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Reality Bites Back

The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV

By: Jennifer L. Pozner

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The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV

By: Jennifer L. Pozner

Nearly every night on every major network,"unscripted" (but carefully crafted) "reality" TV shows routinely glorify retrograde stereotypes that most people would assume got left behind 35 years ago. In Reality Bites Back, media critic Jennifer L. Pozner aims a critical, analytical lens at a trend most people dismiss as harmless fluff. She deconstructs reality TV's twisted fairytales to demonstrate that far from being simple "guilty pleasures," these programs are actually guilty of fomenting gender-war ideology and significantly affecting the intellectual and political development of this generation's young viewers. She lays out the cultural biases promoted by reality TV about gender, race, class, sexuality, and consumerism, and explores how those biases shape and reflect our cultural perceptions of who we are, what we're valued for, and what we should view as "our place" in society. Smart and informative, Reality Bites Back arms readers with the tools they need to understand and challenge the stereotypes reality TV reinforces and, ultimately, to demand accountability from the corporations responsible for this contemporary cultural attack on three decades of feminist progress.

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Reality Bites Back

The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV

By: Jennifer Pozner

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The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV

By: Jennifer Pozner

Nearly every night on every major network, “unscripted” (but carefully crafted) “reality” TV shows routinely glorify retrograde stereotypes that most people would assume got left behind 35 years ago. In Reality Bites Back, media critic Jennifer L. Pozner aims a critical, analytical lens at a trend most people dismiss as harmless fluff. She deconstructs reality TV’s twisted fairytales to demonstrate that far from being simple “guilty pleasures,” these programs are actually guilty of fomenting gender-war ideology and significantly affecting the intellectual and political development of this generation’s young viewers. She lays out the cultural biases promoted by reality TV about gender, race, class, sexuality, and consumerism, and explores how those biases shape and reflect our cultural perceptions of who we are, what we’re valued for, and what we should view as “our place” in society. Smart and informative, Reality Bites Back arms readers with the tools they need to understand and challenge the stereotypes reality TV reinforces and, ultimately, to demand accountability from the corporations responsible for this contemporary cultural attack on three decades of feminist progress.

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1580052657

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Reality Bites Back

The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV

By: Jennifer L. Pozner

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New Thinking About Mental Health and Employment

By: Bob Grove,Jennifer Secker,Patience Seebolm

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New Thinking About Mental Health and Employment

By: Bob Grove,Jennifer Secker,Patience Seebolm

Until recently it has been assumed that people who experience severe and enduring mental health problems are unable to work, unless or until they recover. That assumption is now being challenged by international research demonstrating that, with the right support, people can succeed in finding and keeping a job even when they continue to need support from mental health services. New Thinking about Mental Health and Employment draws together the research undertaken to date and combines it with mental health service users’ perspectives on the workplace to validate key points. Vital reading at both policy and practitioner levels, this book will be of great value to mental health nurses, social workers, general practitioners, psychiatrists and occupational therapists. It will also be of interest to employment advisors, government departments, commissioners, and policy makers and shapers.

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CRC Press

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0429606079

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9780429606076

Can Donald Trump Make America Great Again?

The Munk Debates

By: Newt Gingrich,Robert Reich,Laura Ingraham,Jennifer Granholm

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Can Donald Trump Make America Great Again?

The Munk Debates

By: Newt Gingrich,Robert Reich,Laura Ingraham,Jennifer Granholm

Will Donald J. Trump be America’s next president? For some, his brash, politically incorrect campaign is the panacea for the Washington and Wall Street elites that have saddled the country with endless wars, an anemic economy, and growing racial division. Trump’s boosters believe he will usher in a Reagan-like era of domestic prosperity at home, and free America from a destructive global web of counterproductive trade agreements and military entanglements abroad. Trump’s critics are having none of this. They see not a president in waiting, but a dangerously unstable and inexperienced demagogue — one who threatens U.S. democracy and global peace and security. Rather than being a harbinger of the country’s renewal, Trump’s candidacy is supposedly destroying the social fabric of America by demonizing minorities, denigrating women, and exacerbating racial differences. To engage with the controversy of the moment, the Fall 2016 Munk Debate will move the motion: Be it resolved, Donald Trump can make America great again...

