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INSIDE the September 2003
Noticiero de IUPLR:
- Visit
the newest section of the Noticiero: “News
of Interest”
- UC Santa
Barbara announces a new doctorate in Chicano studies
- UT-Pan
American looking for a new president
- The “Save
Chicano-Boricua Studies at Wayne State University” movement
notched a success recently
- Campaign
to save Chicano-Boricua Studies at Wayne State University is successful
- The
Border Academy, a summer seminar for health care professionals and
students, is returning, September 25-28, 2003
- Institute
for Latino Studies at Notre Dame announces their Fall Calendar of
Events
- SHRI (U
of New Mexico) is showcasing filmmaker Paul Espinosa’s
work at the South Broadway Cultural Center in Albuquerque
- A new
CSRC (UCLA) Research Report, written by Rita Gonzalez (August 2003)
focuses on Latina/o artists
- University
of California-Santa Barbara, Department of Sociology, invites applications
for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor
- The National
Council of La Raza (NCLR) is seeking a Senior Director of Development
- Perspectives
on Sexual and Reproductive Health is accepting submissions for a
special
issue on Latinos
- The Raza
Press Association (RPA) is hosting a Summit at Eastern Michigan University,
September 20, 2003
IUPLR
HEADQUARTER NEWS
This
is the Noticiero’s 8th year as an electronic informational outlet
for the IUPLR network of scholars and member centers. Be sure to visit
the IUPLR web site at: http://www.nd.edu/~iuplr.
Please
send your center updates, center events, faculty news, faculty opportunities,
fellowship opportunities, and publication news to Victor Saenz, vsaenz@prodigy.net.
NEWS
OF INTEREST UC Santa Barbara officials formally announced a new doctorate in Chicano
studies in August, in what is being billed as the first program of its
kind in the nation. Acting Vice Chancellor Maria Herrera-Sobek said the
university's approval for the program caps more than 30 years of struggle
to validate the study of America's 35 million-plus descendants of Mexican
and Latin American immigrants. Four graduate students at UC Santa Barbara's
Chicano Studies Department will be enrolled in the program by next school
year, and five more students will be added each year until the program
reaches a 25-student capacity in 2009 or 2010. (August 5th, 2003; LA
Times).
Matt S. Meier, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Santa
Clara who wrote extensively on Mexican American history, has died. Meier
wrote more than a dozen books on Mexican Americans and other Latinos
living in the United States. Meier served in the Army during World War
II and went to college after the war. He earned his bachelor's degree
at the University of Miami, his master's at Mexico City College and his
doctorate at UC Berkeley. He joined the University of Santa Clara in
1963 after teaching at Bakersfield City College and spending time in
Argentina as a Fulbright professor. He served as chairman of the history
department on two occasions while at Santa Clara. His best-known works
were "The Chicanos: A History of Mexican Americans," written
with Feliciano Rivera in 1972, and two books under his own name: "Mexican
American Biographies: A Historical Dictionary" and "Bibliography
of Mexican American History." (August 17, 2003; LA Times).
University of Texas System officials hope to have a new president for
University of Texas Pan American-Edinburg by the time fall classes begin
next August. Teresa Sullivan, UT System Executive Vice Chancellor for
Academic Affairs, was on campus Monday meeting with groups that will
be involved in the search, a process she said would take nine to 11 months.
UTPA President Miguel Nevarez announced his resignation Friday after
22 years at the helm. Nevarez, from McAllen, is the first Rio Grande
Valley native to be president of UTPA. "We will be advertising nationally
and searching nationally, but we certainly won't exclude anyone local
from consideration," Sullivan said. The search committee has not
been named, but will include two UT regents and two presidents from universities
in the system, as well as a few faculty members, administrators, community
members, and one UTPA student.
