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The Sun By Night unravels the secrets surrounding the death of an Accra prostitute. Framed around a court case involving Manu, a respectable and wealthy businessman, it is a gripping tale of murder, courtroom shenanigans, and intense societal conflicts. Among others, the novel explores themes and tensions of familial and traditional commitments, individual freedom, marriage and love, and class exploitation to weave an enduring tapestry of great human value. Set in a country still grappling with the heavy legacies of the colonial experience, The Sun by Night combines old and new to demonstrate that the quest for truth and justice belongs to each one of us.
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unique and intriguing.......2006-07-14
Do we really ever know the depths of our interactions with those around us? How deeply do we affect the lives of our acquaintances, neighbors, co-workers, or our prostitutes? In Benjamin Kwakye's novel, "The Sun by Night," that influence is examined in great detail though never quite face to face. The subtleties of human interactions are told from multiple points of view.
The life of a prostitute surely isn't easy but the reasons behind the action is often much more difficult to bear. This affects the mind in interesting ways as one main character explains in the most unique fashion I have witnessed in a novel. When her friend is murdered she becomes very wary and takes precautions to guard her own life. Her double life is in jeopardy though and she must constantly be cautious of revealing too much. The circle of characters and stories expands as her ex-husband tells his own tale, as well as those of everyone around him - he is a reporter after all. His words get him thrown in jail as the government is under a coup and political change is running rampant. Politicians and priests get involved in the story, the rich and the poor alike, the young children and the elder parents. All have a portion of the story to tell and it all comes together during the trial for the second prostitute murder victim.
This book is unique and intriguing, passionately told and a little confusing. I very much enjoyed unraveling the tale as it was spelled out in front of me. The examination of the human factor is very well done; the description of political unrest in Africa perfectly executed. Watch for more from this award-winning author!
Review by Heather Froeschl
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The sun at night: A novel
Roger Williamson
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Journey of the soul.......2000-08-23
When I read this book I wasn't that interested in High Magick, nor am I that interested in pursuing High Magick at this point in my life either. I'm sure that people who are Magick practitioners will find the occult passages true to life and fascinating, but that wasn't what interested me in this book.
What fascinated me was the progression of the main character from self-righteous creep to passable human being. I spent the first half of the book hating this guy, wondering if the author had made the protagonist nasty on purpose. The second half of the book saved it, as the main character realized that the things he was supposed to be learning had less to do with power or control and more to do with self-awareness.
Ironically, although this is an semi-autobiographical novel, I met the author shortly after reading it and he's one of the nicest guys you're ever going to meet. He runs Magus Books next to the University of Minnesota, which is where I learned most of what I learned at the U.
Besides that, this book reminds me a great deal of Umberto Eco's Foucalt's Pendulum, except where that book takes a good month to read, this one can be read in a couple of days.
So buy this book if you are at all interested in religion, Magick, the inner-life of occultists, or mysticism in general. Then if you like, stop by Magus Books at the U and meet the author. You'll find that he's nowhere near as creepy as the main character.
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The Devil's School lies down this way. Lot's wife knows your name. Hearts hang in the scales, flesh and clay are one and the same, and the severed head of Orpheus sings in winter waves. In award-winning poet Sonya Taaffe's first collection of short fiction, the boundaries between worlds dissolve to reveal unmasked harlequins and women made of stars, serpentine plagues and New England storm gods, and many other denizens of the spaces between. These songs of innocence and experience, Blake never knew.
