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Infoblox to Host Analyst Day

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SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Infoblox (NYS: BLOX) , today announced it will host an Analyst Day event in San Francisco on Tuesday, June 4, 2013.

Members of the Infoblox management team will host a series of presentations beginning at 9:00 a.m. PT. A live webcast of the meeting will be accessible from the Investor Relations of the company’s website at http://ir.infoblox.com. The webcast will be archived for a period of one year.

Space for the event is limited and attendance is by invitation only. Analysts and institutional investors interested in attending are encouraged to contact Jane Underwood at Infoblox.

About Infoblox

Infoblox (NYS: BLOX) delivers Automated Network Control solutions, the fundamental technology that connects end users, devices and networks. These solutions enable more than 6,300 enterprises and service providers to transform and scale complex networks. Infoblox helps take the burden of complex network control out of human hands, reduce costs, and increase accuracy and uptime. Infoblox is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has additional operations in 30 countries.

Investor Contact:
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OpenDaylight is building on our work, SDN group's director says

The OpenDaylight Project may have won attention last week with a founding list of vendors including Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, but it’s standing on the shoulders of others, according to the head of the Open Networking Foundation.

OpenDaylight will be building part of its planned framework for software-defined networking on the OpenFlow protocol that ONF introduced in 2011, ONF Executive Director Dan Pitt said on Tuesday at the Open Networking Summit. The standing-room-only conference is ONF‘s annual gathering to discuss SDN (software-defined networking), which is intended to place the control of networks in software apart from dedicated hardware.

“It’s sort of an evolution of what we were doing,” Pitt said in answer to an audience member’s question at the conference in Santa Clara, California. “I don’t think you would be able to start this … OpenDaylight consortium if you didn’t have a foundation to build upon.”

Specifically, OpenDaylight’s planned API (application programming interface) for communication between its controller software and network devices will be built on OpenFlow, Pitt said. That’s despite the fact that ONF is not a member of OpenDaylight, which includes a long list of major IT and networking vendors including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Ericsson.

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Leon Panetta, Former U.S. Defense Secretary and CIA Director, to Speak at Santa Clara University's 1

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Leon Panetta, Former U.S. Defense Secretary and CIA Director, to Speak at Santa Clara University’s 162nd Commencement June 15

Pamela Eibeck, first woman president of University of the Pacific, to address advanced degree recipients June 14

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Santa Clara University today announced the speakers for the Jesuit, Silicon Valley-based University’s 2013 graduate and undergraduate commencement ceremonies, June 14 and 15.

Undergraduate Commencement

Leon Panetta, the former U.S. Secretary of Defense and a 1960 magna cum laude political science major and 1963 graduate of Santa Clara University’s School of Law, will address the University’s graduating seniors and their family and friends, June 15 at 8:30 a.m. at Buck Shaw Stadium. His wife Sylvia Panetta, co-director of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy in Monterey, Calif., will receive an honorary degree as well.

“Sylvia and I are honored to be recognized by Santa Clara University. Santa Clara has a special place in our hearts. It’s where we first met; it is where I learned many of the core values that have guided me from the earliest days of my career,” said Panetta. Read more here.

Graduate Commencement

An award-winning engineering educator and the first woman president of the University of the Pacific will address Santa Clara University’s graduate students at their 2013 commencement ceremony on Friday, June 14.

The commencement will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the University’s Leavey Events Center.

Pamela A. Eibeck has been president of University of the Pacific for four years, overseeing its expansion beyond its Stockton, Calif. campus to campuses in Sacramento and San Francisco.

In attendance at the commencement will be about 600 students receiving advanced degrees from the College of Arts and Sciences’ Pastoral Ministries program, the School of Engineering, the Leavey School of Business, and the School of Education and Counseling Psychology. Read more here.

Honorary Degrees

At the undergraduate ceremony, honorary degrees will be awarded to Leon and Sylvia Panetta; Robert Mathewson, S.J.; James Houghton ’81; and Steven ’60 and Patricia Schott. At the graduate ceremony, Pamela A. Eibeck will receive an honorary degree.

