How To Recognize a Fake Evangelist

Granted - some are certainly easier to spot than others.

Fox News Channel's Julie Banderas, just had quite an alarming telephone interview with Tony Alamo - whose compound was raided on Saturday by hundreds of federal and state authorities on the suspicion of child sexual abuse (including illegal polygamy with under aged girls) and child pornography.

The phone interview exchange between Banderas and Alamo isn't up at the site yet. Perhaps it will be in the future. When it's up, I will post a link to it.

Unbelievable!! Awful!!


HT: Fox News Channel Website

Refusing To Protect Children

I recall reading that before the Internet came into existence, access to p()rn had been greatly reduced. Good citizens rose up and fought to get the p()rn shops out of their communities. However, once the Internet boom happened, p()rn availability and access exploded. Ever since, sexual crimes against children have risen exponentially.

I know the arguments of the other side. Free speech and all of that. However, there ARE STILL p()rn laws that should, and must be observed and enforced.

I could not believe this next story. Now, I have heard of the battle against Internet p()rn access at libraries before. However, when CCF President, Randy Thomasson met with the Sacramento Library board and told them the following:

Thomasson told the board that the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2003 decision (PDF) upholding the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) means the Sacramento library can institute a zero-tolerance p()rnography policy without violating the First Amendment. “You don’t need battling attorneys to tell you what the law says,” he told the library board. “Just read the U.S. Supreme Court decision which says a library is not a public forum and that libraries don’t have to provide any p()rnography unless they want to.”

I could not believe that the 14 member board deadlocked in a 7 to 7 vote!! Because of the deadlock, Sacramento libraries are still operating like p()rn parlors!

What is wrong with these seven adults who refused to vote to protect children from p()rn and the predators that often result from viewing such disgusting material? It is just unfathomable to me that anyone would side with that despicable organization called the ACLU against the decision given by the U.S. Supreme Court to give libraries the ability to block sexually-explicit web sites in libraries.

What about the children?? That's my question!! Perverts can go get their own computers and access such filth at home. This is astoundingly ridiculous!! And very dangerous...especially for children and women!! They are usually the victims of p()rn addicts who act out their revolting fantasies when just watching it no longer satisfies.

CCF:

There's more evidence that government's lack of moral standards are making public schools, public colleges, and public libraries increasingly unsafe for children and young adults. The news from the past week should convince us all that pro-family persons of faith should be in charge of schools and libraries to guard and protect children and adults alike.

Home-made bomb explodes a Chico junior high school
Four teens arrested for exploding pipe bomb at Hanford high school
Gang warfare erupts and police squad called in at L.A. high school
Third graders in Pennsylvania trained to see transsexuality as natural
76 San Diego college students arrested for illegal drugs
Homosexual sex offender rapes boy in Massachusetts library

There are far more reasons to block such awful material than just the few examples in the links above.

CCF:

Thomasson provided the 14 board members with the no-p()rn policy and procedures of the Monroe County Library System in Rochester, New York. “Libraries should adopt this model policy that uses the latest technology to block sexually-explicit web sites, but still allows for bona fide research,” he said.

Reference librarian Gerald Ward, who has worked the last 18 years for the Sacramento Public Library, told the board that all the pornography and sexual behavior he has seen at the library is sickening. “I have images locked in my head that I can’t get rid of,” said Ward, “because the current policy allows any adult to view any kind of p()rnography. The library cannot allow p()rnography on its premises and continue to present itself as a safe and healthy place. The board has a legal and moral responsibility to prohibit people from using library computers to view p()rnographic images.”

If you have the means and are able to donate to CCF (Campaign for Children and Families), please go to the website and donate all that you can. ANY amount will help this worthy organization to continue their much needed work here in California for the sake of our children and grandchildren!

Donate to CCF

CAMPAIGN FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES (CCF) is a leading West Coast pro-family organization empowering citizens to live out their values.

