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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: 15:1692 Fair Debt Collection Act

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Mark E. Ellis - 127159

June D. Coleman - 191890

ELLIS, COLEMAN, POIRIER, LA VOIE & STEINHEIMER LLP

555 University Avenue, Suite 200 East

Sacramento, CA 95825

Telephone: (916) 283-8820

Facsimile: (916) 283-8821

Attorneys for Defendants

JBC LEGAL GROUP, P.C. and JACK BOYAJIAN

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION

MIRANDA DEFENBAUGH, on behalf of himself

and all others similarly situated,

Plaintiff,

v.

JBC LEGAL & ASSOCIATES, P.C. aka JBC

LEGAL GROUP, P.C., and JACK BOYAJIAN

Defendants.

Case No.: 03-00651 JCS

STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

1. PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS

Disclosure and discovery activity in this action are likely to involve production of confidential,

proprietary, or private information for which special protection from public disclosure and from use for

any purpose other than prosecuting this litigation would be warranted. Accordingly, the parties hereby

stipulate to and petition the Court to enter the following Protective Order. This Order does not confer

blanket protections on all disclosures or responses to discovery and that the protection it affords

extends only to the limited information or items that are entitled under the applicable legal principles to

treatment as confidential. As set forth in Section 10, below, this Protective Order creates no

entitlement to file confidential information under seal; Civil Local Rule 79-5 sets forth the procedures

that must be followed and reflects the standards that will be applied when a party seeks permission

from the court to file material under seal.

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2. DEFINITIONS

2.1 Party: any party to this action, including all of its officers, directors, employees,

consultants, retained experts, and outside counsel (and their support staff).

2.2 Disclosure or Discovery Material: all items or information, regardless of the

medium or manner generated, stored, or maintained (including, among other things, testimony,

transcripts, or tangible things) that are produced or generated in disclosures or responses to discovery

in this matter. This includes the production of class member information.

2.3 “Confidential” Information or Items: information (regardless of how generated,

stored or maintained) or tangible things that qualify for protection under standards developed under

F.R.Civ.P.26(c).

2.4 “Highly Confidential – Attorneys ‘Eyes Only’” Information or Items: extremely

sensitive “Confidential Information or Items” whose disclosure to another Party or non-party would

create a substantial risk of serious injury that could not be avoided by less restrictive means.

2.5 Receiving Party: a Party or the Class Administrator that receives Disclosure or

Discovery Material from a Producing Party, including a class list.

2.6 Producing Party: a Party or non-party that produces Disclosure or Discovery

Material in this action.

2.7 Designating Party: a Party or non-party that designates information or items that

it produces in disclosures or in responses to discovery as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential –

Attorneys’ Eyes Only.”

2.8 Protected Material: any Disclosure or Discovery Material that is designated as

“Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only”, as well as Class member

information

2.9 Outside Counsel: attorneys who are not employees of a Party but who are

retained to represent or advise a Party in this action.

2.10 House Counsel: attorneys who are employees of a Party.

2.11 Counsel (without qualifier): Outside Counsel and House Counsel (as well as

their support staffs).

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2.12 Expert: a person with specialized knowledge or experience in a matter pertinent

to the litigation who has been retained by a Party or its counsel to serve as an expert witness or as a

consultant in this action and who is not a Party or a current employee of a Party or of a competitor of a

Party and who, at the time of retention, is not anticipated to become an employee of a Party or a

competitor of a Party. This definition includes a professional jury or trial consultant retained in

connection with this litigation.

2.13 Professional Vendors: persons or entities that provide litigation support services

(e.g., photocopying; videotaping; translating; preparing exhibits or demonstrations; organizing, storing,

retrieving data in any form or medium; etc.) and their employees and subcontractors.

2.14 Class Member Information: excluding information regarding Plaintiff, names

and contact information regarding putative or actual class members, as well as the putative or actual

class members’ financial and medical information, including but not limited to whether and to whom a

person owes money, the identity of a person’s medical provider, medical procedures contemplated or

performed, and social security numbers.

3. SCOPE

The protections conferred by this Order cover not only Protected Material (as defined above),

but also any information copied or extracted therefrom, as well as all copies, excerpts, summaries, or

compilation thereof, plus testimony, conversations, or presentations by parties or counsel to or in court

or in other setting that might reveal Protected Material.

