Walmart Store #3339 in Vineland, Cumberland County, NJ, was the scene of a Back to School Shopping Spree for members of New Jersey Boys and Girls Clubs. Club members received backpacks, school supplies, and a $100 shopping card courtesy of Walmart, and shopped with club advisors. In this video news wrapper, Steve Lubetkin reports on the event and interviews store manager Mark Conley, Boys and Girls Club members, and Boys and Girls Club NJ State 2008 Youth of the Year Cristal Millan of the Altantic City Boys and Girls Club.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Professional Podcasts Managing Partner Offering Training Workshops in Business Uses of Social Media and Podcasting
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
News Media May Contact:
| Steven L. Lubetkin, Managing Partner +1 (856) 751-5491 or steve@professionalpodcasts.com |
CHERRY HILL, NJ – July 13, 2009 – Cherry Hill-based Professional Podcasts’ managing partner, Steve Lubetkin, is now available to conduct one- or two-day training workshops for clients in effective use of social media for business marketing and public relations.
Professional Podcasts has pioneered the use of audio podcasts as a business visibility tool, and Lubetkin is invited to speak frequently about social media before organizations including the NJ Bankers Association, the US State Department, PRSA chapters, and other groups.
“We have been encouraging businesses to understand and embrace social media tools for nearly five years now," Lubetkin said. "We strongly believe that audio and video programs distributed as podcasts work hand in hand with social media like blogs, online networks and microblogging tools like Twitter as valuable tools in the corporate communications professional’s arsenal of distribution channels for business information, so it's a logical next step to offer our expertise to organizations that want to train their personnel to understand and employ these tools."
Professional Podcasts training workshop program is offered in a one-day or a two-day format tailored to the needs of your organization. More information is available on request to steve@professionalpodcasts.com.
About Steve Lubetkin
Steven L. Lubetkin, APR, Fellow, PRSA, is the managing partner of Lubetkin & Co. LLC, a diversified public relations, Internet broadcasting, and communications consulting practice, and its Professional Podcasts LLC subsidiary, which produces audio and video podcasts.
Steve is a seasoned technology futurist who, as a music reviewer, first used computer technology to cover a Grateful Dead rock concert in 1977, the first concert ever covered digitally in New Jersey. He has included an email address on his business card since 1988. Since 1996, Steve has also been the author of "CompuSchmooze," a monthly column about technology (frequently with a Jewish focus), in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, a 20,000+ circulation biweekly publication of the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey.
Steve is a Senior Fellow of the Society for New Communications Research, a global nonprofit think tank dedicated to the advanced study of new communications tools, technologies and emerging modes of communication, and their effect on traditional media, professional communications, business, culture and society. The Society's Fellows include more than three dozen futurists, scholars, business leaders, professional communicators, members of the media and technologists from around the globe. He is also a member of the Society’s advisory board.
Professional Podcasts LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lubetkin Communications, is an award-winning provider of podcasting services for corporations and professional organizations. Since 2005, Professional Podcasts has been counseling clients about the effective use of social media, like podcasts and blogs (online journals) as tools that facilitate two-way communications with customers, employees, and others. In 2008, Professional Podcasts received a JASPER Award for podcasting from the Jersey Shore Public Relations & Advertising Association.
Professional Podcasts produces high-quality audio and video podcasts for The National Association of Realtors – Realtors Commercial Alliance; CCIM Institute; the American Cancer Society; the American Institute of CPCU/Insurance Institute of America; Sun National Bank; the Rutgers University School of Business Administration’s popular Quarterly Business Outlook Seminar; NAPL, a graphic communications trade association; Leadership NJ; and for the Public Relations Society of America. The firm also produces its own podcasts focusing on public relations, computer technology, bond ratings, and interviews with book authors.
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Editors, Note: Mr. Lubetkin is available to discuss how podcasting and other social media technology can help organizations communicate effectively with their audiences. Copies of programs produced by Professional Podcasts LLC are available on request. Please call Steve Lubetkin at (856) 751-5491 or email steve@professionalpodcasts.com.