Pseudo-Child Porn Legal

In 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the part of the Child Pornography Prevention Act that prohibited 'computer or computer-generated image or picture, that is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct.' This means anyone can eroticize your children's photos for autoerotic use.

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When I read this portion of the article, I almost vomited my lunch:

Right now, scores of websites display free, high-tech child/infant pornographic illustrations that are more vile and brutal than could ever be produced by real child photography. The "art" shows children "enjoying" their most horrific tortures, assuaging millions of viewers' consciences and suborning juvenile and adult barbaric copycat crimes.

Horrific!!

Please see the author, Dr. Judith Reisman's website.

So many incidences of children being sexually abused, tortured, and murdered are as a result of perverted predators becoming addicted to child porn. After a while, the images don't "do it" for them anymore, so like Dr. Reisman points out in her article, it leads to these sickos "acting out juvenile and adult barbaric copycat crimes."

You'll have to excuse me from completing this post. I'm terribly nauseous again.

News Roundup 3/30/07

Haven't posted a News Roundup in quite a while, however, usually you can get most of the news that the MSM biased sources ignore at blogs like Michele Malkin's, Little Green Footballs, HotAir, WorldNetDaily, and Drudge. All of these excellent websites are bookmarked either in my blogroll or website links here at Talkwisdom.

There are so many outrageous things to report today. I will start with the one that has already been cancelled due to Christian outrage. See? It pays to speak up!

1. Display of Controversial 'Chocolate Jesus' Sculpture Cancelled. This is certainly good news. When I heard a report about this licentious and repugnant display of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, I was outraged! This is beyond the pale, people. Regardless of what the "sculpture" claims that he, "didn't do it to insult anyone," the truth is that it is highly insulting, blasphemous and disrespectful (to say the least!) to Christians everywhere.

Unfortunately, this is typical. Every Easter, the usual news magazine culprits print their annual, anti-Christian "articles" questioning the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This incident is yet another attempt for spiritually lost people to mock our Lord and Savior.

Christians make up 70% of this country. It's not appropriate for those who choose not believe in Jesus to mock him. Just because they choose to ignore the fact that Jesus is who he says he is, namely, the Son of God, Lord and Savior of mankind, does not mean that they should have the liberty to abuse our country's freedom of speech in such a derogatory and despicable way as this.

Liberty does not mean licentiousness! Immoral license implies: "a freedom specially granted or conceded and may connote an abuse of freedom". That is exactly what this sculpture was, and I am so glad that the hotel manager had the common sense (finally!) to reject it from display.

2. Speaking of licentiousness, how about the admitted pedophile who created a website designed to give these creeps access to photos of young girls? What's worse, he wants to "mainstream" the morally reprehensible desire to have sex with young girls. So UGLY!! DISGUSTING!

Free speech was never intended to be used for such a purpose! This is why we have laws and restraints against such awful compulsions!

There is an epidemic of child predators and abusers in our nation today. Thank God that Bill O'Reilly has pushed for most states to pass Jessica's Law. Sexually abuse a child? Put any first time offender away for 25 years to life! That is appropriate justice for a crime which negatively and horribly affects a child for the rest of their lives. A pedophile should forfeit at least 25 years of his life in prison. When a child is abused and killed as horribly as Jessica was, then the perp deserves the death penalty...exactly what that murderous slimeball Couey deserved.

3. Hot Air has already covered the Rosie O'Dimwitt debacle quite thoroughly.

Intro over there:

I’m not exaggerating when I say that this is the video against which all future Rosie clips will be compared. Never has so much useful idiocy about so many subjects been compressed into so little time.

It’s her finest hour.

To the best of my knowledge this is the first time she’s used the show to advance Trutherism, which would seem to present a bit of a quandary for the resident “serious journalist.” Will she continue to lend her prestige to too-nutty-for-the-nutroots anti-Americanism? Or is it time to cut Big Mama loose and preserve whatever shred of credibility the show still has left?

Go see the video of Rosie's rant... that is, if you can stand it!

Commenter ibmkeyboard #89
over at LGF quipped, "The View should be re-named "The Spew!"