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A heady brew -- a striking debut collection of stories and poems.......2006-06-23
Sonya Taaffe is a writer of some of the most intense and image-drenched prose around. Line by long, exquisite, line her writing is desperate and involving. Indeed she made her first major impression on me as a poet - and I think she may be the best poet working in the SF genre right now. But she has also been publishing short stories all over the place, often on mythical or traditional fantastical themes but always individual and always centered on a central character's obsession. As I have intimated, the prose is really striking, lush, very poetical. In his introduction Tim Pratt suggests among others Theodore Sturgeon as an influence, and that seems apposite: not just in her thematic concerns but in the desperate feel to some of the prose. If there is a fault it is that read back to back the voice begins to sound a bit too similar story to story, the emotional register seems pitched always the same. (And here a look at Sturgeon is instructive - he being a writer who could and did vary his register greatly.) But this is a mild fault - taken each by itself the stories are moving jewels, and Taaffe seems a writer poised to grow into her powers. (Indeed, her latest stories, not included here, seem to me to be her best yet.)
Singing Innocence and Experience is an excellent introduction to Taaffe's work. It collects 16 stories and 7 poems, dating back to 2001. The poems are characteristic of her work, with the same long lines and sharp images as the prose, and with thank goodness complete and logical sentences: not just syntactical elements thrown against the wall is with some poets.
My favorites among the stories include "Constellations, Conjunctions", a very early piece. It's a sweet and mysterious story about a young man, an astronomer, who falls for a young woman with the significant name of Stella, and with a curious quality to her skin. "Featherweight" is another pure love story (as indeed are many of these stories love stories, and emotionally true love stories, of one sort or another), about a man looking for a heart for a mysterious creature - woman? Machine? Alien? No prizes for guessing where he finds it, but the story gets to its conclusion in a lovely fashion. Back to back stories deal with people obsessed with the sea. "Till Human Voices Wake Us" is about a teenaged boy staying for the summer with his older sister who loves a merman; and "A Ceiling of Amber, a Pavement of Pearl" concerns a woman commissioned to write a song for a man trying to find again the city under the sea he saw while drowning.
For the most part these stories are set in what seems to be our world, our time, though the slant viewpoint, and the gorgeous prose, give the settings a fantastical gloss. But occasionally Taaffe takes us elsewhere, as with "Time May Be", set in strange Aruis, and telling of a mysterious woman, Josza, perhaps not human, who takes in a lost young man. Images of the tarot mix with slow revelations of Josza's past and of the geography of Aruis.
Each story is a heady brew. The poems are similarly striking. As I said, perhaps the stories cluster around too similar emotional poles - and perhaps at times they go on a bit too long. But they remain fascinating, and the collection is at once fine work and a promise of even better work to come.
Singing Light and Thunder.......2006-06-17
This book is brilliant. It shines with the darkness and light of wonder and awe which I have spent the last fourteen years trying to put down on paper. Indeed, I have no trouble saying that these stories are one of the rare bits of fiction to wow me in the last decade. They hit me like Bradbury hits me, or Angela Carter, or Kathe Koja, Thomas Ligotti or Shirley Jackson. They revel in the power of myth, but in no unseemly way. They strain to contain the sheer force of their telling. In these pages, the reader will find a woman made of stars (or stars in the shape of a woman), a cynical unicorn and a reluctant virgin, an ophiomorphic plague, the place where lost ships go, a glimpse of Lot's nameless wife and an encounter with Adam's nameless and untouchable second wife, an accidental golem, a perfectly ordinary teenage boy perplexed at the coming loss of his nereid sister, drowned ghosts and terrible sacrifice, the singing head of Orpheus, and a hundred marvels more. If you still have a heart and have not forsaken wonder for the mythless drought which so many seem to mistake for adulthood, these stories will leave you breathless, as will Sonya Taaffe's astounding way with words. And all this from an author who is surely at least ten years my junior. I'd give my left hand for such language and the mind in back of it all. And I say none of these things lightly. If my writing or my opinion means anything at all to you, please, please buy this collection and devour it and be amazed. Buy this book. If it contained only "Constellations, Conjunctions" and "Kouros," it would be worth twice the price. -- Caitlín R. Kiernan (greygirlbeast)
Breathtaking........2006-03-13
Sonya Taaffe, Singing Innocence and Experience (Prime, 2005)
I feel like something of a sycophant writing this review so soon after writing my review for Ms. Taaffe's other extant book, Postcards from the Province of Hyphens. I don't mean to be. I mean, it's not like I'm going to get scads of free dinners out of it or anything, since she lives hundreds of miles away. Postcards got, and Singing gets, rave reviews for one simple reason: they're brilliant.
