Sat 29 Day of Intercession and Thanksgiving for the Missionary Work of the Church The South Rodings: Abbess Roding (St Edmund), Beauchamp Roding (St Diocese of Botolph), White Roding (St Martin), (St Michael) Clergy: Clive Duxbury (PIC) Felsted (Holy Cross) and Little Dunmow (St Mary the Virgin) Cycle of Prayer Clergy: Colin Taylor (V). Readers: Joanna Pratt, Robert Stone. for daily use in Felsted School: Nigel Little (CHP) October and November 2014 The Diocese of Kibondo (Tanzania) Make your way plain for me to follow (Psalm 5) Sun 30 ADVENT SUNDAY Father, through John the Baptist you tried to prepare your people for the Wed 1 Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 coming of Jesus. Will you prepare us too? Prepare our hearts and minds Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, Social Reformer, 1885 that we may know what to look for in his coming into our world. May we EPISCOPAL AREA show the joy of the Advent message in our lives day by day. , Area Bishop; , ; PRAY for Falkland Islands (Extra‐Provincial to the Archbishop of Robin King, Archdeacon of Stansted. Canterbury), The Rt Revd Stephen Venner. Area Team: Jenny Tomlinson, Mission & Ministry Adviser; Geoffrey Read, CMD Adviser; Dub Gannon, Rural Evangelism Adviser; Rachel Brett, Youth Adviser; Hilary Platts, Women’s Ministry Adviser; Rosemary Drew, Healing NOTES: & Deliverance Adviser. Julia Murphy, Chaplain, University of . Where parochial links are known to exist the names of overseas workers are placed immediately after the appropriate . The of Rural Dean: Geoff Bayliss. Lay Chair: Mike Robinson Further information concerning overseas dioceses, including the names of bishops, is contained in the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, available on their website http:// The Diocese of Ife (Ibadan, Nigeria) www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/main.cfm Thu 2 Fairstead (St Mary & St Peter) w Terling (All Saints) and White Notley To contact the about the Cycle of Prayer please email internal/ (St Etheldreda) w Faulkbourne (St. Germanus) [email protected] Clergy: Robert Kean (PIC) ABBREVIATIONS: Terling School: Maria Rumsey (HT) A Assistant Clergy; AAD Assistant Area Dean; AC Associate Clergy; ACD Associate Clergy White Notley School: Penny Smith (HT) Diaconate; AD Area Dean; ARD Assistant Rural Dean; ASM Associate Minister, AT The Diocese of Ife East (Ibadan, Nigeria) Assistant Clergy Title Post; AYO Area Youth Officer, BP Bishop; C Community Worker; CA Church Army; CIC Curate in Charge; CHP Chaplain; EVN Evangelist; HT Head Teacher; Fri 3 George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958 MCD Minister of Conventional District; MIN Minister, P Priest; PIC Priest in Charge; R (St Peter and St Paul) w East Mersea (St Edmund), Peldon Rector; RD Rural Dean; Rdes Rector designate; RDR Reader; PTO Permission to Officiate; (St Mary Vn), Great & Little Wigborough (St Stephen & St Nicholas) RES Residentiary Canon; SNP Special Needs Post, T Teacher; TM Team Ministry; TR Team Clergy: Sam Norton (R), John Pantry (AC). Rector; TV Team Vicar; V Vicar; Vdes Vicar designate; WDN Warden. Readers: Ann Owen, Peter Owen The Diocese of Ifo (Lagos, Nigeria) Hon. Editor: Reverend Bill Howes, 26 Westfield Drive, , Colchester, Essex CO6 1PU, 01376 561826 (e‐mail [email protected]) who would be glad to receive Sat 4 Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226 comments and corrections and also any items for prayer and praise to be considered for In these difficult times please pray for the members of the Finance inclusion from the . Committee, and its Chair, John Spence, and the various sub‐committees. The Dioceses of Igbomina and Igbomina West (Kwara, Nigeria)

