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 By Stephen Dinan, founder and CEO of The Shift Network
Our 5-day Energy Medicine & Healing Summit begins tomorrow!
I’m excited to invite you to join a global video gathering of highly sought-after teachers, doctors, and healers sharing their expertise on impactful topics affecting our lives today. This influential roster includes Donna Eden, Anodea Judith, Daisy Lee, Dr. Sue Morter, Gregg Braden, Jean Haner, Holly Tse, Wendy De Rosa, Amy Scher, and many others!
These groundbreaking speakers will bring to light the curative and evolutionary powers of proven energy practices to create vibrant health for you and your family!
The Energy Medicine & Healing Summit (April 22–26) is hosted by Dondi Dahlin, a dynamic energy medicine consultant and bestselling author. Click here to watch Dondi’s video invitation to you.
We’re delighted at the response to this groundbreaking event — more than 55,000 people have registered!
Energy medicine gives you a more holistic and self-empowering approach to healing — by not only addressing your body, mind, and spirit, but also by working with your emotions, past trauma, and even your relationships.
For thousands of years, energy medicine practitioners around the world have activated the body’s natural healing processes — through balancing Qi, healing touch, Ayurvedic medicine, shamanic practices, hands-on healing such as Reiki and Chinese reflexology, and many other techniques.
During The Energy Medicine & Healing Summit, you’ll discover how to take your health into your own hands (literally!) with today’s top energy medicine experts, health practitioners, and healers, who will guide you toward transforming your overall health from the inside out.
We're especially excited about this issue of Catalyst because it offers a veritable feast of articles and videos from the esteemed speakers in this summit. (We've never featured so many articles in one issue before!) So whet your appetite for energy medicine today with this cornucopia of insights and information, and then start digging in tomorrow with the first day of free summit video sessions!
To find out more and to register for The Energy Medicine & Healing Summit, click here.
In Memoriam:
 Barbara Marx Hubbard, one of the evolutionary pioneers who inspired the founding and growth of Shift, has transitioned to the other side. She taught programs for thousands, collaborated with us on Birth 2012, and left a legacy of inspired, active evolutionaries in our community. We honor her for her inspiration to live a visionary, passionate, co-creative life, even well into her eighties. She helped all of us see our collective crises as the birth of a more beautiful future and to commit every fiber of our being to midwifing that birth. May her death be a transition into the unified field of love she described so eloquently.
Finally, we’d love to hear your answer to the question, What results did you get from combining Energy Medicine with Western medicine? To share your thoughts in our Facebook Page community, click here.
When all your energies are brought into harmony, your body flourishes. And when your body flourishes, your soul has a soil in which it can blossom in the world. These are the ultimate reasons for energy medicine — to prepare the soil and nurture the blossom.
— Donna Eden
A Personal Video Invitation to the April 22–26 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit From Your Host, Dondi Dahlin
Hello, I'm Dondi Dahlin, and I am the host of the third annual Energy Medicine & Healing Summit. This is such a phenomenal summit. We have 38 speakers, experts in the field of energy medicine who are going to be teaching you how to be empowered with more vitality, joy, and health.
One thing that's different this year is it's video. So you get to watch the speakers, watch these experts with their sage advice, and their exercises, and their techniques that you can use to bring more health into your life. What would that be like if you had healing in your own hands to be able to help yourself if you had a stomachache, or a headache, or lower back pain, or to help a loved one, maybe your spouse or your kids, with anxiety or fear or stress. That's what you will be learning in this summit.
And if you have been in the field of energy medicine, you're going to be tickled at the A-list speakers that we have. And if you're new to energy medicine, you'll want to get out your notebook because there's going to be so much information. And in fact, I have a list here of some of the speakers we have this year and their topics. And I just want to tell you about some of them because these are such phenomenal people that I want you to learn from.
To watch the video and read the rest of the text, click here.
