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Refugee Policies and Recognizing Threats in Ohio State Aftermath

November 30, 2016 by GregC

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The apparent terrorist attack on pedestrians at Ohio State University Monday is triggering a wide range of political and cultural reaction, but a leading terrorism expert says the most important responses need to be much tougher screening for refugees and helping people spot radical threats before they strike.

On Monday morning, Somali refugee Abdul Azak Ali Artan allegedly drove a car into a crowd of people before getting out and trying to stab as many people as possible.  Artan was quickly shot and killed by campus police officer Alan Horuljko.

In the aftermath, the Obama administration has been careful not to describe the attack as radical Islamic terrorism, despite ISIS claiming credit for the attack and officials suggesting Artan’s social media postings indicate he was inspired by ISIS.  At least one of the victims says he is withholding judgment on Artan’s motives.

President-Elect Donald Trump was much less diplomatic, saying Artan never should have been in the country in the first place.

Terrorism expert Dr. Harvey Kushner says Artan should have raised red flags as he tried to enter the U.S.

“This individual should have raised some red flags, given when he came here.  At the time when he came here and the time when ISIS was beginning to be in full bloom and was recruiting heavily on the internet.  And the area of the world which he came from should have raised some questions of more extreme vetting,” said Kushner.

Kushner, who is also head of the Terrorism and Homeland Security Institute at Long Island University.  He says Artan’s actions were a textbook ISIS attack, given the terrorists’ public push for stabbing attacks.  He says we have to do a better job of screening who comes into this country.

“Our authorities need to be able to get data on individuals who want to come in here.  There has to be a very deep interviewing process and there has to be some kind of follow-up while they’re here.  I’m not saying to pause completely from all areas of the world but some areas are certainly more problematic,” said Kushner.

“People from certain regions of the world that we know are problematic, which we know bring political baggage with them could cause a problem in the future.  This attack represents such an incident,” said Kushner.

He says trying to limit refugees from terror-prone nations is made far more difficult now that so many are dispersed throughout Europe and could attempt to come to the U.S. from nations that don’t raise red flags.

“What’s happened throughout Europe and the European Union and movement between countries there,” said Kushner.  “We really need to step back and take a look at the process that we have currently in terms of gathering data about individuals and making sure these individuals don’t pose a serious threat.”

While students who claim to know Artan say they never suspected he was radicalized, Kushner says it is far more likely that this rage was building for some time rather then Artan suddenly snapping.

“I don’t think this necessarily happens overnight, that there’s some sort of epiphany that the person should go out and do this.  I think this was building up.  Most likely it was disguised in his behavior prior to this.  I don’t think there was a straw that broke the camel’s back.  There was a build-up here and I think we need to be more astute about recognizing these signs,” said Kushner.

Kushner admits spotting a threat is not easy.

“It’s not recognizable to the general public or the people close by, because they’re not trained as psychologists or psychiatrists or people involved in looking at looking at individuals from certain regions of the world,” said Kushner.

He says one of the possible triggers for radicalization is the intense clash of cultures for some people who come to the U.S.

“I’ll get in trouble for saying this, but I will say it.  When you’re bringing people from certain regions of the world who have cultures and backgrounds that are somewhat different that what you have here in the states.  This, unfortunately, lays the groundwork for something like this to spring up,” said Kushner.

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Three Martini Lunch 11/30/16

November 30, 2016 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America have only good martinis Wednesday.  They are very bullish about many of the Trump cabinet selections.  They enjoy watching the left prove out radical it is by how it responds to a simple Trump tweet.  And we love watching Senate Democrats regret scrapping the filibuster for political appointments.

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What Happens In A Transition

November 29, 2016 by GregC

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While the mainstream media camp out in the lobby of Trump Tower, the work being done upstairs by the Trump transition team is a seemingly endless stream of personnel decisions, policy briefings and figuring out the personal and political chemistry of the president-elect’s inner circle.

Trump won the 2016 election on Nov. 8.  He now has just over 50 days to prepare to assume the most powerful office in the world.  And that means his team needs to get him ready.

“The idea is that when a president takes office Jan. 20, that he can literally step into his desk that first morning and begin to function as commander-in-chief and handle all the duties of the presidency,” said Reagan White House Political Director Frank Donatelli.

He says the first order of business is growing the president’s staff.

“When someone runs for president, chances are they have a small coterie of advisers around them.  Of course, once you become president, you need a lot more people than that.  So they have to expand the circle pretty rapidly,” said Donatelli.

