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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We had a great session on #OneHealth in complex emergencies and forced #migration at #WOHC2026 @wohcongress.bsky.social - thanks to @meisnerjulianne.bsky.social and all speakers!
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It was a pleasure talking to Max Klein at BUKO Pharma-Kampagne for their podcast series on #zoonoses on the need for a more holistic approach to zoonotic disease dynamics in #emergencies; available (in German) on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube open.spotify.com/episode/5AHA...
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ZOONOSEN (4) Nothilfe ‒ Nicht ohne mein Tier
Gesundheit: global und gerecht (?) · Episode
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Looking forward to co-chairing a panel at #WOHC2026 on #OneHealth in #humanitarian contexts: #climatechange, #conflict and forced #migration with @meisnerjulianne.bsky.social - come find us on Saturday 5 September in Lisbon!
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Very excited to return to Cambridge next week to join this @crasshlive.bsky.social event on 'Interdisciplinary methods for researching healthcare in conflict' to discuss bridging biomedical and social sciences for #OneHealth in complex emergencies with @saleyhaahsan.bsky.social & @jw132.bsky.social
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Honoured and excited to join @humconberlin.bsky.social to discuss One Health and more-than-human health and welfare in humanitarian contexts on 21 April humanitarian-congress-berlin.org/humanitarian...
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Have a first look at the exciting programme now and secure your ticket!
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Partij voor de Dieren @partijvoordedieren.nl · 22/02/2026
Verandering is heel natuurlijk. Je hoeft er 18 maart alleen op te stemmen. Stem voor een groene, gezonde en leefbare omgeving voor mens en dier. Stem 18 maart Partij voor de Dieren in jouw gemeente!
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Jeff Sebo @jeffsebo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
1/ I'm thrilled to share "Integrating Animal Health and Welfare into the 2030 Agenda and Beyond," a major new report from Stockholm Environment Institute and the NYU Center for Environmental and Animal Protection.
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Cambridge Zero @cambridgezero.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🗣️ Join us this Thursday to explore climate & infectious disease across human, animal & crop health - showcasing research & collaboration at Cambridge. 🔗 Book here: bit.ly/4nmfsEB #CambridgeZero
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Safer Environments in the Light of Climate and Infectious Disease | Cambridge Zero
Please note: This event is for University of Cambridge staff and students only
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Honoured that my article 'Ethical considerations for a more equitable approach to One Health in forced migration' has been selected as Editor’s Choice in CABI #OneHealth www.cabidigitallibrary.org/journal/cabi... Many thanks to the editors for recognizing the value of this work!
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CABI One Health - Editor's Choice: | One Health in Forced Migration CABI Digital Library
CABI One Health focuses on the interconnections between humans, animals, plants, ecosystems, and their shared environment in a transdisciplinary way. We aim to foster transdisciplinary approaches that...
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Esther Ouwehand @estherouwehand.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Op Prinsjesdag draag ik de kleuren van de watermeloen: symbool van solidariteit met het Palestijnse volk. Want terwijl de Koning ons land toespreekt, vindt in Gaza een verschrikkelijke genocide plaats. Kinderen, gezinnen en journalisten worden uitgehongerd en vermoord. Alle ogen moeten op Gaza! 1/3
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Excited to be invited to speak at Cambridge Zero's Safer Environments symposium on 6 Nov 🌍✨ I’ll be discussing zoonotic disease dynamics in forced migration alongside other colleagues tackling the intersections of infectious disease and climate - event details 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/cambr...
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Book here – Safer Environments – Maxwell Centre
Safer Environments – Maxwell Centre, Thu 6 Nov 2025 - A research symposium showcasing research across Cambridge, and strengthening interdisciplinary collaboration, at the intersections between infecti...
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Latest blog highlights how effective prevention and response to zoonoses in forced migration requires a broader, more inclusive, and equitable interpretation of the One Health approach, grounded in evidence, cultural sensitivity, and ethical justification www.cabidigitallibrary.org/do/10.5555/b...
