Colonial Houses: Modern Floor Plans and Authentic Exteriors for 161 Historical Colonial Homes
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  • Colonial Houses
  • A Designer's Dream of the Past
Colonial Houses: Modern Floor Plans and Authentic Exteriors for 161 Historical Colonial Homes
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ASIN: 0918894824

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In each illustrated chapter, readers can easily identify these ever-popular styles and trace the roots of American period architecture. From Federal to Cape Cod to Southern Colonial, each style section features artists renderings and detailed floor plans for a variety of designs. Includes a section of historic replicas of homes with a direct connection to history: the Greek Revival of Woodrow Wilson's birth, the Gambrel House of John Paul Jones, and the octagonal home of Thomas Jefferson.

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3 out of 5 stars Colonial Houses.......2001-11-02

The book is full of good ideas. However, it tends to focus in some sections on homes that are beyond the means of most --- 3,500 sq feet.

4 out of 5 stars A Designer's Dream of the Past.......2000-04-23

I've been looking for floor plans of Colonial homes, specifically, a Cape Cod style home. I finally found someone who gave me an idea, it took a little time, but well worth it. I guarantee if your looking to build a colonial style home, you need this book. The plans are perfect.
Colonial houses: Modern floor plans and authentic exteriors for 161 historical colonial homes
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    Colonial houses: Modern floor plans and authentic exteriors for 161 historical colonial homes

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    ASIN: 0918894832
    Colonial Houses Modern Floor Plans And Authentic Exteriors For 161 Historical Colonial Homes
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      Colonial Houses Modern Floor Plans And Authentic Exteriors For 161 Historical Colonial Homes
      Home Planners
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      Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • Ascending the status of a classic
      • The little girl who grew up to help so many other little girls &boys.
      • Gentle Leadership
      • Unforgettably good
      • Amazing! What school should be like...
      Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window
      Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
      Manufacturer: Kodansha International
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      This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. This unusual school had old railroad cars for classrooms, and it was run by an extraordinary man-its founder and headmaster, Sosaku
      Kobayashi-who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity.

      In real life, the Totto-chan of the book has become one of Japan's most popular television personalities-Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. She attributes her success in life to this wonderful school and its headmaster.

      The charm of this account has won the hearts of millions of people of all ages and made this book a runaway bestseller in Japan, with sales hitting the 4.5 million mark in its first year.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Ascending the status of a classic.......2007-06-02

      Honestly I read this book over 25 years ago and thought that this book has long been discontinued. I guess this proves what a time-tested treasure it is. The author, a TV celebrity in Japan, recalls her childhood and the unorthodox school she went to. Absolutely adoring in the simple story of how a concerned mother tried to do the best for her daughter and how a simple man did his best to give a bright and meaningful future to the few children who comes into his life.

      It is the type of book that makes you wish that there were more teachers like him and that you had a teacher like him.

      5 out of 5 stars The little girl who grew up to help so many other little girls &boys........2007-03-14

      This is one of my all-time favorite books. First published in Japan in 1981, this beautiful book depicting the true story of innocent little Totto-chan, her family, friends, and above all, the innovating educationer she befriends in the years leading up to, and during the first years of WW2, remains a national best seller in Japan to this day. I don't have any children of my own, but if I did, and if Tomoe-Gakuen (the elementary school Totto-chan attends) existed today, I would immediately enroll my children there. Since there is not, I hope I have the good luck of finding somebody like Sosaku Kobayashi to help make my child the happiest and kindest child in the world.

      It was due to this book's beauty that then UNICEF Executive Director, James P. Grant persuaded those working at UNICEF to appoint the author, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (who is Totto-chan grown up), to UNICEF's International Goodwill Ambassador, enabling her to visit and help children in need all over the world.

      For people who have read this book and those who have not, I also recommend "Totto-Chan's Children : A Goodwill Journey to the Children of the World" by the same author. It tells the story of Totto-chan grown up, still big-hearted as ever, striving to help children in need. Check it out!

      5 out of 5 stars Gentle Leadership.......2007-01-12

      In 1969 I was part of a group of teachers who created a school much like that featured in Toto Chan. We thought we were on the "cutting edge" of educational practices without knowing that a school in Japan had been delivering many of the same holistic, humanistic educational practices over a quarter of a century before. I'm sure many U.S. educators who thought/think they were/are in the vanguard of educational practices would appreciate this beautiful story of a dedicated educator and his students.

      5 out of 5 stars Unforgettably good.......2006-08-12

      I have not read a better book which has made me laugh, cry, love, and ponder over is such a way! This book is awesome and worth much more than 5 stars.

