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Charitable Pay: A Growing Disparity
By Harvy Lipman
The pay of chief executives at nonprofit organizations is growing twice as fast as the wages of other workers at such groups, according to a new Chronicle analysis of compensation at more than 3,770 organizations.
The median increase in pay for chief executive officers rose by 16 percent from 1998 to 2003, after adjusting for inflation, while wages of other workers rose 8 percent. By 2003, nonprofit leaders were paid an average of nearly five times what other employees received.
That differential is nowhere near the spread in the business world, where CEOs make more than 400 times the typical worker's salary, on average. But the pay rates for corporate executives still have a big influence: Nonprofit trustees say they have been raising pay of charity executives to keep leaders from fleeing to more-lucrative corporate jobs. What's more, nonprofit groups often compete with businesses to recruit people with the skills needed to run large, complex organizations -- and that has led to an escalation in the pay offered to attract new chief executives.
The result has been a growing gap between the compensation of top executives and what other workers are paid, a development that worries many people in the nonprofit world. Some nonprofit officials fear that morale is suffering, while others say they worry that unless employees start getting increases at similar rates to chief executives, nonprofit groups are going to suffer a major worker shortage.
Working as a Team
Scott Klinger, a co-director of United for a Fair Economy, a nonprofit group in Boston that monitors the pay of executives in the corporate world, says he worries that the disparity in pay between leaders and workers "erodes a sense that we're all in this together, and the sense of being in it together is more important for a nonprofit, mission-driven organization than a for-profit company."
Christine Letts, a scholar of nonprofit management and associate dean of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, notes that inflation-adjusted salaries for employees of businesses, governments, and nonprofit groups rose faster than that of nonprofit workers alone. Such wages grew 13 percent from 1998 to 2003, five percentage points ahead of nonprofit workers, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The sluggish wage growth, she says, is the key reason "everybody's having trouble hiring good people. It's hard hiring really good people at the salaries we're paying."
Ms. Letts says she worries that many organizations are holding down wages of workers largely to demonstrate to donors how efficient they are in controlling their overhead.
"We're holding up organizations that don't give raises as models because we can show their overhead being so low," Ms. Letts says. "There are very few people out there saying we should pay these people better living wages because we want the best people."
Diana Aviv, president of Independent Sector, a nonprofit organization that represents charities and foundations, says she too thinks the solution is to increase the pay of workers, not to focus on the growth of pay to chief executives. (Ms. Aviv was paid $152,007 in 2003 -- the most recent year for which the group's tax return is available -- about twice the average pay of other workers at Independent Sector.)
"The big challenge is not how big the salaries of the top executives are, but how low the salaries are for the workers," she says.
Size of Organization
The extent of disparities in salary growth between executives and other workers varies by type of organization. The Chronicle examined organizations that paid a minimum of $1-million in total wages and earned revenue of $1-million to $3.3-billion annually.
The gap grew fastest among the largest organizations. Among those with annual revenue of less than $10-million, executive compensation increased less than one and a half times as fast as other workers' pay. At organizations with revenue above $20-million, CEO pay grew at more than twice the rate of average workers' salaries.
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The gap between executive and worker pay is growing larger. In 1998, chief executives earned 4.4 times as much as the average nonprofit worker, while in 2003 they earned 4.8 times as much. If the trends in executive and worker pay continue, by 2018, chief executives will be making six times what other employees are paid.
The biggest gaps were found at organizations that serve young people, followed by environmental and animal-protection groups. The pay of executives at youth charities increased by 17 percent after inflation, while compensation for workers decreased by 8 percent. At environmental groups, the pay of chief executives grew about three times as fast as the pay of other employees.
Big youth groups say the reasons for the disparities are varied: For many affiliates of the Boy Scouts, tough financial times led to layoffs of many full-time workers, who were in some cases replaced by part-time workers, while at Boys & Girls Clubs a rapid expansion led to the addition of many part-time employees. In both cases, the growth of part-time jobs drove down the average wages of workers.
