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Weather Warnings And Draft Discussion (Hour 3)
Daybreak w/ Brian and Jamie · Fri Apr 10, 2026
I'm Brian Noonan.
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Later in the hour, of course, we wrap things up with Dairyland Diaries, so some good news stories to wrap it up because right now we have to look at some headlines coming from the Persian Gulf and the Iran War.
Starting off the United Arab Emirates says it will reassess which regional partners it can rely on and review its national priorities after bearing the brunt of Iranian attacks during the U.S.-Israel war on Iran.
Also this morning, Israeli strikes made Wednesday the deadliest day in Lebanon since the war began, with more than 300 people killed according to the health ministry.
There are lingering disagreements over whether the ceasefire covers the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Iran is warning of strong responses if attacks of its military ally don't stop.
Israel and Lebanon are expected to have negotiations starting next week in Washington that according to a person familiar with the matter Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had approved direct talks while the Lebanese government did not immediately respond.
Netanyahu said there is no ceasefire in Lebanon and his country will keep striking Hezbollah.
are set to take place Saturday in Islamabad.
They will be the first talks between both sides since the war began.
This is where we will see J.D.
Vance, Steve Whitcoff, and Jared Kushner work their magic.
Weren't they, by the way, weren't they the first, first envoy that went, that was supposedly supposed to be in the middle of talks when this war began?
Well, it all, it all, it shows, it puts a clearer point on the fact that this was Israel's thing all along because they're not stopping.
Israel, and it also shows that we lost.
Yeah.
We reached a point where we knew Iran was not going to give up.
They were going to keep fighting until the last person was there.
They took control of the straight.
They had control there.
We lost control there.
We lost.
And it's not a good feeling.
But we're still losing.
Are you tired of losing yet?
We're losing and losing.
It's great losing.
There's more stuff, though, that we have to know.
It's a wake-up call in more ways than one.
Time for some shit you need to know.
All right, well, the election was Tuesday.
And as always, mail-in ballots are now at the center of what happens after an election.
Milwaukee's top election official said her office received, quote, an unprecedented number of mail-in absentee ballots.
the morning after Tuesday's spring election that cannot be counted.
Polina Gutierrez is the executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission.
She said her office received 269 mail-in absentee ballots on the morning of Wednesday, April 8, which if you look at your calendar, if you still have a paper calendar, uh, means that's the day after election day.
Ballots.
could have been counted if they had gotten there in time.
She said, oddly, she only received 20 ballots on Election Day.
Not uncommon for some absentee ballots to be too late to be counted, but she says the city hasn't seen this volume before.
Now, if you'll remember the other day, Tammy Baldwin, Senator, sent a letter about delayed mail and how the USPS
might be screwing things up because of all the changes in programming and postmarking and all of that.
The delay comes after state election official warned voters and we did too.
You didn't listen, did you?
About mail delays due to new postmark rules, staffing shortages, other budget cuts at the post office that could have kept their ballots and indeed in some cases did from being counted on time.
Everybody told you to get your ballots in early.
10 days before the election.
But of course, listen, people are busy.
People don't listen.
People think they know better.
And they didn't.
So that's not good.
The post office, they kept checking election workers throughout the day to see if new ballots have arrived to her had arrived.
Of the 269 ballots she received the morning after election day, 17 had no postmark or no postal date and 252 were postmarked on
or before April 6th.
So in the old days that would have gotten it to you and Madison or Milwaukee was not the only place Madison had trouble to.
They received 20 to 50 ballots on election day and 107 delivered Wednesday morning.
For anybody who has been screaming about fraud and elections and anybody who has been having issues with mail-in ballots, I get these were received late and they weren't even counted, but this just adds more fuel to the fire, right?
We
continue to see fuel being added to the fire to make a case for what the GOP would essentially like to do with our votes, which is negate them, which is to make sure that we aren't allowed to have them, and to make sure that mail-in voting essentially becomes obsolete and completely disappears from all corners of this country.
Yes, which was never supposed to be a for-profit organization because you used to be able if you if you were anywhere in Madison or anywhere in Milwaukee or any big city and you had to get something to somewhere in that area within two days it was there.
So this whole thing of you got to give it 10 days because we're not postmarking everything here.