From: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/04/11/leon-panetta-former-us-defense-secretary-and-cia-d/

MoSys to Announce First Quarter Results on April 19, 2013

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MoSys to Announce First Quarter Results on April 19, 2013

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– MoSys, Inc., (NAS: MOSY) , a leader in semiconductor solutions that enable fast, intelligent data access for network and communications systems, today announced it will release its first quarter 2013 financial results on Friday, April 19, 2013, before the market opens. Following the press release, Len Perham, MoSys’ President and Chief Executive Officer, and Jim Sullivan, Chief Financial Officer, will host a live audio webcast and conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (5:30 a.m. Pacific Time).


First Quarter 2013 Conference Call and Webcast Information:

Date: Friday, April 19, 2013
Time: 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (5:30 a.m. Pacific Time)
Conference Call Number: 1-866-318-8615
International Call Number: 1-617-399-5134
Pass Code: 67286312

The conference call replay will be available for 2 business days, beginning two hours after the call. The replay dial-in number is 1-888-286-8010, and the pass code is 85064172. International callers should dial 1-617-801-6888 and enter the same pass code at the prompt. Additionally, this conference call will be broadcast live over the Internet and can be accessed by all interested parties on the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website at http://www.mosys.com.

About MoSys, Inc.

MoSys, Inc. (NAS: MOSY) is an IP-rich fabless semiconductor company that provides high performance solutions for fast, intelligent data access in network and communications systems. Engineered and built for high-reliability carrier and enterprise applications, MoSys’ products are breaking bandwidth barriers™ in data processing to allow for faster packet access and analysis, expanded user capacity and new capabilities required by the expanding global infrastructure. MoSys’ Bandwidth Engine® family of ICs combines the company’s patented 1T-SRAM® high-density, embedded memory and high-speed, 10 Gigabits per second serial interface with its intelligent access technology and a highly efficient GigaChip™ Interface transport protocol to eliminate bottlenecks in high-speed data access. MoSys is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and more information is available at http://www.mosys.com.

MoSys, 1T-SRAM and Bandwidth Engine are registered trademarks of MoSys, Inc. in the US and/or other countries. Breaking Bandwidth Barriers, GigaChip, LineSpeed and the MoSys logo are trademarks

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Affymetrix and BioDiscovery Announce Software for Analysis of Whole Genome Copy Number Data Generate

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Affymetrix and BioDiscovery Announce Software for Analysis of Whole Genome Copy Number Data Generated From FFPE Solid Tumor Samples for Accelerating Cancer Translational Research

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Affymetrix, Inc. (NAS: AFFX) and BioDiscovery announce the availability of the Nexus for OncoScan® Software for analysis of whole genome copy number data generated from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) solid tumor samples using the OncoScan® FFPE Express 2.0 Service. Through a joint arrangement, this software, based on BioDiscovery’s flagship Nexus Copy Number™, is available to customers who are analyzing data generated using this service.

Obtaining high-quality copy number data using limited amounts of DNA from degraded FFPE samples is extremely challenging for cancer researchers. Utilizing Affymetrix‘ unique Molecular Inversion Probe (MIP) technology, the OncoScan FFPE assay is capable of analyzing highly degraded DNA in FFPE tumor samples, even from less than 100 ng of starting DNA material, and is currently available as a service through Affymetrix Research Service Laboratory (ARSL) based in Santa Clara, California.

OncoScan FFPE Express 2.0 Service has been successfully used by more than 30 leading cancer research institutes, including M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, and the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah.

“Cancer translational researchers have been able to quickly and easily analyze hundreds of degraded FFPE samples to correlate copy number aberrations with outcomes data,” said Andy Last, Executive Vice President of the Genetic Analysis and Clinical Applications Business Unit at Affymetrix. “Nexus for OncoScan Software is especially optimized for solid tumor copy number analysis and can generate whole genome copy number calls from raw data in minutes. We are very excited to continue to partner with BioDiscovery to bring this powerful and easy-to-use software to the cancer research community.”

“The OncoScan FFPE assay is an amazing technology for cancer researchers allowing them to unlock DNA information from masses of archived FFPE samples to obtain high quality data,” said Soheil Shams, President of BioDiscovery. “Combining the powerful OncoScan FFPE technology with the proven power of Nexus Copy Number gives scientists a unique solution that is sure to accelerate cancer research, impact diagnosis, and ultimately lead to better patient care and treatment. We are very pleased to partner with Affymetrix in offering this powerful solution.”

