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QUALIFIED: How Competency Checking and Race Collide at Work with Shari Dunn | 284 33:58

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In this episode, we delve into the concept of being "qualified" in the workplace, examining who gets labeled as such, who doesn't, and the underlying reasons. We explore "competency checking"—the practice of scrutinizing individuals' abilities—and how it disproportionately affects underrepresented groups, often going unnoticed or unchallenged. Our discussion aims to redefine qualifications in a fair, equitable, and actionable manner. Our guest, Shari Dunn , is an accomplished journalist, former attorney, news anchor, CEO, university professor, and sought-after speaker. She has been recognized as Executive of the Year and a Woman of Influence, with her work appearing in Fortune Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Ad Age, and more. Her new book, Qualified: How Competency Checking and Race Collide at Work , unpacks what it truly means to be deserving and capable—and why systemic barriers, not personal deficits, are often the real problem. Her insights challenge the narratives that hold so many of us back and offer practical solutions for building a more equitable future. Together, we can build workplaces and communities that don’t just reflect the world we live in, but the one we want to create. A world where being qualified is about recognizing the talent and potential that’s been overlooked for far too long. It’s not just about getting a seat at the table—it’s about building an entirely new table, one designed with space for all of us. Connect with Our Guest Shari Dunn Website& Book - Qualified: https://thesharidunn.com LI: https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/sharidunn TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thesharidunn Related Podcast Episodes: How To Build Emotionally Mature Leaders with Dr. Christie Smith | 272 Holding It Together: Women As America's Safety Net with Jessica Calarco | 215 How To Defy Expectations with Dr. Sunita Sah | 271 Share the Love: If you found this episode insightful, please share it with a friend, tag us on social media, and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform! 🔗 Subscribe & Review: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music…

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“Questions of Courage” is a video/podcast with Nathaniel Williams, leader of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum. It is an independent and unique look at questions related to technology, education, art, ecology, vocation, community, justice and meaning require a deeper, spiritual take on life. The ability to take up these issues from this perspective is a question of courage.

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The “Revolution of Common Sense” in the USA 45:08

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People all around the world watched the inauguration in the USA, a country with so much wealth, influence and power, hoping to gain some understanding of what is happening. What is the deeper meaning of the “revolution of common sense” promised by the incoming administration? What does this turn of events express? How can they be understood and what do they demand of us? This episode explores dynamics from recent centuries to contribute to this need of orientation, and to suggest what a true revolution in common sense requires. References: Phil Klay (2022) Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War . (Penguin Publishing Group). James W. Douglass. (2010) JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters . (Simon and Schuster). William F. Pepper (2018) An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King . (Verso Books). Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy. The White House . Available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declassification-of-records-concerning-the-assassinations-of-president-john-f-kennedy/, Charles Taylor (2004) Modern Social Imaginaries . (Duke University Press). Hilary Osborne (2018) What is Cambridge Analytica? The firm at the centre of Facebook’s data breach. The Guardian , 18 March. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/18/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach. See Arthur Zajonc (1998) Goethe’s Way of Science: A Phenomenology of Nature and Ed. David Seamon. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press). Dan McKanan (2017) Eco-Alchemy: Anthroposophy and the History and Future of Environmentalism . (Univ of California Press). In 2024 an event was hosted at the Goetheanum that focused on the global significance of these approaches to economics. https://www.worldgoetheanum.org/en/wgf-2024/wgf-2024-review . See also Otto Scharmer’s reflections here: https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/rethinking-economics/ Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV . To support the Youth Section Global Access Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations .…

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A Dream of Freedom 20:40

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At the Section’s international gathering of 2024 in the Netherlands one of the tasks that was explored was creating pictorial expressions of anthroposophy. Many of the basic works of anthroposophy, in the form of books and writing, were not written for young people. Over the years this task has been taken up by different individuals in different ways. An event in February at the Goetheanum is also a contribution to this project. It is called “A Quest for a Pictorial Understanding of Anthroposophy.” In this episode Nathaniel Williams shares a dream of freedom, a small expression from recent work. Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV . To support the Youth Section Global Access Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations .…

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The Goetheanum and Contemplative Higher Education 31:45

