GwinnettForum | Number 21.82 | Oct. 22, 2021
CONDOS COULD BE COMING: Developer Ben Cowart is proposing this 194,000 square foot building at 4779 Peachtree Corners Circle consisting of at least 50 units, plus a restaurant. The building will have underground parking and is now in the design stage. Cowart is the son of the late Jim Cowart, who developed many of the five-four-and-a-door homes in Peachtree Corners and Dunwoody. The property is near the planned route of the city’s Connector Trail System. The proposal is next before the City Council for multi-use zoning on November 16. It will be the first large multi-story residential facility in the city.
TODAY’S FOCUS: Northside Hospital Gwinnett to get new 10 story, 162 bed tower
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Proposal concerning private information upsets bankers
ANOTHER VOICE: Sees Democrats losing U.S. House because of gerrymandering
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett County Public Library
FEEDBACK: Being ill brings him certain positive reflections
UPCOMING: County offers $100 Visa card when getting vaccine this weekend
NOTABLE: GGC snares $249,000 grant for chemistry research
RECOMMENDED: The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Italianate style flourished, since it was easier to build
MYSTERY PHOTO: Another mystery lighthouse begs its location
LAGNIAPPE: Welcoming alumni home
CALENDAR: Norcross to mark 151st anniversary of founding this Saturday
Northside Hospital Gwinnett to get 10-story, 162-bed tower
By Katherine G. Watson
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. | Building on its commitment to strengthen health care resources in the Gwinnett region, Northside Hospital Gwinnett has completed a major expansion of its emergency department, begun work on a new patient tower, and is deepening its already significant community partnerships. The new tower will be built on the north side of the existing hospital.
Mitcham
Northside Hospital Gwinnett cut the ribbon on October 18 on its newly expanded emergency department in Lawrenceville. The hospital’s emergency department consistently ranks among the highest volume facilities in Georgia, with more than 100,000 visits annually.
The hospital also recently received the critical approval from the Georgia Department of Community Health to build a 10-story, 162-inpatient bed tower, which will be located on the Northside Gwinnett campus. Debbie Mitcham, president and CEO of Northside Hospital in Gwinnett and Duluth, says that the pace of growth in the region demands a similar pace for health care access.
With the new level at the Lawrenceville campus, added to the current 388 beds, the new tower will bring the hospital to 550 beds. The Duluth hospital campus has another 122 beds.
“Northside believes that access to care is of the utmost importance and realized that a county with close to a million residents needed a bigger emergency department footprint,” says Ms. Mitcham. “With the completion of this project, emergency room capacity will double, thus increasing the ability to not only take care of more Gwinnett County residents, and take care of them more efficiently.”
Ms. Mitcham said that plans for the patient tower and bed additions also include a five-story, 143,828-square-foot medical office building to house outpatient imaging, ambulatory surgery and a variety of physician practices. The project site preparation has begun – completion is expected in 2023.
The expanded emergency department has a completely redesigned trauma area to address access and patient flow challenges, as well as a two-story addition with more exam rooms and observation beds. Work already is underway on the second phase, which is a renovation of the original emergency facilities.
Northside’s commitment to the community extends beyond brick and mortar.
The health system is broadening its community partnership programs with many of the region’s non-profit organizations and events. On October 23, Northside will be the presenting sponsor of Paint Gwinnett Pink, the largest breast cancer 5K in Gwinnett County. This year’s virtual event has already raised nearly $900,000 toward the purchase of new 3D mammography for the Breast Care Centers at Northside Gwinnett and Northside Duluth.
The Northside Hospital system has five acute-care hospitals in Lawrenceville, Duluth, Atlanta, Canton and Cumming, and more than 250 outpatient locations across the state. Throughout Gwinnett, patients have access to Northside providers and specialty services, including cancer care, cardiovascular care, maternity and women’s services, sports medicine and orthopedics, weight management, rehabilitation, pediatric and adult imaging, primary care, urgent care, and other specialty care services.