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Foundations Community Partners Executive Director Ron Bernstein appears on Comcast Newsmakers, 7/9/2009
Ron Bernstein, Executive Director of Foundations Community Partners, Doylestown, appears on Comcast Newsmakers, July 9, 2008. Redistributed by permission from Comcast.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Sustainable Jersey Green Grants Press Conference, 6/22/2009
This is the complete Sustainable Jersey press conference held June 22, 2009 in Trenton, NJ to announce the awarding of $200,000 in Green Grants funded by Walmart Stores, to 14 NJ municipalities. Four towns received $25,000 grants for sustainability projects, and 10 towns received $10,000 grants. The video includes remarks by New Jersey sustainability leaders and state officials, and the annoucements of the specific grants. Produced for Walmart Stores by Success Communications Group (successcommgroup.com) and Professional Podcasts LLC.
Sustainable Jersey Green Grants - Vineland Recipient Comments
This video contains comments by recipients of the Sustainable Jersey Green Grants distributed at a press conference in Trenton, NJ on June 22, 2009. The $200,000 in grants distributed to 14 towns were funded by Walmart. Produced by Professional Podcasts LLC, Cherry Hill, NJ, for Walmart.
Sustainable Jersey Green Grants - Trenton Recipient Comments
This video contains comments by recipients of the Sustainable Jersey Green Grants distributed at a press conference in Trenton, NJ on June 22, 2009. The $200,000 in grants distributed to 14 towns were funded by Walmart. Produced by Professional Podcasts LLC, Cherry Hill, NJ, for Walmart.
Sustainable Jersey Green Grants - Ocean Township Recipient Comments
This video contains comments by recipients of the Sustainable Jersey Green Grants distributed at a press conference in Trenton, NJ on June 22, 2009. The $200,000 in grants distributed to 14 towns were funded by Walmart. Produced by Professional Podcasts LLC, Cherry Hill, NJ, for Walmart.
Sustainable Jersey Green Grants - Morristown Recipient Comments
This video contains comments by recipients of the Sustainable Jersey Green Grants distributed at a press conference in Trenton, NJ on June 22, 2009. The $200,000 in grants distributed to 14 towns were funded by Walmart. Produced by Professional Podcasts LLC, Cherry Hill, NJ, for Walmart.
Sustainable Jersey Green Grants - Milltown Recipient Comments
This video contains comments by recipients of the Sustainable Jersey Green Grants distributed at a press conference in Trenton, NJ on June 22, 2009. The $200,000 in grants distributed to 14 towns were funded by Walmart. Produced by Professional Podcasts LLC, Cherry Hill, NJ, for Walmart.
Sustainable Jersey Green Grants - Lindenwold Recipient Comments
This video contains comments by recipients of the Sustainable Jersey Green Grants distributed at a press conference in Trenton, NJ on June 22, 2009. The $200,000 in grants distributed to 14 towns were funded by Walmart. Produced by Professional Podcasts LLC, Cherry Hill, NJ, for Walmart.
Sustainable Jersey Green Grants - Hardwick Recipient Comments
This video contains comments by recipients of the Sustainable Jersey Green Grants distributed at a press conference in Trenton, NJ on June 22, 2009. The $200,000 in grants distributed to 14 towns were funded by Walmart. Produced by Professional Podcasts LLC, Cherry Hill, NJ, for Walmart.
Sustainable Jersey Green Grants - Easthampton Recipient Comments
This video contains comments by recipients of the Sustainable Jersey Green Grants distributed at a press conference in Trenton, NJ on June 22, 2009. The $200,000 in grants distributed to 14 towns were funded by Walmart. Produced by Professional Podcasts LLC, Cherry Hill, NJ, for Walmart.
