ArcView GIS Means Business

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Written for both business managers and GIS professionals, this guide reveals the ways that GIS can revolutionize the effectiveness of the 21st-century business enterprise. Demonstrating how a wide variety of businesses and business-related organizations such as chambers of commerce and commerce-friendly cities are using GIS to bolster the bottom line, detailed case studies analyze companies that overcame obstacles to profitability and efficiency by using the geographic and spatial analysis provided by GIS technology. As the technology has expanded, so have the number and diversity of companies that demand GIS capabilities. Such industries include real estate firms, insurance companies, food distributors, and casinos -- all applying GIS solutions to logistics, marketing programs, and supply chain issues.

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the classic intro to GIS for business people.......1999-12-21

one of the most readable introductions to this useful tool. you'll get inspired. i got this book when it came out in 1997, and just read it again. still relevant and very well written.

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ArcView GIS Means Business
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Manufacturer: ESRI Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000L99TXO

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Heaven Earth Child of War woman of Peace
Le Ly Hayslip
Manufacturer: Pan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GRK246

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Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. 45-120 CE, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular rank by the emperor Trajan and a procuratorship in Greece by Hadrian. He was married and the father of one daughter and four sons. He appears as a man of kindly character and independent thought, studious and learned.

Plutarch wrote on many subjects. Most popular have always been the 46 Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be ethical examples in pairs (in each pair, one Greek figure and one similar Roman), though the last four lives are single. All are invaluable sources of our knowledge of the lives and characters of Greek and Roman statesmen, soldiers and orators. Plutarch's many other varied extant works, about 60 in number, are known as Moralia or Moral Essays. They are of high literary value, besides being of great use to people interested in philosophy, ethics and religion.

The Loeb Classical Library edition of the Lives is in eleven volumes.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume II: Themistocles and Camillus, aristides and Cato Major, Cimon and Lucullus

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Plutarch's Lives, Volume II: Themistocles and Camillus, aristides and Cato Major, Cimon and Lucullus

Manufacturer: William Heinemann / Harvard University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000I17MAM

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Tourists are today urged to visit the 'birthplace of the Industrial Revolution', packaged as part of 'a glorious heritage'. Half a century and more ago the picture was very different. Then the Industrial Revolution was commonly treated as having been a social catastrophe which had brought 'a new barbarism' to the country. Donald Coleman traces the history of the term 'Industrial Revolution' and the uses to which it has been put. Originating in European radical Romanticism, popularised in English by Arnold Toynbee in the 1 880s, it has achieved, with its meaning transformed, the status of potent myth in the nation's history. The book examines industrial revolutions real and imaginary; illuminates some of the activities of businessmen engaged therein; considers attitudes towards the businessmen who have thus come to occupy the historical stage; and discusses the academic study of business history- a subject hardly imaginable without the Industrial Revolution. In the course of investigating these inter-related topics, the volume as a whole offers valuable insights into the ways in which economic history has been written and the concepts which have been invented and deployed in an effort to understand a central event in British history. This book provides an excellent introduction to the subject.

Myth, History and the Industrial Revolution

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Myth, History and the Industrial Revolution
D.C. Coleman
Manufacturer: Hambledon Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N05YSA

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Having amassed a fortune of over $100 million and record sales of forty million at the age of twenty-two, Britney Spears is the worlds biggest female star. This is the first biography to chronicle how the little girl, with a crucifix in each ear, has become the ultimate in tabloid fodder. Britney will follow her roller coaster life from her time on the Mickey Mouse Club, where she first met Justin Timberlake, to the moment she shot to fame and became the all-American pop princess. Somehow it all fell apartscarred by her break-up with Timberlake, roundly booed at the London premiere of her first film, the downward spiral culminated with her infamous fifty-five-hour Las Vegas marriage. Speculating on what an uncertain future holds for Mrs. Federline-Spears, Britney will be a gossipy and revealing biography of one of the most fascinating figures in pop.

