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Virginia Woolf’s Afterlives

The Author as Character in Contemporary Fiction and Drama

By: Monica Latham

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Virginia Woolf’s Afterlives

The Author as Character in Contemporary Fiction and Drama

By: Monica Latham

This book explores Virginia Woolf’s afterlives in contemporary biographical novels and drama. It offers an extensive analysis of a wide array of literary productions in which Virginia Woolf appears as a fictional character or a dramatis persona. It examines how Woolf’s physical and psychological features, as well as the values she stood for, are magnified, reinforced or distorted to serve the authors’ specific agendas. Beyond general theoretical issues about this flourishing genre, this study raises specific questions about the literary and cultural relevance of Woolf’s fictional representations. These contemporary narratives inform us about Woolf’s iconicity, but they also mirror our current literary, cultural and political concerns. Based on a close examination of twenty-five works published between 1972 and 2019, the book surveys various portraits of Woolf as a feminist, pacifist, troubled genius, gifted innovative writer, treacherous, competitive sister and tragic, suicidal character, or, on the contrary, as a caricatural comic spirit, inspirational figure and perspicacious amateur sleuth. By resurrecting Virginia Woolf in contemporary biofiction, whether to enhance or debunk stereotypes about the historical figure, the authors studied here contribute to her continuous reinvention. Their diverse fictional portraits constitute a way to reinforce Woolf’s literary status, re-evaluate her work, rejuvenate critical interpretations and augment her cultural capital in the twenty-first century

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Routledge

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1000388476

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Mindfulness for Preschool and Kindergarten

The OpenMind Program to Boost Social-Emotional Learning and Classroom Engagement

By: Monica Moore Jackman

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Mindfulness for Preschool and Kindergarten

The OpenMind Program to Boost Social-Emotional Learning and Classroom Engagement

By: Monica Moore Jackman

A powerful SEL mindfulness program to help kids self-regulate, foster social and academic engagement, and bring peace back into the classroom. As a teacher, you know that preschool and kindergarten are difficult periods of transition in kids’ lives. This is true now more than ever, as young children in our world face increasing life challenges—including adverse childhood experiences, trauma, social disconnection, systematic discrimination, and a global pandemic. Students are struggling to balance their emotions and adapt to a classroom environment, the tools outlined in this mindfulness guide can help. Mindfulness for Preschool and Kindergarten offers an effective, adaptable, multisensory, and skills-based social emotional learning (SEL) program to help preschool and kindergarten-aged children learn to self-regulate, ensuring a peaceful and prosocial learning environment in the classroom. The hands-on OpenMind program in this book will help kids cope with stress and trauma, process and understand difficult emotions, and interact positively with others. Kids will also learn how to bounce back from challenges, build resilience, and experience greater social and academic engagement. The OpenMind program’s five foundations go well beyond sequenced lesson plans and strategies to help promote a positive classroom experience. These include: Wellness and mindfulness training for teachers Practices to help kids build self-regulation, executive function, and engagement Planned practices and lessons in response to arising individual and learning environment needs that are anchored to social and academic content Scaffolding and modification of practices and lessons to promote learning and active mindful engagement A process for transforming challenging behaviors into opportunities for learning, growth, autonomy, and agency You are on the frontlines of helping kids face some of life’s most difficult challenges, and ensuring that they feel valued, protected, and supported. The weight of this responsibility can create stress and feelings of overwhelm for you. Let this guide support both you and your young students in cultivating a loving, safe, and rewarding classroom environment—together.

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New Harbinger Publications

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1684039274

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9781684039272

Mobility Patterns and Experiences of the Middle Classes in a Globalizing Age

The Case of Mexican Migrants in Australia

By: Monica Laura Vazquez Maggio

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Mobility Patterns and Experiences of the Middle Classes in a Globalizing Age

The Case of Mexican Migrants in Australia

By: Monica Laura Vazquez Maggio

The book presents insights from a mixed methodology study that examines recent mobility patterns exhibited by the middle classes. Its major contributions are two-fold: theoretically, it advances the conceptualisation of middle class migration; empirically, it analyses the migratory motivations of a relatively new Latin-American group in Australia. The accelerated insertion of the Mexican society into globalisation processes is strongly linked not only to the growing participation in migration phenomena but also to people’s outflow to new destinations. Although studies of Mexican emigration are vast, research on Mexican skilled migration is scarce, and research that focuses on mobility to non-USA destinations is even scarcer. Mexicans are a relatively new addition to Australia’s multicultural society, and little is known about this group’s profile and why they choose to migrate to Australia. Employing a mixed methodology approach, the book provides a comprehensive portrait of migration in a new group.

