Mis Search for Beauty (Gatekeepers Choice Book 1)
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As I talked and answered questions I noticed something important — people were on their screens. Ipads were out, cell phones were on, laptop screens were up and eyes were no longer directed towards me. It usually means we have lost the audience, their attention drawn to FaceBook, or shoe shopping or the latest poll numbers. After my a few people expressed concern and disappointment that they had never heard of the books I mentioned. Some felt unsure about purchasing books when they might not recognize authentic representations vs familiar stereotypes and tropes.
No smiling slaves or lesbians getting shock treatment! People on the autism spectrum who are not freaky-math-geniuses. Asian women who are not submissive. Instead, write a paragraph about what the book made you think about, how it made your feel when you read, what it reminded you of, or what surprised you. Focus on what you liked, how the book challenged you or made you think. Then publish it to Amazon or Goodreads. Please share this post widely. Maybe we can catch the attention of other readers. Maybe we can help authors by getting the word out about their books. Maybe we can get publishers to notice when those books get more sales.
The twitter conversation exploded into a full on outcry from readers and authors. There were and continue to be many bloggers who are focused on issues of representation, and the work is becoming part of a larger conversations about race and privilege that have been a long time coming. These conversations are not easy, they are not comfortable, and there are no easy answers. Recently, another picturebook, A Birthday Cake for George Washington , featuring the all too familiar happy-slave trope. I am not surprised when books avoid the terrible truths in our collective history.
In the past I have found it difficult to participate in these conversations about privilege and Whiteness, and representation. I get mad and start to rant. I scare the dogs. I threaten my computer. But, I am working on sitting and thinking, instead of standing and yelling. And, in this space I am going to talk about an often used defense about books that have objectionable representations of people, cultures, and history. I have never understood this argument.
By in large, I do not know the authors of the books I read. The author is changed as well. Books are created by change. The intention has dissipated into time and space and events of the day. The intent has no baring on the object in front of me. It it my responsibility to make sense of the book, using all I have at my disposal; my experiences, my understanding, my interpretation. I care about the book in front of me.
The story, the characters, the language and what it makes me see and feel and how it affects me. The idea that an image can be simple but not easy has grabbed my attention. This is one reason why text leveling does not work for measuring the difficulty of a text. The issue is NOT that the measures are wrong, it is that they are being used incorrectly. It is as if I asked for a vegetable peeler and got a hammer. And, when utilized on graphic novels, comics and even informational books with an abundance of images, things go very wrong, very quickly.
Mo Willems is an expert on the use of muted colors, simple lines, and few details to convey great emotional range and depth in a character. How else can he take us from a happy-go-lucky Pigeon to a despondent Pigeon? We, the reader, read into these changes and interpret the emotional context of the character.
Andy R unton shows us a depressed and worried Owly by manipulating similar aspects of the bird — especially the eyes. How do they provide the reader with cues to the emotional life of a character? Typical of the book is this illustration of Marjane and her friends as they are made to wear veils for the first time in their lives. In Bluffton , Matt Phelan gives us a character who is known for his deadpan expression. But, somehow I look at that face and wonder at the depth of character that is going on behind those eyes. The lack of color is not the most striking aspect of these images — instead it is the abstractness that I actually forget about.
Even without color and in only two dimensions, the human face is a complex set of lines and angles. What amazes me, as a reader and a scholar, is the ways highly abstract faces emote such strong responses without the details that would make them realistic. The Pigeons happiness and sadness is obvious. This use of highly abstract images can create characters that we as readers work to understand. Here goes my list of reads for the past few weeks. It is the end of Spring semester here at Boston University, which means that my reading hours are being used for other things.
It also means, my writing hours are geared toward research articles and grading. But, just like the chick-a-dees and blue jays that are hopping around my trees and urging Spring to come, take off its coat, and stay for a while, I got a box of book that I recently ordered in the mail. April 19, by Joe Kubert This one is going to take me a while to finish. I can take it in small pieces, but as a whole it is an overpowering book. Kubert uses a heavily, pencil or coal sketch style on paper that appears to be newsprint but feels much heavier.
