-Caveat Lector- RadTimes # 84 October, 2000 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: --------------- --Fear pervades Supermax --Protesters Left Out in Cold at U.S. Campaign Debate --NSA Chief: We Protect Cyberspace --Interpol orders immediate cybercrime action --IMF/World Bank: Stupid, Cruel, Brutal --Going after Predatory Global Business --'United Native America' press release ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Begin stories: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fear pervades Supermax October 10, 2000 By David Callendar The Capital Times A survey of inmates at the ultrahigh-secuirty Supermax prison indicates that some fear for their lives -- and even more fear for their sanity. A survey by the Wisconsin Coalition to Stop Control Unit Prisons of 71 of the prison's 175 inmates at the time of last summer's survey (there are now 312 inmates) found that "prisoners are afraid of prison staff, afraid of other prisoners, and afraid of losing their minds." The prison has been the target of criticism from lawmakers since it opened last November. Two prisoners have filed suit in federal court alleging inhumane treatment at the facility. Gov. Tommy Thompson was scheduled to visit the prison today on a fact-finding tour, but aides said the trip was unrelated to the recent controversy. The Department of Corrections has denied any prisoner abuse and contends the prison is meant to handle those who will not comply with prison rules and who pose a danger to themselves and others. The 500-bed Supermax prison keeps inmates in total isolation in 8-by-12-foot cells for up to 23 hours a day and allows them only one hour per week of exercise in an enclosed yard. Inmates are allowed more privileges -- such as more time in the exercise yard or access to reading material -- if they behave. Many of those surveyed said they were afraid of being beaten by guards, particularly during "cell extractions," when inmates are forcibly removed by a team of guards. Three inmates said they were afraid of dying while in Supermax. In the words of one inmate, whom the survey did not identify, "I don't think the word 'afraid' is appropriate. I simply do not believe I am going to leave (Supermax) alive. My great fear is being handcuffed and led to a cell to find a noose hanging there waiting for me, then having these correctional officers cover up my death with a story of suicide." Others said they fear the long-term effects of isolation. "I'm afraid that I'm going to lose my mind," one prisoner wrote. "This prison's staff employs tactics that are used to break men's minds. I don't know how long I can hold on to my sanity and that scares me." Inmates generally have no contact with guards, who monitor them via TV, and are allowed only brief visits with friends or family also via two-way TV. Thirty-nine of those surveyed said no one had visited them while they were in Supermax. Many said they told family members not to visit them at Supermax. "My family doesn't want to drive here to see me on a video monitor," one inmate wrote. The Supermax, which opened in Boscobel last year, is intended to house "the worst of the worst" among Wisconsin inmates, such as those who have assaulted guards or other inmates or who pose an escape threat. The survey disputed those assignments, however, and found many "did not reflect the most violent prison behavior. In fact, a few prisoners expressed that they really did not know why they were there. Others were sent to complete disciplinary sentences whcih, before the existence of (the Supermax) were completed in disciplinary segregation units inside the state prisons." Others were placed in Supermax because they were federal prisoners who previously had been housed in Wisconsin prisons and met the criteria for incarceration at Supermax. Sixteen of those surveyed said they had been housed at a privately run prison in Whiteville,Tenn., that had been the site of an inmate uprising last November. The Department of Corrections had found evidence of guards abusing inmates there. Other inmates who identified their reason for being in the Supermax included seven who said they had a history of prison assaults; seven who had a history of gang involvement; seven who said the assignments were based on old disciplinary records; and four who had previously been in federal prisons. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protesters Left Out in Cold at U.S. Campaign Debate Thursday, October 12, 2000 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - Protesters were left, quite literally, out in the cold on Wednesday as presidential candidates Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore debated at North Carolina's Wake Forest University on an unseasonably cool autumn night. Several hundred protesters faced off with police in riot gear and then held a peaceful sit-in at a gated campus entrance to discuss issues facing the nation, while dozens of others left in frustration over tight controls placed on them during the debate on the idyllic campus in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Unlike the first debate in Boston last week, which drew hundreds of vocal protesters, tight controls on everything from the type of signs they could carry (paper only) to the contents of purses (no cell phones or hair brushes) frustrated protesters who had obtained permits to demonstrate. "They've done everything they could to discourage this protest," said Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists