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Sri Lanka’s Embassy in Washington D.C. moved to its new chancery premises on October 19th marking another milestone in the seven-decade long diplomatic presence in the United States, asiantribune.com reported.

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The Ambassador and the staff marked the occasion with a simple and solemn ceremony at the new premises on 3025, Whitehaven Street, NW, in the presence of religious dignitaries representing multiple faiths, who invoked their blessings on the new premises and its staff.

Addressing those present, Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam observed that the occasion happily coincides with the recent exponential progress in the bilateral relationship between the United States and Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka established diplomatic relations with the United States and opened its first chancery building on Wyoming Avenue soon after gaining independence, in 1948.

The premises on Wyoming Avenue witnessed the ebb and flow of the US-Sri Lanka relationship over the years; a robust relationship that has remained one of the most important for Sri Lanka based on shared democratic and multi ethnic values that bind the two countries and create natural affinities.

The Ambassador on this occasion paid tribute to all those officers who had served Sri Lanka at the previous premises of the Embassy on Wyoming Avenue.

The Ambassador also remarked that the more spacious and elegant new building would help better profile and project Sri Lanka in the United States capital and serve as a user-friendly establishment for all those who seek services of the Embassy, in particular, the Sri Lankan American community in the United States.

#Ambassade #Ambassadør #By #Ferie #Hovedstad #Reise #SriLanka #Turisme #USA #WashingtonDC #Wyoming

#Ambassador #Capital #City #Embassy #Holiday #Tourism #Travel

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With the holy year celebrations approaching fast in 2016, the city of Rome is taking desperate measures to cope with the huge volume of tourists and pilgrims for the event. One of the dramatic steps taken by the city in this regard is raising the taxes for visitors during the jubilee year, www.tourism-review.com 

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A coach permit to enter the city for one day to give the tourists access to sites such as the Vatican will now cost 1,000 euros, which is essentially five times higher than the current price, which is 200 euros.

Obviously, travel agents and tour managers who have already booked holidays for their customers have risen up in protest against this step by the city council.

To make things worse for tourists, the taxation on accommodation will also be going up by double the current charge.

The ETOA (European Tourism Association) has already expressed its concern regarding this decision stating that imposing a fivefold hike on current charges for the daily permit defies all logic. They went further to add that it would pose a threat to prepaid contracts for 2016 and future tourist contracts as well, translating eventually to Rome becoming a destination that is too expensive and unpredictable for most people.

The ETOA gave a breakdown of the cost for the average traveler to Rome in the holy year celebrations. Apparently, an individual in a group comprised of 40 would end up paying 33 euros for a package that includes a night in a four-star hotel and a night on the coach.

Tom Jenkins, CEO of ETOA termed the behavior “vicious and irrational” and that it lacked any sense of practical planning. 

The Holy year in Rome was announced as a year of mercy by Pope Francis, and this is bound to attract thousands of pilgrims into the city. Keeping this in perspective, the step to hike the visitor taxations might actually bring a bit of relief to take off some pressure from the already highly congested streets.

Last year the city streets were clogged up with more than 90,000 coaches and in 2016, it is expected to go up to an impossible 170,000 coaches even with the steep hike in charges. The current plan is far from adequate to handle the situation in any measure. According to experts, there needs to be a practical strategy to deal with what will invariably be a catastrophe in terms of tourist management.

Although there are more than adequate parking sites out of the center, there is no practical system to bring tourists from these sites to the center where the tourist destinations are situated. There is also no link from the main train stations to the smaller St. Peter’s station. The funding to implement anything worthwhile is inadequate and has arrived too late.

All said and done, if Rome is serious about their bid for the 2024 Olympics, they need to demonstrate through the Holy Year celebrations in 2016 that they are indeed capable of handling an event of this magnitude.

