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Graduated from the GSA in 2004

McKell grew up in Weymouth in Dorset and went to boarding school at Clifton Collage in Bristol. In 1975 after a year foundation he studied graphic design at the Exeter College of Art and Design at the same time began working as a seaside photographer aged 19 in his summer holidays and became his first serious projected documenting his own life and the environment he grew up in including family, friends, girl friends, people who worked or lived in Weymouth and holiday makers. Moving to London in 1979 to work as a graphic designer At 22 he quit his job in design to follow a career in photography his new projects was the Mod/Skinhead revival and self published his first book titled SUB CULTURE. At 23 he took a trip to New York to photograph the Guardian Angels then returning to London’s immerging new underground scenes of 80’s club culture featuring Blitz Kids like Boy George who was totally unknown at this point. This led to editorial and record companies commissions and photographed the new rising star Madonna for her first ever magazine cover for pop magazine Number One. At 27 he held an exhibition in his own newly acquired studio in 1984 15 Westland Place in Shoreditch, East London entitled 'Iain McKell LIVE'. In this event members of the public were invited to witness McKell at work, he photographed members of The Comic Strip and many of the visitors. This was followed in 1985 by a show and open workshop in The Photographers' Gallery, titled LIVE! 85 showing his work and a documentary film about the previous year. McKell began to work on advertising campaigns for Smirnoff and Red Stripe and many others. At the same time did various road projects abroad from Spain to Morocco, Africa and Italy.
McKell has been photographing various subcultures since the 1980s, and has since documented various other counter cultures, including Psychedelic Trance in Thailand , Fetish, Druids/Pagans, winter night carnivals in Summerset, London Dandies and American Rockabilly. In 2004 he published his 2nd book Fashion Forever focusing on youth culture’s fixation on style. He has also spent over ten years befriending and photographing a group of New Age Gypsies. The result of this project was the publication of a book and various exhibitions, in New York, London, Paris and Milan. He also went on to collaborate with Kate Moss for V Magazine. Kate Moss travelled with Mckell spending time with the travellers and journeying for two days together living and sleeping with them and taking photos ect.
2012 McKell released his third book, Beautiful Britain, a collection of his photographs between 1970 and 2012.

He also started a Blog projected Look At Me Look At You and is invested in street photography. A dairy sketchbook, mirroring the work from his first projected in his home town Weymouth. It maps out Mckell’s emotional world and his feelings of the given moment. Mostly urban but some times trips abroad or road trips to the country side.

At present New projects An American Prayer- A journey by bus from the underground scene in New York to LA. Seaside Town – going back to my roots. A road trip around British Sea Side Towns. Radical People – A series of portraits of London people over 50 who are creative trail blazers shaping modern culture. Working on two projects at present.

The self published book SUB CULTURE 1979 has been repackaged with a limited edition 150 copies along with a sighed print which sold out over the weekend at the 2015 Los Angeles A Book Fair who in tern chose it as ‘Best book of the festival’.

At present working as an Executive Producer contractually partnership with an American Producer on a script development for a film project based on the book The New Gypsies to be for either TV or Cinema.

Clients include
i-D, The Face, The Observer, Sunday Times, Independent, Telegraph, English Vogue, French Vogue, Italian Vogue, L'uomo Vogue, Cassa vogue, Numero, Dutch Zoo, Tank, V magazine, Beat, The New British. French Elle, German Glamour, French L’Official, Dutch L’Official. Black Book, New York Times and WSJ
Levis , Wranglers, Bonobo, Philips, Jigsaw, Max&co, Red Stripe, Vladivar, Tia Maria, Mercedes Benz, Nixon, Pepsi Cola, Smirnoff, Vidal Sassoon, Fishermans Friend, Sony Playstation,

Photographed numerous high profile personalities such as Kate Moss, Sam Smith, Brad Pitt , WILL I Am, Gilbert and George, Grayson Perry, Little Mix, Vivian Westwood, and others.

In November 2006, accomplished designer Joanne MacKellar took ownership of KALO. Jo graduated from The Glasgow School of Art Jewellery Department in 1997, following on with a Masters Degree from the Birmingham School of Jewellery in 2000. Since then she has been running JUNO DESIGN GALLERY alongside her mother, a textile designer, in Argyll. Jo has spent many years developing her skills in Jewellery design and manufacture and is constantly working on new ideas, her new collections now available at KALO.

