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Stephanie Harman, MD

@stephharmanmd.bsky.social
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palliative care person; learning leadership development and system-ness; mom to several humans + 1 floofy dog; posts = my own

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Jake Scott, MD @jakescottmd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It's very concerning that the ACIP may vote to delay hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccines for children, as reported by @reuters.com Here's why. 🧵 www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 26/11/2025
5 years ago I started a team competition on Twitter to raise $ to fight hunger. @tmprowell.bsky.social gave us a hashtag & much needed organization Our team of teen volunteers work wonders in the background & we’ve raised >$3.1 million! Competition starts tomorrow, join us? HCWvsHunger.org
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Healthcare Workers vs Hunger
Healthcare workers vs Hunger is an annual friendly competition between teams of healthcare workers to help relieve food insecurity.
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
When I read headlines like this, I always think of Paul Farmer who said “The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world”
NYT story with the headline “Trump cuts refugee admissions and prioritized white South Africans”
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Boston. Wow.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Chicago - no kings
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 18/10/2025
A couple of protest signs: “eggs are expensive because of all the chickens in Congress”
EGGS ARE
EXPENSIVE
BECAUSE OF ALL THE CHICKENS IN
CONGRESSPhoto of FDR and Churchill and the label “antifa”
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 12/10/2025
Kudos to Sally Kornbluth/MIT for rejecting the government’s attempt at corrupting higher ed. Others should quickly follow suit. Even the folks at Cato agree—this isn’t a tough call!
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 13/10/2025
A few PSAs from your friendly neighborhood pediatric shematologist 🩸vitamin k in newborns is lifesaving 🩸vaccines save lives 🩸no kid should drink more than 20 ounces of milk a day 🩸babies don’t need chiropractors 🩸home births can go south super quickly even in the very best of circumstances
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Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor. “He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said. Read more at @windycitytimes.com
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Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times
Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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Amy G Dala, MD @amygdalamd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Things pediatricians are scared of: Grapes Hot dogs Lawn mowers Unmounted TVs Babies on laps in cars Riders without helmets Ungated pools Crib bumpers Trampolines Hot tubs Guns Things pediatricians are not scared of: Any/all the vaccines
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 26/09/2025
These are the top 5 questions/concerns I’ve gotten about the press conference on autism: -the “Harvard” study tho -what about “trusting the science”? -shouldn’t we warn people even if it’s just a correlation? -but Tylenol said don’t take it! -Hep B vaccine for newborns Asked and answered 👇
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You asked. Here are the answers.
In the wake of the disastrous press conference on Tylenol and autism, a lot of you had questions about why I and so many other physicians have been so forcefully countering what was said.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Let me tell you a beautiful story about this couch. 🧵 IG msviciousdesign
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
“What Trump is really doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters. And making a mockery of our country as he does so” @michaelemann.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation
OPINION: “What Trump is really doing is advancing a plan laid down years ago by plutocrats and polluters. And making a mockery of our country as he does so,” Michael E. Mann writes.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...
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John Oliver Offers Four Defiant Words of Advice to Disney Over the Kimmel Situation
It works. Try it out, Bob Iger.
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Shireen Heidari, MD @shireenheidari.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
My essay on crying in @accpchest.bsky.social today! #medsky #meded #hapc "But the lesson didn’t have to be that tears were a source of shame. Our humanity was part of what drew us to train to be healers in the first place" ❤️‍🩹 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social
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Permission to Cry
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Stanford Big Ideas in Medicine @bigideasmed.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Full speaker line-up for the Stanford Big Ideas in Medicine Conference. September 5-6, 2025. All are welcome! www.stanfordbigideas.org
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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
18 year old me would never have imagined I would be raising my kids in a world in which our country would disappear people into concentration camps, actively assist in genocide, and be led by a man bending over backwards to protect child sex traffickers.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Gates Foundation pledges $2.5 billion to women’s health initiatives www.statnews.com/2025/08/04/b...
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Gates Foundation pledges $2.5 billion to women’s health initiatives
Breaking: The Gates Foundation said it would commit $2.5 billion through 2030 to support women’s health initiatives, its largest funding commitment ever to the issue.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal
August 1, 2025
AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
Committee on Economic Statistics and Committee on Government Relations


