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Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson to hold coronavirus press conference as the city breaks a COVID-19 record like the U.S.....Find out how to watch the press conference online here...Ohio Governor Mike DeWine threatens to close down Ohio

12 November 2020

Kathy

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson will hold a press conference at 10 am on Friday, Nov. 13 as Cleveland, like the U.S., has broken a coronavirus record, the U.S on Wednesday reporting nine consecutive days of more than 1,000 deaths from the pandemic since it broke-out in the country in early March. (Editor's note: Cleveland residents and other interested persons can watch the press conference on the city of Cleveland Facebook page)

Jackson announced Wednesday that the largely Black city of Cleveland reported 194 new cases in a single day, up from a previous daily record of 115 cases.

"Today the number of COVID- 19 cases in the city Cleveland has topped our previous records," said Jackson, a four-term Black mayor. "We must reverse course."

Some 153 Clevelanders have died from the virus, most of them elderly and over 70-years-old

The U.S. also broke world record Wednesday with over 144,000 new confirmed cases, bringing its total number of cases to 10.5 million, coupled with some 244,000 deaths.

Worldwide there are 52.2 million confirmed cases and some 1.4 million deaths, and more than 65,000 Americans are hospitalized, more than any time before the virus hit the country with a vengeance this year.

Research also reveals that nationwide Blacks are at higher risk for the deadly virus.

According to the Ohio Department of Health, Ohio has 5,674 new coronavirus cases and 76 new deaths, bringing its total since early March to 267,000 cases and 5,632 deaths.

Ohio has seen an increase by 50,000 cases in less than 15 days.

Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland and the second largest of the state's 88 counties, has recorded 26,048 confirmed cases and 715 deaths in the past eight months.

Data show that COVID-19 is affecting 213 countries and territories around the world and two international conveyances, the U.S. leading all of the countries in both reported cases and affiliated deaths.

As Americans nationwide deal with a third spike of the virus, masks are now required in public in states, counties and cities across the country, including in Ohio.

Ohio GOP Gov. Mike DeWine this week expended his mask-wearing mandate and threatened to close bars, in-person restaurants, and gyms if the virus continues to surge.

Last Updated on Friday, 13 November 2020 05:35

Inmate murdered in troubled Cuyahoga County Jail in Cleveland where more than 10 inmates have questionably died in the last two years or so....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com,

11 November 2020

Kathy

Pictured are recently newly hired Cuyahoga County Jail Warden Michelle Henry, County Executive Armond Budish (wearing suit) ousted county warden Gregory Croucher, and embattled Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas Judge Nancy Fuerst

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.

By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com-CLEVELAND, Ohio-Another inmate has died in the Cuyahoga County Jail in Cleveland where nine inmates died during a two year period between 2018-2019, and a few more earlier this year, this time the alleged incident a murder of an inmate by a fellow inmate in a troubled jail that U.S. Marshals, via a November of 2018 report, deemed inhumane and unconstitutional.

The incident occurred Monday at about 6 pm, authorities have said.

Paramedics rushed 48-year-old Shane Trawick to MetroHealth Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

The suspect is in custody.

These recent jail deaths are occurring under the watch of Michelle Henry, the new jail warden hired earlier this year to replace former jail warden Gregory Croucher, Henry the first woman to hold the post.

Most of the dead inmates were White, deaths ranging from suicide and overdose to who knows what, aside from the recent alleged murder of an inmate.

Before Henry's hiring all of the county jail leaders, namely the county executive, sheriff, warden and jail director, who is Ronda Gibson were White, and after the hiring of Henry, a White woman, all of those positions remain held by Whites.

This lack of diversity among the ranks of the jail higher-ups comes at the largely White 11-member county council earlier this year branded its own jail racism a public health crisis, area community activists saying county council is hypocritical and allegedly racist relative to its hiring practices.

Cuyahoga County, the second largest of 88 counties statewide, is 29 percent Black and includes Cleveland, a largely Black city led by four-term mayor Frank Jackson, the city's third Black mayor.

The county is a Democratic stronghold.

Croucher resigned in April of this year as the warden hired eight months prior to help reform the jail, his resignation tendered just two days after a county investigation found he retaliated against corrections officers, and allegedly slammed a handcuffed inmate into a wall.

Croucher is also accused of forcing an employee to drive him to the airport on the clock.

Several inmates have tested positive for COVID-19.

Before the coronavirus pandemic broke in the U.S. in March, the embattled jail housed about 2,500 inmates, though it can only hold a maximum of 1,765, coronavirus fears resulting in some 905 low level inmates getting released originally released due the virus from a jail that now houses some 1,060 inmates.

