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Salt wars : the battle over the biggest killer in the American diet / by Jacobson, Michael F.,author.; Frieden, Tom,writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Salt, a Primer -- The Case for Eating Less Salt -- The Case Against Eating Less Salt -- What All the Research Means -- The Mouse that Roared : The Salt Institute -- Less Salty Diets Around the Globe -- Policy Paralysis in the United States -- Progress at Last! -- Next Steps for Progress -- Protecting Your Own Health."A high-sodium diet is deadly; studies have linked it to high blood pressure, strokes, and heart attacks. It's been estimated that excess sodium in the American diet causes as many as 100,000 deaths deaths and many billions of dollars in avoidable health-care costs each year. And yet salt is everywhere in our diets--in packaged foods, fast foods, and especially meals at table-service restaurants. Why hasn't salt received the sort of public attention and regulatory action that sugar and fat have? In Salt Wars, Michael Jacobson explains how the American food industry and a small group of scientists have successfully fought government efforts to reduce dangerous levels of sodium in our food."--
Subjects: Salt-free diet.; Salt in the body.; Salt; Nutrition policy; Sodium Chloride, Dietary; Diet; Nutrition Policy.;
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Margaret Atwood / by Bouson, J. Brooks,ed.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.About This Volume -- J. Brooks Bouson / CAREER, LIFE, AND INFLUENCE: On Margaret Atwood -- J. Brooks Bouson ; Biography of Margaret Atwood / CRITICAL CONTEXTS: "On Being a Woman Writer": Atwood's Canadian and Feminist Contexts -- Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson ; The Critical Reception of Atwood's Works: A Chronological Survey -- Coral Ann Howells ; Whodunit: The Mystery/Detective Story Framework in Atwood's Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin -- Earl Ingersoll ; From H.G. Wells's Island to Margaret Atwood's Paradice: Bio-perversity and Its Ramifications -- Shulli Barzilai / CRITICAL READINGS: Margaret Atwood's Poetry: Voice and Vision -- Kathryn VanSpanckeren ; "Consider the Body": Remaking the Myth of Female Sexuality in Margaret Atwood's Poems in Morning in the Burned House -- Tomoko Kuribayashi ; Gender and Genre in Atwood's Short Stories and Short Fictions -- Reingard M. Nischik ; Atwood and the Gothic -- Carol Margaret Davison ; "This Is Border Country": Atwood's Surfacing and Postcolonial Identity -- Laura Wright ; Hanging (onto) Words: Language, Religion, and Spirituality in Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale -- Michael P. Murphy ; Sexual Trauma, Ethics, and the Reader in the Works of Margaret Atwood -- Laurie Vickroy ; Freed from the Salt Mines of Virtue: Wicked Women in Margaret Atwood's Novels -- Sarah Appleton ; The "Historical Turn" in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace -- Alice Ridout ; Surviving the Waterless Flood: Feminism and Ecofeminism in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood -- Karen Stein ; Postapocalyptic Vision: Flood Myths and Other Folklore in Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood -- Sharon R. Wilson / RESOURCES: Chronology of Margaret Atwood's Life ; Works by Margaret Atwood ; Bibliography ; About the Editor ; Contributors ; Index.As the author of over forty works-including over a dozen novels and over a dozen books of poetry as well as collections of short stories and short fictions, works of literary criticism, and collections of her essays and reviews-Margaret Atwood is indisputably Canada's best-known contemporary author. Edited by J. Brooks Bouson, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the Canadian writer.--Publisher description.10-A.
