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SUMMARY:The Magisterium and Catholic Social Doctrine
DESCRIPTION:Debates about Catholic social doctrine often revolve around whether a given theory or practice is compatible with the magisterium or not.  There is a scholarly literature on the nature and scope of the magisterium\, but little has been written on the magisterium as it pertains to social doctrine. This paper explores what the magisterial documents and scholarship says about the sources\, levels\, and scope of the magisterium in relation to social doctrine.  The better we understand the magisterium in relation social doctrine\, the more charitable and fruitful debate will be. \nThe presenter\, P. Bracy Bersnak is associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College in Front Royal\, Virginia.  He received master’s degrees in modern European history and political theory and his Ph.D. in political theory from the Catholic University of America. \nThe respondent\, Dr James Bergida is a Junior Research Fellow of the Hall and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/magisterium-and-catholic-social-doctrine/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
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SUMMARY:Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nWeekly online discussions on sections of Dorothy Day’s The Long Loneliness. \nDorothy Day is one of the most interesting Catholics of the 20th century. An American convert to Catholicism from radical socialism\, she founded the Catholic Worker movement\, which developed and practices a sort of Catholic anarchism. Her readily available autobiography\, The Long Loneliness\, is nicely written\, honest\, clear\, thought-provoking and not too long. We will read the book carefully\, and discuss everything from politics to liturgy\, from conversion to modern holiness. \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, and by James Bergida\, Junior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College. \n  \nSchedule: \nWeek One (April 27): Introduction and All chapters from “Confession” through “Home” \nWeek Two (May 4): “Adolescence” through “Journalism” \nWeek Three (May 11): “The Masses” through “A Time for Searching” \nWeek Four (May 18): “Man Is Meant for Happiness” through “Love Overflows” \nWeek Five (May 25) “Jobs and Journeys” and “Peasants of the Pavements” \nWeek Six (June 1): “Paper\, People\, and Work” and “Labor” \nWeek Seven (June 8): “Community” through “Retreat” \nWeek Eight (June 15): “’War Is the Health of the State’” through “Postcript” \n  \nFree and open for all. Registration is required. \nFor more information: Contact Edward Hadas (edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk) \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dorothy-day-the-long-loneliness/2022-05-04/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220510T160000
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SUMMARY:“How oft have I with public voice run on …?”: Elizabeth Cary\, Aemilia Lanyer\, and the Christian Literary Imagination
DESCRIPTION:The Christian Literary Imagination Series\n \nContinuing from the previous academic year\, over the course of the 2021-22 academic year the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford. The ‘Christian Literary Imagination Series’ will explore the role and function of the arts and humanities in the development of the individual and society. \nThe hour-long virtual events will be followed by a Q & As chaired by Professor Michael Scott and Rev Fr Joseph Simmons SJ. These events are free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University. \nRecent creative responses to Aemilia Lanyer’s poems in Salve Rex Judaeorum (1611) and Elizabeth Cary’s play The Tragedy of Mariam\, Fair Queen of Jewry (1613) suggest that while in the early modern period the gender of these authors was the major issue in relation to them claiming a public voice\, today it is the Christian imagination—literary and theatrical—of Lanyer and Cary respectively that provides the major challenge. Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s play Emilia (2018) and Cutpurse Theatre’s recent production of Mariam demonstrate very different ways of navigating\, and responding to\, the public voice and Christian imagination of these two groundbreaking women. \nFeatured\nElizabeth Schafer is a professor of drama and theatre studies at Royal Holloway\, University of London. She has published performance histories of The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night; a monograph on women theatre directors\, MsDirecting Shakespeare; and a biography of Lilian Baylis\, who ran the Old Vic and Sadler’s Wells theatres. Her Theatre & Christianity (2019) offers a radical new reading of Isabella in Measure for Measure. \nRev. Joseph Simmons\, S.J.\, (moderator) is an American Catholic priest currently writing his doctoral thesis at Campion Hall\, Oxford\, under the supervision of Professor Graham Ward. He is exploring the Christian imagination and the fertile place where belief and unbelief touch in the fiction of Virginia Woolf and Marilynne Robinson. Simmons previously studied theology at Boston College and the Harvard Divinity School. His Licentiate in Sacred Theology thesis\, “Via Literaria: Marilynne Robinson’s Theology Through a Literary Imagination\,” explored the convergence of literary and Christian imaginations. \nMichael Scott (moderator) is senior dean\, fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford\, college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president of Georgetown University. Scott previously was the pro-vice-chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice-chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/elizabeth-tanfield-carey/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nWeekly online discussions on sections of Dorothy Day’s The Long Loneliness. \nDorothy Day is one of the most interesting Catholics of the 20th century. An American convert to Catholicism from radical socialism\, she founded the Catholic Worker movement\, which developed and practices a sort of Catholic anarchism. Her readily available autobiography\, The Long Loneliness\, is nicely written\, honest\, clear\, thought-provoking and not too long. We will read the book carefully\, and discuss everything from politics to liturgy\, from conversion to modern holiness. \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, and by James Bergida\, Junior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College. \n  \nSchedule: \nWeek One (April 27): Introduction and All chapters from “Confession” through “Home” \nWeek Two (May 4): “Adolescence” through “Journalism” \nWeek Three (May 11): “The Masses” through “A Time for Searching” \nWeek Four (May 18): “Man Is Meant for Happiness” through “Love Overflows” \nWeek Five (May 25) “Jobs and Journeys” and “Peasants of the Pavements” \nWeek Six (June 1): “Paper\, People\, and Work” and “Labor” \nWeek Seven (June 8): “Community” through “Retreat” \nWeek Eight (June 15): “’War Is the Health of the State’” through “Postcript” \n  \nFree and open for all. Registration is required. \nFor more information: Contact Edward Hadas (edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk) \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dorothy-day-the-long-loneliness/2022-05-11/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:How Did We Get into this War in Ukraine\, and What Are We Not Saying About It?