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Springer

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3319533932

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Compensation and Organizational Performance

Theory, Research, and Practice

By: Luis R. Gomez-Mejia,Pascual Berrone,Monica Franco-Santos

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Compensation and Organizational Performance

Theory, Research, and Practice

By: Luis R. Gomez-Mejia,Pascual Berrone,Monica Franco-Santos

This up-to-date, research-oriented textbook focuses on the relationship between compensation systems and firm overall performance. In contrast to more traditional compensation texts, it provides a strategic perspective to compensation administration rather than a functional viewpoint. The text emphasizes the role of managerial pay, its importance, determinants, and impact on organizations. It analyzes recent topics in executive compensation, such as pay in high technology firms, managerial risk taking, rewards in family companies, and the link between compensation and social responsibility and ethical issues, among others. The authors provide a thorough and comprehensive review of the vast literatures relevant to compensation and revisit debates grounded in different theoretical perspectives. They provide insights from disciplines as diverse as management, economics, sociology, and psychology, and amplify previous discussions with the latest empirical findings on compensation, its dynamics, and its contribution to firm overall performance.

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Routledge

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1317473965

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The Great Feminist Denial

By: Monica Dux,Zora Simic

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The Great Feminist Denial

By: Monica Dux,Zora Simic

What the hell happened? In The Great Feminist Denial the authors talk with women—feminists and non-feminists, young and old, famous and not famous, child-free and with child—and use their responses as a starting point from which to refocus the key debates. Dux and Simic argue that, ultimately, feminism is still necessary for everyday life. Even the most cursory glimpse at the social and cultural landscape suggests an urgent need for a politics that identifies inequalities, differences and strengths specific to women as a sex. The Great Feminist Denial puts an ailing feminist past to rest, and proposes a way forward that offers young women of today a new way of calling themselves feminists.

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250

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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0522859100

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9780522859102

Gender and Sexual Dimorphism in Flowering Plants

By: Monica A. Geber

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Gender and Sexual Dimorphism in Flowering Plants

By: Monica A. Geber

Written by the leading experts in the field, this book examines the evolutionary advantages of gender dimorphism and sexual dimorphism in flowering plants. Divided into three sections: the first introduces readers to the tremendous variety of breeding systems and their evolution in plants and sets the stage for a consideration of the evolution of dimorphism in reproductive and non-reproductive characters. The second section deals with the evolution of secondary sexual characters, including the theory related to the evolution of sexual dimorphism and its empirical patterns, while the last section deals with the genetics of gender expression and of secondary sexual characters.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540645977

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9783540645979

Catalogue of Meteorites Reference Book with CD-ROM

By: Monica M. Grady

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Catalogue of Meteorites Reference Book with CD-ROM

By: Monica M. Grady

Essential reference for all interested in meteorites; includes a searchable CD-ROM with greatly expanded information.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521663032

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9780521663038

Management and Leadership in Nursing and Health Care

An Experiential Approach, 2nd Edition

By: Elaine La Monica Rigolosi, EdD, JD, FAAN

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Management and Leadership in Nursing and Health Care

An Experiential Approach, 2nd Edition

By: Elaine La Monica Rigolosi, EdD, JD, FAAN

Designated a Doody's Core Title! This book presents the basics of leadership and management for nurses -- what is essential in order to effectively motivate and educate individuals to achieve the set goals of a group, team, or organization in health care. The basic components of management and leadership theory are described, such as effective communication, analyzing a problem, conflict resolution, and time management. Extensive simulation exercises provide learners with an opportunity to observe, experience, and carry out new behaviors in a safe environment. The book and exercises are designed for use in both self-learning and classroom environments.

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449

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Springer Publishing Company

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082619754X

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9780826197542

Management in Health Care

A Theoretical and Experiential Approach

By: Elaine la Monica,Philip Ian Morgan

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Management in Health Care

A Theoretical and Experiential Approach

By: Elaine la Monica,Philip Ian Morgan

This book covers the processes of management and leadership in healthcare practices. Content focuses on increasing organisational effectiveness in service and practice. Theories and concepts from the fields of business organisational psychology and educational administration are applied to health care. Within the book are included simulation activities to provide practice experiences that illustrate the content of the chapters, as well as serving to expand the reader's range of experience within a safe, low risk practice environment.