Subjects: Atwood, Margaret, 1939- ; Women and literature;
© 2012., EBSCO Publishing,
On-line resources: https://libproxy.kirtland.edu/login?url=https://online.salempress.com/doi/book/10.3331/CIAtwood -- Available online. Click here to access.;
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Margaret Atwood / by Bouson, J. Brooks.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.About This Volume -- J. Brooks Bouson / CAREER, LIFE, AND INFLUENCE: On Margaret Atwood -- J. Brooks Bouson ; Biography of Margaret Atwood / CRITICAL CONTEXTS: "On Being a Woman Writer": Atwood's Canadian and Feminist Contexts -- Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson ; The Critical Reception of Atwood's Works: A Chronological Survey -- Coral Ann Howells ; Whodunit: The Mystery/Detective Story Framework in Atwood's Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin -- Earl Ingersoll ; From H.G. Wells's Island to Margaret Atwood's Paradice: Bio-perversity and Its Ramifications -- Shulli Barzilai / CRITICAL READINGS: Margaret Atwood's Poetry: Voice and Vision -- Kathryn VanSpanckeren ; "Consider the Body": Remaking the Myth of Female Sexuality in Margaret Atwood's Poems in Morning in the Burned House -- Tomoko Kuribayashi ; Gender and Genre in Atwood's Short Stories and Short Fictions -- Reingard M. Nischik ; Atwood and the Gothic -- Carol Margaret Davison ; "This Is Border Country": Atwood's Surfacing and Postcolonial Identity -- Laura Wright ; Hanging (onto) Words: Language, Religion, and Spirituality in Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale -- Michael P. Murphy ; Sexual Trauma, Ethics, and the Reader in the Works of Margaret Atwood -- Laurie Vickroy ; Freed from the Salt Mines of Virtue: Wicked Women in Margaret Atwood's Novels -- Sarah Appleton ; The "Historical Turn" in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin and Alias Grace -- Alice Ridout ; Surviving the Waterless Flood: Feminism and Ecofeminism in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood -- Karen Stein ; Postapocalyptic Vision: Flood Myths and Other Folklore in Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood -- Sharon R. Wilson / RESOURCES: Chronology of Margaret Atwood's Life ; Works by Margaret Atwood ; Bibliography ; About the Editor ; Contributors ; Index.As the author of over forty works-including over a dozen novels and over a dozen books of poetry as well as collections of short stories and short fictions, works of literary criticism, and collections of her essays and reviews-Margaret Atwood is indisputably Canada's best-known contemporary author. Edited by J. Brooks Bouson, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the Canadian writer.--Publisher description.
Subjects: Atwood, Margaret, 1939-; Women and literature;
© 2012., EBSCO Publishing,
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Salt, sugar, fat : how the food giants hooked us / by Moss, Michael,1955-;
The author explores his theory that the food industry's used three essential ingredients to control much of the world's diet.Traces the rise of the processed food industry and how addictive salt, sugar, and fat have enabled its dominance in the past half century, revealing deliberate corporate practices behind current trends in obesity, diabetes, and other health challenges.Includes bibliographical references and index."The company jewels" -- Sugar -- "Exploiting the biology of the child" -- "How do you get people to crave?" -- "Convenience with a Capital 'C'" -- "Is it cereal or candy?" -- "I want to see a lot of body bags" -- "A burst of fruity aroma" -- Fat -- "That gooey, sticky mouthfeel" -- "Liquid gold" -- "Lunchtime is all yours" -- "The message the government conveys" -- "No sugar, no fat, no sales" -- Salt -- "People love salt" -- "The same great salty taste your customers crave" -- "I feel so sorry for the public" -- "We're hooked on inexpensive food."
