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Exploring Climate Change through Science and in Society

An anthology of Mike Hulme's essays, interviews and speeches

By: Mike Hulme

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Exploring Climate Change through Science and in Society

An anthology of Mike Hulme's essays, interviews and speeches

By: Mike Hulme

Mike Hulme has been studying climate change for over thirty years and is today one of the most distinctive and recognisable voices speaking internationally about climate change in the academy, in public and in the media. The argument that he has made powerfully over the last few years is that climate change has to be understood as much as an idea situated in different cultural contexts as it is as a physical phenomenon to be studied through universal scientific practices. Climate change at its core embraces both science and society, both knowledge and culture. Hulme’s numerous academic and popular writings have explored what this perspective means for the different ways climate change is studied, narrated, argued over and acted upon. Exploring Climate Change through Science and in Society gathers together for the first time a collection of his most popular, prominent and controversial articles, essays, speeches, interviews and reviews dating back to the late 1980s. The 50 or so short items are grouped together in seven themes - Science, Researching, Culture, Policy, Communicating, Controversy, Futures - and within each theme are arranged chronologically to reveal changing ideas, evidence and perspectives about climate change. Each themed section is preceded with a brief introduction, drawing out the main issues examined. Three substantive unpublished new essays have been specially written for the book, including one reflecting on the legacy of Climategate. Taken as a collection, these writings reveal the changes in scientific and public understandings of climate change since the late 1980s, as refracted through the mind and expression of one leading academic and public commentator. The collection shows the many different ways in which it is necessary to approach the idea of climate change to interpret and make sense of the divergent and discordant voices proclaiming it in the public sphere.

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Routledge

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1135089833

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9781135089832

Weathered

Cultures of Climate

By: Mike Hulme

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Weathered

Cultures of Climate

By: Mike Hulme

Climate is an enduring idea of the human mind and also a powerful one. Today, the idea of climate is most commonly associated with the discourse of climate-change and its scientific, political, economic, social, religious and ethical dimensions. However, to understand adequately the cultural politics of climate-change it is important to establish the different origins of the idea of climate itself and the range of historical, political and cultural work that the idea of climate accomplishes. In Weathered: Cultures of Climate, distinguished professor Mike Hulme opens up the many ways in which the idea of climate is given shape and meaning in different human cultures – how climates are historicized, known, changed, lived with, blamed, feared, represented, predicted, governed and, at least putatively, re-designed.

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1473959039

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Why We Disagree about Climate Change

Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity

By: Mike Hulme

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Why We Disagree about Climate Change

Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity

By: Mike Hulme

Climate change is not 'a problem' waiting for 'a solution'. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity's place on Earth. Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as an international climate change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique insider's account of the emergence of this phenomenon and the diverse ways in which it is understood. He uses different standpoints from science, economics, faith, psychology, communication, sociology, politics and development to explain why we disagree about climate change. In this way he shows that climate change, far from being simply an 'issue' or a 'threat', can act as a catalyst to revise our perception of our place in the world. Why We Disagree About Climate Change is an important contribution to the ongoing debate over climate change and its likely impact on our lives.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107268893

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Can Science Fix Climate Change?

A Case Against Climate Engineering

By: Mike Hulme

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Can Science Fix Climate Change?

A Case Against Climate Engineering

By: Mike Hulme

Climate change seems to be an insurmountable problem. Political solutions have so far had little impact. Some scientists are now advocating the so-called 'Plan B', a more direct way of reducing the rate of future warming by reflecting more sunlight back to space, creating a thermostat in the sky. In this book, Mike Hulme argues against this kind of hubristic techno-fix. Drawing upon a distinguished career studying the science, politics and ethics of climate change, he shows why using science to fix the global climate is undesirable, ungovernable and unattainable. Science and technology should instead serve the more pragmatic goals of increasing societal resilience to weather risks, improving regional air quality and driving forward an energy technology transition. Seeking to reset the planet’s thermostat is not the answer.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745685269

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The Transformation of Initial Teacher Education

The Changing Nature of Teacher Training

By: Ian Abbott,Mike Rathbone,Philip Whitehead

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The Transformation of Initial Teacher Education

