SERIES: Caucus: New Jersey with Steve Adubato
TITLE: Newark's Rebirth: Berkeley College
SHOW #: 2304
TIME: 26:47
Mr. DARIO A. CORTES, PhD (President, Berkeley College): Hi. I'm Dario
Cortes, president of Berkeley College. Berkeley College is committed to the
people of Newark, New Jersey's largest city. That's why we're proud to
support Newark's rebirth, remembering the past and showcasing the hope for
Newark's future.
STEVE ADUBATO, host:
Making the grade. How Berkeley College is shaping education in Newark, coming
up next.
Announcer: Funding for this edition of CAUCUS: NEW JERSEY has been provided
by Berkeley College, Prudential Financial, and by The Fidelco Group.
ADUBATO: Hi, I'm Steve Adubato. Today we examine one of New Jersey's leading
business schools, and one of the most important in the state. Berkeley
College is playing a major role in the city of Newark's rebirth. Joining me
in the studio, from Berkeley College, are John Mavros, professor of psychology
at the School of Liberal Arts; Dr. Ross London, professor of criminal justice
at the School of Professional Studies; Dr. Richard Robitaille, who is
assistant vice president of the Office of Military and Veteran Affairs; and
finally, our good friend Dr. Dario Cortes is president of Berkeley College.
I want to thank all of you for joining us.
Dario, we've had so many off-the-air conversations about Berkeley. What's
happened in the last year to make it so exciting?
Mr. CORTES: Well, I'll tell you, Berkeley is growing rapidly. In the last
four years we doubled the enrollment to over 8,000 students today. We are
growing dramatically in all fields. But more important, we're looking at
educating not only traditional students, but also nontraditional students,
adult students in this economy who are looking to retool themselves, to
retrain, to find other opportunities. So we're excited about the future. I
think we're positioned--I brought many of my colleagues today to talk a little
bit more about it.
ADUBATO: Yeah, why them? Tell us--give us a sense why them? Why each one of
them?
Mr. CORTES: Well, I tell you, Ross in particular, we have one of our
growing--the biggest major in our campus here in the city of Newark is
criminal justice.
ADUBATO: Criminal justice.
Mr. CORTES: A justice that...
ADUBATO: Why is it growing so quickly?
Mr. CORTES: It's an area that students are very interested in. I'll ask
Ross to tell you more about it, but nationally we see a tremendous growth in
that particular area. It could be television for--on the one part, you know,
a lot of "CSI" type of things.
ADUBATO: That's right. There's more interest than ever before.
Mr. CORTES: Yes, students see opportunities. Is it forensic science? Is it
criminology? Is it the justice system? Is it the law?
ADUBATO: Sure.
Mr. CORTES: And I think a lot of that is almost a intradisciplinary way of
looking at a particular career that gives a lot of opportunities, from the
police to the FBI to the CIA to local enforcement, federal, state, the
airports. It's all over.
ADUBATO: And you work with all those folks?
Mr. CORTES: We work with all of them.
ADUBATO: And, by the way, just to clarify as we move forward, Dario, we are
taping in the city of Newark. We are longtime partners with Berkeley College,
but there are several campuses. Give quick--people a quick overview because
Newark is a big piece of a much bigger piece.
Mr. CORTES: Absolutely. We have campuses both in New Jersey and in New
York. We also a campus online, which is a tremendous...
ADUBATO: Growing.
Mr. CORTES: ...growing program for us. And that adds to the Berkeley
advantage that I talked in the past, the ability for students in the Berkeley
system to take courses online at anytime, any place. They can do it hybrid,
they can do it face to face.
ADUBATO: Hm.
Mr. CORTES: They can do it both ways. That allows the students to really
take courses on our premises here in the city, in any of our campuses, or they
can do it online, which is important.
ADUBATO: Let me--I got a military piece here, too. Talk about it.
Mr. CORTES: Sure. Richard.
Mr. RICHARD E. ROBITAILLE, EdD (Assistant Vice President, Military and
Veteran Affairs): Well, we're...
ADUBATO: Why do you think he picked you, by the way? I was asking Dario, why
do you think he picked you, Doctor?
Mr. ROBITAILLE: Well, I am, I'm a 20-year veteran of the United States Army,
still serving in the National Guard. And I think the president...
