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mistakes. i think about the story about the nc state kids. it's a terrible thing, but is it a national story? racism does really bother me. >> we are institutionalizing it and passing it down -- >> it's good their getting a come upance. >> that is "all in" for this evening. thank you at home for joining us this hour. happy friday to you. i don't own a car that can park itself, but will are lots of cars throughout that can park themselves. it's weird you take your hands off the wheel and your feet off of the pedals. you somehow indicate to the car there is a marking spot you would like your car to get itself into and the car parks itself. the first car with the
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technology was sold a decade ago. the first car that could park itself sold in the u.s. was a lexus. now lots of cars can do it. bmw, audi mercedes, ford lincoln. they have also of course been able to drive without you putting your put on the gas pedal for a long time now, 50 years. it was amc that sold the first big american cars with cruise control starting in 1965. cruise control was widely available on a lot of different cars. i still find it a little spooky to be behind the wheel of a car that is actively propelling itself forward. and in the last few years, the
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concept of cruise control has evolved in some cars into what they call adaptive cruise control. you set the speed you want the car to go and it it goes that speed, but it can also sense when there is a car in front of you in the lane and your car will sense that car ahead of you and slow itself down to maintain a safe distance from the slow poke that just pulled in front of you. now that they have the capability of electronically sensing what is around them different car companies in the last few years have been introducing features that let the car take over more and more parts of the difficult parts of driving if you vift out of a lane the steering wheel will shake itself to wake you up and get you back on the road. some, if they have a feeling you
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might want to change lanes soon it will let you know by likes or indicator if there is a car you might not have noticed in your blind spot. there should fwhefr a blindnever be a blind spot districtlyrectly in front of you. that works when you're reversing and work when you're moving forward. you don't see something but the car does and the car makes the brakes come on. and cars can park themselves. which will always be creepy. now with all of those little evolutionary technology bench marks, it should probably not be surprising to see what it has come to but it is still surprising to see this. >> we're on auto pilot mode now like cruise control.
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my hands are off of the wheel, my feet are off. the camera will read that 30 miles per hour sign it will read the sign and navigate through the lane course. fwen, i'm not touching anything. if will thread 25 miles per hour sign,ly press the blink tore initiate a lane change. and it will sense the car up ahead, start slowing down and once again i'm not touching anything. >> that is amazing. truly amazing. butt your foot on the brake, and ewe back to driving yourself. >> i know right? that is video from theverge.com. that is a reporter being given a preview of what they at tesla are calling the auto pilot feature in tesla model ss.
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we're used to cars that park themselves or cruise at a consistent highway speed, speed up slow down recognize traffic, go around curves drive themselves? the idea of there being auto pilot for a car where you don't have to drive and it takes you where you want to go. we're used to thinking that is like moon colonyiescolonies. cars where you hit a button that says auto pilot and it drives you home without you driving. you always have a sense that they're working on bits and pieces of that but it is aparently here done and ready to go. cars that already exist today, cars that lots of people already own, will suddenly develop the auto pilot feature in the next
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few weeks. people whoa have the tesla model s, they will get a software update for their existing cars some time this summer and it will include a little green button marked auto pilot where if you hit it the car will drive itself. it is here and ready to go. sometime in the next few weeks. and yes, there are definitely questions about the law, a few states made it legal for cars to travel on their roads without drivers, but that is mostly for testing. so companies can do rierm and development. auto piloted car wills be owned and operable by regular, rich joe schmo tesla owners.