Sill some inmates must share jail cells, which could lead to murder if a fight breaks out in a cell

The damning report released in November of 2018 by U.S. Marshals on county jail conditions generated local and national news, a dreadful look at how inmates are mistreated such as withholding food for punishment, jailing juveniles with adults, rat and roach infested jail facilities, and a paramilitary jail corrections officers unit dubbed "The Men in Black" who intimidate and harass inmates.

The report also found profound mistreatment of female inmates, and that pregnant women were being jailed on floor mats and denied adequate healthcare.

Several lawsuits remain pending regarding the county's now infamous jail and Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish, whose offices in downtown Cleveland have been raided twice since the series of jail deaths, remains under investigation by the FBI and other authorities.

There have been indictments of at least nine jail guards, the former jail director, and former jail warden Eric Ivey, who is Black and preceded Croutcher as jail warden.

Ivey took a misdemeanor plea deal with no jail time before Common Pleas Judge Nancy Fuerst with an agreement that he snitch on others.

In the midst of it all sheriff Cliff Pinkney, the county's first Black sheriff appointed by Budish, resigned, his replacement being David Schilling, who is White.

Until recently, the Cuyahoga County Jail was the state's second most populated jail behind Franklin County, which includes Columbus and is the largest of Ohio's counties.Prior to the coronavirus outbreak hit Cleveland this year Budish and the 34 largely White general division common pleas judges, then under the leadership of then presiding and administrative Judge John Russo, whom new chief Judge Brendan Sheehan replaced last year by a vote of his judicial peers after Russo decided to step down as chief, did nothing to reduce illegal prosecutions and excessive sentences, and continued to keep the jail overcrowded.

Russo's predecessor, then chief Judge Fuerst, whom he ousted as chief judge in 2013, acted, in many ways, in the same manner as her successor when she led the general division common pleas court in the county.

Fuerst remains under fire by activists for heightened malfeasance against Black defendants in 2018-2020 relative to pending criminal cases she is presiding over.

Public records reveal that Judge Fuerst is denying Blacks and activists indigent counsel and their speedy trial rights, and the judge is scheduling trials not journalized or put in writing and then arbitrarily jailing Black defendants maliciously accused of crimes against racist White cops when they do not appear for her unconstitutional trials.

Public records also reveal that the crooked and allegedly racist judge is ordering Blacks to trials she schedules in under 24 hours without formal notice, and then jailing them via arrest warrants if they fail to appear. And, data show that she is covering up alleged indictment fixing by fellow judges, prosecutors and the clerk of courts, grand jury tampering, and falsification of court records, much of it with the help of corrupt attorneys she handpicks and appoints to felony cases of indigent Blacks.

Activists want Fuerst's resignation and have called for an FBI investigation on public corruption charges

They say the judge should be indicted and, herself, jailed or imprisoned if found guilty on any such charges.

"We have witnessed Judge Nancy Fuerst abuse her power and we want her prosecuted and off the bench so she cannot hurt anymore people," activist Alfred Porter Jr., whose Black on Black Crime group has initiated pickets against the judge for documented malfeasance, has said.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio's largest Newspaper, once branded Fuerst 'Jimmy Dimora corrupt' in an article, referencing the former county commissioner now serving a 28 year sentence for racketeering and other crimes in office.

In a recent case before her an appeals court reversed a whopping 15 convictions.

Since Chief Judge Brendan Sheehan took over as presiding and administrative judge late last year things have gotten somewhat better, data show, Sheehan leading the way in bringing the jail into compliance as to the number inmates housed there, but only after pressure from community leaders and community activists who have been picketing the jail relative to its overcrowding.

The FBI and other authorities have been swarming the jail since 2018 after inmates began popping up dead.

The Cleveland jail merged with the county jail per a regionalism plan adopted by county and city officials in 2017, which created nothing but more problems.

Activists say the jail remains a problem and that they are also concerned with an array of other issues, including excessive bail, malicious prosecutions, racism, grand jury tampering, indictment fixing, denial of indigent counsel and speedy trial rights to Black defendants, and excessive sentences.

Data also show that White inmates were getting favorable treatment and that Black inmates were more harshly disciplined.

Cleveland community activists picketed in front of the Cuyahoga County Justice Center in 2018 over judicial and prosecutorial malfeasance, police misconduct, and the overcrowding of the county jail, a continuation of activist rallies that began in 2016.