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the ongoing event series Free Speech at the Crossroads: International Dialogues. These events are sponsored by the Free Speech Project (Georgetown University)\, the Las Casas Institute and Campion Hall\, hosted by Georgetown University on Zoom. \n  \nJust how did the US\, the UK\, and much of Europe get involved in a shooting war with Russia without having to do any of the actual shooting themselves? Are there grave downside risks to our unconditional feel-good support for the brave and bold Ukrainians\, the clear winners of the propaganda battle? And will other dominoes be endangered soon\, at an even greater cost in blood and treasure? What other questions must be asked? \nFeatured Panelists:\nRaymond Asquith\, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith\, was elected in October 2014 to the British House of Lords\, where he sits as an independent crossbencher. He worked in the United Kingdom’s diplomatic service for nearly 20 years after beginning his career in 1980. During his time in the field\, he worked in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office\, the Cabinet Office\, and served in numerous postings in Eastern Europe. He was First Secretary at the British Embassy in Moscow from 1983 to 1985\, during the Cold War\, and went on to be a Counselor at the Embassy in Kiev in the 1990s. \nSusan Eisenhower\, a policy analyst with a focus on national security\, is Chair Emeritus at the Eisenhower Institute. She serves on MIT’s Energy Initiative Advisory Board and formerly co-chaired the Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee for the US Secretary of Energy. In 1998\, she was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Standing Committee on International Security and Arms Control\, where she served for eight years. She has authored hundreds of columns for The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, and the Los Angeles Times. \nChristopher Preble co-directs the New American Engagement Initiative in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. His work focuses on the history of U.S. foreign policy\, contemporary grand strategy and military force posture\, and the intersection of trade and national security. He has authored four books\, including The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe\, Less Prosperous\, and Less Free. He has written for The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Financial Times\, The National Interest\, and National Review. \nHugo Slim is a senior research fellow at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at Blackfriars Hall at Oxford\, and also at the Institute of Ethics\, Law and Armed Conflict at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government. His career has combined academia\, policymaking\, and diplomacy and he has worked for Save the Children\, the United Nations\, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development and the International Committee of the Red Cross. His recent books include Solferino 21: Warfare\, Civilians and Humanitarians in the Twenty First Century. \nMichael Scott (moderator) is senior dean\, fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford\, college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president of Georgetown University. Scott previously was the pro-vice-chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice-chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. \nSanford J. Ungar (moderator)\, president emeritus of Goucher College\, is director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University\, which documents challenges to free expression in American education\, government\, and civil society. Director of the Voice of America under President Bill Clinton\, he was also dean of the American University School of Communication and is a former co-host of “All Things Considered” on NPR. \n  \nUpcoming events: \n6 June: ’Censorship as an International Issue’ \n11 July: ’The Future of Whistle Blowing’ \n15 August: ’Provincialism and World News’
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/russia-ukraine-and-the-effects-of-the-invasion/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Olive Schreiner’s “The Story of an African Farm” and the Question of Progress
DESCRIPTION:The Christian Literary Imagination Series\n \nContinuing from the previous academic year\, over the course of the 2021-22 academic year the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford. The ‘Christian Literary Imagination Series’ will explore the role and function of the arts and humanities in the development of the individual and society. \nThe hour-long virtual events will be followed by a Q & As chaired by Professor Michael Scott and Rev Fr Joseph Simmons SJ. These events are free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University. \nA talk by Dr Cóilíne Parsons\, Georgetown University. \nOlive Schreiner (1855-1920)\, a South African novelist\, anti-war campaigner\, and women’s rights activist\, came early to the study of the thing we call progress. As a teenager\, she was given a copy of Herbert Spencer’s First Principles (1862)\, and it came to dominate her thoughts in early years\, influencing not only her freethinking regarding religion\, but also her philosophy of history and the progress of humankind. \nThis talk will investigate some astronomical aspects of the basis of Spencer’s First Principles\, steeped as it was in a contested and religiously inflected theory of the origins of planets and stars. It will ask how Schreiner’s lifelong attention to the Southern African sky in her novels functioned as a place of questioning and critique\, from a colonial standpoint\, of one of the foundational theories of progress in the nineteenth century. Spencer’s ideas\, Schreiner found\, had no place at the edges of empire. \nFeatured\nCóilín Parsons is an associate professor of English at Georgetown University\, where he also directs the Global Irish Studies Initiative. He is the author of The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature (2016) and co-editor of Relocations: Reading Culture in South Africa (2015)\, as well as Science\, Technology\, and Irish Modernism (2019). \nRev. Joseph Simmons\, S.J.