dan Caston and Peter Shearer of Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement, responded to calls from stranded motorists"
Peter Shearer
@David R. Amos Never heard tell of him. Didn't think there was another one out side of Scotland.
David R. Amos
@Peter Shearer Why is it that I don't believe you?
Harold Benson
Exactly what we need to do .
Reign these light runners in, most of who will be caught when there
isn't even another vehicle anywhere near the intersection.
David R. Amos
@Harold Benson Methinks Sam must be concerned as well N'esy Pas?
Matt Steele
What a SCAM ! Just another
money grab by govt. as they look for ways to milk more money out of New
Brunwicker's . Reminds me of the Brian Gallant money grab when Gallant's
Liberals put radar guns in the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement vehicles
so they could get more traffic ticket money out of N.B. taxpayers .
Commercial Vehicle Enforcement is suppose to be checking and weighing
trucks , now they spend their time giving out speeding tickets to cars .
Govt. wants to milk every cent they can out of the public for anything
and everything .
David R. Amos
@Matt Steele YUP
Emery Hyslop-Margison
Given the plethora of
problems faced by New Brunswick why is this even a priority? How about
spending the time and money involved in this fiasco on attracting new
investment and well paying jobs to the province.
David R. Amos
@Emery Hyslop-Margison
Methinks a lot of local folks should inform the ex cop Urquart of what
Aberta has had for years. Urquart knows as well as I that traffic
tickets are merely another form of taxation. If he creates a law here
then a computer take your vehicle's picture and bill you automatically
Hence no need for his overpaid cop pals to leave the donut shop. In fact
some could get laid off N'esy Pas?
Peter Shearer
@David R. Amos I lived in
Fort McMurray for a number of years. All pictures of cars running red
lights, as well as those speeding thru the intersections, are reviewed
by a police officer before a ticket is issued and mailed to the
registered owner.
David R. Amos
@Peter Shearer Methinks
Urquhart and everybody else in the Higgs government knows about my
lawsuits against cops and lawyers by now. Anyway I was in Edmonton and
Fort McMurray too and disagree with you. In fact in 2014 not long
after Kevin Vickers had his gun play in Ottawa 3 of his former fellow
members of the RCMP tried to pick a fight with me at 2.30 in the
morning on behalf of a lawyer from New Brunswick Don Scott the current
Mayor when he was an MLA. Perhaps you and Urquhart the ex cop who had
me falsely arrested in 2008 should pull the file of my lawsuit in
Federal Court across the street from the Fat Fred City Finest cop shop
and have it reviewed by a police officer N'esy Pas?
Peter Shearer
@David R. Amos blah blah blah...… your beef with the police has nothing to do with this news story.
David R. Amos
@Peter Shearer Methinks you
forgot your buddy Urquhart had me falsely arrested by your fellow
members of the RCMP in 2008 and then had them attack me again on
election night in 2010 N'esy Pas?
Shawn McShane
When the light goes red in
Dieppe you see 3 or more cars running it. If you are hanging out in
the intersection waiting to turn it is chicken time. A truck is good,
the fake exhaust chicken cars will stop like they do in Montreal or
Toronto, otherwise it is risky.
David R. Amos
@Shawn McShane Methinks those
are just Gallant's pals in a hurry to cash in on the francophonie game
gravy train before Higgs cuts them off N'esy Pas?
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David R. Amos
@Shawn McShane "1971 5 Man Electrical Band."
This was my response as the comment section closed
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/smart-meters-nb-power-1.4973785
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David R. Amos
Mr Higgs and his cohorts won't tell you but on October 12th, 2018 the EUB 357 Matter began again
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/eub-hearing-nb-power-rate-design-smart-meters-1.4305685
Whereas the EUB allowed Dominic Cardy's wife to intervene a full year and a half after the matter had begun they also had to allow my friend Roger Richard to intervene as well. The board did not know what to do about scheduling hearings etc because they had no idea which political party was going to oversee them for the next few years so they decided to look for someone to advise them and adjourned the hearings until a later date. However they had done that once already despite my protest and barred be for the 375 Matter. Methinks now that the 357 Matter is underway again its gonna be a circus N'esy Pas?
Pierre LaRoches
Rear end accidents
drastically increase everywhere these cameras are used. Tbone accidents
do go down some. Everywhere they have been implemented for a long
period the yellow lights are shortened in a few years as it is easy
money. Perhaps we could start by firing the city bus drivers that
constantly run red lights downtown, and the school bus drivers that run
reds every day at Regent and University.
David R. Amos
@Pierre LaRoches Methinks the
Fat Fred City Finest and the RCMP etc are forbidden to ticket fellow
government employees because it would put a dent in their tax collection
scheme N'esy Pas?
mo bennett
so, now all you taxpayers get
to fund a trip to edmonton for this politician that can't see the
forest for the damn trees. can you believe this parasite?
David R. Amos
@mo bennett YO MO Methinks you are enjoying the antics of the clowns in New Brunswick's latest Circus N'esy Pas?
Peter Shearer
@mo bennett If you read the story you will find he is already going to be in Edmonton.
