KCL UCU still demands pay restoration
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We're shocked to hear that another
@KingsCollegeLon
alumnus-Dr Adnan Al-Bursh, head of orthopaedics at Al Shifa Hospital-was killed in an Israeli prison after +4 months of detention & torture. How long will KCL refuse to condemn Israel's genocide in Gaza & to stop its complicity?
Dr Adnan Al-Bursh. Murdered by the Israeli army while in detension.
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BREAKING! We reached an agreement with
@KingsCollegeLon
on the statement below on
#USS
. Key points:
- no need for contribution rises
- we can and should protect existing benefits
- governance reform
- divest fossil fuels
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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BREAKING! Today an overwhelming majority at our Gen Meeting passed a motion of no-confidence in
@KingsCollegeLon
Chairman Lord Geidt for his role of adviser for arms company BAE Systems, widely accused of war crimes & passed a motion in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle
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Our first rally at the Strand!
This is just the Beginning!!
Thank you all for the support. ❤️✊🏾
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BREAKING: under pressure from our branch KCL management has reduced the limit of punitive 50% deduction from 20 to 10 days: the max deduction is now 5 days of salary. While we reserve the right to respond, this shows that collective action works! Let’s keep up the pressure! ✊🏼
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BREAKING:
@KingsCollegeLon
is devaluing students’ degrees using emergency regs “to allow progression/award where performance is prevented by events which may be beyond the control of the College.” But examiners’ resignations aren’t beyond its control but because of its decisions!
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KCL President
@ewanmcg
and Neil Davies
@Bristol_UCU
win a crucial legal battle in their case against USS and the USS Directors.
The USS deficit is democratic not economic. We will stop the pension theft!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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Wonderful results! 64.5% turn out at Kings. 81.8% yes to strike, 90% yes to action short of strike. Well done everyone, see you on the picket line!
#uss
#fightforuss
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Today our branch passed a motion of no confidence in the General Secretary of the
@ucu
.
#ucuRISING
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Join us for a vigil in memory of Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, Head of Orthopaedics at al-Shifa Hospital, who was tortured & killed in an Israeli prison. He had trained at Kings Hospital. We’ll be joined by surgeons
@GhassanAbuSitt1
& Dr Graeme Groom who worked in Gaza & knew Dr. al-Bursh.
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Sky News came to KCL UCU pickets today. And we gave a message to every employer:
📈reverse the 30% real pay cuts since 2010 + restore pensions
🟰end the 18% gender + race pay gaps, now
🎓stop forcing staff to reapply for their jobs every year
🗳️make our universities democratic
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A message of solidarity from
@amazonlabor
Chris Smalls to
@ucu
members: stay strong, stay resilient, continue fighting on! ✊🏽♥️
@Shut_downAmazon
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Dear
@KingsCollegeLon
, we need to talk about trust in relationships. On 18 Feb you agreed with us that the UUK proposal 'jeopardises the scheme remaining attractive to members.' But you wrote to UUK that it 'ensures USS remains sustainable & affordable for employers & employees.'
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With 14% sexist & 19% racist pay gaps,
@KingsCollegeLon
just decided to cut our pensions, knowing all too well that this will disproportionately affect women & workers of colour. But yes, let's ask the architect of the hostile environment what they feel.
#NotOurFeminism
#IWD2022
"Women having the courage to come forward and talk about their experiences is so important, because if we don't do that than the message will never get out to those sorts of people who think these sorts of attitudes against women are acceptable"
@theresa_may
at
#MayGillardIWD
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What a turnout today! Hey
@KingsCollegeLon
- We are many! And we’ll be more next time! It’s time to listen to our demands!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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Yes
@KingsCollegeLon
did produce an equality analysis of
#USSCuts
. It was produced by the same people who decided to cut our pension. It says that since women are already discriminated against, the cuts won't make any difference: women will still be discriminated against
#IWD2022
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You say we're valued employees and you want to talk with us about why you cut our pension, but you muted us at today's Town Hall mtg. Reading the angry comments in the chat, it's clear why! Value your workers
@KingsCollegeLon
, stop squeezing our labour & stealing our pension!
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It’s very unfortunate that
@KingsCollegeLon
is trying to deny any connection with Dr Adnan Al-Bursh, head of orthopaedics at al-Shifa Hospital, who was tortured & killed in an Israeli prison. Dr Al-Bursh held a six- month fellowship at King’s College Hospital in 2013. KCH… 1/2
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BREAKING: ballot results out! At KCL 82% in favour of strike on the Four Fights - 4th highest turnout in UK.
