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Wish I Was There

I Was the Golden Girl of British Cinema... and Then My Life Fell to Pieces. This Is My Story

By: Emily Lloyd

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Wish I Was There

I Was the Golden Girl of British Cinema... and Then My Life Fell to Pieces. This Is My Story

By: Emily Lloyd

When Emily Lloyd burst onto the movie scene as a teenager, she was hailed as the next Marilyn Monroe. Her stunning performance as precocious Lynda Mansell in David Leland's Wish You Were Here thrust her into the spotlight, winning her, among other awards, a BAFTA nomination. Hollywood beckoned and Emily landed high-profile roles alongside A-listers like Bruce Willis and, notably, Brad Pitt in A River Runs Through It. However, behind the cheeky grin that seduced Tinseltown, Emily was struggling with a debilitating mental disorder. Now, in her deeply honest autobiography, Emily describes the highs and lows she experienced during her tumultuous acting career"--Publisher's description.

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Kings Road Publishing

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1782197532

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9781782197539

Mallarmé

The Poet and His Circle

By: Rosemary H. Lloyd

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Mallarmé

The Poet and His Circle

By: Rosemary H. Lloyd

Upon his death in 1898, the French Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarmé (b. 1842) left behind a body of published work which though modest in quantity was to have a seminal influence on subsequent poetry and aesthetic theory. He also enjoyed an unparalleled reputation for extending help and encouragement to those who sought him out. Rosemary Lloyd has produced a fascinating literary biography of the poet and his period, offering a subtle exploration of the mind and letters of one of the giants of modern European poetry.Every Tuesday, from the late 1870s on, Mallarmé hosted gatherings that became famous as the "Mardis" and that were attended by a cross section of significant writers, artists, thinkers, and musicians in fin-de-siecle France, England, and Belgium. Through these gatherings and especially through a voluminous correspondence—eventually collected in eleven volumes—Mallarmé developed and recorded his friendships with Paul Valery, Andre Gide, Berthe Morisot, and many others. Attractively written and scrupulously documented, Mallarme: The Poet and His Circle is unique in offering a biographical account of the poet's literary practice and aesthetics which centers on that correspondence.

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Cornell University Press

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1501728210

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9781501728211

The Architecture of the Roman Empire: An introductory study

By: William Lloyd MacDonald,William MacDonald

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The Architecture of the Roman Empire: An introductory study

By: William Lloyd MacDonald,William MacDonald

Examines Roman architecture as a party of overall urban design and looks at arches, public buildings, tombs, columns, stairs, plazas, and streets

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Yale University Press

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0300028199

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9780300028195

Miracle on the 13th Hole

By: Lloyd Lenard

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Miracle on the 13th Hole

By: Lloyd Lenard

Dwight Church, a golf-playing minister in Louisiana, daily dedicates himself to showing people the way to renewal of faith and hope in the Almighty. His indecision concerning whether or not to continue his ministry causes Dwight to be immersed in streams of misery poured onto him by members of his congregation. Throughout the novel, Dwight attempts to maintain his faith while struggling with society's pressures to fulfill his duties as a clergyman. He realizes that like other human beings, ministers must seek renewal of their own faith and hope from a greater power outside themselves.

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Publish America

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1591293499

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9781591293491

Staff Management in Library and Information Work

By: Peter Jordan,Caroline Lloyd

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Staff Management in Library and Information Work

By: Peter Jordan,Caroline Lloyd

This standard text has been fully revised and updated for its fourth edition to reflect continuing technological changes, as well as issues such as social inclusion, lifelong learning and European employment legislation. Chapter 1 on the working environment has been completely rewritten. The present environment brings problems of staff motivation, de-professionalization and the loss of control: Chapter 2 reminds readers of basic motivation theories, now presented in a more logical sequence, and how to deal with such problems. Chapter 3 on workforce planning has been retitled Human Resource Planning and revised to take into account the modes of staffing appropriate for today's turbulent environment. Effective human resource planning requires excellent selection and recruitment procedures: best practice and developments in this area are explored in Chapters 4, Job Descriptions and Person Specifications, and 5, Recruitment and Selection of Staff. In Chapter 6 on staff appraisal more attention has been given to multi-rating approaches, such as 360° whereby different aspects of work can be assessed by different groups of people, and to appraisal of junior by senior staff. The last decade has seen increased emphasis on training and development to deliver high quality services in a climate of constant change. Chapter 7 has therefore been reordered and expanded in order to reflect new approaches and changes in this area. In Chapter 8, Staff Supervision and Interpersonal Skills, recent emphasis on leadership and counselling skills are reflected, as is the growing need to do more with less through enhanced time management and stress management techniques. With this new edition, this core guide brings professionals involved in managing library and information staff up to date with how to cope with the most pressing problems and challenges in today's fast-changing environment.

