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CenturyLink phone service provider is seeking a court injunction to stop the City of Portland from raising its land-line phone tax.
In a lawsuit filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court on Friday, the company's lawyers argue that the added tax undermines its ability to compete with other telecommunication providers and violates both state and federal law.
Portland's City Council in late November unanimously voted to extend a tax to all land-line phone companies ? an idea that Mayor Sam Adams pushed to raise millions of dollars a year for federally-mandated police reforms.As threatened, Qwest Corp., doing business as CenturyLink, filed a lawsuit against the city, to stop the tax increase.The tax increase went into effect Jan. 1.
CenturyLink and Frontier, which have been in Portland longer than other land-line services, were previously taxed 7 percent of the revenue they earned from basic land-line phone service.
Comcast and Integra, which entered the market more recently, have paid 5 percent of their gross revenues to the city, which includes revenue from other land-line phone services such as call waiting, voice mail or caller ID.
Under the new plan, CenturyLink and Frontier were to start paying the city 5 percent of their gross revenues.
The city estimated that the new taxes would generate $3 million to $5 million a year, and correct an inequity in the city's taxing of land-line providers.
Centurylink officials countered that the increased tax is unfair, because it exempts wireless phone carriers. The company's lawyers noted in the suit that wireless phone companies are now the predominant telecommunications service providers in the state, with 3.4 million subscribers, compared to 949,000 land-line subscribers.
"The Amendments will also have a direct and disproportionate impact on CenturyLink's customers ? many of whom are seniors ? by essentially singling them out to pay the entire cost of remedial measures for City-wide police misconduct," wrote Stoel Rives lawyers Per A. Ramfjord, Robert T. Manicke and Theodore B. Blank.
In November, then-Mayor Sam Adams and Mary Beth Henry, manager of the city's Office for Community Technology, said they were confident the increased city tax would prevail against any legal challenge. They pointed to an Oregon Supreme Court ruling that upheld changes that Eugene made to telecommunication companies' fees in 1997.
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Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/01/centurylink_files_legal_compla.html
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? An emergency deal reached after weeks of rancorous negotiations will keep the U.S. from driving off the so-called fiscal cliff, but higher taxes and continued political bickering in Washington threaten to shake the fragile U.S. economy well into 2013.
A bill passed by Congress late Tuesday averts widespread tax increases and delays spending cuts that had threatened to take a bite out of the economy.
But critical issues, including reduction of the deficit, remain unresolved. Meanwhile, the economy doesn't have much growth to give. Mark Vitner, senior economist at Wells Fargo, predicts it will expand just 1.5 percent in 2013, down from a lackluster 2.2 percent in 2012. Unemployment stands at 7.7 percent.
Ben Schwartz, chief market strategist for Lightspeed Financial, said unemployment was still likely to edge up and retail sales growth was likely to be weaker than last year.
"Regardless of a deal getting done, people on Wall Street are not going to run around giving high fives," Schwartz said. "The federal government is obviously dysfunctional, to say the least."
A months-long political standoff over fiscal policy has already taken its toll, adding uncertainty that has discouraged consumers from spending and businesses from hiring and investing. The squabbling seems sure to persist.
Lawmakers postponed tough decisions on government spending, giving themselves a reprieve from cuts that were scheduled to begin taking effect automatically Jan. 1. That just sets the stage for more hard-bargaining later. Spending cuts, when they come, could crimp growth even more.
And another standoff is likely to arrive as early as February when Congress will need to raise the $16.4 trillion federal borrowing limit so the government can keep paying its bills. House Republicans probably won't agree to raise the debt limit without offsetting spending cuts that Democrats are sure to resist.
Obama warned Republicans late Tuesday that "if Congress refuses to give the United States government the ability to pay these bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy would be catastrophic, far worse than the impact of a fiscal cliff."
Financial markets abroad rallied on news that the fiscal cliff had been forestalled.
In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares was up 1.7 percent at 6,000 while the CAC-40 in France rose 1.8 percent to 3,707. Germany's DAX was up 2 percent at 7,765.
