Californians of Color Will Be Unable to Participate in CA's Economy Unless Action is Taken
Los Angeles, CA – The Latino Institute for Corporate Inclusion ("LICI"), via a partnership with the Career Ladders Project and funding from the AT&T Foundation, today released anInformation Communication Technologies (ICT) Study that found that California Latinos and African-Americans, who comprise 76% of California's labor force, are being left behind in the state's high tech economy. The study also noted they will continue to be unable to participate in the high tech economy unless a Call to Action is heeded to build an inclusive ICT workforce.
"Unless we take action to address educational achievement gaps now, students of color will be unable to participate in the state's economy and ICT employers will have a hard time filling their workforce with Californians," said Luis Chavez, LICI Board Chairman. "Students of color make up a growing and substantially important segment of California's workforce. California's economy cannot grow unless this growing population is equipped to participate in the workplace of tomorrow."
The Information Communication Technologies (ICT) Study, conducted by LICI, in partnership with the Career Ladders Project, found that:
"Changing the composition of the ICT workforce will not happen overnight," said Ruben Jauregui. President of LICI, "We must engage youth in career exploration early and equip and prepare Latino and African-American youth with information and support about ICT careers, hands-on learning experiences in both educational and workplace settings, and leverage collective resources to help them attain post-secondary credentials to advance in ICT."
The ICT Study included recommendations for a Call to Action. Chief among them are:
LICI, along with partner Career Ladders Project, have committed to taking the first step in this process. A complete copy of the report can be found here:www.latinoinclusion.org
By Jim Garamone
DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5, 2014 - The NATO Summit in Wales came at a time of transition and testing for the alliance, President Barack Obama said at the conclusion of the meeting today.
As NATO ends combat in Afghanistan, the 28-member alliance finds itself facing challenges ranging from Russian actions against Ukraine to the terrorist threats in the Middle East and Africa.
"At this summit, our alliance has summoned the will, the resources, and the capabilities to meet all of these challenges," the president said.
The allies reaffirmed the central tenet of NATO enshrined in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in 1949 -- that an attack on one ally is an attack on all.
"This is a binding treaty obligation. It is non-negotiable," Obama said. "And here in Wales, we've left absolutely no doubt we will defend every ally."
Resolute reassurance
The allies agreed "to be resolute in reassuring our allies in Eastern Europe," Obama said. Increased NATO air patrols over the Baltic republics will continue, as will rotations of NATO forces throughout Eastern Europe for training and exercises. Ship deployments to the Black Sea also will continue. "All 28 NATO nations agree to contribute to all of these measures for as long as necessary," the president said.
The alliance must have forces able to deploy quickly, and which can operate effectively for any contingency, Obama said, and the allies agreed to a new readiness action plan, which will update defense planning. "We will create a new highly ready rapid response force that can be deployed on a very short notice," he added. "We will increase NATO's presence in central and eastern Europe with additional equipment, training, exercises and troop rotations."
The president said the $1 billion program he announced in June in Warsaw will be the start of the strong and continuing U.S. contribution to this plan.
All NATO nations pledged to increase investments in defense. The alliance has long had a goal of each nation spending 2 percent of gross domestic on defense. The United States is one of only four alliance nations that actually meets that goal. "These resources will help NATO invest in critical capabilities, including intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and missile defense," the president said.
Fully united in support of Ukraine
Finally, NATO nations are fully united in support of Ukraine's "sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, and its right to defend itself," Obama said. All NATO allies agreed to provide security assistance to Ukraine. This aid includes nonlethal support like body armor, fuel, and medical care for wounded Ukrainian troops. It also includes assistance to help modernize Ukrainian forces, including logistics and command and control.
All this sends the message to Russia and its leaders that their actions have consequences. "Today the United States and Europe are finalizing measures to deepen and broaden our sanctions across Russia's financial, energy, and defense sectors," the president said.
Still, alliance members strongly support Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's efforts to pursue a peaceful resolution to the conflict, the president said.
"The cease-fire announced today can advance that goal, but only if there is follow-through on the ground," he added. "Pro-Russian separatists must keep their commitments, and Russia must stop its violations of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity."
