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  • Simplicity from Complexity: Master Doing Less to Achieve More by Thomas, Howard
    Howard Thomas

    Simplicity from Complexity: Master Doing Less to Achieve More

    This is a tale of one company's journey as they master the art of achieving more by doing less.Contrast this with standard industry practice of adding ever increasing management systems and compliance to passive organisations that only decreases productivity. We are inadvertently achieving less...
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  • The Land of My Ancestors' Sepulchers: And the World of a Teacher-Researcher by Yeoh, Miranda P.
    Miranda P. Yeoh

    The Land of My Ancestors' Sepulchers: And the World of a Teacher-Researcher

    What is it like to be born into an extended Peranakan family that has seen better days? Besides poverty, there's strife when some don't pull together. However, I had a wise Grandma, Dad, and Aunt. Reading transported me into a world of joy, and...
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  • Preschool in the Wilderness: Traversing Joy, Grief, and Hope in Singapore's Early Childhood Landscape by Lai Chua, Denise
    Denise Lai Chua

    Preschool in the Wilderness: Traversing Joy, Grief, and Hope in Singapore's Early Childhood Landscape

    "But in 1997, I was completely na?e and oblivious to these tensions. I was instead overjoyed that I was now a business owner, albeit one who cared very deeply about the education of young children." MEET DR DENISE LAI CHUA.THIS IS HER STORY But...
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  • A Black First: The Blackness Continues... by Carter, Peter E.
    Peter E. Carter

    A Black First: The Blackness Continues...

    A BLACK FIRST: The Blackness Continues....... Is a thought-provoking book about the existence of Black Lives, successes therein, and the questioning of that combination.At the end of this book, author Peter E. Carter asks, "How do Black Lives Succeed?". As an immigrant, prominent educator,...
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  • Read or Die by Russell, Daphne
    Daphne Russell

    Read or Die

    The students in Ms. Russell's classes have never read an entire book, and they can't relate to Harry Potter and his magic wand. Abel is twenty-eight days behind everyone else, and she needs to get enough books inside him to get his lungs to...
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  • A Heart of Giving by Oliver, J. D.
    J. D. Oliver

    A Heart of Giving

    A Heart of Giving chronicles the life of J.D. Oliver-his extraordinary quest for learning, his career in education and the space industry, and the influences and events instrumental to his success. Navigating life as an African American man born in rural Texas in the...
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  • Sense and Sustainability by Chaturvedi, Hitendra
    Hitendra Chaturvedi

    Sense and Sustainability

    This book is raw, real, sensible, and brings a fresh perspective on existential challenges our environment faces today. Hitendra has not pontificated in this book but brought to life some very powerful sustainability lessons and solutions hidden in his stories and experiences that he...
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  • A Lifetime of Travels: A Memoir of 60 Years of Experiences by Simpson, Douglas
    Douglas Simpson

    A Lifetime of Travels: A Memoir of 60 Years of Experiences

    A Lifetime of Travels: A Memoir of 60 Years of ExperiencesBy: Douglas SimpsonThe title of this book says it all: from a trip to Europe in 1968 to the Canadian Rockies in recent travels, and exotic locations all over the globe in between, English...
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  • A Journey to the East: From Brooklyn 1945 to China ca. 500 BCE by Roberts, Moss
    Moss Roberts

    A Journey to the East: From Brooklyn 1945 to China ca. 500 BCE

    This memoir is a short read covering a long life, starting from an early childhood memory, datable to 1945, and ending with the closing years of my 50+ year career as a professor of Chinese at New York University. Along the way I touch...
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  • Putting Out Fires, Saving the Sparks by Brown, Janel
    Janel Brown

    Putting Out Fires, Saving the Sparks

    Putting Out Fires, Saving the Sparks is your backstage pass to what really happens in middle school. Join Janel Brown in her classroom and in the teacher's room to experience a behind-the-scenes, VIP tour that you'll never get at Back to School Night.Middle school...
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  • Beginning to End by Hebert, Marcia
    Marcia Hebert

