Georgina Durrant
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Author of Number 1 Best Selling Book ‘SEND Strategies for the Primary Years’ Podcaster, Speaker. SEND Consultant-as seen on Sky News & Channel 5 News
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🎈 Today is Publication Day!! 🎈
My latest book: SEND Strategies for the Primary Years, published by
@BloomsburyEd
is out TODAY!
Order your copy:
Would love to see 📸 photos of my book out in the wild today- please send me photos 🥰
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Could World Book Day be more about books and less about costumes?
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Incorrect or genius? What do you think?
I vote genius and I think we need more people thinking like this.
#DyslexiaAwareness
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Anyone else feel like the news of Her Majesty The Queen hit them harder today than they expected?
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Anyone else hear
@RishiSunak
say “Adults who can’t understand basic maths should be embarrassed…” ?
What about those with Dyscalculia or other SEND that impact on maths ..should they be embarrassed?
(Or in fact anyone who finds maths difficult?!)
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Don’t usually rant on here but seen a post where a teacher is worried about a non verbal autistic child not wearing their coat at break. Someone suggested putting it on backwards & zipping it up backwards. Unless I’ve misunderstood what they meant..this sounds awful… 1/2
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I’m struggling with this IG post. I’d argue parents aren’t desperately trying to label their children with SEND, but in fact trying to understand their children and get the support their children need. Which is surely a good thing?!
Anyone else?
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🧵 We might not want to admit this/this might be controversial..but I do wonder if OUR screen time as a generation of parents is more damaging for children’s development (speech and Lang for example) than children’s own screen time…
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Anyone else had this awful cold virus that’s going round? (Pcr is negative) Absolutely floored me.
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2/2 for the child who can’t communicate their needs, may not feel cold the same as the teacher. Genuinely finding this quite upsetting.
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My 6 year old had a ‘scavenger hunt’ on Microsoft teams today with his class. He had to find something that made him happy to show on the screen....and he went and found his sister 🥰 and put her on the screen.
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"In our country, no child should be left behind," Rishi Sunak has said. Great!
In which case wouldn’t prioritising support for children & young people with SEND be a better option than talking about replacing A levels with a new Advanced British Standard?
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It can be REALLY tough seeing all the social media posts of all the wonderful things parents are doing with their kids this summer, so for balance.. today we sat in the rain under a gazebo, I put the washing away and did some online banking..you?
#parentingadvice
#parenting
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Show me the most beautiful photo on your phone at the mo.
(That’s not of people)
I went to a reservoir yesterday that looked like a mirror
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Anyone else horrified by the findings of
@Autism
’s edu report that found that only 14% of secondary school teachers have had more than HALF a DAY of training on autism?
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If you teach a neurodivergent child (if you’re any teacher..you do !) or if you parent a neurodivergent child..this is a must buy for your kids.
And it’s out next week so pre-order now!
#ADHD
#autism
It’s by
@OnceUponaLouise
@dkbooks
Order:
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Bit late to the party on this one, but has anyone bought this book? Is it as amazing as everyone says?
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Anyone else considering coming off social media’s today because they missed the northern lights?
#gutted
#NorthernLights
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Would really recommend
@carolvorders
’
@themathsfactor
for children with SEND. Her summer programme is free!
Have a read of my review
My Summer Maths Adventure for ages 4-11. Free to all children with love from us ❤️❤️ Open from today
Proud that in the first lockdown when schools closed, we went free to 500,000 children who registered, to help them through that awful time
❤️❤️
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Here’s your reminder to avoid Facebook over the Xmas hols!!
We’ve had a lovely Christmas, but 20 mins on Facebook would make me think otherwise as I clearly forgot 🤪to buy matching pjs, take the kids to Lapland, go ice skating and fit in a cocktail night with my friends! 😝
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#Giveaway
*
#Win
a copy of my latest book
‘SEND Strategies For the Primary Years’
To enter:
☑️ Like this post
☑️ Retweet it
Ends 6th June at 10am
1 winner to be selected at random.
(T&Cs Over 18, U.K. mainland)
#SEND
#edutwitter
@BloomsburyEd
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@bphillipsonMP
@educationgovuk
Congratulations Bridget Phillipson. Please make SEND a priority.