Robert Norman Houghton Mackellar was born in Govan on the 5th of March 1890, one of four children of Ada F and Peter N MacKellar, a confectioner's agent. Robert attended The Glasgow School of Art in 1902 as a young part-time student in Drawing and Painting, and went back from 1906 to 1911 as a student in Architecture, alternating between full-time to part-time while also working as an architectural draughtsman.

In 1904, Robert was articled to John Nesbitt of Glasgow, and moved to Miller & Black in 1911. He was recruited by Thomas Martin Cappon to work as an assistant on the Dundee Training College and Demonstration School in Park Place, and is credited as being largely responsible for the design of the building. Once this was complete, Robert was invited to work under Charles James McNair. During the First World War, Robert served in the Highland Light Infantry as a Sergeant. After the war, he moved to Newcastle upon Tyne in 1920 to become partner with Cackett & Burns Dick. He was elected to FRIBA in 1936. He died in 1973.

Robert Norman Houghton MacKellar is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk; the Dictionary of Scottish Architects: http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk.

Conrad T J McKenna, born 8th March 1923, was admitted as a student to Glasgow School of Art in December 1939 at the age of 16. WW2 interrupted his studies when he was called up to the RAF in 1942, serving from then until 1946. He returned to Art School in 1946 and was awarded a Diploma in Commercial Art in 1948. He won several prizes and scholarships during his time at GSA, including the Robert Hart Bursary in 1941, the W.O. Hutchison Prize for Drawing in 1948, the Main Scholarship for Commercial Art in 1948 and a £120 Travelling Scholarship in 1949.
Conrad was also a member of GSA staff from 1950-1984. His positions included: Visiting Staff, Design & Crafts 1953/54; Assistant, Design & Crafts 1954/55-1965/66; Assistant, General Course 1966/67-1970/71; Lecturer, First Year Course 1971-1972; Supervisor, Evening School 1972-1984. He spent a sabbatical year in 1962-1963 as a visiting lecturer in the Fine Art faculty of the University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana, West Africa, returning to GSA until his retirement in 1984.

Watercolourist, engraver, designer and teacher, sister of the artist Winifred McKenzie, born in Bombay, India. Studied at Glasgow School of Art, 1926-9, gaining the Fra Newbery medal. From 1930-42 she worked in London and studied under the noted engraver Iain Macnab at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art. In 1942 she moved to St Andrews, Fife, and in 1946 joined her sister as part-time lecturer at Dundee College of Art. She retired in 1957 after the sisters had established the printmaking department there. Showed RSA, RSW and NS of both of which she was a member and SSWA and had two-man shows with her sister at Cork Street Gallery and English Speaking Union Gallery, Edinburgh. McKenzie, who was especially influenced by the work of Braque, did railway posters and other ephemera, all marked with exquisite sense of design and apt colour.

Eliza McP Mckenzie was a student at The Glasgow School of Art from 1914-1915, studying evening classes in drawing and painting. Eliza was also a recipient of a Haldane Bursary which meant that she was one of several students awarded the sum of £1 1s towards the costs of her studies.

Whilst a student at The Glasgow School of Art Eliza's address was listed as Royal Terrace in Paisley, however a second address of 'the Higher Grade School, Coatbridge' was also noted. Given that Eliza's occupation is registered as 'Assistant Art Teacher' in the records it could be that the latter was her workplace address.

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Margaret McKenzie studied Textiles at GSA from 1976 and designed garments for the 1978 fashion show. She was awarded the John Donald Kelly Memorial Prize for the best all round first year student, in session 1976-77, and a maintenance scholarship for a further four terms at Glasgow in session 1979-80.

Sources: GSA Annual Report 1976-77 and 1979-80 GOV/1/10

Agnes McKeown studied Textiles at GSA from 1975 and designed garments for the 1978 fashion show.

Isa McKerrow was a student at The Glasgow School of Art from 1912-1919.

Edward McKinlay was born in Campbeltown in 1895, one of three children of Margaret and Donald McKinlay, a Librarian. Edward attended The Glasgow School of Art as a part-time student of Architecture for one year in 1912. During the First World War, he served in the 9th battalion of the Highland Light Infantry, and was killed in action on the 15th of July 1916 in France and Flanders. Edward McKinlay is commemorated on the Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk; the Dictionary of Scottish Architects: http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk.

Liz McKinlay designed garments for the 1978 fashion show.

Dr Douglas William McKnight MBChB.MRCGP.DRCOG. was born in Glasgow and is a graduate of The University of Glasgow School of Medicine. He has been taking Open Studio classes at GSA since c2000.

