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quality, utility, and clarity of the
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with Environmental Attributes, in all
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Dated: April 21, 2015.
Jeffrey A. Koses,
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GSA’s Digital Innovation and Strategy
Hack-A-Thon
General Services
Administration (GSA), GSA IT, Office of
Digital Innovation and Strategy.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The purpose of this notice is
to announce a software programming
and data innovation competition hosted
by GSA’s Office of Digital Innovation
and Strategy that will be held on May
8, 2015. The competition details can be
viewed at https://open.gsa.gov/DigitalInnovation-Hackathon/. The goal of this
competition is to ask the public and
academia to develop smart technology
solutions in the form of an application,
Application Programming Interface
(API), and/or data mashup that has the
capability to providing GSA with key
insights and recommendations for
future enhancements. GSA will
challenge software developers and
designers to create a solution using
sample GSA data.
DATES: Registration for the event will
close Tuesday, May 5, at 11:59 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time (EST). The
competition will be open on Friday,
May 8, 2015 from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30
p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST).
SUMMARY:
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Registration: Registration
for this event will be accomplished
online at the following link: https://
www.eventbrite.com/e/us-generalservices-administration-gsa-hack-athon-tickets-15637828165. The event
space is limited to the first 120 people;
once registration is complete,
participants will receive a confirmation
email.
Event Location: 1800 F Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20405, Conference
Center. A government-issued ID shall be
required to gain access into the
building. All participants must enter
through the main entrance located on
18th Street.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Cindy A. Smith at cindya.smith@gsa.gov
or 816–823–5291.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose: In this competition, the
public is asked to develop a technologydriven solution using GSA data that
allows an agency to identify
opportunities for improvements and
transparency. As such, GSA challenges
the public to create a solution using
GSA data that could be replicated across
government to every agency, using their
own data. Sample data sets with GSA
data will be provided.
Details of Challenge: Design and
create a digital interactive solution in
the form of an application, Application
Programming Interface (API), and/or
data mashup that utilizes federal data
collected by GSA. The technology
solution should be innovative! GSA
does not want an analysis tool that tells
what is already known. This should be
a forward-thinking solution that
enhances transparency.
The solution should be a data-driven
solution to provide meaningful insights
that can help drive smarter decisions by
federal employees. The ultimate goal is
to help federal agencies use data to its
fullest, share data with all agencies, and
become transparent to the American
Public.
The solution should accomplish two
tasks:
1. Visually display or transmit data in
a way that will enhance the way GSA
works; and
2. Through analysis of the data
identify relationships if they exist, and
provide valuable insights that could be
gained through improved data
collection efforts.
GSA will assign teams randomly
based on the number of participants on
the day of the event. No pre-determined
team arrangements will be permitted.
Modification to team make-up may
occur based on team skill make-up at
the direction of the competition host.
ADDRESSES:
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Data: Participants will be provided
current GSA public data sets to use in
designing their solution on the day of
the event. Prior to the event, the GitHub
page, open.gsa.gov/Digital-InnovationHackathon/, will be updated with
project details and criteria.
Hackathon projects may include the
following:
• IAE CO Dashboard—A Dashboard
that pulls together Contract Report Data,
with Vendor information along with
Contract Performance information in
one location.
• Travel Tool—Improvements/
Enhancements to the existing Tool.
• Public Data Listing Formatting on
GitHub—A new way to view all of
GSA’s data assets.
• Socio-Economic Advisor—Access
to specific Vendor data (Products,
Services, etc.).
• Energy Use/Cost by Building/Effect
on TSS—Identify drivers and
relationships.
Eligibility for Challenge: Eligibility to
participate in the GSA Digital
Innovation and Strategy competition
and win a prize is limited to entities/
individuals:
1. That have registered to participate
in the competition and complied with
the rules of the competition as
explained in this posting; and
2. That have been incorporated in and
maintains a primary place of business in
the United States, and in the case of an
individual, whether participating singly
or in a group, the participant must be a
citizen or permanent resident of the
United States.
Participants may not be a federal
entity or federal employee acting within
the scope of employment. However, an
individual or entity shall not be deemed
ineligible because the individual or
entity used federal facilities or
consulted with federal employees
during a competition if the facilities and
employees are made available to all
individuals and entities participating in
the competition on an equitable basis.