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For anyone questioning their parenting ability. I’m a qualified teacher, published parenting author & mum of 2 and last night I bribed my child to sleep through the night with the promise of a toy koala.
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Anyone else think Bluey is actually a parenting class disguised as a childrens TV programme? I swear I’ve picked up so many parenting strategies 🤣 What has it taught you?
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I keep reading about kids needing to ‘catch up’ on education after all this. I think they need to enjoy catching up (in the social sense) with their friends and grandparents more!
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My primary school teacher from when I was little wrote a review of my book on Amazon this week…it was lovely and made me cry. Turns out you’re never too old for teacher feedback!
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A real privilege yesterday to be able to speak my mind on Sky News about how the SEND System is letting children down . I *might* have told them how our current SEND system isn’t fit for purpose (due to lack of special school places, lack of…
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Huge thank you to Channel 5 News this evening for letting me speak about the delays in autism assessments for children and in particular the impact on autistic girls.
Hope I did this important topic justice.
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Can you give me examples of ‘unwritten rules’ for kids in social situations at school. Particularly thinking about those ‘rules’ that might be harder for some neurodivergent kids to pick up on. Thanks!
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So happy. Signed a contract with the brilliant
@JKPBooks
for them to publish my book of play based learning activity for children with special educational needs!
Here’s my big announcement! So excited! Thanks everyone who’s supported my site by liking blog posts, sharing them etc and huge thanks to
@JKPBooks
I’m so excited thank you!
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Imagine your a kid who’s working as hard as you can with school work during the pandemic. And you hear rumours that after all this ...your summer holidays might be shortened (and you hear it from the same people who say they are worried about you and your peers mental health)
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Growth Mindset and Inclusion-isn’t this infographic wonderful!!This needs sharing far and wide.
Credit: northstarpaths
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I’m being interviewed on the news tomorrow (whoop!) about the benefits of dance for children with Special Educational Needs. I’ve lots of answers and ideas to say but wanted to hear from you lot too. What benefits do you think there are to dance for children with SEN?
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Interested to know your thoughts
Children who are currently unable to access education because there is no suitable school place for them
What’s the main reason for this? Not enough Specialist settings? Funding?Lack of early identification & support? Delays in assessments?
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It’s Thursday, welcome to
#SENDTwitter
(for anyone who parents/supports/teaches children with SEND)
Join in by:
⭐️ Liking & retweeting this post
⭐️ Replying with your bio (tell us about yourself!)
⭐️ Adding the #
#SENDTwitter
& follow everyone’s accounts that sound useful
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Some news really hit me hard today.
In December I was hospitalised. I met a wonderful person on my ward. We both had a CT scan. I needed emergency surgery & was told I would be better in 4-6 weeks. She was given a terminal diagnosis. Found out that she died today.
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Please help me spread far and wide again!
Starting THIS week! I’ll be recording and sharing FREE videos again (like I did in March) of home learning activities for primary level kids on my YouTube channel
Here’s the link to the 31 videos I made in March
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#ChildrensBooks
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@ImagineThatBook
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Winner will be selected at random, Competition closes 14/06/19 08.00hrs GMT
#comp
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11 Resources to Help Children Settle Back into School After Lockdown (Plus a FREE downloadable Social Story for Returning to School after Lockdown)
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Anyone stuck with supporting older kids with their maths at home, just discovered an amazing app (maybe don’t tell your kids 🤫) it’s called Photomath and you can take photos of the difficult sum and it tells you the answer, how to work it out and you can watch a tutorial on how!
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I worry if I’ve got the balance right with parenting &work, but having my daughter come home & tell me she wrote about me as her role model for
#InternationalWomensDay
at school because ‘she’s won 2 trophies, written 3 books & been on Sky News’ 😭makes me think I’m doing alright!
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BIG NEWS - pls RT
This summer holidays I’ll be launching
#CatchUpOnPlaying
a completely free online summer club.
Sharing with parents & teachers of primary aged kids, free activities & ideas for play based fun!
Why? Because children need to catch up on PLAYING this summer.1/2
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Taken by one of my kids last week…. I’m not a photographer but It’s quite good isn’t it?
