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Time, Space, Stars And Man
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Time, Space, Stars and Man: The Story of the Big Bang
Michael M. Woolfson
422 pages
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company (April 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1848162723Most well-read, but non-scientific, people will have heard of the term ‘Big Bang’ as a description of the origin of the Universe. They will recognize that DNA identifies individuals and will know that the origin of life is one of the great unsolved scientific mysteries. This book brings together all of that material. Starting with the creation of space and time – known as the Big Bang – the book traces causally related steps through the formation of matter, of stars and planets, the Earth itself, the evolution of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere, and then through to the beginnings of life and the evolution of man. The material is presented in such a way that an intelligent non-scientist can comprehend it, without using formulae or equations but still preserving the integrity of the involved science.This book does not solve the mysteries of what initiated the Big Bang or how life evolved from inanimate matter, but it does make clear the nature of those problems. The reader will be left with a sense of wonderment that he or she actually exists!
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Biological Anthropology And Ethics: From Repatriation To Gen
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Biological Anthropology and Ethics: From Repatriation to Genetic Identity
* Publisher: State University of New York Press
* Number Of Pages: 368
* Publication Date: 2005-01
* Sales Rank: 224480
* ISBN / ASIN: 079146296X
* EAN: 9780791462966
* Binding: Paperback
* Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
* Studio: State University of New York Press
Book Description:
Biological anthropologists face an array of ethical issues as they engage in fieldwork around the world. In this volume human biologists, geneticists, paleontologists, and primatologists confront their involvement with, and obligations to, their research subjects, their discipline, society, and the environment. Those working with human populations explore such issues as who speaks for a group, community consultation and group consent, the relationship between expatriate communities and the community of origin, and disclosing the identity of both individuals and communities. Those working with skeletal remains discuss issues that include access to and ownership of fossil material. Primatologists are concerned about the well-being of their subjects in laboratory and captive situations, and must address yet another set of issues regarding endangered animal populations and conservation in field situations. The first comprehensive account of the ethical issues facing! biological anthropologists today, Biological Anthropology and Ethics opens the door for discussions of ethical issues in professional life.
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Lucky Luke Comics In Serbian(talicni Tom)
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Lucky Luke
Lucky Luke is a Franco-Belgian comics series created by Morris, and over period written by René Goscinny. Set in the American Old West, it stars the titular character, Lucky Luke, the cowboy known to shoot faster than his shadow.
Along with The Adventures of Tintin and Asterix, Lucky Luke is one of the most popular and best-selling comic-book series in continental Europe, but unlike Tintin and Astérix, despite its popularity in Canada, only a handful of the series’ adventures have been translated into English.
Publication history
First appearance of Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper in Arizona 1880 (1946)
First appearance of Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper in Arizona 1880 (1946)
Both a tribute to the mythic Old West and an affectionate parody, the comics were drawn by the Belgian artist Morris who drew Lucky Luke from 1946 until his death in 2001. The first Lucky Luke adventure named Arizona 1880 appeared in the Almanach issue of the comics magazine Le Journal de Spirou on December 7, 1946. After several years of solitary work the strip, Morris began a collaboration with Rene Goscinny who became the series’ scenarist for a period that is considered the golden age of the series. This started with the story Des rails sur la prairie published on August 25, 1955 in Spirou. Ending a long run of serial publications in Spirou, the series shifted to Goscinny’s magazine Pilote in 1967 with the story Les cousins Dalton, subsequently leaving publisher Dupuis for Dargaud.
After the death of Goscinny in 1977, several scenarists have tried to fill the role of storyteller the Lucky Luke tradition, such as Vicq, Bob de Groot, Jean Léturgie and Lo Hartog Van Banda. In addition to continuing the series, Morris started the related spin-off series Rantanplan in 1987. At the 1993 Angoulême International Comics Festival, Lucky Luke was given an honorary exhibition.
After Morris’ death in 2001, French artist Achdé continued drawing new Lucky Luke stories in collaboration with writer Laurent Gerra.
Plot summary
Luke, drawing a gun faster than his shadow, fights crime and injustice, most often in the form of the bumbling Dalton brothers, Joe, William, Jack and Averell (each one being taller and dumber than the previous one). He rides Jolly Jumper, “the smartest horse in the world”. He is often seen with Rantanplan, “the stupidest dog in the universe”, whose name is a reference to Rin Tin Tin. A cigarette was constantly on Lucky Luke’s lips in the early stories, but in 1983, in reponse to the growing anti-smoking campaign, Morris replaced the cigarette with a piece of straw, which earned him recognition from the World Health Organization.