Britney Spears: An Unauthorized Biography

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Completely Awesome
This was a really cool book!
MUST HAVE!
Best Book Ever
Best Book Ever

Britney Spears: An Unauthorized Biography
Alix Strauss
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0312972687

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Smart, spunky, and pretty, Britney Spears is a teenage singing sensation People called "a mix of Debbie Gibson's wholesomeness and Alanis Morissette's grit." Her Baby One More Time album hit #1 on the Billboard chart right out of the starting gate. I may seem like success came overnight for this brown-eyed beauty, but she's been working at it since childhood: before joining The Mickey Mouse Club at 11, Britney was acting in commercials and in an Off-Broadway show. And at 15, the singing bug bit-and there was no stopping Britney.But behind the fame, Britney's just an ordinary teen-she loves shopping, going to the beach, eating pizza, and talking about boys. She's close to her family and is no rush to grow up. Find out all about Britney-from her career plans to her personal life, how she gets her cool look, who spends her time with, what it was like on the road opening for 'N Sync and much, much more.With eight pages of awesome photos!

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Completely Awesome.......2004-10-23

This is probably the oddest thing - but I am a grown man, and a newlywed. Despite that, I am terribly fond of Britney. I love everything she does. Everything she says. Just everything about her. This book captures everything there is to love about my Britney. Just reading this book makes me want to hug her. One of the things I did is I bought two copies. One just to read and to have, the other so I could make a collage for my office. I may even tell my wife how much I like this book and get one to make a collage at home. This is my favorite book of all time. If I could give it 6 stars I would.

This was a really cool book!.......2000-10-24

This was a really good book! It's got cool colour photos and quite abit of information about Britney! It was hard to put it down! It talksabout the Mickey Mouse Club,touring with nsync, and it even talks alittle bit about the mickey mouse club history.It even talks aboutBritney's brother and sister. It's full of lots of information aboutBritney and it even has a timeline and trivia questions and links toBritney sites and lots more! I recommend it for any Britney fan of anyage! All ages love her!

MUST HAVE!.......2000-09-27

Yo! This book had me reading for ages! I love this book it's really good! But in some stages it started to get abit boring because it's in the past.But if your a Britney lover it's a must have!

Best Book Ever.......2000-09-03

Well actualy it's not one of her best books,But i found it quite interesting.It has 8 pages of cool photos!I bought the book the other day at the shops,it was expensive for just some recycled paper.But if your a fan of Britney you should get it!

Best Book Ever.......2000-09-03

Britney Spears: The Unauthorized Biography

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Before It All Began...
MUST HAVE!
steph@britney.com
Steph@britneyspears rocks.
The best Britney book I've read!

Britney Spears: The Unauthorized Biography
Jackie Robb
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Children's Books
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0061066206

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Boy Bands Beware!

Britney Spears is blazing a Billboard trail that can't be beat.

With the monster success of her debut album,...Baby One More Time, and her super single by the same name--both of which blasted their way to the number one slots on Billboard's Album and Hot 100 Singles charts within the same week--Britney's become a certified teen queen!

A sweet Southern Miss with an awesome voice and tons of energy, Britney also has that girl-next-door quality that just makes you want her to be your best friend. But just how did Brit sing and dance her way up the charts and into our hearts? What's this seventeen-year-old superstar really like? How'd she get from the Mickey Mouse Club to heavy rotation on MTV? What was her life like before she became music's newest hottie? How can one copy her fabulous new look? And hey, what's up with the Romeo rumors--is she really dating a certain member of N' Sync? We've got the total scoop. Read all about the sensational Britney Spears right here!

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Before It All Began..........2006-08-09

Before K-Fed, before her striptease at the MTV Video Music Awards, there was the sweet Britney with the number 1 hit song "Baby One More Time". This little biography tells the story of Mrs. Spears up to the release of her first album "...Baby One More Time". Don't expect to see photos of her nude in Rolling Stone magazine, expect a sweet pic of her drinking an iced coffee and smiling at the camera. I bought this book when it was first released in 1999 and looking back at on it today, it's quite a nostalgic piece. The book is like all the other unauthorized bios on teen stars, and I'm sure it will be a nice little collector's item for Brit fanatics.

MUST HAVE!.......2004-03-16

This book is a must-have.It is really good for a unauthorized book alot of those books are not really good but this one is great!

steph@britney.com.......2002-02-15

I like this book because it has the grading scale of each song. It has the exercises and stuff that you could look like Britney, it has the favorites of Britney's MMC and today. It has a lot of website of Britney that you can go on. I also like the Jackie Robb book about Christina Aguilera. If you are a huge-big Britney Spears fan. This book is a must.