How apropos!!

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Update: 3/31/07

P.S. Isn't it odd that Rosie has turned off comments completely over at her sorry excuse for a blog? She even took off the email option! She has closed off all sources of replies to her ridiculous rantings of untruth and her spewing of hatred.

Dictator!

Yeah...she's for "free speech" only when it's her own! She cuts off Elizabeth Hasselbeck every day on "The Spew."

Bully!

Even her minnions of gushing trogolodyte (using definition #4:
a person unacquainted with affairs of the world; although some might even fit into the category of "cavedwellers," or an "animal living underground" too) followers can't respond.

4. I'm so glad and grateful that we have a President of the United States who doesn't do his business based on the latest liberal left lunatic poll. My hubby emailed the following article to me today. It certainly "hits the nail on the head" as far as the liberal left's ad nauseum complaints are concerned. The entire article was credited to Jay Leno, but at the moment, I was only able to confirm that the last statement was genuinely said by him. If anyone has proof that all of it was stated by Leno, please provide the link.

Whoever said all of this, whether or not it was Leno, absolutely made a great observation about the ungrateful whiners and complainers in our nation today!!

I've never heard Leno saying anything like this...but this is what got sent to me.....


JAY LENO..." HITS THE NAIL ON THE HEAD"
[Note: Update 3/31/07 Jaded was kind enough to share a link that tells us that Jay Leno did not say all of the following. Only the last quote is his.]

The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some poll data I found rather hard to believe. It must be true given the source, right?

The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the direction the country is headed and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with the performance of the president. In essence 2/3s of the citizenry just ain't happy and want a change.

So being the knuckle dragger I am, I started thinking, ''What we are so unhappy about?''

Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Is our unhappiness the result of having air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter? Could it be that 95.4 percent of these unhappy folks have a job? Maybe it is the ability to walk into a grocery store at any time and see more food in moments than Darfur has seen in the last year?

Maybe it is the ability to drive from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean without having to present identification papers as we move through each state? Or possibly the hundreds of clean and safe motels we would find along the way that can provide temporary shelter? I guess having thousands of restaurants with varying cuisine from around the world is just not good enough. Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers show up and provide services to help all and even send a helicopter to take you to the hospital.

Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who own a home. You may be upset with knowing that in the unfortunate case of a fire, a group of trained firefighters will appear in moments and use top notch equipment to extinguish the flames thus saving you, your family and your belongings. Or if, while at home watching one of your many flat screen TVs, a burglar or prowler intrudes , an officer equipped with a gun and a bullet-proof vest will come to defend you and your family against attack or loss. This all in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or militias raping and pillaging the residents. Neighborhoods where 90 percent of teenagers own cell phones and computers.

How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy that are the envy of everyone in the world? Maybe that is what has 67 percent of you folks unhappy.

Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen. No wonder the world loves the U.S. , yet has a great disdain for its citizens. They see us for what we are. The most blessed people in the world who do nothing but complain about what we don't have , and what we hate about the country instead of thanking the good Lord we live here.

I know, I know. What about the President who took us into war and has no plan to get us out? The President who has a measly 31 percent approval rating? Is this the same President who guided the nation in the dark days after 9/11? The president that cut taxes to bring an economy out of recession? Could this be the same guy who has been called every name in the book for succeeding in keeping all the spoiled ungrateful brats safe from terrorist attacks?

The commander in chief of an all-volunteer army that is out there defending you and me? Did you hear how bad the President is on the news or talk show? Did this news affect you so much, make you so unhappy you couldn't take a look around for yourself and see all the good things and be glad?

Think about it -- are you upset at the President because he actually caused you personal pain OR is it because the "Media" told you he was failing to kiss your sorry ungrateful behind every day.

Make no mistake about it. The troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have volunteered to serve, and in many cases may have died for your freedom. There is currently no draft in this country. They didn't have to go.

They are able to refuse to go and end up with either a "general" discharge, an "other than honorable" discharge or, worst case scenario, a "dishonorable" discharge after a few days in the brig.