4. DURATION

Even after the termination of this litigation, the confidentiality obligations imposed by this

Order shall remain in effect until a Designating Party agrees otherwise in writing or a court order

otherwise directs.

5. DESIGNATING PROTECTED MATERIAL

5.1 Exercise of Restraint and Care in Designating Material for Protection. Each

Party or non-party that designates information or items for protection under this Order must take care

to limit any such designation to specific material that qualifies under the appropriate standards. A

Designating Party must take care to designate for protection only those parts of material, documents,

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items, or oral or written communications that qualify – so that other portions of the material,

documents, items, or communications for which protection is not warranted are not swept unjustifiably

within the ambit of this Order.

Mass, indiscriminate, or routinized designations are prohibited. Designations that are shown to

be clearly unjustified, or that have been made for an improper purpose (e.g., to unnecessarily encumber

or retard the case development process, or to impose unnecessary expenses and burdens on other

parties), expose the Designating Party to possible sanctions.

If it comes to a Party’s or a non-party’s attention that information or items that it designated for

protection do not qualify for protection at all, or do not qualify for the level of protection initially

asserted, that Party or non-party must promptly notify all other parties that it is withdrawing the

mistaken designation.

5.2 Manner and Timing of Designation. Except as otherwise provided in this Order

(see, e.g., second paragraph of section 5.2(a), below), or as otherwise stipulated or ordered, material

that qualifies for protection under this Order must be clearly so designation before the material is

disclosed or produced.

Designation in conformity with this Order requires:

(a) for information in documentary form (apart from transcripts of

depositions or other pretrial or trial proceedings), that the Producing Party affix the legend

“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” at the top of

each page that contains protected material. If only a portion or portions of the material on a page

qualifies for protection, the Producing Party also must clearly identify the protected portion(s) (e.g., by

making appropriate markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion, the level of protection

being asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY”).

“Documentary form” includes electronic files. Electronic files must also be affixed with the

legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” at the

top of each page that contains protected material, although such designation may be in a header. If

only a portion or portions of the material on a page of an electronic file qualifies for protection, the

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Producing Party also must print the file, to the extend possible and then clearly identify the protected

portion(s) (e.g., by making appropriate markings in the margins) and must specify, for each portion,

the level of protection being asserted (either “CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). If a printed version is produced, the electronic version need not be.

A Party or non-party that makes original documents or materials available for inspection need

not designate them for protection until after the inspecting Party has indicated which material it would

like copied and produced. During the inspection and before the designation, all of the material made

available for inspection shall be deemed “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY.” After the inspecting Party has identified the documents it wants copied and produced, the

Producing Party must determine which documents, or portions thereof, qualify for protection under

this Order, then, before producing the specified documents, the Producing Party must affix the

appropriate legend (“CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY”) at the top of each page that contains Protected Material as described above. If only a portion

or portions of the material on a page qualifies for protection, the Producing Party must annotate the

material as described above under documentary form.

(b) for testimony given in deposition or in other pretrial or trial proceedings,

that the Party or nonparty offering or sponsoring the testimony identify on the record, before the close

of the deposition, hearing, or other proceeding, all protected testimony, and further specify any

portions of the testimony that qualify as “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY.” When it is impractical to identify separately each portion of testimony that is entitled to

protection, and then it appears that substantial portions of the testimony may qualify for protection, the

Party or non-party that sponsors, offers, or gives the testimony may invoke on the record (before the

deposition or proceeding is concluded) a right to have up to 20 days to identify the specific portions of

the testimony as to which protection is sought and to specify the level of protection being asserted

(”CONFIDENTIAL” or “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”). Only those

portions of the testimony that are appropriately designated for protection within the 20 days shall be

covered by the provisions of this Stipulated Protective Order.

(c) for information produced in some form other than documentary, and for

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any other tangible items, that the Producing Party affix in a prominent place on the exterior of the

container or containers in which the information or item is stored the legend “CONFIDENTIAL” or

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY.” If only portions of the information or

item warrant protection, the Producing Party, to the extent practicable, shall identify the protected

portions, specifying whether they qualify as “Confidential” or as “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’

Eyes Only.”

