Thursday, April 24, 2008

Alabama A&M University Provost Dr. Beverly Edmond will be named interim President

Alabama A&M University Provost Dr. Beverly Edmond will be named interim president. Her appointment came during a debacle at trustees meeting in which the two leading candidates for the post withdrew and where Gov. Bob Riley's newest appointment to the board -- Leroy Richie of Detroit -- was introduced.

Prior to her interm appointment as President of the University, Dr. Beverly C. Edmond was appointed to the position of Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University on July 1, 2006. In this position she is responsible for providing leadership to the University's Academic and Instructional Support Programs. As Provost she serves as second in command to the President and acts in his absence and on his behalf. Prior to assuming this position, Dr. Edmond served as Vice Provost at Clark Atlanta University (CAU) in Atlanta, GA. She assumed this position in January 2004 after having served as Associate Provost since 2000. In her position as Vice Provost, Dr. Edmond was responsible for assisting in the overall management of the University's academic programs. She had specific responsibility for providing leadership for the Academic Program Review and Academic Strategic Planning Processes, faculty development and evaluation, student retention, integration of technology into the instructional program, and resolving academic grievances and appeals among other things. Dr. Edmond also served as Director of the University's $6.2 million dollar Title III Program. She held a tenured Associate Professor position in the Public Administration Department at CAU, and she served as Chair of that Department for seven years.

A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dr. Edmond received a B.A. in Sociology from Albany State College (now University), a Master of Public Administration from the University of Pittsburgh and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Political Science, with a concentration in Public Administration from Georgia State University.
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See Office of Provost & Academic Affairs for further information on Dr. Edmonds

Monday, April 21, 2008

Black colleges seeking more financial support from alumni

Alabama A&M University is a victim of its incompetent board of trustees. The board clearly has no understanding of the needs of the HBCU. The president, Dr. Jennings met the plan targets, by investing in campus improvements, degreed program improvement standards, alumni outreach, and corporate partnerships. The investments will attract more students, alumni support, and institutional dollars. However, it requires a president that understands the dynamic of fundraising, like Dr. Jennings. Unfortunately, the board of trustees dismissed Dr. Jennings before the end of the school year for an irrelevant reason. HBCUs need institutional fund raisers like Dr. Jennings. Due to the incompetence and small mindedness of the board of trustees, they are incapable of understanding that they have severely compromised the university.

The AP article below regarding the financial needs of HBCUs, discusses the industry standard for College fundraising. Dr. Jennings plan coincided with the industry standards. It's an interesting read.


ETTRICK, Va. - Making money, administrators at Virginia State University have learned, takes money.

The majority black school has spent millions of state dollars renovating buildings, partly to heighten school pride among alumni they hope will respond by opening their own wallets.

It's working: Alumni support has risen from 7 percent five years ago to 10 percent, and individual gifts have increased from hundreds of dollars to thousands, development vice president Robert Turner said as he showed off libraries and academic buildings recently.

"This" — Turner said, surveying the hilltop campus — "obviously converts to good will."

As state and private funds shrink, historically black colleges are refreshing outdated efforts to solicit former students, by adding specialized staff, crafting personalized "asks," improving campuses and increasingly using Internet outreach.

They're targeting a wider base — more blacks are graduating — and younger alumni who've moved into a broader range of careers.

At VSU, efforts as subtle as adding a donor recognition dinner have heartened alumni like Anthony Spence.

"If I'm going to give my money to a university, I want to be sure that it's used for the very best," said Spence, 41, a Miramar, Fla., entrepreneur who's given about $60,000.

Administrators plan computer network upgrades devoted to online giving at Atlanta's prestigious Morehouse College, where alumni contributions dipped from about $3.1 million in 2006 to $1.3 million last year.

Wiley College in east Texas will use a nearly $840,000 grant from the United Negro College Fund to help scout 200 major gift prospects a year, create new online giving opportunities and beef up staff.

Wiley, featured in Denzel Washington's 2007 film "The Great Debaters," has nine staffers focused on institutional advancement.