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533

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349231568

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9781349231560

You Can Go Home Again

Reconnecting With Your Family

By: Monica McGoldrick

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You Can Go Home Again

Reconnecting With Your Family

By: Monica McGoldrick

In this revelatory book, esteemed family therapist Monica McGoldrick explores why families behave as they do, using genograms (family trees) to illustrate family patterns. Mapped out over a three-generation span, repeated estrangements, alliances, even divorces and suicides, prove more than coincidental. McGoldrick uses the genograms of famous families - including the Kennedys, Hepburns, Beethovens and Brontes - the discuss the influence of birth order and sibling rivalry, family myths and secrets, cultural differences, couple relationships and the pivotal role of loss. Relevant questions to ask appear at the end of each chapter, helping the reader become researcher, uncovering information previously withheld, misunderstood or overlooked.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393316505

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9780393316506

God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics

By: Monica Duffy Toft,Daniel Philpott,Timothy Samuel Shah

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God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics

By: Monica Duffy Toft,Daniel Philpott,Timothy Samuel Shah

A fresh and illuminating perspective on the surge in religion’s political influence across the globe. Is religion a force for good or evil in world politics? How much influence does it have? Despite predictions of its decline, religion has resurged in political influence across the globe, helped by the very forces that were supposed to bury it: democracy, globalization, and technology. And despite recent claims that religion is exclusively irrational and violent, its political influence is in fact diverse, sometimes promoting civil war and terrorism but at other times fostering democracy, reconciliation, and peace. Looking across the globe, the authors explain what generates these radically divergent behaviors. In a time when the public discussion of religion is overheated, these dynamic young scholars use deeply original analysis and sharp case studies to show us both how and why religion’s influence on global politics is surging. Finally they offer concrete suggestions on how to both confront the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities posed by globally resurgent religion.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393087816

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9780393087819

God's Century

Resurgent Religion and Global Politics

By: Monica Duffy Toft,Daniel Philpott,Timothy Samuel Shah

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God's Century

Resurgent Religion and Global Politics

By: Monica Duffy Toft,Daniel Philpott,Timothy Samuel Shah

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393911942

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9780393911947

Genograms

Assessment And Intervention Third Edition

By: Monica McGoldrick,Randy Gerson,Sueli Petry

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Genograms

Assessment And Intervention Third Edition

By: Monica McGoldrick,Randy Gerson,Sueli Petry

The genogram is a graphic way of organizing information gathered during a family assessment and identifying patterns in the family system. This title thoroughly explains how to draw, interpret and apply the genogram.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393705099

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9780393705096

Pirating Fictions

Ownership and Creativity in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture

By: Monica F. Cohen

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Pirating Fictions

Ownership and Creativity in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture

By: Monica F. Cohen

Two distinctly different meanings of piracy are ingeniously intertwined in Monica Cohen's lively new book, which shows how popular depictions of the pirate held sway on the page and the stage even as their creators were preoccupied with the ravages of literary appropriation. The golden age of piracy captured the nineteenth-century imagination, animating such best-selling novels as Treasure Island and inspiring theatrical hits from The Pirates of Penzance to Peter Pan. But the prevalence of unauthorized reprinting and dramatic adaptation meant that authors lost immense profits from the most lucrative markets. Infuriated, novelists and playwrights denounced such literary piracy in essays, speeches, and testimonies. Their fiction, however, tells a different story. Using landmarks in copyright history as a backdrop, Pirating Fictions argues that popular nineteenth-century pirate fiction mischievously resists the creation of intellectual property in copyright legislation and law. Drawing on classic pirate stories by such writers as Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Louis Stevenson, and J. M. Barrie, this wide-ranging account demonstrates, in raucous tales and telling asides, how literary appropriation was celebrated at the very moment when the forces of possessive individualism began to enshrine the language of personal ownership in Anglo-American views of creative work.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813940702

