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April 11, 2012

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EXCLUSIVE - Alkinoos Ioannidis Speaks To Hellasfrappe


By Marina Spanos

Alkinoos Ioannidis is a singer, song writer, composer and one of the most brilliant artists to date. He was born in Nicosia, Cyprus and after studying classical guitar at the European Conservatory, he moved to Athens, and began his career in 1989. He then studied drama at the National Theatre Drama School and philosophy at the Athens University. In 1993 he signed with Universal Music, and continues to honor this label until today. He has released eleven solo albums which have gone gold or platinum and has performed as a guest on more than 40 albums with various artists. He has also written songs, arranged and produced albums for other artists, as well as music for dance and theater, while his symphonic work is often performed by orchestras in Greece and abroad. His influences range from traditional Cypriot music, Greek composers of the last decades, Byzantine, Classical and Rock. Today, he speaks to Marina Spanos and hellasfrappe about his work, the situation in Greece, as well as his upcoming North-American Tour.

Q: Before we get started with the interview, it would be nice if you could tell us a little bit about how you began dabbling with music and what inspired you to make a career our of it.
AI - I started listening to my father’s Lp's, mostly classical music and Greek music of the 60s and 70s. Then, when I was 8, I decided I would become a drummer but there weren't any tutors in Cyprus at the time, so my parents sent me to learn the guitar, which was exactly the same as drums, or so I was told... I loved both music and literature.
One day I found out that this union (duo art) produces a new kind of expression, named “song”.
And I was a sucker... I fell in love with their baby immediately.
It is this love that keeps me going until today.

Q: Why did you choose alternative rock sounds?
AI - I never chose a style. Character is what I’m looking for, not style. In my albums and on stage I “use” different styles of music, moving constantly from folk to byzantine, from rock to classical, from pop to middle-eastern, from Baroque to the 21st century. These are my influences, and, whenever they prove themselves useful delivering a thought, a feeling or a memory, I find no reason to hide them.

Q: Do you combine your "real life” to music?
AI - There is no “real life” for me outside music. I don’t remember myself without it. Music is not some kind of an illusive world that allows me to step in whenever I please and hide from reality and then step out whenever I can’t stand looking in the mirror in front of me.
Everything has to do with music in my life:
My children play in my basement studio while I am recording or rehearsing. I talk about music and play music all day with my musicians and technicians, who are companions and friends, in the studio, on stage, off-stage, day and night.
Whatever I do, even the most practical things, I do them keeping music in my mind, and always working towards creating more.
And when I’m not performing, rehearsing, writing, orchestrating or recording, I listen to music, read about it and even think about it.
This is the only way I know how to live. It didn’t help me become rich, but it gave me the life I was made to live. And there’s no bigger success than this.

Q: We agree. Your lyrics are so profound, and stir up countless emotions, where do you receive your inspiration from and are you trying to pass a message through them to your listeners?
AI - Most of my songs talk about time. So, I guess, they talk about existence. They also speak about non-existence as well. If existence and non-existence exist of course…
You could say a few are “love songs”, others are more “political”, others more “poetic”, or “surreal”. Some of them are happy, some are sad, some are even foolish, while others are wise, or crazy, funny, expel anger, ambitious, humble, some are even simple while others are more complicated. They are like a whole community of people diverse in character.
I’m not really trying to deliver messages through them though. I don’t have the ability to do so, nor the desire to become some kind of a guru, or intellectual leader, preacher, politician or even a great poet that can show people what they can’t see by themselves.
I simply turn my life into song, or rather sing about other people’s lives sometimes and this is enough to keep me going, interested and keep the creative juices flowing. And it will be for the rest of my life I hope.

Q: You chose a very competitive industry, is it difficult to stay creative and still be successful, and what does this entail? 
AI - It would be difficult to create in an environment that wouldn’t suit my needs and my preferences. Some people tell me that I chose the difficult road. Meaning that a more commercial kind of song would have probably been easier. I disagree. I chose the only one that best suited me, the one that I enjoy, that demands everything from me but also provides everything I need, and the only type of music that will never ask me to fight for things I don’t believe in, or make sacrifices for in order to gain things I don’t really need. I’ve always been lazy in my life. My father was a caring man, but a tireless worker and he kept telling me when I was a child  that I wasn't cut out for hard work. "I advise you as a father to find a rich woman and never have to work”, he would say, and he was not being ironic he really meant it. When I grew up I realized I was one of the hardest-working persons I knew, but still I never felt like I was actually doing a "job". So much so, that whenever I leave home in order to perform my kids often ask me “where are you going?” and I usually reply “I’m going to play”, much in the way they play with their friends.