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What are the options today for students who are looking for centers of learning defined by an interest in the living spirit in the human being and the world? Not long ago they may have found themselves in the humanities departments around the world, but today they might be drawn to contemplative studies programs. This is connected with two trends in higher education that can be traced back to crisis years of the 1960s. One trend tries to understand knowledge ultimately in terms of power, the other aspires to develop it into love. The Goetheanum, an independent college for contemplative understanding and practice that was founded a century ago, appears as interwoven with deep questions of university students when seen in this light. Mirabai Bush (2010) Contemplative Higher Education in Contemporary America. Available at https://mindfulcampus.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mbush-contemplativehighereducation.pdf. Michel Foucault (1980) Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 . (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group). Mary Caroline Richards (1973) The Crossing Point: Selected Talks and Writings . (Wesleyan University Press). Rudolf Steiner (2013) Constitution of the School of Spiritual Science: An Introductory Guide . (Rudolf Steiner Press). Arthur Zajonc (2009) Meditation as Contemplative Inquiry: When Knowing Becomes Love . (Lindisfarne Books). Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV . To support the Youth Section Global Access Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations .…

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Saul Bellow and the Marginalization of the Spirit 25:17

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Saul Bellow and the Marginalization of the Spirit The public image of Saul Bellow is a testimony of the tendency to marginalize spiritual orientations and ideas, and the courage it takes to engage with them. Bellow is one of the most influential and celebrated writers in the English language from the last century, winning national books awards, the Nobel prize and a Pulitzer. This episode explores the dynamics connected with the silence around his lifelong engagement with spiritual and esoteric thoughts and practices. Saul Bellow (2010) Saul Bellow: Letters . (Penguin). Saul Bellow (2013) More Die of Heartbreak . (Penguin UK). Andreas Bracher, ed. (2021) Saul Bellow und die Anthroposophie . (Perseus-Verlag). Edward Mendelson (2011) The Obedient Bellow. The New York Review of Books . Kai Sina (2023) Bellow und Goethe: Dass er das so ernst nimmt. FAZ.NET . Available at https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wissen/geist-soziales/bellow-und-goethe-dass-er-das-so-ernst-nimmt-18763527.html Rudolf Steiner (1987) Boundaries of Natural Science . With a preface by Saul Bellow. (SteinerBooks) Rudolf Steiner (2021) Art and Theory of Art . (SteinerBooks, Incorporated). Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV . To support the Youth Section Global Access Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations .…

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What if we are all coming back? 23:48

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Really, what if we are all coming back? Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of color blindness, wrote an article where she muses on the possible reality of reincarnation and karma, and what implications this might have for social and political life. She shares how the questions arose organically for her when she was young, though she eventually dismissed them and embraced a study of politics, and the use of thought experiments of prenatal awareness in constitutional design as they are developed by John Rawls in his famous Theory of Justice . In this episode the challenges of seriously considering the possibility of reincarnation and karma are touched on as well as contemplative research approaches developed by Rudolf Steiner, indicating one possibility of serious exploration in this direction. Alexander, Michelle. “Opinion | What If We’re All Coming Back?” The New York Times , October 29, 2018, sec. Opinion. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/opinion/climate-change-politics-john-rawls.html Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow . The New Press, 2012. Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice . Oxford University Press, 1999. Steiner, Rudolf. Theosophy: An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man . Anthroposophic Press, 1988. Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV . To support the Youth Section Global Access Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations .…

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Liberating Gift Money 26:18

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In this Episode conversations with Kelley Buhles are explored which focused on the social and economic dimensions of gift money. The idea of three distinct types of money is introduced, purchase money, loan money and gift money and the potential of gift money is explored. This episode shares from one of the conversations taking place as preparation for the upcoming event: “Working for Freedom and the Common Good”, September 19-21 at the Goetheanum, an intergenerational conversation about global economic cooperation and peace 100 years after the first “World Power Conference”. References: Kelley Buhles website: https://www.buhlesconsulting.com/ Rudolf Steiner. Rethinking Economics “Working for Freedom and the Common Good” website: https://www.worldgoetheanum.org/en/wgf-2024 Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV . To support the Youth Section Global Access Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations…

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Thinking about Inequality and Land Ownership 30:45

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In this Episode conversations with Susan Witt and David Fix from the Schumacher Center for a new Economics are explored which focused on the social and economic dimensions of land ownership. The episode moves through a simple and elegant characterization of economics shared by Susan, how to understand what a commodity is and how treating land like a commodity unleashes anti-social dynamics in the economy and drives unjust inequality. This episode shares from one of the conversations taking place as preparation for the upcoming event: “Working for Freedom and the Common Good”, September 19-21 at the Goetheanum, an intergenerational conversation about global economic cooperation and peace 100 years after the first “World Power Conference”. References: “Working for Freedom and the Common Good” website: https://www.worldgoetheanum.org/en/wg... Schumacher Center for a New Economics: https://centerforneweconomics.org/ Rudolf Steiner. Rethinking Economics Thomas Piketty. Capital in the Twenty-First Century Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV . To support the Youth Section Global Access Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations…

