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Mildred Boveda

@mboveda.bsky.social
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New to this platform. Developing and fostering intersectional consciousness. Black feminist in the field of special ed. Born and raised in the county of Dade. Missing Mami.

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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You can listen to me chat to @drrobertchapman.bsky.social & @mboveda.bsky.social on Language and (DIS)Ability tensions - languagetensionspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2617863/epis...
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Language and (Dis)Ability Tensions - Language Tensions Podcast
This episode of Language Tensions explores disability, neurodiversity, and identity through an intersectional lens, connecting personal experiences with broader educational and societal systems.
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Mildred Boveda @mboveda.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Colleagues’ increasing use of AI w/out transparency is creating more work for me. I really resent it. The wave of insipid, trend-driven writing about AI is also draining. Those who are thoughtfully offering guidance about how to move forward in these shaky times are truly a God-send. #EditorNotes
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/02/2026
Jumaane Williams posted last night that he was gonna make this video so I had been waiting for it — thanks to @erinbiba.bsky.social for flagging just now. Williams speaks from a place of deep consideration for everyone involved and it shows in the way he discusses the impact and solutions.
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"I'm the first US elected official with Tourette Syndrome and I have some thoughts about BAFTA"
YouTube video by New York City Public Advocate
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Mildred Boveda @mboveda.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Sharing a clip from the news special — so well done. As academics we never know which soundbite will air, but I love how Hurtado captured my Dominican nerditude. We’ll make a joke out of anything… even authoritarian oppression.
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Noticias Telemundo @noticiastelemundo.com · 21/11/2025
🔴 Talento Desperdiciado: Universidades, Latinos y Trump.
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Talento Desperdiciado: Universidades, Latinos y Trump
Noticias Telemundo AHORA presenta un especial sobre la batalla ideológica en la educación superior, su impacto en los estudiantes latinos y el legado de lucha de las comunidades hispanas por lograr ig...
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Mildred Boveda @mboveda.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Talento Desperdiciado: Universidades, Latinos y Trump The video is now available on YouTube. If you would like English subtitles you can go to the video, click "settings", then click auto translate, and select English. youtu.be/I92ZA1kYGec?... #noticiastelemundo
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Talento Desperdiciado: Universidades, Latinos y Trump | Noticias Telemundo
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Mildred Boveda @mboveda.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Please share: Excited to be part of an upcoming special en Español on how the current administration is impacting Latino access to U.S. universities. Catch it live on Thurs, Nov 20, 2025 at 9pm ET. I’ll share the YouTube link when it’s up.
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Warda Farah @wardasworld.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A must read by THE @mboveda.bsky.social 🌿
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aera-divk.bsky.social @aera-divk.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Exploring career paths beyond the professoriate? Division K is hosting a panel on navigating the non-academic job market with voices from education, research, tech, and public service. 📅 Nov 20, 5–6pm ET Register: bit.ly/DivKNOV20
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Lydia Ocasio-S @drlydiaocasio-s.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Live in or plan on visiting Hapoy Valley, PA and looking for a fun wine tasting event? Come spend September with the Centre County Pearls on Sept 20th for a Saturday sip and soirée. 🩷💚🍂🍷 www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
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Centre County Pearls of Pennsylvania Presents: Saturday Sips (SC)
🎉 Come join us at the University Wine Company for a fundraising event that you will not forget. All funds go towards our programing efforts in Centre County. We plan to have a delightful morning of si...
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Alyssa Emery @alyssaemery.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
We were grateful that THE Mildred Boveda provided a commentary on the special issue, unpacking tensions across fields that can make transdisciplinary work difficult and offering a roadmap for collaborative, anti-ableist research partnerships.
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Embracing complexity: Applying intersectional, post-oppositional approaches to examinations of students with disabilities in educational psychology research
This article responds to calls for transdisciplinary collaboration between educational psychology, special education, and Disability Studies in Education (DSE) to better include and support student...
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Susan Faircloth @sfaircloth12.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
www.nativeamericacalling.com/monday-augus...
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Monday, August 4, 2025 — Native educators grapple with burnout » Native America Calling
Heavy workloads, low pay, and increasing political pressures are among the contributing factors leading to a rise in teacher burnout. A survey by the University of Missouri of 500 public school teache...
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Lydia Ocasio-S @drlydiaocasio-s.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🚨 New pub 🚨 co-authored w Dr. Keishana Barnes & Dr. Elizabeth Morgan, we uplift Black mothers’ advocacy work. “Moving from Silence into Language and Action.” (Re)Imagining Advocacy with Black Motherscholars and Their Motherwork Across Multiple Contexts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“Moving from Silence into Language and Action.” (Re)Imagining Advocacy with Black Motherscholars and Their Motherwork Across Multiple Contexts
Racial animus, the fear, hatred, dehumanizing, and othered perceptions of Black people is an ideology that too often undergirds Black children’s experiences within schools. Through similar patterns...