Q: That is actually good, because when you are working and you don't feel like its work, then it means that your are involved in something that is effortless, tireless and successful. Speaking of performances, you have given many live concerts throughout your career, which concert made a mark on you and why?
AI - I perform at some 60 to 120 concerts per year, and this has been going on for the past 19 years. Believe it or not, I remember each one of them in detail. If I didn’t.. I would have lost a quarter of my life. Most of my memories are good, and only a few are bad that involve mainly non-musical reasons, thank God.


Q: The social networks such as facebook, myspace, etc., today allow artists such as yourself to get quick feedback from their fans, are you exploiting these options and how constructive is this feedback in your line of work?
AI - There is an official Facebook page looked after by my management company. My official site, alkinoos.gr, is  only for nine months old. Before that there wasn’t even an official site. So, I guess, I’m not the right guy to answer your question.


Q: I read an article recently that you featured on your website called "We Blame You", which we had also featured here on hellasfrappe, where you literally let an Englishman have it for not being properly informed, and insensitive about the Greek crisis. It was quite impressive, and profound. Seeing as you are outspoken, I can't help but ask what your views are on the present situation. Where does this crisis stem from?
AI - The root of the problem has always been the fact that human life has never been truly respected. The markets, the banks, the hedge-funds, the governments, the companies and, most of the times, religions, never really respected human life, if it wasn’t for their own profit. At the same time we don’t respect our own lives the way we should, and we don’t respect our neighbours’ or even our children’s lives, living the way we do. So, it is obvious that from time to time we will have periods of “depression”, while our sunny days are being spent happily by producing and consuming waste, depressing others, disregarding our brothers’ and sisters’ problems and making slaves out of ourselves.
Going back ten years ago, when “there was no crisis”, seems like a nightmare to me.
We either go forward into something new, or stay here until we have nothing more to lose.

Q: Artists, yourself included, can help towards this healing, through their work because people favor and admire your work, and value your opinion.
AI - Art always expresses its times. It would be abnormal for people who are suffering not to sing about their troubles, and woes. The danger for the artist is always the possibility of falling into populism, saying the words everyone wants to hear, just to become more popular or sell more.
Finally, this kind of art never serves its political purpose, nor does it contribute to art itself. So, I believe it’s a privilege for a songwriter and for any sensitive person to live in an interesting place during an interesting period such as this. But we also have to be careful, and always go over our true motives daily.

Q: Does it offend you when people criticize Greece, or when they speak in a negative tone about our country?
AI - Yes, I get really annoyed, and this is not because of pride but because I despair to find people who believe that a whole country can consist only of thieves, lazy guys or criminals who have been partying for the last 20 years. Who think that 11 million people are all guilty of corruption and deserve to be tortured, while there is no corrupter, no European or American governments who paid their men to suck the blood from these people, no big companies who profited on their backs, etc. Who don’t care how many children faint at school here everyday because they don’t eat properly, or how many suicides occur from desperate, innocent people.
It is likely for politicians or businessmen to talk like that, but it’s unacceptable to hear such words from honest, good-hearted people, who don’t understand that this game of accusing each other only makes us weaker and who do not understand that if they don’t fight for our children and we don’t fight for theirs, everything will be lost for everybody.

Q: I totally agree with you. I think during this time, Greece is once again in the forefront. And since we both agree that it is, what type of messages can Greece send out to the world to let make people come to grips with what is really going on?
AI - Greece is a place that suffered too much during its recent history. Too many wars, too much blood, too many refugees and missing people, too much poverty, starvation, civil killings, exiles, bankruptcies, deception, treason, confusion, lies, injustice, isolation. I believe that if something new ever comes to make our world really better it will only come out of pain. And Greece has lots of it!




