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The University of California, Riverside, commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside, is a public research university and one of ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on 1,200 acres (486 ha) in a suburban district of Riverside, California, with a branch campus in Palm Desert. Founded in 1907 as the UC Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside pioneered research in biological control, the use of natural predators to reduce pest populations, and the use of growth regulators responsible for extending the citrus growing season in California from 4 to 9 months. Science museums at Riverside include some of the most important collections on citrus diversity, plant species distribution and entomology in the world.

UCR's undergraduate College of Letters and Science opened in 1954. The UC Regents declared UCR a general campus of the system in 1959, and graduate students were admitted in 1961. By 2015, the campus is projected to grow to an enrollment of 21,000 students. To accommodate this growth, more than $730 million dollars have been invested in new construction projects since 1999. UCR operated under a $435 million dollar budget in 2006. Plans are underway to open California's first new medical school in 40 years by 2012.

UCR provides 81 majors and 52 minors, 48 Master's degree programs, and 42 PhD programs. US News and World Report ranks UCR 96th, and the Washington Monthly ranks UCR 15th, among national universities. The most ethnically and economically diverse of all the UC campuses, UCR features a wide variety of special interest housing options and student organizations on campus.

UCR's athletic teams play in the NCAA Division I of the Big West Conference. Their nickname, the Highlanders, is inspired by the elevation of the campus, which lies on the foothills of Box Springs Mountain. For the past two years, the UCR Women's basketball team represented the Big West Conference in the Division I tournament, but only made the first round of the playoffs. In 2007, the men's baseball team won its first Big West conference championship and made it to the regionals for the second time since the university moved to the Division I level in 2001.

History

At the turn of the 20th Century, Southern California was a major producer of citrus, the region's primary agricultural export. The industry developed from the first navel orange trees grown in the United States, which were planted in Riverside in 1873. In response to heavy lobbying from the citrus industry, the Regents of the University of California established the UC Citrus Experiment Station (CES) on February 14, 1907, on 23 acres (9 ha) of land on the east slope of Mt. Rubidoux in Riverside. The new station supported the burgeoning industry by conducting experiments in fertilization, irrigation and crop improvement. In 1917, the expanded laboratory was moved to a larger site on 475 acres (192 ha) near the Box Springs Mountain.

With the rise in college enrollments following World War II and the passage of the GI Bill, the Regents and the California State Legislature commissioned an education committee to study California's needs and make recommendations regarding the establishment of any new campuses. A local group of citrus growers and civic and business leaders, including many Cal alumni, lobbied for a liberal arts college to be attached to the Citrus Experiment Station. Riverside State Assemblyman John Babbage drafted Senate Bill 512, which allocated $6 million for the construction of the new college. Governor Earl Warren signed the bill in 1949, after reducing its initial allocation to $2 million. Gordon S. Watkins, then-dean of the College of Letters and Science at UCLA, organized the new college at Riverside. Not anticipating the eventual need for research-oriented graduate work, Watkins focused on recruiting many young, new PhDs into teaching-oriented junior faculty positions. Anticipating an initial enrollment of 1000, Watkins ordered the initial campus built for a maximum capacity of 1500 students. The first buildings of the new campus included the library, Webber Hall, Physical Sciences, Physical Education, and Social Sciences. Watkins became provost of the Riverside campus and presided at its opening with 65 faculty and 127 students on February 14, 1954, remarking "Never have so few been taught by so many."

By the time Clark Kerr became president of the UC system in 1958, UCR was in its fifth year of operation and enrollment exceeded 1000 students. Anticipating the growth in enrollment capacity demanded by the baby boom generation, which he referred to as a "tidal wave," Kerr articulated a vision of the UC as a "multiversity" and the Regents designated Riverside a general campus in 1959. UCR's first chancellor, Herman Theodore Spieth, oversaw the beginnings of the school's transition to full university status and expansion to a capacity of 5000 students. By the time UCR’s second chancellor, Ivan Hinderaker, was inaugurated on September 29, 1964, the free speech movement had begun in Berkeley. Hinderaker's negotiation skills are credited with keeping student protests peaceful in Riverside, although faculty resistance to the new mission of the university lead to an impression of UCR as "not 'with it'" in terms of the rest of the system. This impression was compounded when Riverside's Mayor Lewis requested Governor Ronald Regan declare the south coast air basin a disaster area in 1973. This caused Riverside to become famous for its air pollution and had disastrous effects on student enrollment and faculty recruitment at UCR. Rumors circulated that the campus would close; Governor Jerry Brown proposed a merger with Cal State San Bernardino. Although poor gate receipts forced him to terminate UCR's two-time CCAA championship football team in 1975, Hinderaker's development of innovative programs in business administration and biomedical sciences created incentive for students to enroll at Riverside and kept the campus open.

