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One of my greatest joys in life is teaching the bible in a way that makes it real to people. There’s no greater thrill for me than seeing a person have that “aha!” moment, when something in Scripture suddenly makes sense. Even after years of teaching, I never get tired of students telling me that something I said made the bible come to life for them. That is my hope for this channel. I have been a student and a lecturer of New Testament since 2005. I began my studies at what was then called ...
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What My Students Taught Me

Columbia Journalism School's Teacher Project

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A podcast featuring teachers reflecting on one of their most challenging and memorable students — whenever possible in counterpoint with the student’s version of the same events. What My Students Taught Me is created and produced by Columbia Journalism School's Teacher Project with partners including the Atlantic.com and public radio stations across the country.
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The Wise Up With Your Money Podcast is your go-to resource if you want to know how to handle your family money wisely. Most of us learned how to make a paycheck at school but rarely did we get taught what to do with the paycheck afterward! So WISE UP with me, Becky your financial coach, and let's worry less about our money choices by building better money habits so we have confidence in telling our money where to go in the future!
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Call Me Watkins

Joanne Watkins

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A podcast about English literature texts for senior high students. I am a teacher of senior English and Literature in Melbourne, Australia but have also taught at schools in New South Wales and in Oxford in the UK. If you're wondering about the title of the podcast, it's a reference to my name, Mrs Watkins and what many regard as the best opening line to a book: "Call me Ishmael" from Herman Melville's "Moby Dick".
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INSIDE MY MIND

JC TELLAECHE

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Born to inspire through a different mindset after several near death experiences, now physically paralized but mentally free I’m a student of life with a unique and broad perspective. With a developed consciousness my mission is to empower you through my personal thoughts and stories. Remind you that you are a creator not a victim.
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Want to love walking into your ELA classroom each day? Excited about innovative strategies like PBL, escape rooms, hexagonal thinking, sketchnotes, one-pagers, student podcasting, genius hour, and more? Want a thriving choice reading program and a shelf full of compelling diverse texts? You're in the right place! Here you'll find interviews with top authors from the ELA field, workshops with strategies you can use in class immediately, and quick tips to ignite your English teacher creativity ...
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Self-advocacy and having blindness or low vision can be challenging at times when others don't know what it's like to have a disability or have met someone and don't know how to interact. However, it's about understanding how those of us with visual impairments are able to be independent using the accommodations that we use and letting others know that we're individuals like everyone else. This podcast is about raising awareness of blindness and low vision in a positive way and educating oth ...
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Hey, you. Yes, you, that teacher beavering away teaching people how to create music. This is a show about you and others just like you. In Teaching Studio Stories, we visit with a music teacher each week and learn about their journey to this career and the bumps and bruises they’ve encountered along the way. This is a positive and fun space that is also not afraid to face the music. Listen and learn from other mistakes, cheer for their successes and, above all, feel part of a global communit ...
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What should future schools look like? How do brains learn? Some of the world's greatest educators, researchers, and community leaders share their stories and visions onstage at the TED conference, TEDx events and partner events around the world. You can also download these and many other videos free on TED.com, with an interactive English transcript and subtitles in up to 80 languages. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.
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Have you ever felt nervous about a performance or audition? Do you find yourself wondering what is on the other side of your music degree? Are you looking for a way to pursue music outside of the traditional career paths? Music Majors Unplugged is the weekly podcast that joins with professional musicians to dive deep into success in music. Hosted by Aiden Endres, we explore auditions, creativity, and making a sustainable income in music, bringing you expert interviews and advice. Whether you ...
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Dr. Jae’s Office Hours is a podcast hosted by Jae Williams Ed.D, an educator, social justice advocate, and book lover, that highlights the intersection of business, creativity, and social justice. Dive into exclusive class lectures, insightful essays, and interviews with industry leaders, all curated to provide a multidimensional understanding of topics like hip-hop culture, the creative economy, social justice, and leadership. If you are a college student, young professional, or lifelong le ...
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Careers by Jenn Podcast: Get the Job, Love Your Work, Advance Your Career