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The Grit and Grace of Physical Illness
By Miranda Macpherson, a featured speaker at the 2019 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit
 Life contains the full spectrum of experiences ranging from the most exquisite to the most difficult. Yet every experience has the potential to birth deeper wisdom, if we include it as part of the path of awakening.
Three years after a powerful awakening that changed the course of my life, I was brought to my knees with a serious spinal injury that seemed stubbornly unresponsive to allopathic or alternative treatment. I sensed that somehow, this was an important leg of the integration process, yet it took all my strength and resolve to harness this as part of my prayer to live the embodiment of Grace.
To read more, click here.
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“Life Visioning in Your 40s, 50s & Beyond” Facebook Live Q&A with Michael Bernard Beckwith
 Would you like to experience powerful practices to move beyond the limits of visualization — and begin living as your vision? Michael Bernard Beckwith, bestselling author, spiritual teacher, and founder of Agape International Spiritual Center, will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on Wednesday, April 24, at Noon Pacific to share how you can embody the lessons, blessings, and gifts hidden in the four frequencies of your spiritual development. Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.
“End Your Sleep Struggles With Plant Medicine & More” Facebook Live Q&A with K.P. Khalsa
 Would you like to create a customized sleep plan under the guidance of a renowned natural healing and herbal medicine expert? World-renowned Ayurvedic herbalist and teacher K.P. Khalsa will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on Thursday, April 25, at Noon Pacific to share how you can unlock the wisdom of your own genetic profile to determine whether you’re predisposed to have trouble sleeping (and whether it may be linked to an underlying illness). Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.
“The Mythic Powers of Norse Goddesses, Ancestresses & Giants” Facebook Live Q&A with Evelyn Rysdyk
 Would you like to “meet” the Great Mother Goddess and Ancestress Freyja to receive a blessing and open to the power of the Divine Feminine? Shamanism teacher Evelyn Rysdyk will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on Tuesday, April 30, at 5:00pm Pacific to share how you can experience the power and wisdom of Norse mythology through shamanic journeying, ceremony, and ritual — and connect more deeply with nature, yourself, and others. Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.
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We want to know: What results did you get from combining Energy Medicine with Western medicine? To share your thoughts in our Facebook Page community, click here.
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Energy and the Charge of Aliveness
By Anodea Judith, a featured speaker at the 2019 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit
 We are energetic beings, living in a world where energy is in constant exchange. The earth we walk upon is mostly empty space, but the energy field in its atoms keeps us from falling through into the underworld. Our bodies generate an energetic field, and rivers of energy flow through us as meridians, nadis, and shine out through our chakras.
I call this energy “charge,” as it’s a word we can all relate to, as in “having a charge about something.”
You might feel a charge of energy when someone interrupts or criticizes you. I can get pretty charged talking about politics these days. Others still feel a charge talking about their ex-partner or a past trauma. Or you might have so much charge about a new relationship that you barely eat or sleep.
To read more, click here.
A Powerful Heart Chakra Healing Technique You Need to Know
By Wendy De Rosa, a featured speaker at the 2019 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit
 Do you have experiences where you shut down or close your heart to protect yourself from pain? This action is a common defense mechanism for most who find themselves suffering, but living with a closed heart can prevent you from opening to the Divine and experiencing more love, connection, and happiness into your life. Closing your heart can also lead to more struggle, which is why I recommend heart chakra healing because it is a powerful way to release energy held in the spiritual center in the body.
To read more, click here.
The Year of Expansion and Letting Go
By Marie Manuchehri, a featured speaker in the 2019 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit
 Contraction and expansion simultaneously flow in the world of energetic molecules. Imagine the truth of the atomic world; electrons and protons circling your universe in an invisible hush of energetic flurry, creating everything in its wake. When subatomic particles constrict, our view narrows, allowing for clarity about where to go and how far to reach. After the constriction, we expand into a momentum of flowing energy, unleashing a new, exciting and satisfying version of life.