Hastened by the coronavirus outbreak, community activists had been picketing regularly at the Justice Center in downtown Cleveland over jail conditions, in front of Budish' gated home in affluent Beachwood, where they called for his resignation, and at county administrative headquarters before county council meetings.

Last Updated on Thursday, 19 November 2020 18:03

Democratic President- Elect Biden and Vice President- Elect Kamala Harris deliver victory speeches in Biden's hometown, Harris the nation's first woman and first Black woman vice president....By Clevelandurbannews.com/Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com

08 November 2020

Kathy

Pictured are Democratic President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, the nation's first woman and first Black woman president

By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. Coleman trained for 17 years as a reporter with the Call and Post Newspaper and is an investigative and political reporter with a background in legal and scientific reporting. She is also a former 15-year public school biology teacher.

WILMINGTON, Delaware--Democratic President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, the only Black female U.S. senator and the only Black woman to seek the 2020 Democratic nomination for president, on Saturday night delivered victory speeches at a rally in Biden's hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, Harris also the first woman and first Black female elected vice president in America.

After winning over incumbent President Donald Trump in the key battleground states that were holding up overall election results since Tuesday night, namely Nevada, Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania, Biden, 77, won the White House earlier in the day with 290 electoral votes to Trump's 214 to become the country's 46th president.

He also won the popular vote 74.5 million to Trump's 70.4 million votes, Biden making history in garnering the most number of popular votes of any American president.

Harris spoke first, and then introduced Biden, a former longtime U.s. senator turned vice president who served under former president Barack Obama, the nation's first black president.

"Our very democracy was on the ballot in this election," said Harris, 55 as the crowd cheered and tooted car horns. " With the very soul of America at stake and the world watching you ushered in a new day for America."

She thanked Biden for choosing a woman as his running mate.

"What a testament it is to Joe's character that he had the audacity to break one of the most substantial barriers that exists in our country and select a woman as his vice president," Harris said.

"While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last. Because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities," she added.

Biden was just as dynamic and said that although he is a proud Democrat he will be a president for all Americans.

"I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify. Who doesn't see red states and blue states, only sees the United States," Biden said. "I sought this office to restore the soul of America, to rebuild the backbone of this nation, the middle class, to make America respected around the world again, and to unite us here at home."

Finally winning after two previous tries for president, he also spoke specifically to Trump supporters.

"For all those of you who voted President Trump, I understand the disappointment tonight. I've lost a couple of times myself, but now let's give each other a chance," Biden said. "It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to each other again, and to make progress, we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. They are not our enemies. They are Americans."

COVID-19 was the main factor in Trump's electoral college loss, pundits said, some 223,000 Americans dead from the virus that has taken the lives of Black people at a rate more than three times that of their White counterparts.

And the Biden-Harris team was miles apart from Trump and Vice President Pence on public policy issues across the spectrum, from the Affordable Care Act to racial justice, sexism, women's reproductive rights, taxes, education, climate change, Supreme Court nominees and Civil and human rights.

Their families joined them on stage after both spoke Friday night, Biden's wife, Dr Jill Biden, an educator, poised to become America's next first lady.

Biden has long been a favorite son in Democratic political circles.

Winning the Democratic nomination for president was all but ensured for Biden, a former longtime U.S. senator from Delaware turned vice president, when his closest opponent dropped out of the race, U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

A socialist Democrat, Sanders was making his second bid for president after losing the nomination to Hillary Clinton in 2016, Clinton going on to lose the general election to Trump, a real estate mogul and former television personality.

During his bid this time around for the nomination Sanders, as was Biden, was effective in narrowing the more than 28 Democratic candidates down to the two of them.

Sanders nearly won Iowa, coming in second place to Pete Buttigieg, and he went on to win New Hampshire and Nevada.

But Biden, powered by the Black vote and an endorsement from Black U.S. Rep James Clyburn, subsequently won South Carolina, and Super Tuesday, and never looked back.

Obama, Sanders, Harris, and nearly all of the other Democrats who sought the 2020 nomination for president, and the Dems in general, endorsed Biden's candidacy for president after Sanders quit the race.

Thereafter, the polls continued to dampen President Trump's campaign for reelection.

A popular Republican among his strong base of supporters, President Trump lagged behind Biden in key swing states and nationally in nearly every national poll, including the conservative leaning Fox News poll, and Quinnipiac, CNN, ABC News/Washington Post, and Emerson polls.

Harris is the first woman of color to compete on a major party presidential ticket in America.