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Taylor & Francis

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135189837X

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For Duty and Destiny

The Life and Civil War Diary of William Taylor Stott, Hoosier Soldier and Educator

By: Lloyd A. Hunter

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For Duty and Destiny

The Life and Civil War Diary of William Taylor Stott, Hoosier Soldier and Educator

By: Lloyd A. Hunter

William Taylor Stott was a native Hoosier and an 1861 graduate of Franklin College, who later became the president who took the college from virtual bankruptcy in 1872 to its place as a leading liberal arts institution in Indiana. The story of Franklin College is the story of W. T. Stott, yet his influence was not confined to the school’s parameters. Stott was an inspirational and intellectual force in the Indiana Baptist community, and a foremost champion of small denominational colleges and of higher education in general. He also fought in the Eighteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, rising from private to captain by 1863. Stott’s diary reveals a soldier who was also a scholar.

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Indiana Historical Society

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0871953447

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9780871953445

chiseled People

By: allan lloyd trott

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chiseled People

By: allan lloyd trott

Palpitations, sweaty palms, insomnia, bi-polar extremes...the love bug is quite the bitch. So is the inability to stay away when you know better. Call it weakness or stupidity, call it anything but wrong. Dormancy, remission, whatever, Dawn and Marvin hadn't come down with this ailment for the longest time. How'd they relapse? Who knows. Some things have no causation, only the soul version of predisposition. Two factors were Dawn coming back to town for a visit and Marvin having never left. More factors were Dawn's nose for bad decisions, her hair of cascade, her wild soul, all that. That Renaissance body. Marvin's eye for all that. Also his passion for sculpture, his librarian-next-door-ness, and their back story coming to the front Let's see if they take proper precautions or embrace temptations like making that phone call, skinny dipping in the rain, throwing caution into the wind, and going that extra smile to forego all costs to remedy what ails them.

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Lulu.com

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1365888045

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9781365888045

The Fiction of Geopolitics

Afterimages of Culture, from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock

By: Christopher Lloyd GoGwilt

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The Fiction of Geopolitics

Afterimages of Culture, from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock

By: Christopher Lloyd GoGwilt

Charting the contours of the long turn of the century, from 1860 to 1940, and studying a range of writers, genres, and disciplines, this book moves back and forth from Victorian to modernist fields of study to show how the 19th-century European hypothesis of culture haunts the 20th-century fiction of geopolitics.

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Stanford University Press

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0804737312

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9780804737319

The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume II: a House Dividing Against Itself

1836-1840

By: William Lloyd Garrison

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The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, Volume II: a House Dividing Against Itself

1836-1840

By: William Lloyd Garrison

This volume covers the five-year period in which Garrison's three sons were born and he entered the arena of social reform with full force.

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Harvard University Press

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0674526619

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9780674526617

Eyes and Spies

How You're Tracked and Why You Should Know

By: Tanya Lloyd Kyi

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Eyes and Spies

How You're Tracked and Why You Should Know

By: Tanya Lloyd Kyi

Who is watching you... and why? Written for middle-grade and older readers, Eyes and Spies looks at the way information and data about us is collected and used by individuals, governments, companies, and organizations. Each chapter covers one aspect of the subject, from data collection to computer surveillance to personal privacy. Arguments for both increased security and increased privacy are offered, which encourages readers to think critically about issues and decide for themselves. The book asks three simple questions: Who’s watching, and why? Where is the line between public and private? How can you keep your secrets to yourself? “Creepy Line” sidebars highlight controversial real-life scenarios and ask readers where they would set their own boundaries. Action Alerts encourage readers to find out more about how surveillance & data mining affects them. Other topics include how students are tracked at school; cyberbullying, and cyber safety. Colour illustrations and a dynamic design make this an enlightening and engaging read.