12 1 Sun 5 THE SIXTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY Sun 23 SUNDAY NEXT BEFORE ADVENT CHRIST THE KING Disability Sunday Pray for all those men and women who work in the emergency services Please pray for the work of Denis Hutley, Chaplain for Deaf and Deafblind providing 24 hour care and protection, both in front line and behind the People, and his team. scenes, and pray, too for their chaplains. PRAY for the Church in Wales, The Most Revd Dr Barry Morgan, PRAY for The Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain (Extra‐Provincial Archbishop to the Archbishop of Canterbury)

West Bergholt (St Mary the Virgin) and Great Horkesley (All Saints, St John) Mon 6 William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Reformation Martyr, 1536 Mon 24 Fingringhoe (St Andrew) w East Donyland [or Rowhedge] (St Lawrence), Clergy: Amanda Eames (PIC). Readers: Michael Foster, Sandra Baker, Derek Abberton (St Andrew) w Langenhoe (St Mary) Webber. Clergy: Patrick McEune (PiC) Heathlands School: Neil Matthews (HT) Fingringhoe School: Julia Longman (HT) Bishop William Ward School: Lesley Walder (HT) Rowhedge St Lawrence School: Kerry Malcolm (HT) The Diocese of Kebbi (Kaduna, Nigeria) The Diocese of Ihiala (Niger, Nigeria) Tue 25 Catherine of Alexandria, Martyr, 4th Century Tues 7 Great Totham (St Peter) & Little Totham (All Saints) w Goldhanger Isaac Watts, Hymn Writer, 1748 (St Peter) Lexden (St Leonard) Clergy: Jonathan Pearce (R) Clergy: Teresa Wynne (PIC), Richard Allen (AC), David Armstrong (A) The Dioceses of Ijebu and Ijebu North (Lagos, Nigeria) Readers: Rosemary Elden, Pauline Lloyd‐Jarvis. Jean Weir (Nepal) Wed 8 Hatfield Peverel (St Andrew) w Ulting (All Saints) Myland (St Michael) Clergy: Stephen Northfield (V). Readers: Derek Clark, Mary Daw Clergy: Ray Gibbs (PIC), John Chandler. Reader: Colin Turner (RDR) St Andrew’s Junior School: Chris James (HT) The Diocese of Keewatin (Rupert’s Land, Canada) The Diocese of Ijesa North East, Ondo, Nigeria) Wed 26 Wormingford (St Andrew) and Mount Bures (St John) w Little Horkesley Thu 9 Denys, Bishop of Paris, and his Companions, Martyrs, c 250 (St Peter and St Paul) Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253 Clergy: John Chandler (PIC) Kelvedon (St Mary the Virgin) and Feering (All Saints) St Andrew’s School: Patricia Derry HT Clergy: Simon Garwood (PIC) The Diocese of Kentucky (Province IV, The Episcopal Church, USA) St Mary’s School: Michael Walsh (HT) Feering School: Jane Pomeroy (HT) Thu 27 Shrub End (All Saints w St Cedd) The Diocese of Ijesha North (Ibadan, Nigeria) Clergy: Nicholas Davis (V) (St Mary) Fri 10 Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644 Clergy: Erwin Lammens (R). Reader: Glyn Stanway. Thomas Traherene, Poet, Spiritual Writer, 1674 The retired clergy, readers and lay ministers who live and work in the North Blackwater Parishes: Tollesbury (St Mary the Virgin), Salcott Virley (St Deanery of Colchester. Mary the Virgin), Tolleshunt D’Arcy (St Nicholas), Tolleshunt Major (St Nicholas) The Diocese of Kericho (Kenya) Clergy: Geoff Bayliss, RD (PIC), Denise Corley, Christine Gorringe (A). Readers: Timothy Whitfield, Isabel Adcock. Fri 28 The Deanery of Dunmow & Stansted Tolleshunt D’Arcy St Nicholas School: Sophie Massey (HT) Rural Dean: Cilla Hawkes. Lay Chair: Belle Beszant The Dioceses of Ijumu (Lokola, Nigeria) and Ikara (Kaduna, Nigeria) The Diocese of Khartoum (Sudan)