Participants agree to assume any and
all risks and waive claims against the
Federal Government and its related
entities, except in the case of willful
misconduct, for any injury, death,
damage, or loss of property, revenue, or
profits, whether direct, indirect, or
consequential, arising from
participation in this competition,
whether the injury, death, damage, or
loss arose through negligence or
otherwise. Participants also agree to
obtain liability insurance or
demonstrate financial responsibility, to
cover a third party for death, bodily
injury, property damage, or loss
resulting from an activity carried out in
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connection with participation in this
competition.
Participants are hereby advised that
diligent care must be taken to avoid the
appearance of government endorsement
of competition participation and
submission. Moreover, as is customary
when doing business with the Federal
Government, participants may not refer
to GSA’s use of your submission (be it
product or service) in any commercial
advertising or similar promotions in a
manner that states or implies that the
product or service being used is
endorsed or preferred by GSA or any
other element of the Federal
Government, or that the Federal
Government considers it to be superior
to other products or services. The intent
of this policy is to prevent the
appearance of Federal Government bias
toward any one product or service.
Participants agree that GSA’s
trademarks, logos, service marks, trade
names, or the fact that GSA awarded a
prize to a Participant, shall not be used
by the Participant to imply direct GSA
endorsement of Participant or
Participant’s submission. Both
Participants and GSA may list the other
party’s name in a publicly available
customer or other list so long as the
name is not displayed in a more
prominent fashion than any other thirdparty name.
Prizes: GSA may award up to three
team prizes $1,000 to each member of a
winning team. GSA is not required to
award all prizes if the judges determine
that a smaller number of entries meet
the scope and requirements laid out for
this competition, or if the Agency plans
to only use code from a smaller number
of entries. Funding for this GSA Digital
Innovation and Strategy competition
award will come from GSA. Prizes will
be awarded to the winner(s) of the
competition via Electronic Funds
Transfer (EFT), within 60 days of
announcement of the winner(s).
Requirements: The final solution
should be open source code and placed
on GSA’s GitHub site to be specified to
participants the day of the event. ‘‘Open
source’’ refers to a program in which the
source code is available to the general
public for use and/or modification from
its original design free of charge. In
order to be Open Source Initiative
Certified, the solution must meet the
following ten criteria:
1. The author or holder of the license
of the source code cannot collect
royalties on the distribution of the
program;
2. The distributed program must make
the source code accessible to the user;
3. The author must allow
modifications and derivations of the
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work under the program’s original
name;
4. No person, group, or field of
endeavor can be denied access to the
program;
5. The rights attached to the program
must not depend on the program being
part of a particular software
distribution;
6. The licensed software cannot place
restrictions on other software that is
distributed with it;
7. The solution must be an online,
interactive solution that meets the goals
and objectives provided in this
document;
8. The solution must include
documentation of all data sources used;
9. The solution must include a
description of how the solution can be
updated with additional data from other
agencies; and
10. The solver must provide
recommendations to enhance
Government insights through
improvements in data collection.
The winner(s) of the competition will,
in consideration of the prize(s) to be
awarded, grant to GSA a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free license to use any
and all intellectual property to the
winning entry for any governmental
purpose, including the right to permit
such use by any other agency or
agencies of the Federal Government. All
other rights of the winning entrant will
be retained by the winner of the
competition.
Scope: Any federal data and
information that is publicly available is
included in the scope of this challenge.
Summary-level sample data will be
provided.
Judges: There will be three Judges,
each with expertise in GovernmentWide Policy, Travel, Information
Technology, and/or Acquisition. Judges
will award a score to each submission.
The winner(s) of the competition will be
decided based on the highest average
overall score. Judges will only
participate in judging submissions for
which they do not have any conflicts of
interest.
Judging Criteria: A panel of judges
will assess each solution based on
technical competence and capabilities,
use of GSA data to provide effective
outcomes, creativity/innovation, and
valuable information and insights.
Submissions will be judged based on
the following Metrics:
Criteria Technical Competence and
Capabilities/Weight 50%
Description—The solution addresses
the primary goals of the Hack-a-thon. It
is a finished product that can provide
insightful analysis and show GSA how
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to enhance/improve existing functions,
share data across GSA and more
efficiently utilize existing applications.
Use of Data To Provide Effective
Outcomes/Weight 20%
Description—The solution displays in
a way that is easy to understand,
visually appealing, and will help drive
understanding of current trends as well
as recommendations.
Creativity/Innovation/Weight 10%
Description—The solution exceeds
any internal capability that GSA has for
analysis of data through its
incorporation of creative design
elements and innovative capabilities.
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Valuable Information and Insights
Regarding Data/Weight 20%
Description—The solver provides
recommendations for additional data
elements to be collected by the
government. The solver identifies gaps
in the data and utilizes external data
sources and research to aid the
Government in setting future data
collection policies.
