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Sunday, 4 March 2018

Lai Mohammed: Minister bags “Icon of Community Development Awards

Information Minister, Lai Mohammed says federal government is working to ensure protect Nigerians

The Award was conferred on the minister at the 60th anniversary of Oro Grammar School and the launching of N100 million appeal fund by the Old Students Association of the school.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed was on Saturday honoured with the Award of “Icon of Community Development’’ in his home town, Oro, Kwara.

The Award was conferred on the minister at the 60th anniversary of Oro Grammar School and the launching of N100 million appeal fund by the Old Students Association of the school.

The award, according to the organisers of the event was in recognition of the numerous contributions by the minister to the school, Oro community, Kwara and the nation at large.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the minister renovated and equipped the science laboratory and two blocks of classrooms as contributions to the development of the school.

Speaking at the event, the minister
said he had secured a N150 million education intervention fund for the College of Education, Oro from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND).

He also announced the approval of award of contract for the construction of Obajana-Omuaran-Ilorin road by the Federal Government.

Mohammed said he secured the award for the road construction with the assistance of his colleague ministers in the Federal Executive Council.

The minister, who expressed concerns on the harrowing experiences by the road users said they would soon breathe a sigh of relief.

He said the contracts for the construction of the road was awarded to two contractors which would soon mobilise to site.

The minister said that Dangote Group which had its cement factory on the axis had commenced construction of its own section of the road.

He said a speedy completion of the road would help to reduce time wasted by commuters and put an end to the attacks by hoodlums on the road.

Mohammed, who hails from Oro, said he was working with the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) for the rehabilitation of the roads in the town and its environs.

The minister said he had secured the assurances of the Minister of Works, Power, and Housing, Babatunde Fashola that the rehabilitation projects would commence soon.

The minister also said that he was working with the Ministry of Water Resources for provision of portable water across the three senatorial districts of Kwara.

He recalled that his ministry launched the Digital Switch Over (DSO) in February in Ilorin, thereby placing the state among the first round of states to transit from analogue to digital terrestrial television.

Mohammed said in order for the entire state to be covered with DSO, he has approved the construction of base stations in Oro and Lafiaji.

Speaking on the award conferred on him, the minister said it would spur him to do more and attract more developmental projects to his community.

He underscored the need for public spirited citizens and philanthropists to contribute to the development of their communities, noting that government could not do everything alone.

Mohammed said although, the school was not his alma-mata, he was attracted to contributing to its development because of its history and the fact that his late brother, Wahab Mohammed was a foundation student of the school.

He said Oro Grammar School was conceived and founded in 1948, with a donation of 20,000 pounds by the forefathers of the community who were keen at giving education to their children.

The minister noted that the school had been exceptional in academics and sports since inception, recalling that “it was a terror to other schools in soccer in the North and beyond’’.

Gov. Abdulfattah Ahmed of Kwara, who corroborated the minister’s position, said it was imperative for people to give back to their community which had assisted them in one way or the other.

The governor, represented by Hajia Maryam Garba, the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Education said the government was committed to completing all ongoing projects.

The President of the school association, Mr Folorunsho Alao, thanked the minister for creating time out of his busy schedule to attend the event and for his contributions.

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Politics: The NRA is at the center of a brewing controversy over its ties to 'conservatives' favorite Russian'

Donald Trump speaks at the NRA.

The NRA is fielding questions about its ties to Alexander Torshin, a prominent Kremlin-allied Russian banker, politician, and gun-rights activist.

  • The National Rifle Association is fielding a growing number of questions about its ties to Alexander Torshin, a prominent Kremlin-allied Russian banker, politician, and gun-rights activist.
  • Torshin, who has been described as "President Putin's emissary" in the US, said in 2015 that he knew President Donald Trump through the NRA.
  • The FBI is currently investigating whether Torshin illegally funneled money through the NRA to help sway the 2016 US election in Trump's favor.
  • He was also touted as the main point of contact from Russia's side when his longtime assistant and a Republican strategist tried to set up a backdoor meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin during an NRA convention at the height of the election.

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The National Rifle Association is under heightened scrutiny over its Russia ties.

In particular, the organization is facing questions about its relationship with Alexander Torshin, a prominent Russian banker, politician, and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Torshin, whom the Spanish government has accused of money laundering and other financial crimes, is an avid gun-rights activist and a paid lifetime member of the NRA.

In January, McClatchy reported that the FBI is investigating whether Torshin illegally funneled money to the NRA to help sway the 2016 US election in favor of then-candidate Donald Trump. The NRA, according to the report, said it spent a record $55 million on the election, most of which came from a sector of the organization that isn't required to disclose its donors.

Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon raised concerns about the report in a letter he sent to the NRA in February, asking the organization for more information about what, if any, funding it has received from Russian entities. Wyden also asked the NRA about whether it has any policies in place to ensure it isn't used as a conduit for foreign money to flow into US election.

The NRA responded shortly after Wyden sent the inquiry and highlighted the fact that the FBI is investigating Torshin, not the NRA.

"As a longstanding policy to comply with federal election law, the NRA and its related entities do not accept funds from foreign persons or entities in connection with United States elections," NRA general counsel John Frazer added in the letter.

'I know D. Trump'

The US intelligence community concluded last year that Russia mounted an elaborate and multi-faceted campaign aimed at elevating Trump to the presidency. And McClatchy's January report came as the special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow was making significant progress.

Trump has repeatedly said that neither he nor his campaign colluded with Moscow. The Trump administration also denied in 2017 that Trump had ever met Torshin.

But a number of tweets sent from Torshin's Twitter account, which NPR reviewed in depth this week, appear to indicate otherwise.

In one tweet sent on November 8, 2015, Torshin wrote, according to an English translation: "A comedian should make people laugh! Right? So he is trying! I know D. Trump (through NRA). A decent person." Torshin sent the tweet in response to when the comedian Larry David called Trump a racist on "Saturday Night Live."

