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Tanzania: Tanzania E-Schools project applauded

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África/Tanzania/31 Julio 2016/Fuente:Busiweek /Autor: Timothy Kitundu

Resumen: El reciente lanzamiento de la nacional de correo de Escuelas por la compañía de estilo de vida digital de Tanzania Tigo Tanzania, en asociación con el gobierno de Tanzania ha recibido aplausos arriba de los estudiantes y profesores. Tigo Tanzania y el gobierno de Tanzania firmaron un Memorando de Entendimiento (MOU) que dará lugar a la ejecución del proyecto en un acto celebrado en la Escuela Secundaria Jangwani. La ocasión contó con la secretaria permanente en el Ministerio de Comunicaciones, Obras e Infraestructura, el Prof. Faustine Kamuzora.

Dar es Salaam — The recent launch of the e-Schools Project countrywide by Tanzania’s digital lifestyle company Tigo Tanzania in partnership with the government of Tanzania has received thumps up from both students and teachers.

Tigo Tanzania and the government Tanzania signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will lead to implementation of the project at a ceremony held in Jangwani Secondary School in Dar es Salaam. The occasion was graced by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Communications, Works and Infrastructure, Prof. Faustine Kamuzora.

The agreement gives Tigo the green-light to officially start rolling out the provision of Internet access points in the country’s secondary schools so as to complement the e-Schools Project for a period of 2 years.

As part of the agreement, the ministry will identify and provide a list of schools without computer labs to be connected and also guide the implementation of the project while Tigo will sponsor the infrastructural development in schools across the country that will include wiring classrooms and installation of wireless Local Area Network (LAN) with Internet access points.

Excited with the gesture, Anastasia Samwel, a form three student from Jangwani Secondary School said: «I am very happy that Tigo will provide us with computers that are connected to internet because now I will be able to easily access educational materials even when there is no teacher in our class. I thank Tigo for supporting us.»

Her counterpart, Happiness Erasto, a form one student from the same school was equally elated. She said: «Since we have inadequate reference books in our class, I will now be able to get more information on most of our topical subjects/notes from the internet. I will also be able to catch up with what our counterparts in other parts of the region and the world are studying.»

Jangwani Secondary School’s Headmistress, Geraldine Mwanisenga said the project had provided basic Information Communication Technology (ICT) training for teachers and will not only help the students to be ICT – literate but also improve education standards and provide self-employment later in life.

The Chief Commercial Officer Tigo, Shavkat Berdiev said: «Through our Corporate Responsibility department we are now implementing the government’s vision to transform the country into a knowledge-based economy by the year 2025 and our company is committed to ensure that most of the secondary schools have access to the internet in Tanzania.»

Berdiev said Tigo was proud to be partnering with the Ministry of Communications, Works and Infrastructure to enable the youth and the wider communities to tap into the global mainstream of information and knowledge, where they will learn, expand their creativity and collaborate with peers across the world.

«Tigo will continue to work with the government on other innovative and exciting projects to uplift the lives of many Tanzanians», Berdiev added.

The Permanent Secretary for Ministry of Communications, Works and Infrastructure, Prof. Faustine Kamuzora who also represented the government in signing the agreement said: «It is through such partnerships that we shall be able to impart modern ICT skills and knowledge to the youth, to enable them face the challenges of the ever-changing information trends in the society and global economy.»

Tigo’s e-Schools’ Project is one of the company’s strategic social investment projects and to date, Tigo has been able to connect 31 public secondary schools in Tanzania with internet with an envisaged plan to connect 50 more this year.

Noting that it was the first time that the government and the mobile network operator were cooperating on an ICT project of such a large scale and scope, the PS affirmed that the partnership will go a long way in imparting modern ICT skills and knowledge to the youth and enable them face the challenges of the ever-changing information society and global economy.

«This technology will enable the students and teachers of the beneficiary schools and the wider communities to tap into the global mainstream of information and knowledge where they will learn, expand their creativity, collaborate with peers across the African continent and across the world, and generally participate in defining the future of their world,» Prof. Kamuzora noted.