A former California attorney general, the junior federal lawmaker is a native of Oakland who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016. She became the fourth woman to compete on a major party presidential ticket in America behind vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin in 2008 and Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, and Hillary Clinton in 2016, Clinton a presidential candidate that year.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:14

Kamala Harris elected the first woman and first Black woman vice president of America as Democrat Joe Biden unseats President Donald Trump via a historic election....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman ofClevelandurbannews.com

07 November 2020

Kathy

Pictured are Democratic Vice Presidential-Elect Kamala Harris and Democratic Presidential- Elect Joe Biden

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Kamala Harris, the only Black female U.S. senator and the only Black woman to seek the 2020 Democratic nomination for president, became America's first woman and first Black female vice president on Saturday via a historic election that also saw former vice president Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee, unseat incumbent president Donald Trump, a Republican real estate mogul.

"I'm just so happy right now I could cry," said 24-year-old college graduate Shae Maresco, a greater Clevelander from the pivotal state of Ohio and the county of Cuyahoga, a Democratic stronghold. "Vice President Elect Harris is not only a woman, but she is a woman of color who will fight for all of us."

After winning in the key battleground states that were holding up overall election results since Tuesday night, namely Nevada, Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania, Biden won the White House with 290 electoral votes to Trump's 214 to become the country's 46th president.

He also won the popular vote 74.5 million to Trump's 70.4 million votes, Biden making history in garnering the most number of popular votes of any American president.

Both Biden and Harris will speak tonight at 8 pm ET from the president elect's hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, supporters already celebrating in the streets in Washington D.C., the nation's capital, and across the nation.

Harris is the first woman of color to compete on a major party presidential ticket in America.

When she accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president relative to the Democratic National Convention in August she spoke out on racism, amid a number of issues impacting the Black community and others, including the pandemic.

She blamed the partisan divisiveness in the country on the Trump administration.

She said then that Trump is too controversial, and that he is mean.

"The constant chaos leaves us adrift," Harris said. "The incompetence makes us feel afraid."

With millions of Americans watching across most major television and cable channels, she shined during the vice presidential debate on Oct 7 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and out did Vice President Mike Pence, polls said.

A former California attorney general, the junior federal lawmaker is native of Oakland who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016.

She became the fourth woman to compete on a major party presidential ticket in America behind vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin in 2008 and Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, and Hillary Clinton in 2016, Clinton a presidential candidate that year.

The late Black congresswoman Shirley Chisholm was often mentioned by Harris, Chisholm the first Black woman to run for president in America.

Hailing from the nation's most populous state, she was the best known on Biden's narrowed list of potential running mates

The former vice president had promised to choose a female running-mate during the 11th Democratic Debate on March 15 in Washington, D.C and pressure subsequently mounted by Black leaders and Democrats, and even some mainstream media, for that woman to be a woman of color, preferably a Black woman.

The daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, Harris brings a Jewish husband to the White House, and she enjoys a grown stepdaughter and step son whom she says she is close too.

She also has a sister.

Her parents, who were divorced, are both dead.

She received her law degree from the University of California and her undergraduate degree from Howard University, a historically Black university and is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, one of the prominent Black sororities in the country, among several of them.

A staunch Obama ally, Sen. Harris was a known pick in Democratic political circles to be the one both Biden and Obama favored for Biden's presidential ticket.

Last Updated on Thursday, 24 June 2021 06:18

Joe Biden gives pre-victory speech with vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris by his side as America awaits voting results in key battleground states... He promised to be a president for all of America as he did during his speech in Cleveland on Nov 2

07 November 2020

Kathy

Pictured are Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden and his vice presidential running mate, Kamala Harris

WILMINGTON, Delaware-With his vice presidential running mate by his side and on the verge of the presidency, Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden gave a pre-victory speech Friday night in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware as America awaits voting results from the key swing states of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada, Biden leading over incumbent President Donald Trump in all four states.

He urged unity when he spoke and said he would be a president to all of America as protesters supporting both candidates have continued to rally in Pennsylvania since election night on Nov. 3, after the president publicly demanded that counting the vote cease in keeping with a promise that if he loses he would blame it on mail-in voting and alleged voting fraud.

Biden demanded an end to what he called "partisan warfare" and said Friday night that Americans must come together as the coronavirus pandemic that has dogged Trump's presidency since it hit the U.S. with a vengeance in early March continues to soar with more than 223,000 confirmed deaths.

"The purpose of our politics isn't to wage total and unrelenting war. It's to solve problems," Biden said. "We may be opponents, but we're not enemies. We're Americans."

