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Mar 2004 The Crisis, by Winston Churchill, V1 [WC#51][wc51wxxx.xxx]5388
[This author is a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill the English Prime Minister]
Mar 2004 The Celebrity, by W. Churchill, Complete [WC#50][wc50wxxx.xxx]5387
[Author's full name: Winston Churchill]
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Mar 2004 The Celebrity, by Winston Churchill, V4 [WC#49][wc49wxxx.xxx]5386
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Mar 2004 The Celebrity, by Winston Churchill, V1 [WC#46][wc46wxxx.xxx]5383
[This author is a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill the English Prime Minister]
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by Churchill, Complete [WC#45][wc45wxxx.xxx]5382
[Contains: eBooks #5374 to 5381]
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V8 [WC#44][wc44wxxx.xxx]5381
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Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V6 [WC#42][wc42wxxx.xxx]5379
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V5 [WC#41][wc41wxxx.xxx]5378
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V4 [WC#40][wc40wxxx.xxx]5377
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V3 [WC#39][wc39wxxx.xxx]5376
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V2 [WC#38][wc38wxxx.xxx]5375
Mar 2004 A Modern Chronicle, by W. Churchill, V1 [WC#37][wc37wxxx.xxx]5374
[This author is a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill the English Prime Minister]
Mar 2004 Understood Betsy, by Dorothy Canfield [ndrbtxxx.xxx]5347
Mar 2004 Expeditions into Central Australia, by E. J. Eyre [xpcscxxx.xxx]5346
Mar 2004 Expeditions into Central Australia V2, by E.J.Eyre[xpcscxxx.xxx]5345
Mar 2004 Expeditions into Central Australia V1, by E.J.Eyre[xpcscxxx.xxx]5344
[Full title: Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia]
[And Overland From Adelaide To King George's Sound In The Years 1840-1]
[Full author: Edward John Eyre]
Mar 2004 Rainbow Valley, by Lucy Maud Montgomery [LMM#11][rnbvlxxx.xxx]5343
Mar 2004 The Story Girl, by Lucy Maud Montgomery [LMM#10][strglxxx.xxx]5342
Mar 2004 Kilmeny of the Orchard,by Lucy Maud Montgomery[#9][klmnrxxx.xxx]5341
Mar 2004 Further Chronicles of Avonlea, L.M. Montgomery[#8][fcrvnxxx.xxx]5340
Mar 2004 Peter Schlemihl etc.,Chamisso et. al. [ptscxxx.xxx]5339
[Plain text version in ptscxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in ptscxxh.htm/.zip]
Contains:
Peter Schlemihl by Adelbert Chamisso
The Story Without An End by Carode translated by Sarah Austin
Hymns To Night by Novalis translated by Henry Morley
Mar 2004 Mark Rutherford's Deliverance,by M. Rutherford [#2][mkrdxxx.xxx]5338
[Real name: White, William Hayle]
[Plain text version in mkrdxxxx.txt/.zip, HTML in mkrdxxh.htm and .zip]
Mar 2004 31 Yrs on the Plains and In the Mountains, Drannan[toypixxx.xxx]5337
[Full Title: Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains]
[Author's Full Name: William F. Drannan]
[Subtitle: Or, the Last Voice From the Plains. An Authentic Record of]
[a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the]
[Far West.]