    Beginning to End

    Beginning to End is the book I needed when I accepted the Director position of my first child care center. I could have used a roadmap to navigate the ins and outs of being a leader and of building an education organization - at...
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  • Learning Lessons by Jansen, Jonathan
    Jonathan Jansen

    Learning Lessons

    "It is probably the question I get asked most often by students: how did you achieve what you did? There is an urgency to the question and more than a little self-interest. If I can figure out how he made it, the student reasons,...
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  • Jambos With James: A Mother's View of Loss - Blessed to Broken to Blessed Memoirs of a Young Adult Son through the Eyes of His Mom by Debrueys, Mary T. Heffron
    Mary T. Heffron Debrueys

    Jambos With James: A Mother's View of Loss - Blessed to Broken to Blessed Memoirs of a Young Adult Son through the Eyes of His Mom

    While on a weekend vacation to see their beloved LSU Tigers play, Jim and Mary T deBrueys get a call that would stop any parent's heart. "We're calling to let you know that a boat transporting your son, James, and others has gone missing."...
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  • My Harvard Portfolio: How 30 Harvard Students (and the Parents) Built their Portfolios from Ground Zero by Kim, Jiyoon
    Jiyoon Kim

    My Harvard Portfolio: How 30 Harvard Students (and the Parents) Built their Portfolios from Ground Zero

    My Harvard Portfolio contains the profiles and interviews from 30 Harvard students and alumni about their personal and academic journey to Harvard University. They discuss their childhood experiences, how their parents raised and supported them, strategies for studying, and how they got accepted to...
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  • Mr. Rigney, Rigney, and Me (...or is it "I") by Marcela, Marsha Honeycutt
    Marsha Honeycutt Marcela

    Mr. Rigney, Rigney, and Me (...or is it "I")

    George Rigney lived in Hillsville, Virginia, but drove across the Blue Ridge Mountains to teach English at Patrick County High School near Stuart, Virginia. Over the years, he became a legend among his students. This book will used to raise money for a scholarship...
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  • Naughty and Nice, Happy and Sad by Allen, Bertha Gallegos
    Bertha Gallegos Allen

    Naughty and Nice, Happy and Sad

    My name is Bertha Gallegos Allen. You will read how my husband and I took care of my mother and her husband's mother while we worked at the preschool. In the book, you will read parts that are sad, and you will also cry....
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  • My Memories: Some thoughts. by Smith, Graeme
    Graeme Smith

    My Memories: Some thoughts.

    My ideas from my personal background and experience.This book does NOT cover activities involving my family.Naturally, like all families we have done many things.However they are things we share rather than share with others.I live in Wagga Wagga in Australia. I've lived here since...
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  • Maria Czaplicka: Gender, Shamanism, Race by Kubica, Grazyna
    Grazyna Kubica

    Maria Czaplicka: Gender, Shamanism, Race

    This biography of the Polish British anthropologist Maria Czaplicka (1884-1921) is also a cultural study of the dynamics of the anthropological collective presented from a researcher-centric perspective. Czaplicka, together with Bronislaw Malinowski, studied anthropology in London and later at Oxford, then she headed the...
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  • Memoirs of a Joyous Exile and a Worldly Christian by Houston, James M.
    James M. Houston

    Memoirs of a Joyous Exile and a Worldly Christian

    This book traces personal memoirs to encourage others in their personal sense of insecurity to be freed by God's grace, to become bold "in Christ." It binds memoirs of the inner self, with one's opportunities of public service. Two highlights are recorded: how three...
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  • Army of Compassion by Drake, Richard N.
    Richard N. Drake

    Army of Compassion

    Dr. Richard N. Drake (1945-2011) had a new vision for what a school of theology should be and this inspired him to found Primus University of Theology International in Phoenix, Arizona. In this way, he became the architect of the contemporary adaptation of the...
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  • Mrs. White's SUB SNIPS: Substitute Teaching Cartoons From Real Life by Skaalrud, Caitlin
    Caitlin Skaalrud