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technically nobody is allowed to fly drones in this country if is illegal in the united states but they are very widely available to people from a couple hundred bucks on up and people fly them for fun as part of their businesses and for all sorts of good and stupid purposes. cars driving themselves on auto pilot, that seems like it may fall into that same sort of hole in the wall that drones are in. the fact that it is illegal but happening anyway flp is also questions about how widely bheem have this technology will be able to use it. tesla says for right now, this
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feature will only be useful on mayor roads like highways and freeways. he said he is not sure the technology is safe enough for small suburban streets that have different signage more variables of traffic. but for your car being able to safely auto pilot your kids to school and back that is an incrementally technological matter of upgrades right? that will happen pretty fast when people are knitting and doing their filing in the seat while their car drives themselves to work. we don't know if this will become in our cars technology that is more normal than not like cruise control is now. or maybe it will be required
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like air bags and seat belts. there is always a possibility this will be a bust and people won't like it, and auto pilot will be the feature that you can make your can do but not many people have it because not many people see a need for it, but still, neat. this is one of those technologies, right? people can do this cars can do this. not a lot of people use it. but cars that will drive you around without doing anything and this might be a we're tech flash in the pan, but it might change the ways that we get around and organize our physical space in this country. technological change of this source is almost always
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incremental. until all of a sudden cars don't have steering wheels any more. we're also seeing that kind of technological slippery slope happen right now now all of a sudden in media and journalism. campaigning for office is supposed to be a retail business, right? politicians like to meet people shake hands, kiss babies. they are skills that politicians have to have. they have to be able to glad hand and back step. it means making physical appearances with your public. for political office a big portion of people voting for or against you will never meet you in purpose. the candidates campaigns for office, everything they do trying to persuade people to vote for them is delivered
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through some sort of media filter. mainly the main stream news media. that means camera is news feeds. professional correspondents chasing people through parking lots. being asked to ride along on the bus or campaign plane. that is the means that most voters get access to the pop tigs -- politician. and that leads people to decide who they will vote for. candidates have always done what they can to have more control over what people see about them. for decades they have allowed approved documentary filmmakers to see -- make and see behind the scenes footage of their politics. they have shot their own footage.
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things supposed to seem kind of can candid. in the last few news cycles, it's also been politics one on one. sending video trackers to events. maybe you want to repurpose is for an ad put it on you tube feed it out. you make sure you send a staffer to record the guy you're running against. >> this fellow over here with the yellow shirt, whatever his name is she with my opponent. he is following us around everywhere. let's give a welcome to him here. welcome to america and the real world of virginia. >> and then george allen was not in the senate. it was a tracker he was calling out with a racist epithet.
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so running for office, campaigns for office he or she knows that someone who wants to make them look bad could be filming them at the event. if they're smart they have someone from their side filming them too. if they're really interesting, the news kbleedmedia will also be there to see if they look news worthy good or bad. we also saw the dramatic impact of citizen cell phone video where not professional trackers, campaign staffers but just average joes were able to capture moments on the campaign trail as they happened. and even though whoever shot the video didn't work for anybody, they didn't have skin in the game or an editor breathing down their neck that individual who shot the footage recognized they caught something newsworthy and fed it to a news organization or
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uploaded it online and waited for the fire storm to hit. mitt romney's 47% remarks shot by a bartender. someone might have a cell phone running. if they believe, if that person believes that something that the candidate said is inflammatory dangerous, or news worthy that person will take that tape they recorded on their phone, upload it to the internet link to it online. candidates know that now. but now, now we have had an
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additional incremental technology technological development that doesn't feel like a leap, it has been pointing in this direction for a long time, but what is happening is something that people in politics feel like it is the equivalent of the self driving car. we had cruise control all of these years, but there is something i different between setting your speed on the freeway and just hitting auto pilot and your car taking you home. anyone with a cell phone can now, for free broadcast live video of what they are seeing at the impact moment they are seeing it. so what used to take a satellite truck and an up link in terms of broadcasting a live political event looks like this. and specifically looks like this. there have been more complicated versions of this technology in the past. there is a thing calls ustream.
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youtube had a variety of this. there is string wire that we have used at nbc. but what happened now that everybody with an iphone can really super easily broadcast live video. at least pretty easily. it is an app called meerkat. if you follow me on twitter right now, you should be able to see what my cell phone is streaming right now. with this technology you can show everybody in the world, far free everything you seeing right now. >> hello, folks, you in the dark. here, look i'm wearing jeans and sneakers, can't see that on tv. when you're done streaming whatever you're looking at you, on your phone, can keep a record of it on your phone, but everybody else watching it saw it live and then poof it just exists and it goes away, but
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whatever you recorded on your phone you can keep. so from here on out, once this app, meerkat or whatever else once it spreads across the country and everybody has this on their phone, everybody -- end stream, yes, every time a politician from here on out does this every time they're outside of their bathroom they're basically on live tv. anyone with a cell phone, that politician could be broadcast live in that second to potentially an infinite number of people. literally any time you're anywhere other than the bathroom. casey hunt has gone through a lot of shoe leather chasing politicians around. she occasionally has to corner people in elevators, waiting
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through their rallies hoping they will say something interesting. today she conducted live broadcast interviews from her phone with new jersey secretary corey booker and joran ernst as this meerkat app blew up this week. it basically became a satellite truck. she joins us next, stay with us. okay... and on passat models you can get a $1,000 volkswagen credit bonus. one more time. pinch me. it's not a dream. it's the volkswagen stop dreaming, start driving event. stop dreaming, do it again. and test-drive one today. hurry in and you can get 0% apr plus a $1000 volkswagen credit bonus on 2015 passat and jetta models.