Whereas Postcards was mainly poetry interspersed with a little prose, Singing goes the other way. Some pieces are repeated in the two books, but each of them is worth reading twice, even in relatively quick succession. But I've already sung the praises of Taaffe's short work in other places. What matters in the review are the longer stories. I mentioned in a recent review (of Charles Simic's memoirs) the truism that poets and short story writers are, with very rare exceptions, a different breed of animal altogether; those who can write excellent poetry are more often than not simply above-average storytellers. Good, but not as brilliant as they are poets. And the same usually holds true going the other way. Taaffe is one of those rare creatures who, it seems, is capable of doing both at the highest level of ability. Actually, if anything, she's slightly better at short stories. I rush to add, however, I had a lot more pages of short stories with which to judge.
Each of the stories here is a winner. The reader will no doubt find his own favorite (I honestly can't imagine anyone coming into this collection and not liking a single offering), but mine is the relatively early "Constellations, Conjunctions," whose simple beauty is so well offset by Taaffe's Corinthian prose (which, in the story, is still a relatively nascent being; you can tell she was younger when she wrote it than, say, "Clay Lies Still" or "Storm Gods of the Connecticut River Valley").
The stories here are perhaps best categorized as fantasy, though I think they're really unclassifiable; they deal in the unexplained, alternate worlds, all the sort of thing that fantasy stories deal in, but like the work of Lucius Shepard or Wendy Walker, Taaffe's fantasies feel far more like period pieces, though her chosen period, in most cases, is the present day; there's still that slight breath of mustiness between the words, the same one has when one opens a long-undisturbed book and holds it to one's nose, inhaling deeply.
The book gets four and a half rather than five stars for something completely not Taaffe's fault. There's an odd typo on the last two stories; it's so odd, in fact, it looks deliberate. If it is a coincidence, it's a right weird one. I won't spoil it for you; you'll ave to look for yourself.
I cannot sing Sonya Taaffe's praises loud (or, rest assured, tunelessly) enough. I can't wait for book number 3, whatever form it may take. **** ½
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A Must-Read For Anyone Who Cares About This Planet.......2007-08-20
This book is both fantastic and worrisome in its import. Painstakingly documented, it sounds a warning call that must be heeded. As well-read as I consider myself to be, I was surprised at how much I didn't know about the extent to which we've ALREADY messed up this Earth, biologically. Knowing how seriously we've messed up other species, one wonders to what extent the lessons also pertain to us. That is: it makes you realize that a lot of what we see going on today might have been the results of the seeds we've been sowing. Very thought-proviking.
Too Much Information!.......2007-06-24
Reading this book is like reading a scientific paper...boring! I think the idea of collaborating and telling a story could be a good idea, but this one doesn't work and is a real snooze-fest. There was too many incidents cited (yes, we get it, DDT is bad)that it took too long to get to the conclusions. It also didn't help that the type was fairly small and difficult to read.
This would be a good book if you wanted to write a term paper and needed a source for your topic and bibliography.
An excellent "Things that make you go Hmmm...." book.......2007-05-02
While this is nearly 10 years old it shows that people had been connecting the dots (and vigorously denying) synthetic hormones (and other chemicals that mimic the effects of hormones) in the environment for more then 60 years. Now in 2007 this book is still a good read, if a little outdated. Currently the science has evolved FAR past "what if" to "what now?" When Native Innuit populations show traces of Teflon and flame-retardant chemicals in their blood and breast milk, one truly understands that the diaper this planet wears is forever and mommy isn't going to come change it any time soon.
