6th Grade Social Studies: Welcome to Lakeview!
This is my 7th year at Lakeview as the 6th grade social studies teacher. I hope you’re able to make the Parent Open House on September 10, where we will cover the curriculum, expectations, and tools used. In the meantime, here are some …  read more…

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88 Lakeview Dr, Patchogue, NY 11772 | MLS# 1542182431
For sale: 3 bed, 2 bath, 1600 sq. ft. house located at 88 Lakeview Dr, Patchogue, NY 11772. MLS# 1542182431. Single Family Home in Patchogue, NY.  read more…

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Resolved Question: According to 2008 movie “Lakeview Terrace”,….?
,…does that mean that as long as you’re a cop, you invite all of your cop friends over for a party at your house, that you can have the music play as loud as you want, disturb your next door neighbor, and NOT get in any trouble?

That scene were Abel Turner(Samuel L. Jackson), invites all of his follow cops over for a bachelor party at his house, they play the music loud, the other two main stars of the movie(white man and black woman) can’t sleep because of the music, it’s 3 in the morning, he goes to the house, asks Abel to turn to the music down, they refuse, and don’t get in any trouble, whereas, if you’re not a cop, your friends aren’t cops, and you have a loud party, you can get in trouble?

Is this true?

(Oh, BTW, did you agree with the white man and black woman for retaliating after everything this cop put both of them through?)

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Voting Question: how low can i bid on this foreclosure?
this is the house

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3-Lakeview-Ave_Hamden_CT_06514_1110703430

it is bank owned, has been on the market about 40 days and has recently been reduced by 13k it needs a total refinish on the outside (windows, siding) including a new roof in the near future. it also needs an updated bathroom and probably a garage door and the walkways are crumbling. we really love it but can afford up to about 145k. do you think 140k would be a really unreasonable bid to start with? would you go lower or higher?
i think it was assessed at 161k probably early 2008. there was a house right around the corner in the same need of work and the asking price was 153k.