In the albums, Luke meets many factual Western figures like Calamity Jane, Billy the Kid, Judge Roy Bean and Jesse James’s gang, and takes part in historical endeavors such as guarding of Wells Fargo stagecoaches, the Pony Express, the building of the first transcontinental telegraph, and the Rush into the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma.
At the end of each story, except the earliest, Lucky Luke rides off alone into the sunset, singing (in English) “I’m a poor lonesome cowboy, and a long way from home…”.
Bibliography
* 1. La Mine d’or de ~censored~ Digger, Dupuis, 1949 (~censored~ Digger’s Gold Mine)
* 2. Rodéo, Dupuis, 1949
* 3. Arizona, Dupuis, 1951
* 4. Sous le ciel de l’Ouest, Dupuis, 1952 (Under the Western Sky)
* 5. Lucky Luke contre Pat Poker, Dupuis, 1953 (Lucky Luke versus Pat Poker)
* 6. Hors-la-loi, Dupuis, 1954 (Outlaw)
* 7. L’Élixir du Dr Doxey, Dupuis, 1955 (Dr Doxey’s Elixir)
* 8. Lucky Luke contre Phil Defer, Dupuis, 1956 (Lucky Luke versus Phil Defer – the name Phil Defer a French play on Fil de Fer, Iron Wire)
* 10. Alerte aux Pieds Bleus, Dupuis, 1958 (Beware of the Bluefoots)
* 9. Des rails sur la prairie, Dupuis, 1957 (Rails on the Prairie)
* 11. Lucky Luke contre Joss Jamon, Dupuis, 1958 (Lucky Luke versus Joss Jamon)
* 12. Les Cousins Dalton, Dupuis, 1958 (The Dalton Cousins)
* 13. Le Juge, Dupuis, 1959 (The Judge)
* 14. Ruée sur l’Oklahoma, Dupuis, 1960 (The Oklahoma Run)
* 15. L’Évasion des Dalton, Dupuis, 1960 (The Daltons Escape)
* 16. En remontant le Mississippi, Dupuis, 1961 (Travelling Up The Mississippi)
* 17. Sur la piste des Dalton, Dupuis, 1962 (On the Daltons’ Trail)
* 18. À l’ombre des derricks, Dupuis, 1962 (In the Shadow of the Derricks)
* 19. Les Rivaux de Painful Gulch, Dupuis, 1962 (The Rivals of Painful Gulch)
* 20. Billy the Kid, Dupuis, 1962
* 21. Les Collines noires, Dupuis, 1963 (The Black Hills)
* 22. Les Dalton dans le blizzard, Dupuis, 1963 (The Daltons in the Blizzard)
* 23. Les Dalton courent toujours, Dupuis, 1964 (The Daltons Always On The Run)
* 24. La Caravane, Dupuis, 1964 (The Caravan)
* 25. La Ville fantôme, Dupuis, 1965 (Ghost Town)
* 26. Les Dalton se rachètent, Dupuis, 1965 (The Daltons Redeem Themselves)
* 27. Le Vingtième de cavalerie, Dupuis, 1965 (The 20th of the Cavalry)
* 28. L’Escorte, Dupuis, 1966 (The Escort)
* 29. Des barbelés sur la prairie, Dupuis, 1967 (Barbed Wire on the Prairie)
* 30. Calamity Jane, Dupuis, 1967
* 31. Tortillas pour les Dalton, Dupuis, 1967 (Tortillas for the Daltons)
* 32. La Diligence, Dargaud, 1968 (The Stagecoach)
* 33. Le Pied-tendre, Dargaud, 1968 (The Tenderfoot)
* 34. Dalton City, Dargaud, 1969]
* 35. Jesse James, Dargaud, 1969
* 36. Western Circus, Dargaud, 1970
* 37. Canyon Apache, Dargaud, 1971 (Apache Canyon)
* 38. Ma Dalton, Dargaud, 1971
* 39. Chasseur de primes, Dargaud, 1972 (The Bounty Hunter)
* 40. Le Grand Duc, Dargaud, 1973 (The Grand Duke)
* 41. L’Héritage de Rantanplan, Dargaud, 1973 (Rantanplan’s Inheritance)
* 42. 7 histoires compl̬tes Рs̩rie 1, Dargaud, 1974 (7 Full Stories РSeries 1)
* 43. Le Cavalier blanc, Dargaud, 1975 (The White Horseman)
* 44. La Guérison des Dalton, Dargaud, 1975 (The Daltons’ Cure)
* 45. L’Empereur Smith, Dargaud, 1976 (Emperor Smith)
* 46. Le Fil qui chante, Dargaud, 1977 (The Singing Wire)
* HS. La Ballade des Dalton, Dargaud, 1978 (The Daltons’ Ballad)
* 50. La Corde du pendu, Dargaud, 1981 (The Rope of the Hanged)
* 51. Daisy Town, Dargaud, 1983
* 55. La Ballade des Dalton et autres histoires, Dargaud, 1986 (The Dalton’s Ballad and Other Stories)
Various writers
* 47. Le Magot des Dalton, Dargaud, 1980, by Vicq (The Daltons’ Loot)
* 48. Le Bandit manchot, Dargaud, 1981, by Bob de Groot (The One-Armed Bandit)
* 49. Sarah Bernhardt, Dargaud, 1982, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche
* 52. Fingers, Dargaud, 1983, by Lo Hartog Van Banda
