The GAAP Gap: Corporate Disclosure in the Internet Age

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Today's knowledge-based economy requires an entirely new system of assessing the value of companies--a system tapping the vast communication capabilities of the Internet.

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The Gainsharing Design Manual

A Step-by-Step Guide to Gainsharing

The Gainsharing Design Manual
Joseph H. Boyett , and Jimmie T. Boyett
Manufacturer: ASJA Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0595324088

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The Gainsharing Design Manual is an invaluable resource for designing and implementing a gainsharing or goalsharing employee incentive program.

Internationally recognized authors and consultants Joseph and Jimmie Boyett bring over twenty years of experience in helping companies implement gainsharing, goalsharing and other employee incentive programs.

The Gainsharing Design Manual is a complete step-by-step guide for designing and implementing gainsharing. In addition to a comprehensive overview of gainsharing and its impact on company operating and financial performance the Boyetts provide the following:

. Step-by-step instruction in how to...
. Design the gainsharing plan,
. Develop a gainsharing formula and targets, and
. Implement and evaluate the gainsharing program;
. Twenty questions to determine if gainsharing is right for your company;
. Twenty keys to gainsharing success;
. Six criteria for a good gainsharing formula;
. Nine sample formulas for both the manufacturing and service sectors;
. Advice on how to gain union support for gainsharing; and
. Advice on how to avoid problems with the Fair Labor Standards Act and National Labor Relations Act when designing gainsharing.

The Gainsharing Design Manual is an insightful, informative and essential resource based upon solid research and the personal experiences of the authors.

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The Gainsharing Design Manual.......2005-08-22

Great guide with great sample text for your gainsharing manual. It includes many ideas and concepts that might be overlooked when putting a plan together. It is a quick read that is written in an easy to apply way. I bought two other books on the subject, and this was by far the most practical. The others were very theoretical in nature, and were much longer drawn out texts. I would say this is a must read for anyone looking to put together a gainshare plan.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Gainsharing.......2004-08-13

Gainsharing is a group incentive that ties employee pay to performance. This design manual provides both a comprehensive overview of gainsharing and its benefits and step-by-step instructions on how to design and implement a gainsharing program. The manual includes forms and worksheets. Plus you get useful tools such as "twenty questions to determine if gainsharing is right for your company," "twenty keys to gainsharing success," "six criteria for a good gainsharing formula," and so on. More complete information about the manual and the author's bio/credentials can be found on their website at http://www.jboyett.com.
Note: This review was posted by the authors

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This timesaving office and courtroom resource gives you a thorough, practical knowledge of the essential history, provisions and appellate case law of the seminal Bail Reform Act of 1984. Federal Bail and Detention Handbook features checklists that ensure you take all the proper legal steps -- abundant appellate citations to support your arguments -- a handy summary chart of the legal standards governing release on bond for convicted defendants -- New analysis of the USA PATRIOT Act on the detention of aliens suspected of terrorism -- and insight into the latest appellate developments affecting the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, defendants charged with RICO violations, defendants charged with crimes while on release, and the use at trial of the depositions of material witnesses.

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Federal Bail and Detention Handbook
John L. Weinberg
Manufacturer: Practising Law Inst
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 9998334454

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Chaos in science has always been a fascinating realm since it challenges the usual scientific approach of reductionism. While carefully distinguishing between complexity, holism, randomness, incompleteness, nondeterminism and stochastic behaviour the authors show that, although many aspects of chaos have been phenomenologically understood, most of its defining principles are still difficult to grasp and formulate. Demonstrating that chaos escapes all traditional methods of description, the authors set out to find new methods to deal with this phenomenon and illustrate their constructive approach with many examples from physics, biology and information technology. While maintaining a high level of rigour, an overly complicated mathematical apparatus is avoided in order to make this book accessible, beyond the specialist level, to a wider interdisciplinary readership.

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Beyond Chaos but not Beyond Comprehension.......2000-12-22

This is a book I've long been waiting for. It gives an excellent overview of how the study of complex systems and chaos brings together various branches of science with a special focus on Physics and the Biological Sciences. The book is not too technical yet highly to the point with philosophical and fundamental discussions and thus of great value to both expert and novice.