Torshin later added that he saw Trump in Nashville, Tennessee in April 2015, NPR reported. The NRA held its annual convention in Nashville that year, during which Trump gave a speech teasing his impending presidential bid.

"If I run, and people are going to be very surprised, and if I win, America will be great again," Trump told the approving crowd, which included Torshin and his close associate and longtime assistant, Maria Butina. Butina spearheads The Right to Bear Arms, a Russian gun-rights group seen as the NRA's counterpart.

Torshin attended the NRA's convention every year between 2012 and 2016, occasionally with Butina at his side, and has met every NRA president since 2012, according to NPR. When the NRA sent a delegation to Moscow in the winter of 2015, it was Torshin who received them on behalf of The Right to Bear Arms.

'Kremlin connection'

Butina, meanwhile, has been cultivating her own ties with American gun-rights activists, like Republican strategist Paul Erickson, whom she has been acquainted with since at least 2013.

Erickson invited scrutiny last year, when The New York Times reported that he emailed Trump campaign aide Rick Dearborn in May 2016, with the subject line "Kremlin Connection," telling him that he could arrange a backdoor meeting between Trump and Putin.

Russia is "quietly but actively seeking a dialogue with the US," Erickson wrote, according to the email. He added that Russia would try to make contact with the Trump campaign at the NRA's annual convention that May in Louisville, Kentucky.

Butina made a similar request through Rick Clay, a conservative Christian advocate. Dearborn forwarded Clay's email to senior adviser Jared Kushner, who reportedly rebuffed the offer.

Torshin was the individual designated to make "first contact" with Trump from Russia's side. Erickson described him in his email as "President Putin's emissary on this front."

Erickson wrote that Torshin would make "first contact" with the campaign at a dinner honoring wounded veterans that was organized by Clay, the report said. Neither Trump nor his campaign advisers attended the reception. Trump Jr. and Torshin did, however, attend a separate NRA dinner the same night.

About six months later, Butina had a birthday party on November 12, 2016, four days after Trump won the US election in a shocking upset. The gathering featured several top Trump campaign advisers, according to The Daily Beast. Erickson, who was also in attendance, reportedly told guests Butina was on the Trump transition team.

Two months later, Butina was one of several Putin-allied Russians who attended Trump's inaugural celebrations.

The US's former ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, told The Washington Post it was "strange" that so many Russia-linked individuals attended Trump's inauguration.

But Ned Price, a former CIA analyst who served as Senior Director of the National Security Council under President Barack Obama, said he wasn't surprised.

"This team courted and potentially colluded with the Russians since day one without any apparent shame," he said in an email. "I would've been surprised had prominent Russians NOT attended the inauguration. It was Moscow's victory, after all."

Conservatives' 'favorite Russian'

In February 2017, Torshin was invited, through his NRA ties, to a national prayer breakfast with the newly-inaugurated President Trump. According to Yahoo News, Torshin was supposed to have a personal meeting with Trump before the event, but his invitation was rescinded after a White House aide spotted his name on the guest list and alerted others to Torshin's alleged illicit activities.

"He's sort of the conservatives' favorite Russian," Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, who is known for endorsing Russia-friendly positions, told Yahoo News. Rohrabacher and Kentucky Rep. Tom Massie dined with Torshin and other members of Russia's delegation to the prayer breakfast last year.

"He's someone who understands our system," Rohrabacher added. "His approach is, 'I agree with you Americans: People should have a right to own guns. There should be religious freedom. The whole problem is with radical Muslims.' We were able to have a very good exchange."

The GOP's ideological progression toward Putin's Russia is not a new phenomenon. Over the last several years in particular, self-identified conservatives and members of the alt-right have openly embraced Russia's stance on key issues — such as gun rights, religion, and same-sex marriage — that make up the bedrock of the Republican platform, and cultivated relationships with prominent Russians whose views align with their own.

This was, perhaps, part of why the gun-rights activist Kline Preston asked Torshin to come to the US and be an international election observer as President Barack Obama faced off against former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in November 2012, according to The Washington Post. Preston, a conservative lawyer with a long history of doing business in Russia, also introduced Torshin to NRA president David Keene in 2011.

Torshin later hinted that his NRA credentials had played a role in his participation in the 2012 election.

"I was there at Obama's last election!" Torshin tweeted in 2015, according to NPR. "The NRA card, to me as an observer from Russia, opened access to any [polling] station."

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'I don't envy Guardiola' – Conte backs Manchester City's big spending

The Blues boss has praised his Sunday opponents who have spent big for a number of years, as they dominate English football this season

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Saturday, 3 March 2018

Coutinho, Casemiro and Paulinho get boost in FIFA FUT 18 ratings refresh

Star turns at Barcelona, Real Madrid, Valencia and Atletico Madrid are among those to have seen their numbers increased in the latest upgrade

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Politics: These are the world's newest aircraft carriers

USS Gerald R. Ford underway on its own power for the first time in Newport News, Virginia, April 8, 2017.

The US, UK, China, India, and Italy are all building new aircraft carriers that will take to the seas in the coming decades.

The earliest aircraft carriers in history looked nothing like they do today.

They were known as "seaplane tenders" because they could only carry and support seaplanes.

These ships, like France's Foudre and Britain's HMS Ark Royal didn't even have large flat decks, because seaplanes could only take off from the surface of the ocean after being placed on the water.

Over a century later, almost everything has changed. Affectionately nicknamed "flattops," aircraft carriers have become one of the most important weapons in the arsenals of navies around the world.

There are currently 20 aircraft carriers in service with nine different countries around the world today. Five of those countries are currently building new aircraft carriers, which are expected to take to the seas in the next few decades.