Steph@britneyspears rocks........2002-02-15

I like this Britney Spears book. It has a grading of the song, stuff that you look like Britney, It even has a quiz that I got an A+ on it. It has a lot of websites of Britney Spears. I also like the Jackie Robb book about Christina Aguilera. This Britney book has the MMC Hall of fame and her favorites from MMC and today. It's a must for Britney fans.

The best Britney book I've read!.......2000-01-25

This is the best book about Britney Spears that I have read so far. It is completely filled with tons of info on her! It's 128 pages of info on how she got started, her love life, and even some stuff about how you can look like Britney. There are some really pretty pictures in the middle of the book as well. I definitely recommend this book.

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Mention the record album Jesus Sound Explosion to a typical child of the 1970s and that person is likely to picture one of those collections shown on TV (Call now! Not available in stores!). When Mark Curtis Anderson spied a copy in a junk store a few years ago, he knew just what he'd found, and the memories of growing up in a Baptist minister's family came flooding forth.

The title of Anderson's memoir is a nod to the live concert album from Explo '72, a kind of evangelical Woodstock emceed by Billy Graham. Explo's crowds of 100,000-plus signaled that enterprising evangelicals were discovering how to use rock and roll in the marketplace of conversion. Anderson was eleven that year, too young to be at Explo but old enough to wish he was. Other preachers' kids may have gazed out at the wider world and craved its movies, clothes, or toys, but he wanted its music. And not just the Jesus-rocker fare of Explo's Armageddon Experience or Children of Truth, but the real stuff, too.

Jesus Sound Explosion recalls Anderson's quest for worldliness-through-rock as he came of age under the gaze, he often sensed, of his father's entire congregation. All of the backsliding and revival, idealism and disillusionment one would expect is here, told with delightfully understated humor and set against the sounds of The Guess Who, Yes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Bruce Springsteen. Here is a knowing look back on a time when Jesus Christ Superstar climbed the pop charts, The Cross and the Switchblade hit the big screen, and anxious parents played their kids' records backwards in search of hidden messages from Satan.

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This book is tremendous fun.......2004-05-28

Mark Anderson's account of his life growing up in the 60s and 70s and his relationship to pop music, Christian music, God and teen sin is immensely fun and entertaining. I hope he writes another book soon!

Be transported to another era..........2004-01-13

I purchased "Jesus Sound Exposion" yesterday and became quickly captivated by Anderson's engrossing memoir of navigating his adolescence and young adulthood between the twin poles of Evangelical Christianity and Rock n Roll.

Anderson transports his readers to a parallel universe riddled with dualisms: Heaven or Hell, Jesus or Satan, chastity or making out, etc. The book presents an honest look at the conservative end of the Christian spectrum and the narrow-minded worldview that accompanies it. Picture a typical 17-year-old boy compelled to share "The Four Spiritual Laws" with his high school classmates, motivated by visions of hellfire awaiting the unrepetant.

But Anderson leavens the tale with humour and musical discoveries while dispensing grace to his parents, siblings, and Sunday School teachers. While no longer a believer per se, Anderson reveals a significant amount of personal growth and maturity, eschewing fundamentalism and black/white thinking for a catholic (little c) worldview that encompasses divorce, teaching, retail work, and the horns blaring out on Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run."

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This is an ideal dictionary for students taking Spanish in combination with a business qualification at college or university or for anyone doing business in the Spanish-speaking world. It provides an exhaustive range of business vocabulary across many core areas, giving the most extensive coverage on the market of e-commerce and Internet-related terms. Detailed treatment of all vocabulary items is provided, along with thousands of example phrases illustrating important constructions. The extensive supplementary material offers sample business correspondence, including faxes, emails, and invoices; CVs; lists of countries, nationalities, languages, and currencies; and guidance on using the telephone.

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A fine dictionary, but a bit dated........2006-05-11

As a business translator I have been using this dictionary and Wiley's English-Spanish, Spanish-English Business Dictionary for several years now, and together they would get the job done for me. As each year went by however, there would be more and more terms that I could not find in either dictionary.

Happily, a few months ago Webster's New World English-Spanish/Spanish-English Business Dictionary was published, and now I have access to over 80,000 entries and over 100,000 translations! Its 2006 publication date insures that it is completely current.