While much of the media attention centers on the high-profile cabinet selections, there are a total of about 4,000 political appointments for a president to make.

“Any position that is cabinet-level, deputy secretary or assistant secretary, generally those require Senate confirmation.  The president will have some involvement at that level,” said Donatelli.

He adds that while 4,000 may seem like a lot, there are about one million career government employees.

Donatelli says some of the lower political appointments often go to people with some sort of connection to the president or the party.

“The president will give some direction to the kinds of people he wants.  Generally, the Office of Presidential Personnel in the White House is responsible for filling out the bureaucracy.  They’ll take into consideration campaign workers and key members of the Republican Party and fundraisers for the president, and oh by the way, people who actually have some expertise in the job,” said Donatelli.

In addition to personnel matters, there is the issue of bringing the president-elect up to speed on a wide range of policy issues.

“You want to be able to hit the ground running and so the president needs to be broadly familiar with the issues that are going to be hitting his desk immediately: budget issues, economic issues, obviously foreign policy issues and briefings,” said Donatelli.

It’s an intense process of poring over critical information that is a challenge for every incoming president.

It’s a big curve.  It’s no comparison.  Some people say it’s a lot more fun to run to be president than it actually is being president.  You’ve got a lot of decisions to make.  I think it’s true.  Only a past president can understand the burdens that a new president is going to take on,” said Donatelli.

While Trump studies his briefing books and makes key nominations, Donatelli says it would be wise for his inner circle to be studying Trump, beginning with the issues he’s most passionate about.

“I think another important thing is if you have people around you that understand the president-elect, so that you know what the president-elect is most interested in and what he’s not interested in – the stuff he’s not interested in that he really doesn’t have to know that much about and can be delegated elsewhere,” said Donatelli.

He says President Reagan had a very smooth transition because some of his closest aides from his days as California governor were by his side and knew how he operated.  Donatelli says the learning curve could be steeper for Reince Preiebus and Steve Bannon, who have been close to Trump for a much shorter time.

“Reince Priebus has not worked for Donald Trump before.  Steve Bannon was on his campaign but it was only for a short period of time.  So I think there is going to be a feeling out process here so that the White House staff knows how this president operates; what he wants to know, what he’s doesn’t need to know, how he functions, etc. etc.,” said Donatelli.

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Three Martini Lunch 11/29/16

November 29, 2016 by GregC

http://dateline.radioamerica.org/podcast/3-Martini-Lunch-11-29-16.mp3

Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America welcome Donald Trump’s nominations of Rep. Tom Price and Elaine Chao.  We also debate whether Trump should seriously consider David Petraeus given his history of improperly handling classified information.  And we discuss the absurd victim complex of the Ohio State terrorist.

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The Real Castro: Murder, Repression & Poverty

November 28, 2016 by GregC

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The death of former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro is eliciting a great deal of reaction from political figures and the media, but a Cuban exile says the political left’s romanticizing of Castro and his regime is a far cry from the brutal truth.

Castro died Friday at age 90.  Poor health forced him to officially cede power to his brother, Raul, last decade.

Soon thereafter, public statements from world leaders came flooding in from around the world.  President Obama’s thoughts were rather ambiguous, simply stating that Castro was a singular figure with a huge legacy, but offering virtually no opinion on whether that legacy was positive or negative.

“At this time of Fidel Castro’s passing, we extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban people. We know that this moment fills Cubans – in Cuba and in the United States – with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation. History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him,” read the statement.

To the north in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was effusive in his praise for Castro.

“Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century. A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation,” read Trudeau’s statement.

“While a controversial figure, both Mr. Castro’s supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people who had a deep and lasting affection for “el Comandante,”it continued.

However, U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump pulled few punches in outlining his opinion of Castro’s reign.

“Today, the world marks the passing of a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades. Fidel Castro’s legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights,” stated Trump.

“While Cuba remains a totalitarian island, it is my hope that today marks a move away from the horrors endured for too long, and toward a future in which the wonderful Cuban people finally live in the freedom they so richly deserve,” he added.

It wasn’t just liberal politicians who lavished praise or withheld criticism from Castro.  Major newspapers, network television shows and celebrities also offered their adulation.

But why is the political left so enamored with a man who killed over 140,000 people, stifled basic rights and even canceled Christmas?

Author Humberto Fontova fled Cuba as a child and his father was imprisoned by Castro.  Now the author of multiple books on the communist regime in Cuba, Fontova says the revolution in Cuba struck a chord with rebellious young people in the 1950s and reverberated for decades to follow.