      5 out of 5 stars Amazing! What school should be like..........2006-07-10

      I only just started this story last night and I'm already wanting to put everything else off to finish it! As a teacher, frustrated with "the system" of education today, this is a refreshing, exciting look at a unique school of railroad car classrooms, lunches of "something from the sea and something from the mountains," student-centered learning (Wow! what a concept!)from the eyes of little Totto-chan. If the rest of the book proves to be as great as the first part, I will be recommending it to all my teacher friends. It's a quick, fun read for anyone! Two thumbs up!
      Totto-Chan
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      • A Lovely Little Story!
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      5 out of 5 stars A Lovely Little Story!.......2004-12-08

      Also subtitled "The Little Girl At the Window," this is a major Japanese best seller.

      Encompasses the child's view of what education should be, so has a deeper meaning for educators, parents, and even younger readers with a broad understanding.

      Highly recommended.
      Totto-Chan's Children: A Goodwill Journey to the Children of the World
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      • A lot lost in translation, but still a great book!!
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      5 out of 5 stars A lot lost in translation, but still a great book!!.......2007-03-14

      This is a wonderful, heartrending book by UNICEF International Goodwill Ambassador and renowned actress/TV personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, which tells us of her encounters and friendships with children all over the world; children suffering from poverty, starvation, and at the hands of cruelty.

      (First though, I must say I'm more than a little disappointed with the English translation. Much was lost, and, even more sadly, added, during the course of translation. Lost: the nuances and overtones overflowing in the original Japanese version which so clearly express the author's love, compassion, understanding, and sensitivity towards all of mankind. Also lost is the wonderful sense of humor and great humility, which combined with the above mentioned virtues truly made the tales in the original speak to the heart of the reader.
      Somehow added in translation: a kind of harshness and arrogance which I can assure you, are nonexistent in the original. Added also is "preachiness," and Tetsuko Kuroyanagi never, ever, "preaches". If she did, the original Japanese version would never have sold as many copies it did or become a best-seller.

      Don't get me wrong, I'm not critising the ability of, or blaming Dorothy Britton. Her translation is well researched, and there are no technical mistakes in her translation at all. It's just that translating one language from another, especially languages (like Japanese and English) which do not share a common ancestral language, or are from almost completely different cultures is extremely difficult, and "nuances" are easily involuntarily lost or added. I guess the expression "lost in translation" is best fitting in describing the flaws of this English version of this book. If you decide to try reading this book, I hope you keep the above in mind, and if the book sounds preachy, harsh, or unfeeling at times, that is not the true tone of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi but the inevitable side-effects of translation, and will keep reading on to learn of the sufferings of innocent children all over the world. )


      That being said, I still think this is a wonderful, touching, truly heartrending book where, in sharp contrast to the short flashes of images broadcasted on the news or photo collections or even documentaries which try to show the tragedies of the suffering of children, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi presents the true story. In short, the story of suffering not just from lack of food and care, but lack of love.
      Just as the stories of children in suffering in pain made tears come to my eyes, the stories of children laughing, smiling, and playing with Tetsuko Kuroyanagi touched my heart deeply, and made me want to DO something, and I'm sure anybody who reads this book will feel the same.
      As the original Japanese version was written so children (and adults) in Japan could learn about the children Tetsuko Kuroyanagi encountered in other countries, I hope that English-speaking children will read this book as well.
      However, since there are stories of terrible violence, rape, and prostitution, some parents might want to read the book out loud to small children, avoiding the harsh stories of reality they want to spare their children from hearing about until they're a little older.
      Apparently, since the English version didn't sell very well, there are very few copies available, and those that are available are usually extremely expensive. I urge you though, to find a copy at the library, or get one from an Amazon seller, and to please, PLEASE read it and learn about the children from this unique perspective of an amazing woman with a big heart!