A full indictment of KCL managers, their pay cuts, discrimination, suppression of the vote, failure to negotiate, and contempt for staff.
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UCU members sought legal advice on deductions in case of indefinite discontinuous action. Contrary to what
@ucu
General Secretary said yesterday employers are not entitled to deduct pay for days worked. It's negligent to publish legal advice detrimental to members' legal position
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Striking with
@KCLUnison
today. Their fight is also our fight. Join us on the picket line ✊
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We're ready for a week of strike, pickets, debates, music, poetry, quizzes, games, love and organising for the future we want! We want to win on both
#USS
and
#FourFights
, and together we will! Please come along ✊🏽♥️
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
@ucu
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Here we are stopping traffic as we march to Westminster with a huge crowd of London
@ucu
members. Lots of solidarity from bus drivers, vans and cars ✊🙏🔥
#ucuRISING
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Calling all KCL staff and students! We are on strike this week but the education does not stop. Join us for 3 days of teach-outs. We have music, film and amazing interventions - we are the university! We will make it more just and equal together. See you out there!✊🏾
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Today the biggest general meeting in our branch's history supported the lobby of Friday's
@ucu
executive meeting & the proposal to add new strike days from March 13 onwards to replace the cancelled days.
We're not calm & we don't accept a 15% real pay cut!
#NoCapitulation
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Watch
@liberatekcl
President Olivia Campbell-Cavendish talk to
@SkyNews
:
"The thing that's made my education so difficult are the conditions that have led to the strike. We’re out here because we don’t just sympathize with our lecturers and academics, we’re in the same boat."
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Even more reason not to cross the picket line!
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We are saddened to hear that our former student, Dr
@Maisara_Alrayes
, & his family were killed in Gaza by an air strike after being stuck under the rubble for +30 hours. When will
@KingsCollegeLon
show some empathy & demand
#CeasefireNOW
#EndOccupation
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Thanks to all those who held the line during the strikes & the MAB. It’s our collective action and determination that allowed us to solve our local dispute for fair pay, equality, and a voice at work!
#ucuRISING
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“Never cross a picket line, even when your family can't pay the rent. Share your last cigarette with a stranger. Steal milk when your kids have none and then give half to the little kids next door (this is what my own mother did repeatedly in 1936). …
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Dear
@ucu
members, are you more tired of strike action or of below inflation ‘pay uplifts’ (ie pay cuts)?
#ucuRISING
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After suspending negotiations with the encampment,
@KingsCollegeLon
management ordered the students to leave by Friday or face disciplinary action. We demand that management immediately cancels this order, withdraws its threats & stops its complicity in genocide
#FreePalestine
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Today we walked out in the Strand and at Denmark Hill to remember our colleagues and students martyred in Gaza and say loud & clear that the genocide must stop. All forms of institutional complicity & repression of pro-Palestine voices must stop. 🇵🇸 will be free!
#StandWithGaza
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Great energy today -
#Nakba76
- at
@KingsCollegeLon
: staff and students came out in big numbers to stand in solidarity with the student encampment and with the Palestinian people. Let’s build on this solidarity to spread and escalate our action!
@KCLUnison
@kcl4justice
@ucu
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Good morning Kingsway, we're not going away! (until we achieve an equal and fair university system, and get our pension back)
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
♥️ ✊🏽🌈
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Students and Workers Unite and Fight!
It's our university!
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We all deserve better! And we’ll be out together on the picket line until we achieve it!
#EnoughIsEnough
@ucu
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Today is the last day of this round of industrial action & the first of the next Striking is hard, striking is transformative, striking can be fun. During these 13 days we've told the employers, we've told the government, that we're worth more, that higher education is worth more
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Thank you to those who attended, in sorrow and rage, the vigil for Dr Adnan al-Bursh this evening
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Solidarity to all the branches starting a marking & assessment boycott today, fighting for the entire sector. KCL UCU decided to pause the M&AB bc most of our marking is done by now but we’re taking part in action short of strike & already planning our next steps!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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Please don’t cross the picket line on 15 March: it will be a great day of coordinated action with hundreds of thousands of workers out on strike on budget day! Workers solidarity is key to achieving a new social contract!
