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In the Owl's Eye

By: Rick Rocco

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1885 Tucson, in the United States Arizona Territory, was the up and coming town in the American Southwest. In the Owl's Eye is about the abduction from Tucson, and brutal murder of a man and a woman whose bodies are dumped on the Barking Saguaros Ranch. Sam Patlock, the owner of the ranch, and his ranch foreman become embroiled in finding thesolution to the murder. The identity of the murdered woman sets the Tucson community up in arms, putting pressure on law enforcement to find a quick solution to the murder. The political implications of the murder set the prosecutor off on the goal of advancing his career. With the wrong man accused of the murder, and both Sam Patlock and the sheriff realizing his innocence, Sam and the Sheriff must find the killer and prove the wrongly accused man's innocence.

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Trafford Publishing

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141201011X

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With Every Great Breath

New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023

By: Rick Bass

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With Every Great Breath

New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023

By: Rick Bass

Master craftsman" (Los Angeles Times) and beloved author Rick Bass explores ecological, social, and personal landscapes through this collection that brings together his best-loved essays and brand-new pieces For acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, it can be wearying to dwell relentlessly upon the broken, the fragmented, the dead and dying and doomed to extinction. Activism is a necessary part of the environmental movement, but so is the time-honored celebration of the beauty that inspires us. Spanning his storied career, these new and selected essays attempt to take a brief step to the side, away from lamentation and prescription, to inhabit, as deeply as possible, the greater depths of the beauty in each moment. With Every Great Breath ranges from the extremely local—a long-form essay about the community affected by the largest Superfund site in U.S. history, in Libby, Montana—to the far-flung: the Galápagos, Namibia, and Alaska. Throughout, Bass offers a portrait of our planet that is always alert to its wonders, even in the face of environmental crisis.

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Catapult

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1640096310

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Hardwiring Happiness

The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence

By: Rick Hanson, PhD

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Hardwiring Happiness

The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence

By: Rick Hanson, PhD

With New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Hanson's four steps, you can counterbalance your brain's negativity bias and learn to hardwire happiness in only a few minutes each day. Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated? Because your brain evolved to learn quickly from bad experiences and slowly from good ones, but you can change this. Life isn’t easy, and having a brain wired to take in the bad and ignore the good makes us worried, irritated, and stressed, instead of confident, secure, and happy. But each day is filled with opportunities to build inner strengths and Dr. Rick Hanson, an acclaimed clinical psychologist, shows what you can do to override the brain’s default pessimism. Hardwiring Happiness lays out a simple method that uses the hidden power of everyday experiences to build new neural structures full of happiness, love, confidence, and peace. You’ll learn to see through the lies your brain tells you. Dr. Hanson’s four steps build strengths into your brain to make contentment and a powerful sense of resilience the new normal. In just minutes a day, you can transform your brain into a refuge and power center of calm and happiness.

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Harmony

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0385347332

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9780385347334

Buddha's Brain

The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

By: Rick Hanson

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Buddha's Brain

The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

By: Rick Hanson

Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, Gandhi, and the Buddha all had brains built essentially like anyone else's, yet they were able to harness their thoughts and shape their patterns of thinking in ways that changed history. With new breakthroughs in modern neuroscience and the wisdom of thousands of years of contemplative practice, it is possible for us to shape our own thoughts in a similar way for greater happiness, love, compassion, and wisdom. Buddha's Brain joins the forces of modern neuroscience with ancient contemplative teachings to show readers how they can work toward greater emotional well-being, healthier relationships, more effective actions, and deepened religious and spiritual understanding. This book will explain how the core elements of both psychological well-being and religious or spiritual life-virtue, mindfulness, and wisdom--are based in the core functions of the brain: regulating, learning, and valuing. Readers will also learn practical ways to apply this information, as the book offers many exercises they can do to tap the unused potential of the brain and rewire it over time for greater peace and well-being.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1459624157

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9781459624153

Vulnerability to Depression

From Cognitive Neuroscience to Prevention and Treatment

By: Rick E. Ingram,Ruth Ann Atchley,Zindel Segal

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Vulnerability to Depression

From Cognitive Neuroscience to Prevention and Treatment

By: Rick E. Ingram,Ruth Ann Atchley,Zindel Segal

Providing a cutting-edge examination of the mechanisms underlying depression, this volume integrates important areas of research that have largely remained separate. The authors explore both the cognitive and neurological processes that make some people more vulnerable than others to developing depression and experiencing recurrent episodes. They also probe how these processes interact—how negative life experiences, maladaptive belief systems, and patterns of thinking may actually affect neural circuitry, and vice versa. Explaining sophisticated theory and research in an accessible style, the book highlights the implications for improving clinical practices and patient outcomes.

