Summer 2016 JobTrain Newsletter

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Breakast of Champions 2016
Rise of the Champions
What a morning! On June 3, 2016, nearly 800 business, labor and community leaders gathered at the Santa Clara
Convention Center to celebrate the success of our students and graduates under the aptly named banner “Rise of the
Champions.” The Breakfast was a success by any measure. This year, JobTrain wants to give a special thank you to Jan
Hutchins, who passed the baton to JobTrain board member, Rita Williams after more than three decades as emcee of
the Breakfast. Some of the special guests who joined the students at this year’s Breakfast included Mayor Pro Tem of
Menlo Park Kirsten Keith, San Mateo City Councilmember Rick Bonilla, San Jose Vice-Mayor Rose Herrera, East Palo
Alto City Councilmembers Lisa Gauthier, Larry Moody, and Ruben Abrica, who also serves on JobTrain’s Board of
Directors. Other luminaries attending this year’s Breakfast, included Silicon Valley Business Legend Paul M. Cook, NFL
Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott, San Francisco Giants Public Address Announcer and this year’s Breakfast Role Model Award
Winner Renel Brooks-Moon, and Facebook Chief Financial Officer and featured speaker Dave Wehner.
Each year at the Breakfast, JobTrain honors a graduate with the Paul M. Cook Alumni Award. This year’s winner, Rickey
W., a graduate of the Laborers Construction Fundamentals Training Program, had been in and out of prison for the past
20 years and never had a job. While incarcerated, Rickey was able to attend JobTrain through the San Mateo County
Sheriff’s Work Furlough Program. At the Breakfast, it was announced that Rickey was accepted into Local Labor Union
261 and would start his new job at a San Francisco Public Utilities Commission job site. Speaking at the Breakfast,
Rickey shared a poem he wrote, which included the following:
“I’m awake now my eyes are open. I’m no longer clueless, I once lived foolish. But what’s real about fate is that
I could become the next David Lewis. Giving back to my community, giving back cause I was always a taker. I’m
sure I’ve been looked at as a lot of things, but I’ve never been viewed as a faker. People always tell me it was never
about you being a leader, it’s about which way you will go. I’ve done the math and I’m on the path now to give
back cause I owe. I would like to thank you all for giving me this time to open my mind and hopefully touch a few
souls.”
Featured speaker Dave Wehner spoke to the audience of resilience and determination. Role Model Award winner
Renel Brooks-Moon spoke eloquently about her life and the challenges she overcame to get to where she is today.
The room came to their feet when Ronnie Lott pulled out a $20 bill and called upon the audience to reach into their
pockets and do the same for JobTrain! What an inspirational moment of coming together to help those most in need.
JobTrain would like to thank Presenting Sponsor Facebook, Premier Sponsor Google.org, and other major sponsors
including, the Morgan Family Foundation, Bohannon Foundation, the Chamberlain Family, Paul and Marcia Cook, Scott
Kaspick and Susan Termohlen, John and Cynthia Lovewell, The Matteson Companies, Dean Morton,
TE Connectivity, and United Airlines.
Newsletter: The Works
Summer 2016
JobTrain Celebrates Breakfast of Champions 2016
CEO’s Corner: Time To Fix The
Broken Pathway
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence.” Helen Keller
Helen Keller was, by any standard, a miracle. Despite facing a myriad of
challenges, she became an amazing role model of success in the face of
incredible odds. She didn’t do it alone; she had advocates in her family, her teacher and her friend. She
contributed at a time in society that would have relegated her to silence, in a place where she could
make no contribution.
We witnessed another amazing story at this year’s Breakfast of Champions when Rickey W., told us his
story through poetry. At 40, having experienced years of incarceration, he came to JobTrain, trained for
a construction job and ended up with his first full time job as an employee at San Francisco Public
Utilities Commission. Rickey should not have been able to make that speech, or ever find a job. But
with the right combination of support, training, and most especially his own determination and will
power… we all shared in that incredible moment. The bottom line, had he not been optimistic, and had
we not believed, his success would never have happened.