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget. Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide. Interactive map and shareable report: scienceimpacts.org/fy26 a 🧵
Economic loss due to NIH budget cuts by congressional district, scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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MD Harmon, PhD @mariahdharmon.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Reflecting on my time in Kenya at the Division of International Special Education and Services (DISES) annual conference presenting with @mboveda.bsky.social . I am thankful for our collaboration, because we too often work in silos when it comes to curriculum and instruction/ gen Ed & SPED.
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Mildred Boveda @mboveda.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Embracing complexity: Applying intersectional, post-oppositional approaches to examinations of students with disabilities in educational psychology research www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Embracing complexity: Applying intersectional, post-oppositional approaches to examinations of students with disabilities in educational psychology research
This article responds to calls for transdisciplinary collaboration between educational psychology, special education, and Disability Studies in Education (DSE) to better include and support student...
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d-mcnaughton.bsky.social @d-mcnaughton.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Dr. Lateef McLeod describes the impact of Ableism, and strategies for moving the field of AAC forward: Now free at the AAC journal doi.org/10.1080/0743... #OpenAccess @communicationfirst.bsky.social @isaacinternational.bsky.social @ussaac.bsky.social
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/04/2025
🚨Here’s a list of just a few of the major pieces of misinformation Kennedy shared about autism🚨
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RFK Jr. knows amazingly little about autism
For someone who's been talking about it for so long, the HHS secretary got many basic facts wrong.
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Mildred Boveda @mboveda.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
@drvenus.bsky.social and I started a new podcast series: Beyond the Soundbite: Black Feminist Research & Wellness. Check out the first episode www.youtube.com/live/LtSYQcZ...
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Health & Wellness in the Academy: Daughtering as a Community of Care
YouTube video by Dr. Venus Evans-Winters
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Ethan @drbeef.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Spencer Foundation joins Kapor Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch a rapid response bridge funding program (up to $25,000) for education scholars impacted by the abrupt grant cancellations by the National Science Foundation (NSF)! #AcademicSky
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I keep hearing about all these cuts but I haven't heard anything about our taxes being slashed since we no longer pay for this stuff. I wonder where all that extra money will go then? Huh.
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Mildred Boveda @mboveda.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
#SaveNSF website just went up today!! It has a take action toolkit with press outreach templates, social media toolkit, elected official outreach, talking points. Likely more to come too. www.savensf.com
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Home | Savensf
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Mildred Boveda @mboveda.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Grateful for feature in the most recent weekly issue of El Semanario, a bilingual periodical based in Denver. They also helped promote the rally. To access the digital article, type in your e-mail and you'll find it on page 5. Also see attached images. online.flippingbook.com/view/1309948...
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The Weekly Issue El Semanario May 1, 2025 DIGITAL EDITION
The Weekly Issue El Semanario, a multi-generational family-owned media company unfolding news and information that reflects our communities since 1989 www.elsemanarioonline.com
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 30/04/2025
“Harvard is leading the resistance” Meanwhile the Harvard Black Alumni Society is asking Black alums to donate money to pay for what costs Harvard pocket change because Harvard ain’t resisting shit www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard Will Not Fund Affinity Group Graduation Celebrations Following Ed Department Warning | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard will no longer host or fund affinity group celebrations during Commencement, the University’s former diversity office wrote in an email to affinity groups on Monday afternoon.
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Mildred Boveda @mboveda.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Thanks to all who attended the rally! We’ve had counts that have range from 125-200+ attendees. Check out this brief story on the event. #AERA2025 #AERA25 www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
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‘I am not alone in this space’: Education researchers protest Trump at Colorado Capitol
The researchers took time away from a Denver conference to speak out against recent Trump administration moves to cut higher education research.
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Mildred Boveda @mboveda.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
When education is under attack, what do we do??? STAND UP FIGHT BACK!
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
If we care about evidence being used in policy and practice, we should think about what questions policymakers and practitioners have. Some thoughts on how to get started in Democratizing the Development of Evidence journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Democratizing the Development of Evidence - Cara Jackson, 2022
This essay offers a framework for broader community involvement as a means of increasing the relevance and usefulness of evidence developed. This essay begins b...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Poor reporter interviewing me about financial aid next year got an earful when they asked if I think anything can be done to stop a disaster from happening. Just me ranting "this isn't the asteroid from Armageddon, this is a self-inflicted wound and we could reverse these illegal firings any day."
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Mildred Boveda @mboveda.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Now they’re harassing:targeting peer reviewed journals: Trump-Allied Prosecutor Sends Letters to Medical Journals Alleging Bias www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/h...
