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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Extremely Muddled G.O.P. Logic Behind Moore v. Harper</strong> - In the oral arguments, anyway, it looked like the Four Seasons Total Landscaping of legal cases. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-extremely-muddled-gop-logic-behind-moore-v-harper">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Kyrsten Sinema and the Fantasy of the Political Lone Wolf</strong> - Surely there’s some electoral calculation behind the Arizona senator’s decision to leave the Democratic Party, but the timing is especially confusing. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-political-mystery-of-kyrsten-sinema">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Whom Do Credit-Card-Rewards Programs Really Reward?</strong> - The Durbin-Marshall bill targets a system of inflated fees that swell the profits of the country’s biggest banks. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/whom-do-credit-card-rewards-programs-really-reward">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Grant Wahl Changed the Place of Soccer in America</strong> - The indefatigable sportswriter from Kansas knew that the power of the global game extended far beyond the field of play. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/postscript/how-grant-wahl-changed-the-place-of-soccer-in-america">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Pressure Increases on Sam Bankman-Fried</strong> - The government claims that his company was engaged in fraud from the start. If that’s correct, was he dishonest or deluded, or both? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-pressure-increases-on-sam-bankman-fried">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Does a criminal referral from the January 6 committee mean anything?</strong> -
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Rep. Bennie Thompson, chair of the House January 6 committee, leaves the Capitol on November 17. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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Criminal referrals don’t carry any legal weight. The January 6 ones will still be significant.
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As the year draws to a close, so does the House <a href="https://www.vox.com/23273654/january-6-committee-trump-takeaways-capitol-attack">January 6 committee’s investigation</a> into the efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election that culminated in the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
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The committee will hold a final hearing on Monday, December 19, when its final report will also be released. The chair of the committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), told reporters that all nine members of the committee will speak at the final hearing, though it is expected to be shorter than previous hearings.
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The big action item at the hearing is expected to be the issuance of criminal referrals to the Justice Department for criminal conduct, based on what the committee has found during its investigation. It will be the committee, in effect, passing the baton to the Justice Department to do what it will with its information and its recommendations. In particular, it will be up to <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23466627/jack-smith-special-counsel-garland-trump">Jack Smith</a>, the career prosecutor appointed in November to be special counsel for the federal government’s investigations of Trump. Smith recently <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/politics/jack-smith-subpoena-battleground-states/index.html">issued subpoenas to government officials</a> in all seven states that were targeted by Trump allies in an effort to overturn the election, as his far less public investigation has been moving forward.
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The criminal referrals are still a significant capstone to the committee’s work, even if they are simply advisory. Here’s what to know about them.
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What will the criminal referrals do?
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A criminal referral is really just a recommendation from the committee to the Justice Department that it should prosecute individuals whom the committee believes have committed crimes. It doesn’t mean they will — it’s not binding and has no legal effect. The committee has no authority to punish anyone otherwise.
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However, it could have a real effect on public perception. The committee’s hearing will be nationally televised, and it’s not every day a congressional committee recommends that someone face criminal prosecution in the full spotlight of the national media.
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The referrals will add public pressure to the DOJ to act, and increase scrutiny of its decisions. The committee has compiled evidence it will say backs up the referrals and that evidence will be public, both in the committee’s report and the depositions the committee took during its investigation. Smith was appointed to carry out the Justice Department’s investigation in a way that is supposed to be insulated from politics. The result is that Smith’s team is almost certain to view the committee’s evidence as more useful than its recommendations.
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One of the committee’s chief objectives was to complete the historical accounting for what happened that day, and these referrals will now be attached to that. As one person close to the committee told Vox, “The committee wouldn’t be doing its job if they did not refer people who they believe have violated the law for criminal prosecution.”
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Who will the committee refer for prosecution?