Jenn Swanson: online career educator, coach, speaker, author (and church mi

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Helping you to GET the job, LOVE your work, and/or ADVANCE your career. Welcome to the Careers by Jenn Podcast (formerly Communication Diva). I'm Jenn Swanson. Are you bored and ready for a career change? Do you need help with a job search strategies? Do you need an updated resume that will get noticed? Want to learn how to ACE your next job interview? Are you looking to feel more satisfied in the work you are currently doing? Do you need some wellness reminders so you can feel better in min ...
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Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Eugene O'Neill get plenty of spotlight on the ELA curriculum stage. And sure, it's well-deserved! But they aren't the only incredible American playwrights to pick up a pen in the last century. If you're looking for some contemporary plays to share with your students, and you're struggling to find ones that fit…
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This week I want to share a fabulous resource I recently discovered, a website full of short video models for acting games you can use in class. The first time I taught a play in class, I sure wished I had more theater background to help my students act out the scenes. Luckily, I was able to connect with a creative theater professional to come and …
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My son and I love a few certain characters from the books we've read aloud over the years. Gum-Baby, from Tristan Strong, Boots, from Gregor the Overlander, Maniac Magee. For my daughter, it's Junie B. Jones and Ramona from their named series collections. For me, it was always Anne (of Green Gables) I returned to growing up, and Jo from Little Wome…
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Paul spent at least four years imprisoned, first in Caesarea, then in Rome. But why? In this series, we will look at the reason behind his arrest, trial, and imprisonment. In this week’s episode, we look at Paul’s interrogation before Claudius Lysias. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XMdY3yl_wdw Connect with me: All my links: https:/…
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Grading discussion can feel like juggling cats. How can you be present in a class discussion while also trying to grade thirty people’s comments? But over the years, I’ve tried three methods that that have worked for me without causing too much strain. I call them the bump, the challenge, and the chart. In today’s mini-episode, I’ll walk you throug…
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We’ve all been in a discussion hurtling off the track and into the canyon, far, far below. Chances are, you’ve been in this type of discussion as a student AND as a teacher, and it’s no fun in either scenario. So how do we prevent it? And what do we do if it’s already happening and glaze is washing over our students’ eyes? In today’s episode, the f…
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Paul spent at least four years imprisoned, first in Caesarea, then in Rome. But why? In this series, we will look at the reason behind his arrest, trial, and imprisonment. In this week’s episode, we look at Paul’s testimony before the Jewish mob. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ac8xW22FBh4 Connect with me: All my links: https://link…
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Depending on where you are at with your financial journey you may need a financial coach, a financial advisor, or you may even need both! But if you are not sure which one OR you didn't even know there was a difference, then you gotta listen to this week's episode! Because not only will you know who you need, but you'll also learn: the different ki…
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Remember in elementary school, how some kids were so excited to answer a question that they would wave their hand back and forth in the air, lifting ever so slightly from their seat? The Hermione Grangers of 2nd grade. Yeah, that was me. So I have real sympathy for students who become discussion dominators. Though on the outside, this appears to ma…
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Welcome back to our ongoing discussion series. If you missed the first two episodes, covering five types of discussion worth trying and introducing the Harkness method for student-led discussion, you might want to pause and go back to the last two episodes before continuing with this one. Today we’re diving deep into student-led discussion, specifi…
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Paul spent at least four years imprisoned, first in Caesarea, then in Rome. But why? In this series, we will look at the reason behind his arrest, trial, and imprisonment. In this week’s episode, we look at Paul’s return to Jerusalem and subsequent arrest. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ac8xW22FBh4 Connect with me: All my links: ht…
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Today we’re talking about a model that influenced every discussion I ran in my classroom from my first year to my last, across grade levels, years, and countries. I’ve run hundreds of Harkness discussions - terrible ones, experimental ones, pretty ok ones, good ones, and absolutely incredible ones. Today I want to tell you how Harkness discussion c…
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Discussion. Theoretically it’s the bread and butter of the English classroom, but sometimes it feels like all crusts and crumbs. How can you get students excited to talk about voice and theme, metaphor and symbolism, when they have a million other things going on? How do you inspire them to dive in together to the ways that literature illuminates l…
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Paul spent at least four years imprisoned, first in Caesarea, then in Rome. But why? In this series, we will look at the reason behind his arrest, trial, and imprisonment. Beginning with this week’s episode, we will first look at ancient imprisonment. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/btC4UMzy3NU Connect with me: All my links: https:/…
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The late afternoon sun filtered through the windows of our tiny department office as I ran in to grab the papers I’d just printed. As I waited for them to finish, I examined the old books stacked on the shelf above the printer, brought to our school in Bulgaria by another ex-pat teacher many years ago, judging by the dust. One caught my eye - Willi…
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Want to teach a multigenre essay project? Good! Our students see story splashed across so many platforms these days. Video, audio, visuals, and words all mixed up together in a daily swirl. Understanding how to tell a story across mediums is a highly relevant skill for students, and one they can quickly see the relevance of every time they switch o…