To read more, click here.
Why Sex Should Be Treated as a Spiritual Practice
By Robert Peng, a featured speaker in the 2019 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit
 Mention the word sex and eyes widen and ears perk up. The strong reaction the subject arouses reflects the spicy nature of sexual energy. We may be at the gym feeling tired and depleted, but if someone we find attractive starts working out next to us, our energy level is suddenly boosted. That energetic intensification represents the activation of our Lower Dantian (energy center below the navel), which holds our sexual energy in reserve.
To read more, click here.
22 Tidbits for Energy Healers
By Kenji Kumara, a featured speaker in the 2019 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit
 I would like to share with you some tips on healing that I have used over the many decades in my energy work practice and teachings.
1. Set your Intentions and sacred space for the session before your client arrives.
To read more, click here.
Energy Practitioners Can Stay Healthy During Life's Challenges
By Dr. Melanie Smith, a featured speaker in the 2019 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit
 We all experience life challenges. Whether it is a divorce, supporting aging parents, loss due to death, changing jobs, illness or relocating, it is inevitable that we will all experience significant changes as we move through life. Sometimes we struggle with our day-to-day life experiences such as supporting a family, managing finances or handling the constant barrage of information from various media sources.
To read more, click here.
Living From Spiritual Wisdom
By Mona Delfino, a featured speaker in the 2019 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit
 In today’s world, it’s very easy to get caught up in the drama and confusion that seems to be circling the world. Sometimes people think that the world is going down so bad that we may not make it through another year! And yet, beautiful babies are being born that are so enlightened, produce and flowers are blooming like never before, the rain came back to California, and the American people are being given an opportunity to think and feel for themselves in these major times of change.
To read more, click here.
PureBioenergy and Autism — A Light at the End of the Tunnel
By Zoran Hochstätter, a featured speaker in the 2019 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit
 Autism is the fastest-growing developmental disability in the United States and autism-related costs average $60,000 a year per family. There is no known cure for Autism.
Parents of children with autism are constantly on the lookout for a gentle and safe approach that will help their child improve speech, cognitive abilities and overall health. Just hearing their child say a few more words or make a sentence, give a hug, or look into their eyes can be a very big deal for many moms and dads.
To read more, click here.
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The Power of Positive ‘What If’ Questions
Media interview with Marie Manuchehri, a featured speaker in the 2019 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit
 Marie is an energy medicine healer who is the perfect bridge between conventional and holistic medicine. She was raised in a family that appreciates preventive medicine, including the importance of eating nutritional organic foods and taking healthy supplements. Yet, it was during her work as an oncology nurse that she discovered and developed her skills as an energy medicine practitioner. The hospital turned out to be the ideal place to understand the energetic relationship between health and disease. To watch the video, click here.
The 6 Core Emotions Which Create Unhappiness and Illness
Video blog by Kim Knight, a featured speaker in the 2019 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit
 One of the most missed pieces of the health puzzle when it comes to understanding the cause of illness and symptoms, (and how to get well without medication or supplements) is understanding the pivotal role emotions play in the creation of symptoms. Whilst it may initially sound crazy that emotions can turn into physical symptoms, in this video I will clearly show you how this happens! To read more and watch the video, click here.
The Redemption Project
Hosted by CNN’s Van Jones
Premieres April 28 on CNN
 The powerful new CNN original 8-episode series provides a rare glimpse into the restorative justice process, following the victim — or surviving family members — of a life-altering crime as they journey to meet face-to-face with their offender in the hopes of finding answers. This courageous and inspiring series will open viewers’ eyes to the human potential for redemption, understanding and healing — at a time when our divided society needs it most. Van Jones serves as a guide for the audience throughout this transformational experience. Click here to watch the trailer.