CENTER NEWS
Chicano-Boricua
Studies, Wayne State University
El Central Newspaper (July 31, 2003) recently reported that the most active
and public phase of the campaign to Save Chicano-Boricua Studies at Wayne State
University came to a successful end recently at the meeting of the WSU Board
of Governors. Members of the Latino community, friends and allies attended the
meeting in support of Chicano-Boricua Studies and the appointment of a tenured
faculty to its directorship. The campaign was led by the Community Committee
to Save CBS (CCS/CBS). The Community Committee had also pointed out the need
to obtain a commitment from Wayne State University to improve the representation
of Latinos at all levels of the employment structure. While optimistic and even
celebratory, the community speakers called for Wayne State University to commit
itself to improving its record of Hispanic employment. They also called for the
university to fulfill the conditions of a Memorandum of Agreement reached with
the Community Committee, which affirmed the principle that the Center should
have an academic director who has a doctorate and is tenured (job security).
The agreement is a victory for equality of the Center with other units in its
own class. However, the CBS program and the community will have to pay a price
for this victory. The appointment of Dr. Chinea as director does not add positions
to the Center for at least three years. A search for another faculty will begin
in the second year to be hired in the third.
National
Latino Research Center, CSU-San Marcos
The National Latino Research Center (NLRC) at California State University
San Marcos is the newest member to the IUPLR network. NLRC specializes
in applied research, training, technical assistance and research-based
services that contribute to the knowledge and understanding of the rapidly
growing U.S. Latino population. The Center's local and national projects
include MANA Latinas Mentoring Project, Education and Cultural Competency
training for Head Start teachers, program evaluation of various community
efforts in migrant health and parent involvement, and an Oral Histories
project on Mexican/Latinos in North San Diego County.
Visit the NLRC’s website at http://www.csusm.edu/nlrc/.
Chicano
Studies Program, UC-Davis
The Border Academy, a summer seminar for health care professionals and students,
is returning, September 25-28, 2003. The intensive three-day seminar, which will
focus on intimate partner violence, will take place at the Colegio de Medicina
at Universidad de Nuevo Leon. A full-day tour of health related facilities and
colonias in Monterrey, Mexico will be an integral part of the academy. The Border
Academy features a highly interactive style of instruction with extensive dialogue
between speakers and participants. Attendees include medical students, public
health professionals, paramedics, nurses and medical doctors. The Academy is
sponsored by the University of California Davis, Chicana/o Studies Program and
the Colegio de Medicina at the Universidad de Nuevo Leon. The program first began
at the University of Arizona and will now be housed at the University of California
Davis under the leadership of Dr. Adela de la Torre, founder of the University
of Arizona program. For more information about the 2002 Border Academy, contact
the program coordinator Jannine Valcour at jvalcour@u.arizona.edu or Dr. Adela
de la Torre at adelatorre@ucdavis.edu. . .
Smithsonian
Center for Latino Initiatives, Smithsonian Institution
Visit the Center for Latino Initiatives’ Calendar of Events web
page at http://latino.si.edu/latinsitio/explolatino/exploindex.html for
the most recent listing of sponsored events and exhibits around the country
Mauricio
Gaston Institute, UMASS-Boston
Fall 2003 Speaker Series
Tuesday, September
23, 1:00-2:30p.m.. Junot Díaz is the author
of Drown, selected as a Notable Book for 1996 by the Village Voice, New
York Times, and American Library Association. His fiction has appeared
in The New Yorker, African Voices, Glimmer Train, and Best American Short
Stories (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000). He has received a number of awards
and fellowships including the Eugene McDermott Award from MIT and a Guggenheim
Fellowship. He is an associate professor at MIT and a fellow at the Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. This speaker’s
series event will take place at the Library Staff Lounge, 11th Floor,
Healey Library.
The Julián
Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University
Visit the Latino News section of the JSRI website. It is updated often
and offers insightful articles to Latino news around the globe. The link
is: http://jsri.msu.edu/cgi-bin/news/index.cgi.
Chicano Studies Research Program, University of Texas at El Paso
For more info on Center events, contact (915) 747-5462, or visit their
website at http://www.utep.edu/chicano/events.htm.
