Catalyze August 2022

CATALYZE. 

B Y I D E A G E N August 2022 

Closing the 

Digital 

Divide 

Featuring 

Highlights from 

Ideagen's June 

Washington 

Roundtable 

 

Environmental 

Sustainability 

in Healthcare 

The Economic 

Impacts of 

Women's Health 

PLUS 

AARP 

Presents: The 

Purpose Prize 

Honorees 

Elizabeth Schenk 

Executive Director of Environmental Stewardship, 

Providence

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Environmental 


in Healthcare 

The Economic 

Impacts of 


Featuring 



Washington 

Roundtable 

 

Closing the 

Digital 

Divide 

PLUS 

AARP 

Presents: The 

Purpose Prize 

Honorees 

Carolee Lee 

Founder & CEO, WHAM

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Closing the 

Digital 

Divide 

Featuring 



Washington 

Roundtable 

 

Environmental 


in Healthcare 

PLUS 

AARP 

Presents: The 

Purpose Prize 

Honorees 

The 

Economic 

Impacts of 

Women's 

Health 

Dr. Jean Accius 

Senior Director of Global 

Thought Leadership, AARP

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Environmental 


in Healthcare 

Featuring 



Washington 

Roundtable 

 

Closing the 

Digital Divide 

The Economic 

Impacts of 


PLUS 

AARP 

Presents: The 

Purpose Prize 

Honorees 

Jane Oates 

President, WorkingNation

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Closing the 

Digital 

Divide 

Featuring 



Washington 

Roundtable 

 

Environmental 


in Healthcare 

The Economic 

Impacts of 


PLUS 

AARP 

Presents: The 

Purpose Prize 

Honorees 

Grace Koh 

Vice President & Head of Government Affairs 

Nokia North America

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Closing the 

Digital 

Divide 

Featuring 



Washington 

Roundtable 

 

Environmental 


in Healthcare 

The Economic 

Impacts of 

Women's 

Health 

PLUS 

AARP 

Presents: The 

Purpose Prize 

Honorees 

Amb. Patrick Theros (ret.) 

Former U.S. Ambassador to Qatar

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Closing the 


Featuring 



Washington 

Roundtable 

 

Closing the 


Environmental 


in Healthcare 

The Economic 

Impacts of 


Sheri Hashemi 

Project Team Lead, Boeing 

PLUS 

AARP 

Presents: The 

Purpose Prize 

Honorees

CATALYZE. 


Closing the 

Digital 

Divide 

Featuring 

Highlights 

from 


Washington 

Roundtable 

 

PLUS 

Environmental 


in Healthcare 

AARP 

Presents: The 

Purpose Prize 

Honorees 

The Economic 

Impacts of 


Steven Tingus 

National Disability Policy & Diversity & Inclusion Expert 

Actor & Executive Producer

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Closing the 

Digital 

Divide 

Featuring 



Washington 

Roundtable 

 

PLUS 

AARP 

Presents: The 

Purpose Prize 

Honorees 

Terri Winston 

Founder & Executive Director, WAM 

Environmental 


in Healthcare 

The Economic 

Impacts of 

Women's Health

THE ECONOMIC 

IMPACTS OF 

WOMEN'S 

HEALTH 

CAROLEE LEE - FOUNDER & CEO 

WOMEN'S HEALTH ACCESS MATTER 

WHAM was created because of a need that I realized existed that hadn't 

been fulfilled. And it had to do with the fact that I had built a successful 

international brand and women were at the heart of my company, both as 

my customers and my employees. They were 85% of my workforce. And I 

was an entrepreneur who started at my kitchen table and grew and built a 

global brand and eventually successfully sold it. And so I can tell you from 

firsthand experience that women's health is an issue that we can't afford to 

ignore. And my role led me to think a lot about the economic impact of 

women and to see that impact firsthand. And I also saw the ways that 

health issues could impact women's finances and their careers and the 

effect that illness could have on someone, on their family, on their business. 

