[Applause]
hi can you be fine okay
I don’t today’s topics have been unusual
coming from an academic and an educator
but this started about four or five
years ago I was having dinner with some
our wise friends and the husband of one
of the wise friends and I am somewhat
washing the dishes they were talking and
then after a while you said to me Eric I
believe I going to college a waste of
time
unless you’re going for a technical
degree or professional degree like
medicine engineering architecture law
when you need a certification I say
computer science you don’t even need to
go to college especially IT and computer
science I think well what do you mean so
he said well most of the things nowadays
you can go to Google Wikipedia okay for
them online on YouTube or if worse comes
to worst you don’t understand it by a
textbook from the book shop and you have
to understand this guy’s background his
name is Ryan by the way he’s nothing for
degree in hospitality when I did some
business with parents business and his
wife married his wife and they started a
music school together and so he was
building building up the business and
everything after what he realized he had
no HR human resource software to manage
the staff and all that and so he learned
by himself through YouTube and reading
up books how to program it our module by
himself
and then after what he realized there
was a need because all the small
companies 5 10 20 people don’t he cannot
afford this kind of HR software which is
very expensive on the market so he tried
he gave it to them free and you wanted
only the basic module of course
customization extra modules that you
would charge for it
and when the music school they finally
closed it down due to the economic
events beginning of the year that’s what
is to be full time now from hospitality
to business to programming just like
that
and we had a very strong case and also
from my experience with the students a
lot of students here at in T now I think
depending on the cohort 30 to 50 percent
of students are working part-time jobs
or doing your own business or doing
things that if they have full-time
ability to do that job full-time they
can earn a pretty good living however I
would like to say that my friend was
right that you don’t run into college
but why I agree to him up to a point
okay that it’s not required but after
reviewing what we do in college and
things like that I think he made three
important points that before you go tell
your parents that your Dean or your
lecturer tells you you don’t need to
college and you have to quit and go do
your full-time job right now and before
my boss was right in front of me right
now it tells me I don’t have to come
back to work on Monday ever again allow
me to finish my top this is where the
but comes in okay first thing these are
the three points that I believe you
missed
not everyone can pick up things as fast
as he does or like this guy yeah this
guy won gold medal at the World
Championships I let me have the throw
better on YouTube but not many people
can do that not anyone can learn the way
he does online by himself pick up the
books and of course I hope you may know
what this one so the thing about medical
trainers needing certification well if
you don’t get caught I think you’re fine
but if you get caught yeah you’re in a
lot of trouble yeah I can treat yourself
in ten days and she was pretty good she
had a long stream of customers until
something went wrong okay and three I
believe you can learn things in college
that you will never be able to do online
YouTube Google whatever and or even in a
textbook and that’s the butter for my
top today I mean there are four things
here very important things that college
can teach you outside of the busy thing
the first one of course is the cliched
soft skills you’ve heard about it but
just because it’s cliche doesn’t mean
it’s not true soft skills the usual
communication teamwork rhodium is
trustworthiness blah blah blah blah blah
strong work ethic adaptability blah blah
blah blah
you saw the things like high management
people management and most importantly
which people don’t tell you that you do
learn in college
boss management what’s boss management
first of all in order to learn how to
manage your bosses you want to see your
teachers are not your enemies okay
yes you mean some of you may think that
teachers are out there just give as many
apps as they can get and to set a new
record for number of apps you can give
per semester but no that’s not the way
most lecturers work tech to try to help
you both the good the bad the boring try
and see them as your practice bosses
okay and some of them can be your
mentors even get the right field that
you’re interested in of course
it’s how they’re maybe in your friends
and what do mean by practice bosses
because at work you’re gonna face also
the bosses as well you’ve got the good
the bad the boring the boss from hell
the past driver the slave master all
sorts how are you gonna manage them this
way you practice in college where you
only gonna be there for four so back for
four months or the semester and viewed
and you’re done
we’re also going to see them are not
bothered at that and maybe did a good
boss but how do you do the other
department hit like finance grocery
sales marketing PR and other god of
different departments again at the
workplace every one of them have their
own requirements or expectations on
policies that they have to follow and
they want you to follow so in college
the teachers have their own expectations
as well for you to be able to be good
boss managers take the opportunity both