The Changing Nature of Teacher Training

By: Ian Abbott,Mike Rathbone,Philip Whitehead

Tracing the development of initial teacher education since the large-scale expansion of the teaching profession after the Second World War to the present day, The Transformation of Initial Teacher Education explores the changing nature of teacher training. Examining the growth of the ‘teaching industry’, this book addresses key issues including: the return to an apprentice model the growing importance of schools in initial teacher training the continuing decline in the role played by higher education an examination of the broader socio-economic context of increased marketisiation a reconsideration of the international political factors driving the reform process; and interviews with prominent individuals who have been involved with the development of policy Considering the ideas and ideals that have permeated teacher education and how these have shaped the experiences of trainees on a variety of programmes across a broader international context, this book examines the future of teacher education and the changing nature of teaching, providing essential insight for trainee teachers, school staff and any academics involved in teacher education.

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Routledge

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0429755376

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The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy

By: Mike Ashley

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The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy

By: Mike Ashley

A new and truly awesome collection of comic fantasy masterpieces! It isn't often you find a posse of Greek goddesses putting down insurrection among unruly classical mortals, stranded aliens escaping earth in a church converted into a rocket, or a light-fingered time-traveller attempting to steal the universe - but here they all are, in another selection of bizarre comic fantasies.

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1472114930

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9781472114938

Houston's Sporting Life

1900-1950

By: Mike Vance

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Houston's Sporting Life

1900-1950

By: Mike Vance

Houston has been a sports-crazy town since its founding in 1836 when the biggest pastime was watching the horse races held south of what was then the capitol of Texas. By 1900, spectators and athletes alike enjoyed the team sports played at every school in the city and suburbs. Companies competed with one another in baseball, basketball, and track. Boxing gyms dotted the wards, and downtown boasted billiard halls, bowling alleys, and indoor shooting galleries. There was also hunting and fishing, auto racing, swimming, and hockey at the Polar Wave, a mid-century indoor ice rink. This book presents a history of how Houstonians competed, where their recreation took them, and how they enjoyed a potential 12 months of "outdoor" weather. The 20th century was a fun and vibrant time for both fans and participants in the sporting and outdoor life of Houston, and many of today's fans of sports and local history look back on Houston's sporting past with a sense of nostalgia.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738579742

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SENCTIONED

By: Mike Scantlebury

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SENCTIONED

By: Mike Scantlebury

Not another Election!" The Prime Minister of Britain has called yet another General Election in the middle of 2017, less than two years since the last one. Mickey is summoned into action to defend candidates and preserve democracy, but where is his usual team? Where are his trusted colleagues? Why has Melia disappeared? Caulfield been transferred? Why is Liv been sent to a Mental Hospital? And who is 'Gulf', and why is he plotting against the Corsch Corporation? All that, all of it, can't have anything to do with votes, surely! After all, Mickey's boss, Captain Gibson, doesn't seem to be worried about any of those mundane, everyday things. He feels more threatened by the British Army and their plans for an immediate coup to replace whatever government there is, elected or not - without a popular vote! Britain today. Who had any idea that things had got so bad, or that they are just about to get worse. For everyone.

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0244132283

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Exploring Climate Change through Science and in Society

An anthology of Mike Hulme's essays, interviews and speeches

By: Mike Hulme

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An anthology of Mike Hulme's essays, interviews and speeches

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1135089825

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Bucks County Trolleys

By: Mike Szilagyi

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Bucks County Trolleys

By: Mike Szilagyi

Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was once served by 120 miles of trolley lines. During the decades spanning the 1890s to 1950s, a variety of trolley cars glided through Bucks County's towns and countryside, beginning with Langhorne's quaint open streetcars and culminating with streamlined interurbans streaking across open fields from Sellersville to Quakertown at 80 miles per hour. The trolleys were powered by electricity, with the line stretching north from Doylestown energized by renewable hydroelectric power generated by the Delaware Canal. Before automobiles and trucks were commonplace, and before roads were paved, the rapid, convenient electric trolley was the best mode of travel for both passengers and freight shipments. Although the trolleys have almost completely disappeared today, the photographs on these pages provide rare glimpses of a long-lost mode of travel and charming scenes of Bucks County's soon-to-be-altered landscapes.