2 11 Mon 17 Hugh, Bishop of London, 1200 Sat 11 Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 Colchester (Christ Church w St Mary at the Walls) James the Deacon, Companion of Paulinus, 7th c Clergy: Paul Norrington (R, RD), Jackie Sams (A). Pray for our Archdeacons that they may be strengthened by our prayer in Readers: David Forder, Sara Humphreys, Clive Joyce. their service throughout the . The Diocese of Karimnagar (South India) The Diocese of Ikeduru (Owerri, Nigeria)

Tue 18 Elizabeth of Hungary, Princess of Thuringia, Philanthropist, 1231 Sun 12 THE SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY Colchester New Town and the Hythe (St Stephen, St Leonard, St Mary The Week of Prayer for World Peace Magdalene) Pray for those places where war and death are everyday events. Pray, Clergy: Ian Hilton, RD, (R), Hannah Cooper (A). Lay Pioneer Minister: Sister too, for the innocent children whose young lives are being traumatised Nikki Foster‐Kruczek. Readers: Andrew King, Tim Nice. and prematurely ended by the violence. Kendall School: Mark Carter‐Tufnell (HT) PRAY for The Church of the Province of West Africa, The Most Revd The Dioceses of Karnataka Central and Karnataka North (South India) Dr Solomon Tilewa Johnson, Primate & Metropolitan CPWA; Archbishop Wed 19 Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Mechtild, Béguine of Magdeberg, Mystic, 1280 Mon 13 Edward the Confessor, King of , 1066 Colchester St Luke Wickham Bishops (St Bartholomew) w Little Braxted (St Nicolas) Clergy: Jeremy Noles (V), Gill Noles (AC). Reader: Diane Benge‐Abbott). Clergy: Vacancy Colchester (St Peter and St Botolph) Readers: Derek Clark, Sally Forward. Clergy: Mark Wallace (V), Aella Gage (AC). Reader: Duncan Breckels The Diocese of Ikka (Bendel, Nigeria) The Diocese of Karnataka South (South India) Tues14 Thurstable and Winstree TM: Tolleshunt Knights (All Saints) w Tiptree (St Luke), and Great Braxted (All Saints), Layer‐de‐la‐Haye (St John the Thu 20 Edmund, King of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of Baptist) & Layer Breton (St Mary the Virgin) w Birch (St Peter) & Layer England, 1876 Marney (St Mary the Virgin), Copford (St Michael) w Easthorpe (St Mary), Fordham (All Saints) w Eight Ash Green (All Saints) & Messing (All Saints) w Inworth (All Saints) Clergy: John Parker (PIC). Readers: Peter Holden, Quinlan Terry. Clergy: Anne‐Marie Renshaw (PIC), Celia Cook (TV), Liz Barnes (A) Peter All Saints School, Fordham: Gordon Malcolm (HT), Streete (A), Julia Russell Grant (A). Readers: Harold Toms, Ann Wild. Eight Ash Green and Aldham School (Heather Hann) HT Tiptree St Luke’s School: Peter Anderson (HT) Layer de la Haye School: Patricia Wilkie (HT) The Diocese of Katakwa (Kenya) Birch School: Kate Moore (HT)

The Dioceses of Ikwo (Enugu, Nigeria) and Fri 21 Stanway (St Albright w St Andrew’s Church Centre) Clergy: Tony Bushell (PIC) Ikwerre (Niger Delta, Nigeria)

The Diocese of Katanga (Congo) Teresa of Avilia, Teacher of the Faith, 1582 Wed 15 Rivenhall and Silver End (St Mary & All Saints) Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c230 Sat 22 Clergy: Paul Watkin (PIC) Please pray for Canon John Brown and the work of the East Anglia and Rivenhall School: Cathy Mann (HT) National Rural Theology Association The Diocese of Ikwuano (Aba, Nigeria) The Diocese of Katsina (Kaduna, Nigeria)