Mar 2004 Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian,Various [strsbxxx.xxx]5336
[Authors: Bjornson, Bjornstjerne; Aho, Juhani; Goldschmidt, M; Kielland,]
[Alexander; Bremer, Fredrika]
Contains:
The Father
When Father Brought Home the Lamp
The Flying Mail
The Railroad and the Churchyard
Two Friends
Hopes
Mar 2004 Raspberry Jam, by Carolyn Wells [C. Wells#3][rspbjxxx.xxx]5335
Mar 2004 Expeditions into New South Wales, by John Oxley [xpnswxxx.xxx]5334
[Full title: Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales]
Mar 2004 Every Man In His Humor, by Ben Jonson [Jonson#10][emihhxxa.xxx]5333
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Mar 2004 The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor, W. Irwin [#2][tlsccxxx.xxx]5332
[Author's Full Name: Wallace Irwin]
Mar 2004 NATURAE, by Dom [Dom #3][domnaxxx.xxx]5331C
[Plain text in domna10.txt/.zip, RTF in domna10r.rtf/.zip]
Mar 2004 Rhyme and Reason, by Dom [Dom #2][domrhxxx.xxx]5330C
[Full title: Rhyme And Reason - A Compilation Of Verses, Rhymes And Senses]
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Mar 2004 PoPHILO, by Dom [Dom #1][dompoxxx.xxx]5329C
[Plain text in dompo10.txt/.zip, RTF in dompo10r.rtf/.zip]
[Note: Dom is a pen name for L.M. Wong]
Mar 2004 Writing for Vaudeville, by Brett Page [vaudexxx.xxx]5328
Mar 2004 Pinocchio in Africa, Cherubini [pnocaxxx.xxx]5327
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[Author's Full Name: Johann Wolfgang Goethe]
[Subtitle: Venetian Epigrams] [Language: German]
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Mar 2004 Roemische Elegien, by J. Goethe [Goethe#33][?rmelxxx.xxx]5325
[Author's Full Name: Johann Wolfgang Goethe]
[English title: Roman Elegies] [Language: German]
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Mar 2004 The Book of Were-Wolves, by Sabine Baring-Gould [bofwwxxx.xxx]5324
[Plain text in bofww10.txt/.zip, HTML in bofww10h.htm/.zip]
Mar 2004 Effi Briest, by Theodor Fontane [?effixxx.xxx]5323
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Mar 2004 Woyzeck, by Georg B|chner (Buchner) [Buchner#2][?woyzxxx.xxx]5322
[Language: German]
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Mar 2004 Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Wassily Kandinsky[cnsprxxx.xxx]5321
Mar 2004 Taken Alive, by E. P. Roe [Roe#5][tknlvxxx.xxx]5320
Mar 2004 Pagan Papers, by Kenneth Grahame [paganxxx.xxx]5319
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Mar 2004 Les Precieuses Ridicules, by Moliere [Moliere #7][?precxxx.xxx]5318
[Author AKA Jean-Baptiste Poquelin] [Language: French]
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Mar 2004 Through the Magic Door, by Arthur Conan Doyle[#32][ttmgdxxx.xxx]5317
Mar 2004 Krasavitse, Kotoraya Niuhala Tabak, A. Pushkin[#3][kkntaxxx.xxx]5316
[Author's Full Name: Alexander Pushkin]
[Language: Russian]
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[HTML in kknta10h.htm/.zip]
Mar 2004 Told in the East, by Talbot Mundy [Mundy#5][tintexxx.xxx]5315
Mar 2004 Household Tales by Brothers Grimm, Grimm Brothers [grimmxxa.xxx]5314
[Subtitle: Also known as Grimm's Fairy Tales. 200 tales and 10 legends]
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[Both plain-text and HTML files posted.]
Mar 2004 Mother Goose in Prose, by L. Frank Baum [Baum#21][mtgspxxx.xxx]5312
Mar 2004 Parnassus on Wheels, by Christopher Morley [CM#4][prnswxxx.xxx]5311
Mar 2004 The Point of View, by Elinor Glyn [tpntvxxx.xxx]5310
Mar 2004 Miss Lou, by E. P. Roe [Roe#4][mssluxxx.xxx]5309
Mar 2004 The Paradise Mystery, by J. S. Fletcher [tprdmxxx.xxx]5308
Mar 2004 The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, V.1. [#4][lwam1xxx.xxx]5307
[Translated by Lady Wallace]
May 2002 Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes [lvthnxxx.xxx]3207
[Subtitle: Or, the Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Eclesiastical]
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SPINTRONICS SHRINKS DATA STORAGE TO NANOSCALE
Researchers at the University at Buffalo in New York have developed a
nickel-based, magnetic sensor, measuring only a few atoms in diameter, that
could increase data storage capacity 1,000 times through the use of
spintronics -- a field that takes advantage of electron spin as well as
charge. Current technology used in data-reading sensors is based on giant
magnetoresistance (GMR), where sensor resistance changes in a magnetic
field. The new sensor developed at UB creates an effect called ballistic
magnetoresistance (BMR), which uses an electrical conductor only a few
atoms in size. Researchers say the technology could ultimately make it
possible to store 50 or more DVDs on a hard drive the size of a credit
card, or enable military personnel to carry supercomputers the size of a
wristwatch into the field. (NewsFactor 1 Jul 2002)
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18446.html
[The Return Of "Time Share" Computing???]