Weaving Threads of Clarity
Web of Light Subtle Activism Series
Join Subtle Activists and life partners David T. Nicol and Kate Naga the first Saturday of each month for their Web of Light Subtle Activism Series, in which they tap into a different quality of our shared essential presence as a strand of light in the global Web. April’s presentation, “Weaving Strands of Clarity,” is designed to transmute confusion and overwhelm in the collective psychosphere. Click here to listen.
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The Energy Medicine & Healing Summit
Free Summit — April 22–26
The anticipation for The Energy Medicine & Healing Summit, a FREE online video event from April 22–26, is palpable! You can register for free to watch and listen to such visionary speakers as Donna Eden, Anodea Judith, Daisy Lee, Dr. Sue Morter, Gregg Braden, Jean Haner, Holly Tse, Wendy De Rosa, and Amy Scher. You’ll discover exactly how to take your health into your own hands (literally!) with today’s top energy medicine experts, health practitioners, and healers, who’ll guide you toward transforming your overall wellbeing from the inside out. Click here to register for the FREE summit, see our list of dynamic speakers, and find out everything you need to know!
WomenSpeak
May 17–19 in Sedona, Arizona
 Do you have a message that’s burning inside of you? Do you want to write a book or take the stage and don't know where to start? Then you may want to join the WomanSpeak Festival. Right now, you can enter a raffle to win FREE tickets plus a 2-night stay at the festival.
Join women from around the world as they cheer each other on in the art of boldly and authentically sharing their truth and ideas publicly. The festival will highlight extraordinary guest speakers, insightful workshops, and a wildly anticipated concert! Get all the details about the festival and enter the raffle to win free tickets and accommodations here.
Build Your Audience in the Digital Age
Omega Conference, June 21–23, Rhinebeck, NY
 Discover how to manifest your vision as an online teacher or healer with visionary leaders in the field of online holistic education, including Stephen Dinan, co-founder and president of The Shift Network.
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Have you ever desired to write a spiritual blog followed by millions? Or put your most powerful knowledge and teachings into an app or online presence? Join visionary minds in the fields of mobile and online holistic education as they share their wisdom, inspiration, and experience on creating blogs, video courses, and mobile apps touching the lives of millions of people around the world.
In this workshop, you’ll take a deep dive into the business of online education and how to manifest your vision as an online teacher or healer. You’ll gain insights into how to reach a wide audience and offer convenient tools to teach people around the globe through growth hacking and online marketing. For more information and to register, click here.
Compassionate Living & Dying
First Annual Symposium
April 27 in Sacramento
 To live life fully is to embrace all aspects of it. Dying is a part of Living.
The 1st Annual Compassionate Living & Dying Symposium will be held on Saturday, April 27. Featuring keynote speaker Alua Arthur, this event will be interactive and educational, with speakers and Compassionate Conversation Circles, addressing how to live a fuller, more meaningful and compassionate life, while also recognizing and honoring our own mortality.
Our mission is to inspire people to live a more joyful and passionate life by offering resources, experiences, connections, and opportunities. It is our belief that transformation will occur within ourselves, our families, and throughout our communities with these components. Click here for more information, to purchase tickets, or to become a sponsor.
‘What If’ Secrets to Health — Free Video Series
Presented by Kim Knight, a featured speaker at the 2019 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit  This free program on the relationship between emotional intelligence and physical illness asks, “What if all the answers to your health problems are already right here?”
You’ll learn:
- Why your body is far too intelligent to make mistakes
- Why symptoms are not random and have an intelligent purpose
- Why most illness is unconsciously set up by the age of 7
- How understanding this takes away the CONFUSION AND FEAR of illness
- And much more…
To register for free, click here.
Every Healing has a Story (read it online for free)
By Zoran Hochstätter, a featured speaker at the 2019 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit  Every Healing Has a Story is a collection of healing stories by people who have had incredible results (either as a client or practitioner) using PureBioenergy®. From helping autism and stroke to chronic pain and MS, these stories will inspire, motivate, and uplift. With each page, it will become clear that true healing is within your reach.