\, (moderator) is an American Catholic priest currently writing his doctoral thesis at Campion Hall\, Oxford\, under the supervision of Professor Graham Ward. He is exploring the Christian imagination and the fertile place where belief and unbelief touch in the fiction of Virginia Woolf and Marilynne Robinson. Simmons previously studied theology at Boston College and the Harvard Divinity School. His Licentiate in Sacred Theology thesis\, “Via Literaria: Marilynne Robinson’s Theology Through a Literary Imagination\,” explored the convergence of literary and Christian imaginations. \nMichael Scott (moderator) is senior dean\, fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford\, college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president of Georgetown University. Scott previously was the pro-vice-chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice-chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/olive-schreiner-story-of-an-african-farm/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220518T170000
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SUMMARY:Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nWeekly online discussions on sections of Dorothy Day’s The Long Loneliness. \nDorothy Day is one of the most interesting Catholics of the 20th century. An American convert to Catholicism from radical socialism\, she founded the Catholic Worker movement\, which developed and practices a sort of Catholic anarchism. Her readily available autobiography\, The Long Loneliness\, is nicely written\, honest\, clear\, thought-provoking and not too long. We will read the book carefully\, and discuss everything from politics to liturgy\, from conversion to modern holiness. \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, and by James Bergida\, Junior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College. \n  \nSchedule: \nWeek One (April 27): Introduction and All chapters from “Confession” through “Home” \nWeek Two (May 4): “Adolescence” through “Journalism” \nWeek Three (May 11): “The Masses” through “A Time for Searching” \nWeek Four (May 18): “Man Is Meant for Happiness” through “Love Overflows” \nWeek Five (May 25) “Jobs and Journeys” and “Peasants of the Pavements” \nWeek Six (June 1): “Paper\, People\, and Work” and “Labor” \nWeek Seven (June 8): “Community” through “Retreat” \nWeek Eight (June 15): “’War Is the Health of the State’” through “Postcript” \n  \nFree and open for all. Registration is required. \nFor more information: Contact Edward Hadas (edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk) \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dorothy-day-the-long-loneliness/2022-05-18/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Dignity in street-level bureaucracies: beyond reason\, balance and pragmatism
DESCRIPTION:Dignity in street-level bureaucracies: beyond reason\, balance and pragmatism\nA talk by Professor Tony Evans\, Royal Holloway. Chair: Dr Jonathan Patterson\, St Edmund Hall \nThe first event of the ‘Bureaucracy and Human Dignity‘ seminar series. \nPublic service bureaucracies are messy organisations. Bureaucrats work within policies that are confused and confusing\, and are expected to use their judgement to make services work. This is the picture presented by Street Level Bureaucracy theory\, which argues that good street-level bureaucrats are reasonable\, balanced and pragmatic. This sweeping analysis of public services\, however\, doesn’t take account of the different relationships between policy and service in different areas of public provision. In some areas\, policies constitute services. Dignity entails acting in line with one’s commitments and in a way that is appropriate to circumstances. They may be the rules by which benefits are allocated. In other areas\, policies are a looser framework\, within which decisions have to be made\, such as policing; and in other areas\, particularly professional welfare services\, policies are more about enabling provision than specifying what should be done. In all of these areas\, different forms of judgement are appropriate. One may emphasise procedural correctness\, another the right outcome\, and another meeting particular commitments. In each type of service\, the idea of one global\, right way of thinking and acting is misplaced\, and ignores the dignity of particular roles and requirements in different fields. Furthermore\, in most public services—particularly welfare services—practitioners have to move through these three forms of policy relationship and judgement\, in order to provide a service. My argument is that\, to do this\, practitioners have to use reason\, and balance\, and pragmatism\, but not as some abstract standard of decision-making; rather\, as elements in the grammar of everyday service provision. \nThe online event is free and open for all. Registration is required.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/bureaucracy-and-human-dignity/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220524T170000