    Mrs. White's SUB SNIPS: Substitute Teaching Cartoons From Real Life

    These humorous substitute teaching real life experiences show fun snapshots or 'snips' into the world in which all who sub, used to sub, or has had a sub can relate to. These cartoons illustrate 15 years of subbing grades K-12. All school teachers and...
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  • The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton by Turner, James C.
    James C. Turner

    The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton

    Originally published in 1999. James Turner's biography offers the first modern account of Norton's life and its significance, following him from his perilous travels across India as a young merchant to his role as his country's preeminent cultural critic. Turner shows how Norton developed...
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  • From the East End to the West Coast and Halfway Back: The story of a boy from the East End of London and his journey to a successful life in the Unite by Leaney, John
    John Leaney

    From the East End to the West Coast and Halfway Back: The story of a boy from the East End of London and his journey to a successful life in the Unite

    John Leaney is the son of factory workers with deep ties to London's east end. He was reared in Dagenham, home of the Ford Motor Company, who employed his father as a lorry driver. His mother worked in a wood factory. At age eleven...
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  • Lim Chong Yah: An Autobiography - Life Journey of a Singaporean Professor by Lim, Chong Yah
    Chong Yah Lim

    Lim Chong Yah: An Autobiography - Life Journey of a Singaporean Professor

    Why are some nations rich and others poor? Why do the citizens of some countries lead a happy, prosperous life while others struggle in terrible want?This book takes the reader through the eventful life journey of one of Singapore's best known economists and educators,...
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  • They're Playing My Song; My Life in EMS by Paul Emt-I, Brian Kennedy
    Brian Kennedy Paul Emt-I

    They're Playing My Song; My Life in EMS

    Brian Paul is a seasoned thirty year veteran of EMS beginning his training as an EMT Basic then advancing to an EMT-Intermediate. Brian brings the reality of his profession and experience to the pages before you. Brian is forthright in describing the sacrifices that...
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  • At Powerline and Diamond Hill: Unexpected Intersections of Life and Work by Snyder, Lee
    Lee Snyder

    At Powerline and Diamond Hill: Unexpected Intersections of Life and Work

    As Kim Phipps, President, Messiah College, puts it, "Offering truth-filled candor and grace-filled insight, Snyder has written an engaging memoir that will speak to any individual's personal exploration and embrace of the vocational journey." How does a Mennonite farm girl, whose "closed" Oregon community...
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  • Albert Einstein: The incredible life, discoveries, stories and lessons of Einstein! by Knight, Andrew
    Andrew Knight

    Albert Einstein: The incredible life, discoveries, stories and lessons of Einstein!

    ALBERT EINSTEINAlbert Einstein will forever be remembered as one of the world's greatest minds. His achievements are numerous, and his life story is an incredible one. Einstein lived in many places around the world, and left a huge footprint behind. In this book you...
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  • Fifty Years of Religious Studies in Canada: A Personal Retrospective by Coward, Harold
    Harold Coward

    Fifty Years of Religious Studies in Canada: A Personal Retrospective

    In Canadian universities in the early 1960s, no courses were offered on Hinduism, Buddhism, or Islam. Only the study of Christianity was available, usually in a theology program in a church college or seminary. Today almost every university in North America has a religious...
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  • Our Journey by Lentz, John
    John Lentz

    Our Journey

    Our Journey is a true story of how one couple got through the trials and tribulations of dealing with early onset Alzheimer's. When his wife started calling him at work because she was lost while driving around their small town, he started to wonder...
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  • Darby, the Horse from Hope by Combs, M. C.
    M. C. Combs

    Darby, the Horse from Hope

    Darby, the Horse from Hope is a story of how animals can sense and react to the needs of humans. That is why horses have been found to be so successful in providing therapy for people with many different needs. There are horse therapy...
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  • It's All Greek to Me: Confessions of an Unlikely Academic by Black, David Alan
    David Alan Black

    It's All Greek to Me: Confessions of an Unlikely Academic

    If you've been looking for a way to go from that surfboard to the Greek classroom, this is the book for you That's not your goal? Then how about following God's leading wherever it takes you? Dave Black believes it's all about mission, and...
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  • The Romance of Teaching: Montessori in the Elementary School by Angell, Ann V.
    Ann V. Angell