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Voting Question: What of these movies should I keep?
I’ve pretty much overflown my mom’s netflix account with movies I’m interested in, which of these movies should I keep or get rid of;
We Are the Strange
Experimental Cinema / ’20s & ’30s: Disc 1 Experimental Cinema / ’20s & ’30s: Disc 2The Black Dahlia
American Psycho
American Psycho 2
Candyman
Asylum
30 Days of Night
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Funhouse
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th: Part 2
Friday the 13th: Part 3
Friday the 13th: Part 4: The Final Chapter
Friday the 13th: Part 5: A New Beginning Friday the 13th: Part 6: Jason Lives
Friday the 13th: Part 7: The New Blood
Friday the 13th: Part 8
Jason Goes to Hell
Children of the Corn
Children of the Corn 3: Urban Harvest
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac’s Return Children of the Corn 7: Revelation
Children of the Corn 5: Fields of Terror Dead Silence
Christine: Special Edition
The Lost Boys: Special Edition A Nightmare on Elm Street 2
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5
A Nightmare on Elm Street 6 May
April Fool’s Day
Valentine
The Omen
Carrie
The Rage: Carrie 2
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
The Andromeda Strain
Strangeland
Creepshow 2
Thinner
Secret Window
Vamp
Lady in White
Blue Velvet
Lost Highway
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Vampire in Myth and Reality The Exorcist: Restored Version
The Exorcist 2: The Heretic
The Exorcist 3
On the Doll
Leprechaun
Leprechaun 2
Leprechaun 3
Leprechaun 4: In Space
Leprechaun 5: In the Hood
Cursed
Alien: Collector’s Edition
Alien: Resurrection: Collector’s Edition Alien 3: Collector’s Edition
Spawn: The Movie
When a Stranger Calls
Sisters
The Amityville Horror
Cujo
Gremlins
Psycho
Psycho
Lakeview Terrace
L.A. Confidential
The Shawshank Redemption: Special Edition
The Virgin Suicides
Donnie Darko
Purgatory House
Child’s Play
Child’s Play 2: Chucky’s Back
Child’s Play 3
Bride of Chucky
Seed of Chucky
Beware! Children at Play
Batman: The Movie
Batman
Batman Begins
Batman Returns
Batman Forever
Batman & Robin
The Silence of the LambsRed Dragon
Hannibal
Hannibal Rising
Misery
Rear Window
The Darkroom
5ive Girls
Serial Killing 101
Return to Horror High
Chicago
Moulin Rouge
Some Like It Hot
The Stepford Wives
Creepshow
Creepshow 3
Femme Fatale
The Boondock Saints
Suspiria
Underworld
Underworld: Evolution
Pan’s Labyrinth
A Clockwork Orange
Amelie
Cannibal Holocaust
Citizen Kane
Fear Dot Com
Heathers
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Ghost World
House of Wax
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
House
Dolls
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Nurse Betty
Ginger Snaps
Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed
House of 1,000 Corpses
The Devil’s Rejects
The Stendhal Syndrome
Opera
Tenebre
Nightbreed
Manhunter
Botched (Uncut)
Otis
The Wicker Man
To the Devil a Daughter
Blade Runner: Theatrical & Director’s Cut
Grindhouse: Planet Terror
Slither
Lady Vengeance
Army of Darkness
The Evil Dead
The Pyx
Trilogy of Terror
The Night Stalker / The Night Strangler The Thing From Another World
Twin Peaks: Season 1: Disc 1
Twin Peaks: Season 1: Disc 2
Twin Peaks: Season 1: Disc 3
Eraserhead
Twin Peaks: Season 2: Disc 1
Twin Peaks: Season 2: Disc 2
Twin Peaks: Season 2: Disc 3
Twin Peaks: Season 2: Disc 4 Twin Peaks: Season 2: Disc 5 Twin Peaks: Season 2: Disc 6 Twin Peaks: Season 2: Bonus Material Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers Hillside Cannibals
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead Death Factory
Requiem
Camp Blood: 3D Horror
Scarred
From Dusk Till Dawn
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Dead Ringers
Barton Fink
Fargo
From Hell
Cry Wolf
Halloween
Prom Night
The Craft
Cruel Intentions
Cruel Intentions 2
Cruel Intentions 3
Martyrs
Hangman’s Curse
The Glass House
What Lies Beneath
Dr. Strangelove
To the Devil a Daughter
Pink Flamingos
Freaks
The Elephant Man

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Loan Modifications are starting to be very popular. A loan modification helps people save their homes by reducing the payment in the loan. Nevertheless, not every individual who asks for a home loan modification gets the desired result.

Lending institutions go over each individual application to see if the owner will be able to pay back the loan after the mortgage. Banks generally take a look at the debt-to-income ratio to know if the home owner will be able to pay back the mortgage. In this essay, well look at how to figure out this ratio for a loan modification.

First, you should add up all of your gross income. the gross income is the money you make prior to discounting your taxes. If you get child support or alimony, you can add these amounts.

Later, you should add all of your monthly debt payments. You need to include the minimum monthly payments on your credit cards, car payments, the desired new mortgage payment, property taxes and home insurance. In this step, do not add utilities, cable TV, food, etc.

After you have figured out your recurring debt payments, with the addition of the new mortgage payment, you should multiply this number by two.

To find out if you have a very good chance to get approved for the mortgage modification, your doubled number needs to less than your gross monthly income. If the amount is over the gross income, there is a decent chance that you won’t be approved for the modification.

Keep in mind that lending institutions are normally willing to modify a mortgage when the debt-to-income ratio is under 50% of your gross income. A few lenders will go up to 55%. However, the majority of the lenders won’t allow any more than that percentage.

Nevertheless, you may sometimes be given a loan modification if you have a special situation. For instance, you may have been sick and now that you feel better you can work again in a good job.

Please, keep in mind that this method is just given as an example. It is to your best interest to talk to a loan modification company who can help you present your situation in a better light or even offer you recommendations on how to change the debt-to-income ratio so that the loan modification is given by the lender.