Challenge Goal and Objectives
Goal: Design and build an
application, API, and/or data mashup
while using GSA data that solves one of
five GSA business problems provided at
the Hack-a-thon.
Objectives:
—Utilize GSA data to create an
application, API, and/or data mashup.
—Provide GSA a better understanding
of use and needs of current and future
data assets.
—Post all open source solutions on
GitHub for future use by the
government developer community
and GSA.
Registration: Registration for this
event will be accomplished online at the
following link: https://
www.eventbrite.com/e/us-generalservices-administration-gsa-hack-athon-tickets-15637828165. It shall
remain open until Tuesday, May 5,
2015, at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard
Time (EST). The event space is limited
to the first 120 people; once registration
is complete you shall receive a
confirmation email.
All participants are required to check
in with Security upon arriving at the
GSA Central Office Building, 1800 F
Street NW., Washington, DC 20405. A
government-issued ID is required to gain
access into the building. All participants
must enter through the main entrance
located on 18th Street.
Proceed through Security and follow
the posted signs to the Conference
Center, Rooms 1459–1461.
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Check in at the Registration table on
Friday, May 8, 2015, beginning at 9:00
a.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST). All
participants must stop here to sign the
required forms shown below:
• Gratuitous Service Agreement.
should be directed to the Attention:
CDC Desk Officer, Office of Management
and Budget, Washington, DC 20503 or
by fax to (202) 395–5806. Written
comments should be received within 30
days of this notice.
Dated: April 22, 2015.
Kris Rowley,
Director, Enterprise Information & Data Mgmt
Ofc.
Proposed Project
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Prevention (CDC) has submitted the
following information collection request
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. The notice for
the proposed information collection is
published to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies.
Written comments and suggestions
from the public and affected agencies
concerning the proposed collection of
information are encouraged. Your
comments should address any of the
following: (a) Evaluate whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of the agencies estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; (d) Minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated,
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Network (EHS–NET) Program (OMB No.
0920–0792, expired 1/31/2015)—
Reinstatement—National Center for
Environmental Health (NCEH), Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Background and Brief Description
The CDC is requesting OMB approval
for a reinstatement (with changes) of
this generic information collection plan.
Due to the uncertainty about whether
the EHS-Net program would receive
continued funding, NCEH submitted a
discontinuation request for this plan on
January 23, 2015. This reinstatement
will provide clearance for EHS-Net data
collections conducted in the next three
years to support a research program
focused on identifying the
environmental causes of foodborne
illness.
This program is conducted by the
Environmental Health Specialists
Network (EHS-Net), a collaborative
project of CDC, the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), the United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA), and
local and state sites. To date, EHS-Net
has conducted four studies under this
generic information collection plan. The
data from these studies have yielded
valuable findings and have been
disseminated to environmental public
health/food safety regulatory programs
and the food industry in the form of
presentations at conferences and
meetings, scientific journal
publications, and Web site postings.
NCEH intends to conduct EHS-Net
data collections from 2015 through 2018
(approximately one per year). The
program is revising the generic
information collection request (ICR) to
account for a likely change in the
participating sites, to reduce the
estimated burden, and to eliminate
ineffective sample weighting analyses.
Reducing foodborne illness first
requires identification and
understanding of the environmental
factors that cause these illnesses. We
need to know how and why food
becomes contaminated with foodborne
illness pathogens. This information can
then be used to determine effective food
safety prevention methods. The purpose
of this food safety research program is
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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
[Notice-IDMO-2015-01; Docket No. 2015-0002; Sequence 7]
GSA's Digital Innovation and Strategy Hack-A-Thon
AGENCY: General Services Administration (GSA), GSA IT, Office of
Digital Innovation and Strategy.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is to announce a software
programming and data innovation competition hosted by GSA's Office of
Digital Innovation and Strategy that will be held on May 8, 2015. The
competition details can be viewed at https://open.gsa.gov/Digital-Innovation-Hackathon/. The goal of this competition is to ask the
public and academia to develop smart technology solutions in the form
of an application, Application Programming Interface (API), and/or data
mashup that has the capability to providing GSA with key insights and
recommendations for future enhancements. GSA will challenge software
developers and designers to create a solution using sample GSA data.
DATES: Registration for the event will close Tuesday, May 5, at 11:59
p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST). The competition will be open on
Friday, May 8, 2015 from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Eastern Standard
Time (EST).
