How To Use Lop In A Sentence

As I did at FIAC, I selected 18 galleries and asked their most anglophonic expert to pick an image and talk about it for under two minutes. Michael Kurcfeld: Doing Shots: The Old and the New at Paris Photo 2011 (VIDEO)
We carried spare water for the rad, a hand pump just in case the Dunlop pressure dropped, and maybe even a canister of petrol.
Two more debates are scheduled in the coming weeks, one debate dealing with education and health will be held in Irbid next week and the final week before elections the southern city of Karak will witness a candidates debate on agriculture and development. Daoud Kuttab: Jordanian Candidate Uses Debate to Call for Curtailing King's Powers
She is also part of a large group of oceanographers and taphonomists of the SSETI project (Shelf / Slope Taphonomic Initiative) examining carbonate preservation and destruction across the shelf and slope regions in Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas using submersibles.
This proposed procurement is a continuation of an existing contractual agreement for the developed prototype NASA Student Ambassadors Virtual Community (NSAVC) web site. ... Curious Virtual Community Procurement - NASA Watch

Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
They've updated a lot of the entries in the most recent edition of the encyclopaedia.
The recent U.S. ranking by the World Economic Forum of 48th out of 133 developed or developing nations in quality of math and science instruction is a siren call. Jacqueline Edelberg: Political Will
All Slavic languages, to a greater or lesser degree, have developed from contact with the Urnfield culture.
Mr. Sorapong, 35 years old, selected industrial estate developers Hemaraj Land & Development PCL and Amata Corporation PCL among his top picks, with Hemaraj returning 147% over the course of 2010 and Amata providing a 99% return on investment. Real Estate
Update: BB commenter DHC says, It's worth noting that his is an outtake from a TV show that Warhol developed and aired on Manhattan cable. Boing Boing
To reduce the wing trim drag, the fuselage was fitted with lateral surfaces called chines, which actually converted the forward fuselage into a fixed canard which developed lift.
The garden sloped gently downward to the river.
Instead, the thin sandy developments defining the sequence boundaries suggest sandy sabkhas and sand sheets supplied by this undersaturated wind system and only preserved as a consequence of renewed lake-level rise.
Does the name on the envelope correspond with the name on the letter inside?
This viewpoint is of great significance as a guideline for the rapid development of socialist economy.
On y remarque _Le Mât_ qui est une Colonne en forme de Mât, autour duquel se trouvent des echellons servant à monter pour developer les hanches et la poitrine; _les Colonnes_ ou piliers, exercice servant à mettre le corps droit. A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium
Apparently some people have an inborn tendency to develop certain kinds of tumour.
I looked up to see Brody onstage, his dishevelled dark brown hair flopping across his forehead and both hands hanging onto the microphone.
Nulliparous women are reportedly at a higher risk of developing complications of pregnancy and delivery than multipara.
It highlights key facets of presidential policies and priorities, difficulties and conflicts, while charting the developing nature of the office.
Six years later, one of the federal agencies that administers the program calls it a flop.
One consequence of epidemiological research into the contribution of lifestyle factors to cancer risk has been to blame the individual who develops cancer.
Homeobox genes encode transcription factors involved in many aspects of developmental processes.
The development of innovative new technologies and highly specific, nonradioactive labels has changed all of that. The Scientist
Taking up the whole stage included three guitarists, a bass player, one on drums, and a xylophonist, but this time no microphone in sight. FasterLouder.com.au > Your Access All Areas pass to the latest in Australian rock music! News, Reviews, Photos, Forums and more
About a meter tall if it stood erect, it must use its short, bowed legs arboreally by choice, for it ran on all fours and either foot terminated in three well-developed grasping digits. The Rebel Worlds
Jobs 'mention that developers can begin submitting programs to the Mac App Store by next month made it clear that this, like the iPhone's App Store, will be a curated environment, subject to Apple's sole control. Apple updates: iLife '11, FaceTime on the Mac, Mac OS X Lion, Mac App Store, new MacBook Air models
The development includes eight sound stages, production facilities, digital facilities and outdoor back lot areas.
Most systems default to booting from either the floppy disk drive or the hard drive.