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Laboratory automation is an increasingly important part of the job description of many laboratory scientists. Although many laboratory scientists understand the methods and principles involved in automation, most lack the necessary engineering and programming skills needed to successfully automate or interface equipment in the lab. A step-by-step, how-to reference and guide, Practical Pharmaceutical Laboratory Automation explores the processes needed to automate the majority of tasks required in research today. The author discusses topics ranging from automated mathematical analysis to robotic automation of chemical processes, to combinations of these and other processes. He presents a detailed discussion of high throughput screening and assay development and takes an in-depth look at Visual Basic as the primary programming language used in laboratories. The text has a dedicated web site (http://www.pharmalabauto.com) that contains all the sample code and examples contained within the text as well as other information related to laboratory automation. Providing a starting point for tackling automation problems, Practical Pharmaceutical Laboratory Automation helps you develop a strategy for automation that gets consistent results.

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Studies of convection in geophysical flows constitute an advanced and rapidly developing area of research that is relevant to problems of the natural environment. During the last decade, significant progress has been achieved in the field as a result of both experimental studies and numerical modelling. This led to the principal revision of the widely held view on buoyancy-driven turbulent flows comprising an organised mean component with superimposed chaotic turbulence. An intermediate type of motion, represented by coherent structures, has been found to play a key role in geophysical boundary layers and in larger scale atmospheric and hydrospheric circulations driven by buoyant forcing. New aspects of the interaction between convective motions and rotation have recently been discovered and investigated. Extensive experimental data have also been collected on the role of convection in cloud dynamics and microphysics. New theoretical concepts and approaches have been outlined regarding scaling and parameterization of physical processes in buoyancy-driven geophysical flows.
The book summarizes interdisciplinary studies of buoyancy effects in different media (atmosphere and hydrosphere) over a wide range of scales (small scale phenomena in unstably stratified and convectively mixed layers to deep convection in the atmosphere and ocean), by different research methods (field measurements, laboratory simulations, numerical modelling), and within a variety of application areas (dispersion of pollutants, weather forecasting, hazardous phenomena associated with buoyant forcing).

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Buoyant Convection in Geophysical Flows
Erich J. Plate
Manufacturer: BERTRAMS PRINT ON DE
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Binding: Hardcover
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Deep world, shallow plot

We too have a snake in the grass

A unique page-turner!

One of the best fictional universes in the whole SF

Lilith: A Snake in the Grass (The Four Lords of the Diamond, Vol. 1)
Jack L. Chalker
Manufacturer: Del Rey
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 034529369X
Release Date: 1981-09-12

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Deep world, shallow plot.......2004-04-29

The unique (and a little kludgey) Warden organisms invented by Chalker do create a world with a great deal of potential for the author and his characters. Alas, I felt this potential was frustratingly missed. Because of the complexity of the world's structure, too many paragraphs were spent to define, justify and close the loopholes in the Warden system. Although the characters were rather well drawn, there was little real interaction, tension, or resolution among them (with one notable exception). Now, in SciFi I can usually let that slide if the action makes up for it. Unfortunately, this was the most unsatisfying aspect of the book. 224 pages of good set-up end in 7 pages of climax, during which our buff, well-trained hero, sporting some brand new but untested powers... COMPLETELY SITS OUT THE BATTLE! He is left to watch the thinly described action from so far away he needs a telescope to see the people. Opps. I wonder if this book was the victim of some evil 250 page limit set by the publisher, or worse, by the author.

We too have a snake in the grass.......2003-10-06

Reading this book and stating that you are spellbound or hooked from one chapter to the next does not tell you about the essence of the tale. To say that this Science Fiction is superior in imagery and concept is still lacking in definition. There is something else that drew me back to read the series again. It was not the story, so much, but the reality that it represents. It is about this world whose scientific physical makeup is different than ours. We are made of cells and cells structure with DNA in control. In these worlds the Wardens are in control. The are involved in each and every molecular makeup of everything. Based upon persons background and his discipline and control will explain his possible position in these worlds.

It is much like earth in that way. It is a metaphor, yet a parallel to our own world. We still have a caste so to speak in existence on earth. Even in United States, even though there are no castles, knights or dukes, we still live according to our self-discipline, our self-awareness, education, skills, and our internal chemistry. A genius might still be a poor fellow living on the dole of others while a seemly simple person lives on the fruits of the world. It about what I stated above. This is what Chalker is telling us. It is a involved parody about our own world. You are able to watch Cal, the main character evolved as he begins to learn his own powers, his respect for his teachers, his peers, and his desire to rise. He is a survivor, he is spent the time to get his body and mind in order now he is getting his training and skills in order to conquer the planet. Don't analyze the content, but enjoy the story and stop and think about the parallel to our own world.