Roughly 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain lasting more than six months, according to a report from the Institute of Medicine. Throughout the past decade, the use of painkillers such as Vicodin, Percocet and OxyContin has soared by 300 percent. For many – 17,000 people per year, or 46 each day – the treatment is worse than the pain; those are the number of users who die from the medicine, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
For every person who dies from the use of painkillers, 30 more are admitted to emergency rooms due to complications.
"Those figures are appalling," says Dr. Frank King, a doctor of naturopathy, president of King Bio natural medicine company, and author of The Healing Revolution (www.kingbio.com).
"Death is just one of the many side effects of heavy-duty pharmaceuticals, and researchers unanimously agree that addiction to painkillers has risen drastically in recent years. People are so focused on pain that they miss the fact that it is a signal of deeper health problems. Don't shoot the messenger! Listen to the pain, and it will lead you to the root causes."
With decades of experience helping patients, Dr. King offers four natural suggestions for pain management.
• Identify the root causes of pain. Pain is a signal of deeper problems, similar to the warning light on the dashboard of your car. You can mask the light with duct tape, which is what prescription drugs do with pain. You can cut the wires, which might symbolize a surgical approach. Or you can look for the root causes, which is what our more natural, holistic approach seeks to do. Address the problem, and the pain will subside.
• Make good choices. Most chronic conditions are caused by bad lifestyle choices. Try walking more, eating and sleeping better, eliminating stress and bad habits from your life, and watch pain decrease and health increase. It's that simple. Moreover, surround yourself with a healing community of like-minded "healing buddies" who support your healthy choices.
• Explore natural healing techniques, and if necessary, see a natural healing practitioner. You are your best doctor, on call 24/7. I developed many self-healing techniques that address the needs of every aspect of mind-body health. These techniques are free and easy to implement at home, on the job, and wherever you might be. You might also explore meditation, yoga and other approaches for filling the holes in your wholeness.
• Look into homeopathy.Homeopathy predates modern medicine. Homeopathic medicines are safe and effective, with no known side effects or negative drug interactions. They target the root causes, not the superficial pain. I have personally seen homeopathy dramatically raise the quality of life and happiness for countless of my patients.
With the appalling death toll due to pharmaceutical pain medication, natural solutions like homeopathy are our safest, brightest hope for the future of pain management.
About Dr. Frank King
Dr. Frank King is a chiropractor, doctor of naturopathy, and founder and president of King Bio, an FDA-registered pharmaceutical manufacturing company dedicated to education, research, development, manufacture and distribution of safe and natural homeopathic medicines for people and pets. Dr. King is also the author of, The Healing Revolution: Eight Essentials to Awaken Abundant Life, Naturally! (www.kingbio.com). A fourth-generation farmer, Dr. King raises yak, camel, boar, wisent and American bison sold under the Carolina Bison brand. He is a member of the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia Convention of the United States.
The Energy Department today announced $4.5 million for four projects to help increase deployment of innovative wind power technologies by optimizing the operation, boosting efficiency, and improving the environmental performance of wind energy systems. The research and development (R&D) projects, located in Maine, North Carolina, Nebraska, and Texas, contribute to the Energy Department's effort to advance innovative technologies that reduce carbon emissions and support the President's goal to double renewable energy again by 2020. These projects will pursue R&D not significantly represented in our current portfolio as a way to support and explore innovative new approaches for integration into our future program plans.
The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) accelerates development and deployment of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies and market-based solutions that strengthen U.S. energy security, environmental quality, and economic vitality.Learn more about EERE's ongoing wind energy research and development work. Learn more about how wind turbines work through this Energy 101 video.
Following the California legislature's passage of statewide paid sick days last Friday, Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and co-director of ROC United, issued the following statement:
"However, home care workers were not included in the passage of this bill. Like restaurant workers, home care workers are predominantly women -- and they are routinely excluded from paid sick day protections and minimum wage increases. Such an extreme measure is unjust and disrespectful to such a crucial enclave of America's workforce.