Sustainable Jersey Green Grants - Asbury Park Recipient Comments
This video contains comments by recipients of the Sustainable Jersey Green Grants distributed at a press conference in Trenton, NJ on June 22, 2009. The $200,000 in grants distributed to 14 towns were funded by Walmart. Produced by Professional Podcasts LLC, Cherry Hill, NJ, for Walmart.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Leadership NJ Press Conference 6/22/2009
Leadership New Jersey held a press conference at the New Jersey State House to announce a partnership with News 12 New Jersey TV to produce a debate between candidates for the new lieutenant governor position created by New Jersey voters. Tom Dallessio, executive director of Leadership NJ, hosts the presentation. This video was produced by Professional Podcasts LLC.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Pennsylvania Governor Rendell Visits Almac Clinical Services
Pennsylvania Governor Rendell Visits Almac Clinical Services
Originally uploaded by Steve "PodcastSteve" Lubetkin
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Radio News Wrapper: Tributes Pour in for Voorhees Muslim Leader and Interfaith Dialogue Advocate Zia Rahman, Who Died This Week
RADIO NEWS DIRECTORS, NOTE: A shorter version of this wrapper, running 00:01:48 with standard outcue, is at this link.
Tributes are pouring in from the interfaith dialogue community for Voorhees resident Zia Rahman, who led the successful establishment of a mosquein Voorhees and helped to build an interfaith dialogue among Muslims, Jews, and Roman Catholics. Rahman died this week after a long battle with cancer.
In this radio wrapper report, Steve Lubetkin speaks with three leaders of the interfaith dialogue group about Rahman’s legacy for relations among the three Abrahamic faiths.
Included in the report is an excerpt from a 2008 interview with Rahman after the signing of a historic agreement of understanding between the South Jersey Muslim community and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden.
RADIO NEWS DIRECTORS, NOTE: A shorter version of this wrapper, running 00:01:48 with standard outcue, is at this link.
Listen to the podcast here:
In photo, Zia Rahman, right, points out features of the Muslim mosque in Voorhees to Most Rev. Bishop Joseph Galante, of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden. More photos from the Catholic-Muslim ceremony are here. You can watch a complete video report on the ceremony with comments from participants on our video feed here.
Friday, June 05, 2009
NEWS RELEASE: “Sales Culture and Customer Service – Perfect Together” On Sales Leader Todd Cohen’s “Let’s Talk Sales Culture” BlogTalkRadio Internet Talk Show, June 11 at 4pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
News Media May Contact:
| Steven L. Lubetkin, Managing Partner Professional Podcasts LLC +1 (856) 751-5491 or steve@professionalpodcasts.com | Todd Cohen, President Sales Leader LLC |
“Sales Culture and Customer Service – Perfect Together”
On Sales Leader Todd Cohen’s “Let’s Talk Sales Culture”
BlogTalkRadio Internet Talk Show, June 11 at 4pm
CHERRY HILL, NJ – June 5, 2009 – Lise D'Andrea, President & CEO of Customer Service Experts, Inc., will visit “Let’s Talk Sales Culture,” the Internet based live call-in radio show hosted by Todd Cohen, the Philadelphia-based sales culture guru, on June 11 at 4pm Eastern Time.
The show's topic will be "Sales Culture and Customer Service – Perfect Together."
Lise is considered an industry expert, with over 15 years of consulting experience creating comprehensive and individualized customer service improvement programs. CSE's success has stemmed from Lise's winning philosophy, which she applies not only to her clients but to her team of service professionals.
A graduate of Temple University, Lise studied Marketing and Communications and was a two-time NCAA Champion in Women's Lacrosse. She held management roles at several top corporations with renowned service cultures and standards, including Xerox Corporation, Hilton Hotels and Saks Fifth Avenue. She completed Graduate course work at the Johns Hopkins University in Organizational Development and Training. From managing employee development programs to designing and implementing nationwide customer service training initiatives, Lise honed her skills and expertise in numerous capacities and launched CSE in 1993.
Lise has been quoted and appeared in numerous national publications and television shows, including Inside Edition and The Wall Street Journal. Lise is certified in Customer Experience Management (CEM) Strategy and Design. She's an active industry and community leader, a graduate of Leadership Anne Arundel 2004, is a Board member for the Mystery Shop Providers Association (MSPA) and is a member of The American Society for Training & Development (ASTD). She was recognized as "Volunteer of the Year" by MSPA North America in 2005 and was the recipient of the YWCA "TWIN" Award, a Tribute to Women and Industry in Anne Arundel County.