ADDRESSES: Registration: Registration for this event will be
accomplished online at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/us-general-services-administration-gsa-hack-a-thon-tickets-15637828165. The event space is limited to the first 120 people; once
registration is complete, participants will receive a confirmation
email.
Event Location: 1800 F Street NW., Washington, DC 20405, Conference
Center. A government-issued ID shall be required to gain access into
the building. All participants must enter through the main entrance
located on 18th Street.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Cindy A. Smith at
cindya.smith@gsa.gov or 816-823-5291.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose: In this competition, the public is asked to develop a
technology-driven solution using GSA data that allows an agency to
identify opportunities for improvements and transparency. As such, GSA
challenges the public to create a solution using GSA data that could be
replicated across government to every agency, using their own data.
Sample data sets with GSA data will be provided.
Details of Challenge: Design and create a digital interactive
solution in the form of an application, Application Programming
Interface (API), and/or data mashup that utilizes federal data
collected by GSA. The technology solution should be innovative! GSA
does not want an analysis tool that tells what is already known. This
should be a forward-thinking solution that enhances transparency.
The solution should be a data-driven solution to provide meaningful
insights that can help drive smarter decisions by federal employees.
The ultimate goal is to help federal agencies use data to its fullest,
share data with all agencies, and become transparent to the American
Public.
The solution should accomplish two tasks:
1. Visually display or transmit data in a way that will enhance the
way GSA works; and
2. Through analysis of the data identify relationships if they
exist, and provide valuable insights that could be gained through
improved data collection efforts.
GSA will assign teams randomly based on the number of participants
on the day of the event. No pre-determined team arrangements will be
permitted. Modification to team make-up may occur based on team skill
make-up at the direction of the competition host.
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Data: Participants will be provided current GSA public data sets to
use in designing their solution on the day of the event. Prior to the
event, the GitHub page, open.gsa.gov/Digital-Innovation-Hackathon/,
will be updated with project details and criteria.
Hackathon projects may include the following:
IAE CO Dashboard--A Dashboard that pulls together Contract
Report Data, with Vendor information along with Contract Performance
information in one location.
Travel Tool--Improvements/Enhancements to the existing
Tool.
Public Data Listing Formatting on GitHub--A new way to
view all of GSA's data assets.
Socio-Economic Advisor--Access to specific Vendor data
(Products, Services, etc.).
Energy Use/Cost by Building/Effect on TSS--Identify
drivers and relationships.
Eligibility for Challenge: Eligibility to participate in the GSA
Digital Innovation and Strategy competition and win a prize is limited
to entities/individuals:
1. That have registered to participate in the competition and
complied with the rules of the competition as explained in this
posting; and
2. That have been incorporated in and maintains a primary place of
business in the United States, and in the case of an individual,
whether participating singly or in a group, the participant must be a
citizen or permanent resident of the United States.
Participants may not be a federal entity or federal employee acting
within the scope of employment. However, an individual or entity shall
not be deemed ineligible because the individual or entity used federal
facilities or consulted with federal employees during a competition if
the facilities and employees are made available to all individuals and
entities participating in the competition on an equitable basis.
Participants agree to assume any and all risks and waive claims
against the Federal Government and its related entities, except in the
case of willful misconduct, for any injury, death, damage, or loss of
property, revenue, or profits, whether direct, indirect, or
consequential, arising from participation in this competition, whether
the injury, death, damage, or loss arose through negligence or
otherwise. Participants also agree to obtain liability insurance or
demonstrate financial responsibility, to cover a third party for death,
bodily injury, property damage, or loss resulting from an activity
carried out in connection with participation in this competition.
Participants are hereby advised that diligent care must be taken to
avoid the appearance of government endorsement of competition
participation and submission. Moreover, as is customary when doing
business with the Federal Government, participants may not refer to
GSA's use of your submission (be it product or service) in any
commercial advertising or similar promotions in a manner that states or
implies that the product or service being used is endorsed or preferred
by GSA or any other element of the Federal Government, or that the
Federal Government considers it to be superior to other products or
services. The intent of this policy is to prevent the appearance of
Federal Government bias toward any one product or service. Participants
agree that GSA's trademarks, logos, service marks, trade names, or the
fact that GSA awarded a prize to a Participant, shall not be used by
the Participant to imply direct GSA endorsement of Participant or
Participant's submission. Both Participants and GSA may list the other
party's name in a publicly available customer or other list so long as
the name is not displayed in a more prominent fashion than any other
third-party name.
