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There is an image most people carry of the artist (think Van Gough’s self-portrait, the one with his ear bandaged), working in solitude in a barren garret in a dark corner of the city. Everyday is a struggle. He continually walks between moments of brilliance and moments of insanity. It’s a romantic image, I suppose. Built around the belief that an artist must suffer for his art.

This applies not only to the painter, mind you, but also to the actor, the dancer, the photographer, the writer. We all must suffer for our art.

But image and reality are often two different things. Writing, for example, does NOT have to be a torturous process of endurance and pain. In fact, it should be exactly the opposite. Liberating. Joyous. Enlightening. Why else would you want to invest so much of yourself in it?

So let’s take a closer look at a few common writing myths.

This first one actually applies in all areas of a person’s life. Simply stated: Having a big ego is a bad thing. It’s unbecoming. It’s boastful. It puts you in a negative light.

The truth is … if you want to be a success at anything, you need an ego. It motivates you, keeps you moving, pushes you to do your best. It’s not your enemy. It’s your ally.

The key to making it work for you is to keep it directed inward. Pump yourself up silently. Let it fill you with pride and a sense of possibilities. That’s what the ego does best. Used wisely, it will move you toward your writing goals, not away from them.

Our next common writing myth is one you hear all the time: you have to write something original.

What is originality?

There’s only one thing in the world that can make your work original. That’s you. Because that’s all you have to bring to the table as a writer. Who you are. Your history. Your experiences. Your family. Your beliefs.

When a publisher says he wants something original, he’s saying he wants something fresh, something that reflects you the writer. He wants your voice, your honesty. The world already has a Stephen King and a Mary Higgins Clark and a John Grisham. It doesn’t need more of them.

Our final common writing myth (though there is no shortage of such myths, we are limited by space): the slower you write, the more time you spend with each and every word, the better your writing will be.

The catch to this one is simple: there’s a time and place for writing, and there’s a time and place for editing.

When you mix the two activities (which are very different in their requirements and purpose), you rarely do either one justice. If anything will suffer, it will be your writing. Because suddenly you’ll be under the constraints of the editor sitting on your shoulder. You’ll be fretting over the words while losing perspective on the more important elements of the story. Does the scene work? Are your characters being true to their nature? Does this move the story forward?

The truth is this: your writing will ALWAYS be better when you write in the moment. Remember when you were a child? When you could spend hours building a sand castle or playing catch or flying a kite? Those were moments when nothing else in the world existed because you were completely absorbed in the activity. Write with that same captivation, as if each scene were unfolding right before your eyes, and you’ll find your writing will not only be vivid and powerful, it will flow faster than you ever imagined possible.

Writing does not have to be a torturous, exacting process.

Allow yourself to have fun with it, and you’ll be a better writer for the effort.

David B. Silva
The Successful Writer
http://thesuccessfulwriter.com

Not doing what, you ask.

Writing and submitting articles.

Writing articles is a cost- effective way of promoting your business. It exposes you to potential customers in a way that few other marketing vehicles do.

Writing and submitting your work to online sites gives you fr*ee marketing opportunities. It also increases your credibility in the eyes of potential customers.

Have you taken advantage of this very effective marketing strategy?

If not, why not?

* What If I Can’t Write?

Common question, common excuse with a simple answer: if you can talk, you can write.

You don’t need to be a professional writer before you can write as a way of marketing your business.

All you do need to do is

• Want to write

• Decide to write

• Write

* What Should I Write?

A few ideas are:

• Articles

• Tips (eg top ten or top five ways to….)

• Letters to editors

• Reports (yes, reports!)

Think of some more and add them to this list.

* What Topics Should I Write About?

Here, your only limitation is in your imagination. So be creative and let these questions serve as guidelines in helping you decide what to write about:

• What information will potential customers find useful?

• What are you interested in? Find a way to make it relevant to your business and write about it.

• If you were in your potential customers’ shoes, what topics (related to your business) would interest you?

• In what ways have you solved problems for people in the past? Write them down. Chances are, other people would benefit from the solution you provided.

• What are your experiences as a business owner? Write about them.