So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of 69 percent of Americans? Say what you want but I blame it on the media. If it bleeds it leads and they specialize in bad news. Everybody will watch a car crash with blood and guts. How many will watch kids selling lemonade at the corner? The media knows this and media outlets are for-profit corporations. They offer what sells, and when criticized, try to defend their actions by "justifying" them in one way or another. Just ask why they tried to allow a murderer like O.J. Simpson to write a book about how he didn't kill his wife, but if he did he would have done it this way -- Insane!

Stop buying the negativism you are fed everyday by the media. Shut off the TV, burn Newsweek, and use the New York Times for the bottom of your bird cage. Then start being grateful for all we have as a country. There is exponentially more good than bad.

We are among the most blessed people on Earth and should thank God several times a day, or at least be thankful and appreciative.

"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?" - Jay Leno

Hat tips:

Fox News
Hot Air
LGF

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Update: Be sure to read Doug's post:

Rosie O'Pennafonte: Hollywood Morphing Into One Gigantic Idiot

My comment there:

Love this post!
Doug, you always demonstrate the greatest ability to share some serious truth, masterfully showing what village idiots these three people really are…and at the same time…making it all quite hilarious!

HT: The Powers That Be

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Second Update at 2:36 p.m.: Speaking of Hollyweird, there is a fire burning up behind the hill which is dangerously close to the famous "Hollywood" sign in Los Angeles, CA.

Hmmm....could this be a sign (pun intended!) of some sort? Could this be a sign against The Spew?
I wonder...

O'Reilly Out Of Line On This One

I'm glad to read that I wasn't the only one who didn't like what Bill O'Reilly said about the teen boy, Shawn Hornbeck, who was recently rescued from the "alleged" (yeah, right...forget the PC!) the soon-to-be-revealed-and-charged sexual predator, Michael Devlin.

I wasn't happy to read at this True Crime blog that there will most likely be a book written about the predator. UGH!!

However, if you read through the previous post you will probably agree that O'Reilly's conversation with Greta Van Susteren the other day was really cruel and IMO, way out of line.

I watched The Factor today, but Bill refused to apologize...yet.

He certainly received A LOT of emails from enraged viewers who thought that it was disgusting for him to even hint at questioning why the boy didn't try to escape.

The author of the post at the blog link above made some really good points. One point was that it was wrong to compare the Hornbeck situation with the Patty Hearst abduction and subsequent brainwashing that she was exposed to. The second good point was that the Steven Stayner abduction was probably a more accurate comparison to what Shawn Hornbeck went through.

As more of the truth (and probably terrible experiences) about what Shawn endured at the hands of this VILE predator comes out, I'm sure that the boy will need our sympathy, empathy and prayers...

Great News For Two Worried Families!

What a blessing it is to have such great news for two families who had their boys abducted by that vile predator!! So often, these situations do not end in good news. But as in the Elizabeth Smart case, the families did not give up hope that their children would be found alive.

I watched the news interview of Hornbeck's dad on Fox News Channel. How ecstatic they all were to be back together as a family! Four years lost on this boy...without his family. No schooling, either. I'm sure that Shawn had been through an awful lot.

The gory details about the two boys' kidnapper are sure to come out later. But it is great that the reporters are allowing the family to rejoice during this precious time of reunion.

Several TV news psychiatrists and psychologists speculate that the Hornbeck boy will probably have much more of a problem psychologically than the Ownby boy. After all, he was gone (and probably abused and imprisoned in some way) for over 4 years by this scumbag!

There are probably dozens of links about this good news, but here are a few that I have read:

Fox News

My Way News
HT: Drudge

Update: Bloggers discuss this case.

Atlas Shrugs

Second update: Questions Remain
HT: The Conservative Voice

Disturbing News From Survivors and Victims Empowered

After viewing yet another segment of Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator, I was gearing up to write about the need to purge child sex predators from our streets and how stings like this may help negate the solicitation and access to children for sex via the internet. The series has definitely resulted in more sexual predators being arrested and locked up...a good thing IMO, because then they can't attempt to sexually prey upon and molest more children.