Still, the pro-industry flunkies will cry and cry. "You'll ruin the economy!" they shout from the rooftops. Well my favorite part of this book so far is the allegory: "A robber sticks his gun in your ribs and says 'your money or your life' what do you choose? It doesn't matter if you're an investment banker, a soccer-mom or a homeless person, the choice is ALWAYS that no amount of money is worth your life; you can make more money later as long as you're still alive..."
4 stars instead of 5 for being 10 years old and not up with the more current research, but certainly a good place to start if you are interested in the subject.
the problems with artificial hormones.......2006-11-15
In their book "Our Stolen Future," Colborn and his coauthors paint a devastating portrait of all the woes that can arise when chemicals that act like hormones are released into nature; animals become impotent, suffer other endocrine disruptions, get cancer, or give birth to offspring with birth defects. The devastation they describe is not much different from the devastation described in "Silent Spring," and give reason to reconsider how we treat the environment. Sometimes it would be better not to do something until we are sure that it is safe, rather than to do something until we are sure that it is not safe.
I was slightly surprised that the book goes into great depth about the havoc that artificial hormones can wreak when they are released into nature, but doesn't contemplate whether artificial hormones may have a downside when prescribed as medicines. Perhaps this will be the subject of another book.
What, me worry? .......2006-06-21
Stolen future? What future? This excellent book documents the threat posed to human reproduction and fetal development by the synthetic chemicals first created in the '30s. Read this along with Christopher Bryson's "The Fluoride Deception," and you will agree with me: we are f***ed. But then, throw in a little eschatology from the Maya, the Buddhists, the Hopis, Edgar Cayce, Sir Isaac Newton, and the Book of Revelations (among others) and perhaps you will conclude with me: it really doesn't matter anyway. Why? Because we were already f***ed --- long before we started filling out bodies with toxic waste disguised as food and drink.
Dear Reader, if you pooh-pooh the notion that we have about 2,380 days left before the Big Finale (as of this writing), then take the message of this book to heart --- before it's too late.
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The egg is back. Stigmatized in the '70s and '80s for its "artery clogging" high cholesterol content (doctors now agree there's no link between food cholesterol and blood cholesterol levels), and more recently avoided as a potential source of salmonella (simple precautions can obviate danger), the egg has returned triumphant. Celebrating this happy state is Marie Simmons's The Good Egg, a collection of more than 200 easy recipes that showcase the egg in dishes from soup to dessert. Those who love this simple, delicious food will find the book a boon. In chapters such as "Artfully Scrambled and Fried," "Broths," "Stews and Braises," "Pasta and Eggs," and "Cookies, Cakes, Pies, and Tarts," Simmons presents a full range of satisfying egg dishes, many meals in themselves. There are classics, such as spaghetti carbonara, Caesar salad, omelets, and crème brûlée, as well as unfamiliar yet welcome specialties like Creamy Scrambled Eggs with Curry and Cardamom, Eggs Baked on Salmon Hash with Dill and Orange, and Fresh Pasta with Poached Eggs, Toasted Walnuts, and Parmesan. Desserts are well represented, and treats such as Coconut Macaroon Bread Pudding with Dried Cherries and Spiced Sponge Roll with Maple Cream Filling and Walnut Praline should provide enticing meal finales. With instructive sidebars and preparation tips ("Strata Strategies," for example, provides a detailed battle plan for strata success), the book offers an up-to-date and long-overdue exploration of this most versatile food. --Arthur Boehm
Book Description
Good cooks have always known that when you have an egg, you can make a perfect meal at a moment's notice. Now nutritionists are confirming what our mothers told us: the egg is good food. In this landmark collection, Marie Simmons, an award-winning cookbook author whose deftly irresistible flavor combinations have inspired millions, celebrates the versatile egg with more than 250 recipes.