Subjects: Nutrition; Food habits; Food industry and trade; Diet; Food Habits; Food Industry; Nutritional Physiological Phenomena;
© c2013., Random House,
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Fat, stressed, and sick : MSG, processed food, and America's health crisis / by Reid, Katherine,author.; Price, Barbara(Science writer and editor),author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-277) and index.The crisis is real -- Can't eat just one -- Safety concerns and business interests collide -- Overexcited: glutamate in the body - The microbiome: meet the rest of your body -- The slow-growing fire: inflammation and diet -- Glutamate and disease: Addiction ; Alzheimer's disease ; Anxiety ; Attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder (ADHD) ; Autism ; Cancer ; Depression ; Diabetes, obesity ; and metabolic syndrome ; Multiple sclerosis ; Parkinson's disease (Parkinsonism) ; Schizophrenia ; Seizures/epilepsy ; Other neurodegenerative disorders -- Roadmap to health: the REID food lifestyle -- Do the math: hidden MSG from protein in processed food -- The perfect plate: recipes, ingredients, and meal plans.Reid and Price make the case that processed food compromises health not just because of added sugar, salt, and fat, but also because these foods contain significant amounts of glutamate--aka MSG. MSG makes food addicting and most of the MSG in processed food is created during food manufacturing. As the authors show, food processing of protein alone adds 10 grams or more a day of MSG to the average American diet. The book details the research linking dietary glutamate to a suite of inflammatory diseases: obesity, diabetes, autism, addiction, depression, and cancer, to name a few. Understanding the role of MSG in disease became the quest of author and biochemist Katherine Reid when she learned that her young daughter's autism symptoms were associated with inflammation of the brain. Reid made the connection between inflammation and glutamate in the diet--a connection amply supported by other studies. Reid's discovery that what one ate mattered was the start of a program of food-based solutions to chronic inflammatory illnesses, through which now, a decade later, she has helped thousands of people. The idea that large amounts glutamate in the diet jeopardizes health is supported by decades of research, despite efforts by the glutamate industry to discredit the scientific evidence that MSG poses a risk. Some would have you believe the science is settled. It is not. This book explains the science behind why we crave the MSG in processed food, why it is hidden, how it is making us sick, and what we can do about it. --Adapted from publisher's description.
Subjects: Monosodium glutamate; Processed foods; Inflammation;
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The golden spoon: a novel [electronic resource]. by Maxwell, Jessa.; Emmes, Andrea.;
Narrator: Andrea Emmes."This delicious combination of Clue and The Great British Bake Off kept me turning the pages all night!" —Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times bestselling author Only Murders in the Building meets The Maid in this darkly beguiling locked-room mystery where someone turns up dead on the set of TV's hottest baking competition—perfect for fans of Nita Prose, Richard Osman, and Anthony Horowitz. Every summer for the past ten years, six awe-struck bakers have descended on the grounds of Grafton, the leafy and imposing Vermont estate that is not only the filming site for "Bake Week" but also the childhood home of the show's famous host, celebrated baker Betsy Martin. The author of numerous bestselling cookbooks and hailed as "America's Grandmother," Betsy Martin isn't as warm off-screen as on, though no one needs to know that but her. She has always demanded perfection, and gotten it with a smile, but this year something is off. As the baking competition commences, things begin to go awry. At first, it's merely sabotage—sugar replaced with salt, a burner turned to high—but when a body is discovered, everyone is a suspect. A sharp and suspenseful thriller for mystery buffs and avid bakers alike, The Golden Spoon is a brilliant puzzle filled with shocking twists and turns that will keep you reading late into the night until you turn the very last page of this incredible debut.Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 242416 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Literature.; Mystery.; Thriller.;
