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That was the worst part of the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “They make everything convenient for Googlers, but they don’t make anything convenient for drivers,” Barlow said recently, exasperated. “There are so many fatigued tech shuttle drivers out there.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The New York Times followed up on the Chronicle’s report and apparently \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/business/facebooks-bus-drivers-seek-union.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broke the news\u003c/a> Monday of the Teamsters’ new organizing drive:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In a letter sent on Thursday, the top Teamsters official for Northern California urged Mr. Zuckerberg to press Facebook’s shuttle bus contractor to agree to bargain with the union on behalf of the 40 drivers who ferry Facebook employees to work. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While your employees earn extraordinary wages and are able to live and enjoy life in some of the most exclusive neighborhoods in the Bay Area, these drivers can’t afford to support a family, send their children to school, or, least of all, afford to even dream of buying a house anywhere near where they work,” the Teamsters official, Rome Aloise, said in the letter. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mr. Aloise added: “It is reminiscent of a time when noblemen were driven around in their coaches by their servants. 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In a post on Facebook — yes, ironic — the union says: “Teamsters are asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to support Facebook shuttle drivers’ desire to join \u003ca href=\"http://www.teamsters853.org/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teamsters Local 853\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342627\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/teamsters-facebook.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10342627 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/teamsters-facebook-400x310.jpg\" alt=\"A Teamsters post on Facebook urging the company to support an organizing drive for shuttle drivers.\" width=\"400\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/teamsters-facebook-400x310.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/teamsters-facebook.jpg 569w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Teamsters’ post on Facebook urging the company to support an organizing drive for shuttle drivers.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The main issue for those who drive for Facebook and other tech firms is not pay — though at $20 an hour or so they’re hardly richly compensated — but the fact they have to work split shifts. That is, they drive workers to Silicon Valley from San Francisco, Berkeley and other locales, sit around for five or six hours during the day, then drive workers back home in the evening. The drivers are not paid for that downtime. Credit the San Francisco Chronicle with publicizing the shuttle drivers’ working conditions. In a\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/For-Google-shuttle-drivers-it-s-a-grueling-ride-5785556.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Sunday feature \u003c/a>published Sept. 28, the paper gave a glimpse into the lives of workers who are required to work marathon hours for Google. 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As the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Corrosion-feared-as-water-leaks-into-Bay-5781911.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle's Jaxon Van Derbeken reported last week\u003c/a>, engineers have discovered that virtually all of the 420-some 26-foot-long rods at the base of the tower have been sitting in water. That's a problem because steel rods under high tension and immersed in water might be prone to corrosion and even failure. Speaking as non-engineers but regular bridge users, we're guessing you don't want your 525-foot suspension tower anchored by steel that might snap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"K2yGJdYKYyUWzrp2XDGEo6AIxo5Got9G\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Twist 2:\u003c/strong> Good news: the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's \u003ca href=\"http://files.mtc.ca.gov/pdf/TBPOC_Packet_30Sep14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee\u003c/a> also reported Tuesday that inspection and testing of about 2,000 other major rods and bolts on the bridge shows they're in good shape. The condition of the rods became a concern in March 2013 when a batch of them installed in a seismic stability structure snapped after being tightened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'll get to that, but first, let's return to that first plot twist -- about the big rods at the tower base. Bridge officials say that the 424 rods, which vary from 3 to 4 inches in diameter, have been exposed to water that either infiltrated from the bay somehow or came from rain. The source is under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why were they exposed? Because, in many cases, protective grouting was incomplete or missing. Here's how \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Nearly-all-Bay-Bridge-tower-rods-sitting-in-water-5792535.php\" target=\"_blank\">the Chronicle describes the situation\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Caltrans resident engineer Bill Casey said crews had found water on 95 percent of the rods at the base of the tower, in most cases “1 or 2 inches” deep in pockets between grout that surrounds the rods in their sleeves and caulk caps intended to keep the sleeves dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, 17 rods were not properly filled with grout, including one that had only a foot of the protective material in the 15-foot sleeve, Casey said. Those rods were stewing in several gallons of water. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... The rods were installed by Kiewit Construction, which had the fabrication contract for the 525-foot-tall tower foundation. They were put in place before the structure was added beginning in 2010.