the good the bad and the boring learn
how to manage the expectations ask the
right
students ask the good questions and
don’t be too afraid of that most of them
don’t bite the baby will not a bomb but
not much bite okay second one college is
a safe space for you to fail yes
fail try you may feel you may succeed
but the end hopefully you will learn
something from what you’ve done okay so
here in college we know your students so
you’re not expected to get it right the
first time you’re not supposed to get
100% all the time every time because
your student they are allowed to make
mistakes you’re allowed to fail because
this is where you learn is that safe
space to learn before you go out and
it’s not to say that when you those were
already working you didn’t go to college
would learn this but you have more time
and more freedom than those people have
because the margin of feel they want to
go to the wall is very very small and
some places where as zero around decimal
point and consume the difference between
100,000 and 1 million you have you may
have zero chances to making mistakes
well here just one mom may only cost you
one month five marks final exam because
you little bit more but it’s just you’re
great so Roberto never be afraid of
failure here in college because this is
the place to fail to make mistakes to
try to do new things and if you make
mistakes it’s okay you learn you grow
from it because even now Richard Branson
is admitted in business one thing is
certain you will make mistakes
especially when you’re pushing
boundaries like he did innovating trying
new things you make plenty of mistakes
how do you react to that mistakes is
important so it’s only a real failure if
you don’t learn from it because most
people think from all the TV shows or
the videos everything the path to
success is just a straight line but
they’re people who have done it and I
the gutter photography grab it with yup
it said it did succeed right away it
took him two years three years Quran
yeah make mistakes then and then find it
again where it was it’s a learning
process
okay now why is the safe place to fail
because if you fail
maybe it’s you’re gonna consecrate it
cause a bit of time a bit of money
because got to repeat it but when you go
to work you could cost your job in Korea
so make the most of the opportunity join
a club in a society join an if/then join
try doing something you didn’t do before
because this is the best time to do it
expectations are low and you’ve got if
it doesn’t work out well it’s okay
we understand in there as long as you
learn from it okay nothing college can
teach you
self-discovery remember the safe space
to fail this let’s say because it’s a
safe space to fail you’ve got time to
discuss and discover your strengths your
weaknesses and your limits your real
limits push yourself push further try
something new do something different
find out how just how much time it takes
for you to do a good presentation how
long it personally to get your
assignment right you can they do it best
minutes so often how many days can go
without sleeping three days please don’t
do that too often okay don’t collapse in
front of class that’s bad but once in a
while okay once in a while and how many
projects can you take on in one week
before you reach your limit of course
remember your teachers are your practice
bosses mentors friends try not to tear
muscle or get a nervous breakdown seek
advice we’ve been there we have done
that we have failed before and we can
recognize when you are making the same
mistakes we used to
10 20 years ago and we’re not trying to
tell you to control you or to be your
parents but it’s because we see it maybe
you’re doing it different that’s good
but doesn’t mean you shouldn’t listening
either yes let’s stretch yourself even
what you think is possible but make sure
that we can support your weight huh so
say space for failure say space to
discover yourselves and finally the most
important one this is the way College
really comes on its own there’s a place
for ideas this place for sharing of
ideas people from different backgrounds
different programs different majors
different ways of seeing things and
doing things I guess to share their
ideas and college and universities are
they’re melting this public pot of ideas
new ideas exciting ideas because you
guys have the freedom and the time to
think and try out these new ideas in
this safe space that you have to try to
fail to refine your idea and do it again
and he’s got the right idea the good
idea this ideas can change the world and
it’s most of the ways in major ways and
sometimes even in revolutionary ways
these ideas can change but ideas is one
thing you got to act on your ideas so
use your time in college to put your
ideas into practice because I get per
section that’s why the drill change
happens I’ll give you three examples of
people’s ideas change the world not in
the way you think it is this one has
been recorded many times but I don’t
think many of you know about is you guys
know what calligraphy is all right that
fancy writing yeah this how being
exposed to the idea of calligraphy
change the way Steve Jobs saw computers
he said if I never dropped in on that
single calligraphy class in
the Macintosh would never have multiple
typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts
this was the first time the man the
first offering of fonts they had a bit
of history lesson here do you guys
remember those of you who are on my time
remember what perfect would star Lotus
1-2-3 remember that yes I’m revealing my
H as well
okay horns do we have when it comes to
