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I have put a twitter about with the link. Dont recognise anyone myself though, Sorry.
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Why don't you give a call or search about the Stonehaven Pipe Band?? There is a shitload of pictures about them, some including the blond girl. Could be a good clue...
Cheers,
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Your friend mentioned this in the Aberdeenshire group - I've given him some contact details for associates of mine on another local paper (stonehaven's not in my area) who may be able to help
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I thought that too emarinuk, but I think they were maybe just watching a procession. Could be worth a try though.
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@Szmytke
I've contacted the Aberdeen express, is that the one you mean?
I think the Stonehaven photos are the Stonehaven Fireball at Hogmanay, which is attended by hordes outside the area, but I will follow that up anyway
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Is it ok if I pass a photo onto some friends? I was brought up in Aberdeen and by the looks of it they live in the west end of aberdeen. A bit older than me but perhaps someones older brother or sister might know.
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thanks gang i was hoping our resident journo could give contacts to help
and that the Scotland group would wade in as much as they could
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the bloke looks very familiar
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There is a website which might help :-
ifoundyourcamera.blogspot.com/
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I'm with a couple of you on them just being spectators at the Hogmanay Fireball event in Stonehaven, the Pipe Band procession starts off the event. I live in the West End of Aberdeen and will ask friends and family who have lived there a lot longer than me if they recognise the street. Who knows, with all the flickr eyes that are on the look out, a happy outcome might just be possible!! Hope so as these look like precious memories!
irenicdonna deserves a big thanks for going the extra mile...
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Olympus may have a record of the owner via the camera serial number?
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The pictures in the snow are in and around the new Hockey pitches near queens road and I think the street may be the other side beside the Nargile restaurant on Albyn Place? Looks like those kind of houses or perhaps in the other direction between queens road and the hospital.
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Just a thought - Had a look through your found camera images and (found 008) has 2 readable vehicle registration no's. Assuming this pic was taken outside the camera owners home it should be quite easy, with a little help from the friendly Police force we have, to establish which road this is in Aberdeen, knock on a few doors and you will be able to reunite them........Perhaps there's a friendly employee of the police force who is also a flickrer who would be willing to do this.
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I'm 99% sure that found 012-014 are of Rubislaw Quarry (Danger sign on fencing, a big clue, New RGU Buildings at Queen's Road in The Background, and the skyline in the extreme background matches the South of the River Dee )
Which means It can be narrowed down to two buildings, Conoco(Rubislaw House)
So it might be worth contacting ConocoPhillips Details Here
Update: Forgot about Chevron House (which shows the last time I was up that way - It hadn't been built yet)Chevron Contact details here
the angles for the background buildings look a better bet from Chevron (and they've got an E-Mail address on their contact so would be an easier one to try first)
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I'm impressed with all your detective work. If this camera is returned to its rightful owner, someone should write a wee article about it.
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The one of the girl standing on the path with the dog (002). That car in the background is a volkswagen golf and is probably the same one in 010, in which there is a partial number plate (SV03). Chances are that is their car as its sitting outside their path. Don't confuse it with the silver seat shown in 004.
Also does anyone know what breed of dog that is.
Also, if you find them get me her phone number. She is very pretty. Unfortunately looks like shes happily married too.
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Photo 008 - The snow scenes with the 2 storey houses, I'm 99% sure are Forest Avenue, looking down towards Great Western Road. If the shots with the girl, the dog and the hedges were taken at their front door it would probably put it at a house in the late 20's early 30's on that street.
This link should take you to a bird's eye view of the street.
multimap link
I can't put notes on the image but I'm pretty sure I'm right as the flat roofed building down near the end of the street looks awfully like my best friends house
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Excellent call on the street Mr Kael. The colours of the cars and the positioning of the trees in the multimap link even look very close compared to the photos. I'd say its worth a visit.
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Mr Kael - this looks like the best lead yet. The map was well found!