Then, I get an email from Survivors and Victims Empowered to find out this disturbing news:

The Child Protection eNewsletter
Volume 4, Issue 46 November 9, 2006

Texas prosecutor caught in Dateline child sex sting commits suicide…

A prosecutor killed himself as police tried to serve him with an arrest warrant alleging he solicited sex with a minor, authorities said. msnbc.msn.com Louis “Bill” Conradt Jr., 56, chief felony assistant district attorney for nearby Rockwall County and former district attorney in Kaufman County, died Sunday.Conradt solicited sex from a decoy posing online as a 13-year-old, according to Police Sgt. Snow Robertson from the town of Murphy, in nearby Collin County. NBC News confirmed the sting operation involved "Dateline" and its "To Catch A Predator" series and issued the following statement:

NBC News' "Dateline" was in Texas reporting on its "To Catch A Predator" series in conjunction with online watchdog group Perverted Justice. In the midst of that effort, Rockwall County Assistant District Attorney Louis W. Conradt Jr. contacted a decoy from Perverted Justice who was posing as a 13-year-old boy. Local authorities launched an investigation into Conradt's online communications and went to his home with an arrest warrant. In the course of that investigation, Conradt committed suicide. There was no contact whatsoever between Conradt and "Dateline" at any point in the investigation.

Conradt had been Kaufman County’s elected district attorney for more than two decades before resigning in 2002 to run for a judgeship. He lost that election and later took the Rockwall County job.While they were glad predators had been arrested, neighbors in the community used for the sting were outraged their town was used as bait.

"They set up a sting to attract child predators to our neighborhood that otherwise would not have been in our neighborhood," said Murphy resident Mike Daniels.

Murphy Mayor Bret Bishop demanded that the city manager who approved the sting apologize to the neighbors. "I think they deserve an apology, absolutely. Their children were placed at risk without their knowledge," said Bishop.

I heard that this will be a topic of discussion on the O'Reilly Factor tonight.

My questions:

Will we ever know how many children this guy had previously solicited for sex and molested?

This man was a prosecutor and considered for judgeship?

Ugh!! The disgusting ugliness of it all!!

When I watched the first few episodes of the To Catch a Predator series, I wondered why they didn't have police there to arrest the people caught! Then, they did get police hiding outside the houses who arrested the perps as they exited. I thought that this was a good thing. But the two additional problems being faced are how the law will react to both the parents in the neighborhood's concerns (can't blame them at all for that!) and how this suicide will affect any future "sting" operations.

I just hope that the predators don't get more (undeserved!) legal protection(s) as a result of this incident! It's the kids who are being solicited and molested who deserve the most legal protections.

Why Are You Here?

Have you seen any of the "To Catch a Predator" programs put out by Dateline NBC? If you haven't, you owe it to yourself (and your children!) to see what is happening out there right under the noses of parents. The ease and simplicity that sexual predators have in contacting your children and teens via the internet is astounding! But what is much worse and absolutely appalling, is the ability that theyapparently have to convince a child to give out their address so that the predator can come to the home to have sex with the child!

At first, the program showed the only the following:

1. Sexually explicit IM's of each predator.
2. The arrival of the predator seeking a sexual encounter with underaged boys or girls.
3. A conversation between the predator and the host of the show in the kitchen of the house. Each predator was usually asked, "Why are you here?"
4. And then, most disturbing of all, each pervert predator was simply allowed to leave the premises without any consequence!

However, the show soon caught the attention of America. Local law enforcement became involved in these sting operations and eventually evolved into an "arrest the predators" windfall! Good thing!!

Yesterday, I read an article at family.org that went even further. It delved into what was found out (especially by law enforcement after the arrest) regarding the mindset of these perverts and what led to them doing such a desperate and deviant sexual encounter. It truly answered the question, "Why Are You Here?"