The US, UK, China, India and Italy are all either in the process of building new flattops, or are in the final stages of planning. Aircraft carriers that support fixed-wing, smaller helicopter carriers are being built, and may be upgraded to carry aircraft like the F-35b, which has vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capabilities.

See the newest aircraft carriers here:

USS Gerald R. Ford

The USS Gerald R. Ford was laid down in November 2009, completed in October 2013, and commissioned in July 2017. It is the lead ship of its class, and is planned to be the first of 10 new aircraft carriers.

The ship has a number of new technologies, like the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, which is intended to replace the steam-powered launch system on current aircraft carriers.

With a length of 1,106 feet, Ford is expected to carry over 75 individual aircraft, with most of them planned to be F-35 variants. However, due to technical and delivery issues, Ford will likely not see F-35s on her deck until late 2018 at the earliest.

Ford recently tested launching F/A-18F Super Hornets off of its deck. It is expected to be fully operational and integrated and into the US Navy by 2022.

USS John F. Kennedy

USS John F. Kennedy is the second Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier to be built for the US Navy. The ship was reportedly 50% structurally complete as of June 2017.

Kennedy is currently under construction at a Huntington Ingalls Industries facility in Newport News, Virginia. The carrier was originally supposed to be completed in 2018, but it ran into a number of problems during construction.

Most of the problems stem from cost issues relating to the Gerald R. Ford. Ford had a cost increase of 22%, topping $12.8 billion in 2008.

The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommended delaying the commissioning of the ship in 2013. It is now expected to be commissioned in 2020.

USS Enterprise

USS Enterprise is the third Gerald R. Ford-class carrier currently being built. The first cut of steel was cut in a ceremony last August by the ship's sponsors, Olympians Katie Ledecky and Simone Biles.

Enterprise will the be ninth vessel in the US Navy to have the name. The previous ship was the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier ever built, and was decommissioned last February.

Like the Ford and the Kennedy, Enterprise expected to carry over 75 aircraft.

HMS Queen Elizabeth

Commissioned in 2017, HMS Queen Elizabeth is the newest aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy, and currently Britain's only active one as well.

Queen Elizabeth is unique from other carriers in that she has two control towers, one for sea operations, and one for air operations.

With a deck that is 932 feet long, Queen Elizabeth is intended to have up to 40 aircraft, with the F-35 being the main fixed-wing jet for the ship. Other aircraft planned to be included are Chinook helicopters, Apache AH MK1 gunships, AW101 Merlin transport helicopters, and AW159 Wildcat anti-surface warfare helicopters.

Queen Elizabeth docked for the first time at an overseas port on February 2018, when it visited Gibraltar.

HMS Prince of Wales

HMS Prince of Wales is Britain's second Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier. It is currently under construction at the Rosyth Dockyard in Scotland, and will be Britain's second aircraft carrier when complete.

Prince of Wales was officially named at a ceremony last September, which was attended by the current Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, and his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Rothesay.

Last December, Prince of Wales un-docked and was afloat for the first time. The carrier was moved to her fitting-out berth, where she will have all of her equipment and controls added on.

The carrier is structurally complete and is expected to start sea trials in 2019, and be officially commissioned in 2020.

Liaoning

Liaoning is the Peoples Liberation Army Navy's first combat-capable aircraft carrier. China had bought other aircraft carriers before to use as casinos and museum ships, but it wasn't until it purchased a half-built Soviet carrier in 1998 that China seriously started its carrier program.

Liaoning is 999 feet long and has an air wing of 26 Shenyang J-15 multi-role fighters, 12 Changhe Z-18 anti-submarine warfare/transport helicopters, and two Harbin Z-9 utility helicopters.

The carrier was commissioned in 2012, and although the Liaoning is a fully functional aircraft carrier, it is currently classified as a training ship, so as to help the Chinese Navy (PLAN) become familiar with aircraft carrier operations.

Type 001A

The Type 001A is China's first domestically built aircraft carrier. Initial construction started almost immediately after Liaoning was commissioned, and has a number of improvements over its Soviet-built predecessor.

Most notably, the Type 001A has an overall length of 1,033 feet, and is planned to carry 48 aircraft.

It is not known what the Type 001A will be named, but there was speculation that it will be named Shandong. The carrier is currently being fitted out at the PLAN port in Dalian, and is expected to be commissioned around 2020.

Type 002

The Type 002 will be China's second domestically-built aircraft carrier, and the third in its fleet. It has been under construction since 2015 and is reportedly a massive leap forward for China's aircraft carrier ambitions.

The Type 002 will be nuclear powered, which will make China only the third nation in the world to have nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, the first two being the US and France.

The carrier will also have electromagnetic (EMALS) catapults to launch aircraft from its deck, which is expected to be longer than the Liaoning.

The EMALS systems will allow the carrier to launch more than just J-15s, the only jet that can be launched on China's other two carriers. In fact, China announced that it wants its future aircraft carriers to launch its J-31 or J-20 stealth jets.

China announced that it intends to speed the development of the unnamed Type 002, which is part of its plans to have a "blue-water navy" by 2025.

INS Vikramaditya

INS Vikramaditya is currently India's only aircraft carrier, after India retired the INS Viraat in early 2017.

A heavily modified Kiev-class, it was originally built for the Soviet Navy in 1982, and served the Soviet Union under two names: Baku from 1987 to 1991, and Admiral Gorshkov from 1991 to 1996.

The carrier entered full service in the Indian Navy in 2013, after extensive modernization efforts.

Vikramaditya is 930 feet long and carries a total of 36 aircraft: 26 MiG-29K and 10 Kamov Ka-31 and Kamov Ka-28 helicopters. It is also the first ship in the Indian Navy to have an ATM on board.

INS Vikrant

INS Vikrant is India's first domestically-built aircraft carrier, and the first ship in the Indian Navy to be built completely using domestically-produced steel.