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Proposal concerning private information upsets bankers
By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
OCT. 22, 2021 | A proposal from the Biden Administration got bankers across the country, including those in Gwinnett, all hot and bothered this week. Proposed legislation would have required that the banks and credit unions give far more sensitive banking information to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) about the bank’s depositors.
Included in the original proposal from the Administration was that the banks would be required to give depositor details on any movement of money into or out of their accounts exceeding $600. The current requirements of the banks is that they must report cash transactions over $10,000.
Monty Watson, chairman and CEO of The Piedmont Bank of Peachtree Corners, pointed out that the proposed new regulations went much broader. “The current requirement is that banks must report only CASH transactions over $10,000, or on any suspicious activity of an account.
Watson
“What the Administration proposed is that ANY cash movement over $600 be reported to the Internal Revenue Service. That would first be a violation of our customer privacy but would be a significant expansion of what is currently required. Customers may now write as many checks or withdrawals a day for $10,000 or more with no reporting required whatsoever. But we currently must report only cash transactions over this amount.”
Watson and other bankers across Georgia flooded Washington with howls about the proposed legislation. And it seems to be having some effect, as the Administration was reported to have agreed to withdraw the $600 limit, and move it back to the $10,000 level. The legislation now would also exempt payroll deposits for wage and salary earnings from having to be reported.
The purpose of the proposal by the Administration was to supply the IRS with more information so that the IRS could expand its program on cracking down and collecting unpaid taxes from the very rich.
Boutwell
Marshall Boutwell, head of the Peach State Federal Credit Union, was contacted in Warsaw, Poland where he was attending a meeting of credit unions. He is another banker upset over the direction of the Administration in this area. “This proposed legislation has a lot of unintended consequences. I know of no banker who is not lobbying hard against it. It is absolutely heavy-handed, Big Brother government.
“We already have to report interest that is paid to our members on their deposit account. We also monitor our depositor accounts for suspicious activity, which we report with our member knowledge. Furthermore, we have to report cash transactions which exceed $10,000, which we share with our members when we do.”
Boutwell added: “Not only that, but if someone is cheating on their taxes, they’ll find ways to get around these proposed new rules. But these proposed regulations would create an incredible volume of data and we don’t know yet what it would cost us to generate it.”
Another banker, who asked that his name not be used, maintains that the proposed legislation would be hurting the people the Biden Administration wants to help: the blue collar worker, who might be routinely paid in cash by his employer. He also adds that “Most people don’t walk around with boxes with lots of cash in it today.”
Administration officials are now working on a far more limited plan that the IRS would use on seeking out those citizens who cheat on their taxes. The Administration has estimated that beefing up enforcement of cheating on income taxes could amount to $70 billion a year.
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Sees Democrats losing U.S. House due to gerrymandering
By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. | Extremist right-wing publications are celebrating the latest Robert’s Supreme Court blow to democracy. Specifically, this Supreme Court has ruled against having gerrymandering cases, no matter how unfair, brought into the federal courts. This action represents a major change, coming after the activist Robert’s court gutted the voting rights act years ago, ignoring decades of precedent.
Media-savvy conservative extremists are incorrectly publicizing this decision, as they often do, as a victory for states’ rights and freedom. But it’s only an undemocratic win for the Republican Party at the expense of the nation’s voters.
As The Hill (a highly respected mainstream DC publication) put it, this decision will only exacerbate the political fighting at the state level. It will result in gutting voting rights and unfairly removing decision making from the voters and transferring it to “those who would manipulate maps for their own political gain.” The respected non-profit Brennan Center indicates that Georgia and three other Southern states controlled by the GOP (Texas, North Carolina and Florida) will be the battleground states for gerrymandering.). According to them, there is “even greater room for unfair processes and results than in 2011, when the country saw some of the most gerrymandered maps in its history.”
Why is this occurring? For many reasons, including the lack of national and state legislation to prevent it. Some states have enacted laws to make the process more equitable.
However, not in Texas, North Carolina, Florida and Georgia. They have been solid red in past years but are becoming bluer slowly but surely. And that fact scares the GOP leadership on the national, state and local levels. Nowhere can this be illustrated more clearly than in Georgia, where President Biden won, as did both of the Democrats in the 2020-2021 Senate races.