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Working for Freedom and the Common Good 29:39

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This year, 100 years after the first “World Power Conference”, the World Goetheanum Association and the Youth Section of the Independent School for Spiritual Science are collaborating on a special event, an intergenerational conversation about global economic cooperation and peace. It is an event for everyone who is interested in working towards a vision of a global economy dedicated to cooperative, associative economics. In this episode Daniel Dunlop, the first World Power Conference of 1924, and the work of Walter Johannes Stein are introduced and how they relate to the upcoming event. References: “Working for Freedom and the Common Good” Website: https://www.worldgoetheanum.org/en/wg... T. H. Meyer. D.N. Dunlop, A Man of Our Time: A Biography. Temple Lodge Publishing, 2014. Rebecca Wright, Hiroki Shin, and Frank Trentmann. 2013. From World Power Conference to World Energy Council: 90 Years of Energy Cooperation, 1923-2013. London: World Energy Council. Basel, Perseus-Verlag. 2023. “W.J. Stein: The Earth as a Basis of World Economy.” Perseus Verlag. https://perseus.ch/archive/11950 . Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV . To support the Youth Section Global Access Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations…

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Challenging Spiritual Experiences and Love 30:49

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This episode touches on the will, meditation, and the possibility of developing spiritually in a way that undermines our ability of love, responsibility and compassion in life. This is not only relevant for young people who are developing an inner practice, but also for countless others who are navigating existential inner difficulties for reasons related to experiences with psychoactive substances or even excessive media use or video gaming. These young people may feel that their difficulties are essentially spiritual challenges that beg a spiritual point of view and understanding. This episode focuses on the feeling of a need to develop a strengthened self, one of pure will, to counter challenging spiritual experiences, while overlooking the most important balancing power: love and fellowship, awareness of earthly needs of others a will for service. This leads to the picture that developing a strengthened self should always be complimented by cultivating the capacity of compassion and a clear intention of the heart, will and mind to be of service through our lives and work. References: Rudolf Steiner. A Way of Self-Knowledge: And the Threshold of the Spiritual World (CW 16–17) . SteinerBooks, 1999 Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV . To support the Youth Section Global Access Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations…

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Kunzru’s Red Pill: An Image of the Human Being 22:32

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In this episode Nathaniel Williams turns toward Hari Kunzru’s novel Red Pill, published in 2020, as an image of what contemporary human experience. It depicts a journey of a writer who is driven to confront unsettling questions about life, the place of violence and human dignity while society around him is seething. To join with the world, we are given into the jaws of violence, even if it is simply with the decay of our body. To take the world into ourselves, into our consciousness, takes away its reality. Behold, the human being, and a description of contemporary experience. Such an image of the human being was characterized one hundred years ago this month in an introductory course on Anthroposophy given by Rudolf Steiner who suggests, “The human being stands … in double darkness, and the question arises: Where is the other world to which I belong?”. References from this episode: - Hari Kunzru. Red Pill . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2020. - Rudolf Steiner. Anthroposophy and the Inner Life: An Esoteric Introduction . Rudolf Steiner Press, 2015. (Formerly Published as Anthroposophy: an Introduction). Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV . To support the Youth Section Global Access Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations…

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Variations of Stillness and Movement – Digital Technology, Art and Spirituality 21:55

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Thousands of satellites are being launched each year as part of efforts to build out the infrastructure for our digital technologies and networks. The night sky is now crisscrossed by traveling techno-stars visible to the naked eye. The celestial order of the constellations host more and more movement, and light pollution, which has led many astronomers around the world to protest. There is also an acceleration of dynamism in normal perception through our phones and computers, images change, come and go, as do messages and sounds, with tremendous speed. There is so much more to everything. As a part of this movement many experience a static void and a great paradox of our newest “communication technologies” that they easily isolate and separate. In inner work we see a countermovement, where we start with bringing our distracted thoughts to stillness and focus with our will, and then we find a plane of spiritual movement, of warmth and light, imbued with an ethical life. In this episode these two gestures of modernity form the backdrop for an exploration of artistic projects that are being prepared for the Youth Conference at the Goetheanum for February on Digital Technology and Spirituality. References: Kerry Brougher and Olivia Mattis. Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900 . Thames & Hudson, 2005. Omer Eilam. “Music - On Earthly and Cosmic Music,” November 24, 2023. https://dasgoetheanum.com/en/on-earthly-and-cosmic-music/ . Rudolf Steiner. Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts: Anthroposophy as a Path of Knowledge - The Michael Mystery . Rudolf Steiner Press, 2013. Veit, Wolfgang, and Jan Stuten. Bewegte Bilder: der Zyklus “Metamorphosen der Furcht” von Jan Stuten : Entwurf zu einer neuen Licht-Spiel-Kunst nach einer Idee von Rudolf Steiner . Urachhaus, 1993. Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV . To support the Youth Section Global Access Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations…

