BDSM as business: An interview with the owners of a dungeon

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Torture proliferates American headlines today: whether its use is defensible in certain contexts and the morality of the practice. Wikinews reporter David Shankbone was curious about torture in American popular culture. This is the first of a two part series examining the BDSM business. This interview focuses on the owners of a dungeon, what they charge, what the clients are like and how they handle their needs.

When Shankbone rings the bell of “HC & Co.” he has no idea what to expect. A BDSM (Bondage Discipline Sadism Masochism) dungeon is a legal enterprise in New York City, and there are more than a few businesses that cater to a clientèle that wants an enema, a spanking, to be dressed like a baby or to wear women’s clothing. Shankbone went to find out what these businesses are like, who runs them, who works at them, and who frequents them. He spent three hours one night in what is considered one of the more upscale establishments in Manhattan, Rebecca’s Hidden Chamber, where according to The Village Voice, “you can take your girlfriend or wife, and have them treated with respect—unless they hope to be treated with something other than respect!”

When Shankbone arrived on the sixth floor of a midtown office building, the elevator opened up to a hallway where a smiling Rebecca greeted him. She is a beautiful forty-ish Long Island mother of three who is dressed in smart black pants and a black turtleneck that reaches up to her blond-streaked hair pulled back in a bushy ponytail. “Are you David Shankbone? We’re so excited to meet you!” she says, and leads him down the hall to a living room area with a sofa, a television playing an action-thriller, an open supply cabinet stocked with enema kits, and her husband Bill sitting at the computer trying to find where the re-release of Blade Runner is playing at the local theater. “I don’t like that movie,” says Rebecca.

Perhaps the most poignant moment came at the end of the night when Shankbone was waiting to be escorted out (to avoid running into a client). Rebecca came into the room and sat on the sofa. “You know, a lot of people out there would like to see me burn for what I do,” she says. Rebecca is a woman who has faced challenges in her life, and dealt with them the best she could given her circumstances. She sees herself as providing a service to people who have needs, no matter how debauched the outside world deems them. They sat talking mutual challenges they have faced and politics (she’s supporting Hillary); Rebecca reflected upon the irony that many of the people who supported the torture at Abu Ghraib would want her closed down. It was in this conversation that Shankbone saw that humanity can be found anywhere, including in places that appear on the surface to cater to the inhumanity some people in our society feel towards themselves, or others.

“The best way to describe it,” says Bill, “is if you had a kink, and you had a wife and you had two kids, and every time you had sex with your wife it just didn’t hit the nail on the head. What would you do about it? How would you handle it? You might go through life feeling unfulfilled. Or you might say, ‘No, my kink is I really need to dress in women’s clothing.’ We’re that outlet. We’re not the evil devil out here, plucking people off the street, keeping them chained up for days on end.”

Below is David Shankbone’s interview with Bill & Rebecca, owners of Rebecca’s Hidden Chamber, a BDSM dungeon.

Contents

  • 1 Meet Bill & Rebecca, owners of a BDSM dungeon
    • 1.1 Their home life
  • 2 Operating the business
    • 2.1 The costs
    • 2.2 Hiring employees
    • 2.3 The prices
  • 3 The clients
    • 3.1 What happens when a client walks through the door
    • 3.2 Motivations of the clients
    • 3.3 Typical requests
    • 3.4 What is not typical
  • 4 The environment
    • 4.1 Is an S&M dungeon dangerous?
    • 4.2 On S&M burnout
  • 5 Criticism of BDSM
  • 6 Related news
  • 7 External links
  • 8 Sources

Finding Boys Husky Sizes For Your Young Boy

By Max Johnson

Boys husky sizes have been a necessity for a while. Changes in activity levels, eating habits, genetic disorders, and other such facilities have made the need for hefty sized clothing a vital part of our culture and economy. Finding the perfect size is not always easy, but you will discover that it is easy to find a designer offering the size of apparel you need for your children regardless of size or gender.

Whether you need pants, shirts, outerwear, belts, shoes, boots, gloves, or other niceties, enjoying the benefits of finding boys husky sizes when you need them is a pleasure. No more need to run frantically from one shop to the other; all you have to do is explore your options via the local media or even the internet to find the right sized apparel for your boy of any age.