The picture was similarly buoyant earlier in Asia with Hong Kong's Hang Seng index rising 2.9 percent to close at 23,311.89, its highest finish since June 2011. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 surged 1.2 percent to close at 4,705.90, its strongest finish in 19 months. South Korea's Kospi jumped 1.7 percent to 2,031.10.
The bill will raise taxes on individual incomes over $400,000 and household incomes over $450,000, on investment profits and dividends, and on the portion of estates that exceeds $5 million.
Those higher taxes on the wealthy - which will deliver some $600 billion in revenue over 10 years - are likely slow the economy a little bit. But a bigger drag on the economy will come from a tax hike Democrats and Republicans didn't even bothering to fight over: the end of a two-year Social Security tax cut.
The so-called payroll tax is scheduled to bounce back up to 6.2 percent this year from 4.2 percent in 2011 and 2012, amounting to a $1,000 tax increase for someone earning $50,000 a year.
"It's a huge hit," says Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors. "It hits people whether they're making $10,000 or they're making $2 million. It doesn't matter who you are ... The lower your income, the more of your income you're (spending). So if you're taxes go up, it's going to come out of your spending." And that is bad news for an economy that is 70 percent consumer spending.
Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, calculates that the higher payroll tax will reduce economic growth by 0.6 percentage points in 2013. The other possible tax increases - including higher taxes on household incomes above $450,000 a year - will slice just 0.15 percentage points off annual growth, Zandi said.
The fiscal cliff itself was created to force Democrats and Republicans to compromise, and it succeeded - barely.
To end a 2011 standoff over raising the federal debt limit, they agreed to a Jan. 1, 2013 deadline to reach a deal over taxes and spending. If they didn't, more than $500 billion in tax increases would hit the economy in 2013 alone, along with $109 billion in cuts from the military and domestic spending programs. The sharp tax hikes and spending cut would threaten to send the economy over the cliff and back into recession.
But negotiations to avert catastrophe have highlighted once again how far apart the two parties are on taxes (Republicans don't want to raise them) and spending (Democrats are reluctant to cut government programs).
Ethan Harris, co-head of global economics at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, asked: "What induces the two sides to stop fighting and start compromising?"
Political gridlock has been rattling financial markets and shaking consumer and business confidence the past two years.
After a fight over raising the debt limit last year, the credit rating agency Standard & Poor's yanked the U.S. government's blue-chip AAA bond rating because it feared that America's dysfunctional political system couldn't deliver a credible plan to reduce the federal government's debt. S&P cited an overabundance of "political brinksmanship" and warned that "the differences between political parties have proven to be extraordinarily difficult to bridge."
The Dow Jones industrials dropped 635 points in panicked selling the first day of trading after the S&P announcement.
Outside Washington the economy has been getting some good news. Europe's financial crisis appears to have eased, reducing the threat of a renewed financial crisis. And the U.S. real estate market finally appears to be recovering from the housing bust.
But the old worries have been replaced by new ones about political gridlock, says Joseph LaVorgna, an economist at Deutsche Bank.
The partisan divide has left businesses and consumers wondering what's going to happen to their taxes and to federal contracts.
Companies have plenty of cash. But they reduced spending on industrial equipment, computers and software from July to September, the first quarterly drop since mid-2009 when the economy was still in recession. And hiring has been stuck at a modest level of about 150,000 new jobs per month this year.
Consumer confidence fell in December for the second straight month, according to a survey by the Conference Board, which blamed the drop on worries about the fiscal cliff. The uncertainty is also believed to have dinged holiday shopping, which grew at the slowest pace this year since 2008.
Many economists are disappointed that Congress and the White House couldn't reach agreement on a broader deal that significantly reduces the deficit over the next 10 years. That could have boosted business and consumer confidence and accelerated growth .
No progress has been made on reforming the government's big entitlement programs, mainly Medicare and Social Security.
"Nothing really has been fixed," Lavorgna says. "There are much bigger philosophical issues that we aren't even addressing yet."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/political-brinksmanship-still-threatens-us-economy-152454571--finance.html
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SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) ? A northeastern Pennsylvania newspaper has just received a calendar to help ring in the new year ? except the year is 1950.