Q: Let's change the subject shall we? How do you view our Omogenia and what is your opinion on all the Greek people who live abroad?
AI - I have a very strong connection to the Greek and Cypriot communities in New York, so strong that makes a part of me feel like I live abroad. I have also met other Greek communities around the world, in Europe, Latin America, Africa or Australia. It’s always a deep experience for me to be part of these communities, even if it is for a few days. Then I leave, always carrying a part of them in my heart. I believe that “Nostalgia” is a great, creative power. Greeks outside Greece have always made the best of it. 

Q: Since we are talking about the Omogenia, I know that you have some shows lined up in Canada, have you ever visited Canada before?
AI - It’s going to be my first trip -ever- to Canada. From what I have already read about and from what some of my friends have told me I only have a positive impression both for the country and the Greek and Cypriot communities there. So I’m really looking forward to it!

Q: Us too.. So you are planning to give a live performance in Montreal and Toronto right? Where else are you going to appear?
AI - It’s a 6-concert North-American tour. It begins on April 20 in Virginia, then on the 22 we will be in Washington, on April 24 we will perform in New York city, on the 25 of April we have a concert in Toronto, on the 26 we will perform in Montreal and finally on April 28 we will be in Connecticut. Then return to Greece, play with our kids, put some laundry on and then its back on the road again…

Q: You are one of the few artists that has remained popular with Greek music lovers, an honest stable career. Were many sacrifices made for this, did it come with grave repercussions?
AI - Paying the price for the life you choose is a blessing. Accepting a life you despise for free is unaffordable.

Q: Before we end our interview I just want to know if there is a magic recipe for success, especially in the music industry.
AI - The only formula that I know is simple: Be yourself and respect your art and your audience.

Q: I almost forgot to ask about your new work, tell us a little bit about your new album.
AI - “Local Stranger” is my first international release. It’s a compilation of songs from my original albums, something like a “best of”, although I despise this term… It was released by Universal and Wrasse Records about a month ago. To be honest, I never really cared for a career abroad, I guess I never really cared about a career at home. It’s a bit like sending my kids away for vacation and it’s great to know that they can live their own lives, conduct their own journeys and positively affect other peoples lives without me.

Q: Alkinoo I am honored for this interview and want to wish you a successful tour may your music light the hearts of our Omogeneia with plenty of "Greece".
AI - Thank you. Kali antamosi.



ALIKINOS IOANNIDIS NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

Friday, April 20, 2012 - NORFOLK, VA
The Kaufman Theatre at the Chrysler Museum of Arts
245 West Olney Road , Norfolk, VA 23510
Showtime starts at 8:00pm
Tickets can be purchased online at: http://paideia.eventsbot.com/
(Please have printed receipt to present at door)

Sunday, April 22, 2012 Washington, DC
Jack Morton Auditorium
Showtime at 8:00pm
With Yiorgos Kaloudis


Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - NYC, NY, 
MERKIN CONCERT HALL, 129 W. 67th Street
Showtime starts at 8:00pm
(Joining him on stage is Yiorgos Kaloudis)
Instruments: Classical guitar, Eastern Lute, Cello, Cretan Lyra, Percussion)

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - Toronto, ON
The Opera House
Showtime starts at 9:00pm

Thursday April 26, 2012 Montreal, PQ
D.B. CLARKE CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
Showtime starts at 8:00pm
Saturday, April 28, 2012 - CONNECTICUTThe Center for Hellenic Studies Paideia, UCONN
Showtime starts at 7:00pm
$35 General Admission Tickets can be purchased at the door or at the following link:

Citizen Sells His Greek Vote on E-bay!

Incredible but absolutely true. Following the "sale of Greece" on E-bay another citizen with a bizarre sense of humor decided to sell his vote for the upcoming national elections! A reader on the military news site onalert.gr stated that he actually went in and "clicked" -for fun- and the vote was actually being auctioned.

Incredible!

Hellasfrappe caught the story right on time, because when E-Bay got word of it they took it down. Check the link below.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Greece-elections-vote-for-sale-/320884600740?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ab6366fa4&autorefresh=true



DOCUMENTARY - Holy Week On Mount Athos

Easter on Mount Athos does not have fireworks, roasted lamb and folk dances, it is a deep connection to one's spirituality and very inspirational.