We will be watching them very closely as we value our green open land and believe this could be phase two of the development.
Lefebvre V, Peeters-Joris C, Vaes G. Modulation by interleukin 1 and tumor necrosis factor alpha of production of collagenase, tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases and collagen types in differentiated and dedifferentiated articular chondrocytes. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Patients received a conditioning regimen that consisted of total body irradiation (1375 cGy in 11 fractions) with partial lung shielding, thiotepa (10 mg/kg), cyclophosphamide (120 mg/kg), and rabbit antithymocyte globulin (1.5 mg/kg). EurekAlert! - Breaking News
The PHA document is updated as necessary throughout the early phases of the development process.
The main course was going to be a roast duck, served with cranberry stuffing and scalloped potatoes.
It will also make changes to the research and development tax credits schemes by redefining them to make them easier to claim.
I have returned to campus enlivened by a sense of professional renewal, and I have developed course syllabi, assignments, and activities that incorporate many ideas from my fellowship experiences.
I instantly grew a floppy fringe, bought a combat jacket and started shuffling.
So who is to blame -- hunters, wildlife managers, hikers, developers?
The black and white images suggested a lunar surface with bright elevated land masses, grooved by sloping drainage channels and seemingly surrounded by dark, still pools of oily liquid.
This is a habit I developed surrounded by thick-skulled idiots.
After climbing a steep rise for about twenty minutes the road crested, then began to slope downwards, taking a more westerly direction.
For more than two decades, the United States government has been attempting to develop a plan for the storage of high-level nuclear wastes.
The development of oncology is always following the anti - tumor new - medicine research and the clinical trial.
In her new role she will help to develop the midwives' public health role, with increased support for breastfeeding and encouraging mothers-to-be to stop smoking.
According to the advocates of the holistic system, an integrative health care package would include facets from allopathy, Ayurveda, Homoeopathy, Yoga, Siddha and naturopathy.
The fans certainly looked like they didn't have a care in the world as they lay in their hundreds sunning themselves on the grassy slopes surrounding the stadium in the hours before the game.
There was a reason for this: unbeknown to the Reserve Bank, the major banks were working secretly and cooperatively to develop an alternative payment system that would substitute for direct debits.
Without slave labour the plantations of sugar and cotton could not have been as rapidly developed.
In one of his books he reviewed the early nineteenth-century development of catastrophism and uniformitarianism and made this revealing comment.
Statistical analysis for significant difference in the slope of mutant induction in the presence or absence of vanillin was performed using the f-test for comparison of slopes.
A separable reinforced concrete numerical model and fluid-solid interconnection method were used to predict the development of surface bulge in LS-DYNA.
I could not but acknowledge that the local governments had, as it seemed to him, evinced but little sympathy with Hindooism; and that whatever might be European policy in respect to religion, the East India Company might have participated in the desire which prevails in Europe to develop ancient customs, and the reasons of those customs. Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
This is a small holopid with rounded whorls, deep sutures and a body whorl bearing coarse collabral threads.
The fork was simply a military development of the agricultural implement.
The south slope is more gentle and ends in a marshy bay.
Immunoproteomics, a powerful tool for studying antigens at the proteomic level, allowed a comparative investigation of the immunogenicity of capsulate and non-capsulate strains of L. garvieae for vaccine development.
Unless you live in a developed city, you do your laundry by hand, and no matter where you live, you hang it out to dry.
Their passing was sloppy, possession was given away too easily and balls were either spilled or over carried in promising attacks.
The Atherton Gardens estate has presented endemic problems for social planning since its development.
The Syracuse group is developing prototypes of software technologies which will accelerate the take-up of general purpose parallel computing.
This part of the film develops slowly, and is predominantly a straight drama.
If we fail to develop emotional intelligence, or cannot control or restrain our emotions, we will lose our intellectual ability to think, reason and live rationally and intelligently. Dr T.P.Chia
Burbank worked out in his mind and by actual experiments _distinctive methods_ of development -- _development and changes along particular, definite lines. Certain Success
Cereal song earth: Fictitious tellurion software, be together satellitic picture, map, encyclopedia and flight simulator conformity, decorate in an earth on three-dimensional model.