Listeners can hear the show at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/toddcohen, or call in to share their sales culture and customer service stories and questions with Todd and Lise at +1-646-929-1341. This episode of the show airs live on Thursday, June 11 at 4 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. A recorded podcast is available about an hour after the show concludes.
“Our audience of senior sales professionals need to hear about the elements of excellent customer service,” said Cohen. “Lise is one of the most qualified people I know to help sales professionals understand why customer service is so critical to creating great sales culture.”
Listeners to the Todd Cohen “Let’s Talk Sales Culture” radio show can also share sales experiences and questions with Todd, either via email (todd@toddcohen.com), the ToddCohen Blog (www.toddcohen.com/blog) or by listening to the live show. There is also a “chat” room function at the www.blogtalkradio.com/toddcohen page that can be used to communicate with Todd during the live program.
“As an effective sales leader and team coach, Todd has already recognized how podcasts would extend the reach of his training and management expertise to a global audience of sales practitioners with portability and convenience,” said Steve Lubetkin, managing partner of Professional Podcasts. “Todd is now taking his expertise into the next channel of social media, Internet talk radio, to broaden the exchange of information with his colleagues in a real-time live Internet conversation.”
About Todd Cohen
Todd Cohen is a high-energy, high-performance sales leader. Since he began his career in 1984, Todd and his sales teams have delivered more than $300 million in revenue for leading equipment, education, e-learning and information companies, including Xerox, Gartner Group, Pensare, Thomson, and LexisNexis. Todd’s successful career has progressed from proven individual contributor and repeat President’s Club winner, to innovative sales manager, to accomplished sales executive. Most recently he was Vice President of Sales for LexisNexis.
In 2009, Cohen will launch a series of seminars and workshops on sales culture on a national basis. The schedule will be available at www.toddcohen.com.
More information and a photo of Todd available at http://toddcohen.com/about/pages/about-todd-cohen/.
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About Professional Podcasts LLC
Professional Podcasts LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lubetkin Communications LLC, is an award-winning provider of podcasts (Internet-distributed audio and video content production services), e-Learning programs, and other multimedia content for corporations and professional organizations. The firm also produces its own podcasts focusing on public relations, computer technology, bond ratings, and interviews with book authors.
More information is available at http://www.professionalpodcasts.com/, and the firm’s video feed is at http://professionalpodcasts.blip.tv/.
About BlogTalkRadio
BlogTalkRadio is a free, web-based platform which allows any user with a phone and a computer to host a live, interactive Internet broadcast. Hosts call into the service by phone, managing callers on the web-based host dashboard. Shows stream live directly from the host’s BlogTalkRadio web page with archives available for all past shows. BlogTalkRadio has been featured on ABC News, The Washington Post, Portfolio, Talkers Magazine, and TheStreet.com. The citizen broadcasting network can be found at http://www.blogtalkradio.com.
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EDITORS NOTE:
Todd Cohen is available to speak about how he is integrating social media like Internet talk radio, blogging, and podcasting into his sales training, coaching, and mentoring activities. He is also available to discuss his wide experience in producing effective sales teams and cultures and to discuss his forthcoming workshop series on sales culture.
Steve Lubetkin is available to discuss how social media and podcasting technology can help organizations communicate effectively with their audiences. Copies of the Todd Cohen Sales Leader Podcasts are available on CD on request.
To arrange to speak with Todd or Steve, please call Steve Lubetkin at (856) 751-5491 or email steve@professionalpodcasts.com.
Todd’s current series of podcasts is available through several channels. On his website, www.toddcohen.com, scroll down to the heading “Listen to Todd’s Podcasts!”
Other channels
RSS feed
(http://feeds.feedburner.com/ToddCohenSalesLeaderPodcasts
Apple iTunes Music Store
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=269675599
or by entering this link in your web browser:
http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=269675599
About Podcasting
Podcasts are digital audio or video recordings distributed using Internet technology. Visitors to an organization’s website can download podcast programs for review on their desktop computers, or synchronize them with a portable digital media device. Software programs called “feed readers” or “podcatchers” allow users to “subscribe” to podcasts at no cost, and receive new programs in a podcast series automatically.