In the 1990s, the UC experienced a new surge of enrollment applications, now known as "Tidal Wave II." Planners targeted UCR for an annual growth rate of 6.3%, the fastest in the UC system, and anticipated 19,900 students at UCR by 2010. The ethnic diversity of the student body increased as enrollment increased. By 1995, 25.2% of UCR students were underrepresented minorities, the highest proportion of any campus in the UC system at the time. The 1997 implementation of Proposition 209 — which banned the use of race and ethnicity as criteria for admissions, hiring, promotions and contracting by state agencies (including the University of California) — further increased ethnic diversity at UCR while reducing it at the most selective campuses in the system. Since 1999 more than $730 million have been invested in construction projects to further develop the campus. Proposals to establish a law school, a medical school, and a school of public policy at UCR have been in development since the 1990s. The Regents formally approved UCR’s medical school proposal on November 16, 2006.

According to James Traub, UCR is "the kind of technocratic, friendly, bland and utilitarian institution summed up by the words 'second-tier'... What is striking, though, is the extent to which Riverside... has begun to reshape itself around the mission of expanding the pool of eligible minority students." Pamela Clute, director of UCR's ALPHA program, was quoted in Traub's article as saying outreach to Inland Empire schools has "taken on a life of its own, and it's been put at the core of the university's existence."

Campus

UCR's main campus sits at an elevation of Template:Ft to m to Template:Ft to m near the Box Springs Mountain, 3 miles (5 km) east of downtown Riverside, and comprises 1,112 acres (450 ha) divided into eastern and western areas by the State Route 60 freeway.

East Campus, occupying approximately 600 acres (243 ha), hosts the core cluster of academic buildings and services. Student housing and recreational facilities lie at the easternmost end near the foothills. In the center of the main campus stands the UCR Carillon Bell Tower, one of only four in California. Designed by A. Quincy Jones, the tower is Template:Ft to m tall and contains 48 bells covering four chromatic octaves, each weighing from Template:Lb to kg to Template:Lb to kg. The $50 million Commons student center, located directly northwest of the Bell Tower, began construction in 2004. The first phase has opened, and the second phase is scheduled for completion in late 2008. Southeast of the Bell Tower is the Tomás Rivera Library, the main library. Forming the southeastern border of the Riverside campus, the Botanic Gardens feature 3,500 plant species from around the world, on 40 acres (16 ha) of rugged terrain traversed by more than 4 miles (6 km) of hiking trails. The campus grounds are also considered part of the Gardens, and are landscaped with plants that thrive in Riverside's arid climate.

Of the 511 acres (207 ha) of UCR property comprising the West Campus, approximately 295 acres (119 ha) are citrus groves and row crops. University Extension, the USDA Germplasm Repository, International Village (student housing), a parking lot, office buildings (Human Resources and Highlander Hall), and other small facilities are also located on the West Campus. University Village, a mixed use development located across from University Avenue adjacent to the freeway, features a movie theater, stores, restaurants, office space, and an apartment complex, along with a parking structure and surface parking. The movie theaters serve as lecture halls during the day, with a shuttle taking students to and from campus every 15 minutes. Future capital expansion plans will convert dormant agricultural fields into new UCR infrastructure.

In downtown Riverside, the UCR/California Museum of Photography and Sweeney Art Gallery occupy adjacent historical buildings along the Main Street pedestrian mall. In 2009, a third institution, the Culver Center for the Arts, is expected to round out the UCR/ARTSblock, a collaboration with the city that includes art exhibition and studio space.