© 2023., Simon & Schuster Audio,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=9055255 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Mummies of the world / by Wieczorek, Alfried.; Rosendahl, Wilfried.;
Includes bibliographical references.The book reveals not only many of the techniques that ancient cultures used to preserve the bodies of the dead, but also the many natural processes leading to the preservation of bodies in desert sands, ice or acidic bogs, or even in attics. Nearly thirty scientific essays, with outstanding photographs and illustrations, bring together the latest research in mummy studies, with contributions from archaeology, anthropology, palaeopathology, biology and many other disciplines. With dignity and reverence, this volume shares the hidden information contained within the mummies.Mummies : in nature and around the world. From flourishing life to dust : the natural cycle of growth and decay / Burkhard Madea, Johanna Preuss and Frank Musshoff ; Natural mummification : rare, but varied / Wilfried Rosendahl ; People from the ice / Angelika Fleckinger ; Bog bodies : preserved bodies from peat / Heather Gill-Frerking -- Mummies : a tour of the cultures. Mummies, mummification techniques and the cult of the dead in ancient Egypt : a chronological overview / Tanja Pommerening ; Animal mummies and the worship of animals in ancient Egypt / Heimo Hohneck ; Mummies in the Andean regions : the presence of the dead / Virginia and Michael Tellenbach ; Mummies from Oceania : a brief overview / Eva-Maria Gunther ; Mummies in Australia : a special form of aboriginal burial rites / Corinna Erckenbrecht and Heinz H. Klaatsch ; Mummies in China / Jeanette Werning ; The Altai lady and her companions : mummies of the Scythian Pazyryk culture / Barbara Kerneck ; Living Buddhas : mummies in Japan / Melanie Janssen-Kim ; Mummies of the indigenous inhabitants on the Canary Islands / Ursula Thiemer-Sachse ; Mummies in monasteries and churches : monks, popes and princes / Ina Wunn ; Naturally mummified corpses from the Dominican Church in Vac, Hungary / Ildiko Szikossy ... [et al.] ; A death - beyond life - Lenin, Mao, Evita / Luisa Reiblich ; Mummification today : a very modern affair / Angela Graeffen and Kurt W. Alt -- Mumia and mummies in medicine and art. Mumia : from Ozokerite to cure-all / Tanja Pommerening ; Mumia vera Aegyptiaca : a western apothecary's remedy / Sabine Bernschneider-Reif ; "Mumia" and asphalt in the art of painting / Klaus Jurgen-Fischerm -- Mummies talk : modern mummy research methodologies. Mummy insights : x-ray analysis and computed tomography / Kurt W. Alt and Frank J. Ruhli ; Determination of mummy origins using molecular genetic analyses / Christina Rutze, Peter Forster and Joachim Burger ; Isotopic analysis of keratin : information about living environment and nutrition / Herve Bocherens ; Chemical toxicological analysis of hair samples : evidence of narcotics in mummies, too? / Frank Musshoff and Burkhard Madea ; Infested, cursed, contaminated : microbial and chemical contamination in mummies / Jens Klocke and Karin Petersen ; Conservation of mummies : having bones to pick with the dead / Jens Klocke ; Rapid prototyping in medical technology and its application in mummy research / Arthur T. Bens ; Facial reconstruction of mummies : the example Baron von Holz / Ursula Wittwer-Backofen -- Mummies and the media. "Dead or alive? Human or inhuman?" : mummies in film / Diana Wenzel ; Mummies in print : exploring mummy bookos for children and young adults / Heather Gill-Frerking --Mummies from around the world. Frankfurt's dinosaur mummy / Bernd Herkner ; Animal mummies found in lava caves in the Jordanian Desert / Stephan Kempe and Ahmad Al-Malabeh ; Natural animal mummies on exhibit at the State Museum of Natural History in Braunschweig, Germany / Ulrich Joger ; A mummified fire salamander found in a cave in the northern Franconian Alb of Germany / Brigitte Hilpert ; Animal mummies from the Eve-Maria Zimmermann Collection, Tenerife, Canary Islands / Matthias Feuersenger ; The salt mummy of a yellow-brown boxfish from Hurghada, Egypt / Matthias Feuersenger ; Dima : the baby mammoth / Doris Doppes ; Two unusual glacier animal mummies / Wilfried Rosendahl and Doris Doppes ; The bog dog from Burlage / Markus Bertling, Heather Gill-Frerking and Wilfried Rosendahl ; Bodies buries in bogs : the Drents Museum in Assen, the Netherlands / Vincent T. Van Vilsteren ; Egyptian animal mummies : the Unviersity of Bonn Collection / Gabriele Pieke and Silke Grallert ; Interment, grave goods and eternal life in ancient Egypt : explained by objects from the Unviersity of Heidelberg / Dina Faltings ; Two child mummies and some grave goods of the Byzantine Period from the Egyptian Collection at Heidelberg University, Germany / Beatrix Gessler-Lohr ; Egyptian mummies : the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collection / Wilfried Rosendahl ... [et al.] ; Egyptian mummies : the Merck Archives in Darmstadt / Sabine Bernschneider-Reif ... [et al.] ; Egyptian mummy skulls : the Marburg Zoological Collection / Jan Harbort ; The Egyptian mummies from Basel / Wilfried Rosendahl ... [et al.] ; The mummy and coffins of Nes-pa-kai-schuti / Dagmar Budde ; The "mummy" from Jena / Matthias Rupp, Sabine Birkenbeil and Sandra Bock ; An Asian mummy from the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collection / Wilfried Rosendahl ... [et al.] ; Mummies from Oceania : the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collection / Michael Tellenbach ... [et al.] ; South American mummies from the Ethnological Collection of Schloss Gottdorf, Schleswig, Germany / Mechtild Freudenberg ; "Gray and brown" pre-Columbian mummies : the Lippisches Landesmuseum in Detmold / Roger Meyer ... [et al.] ; Peruvian mummies from Delemont, Switzerland / Anna-Maria Begerock ... [et al.] ; Mummies from South America : the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Collections / Wilfried Rosendahl ... [et al.] ; Mummies found in the Dominican Church in Vac, Hungary / Ildiko Szikossy, Lilla Alida Kristof and Ildiko Pap ; Mummies from Palermo / Dario Piombino-Mascali ... [et al.] ; The mummies from Sommersdorf Castle / Manfred Baron Von Crailsheim ; Historical mummies of human fetuses at the Kassel Museum of Natural History / Jana Mesenholl, Kai Fuldner and Wilfried Rosendahl.
Subjects: Mummies; Embalming;
© c2010., Prestel : American Exhibitions : Curt-Engelhorn-Stiftung für die Reiss-Engelhorn-Mussen,
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Nature's best remedies : top medicinal herbs, spices, and foods for health and well-being / by Hajeski, Nancy J.,1951-; Low Dog, Tieraona,author of foreword.;
"A guide to the world's most therapeutic foods, herbs, spices, and essential oils will allow the healing power of nature to energize your body and enrich your life, providing a surefire path to good health and well-being. This authoritative guide to the foods, herbs, spices, essential oils, and other natural substances that alleviate common ailments will enhance your life--from treating illness to sharpening the mind, losing weight, cleaning the home, enhancing pregnancy, and reducing the effects of aging. Divided into two sections--Nature's Cures and Nature's Pharmacopoeia--this beautifully illustrated guide provides up-to-date information on such timely topics as the perils of packaged foods and the benefits of phytochemicals, how to achieve major results with minor alterations in your food choices, the soothing benefits of essential oils, and the most effective methods for maximizing such natural home helpers as salts, vinegars, oils, and more. Innovative recipes offer easy, effective dishes that utilize multiple herbs, spices, and fresh foods for powerhouse results"--Provided by publisher.Foreword / by Tieroana Low Dog, M.D. -- Introduction: Be at your best -- Nature's cures. Remedies for common physical ailments ; Soothe emotional stress ; Pregnancy and infant health ; Aging and wellness -- Nature's pharmacopoeia. Medicinal herbs ; Beneficial spices ; Essential oils ; Nature's power pantry ; Nature's home helpers.