James MacLachlan is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's World War One Roll of Honour. However, two names were found in the School's registers from this time. One was born in Ayrshire in 1886, one of three children of Agnes and Robert McLachlan, a monumental sculptor. He attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1905 to 1907 as a part-time student in sculpture. The other was born in Glasgow on the 23rd of July 1898, and attended The School of Art from 1914 to 1916 as a part-time student in drawing and painting.

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Sources: Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk; Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

John Lawrence McLachlan was born on 26 June 1900, in England, the eldest of three sons of Annie and John McLachlan senior, a shipyard joiner. The baptism of Joannis Laurentius McLachlan, with parents Annae and Joannis, is recorded as having taken place at St Dominics, Newcastle on Tyne, on 2 July 1890, following the Catholic tradition of Latin baptismal names. Gaelic was spoken in the family home by John's father, who was originally from Lochgilphead, Argyll and by his younger brother Roderick. John's mother, Annie, was originally from Ireland. The family also spent some time in Ireland, where John's youngest brother was born in 1899 before moving to Glasgow. In 1911, McLachlan was working as a grocer and he began evening classes in drawing and painting at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1916-17 session. During WW1 he served with the RAF before returning to The Glasgow School of Art in 1919 for a further year of evening classes in drawing and painting, by this time working as a travelling salesman. On 12 June 1923, McLachlan married Bridget Theresa Mullholland, daughter of Mary and Michael Mullholland, a sheet metal worker, at St. Peters Church in Partick. John McLachlan is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk ;Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk;

Norman W McLachlan was a student at the Glasgow School of Art c1914. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Valerie McLachlan (née Gardiner) studied the General Course and then Graphic Design at Glasgow School of Art between 1967-1971, gaining a Diploma in Graphic Design.

William K McLachlan was born in Govan, probably in 1887, one of 2 children of Christina and James, who worked on ferries. His brother John A McLachlan was born in 1893. William McLachlan attended The Glasgow School of Art in 1902 and 1904-5 while he worked as a woodcutter and lived in Govan. During the First World War, McLachlan served in the Scottish Rifles as a Lieutenant. McLachlan is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.com

McLaren studied Architecture at The Glasgow School of Art around 1947 when he won the John Keppie Scholarship. Please get in touch if you have any further information.

Born 11 April 1914 in Stirling, Scotland. Died Quebec, Canada in 1987. Animator and filmmaker. Attended Glasgow School of Art from 1931-1936 gaining a Diploma in Interior Design in 1936. He won Windsor & Newton Prize 1932, James Brough Memorial Prize, 1934. He also took part in GSA Dramatic Society (1934) and was a member of GSA’s Kinecraft Society.

After art school he went on to be a highly successful filmmaker. Following short professional stints in London and New York, he moved to Canada to work with renowned Scottish documentary filmmaker John Grierson at The National Film Board of Canada, where he made his most creative and acclaimed works.

The Mackintosh Building foyer contained a Scottish Film Council plaque, installed in 1996 as part of the Film Council’s celebration of 100 years of Scottish Cinema.

GSA alumna
Originally from North Ayrshire, she graduated from GSA in 2007. In 2010, opened a gallery and jewellery workshop called ‘Au’ in Glasgow’s west end with a fellow graduate. Now based in Dunbar, East Lothian.

Lyn McLaughlin started as an AV Technician in the Architecture School in 1978 and then went on to work as a Technical Assistant to the whole school in various departments.
As at July 2017, she works as part of the Learning Technology Resource unit. Lyn filmed and edited the films for the fashion shows from 1982 to 1986.

Company: Glasgow Life.

Claire McLean studied Textiles at GSA from 1974 and designed garments for the 1978 fashion show.

Liz McLean (now McKay) studied Design at GSA in the 1980s and modelled in the 1984, 85 and 86 fashion shows.

She has worked in jewellery and from 2010 has been a branch manager for Spence Diamonds in Toronto.

Source: LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com

Kenneth McLellan studied Printed Textiles at GSA in the 1980s. He designed the extravagant ballgown, Crinoline, which replicated a dress from 1760 and which was modelled in the 1982 fashion show. The dress was shown at the "Young Blood" exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London from November 1983 to January 1984, and was featured in the Sunday Times Colour Magazine.

In session 1981-82, Kenneth won the Incorporation of Cordiners and Incorporation of Skinners and Glovers Prize for Leatherwork and a Maintenance Scholarship for a further year's study in Glasgow. He also won the Scottish Education Department Travelling Scholarship in session 1982-83.