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Aligning theory and practice in One Health approaches to forced migration | CABI Blog
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Centre for the Study of Existential Risk @cser.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
📣 Call for papers! We're inviting submissions for the virtual workshop 'After Sendai: Governing Catastrophic Risks in the Emerging Global Order' (11–12 May 2026) followed by a special issue edited by Kennedy Mbeva, Elena Kavanagh & Reuben Makomere More details here: shorturl.at/EVHGB
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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#wijwerkenhiernietaanmee
Maandag 1 September, als het luchtalarm klinkt, leggen wij ons werk tijdelijk neer voor Gaza, om te eisen dat de steun aan oorlogsmisdaden moet stoppen.
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World Food Programme @wfp.org · 22/08/2025
More than half a million people in #Gaza are trapped in famine, according to a new IPC analysis. Famine is confirmed when three critical thresholds – extreme food deprivation, acute malnutrition and starvation-related deaths – have been breached. Read more: ow.ly/h3wb50WK7B2
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International Animal Rights Conference @iarc.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
At the #IARC2025, Dorien Braam will explore how evolving legal and geopolitical developments could support expanding international humanitarian law to include nonhuman animals and address interspecies injustices.▶ ar-conference.org/dorien_braam #AnimalRights #AnimalLiberation #AnimalRightsConference
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Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, LSHTM @lshtm-crises.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
In a personal blog, Professor Francesco Checchi discusses the pressing situation in #Gaza amidst increased levels of starvation, and what this may mean for the future 👇 www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
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Famine and genocide in Gaza: A personal view | LSHTM
Famine and genocide in Gaza: A personal view | LSHTM
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Animal welfare, labour migration and zoonotic disease: revisiting the global health risks of interspecies' exploitation from the working paper co-developed with @iom.int migrationhealthresearch.iom.int/migrant-work...
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Migrant workers and zoonotic health inequalities in the livestock | Migration Health Research
This working paper highlights the urgent need to address the risk of zoonoses—diseases transmissible between animals and humans—to migrant workers in the
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Next week at #ECMN25 @ununiversity.bsky.social: ‘Moving Together: climate change, mobility, and the impact on human and non-human animal health’, as the well-being of species is interconnected, facilitating animals in #climatemobility is critical for #OneHealth www.climatemobilities.network/ecmn25/
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ecmn25 | Environment & Climate Mobilities Network
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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 25/06/2025
“It is a death trap costing more lives than it saves,” said UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini about the US-Israeli aid distribution mechanism in #Gaza. Hunger should never come with a death sentence.
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org · 20/06/2025
At a time of record displacement and shrinking support, we always choose solidarity over silence. This #WorldRefugeeDay, we honour refugees not just with our words, but with action, empathy and unwavering support.
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Gaza Beach The Hague @gazabeachnl.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Kom je ook op 24 juni naar GazaBeach op het Noorderstrand nabij Scheveningen Haven? Meld je hier aan! www.gazabeach.nl/contact
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Meld je | Gaza Beach NL
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Devex @devex.com · 04/06/2025
Staffed by armed contractors instead of experienced humanitarians, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s militarized aid model has rightly been condemned by the U.N., Oxfam, and others for violating core humanitarian principles.
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Opinion: Why we don’t mix humanitarian aid with military operations
Opinion: Why we don’t mix humanitarian aid with military operations
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
As Research Affiliate at the @cser.bsky.social I will be connecting my work on #OneHealth in the context of #forcedmigration and complex emergencies with broader questions around global catastrophic risk and long-term resilience - looking forward to exploring new collaborations!
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Local communities are the first responders before emergency services and humanitarian actors arrive after disasters - decolonizing aid needs to support self-determination, hopefully we will see more of this at conference.ihsa.info; a resource list to start: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2022...
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Decolonising Aid: A reading and resource list
A repository for all things decolonisation and aid.