This is the most comprehensive book on egg cookery ever published, and it's a dazzlingly diverse collection. It encompasses sophisticated dinners -- Gnocchi with Butter and Herbs, for instance -- as well as such superb desserts as Fallen Chocolate Soufflé Cake. And it's filled with tips and techniques for the basics: how to scramble, fry, bake, poach and hard-cook eggs. In these pages can be found convenient appetizers, comforting soups, flavorful sandwiches, innovative salads, sauces, soufflés, cookies, cakes, pies and tarts.
Simmons provides us with literally hundreds of dinner possibilities, many of them vegetarian. She reinterprets such classics as quiches, adding broccoli and provolone or caramelized tomato and corn, and rediscovers dishes from the past, including the savory bread puddings called strata. She takes pasta far beyond red sauce with renditions that include eggs, fresh vegetables and herbs, and she serves up exciting main-dish salads for warm weather and, for wintry months, hearty Greek lamb stew with artichokes, thickened with egg-lemon sauce.
And yes, there are scores of recipes for breakfast and brunches, ranging from Eggs Scrambled with Wild Mushrooms and Fresh Herbs to Eggs Baked in Fresh Tomato Salsa with Melted Cheese, not to mention French toast, Popover Pancakes, and more than thirty different omelettes and frittatas -- meals for any occasion.
For dessert, choose between seductively light selections such as Hazelnut Meringue Cookies and Lemon Angel Food and rich creations like Classic Crème Caramel, Lemon Curd Tart with Berries, and Spiced Sponge Roll with Maple Cream Filling and Walnut Praline.
With egg information and intriguing snippets of lore throughout, THE GOOD EGG is the ultimate cookbook for a new generation of cooks.
Customer Reviews:
Original and Inventive.......2005-05-17
I was very, very impressed with the inventiveness of the recipes in this book. I used one of the parmesan flan recipes at a dinner party and the guests were bowled over. This is book definitely contains original and inventive ideas!! I loved the baked egg appetizer recipes. I had never seen anything like that before. I like the fact that the author worked out the proper amounts and proportions for various ingredients, that takes time to ascertain properly and it only seem easy to someone who isn't really knowledgable about cooking.
Five stars and hurrah. I am using these recipes at dinner parties to great success.
Not so good.......2003-11-04
I was very disappointed that this cookbook is basically the same dozen recipes with some minor changes in added ingredients. I was hoping for some new ideas on using eggs, and got same old. If you have never cooked with eggs at all it might be useful, but every basic cookbook has omelets, quiche, egg salad, custard, etc. and anyone with imagination can come up with their own flavoring and add in ideas. I bought it along with the "Totally Eggs Cookbook"for 1/4 the price and with less than 100 pages, and got more new ideas from the latter.
No-fail egg recipes.......2002-06-07
I own more than 350 cookbooks and this is one of the best! Most times I glance through pictures and recipes, but not this one - I read this book from cover to cover. It's that good.
The recipes are easy to follow and simply terrific. The instructions for making hard-cooked egg is so simple and fail-proof and learning this method alone made me wonder why this was never presented in all other books and magazines that I own.
This book is highly recommended!
a reader from maine.......2000-09-07
I really like this book. I have three other cookbooks by marie simmons and they are all terrific. I have made 3 quiches and 1 egg salad and 1 strata recipe and they were all easy and delicious.
A must for everyone who loves eggs.......2000-05-12
Easy-to-follow recipes and useful information in a format that's a pleasure to read. In addition to the egg basics, this book contains several unusual ideas, including over a dozen pasta with egg recipes. Helpful hints such as how to rescue a broken hollandaise sauce, and "formulas" for many egg basics make this a book I will refer to often. The recipes include different ethnic variations, including, Indian, Mexican, Italian and Chinese, and cover virtually every meal category. I recommend this book to everyone who loves eggs.