The images are sketches, with the dividing lines left intact, reminding me that it is a person who drew the portraits. The voice is of a young boy seeing a world filled with Nazi horror, and becoming numb to the horror. Another black and white graphic novel, very autobiographical. The story focuses on a young American women who decides to live in Mexico City.
The illustration style is sometimes heavy handed, suffering from too much cross-hatching to show shadows and depth. Like many autobiographies Abel uses an abundance of written text instead of trusting the illustrations to carry more of the story. The Mermaid and the Shoe by K. The cover is very wistful and sort of drab, using a dark watercolor pallet with one bright spot the red shoe. Instead, it is the story of Minnow, who discovers the power of asking AND finding the answers to her own questions. I finished Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith. It is a wondrous read the is at once completely banal and full of everyday adolescent angst filled emotional subjects like love, sex, and identity, as well as end-of-the-world-threatening, megalomaniacal, out-of-control, mad science gone wrong.
The narrator, Austin, presents these topics in the same tone. And yet, it is always right. Austin may or may not be bisexual, or gay, or something. Austin is sure that he is in love with his girlfriend Shann who is not gay. The idea of Robbie and Shann kissing makes Austin horny — of course, life makes Austin 16 year old horny. But the true beauty of this biography is being able to follow Cousteau as a boy who was curious about film making and oceanography.
This is a terrific example of an interesting, beautiful non-fiction pciturebook. I am also rereading A River of Words: I used to say I was not a poetry person. I think I am a very picky poetry person. It can be a difficult genre for me to read, but then I will find someone who plays with words in a way I understand, who paints pictures and reveals new ways of seeing the world that I can share in. One such poet is Carlos Willi ams. I want to love this book because it brings poetry into the hands of kids. I want to love this book because it is a stunning example of mixed-media illustrations. I want to love this book because it explains how this poet was also a doctor and how not giving up poetry helped him be a better doctor.
But, it is a difficult book for me to read. Although the illustrator does offset the prose into beige text boxes, the actual poetry is often presenting as part of a tableau that confuses written text with illustrations. It seems that African literature is the literary dish du jour , like the Indian more Lahiris! Of course, one could argue that odd writers emerging from a continent of 1.
One might pause to wonder what so-called African novels have in common: Oyeyemi is British; her family moved to the UK when she was four. Are these African works? It was when Chinua Achebe , reflecting on a conference of African authors, wrote: Was it literature produced in Africa or about Africa? Could African literature be on any subject, or must it have an African theme? Thirty years later, the first African winner of the Booker prize, asked to describe himself, said: I never think of myself in terms of any classification.
It may not, but publishers do. And two decades on, the same tensions have arisen again, exacerbated by the fact that so much African literature is published outside Africa. If no one can quite say what African writing is, many have views on what it should be: At the heart of this increasingly noisy debate lie, I think, three central questions: In , Tope Folarin won the 14th Caine prize for African writing, the first American-born writer to do so.
His victory suggested that Africans in the diaspora now qualified as African writers, a question of distracting importance. At a recent conference on African literature … I sat on a panel with two other female writers. A question was asked almost immediately: It seems that every new writer with any remote connection to the continent of Africa, either willingly or unwillingly, has first to wrestle with this question of identity before talking about what should matter most: African writers are not the only victims of such questions — which, among other absurdities, assume that their identities are open to assessment by absolute strangers.
Amitav Ghosh, however, was found to be sufficiently Indian, and so his Shadow Lines was accepted into the canon. The issue was decided not on the basis of the relative merits of the books, but on the perceived Indianness of the authors, and by implication, the degree of their assimilation by the west. Writing over 10 years apart, Mengiste and Chandra alert us to the same trend: The most scathing critique of the African writer is not that she is insufficiently talented, but that she is insufficiently African. It is no secret that Africa like India is the starting point of a modern diaspora.
There are an estimated 1. Their African-ness may be peculiar to the diasporic experience, and their American-ness peculiar to the immigrant one, but they are legitimate identities, no less comprehensible for being multiple. Asked whether she considers herself Ethiopian or American, Mengiste said: I am Ghanaian, Nigerian and cosmopolitan. But the wider literary establishment has trouble with writers who belong to diasporas.