Institute
for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame
Fall 2003 Calendar of Events
Wednesday, September 3, 2003 7PM
Film: El Jardin del Eden, Guest Speaker: Julissa Robles, Hesburgh Center
Auditorium
Cosponsored with the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Thursday & Friday September 4 and 5, 2003 5PM
Southern Darkness, Southern Light: Photographs of Latin America by Stephen
Moriarty
McKenna Hall, Room 208
Thursday, September. 11, 2003 7:30 p.m.
"
Wapango!" concert featuring Imani Winds & percussionist Rolando
Morales Matos, A classical celebration of African-American & Hispanic
Music
Washington Hall; Reception to follow
Monday, September 15, 2003 5PM
Poetry Cafecito,: Launching of Dánta Magazine Featuring Poets
Jessica Maich, Maria Melendez,& Kevin Ducey
McKenna Hall, 208
Wednesday, September 17, 2003 7PM
Film: My Family, Guest Speaker: Rudy Monterrosa
Hesburgh Center Auditorium, Cosponsored with the Kellogg Institute for
International Studies
Wednesday, September 24 5PM
A Chicano Playwright: Journey from Chicago to “El Ombligo de la
Luna,” a lecture and reading by Carlos Morton
McKenna Hall, Room 208
Thursday, October 2 8PM
Salsation, a Latina Comedy Group
Place TBD
Friday, October 3, 2003, 7PM-12AM
La Alianza’s Fiesta Del Sol, Food and Live Music
Fieldhouse Mall
Wednesday, October 8, 2003, 7PM
Film: Del Olvido al no me acuerdo,
Hesburgh Center Auditorium, Cosponsored with the Kellogg Institute for
International Studies
Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5PM
This Land is Our Land,
Presentation& Book Signing by Guillermo Grenier
McKenna Hall, Room 208; Reception to follow
For information on Institute events, contact Carmen Macharaschwili, Program
Coordinator for the Institute for Latino Studies, at (574) 631-3747 or
at cmachara@nd.edu.
Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
In October, the IUPLR Noticiero will spotlight an upcoming three-day
CMAS Symposium: “Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History,” October
16-18 at the Bass Lecture Hall, LBJ School & Library Complex.
For more info on CMAS events, visit the CMAS website at: http://www.utexas.edu/depts/cmas/.
Center for
Chicano-Boricua Studies, Wayne State University
Visit the newly redesigned website of the Center for Chicano-Boricua
Studies at Wayne State, with links to their current research projects,
courses, faculty and staff bios, and other assorted information. Their
website is located at: http://www.culma.wayne.edu/cbs/
Southwest Hispanic
Research Institute, University of New Mexico
SHRI is showcasing
filmmaker Paul Espinosa’s work at the South Broadway Cultural
Center in Albuquerque, September 5-7, 2003, to recognize his contributions
to filmmaking, media arts, and his career’s focus on Mexican
American history and culture. Among other awards, his films have garnered
eight Emmys, five CINE Golden Eagle awards, and Best of Festival at
festivals throughout the country and the world. Discussions will follow
each screening with filmmaker Paul Espinosa and Dr. Gabriel Melendez,
Dr. Enrique Lamarid and Dr.. Judy Maloof. For additional information,
contact: Espinosa Productions at (619) 220-6893 or espinosa@electriciti.com.
SHRI’s most recent New Mexico Report features an article by Christine
Marie Sierra chronicling poverty in New Mexico. Her piece, entitled “We’re
a Poor State”: A Glimpse at Poverty in New Mexico, is available
by contacting SHRI at: MSCO2 1680, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
NM 87131-0001, or by phone at (505) 277-2965.
Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA
A new CSRC Research Report, written by Rita Gonzalez (August 2003) focuses
on Latina/o artists. The report entitled “An Undocumented History:
A Survey of Index Citations for Latino and Latina Artists,” notes
that despite significant accomplishments, Latino artists have yet to
be adequately integrated into art historical scholarship. Gonzalez identified
ninety-three mid-career and established artists whose work has been widely
exhibited in group and solo shows and found that very few were cited
in art journals, art history textbooks, or art indexes. To read the report,
please go to http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/esp/csrc/index.html.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS
The Soros
Justice Advocacy Fellowship funds outstanding individuals from a variety of disciplines in order to initiate innovative projects
that will have a measurable impact on issues underlying CJI's work. The
program seeks to identify and nurture new voices and advocates for change
at either the local or national level. Advocacy Fellowships are two-year
projects implemented in partnership with leading nonprofit agencies whose
mission is related to criminal justice. Applicants must have demonstrable
substantive knowledge of and/or up to three years experience with the
issues and communities with which they propose to work. Applicants can
but are not required to have an undergraduate or graduate degree in law,
public health, public policy, or other fields related to criminal justice.
