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LSE academic publishes details of a new model of the British class
system The largest survey of the British class system ever carried out
has revealed a new structure of seven social divisions, ranging from an
'advantaged and privileged' elite to a large 'precariat' of poor and
deprived people.
The Great British Class Survey (GBCS) was launched in January 2011. More
than 161,000 people took part in the BBC Lab UK’s web survey. The results
have just been published in the journal Sociology, and presented in a
plenary session at the British Sociological Association Conference in London
on Wednesday 3 April.
BBC LabUK teamed up with the leading sociologists Professor Mike Savage
(pictured), LSE, and Professor Fiona Devine, Manchester University, to
examine the shape of the British class system today. The focus was to
determine if traditional ideas of a working, middle and upper class still
apply in contemporary Britain.
Professor Savage discusses the results of the largest British class
survey ever conducted on the
British Politics and Policy at LSE blog.
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LSE academic wins life time achievement award Professor George
Jones (pictured), emeritus professor of government at LSE, has won the
Lifetime Achievement Award at the
2013 Local Government
Chronicle Awards.
The award, which Professor Jones won alongside Professor John Stewart,
emeritus professor of local government and administration at the Institute
of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham, is for their work -
which stretches across five decades - arguing for the empowerment of local
government. Through their work they have made the case for local democracy
and against centralisation.
Professor Jones said: ‘I am honoured to receive this award. I have a very
soft spot for the Local Government Chronicle (LGC) - it took my
first two articles nearly 50 years ago in November 1965.
'John and I first began our writing partnership in 1981 and I want to
thank him for being a model writing partner. He has been an inspiration. He
is both a big-ideas man and has a vast knowledge of what goes on in
individual local authorities over the whole country. Thank you LGC, thank
you local government.'
To read an article, written by LSE professor Tony Travers, about the
professor’s work on the improvement and extension of local government,
click here.
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Senior lecturer wins prestigious Ralph Gomory Prize Dr Gerben
Bakker (pictured), senior lecturer in economic history and accounting, has
won the Ralph Gomory Prize at the 2013 Business History Conference (BHC) in
the United States.
The $5,000 prize, which is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, was
awarded by the BHC for the best article published in 2011 and 2012 that
examines the impact of business enterprise on the economic conditions of the
countries in which they operate.
The prize was awarded for Dr Bakker’s article Trading facts: Arrow’s
fundamental paradox and the origins of global news networks, published
in Peter Putnis, Chandrika Kaul and Juergen Wilke (eds) International
communication and global news networks: historical perspectives (Hampton
Press/International Association for Media and Communication Research, 2011).
Dr Bakker said: ‘I’m very happy; this is the most prestigious (and
largest!) prize I've ever won.’
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UK invests £51million in International Growth Centre The UK
government has announced a major £51million investment to the International
Growth Centre (IGC) to enable it to expand its work from 12 to 15 countries.
The IGC, which is based at LSE in partnership with the University of
Oxford, provides independent and demand-led growth policy advice directly to
governments based on rigorous analysis and frontier research. It is funded
by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID).
The £51 million investment will enable it to continue operations in
existing partner countries across South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, but
also to expand its work through a renewed focus on key growth concerns. The
IGC has already helped governments in Pakistan, Rwanda, Bihar and Bangladesh
to reform their tax structures in order to boost revenue collection and has
assisted governments in Ghana, Zambia and Mozambique to work towards
harnessing wealth from their mineral resources.
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Alumnus' landmark scholarship gift A landmark renewal of
philanthropic support has brought the cumulative giving of one of the
School’s valued and long-standing donors to over £1 million.
Bill Bottriell (pictured) (BSc Economics 1978) has been influential in
providing opportunities for underprivileged UK students to study at LSE
through the Bottriell Scholarship.
To date, the scholarship has helped 20 students realise their dreams of
higher education in a variety of subjects, regardless of their financial
means.
Bill has had a long-standing association with the School and is currently
a member of the LSE Court of Governors and the School's Development
Committee. Following his studies, Bill co-founded London IT recruitment
business, SThree, with Simon Arber in 1986, and in 2005 it was floated on
the London Stock Exchange.
He commented: 'As an alumnus myself, I feel a moral imperative to ensure
that the next generation of bright and enthusiastic young minds aren’t
denied the same experiences I benefited from due to circumstances outside
their control. I am confident my scholars will go on to do great things and
to give others the same chance that they were given.'
