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The price of materials and fuel paid by UK manufacturers rose at an annual rate of 13.4% in January, underlining concerns about inflation.
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An unlikely pairing? Their parties are working together behind the scenes The political marriage between Nick Clegg and David Cameron may be so strong that the idea of a future Lib/Lab Coalition looks rather fanciful.
And yet there are those in both parties who are gently blowing on the flickering embers of Lib/Lab cooperation.
Significantly a dozen or so Lib Dem former Parliamentary candidates and councillors have now decided to join the Labour Party’s policy review.
This is an unprecedented step.
Many in both parties will probably be intensely suspicious of the move.
Some Lib Dems will suspect their colleagues are simply being used by Labour.
Some in Labour will be deeply sceptical about allowing their political enemies to contribute to their next manifesto.
But Richard Grayson, the Lib Dem’s former head of policy who is among those joining Labour’s review, says it is simply about breaking down tribal divisions on the left and sharing ideas.
“This is about making progressive politics stronger and getting in place a coalition that votes for a more progressive kind of politics at the next election”
Liam Byrne Labour policy chief
It is, of course, also about building firmer bridges between Labour and the Lib Dems and opening up the possibility that after the next election the two parties could work together.
“We have to think about the prospect of a different coalition in the foreseeable future,” says Mr Grayson.
“There has been much talk of ‘the new politics’ but unless we are prepared to engage with Labour then there is a danger that ‘new politics’ will simply mean working with the Conservatives.”
From the Labour side too there is also a pressing need to forge better relations with the Lib Dems after they collapsed in acrimony in the days after the last election. And many in Labour still appear to enjoy nothing more than baiting and mocking Liberal Democrats.
Some senior voices in Labour, however, are keenly aware that they face an electoral mountain at the next election, particularly if the planned boundary review goes ahead, possibly depriving them of a further 20 seats.
And there is also a nagging worry that the electorate may have decided to bring to an end the era of one party government.
Hence the need to open up the possibility of a Lib/Lab coalition.
Publicly, of course, Labour figures are still careful to insist that they are fighting for an outright majority at the next election and that the cooperation with the Lib Dems over the policy review is simply about sharing ideas.
But the head of Labour’s policy review Liam Byrne does not close down all talk of coalition.
“This is about making progressive politics stronger,” he says, “And getting in place a coalition that votes for a more progressive kind of politics at the next election.”
And there is a also wider momentum developing behind cooperation between the two parties.
The left wing think tank Compass is currently balloting its members on allowing Lib Dems to join; and thinkers from the two parties regularly share platforms and attend seminars together.
One Lib Dem think tanker told me that 80% of their joint work was with Labour-leaning organisations rather than Conservative groups.
What seems clear is that on the broad left of British politics there is a growing acceptance that, if the left is to win, it may have to start learning to work together.
After all, if Nick Clegg and David Cameron if can forge a coalition why can’t the left?
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Mankind’s capacity to store the colossal amount of information in the world has been measured by scientists.
The study, published in the journal Science, calculates the amount of data stored in the world by 2007 as 295 exabytes.
That is the equivalent of 1.2 billion average hard drives.
The researchers calculated the figure by estimating the amount of data held on 25 technologies from PCs and and DVDs to paper adverts and books.
“If we were to take all that information and store it in books, we could cover the entire area of the US or China in 3 layers of books,” Dr Martin Hilbert of the University of Southern California told BBC News.
Computer storage has traditionally been measured in kilobytes, then megabytes, and now usually gigabytes. After that comes terabytes, petabytes, then exabytes. One exabyte is a billion gigabytes.
The same information stored digitally on CDs would create a stack of discs that would reach beyond the moon, according to the researchers.
Scientists calculated the figure by estimating the amount of data held on 60 analogue and digital technologies during the period from 1986 to 2007. They considered everything from computer hard drives to obsolete floppy discs, and x-ray films to microchips on credit cards.