IBM PUTS A METER ON SOFTWARE USE
IBM is introducing a new service called Linux Virtual Services that enables
customers to run a wide variety of software applications on IBM mainframes
located in company data centers, and pay rates based largely on the amount
of computing power they use. This metered payment system marks a major
shift from the more conventional outsourcing and Web hosting arrangements
typical today. IBM executive James Corgel touted the new service, saying
"we see a huge opportunity going forward. Our best estimate is that in five
years, 10% to 15% of the $1 trillion IT market will be in the form of
on-demand computing," with utility computing a significant part. Industry
analysts remain a little more cautious about the prospects for metered
computing. "We know customers are interested in doing this, but we don't
know how many will," says one market researcher. Another added that "the
pricing is still very complicated. It's not like electricity or even phone
service." (Wall Street Journal 1 Jul 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1025472035492706880.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
MUSIC INDUSTRY WAGES GUERRILLA WARFARE AGAINST P2P SERVICES
In a practice called "spoofing," the music industry has been swamping
online music-swapping services like Morpheus, Kazaa, and Grokster with
thousands of phony or mangled music files rather than the sought-after
songs. One music executive, speaking anonymously, says: "We're not using
any of this with any kind of promotion or marketing in mind. We're doing
this simply because we believe people are stealing our stuff and we want to
stymie the stealing." And Cary Sherman, president of the Recording Industry
Association of America, says: " From the outset, it's been very clear that
one of the only ways -- as a practical matter -- to deal with the
peer-to-peer problem is by means of technological measures. There are
certainly mechanisms that are available -- that are completely lawful, such
as spoofing.'' (San Jose Mercury-News 27 Jun 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3560365.htm
ERGONOMICS FOR THE VERY YOUNG
An elementary school in Washington state is one of the few to offer an
ergonomics program for children that teaches them how to avoid repetitive
stress injuries while working on the computer. The "Get TechFit!" program
touts the benefits of taking frequent breaks, using correct posture, and
exercising fatigued muscles. Ergonomics experts say that just as women are
injured in the workplace more often than men because they must extend their
wrists and arms unnaturally to type and use the mouse, children are also
undersized for most workstation setups. "If you're a small-wristed child,
you will be in greater extension," says Peter Johnson, a professor at the
University of Washington who's studied workplace injury. Johnson says
computers generally are better designed for men, who have broader shoulders
and thicker wrists. (AP 28 Jun 2002)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20020628/D7KE5T280.html
ICANN PROPOSES RULES TO FIGHT CYBERSQUATTING
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) says it's
close to adopting new procedures that would make it easier for individuals
and businesses to avoid extortion by cybersquatters, and would establish a
waiting list for coveted domains that become newly available to the public.
The first measure would establish a 30-day grace period for domain name
owners to renew their contracts -- a move intended to prevent speculators
from swooping in and registering an expiring domain name before the owner
has time to renew. "ICANN receives a large number of complaints for
inadvertently deleted domains. It affects churches, schools, businesses,"
says an ICANN spokesman. "We get a lot of complaints from people who wake
up to find their domain has expired and now has porn on it, or it's linked
to a casino site. Then, they'll ask for a ransom to get it back." The
waiting-list proposal would allow a bidder to pay a fee to get first dibs
on any newly available domain names. That proposal has run into opposition
from registrars who say the $28 that VeriSign has proposed charging them
for the service is too high. (Reuters/Wired 27 Jun 2002)
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53518,00.html
LEGISLATION WOULD SANCTION STUDIO HACK ATTACKS
Proposed legislation crafted by California congressman Howard Berman, whose
district includes Hollywood, would provide a shield against legal liability
for copyright owners, such as record labels and movie studios, that used
high-tech attacks against peer-to-peer Web sites to stop them from enabling
illegal file-sharing. "While P2P technology is free to innovate new and
more efficient methods of distribution that further exacerbate the piracy
problem, copyright owners are not equally free to craft technological
responses," says Berman. "This is not fair." Included in the actions a
copyright holder would be allowed to take are: interdiction, in which the
copyright holder swamps a P2P file server with false requests so that
downloads can't get through; redirection, in which would-be file swappers
are pointed to a site that doesn't contain the files they're seeking; and
spoofing, in which a corrupt or otherwise undesirable file masquerades as
the song or movie file being sought by a file swapper. File-swapping
companies criticized the bill, saying it opens the door for copyright
holders to conduct "cyber warfare" against consumers.