"Hopefully the irony is not lost on the California State legislature that as a result of this exclusion, the women whose job it is to care for someone else's families have not been afforded the very basic, protected right to take care of their own."
DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5, 2014 - The Defense Department has signed a memorandum of understanding to share space situational awareness data with South Korea's Defense Ministry, Pentagon officials said today.
The accord provides South Korea's air force with higher-quality and more timely space information tailored for its specific purposes in exchange for satellite-positional and radio-frequency information it will provide to U.S. Strategic Command, the DoD agency responsible for space situational awareness, officials said.
Douglas L. Loverro, deputy assistant secretary of defense for space policy, and Maj. Gen. Chang Kyeong Seok, the South Korean Defense Ministry's director general of policy planning, signed the memorandum Sept. 2 on the sidelines of the Space Cooperation Working Group.
"Cooperating with international partners to develop coalition approaches to space is a priority for the Department of Defense," Loverro said. South Korea joins five nations and many other organizations already participating in space situational awareness data sharing agreements with DoD.
Peaceful use of space
By signing the memorandum, Chang said, the South Korean Defense Ministry and the DoD have come to participate in the efforts of international community for the peaceful use of space. "This opportunity will strengthen the [U.S.-South Korean alliance] through increasing the level of space cooperation between both nations' armed forces."
Such agreements enhance multinational space cooperation and streamline the process for DoD partners to request specific information gathered by Stratcom's Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, DoD officials said. The information is crucial for launch support, satellite maneuver planning, support for on-orbit anomalies, electromagnetic interference investigation, satellite decommissioning activities and on-orbit conjunction assessments, officials added.
"These space situational awareness data sharing agreements allow us to expand partnerships and enable information sharing in the increasingly congested, contested and competitive space environment," said Navy Adm. Cecil D. Haney, Stratcom's commander. "These agreements ultimately protect our capabilities by enhancing spaceflight safety and preventing potentially catastrophic orbital collisions."
e "We have confirmed that Ahmed Godane, the co-founder of al-Shabaab, has been killed. The U.S. military undertook operations against Godane on Sept. 1, which led to his death. Removing Godane from the battlefield is a major symbolic and operational loss to al-Shabaab. The United States works in coordination with its friends, allies and partners to counter the regional and global threats posed by violent extremist organizations." | |
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 5, 2014 - Ahmed Abdi al-Muhammad, also known Ahmed Godane, the co-founder of the al-Shabab jihadist group, was killed Sept. 1 in a U.S. airstrike in Somalia, Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby confirmed today.
"The U.S. military undertook operations against Godane on Sept. 1, which led to his death," Kirby said in a statement. "Removing Godane from the battlefield is a major symbolic and operational loss" to al-Shabab," Kirby said in a statement. "The United States works in coordination with its friends, allies and partners to counter the regional and global threats posed by violent extremist organizations."
At a Sept. 2 Pentagon news conference, Kirby said manned and unmanned aircraft operated by U.S. special operations forces participated in an airstrike that destroyed an al-Shabab encampment and a vehicle located at that camp. Kirby added that the operation was a direct strike against the al-Shabab network, and specifically against Godane.
The operation was carried out after actionable intelligence was obtained that suggested that Godane was present at the camp, located south of the Somali capital of Mogadishu, the press secretary said at the news conference, noting that it was too early to tell whether the strike had killed him.
The aircraft fired several Hellfire missiles and laser-guided munitions, and no U.S. forces were present on the ground, either before or after the attack, he added.
Al-Shabab is a jihadist group based in Somalia. It has claimed responsibility for last year's attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, which resulted in more than 70 deaths and 200 injured. The group is also believed to be responsible for many bombings, including suicide attacks in Mogadishu and in central and northern Somalia, Kirby said Sept. 2.