whose cell phone and hair brush had to be left in the car before a campus bus, arriving 90 minutes late, would take her to the protest site. Holding a huge orange banner of American Atheists organization, Johnson stood vigil next to members of a local Hare Krishna community on hand to purify the atmosphere with chants to God and hand out snacks promoting a newly opened restaurant in nearby Greensboro run by one of the group's members. Local police said they arrested a man who tried to bypass a fence erected along the perimeter of the campus. A gated entrance to the campus had been closed earlier after police found a suspicious package. Protest groups were required to obtain a permit two weeks ago, then were put through metal detectors and assigned color-coded wrist bands to gain access to the makeshift fenced-in corral built on a soccer field near a campus gate. But most chose to protest instead just outside the gate of Wake Forest University, a private college that placed tight controls on access by requiring all nonstudents to park off campus and ride buses onto the grounds. "We had a permit, we did everything that they told us to do. Unfortunately, they had this on private property so they could control everything," said Libertarian Party supporter J. Jones of nearby Advance, North Carolina, whose group was one of the few to protest in the corral. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NSA Chief: We Protect Cyberspace <http://www.wired.com/news/print/0%2C1294%2C39476%2C00.html> Oct. 16, 2000 BALTIMORE -- The head of the super-secret U.S. National Security Agency said on Monday that cyberspace had become as important a potential battlefield as any other and held out the prospect of attacking there as well as defending. "Information is now a place," Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden told a major computer security conference here. "It is a place where we must ensure American security as surely as ... sea, air and space." He cited moves to define the "legal structure into which we must fit" before offensive "information operations" -- cyberattacks -- were officially added to the arsenal that U.S. commanders can use against a foe. The NSA is the Defense Department arm that intercepts communications worldwide. The world of information "has taken on a dimension within which we will conduct operations to ensure American security," Hayden said, adding that the NSA had not been authorized to do "that attack thing," or go on the offensive in cyberspace. "But as the United States government begins to think about what it should or wants to do when it is under attack, it raises a really interesting question that we all have to work through in the context of our overall democracy," he said. A year ago, Army Gen. Henry Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, disclosed that the United States tried to mount electronic attacks on Serbian computer networks during the NATO air campaign over the province of Kosovo. "We only used our capability to a very limited degree," Shelton told reporters at the time. Hayden said a key challenge to the NSA today was to protect U.S. telecommunications in a world where the adversaries might be "cyberterrorists, a malicious hacker or even a non-malicious hacker." "All can cause great harm" to the networked systems that tie the industrialized world together, he told the conference co-sponsored by the NSA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an arm of the Commerce Department. Hayden said the NSA, the Pentagon's codemaking and codebreaking agency, was committed to developing its partnerships with industry to boost computer network security. "We've done pioneering work to better protect e-commerce" as well as to develop biometrics, ways in which computers authenticate identities from unique traits such as fingerprints, iris scans and voice recognition, he said. Ultimately the NSA must become the "security statement" of the U.S. telecommunications and computer industries, just as he views the Air Force as the "military statement" of the aviation industry, he said. "How else does our society develop the tools we need to do what it is that our agency has been charged to do?" he asked. The NSA designs codes to protect the integrity of U.S. information systems and searches for weaknesses in foes' systems and codes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interpol orders immediate cybercrime action By Will Knight, ZdNet UK 10/11/2000 <http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/40/ns-18393.html> International law enforcer calls for immediate co-operation to fight escalating cybercrime phenomenon The head of Interpol has warned nations, law enforcement groups and companies to act swiftly if they are to stand any chance of beating cybercrime. Speaking at a conference in London Wednesday, Raymond Kendall, secretary general of Interpol said his organisation is concerned that unlawful computer techniques are developing at such a rate that they represent a "new phenomenon" for international law enforcers. Kendall urged international organisations not to wait for conventions to be passed before drawing up guidelines for an allied response to the threat of cybercrime. The council of Europe last week held talks <http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/40/ns-18327.html> to iron out draft proposals for an international treaty governing computer crime laws. This is expected to unify national laws to outlaw hacking tools and techniques, and give