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
My latest paper is out, exploring the opportunities for applying a more inclusive, holistic #OneHealth approach in #forcedmigration contexts, extending moral concern to non-human lives to guide more inclusive and equitable #humanitarian responses www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/...
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Ethical considerations for a more equitable approach to One Health in forced migration | CABI One Health
Abstract Background: The exclusion of animals from humanitarian responses to forced migration out of concern for the transmission of zoonoses, diseases transmissible between animals and humans, leads ...
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
International humanitarian law excludes animals from protection; as disasters and conflict intensify, it’s crucial to rethink legal & practical frameworks to include animals, ensuring more inclusive, equitable & effective humanitarian responses. #IHL #AnimalWelfare www.alaw.org.uk/blog/2025/04...
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UNICEF @unicef.org · 28/04/2025
Here's a dose of good news for #WorldImmunizationWeek. Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last five decades. Amid funding crises and conflicts, see how we stay and deliver for children. www.unicef.org/take-action/...
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Immunization for all
A future where every child is protected by life-saving vaccines is #HumanlyPossible.
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WHO @who.int · 26/04/2025
All 25 supported bakeries in Gaza have now shut down. As the blockade on Gaza continues for over a month, people face growing risks of severe hunger, malnutrition, and lack of adequate health care. Urgent humanitarian access is critical to resume lifesaving services #ceasefire
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Glad to see the inclusion of #OneHealth in the draft #PandemicAccord - and grateful to the Action for Animal Health Coalition for letting us be part of their advocacy efforts actionforanimalhealth.org/wp-content/u...
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Partij voor de Dieren @partijvoordedieren.nl · 10/04/2025
Palestijnse burgers worden afgeslacht en de Nederlandse regering kijkt toe 💔 Mensen lijden honger en dorst. Hele families worden weggevaagd bij bombardementen. Hulpverleners en journalisten zijn doelwit. We blijven de regering vragen: wat gaat Nederland doen tegen de Israëlische oorlogsmisdaden?
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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
🏥 True Cut: Biopsies from the hidden heart of healthcare Join us for a workshop about making and living with mistakes, with surgeon, educator and writer David Alderson and visual artist Kirsten Lavers Saturday 3 May, 2-4.30pm at the Alison Richard Building, Cambridge Info at buff.ly/s4bpqWi 1/5
Young female doctor wearing a medical mask.
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UNICEF @unicef.org · 18/03/2025
Today, Gaza’s one million children have been plunged back into a world of fear and death. We appeal for the ceasefire to be reinstated immediately. Full statement from UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell: unicef.link/43SB19i
Reports and images emerging from the Gaza Strip following today’s attacks are beyond horrifying. Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed, including more than 130 children. - Catherine Russell, UNICEF Executive Director
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My review of a great book: 'The Climate Crisis and Other Animals' by Richard Twine (2024) was published today by @cambridgeup.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/awf....
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The Climate Crisis and Other Animals - Richard Twine (2024). Published by Sydney University Press, Sydney, Australia. ISBN (paperback) 9781743328996. Price £19.59 (paperback) | Animal Welfare | Cambri...
The Climate Crisis and Other Animals - Richard Twine (2024). Published by Sydney University Press, Sydney, Australia. ISBN (paperback) 9781743328996. Price £19.59 (paperback) - Volume 34
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It's such a pleasure being here @nyulaw.bsky.social this week for the interdisciplinary more-than-human life (MOTH) festival of ideas
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Alyssa Christian Ⓥ @veganmoviesnob.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Exactly. We don’t need eggs. #govegan
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The findings of our study on social sciences in global #animal health governance are out, highlighting limitations in scope and effectiveness, requring coordinated investment in truly interdisciplinary networks www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @lisaaboden.bsky.social @dsilvaphd.bsky.social
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Perspectives on the social sciences in global animal health governance: A qualitative study of experts
A global discourse continues to emphasize the importance of integrating the social sciences into health governance and systems research, including in …
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350.org @350.org · 17/02/2025
The elite will pretend the climate crisis isn't a problem until the price of chocolate is hit. And even then, it's the poorest that truly suffer. Collective action isn’t just about saving chocolate — it’s about preserving the planet’s capacity to sustain life. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate crisis contributing to chocolate market meltdown, research finds
Scientists say more-frequent hotter temperatures in west African region are part of reason for reduced harvests and price rises
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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 09/01/2025
“From what I’m seeing, you are not really de-extincting anything. You are creating something else.” (Dr. Clare Palmer, Texas A&M) Efforts focus on vertebrates, which are ecosystems to many other creatures. Many of those creatures went extinct with their ecosystem. 🧪 🌎 e360.yale.edu/features/de-...
