Hello, everyone --as promised, we are live:

 - NASDAQ Globenewswire 
http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2015/04/27/728529/10130773/en/The-Apache-Software-Foundation-Announces-Apache-tm-Parquet-tm-as-a-Top-Level-Project.html
 - ASF "Foundation" blog http://s.apache.org/L0H
 - @TheASF Twitter feed https://twitter.com/TheASF/status/592644433813884929

...plus [email protected] and our dedicated media/analyst list. This will 
appear on the apache.org homepage and the mail archives during the next 
auto-update, which should take place within the hour.

Thanks again for all your help, and congratulations on reaching this milestone!

Warmly,
Sally

________________________________
From: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>
To: Julien Le Dem <[email protected]> 
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; 
Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>; Daniel Weeks <[email protected]>; Chris 
Aniszczyk <[email protected]>; Ryan Blue <[email protected]>; 
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>; "Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" 
<[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 
Sent: Sunday, 26 April 2015, 19:22
Subject: Re: FINAL CALL: Apache Parquet TLP announcement [was Re: Graduation 
blog post?]



Perfect. Thank you, Julien!

I'll confirm once we're live tomorrow morning.

Warmly,
Sally





________________________________
From: Julien Le Dem <[email protected]>
To: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> 
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; 
Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>; Daniel Weeks <[email protected]>; Chris 
Aniszczyk <[email protected]>; Ryan Blue <[email protected]>; 
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>; "Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" 
<[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 
Sent: Sunday, 26 April 2015, 19:21
Subject: Re: FINAL CALL: Apache Parquet TLP announcement [was Re: Graduation 
blog post?]



Sounds good.
Thank you!