choosing the font or maybe and then the
operations are the same form but when
Steve Jobs got exposed to it you realize
know what maybe it’d be nice to have
different fonts different types and this
small little change and now we’ve got
hundreds of fonts thousands he
downloaded and finally he could recreate
your own fonts now just because of that
idea of calligraphy making things look a
little better
here’s another one let’s change the
world you guys know he is yeah you guys
know the history of our Facebook right
right the top one but five friends he
started in Harvard University the idea
of Facebook and that has really changed
to go hezid it they started revolutions
because of that and funny is an extreme
case of revolutionary ideas this is a
whole mess of people month of the
stadium and this is in Indonesia 1990
the correct reformer see 19 again that
was when President Suharto stepped down
after ruling for nearly 30 years
Indonesia and this one because of
students in Indonesia and this was not
the first time he attended in 1936 deal
because of the student Indonesia cause
of stepping down of the previous
dictator Sukarno I sorta took over later
then he tried to suppress the students
because he saw what’s happening but he
didn’t work in actually the students
revolutionary ideas created a change in
nature that actually led them to have a
change in Indonesia now I understand how
sensitive things are especially in a few
weeks time here in Malaysia
so here’s a disclaimer I’m neither
promoting nor condemning any water of
any government by any student revolution
this is just a historical fact of
extreme example Houston is get boosters
a change above just in case you know
someone sees this and you may not see me
two weeks later okay now beat the safe
space for ideas that you have here in
college how do you get these exposures
this way the college Society is the
talks especially technics so really glad
so many of you took the time our other
Saturday paid for it to not be impulsive
free coming for a trauma needs to get
exposed to different ideas that’s what
you get exported try something new go to
a different top coat the reference
become care are there clicks try every
semester if you have a group project
don’t well if the same group of people
every semester for different group of
people it may be difficult it may be
challenging but you will learn you may
learn a new way of seeing things and
doing things we should never have
discovered before because you need to
get post to these ideas how things can
be done or should be done and so prepare
you to when you go out to work you get
different ideas and some people are very
very hard on the idea is very stubborn
on giving up their ideas you got to
learn how to work with that as well okay
this is a space incubator College works
as an incubator for these ideas way to
try and try again develop and refine it
may be much change now what does this
all mean for you well this is your time
this is the safe space this is the two
to four years that you have that time
and freedom and that space to try out
new things to push yourself to learn new
limits what you can and cannot do to
discover what your real limits are know
what have been told to you by your
previous teachers previous friends maybe
even your family try to be yourself
discover something new and you’ve come
to the limit push it for
push yourself further to try new things
dare yourself to come out to comfort
zone and who does what you can what will
change do we use yourself like that fish
thinking’s are shocking thing yeah why
not
lion denying that you can be or will be
that’s your goal that’s what you want to
be and most importantly because I
understand some of you have a lot of
things you have to balance work family
studies and things like that I don’t
have time for activities anymore
try and make that maybe not as often
maybe one idea new idea when you talk
one new project one new group a year try
it just to see where you can go but most
importantly don’t forget that fun it’s
not like Brenton take a chance best way
that tells herself but have fun don’t
see it as a negative thing
that’s where then you when you become
afraid of failure have fun try you go so
he’s having fun trying it you have no
problem getting up and doing it again
something different and once you
experience it yes and what your mind has
been stretched by new ways of seeing
things your horizons has been broadened
it’s very difficult for you to go back
to the OL you the you who you were
before you were in high school or when
you first enter college you will have
seen new things so push harder go
further and when that happens you will
come and realize that you will have gone
further and higher then you you or
anyone else could have ever have
imagined and this is the best place to
do it in college the best time this is
not young yet this is just the beginning
now or not beginning of my talk
for you who has a be exposed to new
ideas maybe you don’t find anything
inspiring yet just another sin was
because or maybe at the scene of an idea
we have started and there would just be
the beginning for idea to slowly take
root and grow and develop and who knows
what if I dismiss have to change the
world and I no wonder you know one of
this upcoming speakers his idea of safe
water filters easy to maintain he’s
going to change the way things are gonna
happen in East Malaysia or because an
idea that he started here in college
push yourselves and who knows may find
says the next Ted speaker yeah never
expect that that right good
so let it be the beginning of it thank
you very much
[Applause]
hi can you be fine okay