The former vice president urged patience as votes continue to trickle in and said that he and U.S. Sen Kamala Harris, his vice presidential running mate and the first Black woman to compete on a major party presidential ticket in America, will be victorious, sooner or later.

"We're going to win this race with a clear majority and the nation behind us," said Biden, who served as vice president under former president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president and Trump's predecessor.

The final tabulation of votes in key battleground states aside, Biden leads in the popular vote and has all but clinched the 270 electoral votes needed to become president.

By most accounts Biden has some 264 electoral college vote to Trump's 214.

CNN has Biden at 253 electoral votes, and Trump at 213.

"One of the things I'm especially proud of is how well we've done across America," Biden said relative to his lead in battleground states that Trump won in 2016, including Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. "We've rebuilt the 'blue wall' in the middle of the country that crumbled just four years ago."

Some of his speech on Friday sounded familiar to what he said in Cleveland last week.

Though he lost Ohio by eight percentage points election night, the same margin Trump won over then opponent Hillary Clinton in 2016, Biden visited Cleveland on the eve of the Nov. 3 presidential election, his second visit to the majority Black city since it hosted the First Presidential Debate on Sept. 29

In Cleveland he spoke before a group of supporters, including elected officials and other dignitaries, at a drive-in event at Burke Lakefront Airport in the downtown area of city that in 1967 elected the first Black mayor of a major American city.

"In 2020, I'm asking for your trust again, in me and Kamala," he said. " I'm proud of the coalition this campaign has built to welcome Democrats, Republicans, and Independents."

And he spoke at length on the pandemic and criticized Trump over the president's mishandling of the deadly virus, the U.S. leading the world in both confirmed cases and deaths.

"This president knew in January this virus was deadly, but he hid it from the American people," Biden complained. "He knew it was worse than the flu. But he lied to the American people. He knew it wasn't going to disappear. But he kept telling us a miracle was coming," he said of President Trump.

He promised to get Covid-19 under control if elected president.

His message in Cleveland Nov 2 on unity was similar to what he said Friday night during his hometown speech.

"I'm running as a proud Democrat, but I will govern as an American president," Biden told his Cleveland supporters a day before the Nov 3 presidential election.

Last Updated on Saturday, 07 November 2020 16:38

Whitney Houston, Notorious B.I.G. among 2020 Rock Hall inductees for the HBO special on Nov. 7, the live induction ceremony originally scheduled for Cleveland where the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum sits cancelled and replaced with the HBO special

06 November 2020

Kathy

Pictured are the late Whitney Houston and the late The Notorious B.I.G., both among the 2020 Rock Hall Class of inductees

CLEVELAND, Ohio-When the coronavirus pandemic confirmed cases and deaths began ravaging the nation in early March many events, including some concert tours and theater and cinema movie productions, were pushed back to late summer and fall, and some were cancelled altogether, including the live Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony originally scheduled for May 2 at Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio.

Instead, a prerecorded HBO special is set to air on cable television on Sat., Nov. 7, a widely anticipated event honoring this year’s Rock Hall class of inductees, namely Depeche Mode, The Doobie Brothers, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails, The Notorious B.I.G., T. Rex, and artist managers Jon Landau and Irving Azoff.

The exhibit devoted to this year’s class has been on display since Aug 14. at the Rock and Hall of Fame museum in downtown Cleveland.

The beautiful museum sits on the shore of Lake Erie and documents the history of rock music and the artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have influenced its development.

The 2021 inductions, the 36th annual event, will move to the fall and will take place in Cleveland next year, absent another coronavirus scare

Though the Rock Hall museum is located in Cleveland, a 58 percent Black city of some 385,000 people, the induction ceremonies were held in New York City.

This year's now cancelled live event, had it gone forward, marked a change in location from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn to Public Auditorium in Cleveland.

The late R&B singer Whitney Houston, one of the best selling record artist of all time with estimated sales of 200 million records worldwide, is the only Black woman among this year's inductees and is likely the most famous of members of the 2020 Rock Hall class.

The late rapper, songwriter and music producer The Notorious. B.I.G. is the only Black male solo artist among the inductees this year.

Houston died in 2012 in the bathtub of her Beverly Hills hotel room of what was later determined a drowning precipitated by coronary artery disease and cocaine intoxication.

She was 48-years-old at the time of her death.

Born Chris George Wallace, The Notorious B.I.G., considered one of the greatest rappers of all time, was a young 24-years-old when he was gunned down in Los Angeles via a drive by shooting in March of 1997.

Last Updated on Saturday, 07 November 2020 01:09

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