On Sunday, April 26, 2015, Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks, Julien --I can include that, yes.
>
>Does this work for you?
>
>
><snip>
>
>Catch Apache Parquet in action at the Hadoop Summit, 9-11 June 2015 in San 
>Jose, California. The Apache Parquet project welcomes contributions and 
>community participation through mailing lists, face-to-face MeetUps, and user 
>events. For more information, visit http://parquet.apache.org/community/
>
></snip>
>
>
>Warmest regards,
>Sally
>
>
>
>Did you want to mention the parquet talks at the Hadoop summit in June?
>Otherwise this looks good to me.
>
>
>
>
>On Sunday, April 26, 2015, Sally Khudairi <[email protected]> 
>wrote:
>
>Hi everyone --I haven't received any other feedback, so I think we're all set 
>to announce tomorrow.
>>I'd like to issue the press release at at 7AM ET. I'll confirm when we're 
>>live.
>>If there are any showstoppers, please let me know ASAP.
>>Thanks so much,Sally
>>
>>      From: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>
>> To: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>; Daniel Weeks 
>> <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" 
>> <[email protected]>
>>Cc: Chris Aniszczyk <[email protected]>; Ryan Blue <[email protected]>; 
>>"[email protected]" <[email protected]>; "Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" 
>><[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Friday, 24 April 2015, 16:17
>> Subject: FINAL CALL: Apache Parquet TLP announcement [was Re: Graduation 
>> blog post?]
>>
>>Hello again, everyone --below is the latest draft.
>>
>>Please review and forward any changes/additions no later than 5PM ET on 
>>Sunday in order for us to announce on Monday morning. I was aiming to go live 
>>by 7AM ET if that works for you.
>>
>>Kindly confirm.
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Sally
>>
>>= = =
>>
>>DRAFT :: NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION
>>
>>The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Parquet™ as a Top-Level 
>>Project
>>
>>Open Source storage format for the Apache™ Hadoop® ecosystem in use at 
>>Cloudera, NASA, Netflix, Stripe and Twitter, among other organizations
>>
>>Forest Hill, MD –27 April 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the 
>>all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open 
>>Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache™ Parquet™ has 
>>graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), 
>>signifying that the project's community and products have been well-governed 
>>under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles.
>>
>>"The incubation process at Apache has been fantastic and really the last step 
>>of making Parquet a community driven standard fully integrated within the 
>>greater Hadoop ecosystem," said Julien Le Dem, Vice President of Apache 
>>Parquet.
>>
>>Apache Parquet is an Open Source columnar storage format for the Apache™ 
>>Hadoop® ecosystem, built to work across programming languages and much more:
>>
>>
>> - processing frameworks (MapReduce, Apache Spark, Scalding, Cascading, 
>> Crunch, Kite)
>> - data models (Apache Avro, Apache Thrift, Protocol Buffers, POJOs)
>> - query engines (Apache Hive, Impala, HAWQ, Apache Drill, Apache Tajo, 
>> Apache Pig, Presto, Apache Spark SQL)
>>
>>"At Twitter, Parquet has helped us scale our big data usage by in some cases 
>>reducing storage requirements by one third on large datasets as well as scan 
>>and deserialization time. This translated into hardware savings as well as 
>>reduced latency for accessing the data. Furthermore, Parquet being integrated 
>>with so many tools creates opportunities and flexibility regarding query 
>>engines," said Chris Aniszczyk, Head of Open Source at Twitter. "Finally, 
>>it's just fantastic to see it graduate to a top-level project and we look 
>>forward to further collaborating with the Apache Parquet community to 
>>continually improve performance."
>>
>>"Parquet’s integration with other object models, like Avro and Thrift, has 
>>been a key feature for our customers," said Ryan Blue, Software Engineer at 
>>Cloudera. "They can take advantage of columnar storage without changing the 
>>classes they already use in their production applications."
>>
>>"At Netflix, Parquet is the primary storage format for data warehousing. More 
>>than 7 petabytes of our 10+ Petabyte warehouse is Parquet formatted data that 
>>we query across a wide range of tools including Apache Hive, Apache Pig, 
>>Apache Spark, PigPen, Presto, and native MapReduce. The performance benefit 
>>of columnar projection and statistics is a game changer for our big data 
>>platform," said Daniel Weeks, Software Engineer at Netflix. "We look forward 
>>to working with the Apache community to advance the state of big data storage 
>>with Parquet and are excited to see the project graduate to full Apache 
>>status."
>>
>>"Stripe's data warehouse has been built on Parquet from the beginning," said 
>>Avi Bryant, Engineering Manager at Stripe. "Every aspect of our pipeline, 
>>from data import to machine learning to adhoc SQL analysis, uses Apache 
>>Parquet as the common interchange format."
>>
>>"I was extremely happy to see Parquet arrive as an Incubator project," said 
>>Chris Mattmann, Apache Parquet Incubator Mentor, and Chief Architect, 
>>Instrument and Science Data Systems Section at NASA Jet Propulsion 
>>Laboratory. "After talking with some in its community there was a real match 
>>with this columnar data format technology and its community with the way that 
>>we do things here at the ASF. Parquet has had an exemplar Incubation, and the 