I don’t today’s topics have been unusual
coming from an academic and an educator
but this started about four or five
years ago I was having dinner with some
our wise friends and the husband of one
of the wise friends and I am somewhat
washing the dishes they were talking and
then after a while you said to me Eric I
believe I going to college a waste of
time
unless you’re going for a technical
degree or professional degree like
medicine engineering architecture law
when you need a certification I say
computer science you don’t even need to
go to college especially IT and computer
science I think well what do you mean so
he said well most of the things nowadays
you can go to Google Wikipedia okay for
them online on YouTube or if worse comes
to worst you don’t understand it by a
textbook from the book shop and you have
to understand this guy’s background his
name is Ryan by the way he’s nothing for
degree in hospitality when I did some
business with parents business and his
wife married his wife and they started a
music school together and so he was
building building up the business and
everything after what he realized he had
no HR human resource software to manage
the staff and all that and so he learned
by himself through YouTube and reading
up books how to program it our module by
himself
and then after what he realized there
was a need because all the small
companies 5 10 20 people don’t he cannot
afford this kind of HR software which is
very expensive on the market so he tried
he gave it to them free and you wanted
only the basic module of course
customization extra modules that you
would charge for it
and when the music school they finally
closed it down due to the economic
events beginning of the year that’s what
is to be full time now from hospitality
to business to programming just like
that
and we had a very strong case and also
from my experience with the students a
lot of students here at in T now I think
depending on the cohort 30 to 50 percent
of students are working part-time jobs
or doing your own business or doing
things that if they have full-time
ability to do that job full-time they
can earn a pretty good living however I
would like to say that my friend was
right that you don’t run into college
but why I agree to him up to a point
okay that it’s not required but after
reviewing what we do in college and
things like that I think he made three
important points that before you go tell
your parents that your Dean or your
lecturer tells you you don’t need to
college and you have to quit and go do
your full-time job right now and before
my boss was right in front of me right
now it tells me I don’t have to come
back to work on Monday ever again allow
me to finish my top this is where the
but comes in okay first thing these are
the three points that I believe you
missed
not everyone can pick up things as fast
as he does or like this guy yeah this
guy won gold medal at the World
Championships I let me have the throw
better on YouTube but not many people
can do that not anyone can learn the way
he does online by himself pick up the
books and of course I hope you may know
what this one so the thing about medical
trainers needing certification well if
you don’t get caught I think you’re fine
but if you get caught yeah you’re in a
lot of trouble yeah I can treat yourself
in ten days and she was pretty good she
had a long stream of customers until
something went wrong okay and three I
believe you can learn things in college
that you will never be able to do online
YouTube Google whatever and or even in a
textbook and that’s the butter for my
top today I mean there are four things
here very important things that college
can teach you outside of the busy thing
the first one of course is the cliched
soft skills you’ve heard about it but
just because it’s cliche doesn’t mean
it’s not true soft skills the usual
communication teamwork rhodium is
trustworthiness blah blah blah blah blah
strong work ethic adaptability blah blah
blah blah
you saw the things like high management
people management and most importantly
which people don’t tell you that you do
learn in college
boss management what’s boss management
first of all in order to learn how to
manage your bosses you want to see your
teachers are not your enemies okay
yes you mean some of you may think that
teachers are out there just give as many
apps as they can get and to set a new
record for number of apps you can give
per semester but no that’s not the way
most lecturers work tech to try to help
you both the good the bad the boring try
and see them as your practice bosses
okay and some of them can be your
mentors even get the right field that
you’re interested in of course
it’s how they’re maybe in your friends
and what do mean by practice bosses
because at work you’re gonna face also
the bosses as well you’ve got the good
the bad the boring the boss from hell
the past driver the slave master all
sorts how are you gonna manage them this
way you practice in college where you
only gonna be there for four so back for
four months or the semester and viewed
and you’re done
we’re also going to see them are not
bothered at that and maybe did a good
boss but how do you do the other
department hit like finance grocery
sales marketing PR and other god of
different departments again at the
workplace every one of them have their
own requirements or expectations on
policies that they have to follow and
they want you to follow so in college
the teachers have their own expectations
as well for you to be able to be good
boss managers take the opportunity both
the good the bad and the boring learn
