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SUMMARY:Africa Center Student Luncheon
DESCRIPTION:An opportunity to share and learn research practices in Africa. \nCatered lunch with beverages will be provided. \nRSVP required by October 12- Limit 20 students! \ncsuafricacenter@gmail.com
URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/africa-center-student-luncheon/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Africa Center":MAILTO:csuafricacenter@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Managing the Planet
DESCRIPTION:CRISPR Gene Editing: Environmentally Friendly Choice? \nThe School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SoGES) brings to CSU and the community a CSU panel discussion on CRISPR\, the next generation of genetically engineered products. Known for its simplicity and ease of use\, CRISPR promises to provide an accurate and cheap means of transforming agriculture to meet the growing food demands of the future. CRISPR is a genome editing technique that is used in a wide variety of fields and is currently most prevalent in bio-agriculture. Unlike the current understanding around genetically modified organisms (GMO)\, which inserts foreign genes into DNA sequences\, CRISPR technology cuts out genes and splices in new ones with the purpose of treating for genetic diseases. This editing of an organisms’ natural genome comes with questions regarding the security\, safety and ethical risks to the environmental system. Will this technology be critical for making crops better equipped to handle heat\, drought\, and disease\, or will it pave a path toward “designer babies” and “gene drives”? \nOur panelists will weigh the costs and benefits of CRISPR by discussing genetically engineered products within the context of human and environmental health. \nJoin us at Avogadro’s Number (605 S Mason Street Fort Collins\, Colorado 80524) from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday\, October 10th\, 2018. \nPanelists: \n\nStephen Pearce\, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences\nGraham Peers\, Department of Biology\nCarol Wilusz\, Department of Microbiology\, Immunology\, and Pathology\n\nThe discussion will be moderated by Gene Kelly\, Faculty Research Liaison at SoGES\, Deputy Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and Associate Dean of Extension. \nThe panel discussion\, part of a Managing the Planet series\, is free of charge and open to the public. \n 
URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/managing-the-planet/
LOCATION:Avogadro’s Number\, 605 S. Mason St.\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80524\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="School of Global Environmental Sustainability":MAILTO:laura.shaver@colostate.edu
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SUMMARY:Africa Center Coffee Social
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the Africa Center Coffee Social! This is a great opportunity to meet faculty\, staff\, students\, and community members who work in Africa or have an interest in Africa.\nShare ideas\, stories\, and research! \nAll are welcome!! \nFreshly brewed African coffee will be served with juice\, tea\, and breakfast snacks.
URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/africa-center-coffee-social/
LOCATION:Johnson Hall room 108 – Montreal Conference Room
ORGANIZER;CN="School of Global Environmental Sustainability":MAILTO:laura.shaver@colostate.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20180926T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20180926T200000
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SUMMARY:Biodiversity\, Bluegrass and Brews
DESCRIPTION:Join the Global Biodiversity Center as they celebrate the first annual “Biodiversity\, Bluegrass and Brews.” This event is an effort to bring awareness to the campus and community the great things CSU conservation scientists are doing around the globe\, while also bringing to light important conservation issues. The entry fee of $15 (cash only) will grant attendees live music entertainment by Lineage while sipping on three limited-time only brews from a keepsake commemorative tulip glass. Intersect\, Maxline\, and Zwei breweries have teamed up with the GBC to create three conservation-themed brews: \n\nThe Boreal Toad\, a Colorado endangered species\, with a berry Gose named ‘BeetleJuice’ \nThe reintroduction of the Gray Wolf back into their native Colorado range with a North German Pilsner named ‘Howla Back’ \nThe Tropical Andes region of South America\, which the World Wildlife Federation lists as one of the most diverse and endangered eco-regions in the world\, with a spiced ale named ‘Arroz con Leche’\n\nThe GBC is supported by the School of Global Environmental Sustainability.
URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/biodiversity-bluegrass-and-brews/
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jacob Job":MAILTO:jrjob@rams.colostate.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20180924T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20180924T183000
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SUMMARY:Student Sustainability Center Club
DESCRIPTION:The SSC Club is open to students of every major and provides opportunities to learn\, explore\, and act in all aspects of sustainability. From helping to build solar arrays to organizing sustainability fashion shows\, the SSC Club participates heavily in sustainability-focused activities and guides the direction of the Center. It is ready to take on the challenges of sustainability and have a great time doing it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Student Sustainability Center: \n\nPromotes relationships and information exchange among students from any major and across campus\nEngages CSU and community actors in sustainability endeavors\nRaises the awareness of sustainability grand challenges\nConnects undergraduates to  SoGES and the minor in Global Environmental Sustainability\nProvides valuable information on jobs\, internships\, current news\, and opportunities around campus and community\nProvides a fun\, engaging environment for students from all disciplines  to build lasting connections
URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/student-sustainability-center-meeting/
ORGANIZER;CN="Student Sustainability Center":MAILTO:soges_student_sustainability_center_director@Mail.colostate.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20180918T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20180918T200000
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SUMMARY:Antarctic Lecture Series - Cassandra Brooks
DESCRIPTION:International Cooperation in Antarctica: protecting the world’s most intact ocean in the Ross Sea\nCassandra Brooks\, University of Colorado Boulder\n \nDr. Brooks\, Assistant Prof.\, Environmental Studies at CU Boulder\, works at the intersection of marine science\, environmental policy and public outreach to promote conservation solutions. \nShe draws on a diversity of disciplines including marine science\, environmental policy\, and science communication to study and seek solutions to pressing environmental problems.  Prior to joining CU Boulder\, she completed a PhD at Stanford University\, studying international ocean policy\, with a focus on marine protection in the Antarctic. Her research helped drive the adoption of the world’s largest marine protected area in the Ross Sea\, Antarctica – one of healthiest and most productive marine ecosystems left on Earth. In 2015\, she was awarded a Switzer Fellowship in Environmental Leadership.In the last 20 years\, Cassandra’s drive to understand and contribute to environmental governance has taken her all over the world\, working in different capacities\, including as a federal fisheries observer on New England groundfish boats. \nPhoto by John B. Weller
URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/antarctic-lecture-series-cassandra-brooks/
LOCATION:Old Town Library\, 201 Peterson Street\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80524\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Andre Franco":MAILTO:Andre.Franco@colostate.edu
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SUMMARY:Thinking Story Like a Journalist - panel and pitch pit event
DESCRIPTION:Science journalists debate: What makes a good story from their point of view? How are current events influencing science journalism and societies’ conversations? What are the challenges and opportunities today and how are they changing? \nFollowing a moderated discussion to provide insights and context\, scientists will be invited to pitch a story idea to the panel of journalists. The journalists will provide feedback and reactions: What did they like? What would they want to know more about? Where would they go with the story and what would they want to know next? This is an opportunity learn what journalists look for in a science story\, whether you take the mic or just listen and learn. \nModerator:\nNancy Baron is the Director of Science Outreach for COMPASS. Nancy holds workshops around the world for academic\, government\, and NGO scientists helping them develop core competencies as scientist communicators who want to make their work relevant to journalists\, policy makers\, and the public. Nancy began her career as a biologist in Banff National Park\, spent 6 years as Director of Education at the Vancouver Aquarium\, then morphed into journalism. She has won numerous writing awards including the Canadian Science Writers Science in Society and National Magazine awards. An ardent naturalist\, she published a popular field guide\, The Birds of Coastal British Columbia (Lone Pine Publishing) and a “how to” communications guide book for scientists titled Escape from the Ivory Tower (Island Press). Nancy received the 2013 Peter Benchley Ocean Award for Excellence in the Media for her work at the intersection of science and journalism. \nJournalists:\nDavid Malakoff is a Deputy News Editor specializing in coverage of science policy\, energy and the environment. A native of Washington D.C.