• Fill in the blanks :

  1. How To …….

  2. Top 5 Ways to……

  3. What Many People Don’t Know About……

  4. My Favourite Pastime is….

What you’ve got now is a bunch of potential headings for your articles, tips, reports or whatever. If you think about it, there’s a lot for you to write about.

All you have to do now is actually put pen to paper (hand to computer).

* What Should I Do With What I’ve Written?

Submit, submit, submit!

Newsletter editors and webmasters all over the ‘net are looking for fr*ee content for their subscribers and visitors.

Imagine the exposure you get by submitting an article to an ezine with thousands of opt-in subscribers. Fr*ee of charge, too! It’d be more expensive (and not always as effective in pulling in prospects) to advertise in the same publication.

Here is a brief list of places that accept articles for publication or announcement:

• PromoteYourArticle@yahoogroups (you need to subscribe fr*ee)

• article_announce@yahoogroups.com (subscribe first. Fr*ee)

• http://www.articleblaster.com/submit-articles.htm

• http://www.family-content.com/articles/submit.shtml

• http://ezinearticles.com/add_url.html

Here’s how it works. The key is to have a system that you use. An example is below:

• Write at least one article each month.

• Include a resource box at the end of it.

• Include permission to fr*eely distribute it at the top.

• Submit it to at least 5 sites each day.

* To make your writing easily acceptable and profitable

• Provide useful information. No sales letters or pitches.

• Include some way to get readers to contact you: you could offer a fre*ebie or a link to your website. This info goes into your resource box.

• Make your resource box about 4 - 6 lines long. I’ve included mine at the end of this article to give you an idea.

• Write it using a text editor like Notepad - that’s how many editors prefer to receive submissions.

• Format it to be 65 characters long per line. Press the ‘enter’ key each time you get to 65 characters (unless your text editor has word-wrap in which case you’d set it to wrap at 65 characters).

• Always obey submission guidelines to the letter.

• Follow the writing tips below.

* Writing Tips

• Write like you talk. Be conversational in your writing. If you can hold a conversation, you can write.

• After writing your first draft, leave it to ‘fallow’ then start on your next article.

• Never submit your first draft. Rewrite it after a day or two.

• Spell check thoroughly. Check for grammar errors too. Get someone else to read through it if you can - they may pick up something you’ve missed.

• Obey submission guidelines (it’s so important, hence my repeating it here)

• Write something everyday. Even if it’s just a personal journal entry, just write. It’ll get you into the habit, and keep you creative.

Practice what this article says and write something today.

Dr Kem Thompson is a Success Coach, Speaker and Author. Receive similar articles and more useful resources weekly: subscribe to her FR*EE newsletter, Days of Success! and receive a thank-you gift by filling in the form here: http://www.successeminars.com

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Like every other free advertising technique on the web, writing articles has several pitfalls that one must avoid. If an author is not careful, these booby-traps can destroy an article’s chances of publication and leave the author with precious time wasted.

Sin #7: Using Cliches

As an article directory owner and user, I have come to find that an increasingly large number of article writers are using cliches. In its simplest form, a cliche is a statement or idea that is so overused, it has no meaning. A cliche normally sounds quite trite.

“How do I know if I am using a cliche?” you may ask. It is very easy to tell when you know a simple rule. If you can guess what the ending of the phrase will be before you have finished reading it, you know it’s cliche. Let’s take for instance, the most prevalent cliche in article marketing. I’ll start the phrase off, and you can finish it. “Content is ____.” More than likely, you have been so exposed to this phrase, that you’ll know that “Content is King.”

Do not include cliches in your articles. You’ll sound uninformed, and will not be viewed as an authority on your subject.

Sin #6: Aggravating Article Directory Owners

Nothing is more likely to get you banned from an article site than aggravating the site owner. All you need to do in order to keep in good terms with your publishers is read their terms of service, and follow the rules set forth within. Never submit a private label resale rights article to a directory. Being publisher friendly is that simple. All you have to do is just be considerate.

Sin #5: Typographical Errors

The easiest way to seem completely misinformed is to commit a writing error. All you have to do is paste your article into a spell checker or grammar checker (such as Microsoft Word) to ensure typographically correct article content.

