TO. Greenspiration Events: happy spring
Bischoff Angela
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Apr 11 17:33:29 EDT 2010
Toronto Greenspiration Events
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Canadian Voice of Women for Peace hosts:
Taking Stock: Beijing + 15
Come hear accounts from a variety of women of all ages who attended
the recent UN COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN and NGO gathering 15
years after the largest gathering of women in history. Are we sliding
backwards?
Monday 12 April, 6 p.m.
UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S CLUB (main floor), 162 St. George Street, Toronto
(just south of Bloor Street, west side)
TTC St George subway stop
Refreshments served
Suggested donation - $10 at the door
RSVP to Janis Alton 905-274-6191
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Studies in Propaganda
Free Lecture Series -- Spring 2010 - 10th Year - With Sydney White,
Investigative Journalist
Mon. April 12, 6 - 8 p.m.
U of T, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George St, Rm. 1130
Ancient technology and the roots of religion: the translations of
Samuel Kramer and Zecharia Sitchin. Their evidence for nuclear wars in
2024 BC.
For more info: 416 787 0592
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THE FIFTH (AND FINAL) ANNUAL SOUTHERN ONTARIO
Social Economy Node Symposium
Mon. April 12 (8:30-4:30) and April 13 (8:30-3:30)
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto,
252 Bloor St W. (St. George subway station), Ground Floor Library
Keynote:
The Social Economy: A New Way to Manage Wealth Michel Labbé, President
and Founder of Options for Homes and more recently Options for Green
Energy.
Interactive sessions with academic and community researchers who will
share their work and insights Short workshops on topics relevant to
social economy organizations
A preliminary program is below and more information is posted on our
website:http://sec.oise.utoronto.ca/english/symposium_10.php
There is no cost for this event. However, registration is required: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/95GS5NH
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Volunteer Orientation – Help Us Shut Down Coal and Nukes!
Ontario Clean Air Alliance
With Jack Gibbons, Chair, and Angela Bischoff, Outreach
Learn about our campaigns to shut down all Ontario’s coal plants by
the G-20 (June, 2010), and prevent any more nuclear bail-outs. Find
out how you can help get Ontario on a 100% renewable energy path.
Tues. April 13, 6 – 7:30 p.m.
519 Church St. Community Centre, Toronto (Church and Wellesley)
All welcome. Snacks galore.
For more info and to rsvp: angela at cleanairalliance.org, 416 926 1907 x
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Ontariosgreenfuture.ca
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From Honduras to Haiti: the Unfolding Imperialist Strategy in the
Americas
Tuesday April 13, 7 p.m.
Centre for Social Justice, 3rd Floor, 489 College St. (west of Bathurst)
Join us for a discussion of recent political developments in, and
solidarity efforts for, Honduras and Haiti. Both countries have been
at the forefront of Canadian and American imperialist intervention in
the region. In Honduras , the violent repression of anti-coup
activists continues with the support of American and Canadian
imperialism, as those same imperial powers plan their free market
reconstruction of Haiti .
Speakers:
Jose Martinez, a Honduran-Canadian activist and member of the Honduras
Resistance Front ( Toronto ) and Latin American Solidarity Network.
He has travelled to Honduras several times since the June, 2009
military coup.
B.C. Holmes, an activist with the Toronto Haiti Action Committee who
has travelled to Haiti 8 times since 2002. Her most recent trip was
completed just 5 days before the earthquake.
Todd Gordon, teaches political science at York University and is a
member of the Toronto New Socialists and the Workers' Assembly. Todd
writes on Canadian imperialism in the Americas and travelled to
Honduras in January.
Moderated by Luis Granados of Barrio Nuevo and the Latin American
Solidarity Network.
Endorsers: Centre for Social Justice, Latin American Solidarity
Network, Toronto Haiti Action Committee, Socialist Project, Toronto
New Socialists
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Heritage Trees - Preserving Our Natural Roots
Tuesday, April 13, 7 p.m.
Annette Public Library - 145 Annette Street
Ms. George will do a presentation on how a tree is designated as a
heritage tree. Trees are part of our natural heritage.
She will use the evaluation form from the toolkit called “Securing the
Future of
Heritage Trees: A Protection Toolkit for Communities”.
This toolkit is produced by the Ontario Heritage Tree Alliance: A
Project Of The Ontario Urban Forest Council.
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Clean Train Student Coalition - Info Meeting
Wednesday, April 14, 7 p.m.
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave, U of T (on St. George north of Harbord)
Engaging discussion and information on the direct impact of the
Metrolinx expansion on businesses and communities are on the agenda.