The carrier was ordered in 2004, and initial construction started in 2009. It is shorter than the Vikramaditya, with a total length of 860 feet. It will reportedly be able to carry 30 to 40 aircraft, mostly MiG-29Ks and helicopters.

The Vikrant has been the cause of a lot of headaches for India. It was delayed several times and has gone over budget, but is expected to finally start two years of sea trials by the end of 2018. It is planned to be commissioned in 2020.

Trieste

Trieste will be Italy's third aircraft carrier, after the Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Cavour. The Trieste is not a traditional aircraft carrier, but a Landing Helicopter Dock, more similar to the US Navy's America-class amphibious assault ship.

Its total length is 803 feet, smaller than the America-class. It will hold 12 aircraft, probably AgustaWestland AW101s or NHIndustries NH90.

But the Italian Navy may put a small number of F-35Bs, the short take-off and vertical landing (SVTOL) variant of the F-35, on the Trieste, which would make it a conventional aircraft carrier that can carry fixed-wing aircraft.

Italy currently has San Giorgio-class amphibious transport docks.

Trieste is expected to be launched in 2019, and commissioned in 2022.

ROKS Marado

Like the Trieste, South Korea's ROKS Marado is an amphibious assault ship. Construction started last April, and it is expected to be launched just a year later in April 2018.

Current plans are to have Morado commissioned by 2020, which will make it South Korea's second Dokdo-class amphibious assault ships, behind ROKS Dokdo, which was commissioned in July of 2007.

At 653 feet, the Morado can currently carry 10 helicopters like the UH-1H, UH-60P or the Westland Super Lynx. However, like Italy, South Korea is debating putting F-35Bs on the ships as well.

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Toke Makinwa: OAP is disappointed in Anthony Joshua

Toke Makinwa was quick to point out that Joshua's statement is the reason we have men without proper upbringing roaming around.

It's no secret that Toke Makinwa has a massive crush on Anthony Joshua but that may have changed.

The OAP took her Instagram page to address a post shared by the boxer on social media.

Joshua stated in his post that he would be stricter with his niece than his son because Joseph is a boy.

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He added that a girl needs to learn to be respectful as she would become someone's wife someday.

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Toke Makinwa was quick to point out that Joshua's statement is the reason we have men without proper upbringing roaming around, feeling entitled.

She encouraged parents to make their sons accountable instead of putting so much pressure on the girl child.

 

With the calibre of men we have these days, we tend to agree with Makinwa on this one.

Toke Makinwa makes Anthony Joshua her birthday wish

Does the phrase, "Be careful what you wish for" ring any bells in this situation?

Remember that Toke Makinwa took to social media to reveal that she was crushing on Anthony Joshua.

In fact, the OAP made him her birthday wish in 2017.

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The presenter who clocked 33 on Friday, November 3, 2017, made her desire known via the image sharing app Instagram. On her profile was a GQ magazine cover with a picture of the boxer.

 

Joshua who had just won a bout against boxing opponent Carlos Takam in Cardiff, Wales, over the weekend may not have known at the time that his fate and Makinwa's would be twisted this way.

At the time, he was the most talked about subject for anyone who actively follows the sport and even those who don't, like a number of women in the world who found his well built physique to be irresistible.

 

He is currently on a row and appears to have the ring on lock with his exceptional performances that has seen him conquer Ukranian former champ Wladimir Klitschko sending the latter into retirement on August 3, 2017.

In his hometown in Sagamu, Ogun State, traditional worshippers offered sacrifices to the godswith the aim of ensuring that he comes out victorious in his last match against Takam.

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Buhari: President leads dignitaries to Kano for the wedding of Gov Ganduje and Ajimobi's children

Buhari leads dignitaries to Kano for the wedding of Gov Ganduje and Ajimobi's children

Buhari is, however, being criticised for attending the wedding of governors' kids but failed to visit Yobe, where 110 girls were kidnapped.

President Muhammadu Buhari has led an entourage of dignitaries to Kano State, where children of two seating Nigerian Governors are getting married.

The couple, Fatima Ganduje and Idris Ajimobi – daughter and son of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano and Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State respectively – are tying the knots on Saturday, March 3, 2018.

 

The President's Special Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad shared the information on Twitter.

Some critics, however, berated Buhari for attending the wedding of governors' kids but failed to visit Dapchi, Yobe state, where 110 girls were recently kidnapped by the Boko Haram insurgents.

The Special Adviser on New Media to the Kano State Government, Salihu Tanko Yakasai, also tweeted photos from the heavy-weight wedding.

 

According to him, Buhari was the Guardian to the bride, Fatima, while APC National leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was the guardian to the groom, Idris, at the wedding.

The sum of N50,000 was paid as Fatima's dowry.

 

He had also been criticised for being insensitive to the plights of the people of Benue, where over 100 people were massacred by Fulani herdsmen since the wake of a new year.

See some of the criticisms below:

 

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Politics: The House Intelligence Committee's partisan war hints at a looming national security threat

House Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Ranking Member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) speak with the media about the ongoing Russia investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S. March 15, 2017.

The House Intelligence Committee has devolved into an unprecedented level of partisan bickering, and the national security apparatus is worried.

  • The House Intelligence Committee has devolved into an unprecedented level of partisan bickering, and intelligence veterans are sounding the alarm.
  • National-security experts say the politicization of the committee's work has severely damaged trust between the panel and the intelligence community, and eroded the American public's confidence in the institutions themselves.
  • "You have people asking, 'Does what I do make a difference anymore, if what you do is disregard it?'" said one former senior intelligence official.

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There's a wall being built in Washington, but it has nothing to do with Mexico.

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have reportedly proposed constructing a physical wall between themselves and the committee's Democrats in its secure meeting spaces, according to CBS News.

But the breakdown in relations on the panel long predates the alleged proposal — and now, experts are sounding the alarm over its potential national-security ramifications.