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9780813940700

Bond Girls

Body, Fashion and Gender

By: Monica Germanà

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Bond Girls

Body, Fashion and Gender

By: Monica Germanà

Since Ursula Andress's white-bikini debut in Dr No, 'Bond Girls' have been simultaneously celebrated as fashion icons and dismissed as 'eye-candy'. But the visual glamour of the women of James Bond reveals more than the sexual objectification of female beauty. Through the original joint perspectives of body and fashion, this exciting study throws a new, subversive light on Bond Girls. Like Coco Chanel, fashion's 'eternal' mademoiselle, these 'Girls' are synonymous with an unconventional and dynamic femininity that does not play by the rules and refuses to sit still; far from being the passive objects of the male gaze, Bond Girls' active bodies instead disrupt the stable frame of Bond's voyeurism. Starting off with an original re-assessment of the cultural roots of Bond's postwar masculinity, the book argues that Bond Girls emerge from masculine anxieties about the rise of female emancipation after the Second World War and persistent in the present day. Displaying parallels with the politics of race and colonialism, such tensions appear through sartorial practices as diverse as exoticism, power dressing and fetish wear, which reveal complex and often contradictory ideas about the patriarchal and imperial ideologies associated with Bond. Attention to costume, film and gender theory makes Bond Girls: Body, Gender and Fashion essential reading for students and scholars of fashion, media and cultural studies, and for anyone with an interest in Bond.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350124702

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9781350124707

Becoming Homeschoolers

Give Your Kids a Great Education, a Strong Family, and a Life They'll Thank You for Later

By: Monica Swanson

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Becoming Homeschoolers

Give Your Kids a Great Education, a Strong Family, and a Life They'll Thank You for Later

By: Monica Swanson

Monica Swanson helps you navigate your real-world concerns about school, culture, and what it takes to create an amazing homeschool experience that you and your kids will never regret! If you've ever wondered whether you have what it takes to homeschool your children, look no further. Parenting author, podcaster, and homeschool mom Monica Swanson is here to tell you: you can do it. In fact, it can be the most fun, family-unifying, character-building, life-equipping experience you and your children will ever have. Becoming Homeschoolers tackles your legitimate doubts and fears about homeschooling, as well as the questions you want answered before you commit--questions like where to start and how to choose a curriculum, build social skills, teach what you're not good at, and prepare for college. With humor and encouragement, Monica weaves her own story of homeschooling her four boys with step-by-step, practical advice on how to: Assess whether home education is right for you and your children Establish a foundation of faith in your everyday homeschool routine Find socialization opportunities such as sports and extracurricular activities Care for yourself and your marriage even as you spend more time each day with your kids Tackle the practical side of homeschooling, including standardized tests, transcripts, college readiness, and navigating education requirements It's time to trade fear for empowerment and insecurity for confidence as you live out your own story of becoming homeschoolers.

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Zondervan

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0310367638

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9780310367635

Nearer My Freedom

The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself

By: Monica Edinger,Lesley Younge

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Nearer My Freedom

The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself

By: Monica Edinger,Lesley Younge

Millions of Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, but few recorded their personal experiences. Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is perhaps the most well known of the autobiographies that exist. Using this narrative as a primary source text, authors Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge share Equiano's life story in "found verse," supplemented with annotations to give readers historical context. This poetic approach provides interesting analysis and synthesis, helping readers to better understand the original text. Follow Equiano from his life in Africa as a child to his enslavement at a young age, his travels across the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, his liberation, and his life as a free man.

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200

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Lerner + ORM

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1728486084

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9781728486086

Diseases of the Breast

By: Jay R. Harris,Marc E. Lippman,C. Kent Osborne,Monica Morrow

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Diseases of the Breast

By: Jay R. Harris,Marc E. Lippman,C. Kent Osborne,Monica Morrow

Completely revised and updated, and now in full color throughout, the Fourth Edition of this definitive reference is a must for all clinicians who treat breast diseases. Leading experts summarize the current knowledge of breast diseases, including their clinical features, management, underlying biologies, and epidemiologies. In addition to complete coverage of malignant breast diseases, benign diseases are discussed in relation to subsequent breast cancer development. The book reviews all major clinical trials and summarizes the information they provide on early detection and management of breast cancer. Close attention is also given to the increasing importance of molecular biology and genetics in this field. This edition features more than thirty new contributors, fourteen new or completely rewritten chapters, and more clinically oriented chapters. A companion Website will offer the fully searchable text and an image bank. Also included with this edition is the Anatomical Chart Company's Breast Anatomy and Disorders Pocket Guide. This durable, portable folding pocket guide provides a visual and textual overview of breast anatomy, disorders, and breast self-examination. With a write-on, wipe-off laminated surface, this guide is perfect for the on-the-go practitioner to show patients, caregivers, and families.

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