In the above four states, gerrymandering means having very high concentrations of Democrats in a few districts while spreading out the rest of the democratic vote in the remaining districts (the majority of districts) to get more Republicans elected.
It also entails creating weird looking voting districts that break up natural areas of interest and communities, subverting the will of the voters by making the impact of each vote unequal. Take a look at the existing maps of Georgia districts to see how this plays out. For example, in Rep. Jody Hice’s district, gutting the votes of liberal Athens by adding in a multitude of conservative rural areas spread all over the northern and middle parts of the state. Whoever wins the GOP primary is a virtual shoo-in.
On the national level, there is an excellent bill, HR-1, which would end the travesty of gerrymandering. The “For the People Act” was passed by the House back in March. But it has stalled in the Senate because of its arcane internal rules, including the filibuster.
When President Trump was in office, the Senate Majority Leader simply had his GOP Senators change the filibuster rule to permit Federal judges to be approved by a simple majority. That is the only reason Mr. Trump was able to appoint so many judges, many with questionable credentials.
The Democrats could do the same thing concerning gerrymandering, requiring a simple Senate majority to ensure that voting rights are protected. But conservative Democratic Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin would have to agree. Thus far, they have not.
So that’s the Democrat’s dilemma. Unless things change very soon, the Democrats will lose the House in 2022, only because of the various state level GOP gerrymandering states like Georgia.
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Being ill brings him certain positive reflections
Being ill has certain advantages. I’m able to see the world through the lens of positive thinking. (I’m determined not to allow negativity to control my thinking.). So here’s some positive thoughts.
- Nurses are our country’s greatest asset. We need to cherish their contributions.
- The death of Colin Powell reminds me that there are good, competent, and proud Americans in our government. We need to be very careful about denigrating our civil servants.
- I’m determined to vote this election in spite of all the obstacles that make my vote more complicated.
- I believe that President Trump is a passing fancy and that Americans will get back to electing competent candidates.
- Covid, I believe, will slowly be controlled by a persistent realization that vaccines can stop this pandemic.
- I also believe more voters will demand science-based health policies.
- Positive thinking has reaffirmed my belief in American democracy.
— Alan Schneiberg, Sugar Hill
Gwinnett will need housing for 1.4 million people by 2040
Yesterday afternoon the Gwinnett Commissioners received a presentation from the KB Advisory Group, a real estate and economic development consultant. It was a very interesting and somewhat disturbing presentation.
The demand for housing in Gwinnett county is extremely high and growing again, after being relatively flat since the great recession. In unincorporated Gwinnett, the demand is for about 12,000 units but only about 3,000 units are currently being built, per annum. They expect the population to grow from about 957,000 in the last census to 1,400,000 in 2040.
There is yet another study in the works, “Residential Zoning District Study.” KB Advisory Group is also involved in that one along with another firm, the name of which I didn’t catch.
— Theirn (TJ) Scott, Lawrenceville
Dear TJ: Wow! And that big growth probably will happen, or close to it. For sure, if we don’t have some modern mass traffic plan, Gwinnettians will be bogged down in vehicles by then. –eeb
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County offers $100 Visa card if get vaccine this weekend
Gwinnett County is offering $100 Visa gift cards to people ages 12 and up who receive a COVID-19 vaccine at its vaccine incentive event on October 22-23. The Vaccines Aren’t Scary event in partnership with the Gwinnett, Newton and Rockdale County Health Departments will take place this weekend at the vaccine site inside the former Sears at Gwinnett Place Mall. The vaccination site is located at 2100 Pleasant Hill Road in Duluth.
Gift cards will be offered from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day during the two-day event. The site will offer Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
Participants should make an appointment at GCGA.us/VaccineIncentive to secure their slot during the event and guarantee their gift card. Participants should make an appointment by 9 a.m. Friday for the Saturday date.
So far, more than 53 percent of Gwinnett residents have been fully vaccinated, but in recent months, demand for vaccines has slowed.