Creating an atmosphere of pure devotion, the Easter liturgy is usually performed under the light of candles and its magic is indescribable. The rituals have remained unchanged for centuries, and motivate Christians from all over the world to flock here year after year in  order to participate in this wondrous celebration as well as quench their spiritual thirst. They receive Communion and give praise to the Lord, and participate in the Divine Drama of our Holy Lord, as well as rejoice in his Resurrection on Holy Saturday with all of the monastic community.

Instead of extravagant  Epitaphs a simple Epitaph is adorned with an embroidered purple cloth, and decorated with a few flowers. There are red Easter eggs of course, but the monks here celebrate Easter with lots of fish and collar greens.

The mini-documentary was made for MEGA Channel and shows how the monks of Mount Athos celebrate Orthodox Holy Week.

Mount Athos or Agion Oros, is the oldest surviving monastic community in the world. It dates back more than a thousand years, to Byzantine times and is a unique monastic republic, which, although part of Greece. It is a World Heritage Site and self-governed state. It is home to approximately 20 Stavropegial Eastern Orthodox monasteries under the direct jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Constantinople.

Editor's Note - The documentary is in Greek, but contains English subtitles. 

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Tsochatzopoulos: The Sausage Maker's Son Who Became a Millionaire



Frankfurt 1968: Fate brings together two prominent socialists, Akis Tsochatzopoulos and the late Andreas Papandreou. Almost three decades later, or specifically on June 23, 1996. Akis said his last goodbye to Papandreou, a man he considered as his friend and mentor. The years that followed were carefree with lots of Joie de Vivre and jet set living and there was only one thing he could not digest and this involved losing PASOK's presidency to his rival Costas Simitis in 1996.

His father, Evangelos, was originally from Costantinopole who arrived in Thessaloniki in 1926 as a refugee. It was here that he met Akis' mother Areti Georgakis, from Ioannina. They married in 1939, and had Akis the same year. Shortly afterwards the family acquired two more children, Stephen and Costas.

The family moved to Komninon 24, near Thessaloniki's Modiano market, known at the time as the neighborhood with the florists. Just a little further away, and specifically on Ermou Street the family also set up a sausage shop (or delicatessens) called "Allantika Tsochatzopoulos Piotis Alpha".

Akis himself would sell sandwiches at Thessaloniki's train station and then later on go for training at PAOK's junior basketball team.

At the age of eighteen Tsochatzopoulos came to Athens with the hopes of joining the Greek Air Force but the doctors had a different opinion and after diagnosing him with a systolic murmur infarction his hopes of joining the Academy were gone. So he packed up and immigrated to Germany in 1959 where he settled in Munich and apparently attended University. While studying at the Polytechnic he worked as a waiter and washed dishes, and he also found odd jobs as a driver, at a tire plant, etc. In 1964 he supposedly received his diploma in civil engineering and started his professional career. In the same  year he married his first wife Gudrun Molntenchaouer. Five years later they had a daughter which they named Areti and in 1969 his wife gave birth to their son Alex.

In 1972 he opened his first office in Munich called "Plan & Bau GmbH", but when the Junta fell in a little while after that he abandoned everything loaded up a troubled "Citroen" and road back to Greece!

Once in Greece, he apparently worked in construction designing buildings and posh homes with pristine pools and lush garden roofs and then he joined Andreas Papandreou and the Panhellenic Socialist party (PASOK).

When PASOK won the national elections in 1981, Tsochatzopoulos served as Minister of Public Works. At the following elections in 1985, Papandreou appointed him to the position of Minister for the Presidency of the Government (1985–1987) and then to the post of Minister for the Interior (1987–1989). When the Papandreou government fell in 1989 from a river of scandals, Tsochatzopoulos served a short term as Minister for Transport and Communication (1989–1990) under the Coalition Government. When the late Andreas Papandreou again won the elections in 1993 Tsochatzopoulos was named as Minister for the Interior (1993–1995) and then when Andreas died and Costas Simitis took over he served as Minister for National Defence (1996–2001) and then as Minister for Development (2001–2004).