#ucuRISING
Earlier this week, we decided to cancel my 3rd lecture (16/03) in the
@LSEEcon
#LionelRobbins
Memorial series due to UCU strike action. With the announcement of a new strike date (15/03), both my lectures (13 + 15 Mar) will highlight the vital necessity for a new social contract.
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What an amazing day! We want to thank all our members who walked out in solidarity with 🇵🇸 & joined our rallies at Guy’s & Denmark Hill. The energy was overwhelming! It’s time for
@KingsCollegeLon
to listen to our demands and
#DivestNOW
& for the government to
#StopArmingIsrael
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Brother Akic
@KCLUnison
asking where has the money gone at
@KingsCollegeLon
?
Pay fair wages now!
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As of today,
@KingsCollegeLon
is the only HE institution in the UK where the Marking and Assessment Boycott continues. You may think that a rich university like King's had the resources to solve its local disputes and ensure fair pay, equality and a voice at work to its staff!
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Our General Meeting today agreed that the
@ucu
e-ballot is badly worded & unconstitutional: it’s the role of the HE Committee, not the GS, to determine when offers are put to members. But given that 1000s of members have voted, we recommend that our members vote NO.
#ucuRISING
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We’re stopping the pension theft and the attacks on our living conditions. We’re not the clowns 🤡! ✊🏼
#NoCapitulation
#NoDetriment
@ucu
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We're tired, angry, but we're not going anywhere. Among all the amazing topics & activities in week 3: a cross-branch rally on the next steps with Prof Kapur TBC, a carnival of resistance, a rally against war & racism and last but not least our strike with
@KCLUnison
&
@kcl_ssts
!
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BREAKING: We've delivered a huge YES to fair pay, democracy and equality at
@KingsCollegeLon
!
87% voted YES to strike and 90% to ASOS to achieve:
💰+ £2000 in London Weighting
🫱🏽🫲🏾a collective agreement
👩🏽🤝👨🏾equal access to 26 weeks paid parental leave and free child care support
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Disciplining security staff who go on strike during their shifts, repeatedly calling would-be strikers, recruiting agency staff to cover gaps on strike days. All this to avoid offering a proper pay increase to hardworking staff. Shameful,
@KingsCollegeLon
. Solidarity
@KCLUnison
!
Utterly shocking behaviour from management at King's College London.
Solidarity with the brave
@KCLUnison
members who stood up to this awful behaviour.
Management need to stop playing these silly games and give their staff the pay rise they deserve.
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Striking is hard but is also fun, so please come along! This week's teach out covers issues like how to win our disputes, War & Peace, our University, climate change and whether
#UUK
&
#USS
will be able to fool us from April 1 onwards! See you on the picket line!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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Good morning Kings College London, good morning
@ucu
! We’re tired of pay cuts and promises, not of standing together to demand what’s fair! Come along!
#ucuRISING
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Proud to have joined
@healthW4pal
silent procession for Gaza today and to have marched from
@KingsCollegeLon
St Thomas’s Hospital to Downing Street to say hospitals & healthcare workers are not targets &
#CeaseFireNow
@ucu
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The inequalities of King's College London.
This is why we have Gender and Ethnicity Pay Gaps.
Let's end this!
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The Strand is on! Our message to management: do your readings, do your job, show leadership - otherwise we’ll be out stronger and in greater numbers in January!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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Dear
@KingsCollegeLon
: we're beyond the breaking point!
Today we are launching the next phase of our campaign to improve working conditions & to achieve democracy and equality at work.
This is what our members say about their workloads, pay & conditions.
#ucuRISING
👇🏽
@ucu
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Hello
@ucu
HQ - can you please share the results of the BDM too? Last time you shared them immediately after the BDM turned down indefinite action, why not this time? 😶
Thank you to every member who voted in the e-ballot
The highest turnout we have ever had for an electronic ballot
Members voted by more than 2 to 1 to confirm they want to be consulted on the proposals
Our Higher Education Committee now makes the final decisions
#ucuRISING
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This week many exam boards agreed that the College’s ‘mitigation’ measures & its use of MAB-breaking markers aren’t fair to students & didn’t ratify marks in Digital Humanities, Economics, English, European Studies, Geography, Liberal Arts etc. What’s next,
@KingsCollegeLon
?
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Go back to the negotiating table
@KingsCollegeLon
and start negotiating in good faith with
@ucu
. If you don’t care about your staff, at least do it for your students.
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
@kcl_ssts
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Good morning Kingsway! We’re not going away! We’re out with our
@KCLUnison
colleagues today, fighting for equality and dignity!