Like Sharkey I recognised the Rubislaw Quarry and on Friday drove past it to confirm. Drove around for a wee while, just on the off chance, and at one time was only one street away from Forest Ave....that's just like the thing!
Let's hope the end is nigh...in a good way!
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Could you work out some sort of route they took, based on the locations (I recognise places like Eilean Donan Castle and Urquhart Castle around page 33)?
It seems to be a sort of holiday, so perhaps you could identify places they spent certain nights or something?
Not sure what that would achieve though...
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And is that Brussels or Bruges on page 14? Reminds me of the Grand Place in Brussels...
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pass the photos onto passport office,, they can easily search database face recognition.
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I was out all day and drove down the street in number 008,. The early photos ie the ones with the girl holding a dog, I am 99% sure were taken from in front of 61 Forest Avenue, Aberdeen.
The trees in the photo's, the buildings opposite, the traffic signs and lights all match up.
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I think Bruges is definitely some of the photos, they might be in Brussels too.
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Mr K - I was along there yesterday and I'm thinking along the same lines as you...getting warmer!
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Hi all
I'm following everything up
I'd already contacted Olympus and they do not have the camera registered.
The authorities (police and DVLA) are not interested in finding the car reg.
Looks like were going to get there though
Rhonda
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I googled
"61 Forest Avenue", Aberdeen
and found it has an application for replacement windows on Aberdeen City Council's Website.
Planning Apps for 2007 (pdf). Search the document for forest avenue (it's on page 28).
It has the address of the applicant (different address, I'm presuming a landlord) but also the phone number of the council staff member in charge of the application.
Perhaps they can help.
It also has their councillor's name who may be able to help.
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Typical of the cops to be so helpful!
Why not print of picture with bloke and dug and stick it on lamposts near where yous think the picture was taken asking if anyone knows who man and dug is and if so to contact whoever!
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Howbeg
I'm willing to try a lot of things but I live hundreds of miles away so I just cannot do that.
Perhaps someone who lives in the area?
Perhaps they could actually drop a note into no 61.
I'm going to try the council as per Stooshie (I had googled the address too but did not get this)
I've spoken to a man at number 3something (who did not recognise the description or know the dog )by looking for Jones' who live in Forest Avenue but you can't find a phone number without a name. I tried more Scottish names too (mac+) but only came up with a phone number for Jones
And then if nothing else I'll write to number 61
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Well
I still haven't made contact with the couple but I have spoken to the owner and landlord of 61 Forest Avenue. The description of the couple, including dog, fit the people who rent it from them so they are passing my phone number over to them.
We are going to make it, I'll feel so let down if we've got the wrong house now!
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Great news, sounds like you've cracked it! Hope it really is them.
This is like a murder mystery novel! Only without the murder, and not in novel format...
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Success!!
Thanks everyone. I have now spoken to the owner of the camera! Despite constant teasing from family (which made me more determined) the camera, and contents, is to be reunited with its owner.
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Well done you should now tell this remarkable story to the local press. Your determination and all the Scottish filkerites paid off.
Nice to see something good happen.
Well done all. Hope the owners appreciate the lengths gone to to re unite them with their camera and pictures.
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Poirot would be proud of you : )
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Excellent, well done. And get them to sign up for a flickr account and register with this group so we can all meet them.
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Well done! Congratulations on persevering.
It's a lovely story and I agree with Howbeg - the local press would think it a great story, and it's good PR for the group here in Flickr! And johnmartin3108 is right too, it would be great to see them all in here, now we've got to know their dog, holidays, etc etc!
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Whey Hey, Isn't the power of the internet amazing (if a little scary at times).
I wonder if I could be found just from a few snaps from a lost camera.
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What a great wee story! I'm sure the local papers of aberdeen and wherever irenicdonna is from would love to hear about this.
Well done especially to Mr Kael for finding the right location of the house.
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Well done everyone - Great Result !
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Hello everyone! I'm the guy who lost the camera!!!!!
Irenicdonna, your efforts are truly amazing. I don't know if there are many (or enough) people in the world who would do what you've done. I can't thank you enough.
