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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tis the season here at Mizzou.

The columns at Mizzou with black and gold homecoming banners

Long shot of the homecoming banners on the columns

Handsome as fuck me in front of a giant inflatable Truman the Tiger, who is also handsome as fuck.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reason 452 on why I like working at a university. I met a screech owl named Agnes on campus today.

Agnes the screech owl. She copper colored with white streaks on her face and white patches on her belly. Her ear tufts are perked up and her attentive grey—blue eyes have noticed something in the distance. She’s a little guy so she’s cute as fuck. Perched on her handlers glove with red brick academic buildings in the background.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Got a birthday present in the mail from my brother yesterday. Were you aware that Macho Man Randy Savage recorded a rap album in 2003 and that you can get it on special edition vinyl? This is precisely what brothers are for.

Album for Macho Man’s album, Be a man. It’s a muscley ex wrestler holding chain for reasons that are not apparent.

And here’s the actual vinyl. Is predominantly yellow with poorly done black and red streaks mixed in. And yes, it has another picture of macho man in the center label all muscley and holding chains.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today is the 40th anniversary of the Legend of Zelda. I had the "gold" version on the Nintendo. My favorite game ever. I don't game much, except for the Zelda games. Love them. It's also the 45th anniversary of me. I learned to that I share my birthday with the Legend.

40th anniversary banner for the legend of Zelda, featuring the original link and a modern symbol of hyrule.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

There was an accident at work today.

Mo Willems the Pigeon, and a collectible Royals baseball bobblehead lays shattered on the desk after an unfortunate bookend failure.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I made a sketchnote syllabus video for the past few online courses. I start with an ink picture, and add color as I talk through the item. It’s not always pretty, but I think it’s a fun way to talk about some of the unique aspects of my classes in a unique way. Here’s the before filming and after.

Someone what incomplete sketch of the human learning syllabus. It has three parts: assignments, grading, and final project. It’s all in black ink and there’s are little sketches strewn about.

The finished sketch note. There are now blue, green, and pink additions to the black text that give some drama and clarity to the syllabus outline.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Took some advice from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social book The Last American Roadtrip. On our own family roadtrip and stopped at the Cadillac Ranch.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Pink Pony Club I'm gonna keep on dancing at the Pink Pony Club I'm gonna keep on dancing down in West Hollywood I'm gonna keep on dancing at the Pink Pony Club Pink Pony Club

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Using my nerdy new mug my daughter gave me. 🤓 Got it from here: smbc-store.myshopify.com/products/goo...

Coffee mug with text printed on it. Says, “not significantly different from a good dad” which is a statistics joke.

Mug with Normal distribution curve printed on it that has “good dad” in the middle, and “you” printed a little off center far from the two tailed critical region of significance testing.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

A friend from Facilities brought this hat by for me that he made. It’s a sharp looking hat and a really kind gesture. While I do miss working from home, going to the office does have its perks sometimes.

Maroon trucker cap with a Stephens College seal hand punched onto leather and attached to the cap. Looks sharp!

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

My educational developer monster from the really wonderful session, Who's Ideal; Whose Ideal? from the Leading with Our Values conference. sites.google.com/view/2025-vi...

My cartoonish monster. They are purple and round, with tiny lopsided horns, wide-set eyes, and their mustache and eyebrows match in look and anger. They are really just a round head with beefy arms and legs. They are yelling in all caps "MEASURABLE OBJECTIVES!!!!"

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

My city does an annual Art in the Park. It’s always pretty great. I bought art.

I’m holding a metal sculpture in front of my face. It’s a pretty big moose head made out of a shovel, some hoes, spoons, wrenches, and other metal bits welded together. It’s amazing.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

For the Materials: Crazy Aaron’s Thinking Putty Field Notes Book Darts These are always in use at my desk.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Just picked up my pre-order from my local independent bookshop.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Even my far-from-best seller work appears on this AI training list. I’m not sure why I feel shocked, but I certainly do. That second entry is an academic article I was second author on. Geez.