\, he has spent more than 25 years reporting on how scientists influence government policy\, and how government policy shapes science. In addition to reporting for Science\, he has worked as an editor and correspondent on NPR’s Science Desk\, for Conservation Magazine\, and as a freelancer for numerous outlets. \nGrace Hood is an Environmental Reporter at Colorado Public Radio who investigates energy and environment topics in Colorado. She is drawn to people with compelling stories. Whether it’s tracking down a hidden monument on Forest Service land or following scientists as they count birds with drones\, her passion is finding stories that are surprising. If she’s really successful\, maybe you’ll think about something in a different way. Grace began her career as a reporter at the Boulder Weekly. Before entering journalism\, she was a history major at Bryn Mawr College. Her reporting has been recognized by the Associated Press\, Society for Professional Journalists and RTDNA. \nHillary Rosner is an independent journalist based in Boulder\, Colorado\, and a 2018-19 Scripps Fellow at the University of Colorado’s Center for Environmental Journalism. She writes for National Geographic\, Wired\, Scientific American\, The New York Times\, High Country News\, and many other publications\, and she is an editor at the website bioGraphic. Her stories on conservation and environmental issues have garnered many awards\, including two AAAS-Kavli Science Journalism Awards. Hillary holds an MS in environmental studies from the University of Colorado and an MFA in creative writing from New York University. Before moving to Colorado\, she worked as a writer and editor at many media outlets\, including The Village Voice\, the New York Post\, and New York Magazine. \nJeff Burnside is a veteran TV news investigative reporter with a focus on environmental issues. He was a 2017-2018 Scripps Journalism Fellow at the Center for Environmental Journalism\, University of Colorado in Boulder. He is the immediate past president and current board member for the Society of Environmental Journalists. He’s been a reporter for more than 20 years working as an investigative reporter\, general assignment reporter\, executive producer and segment producer at high profile stations including KING Seaile\, WTVJ Miami and most recently as Senior Investigative Reporter for KOMO 4 News Seaile. \nKatie Langin is the associate editor for the Careers section of Science Magazine. She holds a Ph.D. in ecology from Colorado State University and was a member of the inaugural cohort of SoGES Sustainability Leadership Fellows in 2011-2012. Her first taste of journalism was at National Geographic\, where she joined the newsroom as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow. She also completed a journalism internship at Science before joining the magazine’s news team more permanently. She teleworks from Fort Collins.
URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/thinking-story-like-a-journalist/
LOCATION:Lory Student Center – Grey Rock Room 290\, 1101 Center Ave Mall\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80521\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="School of Global Environmental Sustainability":MAILTO:laura.shaver@colostate.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20180912T170000
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SUMMARY:Managing the Planet panel series
DESCRIPTION:The Heat Over Water: Will Glade Reservoir bring us closer to water security or be an example of ecosystem degradation?\nThe School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SoGES) brings to CSU and the community a CSU panel discussion on the impact of the Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP) on the Poudre River\, and the residents of Fort Collins and the new fifteen communities along the Northern front range of Colorado. The NISP proposes the construction of two reservoirs pulling water from the Poudre River; Glade Reservoir\, the larger of the two with a capacity of 170\,000 acre-feet of water\, would be located northwest of Fort Collins. As the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released the final Environmental Impact Statement\, the debate is back in the spotlight. This 15-year\, highly contested water project has brought stakeholders of all areas to the table for a debate on how to best plan for future water security scenarios\, and it is now\, once again open for public comment. Will this one-billion dollar project be our answer to water security or an example of ecosystem degradation? \nOur panelists will weigh the environmental costs and benefits of Glade Reservoir by discussing river health within the context of securing our future water needs. \nPanelists: \n\nLeRoy Poff\, Department of Biology\nReagan Waskom\, Director of the Colorado Water Institute\nEllen Wohl\, Department of Geosciences\nAditi Bhaskar: Associate Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering\n\nThe discussion will be moderated by Gene Kelly\, Faculty Research Liaison at SoGES\, Deputy Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and Associate Dean of Extension. \nThe panel discussion\, part of a Managing the Planet series\, is free of charge and open to the public.
URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/managing-the-planet-panel-series-september/
LOCATION:Avogadro’s Number\, 605 S. Mason St.\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80524\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="School of Global Environmental Sustainability":MAILTO:laura.shaver@colostate.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20180718T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20180718T103000
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SUMMARY:Community Sustainability Project Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Join us the afternoon of Wednesday\, July 18\, for a firsthand look at community-based\, fully immersive university education in action. CSU students will be engaging with project sponsors and the public on six very diverse community projects related to equitable access to active transportation\, pollinator habitat conservation\, secondary education in a strife-striken country\, and alternative water conveyance strategies in the Andes. Four of the six projects are located in Fort Collins\, one is in Peru\, and one in South Sudan. \nSpace is limited. Tickets are free.
URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/community-sustainability-project-presentations/
LOCATION:Colorado River Community Room\, 222 Laporte Avenue\, Fort Collins\, CO\, CO\, 80521\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Paul Hellmund":MAILTO:Paul.Hellmund@colostate.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20180718T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20180718T070000
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SUMMARY:Viewpoints: Taking Climate Action Right Here
DESCRIPTION:SummerFest Viewpoint Series presents SueEllen Campbell\, Lucinda Smith\, and Lindsay Ex\nProgram: In November 2017\, the C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards named Fort Collins as the U.S. winner of the Cities4Action Award for its Climate Action Plan and for being one of the “world’s most inspiring and innovative cities tackling climate change.” Join us for a mixed informative talk and conversation about what to do when it seems impossible to act effectively\, about what makes Fort Collins efforts innovative\, and about the benefits of taking local actions. SueEllen Campbell will offer resources to help us break down barriers to personal action; Lucinda Smith and Lindsay Ex will discuss Fort Collins’ climate goals and progress and the local climate action campaign that focuses on a few simple things everyone can do to make a difference; and other community members will talk about what they have been doing and how. Let yourself become part of the climate solution—starting today! \nSponsored/organized by Changing Climates @ CSU \nFree event; registration required.
URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/viewpoints-taking-climate-action-right-here/
LOCATION:New Belgium Brewing Company\, 500 Linden St\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80524\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20180716T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20180716T070000
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SUMMARY:Viewpoints: Burning Issues
DESCRIPTION:SummerFest Viewpoints Series presents Monique Rocca\, Associate Professor\, CSU Department of Ecosystem Science\nProgram: Change will almost certainly increase the prevalence of “megafires” in many parts of the globe\, including much of North America. How do scientists make forecasts about future patterns of wildfires\, and how ominous is the picture?  What are the likely impacts on human communities and on ecosystems?  Can we do anything to avoid a dire scenario?  In this presentation you will learn about the fire-related challenges climate change will bring\, with a focus on western US forest landscapes.  We will discuss ways that adjusting our attitudes\, policies\, and activities related to forests and wildfire will help us meet these future challenges. \nSponsored/organized by Changing Climates @ CSU \nFree event\, registration required
URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/viewpoints-burning-issues/
LOCATION:The Lyric\, 1209 N College Ave\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80524\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20180711T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20180711T070000
DTSTAMP:20260521T063402
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SUMMARY:Viewpoints: Art and the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:SummerFest viewpoint series presents Erika Osborne\, Assistant Professor of Art\, CSU\nProgram: We have entered the Anthropocene—a new geologic epoch characterized by the overwhelming evidence that humans are affecting the world’s ecosystems\, geology\, and climate in unprecedented ways. This new epoch comes with a myriad of challenges for our globalized world\, especially climate change and the environmental degradation it brings. As sirens of social\, environmental\, and political injustices\, artists are rising to the cause. In this richly illustrated talk Erika Osborne will introduce us to the contemporary art that is responding to these new conditions and proposing solutions to some of our problems. \nFree event\, registration required
URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/viewpoints-art-and-the-anthropocene/
LOCATION:Fort Collins Museum of Art\, 201 S. College Ave.\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80524\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20180709T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20180709T070000
DTSTAMP:20260521T063402
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SUMMARY:Viewpoints: Visualizing Climate Change in Photographs and Video
DESCRIPTION:SummerFest Viewpoint Series presents science speaker Peter Seel\, Professor\, CSU Department of Communications\nProgram:  A look at some of the major and emerging figures doing visual documentaries of climate change with a focus on two photographers\, James Balog and Sebastião Salgado\, and their documentaries\, Chasing Ice and Salt of the Earth. \nFree event\, registration required
URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/viewpoints-visualizing-climate-change-in-photographs-and-video/
LOCATION:Colorado State University\, Scott Bioengineering Building\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80523\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20180708T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20180708T070000
DTSTAMP:20260521T063402
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SUMMARY:Viewpoints: Music of a Changing Environment
DESCRIPTION:Off the Hook Arts SummerFest Viewpoint Series presents John Pippen\,Professor of Musicology\, CSU Department of Music.\nPresentation Description: Musicians have engage notions of nature in one form or another for centuries. From Enlightenment idealizations of the natural to modern depictions of beautiful places\, composers have endeavored to describe and engage nature. More recent musical works have\, however\, taken on a newly urgent tone. Ecological disaster\, global climate change\, and the newly-sanctioned development of public lands have encouraged a more politically assertive tone. This talk explored these themes in a variety of recent works addressing coastal erosion\, Hurricane Katrina\, and other headline-grabbing events. \nFree event\, registration required
URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/viewpoints-music-of-a-changing-environment/
LOCATION:Gilded Goat Brewing Company\, 3500 S. College Ave #194\, Fort Collins\, CO\, 80525\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="":MAILTO:kristin.pintauro@colostate.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20180614T053000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20180614T070000
DTSTAMP:20260521T063402
CREATED:20180614T041025Z
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SUMMARY:Biodiversity\, Poverty Traps\, and Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:Steven Lade\, Researcher\, Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University and Honorary Senior Lecturer\, Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University.\nDr. Lade will briefly present two recent projects with time afterwards for discussion. This lecture is informal and you are welcome to bring a lunch. \nPotential feedbacks between loss of biosphere integrity and climate change\nThe terrestrial and marine biospheres are important sinks for carbon dioxide. Human actions that undermine the integrity of the biosphere\, such as biodiversity loss\, risk undermining the biosphere’s capacity to maintain this store of carbon. Here\, we investigate the risk that loss of biosphere integrity will amplify climate-carbon cycle feedbacks. Interactions between mechanisms of biosphere integrity\, such as biodiversity\, and climate change are highly uncertain\, and are rarely implemented in climate models. We therefore extend a previous stylized dynamical model of the global carbon cycle to include interactions with biosphere integrity. Our model constitutes a study of the interactions between the two core planetary boundaries: climate change and biosphere integrity. \nResilience offers escape from trapped thinking on poverty alleviation\nThe poverty trap concept has encouraged widespread recognition that poverty can persist. Yet interventions intended to push the rural poor out of poverty traps can fail unexpectedly\, with ecological and social consequences that reinforce poverty. Policy and research on poverty and its alleviation must move beyond a one-dimensional understanding of poverty traps to incorporate knowledge on the complex and dynamic social-ecological environments in which rural poor live. Extending existing poverty trap models\, we construct multidimensional poverty trap models to: understand the consequences of these diverse poverty-environment relationships; and navigate among the diverse poverty alleviation strategies\, such as transformative change\, that may be required. We use resilience thinking’s perspectives on social-ecological system dynamics to help formulate these models.
URL:https://sustainability.colostate.edu/event/biodiversity-poverty-traps-and-climate-change/
LOCATION:Johnson Hall room 122 – Paris Conference Room\, Colorado State University
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ORGANIZER;CN="Laura Shaver":MAILTO:laura.shaver@colostate.edu
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