Sources: 'Design from Glasgow School', March 1984, Foulis Archive Press Glasgow; Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) https://vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=112469&sos=0; GSA Annual Reports 1981-82 and 1982-83 GOV/1/11

Born in Milngavie, McLellan attended Bearsden Academy, where her art teacher was the artist Willie Armour. She enrolled at The Glasgow School of Art in 1931 and gained her Diploma (with Distinction) in Design and Decorative Art: Stained Glass, in 1935, and the Endorsement of Diploma following post-diploma study in 1936. A gifted student, she was awarded a minor Travelling Scholarship in 1934, a Maintenance Scholarship in 1935, and the John Keppie Scholarship in 1936.

During her third year at the School she entered the stained-glass workshop of Charles Baillie, designer of the famous Rogano restaurant, in Glasgow, and a prolific artist in stained glass. She used her Keppie Scholarship to visit Scandinavia and her post diploma year was spent at the Danish Royal Academy of Art, in Copenhagen.

In 1938 she contributed a mural, a stained-glass panel and an embossed panel to the Women's Pavilion at the Empire Exhibition. Between 1943 and 1947 she joined the GSA staff working in the Department of Design and Crafts, Glass. In 1953, she was awarded a significant commission to execute a scheme of 10 windows for the Robin Chapel of the Thistle Foundation in Craigmillar, Edinburgh.

McLellan later pioneered the use of a stained glass technique called "Dalle de verre" in Scotland. She used this technique in her best known work at Pluscarden Abbey, near Elgin.

From 1971 McLellan and her husband, Walter Pritchard, a fellow stained glass artist, worked in Crawfordjohn, South Lanarkshire. In 1989 she retired to live with her daughter in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Donald Campbell McLeod was born in Glasgow on the 14th April 1894, one of five children of Elizabeth McLeod, a dressmaker and Norman McLeod, a blacksmith. McLeod attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1910-1911 and again from 1914-1915, as a part time student of architecture. During the First World War, McLeod served as a private in the Cameron Highlanders 7th battalion. This battalion was formed in Inverness and landed in Boulogne on the 9th of July 1915, though

Sources state McLeod was first posted on the 8th July 1915. It is possible that McLeod joined as part of a Pals battalion alongside other students who fought in the First World War, including Andrew McWilliam, James Drummond and John McGirr. On 2nd October 1915, he was admitted to hospital for a bullet wound. McLeod was killed in action on the 17th August 1916, aged 22, and has a memorial in Pozieres British Cemetery in France. His death is likely to have occurred at the Battle of the Somme which took place from the 1st of July to the 18th of November 1916. The Battle of Pozieres took place within the Somme, between the 23rd of July and the 3rd of September 1916, where battalions fought for a small village on high ground which gave occupiers an advantage of sight. It is possible that his comrade Andrew McWilliam also lost his life at this battle. McLeod is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk; The National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/; Every Man Remembered: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/734996/; Lives of the First World War: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/2845217#facts; The Long, Long Trail: http://www.1914-1918.net/cameron.htm; http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/battles/battles-of-the-western-front-in-france-and-flanders/the-battles-of-the-somme-1916/; Imperial War Museums: http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-pals-battalions-of-the-first-world-war

Mairghread McLundie is a researcher at the Digital Design Studio, Glasgow School of Art. She graduated from Glasgow University in 1983 with a degree in Computing Science. Following ten years working in computer facilities management for a firm of consulting engineers, she enrolled at Glasgow School of Art, graduating with a degree in Design (Silversmithing and Jewellery) in 1997. An interest in the relative absence of computer systems in the applied arts formed the basis of study for a one year masters degree, titled "An Investigation into Interaction with Computer Systems for 3D Design and Modelling, in Terms of Interface and Process". Her recently completed Ph.D. research focused on the relationship between individual designers and the artefacts and media they work with in their design processes, and how differences in this relationship might inform the development of future digital environments for creative practice.

The "designer-jeweller-silversmith'' set up her business, Elements Eternal, in Glasgow in the late 1990s. After graduating from Art School, where she specialised in clocks, she now designs and makes everything from eggcups and first-tooth boxes to kilt pins and cufflinks. She also makes a range of jewellery including engagement rings - with a twist. Her best known pieces though are beautiful quaichs - whisky cups - with a modern feel.
Commissions have included a ring for the Dougray Scott film One Last Chance and a brass wedding head-dress for the BBC meteorologist Heather Reid.
Winner of a Balvenie Artisan award in 2004.