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Brian Maroney, the chief Caltrans engineer on the project, said the caulking may have failed when the rods at the tower base were tightened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their presentations Tuesday, engineers said steps are being taken to make sure the rods at the tower base are properly protected to prevent further corrosion. And they said that they don't believe the rods at the tower base are subject to snapping the way those in the seismic structure did last year. That's because even though both sets of rods apparently experienced long-term exposure to water, the tower rods are not under the same high tension that led the seismic rods to become brittle and break.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that leads us back to Twist 2 in our story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maroney presented \u003ca href=\"http://baybridgeinfo.org/sites/default/files/pdf/SFOBB-SAS%20Evaluation%20of%20the%20A354BD%20Rods%20Final%20Report.pdf\">a 187-page report\u003c/a> on an intensive testing and inspection program for all the 2,000-plus rods and bolts on the bridge that are made of the same kind of steel that failed in the eastern span's seismic structure. The verdict: The rest of the rods in the bridge appear to be in good shape and show no evidence of the kind of embrittlement that led the seismic steel to snap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To me one of the overwhelming lessons of this whole episode is that we should have been doing some sort of testing before we put these rods on the bridge, not after we installed them. We've been playing catch-up ever since,\" said Steve Heminger, executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and head of the toll bridge oversight panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heminger has remained steadfastly upbeat as one problem after another has emerged in the new span's construction. The issues include the project's massive cost overruns -- it has cost about $6.5 billion, several times the original price tag -- questions about the quality of concrete used in bridge foundation, the discovery of water invading steel tendons that support the bridge's skyway structure, the discovery of water in structural supports in the suspension span, questions about the soundness of welding on sections of the bridge deck and allegations that Caltrans has mismanaged the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday, it sounded like Heminger's had enough bad news. \"I am a problem-solver,\" the Chron quotes him as saying about the new disclosures about the tower rods. \"This is another problem — I certainly wish we would stop finding problems to solve.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, is chairman of the state Senate Transportation and Housing Committee, which has been investigating the Bay Bridge construction problems. He said Tuesday that although he believes the new span is safe, he's concerned about what the future holds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How safe, and how much is it going to cost us to keep it safe, I think is a whole different discussion,\" he said. \"And it's my belief that unfortunately for people who commute over that bridge, people who pay the toll, they're going to be reading about these kinds of things for years to come.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/GG-ferry.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148657\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/GG-ferry-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Average weekday ridership on the Golden Gate ferries is about 7,500, the transportation district says. (Bryan Goebel/KQED) \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/GG-ferry-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/GG-ferry-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/GG-ferry-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Average weekday ridership on the Golden Gate ferries is about 7,500, the transportation district says. (Bryan Goebel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:30 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> How disruptive has today's Golden Gate Ferry strike been? From all signs, the impact of the one-day walkout has been minimal. District officials said that about 10 percent more cars went through the toll plaza of the Golden Gate Bridge during Friday-morning rush hour than recorded a week earlier. That being said, no unusual backups were recorded on southbound U.S. 101 to the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge district says that weekday ridership on the ferries is about 7,500 total. That accounts for all trips to and from San Francisco from the ferry terminals in Sausalito and Larkspur, and pencils out to about 3,500 to 4,000 individual passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday's stoppage was due to a one-day strike by ferry captains, part of a coalition of 450 union workers who remain at odds with the district on a new contract. The dispute centers around wages and health care contributions and led earlier this month to a one-day walkout by union machinists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of commuters who rely on Golden Gate ferries to get from Marin to San Francisco will have to find another way to get to work Friday, after the system's captains announced a one-day strike to protest what they contend are unfair labor negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Throughout the last five months, the district has failed and continues to fail to negotiate in good faith,\" said Dave Nolan, head of the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association. \"Round after round of negotiations have not resulted in a fair contract for our workers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike against the ferries, which have weekday ridership of about \u003ca href=\"http://goldengateferry.org/researchlibrary/statistics.php\" target=\"_blank\">7,500 from terminals in Larkspur and Sausalito\u003c/a>, will take place from 4:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Bus service will run as scheduled, and officials with the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District are \u003ca href=\"http://goldengate.org/news/ferry/onedaystrike_092614.php\">encouraging commuters to ride-share\u003c/a> or telecommute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferry service to tomorrow's Giants game has also been canceled, and heavier traffic is expected on the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferry captains and deckhands, along with bus mechanics, ironworkers and structural engineers, have been working without a new contract since July 1. The dispute centers around wages and health care contributions and led earlier this month to a one-day walkout by union machinists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nolan said the unions have filed an unfair labor practice against the district, which rejects the charges and says it has made a series of compromises to try to reach an agreement. In \u003ca href=\"http://goldengate.org/news/labornegotiations_update.php\">a blog post last week, the district called the labor actions \"totally unwarranted.