ADUBATO: Thank you. For everything.
Mr. ROBITAILLE: Well, appreciate that. The president had a vision many
months ago to look at the whole military and veteran population, especially
since the wars began, since 9/11, and I'm a very big veterans advocate, and
the president wanted an office that would reach out to that population in
Newark and then also at all of our campuses. Our veteran population has gone
up significantly since the new post-9/11 GI bill has begun.
ADUBATO: So those guys come back and those women come back from Afghanistan
and Iraq, what are they facing, and what is Berkeley doing?
Mr. ROBITAILLE: Well, Berkeley, because we have so many adult learners, we
looked at this military population, who has even more significant issues than
your normal, traditional adult learner, and the fact that they come back after
giving many years of their life overseas, many prime years of their life, and
they often just have a high school degree, they have families, they have--some
have physical disabilities or other issues, medical issues, and they're at a
very difficult stage of their life. And so we've really reached out with a
dedicated office of military veteran affairs that--the president asked me to
lead that to reach out to this population in a very, very direct and
supporting way to help them transition from that military world into the
business world, or the--whatever career they choose through Berkeley.
ADUBATO: Before I move to John, what has been the response from military
folks you're dealing with?
Mr. ROBITAILLE: Well, it's positive. It's--they like having someone to
call. They like having someone who they can--if there's any issue inside
Berkeley, or even outside of Berkeley, someone they can pick up the phone
to--I will talk to them. Even if it's an issue that's not education, I can
get them to the right person at the VA to deal with their issue. They have a
lot of questions about their own lives, and helping them through that
transition, a lot of them appreciate that. But it's frustrating for them.
It's hard for them, and--but I understand that as a veteran myself, and so I
keep working with them.
ADUBATO: It means a lot to you personally, doesn't it?
Mr. ROBITAILLE: It's a big part of what I am, you know, being in the
military. I joined the Army when I was 17, I'm still in. And to me that's a
part of who I am, and I love serving that population.
ADUBATO: John, talking about what means a lot to people, your colleague
Richard talks about what that piece means in his life, but Newark means a lot
to you. Talk about that and connect it to Berkeley.
Mr. JOHN T. MAVROS (Psychology Professor, Berkeley College): Well, I was
afraid you were going to ask me why did you pick me. And I was going to tell
you that perhaps it's because, since I'm a professor, we're at a--we're
allowed to ask questions and search for answers, but we don't always have to
have the answer.
ADUBATO: Hm.
Mr. MAVROS: So I was going to ask Dr. Cortes to explain why he picked me to
be here. I...
ADUBATO: John, you could've done that off the air.
Mr. MAVROS: Of course I'm being facetious.
ADUBATO: Well, that can be changed real quick. Go ahead, John.
Mr. MAVROS: But...(unintelligible)...
ADUBATO: Talk about your piece in this whole thing.
Mr. MAVROS: I really have been in Newark ever since I graduated Princeton
many years ago.
ADUBATO: You love this city.
Mr. MAVROS: And I came here to make a change.
ADUBATO: Hm.
Mr. MAVROS: And I'm still here, and I'm proud to be part of the change
that's taking place with Berkeley, because there is just an air about the
students and the school, about the way that we take care of business in the
classrooms and outside of classrooms that's different.
ADUBATO: What do you see in those students? Sorry for interrupting. What do
you see in those students...
Mr. MAVROS: They come with no...
ADUBATO: This is not a criticism of any other college or university. What do
you see in your students that makes them so special?
Mr. MAVROS: No, I've been in education most of my life.
ADUBATO: Mm.
Mr. MAVROS: And so I could tell you that it's a pleasure to teach at
Berkeley because the students are looking for answers that they can--they can
take with them outside of the classroom. Not--they're not just looking for
degree--they're--or--and that's important. And they're not only looking for a
grade, but it's a no-nonsense attitude. They come into class, they want to
get something that they can apply to their careers, to their lives.
ADUBATO: Mm.
Mr. MAVROS: To--they want to get a degree that they can really take and
utilize.
ADUBATO: Hey, Mr. President, we're talking about internships, we're talking
about opportunities for employment, we're talking about collaborations. I
mean, let's talk about the police piece. Because then our good friend Gary
McCarthy, who is the police director in the city of Newark, speaks very highly
of Berkeley and the partnership. Talk about that.
