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  • A curious group of steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) swim past the photographer in Prince WIlliam Sound near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • An orange traffic cone from above after a rain in Valdez, Alaska.
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  • A curious steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) in Prince WIlliam Sound near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • A curious group of steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) swim past the photographer in Prince WIlliam Sound near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • A seagull is dwarfed by the calving face of the Meares Glacier, a tidewater glacier in Prince William Sound near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Salmon, eager to spawn, bottleneck near a gated culvert stream outlet in Valdez, Alaska at a popular fishing area close to the Alaska Pipeline terminal.
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  • Icebergs from the Columbia Glacier float past as mist shrouds the coast in Prince WIlliam Sound near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • A group of steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) swim quickly past in Prince WIlliam Sound near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Two girls stand in the rain on the deck of a Stan Stephens cruise boat in Prince WIlliam Sound near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • A seagull is dwarfed by the calving face of the Meares Glacier, a tidewater glacier in Prince William Sound near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Tourists stand on the deck of a Stan Stephens cruise boat in Prince WIlliam Sound near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • A pair of horned puffins (Fratercula corniculata) fly quickly past on the coast in Prince WIlliam Sound near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Salmon, eager to spawn, bottleneck near a stream mouth in Valdez, Alaska at a popular fishing area close to the Alaska Pipeline terminal.
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  • A northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) lounges on floating ice calved by the Meares Glacier, a tidewater glacier in Prince William Sound near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Salmon, eager to spawn, bottleneck near a stream mouth in Valdez, Alaska at a popular fishing area close to the Alaska Pipeline terminal.
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  • The Chugach Mountains rise above the Valdez Grain Terminal, built on an island in Port Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Aerial view of the Port of  Valdez Container and Grain Terminals on an island near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Extreme Ice Survey time lapse cameras stand vigil over the terminus of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska, documenting in unprecedented detail the glacier's dynamic retreat.
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  • Aerial view of the waterfront, marina and city dock of Valdez, Alaska.
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  • A plastic lawn chair and orange traffic cone warn of a large, flooded hole in the pavement of a hotel parking lot in Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Aerial view of Port Valdez, Alaska, covered in a morning marine fog layer.
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  • Small river valley outside Valdez, Alaska.
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  • A paved road suddently ends in snow at the limit of plowing on Thompson Pass, in the Chugach Mountains near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • A female rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) on Thompson Pass, in the Chugach Mountains near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Glaciologists take a break from work to go backcountry skiing on Thompson Pass, in the Chugach Mountains near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Aerial view of the field camp overlooking the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Aerial view of an unusual right angle in the calving face of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska, formed at the confluence between the west (left, largely stagnant) and main (top, fast moving) branches.
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  • Aerial view of the west branch of the Columbia Glacier flowing out of the Chugach Mountains, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Warm spring conditions trigger small avalanches - point release wet slides - on the snow covered slopes of the Great Nunatak above camp at the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • View of the calving face of the main branch of the Columbia Glacier, and the surrounding peaks of the Chugach Mountains, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Shad O'Neel, glaciologist with the USGS, flies off in a helicopter above the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska, to deploy GPS rovers on the glacier surface to measure surface velocities.
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  • University of Colorado glaciologist Tad Pfeffer (r-l), photographer James Balog and Adam LeWinter, of the Extreme Ice Survey, and daughter Simone Balog stand around camp looking out over the terminus of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • View of the surrounding peaks and the calving face of the western branch of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Spires of clear blue glacial ice surge upwards during a dramatic calving event at the terminus of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska on August 27, 2009. As the tidewater glacier continues its push down into Columbia Bay, it loses much of its volume through large calving events at the floating terminus.
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  • Shad O'Neel, a glaciologist with USGS, stands out in a storm at the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska, collecting precise GPS control points used to calculate the orientation of time lapse cameras.
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  • Floating ice is propelled through Columbia Bay by the force from small calving events at the Columbia Glacier terminus, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • A beam of sunlight highlights a large iceberg floating in Columbia Bay among a thick layer of ice calved from the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Shad O'Neel, a glaciologist with theUSGS, looks down into the seracs and crevasses at the terminus of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • A helicopter flies into a remote research camp at the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska, used by the Extreme Ice Survey and glaciologists from USGS and University of Colorado to monitor the glacier's rapid retreat.
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  • Trees and shrubs gradually emerge from the melting snow on Thompson Pass, in the Chugach Mountains near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Dr. Tad Pfeffer, a glaciologist with the University of Colorado, walks across the Richardson Highway carrying his skis on his shoulder after backcountry skiing on Thompson Pass, in the Chugach Mountains near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Branches of a mountain alder (Alnus viridis sinuata) emerge from the melting snow on Thompson Pass, in the Chugach Mountains near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • USGS glaciologist Shad O'Neel takes a break from work to go backcountry teleskiing on Thompson Pass, in the Chugach Mountains near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Ski tracks from a snowcat skiing operation cover a mountain on Thompson Pass, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Dr. Tad Pfeffer, a glaciologist with the University of Colorado, hikes down the Great Nunatak towards camp at the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Dr. Tad Pfeffer, a glaciologist with the University of Colorado, hikes down the Great Nunatak towards camp at the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Dr. Tad Pfeffer, a glaciologist with the University of Colorado, rappels off a cliff to service an Extreme Ice Survey timelapse camera overlooking the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Ian Howat, a glaciologist with Ohio State University, installs an antenna for a GPS base station overlooking the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska. The base station communicates with GPS rovers set out on the ice to measure velocities at the glacier surface.
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  • Ian Howat, a glaciologist with Ohio State University, installs an antenna for a GPS base station overlooking the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska. The base station communicates with GPS rovers set out on the ice to measure velocities at the glacier surface.