James McNab, better known as Hamish, was born on 22 July 1891, the eldest son of Isabella Braid Christie McNab (nee Walls) and William Hunter McNab, architect. James' father, William, worked in the office of William Leiper, well known for his arts and crafts /Scots baronial styled houses particularly in the Helensburgh area and also for churches and the polychromatic Venetian Gothic Templeton Carpet Factory. William Hunter McNab eventually took over Leiper's practice becoming sole partner on Leiper's retirement in 1909. James McNab commenced his studies at The Glasgow School of Art in 1907 until 1914 whilst working as an apprentice with James Miller. James' younger brother William Leiper, presumably named after his father's former partner , also studied architecture at The Glasgow School of Art from 1915 but by this point James had left to serve with the Royal Engineers, rising to the rank of Lieutenant by his discharge in 1919. In 1927 his father took him into partnership and two years later he became a lecturer in Paisley College of Technology and School of Art. He was elected LRIBA in mid-1933, his proposers being James Miller, John Keppie and John Watson. He was also a member of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. His father died in December 1935, and Hamish continued the practice under the existing title of William Hunter McNab & Son. His brother William Leiper McNab, also worked in the family firm but did not become a principal. The practice had very little architectural business after 1930. The office at 121 West George Street was also the studio of Hamish's sculptress wife, Florence Ida Mary Magee, and they supported themselves mainly by making garden statuary, craftwork and decorative work. In the late 1930s they downsized to the Aitken Studios at 551 Sauchiehall Street. McNab died on 21 April 1937 aged 46 years. James McNab is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk ;Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk ;The Dictionary of Scottish Architects: http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk

Alex McNail (Alexander McNeill) was born in Rose Street in Glasgow on the 15th of August 1885 and was one of four children of Helen McNeill, (née Pringle) a dressmaker and Alexander McNeill, a shoemaker. He had an older sister, Elizabeth, and two younger brothers, James and John. Though his name is spelt "McNail" on the Roll of Honour, it is likely that this is an error as his name is spelt "McNeill" on his birth certificate and various other records. McNeill attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1903 to 1904 as a part time student of design. He also attended from 1904 to 1905 and 1907 to 1908 and though his course details and birth dates for these semesters are unmarked, he is noted to have worked as a bootmaker, most likely alongside his father. From 1908 to 1909, he attended as a part time student of painting and printmaking. From 1912 to 1915, he studied as a part time student of etching. During the First World War, McNeill served as part of the Royal Scots battalion. He was a known Glasgow engraver and dry point etcher and exhibited many times in places such as the Royal Scottish Academy and the Glasgow Institute. There are at least 57 of his works in Glasgow. McNeill died on the 3rd of December 1950, aged 65. McNeill is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk; Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk; The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architects by Peter J. M. McEwan.

Harry S McNair was a student at the Glasgow School of Art c1914. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Robert M McNaught was a student at the Glasgow School of Art c1914. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Alexander McNaughton was a student at The Glasgow School of Art from 1910-1916.

Isobel McNeill studied Graphics at GSA in the 1970s. She designed and modelled garments in the 1978 fashion show.

James McNeill is recorded as a student in the 1907-8 session, for just one year, as an evening student studying Design. There is no age or date of birth given, which is unusual. An address of “37 Barloch Street, Possilpark" is provided.

In 1912, Henderson married a fellow student, James McNeill. The student registers of 1912-13 amend her name, adding ‘Mrs McNeill’ in brackets, though this is not repeated in other years. Their marriage ended in 1929 with a decree of divorce on grounds of desertion.

McNeill would go on to be a teacher and a woodworker. His address was later "Theffort", 81 Oswald Road, Ayr, a house which he designed and built himself.

Erin McQuarrie graduated in Textile Design from The Glasgow School of Art in 2018. In 2018 she was awarded the Newbery Medal and jointly received the Incorporation of Bonnetmakers. Erin won a Fulbright Scholarship to undertake a Textiles MFA, at The New School, Parsons School of Design, NYC, U.S.A., 2019-2021.

Robert L McQueen studied at The Glasgow School of Art from 1918-1920. He attended day classes in design. His occupation is listed as painter and he resided in Glasgow street, Dumfries.If you have any further information about Robert L McQueen, please get in touch.

William G McQuiston was a student at the Glasgow School of Art c1914. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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