JobTrain and its amazing supporters have, for over 50 years, made sure that people who are willing to
make that leap have the opportunity to realize their dreams. As our annual report in September will
show, our impact and people served continues to grow. However, thousands more need our help and
we need to tell their story.
I am heartened to see that both major political parties have started to talk about the importance of a
skills development pathway for people like Rickey. But we know that we need more information to help
convince policy makers and people beyond our immediate community to invest time and resources for
those we serve. They need to understand that a direct pathway to college and university cannot be the
only road. With the help of Tipping Point Community, we are developing a report that will use data to
demonstrate both the need and the impact of creating a bridge to mend the part of the pathway that is
broken.
As Helen Keller said, “optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.” We know that this report
(coming in late November) is just the beginning. We believe that there is a story to be told and that
JobTrain can be the voice to tell that story. Stay tuned!
Nora Sobolov
President and CEO
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CONNEC T WITH US ON:
For Generations to Come
Your Legacy, JobTrain’s Future
Over the last half-century, JobTrain has changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of our community’s most vulnerable citizens. People who were on welfare,
returning from prison, laid-off from work, recovering from substance abuse, the young and the elderly, all have turned to JobTrain for help. At JobTrain, they
were able to acquire new skills, and launch new careers, which restored their sense of worth – transforming them into enthusiastic participants in our
community.
We want to ensure that JobTrain will be here for the next fifty years, helping generations to come. The Legacy Program will help guarantee JobTrain’s future by
including the organization in your wills and trusts. JobTrain hopes that you will consider being part of this very important campaign. JobTrain is here to provide
you with information about these opportunities and can inform you of personal benefits and will work with your financial and legal advisors. One way or
another, you, JobTrain and the community we serve will all benefit!
Current JobTrain Board Treasurer Jerry Hurwitz commented that:
“What our legacy giving will do is to assure income over the long-term. If your children are like mine, they undoubtedly listen carefully and follow-through
with everything you tell them to do. If for some reason, that is not the case for you, your heirs may not continue giving to your favorite causes. So it is up to
us now, to make the commitment to support JobTrain for many years into the future.”
Another benefit of becoming a Legacy Partner is that once you notify JobTrain that you have decided to include us in your estate plans, you are automatically
eligible to become a Future Fifty Friend! The Future Fifty Friends is a new prestigious auxiliary group that will receive special recognition from JobTrain. Please
know, that we will never ask you the amount or terms of your gift.
Former JobTrain Board Chairman Russell Pyne has this to say about the Legacy Program:
“When my wife Helen and I sat down to create our estate plan, we talked about what was important to us. JobTrain was a clear priority – because of the
opportunity JobTrain gives to people seeking a hand up the ladder of success, its profound impact on the community and the positive influence JobTrain has
had on us and our four children. Volunteering at JobTrain has become a Pyne family tradition and each of us has been inspired by our experiences. We want
our financial support to help JobTrain make a difference now and for many years into the future!”
JobTrain Bids Farewell to
Nate “the Great” Thurmond
Save the Date!
JobTrain’s Open House - Thurs., September 15, 2016, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Join us for tours of our facility, meet and greet instructors and students,
and see our students at work - including hands-on demonstrations!
Annual Report and Report to Stakeholders - September 30th
Thanks for Giving - Thursday, November 17, 2016, 11:30 a.m.
Fall Graduation - Monday November 21, 2016
Ceremony begins at 7:00 p.m.
To learn more about these events, please contact Siosiua “C2” Vea
at (650) 330-6567 or [email protected].
JobTrain bid farewell to dear friend and supporter Nate Thurmond on July 16,
2016 at the age of 74.
Nate spent the majority of his 14-year career in the NBA with the Golden State
Warriors. He attended many of JobTrain’s annual Breakfast of Champions and
presented the very first Role Model Award to Golden State Warrior Coach Al
Attles.
JobTrain extends our deepest condolences to his family, friends and many fans.
Finding Talent with JobTrain
A New Partnership with Stanford Health Care
JobTrain is excited to announce a new partnership with Stanford Health Care (SHC). Stanford Medicine is in the process of modernizing and expanding their
resources which includes an expanded and modernized hospital for children and expectant mothers. A new adult hospital will add more beds, private rooms,
state-of-the-art operating suites and streamlined services. An expanded emergency department will serve even more patients.