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House of Anansi

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1487002696

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It's Not Free Speech

Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom

By: Michael Bérubé,Jennifer Ruth

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It's Not Free Speech

Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom

By: Michael Bérubé,Jennifer Ruth

How far does the idea of academic freedom extend to professors in an era of racial reckoning? The protests of summer 2020, which were ignited by the murder of George Floyd, led to long-overdue reassessments of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in both American academe and cultural life more generally. But while universities have been willing to rename some buildings and schools or grapple with their role in the slave trade, no one has yet asked the most uncomfortable question: Does academic freedom extend to racist professors? It's Not Free Speech considers the ideal of academic freedom in the wake of the activism inspired by outrageous police brutality, white supremacy, and the #MeToo movement. Arguing that academic freedom must be rigorously distinguished from freedom of speech, Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth take aim at explicit defenses of colonialism and theories of white supremacy—theories that have no intellectual legitimacy whatsoever. Approaching this question from two angles—one, the question of when a professor's intramural or extramural speech calls into question his or her fitness to serve, and two, the question of how to manage the simmering tension between the academic freedom of faculty and the antidiscrimination initiatives of campus offices of diversity, equity, and inclusion—they argue that the democracy-destroying potential of social media makes it very difficult to uphold the traditional liberal view that the best remedy for hate speech is more speech. In recent years, those with traditional liberal ideals have had very limited effectiveness in responding to the resurgence of white supremacism in American life. It is time, Bérubé and Ruth write, to ask whether that resurgence requires us to rethink the parameters and practices of academic freedom. Touching as well on contingent faculty, whose speech is often inadequately protected, It's Not Free Speech insists that we reimagine shared governance to augment both academic freedom and antidiscrimination initiatives on campuses. Faculty across the nation can develop protocols that account for both the new realities—from the rise of social media to the decline of tenure—and the old realities of long-standing inequities and abuses that the classic liberal conception of academic freedom did nothing to address. This book will resonate for anyone who has followed debates over #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, Critical Race Theory, and "cancel culture"; more specifically, it should have a major impact on many facets of academic life, from the classroom to faculty senates to the office of the general counsel.

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JHU Press

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1421443880

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9781421443881

Fact vs. Fiction

Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News

By: Jennifer LaGarde,Darren Hudgins

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Fact vs. Fiction

Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News

By: Jennifer LaGarde,Darren Hudgins

Help students discern fact from fiction in the information they access not only at school but in the devices they carry in their pockets and backpacks. The advent of the 24-hour news cycle, citizen journalism and an increased reliance on social media as a trusted news source have had a profound effect not only on how we get our news, but also on how we evaluate sources of information, share that information and interact with others in online communities. When these issues are coupled with the “fake news” industry that intentionally spreads false stories designed to go viral, educators are left facing a new and challenging landscape. This book will help them address these new realities, providing strategies and support to help students develop the skills needed to effectively evaluate information they encounter online. The book includes: • Instructional strategies for combating fake news, including models for evaluating news stories with links to resources on how to include lessons on fake news in your curricula. • Examples from prominent educators who demonstrate how to tackle fake news with students and colleagues. • A fake news self-assessment with a digital component to help readers evaluate their skills in detecting and managing fake news. • A downloadable infographic with mobile media literacy tips. The companion jump start guide based on this book is Fighting Fake News: Tools and Strategies for Teaching Media Literacy.

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International Society for Technology in Education

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1564847020

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9781564847027

Sexualized Media Messages and Our Children

Teaching Kids to Be Smart Critics and Consumers

By: Jennifer W. Shewmaker

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Sexualized Media Messages and Our Children

Teaching Kids to Be Smart Critics and Consumers

By: Jennifer W. Shewmaker

This provocative book takes a look at children's consumption of sexualized media messages while providing parents, teachers, and professionals with strategies for abating their influence. In this eye-opening book, experienced child psychologist Jennifer W. Shewmaker contends that the manner in which a child is raised influences how they respond to media messages, particularly those shaded by sexual overtones. This text takes a hard look at the impact of advertisements, products, and entertainment on a child's psyche and offers strategies for helping kids become critical, active media consumers. Drawing from research in a wide variety of disciplines, this book explores the interpersonal factors within children's lives that impact how they learn to process sexualized media messages. The book argues that an increase in marketing to children along with media-based fabrications of beauty, masculinity, and femininity impact the confidence and character of young children who are often greatly affected by what they see and hear. The author shares invaluable tips for promoting strengths in children and adolescents of both genders and presents the protective influence of communities to help children dismiss distorted media images.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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9798216144298

Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]

Young Women, Feminism, and the Future

By: Jennifer Baumgardner,Amy Richards

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Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]

Young Women, Feminism, and the Future

By: Jennifer Baumgardner,Amy Richards

Updated and with a new preface by the authors."--Cover.