* 53. Le Daily Star, Dargaud, 1983, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (The Daily Star)
* 54. La Fiancée de Luky Luke, Dargaud, 1985, by Guy Vidal (Lucky Luke’s Fiancee)
* 56. Le Ranch maudit, Dargaud, 1986, by Jean Léturgie, Xavier Fauche and Claude Guylouis (The Cursed Ranch)
* 57. Nitroglycérine, Dargaud, 1987, by Lo Hartog Van Banda
* 58. L’Alibi, Dargaud, 1987, by Claude Guylouis (The Alibi)
* 59. Le Pony Express, Dargaud, 1988], by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (The Pony Express)
* 60. L’Amnésie des Dalton, Lucky Productions, 1991, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (The Daltons’ Amnesia)
* 61. Chasse aux fantômes, Lucky Productions, 1992, by Lo Hartog Van Banda (Ghosthunt)
* 62. Les Dalton à la noce, Lucky Productions, 1993, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (The Daltons at a Wedding)
* 63. Le Pont sur le Mississippi, Lucky Productions, 1994, by Jean Léturgie and Xavier Fauche (Bridge Over The Mississippi)
* 64. Belle Star, Lucky Productions, 1995, by Xavier Fauche
* 65. Le Klondike, Lucky Productions, 1996, by Yann and Jean Léturgie (The Klondike)
* 66. O.K. Corral, Lucky Productions, 1997, by Eric Adam and Xavier Fauche
* 67. Marcel Dalton, Lucky Productions, 1998, by Bob de Groot
* 68. Le Prophète, Lucky Comics, 2000, by Patrick Nordmann (The Prophet)
* 69. L’Artiste peintre, Lucky Comics, 2001, by Bob de Groot (The Painter)
* 70. La Légende de l’Ouest, Lucky Comics, 2002, by Patrick Nordmann (The Legend Of The West)
By Achdé & Gerra
* 71. La Belle Province, Lucky Comics, 2004 (The Beautiful Country)
* 72. La Corde au cou, Lucky Comics, 2006 (Rope On The Neck)
English translations
* The Stagecoach, Knight Books (UK), 1976
* Apache Canyon, Knight Books (UK), 1977
* The Stage Coach, Dargaud USA, 1980s; Fantasy Flight (US) 1990s
* The Greenhorn, Dargaud USA, 1980s
* Dalton City, Dargaud USA, 1980s
* Jesse James, Dargaud USA, 1980s; Fantasy Flight (US) 1990s
* Western Circus, Dargaud USA, 1980s
* Ma Dalton, Dargaud USA, 1980s
* The Dalton Brothers’ Analyst, also Curing the Daltons, Dargaud Canada, 1982
* The Dalton Brothers Memory Game, Ravette books (UK), 1991
* Calamity Jane, Glo’worm (UK), 1998
* Dalton City, Glo’worm (UK), 1998
* Ma Dalton, Glo’worm (UK), 1999
* Jesse James, Glo’worm (UK), 1998
* The Tenderfoot, Glo’worm (UK), 1999
* Western Circus, Glo’worm (UK), 2000
* The Dashing White Cowboy, Glo’worm (UK), 2000
* 1. Billy the Kid, Cinebook Ltd, 2006, ISBN 1905460112
* 2. Ghost Town, Cinebook Ltd, 2006, ISBN 1905460120
* 3. Dalton City, Cinebook Ltd, 2006, ISBN 1905460139
* 4. Jesse James, Cinebook Ltd, 2006, ISBN 1905460147
* 5. In the Shadow of the Derricks, Cinebook Ltd, 2007, ISBN 1905460171
* 6. Ma Dalton, Cinebook Ltd, 2007, ISBN 9781905460182
* 7. Barbed Wire on the Prairie, Cinebook Ltd, 2007, ISBN 9781905460243
* 8. Calamity Jane, Cinebook Ltd, 2007, ISBN 9781905460250
* 9. The Wagon Train, Cinebook Ltd, 2008, announced
* 10. Tortillas for the Daltons, Cinebook Ltd, 2008, announced
* 11. Western Circus, Cinebook Ltd, 2008, announced
* 12. The Rivals of Painful Gulch, Cinebook Ltd, 2008, announced
21 Income Streams: Multiple Ways To Make Money Online
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21 Income Streams: Multiple Ways To Make Money Online
Joanne Mason | 2007 | ISBN: N/A | 37 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Brand New Ebook Reveals 21 Proven Income Streams That You Can Use to Make Money Online Anytime You WantJoanne Mason has written an ebook tittled 21 Income Streams: Multiple Ways To Make Money Online. This ebook shows 21 profit pulling techniques that are a surefire methods seen first hand and can attest to the money making potential in every single one and its yours for free. Heres a teaser of whats inside:
- How to Make Money Online with Affiliate Programs
- How to Make Money Online with Blogs
- How to Make Money Online with eBooks