And it shows in our entire economy. Women are more than 50% of the U.S. 

population and workforce and control over 60% of personal wealth. And 

they're also responsible for over 85% of consumer spending in the U.S. - 

more than $11 trillion - and make over 80% of healthcare decisions. Along 

with women driving our economy, our data shows that companies where 

women are well represented at the top outperform their peers. Yet women 

are still vastly underrepresented in the C-Suite. For example, this year a 

record 44 women are running fortune 500 businesses. It's certainly progress 

where it's celebrating, but it still means that just 44 out of 500 companies, 

or 8.8%, are women led . 

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THE ECONOMIC 

IMPACTS OF 

WOMEN'S 

HEALTH 

I saw what was happening in the landscape and in the scientific 

community in particular and I asked, "What is more important than our 

health?" So for example, the OCD's latest report showed that women are 

underrepresented in research careers (and to its credit, the OCD now has an 

office of sex and gender research). However, across OCD's 36 member 

countries, women comprise only around 40% of all researchers and they 

are considered to be less likely to be in leadership positions. So I launched 

WHAM, a nonprofit nonpartisan organization to increase the awareness of 

and accelerate funding for women's health research because women's 

health is a societal and economic issue that none of us can afford to ignore. 

And although women drive the economy and make the majority of 

healthcare decisions across the globe, women are still an under studied 

species and continue to be underrepresented in vital health research. How's 

that possible? As a business leader, I tend to look at problems with 

economics in mind, and I believe that change starts with data. And so it 

became apparent to me that we lacked evidence. We lacked data about 

the economic costs, benefits, and social impacts of lack of attention to sex 

and gender and health research. And that the medical research gender gap 

is a major obstacle to not only achieving equity in healthcare, but to 

advancing the health and wellbeing of women around the world. As 

women globally drive the economy, that gap is holding us all back, which is 

why we're grateful that Ideagen is helping us bring this conversation to 

light.

GETTING THE 

JOB YOU 

WANT 

JANE OATES 

PRESIDENT, WORKINGNATION 

Everybody who is having a difficult time getting the job that they want is 

somebody that we should concentrate on. But I think if I were to paint a 

broad brush, I'd say the two extremes are the most stressed right now. For 

those just entering the workforce, whether directly from high school, from a 

two-year or four-year degree, or from a professional degree, it's a new world. 

And they're having a very hard time getting started mainly because almost 

every job listing that I see says three to five years experience. Well, if you did 

your job as a student and studied hard and graduated you didn't have time 

to have a full-time job while you were doing that. So where did you get that 

work experience? Not everybody accepts the fact that you should get an 

internship or it would be great to have some kind of work-based learning 

experience. It just doesn't exist in every corner of the United States yet. 

Maybe we'll correct that soon. And then when I say the book ends, older 

workers are having a really hard time. And by older, I mean 50 and older. 

Somebody who gets laid off at 50 and was in middle management is having 

a really tough time finding a job that pays the same or has a similar job title. 

They don't want to go back and start over again. They earned their position 

with that old employer. And they want to find a position that's at least as 

good in terms of both salary and status. So I think there's a little bit of 

discrimination on both ends. When we have AI technology that sorts 

resumes, they throw somebody out that could be a great, highly qualified 

candidate because they don't have that three years work experience. And 

quite frankly, with an older worker, they see that they've been around a long 

time and they think, you know, that's not a good candidate because they're 

going to come with preset views and maybe too high a salary demand. 


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Terri Winston 

Founder and Executive 

Director, 

Women's Audio Mission 

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S T A R T I N G A N N G O W I T H T E R R I 

W I N S T O N O F W A M 

Barb Quaintance: 

If somebody came to you and said "I want to start my own 

nonprofit, not necessarily about music or technology or 

anything, but I want to start a nonprofit on something I 

care about," what are three things you'd say you'd have to 

know this to get started. 