With this expansion, there is a need to find skilled and qualified frontline workers before the grand opening of the new hospital in 2018. JobTrain was
approached in the spring of 2015 to assist with this huge recruitment undertaking. This partnership will be beneficial to both partners by aiding Stanford Health
Care in obtaining well-trained qualified employees to meet their needs, and assist JobTrain in its mission of helping its students find sustainable and rewarding
careers.
Stanford Health Care recruiters and JobTrain are working to finalize a hiring strategy. This partnership has also opened up important externship and clinical
opportunities for students in JobTrain’s Medical Assistant program.
We welcome this opportunity to help supply Stanford Health Care with talented JobTrain candidates and thank them for choosing JobTrain.
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JobTrain’s John Gachina
Memorial Golf Tournament & Auction
Welcome to New
Board Member
The beautiful Stanford Golf Course was host to JobTrain’s 2016 John Gachina Memorial Golf Tournament and Auction.
On Monday, August 8, 2016, friends and supporters of JobTrain gathered at the Stanford Golf Course for
the John Gachina Memorial Golf Tournament and Auction. JobTrain’s Golf tournament and Auction is one
of Silicon Valley’s most popular golf fundraisers. The support the tournament garners helps advance
JobTrain’s mission of providing quality educational and vocational training programs to our community.
Once again, KPMG was the Presenting Sponsor, joined by Cooley LLP as our Golf Cart Sponsor and
Facebook as a Pin Flag Sponsor. Special thanks go out to United Airlines for their continued support of
providing travel vouchers.
Golfers enjoyed an exciting day of play on the green, including special contest holes, such as Closest to
the Pin, Longest Drive, the ever exciting Vegas Hole and our special Hole in One where players could win a
2016 Maserati Ghibli! The Maserati Ghibli was provided courtesy of Ferrari Maserati Silicon Valley. Golfers
also were treated to a meet and greet with Stanford Golf Coach Conrad Ray!
Following the tournament, golfers and their guests enjoyed music by electric violinist Jennifer Spingola
and lite dinner fare and cocktails provided by Coupa Café. The highlight of the evening came with a bevy
of luxury auction items including a package trip to London & St. Andrews, a Beautiful Belize Experience,
a Wine and Dine with Celebrity Top Chef Contestant Chad White, Dinner for six at the home of JobTrain’s
own Board Member Restaurateur Chef Jesse Cool, and much more! Guests also had the opportunity to
show their support by directly impacting the lives of JobTrain students with JobTrain’s always popular Fund
A Future auction item.
Special tribute was paid to longtime friend and partner of JobTrain, John Gachina, Founder and President
of Gachina Landscape Management who passed away on December 27, 2015. For many years, John
provided JobTrain with free landscaping at its 1200 O’Brien Drive facility. The idea for JobTrain’s Organic
Garden also originated with John. John donated the land, the expertise, and all the materials to make the
garden happen. JobTrain is so grateful to John, his family, and all at Gachina Landscape Management for
their generosity and support and was proud to name its Golf Tournament and Auction in his honor.
Literacy Project Makes Reading
Fun For Children and Families
The children in JobTrain’s Child Development Center
are enjoying new books and a personalized
bookcase, thanks to a partnership between
JobTrain, Bring Me a Book, and JobTrain’s Project
Build students. Special thanks goes to the Morgan
Family Foundation for providing funding for this
literacy project.
Anees was formerly the Co-founder and CEO of
GameCrush, a website dedicated to the
monetization of social interactions through video
gaming. He has extensive experience in Management, Systems Architecture/Administration, and IT
and has held various leadership positions and
consulting roles at leading companies such as
Bigbook, Inc., Egreetings Network, Inc.,
Auctionwatch, Inc., BroadVision, Inc., and Spansion,
Inc.
Anees holds a B.A. in English from the University of
California, Santa Barbara and a M.B.A from the
University of San Francisco. Anees was born and
raised in Daly City, CA and is currently a resident of
East Palo Alto, CA with his wife and two children.