If the applicant is currently in a graduate or undergraduate degree program,
he or she must have completed the degree at the start of the fellowship
(either March or August 2004), as the fellowship is full-time. Applicants
may not already be employed by their proposed sponsoring organizations.
All applicants must demonstrate that the project does not duplicate the
sponsoring organization's existing programs. For more info, visit their
website at: http://www.soros.org/crime.
MALDEF,
in collaboration with Ellen and Federico Jimenez, is proud to announce
the 2004 Jimenez
Scholarship for Immigrant Students. You will
find the scholarship application on their website at http://www.maldef.org.
The deadline is September 15, 2003. The Ellen & Federico Jimenez
Scholarship Program will award twenty-five $2,000 scholarships to deserving
Latino college students who are ineligible to receive federal and/or
state financial aid; who have demonstrated commitment to serving the
Latino community in the United States; and who have been accepted to
a Community College or State University in California or Texas. Students
must be enrolled full time in order to qualify. A social security number
is NOT required to apply. For more information, please email undergradfund@maldef.org.
or call (213) 629-2512. If you are interested in donating to this scholarship
fund, please send a contribution to: MALDEF- Attn: Jimenez Scholarship,
634 South Spring Street, 11th floor, Los Angeles, CA 90014.
The John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation offers Fellowships to
further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to
engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the
arts. The Fellowships are awarded to men and women who have already demonstrated
exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative
ability in the arts. Appointments are ordinarily made for one year, and
in no instance for a period shorter than six consecutive months. The
amounts of the grants will be adjusted to the needs of the Fellows, considering
their other resources and the purpose and scope of their plans. Faculty
receiving sabbatical leave on full or part salary are eligible for appointment,
as are holders of other Fellowships and of appointments at research centers.
Completed applications must be submitted by the candidates themselves
no later than October 1, 2003. For more information, and to receive the
application forms: http://www.gf.org/broch.html#top.
FACULTY
OPPORTUNITIES
University
of California-Santa Barbara, Department of Sociology, invites applications
for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professorship to
begin July 1, 2004. They seek a scholar with teaching and research excellence
in urban ethnography and qualitative methods. Candidates may have a global,
comparative, or a US national focus. They are most interested in candidates
who study race and ethnicity, or the intersection of race, class, and
gender. Candidates should have completed their PhD degree by the time
of appointment. Please send a letter of application, a curriculum vita,
a sample of written work, and three letters of recommendation to: Howard
Winant, Search Committee Chair, Department of Sociology, University of
California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9430. To ensure full
consideration for the position, applications must be postmarked
on or before October 15, 2003.
The National
Council of La Raza (NCLR) is seeking a Senior Director of Development to join the national headquarters. The selected individual
will provide oversight of and establish and execute a comprehensive,
strategic, development program designed to sustain and substantially
build high-level funding. Responsibilities include providing leadership,
management, administration, corporate, foundation and government giving,
individual giving program, prospect identification and research, data
entry and database management, donor and prospect relations and communications,
and any other activities designed to secure philanthropic support for
NCLR including the completion of the 30 million capital campaign. Interested
applicants should submit a cover letter and resume by fax: (202) 776-1775
or by e-mail: gandrade@nclr.org. For more information go to: http://www.nclr.policy.net/jobs/.
University
of Utah’s
Tanner Humanities Center will award up to two visiting fellowships
for the academic year 2004-2005. Fellows will
receive a stipend and use of an office space and library privileges.