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1439671494

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The Making of Manchester

By: Mike Fletcher

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The Making of Manchester

By: Mike Fletcher

A concise history of the Northern English city from its Roman origins to today’s metropolitan hub. In The Making of Manchester, author Mike Fletcher shows how this thriving city has made and re-made itself through the centuries. Beginning as a Roman settlement anchored by the fort of Mancunium, it was later conquered by the Anglo-Saxons, who renamed the region Manchester, meaning “Men of the Fort.” In the Medieval and Early Modern periods, Manchester survived hostile forces of all kinds, from the English Civil Wars to the rising of the Jacobites. Yet Manchester changed its image during the Industrial Revolution, becoming Cottonpolis, and the center of the canal and railway network. Yet along with prosperity, the city faced hardship and poverty which lingered well into the twentieth century.

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Casemate Publishers

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1783379006

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Christmas on the Home Front

By: Mike Brown

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Christmas on the Home Front

By: Mike Brown

Drawing upon personal recollections, contemporary Mass Observation reports, newspaper articles and advertisements, personal and archive photographs, Mike Brown and Carol Harris look at each wartime Christmas on the British Home Front, from 1939 to 1944.

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The History Press

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0752495488

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History and Topography of Yorkshire, Volume II, 1867

By: Mike Thornton

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History and Topography of Yorkshire, Volume II, 1867

By: Mike Thornton

This is a reprint in A4 format of Volume II of the History and Topography of Yorkshire by J. J. Sheahan and T. Whellan, a work originally published in 1856. The original was in two volumes. Volume I was about York and the Ainsty Wapentake. This is a new version of the 1867 reprint of Volume II, which was about the East Riding of Yorkshire. References to page numbers within this volume have been corrected to agree with the new size. References to Volume I quote the page numbers of a similarly sized reprinted book, also available.

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1326570420

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Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World

By: Mike Bottery

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Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World

By: Mike Bottery

Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World argues that current crises in educational policies and practice, including the recruitment and retention of educational leaders, ultimately derive from the interactions between four key challenges which also underpin current global and societal issues of sustainability: A culture of consumption Global energy demands Climate change Emerging population patterns Mike Bottery argues that problems in dealing with these four global challenges, as well as many crises in education, are in large part due to a failure to appreciate their complex interactions and effects, and of the need for sufficiently complex responses. The result is that many policies in many areas hinder rather than facilitate appropriate solutions. However, by showing that the dynamics of crises in educational sustainability have many similarities to those of global systems, this book argues that the adoption of a number of core practices and values can help educational leaders develop greater sustainability, not only in their own area of activity but can also help them make a valuable contribution to greater sustainability at the global level as well.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472568273

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Climate Change

By: Mike Hulme

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Climate Change

By: Mike Hulme

Written by a leading geographer of climate, this book offers a unique guide to students and general readers alike for making sense of this profound, far-reaching, and contested idea. It presents climate change as an idea with a past, a present, and a future. In ten carefully crafted chapters, Climate Change offers a synoptic and inter-disciplinary understanding of the idea of climate change from its varied historical and cultural origins; to its construction more recently through scientific endeavour; to the multiple ways in which political, social, and cultural movements in today’s world seek to make sense of and act upon it; to the possible futures of climate, however it may be governed and imagined. The central claim of the book is that the full breadth and power of the idea of climate change can only be grasped from a vantage point that embraces the social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. This vantage point is what the book offers, written from the perspective of a geographer whose career work on climate change has drawn across the full range of academic disciplines. The book highlights the work of leading geographers in relation to climate change; examples, illustrations, and case study boxes are drawn from different cultures around the world, and questions are posed for use in class discussions. The book is written as a student text, suitable for disciplinary and inter-disciplinary undergraduate and graduate courses that embrace climate change from within social science and humanities disciplines. Science students studying climate change on inter-disciplinary programmes will also benefit from reading it, as too will the general reader looking for a fresh and distinctive account of climate change.