The government of Tanzania requires schools to teach basic computer lessons but with only 5% of schools having computers, ICT competence remains a mirage. With Tigo’s shot in the arm and other stakeholders’ support, the goal-posts are bound to change and might catapult the government’s resolve to hit the 700-target of schools with internet-connected computers.

The e-School’s project is among various projects that Tigo has undertaken to support community initiatives through the telecom’s corporate social responsibility portfolio. They include donation of over 2,700 desks to needy primary schools in a sustainable venture that is meant to alleviate the serious shortage of desks in the country’s schools.

Last year, Tigo partnered with Dar Teknohama Business Incubator (DTBi), a local NGO to offer scholarships worth over Tsh.300 million (about $136,363) to cover tuition fees, research fees, meals and accommodation for a period of four years to nine students undertaking ICT courses in local universities.

Fuente de la noticia: http://www.busiweek.com/index1.php?Ctp=2&pI=5417&pLv=3&srI=%2069&spI=&cI=11

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Venezuela: El juego de imaginar a Cervantes 400 años después de su muerte

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América del Sur/Venezuela/31 Julio 2016/Fuente:DiarioCaracas/Autor: Héctor Pereira / EFE

Como si se tratase de un juego, 16 artistas latinoamericanos y españoles dieron rienda suelta a su imaginación y recrearon obras alusivas al literato ibérico, Miguel de Cervantes, para conmemorar los 400 años de su muerte en una muestra que se exhibe en Caracas.

Doce venezolanos, dos españoles, un peruano y una boliviana ofrecieron sus pinturas, fotografías y esculturas a la exposición «Imaginando a Cervantes» que se puede visitar en la galería CAF en la sede principal del Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina en la capital venezolana.

La curadora o comisaria de arte de la exhibición, Mariela Provenzali, explicó a Efe que el objetivo de la muestra es enriquecer la iconografía de Cervantes que, señaló, «no tiene muchas imágenes».

Provenzali cree que al hablar de Cervantes la gente tiende a pensar en el personaje principal de «El Quijote», algo que, aseguró, ocurrió también a los artistas participantes que «asumieron el reto como un juego y usaron la figura del ‘alter ego’ y quizá terminaron pintándose a ellos mismos».

La mayoría de las creaciones incluyen precisamente a los personajes y lugares narrados por Miguel de Cervantes en la novela «El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha», una de las obras literarias más traducidas y editadas en el mundo entero.

Esta presentación colectiva engloba técnicas milenarias y modernas de la pintura y la fotografía respectivamente, y deja ver la irreverencia o formalidad con que los artistas mostraron lo que los organizadores llaman las dos caras de una misma moneda: «El escritor de carne y hueso y el otro visto por medio de sus personajes».

Francisco Pereira, escultor participante, contó a Efe que se inspiró en el escritor pero no como el ser humano que fue, sino desde el punto de vista de su literatura.

Con base a lo anterior, el escultor armó una base de «letras» – como se llama su obra – en la que sobrepuso un caballo, un asno, un cañón y una lanza, y levantó una pieza de 70 centímetros aproximadamente sin lugar para el rostro de Cervantes.

La escultura de Pereira es la única obra de la muestra que omite la cara que se conoce del escritor y la gorguera, el característico accesorio para el cuello que usaba Cervantes de acuerdo con el pintor español Juan de Jáuregui, que hizo en el siglo XVII y a partir de una auto-descripción el retrato más famoso del escritor.

José Vívenes, que se anotó en la exposición con un óleo sobre tela, también echó mano de dicho recurso pese a que su propósito era, dijo, «desdibujar el rostro» y «desmitificar la heroicidad» del llamado «príncipe de los ingenios».

«Trato de dibujar esa imagen que no conocemos de Cervantes y que la vemos a través de una de sus historias como lo es Don Quijote de la Mancha», explicó Vívenes.

El pintor, cuya obra se llama «No quiero un hidalgo más» reiteró que no hay una figura fidedigna del escritor español por lo que decidió crear una imagen «a partir de otros elementos visuales de la época y de España».