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Annick Press

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1554519128

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9781554519125

The British Seaman 1200-1860

A Social Survey

By: Christopher Lloyd

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The British Seaman 1200-1860

A Social Survey

By: Christopher Lloyd

There are dozens of books on the great figues in naval history such as Drake and Nelson. By contrast very little has appeared in print about the British seaman, without whom there would have been neither merchant ships to sail nor men-of-war to command. Apart from vague ideas about the press gang and the mutinies at Spithead and the Nore more people have little conception of what his life was like, even in such important matters as how he was recruited or paid or fed. His courage, his seamanship, his endurance have always been taken for granted. It is Professor Lloyd's achievement to have rescued hime from anonymity and to have portrayed him in his true colors." -- Taken from the dust jacket.

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Associated University Presse

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0838677088

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9780838677087

Over the Line

By: David Lloyd

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Over the Line

By: David Lloyd

Fifteen-year-old Justin Lyle does not see in himself the qualities he admires in heroes like his paternal grandfather, awarded a medal of honor during World War II, or in the fictional heroes of television and comic books. Growing up in the declining manufacturing town of East Liberty, New York—beset by unemployment, rising crime, and an influx of drugs, and encircled by struggling dairy farms—Justin feels isolated and decidedly unheroic. These feelings are intensified by his parents’ divorce, his longing for an unattainable girl, and the death, eight years previous but still a potent memory, of his infant brother. When Justin steps "over the line" one afternoon, attempting to help the drug-addled girlfriend of an unstable bully, he triggers a series of increasingly perilous encounters. By week’s end, Justin has been drawn into his community’s sinister underworld and compelled to unexpected action and a fresh understanding of the complexities of heroism. The author of Boys: Stories and a Novella, Lloyd again illustrates his pitch-perfect ear for capturing the detached vernacular and emotional angst of adolescence. Lloyd brings to life the trials of a small, Upstate New York town, creating a story that is as real as it is fictional.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815652305

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9780815652304

Sounds Like London

100 Years of Black Music in the Capital

By: Lloyd Bradley

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Sounds Like London

100 Years of Black Music in the Capital

By: Lloyd Bradley

For as long as people have been migrating to London, so has their music. An essential link to home, music also has the power to shape communities in surprising ways. Black music has been part of London's landscape since the First World War, when the Southern Syncopated Orchestra brought jazz to the capital. Following the wave of Commonwealth immigration, its sounds and styles took up residence to become the foundation of the city's youth culture. Sounds Like London tells the story of the music and the larger-than-life characters making it, journeying from Soho jazz clubs to Brixton blues parties to King's Cross warehouse raves to the streets of Notting Hill - and onto sound systems everywhere. As well as a journey through the musical history of London, Sounds Like London is about the shaping of a city, and in turn the whole nation, through music. Contributors include Eddy Grant, Osibisa, Russell Henderson, Dizzee Rascal and Trevor Nelson, with an introduction by Soul2Soul's Jazzie B.

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Profile Books

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1847656501

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9781847656506

Coming Full Circle

From Jim Crow to Journalism

By: Wanda Lloyd

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Coming Full Circle

From Jim Crow to Journalism

By: Wanda Lloyd

“Inspiring reading for aspiring journalists and students of civil rights.” — Kirkus Reviews Wanda Smalls Lloyd’s Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism—with a foreword by best-selling author Tina McElroy Ansa—is the memoir of an African American woman who grew up privileged and educated in the restricted culture of the American South in the 1950s–1960s. Her path was shaped by segregated social, community, and educational systems, religious and home training, a strong cultural foundation, and early leadership opportunities. Despite Jim Crow laws that affected where she lived, how she was educated, and what civil rights she would be denied, Lloyd grew up to realize her childhood dream of working as a professional journalist. In fact, she would eventually hold some of the nation’s highest-ranking newspaper editorial positions and become one of the first African American women to be the top editor of a mainstream daily newspaper. Along the way she helped her newspapers and other media organizations understand how the lack of newsroom and staff diversity interfered with perceptions of accuracy and balance for their audiences. Her memoir is thus a window on the intersection of race, gender, culture and the media’s role in our uniquely American experiment in democracy. How Lloyd excelled in a profession where high-ranking African American women were rare is a memorable story that will educate, entertain, and inspire. Coming Full Circle is a self-reflective exploration of the author’s life journey from growing up in coastal Savannah, Georgia, to editing roles at seven daily newspapers around the country, and circling back to her retirement in Savannah, where she now teaches journalism to a new generation.