Click here to read this book for free.
Dog as My Doctor, Cat as My Nurse: An Animal Lover’s Guide to a Healthy, Happy, and Extraordinary Life
By Carlyn Montes De Oca, a featured speaker at the 2019 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit
 Written for the dog and cat lover, animal advocate, and fan of natural medicine, Dog as My Doctor, Cat as My Nurse reveals how our timeless relationships with our beloved animal friends hold the keys to our optimal health. Acupuncturist, plant-based nutritional consultant, and animal advocate Carlyn Montes De Oca weaves together an insightful tapestry of prescriptive advice, personal stories about her lively “six-pack” of rescue dogs and cats, and testimonials from other dog and cat lovers, including best-selling author Jack Canfield. Click here to order your copy.
For several years, The Shift Network has hosted Indigenous leaders from around the world and invited them to share their sacred knowledge, rituals, and practices to guide us in a way of living that is sustainable, healthy, and just. We’re thus delighted that the Global Indigenous Wisdom Library makes this “virtual council” of leaders and their wisdom available for everyone, everywhere for free. The Global Indigenous Wisdom Library is a collection of audio and video interviews featuring Indigenous leaders from around the world sharing prayers, sacred songs, prophecies, spiritual teachings, and pathways to healing, as well as concrete examples for birthing a new era — one in which all members of the human family are treated with respect, understanding, compassion, and justice. This sacred wisdom is important medicine for us all.
The production of The Global Indigenous Wisdom Library is a gift from The Shift Network, designed to inspire, inform, and involve you by highlighting the voices and important messages of Indigenous leaders from around the world. We want to give a heartfelt thanks to Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. (“Brother Phil”) for his partnership in helping create this Indigenous Wisdom collection. And we thank all the speakers who have contributed to this body of knowledge. To discover more, click here.
 World Peace Library. Designed for the layperson and professional peacebuilder alike, the World Peace Library has over 425 audio and video interviews with some of the most remarkable, inspiring peacebuilders in the world available to you at NO COST. You’ll find hundreds of hours of inspirational, peacebuilding, compassion-spreading talks and trainings at your fingertips with this FREE global resource. There’s no way you can’t come away from the World Peace Library deeply inspired, transformed — and part of the solution. Click here to find out how to take peace to the next level — and help co-create a global culture of peace that leaves a legacy of good for our children, our children’s children and all of humanity and life on earth.
BOOK BY STEPHEN DINAN: Sacred America, Sacred World. Infused with visionary power, Sacred America, Sacred World is a manifesto for our country’s evolution that is both political and deeply spiritual. It offers profound hope that America can grow beyond our current challenges and manifest our noblest destiny, which the book shows is rooted in sacred principles that transcend left or right political views. To order your copy, click here.
If you would like to submit something to The Catalyst, please see the submission guidelines: click here.
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Spend a little time reading up on different energy medicine modalities — clearing meridians, balancing qi, applying Ayurvedic medicine, shamanic practices, reiki, healing touch, etc. — to educate yourself on the resources available to you for treating ailments and illnesses, restoring health, increasing vitality, and preventing disease.