We are currently engaging local, provincial, and federal groups to
change the plans for a diesel powered system in favour of an
electrified route. Since the emissions caused by this plan will affect
everyone in our community, our immediate goal is to make this issue
resonate throughout the GTA. To accomplish this we will be holding a
town-hall style meeting and press conference.
Please join us.
Sign the Clean Train Coalition petition against the diesel trains: http://www.cleantrain.ca/petition.php
Visit the Clean Train Student Coalition website: http://cleantrainstudentcoalition.wordpress.com
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You are invited to a series of events on:
Climate Change and Environmental Decline as a Moral Issue
in Toronto in April, with a number of key leaders from the faith
community, including:
Loren Wilkinson, Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies/Philosophy,
Regent College
Author Dave Toycen, President & CEO, World Vision Canada
Alanna Mitchell, Environmental Author & Journalist
Mardi Tindal, Moderator, United Church of Canada
The Hon. David MacDonald, Former cabinet minister & MP, World Council
Of Churches
Danny Harvey, Professor, Geography/Urban Studies, University of
Toronto; IPCC lead author
Graham Saul, Executive Director, CAN
Clare Demerse, Pembina Institute
Zoë Caron, World Wildlife Federation
Kimia Ghomeshi, Canadian Youth Climate Coalition
Joy Kennedy, The United Church of Canada
And others
There will be two Evening Panel Discussions
All are welcome. Free
What do we in faith communities have to offer?
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 @ 7pm
Trinity St. Paul United Church, 427 Bloor St. W.
Creation Care: Why should Christians Care for the Environment?
Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 7pm
Knox Presbyterian Church, 630 Spadina Ave.
Leaders are presenting at the 2-day retreat on Climate Change &
Environmental Decline as a Moral Issue on
April 16-17, at the United Church of Canada Toronto offices at
Islington and Bloor.http://www.ucalgary.ca/oikos/Retreat/Toronto/Program
For information & to register:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/oikos/Retreat/Toronto/Registration
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RAISE the RATES
Rally and March on the McGuinty Government
Thursday, April 15th, 12 Noon
Allan Gardens Park (Sherbourne and Gerrard)
*free meal
-Raise Welfare and Disability rates by 40%
-Stop the attacks on the Special Diet
-Defend Public Services
In 2003, the Liberals were elected on the promise of ‘change’. Those
empty promises have done nothing to end poverty. The reality is that
poor people in Ontario are worse off than we were 15 years ago. And
now, things are about to get even worse.
Governments responded to the economic crisis by giving billions of
dollars in bailouts and tax cuts to failed corporations and banks.
Now, they plan to make us pay that bill. A massive round of social
cutbacks is being prepared in Ottawa and at Queen’s Park that threaten
an even bigger explosion of poverty and suffering. By the end of March
all three levels of government will be setting their budgets with
priority being on reducing deficits by cutting social spending.
Housing, social assistance, childcare are all under threat, and
neither the health nor the well being of poor people will be a 'line
item'. If anything, our right to a decent income and our services are
on the chopping block.
Already, the first attacks have happened. In Toronto, the cost of
riding public transit is being pushed up. People on Welfare and
Disability Supports who desperately need the Special Diet money are
being robbed of this vital income. In the wake of an inflammatory
Ontario Auditor’s report, we are seeing escalating harassment and
criminalization of people on Social Assistance.
People on Social Assistance live on rates that are shamefully
inadequate. Since the 1995 cuts by the Harris Tories, these rates have
been reduced in real terms by at least 40%. People are forced to
choose between paying the rent or buying food. A health crisis in this
province is looming as a direct result.
If we let the government write our future, it will be bleak. We are
calling on poor and working people in Ontario to organize and fight
back.
We won’t pay for their crisis or their deficit. We demand the right
to a decent income and a future free of poverty. Raise the Rates by
40% Now!
Join us on April 15 and fight for the right to decent income!
*See Video from February 25th Action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifeyMhTLWU4
*Download the poster and outreach materials soon at www.ocap.ca
*Contact us if you would like to see a Raise the Rates film screening,
discussion, or event in your neighborhood or at your organization
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty www.ocap.ca / 416-925-6939
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The Ontario Clean Air Alliance invites you to a book launch and
seminar on the new book:
Atomic Accomplice: How Canada Deals in Deadly Deceit
With author Paul McKay
Thursday April 15th, 6:30 – 8 p.m.
Hot Shot Gallery, 181 Augusta Ave. (just north of Dundas in Kensington
Market)
Free, all welcome.