"At some of the larger, predominant institutions, they may have an advancement staff of say 20, 30, 50 people," said Karen Helton, vice president for institutional advancement. "That's how the Harvards and the Stanfords and the UCLAs generate billions."

Such measures are commonplace at some mainstream institutions. But they represent a major investment for the nation's more than 100 historically black colleges and universities, whose resources often are stretched.

The fundraising push by these schools foreshadows an expected slowdown in levels of state higher education funding, at the same time that predominantly white universities are pushing harder to attract high-achieving black students.

"There is an urgency about this as we look at our network of institutions and look at trying to sustain them," said Elfred Pinkard, executive director of the Institute for Capacity Building, part of the United Negro College Fund that represents 39 private historically black schools.

Since 2006, the institute has granted more than $8.1 million to 29 member schools for projects that include increasing alumni support.

"There was a recognition that alum of these institutions represented a very important constituency that had not been tapped in any systematic way," Pinkard said.

The colleges, founded to serve blacks during segregation, have kept tuition low to help underprivileged students. That leaves little extra cash for things like fundraising, said University of Pennsylvania assistant professor Marybeth Gasman, author of "Supporting Alma Mater: Successful Strategies for Securing Funds from Black College Alumni."

They also have historically been reluctant to ask former students, already paying off loans, to give more money. At the same time, black alumni haven't always had the income of graduates from predominantly white schools, Gasman said.

"Their alumni have had more access to income, to assets, and thus could give back," Gasman said, adding that blacks also tend to give more to churches.

But at Norfolk State University, alumni giving has grown from 2 percent to 8.2 percent since 2000, nudged, officials say, by graduates who are more moneyed at younger ages.

"As we get some of the majors that we have now, for example the optical engineering, there are individuals leaving college with decent salaries," said Phillip Adams, interim vice president for university advancement.

And there are potentially more of them: 142,420 bachelor's degrees were conferred to blacks in 2005-2006, up from fewer than 92,000 a decade earlier, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

But among black colleges' top resources, say some, is alumni loyalty.

"Many of our alum respond to our institutions as providing an opportunity when many other institutions would not have. So they give back," Pinkard said.

Friday, April 4, 2008

Alabama A&M Agriculture Dean Becomes Caribbean Science Icon

Huntsville, Ala. —- The new dean of Alabama A&M University’s School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences will receive the highest distinction among Caribbean scientists.

Dr. Robert W. Taylor, a soil chemist, has been inducted as a “Caribbean Icon in Science and Technology” by the Caribbean Council of Science and Technology. The honor, notes Taylor, encompasses scientists who hail from the Bahamas, Belize, Barbados, Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and others. Three years ago, he was elected to the Bahamas Science and Technology Hall of Fame.

Taylor says the award places him in the good company of numerous Caribbean notables, among them Marcus Garvey, Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Collin Powell, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier and Nobel Laureates.

Taylor entered the AAMU deanship as a Fellow in two leading international professional societies. He also served as a program officer for the National Science Foundation, considered one of the most prestigious peer review funding agencies in the world. He was elevated to the senior management when in the second year he served as Acting Deputy Division Director of the Division of Biological Infrastructure. Upon returning to AAMU, the Division presented Taylor with the Distinguished Service Award.

Taylor earned the B.S. degree from Tuskegee University in 1970. He pursued his postgraduate studies at Michigan State University, obtaining a M.S. degree in soil microbiology in 1973 and a Ph.D. in soil chemistry in 1977
Source:Black College Voice 3/8/08

Liviu Popa-Simil launched a firm to discover alternative energy source by using nanomaterial to turn radiation directly into electricity

Alabama A&M Alum, Liviu Popa-Simil, launched a private research and development firm to produce more powerful alternative energy sources by converting radiation into electricity to be used for space crafts and possibly the source of automobile fuel for the future.

Materials that directly convert radiation into electricity could produce a new era of spacecraft and even Earth-based vehicles powered by high-powered nuclear batteries, say US researchers.

Electricity is usually made using nuclear power by heating steam to rotate turbines that generate electricity.