investigators increased powers to search and seize computer systems regardless of jurisdictional issues. "Things are moving forward," says Kendall. "I think everybody was taken by surprise by the speed and explosive nature of the development [of sophisticated cybercrime]. Here we are faced with a new phenomenon, and a phenomenon that has already developed very, very quickly. That means that the response ought to be developed quickly as well." Recent incidents, most notably the release of the Lovebug virus <http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/17/ns-15179.html> and the distributed denial of service <http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/7/ns-13480.html> attacks on major Web sites, are estimated to have cost businesses billions in damages. According to Kendall, Interpol is developing a new strategy for monitoring computer crime trends and working with the United Nations to assess ways to disseminate that information efficiently. Interpol is keen to see businesses -- the principle victims of computer crime -- share information with it about computer attacks and vulnerabilities. Another significant challenge for law enforcers is the lack of international precedent for dealing with computer crime. This was evident <http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/18/ns-15265.html> when the FBI traced the Lovebug virus to the Philippines where sophisticated laws controlling computer crime do not exist. Efforts to coordinate international agreements on cybercrime have, in fact, come from many quarters. As well as the Council of Europe and the G8 nations, the United Nations, the European Union and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have all carried out investigations into measures needed to tackle global computer crime. Local governments, including Blair's administration, have established domestic laws -- such as the RIP Act -- to combat computer crime. Kendall believes disparate legal protocols around the globe could lead to chaos later. "All of these things are going on at the same time," he said. "There are two things that are missing as far as I'm concerned. First of all a coordinated, concentrated international approach on the part of governments and international organisations, and how we put this together with the private sector." Atomic Tangerine, the US e-commerce company hosting the London conference The Global Security Imperative: Removing Barriers to e-Business, believes there could be a synergy between the private sector and law enforcement agencies. "One of the roles that Interpol can play is proposing a method of disseminating information," says vice president of Atomic Tangerine and computer security specialist, Karen Worstell. "Something that is very important for businesses is security trends." One danger of not getting full international cooperation over the development of a computer crime convention, says Kendall, is that international havens for computer criminals might emerge. He believes, however, that most countries will be eager to follow the lead of the world's industrialized nations. Some groups have voiced concerns <http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/40/ns-18327.html> that an international treaty increasing law enforcers' powers could threaten individual rights and restrict legitimate security experts. Kendall says that these concerns are legitimate and recommends that nations work within their own domestic laws regarding individual rights. The Council of Europe is expected to produce a second public draft of its cybercrime convention in the next few weeks and the convention may evolve into a globally recognized pact for fighting computer crime. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMF/World Bank: Stupid, Cruel, Brutal By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman There is no policy of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank that is more stupid, cruel and brutal than the insistence that poor countries charge fees for children to attend school and for people to access basic health services. The IMF and World Bank condition loans to impoverished countries on the adoption of Contract with America-style "structural adjustment" policies. User fees -- also known as community financing, cost sharing or cost recovery -- are often one part of the structural adjustment policy package. In passing an appropriations amendment in July that would stop future funding for the IMF and the World Bank if the two lending agencies do not stop imposing user fees for basic healthcare and education services, the U.S. House of Representatives has taken an important step toward ending this callous and wrongheaded policy. Unfortunately, the Treasury Department, anxious to avoid any appropriations limitations for its IMF and World Bank policy arms, is working to block inclusion of the amendment in the final foreign operations appropriations bill. As administration officials and members of Congress and their staffs negotiate the terms of a final foreign operations appropriations bill, the educational opportunity and health of millions of people in the world's poorest countries hang in the balance. The evidence accumulated from around the world over the last decade is quite clear. User fees for education lower school attendance rates, especially among young girls. User fees for primary health services deny access to care and preventative treatment for the poor, leading to the spread of unnecessary and preventable death and disease. And