- How to Make Money Online with ebay Referrals
- How to Make Money Online with Your Own Niche Directory
- How to Make Money Online with an Internet Radio Show
- How to Make Money Online Selling Stock Photos
- How to Make Money Online Interviewing Experts
- How to Make Money Online with a Classified Advertising Site
- How to Make Money Online with a Local Real Estate Portal
- How to Make Money Online Creating Your Own Software
- How to Make Money Online with Teleseminars & Webinars
- How to Make Money Online with Residual Income Programs
- How to Make Money Online with Audio eCourses
- How to Make Money Online as a Coach/Consultant
- How to Make Money Online with a Content Site
- How to Make Money Online as a Virtual Assistant
- How to Make Money Online a Local Online Mall
- How to Make Money Online with a Social Networking Site
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Very informative information for newbies and advanced internet marketers.
Encyclopedia Of Life Science
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Encyclopedia of Life Science (Facts on File Science Library)
Katherine, Ph.D. Cullen (Author)
640 pages
Publisher: Facts on File; 1 edition (June 30, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0816070083Intended to complement the material typically taught in high school biology and introductory college biology courses, “Encyclopedia of Life Science” is a new, two-volume reference set that reflects the fundamental concepts and principles identified by the National Committee on Science Education Standards. More than 200 comprehensive entries are arranged by topic or theme and cover concepts, theories, sub-disciplines, biographies, common methods, and techniques relevant to modern science. The definitive reference in the area of life science, this accessible full-color resource provides historical perspectives, portrays science as a human endeavor, and gives insight into the process of scientific inquiry by incorporating biographical profiles of people who have contributed significantly to the development of the life sciences. Processes that shape the natural world and life within it are also discussed in this in-depth encyclopedia. Instruments and methodology-related entries focus on the tools and procedures used by scientists to gather information, conduct experiments, and perform analyses. Other entries summarize the major branches and sub-disciplines of life science and describe selected applications of the information and technology gleaned from life science research.
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Warriors: Code Of The Clans
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Warriors: Code of the Clans 
Warriors: Code of the Clans
By Erin Hunter
Publisher: HarperCollins | 176 pages | 2009-06-01 | ISBN: 0061660094 | PDF
Product Description:
The secrets behind the warrior code will finally be revealed.
An ominous sign from StarClan that signaled the need to patrol borders The
unexpected help from a warrior ancestor that cemented the importance of elders A secret coup that led to a deputy’s new role A medicine cat’s pleas that stopped a spree of interClan bloodshed and many more never-before-told stories! Warriors: Code of the Clans” by Erin Hunter is a collection of short stories explaining the Warrior Code. The Warrior Code is a code of chivalry held sacred by the cats of the clans. The book explains the origins and details of the fifteen rules that dictate life in the clans.
All cats of all clans must abide by the Warrior Code or risk being severely
punished. The Code spells out how kits should be treated. For example, they must be fed before apprentices and warriors, and a kit must be at least six moons old before he or she can become an apprentice. It gives direction as to who will become clan leader when the leader dies or retires. And, of course, all warriors must reject the soft life of a kittypet.