The survey covers a period known as the “information revolution” as human societies transition to a digital age. It shows that in 2000 75% of stored information was in an analogue format such as video cassettes, but that by 2007, 94% of it was digital.
“There have been other revolutions before.” Dr Hilbert told the BBC’s Science in Action programme.
“The car changed society completely, or electricity. Every 40, 50 or 60 years something grows faster than anything else, and right now it’s information.
“Basically what you can do with information is transmit it through space, and we call that communication. You can transmit it through time; we call that storage. Or you can transform it, manipulate it, change the meaning of it, and we call that computation.”
Other results from the global survey show that we broadcast around two zettabytes of data (a zettabyte is 1000 exabytes). That’s the equivalent of 175 newspapers per person, per day.
The fastest growing area of information manipulation has been computation. During the two decades the survey covers, global computing capacity increased by 58% per year.
These numbers may sound large, but they are still dwarfed by the information processing and storage capacity of nature.
“The Human DNA in one single body can store around 300 times more information than we store in all our technological devices” according to Dr Hilbert.
This study looked at the world as a whole, but the scientists say that it does show that the “digital divide” between rich and poor countries is growing. Despite the spread of computers and mobile phones, the capacity to process information is becoming more unequal.
In 2002 people in the developed world could communicate eight times more information than people in the developing world. Just five years later, in 2007, that gap has nearly doubled, and people in richer countries have 15 times more information carrying capacity.
The study also pinpoints the arrival of the digital age as 2002, the first year worldwide digital storage capacity overtook analogue capacity.
Hear more about the study on Science in Action on the BBC World Service.
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The government says the system of checks on child workers has become too bureaucratic Millions of people in England and Wales who work or volunteer with children and vulnerable adults will no longer need criminal record checks, ministers say.
The change is part of the government’s Freedoms Bill, being unveiled later.
It also includes limits on police stop and search powers, ends indefinite storage of innocent people’s DNA, and gives residents more control over CCTV.
But some child protection campaigners fear it will be easier for adults in positions of trust to abuse children.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said: “The Freedoms Bill will protect millions of people from state intrusion in their private lives and mark a return to common sense government.
“Protecting children and keeping them safe remains our top priority, but it’s also important that well meaning adults are not put off working or volunteering with children”
Tim Loughton Children’s minister
“It delivers on our commitment to restore hard-won British liberties with sweeping reforms that will end the unnecessary scrutiny of law-abiding individuals.”
The new bill calls for a merging of the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority to form “a streamlined new body providing a proportionate barring and criminal records checking service”.
That body will provide what ministers say will be a more “proportionate” checking service for about 4.5m people who work “closely and regularly” with children or vulnerable adults.
Teachers will continue to be vetted – but those who do occasional, supervised volunteer work will not.
Job applicants will also be able to see the results of their criminal record check before their prospective employer so mistakes can be corrected.
And the bill promises a “portability of criminal records checks between jobs to cut down on needless bureaucracy” and to stop “employers who knowingly request criminal records checks on individuals who are not entitled to them”.
Home Secretary Theresa May suspended Labour’s Vetting and Barring scheme – set up in 2009 after an inquiry into the murders of the Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman – in June last year and a review was carried out.
Children’s minister Tim Loughton said: “The new system will be less bureaucratic and less intimidating. It will empower organisations to ask the right questions and make all the appropriate pre-employment checks, and encourage everyone to be vigilant.
“Protecting children and keeping them safe remains our top priority, but it’s also important that well meaning adults are not put off working or volunteering with children.”
However, former police detective and child protection expert Mark Williams Thomas has told the BBC he believes the changes will give offenders more opportunities to gain access to children.
“If it was about keeping children safe then this vetting scheme would continue. CRB would continue in the fashion it is,” he said.
“This is simply about saving money, it’s about scrapping any ideas that Labour had previously. Whoever is advising the government on this position has got it completely wrong.”
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Cardinal Simonis said he thought the priest had changed A senior figure in the Dutch Catholic Church protected a priest who sexually abused children, Dutch media reports say.