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our ferry captains are the highest-paid captains on the bay,\" said the district's general manager, Denis Mulligan. \"We have been negotiating in good faith with them. Both sides have made concessions. We have tentative agreement on numerous issues, and there's only a couple of outstanding issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mulligan said another round of talks was scheduled for Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some commuters disembarking midday Thursday from a Golden Gate boat at the San Francisco Ferry Building said they planned to work from home Friday, adding they were sympathetic with the workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I had to pay a buck more each way to hook those guys up with more health benefits I'd be OK with that,\" said Jeff Baumgarten, who drives from Novato to the Larkspur Ferry Terminal. \"These guys keep us safe every day. I just hope they get it settled fast.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The ferry crews do work very hard under oftentimes difficult circumstances, and I appreciate their efforts. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_120383\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-120383\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/RS7183_Taxis_22oct2013_0125_web-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"Taxis in downtown San Francisco. (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taxis in downtown San Francisco (Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the major consequences of the explosive growth of Uber, Lyft and the ride-service industry has been the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">economic fallout to the taxi industry\u003c/a>, both companies and drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, so many customers have deserted taxis for ride-service firms that Hansu Kim, owner of DeSoto Cab, has been \u003ca href=\"http://news.kron4.com/news/sf-cab-company-considers-makeover-to-compete-with-unregulated-car-services/\" target=\"_blank\">talking about exiting the business and remaking his fleet as a sedan service\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, many drivers have told us they'd taken a 33 percent haircut in terms of income, and we even talked to one 28-year cab veteran, Brad Newsham, who quit last year because his profits had fallen to about $5 per hour, which is less than half of the city's minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, thanks to a \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=55&clip_id=20973&meta_id=403941\" target=\"_blank\">presentation\u003c/a> to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency on Tuesday regarding the status of the cab industry, we've got some hard numbers to illustrate just how severe the decline in taxi ridership has been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the presentation, Kate Toran, the new director of the agency's Taxis and Accessible Services Division, said the average number of trips per taxi in the city had declined a whopping 65 percent from March 2012 to July 2014 -- from 1,424 per month to 504.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Average number of trips per taxi has declined 65 percent over two years.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Similarly, total rides in wheelchair-accessible taxis, which are more costly to operate, have fallen by about 56 percent over the past 15 months, from 1,378 per month in March 2013 to 768 this July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a concern because the inaccessibility of ride-service vehicles, which are, after all, just drivers' personal cars being used to transport paying passengers, has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/As-Uber-Lyft-Sidecar-grow-so-do-concerns-of-5240889.php\" target=\"_blank\">an issue.\u003c/a> The accessibility plans that ride-service companies were required to file by the California Public Utilities Commission have so far been on the thin side. (Here are \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/193E3DA4-D0FF-497A-8E26-EDAC1C1339FE/0/UberAccessibilityPlan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Uber's\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/B0398419-190C-4B4B-A89B-ED113E6CB9B5/0/LyftAccessibilityPlan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Lyft's\u003c/a>.) Updates on these plans are due on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toran said that in response to the severe decline in ridership, the city's taxi division is waiving certain fees, like the one for a driver application, and reducing others, like the fee for medallion renewal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toran did indicate one sign of progress for those who have been pushing the industry to modernize: Eighty percent of taxis in the city are now using Flywheel, an app-based hailing tool that is similar to those of the ride services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An alternative app, Curb, is used by 60 percent of cabs. The response time for taxis on Flywheel has been just 3.5 minutes, a significant development in light of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.uctc.net/research/papers/UCTC-FR-2014-08.