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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 12 February 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Ongoing glacial isostatic adjustment of Greenland – underscores complexity of geological interaction with climate
- https://phys.org/news/2024-02-rapid-climate-greenland-bedrock-small.html
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/greenland-no-longer-has-to-worry-about-rising-sea-levels/ar-BB1hH4d5
- GNET: https://go-gnet.org/
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023GL104851
Evolution of westerly wind circulation impacted by uplift of Tibetan Plateau – rapid Late Miocene uplift
- https://phys.org/news/2022-09-tibetan-uplift-affects-evolution-westerly.html
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GL099311
- https://phys.org/news/2022-12-reveals-strong-uplift-northeastern-tibet.html
- Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo2475
- https://phys.org/news/2022-08-exploring-mechanism-tibetan-plateau-uplift.html
Hydrologic control of dissolved lithium isotopes in fresh water streams & saltwater
- https://phys.org/news/2022-06-hydrology-lithium-isotopes-rivers-seawater.html
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31076-y
Using stream profiles to trace tectonic evolution in African & Arabian deserts over past 30 million years
- https://phys.org/news/2022-01-recovering-mantle-memories-river-profiles.html
- https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021JF006345
Glaciation of Tibetan Plateau in SE Tibet pre-dating MIS-6 – likely MIS-12 approximately 505ka or older
Paleo-pressures in sedimentary basins critical to petroleum exploration & prospect prediction
Assessing CO2 emissions from Yellowstone
Climate scientists call for new Category 6 on Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale but is based on wind speeds not water which is the most dangerous component – only 5 typhoons with winds of 192 mph or greater over last decade where significant damages caused by poor construction – NHS says “not clear there would be a need for another category”
- https://apnews.com/article/hurricanes-stronger-climate-change-pacific-atlantic-86e3abe2c0cc44c3f729e9205e3e35f7
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05022024/is-the-current-hurricane-warning-system-outdated/
- https://phys.org/news/2024-02-category-super-cyclones-storm-surges.html
Boulders in Haystack Mountain Conglomerate in Wildcat Ridge in Western Nebraska likely deposited about 23 myo by powerful deep flood waters
M5.1 shallow earthquake centered just north of Prague, Oklahoma
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/5-1-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-central-oklahoma-rattling-residents-across-the-state/ar-BB1hI8Lu
- USGS: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ok2024cish/executive
Quantifying erosional response to mountain building over long time scales in Argentine Precordillera
- https://phys.org/news/2016-07-huge-time-lag-erosion-mountain.html
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X16303028
Two-decade-long trend in number of cases of Valley Fever in California – typically a self-limited respiratory illness but may lead to progressive pulmonary disease or severe disseminated disease
Landslide & debris flow season has arrived once again in California
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2024/02/06/southern-california-weather-floods-mudslides-atmospheric-river/72488247007/
- https://apnews.com/article/california-storms-atmospheric-river-d6920af2dbaead274a30229cdbba7d97
New PACE satellite to monitor ocean plankton & atmospheric aerosols
Olivine serves as catalyst for reaction that produces sugar molecules from formaldehyde
- https://eos.org/articles/olivine-may-have-given-life-a-jump-start
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X23005691
Stable metal isotopes might reveal reaction of coral to environmental stressors
Using structural geology to analyze metamorphic fabrics (e.g., lineation & foliation) & elasticity
Meteorite that fell near Berlin, Germany, in January 2024 is an achondrite of the aubrite type
Understanding extreme snowfall events in Utah – great for skiing in Little Cottonwood Canyon
Theory on origin of the Seattle Fault Zone
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/a-new-origin-story-for-deadly-seattle-fault/ar-BB1hSRsr
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022TC007720
475 mudslides identified so far during current storm in Southern California
- https://abc7.com/mudslide-landslide-storm-la/14391690/
- https://phys.org/news/2024-02-mud-debris-hillsides-california.html
Further refining Theory of Plate Tectonics – faults in the Pacific Plate – Syn-Drift Tectonics