user fee "exemptions" for the poor, or sliding payment scales, routinely fail due to administrative problems, corruption, inadequate notice to the poor or other difficulties. * In Gambia, in primary health care program villages with insecticide provided free of charge, bednet impregnation -- for malaria prevention -- was five times higher than in villages where charges were introduced. Households consistently cited lack of money as the main reason they chose not to dip bednets. * Introduction of a 33 cent fee for visits to Kenyan outpatient health centers led to a 52 percent reduction in outpatient visits. After the fee was suspended, visits rose 41 percent. In Papua New Guinea, the introduction of user fees led to a 30 percent decline in outpatient visits. Studies in Niger have found that user fees extend the period that patients wait before seeking outpatient care. * UNICEF reports that in Malawi, the elimination of modest school fees and uniform requirements in 1994 caused primary enrollment to increase by about 50 percent virtually overnight -- from 1.9 million to 2.9 million. The main beneficiaries were girls. Malawi has been able to maintain near full enrollment since that time. * In India, reports Dr. Vineeta Gupta, general secretary of Insaaf International, a Punjab, India-based organization, a World Bank-inspired system which is supposed to exclude the poor from healthcare charges fails in practice due to corruption and administrative difficulties, denying the poorest Indians access to healthcare services. The purported logic of education and healthcare user fees is that payments from children's families and sick people will enable government service agencies to provide services to more people. But this is a twisted rationale, which should be rejected on both principled and practical grounds. As an issue of principle, access to primary education and healthcare is a right that should not be conditioned on ability to pay. In practical terms, the real-world record shows that user fees deny children educational opportunity and people of all ages access to basic health services. Charges typically generate little revenue in any case. So the ultimate result of user fees is service denial, not expansion. The IMF/Bank user fee rationalization presents a false choice: even poor country governments have multiple sources of potential revenue there are ways to increase funding for basic services without imposing charges. Most importantly, the real way to free up resources for education and healthcare is for the World Bank and IMF, without delay, to use their existing assets to cancel the debts owed them by poor countries. There are no significant corporate or monied interests served by the imposition of user fees in desperately poor countries. The IMF and World Bank continue to support them out of a dogmatic commitment to a marketized ideology that refuses to concede to empirical refutation. The Treasury Department is opposing corrective legislation so that it can preserve its control of the IMF and World Bank without Congressional interference. These are shameful counterweights to the humanitarian imperative of removing user fees. Whether the humanitarian claim prevails will depend, in significant part, on whether U.S. citizens act now to put an end to user fee nightmare. ---- Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime Reporter. Robert Weissman is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Multinational Monitor. They are co-authors of Corporate Predators: The Hunt for MegaProfits and the Attack on Democracy (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1999). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Going after Predatory Global Business <http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/2000/10/05/index.html> Should Protesters Go After Root Causes or Superficial Change? by Susan Ariel Aaronson At first glance, the cobblestone streets of Prague have little in common with the blacktop and concrete that frame the streets of Seattle and Washington, D.C. But last week, Prague's streets were clogged with globalization protestors. The protestors in Prague, like those in Seattle and Washington, were demonstrating against the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization. These street protests have become routine. They have succeeded at getting the press and public to focus their attention to the impact of globalization upon the poor, on national norms of human rights and food safety, and on democracy. Yet, to this writer, the protestors are hitting the wrong targets. As William Greider has noted, the correct target is those global firms that undermine sustainability, prop up corrupt regimes, and undermine basic worker and human rights. Moreover, street protests can't improve the environment or working conditions for the world's poor who desperately need the jobs and investment global business provides. There is a global tool that can assist activists who want to ensure that global business operates responsibly. Moreover, it provides incentives as well as disincentive to encourage business to do the right thing. In June, under the aegis of the OECD, an international organization based in Paris, some thirty-three nations approved Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. <http://www.oecd.org/daf/investment/guidelines/mnetext.htm> These Guidelines are the only comprehensive and multilaterally endorsed code of conduct for multinationals. They include recommendations on how corporations