Arkansas Artist SHANI Gathers Super Star International Talents to Sing "We Hear Your Voice" to Bridge the Divide between Nations
By Ilene Proctor
Shani Rigsbee ( Shani) is a woman with convictions. Beautiful, feisty, a force of nature, She is is currently at the red-hot epicenter of a rising power pack of newyoung American stars that are equally as ease producing, directing on stage and screen, in acting and music,., Shani has become known as an artist of the universe. Whether singing fluently in French, Farsi. Arabic, Spanish or Italian, Shani has left many people shocked to know that her roots are American, actually from Bill Clinton's hometown and not from the outer reaches of the globe. Shani simply loves the artistic challenge of blending genres
Knowing that music is the best way to bridge the divide between nations, Shani singularly persuaded some of the most famous international singing stars to contribute their talents to the project. We hear Your Voice is a ,. Charity single with ba powerful message of peace, hope and harmony. The song breaks new ground creating a global span of sound that combines percussive dance beats with sensual Eastern and Spanish overtones. -. evoking an exciting blend of rhythm, sophistication and exoticism - free from labels, borders or boundaries
"We Hear Your Voice" will be internationally released through Cherokee Music Group.
The message behind "We Hear Your Voice" is that nobody is voiceless and that humanity transcends politics and borders. If international recording artists and their fans and followers all unite behind this message, then the divide between nations can begin to be bridged. A short documentary will accompany the music video; it will feature footage of the artists' recording sessions as well as interviews describing their feelings about the venture.
Artists and musicians participating in "We Hear Your Voice" include
FROM AMERICA: Shani, American singer-songwriter and creator of the "We Hear Your Voice" project whose music has spanned four solo pop albums and been featured in numerous television and film productions, including the 2004 Oscar winner, Crash.
FROM AFGHANISTAN:Ehsan Aman, pop/rock musician popularly known as "the Bob Dylan of Afghanistan."
FROM MEXICO, Ana Victoria, Latin Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and producer
FROM PERSIA, Andy, Iranian/Armenian and American icon of the Middle East and the international diaspora.
FROM SOUTH KOREA, Sung-Bong Choi, the "Korean Susan Boyle" and classical vocalist who shot to fame following a viral YouTube video of his appearance on "Korea's Got Talent."
FROM FRANCE; Ishtar, multi-lingual solo vocalist and lead singer of the France-based group, Alabina.
FROM ISRAEL: Liel Kolet, peace advocate and singer from Israel who has been filmed for a PBS documentary and has performed for Bill Clinton and the Dalai Lama.
FROM NORTH AFRICA, Momo Loudiyi, artist, producer, and singer-songwriter from Morocco and North Africa who has appeared on stages from the Hollywood Bowl to the New York Symphony Space.
FROM PALESTINE: Naser Musa, oud virtuoso, songwriter, and singer of Palestinian heritage.
FROM INDIA: Sonu Nigam, decade-spanning artist from India, often referred to as Bollywood's best playback singer and the Golden Voice of Indipop.
· FROM RUSSIA: Igor Nikolaev, singer-songwriter and composer with dozens of albums under his name and over a hundred hits written for other top artisTS
Morris Hayes, keyboardist, songwriter, and producer most known for his longstanding work with Prince and The New Power Generation (NPG).
Tim Pierce, guitarist who has released his own solo album, Guitarland, and recorded for artists such as Rick Springfield, Bruce Springsteen, Shakira, and many others.
Jahan Raymond, piano virtuoso prodigy, now 12 of Indian and Jewish heritage who released a CD in 2012 of original compositions .
Kenny Aronoff, rock drummer and widely respected studio musician who has toured with the likes of John Mellencamp, the Smashing Pumpkins, and more.
· A special acknowledgement also goes out to the multiple Grammy Award-winning producers and recording engineers who were essential to the project, K.C. Porter, Phil Ramone, Don Was, and Tom Weir.
The song, "We Hear Your Voice," first made its debut in front of thousands at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles to a ten minute standing ovation. Soon after, the artists were invited to perform the song for His Holiness the Dalai Lama in a major peace concert with some of the world's biggest names.
In addition to spreading its message through the international language of music, the song will have a tangible effect on children's lives all around the world. All net proceeds from digital downloads through Cherokee's distribution partners will be donated to an international charity focused on improving children's welfare.