Subjects: Naturopathy; Herbs; Self-care, Health; Functional foods.;
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The cheese trap : how breaking a surprising addiction will help you lose weight, gain energy, and get healthy / by Barnard, Neal D.,1953-; Burton, Dreena,1970-author.; Henner, Marilu,writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-284) and index.Introduction. Hidden in plain sight -- The ultimate processed food -- More calories than Coke, more salt than potato chips: what cheese does to your waistline -- How cheese keeps you hooked -- Hidden hormone effects -- Health problems you never bargained for -- Heart disease, diabetes, and the French paradox -- What the animals go through -- The industry behind the addiction -- A healthy diet -- All the flavor, none of the regrets -- Recipes -- Appendix. An elimination diet for identifying problem foods.We've been told that dairy does a body good, but the truth is that cheese can be surprisingly dangerous. Loaded with calories, fat, and cholesterol, cheese can make you gain weight and lead to a host of health problems such as high blood pressure and arthritis. Worse, it contains mild opiates that actually make it addictive, triggering the same brain receptors as heroin and morphine. Here, bestselling author Dr. Neal Barnard presents a cutting-edge program to help you break free of cheese addiction so you can finally lose weight, boost energy, and improve your overall health. Presenting an eye-opening exposé of the dairy industry coupled with the latest groundbreaking research on the dangers of cheese consumption, The Cheese Trap will forever change the way you think about that innocent-looking brick of Cheddar or Brie. Featuring a treasury of delicious recipes that will tame even the toughest cravings--frorn pizza and lasagna to ice cream and even "cheesecake"--The Cheese Trap will help you break the cheese habit and improve your health while feeling full, satisfied, and energized.--Jacket.
Subjects: Recipes.; Milk-free diet.; Milk-free diet; Cheese.;
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Worried? : science investigates some of life's common concerns / by Johnson, Lise A.; Chudler, Eric H.,author.; Chudler, Kelly S.,illustrator.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.How scientific reasoning explains our most common daily fears from germs to natural disasters and everything in between. Quick--what do you worry about most? Your cell phone giving you cancer? The public bathroom you're using being dirty? GMOs in your food? An asteroid strike? Something else? In this witty and evidenced-based book, Lise Johnson and Eric Chudler get to the root of our worries, all the while using science to help tame the anxiety beast. News media, social media, and every mom blog in the world are continuously flagging new things for you to worry about. From obsessing over Lyme disease-infested ticks to worrying about amusement park safety, no-one is immune to the pervasive effects of anxiety brought on by normal, everyday activity. Each topic in this wide-ranging book is subjected to scientific scrutiny, and assigned a place on the "worry index," with the authors concluding the only things worth worrying about are those that can cause significant harm, are likely to happen, and are (somewhat) preventable. Whether you are a constant worrier or a stick-your-head-in-the-sand-and-hope-for-the best sort of person, you'll find something to love in this witty and informative book.Food. Caffeine ; Dietary supplements ; Food additives ; Fair trade ; Gluten ; Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) ; Organic produce ; Pasteurized milk ; Salt ; Sugar ; Teflon ; Alcohol ; Meat ; Food safety ; Fat ; Antibiotics in food animals -- Medicine. Oral contraception ; Giving birth in a hospital ; Ebola ; Brain-eating amoeba ; Medical errors ; Acetaminophen ; General anesthesia ; Medical imaging ; Flesh-eating infection ; Health care-associated infections -- Environment. Mobile phones ; Mold ; Microwave ovens ; Asbestos -- Chemicals. Aluminum ; Flame retardants ; Fluoride ; Formaldehyde ; Lead ; Mercury ; BPA ; DEET -- Animals. Snakes ; Cats ; Bears ; Bees ; Dogs ; Shark attack ; Spiders ; Ticks ; Mosquitoes -- Travel. Elevators ; Public restrooms ; Public transportation ; Public swimming pools ; Airport body scanners ; Bedbugs ; Cruise ships ; Amusement park rides -- Miscellaneous. Pirates ; Toys made in China ; Asteroid strike -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Do-it-yourself -- Appendix B: Reading a scientific paper -- Appendix C: First aid kit.
Subjects: Worry.; Anxiety.; Psychology.; Adaptation, Psychological.; Anxiety.;
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