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The Barbs Aquarium
Oliver Lucanis ,
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Oliver Lucanas
Manufacturer: Barron''s Educational Series
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Release Date: 2005-11-17 |
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Aquarium owners find these colorful tropical fish exceptionally active, with correspondingly huge appetites. Their several varieties are native to southern and southeast Asia. Titles in the extensive Complete Pet Owner's Manuals series provide pet owners with basic information on keeping healthy, contented, well-cared-for animals. The series includes approximately 175 titles and covers pets of every kind: dogs, cats, and birds of many breeds, as well as fish, reptiles, rabbits, hamsters, and just about any other animal that people keep as a pet. Facts and advice cover all aspects of pet care, which include proper feeding, housing, health care, grooming, training, and much more. The text in each manual is supplemented with many vivid, full-color photos, and with instructive, anatomically accurate line art. Each manual has been individually written by a breeder, trainer, veterinarian, or experienced animal specialist.
Customer Reviews:
Too general.......2003-01-17
I expected more in depth information from this book. The info presented here can be found on the internet for free. An actual quote from the book: "Finding books on barbs and their relatives can be a problem, as you may need to collect an extensive library of general aquarium books to have a wide range of information" I thought this book would have the extensive information I was looking for, but it didn't.
The photography is quite good though, and I will enjoy looking at in the future. Too bad there isn't anything in it worth reading in the future.
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Book discusses breeding techniques for the following freshwater aquarium fishes among others: platies, swordtails, mollies, guppies, Siamese fighting fish, angelfish, gouramis, tetras, barbs, danios, & white clouds.
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Miller's Collector's Guides is a series of books aimed at providing an essential introduction to varied and popular subjects for the budding collector. Reflecting the growing trend in the antiques market towards "collectibles" (small, often affordable items) these practical guides are filled with ideas on how to form a collection, what to specialize in, and how to identify objects. Often showing specially photographed items, these are guides no collector can afford to be without.
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A mere 10 years ago, hellebores were considered connoisseurs' plants — subdued in coloration, hard to find, and the subject of much snobbery. Today, however, they are among the hottest perennials, thanks to their early bloom, long-lasting flowers, shade tolerance, handsome foliage, and the profusion of new colors and forms that have recently become available. Authors Cole Burrell and Judith Tyler have produced what is arguably the definitive book on this genus, packed with up-to-the-minute, comprehensive information on growing, maintenance, design, hybridization and selection, and trouble-shooting. This lavishly illustrated volume will interest hellebore lovers at every level of interest.
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Georgian craftsmen and their work
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The National Directory of Editors and Writers for Hire: 600 Freelance Business, Proofreading, Copy, Technical, and Literary Editors, plus Book Doctors, Ghostwriters, Consultants and Writing Coaches
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This comprehensive guide features America's top editors and writers for hire--serving the needs of nonfiction and fiction writers, publishers, literary agents, corporations, companies, educational institutions, and non-profits.
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"If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual, to see the day of Africa's glory. . . . I shall write the history that will inspire the millions that are coming and leave the posterity of our enemies to reckon with the hosts for the deeds of their fathers."--Marcus Garvey upon his imprisonment in the Atlanta federal penitentiary, 1925
The sixth volume of The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers spans the great divide in the affairs of the American Garvey movement that resulted from the imprisonment of its charismatic leader in 1925. The volume tells the story of Garvey's failed efforts to win the appeal against his conviction for mail fraud, his incarceration, the legal battle to win his freedom, and the massive grass-roots petition movement mobilized in his defense. The activism inspired by Garvey's imprisonment was confounded by internecine struggles within the hierarchy of the movement and by growing financial difficulties, including the failure of the Black Cross Navigation and Trading Company, the loss of Liberty Hall, and the bankruptcy of Liberty University. The volume ends with Garvey's release from prison and his deportation from America. Although he never returned to the United States, Garvey continued his forceful shaping of the history of the movement that bore his name, first from Jamaica and then from his final exile in Britain.
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- There's Something in a Sunday
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- Unhinged: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery
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- Whispers of the Dead: Fifteen Sister Fidelma Mysteries (Sister Fidelma Mysteries)
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