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Guilford Press

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160918257X

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Conn's Current Therapy 2024 - E-Book

By: Rick D. Kellerman,David P. Rakel,Joel J. Heidelbaugh

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Conn's Current Therapy 2024 - E-Book

By: Rick D. Kellerman,David P. Rakel,Joel J. Heidelbaugh

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Family Medicine**Trusted by clinicians for more than 75 years, Conn's Current Therapy presents today's evidence-based information along with the personal experience and discernment of expert physicians. The 2024 edition is a helpful resource for a wide range of healthcare providers, including primary care physicians, subspecialists, and allied health professionals, providing current treatment information in a concise yet in-depth format. Nearly 350 topics have been carefully reviewed and updated to bring you state-of-the-art content in even the most rapidly changing areas of medicine. - Offers personal approaches from recognized leaders in the field, covering common complaints, acute diseases, and chronic illnesses along with the most current evidence-based clinical management options. - Follows a consistent, easy-to-use format throughout, with diagnosis, therapy, drug protocols, and treatment pearls presented in quick-reference boxes and tables for point-of-care answers to common clinical questions. - Incorporates electronic links throughout the text that connect the reader to apps and clinical prediction tools that can easily be accessed in practice. - Features thoroughly reviewed and updated information from multiple expert authors and editors, who offer a fresh perspective and their unique personal experience and judgment. - Provides current drug information thoroughly reviewed by PharmDs. - Features nearly 300 images, including algorithms, anatomical illustrations, and photographs, that provide useful information for diagnosis.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0443121524

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Just One Thing

Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time

By: Rick Hanson

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Just One Thing

Developing a Buddha Brain One Simple Practice at a Time

By: Rick Hanson

You've heard the expression, “It’s the little things that count.” It's more than a simple platitude. Research has shown that integrating little daily practices into your life can actually change the way your brain works. This guide offers simple things you can do routinely, mainly inside your mind, that will support and increase your sense of security and worth, resilience, effectiveness, well-being, insight, and inner peace. For example, they include: taking in the good, protecting your brain, feeling safer, relaxing anxiety about imperfection, not knowing, enjoying your hands, taking refuge, and filling the hole in your heart. At first glance, you may be tempted to underestimate the power of these seemingly simple practices. But they will gradually change your brain through what’s called experience-dependent neuroplasticity. Moment to moment, whatever you're aware of—sounds, sensations, thoughts, or your most heartfelt longings—is based on underlying neural activities. This book offers simple brain training practices you can do every day to protect against stress, lift your mood, and find greater emotional resilience. Just one practice each day can help you to: Be good to yourself Enjoy life as it is Build on your strengths Be more effective at home and work Make peace with your emotions With over fifty daily practices you can use anytime, anywhere, Just One Thingis a groundbreaking combination of mindfulness meditation and neuroscience that can help you deepen your sense of well-being and unconditional happiness.

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New Harbinger Publications

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1608825698

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9781608825691

Yoga for Anxiety

Meditations and Practices for Calming the Body and Mind

By: Mary NurrieStearns,Rick NurrieStearns

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Yoga for Anxiety

Meditations and Practices for Calming the Body and Mind

By: Mary NurrieStearns,Rick NurrieStearns

According to yogic philosophy, there are five causes of suffering: separation from the spiritual, limited self-concept, attachments, aversions, and fear of death.

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1572246510

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Carolina Beach Music Encyclopedia

By: Rick Simmons

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Carolina Beach Music Encyclopedia

By: Rick Simmons

While rock groups such as the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean defined the beach music of Southern California during the 1960s, a different, R&B influenced sound could be heard along South Carolina's Grand Strand. Drawing on extensive research and exclusive interviews, this richly illustrated reference work covers the music, songwriters and performers who contributed to the genre of classic Carolina beach music from 1940 to 1980. Detailed entries tell the stories behind nearly 500 classic recordings, with release dates, label information, chart performance and biographical background on more than 200 artists.

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McFarland

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1476667675

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Secular Meditation

32 Practices for Cultivating Inner Peace, Compassion, and Joy — A Guide from the Humanist Community at Harvard

By: Rick Heller

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Secular Meditation

32 Practices for Cultivating Inner Peace, Compassion, and Joy — A Guide from the Humanist Community at Harvard

By: Rick Heller

Meditation is a form of mental exercise with numerous scientifically verified physical and psychological benefits. As meditation teacher Rick Heller shows, the benefits of the practice extend beyond the personal to enrich relationships with others, with one’s community, and with the world. In Secular Meditation, step-by-step instructions, personal stories, and provocative questions teach empathy for others, stress reduction, and the kind of in-the-moment living that fosters appreciation for life and resilience in the face of adversity. Heller simplifies what is often found mysterious, describing and providing detailed instructions for thirty-two different practices, ensuring that anyone can find the right one.