A next generation OncoScan FFPE product will be available in late 2013 enabling researchers to perform the assay and analysis in their own lab. Delivering results in about 48 hours, this new product will provide whole genome copy number …read more

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VUDU Movie Streaming Service User Data Stolen

Vudu, a popular on-demand HD video streaming app that enables users to watch their favorite TVs and movies online as well as on Android tablets, Roku, Xbox 360 and PS3, experienced a break-in at its Santa Clara offices.

In addition to other objects of value, criminals made off with hardrives, which Vudu employees concluded had user data— names, email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, account activity and the last four digits of credit card numbers.

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Avnet Wins 2013 Green Enterprise IT Award from Uptime Institute

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Avnet Wins 2013 Green Enterprise IT Award from Uptime Institute

Avnet recognized in two categories for strategically using technology to conserve energy and support global business growth

PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), a global value-added technology distributor, today announced it was selected as the winner of the prestigious 2013 Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Award in the IT Retrofit category presented by the Uptime Institute. Avnet was also chosen as the finalist in the Green Digital Infrastructure Strategy category. The GEIT Awards showcase organizations that are pioneering projects and innovations that significantly improve energy productivity and resource use in IT. Avnet will be honored at the eighth annual Uptime Institute Symposium taking place in Santa Clara, Calif., on May 13-16, 2013. As part of the Symposium’s agenda, Avnet will present a case study about its award-winning green data center initiative.

“These recognitions from Uptime validate the tremendous achievements of our IT, facilities and logistics teams,” said Steve Phillips, senior vice president and CIO, Avnet, Inc. “We have created a culture where energy-saving initiatives are woven into how we strategically look at our facilities, from floor to ceiling, to dramatically reduce Avnet’s energy consumption. I’m incredibly proud of the practical ways we found to significantly reduce Avnet’s environmental impact while also creating a clear financial benefit for the company.”

The Uptime Institute recognized Avnet as the winner in the IT Retrofit category for significantly improving the energy efficiency and IT effectiveness of its 25-year-old North American data center, which supports Avnet’s global business in more than 80 countries. The IT team began a multi-year initiative in 2005 to reduce Avnet’s environmental impact, and implemented a wide variety of innovative and practical projects that have reduced energy consumption by more than 1.75 megawatt hours. These projects included a new data storage management system, virtualization, a system hibernation script, and video conferencing. As a direct result of this initiative, Avnet has saved millions of dollars and avoided a multi-million dollar power build out to the data center.

Additionally, Avnet was named the finalist in the Green Digital Infrastructure Strategy category for its exceptional energy and resource efficiency in its data centers and other facilities. Avnet’s award-winning green data center initiative, coupled with energy conservation at the company’s flagship global logistics center, reduced energy consumption by more than 3 megawatt hours. As a part of its green digital infrastructure strategy, Avnet installed green lighting and low-energy cooling solutions, including …read more
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Infoblox to Host Customer Conference Call

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Infoblox to Host Customer Conference Call

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Infoblox (NYS: BLOX) today announced it will host an Infoblox customer conference call on Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. PDT/4:00 p.m. EDT. The conference call will consist of a question and answer session with Infoblox customers representing a wide range of industries, who will discuss how Infoblox’s products are deployed across their networks, the IT challenges they solved, and the value proposition they delivered. Steve Nye, executive vice president of product strategy & corporate development, will be the moderator for the call.

To access the call, participants may dial 800-230-1074 (domestic) or 612-234-9959 (international) at least 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the call. A live webcast of the call will also be available on the corporate website at: http://ir.infoblox.com. An archive of the webcast will be available on the company’s website and a taped replay will be available for one week at 800-475-6701 (domestic) or 320-365-3844 (international), passcode 287620.

About Infoblox

Infoblox (NYS: BLOX) delivers Automated Network Control solutions, the fundamental technology that connects end users, devices and networks. These solutions enable more than 6,300 enterprises and service providers to transform and scale complex networks. Infoblox helps take the burden of complex network control out of human hands, reduce costs, and increase accuracy and uptime. Infoblox is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has additional operations in 30 countries.

Investor Contact:
Infoblox
Jane Underwood, 408-986-5493
junderwood@infoblox.com
or
Media Contact:
Infoblox
Emily Dunlop, 408-986-5527
edunlop@infoblox.com

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Everett Basham Gun Plot: Authorities Find 26 Weapons At Home Of Man Who Threatened California Lawmaker

By The Huffington Post News Editors

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Police found 26 guns, thousands of bullets and dozens of high-capacity ammunition magazines at the home of a Santa Clara man charged with threatening to kill a state lawmaker over proposed gun control legislation, according to search warrants unsealed Thursday.