5.3 Inadvertent Failures to Designate: If timely corrected, an inadvertent failure

to designate qualified information or items as “Confidential” or “Highly Confidential – Attorneys’

Eyes Only” does not, standing alone, waive the Designating Party’s right to secure protection under

this Order for such material. If material is appropriately designated as “Confidential” or “Highly

Confidential – Attorneys’ Eyes Only” after the material was initially produced, the Receiving Party, on

timely notification of the designation, must make reasonable efforts to assure that the material is

treated in accordance with the provisions of this Order.

6. CHALLENGING CONFIDENTIALITY DESIGNATIONS

6.1 Timing of Challenges. Unless a prompt challenge to a Designating Party’s

confidentiality designation is necessary to avoid foreseeable substantial unfairness, unnecessary

economic burdens, or a later significant disruption or delay of the litigation, a Party does not waive its

right to challenge a confidentiality designation by electing not to mount a challenge promptly after the

original designation is disclosed.

6.2 Meet and Confer. A Party that elects to initiate a challenge to a Designating

Party’s confidentiality designation must do so in good faith and must begin the process by conferring

directly (in voice to voice dialogue; other forms of communication are not sufficient) with counsel for

the Designating Party. In conferring, the challenging Party must explain the basis for its belief that the

confidentiality designation was not proper and must give the Designating Party an opportunity to

review the designated material, to reconsider the circumstances, and, if no change in designation is

offered, to explain the basis for the chosen designation. A challenging Party may proceed to the next

stage of the challenge process only if it has engaged in this meet and confer process first.

6.3 Judicial Intervention. A Party that elects to press a challenge to a confidentiality

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designation after considering the justification offered by the Designating Party may file and serve a

motion under Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if applicable) that

identifies the challenged material and sets forth in detail the basis for the challenge. Each such motion

must be accompanied by a competent declaration that affirms that the movant has complied with the

meet and confer requirements imposed in the preceding paragraph and that sets forth with specificity

the justification for the confidentiality designation that was given by the Designating Party in the meet

and confer dialogue.

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on the Designating Party.

Until the court rules on the challenge, all parties shall continue to afford the material in question the

level of protection to which it is entitled under the Producing Party’s designation.

7. ACCESS TO AND USE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

7.1 Basic Principles. A Receiving Party may use Protected Material that is

disclosed or produced by another Party or by a non-party, if permitted under this Stipulated Protective

Order, in connection with this case only for prosecuting, defending, or attempting to settle this

litigation. Such Protected Material may be disclosed only to the categories of persons and under the

conditions described in this Order. When the litigation has been terminated, a Receiving Party must

comply with the provisions of section 11, below (FINAL DISPOSITION).

Protected Material must be stored and maintained by a Receiving Party at a location and in a

secure manner that ensures that access is limited to the persons authorized under this Order.

7.2 Disclosure of “CONFIDENTIAL” Information or Items. Unless otherwise

ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose

any information or item designated CONFIDENTIAL only to:

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in this action, as well as

employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this

litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” that is attached

hereto as Exhibit A;

(b) the Receiving Party and the officers, directors, and employees (including

House Counsel) of the Receiving Party to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation

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and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

(c) experts (as defined in this Order) of the Receiving Party to whom

disclosure is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound

by Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

(d) the Court and its personnel

(e) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure

is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” (Exhibit A);

(f) during their depositions, witnesses in the action to whom disclosure is

reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

Protective Order” (Exhibit A). Pages of transcribed deposition testimony or exhibits to depositions

that reveal Protected Material must be separately bound by the court reporter and may not be disclosed

to anyone except as permitted under this Protective Order.

(g) the author of the document or the original source of the information.

7.3 Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY”

Information or Items. Unless otherwise ordered by the court or permitted in writing by the

Designating Party, a Receiving Party may disclose any information or item designated “HIGHLY

CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” only to:

(a) the Receiving Party’s Outside Counsel of record in this action, as well as

employees of said Counsel to whom it is reasonably necessary to disclose the information for this

litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order” that is attached

hereto as Exhibit A;

(b) Experts (as defined in this Order) (1) to whom disclosure is reasonably

necessary for this litigation, (2) who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by Protective Order”

(Exhibit A), and (3) as to whom the procedures set forth in paragraph 7.4, below, have been followed;

(c) the Court and its personnel;

(d) court reporters, their staffs, and professional vendors to whom disclosure

is reasonably necessary for this litigation and who have signed the “Agreement to Be Bound by

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Protective Order” (Exhibit A); and

(e) the author of the document or the original source of the information.