It can be unclear which team we are playing for: Wilson disarmed the serpent by exposing his tactic of attack on humans. She studied both the Old and New Testament and exposed how he interfered in the patriarchs walk with God and how God circumvented him fro We are all in a constant state of change whether we are aware of it or not.
Every movement into the unfamiliar and unknown is very uncomfortable. We instinctively do all we can to stay in our familiar, comfortable places, yet we, "want to have more of God". Lil Miss New York, all she wants to do is sleep! She doesn't want to be disturbed by anything or anyone. She does everything she can to stay exactly where she wants to be. That's in her comfy, cozy bed. Nothing seems to wake her up, not the bright, blazing morning sun, not even the cold floor beneath her feet.
Even the loud sounds of the city streets can't wake Lil Miss New York. She stays right t Bill Carson weaves a verbal tapestry that takes you now to then and back again with an occasional look at tomorrow. This book is for boys of all ages. The girls will like it too. November 8, , felt like an ordinary day to Julia Cavatelli as she left work. It turned out anything but ordinary, however. An unexpected event and her encounter with I. Travis Travis started a series of changes no one could have predicted, and perhaps few would have believed.
Struggles on her enlightening journey challenged Julia, robbed her happiness, and would have left her a fraction o We all know someone nowadays who struggles with addiction. Follow this true story and take a walk inside the life of an addict. Recovered drug addict and alcoholic Sam will tell you what happened, what it was like, and what it's like now. He will have you learn that there is indeed hope in recovery and that we can turn our lives around when we take the right steps. Addicts are not bad people that Sarah loves her unborn baby, even though the pregnancy is the result of a stranger's attack.
Her own father blames her for the rape, saying she was "flaunting her charms" and got just what she deserved. For her, abortion is out of the question. But that's what will be required of her when Papa finds out she's with child. She has to run away. Just off Highway 53, in the small town of Lynchburg, South Carolina stands a white house down a long unpaved lane on one's way to Shiloh.
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Gayle is a nine-year-old fourth grader who lives with her mother in a ground-floor apartment. As an animal lover, she has always dreamed of having her very own pet. However, her apartment complex does not allow dogs or cats. When the opportunity arises for Gayle to become the owner of her class pet, she eagerly jumps at the chance. Her class pet is a mouse named Sylvia. The dilemma is she has not When I talk to people about what happened to me at the age of twelve and what happened to my family, I always start by asking, "Do you remember what you did this past Christmas Eve?
Do you have a time in your life that you just cannot remember due to a traumatic event in your life? The more I close my eyes to fill in the blanks to remember what happened, the more confused I am. If you're struggling to turn your life around to find meaning and stability, then the time has come to stand still and surrender. At age eighteen years old, she ran away from home to find answers to her troubled life. Her path led to dangerous places where her struggles continued into adulthood. We all fall short, but what are you going to do about it? I was at a point in my life where I was headed a downward spiral.
At this brink of my life, I was about to lose it all. I was a foolish man that was not going to change and dared not to because I believed I could accomplish any and everything without God. I did not see my issues as problems. I was a man jeopardizing my soul, mind, freedom, Living in a town of Battleford, Saskatchewan, with a population of a little more than four thousand people, a happy twelve-year-old Adalyn Saunders was abducted!
Snatched from her family and sold into trafficking, she suddenly became aware of what no young girl at the age of twelve should know! I was so excited to be having my faith stories published. It seemed everything fell into place. The very first publisher, I sent it to approved the book for publishing. This time period began a series of problems, obstacles, and issues. I think they were meant to distract me, slow me down, or get me to forg One of inspiration guided by divine consecration and state of the art opportunity.
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In book 2 of The Tiny Disciples: Age of the Holy Spirit, Christian topics are discussed and explained for our children's Chr This book was written in reaction to formulaic American sitcoms. For decades sexual purity and Biblical morality have been laughed out of the mainstream leaving social decay and broken lives the inevitable result. Unlike television, our world doesn't automatically reset itself at the end of each episode.