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First and foremost is former President Donald Trump. <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/10/14/23404556/january-6-hearings-analysis-capitol-attack">The committee</a> has spent months outlining how the former president broke the law in his efforts to overturn the election. It even made this argument in a California court case earlier this year, where a federal judge agreed with the committee’s lawyers. Then, federal district court <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.841840/gov.uscourts.cacd.841840.260.0.pdf">Judge David Carter ruled that</a> documents the committee subpoenaed from John Eastman, an outside Trump lawyer, were not protected by attorney-client privilege because Eastman and Trump were acting as criminal co-conspirators. Carter wrote that it was “more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021” and “more likely than not that President Trump and Dr. Eastman dishonestly conspired to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021.”
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<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/16/jan-6-committee-trump-criminal-referral-00074411">Politico reported</a> Friday that the committee is expected to recommend that the Department of Justice charge Trump with at least three crimes: insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the United States government.
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Eastman, the outside lawyer who <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/16/23171707/january-6-committee-hearing-pence-trump-day-three">pushed for former Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally overturn the election</a>, also could face a criminal referral for his efforts to<strong> </strong>push false claims about election fraud and disrupt the process of certifying the 2020 election.<strong> </strong>
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Other <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/politics/january-6-committee-criminal-referrals/index.html">potential targets</a> for criminal referrals could include Trump lawyer <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/a-conversation-with-rudy-giuliani-over-bloody-marys.html">Rudy Giuliani</a> as well as <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/6/23/23179173/jeffrey-clark-doj-january-6">Jeffrey Clark</a>, the former Justice Department official who was briefly poised to become Trump’s acting attorney general and weaponized the DOJ to attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Clark was concerned enough about criminal exposure that he repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment when questioned by the committee.
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Thompson <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/13/jan-6-committee-referrals-donald-trump-00073776">has also told reporters</a> that there will be “five or six” categories of referrals, which means those involved in the effort to overturn the election could face referral for bar discipline if they are lawyers, or to the House Ethics Committee if they are members of Congress.
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What happens next?
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All of the information collected by the committee, as chronicled in its report and in the multitude of depositions, will be made publicly available and thus accessible to the Department of Justice’s investigation. The committee and the DOJ have been working along parallel lines, and it’s likely that at least some information collected by the committee will buttress the DOJ’s ongoing efforts.
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Then there’s the 2024 impact. Republicans have long written off the January 6 committee as a partisan exercise, but criminal referrals could have an impact if a congressional committee explicitly says Donald Trump committed crimes in his effort to overturn the 2020 election. While Republican primary voters are unlikely to reject the former president explicitly over his conduct, it’s likely to increase the growing level of fatigue that many Republican primary voters have with Trump, who has spent recent weeks <a href="https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-kanye-west-entertainment-donald-trump-21ea30fc30a9a97074581015b25e18bf">dining with antisemites</a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63995563">flogging NFTs</a>.
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The committee itself served to <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/10/14/23404556/january-6-hearings-analysis-capitol-attack">keep the efforts</a> to overturn the election in the news throughout the summer and into the fall, contributing to a midterm election where <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23450428/donald-trump-midterm-elections-republican-red-wave">swing voters shied away</a> from those Republicans most associated with election denial and Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. With Trump <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23436640/donald-trump-announce-run-presidential-campaign-2024">now an active candidate for 2024</a>, a criminal referral would loom over any discussion of his campaign or action taken by the former president moving forward.
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In the meantime, the committee dissolves at the end of Congress’s current session, and a number of its members won’t be returning to Congress. <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/11/2/23434760/elaine-luria-january-6-midterms">Reps. Elaine Luria (D-VA)</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/8/12/23301904/liz-cheney-wyoming-donald-trump-gop">Liz Cheney (R-WY)</a> lost their bids for reelection while <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/03/adam-kinzingers-bold-prediction-trump-will-fade-away.html">Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL)</a> and Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) decided against even running.
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However, others will still have high-profile perches in the next Congress, with Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA) as the number three House Democrat and Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) both poised to remain highly visible even as Republicans take the majority in the House.
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But that doesn’t mean they won’t still be talking about January 6. Only hours after the hearing gavels to a close, Cheney will be <a href="https://crystalbridges.org/calendar/wtp-liz-cheney/">speaking at an event</a> in Arkansas.