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Welcome to the Thursday edition of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast, a podcast for English teachers in search of creative teaching strategies. Tell me if this sounds familiar. You sit down to write a rec letter after a long fall day of teaching, meetings, coaching, and everything else on your plate. Maybe it’s 9 pm and you’re trying to remember…
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It's no fun announcing an argument paper and being met by groans. If your students have arrived at your class afraid of essays, you're not the only one. And we all know, buy-in matters. When students are confronted with a task they're horrified by, it's hard for them to access their skills and motivation to do their best work. So what are you suppo…
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If you’ve ever felt like you were stuck in a rut doing the same thing day after day, I’ve got a quick mindset shift to help. I do NOT want you to give up on whole class novels, so let’s talk about how to make them work. In theory, whole class novels are the bread and butter of the English classroom. But if you struggle to get students to read at ho…
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Do you have old books lying around taking up space in your classroom? Books no one is ever going to read again? Recently in our Facebook group, Creative High School English, a fun visual thread erupted all about bookish page displays. So in today’s one minute idea-isode, I want to suggest you try one. You’ll clear space on your shelves, help the ea…
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On this week’s mini-episode, I want to tell you about a one week unit that has never failed to produce incredible results from my students. I’ve done it with 10th graders and 11th graders, honors students and their counterparts, American students and Bulgarian students speaking English as their second language. And I’ve loved it every. Single. Time…
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Let's talk about dystopia book clubs, a compelling unit option for ELA. I taught my first dystopian fiction, 1984, to tenth graders in Bulgaria. They had very strong reactions to the way Orwell portrayed communism, since Communist rule had existed in their family's living memories. For some, Orwell nailed it. Others, outraged, clearly thought he wa…
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On this week’s mini-episode, I’d like to challenge you to get your students set up on Canva and help them get comfortable on the platform with a simple assignment that will give you a great fall display, literary travel posters. Have you seen PBS’ The Great Read posters, which are available for free download on the PBS site? I’ll link them in the s…
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Video is everywhere in communication these days, including on Reels, TikTok, and Youtube, where our students are. Building creative video projects into ELA can help leverage students' interests in these platforms toward building skills in research, storytelling, speaking, and building an argument. Not to mention skills within the genre itself, whic…
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In this episode, we will take a closer look at a situation where some of the Corinthians abusing the gifts for their own status. Why are they doing this and what is the lesson for us today? Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DwP9WTVvjew Connect with me: All my links: https://linktr.ee/thentstory Support the podcast: https://the-new-tes…
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On this week’s mini-episode, let’s talk about how to build an audio assignment in early in the year without feeling intimidated. Maybe you joined me for Camp Creative last summer and you’ve got alllll the student podcasting background, or maybe you’re new to the topic and feeling a bit wary. Either way, this episode is for you! Let’s walk through h…
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We moved this month, and it wasn’t one of your quick moves. We did one of those once, from one cabin to the one next door, carrying our furniture and baskets of stuff across a soon well-worn path through the woods. But no, this one was an international move across four flights and nine time zones, with some of our stuff going by shipping container …
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In this episode, we will take a closer look at a situation where some of the Corinthians taking each other to court. Why are they doing this and what is the lesson for us today? Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Vdm-y01mf_A Connect with me: All my links: https://linktr.ee/thentstory Support the podcast: https://the-new-testament-story…
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On this week’s mini-episode, I want to talk about learning names, and my easy trick for mastery. It took me many years, but finally, after a year in which I had a Kalina, Karina, Ekaterina, and Katrina, I figured out a plan that really worked. I hate not knowing students’ names. It stresses me out, big time. Maybe you’re the same? The worst is when…
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Jason Reynolds' website headline reads "Here's What I Do: Not Write Boring books." How great is that? As with everything he does, he seems to be speaking directly to the young people he's always trying to reach. There's a reason The Library of Congress chose him as the national ambassador for young adult literature. Last year I created an Instagram…
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On this week’s mini-episode, I’m sharing the coolest discussion warm-up I’ve ever learned, which I picked up at the Exeter Humanities Institute one week after my first year of teaching and the same week that I met my husband. You’re going to love it! As you know if you listen to the podcast much, my favorite discussion method is called Harkness, an…
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In this episode, we will take a closer look at a situation where some of the Corinthians completely rejected Paul as their pastor. Even worse, they have replaced him with his opponents! Why are they doing this and what is the lesson for us today? Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/N5dVI61Afhs Connect with me: All my links: https://link…
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The first time I really understood what flow meant I was barefoot in salty sand, building a beach sculpture in Mexico alone in the sunshine. Two hours seemed to disappear in moments as I gathered water-smoothed scraps of painted tile and bright shells and arranged them into swirls and towers underneath the cliffs. Take a second here and ask yoursel…