Scranton's The Times-Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/S23ykD ) a mail carrier delivered it 63 years late without explanation on Friday.
The large tube contained a 1950 Pennsylvania Railroad calendar addressed to James Flanagan, former general manager of The Scranton Times.
The calendar includes a holiday greeting from a railroad executive dated December 1949. Flanagan died that month.
A U.S. Postal Service spokesman says lost mail is sometimes found when a machine is dismantled or office space is renovated.
Times-Tribune publisher Bobby Lynett says he'll see if the Steamtown National Historic Site railroad museum is interested in the calendar. If not, he'll display it in the newspaper's offices.
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Taos Ski Valley, Studio Karina and K2 have once again joined forces to host a Breast Cancer Awareness Day, to take place on Saturday, Feb. 23, at Taos Ski Valley.
The day-long celebration of women?s health will consist of two fundraising events that will benefit Boarding for Breast Cancer (B4BC), a nonprofit, youth-focused foundation whose mission is to increase awareness about breast cancer, the importance of early detection and the value of an active lifestyle and the Anita Salas Memorial Fund, a nonprofit organization that provides financial assistance for breast cancer services in New Mexico.
In the last three years, the events have raised more than $43,000 for the causes.
The first event, K2 Bumps Challenge, is a fun and challenging skiing/snowboarding competition in which individuals or teams of two raise money through their online sponsorship page, based on the number of times they are able to ski Al?s Run ? one of Taos Ski Valley?s most famous and popular mogul runs ? in the allotted timeframe.
Those who raise the most money and ski the most runs will win prizes.
The K2 Bumps Challenge awards ceremony will take place directly following the event in the Martini Tree Bar in the resort center at the base of the mountain, followed by an unrivaled art exhibit.
Now in its fourth year, Taos Ski Valley and Studio Karina will once again host Paint for Peaks, a snowboard art auction featuring custom, one-of-a-kind painted snowboards created by renowned local and regional artists.
All proceeds from the art sale will go to B4BC and the Anita Salas Memorial Fund. K2 has donated the snowboards that will serve as the canvases and notable artists including Gustavo Victor Goler, JD Challenger, Jim Vogel, Jolene Yazzie, Ira Lujan, Jonathan Sobol and Marianne Fahrney have committed to creating works of art.
?The Breast Cancer Awareness Day celebration at Taos Ski Valley has grown into a favorite for locals and visitors alike, because it offers something for everyone and supports a crucial cause,? said Adriana Blake, administrative manager of Taos Ski Valley. ?We invite everyone to spend the day with us to either take in the exciting race action, peruse one-of-a-kind works of art or both. We are hopeful we can meet and exceed our fundraising milestones from the past three years for the important B4BC and Anita Salas organizations.?
Teams interested in participating in the K2 Bumps Challenge can sign up online after January 1, 2013.
The teams that raise the most money for B4BC and the Anita Salas Memorial Fund and complete Al?s Run the most times will win prizes. In addition, each team will receive select K2 gear.
Paint for Peaks will open to the public at 4 p.m. on Feb. 23. Music, entertainment and the auction are free to attend, and a cash bar will be available.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's pound fell to a record low on Monday as the president signaled his government would allow it to depreciate slowly for several more days to stop a drain on foreign reserves that has driven the economy into crisis since the fall of Hosni Mubarak.
Hit by a new bout of political turmoil in the last month, the pound had weakened to a record low on Sunday at a new dollar auction brought in by the central bank. It fell further at a second auction on Monday, last trading at 6.37 to the dollar on the interbank market.
The drop means the central bank has allowed the pound to slide by almost 3 percent over the last two days after limiting its decline to only 6 percent since the uprising that removed Mubarak from power almost two years ago.
The pound's fall, which is certain to increase the price of imported staples such as tea and sugar, underlines the economic crisis facing President Mohamed Mursi as his administration tries to contain the political fall-out of his move to fast-track a contentious new constitution passed into law last week.
Egyptians panicked by street clashes between Mursi's Islamist backers and his more secular-minded opponents on the streets of Cairo and other cities have rushed to change their pounds into dollars in recent weeks, fearing it would be devalued further.