The center seeks fellows whose past and present work demonstrates excellence
and represents a variety of disciplines and methodologies without regard
to senior or junior status, race, color, gender, sexual orientation,
religion, citizenship, or national or ethnic origin. Faculty affiliated
with colleges and universities, as well as independent scholars, interested
in humanistic issues are eligible to apply. Projects in any of the following
fields are eligible for support: anthropology and archaeology, communication,
history, philosophy, religious studies, ethnic and cultural studies,
jurisprudence, history/theory/criticism of the arts, languages and linguistics,
literature, gender studies, historical or philosophical issues in the
social and natural sciences, or the professions. The center encourages
projects that are interdisciplinary and that are likely to contribute
to substantive intellectual exchange among a diverse group of scholars.
For more info, contact Holly V. Campbell, Associate Director, Tanner
Humanities Center, University of Utah, 380 South 1400 East, 201 Carlson,
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0311. Her phone number is (801) 581-7989, and
her email is: hcampbel@mail.hum.utah.edu, Visit the Tanner Center online
at http://vegeta.hum.utah.edu/humcntr/applications.html.
The U.S.
Small Business Administration (SBA) Office for the National Ombudsman
(ONO) is seeking an economist to write original text and layout
for printing or digital imaging a report containing up to 250 pages and
including, but not limited to, an introduction by the SBA Administrator,
a message from the National Ombudsman, an executive summary, a table
of contents, an index, charts, graphs, footnotes, credits, quotes, sidebars,
detailed ratings of federal agencies, summaries, and highlights of 10
regional small business regulatory fairness boards, public meetings and
main body. The report will document and substantiate the economic impact
of the ONO core activities. For more info, contact Diane Butler, Contract
Specialist, Small Business Administration, Office of Administration,
Office of Procurement and Grants Management, 409 Third Street, SW, 5th
Floor , Washington, DC 20416, or call (202) 205-7049.
Cornell
University's U.S. Latino Studies Program invites applications for
a tenure-track assistant professor position to begin Fall 2004. They
are searching in the following areas: 1) social sciences; 2) religious
studies; 3) comparative Caribbean/U.S. literatures. The candidate must
have substantive training and research interests in U.S. Latino/a Studies.
The position will be a joint appointment between the Latino Studies Program
and an appropriate disciplinary department to be determined. The Ph.D.
must be completed by September 2004. Deadline for application is November
1, 2003. Please send application, including cover letter, curriculum
vitae to: Chair, Search Committee, Latino Studies Program, Cornell University,
434 Rockefeller Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-2602. For more info, visit them
online at: http://latino.lsp.cornell.edu/.
The Latina/o
Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
invites applications
for a full-time tenure track appointment at the
assistant professor level to begin August 16, 2004. The ideal candidate
will be a social scientist with an active research profile in contemporary
comparative Latina/o Studies. Preference will be given to the following
areas; citizenship and political empowerment, immigration, regional economic
change and domestic labor markets, alliances and coalitions across Latina/o
national origin groups and other racialized communities, social equity
and economic justice, and social movements and community building. Successful
candidates will be expected to demonstrate excellence in teaching and
to participate in curriculum development in Latina/o Studies. Applicants
must hold the PhD. by date of appointment. Salary is commensurate with
qualifications and experience. To ensure full consideration please send
cover letter, curriculum vita, transcripts, sample publication/and or
dissertation chapters and three letters of reference by November 1, 2003.
For information about Latina/o Studies at Illinois visit their web page:
http://www.lls.uiuc.edu. Send applications and/or inquiries to Professor
Pedro Cabán, Director, Latina/o Studies Program, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 510 E. Chalmers St, Champaign, IL 61820.
The Sociological
Initiatives Foundation provides grants of $5,000 to $15,000 to support
community-based research and social action projects. Areas
of interest include but are not limited to social justice, social
welfare, human rights, literacy, language learning and use, dialect use
and curricular issues in teaching second languages and non-native languages.
The Foundation is also interested in supporting research by sociologists
and linguists that provide a direct benefit to communities. Complete
guidelines for the September 2003 application deadline are available
at http://www.grantsmanagement.com/sifguide.html. For more information,
contact Prentice Zinn at pzinn@grantsmanagement.com or call (617) 426-7080.