how to manage the expectations ask the
right
students ask the good questions and
don’t be too afraid of that most of them
don’t bite the baby will not a bomb but
not much bite okay second one college is
a safe space for you to fail yes
fail try you may feel you may succeed
but the end hopefully you will learn
something from what you’ve done okay so
here in college we know your students so
you’re not expected to get it right the
first time you’re not supposed to get
100% all the time every time because
your student they are allowed to make
mistakes you’re allowed to fail because
this is where you learn is that safe
space to learn before you go out and
it’s not to say that when you those were
already working you didn’t go to college
would learn this but you have more time
and more freedom than those people have
because the margin of feel they want to
go to the wall is very very small and
some places where as zero around decimal
point and consume the difference between
100,000 and 1 million you have you may
have zero chances to making mistakes
well here just one mom may only cost you
one month five marks final exam because
you little bit more but it’s just you’re
great so Roberto never be afraid of
failure here in college because this is
the place to fail to make mistakes to
try to do new things and if you make
mistakes it’s okay you learn you grow
from it because even now Richard Branson
is admitted in business one thing is
certain you will make mistakes
especially when you’re pushing
boundaries like he did innovating trying
new things you make plenty of mistakes
how do you react to that mistakes is
important so it’s only a real failure if
you don’t learn from it because most
people think from all the TV shows or
the videos everything the path to
success is just a straight line but
they’re people who have done it and I
the gutter photography grab it with yup
it said it did succeed right away it
took him two years three years Quran
yeah make mistakes then and then find it
again where it was it’s a learning
process
okay now why is the safe place to fail
because if you fail
maybe it’s you’re gonna consecrate it
cause a bit of time a bit of money
because got to repeat it but when you go
to work you could cost your job in Korea
so make the most of the opportunity join
a club in a society join an if/then join
try doing something you didn’t do before
because this is the best time to do it
expectations are low and you’ve got if
it doesn’t work out well it’s okay
we understand in there as long as you
learn from it okay nothing college can
teach you
self-discovery remember the safe space
to fail this let’s say because it’s a
safe space to fail you’ve got time to
discuss and discover your strengths your
weaknesses and your limits your real
limits push yourself push further try
something new do something different
find out how just how much time it takes
for you to do a good presentation how
long it personally to get your
assignment right you can they do it best
minutes so often how many days can go
without sleeping three days please don’t
do that too often okay don’t collapse in
front of class that’s bad but once in a
while okay once in a while and how many
projects can you take on in one week
before you reach your limit of course
remember your teachers are your practice
bosses mentors friends try not to tear
muscle or get a nervous breakdown seek
advice we’ve been there we have done
that we have failed before and we can
recognize when you are making the same
mistakes we used to
10 20 years ago and we’re not trying to
tell you to control you or to be your
parents but it’s because we see it maybe
you’re doing it different that’s good
but doesn’t mean you shouldn’t listening
either yes let’s stretch yourself even
what you think is possible but make sure
that we can support your weight huh so
say space for failure say space to
discover yourselves and finally the most
important one this is the way College
really comes on its own there’s a place
for ideas this place for sharing of
ideas people from different backgrounds
different programs different majors
different ways of seeing things and
doing things I guess to share their
ideas and college and universities are
they’re melting this public pot of ideas
new ideas exciting ideas because you
guys have the freedom and the time to
think and try out these new ideas in
this safe space that you have to try to
fail to refine your idea and do it again
and he’s got the right idea the good
idea this ideas can change the world and
it’s most of the ways in major ways and
sometimes even in revolutionary ways
these ideas can change but ideas is one
thing you got to act on your ideas so
use your time in college to put your
ideas into practice because I get per
section that’s why the drill change
happens I’ll give you three examples of
people’s ideas change the world not in
the way you think it is this one has
been recorded many times but I don’t
think many of you know about is you guys
know what calligraphy is all right that
fancy writing yeah this how being
exposed to the idea of calligraphy
change the way Steve Jobs saw computers
he said if I never dropped in on that
single calligraphy class in
the Macintosh would never have multiple
typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts
this was the first time the man the
first offering of fonts they had a bit
of history lesson here do you guys
remember those of you who are on my time
remember what perfect would star Lotus
1-2-3 remember that yes I’m revealing my
H as well
okay horns do we have when it comes to
choosing the font or maybe and then the