We collect mail, we send it farther away, then we postmark it there, then it's got to come back.
It's ridiculous.
It's like taking a connecting flight that goes from Milwaukee to Miami to try to get to Tucson.
It makes absolutely zero sense.
I think the thing that bothers me about this the most as well is this is not fair for the people who voted and it's not just a frustration issue.
This makes people literally feel like the system is not working.
And if enough people start to feel that way, they're going to stop participating.
And that's where we run into real dangers as a democracy because it's not just about the late ballots.
It's about losing confidence in the process itself because elections only work when people trust them and the entire goal of the.
Republicans over the course of the last, oh, I don't know, about five to 10 years has been to so discourse so that people do not trust the election process and do not want to participate because when people participate, the Republicans tend to lose.
And it turns out that the Department of Justice is back in the news, not because they're investigating the Epstein files.
No, no, they have decided to set their sights on something much bigger like the National Football League.
They say that the NFL is now forcing viewers to pay too much in subscription fees, according to a person familiar with this matter.
Complaints about the NFL's allegedly anti-competitive tactics were raised in a letter from Utah Senator Mike Lee, a Republican, to the Justice Department.
just last month.
He said that football fans were made to spend almost $1,000 on cable and streaming subscriptions to watch games this past season.
I don't know where he's watching.
I'm not paying
But at any rate, Lee added that fans also had to subscribe to multiple streaming services as well as high speed internet in addition to a traditional cable or satellite bundle.
Distributors have largely vied for pieces of sports media by carving up those rights among streaming platforms and just this year NFL games will be able to be accessed across 10 different streaming platforms from Prime Video and Netflix to Peacock and Paramount Plus.
Fans of
be NHL and the NBA similarly have to shell out for multiple streaming platforms if they want to maximize game viewing.
Now, sports fans have shown that they are willing to spend on platforms and streamers have added exclusive games and postseason content to incentivize consumers to stay.
Beyond football, though, a DOG probe that upends how the NFL and streamers do business could actually bleed into other sports, changing how exclusive streaming and bundling works in the United States.
Is this going to be a whole one of those things where we're going to start paying more is the same amount as cable because corporations The investigation was first reported by the way by the Wall Street Journal
We'll see how this shakes out, but I want to get to this next story because you know you are on the wrong side of history if you upset the Pope.
When you get the Pope mad, you are in trouble and that's what's happening.
Pope Leo XIV may not return to the U.S.
while Donald Trump remains in office, according to a report citing a contentious meeting between a Catholic official and the Pentagon.
Now, in case you're living under a rock, the Pope is from
the United States.
More specifically, Chicago, the Chicago suburbs.
He is also a White Sox fan.
So the first American Pope, you would think we'd be very happy to have one and most people are.
So, but the Pope.
The Pope doesn't suffer fools and he doesn't like war.
He's condemned the war in Iran and said that the Trump administration's treatment of immigrants has been, quote, extremely disrespectful.
So on Monday, the Free Press reported that in the wake of the Pope's annual address to the Vatican's diplomatic corps in January, he criticized states seeking conflict around the globe.
The Department of Defense took
issue with that and invited Cardinal Christophe Pierre for a meeting.
At that time, Pierre was serving as Pope Leo's personal envoy to the United States.
Well, according to the Vatican and U.S.
officials who were briefed on the meeting, the Pentagon criticized the Pope and his statements in January, interpreting them as hostile attacks on Trump's policy.
Boo-hoo!
In the wake of that meeting, the Pope reportedly refused Trump's invitation to attend the nation's 250th anniversary events.
The Vatican of a Vatican official speaking to the free press said the Pope has no plans to visit the U.S.
while Trump is in office, saying the Pope may well never visit the United States under this administration.
End quote.
And he is from here.
Wow.
How do you how do you.
alienate the Pope even if you're not and they listen we all know that Pete Hexeth and the administration is Christian but they don't look at Catholics as Christian right they look at Catholics as other and so even Hexeth with his Easter services no Catholics need apply but if you have if you upset the Pope that sounds like something out of a Saturday Night Live skit
You've now made an enemy of the leader, the spiritual
Uh, next segment.
Is there any way I know, like most companies, we are in budget constraints, or at least that's what they told me when I negotiated my deal.