I wrote to Citizen Magazine and requested the opportunity to post the article in it's entirety here at my blogspot. I am awaiting a reply, so meanwhile, I will just post a link so that you can read it and discuss it in the comment section.

The bottom line is this. Most of the predators were into internet pornography. This scourge of the internet is often linked to the sexual crimes we read and here about on a daily basis in the news.

Read the article, and then share your thoughts on what can be done to protect our children!! What can we do to reclaim our culture?

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Why Are You Here?

Foley Setup?

This thing is growing by leaps and bounds. I can hardly keep up with all the new information coming out over the blogosphere! The MSM is far behind what is being shared by bloggers.

I found several really good links over at Sister Toldjah's blogspot. One, called Macsmind, shares the obviously growing speculation that Foley was set up by a Democratic group called "CREW."

Excerpt from Macsmind:

" It’s also interesting to note that for the chat transcripts to be available for us to read they had to have been purposely logged, or in the case of text messages, saved. Again, ordinarily this is done in criminal investigations to obtain and preserve evidence. However, it’s not something one would necessarily do otherwise. Just from my observation reading one of the chats from one of the pages indicates responses that “knowledgable, graphic and leading. In other words, not the “normal responses of someone who is being approached”. This is the kind of tactic we used in law enforcement when you are trying to corral these kinds of people.

So the point-blank question I have is was at some point the teen in the more graphic posted chats “coached” by someone? If so, by whom?

Again, while I do not condone his behavior - as there is no defense for it, something just doesn’t seem right about all this. Make no mistake, entrapped or not Foley should be prosecuted for his actions especially in light of his end of the conversation, and in light of his position. Yet it does seem that there is much, much more here than meets the eye to this story and much more to come to light."

Hat tips:

Sister Toldjah

Macsmind

Stay tuned...more to come I'm sure!

9:56 a.m. Update:

Back already!!
Tons of info here: Foleygate Has Begun
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1:23 p.m. Update:

Macsmind Major Update

4:24 p.m. Update:

American Thinker's "Investigate This".

10/3/06 Update:

How the Foley Story Broke

Congressman Turned Sex Predator!

The good news today is that 2 more 'sexual indoctrination' bills have been vetoed in California. Gov. Schwarzenegger turns back the effort of looney left Democratic Legislators who passed terrible bills designed to make school kids 'sexualized activists.'

In the WND link above, CRI's Meredith Turney stated:

"Schools should be centers of learning – learning the fundamentals of education such as reading, writing and arithmetic," Turney said. "Instead, the legislature has focused on advancing a radical social agenda in public schools. Hopefully, next session the legislature will make educating – not indoctrinating – students a priority."

I agree wholeheartedly! Enough is enough with the homosexual indoctrination bills!! But do you think that this triple defeat will stop the homosexual activists (there are at least 6!) in the California Legislature? Probably not. They will be back again next year; trying to force an agenda that the public clearly does not want! Gotta keep fightin!...


The bad news today is to find out that U.S. Congressman Mark Foley of Florida, who was co-chairman of the House Missing and Exploited Children Caucus, and was involved with a sexual predator preventative bill (I think), has now been found to be a sexual predator himself!

Found a link to another article that contains a PDF link to the actual instant messenger conversation. Anyone know if this might lead to criminal charges against the former congressman? This is really sick...and awful, folks...

I always liked Congressman Foley. He appeared on Fox News several times, fighting for bills that protect children. Now, he has done a very stupid thing by soliciting sex with a 16-yr.-old teen boy who was a former page for another congressman! What a let down for all the people who trusted this man to represent them! What a let down for Congress and the Republican party! What a let down for all decent people everywhere!

Sheesh!!!!

Michele Malkin: The Foley Mess
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Foley Resigns

La Shawn Barber: Congressman Mark 'Page-boy' Foley Resigns
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Updates 10/2/06

Ex-Rep. Foley Checks Into Alcohol Rehab

Who Protected the Pervert Foley?

Foleygate: The Democrats' October Surprise?
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