There are consequences to the choices we make. This book will answer the age old questions, "How is the Christmas tree connected to Christ? If you want to know more about this revelation, open up this book and learn how the Christmas tree connects to Christ's birth The title Zoobu stems from twelve years in the making, until such a time as this in which we are living in today. Where people and religion appears to be going backwards instead of forward, where we should be teaching love for one another instead of hate.
Hopefully, this book will allow the reader to think about the love and relationship of family and their fellow man This book could and should be the standalone text for an 8 credit hour college course, mandatory for every accredited Bible student. And, it is a must for every layman who wa Larry's Adventure, this is a story of a turtle, name Larry and his faithful friend Hanna. Larry's quest to the mountaintop began with a falling star. As they traveled alone their way they encountered a few challenges Come along with Larry and Hanna as they journey to see the stars up close.
What if you lived your entire life by the plan you'd laid out when you were thirteen years old? Reflections on Life, Love, Faith, and Turning Thirty tells one woman's journey from living the life she had planned to learning to live each day to the fullest. A no-holds-barred look at author, Lindsey Brunette's, story of recovery from her own demons, it asks the question, "Who am I if I a Driving alone in his car in the early predawn hours on I, heading south at eighty miles per hour, Jim Robinson heard a voice speak to him that would change his relationship with God forever and send him on a five-year mission to reveal how the holy God Almighty communicates with his greatest creation, mankind.
His research of scripture will reveal that God spoke directly to many individuals thr Summer is in full swing at Blue Gill Bay! The fish are jumping, the gulls are squawking, the flowers are blooming, the kids are playing, and a great white shark is seen! Ginny, Bobby, and Taffy, Bobby's dog, are having one fun day after another.
Well, some days are more interesting than others, maybe even mysterious. The new neighbors continue to surprise Bobby with their strange ways.
A Trilogy of Contemplative Christian Devotionals is a topical devotional with an overall theme of faith and trust in a loving God. The author uses poetry in Dine with the Master to seek and find answers for concerns such as identity, forgiveness, hope and waiting. This book was not written to be read.
It was written to be eaten. I invite you to take a second helping of the same word again and again until it soaks into your soul and saturates your thinking. Then you will know how to feed the hungry and school the poor. Then you will know the purpose of education and the methods that are guaranteed to bring life, liberty, an Living in a home with no electricity, no indoor plumbing, and an outhouse for a bathroom is a few of the true inconveniences experienced by the author as a child.
Her parents had lived in Kentucky long before she was born. Her ancestors found their way into the Kentucky mountains from Scotland and Ireland by way of England in search of a better life. The search ended when they reached the southeas We all have a name, skin color, and birthplace, but does that identify you? Is that who you are? This book will explain who you truly are in and out and who holds your destiny.
It is also a story of the love, determination, bravery, and kindness extended to Joseph by the people who were willing to see beyond his disabilities and allowed themselves to be entranced by his beautiful smile, his contagious laugh, h Even without color and in only two dimensions, the human face is a complex set of lines and angles. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. The narrator, Austin, presents these topics in the same tone. The writing was exquisite, the story touched my heart and I so hope the author writes another book. Every one of us desire love. Without Mama, their little house would be lonely and sad.
Life on Life is a different approach to mentoring. As the subtitle The Practice of Spiritual Mentoring indicates, it is both practical and spiritual at the same time. It is practical because it gives guidelines as to how to mentor. Peter even incorporates many important "do's" and "don'ts" of mentoring. This book is about a blended family and how they use Bible stories to instill values into their children's lives and resolve some of the common conflicts.
Justin Douglas is a thirty-four-year-old widower with a seven-year-old son, Drew. He marries Brianna, a thirty-three-year-old divorcee with three kids: Tanner, ten years old; Leona, eight years old; and Ryan, four years old. It is written for ch There is an all-encompassing living Word that speaks eternal meaning and significance into your life.
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No matter how low our circumstances, our spirit, or our life may be this Word filled with Almighty power from above clothes us, transforms us, sets us free, and changes our lives. This Word comes directly from heaven itself, and is made flesh as a man and God spoke through His miracles, death on t Lena Payne hasn't always made the right choices.