Note the extremes of acidity and alkalinity in which macroscopical growth has developed (Range of reaction). The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
Furthermore, developmental psychologists found evidence that self-recognition correlates with empathy.
Coagulopathy/hemorrhage: fresh frozen plasma, possibly vitamin K-phytonadione I.V. Hypoglycemia: Dextrose 25g I.V. (with coma, seizures, or change in mental status) Aspirin: effects, poisoning
It was a simple plain white envelope with Yoshiki written in gold on the front.
We have developed a very close, personal relationship, a relationship of trust.
The cap or diaphragm had been developed in the 1880's but its availability had been very much limited as people were kept in the dark as to its very existence.
Australia has some very sophisticated capacity for instruction design, courseware development and on-line delivery.
Given the complexities and plural nature of urban development other agencies must be closely involved.
Medications may range from allopathic drugs to alternative medicines to kitchen shelf remedies.
These undeveloped land or uncompleted property projects have brought negative social and economic effects.
I was haunted by the beauty of the landscape all about, of the natural ferneries then disappearing, and of the domed forest-trees on the slopes, and was fortunate in meeting a gentleman intent on preserving in art the beauties of his country. Sailing Alone Around the World
Finance ministers and central bankers from the G-20 advanced and developing nations are meeting in South Korea Friday and Saturday to prepare for a summit of G-20 leaders next month. Japan Calls for Currency-Market Cooperation
Products such as ottomans and bathmats made from recycled flip-flops are "whimsical and interesting, but it's not doing things at the deepest level. Designer Trash
At that time Swindon south Tories were against the development while the north Swindon Tories were for it.
At the back door, out of inexorable necessity, in developed and convincingness and sincerity laid down by all authorities on the art of the short story. Confession
Sinosteel, another Chinese-owned metals conglomerate, has plans to develop a massive opencast iron ore mine in the Weld range, a ridge of hills 400 miles north-east of Perth. Australia leases out mineral-rich land as China's hunger for resources grows
Mais On n’était qu’un galopin dont il avait pitié. Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant
Figure 1: The figure represents diagrammatically the key factors, as described in the literature review, which influence the reading development of English and Greek bilingual and monolingual children. Reading Development in Two Different Contexts:the Case of the English-greek Bilingual Children in UK and in Cyprus « Articles « Literacy News
He was wearing khakis and a shirt with tiny flowers on it, and his blond hair was freshly washed and flopped over one eye. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
These successes, if that is what they are, are tinged with a jealousy that legal writers elsewhere have a more publicly acknowledged involvement in moulding the law's development.
The detention of at least two of the three lawyers in recent days appears to be linked to recent developments regarding the blind, self-taught legal activist Chen Guangcheng.
At any rate, there is a worrying trend developing along the North Mayo coast.
The conceptus, like the infant, the child, and the adolescent, is a being who is in the process of unfolding its potential; that is, the potential to grow and develop itself but not to change what it is.
In the first half maybe evern longer, his art was much more clean, smooth, and linear, whereas much later, he developed the blockier style of Kirby. Top 100 Comic Book Runs #30-26 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
A constant tinkerer, Paul spent hours developing recording tricks like over-dubbing and guitar effects like reverb.
But Frye's dreams of systematizing and co-ordinating a literary universe also rose to meet counterparts in Frances Yates's 1967 account of the zodiacs and theatres of the encyclopaedic memory systems of Bruno and Camillo.
If the developer has notified the planning authority in advance then the twenty eight day period is extended to four months.
But new national guidelines say the lack of a filtration system and automatic chemical treatment can lead to the development of the cryptosporidium bug, which can cause severe gastro-intestinal infections.
They didn't pick up any ground against Boston, who spent its day walloping Toronto to remain two games in front of New York. Yanks Smack Cleveland Again
Foreign exchange deposit bargain is 42 stir thousand catty develop a financial product.
Using the products as a microheater provides a precise heating device, says Amit Das, director of product development.
Eggs were labeled with a permanent marker, candled to estimate the stage of development, weighed to the nearest 0.5 g using a spring scale, and measured (length and width) to the nearest 0.1 mm with calipers.