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The National Association of Realtors measures the number of pending homes nationwide on a monthly basis. They do this by tracking when there is a status change from an active listing to a pending sale via the Multiple Listing Service. This is called the Pending Home Sales Index.

The real estate industry group positions the report as a predictor of future home sales activity, stating that 80 percent of homes under contract will “close” within 60 days, and most others will close within 120 days.

But, although using the Pending Home Sales report as a crystal ball may be its intended use, it may not its best use. This is because of the index’s methodology: 1. It doesn’t measure new construction homes 2. It doesn’t track For Sale By Owner properties 3. Its sample set covers just 20 percent of MLS transactions

While the PHSI is an excellent way to guage demand for homes it fails to take into account other important factors. In a credit crunch like we are in presently many transactions never close due to financing problems.

We can guage the real estate markets strength based on the Pending Home Sales Index by whether it rises or falls. When it is rising we can be sure that there are presently more buyers in the market and usually more demand brings price increases.

For example, in June 2008, the 2nd time in three months – the PHSI posted a large increase even though economists expected a loss. The Pending Home Sales Index’s rise indicates that the overall market is experiencing a revival for that quarter.

Now, again, the uptick doesn’t mean that the pending sales will necessarily close, but it does tell us that more home buyers are finding “now” to be a good time to buy real estate.That sort of insight is what make the Pending Home Sales Index worth tracking. When buyer demand is rising, the real estate market isn’t usually far behind.

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You have your rental home fixed up, cleaned, and it is ready to rent. Before you start marketing your rental home, you need to have your rental agreement ready to go. The Rental Agreement is the biggest contributing factor in whether you are profitable in this business so take care in preparing yours.

I am often asked something like, “Where should I get the wording for my lease agreement?” Another question that I am often asked is something like, “What legal wording should be on my rental agreement?”

The Rental Agreement is the legal contract you and your renter have. It specifically states how the renter must treat your property while renting it. It also states what you are going to charge the tenant each month for rent. But it really is more than this. It is includes all terms and conditions and rules of conduct between you and your renter. Perhaps one of the most important aspects of your Rental Agreement is if you are going to rent for a fixed period of time or are you going to just go month to month.

Common lease periods that most property owners use are for 6 months, 9 months, or 1 year with the 1 year lease being the most popular. The lease obligates you and the renter for a set period of time. After the initial lease expires, most leases are written to automatically go to a month-to-month rental agreement.

So why is a 1 year lease so popular? First it is good for you because you can usually count on having a renter in your rental home paying you rent each month for 1 year. It is good for the renter because it locks the rent in place for the term of the lease.

Sometimes a property owner will offer a lower monthly rent on a 1 year lease ($25 – $50 a month less) because a tenant on a 1 year lease is not as high a risk of early turnover than tenants on a monthly lease. That is one of the biggest problems owners face is spending money to clean and turn a unit only to have a tenant skip on them after a few months.

You should know that with a 1 year lease, or any fixed term lease, you can not raise the rent or change other conditions in the lease until that lease expires. You also can not give the tenant a boot like you can on a month to month agreement until the tenant has not paid the rent or has violated some other condition in the Rental Agreement.

Landlord tenant laws in almost every state favor tenants. This means that you can not just violate a Rental Agreement but the tenant can and often does. A tenant can walk away from a lease and there is not much you can do. Keep in mind as well that if this happens, you have to prove that you are trying to rerent your home. Also, as soon as you find a new tenant and he pays the first months rent, you must stop charging the previous tenant for violating the lease. You can not get double payment on a rental unit.

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When reviewing mortgage applications the information lenders look for first and count on the most heavily is the applicants FICO score. This score is what a loan officer uses in deciding how credit worthy an applicant is. It also has great influence over the terms offered with a loan. Lenders look for a high FICO score because they know that higher scores generally mean less risk for them. Low-risk applicants can count on better rates and loan terms.

