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The Enormous Egg
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Approx. 4 hours, 3 cassettesWhen Nate Twitchell discovers that one of his family's hens has laid the biggest egg he has ever seen, he is determined to see it hatch.And when it does, neither he nor his parents, the townspeople, the scientists, or the politicians from Washington are prepared for what comes out!
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Would You Like a Dinosaur for a Pet?.......2007-04-09
Nate could hardly believe his eyes when he saw the egg their hen had laid, it was ENORMOUS! It measured 15 inches around. He was really anxious to see what would hatch out of the egg; would it be a huge chicken or maybe a crocodile? It was so big the hen couldn't even turn it herself, so Nate had to go out 3 or 4 times each day and turn it for her so it would get warmed evenly.
When 3 weeks went by, Nate figured it was time for the egg to hatch, that's the usual for chicken egg, but nothing happened. He kept turning the egg faithfully, and another week went by and then another. He was getting really discouraged, but after all the work he'd put in, he didn't want to give up. He gave it one more week.
Then one morning when he came to turn the egg, he found the hen off the nest and walking back and forth with a wild look in her eyes. When he looked in the nest, there was a baby dinosaur. The rest of the story follows Nate and his dinosaur through adventures that will make you laugh and also touch you. Great story!
I loved this book when I was a kid, and when I booktalked it at schools later when I was a librarian, kids were always intrigued by it.
Wonderful.......2006-12-20
I remember "The Enormous Egg" from when I was a child. This was one of my all time favorites. I highly recommend it as a must read for all children. In fact, I just bought it for my grandson for Christmas.
Read this book it super awesome!!!Read it NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Or else!!!!!!!.......2006-04-18
This book is really really cool! I would read this super-de-duper book any time any day. I would encourage anyone to read thia magnificent novel too. Please read it you will definetly like it, I did!!!!!!!! Now, this is about a young 11 year old boy named Nate Twitchal, who lives in Freedom, New Hampshire. He was at his home one day when he was cleaning the chicken house and found a very unusuall egg, if coming from a hen!!! Well, it was true,it did come from the hen, LOL. Nate was soooo interested in what could be in the egg that he begged his parents to let his very suprised chicken to rase it! And they said "fine." So, for many many many weeks the egg finally hatched!! Yeah! You would never guess what was inside of the egg!!.......it was a.....Dinasour!! Then later on Nate meets a ver kind scientist named Dr.Ziemer. He studied the dinosour ber well and he said it was a Tricerotops. The first week it was about 6", The second week it was about double the size, and so on and so forth. Then by the end of the story it is a couple of METERS!!! But, it was a BIG responsibility. There are many conflicts and many good things. At the end the story the government lets Nate keep it and he calls it "Uncle Beasely."Yeeaahh!!!! Happy ending!
It's An American Egg..........2005-06-12
THE ENORMOUS EGG, written in 1956, is the fantastical tale of young Nate Twitchell of Freedom, New Hampshire, who, one fine day, discovers that one of his chickens has hatched out a baby Triceratops.
Author Oliver Butterworth has gifted generations with a classic satire on the American economic and political system, peopled by a cast of amusing characters with some really unforgettable names.
In trying to protect his odd pet from a veritable army of hucksters of every stripe who are trying to exploit "Uncle Beazley" for their own ends, Nate Twitchell teaches us a crucial civics lesson on the importance of free speech in a free society.
A fun and important book written for ten year olds, THE ENORMOUS EGG is appropriate for adults as well. Strongly recommended for all!
Great Book for 10 year olds.......2004-10-24
I teach 5th grade. My class reads this book almost every year as a literature unit. It's a wonderfully imaginative old fashioned story. It also gives classroom teachers a chance to talk about how our government works, the US Constitution and it has a very good message about the evils of McCarthyism (the story was written in the mid 1950's).
Every year it's a classroom favorite with both boys and girls. Kids love fantastic stories and dinosaurs. This book has both!