Some types of organizations rewarded their employees with bigger percentage increases than the chief executives received.
Wages of workers at nonprofit nursing homes and home health-care organizations grew by 11 percent, adjusted for inflation, compared with the 4-percent increases awarded to leaders of the groups, while employees of public-broadcasting and religious-broadcasting organizations got raises of 14 percent compared with the chief executives, whose compensation rose by 7 percent.
A national shortage of nurses created competition for employees that helped push up salaries at the health-care facilities, while many of the public-broadcasting employees -- whose employers must compete with private television and radio stations -- are represented by labor unions.
The widening gap in wages paid in the nonprofit world comes at a time when compensation of charity and foundation executives has come under increasing scrutiny by government policy makers. The Internal Revenue Service is examining organizations that it suspects may be paying their executives excessively. The Senate Finance Committee has also put the spotlight on executive compensation as it considers new legislation designed to tighten the management of charities, foundations, and boards.
Lawmakers may look on the escalation of executive compensation as evidence that some nonprofit groups are acting more like for-profit businesses, providing added impetus for new regulations, says Paul C. Light, a professor of public service at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. "If nonprofits start to resemble any other organization, except one has a tax-exempt letter from the IRS in its files, then you start to say, why shouldn't we regulate executive compensation?" he says. "If these gaps get too big, then you say this is just another variation of a for-profit entity."
Trustees' Role
In many cases, the gap between workers and chief executives grows when board members start comparing the pay of the leaders of their organization with that of other charities and private corporations. Federal law encourages charities to do just that; it says charities won't get in trouble for paying their chief executives too much if they can show that other officials with comparable jobs are paid similar sums. While that law was intended to prevent nonprofit groups from paying overly high salaries, it has had the opposite effect, say many officials in the nonprofit world.
"The unintended consequence is that it has forced up CEO pay," says Deborah Hechinger, president of BoardSource, a nonprofit group that works to improve the effectiveness of nonprofit boards of directors. When organizations look at pay of their competitors, they generally want to match or top the highest-paid officials, Ms. Hechinger says. The process "continues to drive the median up," feeding an upward salary spiral, she says.
A review of compensation of chief executives of similar-size organizations prompted the board of the Greater Chicago Food Depository to increase the salary of Michael Mulqueen, the group's executive director, by 23 percent in 2003.
The result for Mr. Mulqueen, who now makes $250,000, was to create a far larger differential between the amount of his pay and that of workers. While his pay grew by 38 percent from 1998 to 2003, the pay of the employees at the food bank rose just 6 percent, to about $44,000 on average.
Mr. Mulqueen says he has long recognized that inequalities could cause problems, so the food bank has made an effort to adjust salaries regularly to make sure employees are paid similarly to the amount they would make if they worked in a comparable job at a business.
He says he also tries to keep up morale by offering bonuses to top performers, and putting the equivalent of 7 percent of every worker's salary into a retirement plan annually.
"The whole culture here is that we hold our employees accountable, but we really take good care of them," he says.
Focus on Results
Some leaders of big institutions say the reason their pay has outpaced that of their employees is that they have achieved the results sought by their boards.
Peter C. Marzio, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, won increases in pay of 41 percent from 1998 to 2003 while wages paid to employees rose by 12 percent. Mr. Marzio's compensation peaked at $2.2-million in 2001, which included a bonus of $1.7-million, awarded him by the museum trustees after he managed a capital campaign that raised $237-million over five years. He received smaller bonuses over several years. Mr. Marzio says he was rewarded not just for the success of the campaign, but also because the institution raised that money without hiring additional employees.
The board of the museum "is very, very results oriented," Mr. Marzio says. "If we didn't succeed in raising the money, not only would I not have gotten a raise, I wouldn't have a job."
No longer receiving bonuses, Mr. Marzio's salary has come down to $365,000. He notes that top managers at the museum also received large pay raises from 1998 to 2003 to compensate them for the extra work they put in. Gwendolyn H. Goffe, an associate director of the museum, for instance, received an increase of 30 percent. Several other of the museum's highest paid staff members received raises between 20 percent and 25 percent. "My job would be so much easier if we could pay them a lot more," Mr. Marzio says. "But our pay increases have always stayed way above the inflation rate."