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Routledge

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1000413233

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Weathered

Cultures of Climate

By: Mike Hulme

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Weathered

Cultures of Climate

By: Mike Hulme

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1473959039

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Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations

Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century

By: Peter Barberis,John McHugh,Mike Tyldesley

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Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations

Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century

By: Peter Barberis,John McHugh,Mike Tyldesley

This major, authoritative reference work embraces the spectrum of organized political activity in the British Isles. It includes over 2,500 organizations in 1,700 separate entries. Arrangement is in 20 main subject sections, covering the three main p

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0826458149

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Globalization and Belonging

By: Mike Savage,Gaynor Bagnall,Brian J Longhurst

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Globalization and Belonging

By: Mike Savage,Gaynor Bagnall,Brian J Longhurst

′Globalization and Belonging′s headline message - that place matters, that locality remains vital to people, is arresting′ - Frank Webster, Professor of Sociology, City University, London Drawing on long-term empirical research into cultural practices, lifestyles and identities, Globalization and Belonging explores how far-reaching global changes are articulated locally. The authors address key sociological issues of stratification as analysis alongside ′cultural′ issues of identity, difference, choice and lifestyle. Their original argument: " Shows how globalisation theory conceives of the ′local′ " Reveals that people have a sense of elective belonging based on where they choose to put down roots " Suggests that the feel of a place is much more strongly influenced by the values and lifestyles of those migrating to it " reinvigorates debates in urban and community studies by recovering the ′local′ as an intrinsic aspect of globalisation Theoretically rigorous, the book is brought to life with direct quotations from the authors′ research, and appeals to students in urban sociology, urban geography, media studies and cultural studies.

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1412933374

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Why We Disagree about Climate Change

Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity

By: Mike Hulme

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Why We Disagree about Climate Change

Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity

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Cambridge University Press

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The Beatles' Liverpool

Discover the stories behind 50 iconic locations

By: Mike Haskins

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The Beatles' Liverpool

Discover the stories behind 50 iconic locations

By: Mike Haskins

Explore 'Beatle Land' and the iconic sites associated with The Beatles' fame. The 'Fab Four' – John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr – were all born and brought up in Liverpool, and this illustrated guide reveals why the city was crucial to their musical success. Following in their footsteps around Liverpool and Merseyside, the book explores the places that influenced The Beatles' musical direction and eventual stardom. Discover the significance of the locations behind hit singles such as 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and 'Penny Lane', as well as iconic music venue The Cavern Club. The book's handy location map will guide you to all the sights, including: St Peter's Church where Paul famously first met John, who was playing in his band The Quarrymen in the grounds. The Mersey Ferry which provided a great venue for the Beatles to perform in 1961 and 1962. Strawberry Fields where John visited summer fairs with his aunt, and which was the inspiration behind the hit single 'Strawberry Fields Forever' Penny Lane and its bus roundabout, celebrated in the song with the same name. The Cavern Club, the iconic music venue where The Beatles played 292 times and where Brian Epstein first saw them perform in 1961. John, Paul, George and Ringo's childhood homes. The book also looks at the band's early childhood influences including schools, parents and relatives that left an indelible mark on the character of the boys as they grew up, as well as their manager Brian Epstein's role and influence as another Liverpool lad. Fully illustrated, this is the ultimate Beatles fan's guide to Liverpool.

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Batsford Books

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1841659606

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True Champions

The Good Guys in American Sports Speak Out

By: Mike Towle

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True Champions

The Good Guys in American Sports Speak Out

By: Mike Towle

Presents the views, personas, and stories of twenty-four sports role models who embody what is right about American sports today.

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Summit Publishing Group

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1565301269

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9781565301269

The 1995 Information Please Sports Almanac

By: Mike Meserole

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The 1995 Information Please Sports Almanac

By: Mike Meserole

Widely recognized by sportswriters and fans as the most complete and accurate annual sports record, this sixth edition promises to be the best volume yet. Impeccably researched, it features 64 additional pages and expanded sections on the Winter Olympics and World Cup soccer, 275 photos and cartoons, specially commissioned essays, complete statistics, thumb tabs, and much more.

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Mariner Books

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0395665655

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9780395665657

Blood Rights

By: Mike Phillips

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Blood Rights

By: Mike Phillips

When an old college friend hires journalist Sam Dean to find his missing daughter, the search takes Dean deep into the crime- and drug-ridden underside of London--where kidnapping, blackmail and racial pressures make up the tough, seedy terrain. Martin's.

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0440207029

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