Updates on the single, including its forthcoming music video and short documentary about its production, can be found on Shani's official website at or at "We Hear Your Voice" on Facebook.
Source: ShaniMusic.com
One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military
By Michael L. Weinstein and Davin Seay
By Ilene Proctor
Under the "boy emperor", George W. Bush we entered the Dark Ages in earnest, pursuing a short-sighted path that can only accelerate our decline. What we are now seeing are the obvious characteristics of the West after the fall of Rome: the triumph of religion over reason; the atrophy of education and critical thinking; the integration of religion, the state, and the apparatus of torture--a troika that was for Voltaire the central horror of the pre- Enlightenment world; and the political and a and economic marginalization of our culture.
Add to this the pervasive hostility toward science on the part of the current administration and we get a clear picture of the Enlightenment being steadily rolled back. Religion is used to explain terror attacks as part of a cosmic conflict between Good and Evil rather than in terms of political processes.... Manichaean's rules across the United States. According to a poll taken by Time magazine fifty-nine percent of Americans believe that John's apocalyptic prophecies in the Book of Revelation will be fulfilled, and nearly all of these believe that the faithful will be taken up into heaven in the 'Rapture,
Fundamentalism and democracy are completely antithetical when the former attempt to engage the machinery of the state to further its parochial biblical world view. The opposite of the Enlightenment, of course, is tribalism, groupthink; and more and more, this is the direction in which the United States is going...
WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military By Michael L. Weinstein and Davin Seay shines a klieg light on one of the most elite educational institutions in the world. The United States Air Force Academy which, from its inception has attracted the best and brightest, producing outstanding leaders not only in the military but throughout American society.
Michael "Mikey" Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, and his family have a long tradition of service in the United States armed forces. However, Weinstein is now waging a different kind of war. With support at the very highest levels, evangelical groups within the military believe that, serving your country requires the priorities of the military personnel to be, in the words of the Officer's Christian Fellowship: " a spiritually transformed US Military" literally "with ambassadors for Christ in uniform" and "empowered by the Holy Spirit." Weinstein and other American patriots see the evangelicals' intrusion into military operations and affairs as an affront to the Constitution they were sworn to uphold – and a violation of this nation's traditionally sacrosanct separation of church and state.
Ten thousand cadets and staff at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, open up their federally-funded newspaper and see an a solicitation signed by hundreds of Academy senior officials and their spouses unabashedly proclaiming, "We believe that the only real hope for mankind is Jesus Christ!" Cadets are bombarded with official command "encouragement" to see the movie The Passion of the Christ at local movie theatres, and stridently sectarian fliers are strategically placed at every cadet's seat for three straight days in the Academy dining hall. The Air Force Deputy Chief of Chaplains tells a New York Times Reporter, in a front page story, that it is now official U.S, Air Force policy to "Reserve the right to evangelize the un-churched." (W: April 26 M the Washington Post (July 16 2006): "Let me make it clear. I would shed my last drop of blood to defend their right to hold their biblical worldview….But I will not accept my government telling me who are the children of the greater God and who are the children of a lesser God. That's a difference I will not defend – I will fight them tooth and nail, and lay down a withering field of fire and leave sucking chest wounds – if they engage the machinery of the state, which is what they are doing."
A vitally important book at a critical time in our nation's history, With God on our Side is the story of one man's courageous struggle to thwart a tsunami of evangelism permeating America's military and to prevent a taxpayer-funded theocracy in which only the true believers have powers.
Besides sticks and stones thrown at him, Mikey has been reviled by the fundamentalist Christian right, and has been given many names by his evangelical enemies including Satan, Satan's lawyer, the Antichrist, That Godless, Secular Leftist, The Antagonizer of All Christians, The Most Dangerous Man in America and, most recently and perhaps most colorfully, The Field General of the Godless Armies of Satan.
When a country goes to war, it sends a cargo of good and bad
men and women; the vast majority of whom have fine, noble and heroic sensibilities, and, unfortunately a minute minority of sadists and criminals slip in. The country then pours this entire, mixed bag of people into another society -- and with them, their courage and nobility; but also, their problems, their frailties, and their crimes. And then this entire spectrum is subjected to the kind of tremendous stress and strain, endemic only to the experience of war, that's almost beyond human endurance.