Another charity where the chief executive was rewarded for the growth of the organization is the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, in Bronx, N.Y. Daniel Quintero, the executive director, was paid $290,113 in 2003 (the most recent figures available), nearly two-and-a-half times his annual salary in 1998. At the same time the average pay for workers grew by 21 percent in those five years.
Mr. Quintero wouldn't talk about his pay, but Arthur Shapiro, a board member for the charity, says that Mr. Quintero deserved the increases because under his leadership the club has tripled its budget (spending $5.3-million in 2003), doubled its membership, opened five new locations, opened a center in a homeless shelter, and built a dental clinic. Other employees, Mr. Shapiro says, receive cost-of-living increases and merit raises that he says "are commensurate with and even exceed industry standards."
Shunning Raises
While the top officials at most groups studied got pay increases that well outpaced those of workers, chief executives at several hundred organizations bucked that trend -- sometimes taking no pay increases or actually reducing their compensation.
William F. Baker, president of the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, which operates WNET, the public-television station in New York, was paid $226,438 last year, the same amount he got as a starting salary a dozen years ago after he left his job as president of Westinghouse Television.
Mr. Baker, who declined to be interviewed about his compensation, has repeatedly rejected efforts by the nonprofit group's board to give him a raise.
Stella Giammasi, the station's vice president for communications, says Mr. Baker "has always believed in doing service by taking a comparatively modest compensation." In addition, she says, he believes that since he is very visible in the New York market as a fund raiser for public television, always on air asking for money, that he should in effect 'put his money where his mouth is.'"
While Mr. Baker's pay has not changed since 1998, average wages for other workers at WNET rose 22 percent from 1998 to 2003, after taking inflation into account; last year, the station increased pay for each employee by 3 percent.
In Philadelphia, William Dwyer III, head of the Cradle of Liberty Council of the Boy Scouts of America, took no pay raises for four years in a row, starting in 2000.
Mr. Dwyer says he felt it was inappropriate to take a raise at a time when the organization was laying off workers and facing other financial problems. The money crunch for his group -- and many other Boy Scout affiliates -- came after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2000 that the Boy Scouts had a constitutional right to bar gay people from being Scout troop leaders. The ruling prompted many charitable groups and government agencies to stop providing financial support to Scout groups.
"We had lost money from the United Way and the Pew foundations. The United Way cut us $500,000," he recalls. "I was letting people go, giving their jobs off to part-timers, and I couldn't very well take a raise while I was doing that."
Mr. Dwyer says his colleagues appreciated his gesture: "Our staff looked at that and said, 'He's doing what he can. We all need to pitch in here.'"
As a result of the staff's efforts, he says, the council has recovered financially, and is enjoying what Mr. Dwyer says is a very good year financially in 2005. He has received pay raises the past two years, bringing his salary up to $200,000, or $14,000 more than he made in 2003.
Pay Isn't Everything
While many nonprofit boards and executives argue that they cannot recruit the best qualified candidates for leadership positions without offering top salaries, others say that sometimes an organization's reputation for excellence is more important than the ability to pay top dollar. The Washington Home, a hospice-care facility in the District of Columbia, was facing serious financial difficulties last year when it set out to recruit a new CEO.
The hospice's top executives had gone two years without a salary increase, says Ilene Reiter, vice president of human resources, because the organization was running a budget shortfall, and the home's president, Lynn O'Connor, resigned in 2004. Those conditions, however, did not prevent the home from being able to recruit a highly qualified replacement from private business, Ms. Reiter says.
"We have quite a good reputation in the hospice industry, so I had quite a few people come to me inquiring about the position," says Ms. Reiter, who headed the search for a new CEO. In September, the hospice hired David Rehm, former senior vice president at VistaCare, one of the largest for-profit hospice companies in the country. He took the job even though his compensation deal ties his pay closely to the hospice's finances, so he will not do well unless the group's financial situation improves.
