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AY To. me* it doesn’t really
. matter.: I am not? that concerned
. the location of , The.. Citadel' in | ing' the .morale of the Troupe duaboutt-the-vla
Thefact., of? the^ dLsothat- we could look down, at
' ' ALBERTA JCCS
downtown Edmontonjust a half ring /the pressure-packed
tour
matter/isLthat.they were, camps; the'AmSieahs ’and say look at I
.you guys, weai<e so much .better.” -EDMONTON..- Ima specta- Wook from Edmonton Pta Ho- rested on the capable shoulders I calf themrconceiitratm. camps
What he died for was a symbol to l~cuiar/tour of Alberta, July 301 tel.
/ ‘ Kr' •* ® n^t>1>“
nee or,
a ajo
but" the-fact .is they had- no busi­
*us about what.-is wdrtK'fighting L, August «7«>e Nikka Festival . The. tour .began at Lethbridge. Hayashi. In her
dh^actenstic
ness existing, itwas a-travesty of
j
a Fpitival
nerformahce at | fashion,
she. gave credit
to the
_ Canadian democracy. Ther^should against, and,vi
I brought up the DanCers overwhelmed
capacity .with a
iesuvai penunid
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July | entire crew of 50 for contributing
- Canadian
evacuation I aduiiences to ” four standing
ova- the Exhibition - Pavilion
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\ be,' in ‘myVview, some indication Japanese
and
said
thit
is
another
reminder.
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a
special
full
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The
attractive
-and
colorful
to
the
success
of
the
Nrkte
Fe^sff om the ^government- that - that
The next day the Vancouver Sun D^ reheaTsal at
Edmonton’s Festival involved local girls m trval pancers IN CONCERT, .es- will never happen again and the
•wrote an editorial in-which *e? L^ Theatre . during
which the opening, and. closmg-numb- pecially mentioning^ he c^icia
best* indication' would be “to re- voke^theYWar. Measures Act'and. tore me to"shreds and said.that viaeot te oi,fte entire concert ers to their immense thrall, and role of the parents. On the artaswarning* of racism where «™»L-,^. by ACCESS Tele- the -audience'of 800, largely Ja- t.c side she expressed her mdebas - a gesture towards - the Japaexists is just fanning the flames I ^3^-North. It was a- full but panese from the entire.south Al-I tedness to the n^tiona c 01 gnese-Canadians-that were.wrong“ ? b.ah, blah, blah . . . arid P t ^^ ^ busy days berta -region,. regretted -after se- rapher Tatsu-m^Yoshikiyo (Chied, I think ~ that “ perhaps they
that Vancouver has.! terrific te-L'ardstie discipline and success, eing this sample that them mu- yoko. Hirano) the assistant cho: ■ might'•‘make’ a .^reparation. .settle-.
The highlight of this outstan- tation for a concert performance reographers Otowa Hmaoki (A- merit'-but-'not ■ to Japanese-Caha- tory after 1S«- it is. very clear
X that .'what happened with L’ J ^s undoubtedly the was- entered too late to be aceo- kmni Kpmorn) Hanayaga Toshiu
diaiis; Hut to civil .-rights groups
people like Doug' Collins is thati^^ of the Nikka. Festi- mmodated. (Therefore,-a special (Mrs. Noda), Irene
Tsumoto,
of. some'sort-as’ a' gesture. Conhe simply -reopened — the embers
^. Dancers at the magnificent bus was chartered by Lethbridge the Nikka Trio (Teresa Ko ayacentration:?. cja m p ,' internment
XreXe^dy thereftHe racism ta
^adel Theatre in Edmonoton. to. see the concert in Calgary, as stay Takeo Yamashiro Harry A- ,
see
camp;" for . me,” it doesn’t, get me i^S is >st Bering; £t“^re * -thejr peak > to.
Winnineg
did to take in the Nik-|oki), and to her special favorites,
Winnipeg did to take in the Nik­
upset.
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the performers. She was
most
- Q: Paraphrased: -Re: racist in­ At one time- in the..later. 60s, il ^e Nikka Trio were.in rare form, ka ^Festival Dancers at Edmoriton ) The Nikka Festival; Dane- appreciative of the
dedication
cidents in* Toronto where young was directed at kids with long. . ^g, ' interpretation,
, cordiriation . ers were hosted in royal .style by j and talent of the support staff: white. hien. Yhave ’ taunted and hair. Same; damn thing, .people • and precision were
beautifully
harmed -recent immigrants, , par- were * freaked-out because ^^iey / -supported -by the technical,, zsbaff. the SouJbh Alberta hospitality, a stage director, T. Makihara; set
pattern followed by Calgary and ! designer, K. Kukimoto; wardro" ■ ticularly Pakistani--but. otheis as looked' different. Same thing as <
The outstanding production of Edmonton, subsequently.
* I be supervisor, Harumi Nakamuliell. “I would’ like you to com- against the Pakistan's'or the Japs. ^^
^u (SchoolFlower
the tv
Ikenobu
(School • of
of.
The first concert in * Alberta La; make up, Kay Fujiwara; hament - why this as increasing • n is always there. How wide- Arrangement ; (Ms. Okawa - and 'was at the Dord . . Beaverbrook I ir stylist, -Susie Mori, and their
unong- young people.”
" spread it is;“I have no idea.Mrs. Aiello) was displayed
on High School on August 2 ,to a I respective