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<img alt="Anti-government protestors in Lima" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/XVtbWcGAXucfpmP23FHA6qdVM-M=/358x0:6077x4289/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71762605/1245652835.0.jpg"/>
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Klebher Vasquez/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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Former President Pedro Castillo is in jail. That’s nothing new in Peruvian politics.
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Peru’s former president Pedro Castillo is in prison, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/16/world/americas/peru-protests-castillo-boluarte.html">at least 20 people are dead</a>, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/12/16/tourists-stranded-machu-picchu-protests-peru">hundreds of tourists are stranded</a>, and the nation is in crisis after Castillo was ousted from his position on December 7. Dina Boluarte, the South American nation’s sixth president in seven years, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/politics-peru-caribbean-pedro-castillo-f087a89f7ef0c7c64d6cdf0bc872cfc6">is now struggling to maintain control</a> in a political environment where chaos and corruption are the norm.
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Castillo’s leadership came to an end after he attempted to dissolve Congress earlier this month prior to a planned impeachment vote following <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/world/americas/peru-pedro-castillo-coup.html">corruption charges</a>.
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“We have taken the decision to establish an emergency government, to reestablish the rule of law and democracy to which effect the following measures are dictated: to dissolve Congress temporarily, to install a government of exceptional emergency, to call to the shortest term possible to elections for a new Congress with the ability to draft a new Constitution,” he declared December 7 during a televised national address.
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The military and police <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/world/americas/peru-pedro-castillo-coup.html">quickly denounced Castillo</a>, who came to power by popular vote last year, while the nation’s highest court declared Castillo’s plan unconstitutional and much of his cabinet resigned. Congress <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-16/peru-s-turmoil-understanding-the-struggle-between-castillo-and-congress?utm_source=google&utm_medium=bd&cmpId=google">voted overwhelmingly to impeach him</a>, and by the end of the day Boluarte, his vice president, had been sworn into the presidency.
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Over the past week, protests over Castillo’s removal and Boluarte’s accession have thrown the nation into tumult. Boluarte <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-president-boluarte-ask-congress-bring-elections-forward-2024-2022-12-12/">has promised new elections in 2024</a>, two years earlier than the end of Castillo’s term, but protesters frustrated with Peru’s political system have continued to gather, demanding reform and clashing with the military and police forces sent to pacify them.
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Since taking power, Boluarte has imposed curfews in some cities and suspended some civil liberties like the <a href="https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/RelatAgenda/constitucion.nsf/constitucion/6FB258E38A13F1A40525672A004F862F">right to free movement within the country and to assembly</a> amid the ongoing unrest. In what has turned out to be an incredibly volatile situation, though, some <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/13/peru-castillo-protests/">Latin American political leaders</a>, as well as <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/12/peru-crisis-human-rights/">Amnesty International</a>, say Boluarte and the police forces have overstepped their bounds.
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Boluarte is Peru’s first female leader, and strongly denounced her predecessor’s attempt to dissolve congress. “I reject Pedro Castillo’s decision to perpetrate the breakdown of the constitutional order with the closure of Congress. It is a coup that aggravates the political and institutional crises that Peruvian society must overcome with strict adherence to the law,” <a href="https://twitter.com/DinaErcilia/status/1600553424952737827">she tweeted</a> at the time.
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Rechazo la decisión de Pedro Castillo de perpetrar el quiebre del orden constitucional con el cierre del Congreso. Se trata de un golpe de Estado que agrava la crisis política e institucional que la sociedad peruana tendrá que superar con estricto apego a la ley.
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— Dina Boluarte Z. (<span class="citation" data-cites="DinaErcilia">@DinaErcilia</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/DinaErcilia/status/1600553424952737827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 7, 2022</a>
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Meanwhile, Castillo’s prison sentence has been extended to 18 months as of this Thursday, as prosecutors plan to bring charges of alleged <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/16/peru-judge-extends-ex-president-castillos-detention-by-18-months">rebellion, conspiracy and abuse of power against him</a>. Meanwhile, protesters are staging increasingly disruptive demonstrations, including <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/13/peru-castillo-protests/">shutting down the Pan-American highway</a> near the capital Lima, a<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-protests-blockade-roads-force-five-airports-close-2022-12-16/">nd have forced five airports to close</a>. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/politics-peru-caribbean-covid-6921c3c8bcf95f654b70d8de39dfc550">Rural protests</a> have been particularly violent, as protesters demand new elections and for Boluarte to step down.
