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SY. 2023 – 2024, First Semester, August 2023

Prepared by: REYNALDO E. SISON, LPT

"Knowledge is power, but knowledge without action is useless." - Tony Robbins

"Knowledge isn't power until it is applied." - Dale Carnegie

Let’s put into context our discussion, knowledge learned and insights. Your knowledge or key
takeaways from the course will only be relevant to the context of times if these are used to contribute
to the betterment of our society. As preliminary, we need to get a good grasp and feel of what is
happening in our society. These are “the signs of the times” that call for everyone’s participation and
involvement. “We are all in this together. The agenda, with its 17 goals, is universal and calls for action
by all countries, both developed countries and developing countries, to ensure no one is left behind.”

17 SDGS of the UNITED NATIONS

1. NO POVERTY: WHY IT MATTERS

a. In 2015, more than 700 million people, or 10 per
cent of the world population, lived in extreme
poverty, struggling to fulfil the most basic needs
like health, education, and access to water and
sanitation, to name a few.
b. However, the COVID-19 pandemic is reversing the
trend of poverty reduction with tens of millions of
people in risk of being pushed back into extreme
poverty - people living on less than $1.90/day -
causing the first increase in global poverty in more
than 20 years.
c. Poverty has many dimensions, but its causes
include unemployment, social exclusion, and high
vulnerability of certain populations to disasters,
diseases and other phenomena which prevent
them from being productive.
d. So what can I do about it?
i. Your active engagement in policymaking
can make a difference in addressing poverty. It ensures that your rights are
promoted and that your voice is heard, that intergenerational knowledge is
shared, and that innovation and critical thinking are encouraged at all ages to
support transformational change in people’s lives and communities.
e. What’s the goal here? To end poverty in all its forms everywhere by 2030.

2. ZERO HUNGER: WHY IT MATTERS

a. Extreme hunger and malnutrition remains a
barrier to sustainable development and creates a
trap from which people cannot easily escape.
b. Hunger and malnutrition mean less productive
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prone to disease and thus often unable to earn more and improve their livelihoods.
c. 2 billion people in the world do not have regular
access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food.
d. In 2019, 144 million children under the age of 5
were stunted, and 47 million
were affected by wasting.
e. More than 690 million people were
undernourished in 2019, mainly in Asia and Africa.
f. People experiencing moderate food insecurity are
typically unable to eat a healthy, balanced diet on
a regular basis because of income or other
resource constraints.
g. If these trends continue, an estimated 840 million people will go hungry by 2030.
h. Along with conflict, climate shocks and the locust crisis, the pandemic poses an
additional threat to food systems.
i. Civil insecurity and declining food production have all contributed to food scarcity
and high food prices.
j. What can we do to help? You can make changes in your own life—at home,
k. at work and in the community
i. by supporting local farmers or markets and making sustainable food choices,
supporting good nutrition for all, and fighting food waste.
ii. You can also use your power as a consumer and voter, demanding businesses
and governments make the choices and changes that will make Zero Hunger
a reality.
iii. Join the conversation, whether on social media platforms or in your local
communities.
l. What’s the goal here? To end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition
and promote sustainable agriculture.

3. GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING: WHY IT

MATTERS
a. Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-
being is important to building prosperous
societies.
b. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has
devastated health systems globally.
and threatens already achieved health
outcomes.
c. Most countries, especially poor countries, have
insufficient health facilities, medical supplies
and health care workers for the surge in
demand.

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d. The pandemic has shown that in rich and poor countries alike, a health emergency
can push people into bankruptcy or poverty.
e. In 2017, only around one third to half of the global population was covered by
essential health services. If current trends continue, only 39 percent to 63 percent of
the global population will be covered by essential health services by 2030.
f. What can I do to help?
i. You can start by promoting and protecting your own health and the health of
those around you, by making well-informed choices, practicing responsibility,
and vaccinating your children.
ii. You can raise awareness in your community about the importance of good
health, healthy lifestyles as well as people’s right to quality health care
services, especially for the most vulnerable such as women and children.
iii. You can also hold your government, local leaders and other decision-makers
accountable to their commitments to improve people’s access to health and
health care.
g. What’s the goal here? To ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all
ages.