WISH LIST
JobTrain instructors and staff have submitted the
following list of needs. Please help if you can!
Bring Me a Book (BMAB), provided beautiful new
books and the template for the children’s
bookcases. JobTrain’s Project Build (carpentry
students) built the bookcases for the children.
BMAB also provided parents in the Child
Development Center with a Literacy Workshop on
the importance of reading with their children daily.
After the Workshop, parents and children
decorated their bookcases. The families enjoyed
personalizing their bookcases with their children, to
make reading special and fun!
Health Care Programs
• 20 New Certified Nurse Assistant textbooks
• Scrub tops (red)
• Scrub pants (black)
• Blood pressure cuffs
• Stethoscopes
ASE/GED Preparation Class:
• TI-30XS Multiview calculators
• $82 for a set of books to accompany Fast Forward
GED Digital Program
• $25 Gift Cards to cover the cost of 4 practice tests
for 1 student
• $140 Gift cards to cover 4 official tests for 1
student
SummerWinds Nursery and Happy Hollow also
donated over 2,000 high-quality, almost new books.
As a result, all 24 children in the Child Development
Center took home a full bookcase – 2 new bilingual
books from BMAB, and a selection of books from
SummerWinds. JobTrain is thrilled with this
project, as it not only gave children their own
bookcase and books; it also provided job skills
training for our students in our Project Build class.
Thanks to all our partners who helped with this
project, which is helping children gain literacy skills.
JobTrain is pleased to welcome Anees Iqbal to the
JobTrain Board of Directors. Anees is a 19-year
Silicon Valley IT veteran and serial entrepreneur
with a background in IT enterprise, cloud consulting,
and Internet Services. He is currently responsible
for creating and sustaining cloud operations for one
of the largest enterprise private clouds (over 100K
virtual machines) at VMWare, Inc. (VMW).
Culinary Arts Program:
• Commercial level ice cream maker
• Air conditioner
“Me and my grandma had fun putting stickers on my
bookcase,” says Andres of the Child Development Center
Thank you!
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Thank You to Our Donors
$100,000+
Facebook, Inc.
The Grove Foundation
Tipping Point Community
$50,000 to $99,999
Sand Hill Foundation
The Morgan Family Foundation
Tides Foundation
$25,000 to $49,999
Bank of America
Frederick and Faith Duhring
KPMG LLP
Leslie Family Foundation
San Francisco Foundation
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
The Women’s Foundation of California
Wells Fargo Foundation
$10,000 to $24,999
Anonymous
Anonymous3
Asset Management Company
Chamberlain Family6
Component Fund of the Maine Community Foundation
Paul and Marcia Cook
Cooley LLP
David D. Bohannon Organization
Genentech, Inc.
Kaspick/Termohlen Family Fund3
John and Cynthia Lovewell
Duncan L. and Shirley C. Matteson
Dean Morton5
Mr. and Mrs. Craig Sharper
TE Connectivity
$5,000 to $9,999 Anonymous
Ferrari Family Foundation
Gachina Landscape Management
LinkedIn Corporation
Russell and Helen Pyne
Lisa and Matthew Sonsini3
Alice Wallace
$2,000 to $4,999
Arborwell
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy and Simon Cassidy
Steve Dostart and Sharon Indira Meers
Irwin and Concepción Federman
Dottie Free
Richard and Anjali Hanley
J&J Air Conditioning, Inc.