- https://phys.org/news/2024-02-geoscientists-pacific-plate-scored-large.html
- Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL105452
Landslide of contaminated waste threatens Olst, Denmark – 3M to 6M cubic meters of polluted dirt
Origins of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/study-challenges-origins-of-earth-s-most-powerful-ocean-current-system/ar-BB1hUnKw
- https://web.ub.edu/en/web/actualitat/w/ub-study-challenges-the-classical-view-of-the-origin-of-the-antarctic-circumpolar-current?tn=np
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01356-3
“super El Niño” is now past peak on downward trend to neutral phase in spring – “difficult to attribute any single weather system or series of them to El Niño”
Unmanned submersible vehicle Ran of University of Gothenburg lost while exploring Thwaites Glacier
Snowboarders trigger avalanches in backcountry of Lake Tahoe
The “hockey stick chart” guy sing for defamation because others disagreed with his “science” – but science is debate and questioning – take those away and you have ideology like IPCC & Gore as Mann joins Democrat politicians on the campaign trail - $1M verdict is outrageous
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/after-waiting-12-years-this-famed-climate-scientist-fights-his-critics-in-court/ar-BB1hUXjW
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/climate-scientist-michael-mann-says-1m-verdict-sends-a-clear-message/ar-BB1i3k3T
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09022024/michael-mann-defamation-verdict/
“legalisation of non-compliant buildings through amnesties” cause of deaths in 2023 Turkey earthquake
- https://finance.yahoo.com/news/investigators-identify-main-cause-casualties-145704211.html
- Report download: https://www.istructe.org/resources/report/eefit-mission-report-turkey-february-2023/
Pterosaur skeleton found on Isle of Skye
- https://currently.att.yahoo.com/gma/flying-dinosaur-skeleton-discovered-isle-192209723.html
- Paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2023.2298741
Low CO2 levels may have been potential cause of Ice Age 717-661 myo – misnomer of “snowball Earth” implies entire planet under Sturtian glaciation rather than just major continental glaciation
Shallow M4.0 earthquake centered about 100 miles east of the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/florida-earthquake-is-largest-ever-recorded-off-the-state-s-east-coast-as-rare-4-0-magnitude-tremor-strikes-just-101-miles-off-the-coast-of-cape-canaveral/ar-BB1hZzmI
- https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000lxp2/executive
Long history of major earthquakes in the Solomon Islands – evidence of 6 events during past 3,000 years
Largest natural flow of hydrogen measured in the Bulqizë chromite mine in Albania
Late Pleistocene Ice Ages in non-glaciated part of the World were much wetter than previously thought
Wildfires transform aquatic environments as debris flows into water bodies
- https://new.nsf.gov/news/wildfires-transform-aquatic-ecosystems
- Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.17058
Wollemi pine “dinosaur tree” dates back 91 million years growing in Australia
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/dinosaur-trees-thought-extinct-for-2-million-years-found-in-australia-botanical-find-of-the-century/ar-BB1i0hBB
- https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/plants-and-animals/wollemi-pine
380 myo air-breathing lobe-finned fish fossil found in Harajica Sandstone north of Alice Springs, Australia
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1033535
- Paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2023.2285000
M5.7 earthquake in Hawaii
- https://abcnews.go.com/US/63-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-hawaiis-big-island/story?id=107112019
- https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/hv74103036/executive
Amateur paleontologists uncovered 470 myo fossil site in Montagne Noire Mountain Range in France
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/amateurs-find-world-class-fossil-site-from-470-million-years-ago/ar-BB1i23GQ
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02331-w
Sanfordiacaulis densifolia – 3-D Devonian forest fossils discovered in New Brunswick, Canada
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/unraveling-the-mysteries-of-prehistoric-flora-through-3d-fossil-discoveries/ar-BB1hXTbG
- Paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00011-3#%20
High-tech safety equipment to improve survival of avalanches
Fatal landslide in Wrangell, Alaska, triggered by heavy rainfall
- https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2024/02/08/alaska-state-geologists-report-on-fatal-landslide-in-wrangell-cites-heavy-rainfall-as-trigger/