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#NotGoodEnough
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Today our alumnus Maisara Al Rayyes would have turned 29. He was a brilliant student, a devoted doctor & a proud Palestinian. He's one of the many innocent lives taken away in this terrible war. We will continue to say your name, Maisara. We will continue to fight until 🇵🇸is free
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📣 📣📣To all our members: please check your emails! 📧
We’re holding an emergency General Meeting on Friday to discuss whether to accept the improved management’s offer to settle our local dispute:
1. London Allowance to increase to £5k from December 2023 to July 2025
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Over 840 women professors demand the
#USS
pension cuts halt. Organised by Prof
@jelkeboesten
and Prof Anne Pollock.
The cuts have “gendered impacts”, and April 1st is an arbitrary date. Stop them!
Story here 👇🏽
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We are grateful to the majority of
@ucu
HEC members who, like us, believe that the so-called proposal wasn’t good enough to be put to members & the strike must go on.
A real term pay cut is not a pay rise!
#WeDeserveBetter
See you on the pickets on Monday!
#usuRISING
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In one of our departments at
@KingsCollegeLon
96% of BA final year dissertations and 75% of BA coursework/exam marking has been boycotted. Maybe our management should help push
@UCEA1
to resolve this dispute? We will hold the line 💪🏾
#UCUrising
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Solidarity with
@GoldsmithsUCU
- your struggle is our struggle! Your victory is crucial for the future of the Higher Education sector. We cannot let bankers dictate what we research, teach and study!
#StoptheGoldDiggers
#GoldStrike
@ucu_solidarity
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This morning we wrote to
@KingsCollegeLon
President & Senior Vice-President (Academic) to draw their attention to the implications of the 26 Jan ICJ ruling for King's & to urge King's cut ties with Israeli & other institutions and corporations aiding & abetting genocide in Gaza.
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We are sorry that
@KingsCollegeLon
Vice Presidents, Prof Welch and Mr Large - each earning about £250k+ a year (KCL senior management pay is still secret) - are "deeply disappointed" that the UCU is balloting about pay and pension cuts, workloads, casualization and inequalities!
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Dear members, do you agree with
@ucu
HQ that pay is not a priority?
Unison - as is their absolute right have priorised pay in their dispute.
Our members have been clear we need to prioritise all ‘4 fights’: casualisation, workload, inequality and pay, alongside pensions
That’s why it’s now right to seek our members’ views 💪
#ucuRISING
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A real pay cut is still not a pay rise!
Say it loud, tomorrow at 1pm, in front of the
@ucu
Head Office in Carlow Street ✊🏽
#ucuRISING
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Thanks everyone for 7 days of picketing, poetry, teach outs, music, kid activities, fun & anger. This is not the end of our disputes. We just have more work to do before our employers budge, so we'll be out stronger next week with
@KCLUnison
& our wonderful students ✊
#UCUstrike
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As predicted, UCU compromise solution has been defeated while the projected deficit that justified the cuts is disappearing also according to the zero growth assumptions of the 2020 valuation. Members have carried the fight, and now members should decide how to fight on.
#BDMnow
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To the friendship of all the workers of the world - hasta la victoria!
#notgoodenough
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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How was our picket today? Do you think we’re ready to fight until we get a meaningful offer?
#ucuRISING
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We need real pay rises in higher education now, and most for those who are paid least.
Universities are hoarding cash made from our work. Invest in staff, in education, not vanity projects and management bureaucracy.
This is a national disgrace ⬇️⬇️↙️
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Dear
@KingsCollegeLon
, thanks but can we remind you we’ve negotiated for months, not weeks, & you offered a £500 increase (initially £250) out of the £2500 we asked for? And where does your £1k payment leave casualised staff? With £211 million surpluses, you can do better!
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What a wonderful week of strike action, our fifth this year! We showed our determination to win these disputes. As
@amazonlabor
said: “The power to connect with the people you work with & care about is the power to change the world.” Please vote this weekend in the
@ucu
ballot!
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10 days ago
@KingsCollegeLon
Senior Vice Principals expressed their ‘deep disappointment’ in
@ucu
balloting on strike strike action. Our GTAs-they argued-play a vital role & should be fully recognised. This morning many GTAs woke up to an empty bank account despite being pay day.
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Across
@KingsCollegeLon
all you see are picket lines! 😍
Are you listening management?
#UCURising
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