Cardinal Ad Simonis is accused of knowing of the allegations made against the priest when he transferred him to another parish, where he abused again.
According to AFP, Mr Simonis said that at the time he believed that the priest – who has not been named – had changed.
He said the priest’s renewed abuse in Amersfoort was “lamentable”.
The priest was moved from his parish in Zoetermeer to a parish in Amersfoort after the local bishop complained about his abuse, Radio Netherlands says.
Ad Simonis – who served as archbishop from 1983 to 2007 – Radio Netherlands reports, did not tell the new parish of Amersfoort about the allegations against the priest, or monitor his behaviour.
Dutch officials say six of the priest’s victims reported incidents to the police from 1987 to 2008, the radio station reports.
Erwin Meester, who says he was abused by the priest, is quoted as telling Radio Free Netherlands that Cardinal Simonis “wilfully and knowingly gave a paedophile his protection, when he should have been protecting the faithful under his care”.
Outrage
According to AFP the cardinal admitted in a statement that he was “aware” of the priest’s history. He said the priest had undergone therapy and received “serious, written psychological advice” which he believed was “adequate” ahead of the appointment.
He also added that there had never been any signal from the parish that the priest “had fallen back into child abuse”, saying the allegations first came to light on Wednesday.
The cardinal, now retired, caused outrage last year when, commenting on abuse within the Catholic Church in the Netherlands said that they had known nothing of it.
He repeated a phrase in German, rather than Dutch, which is associated with Nazi excuses after World War II.
In March 2010, Dutch bishops ordered an independent inquiry into more than 200 allegations of sexual abuse of children by priests, in addition to three cases dating from 1950 to 1970.
Allegations first centred on Don Rua monastery school in the eastern Netherlands, with people saying they were abused by Catholic priests in the 1960s and 70s.
This prompted dozens more alleged victims from other institutions to come forward.
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Budget airlines are likely to be at the centre of the complaint A super-complaint is to be launched about the “murky practice” of surcharges levied on customers who pay by debit or credit card.
The charges are higher than the actual cost of processing these payments, says consumers’ association Which?
Retailers, local authorities, estate agents and cinemas all imposed the charges, it claimed, with low-cost airlines the worst offenders.
But a group representing retailers said the complaint was misplaced.
When the super-complaint is handed to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) on 7 March, the regulator will be required to give a response within 90 days.
If the regulator thinks there is a case to answer, then it can decide to launch a full investigation in its own right.
In the meantime, plans for a super-complaint have led to a series of claims and counter-claims across various industries.
Which? is arguing that the cost of processing a debit card payment is no more than 20p per transaction. For credit cards, it estimates the cost to be no more than 2% of the transaction.
The consumer group claims that the surcharges – levied at the point of payment – are often a fixed amount far in excess of the retailers’ costs and can increase owing to the number of people purchasing tickets.
It also claims that low-cost airlines charge a fee per passenger, per leg of the journey, even though there is only one payment to process.
“There is simply no justification for excessive card charges. Paying by card should cost the consumer the same amount that it costs the retailer,” said Which? chief executive Peter Vicary-Smith.
The group that represents the card providers has welcomed the complaint “Companies should not be using card processing costs as an excuse for boosting their profits.
“Low-cost airlines are some of the worst offenders when it comes to excessive card surcharges but this murky practice is becoming ever-more widespread, from cinemas to hotels and even some local authorities.”
The claims prompted an angry response from the retailers’ body, the British Retail Consortium (BRC), which blamed the card providers for high charges.
“On average, the banks’ charges for processing a credit card transaction are 15 times higher than for cash. But responsible, competitive retailers charge customers the same price for an item regardless of how they pay,” said BRC director general Stephen Robertson .
“I cannot speak for budget airlines, but retailers are actually protecting card-using customers from the bank’s excessive charges on them.
“We have been engaged in a longstanding campaign and legal action to bring those fees down to levels that reflect the actual, very low, costs of processing transactions. The banks should play fair by their customers as retailers do with theirs.