Screenshot of the search for my name, Jerod Quinn. The first entry is my 2020 book, the learner-Centered Instructional designer. The second is an academic article I was second author on.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

To the AERA reviewer who said my paper would benefit from a decision flowchart: message received and you were absolutely right. To the AERA reviewer who said they couldn't see any significance of my work: 🤪

Scale development process flowchart noting the decisions made along the way in three sections; design, test, explore. Starting from the beginning the first four are under the design heading: Theoretical framework, test blueprint, expert review, and cognitive interviews. The next section is test and has three headings: field testing, CFA with three factors, 3 models tested. The lest section is Explore with four headings: data driven exploration, EFA with cross validation, 24 items two factors, and relatedness & competence. Each of the eleven headings has a short description of the decision made.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Giving a workshop for students tomorrow on interviewing for jobs. I'm not sure which of these two slides is my favorite. But I do know that I appreciate being in a workplace where I can be me without second guessing myself.

This is a slide from a talk I will give tomorrow. Black background, magenta title that says, "Unsolicited Advice", and white text. There is an awkward closeup of a horse with its mouth wide open showing off its gnarly teeth. The four points of advice are: don't waste people's time, the aggravation to compensation ratio, wear something that makes you feel awesome, and work won't love you back.

This is another slide form my talk tomorrow. A yellow background, with a tan French bulldog in banana pajamas with its nose in the air and an ear flipped out, giving the camera a hard side-eye. In big white letters, the text says "What do they ask in an interview?"

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Hmmmm. Just pulled them out of my pocket and now something is off with the audio quality of my AirPods. What could it be?

My hand holding a single Apple AirPod and a rather lovely little pin oak acorn that’s about the same size as the acorn.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Best political sign in the neighborhood.

Simple, two color sign. Has a 1950’s stylized illustration of a woman smiling on the left. On the right are the words “grab him by the ballot” and the “Kamala 2024” at the bottom.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Help me out here as I’m not a beer drinker. I saw this beer RV on my drive home the other day. What, specifically, about an oiled up, roided out, 90’s Hulk Hogan in a banana hammock and knee-high boots waving a USA flag makes people want a beer? What. The. Actual. Fuck.

Apparently Hulk Hogan has his own “Real American Beer” company and this is the image on the back of the RV peddling this shit around town. The description is just horrible, but it in the text of the skeet and I can’t bring myself to type it’s hideousness out again.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

We talk a lot about the dangers of preemptive compliance to authoritarians and other petty jerks. I L-O-V-E the stories of folks who push back. 🙌 to Cards Against Humanity as they push back against dehumanization, exploitation, and preemptive compliance. www.elonowesyou100dollars.com

We have terrible news. Seven years ago, 150,000 people paid us $15 to protect a pristine parcel of land on the US-Mexico border from racist billionaire Donald Trump's very stupid wall.
Unfortunately, an even richer, more racist billionaire⸺Elon Musk⸺snuck up on us from behind and completely fucked that land with gravel, tractors, and space garbage.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Fun footnote: They seemed to really enjoy seeing my hand-written + screenshot notes and note taking system that I developed during my PhD. One comment about the most memorable aspect was "How much you had wrote down in the big binder." 🤣 Dude, I love students. They are the best.

My three binders full of mostly hand-written notes from my PhD program which I finished in May. These aren't from the ancient 1980's, friends.

A slide from ym talk with a picture of my actual notes from a program evaluation statistics class. I have hand-written notes on one side, including drawing and cartoons to highlight memorable parts. On the other side, annotated screenshots of stats software output and what to pay attention to.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

One thing I DIDN'T accomplish in 45 minutes is to provoke conversation about study skills with their friends outside of class. If you hear something cool or wacky or helpful or cute, you tell your friends about it. I want to provoke some conversations outside the session around study approaches.

Only 35% of participants talked about their study habits with their friends after the session.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Takeaway 3: You can only accomplish so much in a 45 minute classroom talk. But holy hell, sometimes you do better than you think! I was NOT expecting change people's reported behaviors. But I needed to ask. The VAST majority of students reported that they tried something different after my talk. 🤩

60% of participants said they made a good faith effort at trying retrieval practice after the talk.

50% of participants said they made a good faith effort at trying spaced practice after the talk.

65% of participants reported changing how they take notes because of what they learned during the talk.

85% of participants reported chaining some aspect of their study habits because of what they learned in the talk.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

I think another help here was that I also acknowledged that cramming sessions work...if you are tested right away after the session. I think it was good to acknowledge that sometimes we don't prepare very well and get away with it. But to remember something over time takes repeated practice.

my slide of a nighttime road with cars zipping by that simple says, "Cramming leads to quick learning and quick forgetting."