In 2004, he came under strong criticism by members of the press and Greece's political scene in regards to his wedding in Paris and the reception that followed at the Four Seasons Hotel in order to have a view to the Eiffel Tower.

On 30 May 2010 Greek newspapers such as "Kathimerini" as well as "Proto Thema" published reports claiming that Tsochatzopoulos' wife had purchased a house for one million euros from an offshore company on one of Athens' most prestigious streets, just a few days before parliament passed a series of austerity measures aimed at increasing taxes and combating tax evasion.

At the time, Akis Tsochatzopoulos had threatened that he would go to the courts, but nevertheless on June 7 the committee in charge of the case asked for the removal of Tsochatzopoulos' party privileges because of evidence found against him.

In early 2011, following an investigation by a specialized committee of the Hellenic Parliament, evidence emerged that Tsochatzopoulos was also involved in the Siemens scandal. Among others, the committee statement included: "Mr. Tsochatzopoulos is being checked in regards to his activities in the capacity of Minister for National Defence between 1996 and 2001. The Committee combines the orders for defence systems that occurred under his leadership with the confessions of the people managing the 'black' money given by Siemens as bribe for the MIM-104 Patriot systems".

On 31 March 2011 a parliamentary committee decided to inspect Tsochatzopoulos' assets, as well as those of New Democracy politician George Alogoskoufis and another former minister of the same party, on whose account deposits of up to 178 million euro were found. The aim of the investigation into Tsochatzopoulos' assets was to verify that his tax forms were truthful or if any other irregularities had occurred.

In April 2011 new evidence emerged that tied Tsochatzopoulos to yet another scandal in addition to the previous two, this time with the German company Ferrostaal in relation to the purchase of German submarines. According to the newspaper Real News, Tsochatzopoulos had received thanks from the German representatives for having been chosen for the purchase before a deal had been signed.

Tsochatzopoulos threatened to go to courts over the newspaper's front page, which he considered to be "insulting".

In mid April the parliamentary group of PASOK decided on the creation of committee to investigate the submarine scandal. Tsochatzopoulos accused the parliamentary group of acting in line with the opposition and of making wrong moves against him. A few days later he made a request to the Areios Pagos, Greece's supreme court, to move faster with the procedure of investigating his assets.

On 11 April 2011 the George Papandreou government decided to expel him from the party.

A vote in parliament on 28 April on the creation of a committee to determine whether or not Tsochatzopoulos should be held accountable for criminal actions in the purchase of the German type 214 submarines was voted overwhelmingly in favor, with 226 of 300 votes in the house. Almost a month later, on 26 May, the findings on the committee for the investigation of Tsochatzopoulos' assets were published; they found that Tsochatzopoulos had lied about the value of his home, which was greater than his tax documents stated.

On 6 June 2011 the committee decision in relation to the purchase of the German submarines was handed over to the president of the Hellenic Parliament. The committee suggested that Tsochatzopoulos be criminally charged for the attempting to pass off money obtained through illegal means as legitimate. The same day he gave an interview to the Greek TV channel SKAI where he denied all charges and said that the accusations are a plot against him.

On 1 July 2011 the committee's suggestion that charges be made against Tsochatzopoulos was passed in parliament with a majority of 216 of 300 seat.

References in Greek - kourdistoportocali,
References in English - wikipedia



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Is The Bank of Queen Elisabeth Involved In Money Laundering?

French Presidential candidate Jacques Cheminade, in an interview aired live on March 21 on the Parliamentary TV channel, was asked about Lyndon LaRouche’s charge that the British monarchy is financed by drug money. Cheminade’s reply – that part of Queen Elisabeth’s fortune has indeed historically come from  illicit drug trafficking – was immediately portrayed in the media as outrageously ludicrous.

Then, ironically, only five days later, Coutts & Co., the private bank used by Queen Elisabeth II,  was hit with the U.K.’s biggest-ever fine for laundering dirty money, “after it failed to conduct proper checks on almost three-quarters of clients that held politically sensitive positions”, as written in the Financial Times of March 26. Many other press in the UK also headlined their coverage on the dirty dealings of the “Queen’s Bank”.