Monday, June 01, 2009
Professional Podcasts Managing Partner Will Discuss Business Uses of Social Media and Podcasting at NJBankers Marketing Conference in Jamesburg June 10
News Media May Contact:
| Steven L. Lubetkin, Managing Partner +1 (856) 751-5491 or steve@professionalpodcasts.com |
CHERRY HILL, NJ – June 1, 2009 – Cherry Hill-based Professional Podcasts’ managing partner, Steve Lubetkin, will describe the business value of social media and podcasting during NJBankers’ annual Marketing Conference at Forsgate Country Club in Jamesburg on June 10.
Professional Podcasts has pioneered the use of audio podcasts in the New Jersey banking industry. It produced the first podcast for a commercial bank in New Jersey when Sun National Bank launched its Sun Home Mortgage subsidiary in 2006 (http://media.libsyn.com/media/lubetkin/SUNNB1-SunHomeLoans.mp3) , and produced a program for Amboy Bank about that institution’s innovative reverse mortgage for senior citizens (http://media.libsyn.com/media/lubetkin/ANB1.mp3) . It has also produced audio and video podcasts from events sponsored by the NJ Bank Marketing Association, available at www.njbankmarketing.com.
“NJBankers is delighted to have Steve present at the Annual Marketing Conference and bring valuable information about social media and podcasting to our members,” said Timothy Doherty, vice president and director of communications, NJBankers. “Our members are always interested in learning about better ways to reach their customers to provide information and make their banking experience more enjoyable.”
Some 50 bank marketing professionals from throughout New Jersey are expected to attend the Conference. The social media and podcasting workshop kicks off the conference at 9:15 a.m.
“We strongly believe that audio and video programs distributed as podcasts work hand in hand with social media like blogs, online networks and microblogging tools like Twitter as valuable tools in the corporate communications professional’s arsenal of distribution channels for business information,” said Lubetkin. “Podcasting technology in particular delivers audio and video business programs tailored for specialized audiences around the world. More businesses are beginning to recognize that podcast programs can help meet their ‘anywhere, anytime’ business information distribution needs.”
Podcasts are digital audio or video programs distributed using Internet technology. Visitors to an organization’s website can play podcast programs on their desktop computers, or download and synchronize them with portable digital media devices. Software programs called “feed readers” or “podcatchers” allow users to “subscribe” to podcasts at no cost, and receive new programs in a podcast series automatically. Podcasts are also made available through the Apple iTunes Music Store associated with the popular Apple iPod music player.
About NJBankers
Founded over 100 years ago, the New Jersey Bankers Association (NJBankers) is a trade association representing 119 banks and more than 210 service providers in the State of New Jersey. NJBankers provides a variety of services to members including government relations at both the state and national levels; education and professional development, employee benefit programs and, through its subsidiary TICIC, community development services.
About Professional Podcasts LLC/Lubetkin Communications
Professional Podcasts LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lubetkin Communications, is an award-winning provider of podcasting services for corporations and professional organizations. Since 2005, Professional Podcasts has been counseling clients about the effective use of social media, like podcasts and blogs (online journals) as tools that facilitate two-way communications with customers, employees, and others. In 2008, Professional Podcasts received a JASPER Award for podcasting from the Jersey Shore Public Relations & Advertising Association.
Professional Podcasts produces high-quality audio and video podcasts for The National Association of Realtors – Realtors Commercial Alliance; CCIM Institute; the American Cancer Society; the American Institute of CPCU/Insurance Institute of America; Sun National Bank; the Rutgers University School of Business Administration’s popular Quarterly Business Outlook Seminar; NAPL, a graphic communications trade association; Leadership NJ; and for the Public Relations Society of America. The firm also produces its own podcasts focusing on public relations, computer technology, bond ratings, and interviews with book authors.
More information and links to audio podcasts are available at http://www.professionalpodcasts.com/.
Video podcasts are available at http://professionalpodcasts.blip.tv/.