What type of styles and designs can you expect when you start shopping for boys husky sizes? The good news is that you will find copious styles and designs just right for you as well as your child. Take a look at some of these fashionable and affordable choices!

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Cargo twill pants are definitely a favorite when it comes to school uniforms. Twill is a soft and comfortable fiber design, and the cargo pants are an obvious favorite. You will appreciate the cost, and your child will appreciate the numerous pockets and other benefits of these stylish yet well fitted pants. Reliable designers such as Dickies provide these as a favorite to their loyal customers. If you need a good, sturdy pair of pants, these should more than do the trick.

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Of course, when it comes to outerwear, you have a variety of sizes, styles, and obvious unique designs. There are coats, jackets, vests, parkas, blazers, and other types of outerwear fitting the young man regardless of his size. These will allow him to enjoy the educational experience free from bias and prejudice. In addition, the pockets are many to insure he will have the pocket space he needs and wants.

When it comes to the variety in sizes and designs, it is nice that there is a designer such as Dickies out there promoting modesty and well-being over what’s cool today. Getting the best in stylish fashions starts by allowing the child to concentrate on school rather than socializing. However, these fashions and designs are appealing to the young man whom just wants to look his best.

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Mastering Relationships, Jealousy And Insecurity With David Deida}

Submitted by: LiYana Silver

Relationships, jealousy and insecurity are only the tip of the iceberg for best-selling author, powerfully insightful teacher, and provocative master of his craft, David Deida. For relationships, jealousy, insecurity — as well as intimate connection and spiritual union in sexual loving — he is arguably your man if you are looking to study sexuality as spirituality. For as many hearts he’s inspired to ecstasy and minds he’s blown wide open to divine love, there are just as many who’ve come away pissed off and disillusioned, hurt and burnt.

I first encountered David Deida’s work when my fiance handed me the book, The Way of the Superior Man. Just the title set off alarm bells to my neo-feminist sensibilities, but I read it anyways and became hooked on Deida’s heartfelt prescription for erotically-charged harmony between the sexes. I’ve since read most of Deida’s books, heard him speak numerous times and have placed myself (and fiance) in Deida’s masterful hands during a week-long intensive. The heart of Deida’s work is about living your deepest truth and giving your greatest gifts, in the face of pain, broken hearts, confusing partners, and your own personality maze. He offers information, skills and energetic/body practices so as to be of service to the force of divine love in the universe, through your loving, love-making and relating.

In a moment, you’ll meet two other couples: Kendra and Decker and Bryan and KC, who have recently taken a week-long intensive with Deida. One couple finds their marriage deepening and opening; the other broke up as a result of the workshop. What is it about Deida’s sexual and spiritual truths that have the power to send two hearts more deeply aflame in connection, and for two others, sears their relationship to cinders? Deida offers potent definitions of the essence of — and the interplay between — the divine masculine and feminine. He describes the masculine as depth of presence; archetypically and energetically it is piercing presence, stillness, purpose and will, a penetrating force by which and through which the world and all experience is felt and known. The feminine is all possibility, all movement and dynamic creative energies; fire and fury, sweetness and comfort changing on a dime, the fierce beauty of life and experience itself. The feminine is attracted to depth of presence and the masculine is attracted to that which is flush with energy.

Deida positions the romantic relationship as a means to understand and be in service of the divine feminine and masculine within yourself and within your partner; it is a way of continually opening to more love and appreciation, and for sexuality to be divine prayer. In the section, Your Relationship With Yourself, in my website, I dive deeper into how to align the masculine and feminine aspects within ourselves, as well as the other vital keys to having an extraordinary relationship — with yourself first.

Many people can misunderstand Deida’s work and assume simply that women should be more feminine and men more masculine. As Deida says in an interview with Bodhi Tree Bookstore, “We’re multidimensional and fluid beings. There’s nothing wrong with any of us identifying with more masculine or more feminine, more consciousness or more light at any particular moment except when it creates closure or problems because we’re not using it wisely.”