Highly recommended.
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In this gentler Godzilla monster tale, Godzilla and his monster friends find a strange-looking egg on Monster Island. Knowing instinctively that the egg is important, Godzilla protects it from Gigan and Mecha-Godzilla's vicious attacks. The egg turns out to be a cocoon, and when it opens, it releases beautiful Mothra--the newest monster on Monster Island!
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A great story with good pictures.......1999-06-16
Godzilla and Anguirus discover a strange white ball, which is what the monsters call it. In reality it is a giant cocoon! Mechagodzilla comes to get it! Godzilla defends it. I like it because of the plot and pictures. Godzilla looks ok--although his eyes seem too big.
Good.......1998-03-20
good story but bit more descriptevive battle with pictures of it that caught more of the moment
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Barney's Easter Basket (Barney)
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Barney's Easter Basket.......2001-05-24
A colorful and festive book for the Easter bunny to add to your child's basket. Your child will have fun joining Barney on an Easter egg hunt. However, because the easter eggs are hard to find on each page, I recommend this book for children who are at least 3 years old.
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One Saturday morning, Mama Grunt sends Little Grunt out to find a dozen eggs. Little Grunt searches high and low, but all he can find is one HUGE egg. CLICK, CRACK, CLUNK, PLOP, the egg hatches and out pops a baby dinosaur. Little Grunt names him George. Soon enough, George grows too big for the Grunt family cave, and poor Little Grunt has to send him away. But when the local volcano erupts, there's only one dinosaur who can save the day!
Full of fun caveman sounds for reading aloud, Little Grunt and the Big Egg is one of Tomie dePaola's funniest picture books. Readers of all ages will be excited to see this prehistoric classic back in print.
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Very enjoyable book for kids.......2007-06-05
This is a great story. It's creative yet simple with the essential elements a good kids' book needs. This book would be especially fun for the kid fascinated by dinosaurs. We learned of the book from our local library as we have checked out Tomie DePaola books before and enjoyed them. My daughter loves it as do I. I highly recommend it!
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Presented with clarity and wit, Carpenter's exploration offers the very latest information on dinosaur eggs, hatchlings and babies, as well as a detailed look at dinosaur courtship, mating, nests, and physical development. Included: an extensive directory of dinosaur egg and baby discovery sites.
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A DETAILED OVERVIEW OF RECENT DINOSAUR EGG SCHOLARSHIP. THE *ONE* VOLUME TO OWN FOR INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED COLLECTORS.......2007-06-23
This is an intensely fascinating book that immediately gets into the surprisingly large amount of information to be learned about dinosaur eggs. Open it to any page and you are immediately hooked. It contains a very thorough treatment of dinosaur reproduction, the process in which an egg forms, how fossil eggs are studied and classified, egg types, nomenclature, fossil nest types, fossil embryos and hatching, where eggs have been found, a thorough synthesis of scholarly papers that have erected the various genera and species of fossil eggs currently known to science, and much more. It also covers dinosaur mating as well, but not to the great extent that you'd assume by reading the editorial above. The photos are numerous, pertinent, and enlightening (including one amusing one of a painting by Luis Rey entitled "Carnotaurus sex!"). Due to the advanced level of material covered, this is not a book for a child under (say) twelve years old, but it is essential reading for anyone over that age with a passion for dinosaurs and their fossilized eggs. I've found no other book with the breadth and depth of information in this one, and thus I recommend this volume as *the* one to own on the topic. As a major fossil dealer, I read this book cover to cover about once a year to keep sharp on the topic. And I recommend it enthusiastically to my customers when they ask me about reference material.
dinosaurs.......2007-02-14
A good book on the subject if college level reading on this subject interests you.