His pride in her was distorted by his anxious, lopsided grin.
At birth the femoral head and the acetabulum are mainly cartilaginous, and a normal adult hip joint depends on their correct development.
Trees masking cameras will be pruned to improve the view and community groups such as Homewatch will be developed.
Girls receive less health care and less education in the developing world than do boys.
We crawled along a broadish wall, with an inch or two of powdery snow on it, and then up a sloping buttress on to the flat roof of the house. Greenmantle
To that end, they developed numerous labor-saving devices.
The assembly saw delegates housed in five-star hotels and carrying upmarket Bonia-brand bags, instead of the usual Manila paper envelopes.
It is generally longer than it is wide and its floor slopes downwards towards a junction either with another valley or a plain.
Horses Wednesday mainly galloped, jogged, or walked, but the first official workouts are most likely to occur on Thursday.
CRU (Corporate Relations Unit) is responsible for developing long-term sponsorship partnerships with business organisations.
Causes of hemoptysis in children with congenital cardiopathies, whether they undergo surgery or not, are many: extracorporeal circulation, pulmonary infections, coagulopathies, vascular disorders.
This was also the heyday of the "capriccio," or architectural and landscape fantasy, established by Marco Ricci and developed by Canaletto and Tiepolo. NYT > Home Page
As a result, instead of the clean visuals that typify the science fiction genre, we see lens flares, shaky handheld cameras, zooms, and sloppy rack focuses even in CGI shots.
Preserving the launch configurations also gives the developer the ability to run the server inside the JDT debugger, so he can set breakpoints on his user-defined SQL functions.
Rounds are no longer written in modern musical styles, and remain untouched by developments in chromatic harmony, atonality, jazz idioms, serial structures and folk modes.
[The site] consists of 'crudities': pieces of raw experience, regularly uploaded ... it aims at developing an extended version of the conventional weblog, one that allows users to upload visual input such as (streaming -) video-files and pictures as easily as texts. Boing Boing: December 22, 2002 - December 28, 2002 Archives
A leading rocket scientist, Nair's contribution to the development of multistage satellite launch vehicles is immense.
Experts warn overdevelopment is threatening the golden seashores in Hainan island, the popular sub-tropical tourist destination.
The miniskirt was the defining fashion statement for London in the 1960's and it was reportedly developed by Mary Quant, who ran a clothing store in Chelsea. PWTorch.com
Some of their work, he felt, was terrific, and they should be able to display and develop their talent.
To overcome this problem, the Purdue researchers developed a means to create LEDs on low-cost, metal-coated silicon wafers, whereby the the silicon substrate is metalized with a built-in reflective layer of zirconium nitride. Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » New Low Cost LED Technology
People feared the development would cause traffic gridlock and claimed noisy fans would make their lives a misery.
My guess would be that her headmaster born in the late 16th century, no doubt, when men were men and rules were rules rapped her on her noggin for inelegance at some crucial point in her development, and voilà! Author! Author! » 2010 » March
While I'm walking along the beach and eating handfuls of cornflake sand, I encounter a group of envelopes playing horseshoes. Horseshoe Champion
He is also considering exporting to Britain and developing own label products for the British multiples.
However, there have been no deaths recorded in Australia since an antivenene was developed in 1980. Northernstar.com.au: The Northern Star
In the cephalopoda (as also in the crustacea) the same passage serves to void the excrement and leads to the part like a uterus, for the male discharges the seminal fluid through this passage. On the Generation of Animals
And second, it's probably not good to intervene in the internal affairs of a nation that is looking for a worthy path of development.
The factory must aim at developing new models of machines.
As a developer, you will recognize these steps as the normal procedure to configure, compile, and install most applications from source code.
Unlike Church, Turing developed his disproof of Hilbert's conjecture around the conception of a hypothetical machine which would decide the truth of statements by a set of well-defined sequential operations.
You, young man,” she proceeded, addressing Roland Graeme, and at once softening the ironical sharpness of her manner into good-humoured raillery, “you, who are all our male attendance, from our Lord High Chamberlain down to our least galopin, follow us to prepare our court.” The Abbot
St Marie's in Bury will become a ‘gem church’, and developed as a focus for prayer and devotion within the deanery.