“There is a big card issue for retailers. It is the widely varying fees banks levy on them for processing the different payment methods. That is something few customers are aware of.”
However, the group which represents the debit and credit card providers has taken the side of Which? by supporting the super-complaint.
“We hope the Which? super-complaint forces the OFT to take further action against companies padding their profits with unfair excess charges”
Prashant Vaze Consumer Focus
“We called for government action to curb excessive surcharging for card payments ahead of the last election,” said Melanie Johnson, who chairs the UK Cards Association.
“It is high time customers are given a voice where the true cost of what they are buying is made clear to them.”
The super-complaint by Which? will call for:
Retailers to tell customers upfront and in plain language about surchargesThe charges levied on customers to be the same as the cost to the retailerRetailers to absorb the “small” cost of processing debit card payments.
Prashant Vaze, head of fair markets at watchdog Consumer Focus, said: “Any debit or credit card charge should only be cost reflective. For far too long firms have made a quick buck through confusing and unfair card charges, which bear no relationship to the costs levied by payment agencies.”
“We hope the Which? super-complaint forces the OFT to take further action against companies padding their profits with unfair excess charges.”
Super-complaints have been in the armoury of consumer groups since 2002. Examples so far have included complaints about bank charges, payment protection insurance, prison call costs and doorstep lending.
In December, the OFT warned retailers about tricking customers with misleading price offers, including “drip pricing” such as adding compulsory delivery costs.
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Knowles attended the 2008 Glastonbury festival “as a fan”, her record company said Singer Beyonce Knowles will be one of the headline acts at Glastonbury this year, her record company has announced.
The US pop star will perform on the Pyramid Stage on the last day of the event in Pilton in Somerset, Columbia Records revealed in a statement.
“I’m pumped just thinking about that huge audience and soaking up their energy,” the 29-year-old star said.
Organisers of the festival, which runs from 22 to 26 June, have yet to officially announce 2011’s line-up.
Tickets for this year’s event went on sale in October and sold out in around four hours.
“This really is the biggest festival in the world and I cannot wait to perform there,” said Knowles.
“Everyone who attends is really appreciative of music and is in such a good mood that entire weekend.”
Last year’s line-up included Stevie Wonder, Kylie Minogue and Gorillaz, who stepped in when U2 were forced to pull out.
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In 2011, most men and women feel that the need for hats, ties, suits and furled umbrellas has waned slightly On Fridays many dress down, but is the suit in general decline as the standard business wear?
Once upon a time British cities at rush hour were a sea of grey suits, bowler hats and umbrellas.
The contrast with today is stark. It’s not just the arrival of women in the workforce that has changed things but the shift away from suits to smart casual, jeans and even in some quarters trainers, T-shirts and flip flops. For both sexes.
A recent poll of 2,000 British workers by online bank First Direct found that only one in 10 employees wears a suit every day, more than a third of staff opt for jeans and only 18% regularly wear a tie.
Earlier this year, UBS created brief uproar when it unveiled a 43-page dress code for staff. It soon backed down in the face of much mockery over its demand for women to wear skin coloured underwear and men to have monthly haircuts.
Watch The Apprentice and there are plenty of suits to be seen on men and women But there were some unlikely defenders.
The Financial Times’s work commentator Lucy Kellaway wrote in her column: “Clad in my sloppy flannel pyjamas and fleece dressing gown, I’m looking again at the UBS booklet and thinking how crisp those lovely shirts look and marvelling at the wisdom of the advice.”
Rather than Big Brother as critics had claimed, it “smacks of big sister and a kindly, helpful one at that”, she wrote.
But Cary Cooper, professor of organisational psychology at Lancaster University Management School, feels the world has moved on. Formality is out, and about time too.
Humphrey, graphic designer: I wear trainers, jeans and a shirt or jumper, sometimes a T-shirt. Never a shirt and tie – I wouldn’t want a job that demanded them. Jeans and combats used to be banned but now it’s fine.