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  • Small icebergs, calved by the terminus of the Columbia Glacier, form fractured rafts of floating ice as they stagnate in Columbia Bay, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Portrait of Dr. Tad Pfeffer, a glaciologist with the University of Colorado, at the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Glaciologists carry equipment to the helicopter landing site above their camp at the Columbia Glacer as they prepare to return to Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Aerial view of Kadin Lake (now no longer seperate from Columbia Bay), and of unusual sink hole and ice bridge formations in the glacier remnants orphaned by the retreat of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Ian Howat, glaciologist with Ohio State University, looks out over the Chugach Mountains and the main branch of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Aerial view of the terminus and crevasses, seracs and medial moraines of the west branch of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska. Recently calved icebergs fill the forebay.
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  • Aerial view of the crevasses and medial moraines at a confluence on the west branch of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Aerial view of the west branch of the Columbia Glacier flowing out of the Chugach Mountains, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Small icebergs, calved by the terminus of the Columbia Glacier, stagnate in Columbia Bay, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Aerial view of the Chugach Mountains and the upper reaches of the west branch of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • A helicopter flies nearly at sea level, close to the calving face of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Ian Howat, glaciologist with Ohio State University, watches as a helicopter comes in for landing at the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Ian Howat, glaciologist with Ohio State University, resurveys, with modern GPS, an old ground control point established by the USGS in an early study of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska. Resurveying will allow old and new data to be linked so as to precisely quantify, from the late 1970s to present, the dramatic retreat of the glacier.
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  • Ian Howat, glaciologist with Ohio State University, resurveys, with modern GPS, an old ground control point established by the USGS in an early study of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska. Resurveying will allow old and new data to be linked so as to precisely quantify, from the late 1970s to present, the dramatic retreat of the glacier.
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  • A helicopter sits on a ridge above Columbia Bay, near Valdez, Alaska. The current terminus of the Columbia Glacier is visible in the distance.
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  • View through a notch in the bedrock of the field camp at the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • An Extreme Ice Survey time lapse camera stands vigil over the terminus of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska, documenting in unprecedented detail the glacier's dynamic retreat.
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  • Glaciologists at their camp overlooking the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Dr. Tad Pfeffer, a glaciologist at the University of Colorado, photographs the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • An Extreme Ice Survey time lapse camera stands vigil over the terminus of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska, documenting in unprecedented detail the glacier's dynamic retreat.
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  • Julie Markus, graduate student at Ohio State, contemplates the view of the western and main branches, and the surrounding Chugach Mountains, from base camp at the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Glaciologists at their camp overlooking the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Top view of the heavily crevassed terminus of the west branch of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Top view of the heavily crevassed terminus of the west (front) and main branches of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Glaciologists at their camp overlooking the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Top view of the heavily crevassed surface and terminus of the main branch of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Dr. Tad Pfeffer, a glaciologist at the University of Colorado, installs a time lapse camera at the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Icebergs, calved by the terminus of the Columbia Glacier, stagnate forming thick rafts of ice - some even supporting melt pools - in Columbia Bay, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Glaciologists stay busy inside their basecamp tent at the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • An Extreme Ice Survey time lapse camera, still partially buried in snow after surviving the winter, stands vigil over the terminus of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska, documenting in unprecedented detail the glacier's dynamic retreat.
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  • Julie Markus, graduate student at Ohio State University, sets up the large tent at the field camp at Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Glaciologists unload equipment from a helicopter at their field camp at the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Aerial view of Prince William Sound and the entrance to Columbia Bay, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Water from melt flows out from under the terminus of the Worthington Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Melt water drips from the ceiling of an ice cave at the terminus of the Worthington Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Fractured ice calved from the Columbia Glacier forms thick floating rafts in Columbia Bay, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Photographer James Balog (l-r) and Adam LeWinter, of the Extreme Ice Survey, and University of Colorado glaciologist Tad Pfeffer (m), stand around camp looking out over the terminus of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • A large iceberg floats in Columbia Bay among a thick layer of loose ice, all calved from the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Quartz veins on a bedrock slab found on the west slope of the Great Nunatak previously buried under the Columbia Glacier, outside Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Irregular quartz veins on a rock found on the west slope of the Great Nunatak previously buried under the Columbia Glacier, outside Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Dr. Tad Pfeffer, a glaciologist with the University of Colorado, walks through camp, set overlooking the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Dr. Tad Pfeffer, a glaciologist at the University of Colorado, installs a time lapse camera during a storm at the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • A large portion of the calving face separates itself slowly at the terminus of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska. As the tidewater glacier continues its push down into Columbia Bay, it loses much of its volume through large calving events at the floating terminus.
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  • Top view of the surrounding peaks and the calving face of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Top view of the surrounding peaks and the moraines, seracs and crevasses on the surface of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • A large portion of the calving face separates itself slowly at the terminus of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska. As the tidewater glacier continues its push down into Columbia Bay, it loses much of its volume through large calving events at the floating terminus.
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  • As the Columbia Glacier, a large tidewater glacier in Prince Williams Sound near Valdez, Alaska, contracts rapidly from melting and iceberg calving, rocks and soil carried down by the glacier are deposited erratically across the emerging landscape. The grooves in the underlying bedrock are testimony of the glacier's passing.
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  • Shad O'Neel, a glaciologist with theUSGS, relaxes at camp overlooking the terminus of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska. To the right are time lapse cameras, documenting in unprecedented detail the glacier's rapid retreat.
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  • Shad O'Neel, a glaciologist with theUSGS, looks down into the seracs and crevasses at the edge of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Water drips off dead, debris laden ice at the edge of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska.
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  • Extreme Ice Survey time lapse cameras stand vigil over the terminus of the Columbia Glacier, near Valdez, Alaska, documenting in unprecedented detail the glacier's dynamic retreat.
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