>>project has big things ahead of it. I am encouraging my Data Science Team at 
>>NASA to evaluate it for data representation especially as it relates to our 
>>science holdings in Earth, planetary and space sciences, and astrophysics."
>>
>>The Apache Parquet project welcomes contributions and community participation 
>>through mailing lists, face-to-face MeetUps, and user events. For more 
>>information, visit http://parquet.apache.org/community/
>>
>>Availability and Oversight
>>Apache Parquet software is released under the Apache License v2.0 and is 
>>overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A 
>>Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day 
>>operations, including community development and product releases. For 
>>downloads, documentation, and ways to become involved with Apache Parquet, 
>>visit http://parquet.apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/ApacheParquet
>>
>>About the Apache Incubator
>>The Apache Incubator is the entry path for projects and codebases wishing to 
>>become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation. All code 
>>donations from external organizations and existing external projects wishing 
>>to join the ASF enter through the Incubator to: 1) ensure all donations are 
>>in accordance with the ASF legal standards; and 2) develop new communities 
>>that adhere to our guiding principles. Incubation is required of all newly 
>>accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, 
>>communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner 
>>consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not 
>>necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it 
>>does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. For 
>>more information, visit http://incubator.apache.org/.
>>
>>About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
>>Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 
>>leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most 
>>popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as 
>>"The Apache Way," more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 Committers 
>>successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade 
>>software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software 
>>solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community 
>>actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and 
>>ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. 
>>The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual 
>>donations and corporate sponsors including Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Cerner, 
>>Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion 
>>Hosting, iSigma, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and 
>>Yahoo. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF 
>>on Twitter.
>>
>>© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Avro", "Apache Avro", "Drill", 
>>"Apache Drill", "Hadoop", "Apache Hadoop", "Parquet", "Apache Parquet", 
>>"Pig", "Apache Pig", "Spark", "Apache Spark", "Tajo", "Apache Tajo", 
>>"Thrift", "Apache Thrift", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or 
>>trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or 
>>other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their 
>>respective owners.
>>
>># # #
>>
>>[MEDIA CONTACT:SALLY]
>>________________________________
>>
>>
>>From: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>
>>To: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>; Daniel Weeks 
>><[email protected]>; "[email protected]" 
>><[email protected]>
>>Cc: Chris Aniszczyk <[email protected]>; Ryan Blue <[email protected]>; 
>>"[email protected]" <[email protected]>; "Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" 
>><[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>Sent: Friday, 24 April 2015, 13:56
>>Subject: Re: Graduation blog post?
>>
>>
>>
>>Done.
>>
>>ALL: can you please let me know if there are any events that Parquet will be 
>>at? Presenting? Hosting? etc.
>>
>>Thank you!
>>
>>-Sally
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>________________________________
>>From: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>
>>To: Daniel Weeks <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" 
>><[email protected]>
>>Cc: Chris Aniszczyk <[email protected]>; Ryan Blue <[email protected]>; 
>>"[email protected]" <[email protected]>; "Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" 
>><[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>Sent: Friday, 24 April 2015, 13:40
>>Subject: Re: Graduation blog post?
>>
>>
>>
>>Of course --I'll fix that now!
>>
>>Sorry about that, Daniel.
>>
>>-Sally
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>________________________________
>>From: Daniel Weeks <[email protected]>
>>To: [email protected]; Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>
>>Cc: Chris Aniszczyk <[email protected]>; Ryan Blue <[email protected]>; 
>>"[email protected]" <[email protected]>; "Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" 
>><[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>Sent: Friday, 24 April 2015, 13:38
>>Subject: Re: Graduation blog post?
>>
>>
>>
>>Sally,
>>
>>Just wanted to comment that my last name is misspelled in the Netflix 
>>testimonial.  Can someone fix that?  (it's Weeks, not Week)
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Dan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Sally Khudairi 
>><[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>Hi everyone --there's been the addition of a quote from Stripe:
>>>
>>>"Stripe's data warehouse has been built on Parquet from the beginning," said 
>>>Avi Bryant, Engineering Manager at Stripe. "Every aspect of our pipeline, 
>>>from data import to machine learning to adhoc SQL analysis, uses Apache 
>>>Parquet as the common interchange format."
>>>
>>>
>>>--please note that I added "Apache" to "Parquet" in the second sentence. 
>>>Stripe has also been added to the sub-head.
>>>
>>>Are we waiting for quotes from anyone else? If not, I can add a closing 
>>>sentence and forward the final copy later today.
>>>
>>>Thanks so much,
>>>Sally
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>
>>>From: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>
>>>To: Chris Aniszczyk <[email protected]>; 
>>>"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>>Cc: Ryan Blue <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" 
>>><[email protected]>; "Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" 
>>><[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>>Sent: Thursday, 23 April 2015, 15:25
>>>Subject: Re: Graduation blog post?
>>>
>>>Hello everyone --below is the draft thus far.
>>>
>>>
>>>I was aiming to announce on Monday by 7AM ET, but noticed that we're waiting 
>>>for additional quotes.
>>>
>>>Also, should we get a closing quote from Julien? Perhaps something that 
>>>invites additional community participation?
>>>
>>>Please let me know your thoughts.
>>>
>>>Thanks so much,
>>>Sally
>>>
>>>= = =
>>>
>>>The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Parquet™ as a Top-Level 
>>>Project
>>>
>>>Open Source storage format for the Apache™ Hadoop® ecosystem in use at 
>>>Cloudera, NASA, Netflix, and Twitter, among other organizations
>>>
>>>Forest Hill, MD –27 April 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the 
>>>all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open 
>>>Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache™ Parquet™ has 
>>>graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), 
>>>signifying that the project's community and products have been well-governed 
>>>under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles.
>>>
>>>"The incubation process at Apache has been fantastic and really the last 
>>>step of making Parquet a community driven standard fully integrated within 
>>>the greater Hadoop ecosystem." said Julien Le Dem, Vice President of Apache 
>>>Parquet.
>>>
>>>Apache Parquet is an Open Source columnar storage format for the Apache™ 
>>>Hadoop® ecosystem, built to work across programming languages and much more:
>>>- processing frameworks (MapReduce, Apache Spark, Scalding, Cascading, 
>>>Crunch, Kite)
>>>- data models (Apache Avro, Apache Thrift, Protocol Buffers, POJOs)
>>>- query engines (Apache Hive, Impala, HAWQ, Apache Drill, Apache Tajo, 
>>>Apache Pig, Presto, Apache Spark SQL)
>>>
>>>"At Twitter, Parquet has helped us scale our big data usage by in some cases 
>>>reducing storage requirements by one third on large datasets as well as scan 
>>>and deserialization time. This translated into hardware savings as well as 
>>>reduced latency for accessing the data. Furthermore, Parquet being 
>>>integrated with so many tools creates opportunities and flexibility 
>>>regarding query engines," said Chris Aniszczyk, Head of Open Source at 
>>>Twitter. "Finally, it's just fantastic to see it graduate to a top-level 
>>>project and we look forward to further collaborating with the Apache Parquet 
>>>community to continually improve performance."
>>>
>>>"Parquet’s integration with other object models, like Avro and Thrift, has 
>>>been a key feature for our customers," said Ryan Blue, Software Engineer at 
>>>Cloudera. "They can take advantage of columnar storage without changing the 
>>>classes they already use in their production applications."
>>>
>>>"At Netflix, Parquet is the primary storage format for data warehousing. 
>>>More than 7 petabytes of our 10+ Petabyte warehouse is Parquet formatted 
>>>data that we query across a wide range of tools including Apache Hive, 
>>>Apache Pig, Apache Spark, PigPen, Presto, and native MapReduce.  The 
>>>performance benefit of columnar projection and statistics is a game changer 
>>>for our big data platform," said Daniel Week, Software Engineer at Netflix. 
>>>"We look forward to working with the Apache community to advance the state 
>>>of big data storage with Parquet and are excited to see the project graduate 
>>>to full Apache status."
>>>
>>>"I was extremely happy to see Parquet arrive as an Incubator project," said 
>>>Chris Mattmann, Apache Parquet Incubator Mentor, and Chief Architect, 
>>>Instrument and Science Data Systems Section at NASA Jet Propulsion 
>>>Laboratory. "After talking with some in its community there was a real match 
>>>with
>>>this columnar data format technology and its community with the way that we 
>>>do things here at the ASF. Parquet has had an exemplar Incubation, and the 
>>>project has big things ahead of it. I am encouraging my Data Science Team at 
>>>NASA to evaluate it for data representation especially
>>>as it relates to our science holdings in Earth, planetary and space 
>>>sciences, and astrophysics."
>>>
>>>
>>>Stripe? @cra reached out to Avi, said he would get something by Monday
>>>Criteo?
>>>
>>>@@CLOSING QUOTE FROM JULIEN?
>>>
>>>Availability and Oversight
>>>Apache Parquet software is released under the Apache License v2.0 and is 
>>>overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A 
>>>Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day 
>>>operations, including community development and product releases. For 