assistants.
Special
I A: .1 really don’t,-konw. I think
(unintelligible).
stage throughout the subseque­ turn-away'capacity audience. Sin-1 thanks were expressed to Ron
that one,;ofjhe things Jbhat^we
^^ T ^^ think-Ave had better nt dance, numbers. This was the
ce the stage was ‘ smaller than I Kreski, the computer
lighting
produced professional theatres and techni-1 designer, who diverted his vaca_ have to be very, very careful of is ^^ .^^ the egg'program. If you arti sti c. p ackag e th a t
to?take\.the press that seriously. I ^^ .^^ .^ yori ^jn find that the standing ovations from a most
cal facilities limited, the beauti- I tion to join the western tour,
There 'is?«o question that it hap. ^^ ~'importers
■appreciative and -overwhelmingly ful concert was a tribute; nd oh- I TheYEdmonoton group felt the
of
(the
pens. I was In Toronto- when, the whether meat or plant are not wider Canadian audience
ly to the dancers but to‘ the ere? I impact with appreciation of the
' mad;was- thrown off the sjibway i ^^ ^ - Africa, they are’ the IC’s
were
outnumbered abo- ative supporting staff of stage, I overall contribution ; of the. only,
~ platfornyand had both,of-his legs I NetherlandSj they-are the Scan- ut itwo to one).,.
sound and lighting crews. While I male ■ performer, Masa
Hirano,
" broken and no one stopped the djnavia countries, they are Russia,.
- A. -sample comment from mein- at Calgary the Nikka - Festival I He was also the creator of many
? ' three-punks that did it. But ^ ^"y are in fact white-societies — bers of the. Citadel technical .staff ।* Dancers contributed to the en-1 of . the set designs and the quiet
' - of “all 'there, will never be an end hi^technology .societies. Arid the illustrates the quality of the per­ richment of the Calgary Herita- I coordinator that kept the behind— tp, racism.' It is just a S®n^tant amount ^ nOw export to the formance: “Your concert
was
gee: Day program, and as expec- I the scenes operations
working
, fight and we will never eliminate J undetrdeveloped countries is a tiny the most artistic and technically
ted, stole the show.
I smoothly, and engaging in cre- it. It is; ridiculous to think that
^ and generally the egg
professional we have seen.p erfor~The responsibility of * produ-I ative adaptations when that was
- we ever will. I think we must I pro^ram ,is used f or political rea- ’med at The Citadel.” Facilitating
cing, coordinating’ and maintain-I called for. *
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v
bear in mind that there are a Lop,Sj not out of any humanitarian the .logistical convenience
was
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The tremendous effort, oyer sephenomenal 'number of" people, I “^^ Anyway let’s not get into
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I veral months by the three .host
' whites, who are just as outraged I _^^
^ f^ only one Japanese
’ groups of Dethbridge, Calgary
- and terrified by that attitude as I ^_ asked a question, ’(laugh).
• and Edomnto.n to- set the. stage
we are. To me it is very important ^ ^^ -^ funniest looking
for the tour success was noted
to. emphasize that: that there are Japanese rve-ever seen.
and treasured by- Sadayo Haya­
good people of all races who are . ^_ ^^ ,minorities supporting
shi as something that, cannot, be
going to wdrk_agairisFitl Whether ^^ minorities. Two cases. -Did
underestimated. As a. final ob' it is ^ widespread, 9 out of:10 other rcpress6d minorities in Can­
those wtho have made the distin- servation of the quality of profe­
whites are racists, I would really I ^ ^ave anything to say or
OTTAWA.- Dr. Y; .Ameno­
ssional maturity attained by the
hate to think that.; I think' the I
^ to the evacuation of the miya of Ottawa will /receive the guished contribution in catalysis
Nikka Festival Dancers,
they
great majority of people have real, j^^
during the
Second catalysis Award of the Chemical field while residing in Canada.
Dr. Amenomiya, Fellow of CIC, . maintained their poise and cool
common decency. I think those . ^^ ^^.And, seecondly, have Institute of Canada (GIC) at the
upon hearing about the. air-con tare very extreme cases that seJl I the Japanese supported other re­ annual Conference of the Cana­ will share the honour of receiving
R.J. roller’s’ strike after their final
lots of papers. I think,, and again | ^^ minorities?
dian Society *for the
Chemical the first Award with Dr.
Cvetanovic. Both are
working Edmonton show forced, them to go
I am not a.psyehqlogist or sociolo-A: That is a very good' ques­ Engineering- to be held at Cal­
at the Division of Chemistry, the to Vancouver-on to chartered bus­
gist, but in times of stress that tion. To'the first question, “Did gary, October 19//.
at es.-Bravo, Nikkh Festival Danc­
is the time which it becomes very other minority groups support
The Award * was newly set up National Research Council
ers! Kampai!
convenient to select a group of
in-1977, and will be granted to Ottawa."
Cont. on Page 2
-people to put the blame on. It