Over the last year, ranking member Adam Schiff and chairman Devin Nunes have been engaged in a protracted battle over the direction the committee's Russia investigation should take.

While Schiff and his Democratic colleagues have largely been focused on scoping out Russia's interference in the 2016 US election and whether it had any help from members of President Donald Trump's campaign, Nunes has been carving out his own probe into what he characterizes as corruption and anti-Trump bias within the nation's top law enforcement agencies.

Tensions came to a head last month, when the committee released a controversial Republican memo alleging surveillance abuses by the FBI and the Department of Justice when they sought a warrant to monitor a former Trump campaign adviser shortly before the election. The memo included highly-sensitive details about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) application process, one of the most secretive and guarded procedures in American law enforcement.

Democrats released a rebuttal memo shortly after, which sought to correct what many characterized as misleading and damaging claims made in the Republican memo. The Democratic document also quoted directly from the FISA application.

The memo wars seized Washington by storm, but they're just the latest indication of how the House Intelligence Committee has become mired in an unprecedented level of partisan tribalism. For a body that regularly handles the most classified intelligence, experts said, the panel's descent into partisan squabbling is not only unusual, but poses a direct threat to national security and the intelligence community's work.

'Broken down'

In any congressional committee, politics will inevitably enter the fray. But Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the editor-in-chief of the national security blog Lawfare, said the intelligence committees have historically been an exception to that rule, given the sensitive nature of their work.

"They've always been the least partisan part of the Congress because people have taken their obligations to protect information seriously," said Wittes, who is a close friend of former FBI Director James Comey. "There has been a certain bipartisan commitment to the basic functioning of the intelligence community. That has broken down."

Gary Schmitt, the director of the Security Studies Center at the American Enterprise Institute and the former Democratic staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee, floated one theory about why the House panel features more partisanship.

The structure of the committee, Schmitt said, guarantees more powers for the majority than that of its Senate counterpart.

"The House committee just institutionally is more likely to head in that direction given its founding framework," he said.

He added the caveat, however, that things have rarely devolved to the level they're at now.

In addition to bickering within its own ranks, the House committee has also gotten into some friction with the Senate Intelligence Committee. In one instance, when Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Richard Burr requested to see a copy of the Republican House committee memo, authored by Nunes, in January prior to its release, he was duly rebuffed.

Things heated up further last month, when House Republicans leaked Senate committee ranking member Mark Warner's texts with a Russia-linked lobbyist to Fox News.

Warner was messaging the lobbyist, Adam Waldman, to try to set up a meeting with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored a dossier about Trump's ties to Russia that's currently being used as a roadmap in both the Senate committee's and the FBI's Russia investigations. Warner informed his colleagues of his interactions with Waldman four months before they were published, and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, who sits on the Senate panel, said they had no impact on the committee's investigation.

Burr and Warner were reportedly so troubled by the leak that they took their concerns to House Speaker Paul Ryan, while also raising broader questions about the general disarray on the House panel.

"I don't think you'll restore trust until you have a new chairman and new ranking member," Schmitt said.

A two-pronged attack on the intelligence community

The House Intelligence Committee and the intelligence community have always engaged in a complementary, albeit sometimes strained, relationship due to the committee's oversight responsibilities.

Gen. Michael Hayden, the former director of the CIA and National Security Agency, said that while occasional tensions are natural, the present situation is an anomaly.

"Intelligence people are used to, from time to time, a tense relationship with the Congress," Hayden said. "This is unusual though because we have the president’s own party aligning with the president to put pressure on and seemingly affect the judgment of the president's own intelligence and law enforcement agencies."

"That's never happened before," Hayden added. "That's the punchline."

Trump has frequently taken to Twitter over the last several months to malign the FBI and other intelligence agencies in the Russia investigation, at times using the Nunes memo as ammunition for his attacks.

One former senior intelligence official was blunt when describing Trump's and his congressional allies' attacks.

"That's unheard of. That's off the charts," the official said. "You’ve got the Republicans in the hot seat, clearly cooperating with the White House, to beat up the White House's intelligence and law enforcement agencies. That's unprecedented."

Meanwhile, there are other, broader consequences resulting from the House Intelligence Committee's decision to release two memos detailing sources and methods used in the FISA application process.

"That's just like giving it to the Russians," Wittes said. "In fact it is giving it to the Russians. There's a reason we protect this information and it's so that our foreign adversary intelligence services don't get their hands on it, and when the House Intelligence Committee makes an affirmative decision to blow a FISA application, they're giving information to foreign adversaries."

"Of course it is [a threat to national security]," he added. "It's not even a subtle thing."

Deep-seated distrust

Mark Simakovsky, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, said the public's dwindling confidence in the House Intelligence Committee is likely seeping into other facets of the federal government.

"The staff that's there, I'm sure, is less trustworthy of the other side than they were before, the leadership there is less trustworthy, and I think the intelligence community and policy makers in Washington and the American people are going to look more skeptically at this committee," he said.

But the chilly relationship developing between the intelligence community and the House panel may just be the tip of the iceberg.

"I fear that the result of today’s dynamic … is not just hurt feelings in the intelligence community" but the 'chiseling away' of public trust in the institutions themselves," the former intelligence official said.

"I hear successful, middle and upper class Americans, even high net-worth individuals, saying 'I will never have confidence in the FBI ever again,'" they added.

Nunes said last month that he is planning on releasing a series of additional memos raising questions about the intelligence community and multiple federal government agencies, like the State Department.

And while it remains to be seen how fiercely Democrats will push back, in many ways, the damage may already be done.

"I have concerns about the long-term effects on American intelligence," said the former official. "You have people asking, 'Does what I do make a difference anymore, if what you do is disregard it?'"

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Opinion: Are you leaving your children an inheritance?

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The New York Times recently wrote about how retirement is different if you don’t have children. But we also asked readers to tell us if they are leaving an inheritance for their children and how their decisions have affected their finances and family. Their stories have been condensed and edited for clarity.