Mr. CORTES: Ross, go ahead.
Mr. ROSS LONDON, JD, PhD (Criminal Justice Professor, Berkeley College):
Well, we've entered into an agreement, Steve, with the city of Newark to offer
places in our--in our college for members of the police academy and also
members of the police department. We're offering trans--easy transference of
credit, and we're offering rather generous financial opportunities for them.
ADUBATO: Why?
Mr. LONDON: Well, we want--it's a mutual thing. From my perspective as a
criminal justice teacher, we want, in the classroom, role models of people who
are actually working in the community as police officers, probation officers,
and so forth so that our students have real life, practical contact with the
world.
ADUBATO: Hm.
Mr. LONDON: We also wanted to--it's part of our mission to educate a new
generation of police officers who can really get out into the community and do
the right thing, to serve the community in the right way. And things are
turning around the Newark. The concept of community policing is taking hold,
and we want to be a part of that effort.
ADUBATO: So you see that, and it's interesting.
Dario, when I was at NJPAC at a very, very nice ceremony, a beautiful ceremony
that officially brought you in as the president, saw a lot of folks in Newark,
a lot of the key players in Newark, in the corporate community,
not-for-profit, government affairs, peace as well. Describe how Berkeley
College--I mean, not just the entire institution, but the Berkeley College,
particularly the Newark piece, fits into the larger Newark community.
Mr. CORTES: Well, I tell you, I believe that colleges and universities--and
Berkeley is one of them--becomes the economic engine of the region. So when
we look at what we've done in the city of Newark, in the few years that we've
been here, you know, we created jobs, we brought in students, we brought in
culture and diversity to the place. We partner with our corporate friends.
ADUBATO: Give us a for instance.
Mr. CORTES: NJPAC was an example.
ADUBATO: Jersey Performing Arts Center.
Mr. CORTES: Absolutely. We sponsored, you know, a number of activities with
them.
ADUBATO: Did you do Sounds of the City? Great.
Mr. CORTES: Sounds of the City, that's sponsor--a sponsorship. We've been
there, we supported it for the last several years. Again, this is the ability
for a college institution like ours, Berkeley College, partnering with NJPAC,
two major institutions in the city of Newark, working together, collaborating
together, in making an effort to bring the arts, the location, the culture to
the community in this great city. This is a type of activity that colleges
make.
ADUBATO: OK, the other collaborations. We're talking about the piece
involving Newark police department, the police academy, really, which is the
Leadership Institution, and they do education, leadership development, etc.,
etc. You got the NJPAC piece, you got the corporate community you're involved
in as well...
Mr. CORTES: That's--absolutely.
ADUBATO: ...in terms of providing internships, job opportunities, right?
Providing employable, very employable people. Let's deal with the issue--go
ahead, John.
Mr. MAVROS: And there are ways in which--in which the campus here in Newark
is contributing to the community itself, the growth of Newark. You can see
that it was an outpost three or four years ago.
ADUBATO: Hm.
Mr. MAVROS: There wasn't very much activity on this side of Broad Street
going up this way. Now you can see other things that are be--other
building--offices and even a school, I think, that's opening at 1 Washington
Place. But we have brought--there's Newark Bears. We're bringing students in
for the NJPAC...
ADUBATO: Newark Bears, minor league baseball team.
Mr. MAVROS: ...performances, we're bringing students in to go to see the
Bears for some of our, you know, school spirit type of gatherings. We have
part of the Sounds of the City. And there's also the--there's a market
that--with music once a week or something that Berkeley is a co-sponsor of
right here in Washington Park.
ADUBATO: So there are sponsorship opportunities. But do you ever deal with
this, Richard, the whole question of--and Dario and I have talked about this
off the air as well--there's a perception issue. I mean, all of us have
perception issues, those of us in PBS, you know.
Mr. CORTES: Mm-hmm.
ADUBATO: There's perception--there's perception of public television, there's
the reality of public television. You try to put the best face out there and
be honest with who and what you are. But Berkeley, in terms of what you're
describing, complex, multifaceted, growing double the enrollment in the last
how many years?
Mr. CORTES: Four years.
ADUBATO: Four years? Tremendous presence in Newark. How much do you
deal--because recruiting is part of your business, right?--with perception
issues of what people may have thought Berkeley was and are not aware of what
it is.