Authorities also reported finding what they describe as a homemade “destructive device” at the home of Everett Basham.

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Report: Google Glass Made in the U.S.A.

We’re still waiting for more details on Google’s new wearable computing headset, Google Glass. But according to the Financial TImes (via The Verge), the initial run of Glass will take place at a manufacturing plant in Santa Clara, California. Obviously, few major electronics are still made right here in the U.S., so the news is definitely a big deal.

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Meet The Yale MBAs Trying To Tame The Marijuana Industry

By J.J. Colao, Forbes Staff

As Brendan Kennedy drove to his office in Santa Clara, Calif. in May 2010, he heard a radio host debate Proposition 19, the statewide referendum on legalizing marijuana. Funny, he thought. Earlier that week, in his role valuing private companies for acquirers and investors at Silicon Valley Bank, he had reviewed a website for finding medical marijuana dispensaries. Still driving, he impulsively called Michael Blue, his buddy from Yale business school. “I told him he needed to quit his job and join me in a cannabis venture capital firm,” Kennedy remembers. …read more
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Why Intel Is Poised to Outperform

By Brian Pacampara, Pacampara, The Motley Fool

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Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool’s free investing community, computer chip giant Intel has earned a coveted five-star ranking.

With that in mind, let’s take a closer look at Intel and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.

Intel facts

 

 

Headquarters (founded)

Santa Clara, Calif. (1968)

Market Cap

$105.7 billion

Industry

Semiconductors

Trailing-12-Month Revenue

$53.3 billion

Management

CEO Paul Otellini (since 2005)

CFO Stacy Smith (since 2007)

Return on Equity (average, past 3 years)

25%

Cash/Debt

$18.2 billion/$13.6 billion

Dividend Yield

4.2%

Competitors

AMD

Samsung Electronics

Texas Instruments

Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.

On CAPS, 98% of the 9,989 members who have rated Intel believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.

Just last month, one of those Fools, CardinalRam, succinctly summed up the bull case case for our community:

[Intel] is just beginning to see the impact of the ATOM processor and it will get better over time. I still think this is a 12+ month play. I also think that UltraBook will be successful over the 1-2 year time frame. Then there is the server market — there is little competition to who powers the “cloud.” They probably won’t return to double digit growth, but as undervalued as [Intel] is today and with a [4+% dividend yield], I don’t see how they can’t outperform.

In fact, when it comes to dominating markets, it doesn’t get much better than Intel’s position in the PC microprocessor arena. However, that market is maturing, and Intel finds itself in a precarious situation longer term if it doesn’t find new avenues for growth. In this premium research report on Intel, our analyst runs through all of the key topics investors should understand about the chip giant. Click here now to learn more.

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Three Essential Measures to Make Banks Safe Again

By Steve Denning, Contributor

History never repeats itself, but it often rhymes Mark Twain On November 15, 1971, an advertisement appeared in Electronic News in Santa Clara, California for a new electronic device. It was called the 4004. It was the first commercially available microprocessor that could make calculations on a silicon chip. It cost sixty dollars. …read more
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Ideas for Solving the "Data" Problem First, the "Big" Problem Second: The Pentaho Way

By Dan Woods, Contributor

Imagine a word cloud to represent discussions about how to make data useful in business right now. Based on what I saw at Strata in late February in Santa Clara, you would see “big” in letters about 4 inches high and the word “data” in regular 12 point type. As my pals at Gawker say, “Thatz Not Okay.” …read more
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Santa Clara 49ers Stadium 75 Percent Sold Out

By The Huffington Post News Editors

SANTA CLARA — Riding high off a Super Bowl run, the San Francisco 49ers have sold three-fourths of the seats at the new Silicon Valley stadium as the team prepares to transfer a huge cash infusion to the public agency building the stadium.

Undeterred by huge price increases over Candlestick Park tickets, fans and corporations have bought $403 million worth of seats, — equal to the cost spent to build the stadium so far — and the Niners are well ahead of schedule to sell out before the 2014 opening, the team said Friday.

In fact, the most expensive seats in the house are already sold out — in the suite tower, where luxury boxes cost up to $500,000, and the $80,000 club seats at midfield. Only the cheaper seats behind the end zones and in the corners are left. When adding suite sales, the total new revenue from the $1.2 billion stadium is believed to be more than $800 million.