Had his career unfolded more smoothly he may not have developed the physique which will muscle him into Vogts' squad.
Lexical representation and development in a second language can be divided into three stages: formal stage, L1 lemma mediation stage, and L2 integration stage.
The corneas were coated in 250 nm of nickel using a technique developed at Penn State called conformal-evaporated-film-by-rotation. Physicsworld.com: all content
He got fined 5k for admitting to being a serial flopper.
Thus, the sheepdogs developed for use on the islands were bred for agility, brains and speed.
Between 1921 and 1925 he began to develop new colemanite holdings in Clark County, Nevada.
Further development of reversible clothing and equipment covers will reduce the logistics burden, increase mission flexibility and reduce procurement costs.
However, if a serious duct injury is present, a chronic fistula may develop and require surgical intervention.
In the absence of networking, students need to submit work on floppy disks.
When he played poorly, which happened too often, the Bears lost, often in lopsided fashion. Around the Pac-10 Conference
In developing countries like India, it is the wealthier and better-educated who tend to be aspirational; the poor are not yet in a position to aspire to much of anything.
The success of the barometer led to the development of primitive air pumps.
No other abnormalities were detected in the cervix, uterus, ovaries, or fallopian tubes.
English pastoral was inaugurated by Spenser's verse eclogues in The Shepheardes Calendar and further developed in The Arcadia, a prose romance by Sidney.
Yeats painted the little scene across both front and back of a paper envelope which was then stamped and franked when he posted it to John Masefield in 1905.
Two flannels, draped across this, were mermaids, who swam and flopped and basked on islands of flesh.
Pat the scallops dry and sear on a high heat for 40 seconds each side. Times, Sunday Times
People most at risk are those with an autistic spectrum disorder, a developmental problem, not a mental health problem.
The film starts off realistically and then develops into a ridiculous fantasy.
Zalm said that if Bulgaria's economy continues to develop at this pace, interest in it among Dutch people would continue to grow.
When the Spanish landed in 1531, Peru's territory was the nucleus of the highly developed Inca civilization.
Just as many chefs use tequila in marinades, to cure fish or in ceviches, bar chefs should follow their lead and develop cocktails with complementary flavors to go along with the dish.
I settled onto the sand of the now gently sloping reef.
An advanced course develops existing expertise - exploring factors that influence the customer, business, produce and sales-person.
It's important to keep abreast of the latest developments in computers.
Unlike the phrenologists of the 19th century, DeYoung's team doesn't presume to know whether differences in the size of a brain region give rise to unique personality characteristics, or whether our personality differences cause our brains to develop in unique ways - say, that when we practice random acts of kindness, our "agreeableness" center grows larger, or that a lifetime of social isolation might cause a region associated with The Columbian stories: Columns
Admiral Lopez is one of the two flag officers in the U.S. Navy to achieve the rank of four-star admiral after direct commission from enlisted service.
One of the chief reasons for removing old, oil and gas wells from south Louisiana's lakes and bayous is that those areas are vulnerable to storms and hurricanes, and any collapse in structures could threaten the public, Lopez said. Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Removes Defunct Oil Wells But Hazards Remain
Curtains that can prevent flying glass shards from injuring people, and new sensors for detecting biohazards activity are among the newest developments.
Trevelez is, perhaps, Spain's highest village, the gateway to the Upper Sierra Nevada and the winter ski-slopes, and was as high as I drove.
David's summation is simple: "In the very decade when it's clear that new antibiotics must be developed the industry has stopped developing them. Family Affair
Rabbit behavior My 12 week old lop ear house rabbit has a thing about nibling my son and she hurts him. how can i stop her from doing it coz he is now starting to get scared of her. i tell him its a sign of affection and i dont want him scared of her please help Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories
The proposal is far above any allowable development in the area.
It has since developed a programme which includes a regular schedule of rehearsals, sectional workshops and concerts.
With the development of programs like Paintbox and Photoshop, computers began to color the work of traditional artists as well.