Sin #4: No Keywords

Never forget to include keywords in your articles, and aim to target them to your article. The better your keywords, the better the chance that your link will be clicked.

Sin #3: Not Submitting Your Articles

The easiest way to receive no exposure from an article is not to submit it to as many article directories as possible. If you are looking for a free piece of software to submit your articles, there is a link to a free script for you to use on my website under the “Free Resources” section.

Sin #2: Untargeted Resource Box

Be smart, and write articles that are relevant to the website you are promoting. A wonderful article on toothpaste won’t get people clicking on a link to a site that sells candies!

Sin #1: The Deadliest Sin of All — An Empty Resource Box

The purpose of article writing is to establish yourself as an expert in the niche that you discuss. The only way that you benefit is if you include a link to your website in the resource box. Article readers will have a site to visit to further extend their knowledge of your topic, and you will have the opportunity to make a sale.

Before you submit an article, ensure that you are not committing one of the Seven Deadly Sins of Article Writing. Your article will be more likely to be listed and republished.

Jay Hines is the owner of Free Advertising Mastery, an article directory that aims to educate others in perfecting the methods of free advertising and provide other free resources for advertisers. Jay’s site is located at http://www.freeadmastery.info.

Simile is a comparison of two things which, however different in other respects, have some strong point or points in common. The words ‘like’ and ‘as’ will normally be used when making the comparison.

You might say, ‘Getting this contract signed is as impossible as trying to smuggle daybreak past a rooster.’ Contracts and roosters don’t have much in common (which is funny), but in this case, the presenter is telling you what they do have in common. Getting the contract signed and smuggling daybreak past a rooster are both impossible.

You could shorten the last simile by changing ‘as impossible as’ to ‘like.’

“Getting this contract signed is like trying to smuggle daybreak past a rooster.”

In this case, the audience must make the interpretation that both are impossible. It’s good to make the audience think sometimes because it forces them to be involved.

A recurring theme with me is that humor surrounds you wherever you go. I got a great simile out of a child’s joke book I acquired (if something is valuable you acquire it) for 10 cents at a flea market. I now use this line in presentations all over the country. I do a seminar called Business Lite: Low Cost/No Cost Ways to Improve Productivity. In that seminar I talk about how employees feel at work. I say, ‘Sometimes you go to work and you feel like a turtle with claustrophobia you’ve got to be there, but you feel closed in.’

I like to mix and match many types of humor in one concise chunk. Here’s a simile that I just love.

“If you put his brain on a matchstick, it would be like rolling a BB down a four-lane highway.”

Let’s break this one-liner down to see how several different forms of humor were used. Putting a person’s brain on a matchstick and rolling a BB down a four-lane highway are both ludicrous juxtapositions. (View this web site’s ‘Juxtaposition’ article, for reference.) No one is going to put someone’s brain on a matchstick, or roll a BB down a four-lane highway. This piece of humor is a simile because the two ludicrous juxtapositions are compared with the word like.

The effect of the simile is to exaggerate how small this man’s brain is. So, three different types of humor juxtaposition, simile and exaggeration were combined to make a great one-liner. These are the types of relationships you would explore if you were feeling adventurous and decided to write some of your own humor. Many of the one-liners you run across will be combinations like this. You don’t have to be able to dissect them like I just did. All you have to be able to do is pick the ones that make your point (in this case similes), and use them where and when appropriate.

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In one of his acts, comedian Chris Rock tells a joke where he calls a certain class of men, “Low-expectation-having folks.” (Of course, that’s not the word he used.) At any rate, he had a valid point about people not expecting enough from life. Granted, we’ve been taught that it is a sin to aim too low. And although I don’t think a person can ever aim too high, I do believe a person can suffer from having unrealistically high expectations as to what the returns should be on an endeavor.

To illustrate the point, as a social worker, one of the first trainings I ever attended was about the world of abnormal childrearing. The WAR cycle, it was called. Simply put, at the crux of most child abuse, it was found that the parent had unrealistic expectations as to the stages of child development. This included expecting children to be potty trained at six months, to not get into things at age two and to even sleep all night as a newborn. Subsequently, in a fit of rage, a parent would inappropriately “physically discipline” (abuse) a child. Sad to say, many of these children wound up in the hospital, or worse, for these normal developmental milestones.