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Another chapter in Peru’s messy political history
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Peru’s current political turmoil is part of a pattern of<a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Peru/Government-and-society"> political instability</a> reaching back through much of the 20th century. There have been <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Peru/Government-and-society">multiple coups</a> as well as a dictatorship throughout the 1990s under former President Alberto Fujimori, who is now in prison for gross human rights violations, including operating anti-communist death squads.
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Of Peru’s last seven presidents, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-16/peru-s-turmoil-understanding-the-struggle-between-castillo-and-congress">Bloomberg reported Friday</a>, four have been implicated in the same graft investigation, one was impeached, and another lasted only five days in office before resigning.
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Castillo, too, has been accused of corruption, with <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-prosecutors-increase-pressure-president-they-order-allies-detained-2022-10-11/">Attorney General Patricia Benavides</a> claiming to have found, “very serious indications of a criminal organization that has taken roots in the government” according to <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/7/perus-pedro-castillo-blasts-critics-ahead-of-impeachment-hearing">Al Jazeera</a>. Castillo and some of his family members are facing <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/perus-castillo-says-opponents-trying-blow-up-democracy-with-impeachment-trial-2022-12-06/">six separate corruption investigations</a>, though he has denied wrongdoing.
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Anticipating a third impeachment vote last week, Castillo declared the congress dissolved and an emergency government in place, allowing him to rule by decree. According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/world/americas/peru-pedro-castillo-coup.html">the New York Times</a>, Castillo last month threatened to disband the congress, and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/world/americas/peru-pedro-castillo-coup.html">had apparently been exploring the possibility of a coup attempt for some time</a>, quietly asking military leaders if they would support him in such a situation.
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Castillo, a leftist populist, ran for president against Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori. Castillo was the first leftist leader in Peru in decades, and his election indicated a repudiation of Peru’s elite political establishment, as well as the massive divide between rural and urban access to services like healthcare and education.
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<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alberto-Fujimori">Fujimori</a>, too, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/politics-peru-caribbean-government-and-ee258b8b8495c9ae06a43f6d3c906a7a">was democratically elected</a>, but seized power in much the same way Castillo intended to — with the backing of the military he dissolved congress, declared a state of emergency, and rewrote the constitution in 1993, an amended version of which Peru still uses today. That constitution <a href="https://apnews.com/article/politics-peru-caribbean-government-and-ee258b8b8495c9ae06a43f6d3c906a7a">does allow the president to dissolve congress if his government fails to survive two votes of confidence</a>, causing a consistent, low-grade conflict between presidents and their congresses <a href="https://apnews.com/article/peru-caribbean-government-pedro-castillo-62923886f7c53b1dcceb0db84cb09888">as each tries to eliminate the other</a>.
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Boluarte, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/dina-boluarte-perus-first-female-president-pledges-heal-nations-wounds-2022-12-08/">in a speech at her swearing in</a>, seemed to tacitly acknowledge the present chaos and the turmoil leading up to it, asking the Peruvian people for “valuable time to rescue the country from corruption and misrule.”
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What’s next for Peru?
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After years of corruption and instability, Peru’s immediate- and long-range political future is murky at best. And increasing poverty and lack of access to social services like education and healthcare in rural areas, too, is compounding Peruvians’ frustration with a government seemingly interested only in its own power, and not in materially changing the lives of the electorate.
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<a href="https://apnews.com/article/latin-america-peru-discrimination-government-and-politics-33f5b1ab4358a3a7a89014f3a817800b">Castillo</a> was Peru’s first campesino president, the child of illiterate farmers and a former farmer, teacher, and union leader in whom many of Peru’s rural population saw themselves represented. In a highly stratified society, Castillo’s supporters from the Andean and other rural regions see him as “<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/16/the-forgotten-ones-rural-supporters-stand-by-perus-castillo">an ordinary man from the countryside</a>,” as supporter Enrique Salazar told Al Jazeera.