Another important principle in Deida’s work is that of polarity. As with magnets, there is the most irresistible pull between distinctly different charges — negative on one side, positive on the other. Deida adds, “Any time one person is in their masculine and one person is in their feminine, it’s like a magnet or electricity happens between them, and it doesn’t matter if they’re committed in a relationship or total strangers.” Much of Deida’s work is about cultivating polarity — with masculine on one end of the spectrum and feminine on the other, to maintain and deepen sexual attraction.

Another important aspect of Deida’s work revolves around his three stages of development: “Any time you’re doing something for yourself, for me, me, me, it’s the first stage. Any time you’re doing something on the sense of equality and sharing making sure you’re both safe and okay, it’s the second stage. And any time you’re doing something for the sake of all beings, it’s the third stage. You may die in the process. Martin Luther King, Jesus Christ, and Mother Teresa are third stage people, but we could all have those moments every day. All you have to do is be in a disposition of serving, regardless of the outcome to yourself, and that’s the third stage.”

Kendra and Decker, recently married, were well aware of the potential to get bored and take each other for granted over the span of their marriage and they decided to fix it before it was broken in 5, 15 or 50 years. They wanted to be able to continue to appreciate and truly know each other as well as deepen their sexual connection; they wanted to be able to have moments of tantric merging at will, rather than at random. KC and Bryan decided similarly to do the workshop for similar reasons: a more solid relationship and deeper sexual practices.

Deida draws a distinction between therapy, yoga and spirituality: therapy is past and healing-based; the whys and hows. To use a metaphor of a hole in a panel of stained glass, therapy is fixing the hole. Yoga — disciplined practice, a means and a way — is the polishing of the colored glass, regardless of the hole, making beauty out of the hole. It is the ability to take whatever you’ve got, whether or not it’s what you like or prefer, no matter how ugly, and transform it into art, surrendering to the divine, regardless. Spirituality? Well, everything’s perfect, as it is; there never was any hole in the stained glass.

Deida is about yoga. Attending his yogic workshops for most is like an interactive, intense, challenging co-creation of art — and a certain level of comfort can’t be your priority. At the end of each break throughout the day, I had to gird my loins to go back in and continue to do yoga and make art. Relationship is as good a spiritual vehicle as any to experience divinity — but possibly the most challenging. For those of us who haven’t committed to being celibate monks and who choose relationship as spiritual path, Deida offers a map.

In addition to a greater appreciation for herself, Kendra’s greatest take-away was to see how the masculine and feminine naturally clash and to not take it so seriously when it comes up in life. The problem isn’t over there with the opposite sex; your partner will continue to baffle, annoy, anger and disappoint you; it all comes with the territory. The feminine can often appear as volatile and unstable and the masculine can often appear as dense and inconsiderate. In a moment of humor, Deida says, “Ask yourself, is this the crazy bitch I want to be with?” or “is this the stupid asshole I want to be with?” Rather than bemoaning it, or assuming the next one will be less wacky or less of a jerk, the key is to learn how to dance with the essence of feminine and masculine, as an expression of your greatest truth in each moment.

One of the things taught in the Authentic Man Program is how to cultivate connection, to really “get” where another is at, often called resonance. Decker walked away from the week with Deida with the profound distinction of polarity versus resonance. The choice of when to go for resonance and connect with another, and when to choose polarity in order to retain powerful presence and purposeful separateness, has changed his life, relationship, organization and marriage — forever. Rather than always defaulting to being intimate and close, he is grateful for the choice of being able to bring his best, no matter what ride his partner is on.

With tears in her eyes, KC attempts to convey the depth of gratitude for what she got from the challenging workshop and the fallout — her breakup: a space of profoundly valuing herself, the gift of opening heart and body to another, and an understanding of her “blueprint” for attraction. When we take things we think are ugly, dark and wrong and shine light and love through them, they have this miraculous effect of being able to open the heart and body. Deida’s work can be remarkably transformational because he isn’t afraid to go to the dark epicenter and make art by finding beauty everywhere, in every moment. And then we become no longer afraid of ourselves, nor of living fully.