“There is no reason I should leave anything to my children.”

Michael Stoll, 63, of Germantown, Tennessee, retired from his career as a certified public accountant four years ago.

His wife, Nancy, 66, left her job in 1982 when they had their first child. They have two children, 33 and 35, and three grandchildren, 4, 7 and 14 months.

It’s really one of my beliefs that there is no reason I should leave anything to my children. I’m not looking to leave them a legacy, I’m not looking to enrich them, they’re fine on their own. I will either burn everything up with my wife or we’ll give it away to charity.

My wife and I have been so blessed with our health, our children, our livelihoods, whether through our church or any organization that helps the poor. The only thing that we will do is make absolutely certain that our grandchildren will have enough money in their 529 plans to go to college.

My whole philosophy was when the children went to school, they were on the “Stoll scholarship,” which required them to have at least a 3.0 average and it required them to graduate in four years and it didn’t allow them to come back home. Neither one of them came home; there was no boomerang. We have well-rounded children and they’re doing terrific on their own. I always joke they are off my payroll and it’s the best feeling ever. As a matter of fact, they usually pay for us.

I’ve never realized how much I would enjoy being retired. Before, I worked hard to make money, now I work hard to save money, whether it’s grocery shopping or household utilities, it makes it so easy here in the mid-South to economize. I may have enough to live past 100!

“I want to give my children more than what I had.”

Susana Kuehne, 27, of Becker, Minnesota, is a patent agent at a law firm. Her husband, Jerrad, 26, served in the Navy and is now a stay-at-home parent to their 3-year-old son. Kuehne is pregnant.

I grew up in a home where there was just no concept of saving. It never bothered me, since I didn’t know much, I didn’t expect much. I saw my parents struggle the whole way through. That was striking to me. It makes me sad that they had to grow up like that. I know they gave us more than what they had, and I want to give my children more than what I had. So it’s important to me. We don’t have to give him a trust fund, but we have to give him something in case something happens.

I don’t contribute to an IRA, I don’t feel comfortable with that, so we focus on saving. We purposefully just don’t put it in the bank anymore, it’s too easy to transfer when you’re in the negative. Both times we’ve had almost $10,000 in savings, but had to take it out. People don’t understand why you say you’re broke when you have a job. No one talks about these things, but being broke is not having these savings. For some people, they say I’ll just invest in retirement in my 40s or 50s and the older people I’ve talked to say that’s not at all the right way to go.

When I became pregnant the first time I didn’t have a job and I realized I never want to be in a situation where I can’t provide for my child. I wanted to make sure I had a safety net. But we had to learn the hard way that you cannot lean on credit cards. We’re playing catch-up, but we’re so young and in four years our mortgage will be way lower, our loans will be paid off. We actually started tithing this past Christmas, we felt a need to give back. I’m very religious and it finally kind of struck that one of the reasons I’m so overwhelmed sometimes is that I’m not giving back. I believe you have to save, you have to tithe and you have to pay the rest off; it just becomes a long list of things to do.

“We don’t live extravagantly, but we are not lacking for anything.'’

Anand Rami, 63, of Vancouver, Washington, retired from his career as a software engineer almost three years ago. His wife, Angela, 64, is also retired. Since the birth of their first child she has been a stay-at-home parent and before that, worked as an accounting clerk. Their sons are 29 and 33.

I’ve been fortunate enough to have more than enough for retirement; we don’t live extravagantly, but we are not lacking for anything that we want and we do have a fairly substantial amount of assets. Both of our sons are doing quite well with their significant others, and we won’t be leaving them a significant portion, but every little bit helps and who knows what the future holds?

My parents both had to work in the United States in nonprofessional positions and when they passed away there really wasn’t much left at all, and we didn’t expect anything, so basically my sisters and I had to keep working.

In my professional career I was fortunate enough to have good contacts, an immigrant work ethic, and even though when I was earning just a middle-class salary it was our decision to save as much as we can, even if it meant foregoing vacations and new cars. As a rule, I managed to save 10 percent of my income, pretax, every month and over time it just built up.

“It’s like the old saying, teach a person to fish rather than feed them.”

Dennis Smith, 62, of Buffalo, New York, is a network specialist at the Board of Cooperative Educational Services. He is deciding whether to retire in 2 1/2 years or wait until 65, for the full benefits. His wife Cindy, 54, works in retail and expects to be working for some time after he retires. His sons are 28, 30 and 32.

My sons all have been out of college for several years, and they’re all successful in their careers. If my kids were in a different situation, certainly I would be more helpful. But at this point, there’s not a lot they need from me. I think they would be happy if I end up not being a burden to them, which I’m not planning to be, but who knows what happens down the road.

I’m helpful in other ways. My youngest son bought a house not too long ago and I’ve helped him and his wife learn how to do some of the maintenance, improvements. It’s like the old saying, teach a person to fish rather than feed them.

“We want to create an environment where he has the ability to do what he needs to do.”

Fahima Andersen, 60, of Hudson County, New Jersey, is a headhunter. Her husband, Craig, 60, is a project manager at a school. They have an 11-year-old son. They do not have plans to retire anytime soon.

We are saving for a college education and we put aside money every month toward his college fund. Another thing we’ve done is to buy property in Washington, D.C. and the mortgage has been fully paid. We own a house in Hudson County and it’s a two-family rental unit that helps us defray costs. We put a certain amount away for retirement. I have a 401(k) that I’m fully vested in, and we have an IRA.