A new book by award-winning journalist Paul McKay exposes Canada’s
continuing role in abetting atomic arms proliferation world-wide.
“While most world leaders are seeking an exit strategy from the atomic
arms race, Canada is underwriting an encore,” says McKay. “It is still
selling essentially unsafeguardable reactors, increasing global flows
of uranium, and even undermining the Non-Proliferation Treaty by
courting countries like India which flaunt non-proliferation efforts.”
By continuing to bankroll reactor and uranium exports, Canada is
courting calamity – increasing the potential for atomic proliferation,
and diverting precious support for safer, more sensible and
sustainable energy alternatives.
For more info: angela at cleanairalliance.org, http://paulmckay.com/
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THE SPECIAL DIET HAS BEEN CUT!
Rally and March on the MGuinty Government
Thursday, April 15th @ 12 Noon
Allan Gardens Park (Sherbourne and Gerrard)
*free meal
*accessibility pick-up @ 11:30 am at south-east corner of Dundas-Yonge
WE DEMAND:
-Raise Welfare and Disability rates by 40% now!
-Stop the attacks: Give us back the Special Diet!
-Defend Public Services
On March 25th, Ontario’s Liberal Government killed the Special Diet in
the Provincial Budget. 20% of those on social assistance in Ontario
have been getting this vital benefit and will now be thrown into a
crisis - robbed of the ability to buy food and pay the rent once again.
People on Welfare and Disability live on rates that are shamefully
inadequate. Since the 1995 cuts, these rates have been reduced in real
terms by more than 40%. For 15 years, people have been forced further
in to poverty. In slashing the Special Diet now - the government is
taking away the one thing that people on Social Assistance had left to
try to get-by. This is the most devastating social cutback since Mike
Harris slashed welfare rates in 1995.
The Liberal Government has dared to talk about ‘poverty reduction’.
Not only has it cut the Special Diet while huge numbers of people face
the impact of an economic crisis, but it has announced that it will
increase the rates by 1% at the end of the year. That’s less than
inflation and an insulting slap in the face. Governments responded to
the economic crisis by giving billions of dollars in bailouts and tax
cuts to failed corporations and banks. Now they are looking to get
that money back in the way of serious social cutbacks. The Special
Diet is an example, but all Public Services are under threat.
If we let the government write our future, it will be bleak. It’s time
to challenge this Government and to build a movement to win the right
to decent income. We are calling on poor people in Ontario to organize
and fight back. We won’t pay for their crisis or their deficit. We
demand the right to a decent income and a future free of poverty.
Raise the Rates by 40% Now!
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
www.ocap.ca / 416-925-6939
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Climate Wise Women
Friday, April 16, 5 p.m.
at The Bahen Centre, University of Toronto, BA 1160, Adel Sedra
Auditorium, 40 St. George Street, (just south of Russell Street)
Free. Co-hosed by The Centre for Environment, Department of Geography
& Planning and the Women & Gender Studies Institute.
In April 2010, four Climate Wise Women from the South Pacific Islands,
Uganda and Biloxi, Mississippi will begin a 30-city, 18-country
speaking tour in the Americas. These community activists can't wait
for politicians and governmental negotiators to get it right on
climate change. They want straight talk on what climate change is
doing to women, children, families and communities around the world.
Panellists: Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg (Key Note address) Professor,
OISE, University of Toronto
Katrina Miller Campaigns Director, Toronto Environmental Alliance
Danny Harvey Professor, Department of Geography, University of Toronto
Who Are Climate Wise Women?
Constance Okollet (Uganda, Africa) Chairperson, Osukura United Women
Network
Ulamila Kurai Wragg (Cook Islands, the Pacific) Coordinator, Pacific
WAVE Media Network
Sharon Hanshaw (Biloxi, Mississippi, USA) Executive Director of
Coastal Women for Change
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American Casino
2009, 89 minutes.
Friday, April 16 - 7 p.m.
OISE, 252 Bloor St. West, Room 2-212 (at the St. George Subway Station.)
Everyone welcome. $4 donation requested.
This new documentary by Andrew and Leslie Cockburn is about the
mortgage crisis in the US and the effect that it has had on African-
Americans living in Baltimore. They explain how sub prime mortgages
were repackaged and spread across the financial system, creating more
risk and putting the US financial system in jeopardy. The Cockburns
argue that the mortgage companies were essentially engaged in
predatory lending. Families who thought their mortgages would cost
$800 a month suddenly found that they cost $2000 a month. The results
were devastating. Entire neighborhoods were hollowed out and some of
the Baltimore residents interviewed in the film (all of whom had jobs)
wound up homeless. Commentary by Socialist Action member Christian
Whittall, followed by open discussion period.