Por su parte, el también pintor Abilio Padrón llevó el juego de imaginar a Cervantes más allá y entregó a la exhibición siete hidalgos «no muy diferentes el uno del otro», según comentó a Efe.

«Yo también hice retratos a partir de la descripción que hizo Cervantes de él mismo (…) él dijo que tenía una frente ancha, nariz aguileña pero corta, que era bastante delgado, y él mismo decía que tenía tres o cuatro dientes», aseguró.

Padrón logró finalmente que cuatro de sus pinturas fueron admitidas en la exposición y, así, sumó a la muestra un par de Quijotes desdentados y cadavéricos, y los sitió en «algún lugar de la mancha».

Las 20 obras que conforman esta galería fueron agregadas, mediante los auspicios de la embajada de España en Venezuela, a la conmemoración mundial oficial por el cuarto centenario de la muerte de Miguel de Cervantes.

Los participantes y organizadores de «Imaginando a Cervantes» coincidieron al destacar los «códigos universales» creados por el escritor con su obra maestra e invitaron a los caraqueños a «cervantear» en este espacio donde la yuxtaposición y el ingenio se imponen.

Fuente de la noticia: http://diariodecaracas.com/gente/el-juego-imaginar-cervantes-en-venezuela-400-anos-despues-su-muerte

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Portugal:Governo pondera manuais escolares gratuitos no ano lectivo 2017/18

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Europa/Portugal/31 Julio 2016/Fuente y Autor: Jornaldenegocios

Resumen: En el proximo año lectivo los alumnos que ingresen al primer ciclo van a tener acceso a materiales escolares gratuitos. La idea del gobierno es extender esta medida a todos los alumnos a partir del 201772018

Este ano lectivo só os alunos que entrem para o primeiro ciclo vão ter acesso a manuais escolares gratuitos. A ideia do Governo é estender a medida a todos os alunos a partir de 2017/2018, segundo a Renascença.

A partir do próximo ano lectivo, 2017/2018, todos os alunos do primeiro ciclo poderão ter manuais escolares gratuitos. A intenção foi revelada à Renascença pela secretária de Estado Adjunta e da Educação, Alexandra Leitão.
«O Orçamento do Estado ainda não está construído, mas aquilo que poderíamos aspirar era abarcar todo o primeiro ciclo», sustentou.
A partir deste ano lectivo, que arranca em Setembro, só os alunos que entrem no primeiro ano do primeiro ciclo vão ter direito a manuais escolares gratuitos. Uma medida que representa um investimento de três milhões de euros, relembra a Renascença.
A entrega dos manuais, ou dos «vouchers» para levantamento dos livros, vai decorrer de 9 a 15 de Setembro.
Fuente de la noticia: http://www.jornaldenegocios.pt/economia/educacao/detalhe/governo_pondera_manuais_escolares_gratuitos_no_ano_lectivo_201718.html
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South Africa: Condoms in schools – it’s a human right

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África/Southáfrica/31 Julio 2016/Fuente:Groundup /Autor: Lisa Draga

Resumen: De acuerdo con Stats SA, 99.000 niñas de la escuela quedaron embarazadas en 2013. Las estadísticas también muestran que en 2013 casi el 20% de las mujeres embarazadas en el país entre las edades de 15 y 24 eran seropositivas. Estas estadísticas alarmantes muestran la apremiante necesidad de abordar la susceptibilidad de los jóvenes estudiantes son a contraer el VIH. La semana pasada, los jóvenes activistas interrumpieron la conferencia sobre el SIDA de Durban. Ministro Aaron Motsoaledi estaba a punto de introducir un orador cuando los alumnos se levantaron de sus asientos, el canto y exigiendo que el gobierno vele por la distribución gratuita de preservativos en las escuelas.