Bryan left with a deep sense of what he is and what he is not; getting himself as perfect, yet wanting more for himself. The workshop compounded issues between him and KC and broke them apart. Although the type of solid masculine man of deep character espoused by Deida is something that Bryan aspires to, he realized it just isn’t him. It’s like going against his natural strengths of fluidity and movement. One of the unfortunate pitfalls of Deida’s work is that many try to become “Deida-bots,” adapting postures or behaviors, developing an exoskeleton (of the kind Deida is actually trying to dissolve), and never make it back to themselves.

Although not totally Bryan’s experience, he still says, “For the month after the workshop, I was raking myself over the coals, trying to become someone I am not. I am still sorting through what is true for me,” After periods of mourning and grieving the year of being together with KC, he is still left feeling infinitely deepened. As he says, “Can you stay open in the face of some of the most painful emotional experiences you’ve ever had? The cup of your joy is carved by your sorrow.”

Although Deida’s workshops are not inherently unsafe or dangerous, it is up to each participant to honor themselves. It can be important to separate teacher from teachings, since some masters or enlightened beings still have a shadow side and could do with a little therapy themselves. Deida is the first to acknowledge he’s far from perfect. Deida has profound mastery of his topics, lives much like a social recluse and shirks any markings of being a guru. His workshops are designed as a microcosm of real life and relationship; they are designed to push edges, because this is really how it’s going to feel and be with your partner. If you are not strong and supple, upset in the relationship will just be another excuse not to love.

Looking back at the experience, we all agree: being in the room with Deida for a long week is inherently beneficial for anyone hungry, aware or developed enough to receive it. As KC puts it, “You have to be kind of crazy to do something like this, but crazy in a really gorgeous way, so hungry for the most beautiful, raw living — and that isn’t always what you think it is.”

Deida offers us an avenue to meet the dark stuff — that we all share, teachers and students alike — with love. It is about cultivating discipline and ferocious intensity, but for the ultimate goal of living in beauty and union, of striving toward the divine through sex and love. Deida offers a way to open your heart, give your greatest gifts and love as fully as you can this lifetime. Yes, he’ll urge you to push your edges in yoga and in practices, when you have a week, weekend or hour set aside for it. But the rest of the time, he reminds us to make our lives as kind as we possibly can for this gentle soul we find ourselves in relationship with. David Deida offers a demanding path to become strong — so that we can be sweet.

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Bush uses his first veto ever on stem cell bill

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

U.S. President George W. Bush has used the first veto of his presidency on a bill for federal funding of scientific research which uses embryonic stem cells. The bill aimed to increase the number of stem cells lines in federally funded science. Despite the veto, the destruction of embryos to extract stem cells will still take place in scientific research; the research will simply not be funded by the federal government. It is illegal in the United States to create (through conception) embryos for the purpose of scientific research.

The bill had passed in the Senate 63-37, four votes short of a 2/3 majority needed to override the President’s veto. The bill will go back to the House and Senate.

Bush had previously announced that he would veto this bill.

Bush described it as a step that would cross a “moral line”. “This bill would support the taking of innocent human life,” Mr. Bush said at the White House while surrounded by parents and children that were born as part of an embryo-adoption programme. “Each of these human embryos is a unique human life with inherent dignity and matchless value. These boys and girls are not spare parts.”

Nancy Pelosi, House minority leader, said “the veto amounted to saying ‘no’ to hope. It is up to members of Congress to represent their constituents and vote to override the veto.”

Many high-profile organizations — such as the Christopher Reeve Foundation and the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research — were actively advocating the passage of the bill.

  • Update:Thursday, July 20, 2006

The U.S. House of Representatives failed to override Bush’s veto. The final vote was 235-193, which was 51 short of the 2/3 majority needed for a veto override.

Car bombing kills Yemen government official; ISIS claims responsibility

Monday, December 7, 2015

Yesterday, at least seven people including Aden, Yemen governor Jaafar Mohammed Saad died in a car bomb attack on their convoy in the city of Aden, according to local officials. An online claim of responsibility on behalf of militant group ISIS called Saad a “tyrant”.