“They were the first hippies.  They were the first beatniks technically,” said Fontova, noting that the Castro brothers resembled some of the more popular iconoclastic rockers of the 1960s, including The Doors lead singer Jim Morrison and members of the Grateful Dead.

“Wow man!  They were the beatniks.  And in the U.S., they were supposedly sticking their finger in the eye of the bald, golfing [Dwight Eisenhower] with ‘Ozzie and Harriet’ on TV and ‘Leave it to Beaver,'” said Fontova.

“Here’s these cool, bearded, long-haired guys doing this and the whole romance about being the first rebels, about being the first hippies and beatniks still survives.  In fact, they were nothing of the sort.  They were Stalinists from the get-go.  Raul Castro had a KGB handler since 1954,” said Fontova.

While the Castros and Guevara pitched themselves as bringing revolution to better the lives of the people, Fontova says the results are just the opposite.

“Prior to Castro, Cuba took in more immigrants as a percentage of population than the United States, including the Ellis Island years.  Most of these immigrants came from the first world.  More Americans lives in Cuba prior to Castro than Cubans lived in the U.S.  And that was at a time when Cubans were perfectly free to leave,” said Fontova.

He says the Castro record pales in comparison.

“He took that prosperous and happy country that attracted immigrants from around the world and turned it into a place where 20 times as many people have died trying to escape it as died trying to escape East Germany,” said Fontova.

He says anyone not on board with Fidel’s rule was ripe for execution, imprisonment or persecution.

“It wasn’t necessarily a class thing.  It was just people who were with him.  ‘You’re with me or against me.  And if you’re against me, that’s it.  You’re going to have to suffer prison and torture or you’re going to get shot.’  It’s very simple.  It’s a commie thing,” said Fontova.

Fontova also believes much of the media whitewashing of Castro’s record comes as a result of journalists working in Cuba and effectively serving as mouthpieces for the Castro regime.

“You don’t get a journalist visa, you don’t get a Havana bureau – MSNBC, ABC, CNN – unless you’re going to play their game.  In other words, spread their propaganda.  This propaganda has been spread for the last 50 years expertly,” said Fontova.

“That’s why most people say, ‘Gosh, at least Cubans have great health care.  Cubans have abominable, abominable health care,” he added.

So why are so many reporters and liberal figures constantly mentioning the advances of Cuba’s health care system during the Castro years?  Fontova says it starts with propaganda.

“We’re getting all those figures about Cuba’s health care from communist apparatchiks.  They come from employees of the Castro regime.  If they do not lie, they’re out of there,” said Fontova.  It does not occur to people that those statistics are coming from people who almost have a gun to their head and lie,” said Fontova.

He says the bogus stories are also confirmed when Cuban doctors try to continue their work in the U.S.

“Most of the doctors that flee to the U.S., that had the misfortune of growing up in Cuba and going to Cuban medical schools, when they get to the U.S.they cannot even pass the U.S. exam for doctor’s assistants, much less MD’s.  It is a gigantic scam, which is fully exposed in my books,” said Fontova.

Fontova says the repressive government isn’t going anywhere just because Fidel Castro is dead.

“The fact is Raul has been running the show, officially for about ten years and unofficially for about 15-20 years.  The Cuban military has been running Cuba for almost 20 years.  They have got a very sweet thing going, a great gravy train.  They own the tourist infrastructure lock, stock and barrel,” said Fontova.

He says it’s a sweet deal made much, much sweeter by President Obama deciding to normalize relations with the Castros.

“They have got such a sweet thing going, primarily thanks to Obama, opening up the floodgates from $4-5 billion are flowing from the U.S. to Cuba annually and had for the last seven or eight years.  That’s more money than used to flow to Cuba from the Soviet Union,” said Fontova.

Raul Castro is 85 years old, but Fontova says even his eventual death won’t change anything in Cuba.

“Raul’s son (Alejandro) is a fanatical KGB-trained Stalinist.  He’s already been tapped to inherit the throne after his dad, Raul,” said Fontova.

Fontova is hopeful that Trump will make good on his promises to reverse the Obama executive orders that altered U.S. relations with Cuba without any congressional input.  He says Trump’s early cabinet appointments suggest he intends to make good on those vows.

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Three Martini Lunch 11/28/16

November 28, 2016 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America gladly welcome the demise of brutal Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.  They also slam Pres. Obama and other leaders and media figures for their mealy-mouthed statements about Castro’s record and give Donald Trump credit for getting the story right.  And they shake their heads at Jill Stein’s money grab posing as a recount effort.  They also slam Hillary Clinton for joining the effort and and Donald Trump for alleging voter fraud that supposedly cost him the popular vote.