7.4 Procedures for Approving Disclosure of “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL –

ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY” Information or Items to “Experts”.

(a) Unless otherwise ordered by the court or agreed in writing by the

Designating Party, a Party that seeks to disclose to an “Expert” (as defined in this Order) any

information or item that has been designated “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES

ONLY” first must make a written request to the Designating Party that (1) identifies the specific

HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL information that the Receiving Party seeks permission to disclose to the

Expert, (2) sets forth the full name of the Expert and the city and state of his or her primary residence,

(3) attaches a copy of the Expert’s current resume, (4) identifies the Expert’s current employer(s),

(5) identifies each person or entity from whom the Expert has received compensation for work in his or

her areas of expertise or to whom the expert has provided professional services at any time during the

preceding five years, and (6) identifies (by name and number of the case, filing date, and location of

court) any litigation in connection with which the Expert has provided any professional services during

the preceding five years.

(b) A Party that makes a request and provides the information specified in

the preceding paragraph may disclose the subject Protected Material to the identified Expert unless,

within seven court days of delivering the request, the Party receives a written objection from the

Designating Party. Any such objection must set forth in detail the grounds on which it is based.

(c) A Party that receives a timely written objection must meet and confer

with the Designating Party (through direct voice to voice dialogue) to try to resolve the matter by

agreement. If no agreement is reached, the Party seeking to make the disclosure to the Expert may file

a motion as provided in Civil Local Rule 7 (and in compliance with Civil Local Rule 79-5, if

applicable) seeking permission from the court to do so. Any such motion must describe the

circumstances with specificity, set forth in detail the reasons for which the disclosure to the Expert is

reasonably necessary, assess the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail and suggest any

additional means that might be used to reduce that risk. In addition, any such motion must be

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accompanied by a competent declaration in which the movant describes the parties’ efforts to resolve

the matter by agreement (i.e., the extent and the content of the meet and confer discussions) and sets

forth the reasons advanced by the Designating Party for its refusal to approve the disclosure.

In any such proceeding the Party opposing disclosure to the Expert shall bear the burden of

proving that the risk of harm that the disclosure would entail (under the safeguards proposed)

outweighs the Receiving Party’s need to disclose the Protected Material to its Expert.

The burden of persuasion in any such challenge proceeding shall be on defense counsel. Until

the court rules on the challenge, all parties shall continue to afford the material in question the level of

protection to which it is entitled.

8. PROTECTED MATERIAL SUBPOENAED OR ORDERED PRODUCED IN OTHER

LITIGATION.

If a Receiving Party is served with a subpoena or an order issued in other litigation that would

compel disclosure of any information or items designated in this action as “CONFIDENTIAL” or

“HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL – ATTORNEYS’ EYES ONLY,” the Receiving Party must so notify the

Designating Party, in writing (by fax, if possible) immediately and in no event more than five court

days after receiving the subpoena or order. Such notification must include a copy of the subpoena or

court order.

The Receiving Party also must immediately inform in writing the Party who caused the

subpoena or order to issue in the other litigation that some or all the material covered by the subpoena

or order is the subject of this Protective Order. In addition, the Receiving Party must deliver a copy of

this Protective Order promptly to the Party in the other action that caused the subpoena or order to

issue.

The purpose of imposing these duties is to alert the interested parties to the existence of this

Protective Order and to afford the Designating Party in this case an opportunity to try to protect its

confidentiality interests in the court from which the subpoena or order issued. The Designating Party

shall bear the burdens and the expenses of seeking protection in that court of its confidential material –

and nothing in these provisions should be construed as authorizing or encouraging a Receiving Party in

this action to disobey a lawful directive from another court.

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9. UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE OF PROTECTED MATERIAL

If a Receiving Party learns that, by inadvertence or otherwise, it has disclosed Protected

Material to any person or in any circumstance not authorized under this Protective Order, the

Receiving Party must immediately (a) notify in writing the Designating Party of the unauthorized

disclosures, (b) use its best efforts to retrieve all copies of the Protected Material, (c) inform the person

or persons to whom unauthorized disclosures were made of all the terms of this Order, and (d) request

such person or persons to execute the “Acknowledgment and agreement to Be Bound” that is attached

hereto as Exhibit A. With respect to information that relates to a non-party, but was produced by a

Party, the Receiving Party shall also bear the cost of any notice to the non-party or non-parties as is

required by law.