Since 1999, more than $730 million have been invested in construction projects. Active construction projects include Phase II of the Campus Commons expansion, Engineering Unit 3 and Materials Science Building, Psychology Research Building, Genomics Building, CHASS Instructional and Research Center, and a new Students Academic Support Services Building.

Palm Desert Graduate Center

The Richard J. Heckmann International Center for Entrepreneurial Management was founded in Palm Desert in 2001. After the 540-acre (219 ha) Coachella Valley Agricultural Research Station, it is UCR's second institutional presence in the Coachella Valley. Initially funded by a $6 million gift from Richard J. Heckmann, a water treatment entrepreneur, the institution was planned as a teaching and research center of the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management. The center encourages local entrepreneurship through the Coachella Valley Angel Network, an angel investment network. A further investment of $10 million from the State of California and a donation of 20 acres (8 ha) of land from the City of Palm Desert allowed for the opening of an expanded graduate center on April 15, 2005, adjacent to the California State University, San Bernardino Palm Desert Campus. The Center is also home to university researchers in conservation biology, technology transfer and Native American studies. Master's level instruction in business management and creative writing is available at the Center.

Academics

Organization

As a campus of the University of California system, UCR is governed by a Board of Regents and administered by a president. The current president is Robert C. Dynes and the administrative head of UCR is Acting Chancellor Robert D. Grey. Academic policies are set by the Academic Senate, a legislative body composed of all UCR faculty members. UCR is organized into three academic colleges, two professional schools, and several interdisciplinary divisions. The academic colleges are the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and the Bourns College of Engineering. The professional schools are the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management and the Graduate School of Education. These units provide 81 majors and 52 minors, 48 master's degree programs, and 42 PhD programs. It is the only UC campus to offer undergraduate degrees in Creative Writing and Public Policy, and one of three UCs (along with Berkeley and Irvine) to offer an undergraduate degree in Business Administration. Through the Division of Biomedical Sciences, UCR also offers the highly competitive Thomas Haider medical degree program, in collaboration with UCLA. Additionally, UCR's doctoral program in the emerging field of dance theory, founded in 1992, was the first program of its kind in the United States.

Research and economic impact

UCR hosts over 40 distinct research centers, groups and projects spanning the fields of the humanities, social sciences, management, education, engineering, and natural sciences. Faculty members received nearly $87 million in research funding in 2005–06, mostly from federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Total research expenditures at Riverside are significantly concentrated in agricultural science. Throughout UCR's history, researchers have developed more than 40 new citrus varieties and invented new techniques to help the $960 million-a-year California citrus industry fight pests and diseases. In 1927, entomologists at the CES introduced two wasps from Australia as natural enemies of a major citrus pest, the citrophilus mealybug, saving growers in Orange County $1 million in annual losses. This event was pivotal in establishing biological control as a practical means of reducing pest populations. In 1944, the Air Pollution Research Center published its breakthrough findings that smog damages plants and decreases crop yields. In 1963, plant physiologist Charles Coggins proved that application of gibberellic acid allows fruit to remain on citrus trees for extended periods. The ultimate result of his work, which continued through the 1980s, was the extension of the citrus-growing season in California from four to nine months. In 1980, UC Riverside released the Oroblanco grapefruit, its first patented citrus variety. Since then, the citrus breeding program has released other varieties such as the Melogold grapefruit, the Gold Nugget mandarin (or tangerine), and others that have yet to be given trademark names. To assist entrepreneurs in developing new products, UCR is a primary partner in the Riverside Regional Technology Park, which includes the City of Riverside and the County of Riverside. It also administers six reserves of the University of California Natural Reserve System. UCR recently announced a partnership with China Agricultural University to launch a new center in Beijing, which will study ways to stem the country's growing environmental issues.