4. QUALITY EDUCATION: WHY IT MATTERS

a. Despite years of steady growth in enrolment
rates, non-proficiency rates remain
disturbingly high.
b. In 2018, some 773 million adults—two-thirds
of whom are women—remained illiterate in
terms of reading and writing skills.
c. And the sheer magnitude of school closures
due to COVID-19 is likely to set back progress
on access to education.
d. Women and girls have difficult access to
education. About one-third of countries in the
developing regions have not achieved gender
parity in primary education. These
disadvantages in education also translate
into lack of access to skills and limited
opportunities in the labour market for young
women.
e. What can we do?
i. Ask our governments to place education as a priority in both policy and
practice.
ii. Lobby our governments to make firm commitments to provide free primary
school education to all, including vulnerable or marginalized groups.

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f. What is the goal here? Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote
lifelong learning.

5. GENDER EQUALITY: WHY IT MATTERS

a. What’s the goal here? To achieve gender
equality and empower all women and girls.
b. 35 percent of women between 15-49 years of
age have experienced physical and/or sexual
intimate partner violence or non-partner
sexual violence.
c. 1 in 3 girls aged 15-19 have experienced some
form of female genital mutilation/cutting in the
30 countries in Africa and the Middle East,
where the harmful practice is most common
with a high risk of prolonged bleeding, infection
(including HIV), childbirth complications,
infertility and death.
d. The COVID-19 lockdown further caused
domestic violence to increase in many
countries, showing the critical importance of social protection for women and girls.
e. Regardless of where you live in, gender equality is a fundamental human right.
f. Advancing gender equality is critical to all areas of a healthy society, from reducing
poverty to promoting the health, education, protection and the well-being of girls and
boys.
g. What can we do to fix these issues? If you are a girl, you can stay in school, help
h. empower your female classmates to do the same and fight for your right to access
sexual and reproductive health services. If you are a woman, you can address
unconscious biases and implicit associations that form an unintended and often an
invisible barrier to equal opportunity.
i. If you are a man or a boy, you can work along-side women and girls to achieve gender
equality and embrace healthy, respectful relationships.
j. What’s the goal here? To achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

6. CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION: WHY IT

MATTERS
a. In 2017, an estimated 3 billion people
worldwide lacked the ability to safely wash
their hands at home – one of the cheapest,
easiest, and most effective ways to prevent
the spread of diseases like the coronavirus.

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b. Water, sanitation and hygiene services are also

not always available at medical care facilities:
in 2016, one in four facilities around the world
lacked basic water supplies, one in five had no
sanitation services, and two in five had no soap
and water or alcohol-based hand rub, at points
of care.
c. And today, 4.2 billion people are still faced
with daily challenges accessing even the most
basic of services. Of these, 673 million people
practised open defecation.
d. Water is essential not only to health, but also
to poverty reduction, food security, peace and
human rights, ecosystems and education.
e. Nevertheless, countries face growing challenges linked to water scarcity, water
pollution, degraded water-related ecosystems and cooperation over transboundary
water basins.
f. What can we do?
i. Civil society organizations should work to keep governments accountable,
invest in water research and development, and promote the inclusion of
women, youth and indigenous communities in water resources governance.
ii. Generating awareness of these roles and turning them into action will lead to
win-win results and increased sustainability and integrity for both human and
ecological systems.
iii. You can also get involved in the World Water Day and World Toilet Day
campaigns that aim to provide information and inspiration to take action on
hygiene issues.
g. What’s the goal here? To ensure access to safe water sources and sanitation for all.

7. AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY: WHY IT MATTERS

a. Nearly 9 out of 10 people now have access to electricity, but reaching the unserved
789 million around the world 548 million people in sub-Saharan Africa alone – that
lack access will require increased efforts.
b. Without electricity, women and girls have to spend hours fetching water, clinics
cannot store vaccines for children, many schoolchildren cannot do homework at
night, and people cannot run
competitive businesses.
c. Slow progress towards clean cooking
solutions is of grave global concern,
affecting both human health and the
environment, and if we don’t meet

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our goal by 2030, nearly a third of the world’s population – mostly women and
children – will continue.
d. to be exposed to harmful household air pollution.
e. Lack of access to energy may hamper efforts to contain
COVID-19 across many parts of the world.
f. Energy services are key to preventing disease and
fighting pandemics – from powering healthcare facilities
and supplying clean water for essential hygiene, to
enabling communications and IT services that connect
people while maintaining social distancing.
g. What can we do to fix these issues? Countries can
accelerate the transition to an
affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy system by
investing in renewable energy resources, prioritizing
energy efficient practices, and adopting clean energy
technologies and infrastructure.
h. Businesses can maintain and protect ecosystems and commit to sourcing 100% of
operational electricity needs from renewable sources.
i. Employers can reduce the internal demand for transport by prioritizing
telecommunications and incentivize less energy intensive modes such as train travel
over auto and air travel.
j. Investors can invest more in sustainable energy services, bringing new technologies
to the market quickly from a diverse supplier base.
k. You can save electricity by plugging appliances into a power strip and turning them
off completely when not in use, including your computer.
l. You can also bike, walk or take public transport to reduce carbon emissions.
m. What’s the goal here? To ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and
modern energy for all.

8. DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: WHY IT

MATTERS
a. The pandemic is expected to have a devastating
impact on global unemployment.
b. According to estimates from the International
Labour Organization, global working hours could
drop by 14 per cent in the second quarter of 2020.
This is equivalent to approximately 400 million full-
time workers doing a 48-hour work week.

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c. The eventual increase in global

unemployment over 2020 will depend
on how effectively policy measures
preserve existing jobs and boost labour
demand once the recovery phase
begins.
d. More than one in six young people have stopped working since the onset of the
COVID19 pandemic while those who remain employed have seen their working hours
cut by 23 per cent.
e. Tourism is one of the economic sectors most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic due
to the closure of borders, travel bans and lockdown measures. Depending on when
travel restrictions are lifted and national borders reopen, international travel arrivals
in 2020 may decrease by 60 to 80 per cent compared with 2019.
f. What can we do to fix these issues?
i. Providing youth the best opportunity to transition to a decent job calls for
investing in education and training of the highest possible quality, providing
youth with skills that match labour market demands, giving them access to
social protection and basic services regardless of their contract type, as well
as levelling the playing field so that all aspiring youth can attain productive
employment regardless of their gender, income level or socio-economic
background.
ii. Governments can work to build dynamic, sustainable, innovative and people-
centred economies, promoting youth employment and women’s economic
empowerment, in particular, and decent work for all.
iii. Implementing adequate health and safety measures and promoting
supportive working environments are fundamental to protecting the safety of
workers, especially relevant for health workers and those providing essential
services.
g. What’s the goal here? To promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth,
employment and decent work for all.

9. INDUSTRY, INNOVATION AND

INFRASTRUCTURE: WHY IT MATTERS
a. Even before the outbreak of the COVID-
19 pandemic, global manufacturing –
considered an engine of overall
economic growth – has been steadily
declining due to tariffs and trade tensions.
b. The manufacturing decline caused by the pandemic has further caused serious
impacts on the global economy.