The industry secrets regarding how a FICO score is calculated is top secret. Fortunately, the company has allowed consumers a glimpse of the process by giving a list of what sorts of information they use and how they use it in analyzing and scoring a persons credit. This knowledge can help individuals clear up bad credit or appeal false information, and handle their available credit appropriately. Here is a list of the information the FICO Corporation uses and how it is weighted in their formula:

The most influential factor is ones payment history. This looks at the individuals history of making payments on credit accounts, and lowers the score for each late or missed payment. This factor is weighted at some 35% of ones FICO score.

The second most important factor is the ratio of credit used against the amount of credit available. The best scores come from having a large amount of credit available while only using a small fraction of it. This score is increased by paying down outstanding loans, but without closing the loan. Closing revolving accounts, such as credit cards, lowers this score; while keeping them open but paid down increases it. This factor is weighted at some 30% of a persons credit score.

Length of Credit History: This information counts as 15% of your FICO score. This factor is important because it can shows how a borrower has behaved in the past and is a pretty good indicator of how they will behave in the future. If you have a long credit history your score will be higher, while those just starting out will have a lower score in this area.

Two additional factors weigh in at about 10% a piece. These are the number of types of credit one has successfully managed and the number of recent credit inquiries. The FICO score generally considers the successful use of diverse types of credit as a positive factor. FICO also looks at the number of recent queries into a persons credit and considers this indicative of the persons current financial situation. The more queries made ” meaning the more credit the person has applied for recently ” the lower the score.

This overview of how FICO scores are calculated can help and empower consumers as they learn how to take care of and monitor their credit and help them obtain more favorable loan terms.

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These days, many people from all over the world are opting for web logs. Creating a blog for personal purpose has evolved like a trend among people. But there is another aspect associated with the announcement of blog and that is the most important part for any real estate business owner to know. Real estate blog marketing is on the rise now day’s. Creating a real estate blog to promote your real estate marketing standards can become a beneficial deal for you.

In order to grab success in the world of online marketing, you need some unique and effective ideas. Real estate blog marketing is the one that can bring you tremendous success over the Internet. Both the individuals and businesses can use it for their much needed business success. Blogging as a trend is going high on demand among several businesses. With such huge acceptance rate for blogging it’s quite obvious for real estate blogs to evolve on the World Wide Web.

If you really want to achieve success in the online marketing arena, then you need to follow unique and effective marketing strategies like real estate blog marketing. Real estate blog marketing is an online tool that can be used by individuals and businesses to promote their services on the global screen. Blogging has been accepted world wide as a trend and now it can be used for real estate business purpose. With such a huge acceptance rate for blogging, it seems that real estate blog marketing has definitely got a good future.

To get victory in the online marketing ground, you need to pursue exclusive and effectual marketing strategy like real estate blog marketing. Real estate blog marketing is an online method, used by persons and businesses to endorse their services on the international marketing. Blogging has been acknowledged world wide, as a movement and now it is used by real estate business purpose. With such an enormous receipt speed for blogging, it appears that real estate blog marketing has absolutely got a high-quality prospect.

So, you need to make your blog different from others so that it can draw maximum number of web traffic’s attention. As a real estate investor you are well acquainted with the ongoing tremendous competition in the real estate market. Therefore, making a blog that can be noticeable from the rest is the most important aspect that you need to look for. Also your blog needs to be optimized as per the requirements of search engines. Achieving a high rank in a major search engine like Google can bring you good amount of web traffic as well as popularity on the Internet.

There are several ways through which you can make your real estate blog marketing successful. If you are not absolutely ready to add posts for your blogs on a regular basis then starting a real estate blog may not become fruitful for you. You need to spend some time on a regular basis to add new posts and updates with your real estate blog. If you can add several posts for your blog in a week then its always better from both the readers and search engine point of view.

You too have to keep looking for the aspects like the promotion of your blog as per the search engine standards. Search engines are the prime source for web traffic. Whether you got a blog or a website, if you are not receiving web traffic in adequate amount then it’s a total loss for your business. Through optimization of blog you can get higher rank in all the major search engines and the flow of web traffic will increase.