operations are the same form but when
Steve Jobs got exposed to it you realize
know what maybe it’d be nice to have
different fonts different types and this
small little change and now we’ve got
hundreds of fonts thousands he
downloaded and finally he could recreate
your own fonts now just because of that
idea of calligraphy making things look a
little better
here’s another one let’s change the
world you guys know he is yeah you guys
know the history of our Facebook right
right the top one but five friends he
started in Harvard University the idea
of Facebook and that has really changed
to go hezid it they started revolutions
because of that and funny is an extreme
case of revolutionary ideas this is a
whole mess of people month of the
stadium and this is in Indonesia 1990
the correct reformer see 19 again that
was when President Suharto stepped down
after ruling for nearly 30 years
Indonesia and this one because of
students in Indonesia and this was not
the first time he attended in 1936 deal
because of the student Indonesia cause
of stepping down of the previous
dictator Sukarno I sorta took over later
then he tried to suppress the students
because he saw what’s happening but he
didn’t work in actually the students
revolutionary ideas created a change in
nature that actually led them to have a
change in Indonesia now I understand how
sensitive things are especially in a few
weeks time here in Malaysia
so here’s a disclaimer I’m neither
promoting nor condemning any water of
any government by any student revolution
this is just a historical fact of
extreme example Houston is get boosters
a change above just in case you know
someone sees this and you may not see me
two weeks later okay now beat the safe
space for ideas that you have here in
college how do you get these exposures
this way the college Society is the
talks especially technics so really glad
so many of you took the time our other
Saturday paid for it to not be impulsive
free coming for a trauma needs to get
exposed to different ideas that’s what
you get exported try something new go to
a different top coat the reference
become care are there clicks try every
semester if you have a group project
don’t well if the same group of people
every semester for different group of
people it may be difficult it may be
challenging but you will learn you may
learn a new way of seeing things and
doing things we should never have
discovered before because you need to
get post to these ideas how things can
be done or should be done and so prepare
you to when you go out to work you get
different ideas and some people are very
very hard on the idea is very stubborn
on giving up their ideas you got to
learn how to work with that as well okay
this is a space incubator College works
as an incubator for these ideas way to
try and try again develop and refine it
may be much change now what does this
all mean for you well this is your time
this is the safe space this is the two
to four years that you have that time
and freedom and that space to try out
new things to push yourself to learn new
limits what you can and cannot do to
discover what your real limits are know
what have been told to you by your
previous teachers previous friends maybe
even your family try to be yourself
discover something new and you’ve come
to the limit push it for
push yourself further to try new things
dare yourself to come out to comfort
zone and who does what you can what will
change do we use yourself like that fish
thinking’s are shocking thing yeah why
not
lion denying that you can be or will be
that’s your goal that’s what you want to
be and most importantly because I
understand some of you have a lot of
things you have to balance work family
studies and things like that I don’t
have time for activities anymore
try and make that maybe not as often
maybe one idea new idea when you talk
one new project one new group a year try
it just to see where you can go but most
importantly don’t forget that fun it’s
not like Brenton take a chance best way
that tells herself but have fun don’t
see it as a negative thing
that’s where then you when you become
afraid of failure have fun try you go so
he’s having fun trying it you have no
problem getting up and doing it again
something different and once you
experience it yes and what your mind has
been stretched by new ways of seeing
things your horizons has been broadened
it’s very difficult for you to go back
to the OL you the you who you were
before you were in high school or when
you first enter college you will have
seen new things so push harder go
further and when that happens you will
come and realize that you will have gone
further and higher then you you or
anyone else could have ever have
imagined and this is the best place to
do it in college the best time this is
not young yet this is just the beginning
now or not beginning of my talk
for you who has a be exposed to new
ideas maybe you don’t find anything
inspiring yet just another sin was
because or maybe at the scene of an idea
we have started and there would just be
the beginning for idea to slowly take
root and grow and develop and who knows
what if I dismiss have to change the
world and I no wonder you know one of
this upcoming speakers his idea of safe
water filters easy to maintain he’s
going to change the way things are gonna
happen in East Malaysia or because an
idea that he started here in college
push yourselves and who knows may find
says the next Ted speaker yeah never
expect that that right good
so let it be the beginning of it thank
you very much
[Applause]
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