Queensland Orienteering Association development officer Liz Bourne says that probably more than any other sport orienteering has suffered from the loss of bushland, particularly around Brisbane.
Now hardware is silicon chips and software is floppy disks. Infinite in All Directions
She played the tambourine, the xylophone, and the harmonica, all to our swooning hearts' delight.
We developed a customization of the software that allows people to view the data directly from the database.
He spent some time expressing his preference, for tactical reasons, for smaller neutron bombs before developing his argument.
And it behoves us to see that they're given a fair chance to develop clean and wholesome bodies without which any nation must go to the wall.
After our eyes adjust, we find the walls to be a gorgeous translucent blue, the surface scalloped into smooth, symmetrical wavelets.
There should be plenty of thunder left in the powerful arms and lower body he has developed since arriving in America as an underfed teenager with bright eyes and a voracious appetite for success.
Whole lions at £5,000 a head, antelopes, porcupines, goats, cane rats and large, live snails - all from West Africa - were also candidates for the dinner table.
Their tympanum is not homologous with the tympanum of mammals and saurians (extant diapsids) because it developed independently in all three groups.
The Don wants his Rocking K development annexed by the city under the most favorable conditions he can get.
A Republican assemblyman supported the bill, citing that half of California prisoners smoke and the development will cut health care costs.
Enfin pourrait-on dire, l´occident, après des décennies de surdité, en vient lentement à combattre ce fléau criminel économique qui gangrène autant le développement de l´Afrique qu´il engraisse l´illégalité fiscale en Europe et de par le monde. Global Voices in English » Paris court investigates three African leaders
Man, the surface of the skull is comparatively smooth, and the supraciliary ridges or brow prominences usually project but little — while, in the Gorilla, vast crests are developed upon the skull, and the brow ridges overhang, the cavernous orbits, like great penthouses. Essays
And the great Maggie Smith, as a dotty old dame named Mrs. Docherty, grabs her moment of unglory by sitting on a pad of cowflop that goes squish. 'Last Dancer': Ultimately on Point
The use of bioreactor in vascular tissue engineering is a newly developed technics in recent years.
If you opt for a fish dish for your main meal, diver harvested scallops wrapped in bacon with hollandaise sauce is sure to get the mouth watering.
George Bush developed a policy, he annunciated it in a magnificent speech 10 days after 9 / 11, and then he went into a war in Afghanistan that everybody thought was going to be impossible.
An effective and exact method was developed to evaluate intramuscular fat content.
The council has been canvassing local opinion/local people to get their thoughts on the proposed housing development.
A flanking attack on Antigonus' troops from Spartan light infantry stationed in the Oenus valley was thwarted by an aggressive cavalry attack led by the Achaean general Philopoemen.
In most other snail species, the apertural teeth and laminae, when they are present, begin to develop as a snail approaches maturity. Archive 2009-07-01
Soldiers resemble worker termites, except that they have enlarged brownish heads and strong, well-developed jaws.
But with vast quantities of developable land in the expanding suburbs (as the circumference of the circle enlarges), regional home price indices post only small gains.
This is helped by the orderly arrangement of The Square and the very good developments of roadside verges on the approach roads.
Mindful of Ben Rhydding's new conservation area status, the developers have been careful to include design features like using local stone for wall facings and slate roofs to ensure they get planning approval.
Many problems that occur during fetal development cause asymmetry in the resulting organism.
We have been pretty open-handed now in facilitating the development of Chinese technology even for military purposes.
The current economy does not favour the development of small businesses.
I put the letter in the envelope and placed it on the pile.
Chiengmai; but it was curious, even amusing, to observe the serene contempt with which the "interlopers" were received by the rival incumbents of the royal gynecium, -- especially the Laotian women, who are of a finer type and much handsomer than their Siamese sisters. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
After all, claim of right developed in relation to the law of larceny and where one was taking something physically that you believed belonged to you.
Experts fear that if further development closes off these migration paths, it will interfere with the pronghorn's life cycle, eventually causing the species to disappear.
Get step-by-step instructions for building a cross-compiler so that you can build and develop applications for an alternative platform.
After the main presentations, an hour will be devoted to breakout sessions in which executive development hurdles and needs would be explored.

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