A unique page-turner!.......2003-01-15

The underlying concept of this book is truly unique unto the world of SciFi. As such, it was a very refreshing read. Additionally, the author manages to grab you and suck you in right from the first few paragraphs. It is also a pleasure to not have to read several chapters to "get into" the story. I am very appreciative of an author's efforts in this area. I also enjoyed Chalker's level of character development. He has an excellent understanding of how much character detail and background needs to be given to satisfy the reader and move the story forward. In my mind, he strikes the perfect balance between giving you enough information to satisfy your curiousity without providing an overload of unnecessary and boring minutia. Finally, I would have to disagree with the previous reviewer's comment of the "author's stupid moralizing attitude." Although there is certainly a point made of portraying the moral thought processes going on within the central character, this book is by no means preachy or a morality tale. There are certainly some morality aspects of the future of "civilization" but they are an integral part of the storyline. The story would be far less cohesive and simply make less sense without them. The bottom-line is that the other reviewer gives the impression that readers will feel they are being preached to and that is absolutely not the feeling I got. I simply feel like I just finished reading a unique and well-written novel.

One of the best fictional universes in the whole SF.......1999-10-08

The book is the first in the Lords of the Diamond series. It takes you to a world very much different from ours. The world's dominated by a small organism that lives in everything - both living and dead matter. It makes the conditions on the planet very different from what we are used to and allows the use of a kind of pseudo-magic through controlling the mentioned organism. I'm telling it so thoroughly because I want you to realize that this is not just another magic universe book. The world created by Mr. Chalker is extremely original and amazing.

What's bad about the book is the author's stupid moralizing attitude. The characters are very clearly divided into good guys and bad guys and in case you don't understand who's who, Mr. Chalker explains it to you through most primitive and disgusting preachments. (Read my review to John Maddox Roberts's excellent book "SPQR" to see what I mean.)

Despite of this annoying flaw, the idea of the book is so brilliant that I'm forced to give it five stars. It's one of my favored books. I finally succeeded to get the other three volumes and I can't wait to read them all.

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Bunch grass, (A Dutton Diamond D western)
Joseph Wayne
Manufacturer: Dutton
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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Diamonds in the Grass
Christine Paul
Manufacturer: iUniverse
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Binding: Paperback

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A tragedy has forced thirty-year-old Daniel Hollister back to the bosom of his family to deal with plaguing doubts concerning his vocation as a priest. But Valley City, Minnesota, is no longer the safe haven of his childhood, for life has dealt some harsh blows. His grandfather has suffered a heart attack, his parents have separated, and his father is harboring a painful secret about the Hollister heritage. It's not exactly the perfect place to contemplate a life-altering decision, but it's the best place he has.

Diamonds in the Grass is a joyous journey of discovery...where the grass isn't always green but the diamonds of laughter manage to sparkle anyway. It's a journey where Daniel learns that things aren't always decided by chance or even by signs. Most often, they're simply decided, period. And he himself holds the key.

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The Four Lords of the Diamond -- Lilith: A Snack in the Grass ; Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold ; Charon: A Dragon at the Gate ; Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail

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The Four Lords of the Diamond -- Lilith: A Snack in the Grass ; Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold ; Charon: A Dragon at the Gate ; Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail
Jack L. Chalker
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The Four Lords of the Diamond: Lilith; Cerberus; Charon; Medusa

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The Four Lords of the Diamond: Lilith; Cerberus; Charon; Medusa
Jack L. Chalker
Manufacturer: Del Rey / Ballantine
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Classic science fiction, set on 4 different worlds.