    The Romance of Teaching: Montessori in the Elementary School

    A year before she was to retire, Dr. Ann Angell volunteered to start a new class at the Montessori public school where she'd been teaching for a decade. Her mission was to guide and encourage her students -- second, third, and fourth graders with...
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  • Thanksgiving All Year Round: A Memoir by Shapiro, Gavriel
    Gavriel Shapiro

    Thanksgiving All Year Round: A Memoir

    The book describes the author's eventful life, which spans over seventy years, in three different countries and on as many continents.Author: Gavriel ShapiroISBN-10: 1618115057ISBN-13: 9781618115058Publisher: Academic Studies PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/10/2016Pages: 294Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
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  • Madame Girard: An Old French Teacher of New Orleans by King, Grace
    Grace King

    Madame Girard: An Old French Teacher of New Orleans

    M.D. (Marie Drivon) Girard (but known as "Madame Girard") was a beloved New Orleans French teacher in the late 1800's and early 1900's. This wonderful biographical tribute was written by the noted New Orleans author Grace King. Photographic reproduction of the 1922 edition.Author: Grace...
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  • A Lesson for the Teacher by Heisler, Jay
    Jay Heisler

    A Lesson for the Teacher

    A Lesson for the Teacher is the autobiographical journey of a man from a Jewish family, raised with mixed and often confusing views about faith and life. As he stumbles his way into teaching, and into the hands of God, the door is opened...
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  • Ulrich Zwingli: The Patriotic Reformer by Blackburn, William M.
    William M. Blackburn

    Ulrich Zwingli: The Patriotic Reformer

    "No other reformer struck out a more original and independent course than Ulrich Zwingli (1483-1531). No other man attempted to be, at the same time, a preacher, author, statesman, military patriot and reformer. Why he gave such varied direction to his noble energies, and...
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  • Trouble in Academe: A Memoir by Ringer, Fritz
    Fritz Ringer

    Trouble in Academe: A Memoir

    Author: Fritz RingerISBN-10: 1583482059ISBN-13: 9781583482056Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1999Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.07h x 6.05w x 0.33d
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  • Divided Paths, Common Ground: The Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science Into the Home by Klink, Angie
    Angie Klink

    Divided Paths, Common Ground: The Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science Into the Home

    In the early 1900s, Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis forged trails for women at Purdue University and throughout Indiana. Mary was the first dean of the School of Home Economics. Lella was Indiana's first state leader of Home Demonstration. In 1914, Mary hired Lella...
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  • Dr. Annie Dove Denmark: South Carolina's First Female College President by Copeland, Kathryn
    Kathryn Copeland

    Dr. Annie Dove Denmark: South Carolina's First Female College President

    A woman ahead of her time, the remarkable Dr. Annie Dove Denmark dedicated her life to higher education and the youth of her day. As the first female college president of both Anderson College and in the state of South Carolina, Dr. Denmark faced...
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  • Once Below a Time: Memories of Growing up in Rural Virginia at Midcentury by Baugher, Glynn
    Glynn Baugher

    Once Below a Time: Memories of Growing up in Rural Virginia at Midcentury

    The bygone eras of our past gave rise to a generation with stories worth holding on to, taking place in a world that has since vanished from America, for better or for worse. Yet triumph and delight grow from unexpected sources. Once Below a...
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  • The Path to Enlightenment: The View of a Schizophrenic by Franklin, Carol Akins
    Carol Akins Franklin

    The Path to Enlightenment: The View of a Schizophrenic

    Prepare to dive into a compelling, heartfelt, memoir of Devilishly Angelic; the product of poverty, hardship and trauma. Onset of visual hallucinations and life transition spiraled this Chicagoan in the search of spiritual meaning to her life. Based on her own experiences and others...
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  • The Right Place at the Right Time: Stories from a Life in Education by Connaughty, Curtis
    Curtis Connaughty