From: Terri Winston, Founder 

and Executive Director, 

Women's Audio Mission 

Terri Winston: 

I think the three things would be one: you should be an 

expert in the thing that you're going to start the nonprofit 

about. It's because you need someplace where you don't 

need to learn things. Luckily I was an educator for a decade 

and I was an audio engineer and a musician for 20 years 

prior to that. So I didn't have to worry about that expertise 

or convincing people that I had the expertise. I already had 

that experience. So that would be one, make sure you're an 

expert, at least functionally in the thing you're going to 

work on. And I think two: what was a really helpful skill for 

me to have was already having written grants and 

proposals for my job as a professor, and then things like 

knowing what a theory of change is, and being able, to 

figure out what the theory of change is for your 

organization. That's so simple. There are so many resources 

on how to create a theory of change. The first thing it 

would do is it would really help your language on what 

exactly you are trying to change and then really crystallize 

how you're going to do that. So I think that theory of 

change piece, and then tie it to kind of like a business plana 

strategic plan. Just learn what that looks like. Like what a 

SWOT analysis is. 



S T A R T I N G A N N G O 

C O N T I N U E D . . . 

I think the misconception is that nonprofits don't operate like businesses and that's just not true. 

We actually do, we just take the profits and put them back into the organization. So all of those 

business skills I think were really helpful to me. I was just, before this call, talking to somebody 

who was like, "how do I write grants?" And so I did the same. I told them to look up a theory of 

change and look up a basic business plan and just make sure they can do both of those things 

for whatever it is you're trying to, to change and start there. 

Barb Quaintance: 

That's great, that's such a great summary because it indicates you have to have the credibility to 

do the work. You can't just say, "I like music, so I'm going to do this," and you have to be 

professional. Non-profit does not equal unprofessional. It has to be a professional operation. 

How do you measure success in the program? Is it the number of people who come through? Or 

something else? 

Terri Winston: 

That's another thing I should have added. Your question is something like metrics, like, what are 

you going to measure? How you are going to measure success is incredibly important for us so 

that we can make sure are we serving our communities. Are they happy with it? So we do it 

from multiple directions. We obviously are quantitatively measuring success. Like how many 

people did we serve this year, as opposed to last year? Are we serving particular communities? 

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S T A R T I N G A N N G O 

C O N T I N U E D . . . 

And then the other half of that quantitative is the qualitative analysis. So we do both internal 

and external evaluations of our programs. This could look like surveys in the form of both pre 

and post-program surveys. It could be one-on-one interviews with mentors and students to 

assess their feelings about the program. Did they consider it a success for themselves? Were 

they happy with the instruction they received or the support that they received? Same with all 

of our programs, from our conferences to our courses for youth, we are definitely surveying and 

always also retooling those surveys. Like, are we asking the right questions? Because we're trying 

to get at quantitative, like, are people getting jobs after they're done with this, but also like, are 

they happy? Did they feel like this was a great program for them? I think both sides are equally 

important. But we do meet monthly and land make comparisons to last month and, how we 

are going do by the end of the year? 

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Health For A Better World 

Dr. Rod 

Hochman, 

President of 

Providence

HOLLYWOOD 

LEGENDS & 

BREAKING INTO 

THE INDUSTRY 

S T E P H E N T I N G U S 

Cooper Henderson: What advice would you give someone trying to break into the 

Hollywood circle? Be it in inclusion but also on the employment or even acting side, I know 

it can be tremendously hard no matter who you are. And I want to take that a step further 

and ask you not only what would you recommend of how they break into that, but also 

what leadership qualities should someone like that possess? 

Steven Tingus: That's a great question. When I started I was doing independent movies. I 

always liked to act. I acted in junior high and high school. Then I went into a prior career, 

but I would say to work on a crew -being associate producer, helping with wardrobe, 

helping with the cameraman. Really learn the specifics of film making, because if you have 

that foundation, you are so marketable. I think you've got to start at the bottom. If you 

think you're going to come to Hollywood and be a star, then is Hollywood for you? It's a 

job. Let's face it; It's a job. And it doesn't mean that you're going to do a lateral movement 

from acting to producing. I'm a member of the TV academy because of my work, because 

I've done everything already in my 12 years prior, but what I would do and what I hope 

others will put in the forefront is to be a part of a project that tells a message, because the 

more stories and positive and difficult messages that we get out there in TV and film, the 

more people learn about others. So I would first do some independent work, get a talent 

agent like I have, and then you're able put your resume out there for entry level jobs. 