Vernon, City analyst: Most days chinos and smart shirt but I wear a suit and tie when seeing clients. I like it to be relaxed. A couple of hedge funders like to show they can do what they like and wear ripped jeans.
Louis, GP: I wear smart trousers and shirt. No suit or white coat as you might seem too authoritarian. No tie – they’re unhygienic. Flip-flops, shorts, or visible thongs would be seen as unprofessional.
Astrid, equity sales: A dress or skirt usually, definitely if I’m meeting clients. Sometimes jeans. In general men have trousers that are far too short, bad shoes and awful hair styles. Women wear “sexy” outfits with fishnet tights and low cut tops.
Barry, IT manager: Black suit trousers and smart shirt. Things have loosened up. About 15 years ago a manager of mine came in wearing flip flops – it severely damaged her credibility. I doubt that would happen these days.
Francesca, corporate lawyer: ‘Business casual’ is the order of the day – skirts/trousers with tops, or a dress. No suits/ties necessary unless you have a client meeting. But some take it really seriously and wear a suit all the time.
Samantha, teacher: I wear smart grey/black trousers with a V-necked top or casual blouse. Jacket is only for parents’ evening and not always then. The men all wear ties and suit trousers but lots wear jumpers instead of jackets. In summer I wear flowery skirts and flip flops if I can get away with it.
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“Even in the City, people are wearing suits but no ties. They aren’t coming in with jeans but smart casual.”
Many professions have been “dress down” for decades but the trend in financial services began on Wall Street with dress down Friday about 15 years ago, he believes.” The objective was to let staff get on with paperwork on a Friday and wind down to the weekend. It led people to question why they needed to wear a suit in the first place.”
But there’ll be a suit hanging there and a tie in a draw in case they have to go and meet clients, he says. But doesn’t this rush towards chinos, shirts and jumpers signal a lowering of the tone and a loss of focus?
“I disagree,” says Prof Cooper. “There’s no definitive research on the effect of dress on productivity. But I’d be surprised if we didn’t find that smart casual saw productivity rise. The more informal an office – as long as it’s not slovenly – the better the communication. It’s about making the office less stressful.”
While the suit may survive, Prof Cooper believes the tie has had its day.
“What is the point of a tie? It’s the weirdest thing. If someone from Mars went into an office the first question they’d ask is ‘what’s that thing round your neck?”
Suits were once the unimaginative uniform of middle-aged men, but today some argue it’s the casual look that smacks of blandness. The artists Gilbert & George, synonymous with smart, tailored suits, certainly think so.
In an interview with the Evening Standard in 2009, Gilbert said: “We are more offended by blue jeans than anything else. They are appalling. It’s a uniform,” before George adding: “It’s the fear of standing out. The fear of being different.”
And Fiona Allison, head of design at tailors Jermyn Street Design, says the suit has something we jettison at our peril. “What’s good about the suit is you get the uniformity of everyone looking smart. And if you look professional you act professional. I think it’s a shame more people are going to work in what they wear at the weekend.”
It is possible to look un-businesslike in a suit Some of her clients have asked for suits that tone down the formality but are still smart. So for a mobile phone operator she designed a smart suit to go with a polo shirt, while staff at a new boutique hotel staff wear a suit, trainers, and no tie.
Informality is not a given though. The influence of uber-stylish Mad Men, set in a 1960s New York advertising firm, has prompted a nostalgia for a time when men and women dressed smart and sassy.
Women’s work wear has definitely got smarter while men’s suits – when they choose to wear them – are getting sharper, she says. “We find our clients asking for women to be in a dress rather than shirt and skirt. It’s more feminine because it shows off their figure. And men are getting more fussy about suits – nowadays it’s normally slimcut like in Mad Men.”
Dressing down is the easy option but we risk losing something precious, argues Alex Bilmes, editor of Esquire magazine. And too many workers are mixing up the idea of casual with sloppy, he warns.