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Macmillan

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0374532303

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9780374532307

Psychiatry

By: Jennifer Hoblyn,Judith Neugroschl,Asher B. Simon,Aaron B. Caughey

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Psychiatry

By: Jennifer Hoblyn,Judith Neugroschl,Asher B. Simon,Aaron B. Caughey

New to this edition is reduced trim size for easier portability; new cases, photos, illustrations, figures, and tables; new section of "Suggested Additional Reading" has been added to each case with reference to book chapters, journal articles, and other evidence-based resources; and Q&A section features 100 original USMLE-format questions and detailed answer explanations."--BOOK JACKET.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1405104961

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9781405104968

Iron Curtain Twitchers

Russo-American Cold War Relations

By: Jennifer M. Hudson

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Iron Curtain Twitchers

Russo-American Cold War Relations

By: Jennifer M. Hudson

The Cold War is often viewed in absolutist terminology: the United States and the Soviet Union characterized one another in oppositional rhetoric and pejorative propaganda. State-sanctioned communications stressed the inherent dissimilarity between their own citizens and those of their Cold War foe. Such rhetoric exacerbated geopolitical tensions and heightened Cold War paranoia, most notably during the Red Scare and brinkmanship incidents. Government leaders stressed the reactive defensive foreign policies they implemented to retaliate against their counterparts’ offensive maneuvers. Only brief periods of détente gave glimpses into the possibility of concerted peaceful coexistence. Yet such characterizations neglect the complexities and rhetorical nuances that created fissures throughout the long-standing ideological conflict. Grassroots diplomacy rarely coalesced with official governmental rhetoric and often contradicted the discourse emanating from the White House and the Kremlin. Organizations such as Women Strike for Peace (WSP), the Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA), and the Moscow Trust Group (MTG) defied policy directives and sought to establish genuine peaceful coexistence. Traveling citizens posited that U.S. and Soviet citizens possessed more underlying commonalities than their governmental leaders cared to admit – phenomena underscored in events such as the San-Francisco-to-Moscow Walk for Peace. Spacebridge programs railed against the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and proclaimed that figurative and literal links between their country and the “Other” proved more conducive to public opinion than “Star Wars.” Iron Curtain Twitchers examines such juxtaposing rhetorics through three lexical themes: contamination, containment, and coexistence. It analyzes the disparate perspectives of public politicians and private citizens throughout the Cold War’s duration and its aftermath to better understand the political, cultural, and geopolitical nuances of U.S.-Russia relations. Vacillating rhetoric among politicians, journalists, and traveling citizens complicated geopolitical relationships, sociopolitical disagreements, and cultural characterizations. These dialogues are contrasted with the cultural mediums of film and political cartoons to underscore fluctuating Cold War identity dynamics. Manifestations of one’s own country contrasted with propagations of the “Other” and indicate that the Cold War lasted much longer and remains more virulent than previously conceived.

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Lexington Books

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1498559271

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9781498559270

Airbrushed Nation

The Lure and Loathing of Women's Magazines

By: Jennifer Nelson

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Airbrushed Nation

The Lure and Loathing of Women's Magazines

By: Jennifer Nelson

Glamour. Cosmo. SELF. Ladies’ Home Journal. Vogue. In an industry that has been in a downward spiral for years, these magazines—and other women-focused magazines like them—have not only retained their readership, they’ve increased it. Every month, five million-plus women peel back the slick cover of their favorite magazine to thumb through pages filled with tidings and advice about fashion, beauty, sex, relationships, dieting, health, and lifestyle. But do women’s magazines offer valuable information, or do they merely peddle fluff and fantasy—and in either case, do women take their messages to heart? In Airbrushed Nation, Jennifer Nelson—a longtime industry insider—exposes the naked truth behind the glossy pages of women’s magazines, both good and bad. Nelson delves deep into the world of glossies, explaining the ways in which these magazines have been positive for women, highlighting the ways in which their agendas have been misguided, and asking the questions that have long gone unasked: What do women think and believe about the retouched photos, the ubiquitous sex advice, the constant offensive on aging, and the fantasy fashion spreads featuring unaffordable clothing and accessories? Do the unrealistic ads, images, and ideals that permeate glossies damage women’s self-esteem . . . and is it intentional?