10 3 Martin, Bishop of Tours, c.397 Thu 16 Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London and Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Tue 11 Worcester, Reformation Martyrs, 1555 Colchester (St Barnabas Old Heath) Witham Team Ministry (St Nicolas) Clergy: Richard Tilbrook (V). Reader: Jackie Twinn Clergy: Sally Lodge (PIC), Rob Kean (TV), Susan Malam (A). The Most Revd Stanley Ntagali, Archbishop of Uganda Witham Howbridge Junior School: Sean Wade (HT) The retired clergy, readers and lay ministers who live and work in the Wed 12 Langham (St Mary the Virgin) w Boxted (St Peter) Deanery of Witham Clergy: Amanda Elmes (PIC). Reader: Denise Hobday Boxted School: Tania Devereux (HT) The Diocese of Ilaje (Ondo, Nigeria) The Diocese of Kano (Kaduna, Nigeria) Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c 107 Fri 17 Charles Simeon, Priest, Evangelical Divine, 1836 The Deanery of Hinckford Thu 13 Colchester (St James and St Paul) Rural Dean: Laurie Bond. Lay Chair: Brian Vidler. Clergy: Peter Walker, AAD (R), Taemin Oh (A) The Diocese of Ile‐Oluji (Ondo, Nigeria) St James School: Pauline Batley (HT)

The Diocese of Kansas (Province VII, The Provincial Church, USA) LUKE THE EVANGELIST Sat 18 Please pray for Cilla Hawkes and the work of the Local Ministry Working Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796 Group. Fri 14 Colchester (St John the Evangelist) The Dioceses of Ilesa and Ilesa South West (Ibadan, Nigeria) Clergy: Andy Sachs (PIC), Hannah Graveling (A). Readers: Joan Taylor, Vivien Whitfield. Sun 19 THE EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY St John’s School: Nicholas Hutchings (HT) One World Week Begins. Please pray for all involved in working to bring Peter & Ineke Cook (Thailand), Tim & Ruth Young (The Gulf), Russell & peace and understanding to our world Kath Norton (Kenya), Hugh Battye (China), Sarah Adcock (China) PRAY for the Church in the Province of the West Indies, The Diocese of Karachi, Pakistan) The Most Revd & The Hon. Dr John Holder, Archbishop.

Sat15 Please pray for our church choirs and musicians, and for the work of the Mon 20 North Hinkford Team Ministry: Alphamstone (St Barnabas), Belchamp Royal School of Church Music. Otten (St Ethelbert & All Saints), Belchamp St Paul (St Andrew), Belchamp The Diocese of Karamoja (Uganda) Walter (St Mary), Bulmer (St Andrew), Foxearth (St Peter & St Paul), Great

& Little Henny (St Mary), Lamarsh (Holy Innocents), Liston and Borley, SECOND SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT Middleton (All Saints), Ovington (St Mary), Pentlow (St Gregory & St Sun16 Prison Week begins today. George), Twinstead (St John the Evangelist), Wickham St Paul (All Saints) Prayer for Prisons Week: We pray for all who work with prisoners to help Clergy: Margaret King (TR), Sally Womersley (TV). them think more constructively and responsibly, so that families may live Reader: Graham King. together in greater harmony and so that fewer people are at risk of Bulmer St Andrew’s School: Ellana Mortimer (HT) becoming victims. We pray especially that those who have been helped to Belchamp St Paul’s School: Linda Buchanan (HT) think in new and better ways will be given time and space to prove their The Dioceses of Indianapolis (Province V, The Episcopal Church, change and encouragement to help realise it. USA) and Iowa (Province VI, The Episcopal Church, USA) PRAY for The Lusitanian Church (Extra‐Provincial to the Archbishop of Canterbury) (Portugal), The Rt Revd José Jorge De Pina Cabral