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NewSouth Books

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158838408X

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9781588384089

QI: The Book of the Dead

By: John Lloyd,John Mitchinson

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QI: The Book of the Dead

By: John Lloyd,John Mitchinson

Welcome to QI: The Book of the Dead, a biographical dictionary with a twist - one where only the most interesting people made it in!QI have got together six dozen of the happiest, saddest, maddest and most successful men and women from history. Celebrate their wisdom, learn from their mistakes and marvel at their bad taste in clothes. Hans Christian Anderson was terrified of naked women, Florence Nightingale spent her last fifty years in bed, Sigmund Freud smoked twenty cigars a day, Catherine de Medici applied a daily face mask made of pigeon dung, Rembrandt van Rijn died penniless and Madame Mao banned cicadas, rustling noises and pianos. Carefully collected and ordered by the QI team into themed chapters with thought-provoking titles such as 'There's Nothing Like a Bad Start in Life', 'Man Cannot Live by Bread Alone'. Each chapter reveals hilarious insights into the true nature of the most interesting people who ever lived, including Isaac Newton, Genghis Khan, Sigmund Freud, Florence Nightingale and Karl Marx. From the bestselling authors of The Book of General Ignorance and 1,277 Facts to Knock Your Socks Off, comes a fun and inspirational biographical dictionary, with motivational stories about the famous and the obscure.

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Faber & Faber

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0571255558

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9780571255559

Constant Lambert

Beyond the Rio Grande

By: Stephen Lloyd

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Constant Lambert

Beyond the Rio Grande

By: Stephen Lloyd

To the economist and ballet enthusiast John Maynard Keynes he was potentially the most brilliant man he'd ever met; to Dame Ninette de Valois he was the greatest ballet conductor and advisor this country has ever had; to the composer Denis ApIvor he was the greatest, mostr lovable, and most entertaining personality of the musical world; whilst to the dance critic Clement Crisp he was quite simply a musician of genius. Yet sixty years after his ... death Constant Lambert is little known today. As a composer he is remembered for his jazz-inspired The Rio Grande but little more, and for a man who ... devoted the graeter part of his life to the establishment of English ballet his work is largely unrecognized today. [This book] looks not only at his music but at his journalism, his talks for the BBC, his championing of jazz (in particular, Duke Ellington), and, more privately - his longstanding affair with Margot Fonteyn. ..."--Book jacket.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1843838982

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9781843838982

The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright

Critical Writings on Architecture

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

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The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright

Critical Writings on Architecture

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

Presents a collection of significant writings of Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Princeton University Press

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0691146322

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9780691146324

Golden Days in Jamaica

By: Lloyd Mclean

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Golden Days in Jamaica

By: Lloyd Mclean

Golden Days portrays the experience of a young boy and his friends growing up in Jamaica. This story will bring back memories of the Golden Days to Jamaicans of all ages. Those that grew up in the 40s to the 60s and experienced post World War II, leading to independence of Jamaica. This book will certainly provide an enlightening experience for all ages and will give the younger generation the knowledge of my experiences with my family and friends in the Golden Days.

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1438999240

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9781438999241

Straight Shooter

By: Matthew Lloyd,Andrew Clarke

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Straight Shooter

By: Matthew Lloyd,Andrew Clarke

Matthew Lloyd at his peak was a goal kicking machine in an era where the power forward was fading from the game. A five-time all Australian, he topped the AFL goal kicking three times in his 270 game career and kicked the ton twice, his first in the Essendon Premiership season of 2000. Born into a football family, it was clear early in his career that he had the ability to surpass his father John's 29 games with Carlton. For a while it looked he would head to Carton as well, but Essendon conjured up a complex deal to secure the talented 16-year-old in the 1994 pre-season draft. Brothers Simon and Brad each played football too and are now involved with the Fremantle Football Club, and sister Kylie works on The Footy Show at Channel 9. His mother Bev, even met his father at the football. Sport, and in particular football, was and remains in the blood. This book is the story of a kid driven by a fear of failure to climb the highest peaks in football. Of a young footballer who taught himself a process to become the most accurate shot for goal in the AFL after a tirade from one his coaches. It is how a boy with natural ability became the captain of the Essendon Football Club, a premiership player and a life member of the AFL. And now it is about the transformation into devoted father and a multi-media expert on AFL when it looked like from the outside his career was cut short before its time; of a testy relationship with his final coach and the bone crunching hit that saw him finish his time as a player on suspension. It looks at how he considered a future with other clubs before deciding to retire on his terms. Above all, it is a brutally honest account of an astonishing career from a man who is a straight shooter in more ways than one.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1459624599

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9781459624597

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