First Catalysis Award
To Dr. Y. Amenomiya

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' the Japanese.” -I .don’t, know; - where * it is/at ^ in terms of really their attitudes. Then by the-end .is (all I^am saying. If someone
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of /the -TVar /you ' find ' that sud- |.wants to. come over*' or?’ someone,
’ There might be someone here who jCto^ngTho^ :^itudes?I;g^
' * A -! member bf Ethnic Press
?; -. / knows, j;:, just '/-don’t * know.-®My I am really conservative on;that. denly they/begin to say .no it_is can retain that and perpetuate it,
?
, Association (bf -Ontario";..
; feeling would be the, answer is' no. I. think the really important (atti­ never.bad-'to have intermarriage sufe'That is: p art (ofThe/G anadian' ■
-1* and -.Canada Federation
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Q: Paraphrased: Questioner, is tudes are learned, very early in and maybe* even in some cases it mbsaic. It certainly; do esh’t /make;
T. UMEZUKIPUBLISHER
V. '-referring to Suzuki’s talk, - and life,'/they are. familiar 'things. may .be, maybe good.- The fact ds me-, more *’Canadian.-to ' say- that
K.C.TSUMURA
Shakespeare
is
my
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literature,-.but
- - English? Section .Editor
agrees, he says with "95 percent” What we have" got to* try, to do is hybrid vigor<is a .very well docu-?.\KEN .MORI
' of what Suzuki has to -say. *Hoav- simply meet more people and talk mented fact in /plants - and - ani- that-is; a fact. It ("is a fact of-his> - Japanese Section'Editor.
;?
ever, he thinks .at one -level it is to them? about these'kinds of is­ mals. 'You take two highly inbred tory. .my" “whole ' education.
Published on every Tuesdays
unfair . to - expect > the Japanese- sues. -We. as Japanese-Canadians lines/ and .cross . them,? their, .off­ Ikebana, -I .only knew whatthat.
-/ and Fridays
Canadians to be better -than any­ have got To top slhying away from spring. will : be' much' more, vigor­ meant or learned what” it meant
one else, as he surmises - Suzuki it and bririg it upybecause pedple. ous by alL.standards you .want'To* 10 years ago.. It is. not a--part of
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us e Than^ either of their /parents?
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-was saying in portions of his talk. are interested. For .most ,'C
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saying