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New World Library

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1608683699

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Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care

By: Rick Mayes,Robert A. Berenson

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Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care

By: Rick Mayes,Robert A. Berenson

This is the definitive work on Medicare’s prospective payment system (PPS), which had its origins in the 1972 Social Security Amendments, was first applied to hospitals in 1983, and came to fruition with the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Here, Rick Mayes and Robert A. Berenson, M.D., explain how Medicare’s innovative payment system triggered shifts in power away from the providers (hospitals and doctors) to the payers (government insurers and employers) and how providers have responded to encroachments on their professional and financial autonomy. They conclude with a discussion of the problems with the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 and offer prescriptions for how policy makers can use Medicare payment policy to drive improvements in the U.S. health care system. Mayes and Berenson draw from interviews with more than sixty-five major policy makers—including former Treasury secretary Robert Rubin, U.S. Representatives Pete Stark and Henry Waxman, former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, and former administrators of the Health Care Financing Administration Gail Wilensky, Bruce Vladeck, Nancy-Ann DeParle, and Tom Scully—to explore how this payment system worked and its significant effects on the U.S. medical landscape in the past twenty years. They argue that, although managed care was an important agent of change in the 1990s, the private sector has not been the major health care innovator in the United States; rather, Medicare’s transition to PPS both initiated and repeatedly intensified the economic restructuring of the U.S. health care system.

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JHU Press

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0801888875

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Conn's Current Therapy 2022

By: Rick D. Kellerman,David P. Rakel,KUSM-W Medical Practice Association

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Conn's Current Therapy 2022

By: Rick D. Kellerman,David P. Rakel,KUSM-W Medical Practice Association

Trusted by clinicians for nearly 75 years, Conn’s Current Therapy presents today’s evidence-based information along with the personal experience and discernment of expert physicians. The 2022 edition is an excellent resource for a wide range of healthcare providers, including primary care, subspecialists, and allied health, providing current treatment information in a concise yet in-depth format. More than 300 topics have been carefully reviewed and updated to bring you state-of-the-art content in even the most rapidly changing areas of medicine. Offers personal approaches from recognized leaders in the field, covering common complaints, acute diseases, and chronic illnesses along with the most current evidence-based clinical management options. Follows a consistent, easy-to-use format throughout, with diagnosis, therapy, drug protocols, and treatment pearls presented in quick-reference boxes and tables for point-of-care answers to common clinical questions. Includes new and significantly revised chapters on COVID-19 and post-COVID syndrome, pyoderma gangrenosum, mitochondrial disease, gender affirming care, stem cell therapy, and artificial intelligence. Incorporates more electronic links throughout the text that connect the reader to apps and clinical prediction tools that can easily be accessed in practice. Features thoroughly reviewed and updated information from many new authors who offer a fresh perspective and their unique personal experience and judgment. Provides current drug information thoroughly reviewed by PharmDs. Features nearly 300 images, including algorithms, anatomical illustrations, and photographs, that provide useful information for diagnosis.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323833799

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9780323833790

Conn's Current Therapy 2021, E-Book

By: Rick D. Kellerman,David P. Rakel

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Conn's Current Therapy 2021, E-Book

By: Rick D. Kellerman,David P. Rakel

Designed to suit a wide range of healthcare providers, including primary care, subspecialties, and allied health, Conn’s Current Therapy has been a trusted clinical resource for well over 70 years. The 2021 edition continues this tradition of excellence with current, evidence-based treatment information presented in a concise yet in-depth format. More than 300 topics have been carefully reviewed and updated to bring you state-of-the-art information in even the most rapidly changing areas of medicine. Offers personal approaches from recognized leaders in the field, covering common complaints, acute diseases, and chronic illnesses along with the most current evidence-based clinical management options. Follows a consistent, easy-to-use format throughout, with diagnosis, therapy, drug protocols, and treatment pearls presented in quick-reference boxes and tables for point-of-care answers to common clinical questions. Includes new and significantly revised chapters on COVID-19, Diabetes Mellitus in Adults, Chronic Leukemias, and Osteomyelitis. Incorporates more electronic links throughout the text that connect the reader to apps and clinical prediction tools that can easily be accessed in practice. Features thoroughly reviewed and updated information from many new authors who offer a fresh perspective and their unique personal experience and judgment. Provides current drug information thoroughly reviewed by PharmDs. Features nearly 300 images, including algorithms, anatomical illustrations, and photographs, that provide useful information for diagnosis.