Mr. ROBITAILLE: Well, I know through my office it's a lot of outreach.
Through the Sounds of the City we sponsored a veterans' night where we honored
the local Newark National Guard battalion that just returned from Iraq in
June. In fact, the commander and sergeant major will be speaking at Veterans
Day activities. So keeping that outreach with the military community, which
are citizens of Newark, we'll be reaching out to those armories, keeping the
presence there, keeping them--letting them know that Berkeley College
understands their sacrifices and what they've given. Those are all, you know,
Newark citizens and citizens of surrounding communities that have--were gone
for a year.
ADUBATO: I appreciate that.
But, Dario, go back to the marketing question.
Mr. CORTES: Sure.
ADUBATO: Is the marketing/branding/perception/image/PR--they're all those
questions. You're out there dealing with your colleagues all the time, other
college presidents, university presidents. You're dealing in the business
community. You're dealing with the media. We've had many conversations. To
what degree do you believe Berkeley has succeeded in the minds of key decision
makers, opinion leaders, in moving beyond what some may have perceived
Berkeley as, `Well, that's, isn't that a business/secretarial school?' Not
that there's anything wrong with that, but that is not what it is today.
Where are we?
Mr. CORTES: Well, absolutely. Seventy-eight years, Berkeley College is in
New Jersey.
ADUBATO: 1931!
Mr. CORTES: 1931, started as a secretary school, a two-year degree,
associate degree school, a baccalaureate degree and perhaps soon enough
graduate programs. But what has made a difference is the quality of education
that we provide to all our students, beginning with that. Faculty who are
practitioners in their field, very important. Small classes, the ability, the
flexibility that I mentioned earlier, online and different campuses where the
students can take courses. The ability of getting internships and being
placed in jobs upon their careers. Finishing up in a quarter system. We're
not in a semester system, we're in a quarter system.
ADUBATO: Explain the difference to folks.
Mr. CORTES: Well, the quarter system, you can go across the--your degree
program at a faster pace. So instead of taking a fall or a spring semester,
you can do it in four quarters, and you can go through and get your
baccalaureate degree in 18 months, for example. So that is an opportunity for
students who are very career focused, who really want to get into the
marketplace. They want to--they want to get jobs. They want to get out from
their economic situation and get a job so they can move up in their lives. So
Berkeley College, as a proprietary school, has really shown the quality and
the rigor of our programs. We're fully accredited, both in New Jersey and in
New York, and in middle states, which is the major accrediting agency of the
United States, a...
ADUBATO: A significant number of PhDs.
Mr. CORTES: Well, absolutely. Our faculty, our terminal degrees, doctoral
degrees, PhDs, with not only the academic credentials but also the experience
that they have in the criminal justice system, in the fashion program, in the
interior design programs, in the management, in accounting, in paralegal.
These are individuals and faculty who are really passionate about what they
do, committed to the students and who, you know, their primary responsibility
is to make sure they get the best education in the state of New Jersey.
ADUBATO: Jump back in, Doctor.
Mr. LONDON: Steve, well, what I was going to say is this. In this
economy...
ADUBATO: Mm.
Mr. LONDON: ...where things look so bleak and the for rent signs are out
there and the for sale signs, in--very remarkable story in downtown Newark,
it's a college that was recently--the campus has recently built, and it's
growing. There're more classrooms that're being built. There are--the
library is being expanded. Our...
ADUBATO: In this economy?
Mr. LONDON: In this economy and in downtown Newark.
ADUBATO: How do you explain it? How do you explain that?
Mr. LONDON: Well, I think some of your viewers would be interested to find
out what's going on there. Well, what's going on is that we take the task,
the challenge of mentoring students toward a career very seriously. In this
economy, people are concerned about careers. That's what we provide, a
pathway to something that's meaningful and rewarding. In the case of criminal
justice, I'll tell you, we've become a very fast-growing component of the
citizen--of the system. And particularly in Newark, we have local Newark
residents who want to live here, who want to work here and have a rewarding
career. And we take them and we show them the way. We give them internships,
all kinds of training, all kinds of practical experience. We have mock
trials, we have debates. We have all types of exposure to the real world
coupled with intensive academic training. And in fact...
ADUBATO: Bit time faculty advisement as well.