Keenan Land Company
Wade and Chisato Loo
Lund Foundation3
Markkula Foundation
Northern California Carpenters Regional Council
Peter Parkinson and Nora Sobolov
Patrick Pichette
ProInsurance Services, LLC
Rotary Club of Menlo Park
Steven E. Schmidbauer and Martin P. Herrick
Jeanne and Leonard Ware
$1,000 to $1,999
Ameritrade Clearing
Polly and Tom Bredt
Ralph and Betty Britton
Jeffrey T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Fund5
Gordon and Carolyn Davidson5
The East Creek Fund3
Fischer Family1
Fritz Insurance Agency
John and LuAnne Graves6
Harvey and June Hammer
Heising Simons1
Melmon Family Foundation
Palo Alto Lions Charities, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Jeffers Pickard1
Stanford Memorial Church
Woodland Park Communities3
$500 to $999
Eli Abbe
Anonymous (2)
Edward W. and Jimi Barnholt
Curt and Dudley Carlson
Thomas H. Clewe Charitable Gift Fund1
Catherine DeLuca
Carl and Meredith Ditmore5
James Isaacs and Page Mailliard
Deborah and Werner Ju
Kully Kooner and Nirmy Kang
William and Donna Krepick5
Karen Lundberg
Hubert and Rachelle Marshall
Patrick and Nancy McGaraghan
Lebo and Merrill Newman
Northern California Chapter NFL Alumni, Inc.
George and Karen Offen
San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office
Martha Shirk1
Dudley/Sieloff Family5
Stephen and Paula Smith
Synopsys, Inc.
5
Up to $499
Agilent Technologies Employee Giving Campaign
Aurora Aguilar
Arthur E. and Rena L. Albert
AmazonSmile Foundation
Anonymous (11)
Joanne and David Arata
Kaylyn and Michael Armstrong
Stephen Baiter and Aimee Delongchamp
Kyle Barriger Jr.
Richard A. Baumgartner and Elizabeth Salzer
Sharon D. Beard
Belly Fire Branding
Martin M. Berndt
Cathy Blake
Susan Blau
Martha W. Bond
Carolyn and Steve Bowsher
Michael R. and Sheila J. Brand
Stephen and Mary Jo Brimhall
Richard Brown and Anita Schubert Brown
Kathleen Brownell
Luisa Buada, RN, MPH
John and Jenny Carreno
Jennifer and Joseph Castello
Phillip and Michele Chavez
Robert and Anita Chiles
Ruth and George Chippendale
Eve and Herbert Clark
Katherine Clark-Kelly
Classic Car Wash
Walter R. and Jane Day
Candace Deanes
Mark and Cheri Devlin
Albert and Dora Dien
Don and Maryellen Douglas
Ed and Joyce Drake5
Cathey L. Edwards
Alonzo and Mary Emery
Theresa L. Ende
Adrienne Eng
Gudrun Enger
Taia Ergueta and Gary Kah
Mary Ericsson
Elisa Estrada
Teri and Joe Eyre
Patricia Faust
Anthony Flores
Barbara and Stephen Fox
Meir and Dafna Friedlander
Deborah E. Gallegos
Jo Rawlins Gilbert
Lea and Brian Goldstein
Assembly Member Richard Gordon
Robert L. Greenfield
Ronald J. Harper
Edward S. and Abigail H. Hartford
Shuji Hasegawa
Sandy and Frank Hedley
William Heinz
Michael E. and Ruth H. Hodos
Rob and Mary Hurlston
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Ives
Cynthia R. Jacobson
Drew Johnson and Elizabeth E. Joblin
Vidya and Stephen Kagan
Steven Kalikow
Douglas A. and Rebecca D. Karlson
Yeprem and Judy Kelegian
William and Elizabeth Kelly
Anita Kelly
Carolyn D. Kiely
Kirkpatrick Family1
KLA-Tencor Corporation
Edward S. Klotz
Alexander G. Kobayashi
Robert Kodweis
Paul and Jackie Kuckein
Amy L. Lansky
Matthew Larsen
Barbara W. Lawson
LindaSue and Michel Liu
Anne and Brent Lucas
Tracey Maas
Peter and Heather Macdonald
Joan and Ib M. Madsen
Donna Marcus
Mary Marsh
Janet A. Martin
Danae McLaughlin
Robert McMillen
Dr. Faye McNair-Knox
Charles and Karen Mesirow
Donna Miller
Irene Miller-Guaraglia and Paul Guaraglia
Douglas and Beth Mohr
Hugh Molotsi
Jeffrey and Janice Morton
Robert and Harriet Moss
Mark and Laurie Muenchow
Merrill and Alicia Newman
Keith and Leslie Ota Nordman
Robert and Elisabeth Edson Nordman
Notre Dame Institute No. 124
One East Palo Alto
John and Maria O’Shaughnessy
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
George Papadoyannis
Brian Perkins and Cathrin Callas
Project WeHope
Joan Ramage
Christine Rammler
Nancy and Glenn Rankin1
Rob and Julie Reis
Matt and Laurie Rohrbach
Doris C. Santana
Schaumann Philanthropic5
Maybelle M. Schumacher Trust
Bernice Schwabacher
Barbara P. Sheldon
Philip and Sheri Shemanski
Pete and Gail Shoemaker
Stuart and Terry Silverman
Thomas and Deanna Slater
Gail Slocum
Dr. Frank and Mrs. Karen Sortino
Bryan Srabian
Roshni and Murari Srinivasan
Stauffer Family Fund3
Homer and Mallory Stevens
Dorothy H. Stivers
Board of
Directors
Ruben Abrica
Jesse Cool
Teri Eyre
Bud Ferrari
Richard Hanley
Jerry Hurwitz
March 1, 2016 - June 30, 2016
Rebecca and Nick Sunseri
Joeleen Tacdol
The Benevity Community Impact Fund
The Party Staff Inc.