Now I only use Webster's New World English-Spanish/Spanish-English Business Dictionary. And I use it every day. All the time. So, my recommendation is to buy Webster's New World English-Spanish/Spanish-English Business Dictionary, and perhaps in a few years, also buy the new edition of The Oxford Spanish Business Dictionary whenever it is published.

Great dictionary- no need to invent terms!.......2003-03-16

This dictionary is complete with contemporary business terms in Spanish with their English equivalent. This dictionary is a handy reference for those who need to know and understand business terms in Spanish as well as keep pace with neologisms that come into the language especially from the technology sector. The vocabulary is very contemporary and includes abbreviations as well that are included in business documents and letters. The middle of dictionary includes a business correspondence section with sample business letters, resumes, email vocabulary and other handy business correspondence references. This dictionary would be most beneficial to those who use Spanish in a professional capacity, advanced learners of Spanish and those who simply want to speak correctly using proper business terms at all times in Spanish. This is a worthwhile investment.

The Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary: Spanish, English/English, Spanish

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The Oxford Business Spanish Dictionary: Spanish, English/English, Spanish
Oxford University Press
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OLCBSY

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Describes America in the time of Sitting Bull; the story of our nation from coast to coast from 1840 to 1890.

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Under-Represented Artist Brought to Light.......2001-03-31

Through the careful research of letters and interviews, the author sheds light on the enigmatic life of this talented artist. Philpot's life was far less dramatic than many more famous artist's, but the details of the book add up to an intimate, authentic depiction a working artist's lifestyle. The emotional aspects of his late artistic and sexual coming-out are particularly poignant. The photos of his work are worth the price bacause there is no other source for them. Worth a look.

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The fusion of know-how and capital from Hong Kong and Taiwan with the substantial labour resources on China has led to the emergence of a dynamic economy of "Greater China" rivalling the USA, the European Union and Japan. What is the nature and trend of trade and investment within Greater China? What are the impacts on the world economy? With China's entry into the WTO, what are the problems and prospects of Greater China? These are some of the issues raised within Yun-Wing Sung's book.

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In this comprehensive, 860-page hardcover resource, Scott Yanow traces the history of jazz through its recordings. Most live performances from this 60-year period (1895 to 1976) are lost forever, but jazz fans can still experience a rich legacy of recorded work. Painstakingly sorting through and colorfully commenting on thousands of CDs and LPs, Yanow points out which performances are the most representative of the great 20th-century artists, and which recordings are essential to jazz fans' collections. Along the way, he takes readers on a journey through the golden ages of jazz, covering styles such as New Orleans jazz, swing, bebop, cool jazz, Dixieland, hard bop, soul jazz, the avant-garde, and fusion - and showing how these forms diverge, develop, and continue to flourish. A must for jazz fans, scholars and serious collectors.

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Bobbie Ann Mason's marvelously tactile and textured memoir has the same blunt yet supple prose that distinguishes her novels In Country and Feather Crowns. Examining her roots in rural Kentucky, where she was born in 1940, Mason unravels her family's history and considers its impact on her as a person and a writer. Readers of the New Yorker will recognize a few excerpts, most notably the magical chapter on a local pop group in particular, and the siren song of rock & roll in general. Mason has woven the pieces of her story into a seamless whole limning her ambivalent relationship to her country roots. She was a bookish girl who fled to college and the sophisticated North before realizing that her fictional material and her heart were still down South. But when she bought land in Kentucky, it was "a long way from [home]. I had to keep some distance, keep my options open." Although her immediate family members all get loving, unsentimental treatment, the book is in essence a tribute to Mason's mother, whose free spirit never had a chance to roam as her daughter's did and who grabs center stage in the final chapter. This memoir is quintessential Mason in its strong storytelling, seeming simplicity, and deep mystery. --Wendy Smith

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People love and remember the novels of Bobbie Ann Mason because they ring so true. This dazzling memoir saga of three generations, their aspirations, their conflicts, and the ties that bound them to one another. Spanning decades, Clear Springs gracefully weaves together the stories of Mason's grandparents, parents, and her won generation. The narrative moves from the sober industriousness of a Kentucky farm to the hippie lifestyle of the countercultural 1960s; from a New York fan magazine to the shock-therapy ward of a mental institution; from a county poorhouse to the set of a Hollywood movie; from a small rustic schoolhouse to glittering pop music concerts. In the process of recounting her own odyssey--the story of a misfit girl who dreamed of distant places--Mason depicts the changes that have come to family, to women, and to heartland America in the twentieth century. Ultimately, Clear Springs is a heartfelt portrait of an extended family, and a profound affirmation of the importance of family love.