#wildlifephotography
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Please share, I’ve just updated the post so all my FREE
#homelearning
videos I’ve recorded can all be found here
If this is helpful, why not buy me a virtual coffee here
#edutwitter
#homeschooling
#onlinelearning
#SENDinLockdown
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Opinions please. How does everyone feel about the terms and acronyms ‘special needs’ ‘special educational needs’ ‘SEN’ ‘SEND’ etc? ( I know Wales and Scotland different)
Should we still be using the term ‘special’?
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Anyone know any
#craft
twitter people that make aprons for kids
#messyplay
/ painting Crafts?
#prrequest
#craftrequest
#request
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My book 100 Ways Your Child Can Learn Through Play is available to pre-order here!!
Have a look at wonderful reviews by
@carolvorders
@robdelaney
@SueAtkins
I’m so so grateful and amazed that they’ve read and written endorsements for me!
@JKPBooks
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.
@GavinWilliamson
can I presume that now my child will be in a ‘bubble’ of 55 children I am OK to organise a birthday party, inviting all 55 children...or is this considered a mass gathering at a village hall?!
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Anyone else watch this & cry? What the hell are we doing?these poor children with SEND who aren’t getting the support they need & deserve from our SEND system & the poor families who are in such a desperate situation. It’s just not good enough
@BBCElaine
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@Hugsforvrtra
This is exactly the reason why people need to listen to autistic adults on subjects like this. I’m so sorry your experiences as a child still haunt you now.
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Here’s my big announcement! So excited! Thanks everyone who’s supported my site by liking blog posts, sharing them etc and huge thanks to
@JKPBooks
I’m so excited thank you!
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What’s the silliest thing you’ve done when exhausted? I once put the kettle in the fridge at work...instead of the milk.
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Teachers planning for remote learning. Feel free to link to any of my completely free (no catch) home learning videos I’ve already recorded for primary (there’s 31) and I’m going to be adding to them from this week. Link below
#edutwitter
pls RT
Please help me spread far and wide again!
Starting THIS week! I’ll be recording and sharing FREE videos again (like I did in March) of home learning activities for primary level kids on my YouTube channel
Here’s the link to the 31 videos I made in March
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Cover reveal of my 3rd book due out in June!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰
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🧵 pls RT:
I’m writing an article about problems parents of children with SEND are faced with when trying to get support (problems with EHCPs, lengthy waits for external agencies- SALT, EPs, CAHMS- subsequent waits for assessments/diagnosis, lack of special school places etc)
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Anyone help me find a dress/skirt that I can buy to coordinate with my book for my book launch event in June?! (Indulge me please 🙄 haha!) (p.s let me know if you want to come to the launch event)
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Just made my daughters Sylvanian families ‘Freya chocolate rabbit’ cake for her birthday this week 🥰
@SylvanianUK
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Anyone else seeing the same?
My newsfeed today seems to be a combination of worried parents unable to get covid tests for their kids, teachers with lots of absences in their classes and head teachers having to close bubbles due to positive test results. 😞
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Anyone else question why they wave frantically at the end of a zoom meeting? When they have never walked out of a meeting waving 👋!
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Come and have a little look through my book with me ☺️!
Aimed at:
Parents/carers/grandparents/teachers etc of children with Special Educational Needs. Nursery to end of primary level.
USP?
Each activity tells you which skills it can help develop
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@SaraHea59616481
Agree. Shouldn’t be forced. Be better perhaps to have the coat accessible if they want it when they are outside or make it so they can come inside if cold. Or have a different option of warm layer if the coat is the problem maybe.
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It’s Thursday, welcome to
#SENDTwitter
(for anyone who parents/supports/teaches children with SEND)
Join in by:
⭐️ Liking & retweeting this post
⭐️ Replying with your bio (tell us about yourself!)
⭐️ Adding the #
#SENDTwitter
& follow everyone’s accounts that sound useful
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…don’t think you’ll like the book I’m writing!
#SENDTwitter
Do teachers need to make adjustments to their lessons to meet the multiple different needs of children in their classroom? I say no! 🧵
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*RT & follow to be in for a chance of winning this bundle of books*
Looking for tips on raising a child with
#ADHD
? How to be an excellent ally, activities to help your kids develop important skills?
I’m giving away 5x
@JKPBooks
in honour of
#neurodiversitycelebrationweek
.