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so have you done this before? >> this is my official first meerkat interview. little early morning history. >> a little early morning history. >> and you have not joined the service yet? >> i haven't, but we'll see how this goes and maybe we'll
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consider joining. >> kaci hunt conducting the first over meerkat interview. she also interviewed cory booker of new jersey using the same technology. this technology is the newest way to live stream video from your cell phone to the world if is sort of frighteningly easy fast, and free to the user and it has freaked out most of the political establishment. joining us now is kaci hunt great to see you b with thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >> how do you get josh ernst to be interviewed like that with completely live no take backs. it was pretty casual. i was at the white house briefing on monday. i meerkated a little of it.
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people felt like i was providing a public service. i said do you want to do an interview on this new thing called meerkat and he said i think we're interested. and we said let's try something new, let's get outside of the box a little bit talk about what the white house has done with social media and other implications that surround it. my thanks to josh for being game for something new, and we weren't sure how it would pan out. we had to make sure we could get a recording of it. we had about 360 plus viewers at the peek. >> which is not earth shattering, but i feel like the thing that is -- that t is hard for me to explain that for people who don't see the inside way of the tv news service
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works, but we know what it takes in terms of money, organization organizational power persuasive power and sometimes luck. it costs a lot of money, it takes a lot of work and a lot of people being involved in it. it makes it possible for live events around the world toll be broadcast to an audience of millions of people. i feel like it will change what is accessible to the average viewer. >> in many ways what you were outlining before it is true but it is the confluence of all of these things a cellar network to handle it it's a cell phone in everybody's pocket that we're all networked already. and it will really change how the politicians operate. i think that 2016 will be
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defined as an easy live streaming video and the reality is that it is not just reporters. as you were pointing out, this will be regular people as well. the obama administration had, in fact started taking away cell phones from some of their attendees at fundraisers. they argue it is a security risk and there was a extent where the president when he was a candidate making a comment about guns that came back to haunt him and that was theoretically closed to the press. when you think about all of the people in the vicinity of these candidates over an 18-month campaign. we're looking at a lot of live streams and potential pitfalls. >> nothing will be closed to the press unless you can remove people's cell phones to them. >> i think it will change our jobs a lot, and it will.
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>> i think it may not necessarily be 100% positive either. just because we have this ability to broadcast in this contract way doesn't necessarily we're goes to get more transparency from these candidates. if anything twitter drove mitt romney to be further away from reporters, and many reporters that saw that recognized that person and were unable to communicate that to the broader public in part because they were so afraid all of the time that the tweets would go out and push them off message and they were so focused on that. i think this will prevention people from getting that sense of authenticity because people will be so concerned about this technology. >> it will make them put up their guards but it will mean there is no place where they can be assured they're not on live tv a huge deal thank you very
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said that loretta lynch's confirmation vote would happen this week. it did not. now the number two republican senator says his party feels zero pressure to confirm here at the next ag. reporters asked how much pressure republicans feel to finally vote on the new nominee and his answer was, quote, zero. zero pressure. why worry? turns out they like eric holder and they're keeping him around indefinitely. today at the white house, sam stein got president obama on the record about this unpress depthed delay for an attorney general nominee. watch what president says here about how democrats in congress ought to handle this. >> the fact that she has now been lingering in this limbo for longer than the five previous attorney generals combined makes no sense. >> what do you think is behind
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it? >> the senate dysfunction is part of it. but part of it i think is just a stubbornness on the part of republicans period. >> they say they're holding up the nomination until they get to the human trafficking bill. would you encourage democrats to let it go through -- >> you don't hold attorney general nominees hostage for other issues. no one denies that she is well qualified. >> you don't hold attorney general nominees hostage for other issues. that has been his no hostage policy for the president. all of the other things where they tried to force his hand. their policy is no. no we don't play that. we wait you out, you get nothing
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by threatening to harm parts of the country or government. tonight at the white house he told senate democrats to take that same strategy on loretta lynch. do not play. just get a vote on her. don't hold the attorney general nominee hostage for other issues. loretta lynch was nominated 132 days ago. next week the senate plans to tackle the republican budget plan. a week after that republicans tell us they plan to go on vacation for two weeks. the whole senate going on vacation for two weeks. they are saying they do not expect any movement on the loretta lynch confirmation vote until maybe the end of next month at the earliest and she already waited longer than any attorney general nominee in history. now he is creeping up on the next record because republicans who hate him won't let him go.