But beginning in the 1960s, the US and Soviet Union used thermoelectric materials that convert heat into electricity to power spacecraft using nuclear fission or decaying radioactive material. The Pioneer missions were among those using the latter, "nuclear battery" approach.

Dispensing with the steam and turbines makes those systems smaller and less complicated. But thermoelectric materials have very low efficiency. Now US researchers say they have developed highly efficient materials that can convert the radiation, not heat, from nuclear materials and reactions into electricity.

Power boost
Liviu Popa-Simil, former Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear engineer and founder of private research and development company LAVM and Claudiu Muntele, of Alabama A&M University, US, say transforming the energy of radioactive particles into electricity is more effective.

The materials they are testing would extract up to 20 times more power from radioactive decay than thermoelectric materials, they calculate.

Tests of layered tiles of carbon nanotubes packed with gold and surrounded by lithium hydride are under way. Radioactive particles that slam into the gold push out a shower of high-energy electrons. They pass through carbon nanotubes and pass into the lithium hydride from where they move into electrodes, allowing current to flow.

"You load the material with nuclear energy and unload an electric current," says Popa-Simil.

Space probes
The tiles would be best used to create electricity using a radioactive material, says Popa-Simil, because they could be embedded directly where radiation is greatest. But they could also harvest power directly from a fission reactor's radiation.

Devices based on the material could be small enough to power anything from interplanetary probes to aircraft and land vehicles, he adds.

"I believe this work is innovative and could have a significant impact on the future of nuclear power," says David Poston, of the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory. However perfecting new nuclear technologies requires years of development, he adds.

Popa-Simil agrees, saying it will be at least a decade before final designs of the radiation-to-electricity concept are built.

A paper on the new nuclear power materials was presented on 25 March, at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting 2008 , San Francisco, California, US.

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Source: New Scientist News

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Thursday, April 3, 2008

The John Stallworth Scholarship Foundation's Annual Celebrity Golf Tournament

Alabam A&M Alum John Stallworth, a successful businessman, an elite Hall of Fame pro football player and philanthropist, has secured a place in the history books which will forever be etched in the hearts of Normalites. Mr. Stallworth built a $70 million engineering firm, participates in the A&M community, and continues to find time to gives back with the Starworth Scholarship Foundation and Celebrity Golf Tournament.

The John Stallworth Scholarship Foundation's Annual Celebrity Golf Tournament will be held on Friday, June 13, 2008. Bring your friends and join John Stallworth and a few of his friends at Hampton Cove Golf Course.

Immediately following the tournament a catered awards luncheon will be held at the Huntsville Botanical Garden's Pavilion.

The awards luncheon is closed to the public; only registered players, celebrities and tournament volunteer/staff members are allowed to attend. Festivities surrounding this event begin on Thursday, June 12, with our Celebrity Fundraising Dinner and Silent Auction at the Huntsville Marriott. For more information on sponsorship opportunities and tournament information, please contact the Foundation at 256-536-8050.http://www.johnstallworth.com/

Johnny Lee Stallworth (Born July 15, 1952, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama) played college football at Alabama A&M, becoming the Pittsburgh Steelers fourth-round draft pick in 1974. He played in six AFC championships and went to four Super Bowls. His career statistics were an impressive 537 receptions for 8,723 yards and 63 TDs. His receptions were a franchise record until it was surpassed by Hines Ward in 2005. Stallworth played in four Pro Bowls and was the Steelers' two-time MVP.

A native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Stallworth was an All-Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference receiver for Alabama A&M in 1972 and 1973. He is related to Ronnie Stallworth Sr. (cousin).

Stallworth, blessed with great leaping ability and excellent speed, was the 82nd player taken that year. After a rookie year as an understudy, he became a starter in his second season and held that job for the rest of his 165-game career. Stallworth did battle a series of fibula, foot, ankle, knee and hamstring injuries that forced him to miss 44 regular-season games.