UCR operated under a $435 million budget in fiscal year 2005–2006. The state government provided $153 million, student fees accounted for $111 million, the federal government financed $84 million, and $45 million was provided by university sales and services. Private support and other sources accounted for the remaining $18 million. Overall, monies spent at UCR have an economic impact of nearly $1 billion in California, more than 70% of which directly and indirectly affects the Inland Empire region of Southern California. In 2002, Riverside research had a $329 million upper limit in economic and fiscal impacts in the state, and supported 10,828 jobs in the area. Top research centers by expenditure, as measured in 2002, include the Agricultural Experiment Station, the Center for Environmental Research and Technology, the Center for Bibliographical Studies, the Air Pollution Research Center, and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. The National Science Foundation ranked UCR 115th out of 601 universities in terms of research and development expenditures in 2004, with $110,627,000 spent on science and engineering applications. While this was lower than the amount spent at all UCs except Santa Cruz, it was still significantly higher than the other universities in the Inland Empire region, its closest competitor being Loma Linda University (ranked 198th).

Libraries and collections

UCR's library system is divided into general collections, music, media, science, and a branch library at the Palm Desert campus. General collections are housed in the main library, named after Tomás Rivera. The four-story Rivera Library hosts the 110,000-volume Eaton collection of science fiction, horror, fantasy, and utopian literature, the world's largest such compilation available to the general public, as well as the only U.S. Patent and Trademark Depository based on a UC campus. The 533,000-volume Science Library includes collections in the physical, natural, agricultural, biomedical, engineering and computer sciences, with special strengths in the areas of citrus and sub-tropical horticulture, entomology, arid lands agriculture and soil sciences. The Music Library, located in the basement of the Arts Building, holds over 4,000 compact discs, about 10,000 long-playing records, and over 34,500 scores, including notable collections of Scottish folk music, operas, and carillon music. Total collections at UCR comprise more than 2,000,000 volumes, 14,017 electronic journals, 23,000 serial subscriptions, and 1.7 million microformats. The UCR Library is one of 116 members of the Association of Research Libraries, and is ranked 93rd within this group.

More specialized museum collections administered by individual academic colleges include a herbarium, one of the world's most important citrus variety collections, and one of the largest entomological museums in the United States. Significant art collections include the UCR/California Museum of Photography, which holds more than 500,000 photographic images. The museum constitutes the most comprehensive photographic collection in the West; its website receives 3.5 million visitors a year and is the most visited photography museum website in the world. Located adjacent to the UCR/CMP, the Sweeney Art Gallery holds approximately 650 unique works. Its collection of prints from the modern to contemporary periods is especially strong, with pieces by Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Millard Sheets and Kara Walker.

Rankings

Institutional rankings of UC Riverside vary widely, depending on the criteria of the publication. For instance, in the 2008 issue of US News and World Report's "America's Best Colleges", UCR was ranked 96th among national universities and 45th among public institutions; criteria include opinion surveys, student selectivity and retention, as well as faculty and financial resources. In the 2007 edition of the Washington Monthly college rankings, UCR ranked 15th among national universities. The Washington Monthly assesses the quality of schools based on social mobility (e.g., percentage of Pell Grant recipients who graduate), academic quality (e.g., percentage of graduates who go on to earn PhDs), and community service. The Princeton Review's "2008 Best 366 Colleges Rankings" lists UCR as one of the "Best Western Colleges" and one of "America's Best Value Colleges". However, it also ranks UCR students 11th in terms of low interest in political participation and 11th in terms of low student happiness due to quality of life issues. According to the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index published by Academic Analytics in 2006, UCR as an institution ranked 46th among top research universities due to such criteria as faculty publications, citations, research funding and other honors. Since 1997, more than 110 UCR faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Over the course of UCR's history, seven current or former faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and over 50 have received Guggenheim Fellowships.

Admissions, enrollment and retention

One of the more accessible UCs, UCR admitted 75.9% of 20,370 freshman applicants in 2007. Its overall yield rate of admitted students was 17.4%, for an entering class of 4,025 freshmen. About 4,100 UC-eligible students who were not offered admission to their campus of choice were referred to UCR and UC Merced in 2007. Historically, UCR has accepted all students who qualify for admission to the UC system based on grade-point average and scores on college-entrance exams. Of freshman admits for the Fall of 2007, high school GPAs averaged 3.59, SAT scores averaged 1673, and ACT Composite scores averaged 23. In 2006, 43.4% of admits were first generation college students, 38.7% from low family income backgrounds, and 24% graduated from low performing high schools as measured by API scores.