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c. In addition, the airport industry, also important driver

of economic development, faced the steepest decline in
its history in the first five months of 2020, with a 51 per
cent drop in airline passengers due to the global
lockdowns.
d. Basic infrastructure like roads, information and
communication technologies, sanitation, electrical
power and water remains scarce in many developing
countries.
e. In 2019, some 87 per cent of people in developed
countries used the Internet, compared with just 19 per
cent in the least developed countries.
f. How can we help? Establish standards and promote regulations that ensure
company projects and initiatives are sustainably managed.
g. Collaborate with NGOs and the public sector to help promote sustainable growth
within developing countries.
h. Think about how industry impacts on your life and well-being and use social media
to push for policymakers to prioritize the SDGs.
i. To build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization
and foster innovation.

10. REDUCED INEQUALITIES: WHY IT MATTERS

a. Inequalities based on income, sex, age,
disability, sexual orientation, race,
class, ethnicity, religion and opportunity
continue to persist across the world.
b. Inequality threatens long-term social and
economic development, harms poverty
reduction and destroys people’s sense of
fulfilment and self-worth.
c. This, in turn, can breed crime, disease and
environmental degradation.
d. We cannot achieve sustainable
development and make the planet better for
all if people are excluded from the chance
for a better life.
e. Women and children with lack of access to
healthcare die each day from preventable diseases such as measles and tuberculosis
or in childbirth.
f. Older persons, migrants and refugees face lack of opportunities and discrimination –
an issue that affects every country in the world.

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g. One in five persons reported being discriminated on at least one ground of

discrimination prohibited by international human rights law.
h. Among those with disabilities, 3 in 10 personally experienced discrimination, with
higher levels still among women with disabilities, including based on religion,
ethnicity and sex, pointing to the urgent need for measures to tackle multiple and
intersecting forms of discrimination.
i. What can we do? Reducing inequality requires transformative change. Greater
efforts are needed to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, and invest more in health,
education, social protection and decent jobs especially for young people, migrants and
refugees and other vulnerable communities.
i. Within countries, it is important to empower and promote inclusive social and
economic growth.
ii. We can ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities of income if we
eliminate discriminatory laws, policies and practices.
iii. Among countries, we need to ensure that developing countries are better
represented in decision-making on global issues so that solutions can be more
effective, credible and accountable.
iv. Governments and other stakeholders can also promote safe, regular and
responsible migration, including through planned and well-managed policies,
for the millions of people who have left their homes seeking better lives due
to war, discrimination, poverty, lack of opportunity and other drivers of
migration.
j. What’s the goal here? To reduce inequalities within and among countries.

11. SUSTAINABLE CITIES: WHY THEY

MATTER
a. Inequality and the levels of
urban energy consumption and
pollution are some of the
challenges.
b. Cities occupy just 3 percent of
the Earth’s land, but account for 60-80 percent
of energy consumption and 75 per cent of
carbon emissions.
c. Many cities are also more vulnerable to climate
change and natural disasters due to their high
concentration of people and location so
building urban resilience is crucial to avoid
human, social and economic losses.
d. The cost of poorly planned urbanization can be seen in some of the huge slums,
tangled traffic, greenhouse gas emissions and sprawling suburbs all over the world.

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e. What can I do to help achieve this goal? The better the conditions you create in
your community, the greater the effect on quality of life.
i. Take an active interest in the governance and management of your city.
ii. Advocate for the kind of city you believe you need.
iii. Develop a vision for your building, street, and neighborhood, and act on that
vision.
iv. Are there enough jobs?
v. Can your children walk to school safely?
vi. Can you walk with your family at night?
vii. How far is the nearest public transport?
viii. What’s the air quality like?
ix. What are your shared public spaces like?
f. What’s the goal here? To make cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.

12. RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION & PRODUCTION:

WHY IT MATTERS
a. Economic and social progress over the last
century has been accompanied by
environmental degradation that is
endangering the very systems on which our future
development and very survival depend.
b. COVID-19 offers an opportunity to develop recovery
plans that will reverse current trends and shift our
consumption and production patterns to a more
sustainable course.
c. A successful transition will mean improvements in
resource efficiency, consideration of the entire life cycle
of economic activities, and active engagement in
multilateral environmental agreements.
d. Reducing food loss and waste can contribute to environmental sustainability by
lowering production costs and increasing the efficiency of food systems.
e. Currently, we lose 13.8 per cent after harvesting and during transport, storage and
processing alone, amounting to a cost of over $400 billion a year.
f. We are also polluting water faster than nature can recycle and purify water in rivers
and lakes.
g. How can I help as a consumer? There are two main ways to help:
i. 1. Reducing your waste and 2. Being thoughtful about what you buy and
choosing a sustainable option whenever possible.
ii. Ensure you don’t throw away food and reduce your consumption of plastic—
one of the main pollutants of the ocean.
iii. Carrying a reusable bag, refusing to use plastic straws, and recycling plastic
bottles are good ways to do your part every day.

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iv. Making informed purchases also helps. For example, the textile industry today
is the second largest polluter of clean water after agriculture, and many
fashion companies exploit textile workers in the developing world.
v. If you can buy from sustainable and local sources, you can make a difference
as well as exercising pressure on businesses to adopt sustainable practices.
h. What is the goal here? To ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

13. CLIMATE ACTION:

WHY IT MATTERS
a. Climate
change is
affecting
every country in the world. It is
disrupting national economies and
affecting lives and livelihoods,
especially for the most vulnerable.
b. Weather patterns are changing, sea
levels are rising, and weather events are
becoming more extreme, affecting more than 39 million people in 2018.
c. The world must transform its energy, industry, transport, food, agriculture and
forestry systems to ensure that we can limit global temperature rise to well below 2°C,
maybe even 1.5°C.
d. What can I do to help achieve this goal?
i. Save energy at home.
ii. Change your home's source of energy.
iii. Walk, bike or take public transport.
iv. Switch to an electric vehicle.
v. Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle.
vi. Eat more vegetables
vii. Throw away less food.
viii. Plant native species.
ix. Clean up your environment.
x. Speak up
e. What’s the goal here? Taking urgent action to tackle climate change and its impacts.

14. LIFE BELOW WATER: WHY IT MATTERS

a. The ocean absorbs around 23 per cent of
annual CO2 emissions generated by human
activity and helps mitigate the impacts of
climate change.

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b. The ocean has also absorbed more than 90% of the

excess heat in the climate system.
c. Ocean heat is at record levels, causing widespread
marine heatwaves, threatening its rich
ecosystems and killing coral reefs around the
world.
d. Increasing levels of debris in the world’s oceans
are also having a major environmental and
economic impact. Every year, an estimated 5 to 12
million metric tons of plastic enters the ocean,
costing roughly $13 billion per year – including
clean-up costs and financial losses in fisheries and
other industries.
e. About 89% of plastic litter found on the ocean floor are single-use items like plastic
bags.
f. The health of the ocean is intimately tied to our health. According to UNESCO, the
ocean can be an ally against COVID-19 – bacteria found in the depths of the ocean are
used to carry out rapid testing to detect the presence of COVID-19.
g. And the diversity of species found in the ocean offers great promise for
pharmaceuticals.
h. Furthermore, marine fisheries provide 57 million jobs globally and provide the
primary source of protein to over 50% of the population in least developed countries.
i. So what can we do?
i. For open ocean and deep sea areas, sustainability can be achieved only
through increased international cooperation to protect vulnerable habitats.
ii. Establishing comprehensive, effective and equitably managed systems of
government-protected areas should be pursued to conserve biodiversity and
ensure a sustainable future for the fishing industry.
iii. On a local level, we should make ocean-friendly choices when buying products
or eating food derived from oceans and consume only what we need.
iv. Selecting certified products is a good place to start.
v. We should eliminate plastic usage as much as possible and organize beach
clean-ups.
vi. Most importantly, we can spread the message about how important marine
life is and why we need to protect it.
j. What’s the goal here? To conserve and sustainably use the world’s ocean, seas and
marine resources.