He is best remembered for his heroics in the Super Bowl. In Super Bowl XIII, he caught a record-tying 75-yard touchdown pass from Terry Bradshaw that would later be a crucial touchdown in a 35-31 Steelers win over the Dallas Cowboys. He suffered leg cramps later and played sparingly in the second half, finishing with 3 receptions for 115 yards and 2 touchdowns

One year later, at Super Bowl XIV with the Steelers trailing the Los Angeles Rams 19-17 early in the fourth quarter, Steelers' coach Chuck Noll called for "60-Prevent-Slot-Hook-And-Go," a play the Steelers failed in practice prior to the big game. With 12 minutes remaining, Bradshaw dropped back and threw it long to Stallworth, who caught it and beat Rod Perry to the end zone for a 73-yard touchdown that would pave the way for the Steelers' 31-19 win and their fourth world championship. That amazing catch put Stallworth on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Overall, he recorded 3 receptions for 121 yards in the game.

Stallworth holds the Super Bowl records for career average per catch (24.4 yards) and single-game average, 40.33 yards in Super Bowl XIV. He had 12 touchdown receptions and a string of 17 straight games with a reception in post-season play. Stallworth also scored touchdowns in eight straight playoff games at one point (1978-1983), an NFL record.

He led the AFC with a career-high 1,395 yards gained on 80 receptions in 1984, when he was named the NFL Comeback Player of the Year. That year, he led the Steelers in a surprising playoff run that featured an upset win over the Denver Broncos in the AFC Divisional Playoffs at Denver's Mile High Stadium. The next week, the Steelers fell one game short of reaching Super Bowl XIX by losing to the Miami Dolphins in the AFC Championship Game.

Stallworth earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and an MBA with a concentration in Finance from Alabama A&M University.

In 1986, he founded Madison Research Corporation (MRC). The company specialized in providing engineering and information technology services to government and commercial clients. Under Stallworth's leadership, MRC grew to more than 650 employees and $69.5 million in revenues (FY03). MRC manages six regional offices: Huntsville, AL (headquarters); Warner Robins, Ga.; Orlando and Shalimar, Fla.; Montgomery, Ala.; Houston, Texas; and Dayton, Ohio. In October 2006, the sale of MRC to WFI was completed, and at that time it was announced that Stallworth would pursue other interests.

Stallworth was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in August 2002.
(bio source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stallworth)





How I Did It: John Stallworth, CEO, Madison Research

An athlete scores again.
By: John Stallworth
Published August 2006
As told to Patrick J. Sauer of Inc Magazine



Even before the close of his Hall of Fame football career, John Stallworth was thinking ahead. In 1986, six years after catching a 73-yard touchdown pass in Super Bowl XIV and two years before he retired, Stallworth founded Madison Research with his wife, Flo, and Sam Hazelrig, a retired Army engineer he'd met at his son's soccer game. Over the last two decades, Madison--an engineering and IT company based in Huntsville, Alabama, that handles system design, modeling, analysis, logistical support, program management, facility operations, security, and network administration for clients such as the Army, the Air Force, and NASA--has blossomed into a $62 million operation with 470 employees. The funny thing is, Stallworth seems so driven to create a relaxed culture with happy employees that it almost sounds as if he's talking about a vegan coffee shop rather than a cog in the military-industrial complex.


I grew up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It was an interesting time. I was both in awe of the University of Alabama athletic program and swept up in the civil rights movement. It was a little scary--you knew there was a line out there, and you could be hurt if you crossed it.
When I was a freshman, my high school had only been integrated for three years. At pep rallies, our battle song was Dixie and you would always look out and see Rebel flags. A lot of students said it was tradition and didn't mean anything, but there was also a group that was sensitive to the implications. As athletes, we were sort of in the middle, but we forged a camaraderie between the blacks and whites on our team. We all drank from the same water bucket.
There was a certain humility to our Steeler teams. We were like partners, even more than teammates. Our success was based on the interdependency with the guy next to you. Making Terry Bradshaw look good by catching the ball was no more important than throwing a block for Franco Harris. We truly believed this, and that's how we were able to do things that had never been done before.