Because if you're applying to a studio that I'm very close to, like ABC, Disney, or others, 

you've got to start at the bottom. And if you have it, they'll recognize it. 


The Impact of 

Globalization on 

Diplomacy 

AMBASSADOR PATRICK THEROS (RET.) 

FORMER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO QATAR 

Daniel Kerns: 

In your opinion , what do you think is one of the most important aspects to 

consider when you're trying to interact with individuals that may be from 

different areas of the world, but you're trying to form the same symbiotic 

relationship together . 

Amb. Patrick Theros: 

You need to know what it is that affects the interests of the other country. 

You need to know what affects the practical interests of the other country. 

And you need to know what affects the, for lack of a better term, irrational 

interests of another country. Just because war is far more dangerous and far 

more destructive to the world as a whole doesn't unfortunately make us 

think that everything is sort of automatic, make us think that it's 

mechanical or just a well oiled machine working and that we can approach 

every issue objectively rationally. We can calculate, we can feed all the 

inputs into a computer and the computer will kick out how it is that we can 

overcome these problems. What we have not yet figured out is how to deal 

with what we think is irrational on the part of the other guy and what the 

other guy thinks is irrational on our part. And you see this over and over 

again: we have a disagreement with somebody and we tell him that this is 

the way the world operates. 



The Impact of Globalization on 

Diplomacy Continued... 

This is where the money is, so you're going to have to join it. And the other 

guy sees this as an attack on his dignity. A good example in the United 

States is that we never truly internalized the effect of globalization on 

American industry. American factories were not being modernized because 

it wasn't profitable to. It was more profitable to shift the production of 

those factories to other countries or to cheaper parts of the country. There is 

a cost to this. The cost is the 10,000 guys who work at the factory in 

Youngstown, Ohio. They're out of a job. An economist will sit there and say, 

well you can retrain them. They can move to places where there are jobs. 

Nonsense. You can't retrain somebody who's been working the same job for 

40 years. You can't ask somebody to move from Youngstown, Ohio to 

Atlanta, Georgia, because the house that he owns in Youngstown, Ohio has 

just lost all its value and he can't sell it for anything. These are intangibles 

that you have to account for. I'm using globalization as this shrinking of the 

world. And as for geography, I think in some ways, geography has not 

become less important. Knowing geography is even more important 

because now you're closer to everybody else. When you're fishing in your 

waters, you're killing, you're affecting the fishing in the next country's 

waters. When you're dumping, pollution into the Gulf Stream ends up in 

Norway. I think our biggest problem right now is that education has not 

caught up with the changes in the world and particularly human 

education, not STEM, not science, not technology, not math, but the kind of 

education that teaches you the history and teaches how to deal with other 

countries. That has not caught up yet.

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THE IMPORTANCE OF 

DIVERSITY IN STEM 

S H E R I H A S H E M I 

I am wholeheartedly behind and work towards 

sustainable development goal five - empowering 

women and girls. I was just looking up the 

numbers, and I have a few friends in the research 

program with me who are focusing on women as 

well as diverse candidates. I think it's like 25-28% of 

the STEM - science, technology, engineering, math 

- community and occupations that are female. And 

so that's such a small number if you think about 

what ideas are held by individual people and 

personalities and perspectives. So you're really just 

getting a 

limited perspective on how folks view those lenses, like how you look at a problem. 