Preceded by a brief introduction, and will be followed by a
commentary, and an open floor discussion period.
Please visit the Socialist Action web site: www.socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com
or call 416 - 535-8779.
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Bike Pirates Third-Friday Event
Alley Ride
Fri. April 16, 6:30
Meet in the Alley!
1292 Bloor St. West
All welcome. Free.
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Amnesty International's Business and Human Rights Group (Toronto) will
host a film and discussion about Canadian mining abroad with a focus
on Guatemala and gold mining.
The Business of Gold: Tale of a Foretold Conflict
A film documentary about issues of resource extraction, focusing on
the people of San Miguel Ixtahuacan in their resistance against
Canadian mining giant, Goldcorp Inc.
Friday, April 16, 7 p.m.
at Amnesty International Toronto Office - 1992 Yonge Street, 3rd floor
(1 1/2 blocks north of Davisville, west side)
Speaker: Liberal MP John McKay
This is the brave MP who introduced Bill C-300, the private members
bill that will go a long way toward holding Canadian mining companies
accountable for the human rights violations they commit overseas. Mr.
McKay will speak before the film.
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An invitation to members of the Haitian community, students and
faculty of the University of Toronto and the community-at-large in the
Greater Toronto Area to engage in discussion...
University of Toronto Symposium on Haitian-Canadian responses to the
catastrophe in Haiti
April 16, 8pm
Concert featuring Manno Charlemagne
Location: U of T - St.George, Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education, G-162 Auditorium, 252 Bloor Street West, 1st floor
April 17, 9-5 pm
Public Symposium and community discussion with speakers from Toronto,
Ottawa and Montreal
Location: U of T Scarbourough, Science Research Building, SY 110, 1465
Military Trail
All events are free and open to the public
Child care can be provided
**Space is limited for both events, advance registration is highly
recommended**
For registration for the April 16 Manno Charlemagne concert and/or the
April 17 Symposium please contact tetansam at gmail.comor call Melanie
Newton/Kate Creasey at 416-978-4054.
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Solidarity Fiesta!
Uniting in Struggle and Celebration.
Saturday April 17, Doors open at 7 PM
Steelworkers' Hall -25 Cecil Street, Toronto.
Cost $10 or PWYC
Featuring: Cash Bar, DJ Carlitos, Dancing, Performances and
Presentations, Delicous Latin American food for sale
Co-ordinated by the Latin American Solidarity Network http://www.rlasn.org/
, the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid http://www.caiaweb.org/ ,
and the Toronto Workers Assembly http://www.workersassembly.ca/.
Why come out on April 17?
To raise funds for CAIA, LASN and the Assembly.
To build solidarity amongst the left.
To mark Palestinian Prisoners Day.
To mark the International Day of Peasants Struggle.
To help build for the April 18 Toronto Workers Assembly: http://www.workersassembly.ca/node/32
To have fun.
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Coaching for Transformation
Coaching Skills for Managers, Community Leaders, and Anyone Who Wants
to Empower People
Sat. Apr 17, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm - Toronto
Training Led by Martha Lasley - co-founder of Coaching That Works and
Leadership That Works
Assisted by Henry Wai – CNVC Certified Trainer
ARE YOU…
- Eager for new ways to motivate and empower people?
- Excited about developing the abilities of colleagues, volunteers or
clients?
- Passionate about helping people transform their dreams into action?
- Curious about how life coaching can awaken potential in yourself and
others?
WHAT YOU WILL GAIN
While psychotherapy is primarily healing-focused, coaching is learning
and action-oriented, moving people toward fulfillment of their life
purpose, visions and goals. In this training you will learn core
coaching skills for acknowledging people’s unique gifts and strengths,
tapping resourcefulness, expanding their options and creating
compelling action plans.
YOU’LL PRACTICE
1) Three levels of listening
2) The art of asking powerful questions
3) Identifying the powerful motivations that underlie feelings
4) Ways to move from being stuck to readiness to act
5) Expanding the view of what is possible and translating desire into
action.
You will complete the workshop with the confidence and ability to use
these basic coaching skills in work, personal and community
relationships,
JOIN A FREE TELEPHONE SESSION – 8 pm to 9 pm Mon. Mar. 29, 2010
During this interactive call you’ll get an overview of the training, a
demonstration of coaching skills, and a chance to ask questions.