"The market will return to stability," Mursi told Arab journalists on Sunday evening, the state news agency MENA reported.
The pound's fall "does not worry or scare us, and within days matters will balance out," he said.
Having just sold their last dollar bills, dealers at one Cairo foreign exchange bureau did not bother changing their price board when the new low appeared on their trading screens.
"He took our last dollars," said one of the traders, pointing to a man walking out of the door.
Outside, another man told a friend his dollar hunt had failed. "They have no dollars. What can I do?" he said by mobile phone. "I went to many dealers and could not find dollars."
The fall has been driven mainly by ordinary citizens who have been trying to turn their savings into foreign currency, worried that the pound will weaken further because of the latest political turmoil.
The crisis wiped 10 percent off the value of Egyptian stocks when it erupted in late November. But the main index has mostly recovered since then, climbing in the two sessions since the introduction of the new foreign currency system.
Market participants attribute the rise to buying by Arab and international investors using the cheaper pound to bargain hunt.
FREE FLOATING POUND
The auctions are part of a shift announced on Saturday and designed to conserve foreign reserves, which the bank says are now at "critical" levels that cover just three months of the food, fuel and other goods Egypt imports.
Bankers have described the new system as a move towards establishing a free market value for the pound, which has been tightly controlled since a managed devaluation which ended in 2004.
The head of the Egyptian banking federation said the new system was an "important first step" towards a free float.
In remarks to MENA, Tarek Amer, who is also chairman of Egypt's largest bank, state-owned National Bank of Egypt, said the new system was a success on its first day and had "significantly reduced" demand for dollars.
The central bank has sold about $75 million at each of Sunday's and Monday's auctions.
The run on the pound prompted officials last week to impose controls on how much cash could be physically carried out of the country. Security men at one Cairo bank branch had to remove one customer angered by a $10,000 limit on how much currency he could withdraw, witnesses said.
The changes announced on Saturday include regular foreign currency auctions and also limit how much foreign currency companies can withdraw at a time.
The central bank had spent more than $20 billion - or more than half of its reserves - over the past two years to defend the currency. The reserves fell by a further $448 million in November to about $15 billion.
Prices of imports have already started to rise. Pyramid Oil Field, a firm that imports chemicals for use in water treatment and oil fields, had put up its prices by 10 to 15 percent last week, fearing a further weakening of the pound.
"This instability obliges you to increase the price, to have a safety factor," said Ashraf el-Gamal, president and managing director of the company, told Reuters. "From now on, the contracts will be of a very short validity."
To be on the safe side, he was projecting that the pound would weaken to stand at 9 against the euro, compared to a previous level of 8.
ECONOMY FRAGILE
Prime Minister Hisham Kandil said on Sunday that the economy was in "a very difficult and fragile" situation, adding that he expected talks with the International Monetary Fund on a $4.8 billion loan to resume in January.
Egypt won preliminary approval in November from the IMF for the loan, but delayed seeking final approval until January after it suspended a series of tax increases to allow more time to explain a heavily criticized package of economic austerity measures to the public.
Kandil's efforts to revive the economy have been hit by the latest turmoil, which scared off tourists who had begun to return. On the eve of the anti-Mubarak revolt, Egypt's tourism industry accounted for one in eight jobs.
Mursi hoped that the passage of a new constitution would stabilize Egypt's politics, giving him space to implement economic reforms and attract investment. The constitution, written by Mursi's Islamist allies, was approved in a popular referendum in December.
But it remains the focus of controversy, and the opposition is likely to seize upon austerity measures demanded under an IMF deal as a stick to beat the Muslim Brotherhood ahead of a parliamentary vote expected in early 2013.
Two-fifths of Egypt's 84 million population live around the poverty line and depend on subsidies that are straining the treasury.
Gamal of Pyramid Oil Field said he knew of at least three foreign companies that were hesitant to make large investments in the country because of the instability.
"They are feeling insecure because of everything that is happening," he said. "One is looking to invest billions."