Prizes: GSA may award up to three team prizes $1,000 to each member
of a winning team. GSA is not required to award all prizes if the
judges determine that a smaller number of entries meet the scope and
requirements laid out for this competition, or if the Agency plans to
only use code from a smaller number of entries. Funding for this GSA
Digital Innovation and Strategy competition award will come from GSA.
Prizes will be awarded to the winner(s) of the competition via
Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), within 60 days of announcement of the
winner(s).
Requirements: The final solution should be open source code and
placed on GSA's GitHub site to be specified to participants the day of
the event. ``Open source'' refers to a program in which the source code
is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its
original design free of charge. In order to be Open Source Initiative
Certified, the solution must meet the following ten criteria:
1. The author or holder of the license of the source code cannot
collect royalties on the distribution of the program;
2. The distributed program must make the source code accessible to
the user;
3. The author must allow modifications and derivations of the work
under the program's original name;
4. No person, group, or field of endeavor can be denied access to
the program;
5. The rights attached to the program must not depend on the
program being part of a particular software distribution;
6. The licensed software cannot place restrictions on other
software that is distributed with it;
7. The solution must be an online, interactive solution that meets
the goals and objectives provided in this document;
8. The solution must include documentation of all data sources
used;
9. The solution must include a description of how the solution can
be updated with additional data from other agencies; and
10. The solver must provide recommendations to enhance Government
insights through improvements in data collection.
The winner(s) of the competition will, in consideration of the
prize(s) to be awarded, grant to GSA a perpetual, non-exclusive,
royalty-free license to use any and all intellectual property to the
winning entry for any governmental purpose, including the right to
permit such use by any other agency or agencies of the Federal
Government. All other rights of the winning entrant will be retained by
the winner of the competition.
Scope: Any federal data and information that is publicly available
is included in the scope of this challenge. Summary-level sample data
will be provided.
Judges: There will be three Judges, each with expertise in
Government-Wide Policy, Travel, Information Technology, and/or
Acquisition. Judges will award a score to each submission. The
winner(s) of the competition will be decided based on the highest
average overall score. Judges will only participate in judging
submissions for which they do not have any conflicts of interest.
Judging Criteria: A panel of judges will assess each solution based
on technical competence and capabilities, use of GSA data to provide
effective outcomes, creativity/innovation, and valuable information and
insights.
Submissions will be judged based on the following Metrics:
Criteria Technical Competence and Capabilities/Weight 50%
Description--The solution addresses the primary goals of the Hack-
a-thon. It is a finished product that can provide insightful analysis
and show GSA how
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to enhance/improve existing functions, share data across GSA and more
efficiently utilize existing applications.
Use of Data To Provide Effective Outcomes/Weight 20%
Description--The solution displays in a way that is easy to
understand, visually appealing, and will help drive understanding of
current trends as well as recommendations.
Creativity/Innovation/Weight 10%
Description--The solution exceeds any internal capability that GSA
has for analysis of data through its incorporation of creative design
elements and innovative capabilities.
Valuable Information and Insights Regarding Data/Weight 20%
Description--The solver provides recommendations for additional
data elements to be collected by the government. The solver identifies
gaps in the data and utilizes external data sources and research to aid
the Government in setting future data collection policies.
Challenge Goal and Objectives
Goal: Design and build an application, API, and/or data mashup
while using GSA data that solves one of five GSA business problems
provided at the Hack-a-thon.
Objectives:
--Utilize GSA data to create an application, API, and/or data mashup.
--Provide GSA a better understanding of use and needs of current and
future data assets.
--Post all open source solutions on GitHub for future use by the
government developer community and GSA.
Registration: Registration for this event will be accomplished
online at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/us-general-services-administration-gsa-hack-a-thon-tickets-15637828165. It shall
remain open until Tuesday, May 5, 2015, at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Standard
Time (EST). The event space is limited to the first 120 people; once
registration is complete you shall receive a confirmation email.
All participants are required to check in with Security upon
arriving at the GSA Central Office Building, 1800 F Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20405. A government-issued ID is required to gain access
into the building. All participants must enter through the main
entrance located on 18th Street.
Proceed through Security and follow the posted signs to the
Conference Center, Rooms 1459-1461.
Check in at the Registration table on Friday, May 8, 2015,
beginning at 9:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST). All participants
must stop here to sign the required forms shown below:
Gratuitous Service Agreement.
Dated: April 22, 2015.
Kris Rowley,
Director, Enterprise Information & Data Mgmt Ofc.
[FR Doc. 2015-09843 Filed 4-27-15; 8:45 am]
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