If we are to curb high rates of HIV infections and pregnancy in schools, condoms must be accessible

According to Stats SA, 99,000 school girls fell pregnant in 2013. Statistics also show that in 2013 almost 20% of pregnant women in the country between the ages of 15 and 24 were HIV-positive. These shocking statistics display the pressing need to address how susceptible young learners are to contracting HIV. Last week, young activists disrupted the Durban Aids Conference. Minister Aaron Motsoaledi was on the verge of introducing a speaker when learners rose from their seats, singing and demanding that government ensure the distribution of free condoms in schools. The Minister reportedly responded, «No, no, no – this session is not about this.»

The question around addressing the high rates of HIV and learner pregnancy in South Africa was recently put to government by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. In response, the government lauded its soon to be introduced Department of Basic Education Draft Policy on HIV, STIs and TB as a mechanism for positive change.

While the potential of the proposed policy is significant, it suffers from a fundamental flaw: government’s failure to frame the policy in a way that recognises that effective access to condoms in schools is a basic human right.

The Draft Policy does not make clear if all learners will have access to condoms in schools or how condoms are to be distributed. This is important, as attempts to restrict the age at which learners can access condoms may be detrimental to combatting the spread of HIV.

According to a 2012 National Survey on HIV, 37.5% of all learners reported having had sex, with 12.6% indicating that their first sexual encounter occurred before age 14.

Young females are vulnerable to sexual assault and the unequal power relations between genders. They are especially in need of access to protection.

The manner in which condoms will be distributed at schools will have a significant effect on learner uptake. The Draft Policy contemplates that certain learners could make use of mobile clinics where a nurse administers condoms. But research shows the reluctance of learners to obtain condoms when issued by an authority figure. The Draft Policy should be amended to allow learners easy and discreet access without having to interact with an intermediary to obtain condoms. Unmonitored condom dispensers placed in male and female bathrooms could make a significant impact.

Many object to condom distribution policies, claiming they cause learners to be more sexually active or enable learners, who would not otherwise consider becoming sexually active, to engage in sex earlier than they would have.

There are no studies to support these claims and plenty of studies to prove the opposite. Comparative research shows that condom availability programmes actually increased learners’ use of condoms when they were already engaging in sexual intercourse.

Adults often lecture children about being responsible. But parents, teachers and those elected to make vital decisions for our nation and our children also bear much responsibility. They are responsible for examining the research, engaging with the studies, digesting the statistics – however unpalatable they may be – and moving beyond morality rhetoric.

If we are to curb the high rates of HIV infections and pregnancy amongst learners in South Africa, condoms must be distributed in schools. And this must be done in an easy, discreet and accessible way. This should be coupled with comprehensive, age-appropriate sex education. Access to condoms in schools is learners’ right and ensuring this is our responsibility.

Lisa Eaves Draga is an attorney at the Equal Education Law Centre.

Fuente de la noticia: http://www.groundup.org.za/article/condoms-schools-its-human-right/

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Australia:$1M Available in Education Grants

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Oceania/Australia/31 Julio 2016/Fuente y Autor:probonoaustralia

Resumen: Dos rondas de subsidios de educación por un valor total $ 1 millón han puesto en marcha desde el Fondo de Impacto de aprendizaje para mejorar los resultados académicos de los niños australianos.

Two education grant rounds worth a total of $1 million have launched from the Learning Impact Fund to improve the academic outcomes for Australian children.

he first round is open to any education programs designed to improve the academic achievement of children in Australia. The second round is for programs focused on building resilience skills in students in Victorian schools.

The Learning Impact Fund is an initiative of the recently launched Evidence for Learning (E4L),  which has been incubated by Social Ventures Australia and supported by the Commonwealth Bank and the Education Endowment Foundation (UK) as a founding partner.

It is designed to identify, fund, evaluate and scale effective education programs in Australia.

“The fund also addresses the lack of rigorous evidence on the cost and effectiveness of educational practice in Australian schools,” Evidence for Learning’s director Matt Deeble said.

“The resilience round offers grants for program evaluation, and is a co-investment from E4L and VicHealth which has contributed $100,000 for program implementation and E4L, $50,000 for evaluation.