Registration required - contact (416) 913-8861 or wai_renooy at sympatico.ca
TRAINING REGISTRATION and FEES
Cdn$150 / US$140 (Cdn$95/ US$90 - student or limited means)
Register early to secure your space as class size is limited.
Registration: www.CoachingThatWorks.com
Info: Henry Wai at (416) 913-8861 wai_renooy at sympatico.ca
LOCATION: downtown Toronto
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MOVIES OF UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE (M.U.C.K.) Film Festival Series presents:
The Royal - 608 College Street
Sunday April 18th, 2010
3:00 pm RIP: A Remix Manifesto
Web activist Brett Gaylor is on the side of the “Copy Lefts,” who
fight for free access to source material. On the other side, the “Copy
Rights” seek to defend the old, established film and music industries.
The Internet is the most effective way human beings have devised to
share their ideas. The question is how easy, or not, it is for us to
share our music, videos, all our creative works or any media—this is
the focus of RIP: A RE-MIX MANIFESTO-- A bold documentary on
intellectual property for the Digital Age
5:00 pm The War On Kids
Blame for problems with schooling in America is often assigned to
insufficient funding or the inherent failings of today’s kids. In
rare cases, parents, teachers, and administrators are also
implicated. However, all efforts to improve the quality of education
are doomed to fail if the system itself is not examined and understood
to be the most significant impediment. After over six years in the
making, THE WAR ON KIDS reveals that the problems with public
education ultimately stem from the institution itself. Astonishingly
all efforts at reform consistently avoid even considering this to be a
possibility and the future for children and American democracy are at
stake.
7:30 pm Generation RX
-Followed by Q&A with Director Kevin Miller
International award-winning filmmaker Kevin P. Miller (Let Truth Be
The Bias, The Promised Land) "delivers a jaw-dropping emotional ride,"
and "weaves a terrifying tale of criminal conspiracy, the mass
abandonment of medical ethics, and the routine betrayal of an entire
generation." By employing the expertise of internationally respected
professionals from the fields of medicine, ethics, journalism, and
academia, GENERATION RX investigates collusion between drug companies
and their regulatory watchdogs at the FDA and focuses on the powerful
stories of real families who followed the advice of their doctors -
and faced devastating consequences for doing so.
GENERATION RX is a film about families who confronted horror and
found nowhere to turn for help - and how scores of children have been
caught in the vortex of mind-bending drugs at the earliest stages of
their growth and development. This powerful documentary also questions
whether we have forced millions of children onto pharmaceutical drugs
for commercial rather than scientific reasons.
Check out the M.U.C.K. catalogue, movie trailers, show times, dates
and more at www.muckfilmfestival.com
Tickets $10 per screening or $20 for all 3 screenings
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Act now and join a city-wide effort to save the light rail expansion
we were promised!
We need your help to join an all-out, city-wide effort to help save
Transit City, the transit expansion plan that will bring Light Rail
Transit (LRTs) to all corners of our city. We are being joined by
other organizations that care about the future of our public transit
system who are asking their supporters to contact Toronto MPPs with a
simple message: reverse the $4 billion budget cut to Transit City!
If we want the Premier to reverse this bad decision, we need every
CouncilWatch reader to contact their MPP and the Premier right now:
Go here to find a sample letter and a quick and easy way to email the
Premier, Minister of Transportation & Toronto MPPs
As you know, on March 25th, the McGuinty Government broke a promise to
Torontonians to build Transit City. The Ontario Budget announced a $4
billion cut in funding for Transit City. At best, this means a five
year delay. More likely, this cut will kill the Transit City Plan.
Transit City is too vital to the health of our city to be delayed.
Send your letter now! Thanks.
- Toronto Environmental Alliance
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G8/20 Toronto Community Mobilization
The Group of 8 Leaders and the Group of 20 Leaders are meeting in
Ontario from June 25-27, 2010. Toronto-based organizations of women,
people of colour, indigenous peoples, the poor, the working class,
queer and trans people and disabled people are organizing a people's
convergence. Join Us!
http://g20.torontomobilize.org/
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Bike Lanes, On-Street Parking and Business - Webinar Recording Now
Available Online
As announced in last week's TCAT News, on Mar 30th the Clean Air
Partnership conducted a webinar based on its new research report
titled "Bike Lanes, On-Street Parking and Business Year 2 Report: A
Study of Bloor Street in Toronto's Bloor West Village."
The webinar recording has now been posted on-line here. https://admin.na5.acrobat.com/_a782512023/p78239288/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal
Also the study report, powerpoint presentation, and media articles are
available here. http://www.cleanairpartnership.org/bikelanes_webinar
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