David R. Amos
@Peter Shearer Methinks you will be there to meet with him N'esy Pas?
Gerry Ferguson
Just a tax grab for the cities. They will shorten up the yellow lights to make $172.50 off every other vehicle.
David R. Amos
@Gerry Ferguson I wholeheartedly agree
Michel Jones
I'd rather this than the carbon tax grab.
David R. Amos
@Michel Jones Methinks its not wise to pick the lesser of two more evils practiced by governmental taxation N'esy Pas?
Craig O'Donnell
If municipalities want them, then the municipalities should be the sole source to pay for them.
David R. Amos
@Craig O'Donnell YUP
Dwight Mullover
The public safety minister
should be more concerned about the drug houses that are destroying
neighbourhoods in New Brunwick due to obsolete and ineffective laws.
David R. Amos
@Dwight Mullover Methinks the
public safety minister should at least welcome you to the circus We
have paid our two bits to see a high diving act hence we deserve to see a
high diving act N'esy Pas?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/trapper-furbearer-convention-fredericton-1.4975136
Amid skinning demos and pelt-handling contests, trappers focus on future
Comments
Shawn McShane
This is the kind of thing
that you should keep to yourselves, if you need these skins to survive a
brutal winter for warmth is a different story. Heck I even
understand eating squirrel, but to see coyote, fox and beaver
carcasses...its too much. I feel grossed out.
Luis Luis
@Shawn McShane On the
contrary, people need to see this and it should also put up videos of
the animals suffering a cruel death while being trapped. I dont
understand how this practice is still legal in 2019. Its barbaric, cruel
and unnecessary. These folks should be ashamed to be called trappers. I
have another word for them and it starts with M.
Phil Beatty
@Luis Luis you and Shawn along with Alex need to go trap some beaver. You might even learn something about wildlife.....
Alex Forbes
@Phil Beatty Yeah because you need to kill something to understand it...hunter/trapper logical fallacies
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David R. Amos
@Shawn McShane Methinks there
is more than one way to skin a cat and nobody should deny that I am
always up for an education N'esy Pas?
@Shawn McShane "1971 5 Man Electrical Band."
This was my response as the comment section closed
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/smart-meters-nb-power-1.4973785
Page is closed to commenting.
David R. Amos
Mr Higgs and his cohorts won't tell you but on October 12th, 2018 the EUB 357 Matter began again
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/eub-hearing-nb-power-rate-design-smart-meters-1.4305685
Whereas the EUB allowed Dominic Cardy's wife to intervene a full year and a half after the matter had begun they also had to allow my friend Roger Richard to intervene as well. The board did not know what to do about scheduling hearings etc because they had no idea which political party was going to oversee them for the next few years so they decided to look for someone to advise them and adjourned the hearings until a later date. However they had done that once already despite my protest and barred be for the 375 Matter. Methinks now that the 357 Matter is underway again its gonna be a circus N'esy Pas?
Shawn McShane
@Phil Beatty I liked seeing foxes on my property. Haven't seen one for years. Price of pelts must of gone up.
@Shawn McShane is your right to speak your opinion but think of the life you consume every week.
Samual Johnston
@Shawn McShane your property
is occupying the natural habitat of many forms of wild life. Imagine
all that perished in clearing your property.
David R. Amos
@Shawn McShane "1971 5 Man Electrical Band."
Methinks I feel grossed out too but not by carcasses just your sarcasm N'esy Pas?
Methinks I feel grossed out too but not by carcasses just your sarcasm N'esy Pas?
Public safety minister wants to know 'downside' of red-light cameras
Province has no legislation that allows cities to install cameras at intersections
Public Safety Minister Carl Urquhart
says he wants to see for himself how red-light cameras have worked in
Edmonton before considering the possibility of allowing them in New
Brunswick.
There's currently no legislation in the province that allows red-light cameras to be used, but cities like Fredericton are eager for the change.
Since becoming minister, Urquhart has meet with chiefs of police in New Brunswick and municipality stakeholders about changing the Motor Vehicle Act.
But he's adamant he wants to see how they work for himself before his department takes another step.
"I'm a visual person, they [Edmonton police] said they would show me their system," he said.
Red-light cameras at intersections can also monitor speeds of cars crossing on green and yellow lights. (CBC )
"I
don't want to know the upside, I want to know the downside. What
doesn't work about it, why doesn't it work, if they could change it?"
Earlier this week Fredericton city traffic engineer John Lewis said red-light cameras would be an option to reduce collisions in intersections with high-accident rates.
"Other jurisdictions, particularly Edmonton, have shown pretty dramatic reduction in red-light running and those types of collisions when that type of technology is used in the right spot," Lewis said.
Urquhart said staff at Public Safety are looking at statistics from places around the world where the cameras are used.
Since
he's already travelling to Edmonton for a ministerial conference,
Urquhart said his meeting with police won't cost taxpayers any more.
"After I've done that I'll be back to talk about it further with my stakeholders," Urquhart said.