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📣 Big news! (Pls RT)
Excited to be launching & hosting a brand new podcast in the new year for
@SendTwinkl
@twinklresources
!
It’s called
‘SEND in the experts with Georgina Durrant’
If anyone wants to be a guest..get in touch
#SENDTwitter
#edutwitter
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“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”
Alexander Den Heijer
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'SEND in the experts with Georgina Durrant' podcast has 50k downloads so we’re GIVING AWAY 1 year
@twinklresources
Ultimate membership + an AMAZING prize bundle donated by podcast guests! To enter just LIKE this post
Closes at midnight 1st Nov T&Cs apply -
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My latest book is now available to pre-order. It’s for teachers and parents of primary aged children.
Foreword written by (the brilliant)
@SENDMattersUK
Published by
@BloomsburyBooks
Find it here:
#SENDStrategiesforPrimaryYears
#SEND
#edutwitter
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Pls RT far & wide!
My book ‘100 Ways Your Child Can Learn Through Play’ is out TODAY!
Endorsed by
@carolvorders
@robdelaney
@SueAtkins
@EMScougal
@DownsSideUp
@Sue_Cowley
@PookyH
Published by
@JKPBooks
Find in all major book shops & Amazon-
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Genuinely very concerned by this tweet. Autism isn’t something to ‘overcome’.
@JodieSmitten
Thank you, I have one for you too.
Overcoming Autism - finding strategies & hope that transform a child's life. Dr. Lynn koegel is an inspiration whom I've had the pleasure working with in her specialty field. Enjoy! 🤍
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Rollercoaster that is life! After a really REALLY rubbish weekend (see previous tweet) today things are much better (🤞) and VERY excitingly I signed a contract with
@BloomsburyBooks
to write my third book!!
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Just heard that my wonderful mother in law went into
@Waterstones
today to pre order my book! And she said she felt really proud when she told them her daughter in law had written it during the first lockdown whilst home schooling two kids. 🥰🥰🥰
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What do you think? Too much?! Haha! This is my zoom background for last week of zoom tutoring before half term!
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🧵 (1/7)Are we missing a trick in supporting children with SEND in schools…and by ‘trick’ I mean a way to help ensure children with SEND are happy, safe and reaching their potential in schools?
There’s been a lot of talk about the need to upskill teachers & provide more…
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Please Share far and Wide!
To help
#primary
aged children & older children with Special Educational Needs who are working at that level...I’ve just launched a series of YouTube videos of learning activities for if (when) schools close due to
#coronavirus
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“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
Hope this kid got noticed for her amazing talent and not what she found tricky.
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It’s Thursday, welcome to
#SENDTwitter
(for anyone who parents/supports/teaches children with SEND)
Join in by:
⭐️ Liking & retweeting this post
⭐️ Replying with your bio (tell us about yourself!)
⭐️ Adding the #
#SENDTwitter
& follow everyone’s accounts that sound useful
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Welcome to
#SENDTwitter
- for anyone who parents/supports/teaches children with SEND
Join in
⭐️ Like & retweet this post
⭐️ Replying with your bio (tell us about yourself!)
⭐️ Adding the #
#SENDTwitter
& follow everyone’s accounts that sound useful
(It’s nearly Xmas 🎅🏻 hols!!)
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Putting feelers out, if all primary schools do close again to most children, would you be interested in me recording free home learning activities again as I did last time?
I know they were used by schools &parents.Obvs not to replace school work but to help support in addition
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Well, the most exciting parcel to arrive EVER just came through my letterbox! Ahhhh!! Look! My second book! ‘How to Boost Reading and Writing Through Play’ published by
@JKPBooks
foreword by
@TheoPaphitis
Get your copy:
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Might regret writing this tweet. But what are the biggest problems with the ‘SEND system’ at the moment in your opinion?
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A quick scroll through my newsfeed & in summary Twitter is telling me teachers either have covid or ofsted this week 😫
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Is there an emoji for banging my head against a table?!!
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Pls RT ☺️
💥Thursday’s
#SENDTwitter
is BACK! 💥
Everyone who parents/supports/teaches children with Special Educational Needs & disabilities (SEND) is welcome
How to join in
👍 Like & RT this tweet
✍️ Reply with your bio & #
#SENDTwitter
😃 Follow all the lovely people!
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