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Silicon Valley engineer convicted of killing 3 of his bosses

A Silicon Valley engineer has been found guilty of first-degree murder for fatally shooting three of his bosses as revenge for being fired.

A California jury on Friday convicted Jing Hua Wu of gunning down three executives at a Santa Clara semiconductor startup called Siport on Nov. 14, 2008.

The jury rejected Wu’s attorney’s contention that Wu was too mentally ill to form the intent to kill when he shot CEO Sid Agrawal, office manager Marilyn Lewis and his immediate supervisor Brian Pugh.

The same Santa Clara County jury must now determine whether Wu was too mentally ill to be held legally responsible for the murders.

If found insane, he would be sent to a state mental hospital. If not, he would be sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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Silicon Valley engineer convicted of killing 3

A Silicon Valley engineer has been found guilty of first-degree murder for fatally shooting three of his bosses as revenge for being fired.

A California jury on Friday convicted Jing Hua Wu of gunning down three executives at a Santa Clara semiconductor startup called Siport on Nov. 14, 2008.

The jury rejected Wu’s attorney’s contention that Wu was too mentally ill to form the intent to kill when he shot CEO Sid Agrawal, office manager Marilyn Lewis and his immediate supervisor Brian Pugh.

The same Santa Clara County jury must now determine whether Wu was too mentally ill to be held legally responsible for the murders.

If found insane, he would be sent to a state mental hospital. If not, he would be sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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Cuba's Diaz-Canel rose gradually to No. 2 post

The man tapped as the likely heir-apparent to Raul Castro is largely unknown off the island, but his rise to the country’s No. 2 job was anything but meteoric.

Miguel Diaz-Canel has spent 30 years gradually paying his dues behind the scenes, earning a reputation as a Communist Party loyalist and rising through the ranks to a succession of ever-higher posts.

“He is not an upstart or improvised,” President Raul Castro said Sunday in a speech to lawmakers in which he laid out the reasons for his choice. In the past, Castro has praised Diaz-Canel’s “solid ideological firmness.”

Tall, dapper and carefully groomed with a 52-year-old’s salt-and-pepper hair, Diaz-Canel presents a serious public face before TV cameras, even as some people who know him describe him as a sharp-minded jokester who can be surprisingly relaxed in private.

“He’s a much more flexible type than he seems, open-minded and above all intelligent,” one official who has known Diaz-Canel since the 1980s told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, lacking the authorization to discuss the man with foreign media.

Others, particularly those off the island, described him in less flattering terms.

“I think it’s interesting because Diaz-Canel is not a charismatic person,” said Alejandro Barreras, who runs a blog in Miami called On Two Shores that advocates for a normalization of relations between the US and Cuba. “He’s kind of an opaque figure.”

Diaz-Canel’s profile has risen in recent months as he repeatedly appeared on state TV newscasts. One day he was speaking about Cuba‘s national baseball team, the next he was inaugurating Havana’s International Book Fair.

In January he traveled to Venezuela and spoke prominently at a mega-rally in support of cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez, arguably Havana’s most important international ally.

“Today we are all Chavez!” Diaz-Canel said at the rally wearing a red tropical “guayabera” shirt.

Born April 20, 1960 in the central city of Santa Clara, Diaz-Canel wore his hair long as a youth and was a fan of the Beatles — even though at the time that could get you into trouble with authorities, who rejected Western influences. Diaz-Canel still listens to the group, acquaintances say privately.

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Intel prepares to use lasers, light to shuffle data between computers

Intel is taking the first steps to implement thin fiber optics that will use lasers and light as a faster way to move data inside computers, replacing the older and slower electrical wiring technology found in most computers today.

Intel’s silicon photonics technology will be implemented at the motherboard and rack levels and use light to move data between storage, networking and computing resources. Light is considered a much faster vehicle to move data than copper cables.

The silicon photonics technology will be part of a new generation of servers that will need faster networking, storage and processing subsystems, said Justin Rattner, Intel’s chief technology officer, during a keynote at the Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara, California, on Wednesday.

At the conference, Intel and server maker Quanta Computer are showing a prototype server rack architecture that is capable of moving data using optical modules. The server uses an Intel silicon switch and supports the chip maker’s Xeon and Atom server chips.

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