10. FILING PROTECTED MATERIAL.

Without written permission from the Designating Party or a court order secured after

appropriate notice to all interested persons, a Party may not file in the public record in this action any

Protected Material. A Party that seeks to file under seal any Protected Material must comply with

Civil Local Rule 79-5.

11. FINAL DISPOSITION.

Unless otherwise ordered or agreed in writing by the Producing Party, within sixty days after

the final termination of this action, each Receiving Party must return all Protected Material to the

Producing Party. The parties have agreed that financial information produced by defendant within 14

days of the execution of this protective order by the parties will be return, including but not limited to

all copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or any other form of reproducing or capturing any of

financial information produced by defendant within 14 days of the execution of this protective order by

the parties.

As used in this subdivision, “all Protected Material” includes all copies, abstracts, compilations,

summaries or any other form of reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. With

permission in writing from the Designating Party, the Receiving Party may destroy some or all of the

Protected Material instead of returning it. Whether the Protected Material is returned or destroyed, the

Receiving Party must submit a written certification to the Producing Party (and, if not the same person

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or entity, to the Designating Party) by the deadline to return the documents that identifies (by category,

where appropriate) all the Protected Material that was returned or destroyed and that affirms that the

Receiving Party has not retained any copies, abstracts, compilations, summaries or other forms of

reproducing or capturing any of the Protected Material. Notwithstanding this provision, Counsel are

entitled to retain an archival copy of all pleadings, motion papers, transcripts, legal memoranda,

correspondence or attorney work product, even if such materials contain Protected Material. Any such

archival copies that contain or constitute Protected Material remain subject to this Protective Order as

set forth in Section 4 (DURATION), above.

12. MISCELLANEOUS.

12.1 Right to Further Relief. Nothing in this Order abridges the right of any person

to seek its modification by the Court in the future.

12.2 Right to Assert Other Objections. No Party waives any right it otherwise would

have to object to disclosing or producing any information or item on any ground not addressed in this

Protective Order. Similarly, no Party waives any right to object on any ground to use in evidence of

any of the material covered by this Protective Order.

DATED: April 12, 2007 ELLIS, COLEMAN, POIRIER, LA VOIE &

STEINHEIMER LLP

By s/ June D. Coleman

June D. Coleman

Attorneys for Defendants JBC LEGAL GROUP, P.C.

and JACK BOYAJIAN

DATED: April 12, 2007 LAW OFFICE OF PAUL ARONS.

By S/ Paul Arons

Paul Arons

Attorneys for Plaintiff MIRANDA DEFENBAUGH

GOOD CAUSE EXISTING, IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: ___________________________ ___________________________________

Joseph C. Spero

United States District Magistrate Judge

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April 16, 2007

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STIPULATED PROTECTIVE ORDER

EXHIBIT A

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND

I, ____________________________________ [print or type full name], of _______________

[print or type full address], declare under penalty of perjury that I have read in its entirety and

understood the Protective Order that was issued by the United States District Court for the Northern

District of California on ____________[date] in the case of Defenbaugh v. JBC & Associates, P.C.,

03-00651 JCS. I agree to comply with and to be bound by all the terms of this Stipulated Protective

Order and I understand and acknowledge that failure to so comply could expose me to sanctions and

punishment in the nature of contempt. I solemnly promise that I will not disclose in any manner any

information or item that is subject to this Protective Order to any person or entity except in strict

compliance with the provisions of this Order.

I further agree to submit to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court for the Northern

District of California for the purpose of enforcing the terms of this Stipulated Protective Order, even if

such enforcement proceedings occur after termination of this action.

I hereby appoint ___________________________________ [print or type full name] of

__________________________________________ [print or type full address and telephone number]

as my agent for service of process in connection with this action or any proceedings related to

enforcement of this Protective Order.

Date: ___________________________________

City and State where sworn and signed: _____________________________________

Printed name: _______________________________________

[printed name]

Signature: __________________________________________

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