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Takeaway 2: Student know lots of study approaches, but not always which ones are more effective. In the open-ended feedback they mentioned knowing about study practices but the session helped clarify when to try what. One mentioned using the methods already but enjoyed learning why they work

I asked if retrieval practice was already part of their study routine. 25% said yes, and another 50% said sometimes. This is the pie chart breakdown of those responses.

I asked if they used spaced practice before the talk. 20% said yes, and another 35% said sometimes. 30% said rarely and 15% said no. This is the pie chart breakdown of those numbers.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Takeaway 1: Practical is Good. I know a lot of CTL folks have a talk like this. I know the learning science is super cool to explore. But I'm not convinced students care about that. I focused on two things and made them dead practical. Retrieval practice and spaced practice. Ended with note taking.

Slide form my talk. Mentioned 2 best options as retrieval practice (with interleaving as bonus) and spaced practice (with scheduling as bonus). There the Mr. McMahon meme where he makes increasingly outrageous exciting faces until he bursts into laser eye mode. Starts with retrieval practice with definition, in your own words and examples, interleaving topics, and lastly with spaced practice.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

I recently did a Study Skills workshop for a biology class of about 25 students. It was a prototype and I wanted to test some ideas to see if they might work. What's the point in talking about studying if nobody actually tries the advice? Got some feedback 2 wks later. Heres my 3 main takeaways

This is a slide from my talk. Graffiti wall with Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue with all kids of colorful tags around him. At the top my heading says, "Why study? Seriously."

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Looks like I'm #407,432. Probably would have been sooner but I gave 🦣 I try for a few months. That was a swing and a miss for me.

I'm number 407,432 of over 10 million Bluesky users.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Ummm, this is a little on the nose, Apple News. I turned 43 yesterday. 😬

Apple new article dated September 9 with the selection “For You” in big, bold letters at the top. Leads with an article from National Geographic titled, Your body ages rapidly in two ‘bursts,’ at 44 and 60. Here’s how to prepare.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

I'm doing a new workshop on study skills tomorrow for a group of biology students. I love working for a college that just lets me be me without needing the pretense of "professionalism" or whatever. Because when that happens, my workshops are way more fun and look like this...

a very disappointed looking ring-tailed lemur looks at the viewer while the text on the screen says, "Flashcards bro? That's the best you got? Seriously?"

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

I did it! First day of class coffee and snacks and logo mugs for faculty brought by the teaching center. Got to chat with a bunch of faculty before their first class. Gave them a little coffee treat to start the day off right. Also had non-coffee items too. The Nespresso on a cart was a fun idea.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

Just putting my money where my mouth is.

A screenshot of the “thank you” for donating to the Kamala Harris for President campaign fund.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

I'm giving my What Goes Where? talk next week to a neighbor college. This will be good times. I get to meet new folks, have a little fun, and do some practical work about shaping Canvas to complement teaching approaches. And I get to use my favorite slide of all time. It's terrifying and amazing.

A slide with a vintage 1940's photo with the words in big letters at the top: ALWAYS DESIGNED.

The photo is of two older ladies sitar at a table set out like a British tea party with cakes and tea and snacks. But each side mirrors the other. The tea kettles and cakes, but also the women. Both in bright red suits, black ties, and black pill box hats. Both with curled up 1940's hair. Both even have the same penciled on eyebrows. It's really effin' creepy and yet wildly amazing.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

You know what I DON'T miss about working at Mizzou? Being in the news for shit like this. "University of Missouri System moves to strip racial criteria from donated scholarship fund." www.highereddive.com/news/univers...

Article from Higher Education News: University of Missouri System moves to strip racial criteria from donated scholarship fund.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

Three weeks post graduation and I’m already being asked, “Is a PhD worth it?” My answer: It all depends on the graduation gift you buy for yourself. If it’s a brand new Jason Isbell signature telecaster…….then yes.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

I may not have the best Course Design Institute among teaching centers. But I do have the best Course Design Institute screen printed posters among teaching centers courtesy of Stephens College Screen Queens.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

Hey, who has earned one of the newly minted PhDs from the University of Missouri by passing his dissertation defense this morning? THIS FUCKIN’ GUY!!!!!