The reason why I believe in giving something to my children is not because I want an entitled child, but I believe if I have the ability to support his efforts, and he’s not going off and making a rock band but doing something entrepreneurial, I will. He’s talking about becoming a paleontologist and simultaneously doing something on social media specifically related to science, and so that’s something I feel I can support. That’s what I’m seeing from most of his kids in his age group, they’re talking about working for themselves and creating their own work spaces and, for that, you do have to have to some seed money. That’s why we want to create an environment where he has the ability to do what he needs to do. It doesn’t change the fact that we encourage charity in our home, we are Muslim and he has a Zakat jar, which is used for charity and is one of the five pillars of Islam.

Both of our parents basically paid for our college, which gave us the best foot forward into the future and that’s why we feel we should do the same thing. What we try to encourage is not a sense of entitlement, if he acts that way we discourage that. We talk about the fact that there are people not as fortunate as he is. That’s really how we’ve started to talk about it at home, we haven’t said, well you’re going to get all of this handed to you when we die because he’s too little. The whole idea of us passing away would probably put him in shock, so what we do do, is start to help him understand all of this.

“Putting my kids through college, that’s their inheritance.”

Carol Reardon, 50, of Bahama, North Carolina, is a captain at the Durham County Fire Department. She estimates that she is about four years away from retirement. Her husband, Sean, 46, who also works at the Fire Department, is about nine years from retirement. They have three children, 22, 24 and 26.

My husband and I will be in the Caribbean when we retire. I’m going to enjoy myself. I worked really hard to be in the Fire Department at a time when it wasn’t easy, but it was worth the sacrifice for the life I provided.

Putting my kids through college, that’s their inheritance. That is my gift to them, I think that’s a good investment, more so than just leaving them a nice chunk of change. The kids know that I’m not working to leave them a big inheritance. I did the best I could do for them and when I retire I’m going to enjoy myself, do more for me and not so much for them anymore.

My mother worked for the federal government, under the same pension plan idea that I have, so that’s very important to me. She does have a little trust fund for all us five kids, so it’s not much, but she doesn’t spend any of it and she wants to save it for us. But I really think she does that because she didn’t provide money for our college degrees; she didn’t have the means to do for us growing up like I do for my kids. The best thing she prepared me for was to work to have a retirement plan.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

FAHIMA HAQUE © 2018 The New York Times

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Rick Ross: Panic as ailing US rapper is reportedly put on life support

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Ross was reportedly treated using a procedure called ECMO – a technique used to oxygenate his blood outside of his body before it's pumped back into his body.

US rapper Rick Ross is reportedly on life at a Miami-area hospital after he was rushed there on Friday, March 2, over heart complications.

TMZ reports that the 42-year-old Maybach Music Group (MMG) boss was hooked up to a machine that is performing the functions of his heart and lungs.

He is said to be currently getting treatment in the cardiatric unit.

The procedure was described as ECMO, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation – a technique used to oxygenate his blood outside of his body before it's pumped back into his body.

It was reported on Friday that someone from the rapper's home called 911 to report Ross' situation – he was said to be breathing heavily and unresponsive on Thursday morning.

However, a rapper Fat Trel who is signed to Ross'  label debunked the report that he is on life support.

"JUS TALKED 2 MY BIG HOMIE… HE GOOD… HE IN DA HOSPITAL BUT HE IS NOT ON “LIFE SUPPORT” … HE GOOD," Trel wrote on Instagram.

But in a follow-up event, TMZ reported, with a supposed photo proof, that Rick Ross' family raced to the hospital when they learnt his condition had worsened.

According to the report, one of Ross' baby mamas and several companions poured into a white Rolls-Royce and raced it to the hospital near Miami.

They were said to have forgotten to shut the car doors after they arrived at the hospital due to their "mad rush".

Business mogul, Sean Combs popularly known as Diddy also took to Instagram to solicit for prayers for Rick Ross.

 

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Politics: Anthony Scaramucci is banned from visiting the White House

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News of his exclusionary status comes a day after he said he was not blocked.

  • Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci is reportedly on a list of people barred from visiting the White House.
  • That news comes a day after Scaramucci denied he was blocked.
  • Internal emails reveal that only White House chief of staff John Kelly or deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin would be able to override the rule.

Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci is reportedly on a list of people barred from the White House, according to a Bloomberg report published Friday.

A White House official confirmed to Bloomberg that Scaramucci's name is on the list. That development comes a day after Scaramucci claimed he was not blocked, Bloomberg reported. He is among the former White House officials who left "under adverse circumstances," the report said.

Requests for a White House appointment for those on the list is said to require a "case by case" evaluation. Internal emails revealed that only White House chief of staff John Kelly or deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin would be able to override the rule.

Though a White House official told Bloomberg that Scaramucci was not specifically targeted for exclusion, Scaramucci reportedly believes Kelly has been preventing him from meeting with President Donald Trump. Kelly, who was hired last July, immediately implemented a military-like structure in the West Wing, and began regulating access to Trump.

Scaramucci was fired 10 days into the job and has since embarked on a campaign to discredit Kelly: "Does the president want to lose everyone because of General Jackass," Scaramucci asked, referring to Kelly's tenure as a Marine Corps general, to Bloomberg News.

Scaramucci is among a long list of former communications directors who served in the Trump administration amid record turnover. Hope Hicks is the latest communications director heading for the exits.

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Strategy: Olive Garden denies sending a threatening letter to a Seinfeld parody account over a tweet that claimed it stopped selling AR-15 rifles

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The parody account @Seinfeld2000 posted a cease-and-desist email demanding that it delete a tweet that claimed Olive Garden stopped selling AR-15 rifles.

  • A spokesperson for the Olive Garden parent company, Darden Restaurants, denied that it sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Seinfeld parody account on Friday.
  • The apparently fake letter demanded that the account @Seinfeld2000 remove an earlier tweet that said, "respect to Olive Garden for no longer selling AR-15s at all their locations."
  • It asserts: "Olive Garden has spent years building its reputation as a family friendly restaurant that is safe for all patrons to dine in," and accuses the parody account of "spreading false, destructive and defamatory rumors."
  • “Our legal team has not been in contact with this individual or sent them the message that was posted,” a Darden Restaurants spokesperson told Business Insider in an email on Friday.