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The protesters are not simply demonstrating to bring back Castillo, although some are calling for his reinstatement. Rather, their frustration is an indictment of a political system in which many do not feel represented, and a <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=associated+press+peru&biw=926&bih=709&tbm=nws&sxsrf=ALiCzsbi27bJ4SJdUJHVPGIKTsDRDr4Rfg%3A1671299848502&ei=CAOeY8SiHruk5NoPoqukuAg&ved=0ahUKEwjExqGOnYH8AhU7ElkFHaIVCYcQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=associated+press+peru&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LW5ld3MQAzIGCAAQFhAeOgUIABCRAjoLCAAQgAQQsQMQgwE6CAgAELEDEIMBOgQIABBDOggIABCABBCxAzoHCAAQsQMQQzoICAAQsQMQkQI6DQgAEIAEELEDEIMBEAo6CggAEIAEELEDEAo6BQgAEIAEUJcFWKgkYNMmaARwAHgAgAFUiAG2C5IBAjIymAEAoAEBsAEAwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz-news">deeply entrenched racism and divide between rural and urban experience</a> that was exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.
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“When he <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/28/perus-castillo-faces-major-challenges-as-presidency-begins">railed against inequality</a>, poverty and the indifference of the state’s political elites, it was a message that resonated,” Jorge Aragon, a political science professor at Peru’s Pontifical Catholic University, told <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/16/the-forgotten-ones-rural-supporters-stand-by-perus-castillo">Al Jazeera</a>.
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Castillo, who had no political experience prior to taking Peru’s highest office, promised to nationalize the nation’s mining industry and to rewrite the constitution, among other improvements aimed at the rural poor. But at no point did he accomplish his campaign goals; in fact, people <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/peru-inflation-protests-grip-tourist-capital-cuzco-gateway-machu-picchu-2022-04-19/">protested against his response to inflation just this year</a>. Castillo also went through a dizzying number of cabinet switch-ups, cycling through about <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/world/americas/peru-pedro-castillo-coup.html">80 different ministers during his 16-month tenure</a>. Many of those he put into high-level government positions were political allies with no relevant experience; some were under investigation for serious crimes like domestic violence and murder, according to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/world/americas/peru-pedro-castillo-coup.html">New York Times</a>.
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<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/13/peru-castillo-protests/">Some Latin American leaders</a>, including Mexico’s left-wing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, still recognize Castillo as Peru’s rightful president; López Obrador is r<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-president-slams-perus-state-emergency-blasts-us-official-2022-12-16/">eportedly exploring options to offer asylum to Castillo</a>, who remains in prison as of Saturday.
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With the present instability comes the question of whether Peru’s institutions can survive in such a fragile, volatile democracy.
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“For Peru, this is just another episode in a dramatic trend of political instability and institutional degradation,” Erika Rodriguez, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center wrote in a blog post last week. However, it’s likely a positive sign that Castillo had so little support to carry out his attempted power grab; “He did it alone; no one accompanied him in his most recent anti-democratic drift, not his cabinet, not the army, and not his supporters,” Rodriguez wrote. Furthermore, though Peru’s politics have been bogged down by corruption and crime, the criminal justice system <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-16/peru-s-turmoil-understanding-the-struggle-between-castillo-and-congress?utm_source=google&utm_medium=bd&cmpId=google">has made concerted efforts</a> to bring those high-level perpetrators to justice.
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Still, Peruvians disillusioned with political turmoil and the deepening inequality in the country may not see solutions to their problems any time soon. A country in a state of emergency is challenging to govern, never mind rooting out entrenched corruption and repairing the disparities which brought a leader like Castillo to power in the first place.
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Here’s one way to make feeding yourself a joy instead of a chore.