- Report: https://dggs.alaska.gov/webpubs/dggs/pir/text/pir2024_002.pdf
Atmospheric CO2 over the past 66 million years – Quaternary is way below average – Ice Ages
Rapid ice loss of West Antarctic Ice Sheet about 8,000 years ago
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1033375
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01375-8
Ausable Chasm in western New York State
AMOC “en route to tipping” based on modeling of just the last millennium
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09022024/climate-impacts-from-collapse-of-atlantic-meridional-overturning-current-could-be-worse-than-expected/
- Paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1189
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Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 12 February 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Nationwide recall of cheese & cheese products – Listeria outbreak caused by Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc – products sold nationwide under variety of brand names including 365 Whole Foods & Trader Joes
Resurgence of diseases in US: lower vaccination rates, Americans returning from other countries, uncontrolled Southern Border with illegal aliens who are not vaccinated & carry diseases (some drug resistant) – number of cases in California increasing since 2020 with 19% increase in Santa Clara County
- https://currently.att.yahoo.com/lifestyle/measles-and-tuberculosis-should-be-long-forgotten-why-are-cases-rising-in-the-us-234936760.html
- https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/01/30/why-tb-cases-are-rising-in-california-after-decades-of-decline/
Earth has had 12 consecutive months of temperatures 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial era – guess what? Earth did not boil, the world is still turning, life goes on – so much for dire warnings of global-warming alarmists
- https://phys.org/news/2024-02-world-months-15c-climate.html
- https://eos.org/articles/oceans-may-have-already-seen-1-7c-of-warming
- Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01919-7
7,156, 685 illegal aliens entered the US from January 2021 to now – that more than the entire population of the State of Arizona – that does not include the estimated “gotaways”
Illegal aliens who beat NYPD officers were released without bail & fled to Arizona where they were arrested – used false identities to secure free bus tickets from Catholic charity
Perspective: Living through the fiery end of California
Tourons abounding without any common sense
No more “flushable” logo on wet wipes
Two-decade-long trend in number of cases of Valley Fever in California – typically a self-limited respiratory illness but may be progressive pulmonary disease or lead to severe disseminated disease
Buffalo Reef Task Force releases draft alternatives analysis for disposal of stamp sands (copper mine tailings) in Lake Superior
- https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MIDNR/bulletins/387c29a
- Saving Buffalo Reef & Links to Analysis: https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/managing-resources/fisheries/units/buffalo-reef
Not a big surprise: failure of drug decriminalization in Oregon – dramatic increase in overdose deaths, public drug use of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, meth, etc. & crime
24 wild horses (mustangs) killed in last month during federal round-up in Nevada – cruel & brutal treatment by BLM contractors
- East Pershing Complex: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13029641/wild-horses-roped-dragged-Nevada-blm-roundup.html
- McCullough Peaks mustangs: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/01/29/wild-mustang-advocates-cry-foul-after-popular-mare-dies-in-blm-corral/
Australian government aims to reduce wild horse (brumby) population in New South Wales by another 3,000 – most removed in 2023 were shot
- https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/in-three-months-aerial-culling-knocks-out-record-number-of-feral-horses-20240130-p5f12a.html
- https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/pest-animals-and-weeds/pest-animals/wild-horses/managing-wild-horses/kosciuszko-national-park-wild-horse-management/implementation-2021
Snowplow parenting does not nurture maturity & responsibility but does further burden the parents
Beware of the latest marketing gimmick - “functional foods” are not a new thing
- https://www.huschblackwell.com/newsandinsights/the-future-of-functional-foods?li_fat_id=c1f05afe-a997-4435-bc36-fbe4177d1f7a
- Paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC113804/#:~:text=Functional%20foods%20are%20defined%20broadly,physiological%20benefit%20to%20the%20consumer.