(Additional reporting by Tom Perry; Writing by Tom Perry and Patrick Werr; Editing by Giles Elgood)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-mursi-sees-pound-stabilizing-within-days-105343405--business.html
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The Philadelphia Eagles 2012 season has officially ended, and with it ends the Era of Head Coach Andy Reid. For those masochists scoring at home, the final tally for the former Green Bay Packers assistant reads as such; Fourteen seasons, 10 playoff victories, six NFC East titles, five NFC championship game appearances, three Coach of the Year awards, and an NFC Championship. Oh, and zero Super Bowl victories, for all those who decided 2013 would be the perfect time to start getting into Philadelphia Football.
It is a bummer of a story, the demise of Andrew Walter Reid. Highly successful for the first half of his head coaching career, Reid's windows of opportunity (and yes, there were many) have finally closed. And yet, as we sit here fourteen years after he was introduced as the NFLs youngest head honcho, the people of Philadelphia appear to be prioritizing feelings of relief above those of sadness.
Yes, the masses in the 2-1-5 want him gone. Desperately, in fact. They'll be dancing on his casket in Philadelphia when owner Jeffrey Lurie finally does the deed; the public excitement will likely match that of any of Reid's NFC East title victories.
Don't misinterpret that for a second; the need for Reid's exit doesn't mean fans don't appreciate what he's done, or the years of consistent winning. A 12-4 season sure beats the snot out of a 4-12 one, and the Reid Dynasty brought a lot more of the former over the latter. For that, Philadelphia appreciates, and that appreciation will grow in time (For proof, see: McNabb, Donovan).
It is like any real relationship; as one gets farther away from it, they can sit back and reflect upon the good times and bury the bad, to such a degree one may even forget why it ended in the first place. But even being aware of this fact doesn't change the burning anger of the present; that feeling in ones gut that screams Lord Almighty if I have to look at this persons stupid face for one more second, the next stop is going to be a jury of my peers.
How did it get to this point of such disdain? Let me count the ways.
Reid was, and remains, a frustrating dummy, a stupid jerk who was seemingly incapable of learning from his own mistakes. He displays the football IQ of a third grader who's parents never bought him Madden. He'd go up against the leagues toughest secondary and throw the ball sixty times. His offensive philosophy was best described as "throw to set up the pass."
Every loss was followed by the same thing; some nonsense cover-all excuse about accountability, with none being put on display. He said that word more often than he used a first down draw play; accountability. Like Vizzini in The Princess Bride, one wondered if he knew what that word actually meant. Year after year he went to battle with the likes of Todd Pinkston and James Thrash, ignoring the talent in the free agency pool or the sure-fire prospects that arose in the draft. Year after year, he struggled with time management. Year after year, he left points on the field with atrocious red zone strategy.
He'd leave his most talented weapons on the bench, at the most crucial of moments. He'd make you scratch your head, then pull out your hair, then chuck it at the TV.
Reid has coached in Philly for a generation, so for an entire generation, children in Philadelphia public schools have been taught that Einstein's definition of insanity is an Andy Reid Monday morning press conference.
For crying out loud, he took a lifelong offensive line coach and made him the defensive coordinator! No greater example of Andy Reid Insanity exists, and no other bold adventure likely contributed stronger to his conclusion.
And yet, he was brilliant, for both his boldness and his brawn. His first real move was bringing in a linebackers coach from an unremarkable Seattle team. Jim Johnson built Reid's defense into a perennial strike of thunder. Johnson was a mad scientist, and his genius came to Reid's benefit. His schemes and blitzes would put him in the coordinator Hall of Fame, if their was such a thing, and it seems no coincidence the Iggles have not won a playoff game since his death.
Reid's next bold move was ignoring the public outcry for Ricky Williams and instead drafting a goofy quarterback out of Syracuse. No player is more linked to Reid's legacy than Donovan McNabb, and it can be argued no player benefited more. While his final few years may have damaged his public reputation, the reality is that for over half a decade, McNabb was one of the top quarterbacks on the planet.
Reid took a 5'10" running back from Villanova and maximized his talents to perfection. Brian Westbrook would have been a no-name for any other coach; for Reid he set franchise records.