But, uh, is there
Is there a budget for, you can get a wireless mouse at Walmart for about 10
I had to wait for a 5 cent rebate on printer cartridges one day, one week, just so we could cut commercials and voice commercials because we couldn't print anything.
But we had to wait for that 5 cent rebate on printer cartridges to come through, not even joking.
Yes, that's a real GM story from way back in the day.
There's a deeper question here, but let's give you the background of this.
Eligible men are going to be automatically registered in a military draft pool by December.
That's in an effort to streamline the existing self-registration process, according to an agency that oversees the system.
And I remember having to go in when I turned 18, go into the post office, I had to walk in there, Parker, and I had to take a pen and I had to fill out a form that said they could take me.
Old school.
I hate forms.
Old school.
I know you hate forms.
Couldn't just click something with a mouse.
Not
On March 30, the Selective Service System, the federal agency which oversees the database for men eligible for service,
in the event of a military draft, submitted a proposed rule for automatic registration to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
The new automatic registration process was approved by Congress under the National Defense Authorization Act for the fiscal year of 2026.
The president signed that into law in December.
Now, according to the website, the agency will implement the switch to automatic registration by December, creating this streamlined registration process.
and corresponding workforce realignment.
Okay, listen, we don't have a draft.
You're just registering in the event of a draft.
That hasn't changed.
What I wonder about is, wait, we can have a list that shows when every person in this, when every man in this country turns 18 and we can automatically put them on a list, we can't do that for voting?
We can't, if we have the same list, couldn't they just be automatically then registered to vote?
You know, here's the thing though, when you're looking at a state like Wisconsin where we have a really strong military tradition, there's a lot of families here who have served and there's a lot of real pride that is here in this state because of that.
But I think there's also has to be a real understanding of the cost and we've seen what war does.
If you go all the way back to Vietnam, right, young men were drafted, they were sent into situations that they did not choose.
They came home with mental and physical scars that are never going to go away.
Even today when you talk to veterans,
There's a mental and physical toll that it takes, even for those who enlisted themselves
The history of this country is the rich and powerful sending the sons and daughters of people who are not rich and powerful over to fight their battles.
And that that will continue.
And I do but I do have to I do have to say this is not the only thing that's changing is you don't have to actually go in yourself and fill out this paperwork.
We always had to
register pardon me for service in case there was a draft so it's two separate issues but we are we are tending to get a little more hysterical only because we're at war right now so it's like when i signed up there was no war it was like okay there's no danger well now it's like oh they're automatically going to start a draft because we're in a war that we haven't come to that yet thankfully
We're going to talk about severe weather, because there's a storm brewing, and a lot of storms are
Thank you so much for joining us today.
If you are listening in Eau Claire on 93.5 the tap or you are in La Crosse listening on WLCX or even if you're in Hayward on WBZH.
We are glad that you decided to join us on this Friday.
You're listening to Daybreak on the Civic Media Network.
My name is Jamie Martinson.
I'm Brian Noonan.
Well, spring is here.
We're used to rainy, windy, sometimes stormy weather, but this year Wisconsin has been experiencing a fair amount of unusually extreme weather from a late season blizzard to heavy rains that have caused flooding dangers in many parts of the state, especially in the northeast.
So how serious is this problem?
Jamie, would you like to introduce our guest?
Sure.
Well, this is Severe Studios 20th year.
in business.
We do radio forecasts.
You hear them every single day on civic medias, 35 radio stations.
I've got four meteorologists that work for me and about 55 storm chasers under contract.
And we cover the weather.
We're out there streaming it live and covering it for radio, which has always been my background.
And, you know, it's that time of year.
It is that time of year,
Yeah, last year we didn't have, you know, late season blizzards and there's lots of snow melt going on up north.
I've been traveling back and forth from the UP the last couple of weeks and the snow piles in the upper peninsula in northern Wisconsin are still gigantic.
So there's a lot of that happening.
There's a lot of spring runoff.
It's higher than normal.
You know, last year things warmed up a little bit slower.
Again, we didn't have the late season blizzards.
And
ice storms, I could not believe the amount of branches and things that were down as you drive along the interstate near Wausau.