Dioxin and related test data for soil and water at East Palestine, Ohio, train wreck & burn site posted to EPA website – “dangerous levels” 19X screening level
- https://whistleblower.org/press-release/over-1500-pages-of-east-palestine-dioxin-related-testing-found-buried-on-epa-website/
- https://www.epa.gov/east-palestine-oh-train-derailment/phase-one-residential-commercial-and-agricultural-soil-sampling
- https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2023-10/phase-1-soil-sampling-technical-memo-20230914pdf.pdf
- https://www.epa.gov/dioxin/learn-about-dioxin
1.4 metric tons of liquid heroin seized in Oregon linked to Mexican drug trafficking ring
Now archeology is being called racist – history of Native Americans based on science & oral tradition
Proposed legislation would prohibit lab-grown meat from being served in school lunches
Calling illegal aliens entering our county a humanitarian crisis – undertook an inherently dangerous journey & put “rescuers” at risk – illegals exploit asylum
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-fight-to-save-lives-in-the-treacherous-california-desert-a-broken-ankle-is-a-death-sentence/ar-BB1hKU8U
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/mail-on-sunday-comment-proof-that-the-elite-has-contempt-for-common-sense-on-migration/ar-BB1hJzkQ
Climate scientists call for new Category 6 on Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale based on wind speeds not water which is the most dangerous component – only 5 typhoons with winds of 192 mph or greater over last decade where significant damages caused by poor construction – NHS says “not clear there would be a need for another category” – “adapting” to super storms means “getting out of the way”
- https://apnews.com/article/hurricanes-stronger-climate-change-pacific-atlantic-86e3abe2c0cc44c3f729e9205e3e35f7
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05022024/is-the-current-hurricane-warning-system-outdated/
- https://phys.org/news/2024-02-category-super-cyclones-storm-surges.html
Vibrations detected in cooling system of second nuclear reactor will delay operation of Plant Vogtle Unit 4
2nd Edition: “Revenge of the Microbes” – How human activity promoted extremely rapid evolution of antimicrobial resistance
Economic impacts of illegal immigration hit all sectors of the country – existing laws not being enforced
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/elon-musk-weighs-in-on-the-economic-impacts-of-illegal-immigration/ar-BB1hLTu8
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/elon-musk-calls-out-2-3-billion-allocated-to-ngo-personnel-facilitating-illegal-immigration-in-border-bill/ar-BB1hObEZ
Landowners do not want CO2 pipelines – but eminent domain being used to take their land
California was not prepared for current “atmospheric river” storm
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/atmospheric-river-pounds-california-but-seen-as-only-the-beginning/ar-BB1hLK70
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/southern-california-weather-see-photos-of-heavy-rain-flooding-from-pineapple-express/ar-BB1hNRcN
Cannabis-induced psychosis – mental health & substance use disorders
Political issues hindered response to 2023 earthquake in Turkey
Perspective: Proclaimed “rise in global temperature” matched by remorseless rise of authoritarianism
- https://cleantechnica.com/2024/02/05/rising-temperatures-and-rising-authoritarianism-two-trends-that-are-intertwined/
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28012024/with-world-warming-scientists-warn-of-unrest-and-authoritarian-backlash/
Bangkok Post – leading English-language daily newspaper in Thailand published article stating multiple vaxxing may weaken immune system and lead to cancer and brain disorders
New study tries to attribute estimated “excess deaths” to covid – fudging numbers since peaks of graphs do not match spikes of covid
1 in 10 premature births in US linked to pre-natal exposure to phthalate chemicals in common plastic products
- https://phys.org/news/2024-02-premature-births-linked-plastic-chemicals.html
- Paper: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00270-X/fulltext
Online dashboard of threats posed by old uranium mines & mills in New Mexico
- https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08022024/new-online-dashboard-identifies-threats-posed-by-uranium-mines-and-mills-in-new-mexico/
- Dashboard: https://nmenv.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/690621694d4e4906b2ae2886f528eec1
USDA NRCS seeks public comment on 8 conservation practices
- https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs-initiatives/eqip-environmental-quality-incentives/news/nrcs-seeks-public-comment-on-8
- https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/getting-assistance/conservation-practices?utm_campaign=0206public_comment
- https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/02/02/2024-02077/proposed-revisions-to-the-national-handbook-of-conservation-practices-for-the-natural-resources
Here’s the latest make-money scheme backed by Bill Gates: build bio-blocks and then bury them to remove just 15,000 metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere per year – you, too, can pay $100 per ton – will not make much difference since US produced 4.9 billion metric tons of CO2 in 2022 – classified as construction debris even though they are manufactured - still waiting on construction debris landfill permit to bury the bricks
Wal-Mart and General Mills plan to support sustainable farming initiatives – regenerative agriculture
Estimated 6 tons of highly radioactive water leaked through air vent of treatment machine at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant forming pond that seeped into the soil – remediation under way
70 invasive earthworm species imported from Asia, Europe & South America pose threat to North American ecosystem – most imported as fish bait
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/experts-warn-north-america-is-in-the-midst-of-an-alien-invasion-as-70-species-of-foreign-earthworms-from-asia-and-europe-ravage-the-environment/ar-BB1i2BV9
- https://news.stanford.edu/2024/02/08/earthworm-invasion/
Nevada jury awards $130M in damages to patients who suffered severe liver damage from contaminated trendy akalinized bottled Real Water that contained with rocket fuel chemical hydrazine
Warm weather has temporarily halted the annal survey of wolf & moose populations on Isle Royale
Climate crisis - wind energy implodes, Suez & Panama Canals, California floods,
Shell Oil permanently closing all seven light-duty pumping stations in California – will not build 48 others
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/shell-is-immediately-closing-all-of-its-california-hydrogen-stations/ar-BB1i2Zn4
- https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/transport/shell-permanently-closes-all-of-its-hydrogen-refuelling-stations-for-cars-in-california/2-1-1596104
Perspective: Who Says Border Barriers Don’t Work? Of course they do!