I
~a>m.not
denigrating
it
A: ‘I-don't know, (I agree with dians, I don’t think they even It has never been demonstrated
? / , . in any way.
know/this bit of .history?;F think -in -people; but I believe it.
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we
have
got
to
as
individuals
talk
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One
thing
I?
should
emphasize
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of our own ./business and preju- to white people about it and raise is that if you take .the average r A: I think if you expect the
level, of
consciousness, genetic- ’difference./between-races," Japanese : to make a. .significant
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dices and preconceptions) but . I. their
think if we who* have suffered awareness, and— sensitivity .and It is-much less ^than the; amount; contribution there,, it ■ is pie -in the
• ' from that can not become hyper­ then hopefully it will .be .different of difference -that . you will find sky.
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within
a
single'
'race
at
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your
ex
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with
their
children.
Tn
terms
of
;
/Unfortunately,
I
think
for
the
sensitive to it and question our­
selves, then you are really lost. educators; I am' not convinced treme ends. There' is ; far. -more m aj ority of n on-Franc ophones in
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this country you ?. have. a very
As I say., racism will never be that really has -much - effect./1
I Woman;/for home work, ® making
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gone but I would hope' there mean, som eone was Tell ing me to­ racialgroup than you will. find strong Anglo-European-: .contribu- j ackets. 366-5745.8 -a.m.~/_5 .p ? ;
would be " an • extrasensitivity. day that, there is a course for. between racial .. gropps . on the iti on to what this culture is, what­
BEBMAlMENI1 part time secre­
W,hen- I was a-tenriager I was grade 11 students (about War average. .The outer skin is the ever- it; is. That is a reality —7
tary for real estate office,; Bloor
brought up by a father who was Measures Act and all that.?! think , most trivi al; part’ of; our basic bio-. That is ail I am saying.
& iSander son. Must ibe good in (En­
'•What I find very frightening
a nisei andjhe. said, "David, when that is all very good to' have logy,’ and yet: Ave - put so many
glish and typing, pleasant perso- ^
you /get married you have got to: grade 11 kids studying the War -values ph7 those trivial" differences. is that I think the. over ri ding cul­
nality. Ask for Marie,; 5'37-1'286
= ' marry a Japanese girl - without Measures Act . applied against. --Q: Aren’t you really saying tural "impact -on-this country _is
(Toronto).
■ any question. That is the only Japanese and the -French, Cana­ that ~ we as Japanese, don’t sub­ hot the vaunted mosaic at all, it
l>w m
I will, consider, but if you dians. T am -not convinced that is , scribe yellow- racism for,- white is' the United States. The fact is
FLAT FOR- RENT
the major forces that ' are: chang­
don’t meet a Japanese girl of the going to- change much, of their (x^is^?;/S(O;/W^
A: That is "an absolutely pri­ ing society." Yes, you can have a FLAT * to rent, stove/ and /fridge
proper type then,” (way the hell basic prejudice. I don’t know, I’m.
included; Three: piece /batliiro^
.
> down the. toteni pole) "a Chinese not an educator in -the sense of mary responsibility I would say.... 1 arge Por tugu es e,”Tt'ali an p opul a-,
Q: Do you. have a prescription tion in Toronto "—- Chinese popu­ 445-7670, Don Mills after-; 5 p.m.
girl, and if you ,cah’t well get being a/professional teacher. .
that. . \ .” Close behind that is a
Q: I was taught that inter-, or some particular role for being lation and I think that is terrific.
>
_ Native Indian because "they, are marriage- ■ would increase . the a Japanese-Canad an ? Do you see But ’I think the fact of the matter
Asians. Close behind-, that were. biological pool, increase the biolo­ hoAV this could b ; nurtured ? Do is what we are drifting" from is
- -Blacks and then quite a jump gical fitness of the.. resulting you see sort of Ute demise of an an Anglo-European culture to- an
- / down were Jews because they are generations. The whole history ■of entity ofc- something called the American culture. That is what
minority members and they know in termarriage ? of v Japanese and Japanese-Canadian ? And, yet you I see.

what The problems wer e and right others was thought desirable. Do see a role for Them to play in
• Q: You’re saying' that sansei
J ;
. .’at .the very’bottom'was an Eng- you - think geneticists ’ should be society.,
and yonsei are going to pick .up.
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A:'
'Well,
we

re"
kind
of
like
.
Tish girl.* Because he blamed the ’shouting more loudly .that inter-,
the dominant culture, they’re not
STORM DOORS ' ,
■ English arid British Columbia be­ marriage is a-'goodjdea?/ - , Neanderthal man right at the end going to be- distinct as. Japanese.
AND WINDOWS;
cause they occupied a lot of the
A: That is an interesting point of their stay here on earth.' Cro- I think that also means they're
positions in the Civil Service and because, the idea* that untermarri-' magnon man was going to . wipe not going, to understand anything.
HIRO ALUMINUM,AND
so on. So the English, were the age is" not bad was only popular them •out.:
HOME IMPROVEMENTS
about the War Measures Act and
I think what we have got . to -do how it was applied to the. Japa­
- ■ -absolute lowest of the lot. "Well among geneticists since the 1940s/
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meetings