Statement from the American Economic Association on the
Dismissal of the BLS Commissioner

Leaders of the American Economic Association express their grave concern over the dismissal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) earlier today.
The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions. Undermining the independence or credibility of these agencies threatens the integrity of the information that markets, institutions, and the public rely on every day.
Measuring the vast and dynamic U.S. economy in real time is inherently challenging. It is standard practice for statistical estimates to be revised as more complete and higher-quality data become available. These revisions reflect the commitment of statistical agencies to accuracy, transparency, and methodological rigor-not failure or bias.
The BLS has long had a well-deserved reputation for professional excellence and nonpartisan integrity.
Safeguarding this tradition is vital for the continued health of the U.S. economy and public trust in our institutions.
We call upon elected officials to respect and preserve the independence of the nation's statistical infrastructure.

Lawrence Katz
President, American Economic Association
Katharine Abraham
President-Elect, American Economic Association
Karen Dynan
Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics
Kenneth Troske
Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Government Relations
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Interesting how much resentment this photo created from white conservatives who assumed that the dismantling of DEI meant elite schools would return to the 1940s.
Some Asian people posted a photo of themselves having dinner. It reads: "Went to a fancy dinner in SF and everybody went to Harvard (or Stanford)"

The next day, the followed up with a tweet that reads: "Almost all of us are Americans. FWIW, More of us are Americans than Asian."Two quote tweets. The first has a racist drawing of Asian people and it says "I rent to fancy dinnah and everybody rent 2 Havah (or Stanfah)."

The other shows Yale's Skulls and Bones society in the 1940s, where a bunch of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant men in suits are composed for a group photo. An Italian man writes: "This is what Ivy Leaguers are supposed to look like."Two quote tweets. The first reads: "Foreigners post stuff like this and then act surprised that GenZ males are so far right they'd make Rush Limbaugh blush.  I hope they realize Trump is their last chance for a moderate solution."

The other reads: "I’m so glad that 17 Americans didn’t get to go to Harvard or Standford because these peoples parents spent $10,000 on SAT prep"Two quote tweets. The first reads: "Living exclusively around these people for over 15 years is what turned me into a nazi. They're like this all the time."