As a writer, I’m always looking for comparisons in life lessons, so let’s apply this to being a writer. This is what I’ve come up with. I am beginning to see a similar syndrome, for some writers, whether self-published or not.

I call this syndrome The “WAR cycle” for writers. In other words, “The World Of Absent Realism.” When we are writing, we are often absent from reality. And by no means should we give up our imagination, since it is the source of our writing. But let’s face it. When it comes to pushing our books, we have to be “Keeping it Real.” As writers, we are dreamers.

Okay, we’ve written the All American Novel. Even so, our biggest dream is to be published. We can already see the red carpet rolled out with stretch limousines and six-seven figure checks rolling in as soon as the ink dries. We’re fulfilled with the writing in itself, but if we by chance luck up and get published, we expect the world to beat a path to our door after we’ve accomplished this feat.

Unfortunately, when things don’t take off right away, we abuse our child, our dream, by either giving up too soon or blaming our publisher or our agent. To use a metaphor, we want to plant a seed and see a tree the next day. Like the abusive parent, we want to accelerate the development process necessary to getting known as a writer.

What made me realize this is a friend (who is self-published) went to a literary retreat and came home amazed at the number of disgruntled writers she met. Even when they had four or five books with traditional publishers, they alleged they had not been paid since their advance. In my friend’s case, at the end of the day, not only did she and another self-published writer sell the most books, they got paid. The other writers could not collect any money until their royalty payment. Perhaps both self-published and traditionally published writers can take lessons from these two literary entrepreneurs’ “hustle.” The main thing is to avoid the WAR Trap.

How to Avoid the War Trap

Remember, it can take 20 times exposure before a person recognizes or buys a book. In direct marketing, only 10% of the people contacted will be buyers. The 20/80% rule also applies to book buyers. Try to write more than one book and develop repeat customers. Remember it can take 100 no’s to get to a yes. Don’t spend all the book advance and then not have enough to go on a book tour. Try to negotiate more for marketing. If you live near a book store, why aren’t you scheduling booksignings on a regular basis? If you can’t do a physical tour, why not do a virtual tour? Give up the fantasy that you get rich with one book. (If you do, fine, but it’s a rarity.) Empower yourself by getting a web page. Stop being afraid of sharing, which leads to networking. There is no shortage when you come from a position of abundance. Make use of print on demand. Write e-books. Use e-mail and save postage. Use Free advertisement on the Internet through book reviews, interviews, and e-zines. Start a newsletter. Write articles to help promote your books. Post on message boards. Do Internet Radio Show Interviews. Develop ways to market your book off-line and on-line such as through the Publisher’s Marketing Association, Cushcity.com’s coop advertising.

Maxine Thompson(www.maxinethompson.com and www.maxineshow.com ) is the owner of Thompson Literary Agency and Thompson Literary Services. She is also the owner of Black Butterfly Press. If you are interested in being on one of her internet radio shows as a guest you can email her at maxtho@aol.com or maxtho@sbcglobal.net
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In the world of marketing communications, your first impression — your headline — can lead to either marketing success … or failure.

It’s important to realize that headlines work best when they appeal to your reader’s interests (not yours). And not only can they *grab attention*, they can also make your message easy to read, convey your main selling points, and lead your customer to a sale.

Over the years copywriting pros have used several headline formulas that always work well. Here are my fab five:

1. The question. “Are You Worried About Your Financial Future?”

   A question headline automatically gets your readers involved in your message, because they answer it in their minds. Many people will read further into your letter, ad, or Web site copy just to find out what answer or solution you provide. Again, make sure the question focuses on the reader’s interest, not yours. A *bad* example would be: “Do You Know What New Product We’ve Created This Year?” (No one cares but you! ; ))

2. The How-to. “How to Get Thinner Thighs in 30 Days.”

   How-to headlines work very well, because people love information that shows them how to do something. (Thousands of book titles begin with “How to….’) Think of the benefits your product/service offers and then try creating some “how to” headlines.

3. The Testimonial. “Rob Smith’s Consulting Is Pure Magic — Our Sales Have Increased by 30%!”

   Why not let your clients do the selling for you? Their commendations can go a long way in convincing others to use your services. Tip: To appear credible, always include your clients’ full names and the cities they live in.