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Despite Biotech Efforts to Revive Species, Extinction Is Still Forever
In the last decade, laboratory initiatives to recreate long-extinct species have stirred controversy. Now, scientists increasingly agree "de-extinction" is not possible, but breeding living animals wi...
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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
📣 Launch event! Join us for the launch of the groundbreaking Engineered Pandemics Risk Management Programme at CRASSH, which will be introduced by co-directors Clare Bryant & Rob Doubleday, and followed by a drinks reception 27 Feb from 5-7pm at Trinity Hall www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45607
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Launch event | Engineered Pandemics Risk Management Programme - CRASSH
Launch event at CRASSH
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UNRISD @unrisd.org · 14/02/2025
🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 UNRISD is looking for a Senior Research Specialist for its Environment & Climate Justice programme 🌱🌍 📍 Remote ⏳ Deadline: 9 March Lead research on just transition & help shape fairer policies. 🔗 Apply now:bit.ly/42OcSQW
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is going really well. "Authoritarian leaders in former Soviet bloc seize on Musk’s USAid crackdown - Region’s autocrats join in persecution of agency that provided aid and helped to build up civil society in 1990s"
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Authoritarian leaders in former Soviet bloc seize on Musk’s USAid crackdown
Region’s autocrats join in persecution of agency that provided aid and helped to build up civil society in 1990s
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Experts @harvardchanschool.bsky.social push back at disappearing health data: hsph.harvard.edu/news/as-heal...
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As health data disappear from government websites, experts push back | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Health experts are criticizing the Trump administration's purge of information on government websites related to certain topics—such as “gender ideology,” reproductive rights, and diversity, equity, a...
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 09/02/2025
No words. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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Burmese refugee dies after discharge from shut US-funded clinic, says family
A Burmese refugee with lung problems died after she was discharged from a U.S.-funded hospital on the Myanmar-Thai border that was ordered to close as a result of U.S. President Donald Trump's freeze on foreign aid, her family said.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 22/01/2025
A Dutch court today ruled that Prime Minister Dick Schoof’s government must ramp up efforts to cut nitrogen pollution in protected nature areas, handing Greenpeace Netherlands a significant legal win.
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Dutch government ordered to cut nitrogen pollution — or face €10M fine
Greenpeace’s victory means that PM Dick Schoof must achieve emission-reduction targets by 2030 or face the penalty.
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Hopefully this time we will vaccinate rather than kill www.melkvee.nl/artikel/1187...
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Vaccin beschikbaar tegen MKZ-variant die is aangetroffen in Duitsland
Er is een vaccin beschikbaar tegen het serotype van het mond- en klauwzeervirus (MKZ) dat vrijdag is aangetroffen bij een waterbuffel in Duitsland. Dat stelt het Friedrich Loeffler Instituut (FLI) zon...
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Migration Policy Centre @mpc-eui.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Refugees are increasingly starting and leading organisations to advocate for their rights and protection, boldly declaring #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs. We’re working to map the impact of these organisations. Do you want to help us? 👉 loom.ly/Tm_V-b4
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Praxis Labs @praxislabs.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Finally got to reading this - highly recommended!
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