WHAT MOTHER NEVER TOLD YOU ABOUT DINOSAUR REPRODUCTION!.......2000-02-29
The book is not written for dinosaur loving children. A background in general science, anatomy, biology, and/or zoology would be useful in understanding the astonishing wealth of information contained. That should not scare inquirers away from this opus magnus. Furthermore, Carpenter's occassional tongue-in-cheek humor imparts a very special flavor to the writing. In my mind,this beautiful volume would be worth the price just for its profusion of well-done illustrations, photos, and captions. But that's just icing on the cake. We learn the history of dinosaur egg finds, how one studies every detail of the egg fossil (wonderfully illustrated with photos and drawings), how the eggshell formed inside a dinosaur, by what means the dino embryo took in air and effectively expelled carbon-dioxide from within the eggshell, and even speculate on how the dino chick may have escaped the egg. Learn how to examine a dinosaur egg fragment and detect whether an embryo actually developed within it. Carpenter explains how dinosaur nests were built and 'designed' to incubate fertile eggs. Why is a baby dinosaur 'cute' by our perceptions, and possibly to its parents? Facts, photos, and paintings make the answer cuddlingly clear. Along with the abundance of superb black & white figures, illustrations, and photos, are over a dozen full-color plates, including ten life restorations by some of our most scientific and talented dinosaur artists. This volume is surely a treasure to those of us who seek a deeper insight into the mysteries of dinosaur life (and death). One such tantalizing mystery might be summed up as, "But how did dinosaurs DO IT?" Carpenter doesn't beg the question. He ventures into it with careful observations and analysis based on both behavior and form of contemporary animals and known dinosaurian anatomy. The answers should prove reasonable to his scientific colleagues. So filled is this book with interesting items that one could almost say there's something for everybody. On the far side, imagine some 'Good Old Boy' that doesn't 'give a hang' about science, picking the book up to brouse the strikingly beautiful dinosaur life illustrations. "Wow!" he croaks, "Forget about Tyrannosaurus rex! It's 'CARNOTAURUS SEX!'" [The reference is to an utterly dramatic and highly colorful life restoration by artist Luis V. Rey, revealing an imposimg Carnotaurus pair 'going at it' while their thunderous groans of ecstacy freak out the Mesozoic neighborhood! Startled by those sounds, a flock of at least 40 winged reptiles (Pterosaurs) bolts skyward from the ground. The dinosaur couple copulates, transfixed, among appropriately phallic plants. Some will buy the book just for that one startling scene. Yet, it is far more valuable as an adventure in learning, including its very thoughtful discourse on dinosaur intercourse. A scientific adventure. A 'Calvin and Hobbes' day-dream? For real. Get it.
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The story is WAY BETTER than the title makes it seem!!.......2005-05-12
This story is very fulfilling, Indy is the man along with his friend granger this time. Much much action, and the discoveries are amamazing. This book is very good and I suggest you read this along with many other of the Indiana Jones series!!
dinosaurs AND indy?.......2005-05-01
This book is as good as philosopher's stone! I can't wait to read the next one!
A Good Book.......2004-03-01
Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs.
Overall, probably not as good as Philosopher's Stone, but it passed the time.
A few things I did't like:
1. Joan Starbuck. I really didn't like the character, she was too cardboard, and the bits about her that McCoy did give us, were unlikeable. The whole masquerade as a nun has been done long before and by better writers (see: Two Mules for Sister Sara). Also, I have to say that it's very cliche and I don't think anyone was really surprised when it was revealed. I knew from the beginning that it was a ruse.
2. The use of Lao Che and Wu Han was a nice addition but when combined with the fact that they're after eggs, and eventually we find out that there are 3 of them, and the scene with the evil Lama there is too much of a sense that this book is just a redo of Temple of Doom.
3 Dinosaur Eggs - 3, egg-shaped, Sankara Stones. Only one of each survives.
Lao Che and Wu Han.
An elaborate scene involving a jar of ashes - The beginning scene with Nurhachi.
The evil Lama - Mola Ram.