The point is that war is an inferno, and so spiritually and physically catastrophic for both sides, that it must never be allowed to be manipulated by an unconstitutional cabal of evangelical zealots and mindless so-called patriots.
Why is Mikey Weinstein fighting the religious right take-over in the military: The answer: a recent ESPN.com exposé by Mike Fish aired an interview with Lt. Col Kauzlarich, who was the "cross commander" of the Rangers in Khoust, Afghanistan, in April 2004. Kauzlarich, in a stunning display of Christian empathy, blamed the family for continuing to ask questions about the circumstances of Pat's death, and suggested that the reason they'd found no closure was that infidels such as themselves (the Tillmans did not belong to a church), when they die, are only "worm dirt."
Important Statistic in the US Force Academy: out the 2595 cadets listing some form of "protestant" as their religious preference: 1650 belong to mainline and progressive (non-fundamentalist) protestant churches 945 belong to Fundamentalists and Evangelical protestant churches. Yet, of the 10 Protestant Chaplains serving the cadets: 9 were Fundamentalist, Evangelical, or Conservative Christian. Only one mainline progressive Chaplain served 1650 cadets while 945 Evangelicals were served by 9 Chaplains PLUS the resources and personnel of multiple Fundamentalist para-church organization Spire Leaders. Look at tremendous increase in number of military chaplains…almost all evangelical. The AF Academy in the 60s-early 80s had 6 Chaplains for a larger cadet population than exists now…. 3 mainline protestant chaplains, 2 catholic priests, and a rabbi. In 2004, I discovered that the Academy now has these same 6 chaplains described above. But in addition, they have an additional 12 evangelical chaplains, PLUS 25 reserve chaplains (nearly all evangelical) assigned to the Academy.
Faith Based Military (Contractor): Read Blackwater. Erik Prince (a devout evangelical – religiously and politically) is running a huge mercenary Army of nearly 125,000 as part of Bush's Praetorian Guard. Check out the evangelical links and the cross over of Pentagon execs to Blackwater payroll. Joe Scmitz who whitewashed the Boykin bizarre behavior and the evangelical cancer at the AF Academy, moved from DOD IG to an exec of Blackwater. He is a self proclaimed evangelical politico also. And there are many more.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Michael L. Weinstein is founder and president of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. He is an attorney and businessman who served on active duty in the USAF as a Judge Advocate General (JAG) for ten years and also spent three years as an attorney in the Reagan White House and formerly General Counsel for H. Ross Perot and Perot Systems Corporation. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Davis Seay is the author of seven books. He lives in Woodland Hills, California.
WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE
One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military
By Michael L. Weinstein and David Seay
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Audio Transcript: (Sound effect: typing, keyboard) For your eyes only. I'm Bob Karson with the discovery files--new advances in science and engineering from the National Science Foundation. Reading glasses to look at a computer screen? So yesterday! How about computer screens that wear glasses, instead of the people staring at themonitors? That's the idea behind a new technology from computer and vision scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and MIT. The screen, in this case the display on an I-pod, has a sort of "lens" placed over it a mask with tiny pinholes, sandwiched between two layers of clear plastic. Using an algorithm developed at UC Berkeley, the technique distorts the image in such a way that when the light passes through the pinhole array, the image looks sharp to the intended user. To others, the screen will look blurry. This is vision correction through computation, instead of optics. It could aid the hundreds of millions of us who need corrective lenses to use our smartphones, tablets and computers. More important, it could help those with highly complex visual problems that cannot be corrected with eyewear. The team hopes to make improvements like displays that could simultaneously bring clarity to multiple users with different vision problems looking at the same screen. I suppose this "contact lens" would be a lot harder to lose. "The discovery files" covers projects funded by the government's National Science Foundation. Federally sponsored research--brought to you, by you! Learn more at nsf.gov or on our podcast. |
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