      The countries that Tetsuko Kuroyanagi has visited as UNICEF's goodwill ambassador from 1984 to 1996 are: Tanzania, Niger, India, Mozambique, Cambodia, Vietnam, Angola, Bangladesh, Iraq, Ethiopia, Sudan, Rwanda, Haiti, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and these are the places she describes in this book. She has since visited at least one country every year, among which are Afghanistan (twice: once in 2001 when the country was still under the Taliban regime, and once in 2002), Liberia, Zaire (Congo), Cote d'Ivoire, Indonesia (just after the Sumatra Tsunami). Many times she does so at great personal risk and continues to reach and help many children. The one year she could not visit children in suffering was 2004 when she planned to go to Palestine and Israel but was stopped by UNICEF since it was determined too dangerous. Tetsuko Kuroyanagi continues her work to help children, and now at the age of seventy-three, she is still going strong. She has written some articles about these visits in her various books in Japanese, and I hope they will be collected into another book, maybe something like "Totto-chan's children - A Goodwill Journey to the Children of the World - Part Two."
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          TOTTO-CHAN
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            Totto-Chan (The Little Girl at the Window)
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                Photographic Facts and Formulas
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                  E. J.; Jordan, Franklin I. Wall
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                    E.J. Wall , F.I. Jourdan , and John S. Carroll
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                        A Day in the Life of Ziggy
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                        • A Beacon Of Cutting-Edge, Esoteric, And Emboldening Humor
                        • the eternal champion
                        A Day in the Life of Ziggy
                        Tom Wilson
                        Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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                        5 out of 5 stars A Beacon Of Cutting-Edge, Esoteric, And Emboldening Humor.......1999-06-15

                        Ziggy rules! This collection, besides being perhaps the best compilation of comic strips ever published, leads its readers to realms previously unimagined. A different take on the strength of our Democratic government, a new perspective into the works of Freud, and the inspiration to spark a cultural and society-based revolution are just some of the smaller issues and intellectual delvings this masterful book provides its readers with. Rock on Tom Wilson! Your next masterwork is anxiously anticipated by the huddled masses!

                        5 out of 5 stars the eternal champion.......1999-05-15

                        ah, ziggy. Will we never tire of this portly, bald icon of everything that is right and innocent in this world? What can one say? As we turn the pages, we laugh, we cry, we smile wistfully as our befuddled chrome-domed antagonist stumbles through a world world as confounding and cold as anything kafka ever envisioned. A day in the life of ziggy recalls james joyce's ulysses, in which it is shown that for modern man, even getting through one day is an epic of heroic proportions. It is an epic that Ziggy has completed at last. Bravo, ziggy. Bravo.

                        La Banca del Futuro Desafio del Ao 2000
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                          Eduardo Bueno Campos , and Jose M. Rodriguez Anton
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                          Library Material Costs and Access to Information
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                            Sul H. Lee
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                            Deregulation and Interdependence in the Asia-Pacific Region (National Bureau of Economic Research-East Asia Seminar on Economics)
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                              Recently, real and artificial barriers to international transactions have fallen sharply, causing a rise in the overall volume of international trade. East Asia has been particularly affected by the economic stresses and gains derived from deregulation. Deregulation and Interdependence in the Asia-Pacific Region explores the broadly similar experiences of certain economies in the region—China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea—in dealing with the potentially volatile process of deregulation, and examines the East Asian response to a rapidly transforming economic environment.
                              New Paradigm for Re-engineering Education: Globalization,Localization and Individualization (Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and ... Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects)
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                                Yin Cheong Cheng
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                                In response to the challenges of globalization and local development, educational reforms are inevitably becoming one of the major trends in the Asia-Pacific Region or other parts of the world. Based on the most recent research and international observations, this book aims to present a new paradigm including various new concepts, frameworks and theories for reengineering education. This book has 21 chapters in three sections. Section I "New Paradigm of Educational Reform" containing eight chapters, illustrates the new paradigm and frameworks of reengineering education, fostering human development and analysing reform policies and also discusses the trends and challenges of educational reforms in the Asia-Pacific Region. Section II "New Paradigm of Educational Leadership" with five chapters aims to elaborate how the nature, role and practice of school leadership can be transformed towards a new paradigm and respond to the three waves of education reforms. Section III "Reengineering School Management for Effectiveness" with eight chapters aims to provide various practical frameworks for reengineering school management processes and implementing changes in school practices.
                                The Challenges of Globalization: Cultures in Transition in the Pacific-Asia Region
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                                  Chiang Lan-Hung Nora
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                                  The Challenges of Globalization: Cultures in Transition in the Pacific-Asia Region defines globalization as supra-national ideas and processes that cross national borders with impunity. Such ideas and processes may appear to possess a will of their own, fostering closer links between cultures, societies, and economies. But, do they? How do individuals, communities, and nation-states actually respond to the forces of globalization? This book explores globalization within the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and education.
                                  Globalization and Educational Restructuring in Asia and the Pacific Region
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                                    Ka-ho Mok , and Bryant Welch
                                    Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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                                    The focus of this book is to examine the growing impact of globalization on education policy and development in the Asia Pacific region. It analyzes the reaction of selected societies and the strategies that their governments have adopted in response to the tidal wave of marketization, corporatization, commercialization, and privatization. Particular attention is paid to educational restructuring in the context of globalization.
                                    Globalization and Educational Restructuring in the Asia Pacific Region.(Book Review): An article from: Pacific Affairs
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                                      Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien
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                                      Release Date: 2006-07-14