    The Right Place at the Right Time: Stories from a Life in Education

    This inspiring memoir by a lifelong educator is for the young, teens, older adults, alumni, and parents. While attending school he helped defray college costs with part time temporary jobs such as: a stone-quarry driver, railroad worker, candy factory employee, and soldier. Six years...
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  • True Stories: A Promise and A Prayer by Houessou, Agnes
    Agnes Houessou

    True Stories: A Promise and A Prayer

    "I ... the odd one in my class; always ignored, or neglected in some way. When teachers asked about our summer vacation, I would just keep quiet, with little tears in my eyes threatening to come out, and listen to everybody else share their...
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  • The life of a Congolese in the last Century in the Democratic Republic of Congo(1921-1990) by Muamba, Ina Disengomoka
    Ina Disengomoka Muamba

    The life of a Congolese in the last Century in the Democratic Republic of Congo(1921-1990)

    The book tells the true storie in the Lower -Congo in the last century . While the majority of the territory assigned to the Belgian colonial power at the Berlin Conference in 1877, is still unexplored, born in 1921 in the village of Luvituku...
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  • The Life of Frederick Froebel: Founder of Kindergarten by Denton Jacques Snider (1900): Edited and Annotated with Illustrations by J (Johannes) Froeb by Froebel-Parker, J. (Johannes)
    J. (Johannes) Froebel-Parker

    The Life of Frederick Froebel: Founder of Kindergarten by Denton Jacques Snider (1900): Edited and Annotated with Illustrations by J (Johannes) Froeb

    In 1900 Denton Jacques Snider wrote about Friedrich (Frederick) Froebel and his life experiences which led to the founding of the first kindergarten. Over a century later, a Froebel family member and author of two children's books about Froebel and kindergarten, expands the publication...
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  • The Life of Frederick Froebel: Founder of Kindergarten by Denton Jacques Snider (1900): Edited and Annotated with Illustrations by J (Johannes) Froeb by Froebel-Parker, J. (Johannes)
    J. (Johannes) Froebel-Parker

    The Life of Frederick Froebel: Founder of Kindergarten by Denton Jacques Snider (1900): Edited and Annotated with Illustrations by J (Johannes) Froeb

    In 1900 Denton Jacques Snider wrote about Friedrich (Frederick) Froebel and his life experiences which led to the founding of the first kindergarten. Over a century later, a Froebel family member and author of two children's books about Froebel and kindergarten, expands the publication...
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  • The Real McCoys: Proses and Poems by McCoy, Art J.
    Art J. McCoy

    The Real McCoys: Proses and Poems

    Against all odds Art J. McCoy, Ph.D., became Missouri's youngest certified teacher at age nineteen and the youngest and first African-American superintendent of schools in Ferguson, Missouri, at age thirty-three. His father was born during the lowest point of The Great Depression and had...
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  • The Village and Beyond: Memoirs of a Cotton Mill Boy by Hale, William
    William Hale

    The Village and Beyond: Memoirs of a Cotton Mill Boy

    In a neighborhood jammed with look-alike clapboard houses in a South Carolina Cotton mill village, author William Hale grew up as an inquisitive boy who climbed trees, played sandlot baseball, and learned his greatest life lessons from unexpected places. Amid the darkness of the...
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  • Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast by Hughes, Aaron W.
    Aaron W. Hughes

    Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast

    Biography: Neusner is a social commentator, a post-Holocaust theologian, and an outspoken political figure. Jacob Neusner (born 1932) is one of the most important figures in the shaping of modern American Judaism. He was pivotal in transforming the study of Judaism from an insular...
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  • Mommy Couldn't Find Her Eyelashes: Forty-Four Years in First Grade by Fizer, Mary Jane
    Mary Jane Fizer

    Mommy Couldn't Find Her Eyelashes: Forty-Four Years in First Grade

    No one knows how unpredictable first graders can be better than a first-grade teacher. In Mommy Couldn't Find Her Eyelashes, retired elementary educator Mary Jane Fizer shares excerpts from written papers and some of her favorite amusing and poignant conversations with her first-grade students,...
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