NEWS,
EVENTS, CONFERENCES, SUBMISSIONS, OTHER
The journal “Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health” is
accepting submissions for a special section, scheduled for our July/August
2004 issue, addressing Hispanic women and men's sexual and reproductive
health care needs, and assessing the availability and quality of care
for this population. A call for papers for this issue can be found at
http://www.guttmacher.org/journals/call_psrh.html. For more info, contact
Dore Hollander, Executive Editor, at (212) 248-1111 x2246, or by email:
dhollander@guttmacher.org.
The Harvard Civil Rights Project invites all to a historic Conference
that seeks to invigorate the national debate about the present and
future of racial integration in the United States. The Color
Lines Conference
will take place August 30 to September 1, 2003 (Labor Day Weekend)
in Cambridge, MA. The conference will feature an extraordinary
outpouring
of cutting-edge new thinking and research on race in America from leading
practitioners and scholars. Please join The Civil Rights Project at
Harvard in what promises to be a truly fabulous and memorable
event! To register,
or for in-depth information about the Color Lines Conference, including
a full listing of the panels, please visit: http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/colorlines.php.
The Raza Press Association (RPA) is making a national
call for active Raza publications, newspapers, media-groups, reporters,
and all other
activists working in media-related efforts to a critically important
Summit to Build and Consolidate the Raza Press Association. The Summit
will be held at Eastern Michigan University in the city of Ypsilanti,
Michigan on Saturday, September 20, 2003 from 12pm-5pm. For more info,
write to: National Office, Raza Press Association, P.O. Box 20411,
Oxnard, California 93034-0411, or email: info@razapressassociation.org.
The 5th CRI Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies will be
held on October 29-November 1, 2003, at the University Park Campus
of Florida
International University. They will consider all papers, but strongly
encourage the submission of proposals for panels, especially on "the
transnational nation." For further details on this or other CRI
activities, please check their website at http://lacc.fiu.edu/cri.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is asking organizations to post a link on their home page regarding
a Symposium
that NIAID is sponsoring this fall entitled “Increasing Diversity
in Clinical Trials: Best Practices.” The Symposium, sponsored by
the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is
scheduled for October 2, 2003, at the Bethesda Marriott in Bethesda,
Maryland. This innovative symposium will bring together clinical researchers,
community physicians, nurse coordinators, community advisory board members,
and other healthcare professionals with an interest in increasing the
racial and ethnic diversity of participants in clinical trials. The symposium
will explore culturally-appropriate methodologies in outreach, recruitment,
and retention of racial and ethnic minority participants in clinical
trials. Increasing the diversity of participants in clinical trials is
an important priority of NIAID, the National Institutes of Health, and
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIAID funds clinical
trials at academic and medical centers in several areas of research including
HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, asthma, organ transplantation and tuberculosis.
For information about the symposium agenda, registration, lodging, etc.,
please check the conference web page at: http://www.orau.gov/hdsymposium/default.htm.
You can also contact Wilma Templin-Branner at TemplinW@orau.gov for additional
info.
New Position and Contact Information for Dr. Rochin
Santa Cruz, California _ Refugio I. Rochin, Ph.D. was named executive
director of Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Latinos and Native
Americans in Science (SACNAS). Based in Santa Cruz, California, SACNAS
is a nationwide organization that works to encourage Chicano/Latino
and Native American students to pursue graduate education and obtain
the advanced degrees necessary for research careers and science teaching
professions at all levels. As executive director, Dr. Rochin will work
to further the mission of SACNAS, and promote a greater understanding
of the necessity for a diverse scientific community within the United
States. More information about Dr. Rochin and SACNAS is posted at:
www.sacnas.org. For direct contact with Dr. Rochin,
Refugio I. Rochin, Executive Director
SACNAS
333 Front St. Suite 104
P.O. Box 8526
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Tel: 831-459-0170 x 265
Business e-mail: rochin@sacnas.org
IUPLR address: Rrochin@nd.edu
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