Just a ton of branches and things that are still still down.
And you know, you can tell they had a major event there.
So, you know, power was out for days and days for some people.
So it's just been a very busy early spring and we're about to get into the severe weather season.
And you know, it's that it's that time of year where Mother Nature gets angry.
Yeah, and we'll talk about that in just a moment, because we do actually have potential for some severe weather across the plains over the next few days, including here in Wisconsin.
But we want to talk a little bit about the flooding, because there are several rivers that are actually being affected, which then affects those communities.
And you mentioned the runoff, you mentioned the snow melt, all of those heavy rains, because it has been a warm and wet March, essentially.
So how is this compounding all on top of each other?
like Columbia, Sock, Juneau, Crawford, Brown, they're all starting to already see flooding and some of the rivers are already rising.
Yeah, absolutely.
So I'm looking at the Wisconsin River at Portage right now and, you know, moderate flood stage, which is, you know, when people really start to see impacts and water intruding into yards and maybe some rural roads closed and things, that's expected to peak at about 17.7 feet.
You know here and and 18 feet is moderate flood stage so so we've got moderate flooding going on especially river flooding and You know the ground is saturated if we get heavy rain, then we have to talk about flash flooding
you know, which is flooding that comes on quite quickly is one of the more dangerous things.
It's one of the things that will, you know, make your phone buzz and set your weather radios off and all of those kinds of things.
So that's how serious flash flooding is.
So as we're watching for the threat of more rain here over the next week, you know, it's just going to exacerbate the situation on the rivers and the rural areas.
But also we have to watch that the guidance for the for the flash flooding.
explain that?
Sure, there are hydrology gauges along every major river in the United States So there's there's there automated gauges that that basically float in the river And it pushes up on a little pole and it measures how high the water is And then those are those markers those gauges are sent to the National Weather Service And you can you can literally watch them in real time.
They're plotted
sometimes hourly, sometimes half hourly.
I'm looking at the gauge here.
I can't get it on the screen for you for some reason, but you know, the official forecast is for the river to taper back off to normal stage, which is around 12 feet in portage there by around next Friday.
So things will, will settle back down, you know, as a pretty, pretty quick peak and back down.
But when we start getting into that moderate and major and extreme flood stage, that's when we really have to start
paying attention to those gauges.
He is the COO of Civic Media.
He's also the owner of Severe Studios, SevereStudios.com.
Now, we've been talking about the potential for different flooding around the state.
And you mentioned, we've mentioned the fact that there is a potential, there's potential for severe weather.
And so let's look ahead a little bit because this looks like a multi-day event.
And if you are worried about things like flash flooding with the ground already saturated, with the rivers already rising or
near that flood stage.
This isn't exactly what you want to hear after the amount of moisture in the snow melt that we've already been experiencing in the state.
Right and you know on top of the flooding we have chance for hail and wind and tornadoes and all the things that come in in in springtime here, so You're looking at my kind of display here.
Let's let's just start with this morning.
So here's the radar map It's cloudy across Wisconsin.
There's a few showers earlier this morning across the region here most of that has
exited the region now pretty dry across Wisconsin and big storms stretching from we'll call it Oklahoma Tulsa area all the way up into Ottawa Canada.
It's cold.
It's it's it was not not warm overnight temperatures in the thirties highs today are only going to be in the fifties, maybe even upper forties in the northern part of the state.
So it's not warm.
But what we start getting this time of year are these warm fronts that rotate up in here.
And you can kind of see that for those that are watching on the civic media YouTube channel, you know, eighties down in Arkansas fifties up here that that warm front situation.
is going to move northward over the next few days.
And when it does, it's going to start bringing the threat for severe weather to the north.
So as we take a look at tomorrow, we've got a general thunderstorm risk across Wisconsin.
Severe weather will be down in Texas and Oklahoma, where you would expect it.
But then that threat starts to shift northward.
So here's day three, which would be Sunday.
We've got in the western part of the state a marginal.
risk.
That just means one or two storms might go severe.
But then when we start to look at day four, day five, day six, and that's the start of next week.
So you're talking Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, each of those three days has a pretty significant threat for severe weather across at least the southern half of Wisconsin.
And that's because
you know, a warm front is going to lift northward.