4. The Command. “Boost Your Business Today!”

   Turn your most important benefit into a commanding headline, such as “Make More Time for Your Family,” “Look Younger Instantly!” and “Get 7 New Clients This Month.” (By the way, throwing a number into your headline is another good tactic. And readers seem to like odd numbers as opposed to even.)

5. The News. “Introducing Our New ‘Rest-Assured’ Tax Service!”

   This usually works best if you truly have something big to announce, such as new products or big changes in your company. Don’t try to make news out of something that’s not.

   Once your readers know you have something they’re interested in, they’ll take the time to read your entire article, brochure, letter, ad, e-zine, or Web page. So put some TLC into creating headlines that entice!

(c) 2002 Alexandria K. Brown

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alexandria K. Brown, “The E-zine Queen,” is author of the award-winning manual, “Boost Business With Your Own E-zine.” To learn more about her book and sign up for more FREE tips like these, visit her site at http://EzineQueenTutorial.com/

Choosing A Career Of Your Choice Is Your Right

Make a careful choice and make it early. Being careful about choosing writing for your career is essential. This wouldn’t have been the case if you had chosen, suppose, a lawyer’s profession. But unconventional professions like writing can sure raise eyebrows!

This is because the pitfalls in the profession are generally unknown. So is the strong career potential. But having made an informed decision, you need to prepare yourself, read alot and practice writing, by writing alot for yourself first.

Train Yourself For Skilled Writing

If you have a college education in literature, poetry or writing including journalism it really pays off here. You will learn a lot through education; otherwise learning how to write effectively takes years. However, there are steps you can adopt for writing good copy or fiction or whatever genre you have chosen.

1. Unless you are a ‘book worm’ from the beginning, you miss many things like the passing trends in different genres, which is the vital step for you to learn when you first start off. This helps you cut out your style.

2. Don’t restrict your reading to any particular subject throughout your career. This keeps you abreast with trends, plus you get updated regularly.

3. Watch movies, TV, Oprah and all of them. They are all extended forms of writing. In fact, you can think of them as creative voices of some form of writing only. When Oprah talks, she doesn’t appear to be following a script. Such is her fluency on any topic. But all of it is well-rehearsed and based on scripts.

4. Write your resumes and school papers yourself. They teach you presentation.

5. Develop interest in the subject in which you plan to write. Studying anything out of compulsion takes you nowhere.

How To Write

The art of writing is all about presenting your true beliefs about the subject. The presentation should stand out in the crowd so that it is not lost. Choose a different style (if possible each time) from the rest. Here are some helpful tips:

1. Having chosen what to write, decide on how to present it. It is the presentation which places your writing ahead of the pack and not the subject and facts alone. Some people adopt a hard-hitting style in short sentences for greater effect.

2. Structure your writing. Let the argument or the subject flow fluently. Don’t forget to check this point while you proof your writing. Readers can easily get confused if they think your writing is not for them because it is difficult to understand.

3. Writing is a one-way communication unlike public speeches. Readers will just put down your copy if they don’t get interested in the first paragraph. The first paragraph must tell readers your style, whether they can expect what they want, etc.

4. Keep the same tempo. Don’t let your complacency show. Always end the article on a softer note. An abrupt ending will let the reader down.

Tony Jacowski is a quality analyst for The MBA Journal. Aveta Solutions – Six Sigma Online ( http://www.sixsigmaonline.org ) offers online six sigma training and certification classes for lean six sigma, black belts, green belts, and yellow belts.

The best non-fiction books have a set structure to house their chapters. That structure provides the framework for each chapter. It’s stressful to re-invent the wheel every time with a blank screen.
Most people including the author are intimidated by a blank screen. Instead of starting from scratch each chapter, use repeating elements to create structure. In John Maxwell’s “21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You” foreword by Zig Ziglar contains repeating elements that house each chapter. Each chapter has the same basic form. To build chapters that keep your readers reading include these 8 elements:

1. Chapter title: The title immediately followed by a subtitle emphasizes and explains its meaning.

2. Brief quote: Following the title are one to two quotes from your speeches or other authorities in your field which support the title.