The Bottriell Scholars come from a variety of backgrounds, and have
studied various subjects including law, social policy, geography, government
and accounting.
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Team ‘LSE Consultants’ win UK Business Challenge and head to Spain to
represent KPMG UK A team of LSE students - Jason Kolsevich, Larisa
Burakova, James Gibson and Jonathan Li - have won the National 2013 KPMG
International Case Competition (KICC) and are currently in Spain
representing KPMG UK in the KICC global finals.
As one of the world’s largest student case competitions, KICC draws some
6,000 students from more than 300 universities in 23 countries to compete
against each other, developing solutions to realistic business scenarios.
The initiative brings to life the complexity, challenge and satisfaction
KPMG professionals experience every day, while working with some of the
world’s most notable organisations.
Michael Andrew, global chairman of KPMG International, said: ‘This
competition is a great way to develop students and build their business and
leadership skills. I congratulate team UK and wish them every success for
the international competition in Spain.’
The winning KICC team will receive a one week all expenses paid trip and
exclusive ‘Entrepreneurship’ training at the Babson University in Boston,
Massachusetts. For more information, visit
www.kpmg.com/kicc.
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Exploring the Challenges for Growth - LSE Director visits China
Professor Craig Calhoun (pictured) made his first visit to China, as LSE
Director, on a three day trip to Beijing and Shanghai from 20-22 March.
The purpose of the visit was for the LSE Director to engage with Chinese
academics, policy-makers, alumni, students and donors to get a sense of
their thinking on social sciences in China, with a specific focus on
critical issues that will shape the country’s future development, including
on foreign policy, health and social care, education, environment, and
urbanisation.
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Professor Naila Kabeer joins LSE's Gender Institute
Professor Naila Kabeer (pictured) will be joining LSE's
Gender Institute
as a member of faculty in the 2013-14 academic year.
Professor Kabeer is currently professor of development studies at the School
of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Prior to that, she was professorial
fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, where she worked for
many years.
Her publications include Reversed Realities: gender hierarchies in
development thought, The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi women and
labour supply decision-making in London and Dhaka and, more recently,
Gender and Social Protection in the Informal Economy.
Professor Kabeer will contribute to the MSc programmes in the Gender
Institute, especially the MSc Gender Development and Globalisation.
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Academic abroad
Professor Eve Mitleton-Kelly (pictured), director of LSE's Complexity
Group, was invited to give the keynote speech at the annual Adriatic
City Security Conference, held in Opatja, Croatia on 21-22 March.
She spoke on ‘Urban Security from a Complexity Theory Perspective:
Resilient Cities’. The conference organisers included the City of Opatija in
cooperation with the Ministry of the Interior, and the European Forum for
Urban Security.
The participants included security experts from Croatia, Slovenia,
Bosnia, Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro. The minister of the
interior and several mayors opened the conference.
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 Notices
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Upgrade for staff email IMT is upgrading the staff email
servers so they will be much more resilient, allowing them to offer a more
stable email service, integrate better with Apple products, and provide a
1GB mailbox as standard for staff.
Testing of the new servers will take place after Easter, and staff
mailboxes will be migrated onto the new servers during the following weeks.
You can keep up to date with the project by visiting the
LSE website.
The web pages will be updated with information about anything you need to
do to prepare and any changes to dates. Alternatively, you can contact the
project team at its.cloud@lse.ac.uk.
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The Santander Travel Fund Support for visits by LSE academic
staff and PhD students to universities and other organisations in the
Santander Universidades Network.
Up to twenty awards are available for academic year 2012-13, with a
maximum of £2,500 awarded in each case. Open deadline.
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LSE - Sciences Po Faculty Mobility Scheme 2013-14
LSE and Sciences Po have been institutional partners for the past decade.
The annual faculty mobility scheme is the newest initiative to seek to
deepen our academic collaboration.