"Is it a tool that will protect the people, increase the safety of the people? And if it is, you've probably figured out in our government we don't make change for the sake of change. Premier Higgs made it very clear to all of us, he wants measurable results."
Fredericton
city traffic engineer John Lewis said Edmonton has seen a reduction in
red-light running in intersections with red-light cameras. (David Donnelly/CBC)
Urquhart
said he also wants to look into how the system would work on vehicles
where the front licence plate has been removed. The Progressive
Conservatives under Blaine Higgs campaigned on an election platform that
included a promise to remove the front licence plate for New Brunswick
cars.
But Urquhart said that's not the priority.
"We want to know if it works and if it will work if it's feasible to bring into the province," he said.
Urquhart said he doesn't have a timetable for when a proposal for red-light camera legislation would be ready.
Still, Fredericton Coun. Stephen Chase, a longtime supporter of the safety feature, is feeling optimistic.
"I'm very pleased that Minister Urquhart is taking that extra step and visiting with Edmonton's office of traffic safety while he's out in Edmonton for his ministerial meetings," Chase said.
"I'm very confident he'll come away with a positive reaction to what he sees while there."
There's currently no legislation in the province that allows red-light cameras to be used, but cities like Fredericton are eager for the change.
Since becoming minister, Urquhart has meet with chiefs of police in New Brunswick and municipality stakeholders about changing the Motor Vehicle Act.
But he's adamant he wants to see how they work for himself before his department takes another step.
"I'm a visual person, they [Edmonton police] said they would show me their system," he said.
Earlier this week Fredericton city traffic engineer John Lewis said red-light cameras would be an option to reduce collisions in intersections with high-accident rates.
"Other jurisdictions, particularly Edmonton, have shown pretty dramatic reduction in red-light running and those types of collisions when that type of technology is used in the right spot," Lewis said.
Urquhart said staff at Public Safety are looking at statistics from places around the world where the cameras are used.
"After I've done that I'll be back to talk about it further with my stakeholders," Urquhart said.
"Is it a tool that will protect the people, increase the safety of the people? And if it is, you've probably figured out in our government we don't make change for the sake of change. Premier Higgs made it very clear to all of us, he wants measurable results."
But Urquhart said that's not the priority.
"We want to know if it works and if it will work if it's feasible to bring into the province," he said.
Urquhart said he doesn't have a timetable for when a proposal for red-light camera legislation would be ready.
Still, Fredericton Coun. Stephen Chase, a longtime supporter of the safety feature, is feeling optimistic.
"I'm very pleased that Minister Urquhart is taking that extra step and visiting with Edmonton's office of traffic safety while he's out in Edmonton for his ministerial meetings," Chase said.
"I'm very confident he'll come away with a positive reaction to what he sees while there."
With files from Information Morning Fredericton
CBC's Journalistic Standards and PracticesAmid skinning demos and pelt-handling contests, trappers focus on future
Fur industry is soldiering on in New Brunswick, and trappers at convention want public to know
New Brunswick trappers have come out of the woods and off their trap lines to gather for the annual convention of fur harvesters in Fredericton.
Dozens of trappers are meeting throughout the day Friday and Saturday to celebrate the industry, discuss techniques and swap stories.
But the main focus is teaching.
"Education is one of the most important things that we are trying to accomplish with these kinds of events," said Mitchell Schriver, the vice-president of the New Brunswick Trappers and Fur Harvesters Federation. "We're keeping the public educated on numerous levels. We're still out there. We still exist.
"We're working hard to train people to do the best job they can do, with the pelt-handling side of it and the trapping side of it, to be the most efficient and the most humane methods."
"I really like the outdoors," said Tyler Tapp, 12, of Tracy, who has been following his grandfather into the forest to learn to hunt and trap for the past five years.
"I don't think there's very much," he said. "Because people really like video games nowadays. They're on those."
Since 2001 the number of trapping licences sold each year has hovered around 1,000. It's the total value of the annual harvest that can fluctuate wildly, depending on global demand.
The estimated value of the 2016-2017 total harvest was around $380,000, according to the annual New Brunswick Furbearer report published by the province. But in 2012-2013, the estimate was close 1.7 million. It all depends on what is in demand.
"It's fashion," said Schriver. "Whatever is in style that year directly influences which critter is going to be the most valuable."
But for decades, the most popular pelt sold in this province by far is muskrat.
The iconic muskrat hat is known for keeping the heads of Mounties warm in the winter.
New Brunswick trappers exported more than 13,200 muskrat pelts last year, far outpacing the second-place beaver, which amounted to 5,100 pelts.
"But the market is struggling right now with most of these critters," Schriver said. "So the best we can prepare these animals the more valuable they're going to be and the more income will be coming to the trapper."
Schriver said the depressed demand in Asian directly affects the trappers in rural New Brunswick.
"Russia has been in trouble for a few years," he said. "China is struggling a bit. And when their economies are struggling it directly affects us here in North America and our fur prices, big time."
Much of the country was built on the back of the beaver. With their waterproof skins, beaver pelts were in high demand and used for barter and trade when the French and British first came to North America.
"And beaver is still top three in our fur industry today," Schriver said.
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