like
is
to
have
more
;
my wife is -English. And the atti­ Before /the 1940s, in fact,, the
nese. I know, myself, before I got
this.
We
have
got
to
read-more,
tude he h ad towards her was un­ geneticists were strong, support­
■involved in this conference, I
books.
There
are
many
books
be
­
believable. He treated her while-T ers of eugenics movements; and.
really didn’t know anything about
was courting her like a piece of You will/find many., of^your, lead- ing written now, there are ex­ what was involved or what- was
dirt and finally I had to say— ing American geneticists
and hibits being shown, and I think really happening. I didn’t even
Dad, you are a god damn bigot European geneticists, people like eventually it will be the whites, know that the "War Measures Act
(and my -mother now calls him Karl Pearson who held .the. chair hakujins, that will carry'.it f or us. was the particular act that was
Archie Bunker). You are right; of eugenics' at Oxford, Charles I really think the Japanese as a used. I think it’s an important"
we are not immune.to it, by god, Davenport who. was head of Gold racial distinct' entity are dying. matter that Japanese-Canadians
Authentic Oriental Sifts
We

ll
see
their
demise
within
the
when it was pointed- out, to him Spring Harbor, Lab -in Long-. Is­
Ki mon os & Atee sso ries
realize that . we.. are Japanesewhat he was, it really snapped land, Edward East/who is a pro- next 30 years. And it is not a Canadians and we should under-_
Noritake Chino
him to. I think it is a very easy fessor at Harvard University, tragedy. That is. The whole his­ stand our history.'How ever, I feel
thing to fall into the kind- of They all subscribed to the idea tory of human kind is that people .myself and ■most , other Canadians
phone 48.9 - 8.611,
stereotopic
classifications that that intermarriage (they were flow in-and they flow out and aren’t so confident that they’re
everybody else -does. But I would concerned primarily with .blacks they exchange genes and they white and that they’re ..not difhope that we learn something and 'whites) was bad, and
-the change, and I say there are-how ferent and they’re not discrimifrom our own experience. That is idea there was was, that indivi­ many million of^them over there
nated upon. I think you’re difthe whole hope of each of us. I dual races that evolved iri special - oh those little . islands.- There is ferent in that you have the
know,, history if you learn some­ environments and by mixing. them just no worry about The genetic confidence to say you’re Japanese
thing from history, it’s that his-* you mixed up combinations that stock, it will still be there.
C anadian, you’re a min ority and
" tpry doesn’t teach us anything? I were^ adapted; to specific niches
Q: Paraphrased: (Re: -Suzuki’s you’re • part of a minority that
mean that is a really (heavy num­ and- you produced what Daven­ statement emphasizing he was was discriminated upon, therefore
ber.' But all I can say is that we port - called disharmonious com­ Canadian, not Japanese.
you can stand up and fight for
Income Tax Reduction
have got to try — that’s all., I binations. >So there was a strong
A: I think it is all very well other minorities. But I know, my­
Retirement Income
don’t know whether the Japanese- move -among genetisists to stop and good to. consider the contri­ self, I don’t have the confidence, I
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could be. What I have said angers it was disgenic for the popula­ Canadian mosaic. I think for the । in the minority. I know one time
a lot of Japanese-Canadians and tion- It was only .Hitler and his great majority of Japanese-Cana­ T tried to defend"an Indian girl
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. Suiukiisr

just-:'an other Indian. And. after the war -;my father never -ever
-th at T • sh ut - up ■ bee au se I: di dn’t talked , about the evacuation.' He
part „ of the ma- went on and life went on: Wheri
feel sure
I got my job at -the University of ■
jority?
I. agreed, with you com- British Columbia,-1 called ‘him, he
.-pletely. I think •'you are right. It lived in Ontario and said, “Dad
is. in the same;.way “when. Collins I- got a job at UBC.” Twenty-five
had writ ten'kis article, my imme- years later'the first thing he said
. diate reaction was, of course. was: “They^kicked us out of there
there- had;jta be a reply but^, I twenty-five years ago.” T think
couldn’t make it; I couldn’t make that that was such a painful part
it (because I would -be dismissed -of his existence', there was just
as ”a minority member: having a too much to life, there were other
knee-jerk reaction looking out for things to do, and it is a very
myself. It had to come from horrendous thing, to have to bring
someone less closely associated that up. I think that parents
with the. threatened group. But I chose the easier way out which
think the tragedy • is that you was not to inflict that pain-on
have not learned anything from their chiildren.
Q: It was also part of the
your ''parents and you are not a
threat to your parents and they Japanese cultural view, “shikata
ga nai”, “Well, it can’t be helped.”
went through " it. .A: It is very complicated. The
Q: But also, my parents have
never told me about it. They seem fact is today, I think,' that the
to have a fear of bringing it up Japanese-Canadian. • .can .afford
or mentioning at before their much more of this self inspection
white friends, saying,' “Look what and speaking out; I think it is
time people started to and that is
you did to us.”
- -. A: It is really interesting after what we are here ;for. ■ \

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