“The aim is to identify promising school-based initiatives that build social and emotional learning and resilience in Victorian students, which also improve academic achievement.”

He said E4L invites education program developers to apply for both grant rounds, including Not for Profit and for-profit organisations, Catholic education offices, charities, universities, government bodies and social enterprises.

“We want to empower educators with the very best information to make decisions about which programs and approaches to implement in their schools,” Deeble said.

VicHealth CEO Jerril Rechter said almost 75 per cent of mental illness begins before 25 years of age and it is crucial to take a preventative focus and proactively work to build resilience.

“In the 21st century young people will face a range of challenges including a more competitive job market, growth in technology and overexposure to online content so it’s important to build resilience early to help young people cope with life’s up and downs,” Rechter said.

 

Fuente de la noticia: http://probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2016/07/1m-available-australian-education-grants/

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Francia: Português será integrado no sistema educativo francês

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Europa/Francia/31 Julio 2016/Fuente y Autor: Jornal de Noticias

Resumen: La ministra de Educación de Francia, firmo un acuerdo en el cual el idioma portugues formara parte del curriculo escolar frances como lengua extranjera a partir del proximo año lectivo .

Acordo foi assinado em Paris com a ministra da Educação de França, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
O ministro da Educação disse, esta segunda-feira, que o português passará, a partir do próximo ano letivo, a integrar os currículos do sistema escolar francês como língua estrangeira.

Os ministros da Educação de Portugal e França, Tiago Brandão Rodrigues e Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, respetivamente, assinaram, em Paris, uma declaração política para reforçar a cooperação bilateral no domínio da língua.

Com esta declaração, acima de tudo, conquistamos, por um lado, que o português possa ser ensinado em França como língua estrangeira viva, havendo a sua integração nos currículos do sistema escolar, isto é, em vez de ser uma língua supletiva, uma língua que complementava os currículos, a partir de agora, o português passa a fazer parte do sistema escolar, completamente integrado», disse à Lusa Tiago Brandão Rodrigues, contactado a partir de Lisboa.

De acordo com o ministro da Educação, «o português passará a ser tratado como as línguas internacionais mais difundidas, como o inglês, o espanhol, o italiano», facto que classificou como «muito importante».

Segundo um comunicado do Ministério da Educação português, a França fará a substituição do «Ensino de Língua e Cultura de Origem (ELCO)» no sistema escolar por um novo dispositivo, o «Ensino Internacional de Línguas Estrangeiras (EILE)», que começará a ser aplicado já no ano letivo de 2016/17.

Por outro lado, disse Tiago Brandão Rodrigues, essa mudança também é importante para a comunidade portuguesa, que terá acesso ao português integrado nos currículos e «porque existirá uma continuidade ao longo de todo o sistema escolar» do ensino da língua portuguesa, tanto no ensino básico como no secundário.

Permitirá ainda, segundo o ministro, o aumento de alunos que não são de origem portuguesa nos cursos de português, pois também vão ter acesso à língua portuguesa ao longo em todo o sistema escolar em França.

«Portugal irá continuar a dar todos os recursos que dava até aqui para o ensino do português em território francês e a França passa a dar mais recursos importantes para a consolidação da língua portuguesa», indicou o ministro.

Tiago Brandão Rodrigues sublinhou ser importante aprofundar a cooperação educativa e linguística em acordos futuros e manter um acompanhamento técnico regular do ensino do francês em Portugal e do português em França. «Portugal é pioneiro nessa iniciativa do Governo francês, que quer alargar esse compromisso com outras línguas», disse ainda.

Essa declaração política, afirmou Tiago Brandão Rodrigues, «acontece também essencialmente num quadro dos laços de amizade que existe bilateralmente, como se viu também nesses últimos tempos pelas visitas mútuas que aconteceram a ambos os países».

«Acima de tudo é importante entender que o francês e o português apresentam-se como línguas com dimensões internacionais, como línguas de trabalho de organizações internacionais, mas também línguas da ciência, línguas de culturas, línguas de comunicação», afirmou.