Enrollment in the Fall of 2007 totaled 17,817 students, 14,973 undergraduates and 2,214 postgraduates. The campus is projected to grow to 21,000 students by 2015.In 2007, U.S. News ranked UCR as the third most ethnically diverse and, by the number of undergraduates receiving Pell Grants (42%), the fifteenth most economically diverse student body in the nation.

According to statistics released by the Education Trust, a national nonprofit, in 2005 UC Riverside graduated 65.3% of its students in six years, a figure consistent with national averages, but behind the average set by the top five public research universities by as much as 22%. However, UCR's consistency with the national average is well above the median of 39% for low-income-serving institutions as calculated in 2006 by the National Center for Education Statistics, making the campus a model for successful approaches to diversity in higher education.

Student life

Student life on campus is supported by a vast array of student-focused administrative departments and programs, headed by a Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs, who is further supported by a Dean of Students. These programs include: health services, financial aid, technology services, and various academic and social support units. In particular, UC Riverside's information technology employees were recent finalists in Computerworld's "Best Practices in Business Intelligence" award for creating a system that tracks academic records to match students with appropriate advisers. Following the Virginia Tech shootings, UC Riverside plans to begin using mass notification systems to contact students and staff more quickly in case of an emergency.

Housing

UCR's residence halls consist of three structures—Aberdeen-Inverness, Lothian, and Pentland Hills—which as of 2002 housed 2,930 students in triple, double and single rooms. UCR also features several on-campus apartment complexes such as Stonehaven, Bannockburn and Village Plaza, and International Village, which together house 959 students. UCR also offers student family housing at the Canyon Crest Family Student Housing community, which only serves 268 and is expected to be demolished to make room for new residence halls. Recently constructed apartment units include 'Glen Mor' Arroyo Student housing, an upscale housing complex adjacent to Pentland Hills. Also in 2007, the University purchased a nearby apartment complex for student housing. Approximately half of the student population lives in off-campus apartments, a quarter commute, and a quarter live on campus. Thirty percent of students remain on campus for the weekend.

Reflecting UCR's diversity, a number of social, cultural and academically-oriented residence halls have been established. Ethnic and gender-oriented theme halls include Unete a Mundo, for students seeking to support Latino or Chicano students in acclimating to life at UCR; a Pan African Theme Hall for students interested in developing consciousness of African culture in relation to other cultures of the world; and Stonewall Hall, dedicated to students of all gender identities and sexual orientations who wish to live in a gender-neutral community. UCR's three academic colleges in the humanities, sciences and engineering fields are represented by respective theme halls; there are also respective halls for honors and transfer students.

Student organizations and activities

Student organizations are supported by the Associated Students of the University of California, Riverside (ASUCR), which represents undergraduates on administrative and policy issues. ASUCR is guided by a Senate composed of 20 elected officers representing the three undergraduate colleges in proportion to their enrollment. Membership is composed of all UCR students who pay mandatory activity fees. ASUCR assesses these fees and distributes funds to various student groups on campus.

As of 2007–2008, UCR has 281 registered student groups. Of these, 40 are fraternities and sororities belonging to various national organizations. Ten men's fraternities belong to the North-American Interfraternity Conference, six women's sororities belong to the National Panhellenic Conference, seven men's fraternities and ten women's sororities represent the National Multicultural Greek Council, and two others fall under the campus Raza Assembly and are unique to UCR. 13% of the undergraduate student body participates in Greek life, although chapter houses are not permitted. Including the Greek letter organizations, over 60 student volunteer service organizations at UCR contribute to more than 100,000 hours of collective and individual service done in the community each year.

Student media organizations include The Highlander student newspaper, currently published weekly during the academic year. First published in 1954, it was a completely independent student news publication until 2001, when ASUCR passed a funding referendum for it. Since then, The Highlander's reporting has brought it into conflict with certain representatives of student government, leading to an unsuccessful proposal in 2003 to redistribute the referendum funds to other student publications. Other student news publications on campus include the Asian Community Times, Indian Time, Nuestra Cosa, Queeriosity, and the X-Factor Student Newspaper. Campus literary magazines include Mosaic, published at UCR since 1959, and Crate, published by graduate students in UCR's Creative Writing MFA program since 2005.