You're only getting 25% of your possible input. Maybe there are more solutions in 

there. Getting candidates of diverse nature and of diverse backgrounds and 

perspectives and education and experiences is a really great way of tackling some 

of these problems because when you look at a problem for so long, it just inherently 

becomes part of the problem. And you might just forget to tell somebody, so when 

you get into a new experience with someone who's not necessarily familiar, you 

share that perspective, and those elements that might get missed or assumed can 

resurface and come back. So these problems fuel more sustainable sources as folks 

are really pushing the envelope on commercial space flight and putting people into 

lower earth orbit. I really believe that there's a subset of those solutions, and they're 

in those folks' heads who were not necessarily being able to incorporate them. And 

by going after that and through sustainable development goal five empowering 

women and girls, you're going to end up helping elevate and increase that 

perspective to solve those problems. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL 

SUSTAINABILITY 

IN HEALTHCARE 

Beth Schenk 

Executive Director of Environmental 

Stewardship 

Providence 

Our problem with fossil fuels is two-pronged, or at least the solutions are. 

One is efficiency. We are committed to ringing out as much inefficiency as 

we can. We have a bigger challenge with natural gas. So natural gas is 

something most of our hospitals - all but one today - are built around for 

our heating and cooling. HVAC is dependent on our boilers and natural gas. 

We're not going to be able to just eliminate those overnight. And also, we're 

dependent on that kind of reliable fuel for healthcare. We have to have 

backup systems and redundancy. So natural gas is a challenge, but we still 

hope we can decrease our natural gas use by 10 to 15% through what we 

call deep energy retrofits. Those are looking at, through energy audits at 

each site, what are the areas where we have the most opportunity for 

improvement and working on those over time. We were fortunate to get 

approved last year for the first time for a green revolving fund, which is an 

internal funding mechanism such that dollars are set aside and, put toward 

these energy efficiency steps. And then we capture through our scorecard 

how much energy that actually saves and how much money that saves over 

a seven-year period. And then we reinvest that in future energy efficiency.

ENVIRONMENTAL 

SUSTAINABILITY IN 

HEALTHCARE CONTINUED... 

Now electricity is another side of the energy coin. And we feel like we have a lot 

more opportunity there compared to natural gas. We're working on that from all 

the ways that people are with some other more creative ways. LED lighting. We've 

got to do that. We're behind the ball if we're not taking care of that. Our building 

envelopes, of course, with our new construction, increased pump and fan 

efficiency, just the basic nuts, and bolts of energy efficiency work setbacks so that 

we can automaticallyturn off parts of our buildings when they're not in use. 

Otherwise, they just run very high energy use 24/7. Let me give you another 

example of some really good work, some of which has been around for 30 years on 

some of our sites: groundwater cooling. There's one hospital that has had 

groundwater cooling since 1992. It pumps water out of the ground from a very 

cool aquifer (48 degrees) and uses that to run through our chiller and chills the 

whole building all summer long. It saves all that electricity and is injected back 

into the aquifer with no pollution added. It's a closed loop system. We're installing 

more of those now because they have been so successful. It decreases our need for 

electricity through a renewable source. But the other thing that's really important 

for electricity is identifying renewable electricity. Like I said, for natural gas, we 

don't have as many options, but for electricity, we certainly do. And we're doing 

that too from - onsite to our green tariffs - with our utilities to power purchase 

agreements and virtual power purchase agreements. And with that, we intend to 

get to 100% renewable electricity by 2030. 


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CLOSING THE DIGITAL 

DIVIDE 

GRACE KOH 

VICE PRESIDENT & HEAD OF GOVERMENT AFFAIRS 

NOKIA NORTH AMERICA 

Grace Koh: Technology is incredibly critical to sustainability in particular, 

and also obviously to inclusivity and closing that digital divide. Let's talk 

about it first from the Nokia standpoint. Nokia is completely committed to 

the SDGs. They are committed not only to reducing their own carbon 

footprint but also to producing equipment that will help other companies 

reduce their carbon footprint. But then there's a third layer that goes on 

further where the equipment that we help deploy 5G can actually also help 

societies minimize our footprint by helping us allocate resources better and 

direct our planning and resources into the right places. So that can help us 

use less and target the people that need it the most, making sure that they 

are getting the help that they need. So technology can help us reach our 

SDGs in a significant way. Nokia is committed to being part of that. 