>>>downloads, documentation, and ways to become involved with Apache Parquet, 
>>>visit http://parquet.apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/ApacheParquet
>>>
>>>About the Apache Incubator
>>>The Apache Incubator is the entry path for projects and codebases wishing to 
>>>become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation. All code 
>>>donations from external organizations and existing external projects wishing 
>>>to join the ASF enter through the Incubator to: 1) ensure all donations are 
>>>in accordance with the ASF legal standards; and 2) develop new communities 
>>>that adhere to our guiding principles. Incubation is required of all newly 
>>>accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, 
>>>communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner 
>>>consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is 
>>>not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, 
>>>it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. 
>>>For more information, visit http://incubator.apache.org/.
>>>
>>>About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
>>>Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 
>>>leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's 
>>>most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process 
>>>known as "The Apache Way," more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 
>>>Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available 
>>>enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands 
>>>of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the 
>>>community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, 
>>>and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and 
>>>expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by 
>>>individual donations and corporate sponsors including Bloomberg, Budget 
>>>Direct, Cerner, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, 
>>>HP, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSigma, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, 
>>>Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit 
>>>http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on Twitter.
>>>
>>>© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Avro", "Apache Avro", "Drill", 
>>>"Apache Drill", "Hadoop", "Apache Hadoop", "Parquet", "Apache Parquet", 
>>>"Pig", "Apache Pig", "Spark", "Apache Spark", "Tajo", "Apache Tajo", 
>>>"Thrift", "Apache Thrift", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or 
>>>trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or 
>>>other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their 
>>>respective owners.
>>>
>>># # #
>>>
>>>
>>>________________________________
>>>
>>>From: Chris Aniszczyk <[email protected]>
>>>To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>>Cc: Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>; Ryan Blue <[email protected]>; 
>>>"[email protected]" <[email protected]>; "Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" 
>>><[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>>Sent: Wednesday, 22 April 2015, 14:51
>>>Subject: Re: Graduation blog post?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks Daniel, I added your quote.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Daniel Weeks <[email protected]> 
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>Netflix Testimonial:
>>>>
>>>>At Netflix, Parquet is the primary storage format for data warehousing.
>>>>More than 7 petabytes of our 10+ Petabyte warehouse is Parquet formatted
>>>>data that we query across a wide range of tools including Apache Hive,
>>>>Apache Pig, Apache Spark, PigPen, Presto, and native MapReduce.  The
>>>>performance benefit of columnar projection and statistics is a game changer
>>>>for our big data platform.  We look forward to working with the Apache
>>>>community to advance the state of big data storage with Parquet and are
>>>>excited to see the project graduate to full Apache status.
>>>>
>>>>Daniel Weeks
>>>>Engineering Manager - Big Data Compute
>>>>Neflix
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Sally Khudairi <
>>>>[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the draft thus far, Ryan.
>>>>> Can we please include at least one more industry testimonial?
>>>>> Also, if you can please provide edit access to my account at
>>>>> [email protected], that would be great.
>>>>> Thanks in advance for this!
>>>>> -Sally
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>      From: Ryan Blue <[email protected]>
>>>>>  To: [email protected]; Sally Khudairi <[email protected]>
>>>>> Cc: "Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" <[email protected]>; "
>>>>> [email protected]" <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <
>>>>> [email protected]>
>>>>>  Sent: Monday, 20 April 2015, 15:48
>>>>>  Subject: Re: Graduation blog post?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 04/20/2015 12:36 PM, Jake Farrell wrote:
>>>>> > Hey Sally
>>>>> > i've got root@ karma and will take care of the infra side of things for
>>>>> > us once the board has successfully voted on our resolution
>>>>> >
>>>>> > -Jake
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, Jake! I've already sent an e-mail to Infra, but I'll follow up
>>>>> with this news so they don't worry about it.
>>>>>
>>>>> rb
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Ryan Blue
>>>>> Software Engineer
>>>>> Cloudera, Inc.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>Chris Aniszczyk
>>>http://aniszczyk.org
>>>+1 512 961 6719
>>>
>>
>>
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