Mr. LONDON: Absolutely. So, you know, the--even though there may be a
challenge to the perception of Newark, no, the word is getting out. It's a
reality that's happening.
Mr. MAVROS: And one thing that I find from students, who I interact with,
I've--I teach courses. All faculty teach courses at some other campuses as
well.
ADUBATO: Sure. What's the difference? What do you feel the difference is?
Mr. MAVROS: Us--the difference is that the students are, here, who have
transferred, in particular, from other institutions--not from Berkeley
campuses--they find that there's a nurturing atmosphere, a mentoring, as
Professor London was saying, that you don't find when they've--when
they've--at the institutions that they came from.
ADUBATO: Mm.
Mr. MAVROS: They was very surprised that it stayed with them in terms of
being supported by financial aid for their assistance, as well as by the
student activity, student development, to be sure that they could take
advantage of other things in addition to the classroom activities. So that's
very important.
Mr. CORTES: Just to jump in, the other thing that I find as I travel the
campuses, each one of them has its own identity and feel. The campus here in
Newark is the--what I find is the level of commitment that the students have,
they like to remain on campus. They like to stay in the library. They have
wireless technology. They can get laptops where they can get into the
Internet, they can get the work done. In many cases, the students may not
have those capabilities back at home.
ADUBATO: Hm.
Mr. CORTES: So I find that the students are there from morning to night.
They want to get there, they want to eat there, they want to do the
homework...
Mr. MAVROS: That's right.
Mr. CORTES: ...they want to be mentored by the faculty. That's something
that doesn't happen very often because, you know, students tend to just
navigate the system.
ADUBATO: Come and go.
Mr. CORTES: Come and go, yes.
ADUBATO: Let me do this, because I want to make sure we cover a couple of
things. If you were to talk about and identify the key areas of learning--
first, obviously, we're talking about criminal justice, we're talking about
the psychology piece, we were talking about the military affairs piece. Got a
lot of things going on here, right? Name the other top six programs at
Berkeley so that people--by the way, you log on to our site, we'll connect you
to the Berkeley site. The Berkeley site will be up there as well.
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ADUBATO: What are people going to find out, the top programs? Go.
Mr. CORTES: Well, beginning, Berkeley is a business school. To a certain
extent, the business curriculum, management, international business,
accounting, etc. Second--or first is criminal justice. Fashion, the fashion
management. Again, that's a multibillion-dollar industry. Students are very
interested in--not only in design and fashion, but how do you retail that?
How do you manufacture? How do you get the product to the marketplace? So
that area is also a growing area. Accounting, as an example. Paralegal. You
know, in this city, in particular, I find a tremendous need...
ADUBATO: In the city of Newark?
Mr. CORTES: The city of Newark. You know, we're--the courts are here, the
attorneys are here.
ADUBATO: Yep.
Mr. CORTES: And that's an area that, in particular, also needs very
specialized technical skills they need in the marketplace. So, for that, I
find the ability to educate the students, the partnerships that we've
talked--I just remember two of them in par--the Red Bulls. We...
ADUBATO: The Red Bulls, the soccer team?
Mr. CORTES: The soccer team.
ADUBATO: And you love soccer?
Mr. CORTES: I love soccer. Yeah, I do love soccer. It--but more important,
we brought in the Red Bulls, we talked to them, and the ability of getting to
know our soccer. We have our athletic programs at Berkeley, soccer,
basketball. Very, you know, a growing area for us as well. The Red Bulls was
a significant partnership with us. The other one that comes to mind here in
the city of Newark is housing, University Center.
Mr. LONDON: Right.
Mr. CORTES: You know, we share facilities with Rutgers in Newark, with
Montclair and the other institutions.
ADUBATO: Building new housing?
Mr. CORTES: It--we--it's a common housing for all students in the city of
Newark. It's called University Center.
ADUBATO: And you guys are a part of that?
Mr. CORTES: We're a part of that. We have over 40 students or more coming
in. In less than a year, our students are now have the ability...
Mr. LONDON: Yeah, last two quarters.
ADUBATO: There was a demand for that, Dario?
Mr. CORTES: Oh, absolutely.
ADUBATO: They wanted to--by the way, real quick, because I know we happen to
talk off the air about the strategic plan.