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">recent paper from UC Berkeley\u003c/a> that found a \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet/2014/09/08/uber-lyft-cars-arrive-faster-than-taxis/\" target=\"_blank\">marked superiority in the time ride-service\u003c/a> vehicles responded to calls as opposed to taxis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increased use of apps by the city's taxis wasn't good enough, though, for SFMTA board member Malcolm Heinicke. He wasn't happy that the rate of use wasn't 100 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why aren't they all on one of those apps ... and why aren't we mandating that they all be on one of those or a similarly widespread app?\" he asked. \"We're in a situation of catch-up here. ... I think the public needs to know that there are these apps out there, the public needs to know that these response rates exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why aren't we mandating they all be on an app the way we would have mandated they all be on a sufficiently large radio network back in the last generation of taxi service?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toran said she agreed it was a good idea to require that cabs use apps. \"It's the new reality,\" she said. \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Longtime Cab Driver Still Surviving But Considering Move to Uber \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked John Han, a veteran San Francisco cab driver and keen observer of the industry whom we've been talking to on this story, how his income has held up lately, and what his plans are. Last year he told us he tried to make the switch to UberX, Uber's ride-service division, but aborted the attempt after he \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/20/ride-sharing-insurance-lyft-uberx-sidecar/\" target=\"_blank\">failed to find an insurance company that would cover his car\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Han said he was still hanging in there, despite a drop in the last six months or so. \"I have noticed a decline in my take-home pay, but I'm making enough to not have to think of doing anything drastic,\" he said. \"I'm just making a little less per shift.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did say, however, that he knows cab drivers who are complaining their income has been cut in half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wondered if in light of \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2293\" target=\"_blank\">AB2293\u003c/a>, which would expedite the creation of insurance policies, not in existence now, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/09/02/2014/Uber_Lyft_California_insurance/\" target=\"_blank\">specifically for ride-service drivers\u003c/a>, whether he would again consider switching to a ride service. 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Updates on these plans are due on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toran said that in response to the severe decline in ridership, the city's taxi division is waiving certain fees, like the one for a driver application, and reducing others, like the fee for medallion renewal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toran did indicate one sign of progress for those who have been pushing the industry to modernize: Eighty percent of taxis in the city are now using Flywheel, an app-based hailing tool that is similar to those of the ride services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An alternative app, Curb, is used by 60 percent of cabs. The response time for taxis on Flywheel has been just 3.5 minutes, a significant development in light of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.uctc.net/research/papers/UCTC-FR-2014-08.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">recent paper from UC Berkeley\u003c/a> that found a \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet/2014/09/08/uber-lyft-cars-arrive-faster-than-taxis/\" target=\"_blank\">marked superiority in the time ride-service\u003c/a> vehicles responded to calls as opposed to taxis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The increased use of apps by the city's taxis wasn't good enough, though, for SFMTA board member Malcolm Heinicke. He wasn't happy that the rate of use wasn't 100 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why aren't they all on one of those apps ... and why aren't we mandating that they all be on one of those or a similarly widespread app?\" he asked. \"We're in a situation of catch-up here. ... I think the public needs to know that there are these apps out there, the public needs to know that these response rates exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why aren't we mandating they all be on an app the way we would have mandated they all be on a sufficiently large radio network back in the last generation of taxi service?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toran said she agreed it was a good idea to require that cabs use apps. \"It's the new reality,\" she said. \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Longtime Cab Driver Still Surviving But Considering Move to Uber \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked John Han, a veteran San Francisco cab driver and keen observer of the industry whom we've been talking to on this story, how his income has held up lately, and what his plans are. Last year he told us he tried to make the switch to UberX, Uber's ride-service division, but aborted the attempt after he \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/20/ride-sharing-insurance-lyft-uberx-sidecar/\" target=\"_blank\">failed to find an insurance company that would cover his car\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Han said he was still hanging in there, despite a drop in the last six months or so. \"I have noticed a decline in my take-home pay, but I'm making enough to not have to think of doing anything drastic,\" he said. \"I'm just making a little less per shift.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did say, however, that he knows cab drivers who are complaining their income has been cut in half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wondered if in light of \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2293\" target=\"_blank\">AB2293\u003c/a>, which would expedite the creation of insurance policies, not in existence now, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/09/02/2014/Uber_Lyft_California_insurance/\" target=\"_blank\">specifically for ride-service drivers\u003c/a>, whether he would again consider switching to a ride service. 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