A spokesperson for the Olive Garden parent company, Darden Restaurants, denied that a lawyer representing the firm sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Seinfeld parody account on Friday.

The account, @Seinfeld2000,posted an image of a letter it claimed to have received from the company.

“Our legal team has not been in contact with this individual or sent them the message that was posted,” a Darden Restaurants spokeswoman told Business Insider via email.

The apparently fake letter accuses the account of "spreading false, destructive, and defamatory rumors" about it, stemming from an earlier tweet the account posted that said "respect to Olive Garden for no longer selling AR-15s at all their locations."

The parody account typically comments on modern-day happenings through the lens of humor that mirrors the 1990s sitcom, "Seinfeld."

The account's AR-15 tweet follows moves from multiple retailers that have announced changes to their gun-sales policies in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, mass shooting.

Companies including Walmart, Dick's Sporting Goods, and others have either said they would raise the minimum required age for certain gun purchases, or would stop selling certain types of guns entirely.

Other companies have said they would end their business partnerships with the National Rifle Association.

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Finance: Elon Musk just posted a sensual Instagram picture with his tunnel-boring machine

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Elon Musk's Instagram post referenced Dan Hill's 1994 song "When We Touch."

  • On Friday Elon Musk posted a photo of himself on Instagram with one of the boring machines used by his tunneling business, the Boring Company.
  • The post's caption read, "Deep in the hole with my boring machine. Sometimes when we touch, the honesty’s too much …," a reference to Dan Hill's 1994 song "When We Touch."
  • Musk has used humorous and unconventional methods to raise money for the company, including selling branded hats and flamethrowers.

Elon Musk is known for his smart, personable approach to social media. Whether he's responding to complaints from Tesla customers, making jokes, or attacking his critics, Musk comes across as a real person on Twitter and Instagram, which is a rarity among Fortune 500 executives.

On Friday, Musk posted a photo of himself on Instagram with one of the boring machines used by his tunneling business, the Boring Company. Musk referenced Dan Hill's 1994 song "When We Touch," in the post's caption: "Deep in the hole with my boring machine. Sometimes when we touch, the honesty’s too much …," Musk wrote.

Musk founded the Boring Company out of frustration with Los Angeles' notoriously congested traffic. He hopes to use the company to create underground tunnel networks that could house new transportation systems like Hyperloop, which would carry passengers in pods at speeds of over 500 mph.

So far, the company has received approval to build test tunnels in Los Angeles and Baltimore, as well as a permit to begin initial digging and preparatory work in Washington, D.C. But the company will have to get approval from a large number of city and state governments if it hopes to make its tunnel network a reality.

Musk has used humorous and unconventional methods to raise money for the Boring Company. In October, Musk started selling a limited number of $20 hats bearing the company's name, and in January, Musk made branded flamethrowers available for $500 each.

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Lifestyle: These are the five leaders in the self-driving car race (GOOG, GOOGL, GM, F)

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In a new 2018 report, BI Intelligence takes an in-depth look at the most expansive self-driving car tests taking place in the US, and offers insights on the leaders in the self-driving car race.

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Tech companies and auto companies are all racing to be the first to roll out self-driving cars onto the road.

The stakes are high for everyone involved. The self-driving revolution and the prevalence of ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft threatens to reduce individual car ownership, which would eat into a sizeable piece of automakers' core business.

Meanwhile, tech companies are jockeying for a piece of the self-driving car market, which Apple CEO Tim Cook dubbed "the mother of all AI projects." These companies are all looking to deploy self-driving cars as part of a commercial ride-hailing service that would operate similarly to how Uber and Lyft do now.

In a new free report, BI Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, takes an in-depth look at the most expansive self-driving car tests taking place in the US, and offers insights on the leaders in the self-driving car race.

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Friday, 2 March 2018

A jihar Yobe: Yar kunar bakin wake ta kai hari masallaci a garin Fulatari

Boko Haram regularly launches suicide bomb attacks in Nigeria

lamarin ya faru ne ranar 2 ga wata da misalin karfe 5:30 na safe yayin da ake sallar asuba. Mutum biyu sun jikkata sakamakon fashewar bakin waken wanda ya kashe ita mai kokarin aiwatar da mummanar harin.

Wata yar kunar bakin waki ta farma masallacin dake gudumar fulatari na karamar hukumar Buni Yadi dake jihar Yobe.

lamarin ya faru ne ranar 2 ga wata da misalin karfe 5:30 na safe yayin da ake sallar asuba. Mutum biyu sun jikkata sakamakon fashewar bakin waken wanda ya kashe ita mai kokarin aiwatar da mummanar harin.

Kamar yadda wani shaidar gani da ido ya sanar, macen mai dauke da bom tayi yunkurin shiga cikin masallaci ne domin tayar da ita sai bata samu nasara ba inda wani daga cikin masallatar masallacin ya dakatar da ita.

Cikin kokarin hana ta shiga bom din ya fashe. jim kadan bayan fashewar bakin waken sojoji suka halarci wajen inda suka tafi da wadanda suka jikkata asibiti dake Damaturu.

Kwamishnan yan sanda na jihar Abdulmalik Sunmonu ya tabbatar da faruwar hakan inda ya kara da cewa jami'an sa sun sanar dashi game da harin.

Malam Baana Isah mazaunin garin yace tarzomar da harin ya haifar yasa an rufe makarantu da kasuwanni har sai al'ummar garin sun samu tabbacin tsaro daga jami'o'in tsaro.

Wannan shine karo na farko bayan makamancin harin da ya faru a yankin tun watan afrilu na 2016. Al'ummar yankin sun samu sukuni bisa aikin da sojoji keyi wajen kawar da yan ta'adda da aikin ta'adanci.

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