#By #Ferie #Hovedstad #Italia #OlympiskeLeker #Pave #PaveFrans #Reise #Roma #Turisme #Vatikanstaten #Vatikanstaten

#Capital #City #Francis #Holiday #HolySee #Italy #Olympics #Pope #Rome #Tourism #Travel #Vatican

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Mongolia, China and Russia have signed a string of cross-border tourism cooperation agreements as part of the efforts to push the construction of the economic corridor among the three countries, the Xinhua news agency reported.

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The ten cooperation projects, worth 1.4 billion yuan (220 million U.S. dollars), were signed by government authorities and enterprises during the first China-Mongolia Expo which opened in Hohhot, capital of north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on Friday.

They include cross-border tourism route development, tourism personnel training as well as hotel and resort zone construction. The trilateral cooperation involves a tourism route which links Hohhot, Ulaan Baatar, Ulan-Ude and Irkutsk.

“Cross-border tourism is an important part and platform of the China-Mongolia-Russia economic corridor,” said Wei Guonan, head of the Inner Mongolia Tourism Administration.

In 2014, Inner Mongolia received 810,000 tourists from Mongolia and 630,000 from Russia, statistics with the administration show.

#By #Ferie #Hovedstad #Irkutsk #Kina #Mongolia #Reise #Russland #Turisme #UlaanBaatar #UlanBator #UlanUde

#Capital #China #City #Holiday #Russia #Tourism #Travel

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London’s tourism boom has continued during the second quarter of 2015, with the city welcoming a record 5.1 million international visitors between April and June this year, six per cent more than the same period last year, according to the Office for National Statistics International Passenger Survey (IPS), express.co.uk reported.

Tourist spending over the same period was £3.2 billion, an eight per cent increase compared with the second quarter of 2014. Over the past five years (2009-2014), the number of overseas visitors coming to London has risen by 22.5 per cent.

The national picture is also positive with 9.9 million international visitors coming to the UK between April and June 2015, five per cent more than the same period last year. Over half of theseinternational visits to the UK were to London.

Tourist spending across the UK over this period was £5.8 billion, a seven per cent increase compared with the second quarter of 2014.

The latest figures follow on from a record-breaking 2014 when 17.4 million overseas visitors travelled to London, spending £11.8 billion across the city’s restaurants, hotels and attractions.

Earlier this year the capital was named the most popular tourist destination in the world for the second year running by MasterCard in the Global Cities Index report.

According to the report, London is forecast to host 18.82 million international visitors in 2015 putting the city ahead of Bangkok and Paris.

Read the whole story at (external link) www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/612325/London-tourism-travel-industry-boom-new-figures-economy

Source: www.express.co.uk

#Bangkok #By #England #Ferie #Frankrike #Hovedstad #London #MasterCard #Paris #Reise #Storbritannia #Thailand #Turisme

#Capital #City #France #Holiday #Tourism #Travel #UnitedKingdom

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Somalia has reopened its embassy in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad after it was shut down 25 years ago.

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Somalia’s minister of Foreign Affairs Abdisalam Hadliye (in the middle, cutting the ribbon), the new ambassador of Somalia Ms.Khadija Mohamed (far right), officials from the Iraqi ministry of Foreign Affairs and Parliament and foreign diplomats attended the flag-hoisting ceremony in Baghdad on Thursday, horseedmedia.net reported.

“We have opened our mission in Iraq and determined to foster the relations of the two countries”, said Abdisalam Hadliye.

In 1991, Somalia closed its embassy in Iraq after the central government was overthrown and ushered in a new era of conflict and anarchy from which the country has never fully recovered.

#Ambassade #Ambassadør #Bagdad #By #Ferie #Hovedstad #Irak #Reise #Somalia #Turisme #Utenriksminister

#Ambassador #Capital #City #Embassy #Holiday #Iraq #Tourism #Travel 

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Sydney

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Sydney og Melbourne i Australia kaprer første og andreplassen over byene i verden med best rykte, ifølge konsulent- og rådgivningsselskapet Reputation Institute, skriver dagbladet.no

Sydney er hovedstad i delstaten New South Wales, mens Melbourne er hovedstaden i Victoria. Den nasjonale hovedstaden i verden med høyest plassering er Stockholm, tett fulgt av Wien.