The economy is not great: financial distress is on the rise and you know who is at fault
Fudging lots of numbers to try to make the economy look good
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Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board - 12 February 2024 – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford
Perspective: Biden offshore wind initiative set to join the Titanic
Passengers & crew members sickened aboard Cunard Cruise Line ship
Local marine terraces in New Zealand suggest earthquakes on complex series of faults in upper plate of Hikurangi Subduction Margin caused coastal uplift
Genetic footprint in kelp suggests prehistoric rupture of Akatore Fault that resulted in 2- to 3-meter uplift of SE coast of New Zealand about 1,000 to 1,400 years ago
- https://phys.org/news/2019-06-kelp-dna-destructive-power-ancient.html
- Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X19303048
Escalating costs of trying to futilely repair or prevent coastal bluff erosion in Southern California
- https://www.ocregister.com/2024/02/02/as-coastal-bluffs-collapse-costs-mount-for-repairs-prevention/
Construction planned for $29M overpass linking Port of Savannah to nearby roadway
Planned US$1.8B bridge connecting Bahia, Brazil, to Itaparica Island will be second longest bridge in South America
Orsted wrote off $4Billion in New Jersey due to cancellation of 2 large offshore wind projects – now cutting almost 9% of jobs, suspension of dividends and exiting several markets
- https://fortune.com/2023/11/01/danish-wind-giant-orsted-writes-off-4-billion-offshore-new-jersey/
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/orsted-months-after-a-4-billion-write-off-on-offshore-wind-projects-in-the-most-painful-part-of-its-portfolio-decides-to-cut-jobs-halt-dividends-and-quit-several-markets/ar-BB1hVGex
$6M subsidies for development of tidal energy research, development, and demonstration pilot sites in Rosario Strait in San Juan Islands & in Cook Inlet in Alaska to produce less than 7 MW of power
Cameroon extending first exploration period of Tower Resources Thali offshore production sharing contract
- https://www.offshore-mag.com/drilling-completion/article/14304868/cameroon-approves-extension-period-for-tower-resources-offshore-njom-well
- https://www.oedigital.com/news/511402-tower-resources-gets-exploration-license-extension-in-cameroon
- https://www.towerresources.co.uk/operations/cameroon/
Sea otters helped restore their own habitat along the California coast
British Petroleum (BP) backing away from US offshore wind – but politicians still pushing that boulder uphill
- BP: https://www.eenews.net/articles/bp-backs-away-from-us-offshore-wind/
- Maryland: https://www.marylandmatters.org/2024/02/07/house-leaders-prepping-legislation-to-boost-md-offshore-wind/
- California: https://calmatters.org/environment/2024/02/offshore-wind-bond-california/
Record 37 humpback whales dead last year – second dead humpback whale in last 3 weeks beaches in Maryland amid rapid offshore wind development
Diamond Offshore Drilling equipment failure – loss of semi-submersible rig ‘Ocean GreatWhite’ in North Atlantic
Siem Offshore working with Wärtsilä Norway to develop technologies to reduce CO2 emissions of 26-vessel fleet
Update: US Appeals Court reviewing Willow Oil Project in Alaska
King tides along California Coast
Eddi Aikau Big Wave Invitational surfing event on yellow alert as 50-foot waves predicted for Hawaii
Surge in raw sewage across the Border via Tijuana River from Mexico into San Diego amid historic storms – surge in gastrointestinal illness
15 massive illegal oil refining sites discovered in Nigeria – capacity to process 2.7M liters crude oil per day – ongoing Operation Delta Sanity
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
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