should treat their workers, encourage sustainable development, and prevent corruption. They provide inducements to encourage global investment, and give executives guideposts as to how their corporations should behave around the world. The Guidelines set up a governmental process to monitor business behavior. Each of the thirty-three signatory governments, which include the United States, Mexico, Korea, and European nations, promise to put in place a governmental mechanism, called a National Contact Point, to investigate violations of the Guidelines. If the National Contact Point finds a complaint to be legitimate, it will then try to resolve the complaint by mediation. However, if the issue cannot be mediated, the National Contact Point will make a public statement about the complaint. The negative publicity that such a statement brings could press a corporation into changing its behavior. Civil society and business leaders don't quite see eye to eye as to how the Guidelines should be utilized. Leaders of civil society groups wrote this May that for the Guidelines to be effective, they must deliver improvements in the behavior of multinational corporations. However, business groups insist that the Guidelines are voluntary and are not designed to require changes in corporate behavior. Business groups are concerned about the Guidelines. The leading business group involved in the development of the Guidelines, the U.S. Council for International Business, worries that the Guidelines could easily be abused. For example, the Council argues that a company could make a complaint about one of its competitors and use an investigation to take market share. The Council hopes to make specific recommendations to ensure that individuals that bring complaints truly have standing and are not misusing the Guidelines. Business groups around the world are also worried about their ability to police their subcontractors. While it could be an administrative nightmare, if firms can monitor their subcontractors for quality, it seems likely they can monitor their subcontractors for how they treat their workers and the environment as they produce goods and services. Unfortunately, in the three months since the plan was approved, most nations have done little to implement the Guidelines. There will be little incentive for public companies to implement these them unless there is significant public pressure to do so. Most Americans have never heard of the Guidelines. There has been little press coverage and it is difficult to find information on U.S. government websites. And government officials have been largely silent. Moreover, many of the civil society groups that worked to develop these Guidelines have ignored them. Without public pressure, governments are unlikely to effectively implement the Guidelines. If predatory global business is the problem, then global business must be part of the solution. If protestors really want to hold business accountable, they must work with policymakers and executives to change corporate behavior. The Guidelines are the only tool that combines market forces, public pressure, and government monitoring to help corporations do the right thing. --- Susan Ariel Aaronson is a senior fellow at the National Policy Association and author of the forthcoming Taking Trade to the Streets: Civil Society, Globalization and the Social Compact and other books on public understanding of globalization. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'United Native America' press release UNITED NATIVE AMERICA _America _Indian _Made Public letter to: US. Senate, US. Congress, First Lady Clinton, Pat Buchanan This letter is in response to the Columbus Day parade in Denver Colorado Oct. 7th, 2000. As founder of United Native America, I was the last person of 147 people arrested that day. I was arrested for disobeying an order from a police officer to leave the street. The City of Denver could have pulled the parade permit but chose not to. During our protest of this parade which included women and children, the City of Denver had Swat Team shooters on roof tops all around us. There was Secrete Service, FBI, State Police, City Police and other law enforcement agencies surrounding us. These law agencies allowed known supporters of the parade to freely come in around us, thus setting up the high possibility that their would be violence. Members of AIM security were spit on by the Denver police. As the promoters of the demonstration promised there would be no violence, it is obvious the law enforcement allowed every opportunity for it to happen. It is because of our nonviolent approach to this issue there was not injuries, blood or death exercising our right to demonstrate against the Columbus Day parade. There are seventeen states that do not recognize Columbus Day and the state of South Dakota has changed Columbus Day to Native American Day. Colorado is one of those states that does not recognize this holiday. There is at this time a state of emergency through out America for the continuation of the Federal Government to proclaim Columbus Day as a federal holiday. The American people and the states are sending the Federal Government a strong message to drop this holiday as a tax paid holiday for a man in his own writings committed genocide against the Indian race. Tens of thousands of Americans have signed a petition calling on the Federal Government to drop this holiday. American Indian men and women serving in the armed forces of this country are forced to