Det er første gang siden den første målingen i 2011, at to byer fra samme land tar de to øverste pkassene på lista, skriver selskapet i en pressemelding.

Ifølge det amerikanske selskapet selv, er den årlige «City Reptrak» verdens største måling av byers omdømme.

Undersøkelsen er gjennomført blant 19 000 innbyggere i G8-landene: Frankrike, Tyskland, Italia, Storbritannia, Japan, USA og Canada

Til sammen 101 byer måles på oppfatninger om blant annet tillit, beundring og respekt. Av de 20 øverste byene på omdømmelista, ligger 15 i Europa.

Oslo var inne i det gode selskapet blant topp ti i 2011, 2012 og 2014. Men i år faller den norske hovedstaden fra fjorårets sjetteplass til attendeplass, bak både Stockholm og København, men foran Helsinki på plass 30.

Verken Stockholm eller København var inne på topp ti i fjor, men gjør motsatt av Oslo og kaprer plass tre og ni.

– Jeg er både forundret og spørrende til hva som kan ha skjedd siden vi har falt så mange plasser. Oslo har fått mye positiv omtale det siste året, sier reiselivsdirektør i Innovasjon Norge Per-Arne Tuftin til Dagbladet.

Han påpeker at Oslo har forandret seg mye på kort tid, og at både Bjørvika, Tjuvholmen, Vulcan-området og Grünerløkka får gode tilbakemeldinger av utenlandske besøkende.

– Jeg har ikke fanget opp noen hendelser som skulle tilsi at vi skulle falle så langt ned. Vårt inntrykk er at utlendinger er godt fornøyde, sier han.

Det er mange kåringer gjennom et år, og det er både morsomt og positivt å komme høyt, innrømmer reiselivsdirektøren.

– En kåring alene betyr ikke all verden, men er det en trend at vi skulle falle på flere kåringer er det alvorlig, sier han.

Fernando Prado ved Reputation Institute, sier i pressemeldinga at omdømmet til en by bygger på folks egne opplevelser, massekommunikasjon, opplysninger fra en tredjepart, og allment aksepterte stereotypier.

Prado sier også at et godt rykte korrelerer med blant annet økt turisme og økte investeringer i byen.

At det er samsvar mellom et godt omdømme og økt turisme, er Per-Arne Tufting enig i.

– Når du scorer jevnt høyt i veldig mange kåringer gjør det det, men en kåring alene er ikke avgjørende. Det hadde vært hyggelig å havne høyere, men noen stor innvirkning på turiststrømmen til Oslo tror jeg ikke dette har, sier han.

De ti byene med best rykte

(Høyeste score er 100)

1. Sydney, Australia – 79,1
2. Melbourne, Australia – 78,9
3. Stockholm, Sverige – 78,4
4. Wien, Østerrike – 76,8
5. Vancouver, Canada – 76,1
6. Barcelona, Spania – 75,8
7. Edinburgh, Storbritannia – 75,6
8. Genève, Sveits – 75,5
9. København, Danmark – 75,5
10. Venezia, Italia – 75,4
18. Oslo – 73,7
30. Helsinki, Finland – 71,2

De ti byene med dårligst rykte

101. Bagdad, Irak – 31,4
100. Teheran, Iran – 35,4
99. Moskva, Russland – 47,1
98. Nairobi, Kenya – 47,5
97. Bogota, Colombia – 47,7
96. Mexico City, Mexico – 47,9
95. Kairo, Egypt – 48,1
94. Kiev, Ukraina – 48,9
93. Caracas, Venezuela – 49,7
92. Tel Aviv, Israel – 49,8