Optimization of a blog can also bring you several inbound links, which is highly essential from search engines like Google point of view. There are several ways to make your real estate blog marketing successful. You need to make your blog informative and updated by posting contents on a regular basis. If you are not ready to add posts for your blog on a regular basis then real estate blog marketing is not for you.

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Foreclosures over the last 2-3 years have been a major issue for most states in the US. While California, Nevada, and some others have been topping the foreclosures by state charts for the highest numbers, others have maintained a low profile. With the start of the year 2009 and the promise of a new government, hopes had been high. However, whether the Obama government has been successful in doing anything concrete or not would only be seen after a couple of quarters. But we can definitely figure out if the new government’s efforts are headed in the right direction or not.

This is what the US foreclosure market report for Q1 of the current year tells:

The total number of foreclosure filings, which is a collective figure of all default notices, notices for auction sale, as well as bank repossessions, amounted to 803,489. This Q1 figure is 9% more than Q4 2008 and 24% increase from quarter one of 2008.

During quarter 1 of 2009, one out of every 159 American houses filed for foreclosure!

As recently as March 2009, the total number of foreclosure filings amounted to 341,180 properties. This amount is a 17% rise from Feb 2009 and 46% rise from the same time previous year. The figures for Q1 and March 2009 have been the highest for both monthly and quarterly data since January 2005, despite the fact that there has been a slowdown in the Bank Repos (REOs). The Bank repo rate has gone down by 13% from Q4 2008 and 3% from February 2009.

Hope can’t be upped just yet. The month of March this year has witnessed a very high amount of foreclosure activity, as more than 12% households from the highest number recorded up to now filed for foreclosure. What makes this situation worse is that the foreclosure action was seen in new loans, suggesting that lenders were waiting to foreclose properties due to delays on part of the government. Additionally, the fall in REO activity is mainly due to processing delays and not because of the implementation of foreclosure prevention schemes, if any at all.

If foreclosure experts are to be believed foreclosures by state numbers are only going to increase. Moreover, the number of bank repossessions are going to increase as moratoria has been removed now.

However, the silver lining to these grey clouds of foreclosure has come in the form of increasing demand, especially in the hard-hit states. More and more buyers are now keen to invest in bank owned foreclosures as these offer excellent bargain opportunities. With increasing foreclosure inventory due to rising numbers of foreclosures by state, the demand from first time homebuyers and genuine investors is likely to offset this trend.

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Have you finally found your dream home and now wonder how you will incorporate the “WOW” factor into it? Well, like many people I’ve consulted with, your first step is to hire an Interior Designer.

If you don’t then I would suggest the next very important step and that is to hire a professional Interior Designer. Why? Because mistakes will cost you more money in the long run and that can be avoided.

Leave it to a skilled and trained designer to bring your design dreams to fruition. Let their expertise open an endless world of possibilities when it comes to space planning, color, art, style and so much more.

So hiring the right Interior Designer is your next step. So how do you go about that? You should absolutely feel that your designer represents you to the best of their knowledge. How? They know how to listen to you as you share your desires and goals.

You see you won’t feel comfortable with all designers. Clients have shared with me in the past their frustrations with hiring the wrong designers. One common complaint is that some designers did not listen to them.

I suggest that you interview two or three designers before you hire one. It is a well known fact that you can talk to ten designers and get ten different design concepts. But your goal here is to hire the one you feel most comfortable with.

You’ll notice many personality types but I’m sure you’ll find one that you feel is on the “same page” as you. You should feel comfortable in the fact that your designer listens to your desires and goals.

Take the time to listen to your designer as well. They will tell you what you need to know about their design background and the projects they have completed that will help you in your decision. Years in business may not be as important as to their ability to listen and how confident they seem.

Interior Designers are also a valuable resource because they partner with the best vendors to get the job done right. It’s just as important to know who to go to as well as who “not” to go to in the industry.