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Seal Press

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1580054633

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Reality Bites Back

The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV

By: Jennifer Pozner

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The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV

By: Jennifer Pozner

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1580052657

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Biography and Genealogy Master Index

A Consolidated Index to More Than 3,200,000 Biographical Sketches in Over 350 Current and Retrospective Biographical Dictionaries

By: Jennifer Mossman

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Biography and Genealogy Master Index

A Consolidated Index to More Than 3,200,000 Biographical Sketches in Over 350 Current and Retrospective Biographical Dictionaries

By: Jennifer Mossman

Comprehensive index to current and retrospective biographical dictionaries and who's whos. Includes biographies on over 3 million people from the beginning of time through the present. It indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective and general works that cover both contemporary and historical figures.

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Gale Cengage

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0787620769

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9780787620769

All Fall Down

A Novel

By: Jennifer Weiner

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All Fall Down

A Novel

By: Jennifer Weiner

Allison Weiss has a great job, a handsome husband, an adorable daughter and a secret. Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business, aging parents, a demanding daughter, and a marriage. But when the website she develops takes off, she finds herself challenged to the point of being completely overwhelmed. Her husband's becoming distant, her daughter's acting spoiled, her father is dealing with early Alzheimer's, and her mother's barely dealing at all. As she struggles to hold her home and work life together, and meet all of the needs of the people around her, Allison finds that the painkillers she was prescribed for a back injury help her deal with more than just physical discomfort. However, when Allison's use gets to the point that she can no longer control. or hide it, she ends up in a world she never thought she'd experience outside of a movie theater: rehab. Amid the teenage heroin addicts, the alcoholic grandmothers, the barely-trained "recovery coaches," and the counselors who seem to believe that one mode of recovery fits all, Allison struggles to get her life back on track, even as she's convincing herself that she's not as bad off as the women around her.

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400

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Simon and Schuster

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1451617798

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9781451617795

Disconnected

An eShort Story

By: Jennifer Weiner

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Disconnected

An eShort Story

By: Jennifer Weiner

Shannon Will is nearing thirty and has already made six trips to rehab (not that anyone's counting). But this time, she swears, will be different. She'll clean up her act, go to meetings, find a sponsor, and make a clean break with her past—starting with a new phone number. But old ties aren't so easy to sever. When Shannon's new phone starts getting messages she was never meant to see, Shannon has to decide whether to risk getting involved, or stay safely disconnected. Gripping, suspenseful and smart, Disconnected is a riveting tale of addiction and obligation, secrets and redemption.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476770549

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9781476770543

Jennifer Lawrence

By: Gillian Houghton Gosman

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Jennifer Lawrence

By: Gillian Houghton Gosman

Jennifer Lawrence is one of the youngest Oscar nominees for Best Leading Actress in Academy history. This engaging volume examines Lawrences career from its beginnings on "The Bill Engvall Show to her landing the starring role in the much-anticipated The Hunger Games trilogy. Accessible text explores the drive that fuels this talented young actress to rise to new challenges.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1448865395

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9781448865390

Screw It,Go Ahead and Quit Cold Turkey

By: Jennifer Mairo Akporehe

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Screw It,Go Ahead and Quit Cold Turkey

By: Jennifer Mairo Akporehe

This story depicts resiliance, unconditional love, family and determination - all much needed themes in a reality TV world torn by alienation & violence." New York Times Bestselling Author Enitan Bereola Screw it. Go Ahead and Quit Cold Turkey is the enthralling story of a woman who had her share of a husbands bad behavior. When Mariam met Muttallab she thought she had met the man of her dreams and a gift from God to her. She was certain that she had met the father of her children but she was wrong because this man had an ulterior motive and wanted to marry her for a specifi c reason. One after the other all his plans begin to unveil and Mariam soon knew he was a wolf in sheeps clothing. This story shows the sufferings of a woman who would do anything to protect her marriage but when she saw that it was too much and couldnt take it anymore, she.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1453522808

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9781453522806

Fifty Shades of Black and White

Anatomy of the Lawsuit Behind a Publishing Phenomenon

By: Mike Farris,Jennifer Pedroza

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Fifty Shades of Black and White

Anatomy of the Lawsuit Behind a Publishing Phenomenon

By: Mike Farris,Jennifer Pedroza

When four women formed The Writer's Coffee Shop, they didn't know the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy was destined for worldwide success. After selling the publishing rights, one of the partners hid $40,000,000 in royalties. Jennifer Pedroza and Mike Farris filed a lawsuit to claim her share of the partnership's profits. This is their story.

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1941071899

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9781941071892

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