An online post purportedly from the group claimed they detonated the bomb as Saad’s convoy passed where the car was parked. The post shared photos purporting to show Saad’s vehicle passing the parked car, and the following explosion.

People as much as 10km away reported hearing the explosion, and medics said it left victims’ bodies unrecognizable. Photos supposedly of the attack showed a burning, wrecked car. Aden’s Jumhoriya Hospital treated the victims.

The online statement threatened to “chop off” the “rotten heads” of Yemen’s “infidels”, and said more attacks are coming.

Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who follow Shia Islam, have taken over Yemen’s capital of Sanaa. Until just recently, President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s government operated for several months in Saudi Arabia, which has led a coalition involving air strikes against the rebels.

Yemeni fatalities in ISIS-claimed bombings this year number reportedly around 159. Yemeni fatalities since March, when Saudi Arabia’s pro-Hadi airstrikes began, number at least 5,700 according to the United Nations.

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Get Introduced to Los Angeles DJ Equipment

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Alfred Stawell

Your professional events will turn out to be a damp squib if you are not well equipped with the requisite DJ equipment. Los Angeles DJ Equipment caters to all those needs which make all your musical nights’ definitely memorable and cherishable ones. Be it the speakers or the lighting mixers, or the CD players, if your equipment is not of top notch quality, you cannot get the desired effect and result while on the floor.

Disc jockeying is all about light and sound mixing. And a career as a DJ is very rewarding of late. Therefore, it becomes very imperative that one has the knowledge about all the DJ equipment, the combination of which brings out the maximum effect and which equipment to use at a specific point of time. But a few equipments like speakers, sound mixer, headphones and a turntable are a minimal investment if you want to pursue your interest. As you graduate slowly from a novice to a professional, you can keep adding more sophisticated light and sound equipment to your collection.

The range of models and brands that are available in the DJ equipment indeed confuse the person quite a bit. It is therefore, very helpful to have a clear idea in the beginning itself as to what your budget is and how much you are going to invest in procuring the branded equipment. In fact, a thorough research on the internet platform will give a great idea as to where you could get the best DJ equipment possible that suit your requirements. You could get an idea as to which brand you could invest in as a beginner. You could also benefit from the discounts that you get when you book online.

Certain types of DJ equipment may be expensive but at the same time they may be of great use to you. In such cases, it is ideal that you go in for a package which comes in at a reasonable price than going in for individual equipment. The packages generally include all the basic components as well as the requisite peripherals. Going in for equipment that is not costly may seem to be the right decision at that time but the output of the sound might suffer later on. It is not necessary that you have to pay high to get quality but a good research on various brands before making a purchase will be helpful in buying the right piece.

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English court jails policeman over insurance fraud

Thursday, July 1, 2010

A court in England, UK has jailed a policeman for ten months after he was convicted of defrauding his car insurance company.

Police Constable Simon Hood, 43, arranged for a friend who dealt in scrap metal to dispose of his Audi TT, then claimed it had been stolen.

Hood had been disappointed with the car’s value when he tried to sell it two years after its purchase in 2008. He arranged for friend Peter Marsh, 41, to drive the vehicle to his scrapyard in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Marsh then dismantled the vehicle with the intent of disposing of it, but parts were later found wrapped in bubblewrap at Ace Tyre and Exhaust Centre.

Marsh picked up the TT from outside nearby Gorleston police station. Records show mobile phone conversations between the conspirators that day in March, both before and after the vehicle was reported stolen. The pair denied wrongdoing but were convicted of conspiring to commit insurance fraud after trial.

The fraud was uncovered after Hood told former girlfriend Suzanne Coates of the scheme. It was alleged before Norwich Crown Court that he had confessed to her in an effort to resume their relationship. Coates said that after the pseudotheft, Hood told her “he didn’t want to look for it. He said it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack, which I thought was a bit strange.”

You knew throughout your career that policemen that get involved in serious dishonesty get sent to prison

Shortly afterwards Hood suggested they should become a couple once more, she said; she challenged his version of events regarding the car: “He said he did it but I couldn’t tell anyone. He said he did it with Peter. Peter had a key and took the car away and it was going to be taken to bits and got rid of so it was never found.”