Nonprofit officials say, however, that in most cases charities have to compete financially with private business for executives, and many charities may not be able to find talented leaders as long as pay is rising fast in the corporate world. The nonprofit world, says Mr. Klinger of United for a Fair Economy, should be far more active in efforts to publicize and control the escalation of executive pay in the business world, because otherwise it will never be able to control its own salaries.
Nonprofit leaders may feel constrained from doing so, he fears, because they benefit personally from the rising executive salaries, and because many of them have corporate executives on their boards. But if they fail to deal with the issue, he says, nonprofit groups eventually will find themselves priced out of the market for talented executives.
"The nonprofit sector rests in the economic world underneath the for-profit sector," Mr. Klinger says. "They should be concerned about what the for-profit people are making and try to work to put some brakes on that."
Harvy Lipman is director of special projects at The Chronicle of Philanthropy


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In our part of the country, a sheriff's deputy was shot as he went to investigate a report of erratic driving and shots fired. The details are still emerging, but the young man (26) was shot in the abdomen and the side of the head from close range. Thank heavens he has survived and is slowly being brought out of an induced coma to protect him from his brain injuries. According to current reports he is responding to nearby family members and giving a 'thumbs up' even though he hasn't opened his eyes.
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Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and seven Members of Congress sent a letter to President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia this week thanking him for his commitment to address labor rights in Colombia and establishing a Congressional Monitoring Group on Labor Rights in Colombia that will work with the Obama Administration and others to ensure that progress is made on labor rights in the coming months.
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November 16, 2011
Juan Manuel Santos Calderon
President of Colombia
Casa de Nariño
Bogotá, Colombia
Dear President Santos:
Thank you for your commitment to improve the protections and conditions of labor and human rights for the people of Colombia. There is no question that Colombia has been and will continue to be a staunch ally of the United States in our shared efforts to promote security, prosperity and democracy in Latin America.
As Members of the U.S. Congress who voted both for and against the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, we are united in our commitment to help the working people of Colombia and to help you in your efforts to make progress for your country.
To that end, we have established a Congressional Monitoring Group on Labor Rights in Colombia that will work closely with the Obama Administration, U.S. and Colombian labor organizations and non-governmental organizations, and, with your support, the Colombian government. Our goal is to ensure that both the U.S. and Colombia continue to make progress on labor rights including the commitments and timelines announced in the Colombian Action Plan Related to Labor Rights. We support the commitment outlined in the Action Plan "to protect internationally recognized labor rights, prevent violence against labor leaders, and prosecute perpetrators of such violence."
Under your leadership, the Colombian government has taken important steps to help address Colombia's labor and human rights conditions including:
* Passing legislation to establish a Labor Ministry to provide better capacity to protect and institutionalize labor rights;
* Committing to improve legal provisions and regulations associated with labor cooperatives and other employer relationships that undermine workers' rights, including already accelerating the effective date of sanctions on the misuse of labor cooperatives;
* Expanding coverage of the union leaders' protection program and, in consultation with teachers' union representatives, strengthening the separate teacher protection program;
* Passing the Victims and Land Restitution Law that offers compensation to as many as four million victims and restitution of two million hectares of land over the next ten years to over 460,000 families displaced due to the internal armed conflict;
* Starting the process to hire and train the first 100 of 480 additional labor inspectors over the next four years as part of the commitment to mobilize resources and strengthen enforcement of a system to protect labor rights; and
* Committing to formally partner with the International Labor Organization to "significantly strengthen the presence in Colombia in order to help implement the measures outlined in the Action Plan."