“The downside is that everyone dresses scruffy now as if they’re about to pop out to Superdrug. People are taking ‘relaxed’ too far to include wearing baggie jeans and track suit bottoms.”
“We use clothes to say ‘I mean business’. In investment banking you’re there to make money for the company. That’s very different to a creative environment, where you can be who you are, let your creativity go and not be constrained.”
The good thing about having a dress code is that it allows a clear separation between work and home, she argues.
“People use clothes to reflect their mood. So when you get home from work, you come in, get out of your work things and put on your slob gear and relax. It’s that demarcation between work and play.”
Some professions like waiters, policemen and lawyers still understand the value of looking the part, he says.
“They’re not stuck in the past, they know it’s reassuring to people to look smart. If you needed a lawyer, went down to chambers to find one wearing shorts, a T-shirt with a logo and battered trainers, are you going to choose him?”
It’s not all doom and gloom though. After a malaise in the 80s and 90s, formal styles are back in vogue with a “real buzz” around the traditional tailoring of Savile Row and Jermyn Street, he says. Men hoping to climb the career ladder would be wise to go back to classic English tailoring, he says.
“If you put on a tailored suit and pressed shirt you are putting on a suit of armour. You will walk a bit straighter and taller and people will take you more seriously.”
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I was a Civil Servant in the MoD for 20 years. When I first started work in 1988 suits were worn by all, in a vastly male dominated workplace. Gradually things relaxed to jackets being worn only for meetings then a loosening of teh tie and undoing of the top button over the course of around 10 years. eventually by around 2000 the tie went outside of meetings, and then most went smart casual.
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Police proposals to shut down web domains believed to be used by criminals are to debated in public.
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As wheel-clamping on private land in England and Wales is set to be banned under the government’s Protection of Freedoms Bill, one wheel clamp boss defends his position.
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West Brom appoint ex-Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson as their new head coach.
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Raymond Davis says the men were trying to hijack his vehicle at gunpoint A Pakistani judge has extended by another 14 days the detention of a US citizen arrested for killing two men in Lahore last month.
Raymond Davis appeared in the Lahore High Court amid tight security. He was remanded to judicial custody.
The court has ordered the Pakistani government to clarify whether Mr Davis enjoys diplomatic immunity.
The US embassy says he does and has called for Mr Davis to be freed.
Mr Davis has admitted that he shot the men but says he acted in self-defence because they were trying to rob him.
Correspondents say the dispute over his status has strained relations between the two countries.
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Shares in home delivery grocer Ocado have fallen more than 15% after the John Lewis pension trust sold its 10.4% stake in the firm.
The online company said the sale would not affect its commercial relations with Waitrose, a John Lewis division.
Ocado mainly sells Waitrose products, but some analysts expect the two to become competitors as John Lewis expands its own grocery business.
Ocado shares have risen strongly recently, closing at 285p on Thursday.
The company had a market value of about £1.4bn. However, in morning trading Ocado’s shares were down 44p at 241p.
The John Lewis pension fund sold more than half its original stake in Ocado at the time of the online grocer’s initial public offering in July.
There had been a “lock-in” agreement preventing further share sales, which expired last month.
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Stephen Elop was at Microsoft before taking over Nokia in September 2010 Nokia has announced plans to form a “broad strategic partnership” with Microsoft.
The deal would see Nokia use the Windows phone operating system for its smartphones, the company said.
Microsoft’s Bing will power Nokia’s search services, while Nokia Maps would be a core part of Microsoft’s mapping services.
Earlier this week Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop sent a memo to staff warning that the company was in crisis.
The new strategy means Nokia’s existing smartphone operating systems will be gradually sidelined.
Symbian, which runs on most of the company’s current devices will become a “franchise platform”, although the company expects to sell approximately 150 million more Symbian devices in future.
The announcement is widely seen as a response to the growing pressure from other smartphone platforms, including Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone.
Nokia’s share of the smartphone market fell from 38% to 28% in 2010, according to research firm IDC.
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Unique hedgehog-like mammals have been filmed using their quills to communicate.
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