The County is using federal funding from the American Rescue Plan Act to pay for the vaccine incentive gift cards. Guests are asked to bring their insurance card and identification, if applicable. People without insurance or ID will not be turned away. Regardless of insurance status, the vaccine is offered at no cost.
GGC snares $249,000 grant for chemistry research
Dr. Simon Mwongela, Dr. Ajay Mallia, Dr. Sairam Tangirala and Dr. Neville Forlemu’s research earned a $249,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Georgia Gwinnett College’s School of Science and Technology faculty members a $249,000 grant to fund undergraduate research that could lead to new chemical products like insecticides and antibiotics that have a more benign environmental impact.
The chemistry division of the NFS bestowed the award under its Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) program, which only funded 19 awards in the fiscal year ending in September and is the only RUI award made to any institution in the state of Georgia this year.
Dr. Neville Forlemu, associate professor of chemistry, serves as the principal investigator for the project, with fellow associate professors of chemistry Dr. Simon Mwongela and Dr. Ajay Mallia teaming up with Dr. Sairam Tangirala, associate professor of physics, as co-principal investigators.
Dr. Forlemu says: “This NSF RUI award is important to our team as it is validation of hard work, perseverance and the culture of research that we are building at GGC. I am particularly honored that many GGC students and our team will be involved in the advancement of knowledge on understanding the structure, function and impact of cyclotides, a project that has been close to my heart for some time now.”
The title of the project is “Extraction, Purification and Characterization of the Interaction Between Cyclotide and Cyclotide Aggregates with Lipid Bilayers,” which is a fancy way of saying they are studying the behavior of cyclotides, a potentially useful class of proteins that have exceptional stability to degradation. The GGC researchers hope to develop a better understanding of how the cyclotide molecules work while simultaneously developing better methods for extraction of natural products from plant-based materials.
Cyclotides are made in nature and take on additional importance because many of them show interesting chemical activity, like the possession of insecticidal and antibacterial properties.
Forlemu said he’s excited to get to work to mentor and engage GGC students, and that he’s particularly happy some of the research hurdles like materials, equipment cost and student compensations will be solved by the grant. He adds: “The award is also a reminder to the community that scholarship and creativity are not only buzz words, but core values instilled in GGC students through rigorous and collaborative projects like this one.”
New county generator part of Disaster Mitigation Program
Gwinnett County is strengthening its disaster response and recovery efforts with the installation of a new generator at the Parks Operation Center. The project was initiated in 2017 due to Hurricane Irma. A majority of the funds came from the Federal Emergency Management Agency Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grant Program at a cost of $126,760.
While grant-funded projects generally have a long approval timeline, this project was also periodically delayed because of manufacturing, skill trade and delivery issues caused by COVID-19. The initiative is part of the Gwinnett County Hazard Mitigation Plan that aims to reduce and eliminate risk to residents and property from disasters. The Parks Operation Center houses equipment necessary for responding to disasters that can impact the county.
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The Interestings, by Meg Wolitzer
From Karen J. Harris, Stone Mountain: Six teenagers bond at the Spirit in the Woods Camp for those with artistic tendencies. It is 1974, the year in which Nixon resigns. The six each have a latent talent that may be actualized in this setting. After they move through the camp summer, their lives move in different directions. Ash and Ethan become famous, Goodman has a life changing setback, Jules gives up a dream but marries happily, and Cathy disappears in the wake of trauma. The friendship between Ethan, Ash, Jules, and her husband, Dennis, is strong and consistent though the thread of envy over the success of Ethan and Ash, lives in Jules and threatens the viability of her marriage. Covering approximately 40 years, the complexity of relationships are beautifully rendered with many puzzling, heartwarming, and heartbreaking moments. This group of friends will be difficult to forget because they live in all its pain and glory.