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Have you ever stared at the contents of your refrigerator at 7 pm, trying to figure out what you might be able to concoct with the random assortment of items you have on hand? Deciding what to cook for dinner every night, whether you’re feeding yourself, a partner, or an entire family, is a task that involves far more mental work than just cooking — it also takes planning, preparation, and organization. Without a plan, figuring out dinner might involve running out to the grocery store after work to buy ingredients for the recipe you’ve just decided to make and finally eating at 9, or it might end in giving up and ordering takeout once again because you just can’t figure out what to cook. And if you’re busy, or just overwhelmed by other parts of your life, figuring out how to feed yourself three times a day, every single day, <a href="https://www.vox.com/even-better/23280554/feeding-nourishing-meals-difficult-loss-appetite">becomes even more challenging</a>.
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But there is a way to make cooking dinner much simpler and far less anxiety-inducing: meal planning. For the past six years, I have been devoted to the strategy of planning out the meals I’ll cook each week. This organizational strategy has made my weeknight dinners easier and more efficient, saved me time and money, and kept my life organized. (During that time, I also became a parent, making time, energy, and money ever more finite resources in my household; meal planning has helped make things slightly more manageable.) I have a searchable database of more than 1,500 recipes that I’ve bookmarked over the years. It would not be an exaggeration to say that meal planning changed my life: I’ve become a better home cook since I started meal planning, becoming more confident in my cooking skills and more adventurous in the types of recipes I try out. And I’m almost never stressed about what to cook for dinner on any given night because I’ve already decided ahead of time — and I always have the exact ingredients I need for that recipe in my fridge.
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Putting healthy and delicious meals on the table every day is about far more than just the actual act of cooking: There is a vast mental load that goes into cooking, from selecting recipes to making grocery lists to keeping tabs on what ingredients you have on hand and what needs to be used up, in addition to remembering family members’ varying likes and dislikes and dietary restrictions. Meal planning can help you manage that mental load so that cooking dinner feels less like a chore and begins to become something you actually enjoy.
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If you want to start cooking more in 2023, starting to meal plan might be <a href="https://www.vox.com/even-better/23486112/attainable-new-years-resolution-goals-life-change">a great resolution</a> for you. And you don’t have to be an organizational wizard to start doing it — you can build a system that works for your needs, lifestyle, and schedule. Here’s how to get started.
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What’s meal planning, and what’s the difference between that and meal prepping?
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Meal planning is the act of picking out the recipes you’ll cook each day of the week, like setting a menu for the week ahead. Meal planning is different from meal prepping. Meal prepping, which might make you think of rows of Pinterest-perfect pre-portioned Tupperware containers, is the habit of preparing batched meals ahead of time, often on Sundays, so that you don’t have to prepare meals during the week.
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Which strategy is right for you? It depends on your needs and your schedule. Meal prepping can be better for those who can commit several hours to cooking on weekends but don’t have time to cook on weekdays, since meals are already prepared and portioned and you can simply grab them out of the fridge. If you like variety, though, or hate leftovers, meal prepping might not be for you, since it can often require eating the same meal multiple times in one week.
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Meal planning allows for more variety, if you have the time to cook on weekdays — but it still saves you a lot of time by accomplishing most of the menu logistics and recipe selection in advance.
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If you want to try meal planning, but it seems intimidating, start small with just one meal a day. “If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the idea of meal planning, start by just planning lunches or breakfasts for the week,” says Erica Adler, a personal chef, recipe developer, and co-author of the ebook <a href="https://www.abigailanderica.com/e-book/p/meal-prep-made-simple-by-abigail-koffler-erica-adler">Meal Prep Made Simple</a>. “For whatever reason, I’ve always found them less intimidating than dinner. Or instead of planning for a full week in advance, start by just planning a couple of days in advance.” Over time, as you get more comfortable, you can scale up and start planning out two or three meals a day.
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Start by creating a master list of your go-to recipes
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The key to successful, easy meal planning starts with a list of go-to recipes that you know, love, and feel comfortable cooking. “Start a list in whatever notes app you prefer of meals you like,” says Abigail Koffler, a food writer, cooking instructor, and Adler’s co-author. “This could range from the simple (pasta with jarred marinara sauce and roasted broccoli with nutritional yeast is a staple in my home) to the more complex (sometimes you might be inspired to make flatbreads on a weeknight). You can link recipes from blogs or note their source — cookbook, newsletter, index card, TikTok — so they’re easy to reference and find while grocery shopping.”