celebrate this inhuman holiday. Columbus Day is the most uncelebrated holiday in this country. There is not one federal holiday that pays tribute to the countless contributions the American Indians have given to the formation of this country. Columbus never set foot on this land, nor was he a citizen of this country. It is by pure luck that parade supporters did not cause trouble allowing law enforcement to open fire on the demonstrators. America is demanding that the Federal Government declassify Columbus Day to a non federal holiday, and establish a federal holiday recognizing Native Americans. Tribal Nations across the country support this issue. Our resolution calls for Columbus Day to be moved back to its traditional day the second Wednesday of October and not be a tax paid holiday and make the second Monday of October a federal tax paid holiday for Native Americans. The Federal Government can no longer turn its back on the true history of Columbus. The Federal Government can no longer ignore the fact that there should be a national holiday paying tribute to the Native Americans of this country. No one in their right mind can make the promise that there will not be blood our loss of life in the future if the Federal Government continues to state sponsor a national holiday for a man who is the equal of Hitler. Our children in schools today are being taught that Columbus is a hero. Teachers cannot allow the children to read books of Columbus's writings on what he did to the Indian people. America is asking the Italian community to celebrate their heritage not the man Columbus. The vast majority of American people are demanding that you as our elected representatives take all necessary action to end the federal recognition of Columbus Day. The first lady of this country, Mrs. Clinton chose to join in the celebration of Columbus Day in New York City while running for office in the state of New York. She did this without respect for the Native American community in this country, knowing the true history of Columbus. Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan issued a press release calling the demonstrators of the Columbus Day parade in Denver, Colorado an intolerant, militant left-wing group to include the words cultural Marxism. Pat Buchanan should be used as the poster boy for Americas educational system not working as it should. It is obvious that Pat Buchanan has not been in a library to read Columbus's own words of his untrue heroism. As our elected representatives you can see that there are those among you that support Columbus Day and you can read their hate words to maintain this holiday. America hopes that you choose to use true wisdom and look at the facts concerning Columbus rating a federal tax paid holiday in this country. The Native American community is no longer asking that this holiday be removed, America is demanding it. Americans of all ethnic groups participated in the demonstration against the Columbus Day parade. We are not intolerant, militant left-wing radicals or extremist. We are Americans standing up for what is right. We have served our country in time of need, we are fathers, mothers and grand parents to children of this country and we are registered voters. We need not tell you how this country came about with civil disobedience and then war to win its independence. It is totally inappropriate for people running for elected office in this country to use such inflammatory language and to participate in a parade celebrating a mass murderer, let alone being state sponsored. My question to Mr. Buchanan and Mrs. Clinton is, would they join with the KKK and other groups celebrating Hitler just to get elected to office? The German community in America celebrates their heritage with Octoberfest not the man Hitler. As our elected leaders you have it within your powers to correct this holiday being federally supported, if you choose not to, the American people will continue peaceful, nonviolent civil disobedience toward this holiday and if loss of life is the out come, this will rest solely on the shoulders of our elected representatives. Enough lives and families have been destroyed because of the man Columbus, the world does not see him as a hero nor should the America's. You should note, two years ago in Pueblo, Colorado a demonstrator was attacked by a Columbus supporter an inflicted two broken ribs on the man, the DA's office to this day has not filed charges on this person. Protesters that threw red colored water balloons on the street in front of the parade are still facing felony charges from that demonstration. First lady Clinton and Pat Buchanan owe the American people a public apology. Kimberly Teehee of the Congressional Indian Caucus in Washington DC. 202-225-3611 is drafting a bill to take before congress calling for a national holiday for Native Americans. The American people strongly urge you to contact her and offer her your support in bringing this bill forward. <http://www.petitiononline.com/indian/petition.html> United Native America Mike L. Graham Rt. 6 box 243 Muldrow, Okla. 74948 918-427-9894 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================================================== "Anarchy doesn't mean out of control. It means out of 'their' control." -Jim Dodge ====================================================== "Communications without intelligence is noise; intelligence without communications is irrelevant." -Gen. Alfred. M. 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