(CNet News.com 25 Jun 2002)
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-939333.html?tag=fd_top
HOME WIRELESS NETWORKS GO MAINSTREAM
The price of wireless networks has dropped so dramatically -- they're now
in the $200 range -- that homeowners are snapping them up as a less messy
alternative to traditional wiring. The number of home network devices
shipped is expected to nearly double this year, as wireless gear based on
newer, faster technologies such as the AirPlus products introduced earlier
this month by D-Link, hit the market. Although some consumers report
hassles in installing the networks, the technology is well suited to the
networking needs of the increasing number of broadband-equipped households
with multiple computers. (Wall Street Journal 26 Jun 2002)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1025039743158381200.djm,00.html (sub req'd)
WEB SITES USED BY AMERICANS TO GET CHEAPER DRUGS FROM CANADA
A number of Web sites (including canadianmedsusa.com, canadadrugs.com,
canadameds.com, and pharmacy-online.ca) are now offering a way for U.S.
citizens to buy prescription drugs more cheaply through Canadian sources.
U.S. law actually prohibits the practice, but the Federal Drug
Administration has, for reasons of compassion, refrained from actively
enforcing the law. To order from Canada, customers must have a prescription
signed by an American physician, submit a detailed medical questionnaire,
and have undergone a physical exam within the past year. However, the
Canadian Medical Association is questioning the ethics of Canadian doctors
writing Canadian prescriptions based solely on a written questionnaire and
a U.S. prescription: "Our code of ethics says if you're going to prescribe
medications, you have a professional responsibility to do a history, a
physical and then discuss with the patient the risks and benefits of the
medication. This is something Canadian physicians should not be doing."
(AP/San Jose Mercury-News 26 Jun 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3546354.htm
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NEW TOOLS CAN BUILD A COMPREHENSIVE ARCHIVE
Some institutions, including MIT, are developing tools for professors
and other researchers to add resources including data sets, notes,
research reports, and otherwise unpublished papers to large,
searchable, digital archives. Testing of DSpace, MIT's archive
project, will begin this summer, and officials at the school hope that
eventually nearly every professor will contribute to the body of work.
Submission to the archive is voluntary, so developers have tried to
make the system as simple as possible. Metadata will be included to aid
in the organization and searching of the content, though submissions
will not be actively filtered or moderated. Other archives have been
established at the California Institute of Technology and the
University of California system. Critics say that institutional
repositories will fail because effective dissemination depends on the
publishing process and editorial filtering that journals provide.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1 July 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i43/43a02901.htm
MICROSOFT TO INVEST IN SOFTWARE INDUSTRY IN CHINA
On Thursday, at the end of a two-day visit to China, Microsoft chief
executive Steve Ballmer announced that his company would invest roughly
$750 million over the next three years in the Chinese software
industry. The money will support education, manufacturing, and a number
of local Chinese software companies. The move is seen as partly a
response to widespread software piracy in China. According to that
argument, if there is a strong Chinese software industry that has a
stake in protecting its intellectual property, the incidence of
software piracy will significantly diminish. Ballmer's announcement
also included plans to establish a software college in Shanghai.
Wall Street Journal, 27 June 2002 (sub. req'd)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1025200584265700160,00.html
WEB PUBLISHERS SUE OVER POP-UP ADS
Operators of several Web sites, including Washington Post Company, Dow
Jones & Company, and The New York Times Company, have sued Gator, a
company that makes software that helps users enter passwords and other
information online. The password software, however, includes features
that deliver pop-up advertisements. Those ads, according to the group
of publishers, violate trademark because there is an implication that
the operator of the Web site being viewed has authorized the ad that
pops up. Officials at Gator have called the suit ridiculous, saying
that many other applications that display information in separate
windows, such as instant messaging programs, would have to be
considered illegal if the publishers' argument is valid. A survey of
users conducted by the plaintiffs showed that 16 percent of people who
use Gator's password software do not know that it puts pop-up ads on
their computers.
New York Times, 28 June 2002 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/28/business/28GATO.html
ICANN VOTES TO LIMIT BOARD MEMBERSHIP
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted
on Friday at its meeting in Romania not to allow its Board of Directors
to include members elected from the pool of Internet users at large.
Instead, Board membership will be limited to representatives of
technical, business, government, and nonprofit organizations, according
to the unanimous vote. Critics said the move amounts to a lack of
representation for many of the 425 million global Internet users. ICANN
chief executive Stuart Lynn said the new system will still allow users
to be represented by various constituencies on the Board, including
government and other groups. ICANN has also been criticized for having
a U.S. bias, and Friday's vote did little to mollify those complaints.