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Economics and Peace 21:21

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Recently we have seen how much courage is required to advocate for peace, which is understood as a simple cessation of war and terror. Beyond this we are faced with the grand challenge of peace, of how to imagine a resilient peace, how to become articulate and effective peace workers. One area that people all over the world share as a possible field of collaboration, where we can all work for peace, is the global economy. This episode explores seven interconnected perspectives on the peace potential inherent in the global economy that grows out of an understanding of associative economics. References: “Chiemgauer Regiogeld,” December 5, 2023. https://www.chiemgauer.info/. “GLS Bank - sozial, ökologisch, nachhaltig.” Accessed December 6, 2023. https://www.gls.de/privatkunden/. Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner. These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America . Simon and Schuster, 2023. Purpose. “Purpose – We’re Rethinking Ownership to Transform the Economy.” Accessed December 6, 2023. https://purpose-economy.org/en/. Rudolf Steiner. Rethinking Economics: Lectures and Seminars on World Economics . SteinerBooks, 2013. Marina Warner. Review of No Freedom to Move , by James Crawford and Sally Hayden. The New York Review of Books , November 23, 2023. Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV . To support the Youth Section Global Access Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations…

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Social Thinking and Monetary Design 18:00

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Social thinking is not simply a nice way of looking at life, an optimistic or positive orientation. Characteristically it involves thinking in an inclusive way, somehow considering the varied interests of everyone in society. Many people cling to the stubborn ideas of naked capitalism, that self-interest leads to social wealth, even while we see that the idea is undermining everything that is valuable and worthwhile. Social thinking involves working with the reality of reciprocity and mutuality. Almost twenty years ago a group of high school students and their economics teacher launched a socially designed regional currency in Germany that has gained admirers around the world over the last two decades. It is a beautiful example of a social orientation to monetary design that stands in contrast to many conversations about crypto currency and tragic stories like the demise of FTX. References: Michael Ende. Momo . McSweeney’s McMullens, 2013. Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne. Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity into Prosperity . Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2013. Jon Palmer and Patrick Collinson. “Local Currencies the German Way: The Chiemgauer.” The Guardian , September 23, 2011, sec. Money. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/sep/23/local-currencies-german-chiemgauer . Rudolf Steiner. Economics: The World as One Economy . New Economy Publications, 1993. Chiemgauer - https://www.chiemgauer.info/ Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV . To support the Youth Section Global Access Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations…

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Excerpts from the Journey of the Peacemaker 30:31

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In this episode excerpts from the Journey of the Peacemaker are described, a journey that led to the founding of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois, Confederacy. It is a story of how, within the time span of one life, one biography, a region of war, violence, evil and cannibalism became the first constitutional, and democratically oriented, confederacy of North America. Alongside influences from Europe, the Iroquois were a major influence on the emergence of the constitutional Republic of the USA. It is unique in that it is a constitutional order and culture that emerged out of a positive vision of peace and diplomacy. Cadwallader Colden. The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada. References: Bruce Elliott Johansen. Forgotten Founders: Benjamin Franklin, the Iroquois, and the Rationale for the American Revolution. Gambit, 1982. Jacob Needleman. The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders. Penguin, 2003. Paul A. W. Wallace. White Roots of Peace: The Iroquois Book of Life. Clear Light Publishers, 1994. Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV . To support the Youth Section Global Access Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations…

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Mary Caroline Richards on Art and the Perpetuation of the Spiritual Awareness of Humankind 31:55

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This episode explores current interest in spiritual dimensions in art, and how this appears on the backdrop of social/political critiques of modern art and economic opportunism. Through passages from Mary Caroline Richard’s Centering a spiritual significance is highlighted connected to the decline of conventional art and the challenge of developing an art with new, vital and immanent spiritual qualities. References: David Edelstein. “A Rich Satire About Street Art, Or Is It A Hoax?” NPR , April 16, 2010, sec. Movies. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126037446. Mary Caroline Richards. Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person . Wesleyan University Press, 2012. Harriet Sherwood, Harriet Sherwood Arts, and culture correspondent. “Danish Artist Who Submitted Empty Frames as Artwork Told to Repay Funding.” The Guardian , September 18, 2023. Julian Stallabrass. Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction . Oxford University Press, 2020. Questions of Courage is a project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, in collaboration with Goetheanum TV . To support the Youth Section Global Access Fund, please visit: https://www.goetheanum.org/en/youth-donations…

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