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                                      This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 669 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                                      Title: Globalization and Educational Restructuring in the Asia Pacific Region.(Book Review)
                                      Author: Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien
                                      Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
                                      Date: September 22, 2004
                                      Publisher: University of British Columbia
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                                      Globalization and Labour in the Asia Pacific Region. (Book Reviews).: An article from: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations
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                                        Globalization and Labour in the Asia Pacific Region. (Book Reviews).: An article from: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations
                                        Basu Sharma
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                                        This digital document is an article from Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, published by Relations Industrielles on September 22, 2001. The length of the article is 1456 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                                        Title: Globalization and Labour in the Asia Pacific Region. (Book Reviews).
                                        Author: Basu Sharma
                                        Publication: Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations (Refereed)
                                        Date: September 22, 2001
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                                        Globalization and the Sustainability of Cities in the Asia Pacific Region (Changing Nature of Democracy)
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                                          Globalization and the Sustainability of Cities in the Asia Pacific Region (Changing Nature of Democracy)

                                          Manufacturer: United Nations University Press
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                                          Binding: Paperback

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                                          Regionalism in the New Asia-Pacific Order: The Political Economy of the Asia-Pacific Region
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                                            Regionalism in the New Asia-Pacific Order: The Political Economy of the Asia-Pacific Region
                                            Joseph A. Camilleri
                                            Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Publishing
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                                            Binding: Hardcover

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                                            ASIN: 1858988357

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                                            Regionalism in the Asia-Pacific is a complex, diverse, highly contested and still rapidly evolving phenomenon. Crucial to an understanding of this phenomenon is the relationship between globalization and regionalization, between states, markets and civil society, and between US hegemony and Asian aspirations.

                                            This volume, the sequel to States, Markets and Civil Society in Asia Pacific, makes these interacting relationships the centerpiece of its analysis. The author examines the multiple attempts at institutional innovation, especially over the last twenty years, by placing them in their geo-political, geo-economic and cultural contexts. ASEAN, the ASEAN Regional Forum, APEC, ASEAN+3, ASEM, sub-regional economic zones, KEDO, CSCAP and other organizations are surveyed not as ends in themselves but for what they tell us of shifting political, economic and normative trends in Asia-Pacific and beyond.

                                            Comparing and contrasting the roles of great and middle powers, of state and non-state actors, and of governmental and non-governmental regional organizations, this book will appeal to scholars with an interest in the political economy of the Asia-Pacific region, international relations, and regional and global governance. Regionalism in the New Pacific Order will be invaluable to policymakers, diplomats, business analysts, journalists, NGO representatives, and researchers with a stake in the future development of the Asia-Pacific region.
                                            Special issue: international education in the Asia-Pacific region introduction by the guest editors.: An article from: Australian Journal of Education
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                                              Special issue: international education in the Asia-Pacific region introduction by the guest editors.: An article from: Australian Journal of Education
                                              Cynthia Joseph , Simon Marginson , and Rui Yang
                                              Manufacturer: Australian Council for Educational Research
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                                              ASIN: B000AJQ35C
                                              Release Date: 2006-07-14

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                                              This digital document is an article from Australian Journal of Education, published by Australian Council for Educational Research on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2677 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                                              Title: Special issue: international education in the Asia-Pacific region introduction by the guest editors.
                                              Author: Cynthia Joseph
                                              Publication: Australian Journal of Education (Refereed)
                                              Date: April 1, 2005
                                              Publisher: Australian Council for Educational Research
                                              Volume: 49 Issue: 1 Page: 3(7)

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                                              Globalization in the Asia Pacific Region
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                                                Globalization in the Asia Pacific Region

                                                Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Pub
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                                                Binding: Hardcover

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                                                Research in Labor Economics, Volume 17 (Research in Labor Economics)
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                                                  Research in Labor Economics, Volume 17 (Research in Labor Economics)

                                                  Manufacturer: JAI Press
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                                                  ASIN: 0762305703

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                                                  Research in Labor Economics focuses on various aspects of labor markets and how these markets affect our well-being. As such, this volume contains eleven chapters: three on labor supply, directly dealing with various aspects of the participation decision; two on human capital, the accumulation of worker skills; three directly on employee earnings; and three on the distribution of earnings throughout society.

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