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0323790712

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Performance Tuning for IBM Security Directory Server

By: Annemarie Fitterer,Dave Bachmann,David Butler,Ben Matteson,Ramamohan T. Reddy,Sujay Shinde,Rick Smith,IBM Redbooks

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Performance Tuning for IBM Security Directory Server

By: Annemarie Fitterer,Dave Bachmann,David Butler,Ben Matteson,Ramamohan T. Reddy,Sujay Shinde,Rick Smith,IBM Redbooks

In today's highly connected world, directory servers are the IT cornerstone of many businesses. These components of the corporate infrastructure are the foundation of authentication systems for internal and, more commonly, external user populations. Managing a directory server with several hundred internal users is not all that difficult. However, managing a directory server with several million external users in all 24 time zones throughout the world is a much more daunting task. IBM® Security Directory Server software can handle millions of entries, given the right architecture, configuration, and performance tuning. However, that tuning can differ greatly from tuning for a smaller server with only a few hundred thousand entries. Managing and tuning a directory server of this size requires a change in mindset. Tuning and performance must be a focus even before the hardware is ordered. A proactive approach must be taken after installation also, including the pretuning steps to better interface with other products to make installations and migrations successful, and then regular maintenance to keep the directory running smoothly. This IBM Redbooks® publication is the accumulation of lessons learned in many different real-world environments, including a 24-server fault tolerant configuration with more than 300 million entries. The authors pooled their knowledge and resources to provide the most comprehensive performance view possible, from hardware to software, sort heaps to buffer pools, and table cardinalities. In large directory server deployments, use this document as a guide for how to get the right fit for your environment.

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IBM Redbooks

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0738453692

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9780738453699

A-6 Intruder Units of the Vietnam War

By: Rick Morgan

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A-6 Intruder Units of the Vietnam War

By: Rick Morgan

Designed in the years following the Korean War and then manufactured for over 30 years starting in 1960, the A-6 quickly became the most capable attack aircraft in the US Navy's stable. The first squadron, VA-75, made its initial deployment directly into combat in south-east Asia in 1965, and, over the next eight years, ten US Navy and four Marine Intruder squadrons would conduct combat operations throughout Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. After initial problems and a high loss rate, the type proved itself beyond all doubt as the Naval services' best night and foul-weather platform, particularly during the region's notorious monsoon season. The A-6 Intruder became a true classic of naval aviation over the skies of North Vietnam but the cost was high as 69 Intruders were lost in combat to all causes during the war. This work tells the complete story of these aircraft in combat during the Vietnam War.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1849087563

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Using WebPageTest

Web Performance Testing for Novices and Power Users

By: Rick Viscomi,Andy Davies,Marcel Duran

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Using WebPageTest

Web Performance Testing for Novices and Power Users

By: Rick Viscomi,Andy Davies,Marcel Duran

Learn basic and advanced uses of WebPagetest, the performance measurement tool for optimizing websites. This practical guide shows users new to this tool how run tests and interpret results, and helps experienced users gain a better and more thorough understanding of hidden features in WebPagetest that make testing easier. Written by WebPagetest power users and performance experts, this book will help web developers and frontend engineers solve the problem of slow sites. Topics include: Basic test setup—shows beginners how to get meaningful results Advanced test setup—provides another level of technical depth by explaining features not thoroughly documented at webpagetest.org Analysis of results—helps you understand of how to interpret test results Private instance setup—teaches power users the intricacies of the webpagetest private instance and how it works API and external tools—provides a detailed reference for the API and demonstrates tools already using the API to extend WebPagetest

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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1491902817

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9781491902813

Development of the Tools for Long Term Management of the Giant Crab Resource

Data Collection Methodology, Stock Assessment and Harvest Strategy Evaluation

By: Caleb Gardner,Malcolm Haddon,David Hobday,Rick McGarvey

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Development of the Tools for Long Term Management of the Giant Crab Resource

Data Collection Methodology, Stock Assessment and Harvest Strategy Evaluation

By: Caleb Gardner,Malcolm Haddon,David Hobday,Rick McGarvey

Report on a project to develop methods for assessing stocks of giant crabs. Giant crabs are fished in small volume across southern australia. The primary audience are fishery managers and biologists involved with the giant crab fishery."--Provided by publisher.

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1862954313

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