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In this episode, we will take a closer look at a situation where some of the Corinthians completely rejected Paul as their pastor. Even worse, they have replaced him with his opponents! Why are they doing this and what is the lesson for us today? Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CLzZ6KMYcc0 Connect with me: All my links: https://link…
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On this week’s mini-episode, I want to give my answer to a question I see all the time in our Facebook community, Creative High School English, and it’s this: What’s the best way to spend a teacher budget? So let’s dive into five great options. . Classroom Poster Printing Over the years I’ve seen a lot of wonderful classroom poster creation from fe…
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Today I’d like to share one of my favorite episodes from the Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast archives. In this special episode, I invited five creative guests to give their take on impactful classroom design. This back-to-school season felt like the perfect time to share it again. I’ll be back with a full episode on Thursday, but at the moment I’m…
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On this week’s mini-episode, I just have a very quick idea for you and it’s this. As back-to-school hits, it’s easy to immediately become isolated in your classroom. You’ve got a million to-dos for your space and your students. But the school year is going to feel better if you feel connected to the teacher across the hall, the teacher next door, a…
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Back-to-School season is the perfect time to set up your reading program for success throughout the year. Heading into the school year with a well-organized library, a plan for routines like First Chapter Friday and Book Trailer Tuesday, a kickoff book tasting, an appealing book display, and a regular time to read will help so much in inspiring you…
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In this episode, we will take a closer look at a situation where some of the Corinthians are still participating in festivals for the city’s idols. Why are they doing this and what is the lesson for us today? Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6cha0UNUXTM Connect with me: All my links: https://linktr.ee/thentstory Support the podcast: …
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On this week’s mini-episode, I want to answer a question from our community about lesson planning. Here it is: “How do you plan? I’m struggling to put together a series of lessons that culminate into a bigger assignment. For example, if I want my students to end up writing a persuasive essay, what would I plan to prepare them to write it? Do you go…
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Maybe you've heard the story of how I almost quit teaching on my first first day of school. Despite the fact that I had spent three months preparing moment-by-moment lessons for fall. Despite the fact that I was wearing my super cool white embroidered top from Bass and carrying my first ever leather shoulder bag. Despite the fact that I had asked a…
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On this week’s mini-episode, I want to share my top strategy for taking the pressure off you while delivering a great experience for parents on back-to-school night, stations. Back-to-school night, like the first day of school, can be a stressful time. You’re trying to get a lot of information across quickly, and it can feel like the only way to ge…
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If I told you the elective we’re about to dive into has an “awkward party” unit, would you believe me? Well, it does, and I can’t wait for you to learn about it and start planning an awkward party lesson of your own. Today on the show, we’re continuing our creative electives series with veteran teacher Lisa Blake, who's been teaching for 33 years i…
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In this episode, we will take a closer look at some serious issues at the communion table in Corinth. Some are feasting and getting drunk while others are going hungry. What on Earth is going on here?! Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jWynlyZzO9k Connect with me: All my links: https://linktr.ee/thentstory Support the podcast: https:/…
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On this week’s mini-episode, I want to answer a question from our community about reading in class. Here it is “ Hi all. Next year my middle school will be implementing a 45-minute every-other-day reading block for all students. All teachers (ELA or not) will be required to cover the class. I am wondering…what you do with it…” In today’s episode, I…
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What would you do if you had nine weeks to help ELA students imagine the real-world use of ELA skills? Inside the unique elective wheel program at Lisa Jones' school, students explore each discipline for nine weeks before moving onto the next. To show them literacy in action, Lisa has crafted an elective with three real-world projects to help them …
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This week let’s talk about careers. I don’t know if you can relate, but I graduated from high school with a general awareness of maybe six careers - law, medicine, teaching, ministry, science, and business. Let’s talk about how we can show our students a broader view of what’s out there - and build in some ELA skills to the process. A fun way to st…
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Today on the show, we’ll find out what happened when an administrator attended a student’s genius hour project presentation about a new elective she wanted to see proposed Teaching African American Literature. Spoiler alert, magic. We’re continuing our elective series today, and I’m delighted to tell you we're hearing from passionate veteran teache…
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In this episode, we will take a closer look at one of the more troubling passages not just in 1 Corinthians, but probably in the whole Bible. A man is sleeping with his stepmother and Paul’s advice is to “hand him to Satan”. What on Earth is going on here?! Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/M5vOPZk3Z-A Connect with me: All my links: h…
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On this week’s mini-episode, I want to answer a question sent in by a member of our community. Here’s what she writes: Hi Betsy, I have classes of 10th graders who are SO divergent in skill levels. Some are reading Murakami for fun, and some are reading at a 5th grade level. I am struggling to differentiate for them and provide challenge for the st…
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