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new york has had tough laws on guns. they had strict limits on toy guns for 60 years since the 1950s. last week, up popped this new gun store for pistols, shotguns and rifles. people came in to see what's in stock, handle the guns talk about what they might want to buy. but the conversations got weird fast. the whole thing got weird fast. and they were taping while it all happened and here is some of what they got. watch this. >> hey, how are you doing? >> hey, how are you doing? >> hey. >> hi. >> you're interested in a gun, right? >> something for like target practice or -- >> protection. >> more for protection. >> safety. >> i'm pro second amendment, it's hard to find that in new york city. >> the first gun i showed her
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was this revolver it's the easiest gun we use. a a a .22 caliber. >> this is a gun that the guy -- >> this is the one. this is the one that the kid used? holy [ bleep ]? >> collectors love this one, adam lanza's mom had this in her collection too until they took it this. 20 little kids gone like that. he walked into a mcdonald's killed 21. a .09 compact.
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>> 12 gauge pump action shotgun. >> why don't you have a closer look. >> i was pretty blind sided by just the entire history of every gun in the store. >> it made me think twice, and i would not buy one. ♪ >> every gun has a history, let not repeat it. just a remarkable stunt they pulled off in new york city. and the guns rights groups are freaking out about this. they're calling for a criminal investigation saying the guns in that store looked illegal to them. they say they want people arrested. people would gun licenses were handling guns and that was a
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felony. people were breaking the law. but the group that pulled this off knew what i that were doing. they're called states united to present gun violence. they were realistic fakes. they say they followed all of the laws. they had someone from the nypd watching all of the time. they set it up as an experience. so they would not run afoul of taping people without their consent, they didn't let people randomly walk in off of the street. they recruited people who were interested in buying a gun. they were part of a marketing experience. but they were real reactions. >> it made me think twice and i would not buy one. >> state's united to prevent gun violence posted this three days ago. nearly two million people have posted it online already. the real reason their freaking
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out is not because their horrified by people handling guns in new york city. they're freaked out by the new approach they have to contend with politically in this video. we're used to seeing messages about gun safety that put us in the position of victim. this ad puts you in the position of the shooter. if you're thinking about buying a guy so you will be safer, they want you to imagine your hand on the same trigger that the newton killer pulled or a kid killed his sister by an accident or aed toer will killed his mom in walmart. this is super aggressive. changing laws about guns has been really hard to do recently it has been impossible. recently it aims to change not laws but minds and the wisdom behind buying guns.
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okay next kal wrestlers still to come, i swear. first one more thing. this is the time of year when republicans introduce their budgets. bobby jindal wants to run for president, but one of the problems in his time as president is that his state, louisiana, has a terrible budget crisis right now. he is tedding toward the exits but he is leaving his state short on cash. it is a lot of money for a state of that size and among other things it is embarrassing for him to talk about on the campaign trail. in the last months of his governorship, he is cutting everything he can which has now raised an interesting question as to whether or not one of the things he can cut is louisiana's participation in picking the nominees for president next year. in his new budget he forgot to include any money for louisiana
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to hold a presidential primary for 2016. there is no set appropriation for paying for that primary and he cut the amount of money he gives to the secretary of state's office there by so much they say there is literally not enough money in the budget to pay to run those primaries. bobby jindal is not exactly a front runner but if he would have a chance at winning any state, it would be his own unless they can't vote because they can't afford to. this is either the dumbest possible thing anyone could do while running for president, or it is somehow secretly genius. i'm betting on the former, but hoping for the later. in small business you have to work hard, know your numbers, and stay focused. i was determined to create new york city's first self-serve frozen yogurt franchise.