Early on, I felt like my being a football player was something our company had to overcome, so I didn't wear my Super Bowl rings or have memorabilia in the office. I'd go to a meeting and all they would want to do is talk football. I never brought football up because the worst perception about it is that it's not a cerebral game. I had to prove that I was intelligent and that the business was legitimate.


I decided our greatest chance for success would be starting a company that supported the federal government because it has mandated procurements for small businesses. We incorporated in 1986 and I was majority owner, Hazelrig had about 40 percent, and my wife had a percentage.



A lot of folks told me to figure out what we did well and pursue that niche. I never liked that strategy because what if the niche goes bad? I wanted our company to do at least five or six things, so I made a list of things to focus on: a combination of prototype manufacturing, IT, and logistics. It was difficult when we were starting out because we didn't have the personnel to run deep on every project.


In 1987, we signed our first contract with the United States Army for $271,000. Hazelrig was crucial in helping us get it because we were still only three people and he understood what the military wanted. He spoke their language. I was a little intimidated by the generals because of my inexperience, even though some of them knew me from the NFL. We ended up building two stands with gauges and such for testing parts on the M1 tank. We didn't make a penny on that contract, but it opened doors and allowed us to hire support personnel.


By 1992, Madison Research was becoming a recognized name and we started getting prime contracts instead of subs. In 1995 we won a $50 million contract to run a computer simulation center for the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command. When it came up for bid again in 2002, nobody competed against us.


Hazelrig retired in 2000, and I've ceded day-to-day operations. I now serve as a more traditional CEO, coming into the office every day and concentrating on strategic planning, developing relationships, meeting with clients, and continually updating and implementing the company's five-year plan. My other important function is serving as a role model for company culture. We put together a list of core values for the company, which include having a place where people enjoy working because they are treated with respect. I want my people to be relaxed because then they will feel comfortable voicing their opinions. There is a time to be serious, but there is also a time to have fun, share a meal, or just talk about family. That's how the Steeler organization operated, and we have the same culture.



The worst perception about football is that it's not a cerebral game. I had to prove that I was intelligent and that the business was legitimate.
I like the public sector model because the competition is based on the best proposal and not always the cost. There's a quality of fairness to it. Sometimes the margins of the private sector look pretty good, but I like knowing we will always get paid and that the federal government is never going out of business.


Minority set-asides weren't something we thought a lot about when we started Madison, but sure, we went after the contracts and took advantage of those programs. I believe we used them for what they were intended--to help minority business owners build an infrastructure, grow, get experience, and compete with established companies. We haven't used them for five or six years, though. We outgrew them.

We've set up air defense systems in Egypt and Norway and for our troops in Afghanistan. Look at who many of our ultimate users are: soldiers. Since the beginning, I've known that we are supporting the military in conflicts all over the world. Somebody's life could depend on how this company--my company--does its job. That's very sobering.


As African American entrepreneurs, we need to be role models and speak to our young people at churches, schools, Boys Clubs, etc. We need them to understand the pain and sweat that goes into any profession, whether it's the year I missed when I broke my leg, came back for a game, and broke my foot, or when I didn't get paid for months on end building Madison Research. We need our young athletes to understand that less than 1 percent go on to play professionally. We need to define ourselves by more than catching footballs or shooting jumpers.


One day a single mother came into my office. She'd been working with us for five months and she broke down in tears telling me how much she needed the job for her family and her own sense of self-worth. That was the greatest feeling I've ever had. It rivals anything I ever felt in athletics.


I was overjoyed when the Steelers won the Super Bowl last year, especially for the Rooney family. They've done it the right way. Who else would only have two head coaches for 37 seasons? Through good times and bad, they've stood by Chuck Noll and Bill Cowher. I use that belief system in running my own company. Stick with folks, and it will pay off in the end.

Source: Inc. Magazine August 2006

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

The 25th Anniversary Circle City Classic Double Header October 4th Weekend


Alabama A&M University will play in the second game of the Circle City Classic against Tuskegee, the 2007 SBN National Champions. The American Family Insurance Weekend presents the 25th Anniversary Circle City Classic featuring two games, between big competitors. This HBCU tradition will be watched by millions on BET, as the two match off at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis Saturday October 4, 2008.