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 Reweaving Your Ancestral Story — A Free Video Event With Teacher, Storyteller, Singer, Spiritual Activist & Artist Gemma Benton. Discover how to connect with the ancestors to cultivate a deeper sense of belonging... and become a wise and loving elder yourself. Saturday, April 27, at 10:00am Pacific
 Taking the ‘Mind’ Out of Mindfulness — A Free Video Event With Author, Meditation Teacher, Psychotherapist, and Founder of Open-Hearted Awareness Institute Loch Kelly. Discover how to access the spacious awareness, joy, and freedom of your heart-mind — anytime and anywhere. Wednesday, May 1, at 5:30pm Pacific
 Living Your Soul Work — With Transfor-mational Leader & Inspiring Women With Soul Founder Devaa Haley Mitchell. Align with the cycles of the moon to complete a key piece of your soul work... and take grounded action in manifesting your deepest calling. New 7-Week Live Video Training Starts Monday, April 22
 Medicinal Plants for Protecting Your Body, Mind & Spirit — With Plant Medicine Pioneer David Crow. Avoid adrenal exhaustion and emotional burnout — and protect you and your family from EMFs and other environmental toxins. New 7-Week Live Training Starts Wednesday, April 24
 The Heart of Activism — With Mayor of San Luis Obispo, California, Heidi Harmon. Discover how to step forward and stand in your authentic soul power to make a difference — in your life, your community, and beyond. New 7-Week Live Video Training Starts Wednesday, April 24
End Your Sleep Struggles With Plant Medicine & More — With World-renowned Ayurvedic Herbalist and Teacher K.P. Khalsa. Discover how your unique genetic profile can influence your sleep challenges — and apply specific botanical medicine to get the best possible sleep. New 7-Week Live Video Training Starts Thursday, May 2
Upcoming Events (all subject to change:)
May
• Michael Beckwith 5-week course
• Evelyn Rysdyk 7-week course
• Evolutionary Empath Summit
• Gemma Benton 7-week course
• Loch Kelly 7-week course
• Sandra Ingerman 6-month program
• Eileen McKusick 7-week course
• Deborah King 7-week course
June
• Alison Armstrong 8-week course
• Raja Choudhury 7-month course
• Jessica Dibb 7-week course
• Chloe Goodchild 14-week course
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California Heritage: Indigenous Project
A message from Shift Network President Stephen Dinan
What better way to participate in Sacred Activism than supporting our Indigenous tribal cultures, who need us now more than ever. We recently obtained an extraordinary property in Nevada City, California, and met with leaders from the local Indigenous people called the Nisenan. Here are ways you can support the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe in their quest to restore their federal recognition through their 501(c)3 nonprofit chairperson organization, California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project (CHIRP). We invite you to take this small step to begin to restore the rightful place of our nation's first peoples.
Click here to write letters of support for the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe.
Click here to donate to the California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project.
Click here for information about the Ancestral Homelands Reciprocity Program, a community-generated initiative to support and uplift the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe, the original peoples of this land, through their tribally guided 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Their goal is to raise visibility and awareness so all who work or live here can come together to honor the past and grow the future.
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Our friends at Moon + Leaf exist to create a culture in which women love, honor, and listen to our bodies. We live in a society that idolizes productivity and achievement, often at the expense of our health. This is especially true during our periods, when cramps and exhaustion have us reaching for the painkillers and extra cup of coffee to get through.
Moon + Leaf creates CBD products for period relief, using the power of plants to work with our bodies instead of fighting against them. Their products create the opportunity to slow down, connect with our bodies, and turn our periods into a ritual of self-love. Unlike other companies, they combine CBD with a blend of organic plant extracts that effectively support relief from cramps, achiness, stress, and tension.
We invite you to check out their video and popular products here.
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Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford, a contemporary African-American artist, is best known for his multimedia abstract paintings whose laborious surfaces hint at his excavation of emotional and political terrain. “For me, it's always a detail — a detail that points to a larger thing,” he observed of his process. “I start to imagine what it points to, and that's when my imagination really goes.”
Bradford studied at the California Institute of the Arts, graduating with an MFA in 1997. His work often displays the atrocities and struggles of race and poverty, as seen in his site-specific installation “Help Us” (2008). In the work, he displayed pieces of wood salvaged from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on top of Los Angeles building, spelling out “HELP US,” recalling the desperation of hurricane survivors on New Orleans rooftops.
In 2017, Bradford represented the United States pavilion at the Venice Biennale with his work, “Tomorrow is Another Day.” His works are held in collections at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, among others. Click here to see more of Mark Bradford’s work.
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