Neither have the brothers and sisters who she lives with in heaven, but for sure, they all made one right choice. Be encouraged to know that we all make mistakes in life, we all have challenges, and we all have refused truth at some point, and yet Go Leaving home at an early age gave me freedom, but also denied me the privilege of really getting to know my younger brothers and sisters.
Even though many miles separated us, it seemed that when we got together, the ties that bind reappeared, and the story would continue as if never interrupted. Although love won out in the end, it was an uphill battle that some of us lost and others won You do not have to be in a church setting to share your testimony. It may be during lunch break at work, at the hair salon, or in a grocery store. People need to hear about the goodness of the Lord. Ministry is wherever people are. I know firsthand the many sacrifices of war. You get to see men of different skin colors and of all creeds stand side by side, fighting the enemy.
Today you will find veterans standing for our Flag and the National Anthem, filled with such pride every time they see it. We fought to give American's the rig This is a true story. This is a true story about God's redemption. After many tears and much praying, God gave me the courage to write this book. I hope no one has to learn the hard way as I did. But know one thing: Don't ever give up. When a small ad appeared in the church Sunday bulletin offering men the opportunity to study the Bible, twelve responded.
After several interesting sessions, a new assistant priest shows up at one of the meetings. Only, He's not your normal assistant. He identifies Himself as Jesus Christ. Until He actually bleeds through His shirt, no one believes, wondering just what kind of nut th Bobby Covert believed in God but didn't give much thought about him in his daily life. Then one day in , he received a call that his fifteen-year-old son had been assaulted while at boarding school by a classmate. Bobby Covert II died a few months later from his injuries suffered in that assault.
Thus began a journey that led Bobby to a deeper relationship and dependence on the Lord than he ha Children will enjoy hearing Ruthee the fish tell of her encounter with John the Baptist in the river Jordan and laugh at the funny name she gives him. She witnesses the baptism of Jesus and tells of the love the Father has for all of us. Laughlin is a wife, mother, and grandmother of eight. She and her husband are both retired and liv With the election of Donald Trump on November 8, , Americans experienced a sense of relief and joy, knowing they could again participate in a vibrant business environment that offers them the power of self-determination and the freedom to pursue their life goals and live according to their faith, unencumbered by political correctness and the stifling ideology of creeping socialism.
The Dawn Herald Trilogy concludes with the revelation of the identities of the twelve sons of light. The survivors of the fall of the last stronghold resisting the Brotherhood of Andhun seek refuge among the elves in the Valley of Glainne. A council is called during which the Creator appears as a shimmering globe of light.
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Tom, Oriana, Min and others receive different telepathic in The truths expressed in this Book are to lead thousands of millions of people to Jesus Christ for salvation through the work of the Holy Spirit. As the light bearers, let us pass on the message of the gospel of Christ to lost people that they might be saved, and be among the thousands of millions awaiting the return of our Lord Jesus Christ to be with him forever in glory.
Do you feel overwhelmed to read the Old Testament and New Testament? Do you ever wonder how the Old Testament connects to the New Testament? This is a short Bible study written in rhyming rhythm that shows some of God's Covenants and Promises in the Old Testament that lead to Jesus as the final Covenant. The wandering little angel have wondered if he could fly high as he wished and as fast as he could with his little wings Under His Wings was inspired by Psalm If you do know him, my prayer would be that you might develop a deeper relationship and recognize his unfailing love on a new level.
In , I embarked on a journey that no one would wish upon themselves. I suddenly found myself at the bottom of the pit of anxiety and depression. I battled restlessly with my crippling fears and was confronted with a sense of hopelessness, that is, until God entered into my situation. I learned to cling to His love and guidance as I gradually ascended out of this cavernous pit. I am now gratefu Twenty-four-year-old Kathleen Harrison is known for her kind heart and helpful personality, but when she befriends Emily Lewis, a sick young widow, she has no idea how her life is about to change.
At Emily's death, Katie is designated to be the guardian of her two small orphaned girls. In trying to grant Emily's last wish, Katie is now left with the monumental task of introducing the children to t Who to me, I am ruined for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and eyes have seen the king. The one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. With it, he touched my mouth and said, "See, this has touched your lips. Your guilt is taken away, and you sin atoned for. Then I heard the voi The most untamed and wildest spot in the United States back in was a stretch of land between the Pecos and Rio Grande rivers.