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There is an overwhelming number of recipes on the internet, and countless sources to choose from. If you’re not sure where to start, think about some of your favorite flavors or ingredients. “If you’re stuck for inspiration, pick one ingredient you love — or find in your pantry and want to use up — and find a few recipes that use it,” says Koffler. Search for recipes with those ingredients in food publications, like <a href="https://cooking.nytimes.com/">New York Times Cooking</a>, <a href="https://www.bonappetit.com/">Bon Appétit</a>, <a href="https://www.epicurious.com/">Epicurious</a>, or <a href="https://www.thekitchn.com/">The Kitchn</a>, or on food blogs such as <a href="https://smittenkitchen.com/">Smitten Kitchen</a>, <a href="https://whatsgabycooking.com/">What’s Gaby Cooking</a>, or <a href="https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/">Half-Baked Harvest</a>.
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Every time you try a new recipe you like, add it to your list. While tracking your recipes might seem like an additional task on your to-do list, a small amount of effort to save and organize recipes upfront can help you save time in the long run. Over time, that recipe list will grow and evolve — and soon you’ll have a personal database of your favorites that you can always refer to.
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To store and organize your recipes, choose a tool that you’ll use regularly — for some, that might be an iPhone note, as Koffler suggests; for others, it might be a spreadsheet. You can also use recipe storage apps such as <a href="https://www.anylist.com/">Anylist</a> or <a href="https://www.paprikaapp.com/">Paprika</a>, which let you easily import recipes and organize them into categories, and then allow you to add ingredients from your stored recipes to your grocery list. I use Anylist for storing my recipes and managing my grocery list, and over six years, I’ve saved nearly 1,500 recipes in the app.
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One bonus of using recipe manager apps is searchability and categorization. If you’re in the mood for, say, steak this week, you can search “steak” in your recipe app and pull up every steak recipe you’ve saved over the years and select one that sounds good. If you’re craving Mexican, you can look at the Mexican recipe category in your app and find one that satisfies.
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Consult your calendar for the week and choose your recipes strategically
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Each weekend, sit down and look at your calendar — or your household or family calendar — and consider which nights you’ll be home and you’ll need to cook meals.
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Now that you have your master list of recipes, you can simply plug and play, says Koffler. Consult your recipe database and select a recipe for each night you’ll be home. Consider what will work best for your lifestyle and schedule — if Mondays are hectic because you work late or have to pick up the kids from soccer, perhaps it’s a good night for a slow cooker chili that will be ready to serve by the time you arrive home. If you know you’ll be short on time on Wednesday, it might be a good night for a sheet pan recipe that minimizes active cooking time.
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Make sure to take stock of what’s in your pantry, fridge, and freezer beforehand, checking what produce or other ingredients you have left over from the previous week that you might want to use up. Factoring that into your recipe choices will help you save money — if you have salmon in the freezer, for instance, search for salmon in your recipe list and plug in a salmon recipe one night. If you have half a cabbage left over from the previous week, you might want to make a slaw that uses up some of it.
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Koffler suggests choosing multiple recipes with the same ingredient, which helps maximize resources. “Maybe you buy two cans of coconut milk and use one in overnight oats and one in a soup. Or avoid food waste and split a bunch of herbs by using some in a grain salad and some in a dip.”
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Once you’ve decided on a menu for the week, write it down and put it somewhere easily visible and accessible to all members of the household. I like to put them on a shared Google Calendar, since my husband and I both look at our Google Calendars daily. You might like a whiteboard on your fridge. Choose something that members of your household will look at regularly so no one ever has to ask you what’s for dinner tonight: They know where they can find the weekly menu.
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Build a grocery list based on your meal plan and do one grocery shop a week
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Now that you’ve selected meals, go through the ingredients list for each recipe in your meal plan and add those items to your shopping list. If you use a recipe manager app like Paprika or Anylist, these tools make this step extremely easy as they also have built-in grocery lists — you can click on ingredients in the recipes you’ve stored and add them to your list automatically. This can save a lot of time and mental work involved in manually cross-referencing every recipe’s ingredients list.