4 9 Thu 6 Leonard, Hermit, 6th century. Tue 21 The United Benefice of Great Tey (St Barnabas) w Little Tey (St James the William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher of the Faith, 1944 Less), Wakes Colne (All Saints) & Chappel (St Barnabas) The Deanery of Colchester Clergy: John Richardson (R). Reader: Valerie Bartlett. Rural Dean: Paul Norrington; Assistant Rural Dean: Peter Walker. Great Tey School: Debbie Crabb (HT) Lay Chair: Roger Ennals. Pioneer Minister: David Beales. Chappel School: Julie Ingram (HT) Reader: Vivien Whitfield (Special Responsibility for Deaf and Deafblind The Diocese of Iran (Jerusalem and the Middle East) People) The Diocese of Kafanchan (Abuja, Nigeria) Wed 22 Area TM: Colne Engaine (St Andrew), Earls Colne (St Andrew), Gosfield (St Catherine), Greenstead Green (St James), Halstead (St Andrew Fri 7 Willibrord of York, Bishop, Apostle of Frisia, 739 w Holy Trinity), White Colne (St Andrew), Gestingthorpe, Great Marks Tey (St Andrew) and Aldham (St Margaret) Maplestead, Little Maplestead (St John the Baptist), Pebmarsh Clergy: Ian Scott‐Thompson (R). Reader: Iain MacCallum Clergy: John Blore (TR), Sue Cruse, Gay Ellis, Peter Allen (TV), Michael Marks Tey School: Lelia Berkeley (HT) Bursell (AC), Hugh Mothersole (A). Diocese of Kagera (Tanzania) Readers: Nick Ellis, Philip Quinn, Terry Streamer Colne Engaine School: Julie Sarti (HT); Halstead St Andrew’s School: Bridgette Gough (HT); Great Maplestead St Giles School: Jinnie Nichols Sat 8 The Saints and Martyrs of England Pray for the ministry of Andy Poultney, Alice Smith and Rachel Brett, the (HT); Pebmarsh St John’s School: Amanda Mitchelson (HT); Holy Trinity Area Youth Work Advisers. Also remember St Mark’s College, the Director, School: Jonathan Smith (HT) Pete Hillman, and everyone involved there. The Diocese of Irele‐Eseodo (Ondo, Nigeria) The Diocese of Kajiado (Kenya) Thu 23 Upper Colne Parishes of Great Yeldham (St Andrew), Little Yeldham (St John the Baptist), Stambourne (St Peter & St Thomas), ‐juxta‐Clare Sun 9 THIRD SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT (REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY) Remember before God those who suffer as a result of war: The injured and (St Margaret) and Toppesfield (St Margaret) the disabled; The homeless and the hungry; All who have lost their Clergy: Barbara Hume (PIC). livelihood and security; Those who mourn the loss of husband or wife, St Andrew’s School: Carrie Prior (HT) children or parents, friends and comrades. And especially pray for the lost St Margaret’s School: Kim Hall (HT) children and those who have no hope in Christ to sustain them in their grief. The Dioceses of Isial‐Ngwa South and Isiala‐Ngwa (Aba, Nigeria) PRAY for the Diocese of Bermuda (Extra‐Provincial to the Archbishop of Canterbury), The Rt Revd Nicholas Dill. Fri 24 United Nations Day Ridgewell (St Laurence) w Ashen (St Augustine of Canterbury) and Leo the Great, Bishop of Rome, Teacher of the Faith, 461 Birdbrook (St Augustine of Canterbury) w Sturmer (St Mary) Mon 10 Clergy: Jonathan Lowe (PIC). Berechurch (St Margaret w St Michael) Ridgewell School: Denise Madden (HT) Clergy: Andrew Fordyce (V), Pam Davies (A). Reader: Gillian Green. The Diocese of Isikwuato (Aba, Nigeria) Greenstead w Colchester St Anne TM: Colchester (St Andrew), Colchester

(St Anne), Colchester (St Matthew) Crispin and Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.287 Clergy: Timothy Platts (PIC), Hilary Le Seve (TV). Sat 25 Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Readers: Alison Gray, Terry Gray. Cedd, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664 Parsons Heath School: Sheena Clover (HT) Give thanks for the work of those who support Chelmsford Clergy Spouses The Diocese of Kajo Keji (Sudan) The Diocese of Jabalpur (North India)