This area of land was beyond the reach of lawmen and the most vicious Outlaws, Comancheros, and renegade Apaches resided there. Will their efforts succeed, or wil Riana knew what these words meant in a way most people never would. She had lived most of her life on the streets. She knew what it was like to be an outcast.
The worst part was knowing that she was the one to blame for this lifestyle she and her brother lived. For as long as Kyle could remember, his life had revolved around Riana. And that was the way he A young Jewish boy living in the city of Jerusalem witnesses a crucifixion. It is not the first one he has seen but something about this one is different.
One of the men being crucified does not yell out in hatred and anger. Rather, he speaks out with forgiveness. Other things are also different. Who is that man? His father, a temple merchant, explains that the man, Jesus, is a bad man. Throughout the times, the love of God became more powerful, our Protector, Mentor, and Healer.
It is like the whispering of air and other times visible to the sun. In this comprehensive and encouraging guide, Carmen Morrison put all her soul to make this book come alive. She offers inside many stories about God, the Light that never fades away, when you begin to grasp the importance of God and you The subject of Bible prophecy has grown into a multimillion-dollar entertainment industry because many authors have taken biblical prophecy and made it a Hollywood-style action script. God did not give us biblical prophecy for the purpose of creating sensationalism.
Biblical prophecy was given to us for our own encouragement to teach us that God will someday bring this present world to an end and The possibilities I envision with this book are that many women will see themselves in my experiences and will be comforted to know they are not alone; that they will be encouraged to seek answers for themselves and begin confident dialogues with healthcare professionals; that they will be enlightened to see that true answers can be found in the holy scriptures and by tru Saturday night, music pumping, lights pulsating, the beautiful people of Honolulu, dancing thirty stories up at one of the hottest night spots in town, managed the last five years by Jeff Baird.
The following Saturday, he was out of his suit, and working at the Hawaii State Mental Hospital as a nurse's aide. Back home to Seattle, with a graduate degree in hand, Jeff was ready to begin his new care Bibles the Monkey that Goes Bananas about the Word of God is an exciting and fun way to learn about the gifts of the Spirit God has for all believers. Bibles is an adventurous monkey that daily reads the Bible and wants to have adventures just like the ones in the Bible.
And God is always giving him one amazing adventure after another. And you can have them too! Of the many books in the Sacred Canon, there are but four Gospels. Yet for Christians, these Gospels are the focal point of the entire Bible. Indeed, there is little in the Old Testament, or the New, that cannot be understood at its highest level by contemplating the many teachings in the life of Christ, as presented in these Gospels. But as dear as they are to Christians everywhere, who wouldn't Ever wonder why people like me who claim paranormal abilities go public?
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As she experiences different setbacks to her achievements, so will the reader. This riveting true story follows the life of a modern-day exorcist and her encounters with angels, demons, and Jesus. It takes you on a fascinating and sometimes terrifying journey through the minefields of her profession and her inspiring transformation from atheist to exorcist. Robin wrote this book as a sort of demon survival guide for anyone out there who needs help and to bring people closer Lydia Lymkin is inspired to learn about the Declaration of Independence while watching an Independence Day parade in her hometown.
Lydia's father explains the reasons for and the importance of this historic document that launched the founding of the United States of America. Ashely Garrett is a young man who abhors technology. He has chosen to lead a simple, lonely existence in his one bedroom apartment, his only companion being his Calico cat, Sophie. Ashley's childhood friend, Aaron, has encouraged him to embrace life instead of being a bystander and watching the world pass him by. His life undergoes a dramatic change when he stumbles upon a lost wallet and meets th God is three, yet one.
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For the believer, it will reinforce what you know to be true already. For the nonbeliever, it can help remove those nagging doubts that there is no proof of God's existence. It is a question almost as old as time. Why do bad things happen to people who seem to be obedient to God? What are we, as followers of Christ with faith in His promises, to make of the trials we go through in life? Can we come to a better understanding of our personal and collective trials and the very things that God is trying to teach us when He allows us to experience them? Understanding God's perspective is the key to understanding God.
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