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Then do one shopping trip for the week — or place a grocery delivery order — and get all the groceries you need for the recipes you’ve chosen. Doing so will help ensure that you already have all the ingredients that you’ll need to make each night’s dish — no more dashing out to the store because you realized you don’t have garlic on hand.
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Shopping based on your meal plan will also help you save money on groceries, which are already <a href="https://www.vox.com/even-better/23465536/cooking-food-inflation-grocery-prices">more expensive than ever due to rising inflation</a>. Shopping with a precise list based on the recipes you plan to make cuts down on food waste, since you only purchase exactly what you need, and minimizes extra shopping trips during the week — thus cutting down on impulse buys that might lead to increased spending over time.
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Make weeknights less chaotic with some preparation on Sundays
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Full-on meal prep — cooking all your meals for the week — can feel daunting, especially if it requires setting aside several hours on a day off to cook. But meal prep can be as simple as preparing a few items ahead that are “building blocks” — not full recipes but elements of recipes that can be used multiple ways, and will make getting dinner on the table on weeknights easier and faster.
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For instance, taking 15 minutes to wash, peel, and chop produce can make it easier to make salads or roasted vegetables during the week. Cooking a big pot of grains such as rice or quinoa can make it faster to assemble grain bowls. Whisking together a dressing or sauce that can be used for multiple meals throughout the week can also save time and make meals feel fancier and more flavorful. Accomplishing just a couple of these tasks, which generally take no more than half an hour, can make busy weeknights after work a lot smoother by minimizing how much active cooking you need to do.
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Don’t stress if it doesn’t all go according to plan
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It’s okay to start small and take shortcuts — if you’re a novice cook, you don’t have to plan to make elaborate recipes every night. It’s fine to start with simple classics like pasta, tacos, chili, or whatever else feels accessible to you. And use prepared ingredients if they make your life easier: “I am such a fan of a semi-homemade dish,” says Adler. “You’ll often find me working a jarred sauce, precut veggie, or store-bought pesto into a recipe. There is absolutely no shame in a shortcut.”
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If you feel stressed out by trying to stick to a plan, or just are too tired to cook one night, don’t beat yourself up. It’s okay to throw out the plan sometimes and do what feels best for you.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>India demolishes Bangladesh, Shakib’s gallant cameo notwithstanding</strong> - The 188-run victory helps India leapfrog South Africa and take second spot, behind Australia, in the WTC race</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How gritty Devika won her blue shirt back</strong> - She kept the pursuit of her dream going despite several setbacks</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>FIFA World Cup 2022 | Five most memorable goals</strong> - AFP looks at some of the most memorable goals of the tournament</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Government’s focus is on Tripura’s all-round development, says PM Modi</strong> - Thousands of crores of rupees are being spent on connectivity and infrastructure projects in the State, he said.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Amid ED probe, Chhattisgarh CM says prepared for more such moves from Centre as polls approach</strong> - The ED has been probing a money laundering case linked to the alleged levy of money on coal and mining transporters in Chhattisgarh</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Once a VR true believer, a “wearied” John Carmack leaves Meta</strong> - Departing CTO rails against “inefficiency” and “self-sabotage” in the Meta ranks. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1905415">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Corsair says bug, not keylogger, behind some K100 keyboards’ creepy behavior</strong> - An error with the macro recording feature may be to blame. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1905144">link</a></p></li>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/fhqwhgadsz"> /u/fhqwhgadsz </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/zo6fxw/my_tinder_bio_says_that_i_have_a_corner_office/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/zo6fxw/my_tinder_bio_says_that_i_have_a_corner_office/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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Because of all the one-star reviews
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/LadeeAlana"> /u/LadeeAlana </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/zo6zeo/elon_musk_lands_on_mars_and_steps_out_of_his/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/zo6zeo/elon_musk_lands_on_mars_and_steps_out_of_his/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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Snow is like a penis.
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It’s measured in inches and soft to the touch.
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It cums when you least expect it and it never gets as deep as you’d like it.
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Driving in the snow is like eating pussy, if you don’t slow down and pay attention you could slide into the asshole in front of you…
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