Dårlig: 0-40
Svakt: 40-60
Middels: 60-70
Sterkt: 70-80
Utmerket: 80-100

Kilde: www.dagbladet.no

#Australia #Bagdad #Barcelona #Bjørvika #Bogota #BritishColumbia #By #Canada #Caracas #Colombia #Dagbladet #Danmark #Edinburgh #Egypt #Ferie #Finland #Frankrike #Geneve #Grünerløkka #Helsingfors #Helsinki #Hovedstad #Irak #Iran #Israel #Italia #Japan #Kairo #Katalonia #Kenya #Kiev #København #Melbourne #Mexico #Moskva #Nairobi #NewSouthWales #Oslo #Reise #Russland #Skottland #Spania #Stockholm #Storbritannia #Sveits #Sverige #Sydney #Teheran #TelAviv #Tjuvholmen #Turisme #Tyskland #Ukraina #USA #Vancouver #Venezia #Venezuela #Victoria #Wien #Østerrike

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Singapore Changi Aiport er vinneren i Sleeping in Airports årlige kåring av verdens beste flyplass. Foto: Edgar Su / Reuters

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Nettstedet Sleeping in Airports har foretatt sin årlige spørreundersøkelse blant reisende om hvilken flyplass de foretrekker, skriver ABC Nyheter. 

Til sammen 26 297 reisende har deltatt i undersøkelsen.

Svarene fra de spurte skal være basert på den totale opplevelsen på flyplassen. Service, fasiliteter, hygiene og komfort er noen av kriteriene.

Blant de ti beste flyplassene finner vi alle de fem beste i Asia.

Singapore Changi Internasjonale Lufthavn går av med seieren i konkurransen.

Noen flyplasser kan friste med kasino, kino, innendørs jungel og soverom, mens andre steder knapt nok har frisk luft, skriver ABC Nyheter.

Nettstedet Sleeping in Airports har foretatt sin årlige spørreundersøkelse blant reisende om hvilken flyplass de foretrekker.

Svarene fra de spurte skal være basert på den totale opplevelsen på flyplassen. Service, fasiliteter, hygiene og komfort er noen av kriteriene.

Blant de ti beste flyplassene finner vi alle de fem beste i Asia.

Singapore Changi Internasjonale Lufthavn går av med seieren i konkurransen.

Flyplassen som blir kåret til den beste, byr blant annet på en innendørs jungel, gratis internett, kino, svømmebasseng, spa og soverom.

På sjetteplass finner vi München Internasjonale Lufthavn. Her finner vi blant annet kasino og minigolf. På syvendeplass finner vi Helsingfors Lufthavn, på finsk kjent som Helsinki, som er hovedflyplassen til hele Finland.

Den eneste Nord-Amerikanske flyplassen på listen er Vancouver Internasjonale Lufthavn, som ligger i Richmond utenfor Vancouver. I 2008 hadde flyplassen 17,8 millioner reisende.

På listen som ikke er like populær å trone; verdens verste flyplasser, finner vi Port Harcourt Internasjonale Lufthavn på topp. Den nigerianske flyplassen omtales som korrupt i undersøkelsen, og reisende blir advart om at det ikke finnes plasser til å hvile føttene, at det ikke finnes klimaanlegg og at bygget er i forfall.

Listen over de verste flyplassene inneholder i hovedsak lufthavner i utviklingsland, på en noe overraskende tiendeplass finner vi imidlertid Paris Beauvais Lufthavn. Den franske flyplassen får stryk i service og fasiliteter av de reisende.