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Trump-Allied Prosecutor Sends Letters to Medical Journals Alleging Bias
An interim U.S. attorney is demanding information about the selection of research articles and the role of N.I.H. Experts worry this will have a chilling effect on publications.
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Mildred Boveda @mboveda.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Rally at the Capitol in Denver/Friday April 25th, 10am-11am 200 E Colfax Ave Denver, CO 80203
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Megan Menchaca @meganmenchaca.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
"I will no longer be able to continue teaching." Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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University of Houston confirms math assistant professor had visa revoked
A University of Houston assistant professor is among the foreign scholars whose visas were revoked in recent weeks, officials at the institution confirmed.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/04/2025
MIT has also been atrocious to Palestine solidarity workers There are no heroes here. Just institutions trying to preserve themselves. And I’m glad self preservation kicked in because the alternative is worse but they’re not heroic.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/04/2025
I’m glad they are reminding the federal government that they have no business running Harvard but I’m a Harvard alum who knows they are outraged in part because the belief is Harvard runs the country, not the other way around lol
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Every single university president should be asked, in public, why they are not speaking out this way to support all the students currently detained without due process, and all those terrified that they will be next, on every campus in this country. Yes, including Columbia's acting president.
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Mildred Boveda @mboveda.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Action Report #6 Understanding the Law and Policies for Grant Terminations for the National Science Foundation March 25, 2025 www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
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juan barquin @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Can’t stop thinking about this woman at the City Commission Meeting about the Mayor trying to shut down O Cinema yesterday. We truly need more people to be this nakedly contemptuous of our public officials wasting our time and money.
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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Educators, neighbors, everyone. We at Teachers College are doing what we can to stand against Trump's attack on education, not just on our campus but beyond. Please read our statement and share.
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A Statement by Teachers College, Columbia University Faculty
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Morgan Trau @morgantrau.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
BREAKING: SB1, the college education overhaul bill banning DEI, has passed the House. It now goes back to the Senate for concurrence, then to Gov. Mike DeWine. @news5cleveland.bsky.social @ohiocapitaljournal.com www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...
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Ohio House bans DEI, passes education overhaul bill
Ohio House Republicans have passed a bill overhauling the higher education system. It bans diversity initiatives, limits how "controversial topics" can be taught and eliminates tenure.
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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Agreed. We are speaking up where we can. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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A Statement by Teachers College, Columbia University Faculty
A Statement by Teachers College, Columbia University Faculty The Attack on American Education, from our Perspective as Teachers College Faculty March 19, 2025 We are a group of Teachers College facult...
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Mildred Boveda @mboveda.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Updates and Somber Reminders: The Truth Will Set You Free www.youtube.com/watch?v=9acz... Each time, I will publish the script of my YouTube vlogs in English and in Spanish. First published 3.19.25 intersectionalconsciousness.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/u...
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Updates and Somber Reminders: The Truth Will Set You Free
YouTube video by Mildred Boveda
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
So ICE has effectively disappeared a student for protesting Israel's genocide, separating him from his 8 month pregnant wife. Pure fascism
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Elizabeth Todd-Breland @etoddbreland.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention
On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s ann...
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OiYan Poon (she/her) @oiyanpoon.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This is astounding. and I guarantee you that Jewish students, faculty, and staff are being harmed with this cancelation under a banner of "antisemitism."
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Mildred Boveda @mboveda.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Sharing this helpful list of 2025 Executive Orders related to Education: Timeline Implementing Actions. This document was created by The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Trump Education EOs Timeline Implementing Actions
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
If you work at or attend a college or university, share this w/the General Counsel’s office. Tell them stop obeying in advance. The @legaldefensefund.bsky.social has this important analysis of the Trump Administration’s “Dear Colleague” letter to higher ed leaders. www.naacpldf.org/education-de...
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Setting the Record Straight: The U.S. Department of Education’s Anti-Opportunity “Dear Colleague Letter”
Setting the Record StraightThe U.S. Department of Education’s Anti-Opportunity “Dear Colleague Letter”What Schools, Parents and Students Need to KnowOn February 14,
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Ron Lieber @ronlieber.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Some Native American colleges are subject to federal staffing cuts. It's an American tragedy. Alan Blinder, one of our best, with a gutting story from Kansas. Will Bill Self turn up to pay the fired hoops coach, now working as a volunteer? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/u...
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Federal Cuts Came to Native Schools. Students Are Livid. (Gift Article)
As the Trump administration trims the federal work force, students and educators at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas fear for the future of a school that was already facing troubles.
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Bethlehem Tekola @bethlehem.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I went through my Twitter bookmarks today and wanted to share these informative and thoughtful provoking pieces on positioning, positionality, and positionality statements written in recent years (in case you haven't seen them already 😊):
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Bethlehem Tekola @bethlehem.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
"Beyond Making a Statement: An Intersectional Framing of the Power and Possibilities of Positioning" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...
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