In the coming months, there is more work to be done to protect labor rights in Colombia and to fully accomplish the objectives in the Action Plan. We look forward to working with you to ensure, among other priorities, that significant progress is made to:
* Reduce violence and threats of violence against trade unionists and human rights defenders, including the high number of assassinated union leaders in recent years;
* Prohibit the abuse of cooperatives and any other contractual employment relationships that curtail worker rights and ensure they are not replaced by similar entities;
* Ensure that Colombian law protects the ability of Colombian workers to exercise core labor rights;
* Establish regular and meaningful consultation with labor unions and the Escuela Nacional Sindical to address the backlog of cases related to murdered unionists, and establish similar consultations that include individual beneficiaries of protection over the development and implementation of protective measures;
* Produce results in the investigations and prosecutions of cases of anti-union violence, including threats, attacks and assassinations; and
* Effectively implement the Victims' and Land Restitution Law and ensure protection to returning communities and victims' and land rights leaders.
We understand the challenges to addressing the labor rights situation in Colombia. This critical work squares fully with your own stated priorities to end Colombia's culture of impunity, promote human rights, strengthen democratic institutions and reduce Colombia's grave inequities.
It is in that spirit of commitment that we look forward to working with you to build a more prosperous future for the people of Colombia. Thank you for your leadership.
Nancy Pelosi
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George Miller
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Rosa L. DeLauro
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Sam Farr
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James P. McGovern
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Google's annual Zeitgeist report—consisting of 1,000-plus Top 10 lists of popular and trending searches from 72 countries—revealed 10 up-and-coming destinations for honeymoons that we agreed was right on the money. Will you visit one of them in 2014 after your big day? Warm, sun-kissed beaches are the common trait of every spot on the list. From the Caribbean and Mexico to Europe's Dalmatian Coast and Southeast Asia, these are the top honeymoon-worthy places of the year.
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Shadowed Autumn Leaves
Legend of the Five Rings: Shadowed Autumn Leaves
Shadowed autumn leaves
Falling from darkness to light
A once living shroud
Beneath hallowed shadowed leaves
Lie my expended brothers
"You must be two samurai; the shining example, the paragon, the firm hand, and also the pragmatist, the diplomat, the compromiser. It is not easy. Being an Emerald Magistrate is being engaged on a constant battlefield, a battlefield which is also your home; being an Emerald Magistrate is an unending war against lawlessness, and the odds are stacked against you. May the Fortunes guide you."
- Yasuki Shishinza, Esteemed Emerald Magistrate of Koware Nami Toshi
Welcome to the Shadowed Autumn Leaves Wiki!
My Current Projects are:
Module Slugs, oh god the Module Slugs.
Player Projects are:
Case Reports (xp for everyone!)
May be time for an update to everyone's character page considering recent events.
Character Portraits
Make Character Pages for Dark Parallels (if you played one)
Suggest Characters for the Ring of Water section; who is important to you?
Also, I am considering offering some modest xp for everyone across the board if a player, or a couple players, want to write accounts of previous modules/missions from their character's perspectives and posting them in the correct place on the wiki (report of taking measure in the taking measure slug, etc). Would anyone be interested in that?
Well. It has been a long while since I last updated the wiki. Things have been, well, interesting, you all know that. To those of you who remain, thank you for believing in this game, which for me is no longer a labor of love, but just a labor. I know you are all still excited about this little game, and hopefully, that excitement will move to me via osmosis and reignite my passion for Shadowed Autumn Leaves.
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A ceasefire has come into force in Syria amid doubts expressed by Western countries about the government's willingness to stick to it. Correspondents say the truce appears to be largely holding, with no reports of casualties or deaths so far. The Syrian government and the armed opposition have both said they will abide by the ceasefire, but reserved the right to respond if attacked. We are joined by Ausama Monajed of the Syrian National Council.


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Montreal is a huge draw for LGBT tourists because of our eclectic Gay Village and our world-renowned Gay festivals, Divers/Cité and Pride. However, as Montreal is one of the most diverse and accepting cities in the world, every festival around Montreal this summer has a little gay in it…
So come one, come all to every festival this great city can offer (a little festanimal told me there are over 100!). Whether you're gay, straight, bi or otherwise, these festivals are for everyone! However if you're gay, it's sometimes fun to see other gay things at not specifically gay events. You follow? So here is a guide to a few gay things at Montreal's summer festivals!