Her er verdens ti beste flyplassene å sove:

1. Singapore Changi International Airport, Singapore
2. Seoul Incheon International Airport, Sør-Korea
3.Helsinki International Airport, Finland
4.Munich International Airport, Tyskland
5.Vienna International Airport, Østerrike
6.Porto Francisco Sa Carneiro Airport, Portugal
7.Tokyo Haneda International Airport, Japan
8. Tallinn International Airport, Estland
9. Stockholm Arlanda International Airport, Sverige
10.Taipei Taoyuan International Airport, Taiwan

Her er de ti verste flyplassene å sove:

1.Reykjavik-Keflavik International Airport, Island
2.Paris Beauvais-Tille International Airport, Frankrike
3.Bergamo Orio al Serio International Airport, Italia
4.London Luton International Airport, Storbritannia
5.Christchurch International Airport, New Zealand
6.New York La Guardia Airport, USA
7.Brussels Charleroi Airport, Belgia
8.Rome Leonardo da Vinci – Fiumicino International Airport, Italia
9.Sydney International Airport, Australia
10.Los Angeles International Airport, USA

Her er de ti beste flyplassene i verden:

1. Singapore Changi International Airport, Singapore
2. Seoul Incheon International Airport, Sør-Korea 
3. Tokyo Haneda International Airport, Japan 
4. Taipei Taoyuan International Airport, Taiwan 
5. Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong 
6. München International Airport, Tyskland 
7. Helsinki International Airport, Finland 
8. Vancouver International Airport, Canada 
9. Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia 
10. Zurich Kloten International Airport, Sveits

Her er verdens ti verste flyplasser:

1. Port Harcourt International Airport, Nigeria 
2. Jeddah King Abdulaziz International Airport, Saudi-Arabia 
3. Kathmandu Tribhuvan International Airport, Nepal 
4. Tashkent International Airport, Uzbekistan 
5. Caracas Simón Bolívar International Airport, Venezuela 
6. Port au Prince Toussaint Louverture International Airport, Haiti 
7. Kabul Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan 
8. Ho Chi Minh City Tân Sõn Nhất International Airport, Vietnam 
9. Islamabad Benazir Bhutto International Airport, Pakistan 
10. Paris Beauvais-Tille International Airport, Frankrike

Kilder: www.abcnyheter.no, www.sleepinginairports.net

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På denne tiden av året skulle Gamlebyen i Jerusalem, med sine trange gater og smug og hundrevis av souvenirbutikker, vært full av turister, men, nå er det stille ved turistattraksjonene i byen, som Klagemuren og Tempelhøyden, skriver VG Nett.

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De brolagte gatene er nærmest folketomme etter voldsbølgen som har rammet store deler av Israel og Vestbredden de siste ukene. Åtte israelere er drept, hovedsakling i knivangrep fra palestinske gjerningspersoner, siden starten av oktober. Samtidig har minst 42 palestinere mistet livet. 20 av dem er drept av politi eller sikkerhetsstyrker i forbindelse med angrep på israelere.

Videre er det klart at SAS legger ned sin rute mellom København og Tel-Aviv fra mars neste år. Flyselskapet skylder først og fremst på høye kostnader og stor konkuranse, men innrømmer at også uroen i området har påvirket beslutningen.

Les hele saken her (ekstern lenke): www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/midtoesten/terror-toemmer-jerusalem-for-turister/a/23546716

Kilde: www.vg.no

#By #Danmark #Ferie #Flyselskap #Hovedstad #Israel #Jerusalem #Kastrup #København #Palestina #Reise #SAS #Souvenir #TelAviv #Terror #Turisme #Vestbredden #VG 

Se også våre store bloggposter om Israel og om Palestina på www.minbestereise.blogg.no

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Norsk turistsmell etter kroneskrell – for første gang på flere år svikter norske turister London og Storbritania, skriver hegnar.online / dagbladet.no

Tallenes tale er klare. Et av nordmenns favorittreisemål opplever for første gang på flere år tilbakegang i antall besøkende, forbruk og overnatting.

Det skyldes neppe fordi vi er lei av London, puber, fotballkamper, Harrod’s og afternoon tea, slår Finansavisen fast.

Det skyldes rett og slett at det har blitt dyrere å feriere på De britiske øyer, og dermed prioriterer vi annerledes.

I første halvår falt antall tilreisende nordmenn til Storbritannia med 5,5 prosent eller 19 000 personer.