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Italianate style flourished, since easier to build in Georgia
(From previous edition)
The Italianate style, however, proved more successful than the Gothic revival style because it was easier to build and maintain. Low-pitched roofs usually had wide eaves supported by brackets and often topped with cupolas or lanterns. Other decorative features included round or segmental arches, window hoods, classical details, and one-story porches. Italianate homes could be quite elaborate, as in the grandiose Hay House (1855-59) in Macon or John Norris’s Mercer House (designed in 1860 but not completed until 1870) in Savannah. Other outstanding antebellum examples of the style can be found throughout the state, including Joel Hurt’s Dinglewood (1855) in Columbus, and Woodlands in the northwest corner of the state. Built in the early 1850s by Sir Godfrey Barnsley, Woodlands is an asymmetrical Italian villa constructed of a series of blocks with a central tower—a near-perfect example of the newest style of architecture for the time. Today, the grounds, known as Barnsley Gardens, are open to the public.
Hay House
During the 1860s and 1870s, Italianate and the similar Second Empire style with its distinctive mansard roof were frequently used in all types of buildings statewide. Public buildings like Savannah’s 1870 police barracks (architect J. H. Boggs), Atlanta’s 1869-70 Kimball House Hotel (William H. Parkins), and the 1874 Moore College Building in Athens (Leon H. Charbonnier) were Italianate buildings, the last two with mansard roofs.
By the early 1880s, new ideas, technologies, and architects established new styles of architecture in Queen Anne, Romanesque, and Neoclassical. Economic prosperity from the late 1870s to 1893 made it possible, and often necessary, to erect new buildings in the latest fashions or with the latest technological advances, such as fireproof and steel-frame construction with hydraulic elevators. In the 1890s skyscrapers first rose in Atlanta (the Equitable Building by John Wellborn Root and Daniel Burnham of Chicago) and in Savannah (1895 Citizens Bank by G. L. Norrman in the Chicago style of Louis Sullivan). It was not until after 1895, however, that steel-frame skyscrapers proliferated in Georgia.
During the 1890s, neoclassicism (including American colonial revival, Beaux-Arts, and classical revival) swept the nation and Georgia. Supposedly expressive of patriotism and America’s emerging role as a world economic and political power, these classically derived styles had a wide appeal. Exemplary of this are the buildings for the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. The exposition’s structures were generally described as Romanesque in design.
On the other hand, one of the most highly praised and admired buildings at the fair was the Beaux-Arts designed Fine Arts Building, a monumentally symmetrical and classical building by W. T. Downing. Other Georgia works in classical revival styles—including the 1889 state capitol—certainly preceded this building. The Fine Arts Building, however, presaged the final eclipse of both Queen Anne and Romanesque styles over the next decade in favor of neoclassicism and more historically correct period revivals.
- To view the Georgia Encyclopedia article online, go to https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Another mystery lighthouse begs its location
Here we are again with a lighthouse as today’s Mystery Photo. This one sits on an outcropping of rock. Now, where is it? Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include your hometown.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. writes of the previous Mystery Photo: “Today’s mystery photo was taken facing southeast along Coastal Cottage Lane of the neo-traditional planned community development called Coast Cottages of St. Simons Island, Ga. Situated on East Beach near the former Coast Guard station on the island, it is evident from the beauty of this photo just why this development is considered by many to contain some of the most exquisite real estate property anywhere in Georgia, offering residents and vacationers alike a number of outstanding condominiums and cottages from which they can enjoy the beauty and serenity of the Georgia coast.”
The photo was taken by Joe Edlhuber of Norcross. Two others, Steve Spellman, Dunwoody; and George Graf, Palmyra, Va., also recognized the mystery.
Welcoming alumni home
Here’s a distinctive photo. Tents on Reed Plaza were set up for an alumni event as part of 2021 Homecoming activities. (Photo by Peter Frey/UGA, in UGA Today.)
It’s finally here! Lionheart’s beloved Halloween short play festival, Bewitching runs October 21, 22 and 24 at 7:30 p.m., and October 24 also at 2 p.m. Join us in downtown Norcross for a spooky collection of short plays, live music, and spooky, yet delicious Halloween treats. As always, costumes are welcome! Tickets are $18 for adults and $16 for seniors/students/military.