Para o ministro português, «era importante» ter «instrumentos para robustecer a aprendizagem e o ensino da língua, do português em França e do francês em Portugal».

Segundo a nota do Ministério da Educação, esta declaração conjunta traduz, «antes de mais, uma forte vontade política, uma vez que inaugura uma nova e ainda mais ambiciosa etapa de promoção recíproca do ensino do português e do francês nos sistemas educativos de ambos os países».

De acordo com o documento, a partir do trabalho que conduziu à assinatura desta declaração conjunta, ambos os ministros concordaram que seja celebrado até ao fim do ano um novo acordo de cooperação educativa.

O documento também foi assinado pelo ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros de Portugal, Augusto Santos Silva.

Fuente de la noticia: http://www.jn.pt/nacional/interior/portugues-sera-integrado-no-sistema-educativo-frances-5304998.html

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India: Government called out for its failure to ensure the right to education

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Asia/India/31 Julio 2016/Fuente y Autor: Education International

Resumen: Un nuevo informe de la Educación Internacional de edu-empresas que operan en Hyderabad y Delhi, India ha dado a conocer las desigualdades educativas en el sistema, mientras que la unión de los políticos, los sindicatos, así como los padres y profesores en torno a una causa común.

Politicians joined national and state leaders of Education International (EI)’s Indian member organisations, the AIPTF, AIFTO, and AISTF along with hundreds of concerned educators and families for the launch of EI’s latest research, Profiting from the Poor: the Emergence of Multinational Edu-businesses in Hyderabad, India. The study, co-authored by Sangeeta Kamat, Carol Anne Spreen and Indivar Jonnalagadda, raises serious concerns about the growing commercialisation and privatisation of education in India.

Findings show the government is creating exemptions for private providers with respect to national standards as they relate to teachers, curriculum and school facilities in India’s Right to Education (RTE) Act. It also reveals that disinvestment in public education has led to deterioration and closure of government schools. India’s education budget is a mere 3.8 percent of the gross national product, or GDG, which falls short of the minimum 6 percent recommended by the UNESCO Education 2030 framework.

As a result, fee charging for-profit schools targeting poor communities have become an expanding market in India, attracting the interest of global corporations and foreign investors. Families spend at least one-fifth of their monthly income per child to access primary education in these schools, with the costs increasing at higher grades.

Enrolment in private schools is now over 50 percent in the regions of Andhra Pradesh (AP) and Telangana and over 80 percent in Hyderabad alone.

The AP government has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to outsource its government schools to Bridge International Academies, an international chain of fee-charging for profit schools that has come under heavy criticism in Uganda, Kenya, and Liberia. Bridge has declared its intention to operate 4,000 schools in AP.

Free quality education, a core State obligation

“Education provided by private proprietors or edu-businesses is neither free nor equitable”, stated UN special rapporteur on the right to education, Kishore Singh, at the launch event in Delhi. “This is in gross contradiction with the Sustainable Development Goal 4 set by the international community in 2015 and endorsed by the government of India”.

Singh urged the government to protect education from its commercialisation and make it a legal requirement for edu-businesses to meet essential conditions to ensure the right of all students to quality education.

“No private schools should be allowed to employ under-qualified teachers and to de-professionalise teaching”, said Singh . “In the Indian culture, teachers were highly regarded and respected. Valorising the teaching profession is of key importance today. Teachers are the custodians of quality education.”

Education International’s Angelo Gavrielatos emphasised the need for building community alliances with parents, students and civil society to halt the growing commercialisation of education. “The danger of governments outsourcing education activities to profit-making corporations is that it poses at risk not only public education systems themselves, but also their ability to promote democracy, social cohesion and equity.”

The India report is part of EI’s global effort to expose and reverse the trend of commercialisation and privatisation of public education.

 

Fuente de la noticia: https://www.ei-ie.org/en/news/news_details/4050

Fuente de la imagen: https://www.ei-ie.org/kroppr/eikropped/Kishore_Singh_146943064314694306431328.jpg

 

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