UCR broadcasts over radio as KUCR at 88.3 FM. KUCR is an educational, noncommercial station managed and operated by UCR students, faculty, and staff. The station programs a variety of independent music, news and commentary.

On campus entertainment events are planned by a 14 member Associated Students Program Board (ASPB), comprised of six student-run divisions which include: concerts, films and lectures, cultural events, special events as well as a marketing and leadership division. ASPB's major events include the Block Party Concert, Student Film Festival, International Film Festival, World Fest, Welcome Week, Homecoming and Spring Splash. UCR also has a rugby team established in 2006 which plays in the Southern California Rugby Football Union.

The Graduate Student Association of the University of California, Riverside (GSAUCR) is the counterpart to ASUCR on the graduate level. It is guided by a Graduate Student Council consisting of representatives from every department on campus. GSAUCR assesses mandatory fees required of all graduate students and uses them to fund various activities of interest to graduate students, such as research awards and colloquium, conference travel grants, and speaker funds.

Athletics

UCR competes in the Big West Conference of NCAA Division I. Programs include volleyball, soccer, cross country, basketball, indoor and outdoor track and field, baseball, softball, tennis and golf, all for both men and women except for volleyball. The athletic department transitioned from NCAA Division II to Division I in 2000. While at Division II, UCR produced national championship teams in men's baseball (1977 and 1982) and women's volleyball (1982 and 1986). (Women's volleyball also earned an AIAW national title in 1977.) As of 2006, UCR has produced 17 individual national champions, 175 All-Americans and numerous conference and regional champions. For the past two years, the UCR Women's basketball team has represented the Big West Conference in the Division I tournament but was only able to make it to the first round of playoffs. In 2005 the women's soccer team also made it to the first round of the NCAA tournament. In 2007, UCR's baseball team won their first Big West championship and reached the Division I postseason for the second time since 2003, and the cross country team sent its first two athletes to the national championships. Football was played until 1975, and won two CCAA championships before it was discontinued due to lack of attendance and in anticipation of the impact of Title IX regulations.

The volleyball and basketball teams play home games in the Student Recreation Center, which seats 3,168. The baseball team competes at the Riverside Sports Complex, just off campus at the corner of Blaine and Rustin streets. Baseball alum Troy Percival personally built UCR's baseball clubhouse to major league quality standards. Softball is played at the Amy S. Harrison Field, named after a sports alum who donated $300,000 towards its upgrade in 2004. Adjacent to the softball field are the soccer and track fields. The soccer field was recently resurfaced with artificial turf, but the track field remains run-down. UCR has not hosted a track and field meet in five years due to the condition of the field.

UCR's founding class adopted the name "Highlanders" in 1954. The name imparts a Scottish motif to the campus reflecting its location as the highest elevation of all the UCs. After the student body passed a referendum to move to Division I competition in 1998, the bear mascot was professionally redesigned to look more ferocious. The new "Scottie" featured a half-blue face in homage to William Wallace, the subject of the movie Braveheart. In-line with the Scottish motif, UCR assembles a dedicated bagpipe band made up of students and staff which plays at graduation and other campus events. The blue and gold tartan worn by both the pipe band and the mascot is itself a registered trademark of the University of California. For the women's basketball team's first appearance at the NCAA Tournament in 2006, UCR sent 22 members of the pipe band to play at halftime due to the lack of a pep band at the time.

Alumni

Over 65,000 alumni have graduated from UCR over the course of its history. Famous alumni include Charles E. Young, the first UCR student body president and former chancellor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dr. Richard R. Schrock, MIT professor and winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and Billy Collins, the eleventh U.S. Poet Laureate. More recently graduated alumni include Troy Percival, all time saves leader of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and Stefani Schaeffer, defense attorney and recent winner of Donald Trump's reality show The Apprentice.

See also

• University of California
• University of California Students Association
• California Master Plan for Higher Education

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• Campus map
• Fiat Lux The Campus magazine. In Fall of 2006, it was renamed "UCR" - The magazine of UC Riverside.

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