The secrets behind the warrior code will finally be revealed.
* An ominous sign from StarClan that signaled the need to patrol borders
* The unexpected help from a warrior ancestor that cemented the importance of elders
* A secret coup that led to a deputy’s new role
* A medicine cat’s pleas that stopped a spree of interClan bloodshed
and many more never-before-told stories!
Seth Smith – Pride And Prejudice And Zombies
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
By Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith
* Publisher: Quirk Books
* Number Of Pages: 320
* Publication Date: 2009-04-04
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1594743347
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781594743344
Product Description:
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Can she vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you’d actually want to read.
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Lyme Borreliosis – Biological And Clinical Aspects
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Lyme Borreliosis: Biological and Clinical Aspects
Publisher: S. Karger AG | Language: English | ISBN:3805591144 | 212 pages | Data: 2009 | PDF | 6 MbDescription: ‘Lyme disease’, so called since Steere et al. inquired into an arthritis epidemic among young children in the community of Old Lyme, Conn., USA, in the late 1970s, has a very long European history. Its cutaneous manifestations, the most frequent signs of the disease, had already been described at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century by physicians like Buchwald, Pick, Herxheimer, Hartman,
Afzelius and Lipschutz . Additionally, two French physicians in a landmark
paper published in 1922, Garin and Bujadoux , reported a patient who developed erythema chronicum migrans followed by painful meningoradiculitis. Shortly before the symptoms began, this patient was bitten by a tick and he had a positive Bordet-Wasserman test, which was used at this time to diagnose syphilis. They stated, however, that although this test was positive, this patient did not have syphilis, and concluded that this patient had a tick-borne disease that induced cutaneous and neurological manifestations caused by a spirochete different from Treponema pallidum .
It was not until the early 1980s that their prediction proved to be correct, when Burgdorfer et al. were able to isolate a bacterium belonging to the family of Spirochaetaceae, first from ticks and then from humans. Interestingly, the first North American observation of Lyme disease, a patient with erythema migrans, was only published in 1970
Risk Management And Value Creation In Financial Institutions
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Risk Management and Value Creation in Financial Institutions explores a variety of methods that can be utilized to create economic value at financial institutions. This invaluable resource shows how banks can use risk management to create value for shareholders, addresses the advantages of risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC) measures, and develops the foundations for a model to identify comparative advantages that emerge as a result of risk-management decisions. It is the only book needed for banking executives interested in the relationship between risk management and value creation.
Hal Leonard Play Acoustic – Book Only
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Hal Leonard Play Acoustic – Book only
The acoustic guitar is the instrument of the people and Play Acoustic tells the people how to play it. This detailed and beautifully illustrated book explores the history of the acoustic guitar, from the jazz age to the folk revolutions of the early 1960s and late 1990s to the current rebirth of bluegrass and the singer-songwriter boom of the past decade. Skilled professional musicians and experienced tutors coach the reader through 11 styles, using exercises suitable to novice players new to each style and working up to full pieces and advanced techniques. Entire chapters are devoted to folk, rock and pop, blues, country, bluegrass, jazz, and more, with detailed guidance through both musical notation and tablature, diagrams, and explanatory text. An accompanying CD also offers listening examples of the most crucial of these exercises, to help players master each style.
# Spiral-bound: 192 pages
# Publisher: Backbeat Books; Spi Har/Co edition (29 Jul 2005)
# Language English
# ISBN-10: 0879308532
# ISBN-13: 978-0879308537
By Chris “the most passionate music/film fan alive.” (Philly suburbs, PA) – See all my reviews
This book is fantastic. The two CDs it comes with are great, too. Not all exercises are on the CDs… but there are a TON of exercises to work on. The author covers many, many styles.. classical, folk, “jangle”, blues, rock, etc.. arpeggios, jangle sequences, fingerpicking, scale practice, chords, altered tunings..
You can’t find a better book on acoustic guitar instruction. I LOVE the stuff put out by Backbeat Books… they’re ALWAYS of the highest quality, and the most practical AND fun…. and here’s yet another book that cites the Smiths as a reference with a certain style/sound. The Smiths (and especially Johnny Marr’s work within the band)… that’s great guitar, there.
Do yourself a favor and pick this up. The title’s generic, I know… but when they say Play Acoustic, they mean it.
If you play piano, too… you can do no better than the Piano Handbook (same publisher, same spiral-bound book, same look and layout). A great find.
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