My wife and I do indeed live in Aberdeen (with our wee dog 'Moe'). The pictures are from trips to Rome and Brussels, my little sister's wedding, and lastly, a hillwalking trip with friends through the Highlands, Isle of Skye, and Glencoe.
We didn't know the camera was lost until it was too late to retrace our steps.
I took a few pictures on the Highlands trip with my cameraphone to geotag (shared on my photostream), but was really disappointed to have lost all of the pictures taken with our point-and-shoot.
I don't share too many pictures, but use Flickr to share photos with my family back in the States. But, I'll keep the pictures that Irenicdonna's posted shared, as well as add some more (I'm headed off on a really interesting trip soon, keep an eye out)!
Many thanks to everyone in the Flickr Community who helped reunite my wife and I with our photos. Thanks again to Irenicdonna, I hope we keep in touch.
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Welcome into the group, Nick! Glad you've been reunited with the camera.
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Well done. This has been a great detective story.
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Great result! ... The power of Flickr!
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Glad you got the camera back. Bet that was a phonecall out the blue.
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Wow - riveting story! And a happy ending! Great work everyone!
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Glad the camera is being reunited with it's owners. And happy to help, now I just need to persuade the Guess Where Aberdeen group to give me loads of bonus points for this.
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Just read this... Well done all. I'm sure the Press and Journal would be interested in this story.
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Welcome Nick: This is indeed a coup - I spoke to two families in your street last night but they didn't recognise your dog or you would have had a knock on your door! But I am just so thrilled at the outcome - all the folk out there in flickr land have been great trying to reunite you and your camera. Especially irenicdonna who has been wonderful in pursuing this to the end....
Mr K & Stooshie, you both made a difference to the outcome of this...
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Where's my Hanky ! - what a story......
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This is one of the best posts I have ever read!!!
Brilliant!!!
Well done folks!!!
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Great Story - well done!!
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I always liked the Scottish. Wonderful folks.
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Thanks sandra.
This was definitely one of those collaborative efforts that paid off and required the accessibility of the internet to succeed so quickly.
I'm sure Aberdeen City Council didn't envisage their online planning applications database being used for something like this. :-)
However, there's no substute for the the local knowledge and the effort that Mr Kael put in.
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what a bunch ... ! Im richt prood o you lot
now where's our resident journo to get the scoop ?
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Woo-hoo, what a result! Ive been checking all the updates on this topic over the last few days, even looking at the lost pictures and the maps which folk have been posting. Its been fascinating to say the least.
I was just disappointed there weren't any pics of places i knew of, then i could have got involves too. But well done everyone, you should all be proud of yourselves. It goes to show there are some decent human-being out there still.
Now, im away to look for lost cameras!
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Brilliant well done folks. Now about this horse called Shergar.
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Absolutely marvellous. Brilliant outcome.
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Wow! How did I miss this excitement? And I'm such an Agatha Christie fan too. Well done supersleuths!
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Remember that your resident journo doesn't cover Aberdeen...
Dont bother with the Trumpton Gazette because if they didn't start the story then they wont be interested (for instance so called Wizard special coverage feature, of over 80 pics only 6 are of the bands the rest are all crowd shots)
If you look on page 3 of the P&J in the top left hand corner you'll find your local reporter contact details
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This has been a great thing to follow - better than any soap, and with a much more cheerful outcome!!! Trust me to be away from my computer the day the breakthrough was made! I agree that it would make a great article. Well done, Irene - how lovely of you to put so much effort into returning the camera. What a star!! :) x
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Apparently There's a group for random acts of flickr kindness.
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What a great ending. This needs shared with the world. :-)
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Great story... happy ending.. thanks and congratulations
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Royal Mail tell me that Nick has his camera now, and look what I've got.
farm4.static.flickr.com/3092/2802468515_85b10ef121.jpg
Totally unnecessary but totally chuffed too.
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Well done you. I told one of the BEEB hacks to check the story up for the Gaelic news.