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The Diamond in the Grass
Xavier Forneret
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Free grass, (A Dutton Diamond D westernw)

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Free grass, (A Dutton Diamond D westernw)
Vernon L Fluharty
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Lilith: A Snake in the Grass (Volume One of The Four Lords of the Diamond)

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Lilith: A Snake in the Grass (Volume One of The Four Lords of the Diamond)
Jack Chalker
Manufacturer: NY Ballantine/Del Rey 1981.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000H42XSQ

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Top Rate Professional Job.......2006-05-16

I echo what others have said about this book. It is not a fun or easy book to read but it is an excellent study of one of the most useless wastes of American soldiers in the ETO. How 28th Division CG Coda, one of the heros of D-Day, could turn into such a poor operational commander is sobering. I was also struck by how the author pointed out the weakness of the US policy (continued thru Vietnam) of plugging individual replacements into front line units with predictable disastrous results. Our current rotation of units is 100% more effective. He does all this in about a page and a half. This is indicative of the insights the author brings to the work.

Attrition warfare at its worse, chronicled at its best.......2004-11-25

Edward G. Miller's "A Dark and Bloody Ground" is a tour de force piece of academic-grade conflict history. Miller's research is solid and thorough and he covers a lot of ground in 200 or so pages, taking us from the initial commitment of American troops to the forest so oft referred to simply as "Hell" (by both sides!), through nearly three months of attrition fighting involving parts or all of TEN US Army divisions, to the final capture of the Roer River dams that lie on the other side of that seventy-odd square miles of Hell. Miller states up front that he wishes to provide a clear and concise overview of the Battles for the Hurtgen in a way previously not done. In this he is quite successful.

With respect to readability, Miller's writing style is quite easy to follow but it is made a bit choppy and (at least initially) hard to follow because he switches between American and German units frequently and unless/until the reader is familiar with which side of the line what unit numbers belong this can make the going tough. A simple use of italics to refer to German units (for example) would have gone a long way towards providing clarity for the reader. Robert Rush (or his publisher) used this tactic in his book on the Hurtgen (see comparison to Miller's book below) with great success.

The final chapter of Miller's book, entitled "Analysis" is worth the price of admission for its insights. Miller provides testimony from commanders who were there and can, looking back, see where problems arose and successes were achieved. The biggest "problem" with the battles of the Hurtgen forest, as Miller and his supporting players see it, was the lack of proper tactical goals, namely the Roer River dams. The dams were not in fact objectives until late in the game after many thousands of casualties were sustained on both sides. Until these proper objectives were articulated the US Army goal in the Hurtgen was to drive the enemy back and capture roads and settlements, as had been the case in Normandy and Brittany. Breaching the Westwall was important and laudable but the casualties were not. Hindsight is always clearer than foresight.

"A Dark and Bloody Ground" is, in the end, a solid piece of historical work worthy of a read. Despite some potential "readability" problems Miller has crafted a four star gem. Anyone interested in learning more about the Hurtgen Forest battles should check out Robert Rush's "Hell in the Hurtgen" which, unlike Miller's book which deals broadly with the whole campaign, focuses on a single 4th Division Regiment, the 22nd, and its time spent dying in the Hurtgen. In a literary sense Rush's book is superior, although both hold their own against each other on content!