And when you get a warm front in Wisconsin that strong in April, you have to pay attention.
And we know, we know this is the time of year where across the plain states you mentioned, Oklahoma and Texas, Nebraska, there, that's where we usually see them.
But
They seem to be the the front seem to be spreading wider and storms seem to be getting more severe over the last couple of years.
Are you are you seeing that to be true?
And what do you think is causing this without getting, you know, before
people?
go to talk about climate change?
You know, I've got a lot of friends in meteorology that study the pattern study, you know, climate change, those types of things.
What I can tell you is from doing this for the last two decades is I have seen a shift of the severe weather patterns to the east.
You know, this time of year, we should be talking about Sioux Falls to Dallas and we are.
So this is this is standard tornado alley.
But more and more, especially during the winter season, the secondary season, November, December down south, it's Chicago to Mobile.
And that that has been a pretty
standard eastward shift for about the last decade.
We find ourselves down in the trees of Dixie Alley instead of, you know, out on the plains where you can see the storms.
So, you know, the storms also seem to come less frequently, but when they do show up, they are stronger.
The tornadoes are stronger.
They're F2s, F3s, F4s.
And, you know, that is, there's a sign there.
I can't tell you what's causing it.
I can't tell you if it's an ebb and a flow I do know that we had our warmest March on record or one of the warmest marches on record here in the upper Midwest And the global the global temperature and we're talking about climate change.
We're talking about the global average temperature We're not talking about oh, it was 80 degrees today or it was 30 below, right?
We're talking about the global average temperature and that has been
slowly rising but very quickly rising in just the last decade.
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He's also the owner of Severe Studios, SevereStudios.com.
You can hear the forecast from Severe Studios on your favorite Civic Media stations.
Now, next week, as we talk about severe weather, we talk about your experience as a chaser.
Next week in Wisconsin is Severe Weather Awareness Week, the 13th through the 17th.
And so as we talk about this potential for severe weather across Wisconsin, or at least in portions of it,
And I know this is something that you like to talk about how people should be prepared and what we should be doing to prepare ourselves for any sort of weather emergency.
I think the biggest thing that people need to do is have ways to get watches and warnings.
And we'll talk about the difference between those in just a second.
But if you don't get the information, if you don't stay weather aware,
That's when bad things happen, especially overnight, right?
And really the only thing that's gonna wake you up overnight is a NOAA weather radio.
You can still get those at hardware stores and Walmart and wherever you wanna go to get those.
They're pretty cheap, 30, 40 bucks, and you've got an alarm that'll shake you out of bed.
at two o'clock in the morning if you program it, right?
The second thing is know the difference between a watch and a warning and there's a meme that goes around every season that shows flour and eggs and all of this kind of thing and that's a cupcake watch.
We have the ingredients to bake cupcakes, right?
And then you show the plate with the made cupcakes.
That's a cupcake warning.
That's because Corey's about to eat all the cupcakes.
So
The watch means conditions are right.
We have the ingredients.
A warning means you have to do something.
And that do something is usually get to the basement, lowest floor.
If it's a tornado coming, you want to put as many walls between you and the storm as possible.
You know, flooding, you just have to get to higher ground, those kinds of things.
And next Thursday, we do two tornado drills here in the state of Wisconsin, 145 and 645.
And that's next Thursday, April 16th.
So that's just kind of a reminder.
You'll hear the sirens go off.
You'll be like, Hey, it's not Wednesday at noon.
And that's just a reminder to you to make sure that you have your tornado shelters cleaned out and you've got a weather radio and you've got a plan for you and your family.
Well, Corey, thanks so much for all the information.
And once again, severe weather.
Week is coming up April 13th to the 17th.
So as Corey said, stay weather aware.
We will do that.
We will stay aware of everything.
Corey Hartman, COO of Civic Media.
He's the owner of Severe Studios.
SevereStudios.com is the website.
And we'll be sending an invoice for this new mouse and some batteries so that Parker can finally take care of the show.
But that's probably for an after-show meeting.
We'll talk about it.
When we come back, we end the week on a high note with some Dairyland.
You're
This one hit very close to home for me.
And probably a lot of you, if you have daughters or if you were a daughter.