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

A week from today is my dissertation defense. Seven years in the making. Ed Psych from the Uni of Missouri. Better Measures of Online Motivation. A new scale developed with both qualitative and quantitative practices in a transparent way to measure self-determined motivation in online learners.

opening slide of my defense presentation. Night scene with the columns and Jesse Hall of the University of Missouri lit in a dramatic fashion. My name and the dissertation title are superimposed: Jerod Quinn - Dissertation Defense. And in big, modern, blue letters Better Measures of Online Motivation.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Submitted my dissertation to my committee last night. 184 pages. I still have the defense and I assume revisions, but holy crap, I'm almost there.

Screen grab from the show Squid Games. This is the first major "game" where participants are getting killed. An older character is standing steadfast while everyone else is in fear for their lives. The phrase "almost there" is on the screen in a bit of a darkly whimsical font.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

The dedication page in my dissertation might still need a little work. Then again, maybe not. 🐹

DEDICATION at the top of the mostly blank page followed by a single line with lots of empty space. the line says, "To all the hamsters out there being awesome. I see you."

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

Found this photo on my phone if it helps. You can even see the cart! 😂

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

Re-upping my call for some survey help from my online teachers and learners. I've got about a week to draw in 300 participants for the statistics to work. I've been griping about the "quality" conversations about online for years. Putting my money where my mouth is with this project.

bright purple background with big white text that says, "I need your help to make online classes better for students and instructors." There's a beaming star-eyed emoji in the center.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

I’m at the data collection stage of my dissertation and I NEED YOUR HELP TO FINISH! I need 300 online students to take my survey for the analysis to work. If you’re currently teaching an online class, would you be willing to share this with your students? missouri.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Purple background with a star-eyed smiling emoji in the middle. In big white text it says, "I need your help to make online classes better for students and instructors."

Purple background with a curious and pondering emoji in the middle. In big white text it says, "Motivated learners finish courses. But how do we gauge online motivation?"

Purple background with a compass emoji in the corner. In big white text it says, "I made a scale to measure motivation in online students. But it needs to be calibrated."

Purple background with a hands-clapping emoji in the middle. In big white text it says, "Teaching online? Please share with your students. Online student? Please take the survey."

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Oh man. Some yahoo is skywriting a giant ass in the sky right now. And on valentines day too! Rude.

Skywriting of a single smoke line converging into a crude butt shape.

Wait. It could be a heart.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Dissertation break. Time to route some rosette channels.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

I'm collecting expert feedback from motivation folks and online folks as part of some psychometrics survey development. I'm a little nervous to open this latest one up to see their thoughts. No reason, just a feeling.

A Word Docx file as a screenshot from a desktop. The file name has been automatically shortened to read, "Survey Questions - V2 GSS f...ck.docx." So yeah, this might not be encouraging feedback. 😂

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Happy new year and here’s to keeping the hoping machine running. Woody Guthrie’s New Years Rulin’ from 1943.

Woody Guthrie New Years rulin’s list of 33 resolutions for the new year. Several have small, almost child-like sketches by them.

1. Work more and better
2. Work by a schedule
3. Wash teeth if any
4. Shave
5. Take bath
6. Eat good — fruit — vegetables — milk
7. Drink very scant if any
8. Write a song a day
9. Wear clean clothes — look good
10. Shine shoes
11. Change socks
12. Change bed cloths often
13. Read lots good books
14. Listen to radio a lot
15. Learn people better
16. Keep rancho clean
17. Dont get lonesome
18. Stay glad
19. Keep hoping machine running
20. Dream good
21. Bank all extra money
22. Save dough
23. Have company but dont waste time
24. Send Mary and kids money
25. Play and sing good
26. Dance better
27. Help win war — beat fascism
28. Love mama
29. Love papa
30. Love Pete
31. Love everybody
32. Make up your mind
33. Wake up and fight

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Welp, in less than two weeks my plan to "play it cool" at the new job has come to an end. The real (i.e., "uncool") Jerod has arrived with the posting of my new office sign.

So the white text on the sign in Jerod Quinn, Center for Teaching & Learning. Pretty benign.

But the image is of a wild looking, sci-fi wizard professor with magical goggles and a HUGE curly beard and stars and planets orbiting him, with infinite bookshelves in the background. It is a Ai generated image from a colleague who asked Ai to generate a picture of a professor, and then he just kept telling it "make it more professor." This is the third iteration of "more professor" just before it went to the cosmic deity rendition.

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