Hood was defended by Michael Clare and Marsh by Richard Potts. Both lawyers told the court that their clients had already suffered as a result of the action in mitigation before sentencing. Clare said Hood had resigned from the police after fifteen years of otherwise good service and risked losing his pension. “It is not a case where his position as a police officer was used in order to facilitate the fraud,” he pointed out. “His career is in ruins.” Hood is now pursuing a career in plumbing.

Potts defended Marsh by saying that he, too, had already suffered from his actions. His own insurers are refusing to renew their contract with him when it expires and his bank withdrew its overdraft facility. His business employs 21 people and Potts cited Marsh’s sponsorship of Great Yarmouth In Bloom as amongst evidence he supported his local community.

Judge Alasdair Darroch told Marsh that he did accept the man was attempting to help his friend. He sentenced Marsh to six months imprisonment, suspended for two years and ordered to carry out 250 hours of community service. He was more critical of Hood:

“As a police officer you know the highest possible standards are demanded by the public. You have let down the force. You knew throughout your career that policemen that get involved in serious dishonesty get sent to prison.”

Andrea Muizelaar on fashion, anorexia, and life after ‘Top Model’

Monday, November 26, 2007

In the 18 months since Andrea Muizelaar was crowned winner of the reality TV series Canada’s Next Top Model, her life has been a complete whirlwind. From working in a dollar store in her hometown of Whitby, Ontario, to modeling haute couture in Toronto, she had reached her dream of becoming a true Top Model.

But at what cost? Unknown to casual television viewers, Muizelaar had been enveloped in the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, which inevitably became too much for her to bear. She gave up modeling and moved back to Whitby, where she sought treatment for her disorder, re-entered college, and now works at a bank. Where is she now? Happy and healthy, she says.

Recently Andrea Muizelaar sat down with Wikinews reporter Mike Halterman in a candid interview that stretched to nearly two hours, as she told all about her hopes and aspirations, her battle with anorexia, and just what really happened on Canada’s Next Top Model.

Contents

  • 1 Andrea’s beginnings
  • 2 Andrea on her road to modeling, and America’s Next Top Model
  • 3 Experience on Canada’s Next Top Model
  • 4 The message she wrote to her fans on her facebook group
  • 5 Her brief modeling career
  • 6 “Happy and healthy”
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Submitted by: Adam Peters

If you want to install the railings on your custom deck, you will be happy to learn that deck railings are fairly easy to plan, design, build and install. You don’t even have to be an expert carpenter, just an ordinary homeowner.

The most important steps in building your own railings is creating the right plan, measuring carefully, and then buying the

right construction materials.

If you plan on building the entire deck, that is a lot bigger job. But they are both doable, if you only take the care to do

it properly.

You will want follow some important steps in planning and building your deck and deck railings.

-Plan! This may involve driving around your neighborhood ane looking at other decks to decide the kind that best suits you. This kind of planning may also be done on the internet.

-Be Prepared! Make sure you have all of the right materials for your deck and deck railing project. This will mean you will

need to buy the lumber and then own, buy or borrow a hammer, wrench, circular saw, drill, caulking gun, as well as protective

items such as eyewear and gloves.

-Measure twice! Measure the space you have available for your deck, and then measure how much spacing you will need between each post, and then between each baluster, and from the toprail to the foot of the rail. You may want to consider using a

substiture material such as cinder blocks to get the measurements right and to walk off distances you think you will need. When you cut the lumber for the decking and the railing, mark it well and make sure you eep track of the length of each piece and where it will go. So you see there will be a lot of measuring involved.

Only now can you begin to install your deck and railings. If your lose your nerve about building the deck, you can always hire a contracter to do the deck and then just go ahead and do the railings yourself. Since this is the easier part of the project, you won’t have so much to worry about. And if you get one post or one baluster wrong, it won’t ruin the entire project.

Building deck railings is actually a very easy project, if you follow the advice to plan, be prepared and make sure to measure. In just a couple of hours, you can have deck railings installed and be proud that you did them yourself. And now that you have put that much work into your railings, make sure you protect them properly so they last longer, whether you have installed wood or iron railings.

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