He turned the likes of A.J. Feeley and Kevin Kolb into highly-desirable quarterback prospects. He got one last productive run out of diminutive Jeff Garcia. He rescued the career... scratch that, life... of Mike Vick, and while that redemption didn't end in a parade down Broad Street, it doesn't alter the remarkableness of it. For an impressive, albeit brief, moment, Mike Vick was back on top of the Sports Universe. And that is due almost entirely to the brilliance of Andy Reid.
"Stinkston" & "Trash" may be punchlines in South Philly now, but the fact that a coach could get anything out of those guys is a gridiron miracle. When Reid finally did win that elusive NFC Conference title, he did so with Freddie Mitchell as his top wide out. FredEx may have thanked his hands for being so great, but if Fourth Down Freddie spoke sign-language, his hands would have been thanking Reid.
And for as PO'd as he got the paying public, he was that beloved by the gentlemen in his lockerroom. Boy, could he rally the troops. Whenever the Birds were left for dead, somehow, someway, Reid righted the ship. In fact, entire seasons went by without Reid's club dropping two in a row. His play-calling left much to be desired, but his week-to-week routine was a recipe for winning.
Whenever a trusted veteran would depart... and many a vet did just that... they would often speak despicably of the front office, of the men in charge who treated players like trading cards. So many bridges were burned on the way out of Philly, it's remarkable the Delaware has any remaining.
But these departing vets, they'd always speak highly of Reid, just as the vets on today's 4-11 roster have. All this, despite final say over roster and personnel being totally (allegedly) under Big Red's control. For some reason... some inexplicable reason... the wrath of a former players scorn was another responsibility Reid somehow found himself free of.
Ah yes, how the locker room loved him. It is a pity, as that level of love was never matched outside of it...
And therein lies the indisputable sadness; if his legacy is indeed close-but-no-cigar, Reid will never receive the unconditional love of Philadelphia that is heaped upon many significantly less-successful men that came before him.
Reid wasn't as brash as Buddy Ryan; he didn't tear up like Dick Vermeil. This, as many a Delaware Valley resident will tell you, proved Reid wasn't a "Philly Guy." After all, if the emotion isn't worn on your sleeve, it must not exist.
That makes as much sense as vomiting on an 11-year-old girl. Reid was more Rocky Balboa than any of them, taking hit after hit and never faltering. He was like a zombie, a thought-less moron with a mustache who just kept marching steadily towards his goal, never deviating from the path he knew was right. In a city like Philadelphia, that's a plan of attack that takes some pretty big stones.
Earlier this season, Reid's right-hand-man, offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg, said "there are some players that can't play in this city. It's that simple. The tough guy, physically and mentally, can thrive, playing for the Philadelphia Eagles and this city."
Reid is the tough guy. Reid thrived in Philly longer than a plethora of its largest heroes did. Longer than Ron Jaworski or Reggie White, Charles Barkley or Dr J. Iverson requested a trade. Dawkins took more money. And yet year after year, through thick and thin, never a rumor arose about Reid considering departing or calling it quits. And make no mistake; it would have been a heck of a lot easier on him to have taken that San Diego or Jacksonville job half a decade ago.
When the hits against Reid came... and oh boy, did they come... the big fella took 'em with a grunt and a cough and some muttering about having to do a better job... and more often than not, that is exactly what he did.
Reid is not just being fired; he is going down with his own ship. What could be more Philly than that?
And therein lies the true tragedy; not that he didn't win the Big One, not that he goes out with barely a whimper. Not even, though it feels insensitive to write, the terrible havoc the life of a football coach played on the Reid family at home.
The true tragedy is that this is who Reid forever is. This is how he is permanently defined. Even if he pulls a Vermeil and wins that elusive ring in spectacular fashion somewhere else, it will never be him in the way these fourteen years will.
Reid is forever linked to Philadelphia; it is his legacy. But the legacy of this city is not forever linked to him; he is not, nor will he ever be, its favorite son.
It is that dreadful thought that puts a lump in the throat a thousand coughs couldn't clear.
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