Same Sad Song: Miller Covers MacDonald's First Hit.......2004-11-11

If _ A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Hurtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams 1944-1945_ (1995) were a song, it would be a cover tune first recorded by Charles B. MacDonald in 1963 (see my review of MacDonald's _The Battle of the Huertgen Forest_). Like Elvis Presley's rendition of Frank Sinatra's standard "My Way," opinion would vary as to who performed the song better. A younger generation might even hold that Presley was the original artist, while older fans would stand by Sinatra's as the better performance. The song has not changed, only the artist's style and delivery has. Such is the case with Edward G. Miller's contribution to the Huertgen Forest canon. Miller emphatically echoes MacDonald's original thesis that the American planners chose road junctions and towns as primary objectives when in fact they should have concentrated their efforts on two Roer River dams. Miller contends that the dams should have been the main objective from the onset of the campaign. If this had been the case, he argues, there would have been no need to enter the Huertgen Forest, thus eliminating the chance of becoming embroiled in a bitter contest there. In addition, Miller supports the claim that in order for the Americans to cross the Roer River successfully they first had to secure the dams to prevent the Germans from destroying them, flooding the entire region, and causing substantial delay. This last point is just the type of 20/20 hindsight that Miller and others cannot resist when supporting this argument. This is exactly what happened in February 1945, delaying the American attack crossing of the Roer River by two weeks.Miller also rehashes other criticisms such as the Americans had sacrificed mobility and firepower by entering the forest; the American planner's failure to consider the harsh weather conditions and terrain favorable to the defense, and the forest should have been by-passed altogether. As narrative history, Miller is top-notch. The author skillfully retells the sequence of events that made up the Huertgen Forest Campaign. From the VII Corps's first encounter with the forest in September 1944; the failed October attacks of the 9th Division; the tragedy of the 28th Division efforts in and around heavily fortified town of Schmidt in early November; to the renewed two-corps offensive that finally broke out of the forest. Miller covers the complete campaign with thoroughness and efficiency.Along the way, Miller conducted an enormous amount of research that includes the standard primary and secondary sources, as well as a substantial amount of correspondence and personal interviews from both American and German veterans of the fighting. The author has certainly succeeded in blending thorough analysis with readable narrative, however, he got a little careless at one point. To support a contention that Eisenhower and the high command were obsessed with reaching the Rhine River in favor of destroying German forces, Miller paraphrased Martin Blumenson in the official history. Upon checking this source, it clearly showed Blumenson was referring to Germans trapped within the Falaise Pocket in August 1944, not at the German border as Miller had hinted. The biggest question with all these notions is "how? How should the Huertgen Forest have been avoided? The author admits that it would probably been dangerous for the Americans to by-pass the forest initially, but that this does not mean First Army should have committed units time and time again in a fruitless battle of attrition. I agree! Miller states that the area north of the city of Aachen presented the best avenue of approach into Germany, yet he stops there without substantiating this claim or offering a suggestion of how this maneuver could have been carried out. How could the dams have been captured earlier? Miller implies that had there not been an American manpower shortage, they "might have succeeded" in taking the Roer River Dams in September or October. Again, the author offers no clear plan on how this would have been performed. He then goes on to state that had V Corps been reinforced with one or two regiments, it "would likely have" taken the two dams in November. "Ifs," "might haves" and "would likely haves" are not concrete enough in this unending controversy. Miller has written a fine book, equal to MacDonalds first study. That is an impressive achievement in itself. Whether you like the cover tune or the original is a matter of taste. They are both the same sad song.

A closely detailed study of the brutal fighting.......2003-06-19

A Dark And Bloody Ground: The Hurtgen Forest And The Roer River Dams, 1944-1945 by Edward G. Miller (an active-duty army ordnance officer) is a closely detailed study of the brutal fighting which took place in the Hurtgen Forest near the end of World War II. Those deadly battles in the Hurtgen Forest have been overshadowed in military history and popular imagination by the more famous "Battle of the Bulge", and yet the gripping depictions of combat, terror, and the revelations of lethal blunders in A Dark And Bloody Ground make it a truly recommended resource for avid students of Military History in general and World War II Studies in particular.

A Dark and Bloody Ground.......2002-07-02

I purchased this book as part of research I am doing. I found it to be very informative and interesting reading. The author does a wonderful job putting names of men with places throughout the book. I was even able to find reference to my Dad, Capt. Gilbert H. Fuller, 2nd Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment.

This book will prove very helpful in my writing of a WWII memorial of my parents and their contributions to the effort.

I would certainly highly recommend it to others.

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A Dark and Bloody Ground The Hurtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-1945
Miller Edward G.
Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
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Binding: Hardcover
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The New Biography looks at the life stories of eight famous women in nineteenth-century France who became public figures even though they lived in a society that did not encourage women to speak out publicly. All of these women--activists, writers, and philosophers--became controversial figures who challenged conventional notions of femininity in their time. By showing how these women deliberately created their public lives, Jo Burr Margadant and her colleagues demonstrate the rich rewards of the new methods in biography.
In her introduction Margadant gives a brilliant explanation of the new biography and how it fits into recent and current debates about the writing of history. Each essay that follows connects the lives of the women it discusses with major themes in French history. The famous activist Flora Tristan, the feminist journalist Marguerite Durand, and a leading advocate of birth control, Nelly Roussell, are just a few of the fascinating women brought to life in this book.
Because these stories often expose the cracks in what has been seen as a monolithic separation of gendered spheres in nineteenth-century bourgeois France, they challenge historians to rethink assumptions about the history of this period. The New Biography thus joins a body of work that brings women from the margins of the historical record into history's mainstream.

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The Pop-Up Book of Space Craft (Spacecraft)
Anton Radevsky
Manufacturer: Konemann
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