The scene where they make Indy drink Reindeer Urine - The scene where Indy is forced to drink blood.
See the similarities?
3. The end fist fight between Indy and Granger. I felt that this was totally out of character. The Granger that was set up throughout the book would not have done such a thing and I felt that the incident cheapened the character and left me not liking him after having liked him throughout the first two-thirds of the book.
4. I was very disappointed in the end of this book. Where the Philosopher's Stone just ended, this book seemed to go on too long, like the Author didn't know how to end it. Leaving me to wonder if Max McCoy even knows how to end a book.
The things I liked about this were the locations. The Gobi Desert really made this book interesting and did its part to try and make this a unique story even with the Temple similarities.
After reading this though and thinking back on Philosopher's Stone, there was a lot of Raiders and a little bit of Last Crusade in Philosopher's Stone, making me wonder if Max McCoy is capable of an original idea. His Artifacts/Locations for the most part are intriguing, but so far he's just using them to make re-does of the movies. Let's hope Hollow Earth has more to offer.
All of that said, I would recommend this book. It's definitely a must read if you're an Indy fan.
indiana jones and the dinosaur eggs.......2001-03-28
must read! action pack and you won't put this book down. just as good as the movies. one of my favorite books.
The best book since dinosaurs laid eggs.......2000-12-29
This book is funny and witty, and there is plenty of action. Indy still has his girlfriend from the last book, Indy and the philosopher's stone, so there isn't a lot of gross romance. The book is really fabulous, and everyone should read it!
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Wonderful model!.......2000-09-06
Actually, I am not a kid, to which this kit would have targeted but a 25-year-old-physically-full-grown guy :) But as a dinosaur fan, I was very impressed when I first saw this kit at a local bookstore. This kit is a wonderful treat for any dinosaur fan. The dinosaur skeleton model is well-crafted, wonderfully detailed and easy to assemble. And the booklet is pretty little and short, but has variety of information, also very educational. This kit is highly recommended for any dinosaur fan and inquiring kids alike. Kids may have some assistance during assembling the model for some parts are a little stiff.
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Dinosaurs at the Ends of the Earth
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A mystery, vistas, camels, a sandstorm, and dinosaurs...what more could a young dreamer want?
The Gobi Desert, Mongolia: "A land of secrets, " says Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews. He's talking in his jovial way to Walter Granger, a paleontologist, and George Olsen, their assistant, a young man whose surprising discovery made scientific history. Andrews led five expeditions across the Gobi for the American Museum of Natural History. This book chronicles those of 1922 and 1923, when he took with him some twenty men and an unlikely fleet of cars as an alternative to the more traditional camels. Originally expected to unearth signs that man had originated in Asia, these explorations stumbled across an unexpected find. And George did the stumbling-down the Flaming Cliffs near Shabarakh Usu, where dinosaurs roamed eighty million years ago. The find was a delicate egg, heavy as stone now and the answer to an old mystery: Dinosaurs were not born; they were hatched! A route map, a time line, crisp text, and breathtaking pictures present the sequence and excitement of bone-finding and preserving in the field for young readers eighty million years later.
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This is a great book!.......2000-09-26
I can't recommend it enough! Get it for all your children! The pictures are very detailed and realistic, and the maps are excellent.
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In November 1997, paleontologists Luis Chiappe and Lowell Dingus came across a remarkable find on the cold plains of southern Argentina: a dinosaur nesting ground, where some ancient but unknown species deposited tens of thousands of eggs that never hatched. Their work, as they recount in this memoir of discovery, thus had many components: among other matters, Chiappe and Dingus needed to determine the creatures that had left their offspring in the Patagonian sandstone, how many millions of years ago they had done so, and what had happened to prevent the eggs from hatching in the first place.