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Three Martini Lunch 11/25/16

November 25, 2016 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America observe Black Friday by each handing out three Christmas gifts to very worthy recipients.  Those getting presents include Kellyanne Conway, the Clintons, Huma Abedin, Harry Reid, and Paul Ryan.

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Energy Industry Wants Help from Trump

November 22, 2016 by GregC

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President-Elect Donald Trump is vowing to unleash American energy and begin scrapping burdensome regulations on his very first day in office, announcements welcomed by the energy industry, although they still have other goals they want to see the new administration pursue.

In a short video, Trump outlined several directives he will issue on his first day in office on issues ranging from trade and immigration to national security and ethics reform.  However, promoting domestic energy and rolling back regulations were right near the top of the list.

“I will cancel job killing restrictions on the production of American energy, including shale energy and clean coal, creating many millions of high paying jobs,” said Trump in the video.

“On regulation, I will formulate a rule which says that for every one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated,” said Trump.

The energy industry is hopeful that the next four years will offer it a more hospitable environment than what it received during the Obama administration.

“We’re certainly encouraged by the fact that the president-elect understands that one of the key drivers to a strong economy is energy security,” said American Petroleum Downstream Group Director Frank Macchiarola.

Macchiarola believes Trump understands the need to champion domestic energy production and is fully confident the American people are on board.

“Survey after survey tells us that the American public is concerned about economic growth and believes that we need to be energy secure,” he said, but notes that Obama has left a pretty complicated knot for the new president to untangle on energy regulation.

“I think what happened over the course of the Obama administration is that there was a lot of consolidated power in the administration.  I think with the division in Congress and the stalemate between both parties in the House and Senate, I think the administration took that opportunity to consolidate it’s power through a stronger regulatory agenda,” said Macchiarola.

He says those regulations had a clear impact on the energy industry.

“We have 145 current regulations that directly impact the oil and natural gas sector, whether it’s issues related to public land and access or issues related to the downstream or issues related to air or water or an issue like the Renewable Fuel standard.  It’s a broad spectrum,” said Macchiarola.

Macchiarola and his allies want the Trump administration to go over every single one of those regulations and provide as much relief as possible.

“What we really would like to do is to have the new administration, with a fresh set of eyes, take a look at this regulatory onslaught that we’ve seen.  And, again, consistent with their message and principles that they stated during the campaign about the need for less burdensome regulations here in Washington, free up capital to be invested in the private sector and the nee for secure U.S. domestic energy production,” said Macchiarola.

One of the policies Macchiarola is most concerned about is the Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS, and the increasing amount of ethanol being required in our fuel.  He says the RFS was created last decade to help boost energy independence at a time when the U.S. was importing vast amounts of energy.

He says the policy no longer fits the reality.

“What they didn’t know is that we would have an American energy renaissance.  Because of the shale revolution here in the United States and the energy renaissance, we’re now producing greater and greater amounts of oil and natural gas.  We’re the world’s leading producer of oil and natural gas,” said Macchiarola.

“At the same time, demand for energy has essentially flat-lined.  So what you’ve seen is America become more energy secure over that time,” he added.

Macchiarola says addressing the RFS is critical now because the amount of ethanol about to be required in gasoline is incompatible with the vast majority of American vehicles.

“(It) creates an issue because it potentially adds cost to the consumer both through food and fuel.  And these higher ethanol blends above E10 are incompatible with the cars we have on the road today.  So the bottom line is the RFS is a mess, and it really needs to be fixed,” said Macchiarola.

Bipartisan legislation to address the Renewable Fuel Standard exists in the House of Representative but has not yet been considered.

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Three Martini Lunch 11/22/16

November 22, 2016 by GregC

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America are generally encouraged by Donald Trump’s plan for the first 100 days on energy, immigration, national security and more.  They also scratch their heads as Trump announces he will not pursue charges against Hillary Clinton, a power the president doesn’t actually have.  And they get a kick out of the push for California secession but glumly admit it probably won’t actually happen.

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‘We Are Distorting the Conversation’

November 22, 2016 by GregC

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While some of Donald Trump’s early personnel choices are leading some Democrats and media figures to conclude a racially insensitive administration is preparing to take charge in Washington, the leader of a prominent black conservative group says the concerns are double standards whipped up by the left and that Trump’s controversial choices are actually more tame on racial issues than their counterparts in the Obama administration.

And he is also offering Trump some advice on how to make good on promises to revitalize predominantly black neighborhoods.