The 25th Anniversary Circle City Classic Double Header
Game 1: Central State University vs. Kentucky State University
Game 2: Alabama A&M University vs. Tuskegee University

The Circle City Classic enters it's third decade as one of America’s top football classics and favorite weekend celebrations. While the name and the quality of the game remains the same, the weekend has gained a name of its own, the American Family Insurance Classic Weekend featuring the Circle City Classic.

The football game is the showcase event as it features some of the best rivalries in black college football. The weekend is a celebration of cultural excellence and educational achievement while showcasing the spirit, energy and tradition of America’s historically black colleges and universities. Over 175,000 spectators visit downtown Indianapolis for this historic event.


For more information, contact info@circlecityclassic.com or call 317-237-5222.
www.circlecityclassic.com
The Circle City Classic is a joint collaboration between Indiana Black Expo, Inc. and the Indiana Sports Corporation. The net proceeds from the classic help support youth initiatives for each organization. Since 1984, over $1,000,000 in scholarships have been awarded to deserving youth who attend colleges and universities. Additionally, each year the Classics's educational partner, the Indianapolis Black Alumni Council, host an educational college fair that exposes over 2,500 youth to colleges and universities with scholarship opportunities exceeding $3 million.

Annually 150,000 people including from all over America travel to the city of Indianapolis to experience a exciting weekend...a weekend that brings mega-superstars to the Circle City to perform at concerts and comedy show...a weekend where African-American heroes and legends are honored...a weekend that features a spectacular parade unmatched by any...a weekend that features black college football's best colliding on the gridiron in the RCA Dome...a weekend that celebrates African American cultural excellence and educational achievement while showcasing the tradition and quality of America's historically Black colleges and universities. It's the American Family Insurance Classic Weekend featuring the Coca-Cola Circle City Classic.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

“Alabama Big 3” HBCU Washington DC Metro Alumni Scholarship Gala Honors Dr. William E. Cox


On Friday April 25, 2008, Alabama A&M, Alabama State and Tuskegee will host an evening to remember honoring Dr. William Cox, President & CEO of Cox, Matthews & Associates, in the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott Hotel in Greenbelt Maryland.

Alabama A&M Alumus, DR. WILLIAM E. COX is the president of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine, and is a noted expert on development of adult education. Dr. Cox earned his undergraduate degree from Alabama A&M University class of ‘64, two masters’ degrees in psychology and public administration from Ball State University, and a doctorate degree in higher education administration from George Washington University. In addition, Dr. Cox has taken both graduate and post-graduate courses at the College of William and Mary, Harvard University and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

While in the Airforce, Dr. Cox was responsible for the worldwide network of U.S. Air Force counseling professionals, and is recognized as a leading authority on the development and delivery of adult education and counseling services to military personnel. He has developed and conducted higher education programs for the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, and performed design work on the Apollo spacecraft ground support system during his tenure at General Electric.

Dr. Cox is a member of the Board of Trustees of Excelsior College, the American Counseling Association Foundation Board, the Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students (BACCHUS) Board, the Advisory Boards of Millennium Bank of Reston, Va., the National Council for Education and Human Development at The George Washington University and the University of the District of Columbia Business School. He is also a life member of both the NAACP and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. Dr. Cox has been happily married for 40 years and has two grandchildren. He enjoys reading, music, playing with his grandchildren, and divides his time between his homes in Virginia and Hermosa Beach, Costa Rica.


“United for a Common Goal”
Washington, DC Area Alumni Chapters:
Alabama A&M University, Alabama State University & Tuskegee University
Cordially invites you to the Alumni Scholarship Gala
Friday, April 25, 2008
Reception & Silent Auction 7:00-8:00 p.m.
Dinner 8:00-9:30 p.m.
Gala 9:30-12:30
Greenbelt Marriott
(Grand Ballroom)
6400 Ivy Lane
Greenbelt, Maryland

Attire: Semi-Formal
Donation: $70.00
($75.00 after March 28, 2008)
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