The scheme will enable faculty to spend at least a month in a host
department (or unit) at the other institution in order to:
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engage with students through a meaningful teaching commitment that meets
a need in the host department
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foster networks between colleagues at their home and host departments
(or institutions)
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serve wider departmental and/or institutional interests where possible
In order to maximise flexibility, the scheme has been designed with the
following two modes for faculty mobility:
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Mode A: shorter visits of one month, whereby visiting faculty will
deliver at least eight hours of teaching (or a short course) and spend
at least four hours with PhD students
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Mode B: longer visits of three months, whereby visiting faculty will
deliver at least 20 hours of teaching, spend at least 10 hours with PhD
students and deliver a departmental or public lecture
Participants will continue to receive their normal salary and a travel grant
from their home institution. They will also receive a subsistence allowance
or salary from the host institution.
The deadline for applications is Friday 12 April. For more
information or to apply,
click here.
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Computer tip of the week How do I get the Desktop to show up
in my favorites list in Windows Explorer, Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc?
If your Desktop isn’t shown in your Favorites list, here’s what to do:
a. Right-click on Favorites.
b. Select Restore Favorite Links. The Desktop will be added to any
links you already have dragged into this list.
If you have a question, look for an answer in our
online guides and FAQs or consider attending one of the weekly
Software Surgeries. Alternately, staff and PhD students are invited to
enrol for a
1-2-1 IT Training session. Or contact
IT.Training@lse.ac.uk to book a
consultation with a training specialist. Subscribe to the
IT Training mailing list to stay informed of upcoming courses and
workshops. A huge range of additional computer training resources are
available from the
IT Training website.
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Skip fit lessons
Security officer and former boxer Daniel Beckley is running skip
fit lessons for all staff and students at LSE.
Build up your fitness, burn calories and increase your stamina, all within
an hour.
The next lessons will take place from 1-2pm at the Badminton Court, Old Building, on
Tuesday 23 April, Tuesday 30 April, Tuesday 14 May and
Tuesday 21 May.
Please note, the Badminton Court will be closed from 3-21 April so the lesson due to take place on
Tuesday 9 April has been
cancelled.
Just turn up on any of these dates with your own skipping rope. All lessons
are free.
For more information, email Daniel at
d.beckley@lse.ac.uk.
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For Sale - Baby Belling 121R mini cooker, white
Ideal for a bedsit/studio flat. Two hobs, oven/grill, shelf and grill pan.
Plugs into electric socket via a normal 13 amp plug (no need to wire it into
a special cooker point).
Bought new for OAP in January and only used a few times. Cost was £280, will
take £150. Would need to be collected from E17 postcode, preferably by car
due to weight.
For more information, email
c.j.hackshall@lse.ac.uk.
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More for less - take advantage of special offers for LSE staff
There are only 54 packages left for LSE staff to get pampered at the
Karine Jackson Hair and
Beauty Salon.
You will receive the following over four separate visits:
Visit one:
Cut and blow dry with personal style and colour consultation, shampoo and
conditioning.
Visit two:
Partial foils (10 foils) with in-depth colour consultation, shampoo,
conditioning and blow dry.
Visit three:
Follow up cut and blow dry with hair and colour consultation, shampoo and
conditioning.
Visit four:
Personal consultation and power facial including exclusive signature head
and scalp massage OR consultation on massage therapy and power back massage.
This package is normally valued at over £200 but you can receive everything
for just £43. This promotion is valid to new clients only or those who
haven't visited the salon in the past 12 months. If you are an existing
customer, you are welcome to purchase certificates as gifts for family and
friends instead.
To purchase your certificate or for more information, contact Natalie on
0845 686 0185 or 07875 315 744.
If you know of any deals that you think may be of interest to Staff News
readers, please contact Margaret Newson, purchasing manager at
m.newson@lse.ac.uk.
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 LSE
in pictures
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This week's picture features Dr Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal
Reserve System. Dr Bernanke spoke at LSE alongside Professor Sir Mervyn
King, Oliver Blanchard, Professor Lawrence Summers and Axel Weber, at an
event on Monday 25 March entitled
What should economists and policymakers learn from the financial crisis?
For more images like this, visit the
Photography Unit.
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 Research
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Too much blame placed on popular prejudices against rape victims for
low conviction rates Rape law reformers who have failed in their
efforts to significantly increase the number of convictions are placing too
much blame on the role of popular prejudices against rape victims, according
to new research from LSE.
Helen Reece of LSE's Department of Law, an expert in violence against
women, says the influence of 'rape myths', the preconceptions and
stereotypes about women which are said to negatively affect the way police
and jurors consider evidence, has been overstated.