American Girl fans get ready to take a trip down memory lane because the beloved brand is relaunching eight of its original historical character dolls in honor of its 40th anniversary.
The American Girl Historical Characters Collection will be available for purchase starting, well, it started on Tuesday, so...
Each of the relaunched dolls was designed to be, quote, as close as possible to the originals, including their signature outfits, accessories, and packaging that according to American Girl.
More than a product launch, it's a nostalgic reunion, inviting longtime fans to reconnect with the stories and dolls that shaped their childhood.
In 1986, American Girls founder Pleasant Roland created the 18-inch dolls, which were inspired by various eras of American history.
The brand was acquired by Mattel in 1998, has been treasured by girls for generations.
Each doll in the 40th anniversary historical characters collection comes bundled with her signature meat outfit, accessories, and a book plus packaging inspired by the 86 design.
I, as a boy who had four brothers, had no idea that the American girl dolls actually exist.
Then
We gave birth to a girl that we named Molly, which is, ironically, one of these dolls.
I was going to say, she had a Molly doll?
Oh, please.
Yes.
And there was a race.
It was like a nuclear arms race.
My parents had to be the ones to get it first.
Oh.
And Molly is one of the dolls that is being brought back.
Mm-hmm You can go have lunch Molly and my mom had gone and had tea at the thing where you bring your doll You can buy the same kind of clothes.
There were so many and the thing was
Molly never really played too much with the Dolls, but we had
every time we had Bitty Baby, we had all the, every time she had to get the doll of the year.
So if you are a collect, this is a big deal for American girls, big deal for Wisconsin, because American girls were born here.
And it all
also teaches them business, because as you said, it is a very big business now.
This is a great story, and I am actually very familiar with this because I participated in this for numerous years.
Volunteers for the Baraboo and Portage Area Habitat for Humanity Chapter are doing minor home improvement projects for free until the end of May.
Habitat for Humanity Wisconsin River Area started its second annual Brush with Kindness.
This was something they were doing beforehand, but then it's actually become branded and become a really big thing.
And it's a phenomenal organization in sock and Columbia.
County.
The initiative lasts through May 30th and has expanded to Baraboo this year after strictly operating in Portage last year.
Volunteers are helping with painting garages, planting flowers, fixing ramps, sightings and decks and helping clear out debris and unwanted materials at homes in both cities and some outlying areas.
Now the initiative has about 15 projects set up so far according to the Habitat for Humanity Wisconsin River Area Development Director John Peruzzi.
There is no defined maximum number of projects
is looking for more volunteers as well as sponsors.
Volunteers are scheduled to clean up the Baraboo Riverwalk from 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m.
on April 22 or on Earth Day.
The first Brush with Kindness initiative this year was to build picnic tables for Riverhaven Homeless Shelter in Portage.
That
I love Habitat for Humanity so good.
If you're in that area, volunteer.
All right, we gotta finish with this story because if this doesn't make you feel good, you are dead inside.
Stella is a
dog in howard she ran away uh... she was shot she lept off an overpass uh... and yet miraculously something is
Somebody's watch it off for Stella.
Somebody witnessed this.
She was taken to an emergency veterinarian put under the Wisconsin Humane Society campus care Green Bay campus care.
She didn't have any broken limbs.
The veterinarian found bullet fragments from a gunshot wound.
She they found internal bleeding severe damage to her lungs and chest likely from the fall.
They don't know how she was shot.
She's an Akita Husky mix.
She had to undergo major open chest surgery.
She got a CT scan several
raise a chest tube, a thoracentesis to remove air from her chest, and guess what?
She's fine.
Stella is happy, sweet, affectionate.
She loves facelicks.
The family that she ran away from was going to have to
get move anyway, and they were distraught, but they ended up giving her to the Humane Society.
So Stella may be up for adoption pretty soon.
But that that dog is more like a cat.
Yeah, that's
nine lives for Stella, the dog from Howard.
That might be like 20
I can't have any more dogs don't tell me how pretty she is I saw the picture I know I don't put no more dogs here hey the week is over we did it I'm sure there will be a lot more to talk about come Monday but we're not gonna do it right now no because we got to go thank you for listening this week thanks for being a part of the show I'm done
This is Dave Rick with the Civic Media Network.
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