As of Monday afternoon, Trump has named people to five prominent positions, only two of which require Senate confirmation.  The choices eliciting the most concern from the left and the mainstream media are Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, for attorney general and former Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon for chief strategist and counselor.

Media reports were quick to label both Sessions and Bannon as controversial due to their histories on race.

Project 21 National Advisory Board Co-Chair Horace Cooper begs to differ on multiple fronts.  First, he is weary of race being injected into every political debate.

“We are distorting the conversation, generally, about public policy by randomly throwing around epithets that this person or that person, either a supporter or and individual affiliated with Mr. Trump, must in some way be bigoted, racist, or sexist,” said Cooper, who served as general counsel for former House Majority Leader Richard Armey, R-Texas.

He says that constant prism is also a hindrance to advancing good policy.

“The idea that a person is for a tax cut or against a tax cut, is for a construction project or against a construction project, can only be viewed from the prism of does that make you a racist, a sexist, or some other ‘ist,’ is completely unhelpful,” he said.

Cooper is also frustrated by what he sees as a massive media double standard on personnel, noting that current Obama counselor Valerie Jarrett and former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder got a free pass even though they contributed mightily, in his eyes, to far worse race relations over the past eight years.

“These two individuals helped to encourage and promote what could only and honestly considered to be racially divisive policies by President Obama, and yet none of these questions were being considered,” said Cooper.

“I bring those two names up because I want to highlight the contrast where the media has played no role and where voices that claim they are interested in encouraging America to come together have been completely silent, even to this day, about the role that those two individuals provided in the Obama administration,” said Cooper.

Stacked up against Holder and Jarrett, Cooper believes Sessions and Bannon look pretty good.

“I don’t see any similar record with regard to the designate for attorney general, Mr. Sessions, or to Mr. Bannon as a key strategist and counselor in the office of the White House,” said Cooper.

Critics of both Sessions and Bannon point with alarm to statements and posts from avowed racists praising the choices.

“Bannon, Flynn, Sessions — Great! Senate must demand that Sessions as AG stop the massive institutional race discrimination against whites!” tweeted former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke, who recently collected three percent of the vote in Louisiana’s jungle U.S. Senate primary.  He finished in seventh place.

Cooper says an avowed klansman in publicly endorsed and donated to Hillary Clinton and she faced little media pressure to denounce him, although her campaign did.  He says the bottom line on a candidate or nominee is their record and not who likes them.

“I actually don’t care whether (Louis) Farrakhan or whether the Klan issues an endorsement in the election.  What I care about is what are policies and characteristics of the individual in question who is asking for our vote,” said Cooper.

Once again, Cooper says the media is showing a double standard.

“This has not been an even-handed assessment on the part of the media.  If they would like us to have this more expansive view, that supporters of given a given entity or individual are as important or more important than the candidate him or herself, then they needed to have been saying or doing that over the last eight years.  And they didn’t,” said Cooper.

He also hammers the press for drawing parallels between what might come in a Trump administration and the segregation era of American history.

“The mainstream media is working hand in glove with progressives to create this false impression.  This is not good for the country.  It is not helpful to pretend that a record in America that existed during the era of Jim Crow is the functional equivalent of a 21st century Trump transition team,” said Cooper.

“If we are serious about looking at the rhetoric, we need to match the rhetoric with the reality.  Nothing in Donald Trump’s commentaries is the equivalent of that old evil of segregation and racism,” said Cooper.

Cooper hopes Trump can put the concerns of many at ease by making good on his promise for a New Deal for the black community.  Cooper says any meaningful effort will start with improving schools in those neighborhoods.  And that means improving school choice.

“We’ve absolutely got to stop the union stranglehold over our schools and allow our young people, particularly in the inner city, to have the option of leaving poorly-functioning public schools or threaten to be able to leave them,” said Cooper.

He says that choice ought to extend to faith-based schools as well.

“That’s a key ingredient in the black community that will instill the kinds of achievement values that are biblically based.  That would go a long way to assuring that young black men and women who graduate from failed public schools, and not able to read their diploma, would be able to not only read their diploma but be able to compete,” said Cooper.

On the economic side, Cooper says enforcing and even tightening immigration policy would greatly help improve employment in black neighborhoods since illegal immigrants can easily underbid American citizens for work.

But Cooper also says government policies that encourage entrepreneurship can also revitalize those local economies.

“If you want to incentivize employers, then you create a right regulatory regime and the right tax regime so that it is possible that jobs in the community close to where inner city residents live can develop,” said Cooper.

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