She also argues that the broad consensus regarding the low conviction
rate as a terrible blot on the legal landscape is unjustified when rates are
compared with those of other serious crimes.
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LSE Research Online most downloaded Most downloaded items in
LSE Research Online in February
2013:
1. Lewis, Paul and Newburn, Tim and Taylor, Matthew and Mcgillivray,
Catriona and Greenhill, Aster and Frayman, Harold and Proctor, Rob (2011)
Reading the riots: investigating
England's summer of disorder, LSE and The Guardian, London, UK (938
downloads).
2. Livingstone, Sonia (2008)
Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: teenagers' use of
social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self-expression. New
media & society, 10 (3). pp. 393-411. ISSN 1461-4448 (861 downloads).
3. Hills, John and Brewer, Mike and Jenkins, Stephen P and Lister, Ruth
and Lupton, Ruth and Machin, Stephen and Mills, Colin and Modood, Tariq and
Rees, Teresa and Riddell, Sheila (2010)
An anatomy of economic inequality
in the UK: report of the National Equality Panel. CASEreport, 60. Centre
for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics and Political
Science, London, UK. (859 downloads).
4. Anheier, Helmut K. (2000)
Managing non-profit organisations: towards a new approach. Civil Society
Working Paper series, 1. Centre for Civil Society, London School of
Economics and Political Science, London, UK. ISBN 0753013436. (764
downloads).
5. Coyle-Shapiro, Jacqueline A-M. and Kessler, Ian (2000)
Consequences of the psychological
contract for the employment relationship: a large scale survey. Journal
of management studies, 37 (7). pp. 903-930. ISSN 1467-6486 (601 downloads).
Total downloads for February 2013: 81,686
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Research e-Briefing
Click here
to read the March edition of the Research Division
newsletter.
To sign up for research news, recent funding opportunities, research awards
that are about to start, and examples of research outcomes,
click here.
The next issue is out at the end of April 2013.
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 Events
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LSE Summer events programme announced
LSE's Summer events programme, from April to July, is now online.
Highlights including lectures by Nate Silver, Professor Anat Admati, Dr Ha
Joon Chang, Sir James Wolfensohn and Deborah Perry Piscione.
A PDF of the leaflet can be downloaded or you can browse the programme
online.
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New event....
Khan Academy - Reimagining Education
On: Wednesday 10 April at 6.30-8pm in the Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Salman Khan (pictured), founder and executive director of
the Khan Academy.
Join Salman Khan as he tells the inspiring story of how the Khan Academy
came to be and shares his thoughts on what education could be like in the
future.
The lecture will be chaired by Rohan Silva, senior policy adviser to the
prime minister. Professor Martin Bean, vice-chancellor of the Open
University, will respond to Khan's lecture.
This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. LSE
staff can request one ticket via the online ticket request form after 10pm
on Thursday 4 April until at least 12noon on Friday 5 April.
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Other forthcoming LSE events include....
The Art of Thinking Clearly: better thinking, better decisions
On: Thursday 11 April at 6.30pm in the New Theatre, East Building
Speaker: Rolf Dobelli (pictured), Swiss writer and entrepreneur.
The Middle Kingdom Ride - Two Brothers, Two Motorcycles, One Epic Adventure
in China
On: Wednesday 17 April at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speakers: Ryan Pyle and Colin Pyle
The Democracy Project
Date: Tuesday 30 April at 6.30pm in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement
House
Speakers: Dr David Graeber, anthropologist at Goldsmiths, University
of London, and Professor Craig Calhoun, LSE Director.
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Management Accounting and Corporate Governance: new issues - new
directions The Department of Accounting will be hosting the
34th annual MARG Conference (Management Accounting Research Group) on
Thursday 18 April.
The theme for this year’s conference is 'Management Accounting and
Corporate Governance: new issues - new directions'.
The Distinguished Practitioner Lecture will be given by Philip Gregory,
senior independent non-executive director at Hansard Global plc. Other
speakers include Laura Spira, Oxford Brookes; Michael Power, LSE; Martin
Thomas, Call4Change; and Alfred Wagenhofer, University of Graz, Austria.
A small number of places are still available. For more information,
contact Rebecca Baker at
r.j.baker@lse.ac.uk.