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are you ready? are you ready? because it's happening. time for the friday night news dump. producer julian nutter who is playing? >> we have sue hahn from caramel, indiana. he grew up in amish country in pennsylvania, and he's a high school orchestra teacher. >> very nice to meet you. thank you for being here. >> hello. i'm freaking out. this is awesome, and a dream come true. so nice to see you. >> i have to ask you what the orchestra teacher part how many of the instruments in the orchestra can you personally play in order to have the kids be competent. >> i have to play enough to
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teach them. but they're amazing and i have to do very little. >> i was in orchestra in junior high and it was really fun, until all the kids in the band picked up our orchestra teacher's car and put it on the tennis court. and he couldn't get it out. >> i love you even more now that i know you were in orchestra. what did you play? >> i played everything poorly. any way, you know how this works. three questions, if you get two right, you will win, julia? >> this mini cocktail shaker. >> and if you get all of the questions right, or if you don't really get very many right at all but you need extra credit or a consolation prize, we do have something that we found in our office but tonight it's a little weird. >> he has two options. he can take these action figures that you used to have on your desk at air america. >> they're mexican wrestlers. >> this one has a little cape.
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it's cool. otherwise, he can have these posters that we made as props during the government shutdown in 2013. >> i will tell you, even though the props aren't awesome, one of them does have a nice t-square attached to the back of it that you would also get to keep. >> great. >> we also need to brick in the disembodied voice of steamve bennett. >> good evening. >> first question here we go. monday, we described a gallup poll which asked people what they think is the most important problem facing the country today. in that gallup poll what did the highest number of respondents identify as the most important problem. >> government. >> a, terrorism, b, income inequality, c, the government or d, the zombie apocalypse.
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>> i wish it was d, but it's not. it's c, the government. >> steve, did he get it right? >> let's check the tape from monday's show. >> the highest percentage of respondents say the biggest problem in the country is the government. >> the correct answer is c. >> well done. you're 100% so far. question two, we have had an eye on the u.s. nuclear negotiations with iran all week. i should say happy iranian new year. as the iranian nuclear talks are getting down to the nitty gritty, another u.s. official has been seen at the talks taking a leading role alongside secretary of state john kerry. who is that other u.s. official who suddenly is very visible in those talks? is it tay, attorney general eric holder, b, earnest moniz, vice president joe biden, or vice president emeritus dick cheney.
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>> i was traveling yesterday and that was the only show i missed. i'm just going to pick my favorite person on that list and say c, vice president joe biden. >> steve, what's the right answer? >> let's check out the tape from last night. >> all of a sudden we're not just seeing john kerry leading things for the u.s. now who is that guy on the left? now we're seeing the only man in u.s. government with hair better than john kerry's hair. also involved at the talk level. our energy secretary, who is himself a nuclear physicist. >> i'm afraid mr. chainy and mr. biden are not involved. the correct answer is b. >> soo, you had a good reason for missing that one. one last chance. this one is a visual one. so we've never done this before. hope it works. today's show we reported on republican aaron schock and his somewhat shocking resignation from congress in the face of
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lots of questions about his finances related to his travel. one oh of the things reporters have used to track his travel spending is his rather legendary instagram account, which he seems to have deleted. but we were able to capture some of it. which of these images was not an image from his instagram account? was it a, this one, which makes him look like an extra for "magic mike." b, this one, which shows him surfing in hawaii. was it c, this one shows him, i don't know maybe ice climbing or something. or d, this one which shows him being shaved by another dude? which one of those was not from his instagram account? >> oh, my gosh. this is tough. i'm going to say a, because i think that a was a shoot from a magazine, that cover he did. >> steve, do you have the answer for us?
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>> let's check the tape from tuesday. >> also a famous star turn yes, that's him, on the cover of "men's health." congressman, really? >> so a was the magazine cover photo and he's correct. >> you got exactly the trick of it right. that was spectacular. julia, did soo win? >> yes, he wins the dockcocktail shaker? >> yes. >> and do you want either of the cruddy items we found in our office? >> i would love both. i used to listen to you on air america when you first came on. >> thank you. >> but just so that i can hang it up for the entire world to see, i'm going to choose the sign. rachel, can i please ask you to sign it before i get it? >> oh, yeah i will sign your sign big time. and we'll even throw in a few more of these sign it is you wish. thank you for playing. great to meet you. if you want to talk about the
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