3. Introduction: Each chapter begins with a six to eight paragraph of introduction that may include a story presenting the chapter’s main principle or underlying thesis. For short books 3 to 4 paragraphs sound great.

4. 7 to 10 points: Following the introduction may be lessons or tools used to achieve the goal presented in the introduction. Condense your material as you develop each point. Some lessons may require one paragraph and others may need several.

5. Case studies: Each chapter may include one or more story form case studies that support the chapter’s central idea.

6. Self-evaluation tools: The chapter may include brief questions that permit readers to measure their progress with each of the principles described in the chapters.
7. Conclusion: Each chapter may end with four to eight paragraphs that summarize the central idea and supporting points.

8. Other Engagement Tools: The chapter may include other engagement tools such as worksheets, note sheets, lists that work to engage your readers and make them active participants in the book instead of just observing.

Step out of your comfort zone prepare your marketing plan, mine your existing knowledge and create a framework for each chapter, speed write your book and you’ll be surprised at what you accomplish by following the simple steps of an easy writing program.

Earma Brown, 11 year author and business owner helps small business owners and writers who want to write their best book now! Author of ‘Write Your Best Book Now’, she mentors other writers and business professionals through her monthly ezine ‘iScribe’ Subscribe now at iscribe@writetowin.org for FREE mini-course ‘Jumpstart Writing Your Best Book’ or visit WritetoWin.org

This is a copy of my most recent email newsletter. This was an
overwhelming success.
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January 2006

The Early Bird Gets the Worm—Don’t Delay Free Tree Day Jan.
28th is a Free Higan Weeping Cherry Tree Day

Greetings! January 28, 2006 is free Weeping Higan Cherry Tree
Day…..All members of our email club can receive a free Higan
Weeping Cherry when you bring your pickup to our 5275 West Swamp
Rd. Fountainville Pa. location. These trees are 10-12′ tall and
in 24″ baskets. These trees must be picked up on the 28th,
before 5pm. sorry, no rain checks. There is a limit of one per
family and you must have been a member on or before January 27,
2006 of our email club.

Sincerely,

Bill Hirst Free Tree Day Jan. 28th, 2006 is Free Tree Day

5275 W. Swamp Rd. Fountainville, Pennsylvania 18923

January 28, 2006 8:00AM-5:00PM Reasons to Come to this Event We
are selling 150 acres of our nursery and we must liquidate many
trees and plants. Some of of plants are in quantities that would
supply us for many years of sales. But we can’t move that number
of trees. Thus they will be either sold at a discount,
destroyed, or given away. I like the last option. Thus if you
bring your pickup to the farm today, Saturday the 28th, we will
give away 1 free Higan Weeping cherry to each email newsletter
subscriber to Highland Hill Farm that picks up the tree by 5PM.
Sorry you must be have be signed up by Jan. 27th, to qualify.
There are no rain checks. These trees are in 24 and 28 inch
baskets and are app. 10-14′ tall. We will help load them in your
pickup.

We have a total of 75 trees ready to give away while the supply
lasts. All other trees and plants are 20% off today.

Driving Directions to the Farm Highland Hill Farm 5275 W. Swamp
Rd. Rt. 313 Fountainville, Pennsylvania 18923 myhirst@yahoo.com
http://www.seedlingsrus.com We will have other free tree
offerings each month. So keep in touch.
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Within 15 minutes of this email being sent people started to
arrive to make selections. We would have had no customers on
this day. Yet we sold enough other stock to make this offering
possible. We gave away 52 trees and this was even covered by the
press showing up and giving us exposure in local papers.

When one is alone
One feels that there is something missing
One longs for something that is not there
Something to fulfill oneself

When one is alone
One tries to answer one’s questions
But at times one cannot find the answer
One, once again, longs for something

When one is alone
One then figures out what one needs
One searches for another
Another that he’s been longing for

On the other side of the earth
The other feels similarly
The other undergoes similar experiences
Soon the other does the same

About the Author: hi! i’m a high school student in de le salle zobel school. I enjoy writting poems and i would like to publish them… hopefully, someday, i would like to have a book containning all poems published… hope you like my poems

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