Totalt 330.000 nordmenn er registrert i grensekontrollen i Storbritania i årets seks første måneder, viser tall fra Office for National Statistics, det britiske motstykket til SSB.

– Norske kroner har svekket seg 23 prosent mot pundet siden september i fjor. Det er klart at man ser en effekt på besøkstallene av slike endringer, sier Visit Britains Norden-sjef Gary Robson til Finansavisen.

Sjeføkonom Jan L. Andreassen i Eika Gruppen er enig i at en svekket norsk krone slår ut på nordmenns reiselyst, men lister også opp to andre årsaker.

-Nedgangen i oljebransjen påvirker nok også¨de som drar på jobbreise til Storbritania. I tillegg får nordmenn dårligere råd nå, fordi lønnsveksten ikke klarer å holde tritt med prisveksten, sier Andreassen til Finansavisen.

– Det er litt smalhans nå og vil være det framover. Det vil bli mindre juleshopping i London, og det er all grunn til å stramme litt inn på livreimen nå. Nordmenn bør genuint øke sin sparing og ikke la seg friste av utenlandsturer, avslutter Andreassen.  

#By #Dagbladet #England #Ferie #Fotball #Harrods #Hovedstad #London #Pub #Reise #Storbritania #Turisme

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Belgium’s leading airline Brussels Airlines has announced a new route from Belfast city to Brussels.

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Northern Ireland will be linked five times a week with the European Capital by a Brussels Airlines 97-seater jet, www.u.tv reported.

The new service will start on 27 March next year and flights will operate on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday.

The launch of the Belfast service also means that Belgian aviation is back in Ireland after an absence of 15 years.

“We are delighted that we can add Ireland to our continuously growing map of European destinations,” Brussels Airlines Chief Commercial Officer Lars Redeligx said.

“On a weekly basis we will offer close to 1000 seats on the route. Belfast is an important touristic, administrative and economic destination.

“Thanks to our investment in this new service we give the region also access to our Brussels Airlines and Star Alliance network. This is not only great news for the inhabitants of the Belfast area but also for the economy and the tourism industry in Ireland.”

Brian Ambrose, Chief Executive of George Best Belfast City Airport, added: “2015 has been a very successful year for Belfast City Airport with passengers numbers expected to be up 10% on last year.

“We have had our sights set on increasing connectivity with key European destinations and I am delighted that we have been able to deliver on these promises commencing both an Amsterdam and Brussels service.”

The new route has been welcomed by both business and tourism officials.

Niall Gibbons, CEO of Tourism Ireland, said: “Today’s announcement is really good news for tourism to Northern Ireland in 2016.”

“We look forward to co-operating with Brussels Airlines to maximise the promotion of this new flight to Belfast. As an island, the importance of convenient, direct, non-stop flights cannot be overstated ” they are absolutely critical to achieving growth in inbound tourism.”

Invest NI’s Chief Executive, Alastair Hamilton welcomed the announcement as it will help boost business links to Northern Ireland.

“Invest Northern Ireland is strongly committed to supporting the Northern Ireland Executive?s aim of enhancing direct air linkages between Northern Ireland and Europe as a vital contributor to economic Development,” he said.

“This new air route will be strategically important in helping to deliver this objective.”

“Our local exporters will now be positioned to take advantage of the direct connectivity it will offer to Brussels but also be able to use this service as a springboard further into Europe.”

Gerry Lennon, Chief Executive, Visit Belfast, added: “This brand new Brussels-Belfast air link will be hugely significant in our targeted efforts to promote Belfast as an attractive, modern and cosmopolitan city break destination to one of our key European markets and will be essential to assisting us in promoting our award-winning credentials as a leading, easy-to-access destination for major international conferences, meetings and events.”

“As the capital of an expanding Europe, Brussels is a major tourism market for the city and this new route will assist us greatly as we look to bring in even greater numbers of business and leisure visitors. It also strengthens our European connections further and will allow many more visitors to travel to Belfast, and to Northern Ireland, both directly and indirectly.”

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