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Editors, Note: Mr. Lubetkin is available to discuss how podcasting technology can help organizations communicate effectively with their audiences. Copies of programs produced by Professional Podcasts LLC are available on request. Please call Steve Lubetkin at (856) 751-5491 or email steve@professionalpodcasts.com.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
NEWS RELEASE: Cherry Hill Podcast Producer Fills Gap in TV News Coverage Offers Affordable News “Wrapper” Service for Companies, Organizations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
News Media May Contact:
| Steven L. Lubetkin, Managing Partner +1 (856) 751-5491 or steve@professionalpodcasts.com |
CHERRY HILL, NJ – May 21, 2009 – Cherry Hill-based Professional Podcasts LLC, an award winning producer of broadcast-quality radio and TV content distributed over the Internet, is closing the gap in television coverage of community and corporate activities by offering an affordable and cost-effective video news “wrapper” service for clients.
The company, which has been producing corporate video and audio podcasts for nearly five years, has launched its video news “wrapper” service to meet the needs of organizations unable to achieve broadcast television coverage of their activities and events. “Wrapper” is broadcast industry slang for a report that uses a correspondent’s narration to “wrap” interviews and video clips of an event into a coherent story.
“The broadcast television industry has downsized the ability of local TV news departments to cover community and corporate events,” said Steve Lubetkin, managing partner of Professional Podcasts. “Public relations agencies and in-house corporate communicators have expressed increasing frustration over the inability of TV stations to send a crew to cover their events, and indeed, the stations often don’t have the staff resources even if they do want to cover these events. Many firms have also expressed interest in our video podcast services, but are not able to commit to full service podcasting coverage packages. Our news wrapper product allows organizations to satisfy their audience’s need for video coverage at an affordable price, and we can offer global distribution at an economic price point.”
In the new service, Professional Podcasts will cover an organization’s event, shooting interviews and “b-roll” illustrative footage for up to two hours, with an on-camera correspondent describing the event.
The firm will weave together a video report of up to five minutes, including broadcast tools such as motion graphics, special effects, “lower thirds” titling to identify participants, and music if requested. The service also includes posting by Professional Podcasts to video distribution sites on the Internet that will offer the content to a worldwide audience. Pricing for the service starts at $2,000 for the basic package.
Recent video wrappers produced by Professional Podcasts include “Family Continues Search and Rescue Effort for NJ Man, Joe Dunsavage,” (http://professionalpodcasts.blip.tv/file/2130290/); “Walmart East Windsor NJ Store Hosts Boys & Girls Club Shopping Spree,” (http://professionalpodcasts.blip.tv/file/2086945/); and “Walmart Gives Atlantic City Boys & Girls Club Members a Holiday Shopping Spree,”
(http://professionalpodcasts.blip.tv/file/1559042/). The firm’s complete video feed is available at http://professionalpodcasts.blip.tv.
About Professional Podcasts LLC/Lubetkin Communications
Professional Podcasts LLC is an award-winning provider of audio and video podcasting services and multimedia content creation for corporations and professional organizations. Since 2005, Professional Podcasts has been counseling clients about the effective use of social media, like podcasts and blogs (online journals) as tools that facilitate two-way communications with customers, employees, and others. In 2008, Professional Podcasts received a JASPER Award for podcasting from the Jersey Shore Public Relations & Advertising Association.
Professional Podcasts produces high-quality audio and video podcasts for Walmart Stores; the National Association of Realtors, Amboy Bank; the American Cancer Society, the American Institute of CPCU/Insurance Institute of America; the CCIM Institute; Sun National Bank; the Rutgers University School of Business Administration’s popular Quarterly Business Outlook Seminar, NAPL, a graphic communications trade association, NJBankers, a trade association representing major banks in New Jersey, Leadership NJ; the Public Relations Society of America. The firm also has partnered on video projects with Take This Journey LLC for several nonprofit social service agencies in South Jersey.
The firm also produces its own podcasts focusing on public relations, computer technology, bond ratings, and interviews with book authors.
More information and links to audio podcasts are available at http://www.professionalpodcasts.com/. Video podcasts are available at http://professionalpodcasts.blip.tv/.
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