James C. Thompson and Sandra I. Hietala
Charlene Trinh
Charlotte and Harry Turner
Beth Urfer
Mary Vollinger
Verma Walton
Roger and Joan Warnke
Martin Wheaton
J. Arthur and Charleen M. White
Robert Wilcox
Michael and Virginia Williams
Sharon and Will Williams
Rita C. Williams and Lindsay Bowen
Amanda Wong
Anita Wotiz and R. E. Meeker, Jr.
Bethzabe I. Yanez
In-Kind Gifts
Judith E. Abbott
Helen Baumann
Susan Blau
Susan Boiko
Karol Bondy
Catherine DeLuca
Sharon Kristensen
Sarah Donaldson
Vonnie Estes
Suzanne Fortune
Jeanette Garretty
Romola and Mark Georgia
Joan and Alan Henricks
Jamie Hui
Marguerite B. Janopaul
Drew Johnson and Elizabeth E. Joblin
Robert P. and Sandra D. Kahn
J. Scott Kaspick and Susan Termohlen
Praveen Khilnani
Carol Lamont
Joanna Martin
Jessica Mauch
Mariar McKenna
Danae McLaughlin
Michele and John McNellis
Elyce Melmon
Clem and Jane Molony
Sue Oppenheimer
Nancy and William Peacock
Patrick Pichette
Richard Reitman
Michelle Rotzin
Mary and Allen Ryan
Marc Shaw
Pete and Gail Shoemaker
Alexandra Smith
Brenda Smith
Myriena Jo Stokes
Erica Walden
Webcor Builders Incorporated
Cory Wolbach
Carolyn Yee
Dr. Pai-Ling Yin
Donor-advised fund of Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
1
Donor-advised fund of the Jewish Community
Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Federation of
San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma
Counties
2
Donor-advised fund of Silicon Valley Community
Foundation
3
Donor advised fund of Vanguard Charitable Endowment
Program
4
Charitable Gift Account at Schwab Charitable Fund
5
Donor advised fund of Morgan Stanley Global Impact
Funding Trust Inc.
6
Donor advised fund of Benevity Community Impact
Fund, a fund of the American Endowment Foundation
7
Donor advised fund of the Los Altos Community
Foundation
8
UBS donor advised fund of National Philanthropic Trust
9
Donor advised fund of Goldman Sachs Philanthropy
Fund
10
Donor advised fund of Impact Assets, Inc.
11
Donor advised fund of The T. Rowe Price Program for
Charitable Giving
12
We have made every effort to list donors accurately. If
you have any questions or concerns about this list, please
contact Reshma Putnam at (650) 330-6436 or
[email protected].
Our Mission
JobTrain is committed to helping those who are most
in need to succeed. Our purpose is to improve the lives
of people in our community through assessment,
attitude and job skills training, and high potential
career placement.
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J. Scott Kaspick
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Kristin Reinke
Becky Sunseri
Charlene Trinh
Tara VanDerveer
Michael Williams
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