Wellness Fair: Residents aged 50 and above are invited to a Fall Into Health Senior Wellness Fair to be Friday, October 22 from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the Bethesda Park Senior Center. Guests will have a chance to talk with health and wellness exhibitors, participate in health screenings, live cooking demonstrations, wellness presentations, live entertainment and interactive fitness demonstrations. For more information, visit GwinnettParks.com or call 678-277-0179 Bethesda Park Senior Center is located at 225 Bethesda Church Road in Lawrenceville.
Multicultural Business Summit will be held October 22 from 8:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the UGA Small Business Development Center, at 2530 Sever Road in Lawrenceville.. Learn how to do business with the University of Georgia and the private sector healthcare systems. General admission is $49.
Norcross will mark the 151st birthday “sesquicentennial” on Saturday, October 23, from 4-10 p.m. in Lillian Webb Park. This birthday is a year overdue because of Covid. Click here to view the full itinerary of the evening.
Puttin’ on the Litz Gala of the Gwinnett County Public Library Foundations will be on Saturday, October 23, at 7 p.m. Guest speaker will be Vince Dooley. The Gala seeks to raise funds to continue to bring the most updated technology and literacy programs for the Gwinnett community. This event will be black tie optional, and held at Gas South District Center (formerly Infinite Energy Center). All the funds raised stay in the community and help support the children’s literacy programs, to keep them free of charge. Register for this event by going online at: https://gcpl.ticketleap.com/gala/.
Two events in Lilburn soon: The “Old Town 5k and Fun Run” will be Saturday, October 23 at Lilburn City Park. There are two opportunities. In the morning, there is the 5k route following the Greenway Trail, and is for both adults and kids. Then, in the afternoon, the Public House is hosting its annual “Lil’ Beer Fest” right off Main Street.
Ribbon cutting of the renovated Crooked Creek Water Reclamation Facility will be Tuesday, October 26, at 2 p.m. The plant is located at 6557 Plant Drive in Peachtree Corners
Gwinnett County will mark the positive impact of afterschool programs at the “Walk Among the Stars” event on Thursday, October 28 at 6 p.m. at Rock Springs Park in Lawrenceville. The free event, which is part of the National Lights on Afterschool initiative, will feature a Hollywood theme. Participants are encouraged to come dressed as their favorite characters and enjoy STEAM activities, interactive games, crafts and more. This is part of more than 8,000 National Lights on Afterschool programs nationwide. Rock Springs Park is located at 3110 Old Peachtree Road in Lawrenceville. More information is after 3 p.m. at AfterSchoolAlliance.org.
The first Deutsche Klassic Autoberfest will be held in Norcross on October 30, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Featuring 150 classic German automobiles, the event will bring BMWs, Audis, Porsches, Mercedes Benzes and Volkswagens to downtown Norcross. Enjoy German food, beer and music in this family-friendly festival. Proceeds benefit local non-profit Special “K’s.” For more information, visit deutsche-klassic.com.
Braselton Halloween Path Parade and golf cart Trunk ‘n Treat party, will be Saturday, October 30 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Prizes will be awarded for top decorated golf carts and costumes. If you’ve got it, haunt it.
Symphony SPOOK-tacular: The Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra will open its 15th anniversary season with “Symphony SPOOK-tacular,” a family-friendly matinee performance on Saturday, October 30, at 2:30 p.m. at the Johns Creek United Methodist Church, 11180 Medlock Bridge Road. Attendees are encouraged to come in costume if they like, and to arrive early to participate in hands-on activities in the lobby, courtesy of the Johns Creek Arts Center. Face masks are required inside the church. The hour-long concert will be performed without intermission, and it will include tunes that honor the traditions of both Halloween and Día de los Muertos. Some of the featured works include Saint-Saens’ Danse Macabre, Themes from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Dukas, and Día de los Muertos by Richard Meyer. Tickets range from $15-42.50, and children ages 0-2 are admitted FREE. For tickets, call (678) 748-5802 or visit www.johnscreeksymphony.org.
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