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SUMMARY:T. S. Eliot: Christian Spirituality in the West End
DESCRIPTION:The Christian Literary Imagination Series\n \nContinuing from the previous academic year\, over the course of the 2021-22 academic year the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford. The ‘Christian Literary Imagination Series’ will explore the role and function of the arts and humanities in the development of the individual and society. \nThe hour-long virtual events will be followed by a Q & As chaired by Professor Michael Scott and Rev Fr Joseph Simmons SJ. These events are free and hosted on Zoom by Georgetown University. \nA talk by Professor Michael J Collins\, Georgetown University\, followed by a panel discussion on the Christian Literary Imagination.\n \nAfter World War II\, T. S. Eliot for the most part abandoned poetry to become a playwright. He had by then come to believe the plays he had written before the war\, Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Family Reunion (1939)\, were dead ends because neither of them provided a model upon which to build a tradition of poetic drama. Eliot’s goal after the war then was to write poetic drama that employed the conventions of popular West End theatre and simultaneously conveyed a Christian vision of the world. The competing demands this goal put upon him are the focus of this talk. They suggest the challenges\, or possibly the conventional critical prejudices\, a writer in our time faces in articulating a religious vision of the world. \nTo commemorate the final webinar of the series\, the Q&A session will be followed by a 15-minute panel discussion chaired by Michael Scott with Rev. Joseph Simmons S.J.\, Kathryn Temple\, and Michael Collins on the Christian Literary Imagination. \nFeatured\nMichael Collins is a teaching professor of English and dean emeritus at Georgetown University. He has published essays on Anglo-Welsh poetry in Poetry Wales\, World Literature Today\, the Dictionary of Literary Biography\, and the Anglo-Welsh Review. He is an honorary fellow of Wrexham Glyndwr University\, University of Wales\, and a recipient of Georgetown University’s Presidential Medal and its Bunn Award for Outstanding Teaching. \nRev. Joseph Simmons\, S.J.\, (moderator) is an American Catholic priest currently writing his doctoral thesis at Campion Hall\, Oxford\, under the supervision of Professor Graham Ward. He is exploring the Christian imagination and the fertile place where belief and unbelief touch in the fiction of Virginia Woolf and Marilynne Robinson. Simmons previously studied theology at Boston College and the Harvard Divinity School. His Licentiate in Sacred Theology thesis\, “Via Literaria: Marilynne Robinson’s Theology Through a Literary Imagination\,” explored the convergence of literary and Christian imaginations. \nMichael Scott (moderator) is senior dean\, fellow of Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford\, college adviser for postgraduate students\, and a member of the Las Casas Institute. He also serves as senior adviser to the president of Georgetown University. Scott previously was the pro-vice-chancellor at De Montfort University and founding vice-chancellor of Wrexham Glyndwr University. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/t-s-eliot-plays/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute with Georgetown University":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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DTSTAMP:20260409T000114
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SUMMARY:Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness
DESCRIPTION:Discussion group\nWeekly online discussions on sections of Dorothy Day’s The Long Loneliness. \nDorothy Day is one of the most interesting Catholics of the 20th century. An American convert to Catholicism from radical socialism\, she founded the Catholic Worker movement\, which developed and practices a sort of Catholic anarchism. Her readily available autobiography\, The Long Loneliness\, is nicely written\, honest\, clear\, thought-provoking and not too long. We will read the book carefully\, and discuss everything from politics to liturgy\, from conversion to modern holiness. \nThe group will be led by Edward Hadas\, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching\, and by James Bergida\, Junior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College. \n  \nSchedule: \nWeek One (April 27): Introduction and All chapters from “Confession” through “Home” \nWeek Two (May 4): “Adolescence” through “Journalism” \nWeek Three (May 11): “The Masses” through “A Time for Searching” \nWeek Four (May 18): “Man Is Meant for Happiness” through “Love Overflows” \nWeek Five (May 25) “Jobs and Journeys” and “Peasants of the Pavements” \nWeek Six (June 1): “Paper\, People\, and Work” and “Labor” \nWeek Seven (June 8): “Community” through “Retreat” \nWeek Eight (June 15): “’War Is the Health of the State’” through “Postcript” \n  \nFree and open for all. Registration is required. \nFor more information: Contact Edward Hadas (edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk) \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/dorothy-day-the-long-loneliness/2022-05-25/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute
ORGANIZER;CN="Las Casas Institute":MAILTO:lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
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