The other reads: "Not going to lie, very depressing to see our hallowed western university system turn into a network of Striver Universities for intellectually incurious exam maxxing Kumon monsters"
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
“I grew up soft on episodes of “Murphy Brown” and “The West Wing.” I believed that the arc of history bent toward Barack Obama, and technology solving the world’s problems, not causing them.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
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Opinion | Stephen Colbert Was Never Going to Save Us
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/07/2025
Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large
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Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning
CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I know RFK Jr. has assembled a quack crew to concoct a study showing otherwise but here is an new important large cohort study of over 1.2 million children in Denmark showing no association Aluminum adsorbed vaccines and chronic dz in childhood including autism. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 30/06/2025
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of June!
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 21/06/2025
6% of the NIH budget in 2024 was spent on women’s health. Good thing they’re cutting the little that was there, right? Who needs women’s health research anyway? Only half the country, I guess…
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David Earl Williams III @dewforpolitics.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
20-year-old U.S. citizen Adrian Andrew Martinez was swarmed by ICE in Pico Rivera while defending someone. He never hit back—just struggled—before being slammed into a CBP van. No records. No lawyer. His mom can’t find him. This is abuse of power. Keep recording. Don’t stop.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This is perfect
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I remember watching Ananda on MTV. She died at 52 from a preventable & treatable form of cancer bc she worried mammogram radiation would give her cancer. She then declined treatment when diagnosed, which she regretted when it was too late. The “wellness” industry is literally scaring people to death
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Ananda Lewis chose 'natural' cancer care over conventional treatment. Many others do too -- and it's risky
While less than 1% of cancer patients refuse conventional therapy, some choose alternative care, which can have dire consequences.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 16/06/2025
This is worth 3 minutes of your time. No one wants to eat at a restaurant that only serves bland chicken. (It’s not about chicken, or restaurants, tho)
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Ocean Beach per SFGate.com drone footage
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Best image of the day:
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US. Our national @JAMAPediatrics study is live. Findings (2011-2023): •7,400 more deaths in most permissive and permissive firearm law states. •No increase in the stricter law states. •Decreases in 4 strict law states. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US
This study attempts to measure excess mortality due to firearms among US children aged 0 to 17 years after the McDonald v Chicago US Supreme Court decision (2010).
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ELAM (Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine) @elamprogram.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Please join us in congratulating the 2025 recipients and honorees of the ELAM 30th Anniversary Awards! See the full list of honorees and award descriptions at the link: tinyurl.com/mppy7233
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ELAM 30th Anniversary Awards - College of Medicine
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ELAM (Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine) @elamprogram.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
ELUM Cardinale Smith, MD, PhD, has joined @mskcancercenter.bsky.social as the inaugural chief medical officer (CMO). Congratulations! Read more: tinyurl.com/57tcwxkz
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Cardinale Smith Named Inaugural Chief Medical Officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) announced that Cardinale Smith, MD, PhD, has joined the institution as the inaugural Chief Medical Officer (CMO).
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
New study links hospital privatisation to worse patient care www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-02...
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New study links hospital privatisation to worse patient care |
A new review has concluded that hospitals that are privatised typically deliver worse quality care after converting from public ownership. The study, led by University of Oxford researchers, has been
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 25/05/2025
It’s been five years since the murder of George Floyd, and police killings have increased while continuing to disproportionately target Indigenous, Black, and Hispanic people. But the real problem is we went overboard with “woke,” right? Figures from NYT, last slide from WaPo
Bar chart showing police killings from 2016 to 2024 showing persistent annual increasesChart showing racial disparities in police killing “Despite efforts to improve training and hold officers more accountable, the number of people killed by the police has risen each year. Black and Native American people are killed in disproportionate numbers.”

Police killings per 100,000 people, since 2015

Native American 6.8
Black 6.7
Hispanic 2.9
White 2.5
Asian 1,0
Other 0.2Figure showing number of police killings in red versus blue states. The red line is increasing. The blue line has stabilized or maybe decrease some. Timeframe is about 2016-20242020
Fatal police shootings totaled 1,021, according to a Washington Post database, which includes the high-profile killings of Floyd and Breonna Taylor that sparked nationwide protests.
2024
The number climbed to 1,175, the highest level on record.
Black people are still killed by police at more than twice the rate of White Americans.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 26/04/2025
The Lancet’s response to Tr*mp threatening medical journals is scathing: “one of the intents of authoritarian governments is to destroy independent science at government institutions and to silence academia...Science and medicine in the USA are being violently dismembered while the world watches.”
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Supporting medical science in the USA
The pursuit of rigorous medical science is not compatible with capitulation to government demands aimed at weaponising and eroding science. On April 14, Edwin R Martin Jr, the Trump-appointed interim ...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The report with the underlying data for the Washington Post story about firings of disproportionate numbers of women and underrepresented minorities from NIH Boards of Scientific Counselors. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Letter_to_CongressApril16_2025_updated
April 16, 2025 (updated 4/21/2025) Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions House Committee on Energy and Commerce - Subcommittee on Health Washington, DC 20510 Report: Scientists...
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
They are now estimating 2.3 million across the country. Keep it going folks. #handsoff #50501protests
Images of protests and crowds across the country. 

HANDSOFF APRIL 5TH 2025
BOSTON
NEW YORK
CHICAGO
PORTLAND
SAN FRANCISCO
SAN DIEGO
IDAHO
UTAH
OAKLAND
(AND SOOOO MANY MORE!)
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor
). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."
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