8 5 Sun 26 LAST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY (BIBLE SUNDAY) NOVEMBER Give thanks for the work and ministries of our hospices who bring comfort Sat 1 ALL SAINTS DAY and relief to patients and families in times of physical and spiritual need Let the glory of the saints, O Lord, illuminate the dullness of our hearts; and stress. Pray for our hospice chaplains. that following the example of their lives on earth, we may shine with them PRAY for The Church of Ceylon (Extra‐Provincial to the Archbishop of in the everlasting light of heaven; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Canterbury) The Diocese of Jos (Jos, Nigeria)

Mon 27 Sible Hedingham (St Peter) w Castle Hedingham (St Nicholas) Sun 2 FOURTH SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT Clergy: Laurie Bond, RD (PIC), Liz Paxton (A). Reader: David Brown ALL SOULS DAY St Peter’s School, Sible Hedingham: John Smith (HT) We give you thanks, our God and Father, for all those who have died in Steeple Bumpstead (St Mary the Virgin) w Helions Bumpstead (St Andrew) the faith of Jesus Christ, for the memory of this words and deeds and all Clergy: Jonathan Lowe (PIC). Reader: Caroline Lowe. they accomplished in their lives, for the joyful hope of reunion with them The retired clergy, readers and lay ministers who live and work in the in the world to come. Deanery of Hinckford. PRAY for Inglesia Episcopal (Cuba), The Diocese of Jaffna (South India) The Rt Revd Griselda Delgado Del Carpio

Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher of the Faith, 1600 Tue 28 SIMON AND JUDE, APOSTLES Mon 3 The Deanery of Braintree Martin of Porres, Friar, 1639 Rural Dean: Beth Bendrey. Lay Chair: John Turton. Coggeshall (St Peter ad Vincula) w Markshall (St Nicholas) Clergy: Chris Davey (PIC), Neil Tozer (AC). Reader: Penny Bonham The Diocese of Jalingo (Jos, Nigeria) Jules Caprioli‐Blake (YW).

St Peter’s School: Alison Cole (HT) Wed 29 James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885 The Diocese of Kabba (Lokoja, Nigeria) Black Notley (St Peter and St Paul) Clergy: Beth Bendrey (R) (RD). Tues 4 Finchingfield (St John the Baptist) w Cornish Hall End (St John the Evangelist) and Wethersfield (St Mary Magdalen) w Shalford (St Andrew) The Dioceses of Jamaica & The Cayman Islands (West Indies) Clergy: Colin Wilson (V), Janet Nicholls (A). Reader: Sarah Pilgrim.

Wethersfield School: Caroline Shingleton (HT) Thu 30 Bocking (St Mary the Virgin) Clergy: Roderick Reid (PIC). Reader: Pat Scott Finchingfield School: Alistair Robinson (HT) Cressing (All Saints) w Stisted (All Saints) Bocking (St Peter) and Bradwell‐juxta‐Coggeshall Clergy: Tim Barnes (PIC), Iain Bendrey (AC) (Holy Trinity) and Pattiswick (St Mary the Virgin) Clergy: Ray Samms (PIC). Robert Burden (A) The Diocese of Jebba (Kwara, Nigeria) Stisted Primary Academy: Martin Hawrylak (HT) The Diocese of Kadugli & Nuba Mountains (Sudan) Fri 31 Martin Luther, Reformer,1564 Braintree (St Michael) Wed 5 Braintree (St Paul) Clergy: Charles Mason (V) Clergy: Sarah Hayward (PIC). Reader: Susan Riches. Readers: Jennifer Bailey, Mike Bardell, Roger Cook, John Turton. Braintree St Michael’s School: Mandy Short (HT) Panfield (St Mary and St Christopher) and Rayne (All Saints) Clergy: Julie Nelson (PIC), Janet Nicholls (A). Reader: Chris Hutton. The Diocese of Johannesburg (Southern Africa) The retired clergy, readers and lay ministers who live and work in the Deanery of Braintree. The Diocese of Kaduna (Kaduna, Nigeria)

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