Janice Nickole is a practicing Interior Designer in Phoenix Arizona. See why it is possible to have a beautiful interior without having to pay enormously high design fees by visiting her website.

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Lots of buildings are built with a limited lifespan or simply become unusable and unsafe over time. When this happens, the land space that the old building is taking up is often worth a lot more than the building itself, and so the building must be safely deconstructed so that the next construction project can take get underway.

Demolition is a system of controlled destruction of such buildings, allowing for the reuse of many of the component parts of the old construction. Reclaimed building materials are much sought after so are cleaned and repackaged in order to be resold within the construction industry. In many instances, tough planning restrictions will stipulate that any new building will have to be constructed of identical brick to the existing structure, so it is then essential to salvage all the materials possible.

Health and safety is obviously a priority on a demolition site, particularly that of the workers on site. On a demolition site, as with any construction site, workers are required to wear a hard hat, a high visibility jacket, protective footwear as well as in some cases, eye and ear protection. Another factor to take into account is that asbestos might be present; if it is then the site must be properly decontaminated under very strict conditions.

Most of the composite parts of a demolished building will be recycled either as building materials in the case of some steel, bricks, tiles, slates etc while steel that cant be reused as is will be sold for scrap to be reused in a different form. Footings, concrete, roadways etc will all be broken up and then put through a crusher in order to make material suitable for new roadway construction projects.

The cost of demolishing a building varies depending on a number of factors, but the main factor is how much man-power is needed to sort the materials for reuse. If a large brick building is being demolished and all of the bricks need to be cleaned and stored in crates, then the cost will be much higher than what it would be for a concrete construct that a crusher could be used for.

Choosing a quality demolition company can be a difficult process. Finding a good company with an established track record will allow you to delegate your demolition process with full confidence.

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If you have e-mailed any family member, friend or associate and sent them a particular link to some website which you might have felt would interest or impress them, then you have already participated in an online activity known as social bookmarking. Social bookmarking involves the tagging of some website and saving it for use later on. This saving is a little different in character since you are saving them directly to the web rather than to your own web browser. Since these bookmarks exist online, you will be able to distribute them to friends.

Social bookmarking is useful to you as a real estate professional, as you can use it for establishing and strengthening your online social marketing campaigns. Information on what your competitors are bookmarking and advertising to attract potential clients and investors will help you plan your advertising and marketing even better. Since advertising and marketing is all about superceding competitors.

Social bookmarking allows you to find out and know what others find impressive to tag and also to save websites of your preference and those that you wish to advertise and send to others. You can make a systematic exploration of what others have bookmarked. This can be done with the help of search tools by typing in exactly what you want to find out about. Thus you can save a lot of time that would otherwise get expended on elaborate and detailed searching.

Most of the social bookmarking sites allow you to surf through the popular and recently added topics that can range from blogging, properties of real estate, politics and news to sports, entertainment, shopping and movies. This broad range makes it even more popuar and preferred. Hence social bookmarking websites can be used as effective search engines.

Social bookmarking sites can be used very efficiently for promoting your blog on real estate. Chiclets can be used. Chicklets are bookmark icons for social networking that will let you and your users to submit blogs with ease to the social networking and social news sites such as NewsVine, Reddit, Furl, and Digg.

Social news and social bookmarking helps you find exactly what you want to without even using a search engine. You just have to type the keywords for your topic, zero in on the subjects you think are relevant and then if you feel the need to you can advance your search for the topics that you liked. For example real estate properties can be a topic.

With social bookmarking you can always remain up-to-date and get access to information to varied subjects. This is because their sites always display the links that are popular and lists that get added recently. This is one significant advantage of social bookmarking.

Therefore, social bookmarking, which initially began as a method of sending bookmarks to friends and associates has developed into search engines that are social in character. You can avoid going through the tedious process of searching for something specific on search engines which generates innumerable results and might confuse you. If you simply visit a social bookmarking site, you can conveniently select the exact category that meets your requirement and matches your personal or professional interest.

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