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Lovely flowers! :)
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aaaaawwwww, I just read about this on FLickr blog and of course I have to join this group since we used to live there and my oldest two were born there. Irenicdonna, well done to you! Grea to read a story like this
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Best thing I've read in ages, is this; gave me a wee warm glow. Well done everybody involved!
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Well although I am verrrry far away from you people but I appriciate the job done as nowdays you wont find people like you all who made this possible. great job done
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A Scottish story to be proud of,I just joined the group and enjoying it already well done and glad to see a strong group spirit
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Great story...really well done all. Agree it's one papers would love...perfect Sunday Post matierial!
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Wow, on the flickr blog. You're all famous!
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I've been following this for a week, popping by now and again to see if there was any updates, far better than any soap and a great ending, well done everyone concerned.
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YAY this is SUCH a great story - well done to everyone who had a part in this.
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Irenicdonna, the flowers are gorgeous, so nice of Nick and his wife to send them to you...just so pleased the camera is now home safe and well
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Fantastic. I read this thread at the start and had a browse through the photos (agreeing to myself that it did look like aberdeen).
Can't believe that through the flickr community we actually found the owners.
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Pretty awesome story. I read it on the Flickr blog also.
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I got calls from the P&J and the Scotsman last night. Keep an eye out for something in the press today!
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Hi all
Here's the link to the P+J story
I never realised what a palaver finding the owner to something you found could cause.
What fun!
Rhonda
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www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/821107
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the link's vanished
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www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/821107
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~L~ this group is so on the case , maybe if the sluths pu ttheir minds to it they can find bin ladin or bush's remaining brain cell , if there is one
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"Glad the camera is being reunited with it's owners. And happy to help, now I just need to persuade the Guess Where Aberdeen group to give me loads of bonus points for this. "
@ kael : in yer dreams
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Ooops. Guess I was over excited.
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i think he should at least get 5 bonus points.
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I want the bonus points please. Press and Journal...... www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/821107?UserKey=
Pamela thanks...... I don't know anybody in the P&J...I only suggested that it would be a story they would publish. FLikr brilliance.
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Friday 5th September we might make the Scotsman too
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That's definite, Rhonda ... I'll post the link once it's online. Thanks!!
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I've remembered to put the link in myself today !
news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Closing-the-net-on-missing.4...
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Whoops, sorry! Apparently there have been calls at the Scotsman from the Daily Mail and the New York Times ... world fame beckons!! Who will play you in the movie? ;-)
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~L~ if it makes the wagga wagga local rag i'll give mr kael a point
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<< Gets on phone to the wagga wagga daily tribune
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Daily Mail today, Saturday
Didn't know about the NYT but my brother in Dubai had an e-mail from his friend in America who read it in someones blog, not Flickr, to ask if it was his sister. I know Rhonda isn't exactly common but c'mon, there must be other Rhondas in Scotland (his friend doesn't know my surname)
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What an amazing story this is! Well done to everyone involved.
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a nice story and a nice ending. its so good to hear that there are really kind and considerate people out there ... I almost want to find a lost camera now!
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>>Daily Mail today, Saturday
Unfortunately they claimed that the camera had been pinched by either immigrants or hoodies. ;-) Sorry, bad joke!
Rhonda's not a common name, but it ain't a that rare a name either.
This is kinda cool though. It's nice to know that despite Daily Mail type horror stories, people are actually quite decent. Warm feelings all round.
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Im so happy to hear that the owner was able to have his camera returned. GOOD for you for trying so hard to find the owner, you are a very genuine and caring person. I know it can be hard when you lose something especially a camera since it usually has alot of memories and important photos. I use a lost and found service called TrackItBack. They have returned my cell phone to me twice over the past 3 years and its delivered free of charge, WORLDWIDE. I recommend this service to everyone I know and hopefully now it can help some of you. Best Wishes
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Congrats to you all again: this was the lead anecdote in a New York Times article on 8 April 2009 concerning Good Samaritans:
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/technology/internet/08samarita...
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