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Podcasts of public lectures and events
Literary Festival - Innovation
Speakers: James Dawson, Kate Kingsley, and Meg Rosoff
Recorded: Monday 18 March, approx. 60 minutes
Click here to listen
China's Growth: the making of an economic superpower
Speaker: Dr Linda Yueh
Recorded: Thursday 21 March, approx. 85 minutes
Click here to listen
What Should Economists and Policymakers Learn from the Financial Crisis?
Speakers: Dr Ben S Bernanke, Olivier Blanchard, Professor
Lawrence H Summers, and Axel A Weber
Recorded: Monday 25 March, approx. 92 minutes
Click here to listen
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 60
second interview
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with..... Rosie Komorowska Gillam Jones
I started working at LSE last
April, just two days after getting
married (hence the recently acquired
triple barrelled surname). I am
currently working as furniture
coordinator, but I also work on the
Estates Help Desk.
When not at work I spend my time
with my husband and on creative
pursuits (photography, writing,
drawing), and dream about not living
in Essex.
Which is your favourite place
on the LSE campus?
I don’t have a favourite place on
campus, mostly because I spend an
inordinate amount of time either at
my desk or in one of LSE’s many
subterranean stores.
I do quite like walking down past
the Economist’s bookshop towards the
Towers early in the morning though,
and greeting my fellow early-morning
Estates colleagues. It’s nice and
quiet at that time of day.
If you could spend some time
working in another part of LSE,
where would it be?
There’s quite a lot to choose
from. I’d like to be School
Photographer (that would be
awesome), work in the Design Unit or
maybe lecture on one of my favourite
subjects (photography, psychology or
the English language).
Are you any good at DIY? Any
examples?
I haven’t done any proper DIY in
a long time but just before
Christmas my husband and I put
together our new bed, sofa and
storage units from flat-packs. I’m
working on creative projects a lot
of the time though, and I love
cooking from scratch.
Have you kept any toys from
your childhood? If so, what and why
have you kept it?
Lots! I struggle to say goodbye
to them, and can’t bring myself to
throw away any that were shared with
my sister either. That’s why my
parents still have several sheds
full.
Most importantly though I have an
original Snoopy toy, which
apparently used to get dragged
everywhere. His ears are mismatched
and he’s had multiple
stuffing-surgeries but he still has
pride of place on the shelf with my
most prized books.
What would we be most
surprised to learn about you?
I’m sure there are many things
that people would find surprising.
Some little known things include: I
wear my wedding ring on my right
hand, I once got 100 per cent on an
exam and I’m in the process of (very
slowly) writing a book.
I think I’ve surprised a lot of
people when I tell them my age as
well (I’ll be 24 this year). They
usually think I am younger than I
am, which I suppose is a good thing
(not so handy when you get ID’d
trying to buy cough syrup though).
In a restaurant, what pudding
do you like best?
An actual pudding, or a dessert
in general? Even though I see myself
as more of a savoury person, there
are two desserts I really love: a
wonderful waffle made by a certain
House in Norwich which has home-made
chocolate mousse and bananas on it,
and also hot cookie dough with ice
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 Training
and jobs
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Jobs at LSE Below are some of the vacancies currently being
advertised to internal candidates only, as well as those being advertised
externally.
- Academic support manager, Information Management and
Technology
- Administrator, Information Management and Technology
- Administrator, Middle East Centre
- Admissions and access specialist (one permanent post and one
fixed-term post), ARD: undergraduate admissions
- Annual fund manager (maternity cover), ODAR: annual fund
- CEP research assistant (education/labour markets), Centre for
Economic Performance
- CEP research officer (community programme), Centre for
Economic Performance
- Executive director, International Growth Centre
- IT support officer, Information Management and Technology
- LSE fellow in international relations theory, International
Relations
- LSE fellow in international relations and foreign policy analysis,
International Relations
- LSE fellow in international relations of the European Union,
International Relations
- Pinto post-doctoral fellowship, LSE IDEAS
- Project accounting officer, Finance Division
- Research officer, Systemic Risk Centre
- Senior development manager, ODAR: major gift fundraising
- Senior library assistant, Library: collections services
- Telecoms technical support officer, Information Management
and Technology
For more information, visit
Jobs at LSE and login via the instructions under the 'Internal
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