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So Pleasant.......2006-07-15

I'd never read any of Bobbie Ann Mason's work before reading Clear Springs for a book club. I believe I may be missing out if her other books are like this one. There is a warmth to her story that makes it a real pleasure to read. Mason's language, too, is comfortable and highly readable. Her rhythms, especially, give a real richness to her prose. I highly recommend this.

Wonderful!.......2004-07-23

Bobbie Ann Mason has done a wonderful job with "Clear Springs". I did not grow up in Kentucky in the baby boom generation, but I did grow up in rural southern Missouri just after it, and this story is so very like what I was familiar with. Ms. Mason is of my mother's generation and except for the disfunction there are many similarities between this story and stories my mother has told. My family reminded me of the older Masons and not the disfunctional Lees. The isolation of rural life, but the joy in many ways that come from it. The curiosity of the outside world, but the fear of it. She relates that Clear Springs hadn't changed much since the Civil War and she was correct in that. The world that slowly evolved for most Americans changed before this rural generation's eyes. A Great book!

The way it was, for some of us, in childhood..........2003-05-24

When writing a memoir, authors are advised to write the first draft as if everyone is dead - and then to prune the damaging parts in subsequent rewrites. Perhaps Mason pruned a bit too much. This otherwise lovely and affectionate memoir of how it was to grow up in a small, working-class town in Kentucky in the 40s and 50s is a bit long on respect and caution - and a bit short on grit.
Otherwise, I loved it. I grew up in Kansas in the 50s and can relate to the pace, small-town values, and lack of danger (except from the "evil Communists" and "the bomb") that Mason portrays as such inherent parts of her roots. Her language, esp in the first part of the book focusing on her own childhood memories, is rich and multi-layered and pulls readers into every scene right along with her. In the rest of the book, she uses the techniques of creative nonfiction to weave a background narrative that spans the lives of three generations of women within the community.
A worthwhile read; it won't change your life, but it might make you think, and it's certainly a pleasant trip to take with this accomplished author.

Pure Mason.......2002-12-05

Indispensible to serious readers of Mason's fiction, this memoir is true to family and community life in Western Kentucky (despite what other reviewers might say).

The author remembers and revisits her Kentucky home.......2002-10-06

I'm an appreciative fan of Bobbie Ann Mason's short stories, about rural people raised with traditional values now somewhat at sea in a world of consumerism, pop culture, and a new morality. Young adults, whose parents would have stuck with a marriage come hell or high water, now divorce and drift through relationships. Their parents tied to the land and other life-long occupations, Mason's post-war generation is less rooted, freed of conventional beliefs, but often at a loss about what to believe in. Most striking as America grows increasingly urban, Mason's people continue to inhabit a rural landscape -- more worldly than their forebears, but not more sophisticated.

While some readers of Mason's stories and novels may have been puzzled by the point of view in them (ironic? matter of fact? sentimental?), this wonderful memoir should do much to clear up that ambiguity. Here a reader is introduced to the world of day-to-day experience that these narratives have emerged from. And you can begin to see how the matter of fact, ironic, and sentimental blend into a perspective that is distinctly rural American. The strongest individual (who is surely the source of many of Mason's fictional characters) is without doubt her mother, a remarkable woman with a quizzical sense of humor, a colorful manner of speaking, and a long view that comes of witnessing much of the 20th century at first hand.

A list of highlights in this book would go on for pages; there's just so much to savor and enjoy. There's Mason's own unsophisticated childhood (barefoot summers, crushes on pop stars, rock and roll fandom), the making of the film "In Country," and the continuing transformation of the rural Kentucky environment from horse-and-buggy days to the invasion of agribusiness -- a huge processing plant has sprung up across the road from the family farm.

I recommend this book to anyone who has enjoyed Mason's fiction. It is rich with thoughtful and well-observed detail reaching back across three generations of family history.

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Clear Springs : A Family Story
Random House Inc. Bobbie Ann Mason
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OF23Q0

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