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15. LIFE ON LAND: WHY IT MATTERS

a. Biodiversity and the ecosystem
service it underpins can also be the
basis for climate change adaptation
and disaster risk reduction strategies
as they can deliver benefits that will
increase the resilience of people to the
impacts of climate change.
b. What does loss of forests mean? Lost
forests mean the disappearance of
livelihoods in rural communities,
increased carbon emissions,
diminished biodiversity and the
degradation of land.
c. While forest loss remains high, 2020 data show that the proportion of forests in
protected areas and under long-term management plans increased or remained
stable at the global level and in most regions of the world.
d. An irreversible effect of human activity on the environment is species extinction,
which upsets the balance of nature and makes ecosystems more fragile and less
resistant to disruptions.
e. A recent UN report on biodiversity found that around 1 million animal and plant
species are now threatened with extinction, many within decades, more than ever
before in human history.
f. What can we do?
i. Some things we can do to help include recycling, eating a locally based diet
that is sustainably sourced, and consuming only what we need.
ii. We must be respectful toward wildlife and only take part in ecotourism
opportunities that are responsibly and ethically run in order to prevent
wildlife disturbance.
iii. Well-managed protected areas support healthy ecosystems, which in turn
keep people healthy.
iv. It is therefore critical to secure the involvement of the local communities in
the development and management of these protected areas.
g. What’s the goal here? To sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt
and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss.

16. PEACE, JUSTICE, AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS: WHY THEY MATTER

a. Governments, civil society and communities must work together to implement lasting
solutions to reduce violence, deliver justice, combat corruption and ensure inclusive
participation at all times.
b. Freedom to express views, in private and in public, must be guaranteed. From 2015
to 2019, the United Nations recorded at least 1,940 killings and 106 enforced

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disappearances of human rights

defenders, journalists and trade
unionists across 81 countries, with
over half of killings occurring in Latin
America and the Caribbean. Laws and
policies must be applied without any
form of discrimination.
c. Disputes need to be resolved through functioning and
justice systems.
d. National and local institutions must be accountable
and need to be in place to deliver basic services to
communities equitably and without the need for
bribes.
e. Crimes that threaten the foundation of peaceful
societies, including homicides, human trafficking, and
other organized crimes, as well as discriminatory laws or practices, affect all
countries. Even the world’s greatest democracies face major challenges in addressing
corruption, crime and human rights violations for everyone at home.
f. What can we do?
i. Exercise your right to hold your elected officials to account.
ii. Exercise your right to freedom of information and share your opinion with
your elected representatives.
iii. Promote inclusion and respect towards people of different ethnic origins,
religions, gender, sexual orientations, or different opinions.
g. What’s the goal here? Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable
development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and
inclusive institutions at all levels.

17. PARTNERSHIPS: WHY THEY MATTER

a. In light of the consequences of the
global COVID-19 pandemic, we have
seen that strengthening
multilateralism and global
partnerships are more important
than ever if we are to solve the
world’s problems.
b. The Sustainable Development Goals
remain the framework for building
back better. We need everyone to
come together—governments, civil
society, scientists, academia and the
private sector.

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c. We are all in this together. The agenda, with its 17 goals, is universal and calls for
action by all countries, both developed countries and developing countries, to ensure
no one is left behind.
d. Strong international cooperation is needed now more than ever to ensure that
countries have the means to achieve the SDGs.
e. What can we do to help?
i. Join/create a group in your local community that seeks to mobilize action on
the implementation of the SDGs.
ii. Encourage your governments to partner with businesses for the
implementation of the SDGs.
f. What’s the goal here? To revitalize the global partnership for sustain-able
development.

Ref:
United Nations. 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Aug. 28, 2023.
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/news/communications-material/

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