Mr. CORTES: Yes.
ADUBATO: If you can do it in a minute or less, how the strategic plan, the
vision of Berkeley, fits into everything we're talking about. Where we going
here?
Mr. CORTES: Well, I tell you, as you know, I've been the president of
Berkeley for a little bit over a year. The first thing I did is to put a
strategic plan together with the community at large. It's called strategic
vision 2010, 2015 and beyond. And part of that is to lay out the future for
Berkeley, both in the ability to strengthen the academic side, more important,
to look at the future. The military, that was part of it. The school of
continuing ed. The re-engineering, if you will, the restructuring of the
academic side into schools--the School of Business, the School of Liberal
Arts, the School of Professional Studies, the School of Continuing Ed.
Looking at the--providing the tools for economic development and retooling
that I mentioned earlier in the marketplace for a lot of--a lot of individuals
who want to come back to the institution on a part-time basis at our school of
continuing ed. Much of that is an ability for us to look in the future
strategically, internationally. You know, we have over 100 nationalities
represented at Berkeley. To me, the global economy is so critical. We need
to be, as an--institutions of higher learning, we need to look and provide the
international global education to our students as well.
ADUBATO: All strategic, not just happening because, but because a lot of
thought went into it.
I want to bring it back into this, Richard. How excited are you? Because you
got--I was looking at some of my notes, and it said you got the GI bill
providing tuition, housing. The GI bill, my dad used to talk about the GI
bill and what it did for him in terms of him being able to go to education.
What has it meant to those returning from Iran--excuse me, from Iraq and from
Afghanistan and serving other places around the world who're coming to
Berkeley. Where's the GI bill fit into this?
Mr. ROBITAILLE: Well, this GI bill is the most powerful and most lucrative
GI bill since the one signed by President Roosevelt many years ago.
ADUBATO: Why?
Mr. ROBITAILLE: Well, compared to the one I was under when I went to school,
which was the Montgomery GI bill, which is a cookie-cutter approach--in other
words, if you were eligible and I was eligible, we both got the same check and
it wasn't much. And it paid a few of the fees, but it didn't get you through
school...(unintelligible).
ADUBATO: Right now, in the shorter version, because, by the way, log online
to find out more about the GI bill there, but...
Mr. ROBITAILLE: Right. Right.
ADUBATO: ...the short version, what's so special now, particularly as it
relates to Berkeley?
Mr. ROBITAILLE: Well, as it relates to Berkeley, is a veteran can come to
Berkeley, if they're 100 percent eligible for the post-9/11 GI bill, they have
100 percent of their tuition and fees paid for through the GI bill, especially
because we're a member of the Yellow Ribbon program. We participate in that
program with the VA. So that allows a veteran to come here. The VA pays
everything, pays them their fees, their tuition; and the VA also pays them a
housing stipend while they're in school, and also gives them money for
textbooks. So it gives that veteran every opportunity to succeed at Berkeley
College.
ADUBATO: Tremendous opportunity. A minute left here.
Mr. MAVROS: Does it matter when they're released? Does it matter when
they're released, you know, from service?
Mr. ROBITAILLE: No.
Mr. MAVROS: No.
ADUBATO: John's having your own private conversation, is it? We got a minute
left. Other terrific things you're really excited about about Berkeley. Go.
Mr. LONDON: Well, the--our core mission, get people ready for jobs. So we
have very interesting programs, but the core there is get critical reading
skills, critical thinking skills, computer skills. Get ready to step into a
position...
ADUBATO: Liberal arts skills?
Mr. LONDON: ...so that--right. So that when an employer sees that there's a
Berkeley graduate, they already know quite a lot about this person. This
person knows how to handle themselves in the business world, they know how to
write a letter, they know how to communicate. There's a lot of--lots that's
communicated there, and we take students and we bring them to that point.
That's what it's all about. It's about jobs.
ADUBATO: Thirty seconds left. How excited are you about the future?
Mr. CORTES: Very excited. Again, in the council of presidents of New
Jersey, we put together a document, talk about the economic development of
colleges, universities in this great state of New Jersey, and Berkeley is the
leading institution doing that for the state of New Jersey.
ADUBATO: Let me just say this. I want to thank all of you from the Berkeley
world and community for sharing some very important stories about a great
future. Great job. Thank you very much.
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