Finding the answer to the first occupies much of Chiappe and Dingus's account, as they compare their evidence against similar finds in Spain and the Gobi. Determining the second affords the authors a chance to discuss newly developed dating techniques, including DNA analysis--which caused overly enthusiastic reporters to announce that the authors were on the brink of cloning sauropods from long-dead embryos. ("We do not know nearly enough about how DNA works," the authors write, to pull off such a feat.) Finally, their reconstruction of the ancient environment of Patagonia offers clues for how the unlucky eggs had come to be buried in prehistoric mud.
A spirited book about how paleontologists make and test hypotheses and go about their fieldwork, this makes a fine addition to any dinosaur buff's collection. --Gregory McNamee
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Walking on Eggs is the riveting inside story behind one of the most significant paleontological discoveries in history. In November 1997, Luis M. Chiappe and Lowell Dingus led an elite team of paleontologists and geologists into the rugged and desolate badlands of Argentina. Unsure of what they would find, Chiappe and Dingus knew that this region had produced many spectacular specimens of dinosaurs and fossil birds over the last century. Nothing could have prepared them, however, for the headline-grabbing discovery they were about to make: a massive dinosaur nesting ground covering more than a square mile and littered with tens of thousands of large, unhatched dinosaur eggs. Containing the first fossils of embryonic dinosaur skin ever found, the eggs gave rise to a host of mysteries. What species laid the eggs, and when? How were they preserved? And most intriguingly, what ancient catastrophe -- deeply rooted more than 70 million years in the past -- prevented them from hatching?
In clear, comprehensible language, Chiappe and Dingus frame their scientific investigations within the context of a gripping detective story, illustrating how they used paleontological and geological evidence to establish the identity and age of the eggs, as well as how they established the cause of death. Chiappe and Dingus also recount a return trip to the badlands in 1999 in which they set out to learn more about dinosaur social and reproductive behavior. Their investigations once again unearthed a key piece of the historic puzzle: the bones of a twenty-foot predatory, carnivorous dinosaur.
As they decipher the evidence -- divining origins, discovering identities, and pinpointing possible causes of extinction -- Chiappe and Dingus interweave their field adventures with chapters illuminating the crucial precedents behind their groundbreaking work. Complementing the text are beautiful hand-drawn reproductions of what the dinosaurs and their landscape might have looked like, created by an artist who joined the expedition team in Patagonia. Infused with passion and an infectious sense of awe, Walking on Eggs illustrates the ups and downs of the scientific process and invites dinosaur lovers of all ages to experience the exhilarating sense of discovery.
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Walking on Eggs is the fascinating inside story behind one of the most significant paleontological discoveries in history. In November of 1997, Luis Chiappe and Lowell Dingus led an elite team of scientists into the rugged and desolate badlands of Argentina where they unearthed a massive dinosaur nesting ground. Containing the first fossils of embryonic dinosaur skin ever found, these tens of thousands of unhatched eggs gave rise to a host of mysteries. What species laid the eggs, and when? How were they preserved? And most intriguingly, what calamity prevented them from hatching? Returning to the badlands in 1999, the team's investigations yielded another key piece of the historic puzzle: the bones of a twenty-foot, predatory dinosaur. As they decipher the evidence -- divining origins, discovering identities, and pin-pointing possible causes of extinction -- Chiappe and Dingus interweave their field adventures with chapters illuminating the crucial precedents behind their ground-breaking work, infusing Walking on Eggs with scientific passion and an infectious sense of awe.
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Dinosaurs.......2007-02-14
A worthy book and well worth reading if the subject holds interest for you. Generally college level reading.
For Dinosaur Aficionados Only.......2006-09-17
Being a desolate and arid land, Patagonia is a treasure trove of paleontological sites. This book tells the story of several consecutive expeditions to one of these locations, an area near Nequén which they have christened Auca Mahuevo, where a huge discovery of thousands of dinosaur eggs and several nearly intact skeletons were discovered.
The authors -- Luis M. Chiappe and Lowell Dingus -- describe chronologically the process of discovery, preparation of the fossils for analysis, establishing the time and cause of death, and implied conclusions about the behavior of the species they represented.