In reviewing 103 files of clients of Coutts Bank, the Financial Services Authority, which is the financial watchdog of the City of London, found that no less than 73 showed a routine failure to identify “high risk” clients, generally criminals, drug dealers, and so-called “Politically Exposed Persons,” i.e., corrupt politicians or government officials, deemed as “unacceptable risk.”

The fine is related to a three-year period from the end of 2007, a time when it was paying bonuses to staff on the basis of the number of new customers they signed up. According to the FSA, Coutts failed to take the appropriate steps to control that expanding customer base.Coutts is now the private banking wealth division of the Royal Bank of Scotland, leader of the notorious Rothschild-controlled Inter-Alpha Group of banks, which is now majority-owned by the British government. The FSA also investigated four other RBS-affiliated banks.

“Coutts’ failings were significant, widespread and unacceptable,” said Tracey McDermott, acting FSA enforcement director. The fine amounts to approximately 10 million euros.Coutts had already been fined for not preventing use of its accounts to finance terrorist organizations, as part of a £5.6 million fine levied against RBS in 2010. In total, RBS has been fined more than £25 million, more than any other U.K. bank.

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SHOCKING - Can NAZI WWII Treasure Help To Bail Out Greece?



Did the bank of Greece discover 57 sacks with some 14 million Nazi Reichsmark banknotes that were from in Greece from WWII (1941-44)? Well according to a report on defencenet it did. The report, which was quoting a similar report on news247, said that the government is now thinking of creating a committee to appraise the treasure.

Googling the story, hellasfrappe found something interesting on THE SLOG about this. According to the author, the the Bank of Greece had informed the ministry of the German money about a year ago, but given that it is only of historic value, the ministry had then decided against taking any action. However, as a result of the war reparations debate that is currently raging, Finance Minister Filippos Sachinidis now decided to see what can be done with it.
"What occurs to me, however, is that these notes are worth a helluva lot more than 1-year Greek bonds….and perhaps all Greek bonds. As collectors’ items, for example, 14 million 5-Reichsmark notes – if marketed online – would be worth around 150 million euros. Given Wolfgang Schauble spent three weeks during February holding up the debt swap on the basis of almost exactly that sum, it’s bound to come in useful for something. Paying off English Law and Vulture Fund non-swappers of pre-March bonds, for example.
But a better and infinitely bigger bazooka presents itself in the shape of offering them to Jens Weidmann’s Bundesbank as loan collateral. For now that She Who Must be Obeyed in Berlin has decreed that Jens never said anything at all about banning ClubMed bonds as collateral, not ever oh no, in theory Athens could twist his arm to take any old sh*t from the Bank of Greece.
To use a related technical term here, these marks are actually worth a sh*tload of money. From some initial digging undertaken by The Slog in the wee hours this morning [Tuesday] I can’t find any trace of them being declared as illegal tender. What’s more, the mark/dollar exchange rate in 1941 (just before the unpleasantness at Pearl Harbor suspended operations) was 2.5 to 1.
So the Bank of Greece’s Nazi notes are worth circa six million 1941 bucks.
As a form of economic power (there are seven ways to calculate dollar inflation over the years) these $6M from 70 odd years ago are now worth 4.3 billion dollars.
The average EU bank is currently leveraged at the 35 to 1 level. So as collateral, in theory Adolf’s fading currency haul is worth around $150 billion." THE SLOG





Coca-Cola Hellenic Dismisses Report


Coca-Cola Hellenic (CCH) , Coca-Cola΄s No.2 bottler worldwide, on Tuesday dismissed a press report that soft drinks it recalled last month contained a substance which could be dangerous to public health. A report on capital said that in in February, the company removed some of its Coca-Cola and Sprite plastic and glass bottles from the market which it produced at a Greek unit, citing an unusual taste.

Meanwhile, a report in the Proto Thema newspaper over the weekend noted that the drinks could cause serious health problems if consumed in large quantities.

In a statement the company, which is active in 27 countries in Europe and also in Nigeria, said that the products never posed a risk to public health and that this has been confirmed in laboratory tests by the country΄s chemistry laboratory and certified international and Greek scientific organisations.

Following the news, a Greek prosecutor ordered a preliminary investigation into the report.
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