CNET, 28 June 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-940291.html
NEW CHIP-MAKING PROCESS MAY OUTPACE MOORE'S LAW
Stephen Chou, a researcher at Princeton University, said he has
developed a procedure for making computer chips that could increase
their capacity 100-fold. The process, called laser assisted direct
input (LADI), involves pressing a quartz mold onto a piece of silicon
and shooting it with a laser for a very short time. The silicon melts
and quickly rehardens into the new shape. The result is imprinting
silicon with features as small as 10 nanometers, significantly smaller
than current methods allow. The process is also claimed to produce
chips much more cheaply, more quickly, and without the environmentally
unfriendly chemicals required of traditional chip-making methods. Some
observers noted that the process is in the very early stages of
development and is probably not "inherently useful in the near term."
NewsFactor Network, 28 June 2002
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/18432.html
MUSIC INDUSTRY TRIES SPOOFING FILE SWAPPERS
In the latest effort to try to discourage the illegal trading of files,
some in the music industry have begun a campaign of "spoofing," or
sending decoy files to file-swapping networks. The decoys seem to be
legitimate songs, for example, but might only be a small portion that
loops or may have long stretches of silence. Industry officials hope
that by making it more difficult to find and trade functional copies of
their copyrighted material, some users will be persuaded to buy the CD
they want. Industry experts pointed out that seasoned file traders and
those with higher levels of technical expertise are not likely to be
fooled by the spoofs, but many more novice users potentially will be.
The practice of spoofing is not illegal, but some say it will do little
to stem the tide of piracy.
San Jose Mercury News, 27 June 2002
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3560365.htm
STUDY PUTS A NUMBER TO LOSSES FROM BUGGY SOFTWARE
A new study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) says that the U.S. economy loses almost $60 billion annually as
a result of buggy software. According to the study, better testing
could eliminate about one third of that loss, but much of the rest will
remain. The study addressed the problem as it affects three major
industries, automotive, aerospace, and financial services, and
extrapolated those results to the nation as a whole. Authors of the
study did not present specific actions to resolve the problem, but they
did suggest that current methods for testing software are "fairly
primitive" and that significant improvements could be made in that area.
ComputerWorld, 25 June 2002
http://www.idg.net/ic_878966_1794_9-10000.html
LINDOWS CLAIMS LOW-COST ALTERNATIVE TO WINDOWS
Lindows, maker of a Linux-based operating system that is claimed to
allow users to run Windows applications, has announced a new program
that could potentially save significant amounts of money for software
on new computer systems. The program offers computer makers a
subscription service, including technical support, testing tools,
certification eligibility, and a software library, that allows them to
install the operating system on an unlimited number of machines for the
same monthly fee. The program is targeted at computer makers who sell
unbranded PCs and lower-end systems such as those available from
Wal-Mart. Critics noted that the Lindows operating system does not run
many Windows programs and that the way the system works opens users up
to potentially serious security risks.
CNET, 25 June 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-939149.html
[As if Windows doesn't have those same problems. . . .]
AUSTRALIA LEGALIZES MUSIC PIRACY
The Australian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) has agreed
to allow CD-copying kiosks in exchange for a royalty payment. The deal,
the first of its kind, will allow consumers to go to one of the kiosks,
to be located in stores or in public places, and pay $5 each to copy a
music CD. AMCOS, which represents songwriters and music publishers,
agreed to the deal with Little Ripper, a CD-copying company, reportedly
for a flat royalty of about six percent. Observers said that this deal,
which seems to indicate acceptance among copyright owners that piracy
is here to stay, will force the Australian Record Industry Association
(ARIA) into a similar arrangement. Officially ARIA still says that the
kiosks are illegal.
News Interactive, 24 June 2002
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4567037%255E421,00.html
RUSSIA TO SET LIMITS ON WEB
In a vote last week, the Russian Duma supported new restrictions on
anti-government and extremist uses of the Internet. The measure still
needs final approval, which could come this week. The terms of the
legislation forbid using computer networks for "extremism" and allow
the government to shut down without a court order any organization it
deems "extremist." Civil liberties groups in Russia complained that the
law would restrict rights of citizens and would threaten the
"constitutional order in Russia." Victor Naumov, a lecturer at St.
Petersburg State University's law school, said the language of the
measure is vague in many places, leaving some questions about how
exactly it could be applied.
CNET, 24 June 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-938810.html
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