George Sifakis: That's incredible. You mentioned 5G having this impact. 

How does the obverse of this happen? How does technological inequality 

impact communities and the overall achievement of these global goals? 

How does that happen? 



CLOSING THE DIGITAL 

DIVIDE CONTINUED... 

Grace Koh: 

Think about the pandemic. That was 

a lesson for all of us. I mean, if you 

didn't have broadband, you weren't 

able to go to work. You weren't able 

to go to school. One of the worst 

things I heard and saw during the 

pandemic was unemployment offices 

that were not online. You had people 

standing outside in line at these 

unemployment offices, masked or 

whatever else, standing six feet apart, 

spending the whole day because the 

staff there was already overloaded 

and unable able to provide the 

services they needed. What if all of 

GRACE KOH 

VICE PRESIDENT & HEAD OF 

GOVERMENT AFFAIRS 

NOKIA NORTH AMERICA 

this were put online and actually 

done in a way where adoption was no 

longer just skin deep but really 

penetrated down to the very function 

of the organization? That's where we 

need to go.

CREATING RIPPLING 

EFFECTS IN AN AGING 

WORKFORCE 

DR. JEAN ACCIUS 

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF GLOBAL THOUGHT LEADERSHIP 

AARP 

George Sifakis: 

What are some of the most pressing issues that those individuals over 50 are facing 

today? 

Dr. Jean Accius: 

First of all, thank you so much, George, for being a card-carrying member of AARP. 

Hopefully, we are doing you a service and representing you well. You are an amazing 

example of how aging, particularly in the U.S., looks good. And as I tell people all the 

time, as you get older, there is wisdom, experience, and value that comes with that. So 

embrace it. With respect to some of the major issues that I know and think we're all 

grappling with, particularly in this current climate as it relates to the impact on people 

over the age of 50 in the U.S., there are clearly huge economic implications. We're seeing 

increases in terms of inflation and increases in terms of the cost of goods and services, 

which disproportionately impact those that have a limited and fixed income. So really 

thinking about the opportunities to ensure that people have the economic means to 

match their life aspirations is something that we're doing very intentionally at AARP. The 

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other area that is of critical importance for people over the age of 50 -and frankly for 

workers of all ages - is really thinking about the changing labor market and whether it's 

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the Great Resignation, the Great Reshuffle, the Great Reflection, the Great Reorientation; 

whatever the Great is, what we do know is the fact that a lot has changed over the last 

two plus years and counting, and we need to think about how we leverage the skills and 

the insights and the wisdom of a multi-generational workforce. Many companies are 

managing five generations at any point in time. 



CREATING RIPPLING EFFECTS IN AN 

AGING WORKFORCE CONTINUED... 

Those companies who are able to leverage that age diversity are those companies that 

are going to be more competitive in the marketplace. We also know that age 

discrimination is rampant. We've seen that accelerate, particularly since the pandemic. 

In fact, we've been doing a survey for many, many years, and nearly 75% of those 

respondents indicated that they've seen or experienced age discrimination, particularly 

in the workforce, which is one of the highest numbers since we've been actually 

collecting this data. So whether it's the economic implications in terms of exactly what 

we're seeing, which has a ripple effect in terms of the workforce and a lot of the shifts 

that we're seeing in the workplace, and even in some cases, people returning back to the 

labor market because of the cost of living has increased so significantly or the age 

discrimination that exists, which is stifling economic growth for all of us, we have some 

major issues to address in addition to the financial and the workplace issues that I just 

mentioned. We also have to grapple with some of the inequities, and I'm going to refer to 

inequities in a couple of ways. One is the fact that not only is the population aging, but 

we also know that in many cases, people are living much longer. Now, what we also 

know is that just because someone is living much longer, their ability to live those extra 

years in good health has not kept pace. So in other words, we are seeing an increase in 

life expectancy, but we're not seeing an increase in healthy longevity. So you have this 

huge gap. So how we start to address those inequities within and across the globe is a 

huge issue that we're going to have to grapple with.

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