[Jazz Festival] For the International Jazz Festival of Montreal 32nd edition there will be 800 concerts, 600 activities, 3000 musicians, 9 outdoor stages and 1 power lesbian. You guessed it, the world's original lesbian k.d. lang is set to take the stage at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier on Monday, June 27. Oh k.d., I will never forget that you were my first Gay leader before Ellen oh-so-shamelessly snatched that crown off your glorious mop of hair. Food for thought: Is it k.d. lang that looks like a middle aged Daniel Radcliffe, or is it Daniel Radcliff that looks like a young k.d. lang? Think about it.
OK, I'm not saying Prince is gay. I'm totally not. He's obviously a very straight man. But you can't have a song called Purple Rain and then dress in a sequined suit complete with Victorian neck collar and not at least be mentioned here. In a last minute addition to Jazz Fest, Prince will be performing at Metropolis on June 24 and 25 in what should be a couple of very intimate evenings given the size of the venue. Quick question: when did Prince become Prince again and not the Artist Formerly Known as Prince?
Pink Martini will also be playing Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier on June 28. Pink Martini is not only a name with many homosexual tendencies, but Thomas Lauderdale (the lead pianist and group founder) is also the cutest gay ever.
[Just for Laughs] I think it's safe to say LGBT people are among the funniest in the world. So I'm a bit bummed out with the lack of gay/gay-centric (Kathy Griffin, Margaret Cho) comedians at the 2011 Just For Laughs Festival. However that doesn't mean there is NOTHING for us. For example, there is gay-for-pay Eric Stonestreet of Modern Family fame. He plays the campy Cam who has more rainbows than hair. While not gay in real life, he'll be most likely hilarious on Friday July 29 in a show called Modern Love.
Then you have Eddie Izzard who is apparently "straight" but has dabbled in transvestism. He describes himself as a "male lesbian" or a "lesbian trapped in a man's body". So I guess he likes girls. But sometimes likes dressing like one as well. Regardless of these details, he is a funny guy who will be performing his show Stripped, July 11–13. What's even cooler is that Izzard is totally bilingual so he'll be doing English and French versions of his show!
Last but not least there is Daniel Tosh. The gay rumors have swirled, but he maintains he's straight. So like many before him, he has settled into the "wish he has gay because he so darn cute" category. Look at those lips! I totally have a crush on him. He has that adorable lanky nerd thing going on and is a total dreamboat. He'll be doing "Tosh Tour on Ice" Friday July 29.
[Gay Festival Season Preview] So once we've had fun with the gay festival foreplay, we dive right into the juicy real Montreal gay stuff! Divers/Cité, which is queering out July 25–31 in and around the Gay Village. See Dave St. Pierre and Daniel Léveillé performing at FLEXX, Misstress Barbara, Ana Paula, Mado, Lady Miss Kier and Alyson Calagna. Oh my gay that's a lot of international names!
Montreal Pride Celebrations will take place from Tuesday, August 9–14. With the parade on Sunday, August 14 at 1:00PM! This year's theme is "Share the Pride" with the parade theme being "3011: Odyssey of the Future". I'm telling you all this now so you can start moulding those space body suits. I know I am. In 2011, more than 140,000 people lined the streets to watch this parade! Details for programming are still mum, but we can be sure this will top the record breaking 2010 Pride!


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Every single time I'm sitting at the comfort of my home, e-commerce window shopping and buying things at the click of a button, I feel so thankful. Though this is not how I ideally enjoy shopping, it definitely makes life easy on some days! The e-commerce business in India has picked up a great deal over the last few years and today there are dozens of e-commerce websites catering to consumers for their varied needs. The companies that started off earlier occupy a large market share (more because they've built a brand over the years), but there are newer e-commerce start-ups that have made it big in no time given their unique business models. From the intellectual property perspective, there are a few things that every person who is a part of an e-commerce website and is looking to have one should keep in mind.
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