Mind you, paleontology can be dreadfully dull. Following the classification systems requires rote memorization and careful attention to barely discernible features on sometimes badly worn bones and embryos. Interesting details are provided on the interactions between the paleontologists, geologists, and locals -- as well as the bad weather conditions they frequently endured. Fortunately, they managed to keep my interest up -- but just barely. Some of the chapters, such as the one on magnetic dating, were hard for a non-scientist such as myself to follow.
Probably the strangest image to emerge in my mind from reading this book is that of oviraptoids, large feathered parrot-headed dinosaurs. Can you imagine what one of those could to to the windshield of your car?
An interesting walk through fossil discovery.......2002-03-05
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This is a fairly good book about the discovery of dinosaur eggs (and a few other fossils) in Argentina and what scientists learned from studying them. An interesting book.
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This book is written about a couple of things. Mainly it is the story of what a group of paleontologists discovered at a site in Argentina. They found a number of incredible fossils (some of which had never been seen before) and were able to piece together a picture of what Sauropod dinosaur embryos looked like and what happened to them. They mostly unearthed eggs but they also stumbled across two other skeletons. Overall it was amazing what they found. But the book is also about other things. Within the overall story we are given a history of other dinosaur fossil discoveries as well as lessons on different types of dinosaurs and their classification. We are given a timeline of when dinosaurs lived and some background on how paleontologists collect fossils. All of these things make up the book, so it is not just a simple telling of the story of the discovery. The book isn't fantastic but it is pretty good and generally keeps the attention of the reader. This is the kind of book where if you think you'll be interested in it, there's a good possibility you will but if you aren't interested in it and don't think you'll enjoy it you almost certainly will not. For readers who think they'll be interested, the authors do a good job of taking you through the story by the excitement of discovery. You follow along with them as they come across one great find after another. Sometimes they get a little too technical for the average reader but at other times they don't give as much technical information as the reader may want. And the authors rely a little too much on evolution to try to explain things that aren't full understood. Instead of just saying scientists don't know how something happened or that they can't figure out the whole story, they try to squeeze things into the box of general evolution just because they don't have any other answer at the moment. There are also some slow parts while they go off on a tangent now and then, but it basically flows pretty well and if the readers feel somewhat interested they probably will enjoy this book.
For Dinosaur Lovers.......2001-12-04
In a highly readable account, the authors describe a 1997 scientific expedition to Patagonia, in the desolate, remote region of central Argentina, which results in the discovery of tens of thousands of fossilized dinosaur eggs. Some of the eggs contain the first fossils of embryonic dinosaur skin ever found. In the full flush of discovery, the team of scientists dub their new find 'Auca Mahuevo,' as a pun on the volcano Auca Mahuida around which the field is located, combined with 'mas' 'huevos' or more eggs, in Spanish.
By means of a number of questions, which the authors then proceed to answer in successive chapters, the reader is lucidly lead on the path of scientific discovery. For example, in one chapter, the authors ask and answer: "What Were We Searching For and How Did We Decide Where to Look?" There is one exception to this lucidity, however. In one chapter the authors feel it necessary to provide a primer on dinosaurs, in order to establish all the possible species whose eggs these could be. In my opinion this chapter was a total flop. If you are a dinosaur maven, it was probably unnecessary, and if you are not, as is my case, it was far too technical and dragged on and on. At the end of the 1997 expedition we are treated to the spectacle of an overflow press conference, with all types of media imaginable in attendance.
Next, a 1999 expedition to Auca Mahuevo is described. In this expedition more evidence about egg laying patterns is gathered and another startling fossil discovery is made. a completely new species of dinosaur is found, and the fossil is collected and named: Aucasaurus garridoi. Finally, a 2000, Y2k expedition is described.
On the whole, this is a very enjoyable read, with only a few dull spots, and I recommend it to you.
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