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You Know The Most About Your Back Pain And Its Diagnosis

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

Back pain is an enormous subject in medical terms which makes back pain and its diagnosis very problematic. It is easy to blame your physician for not knowing much concerning your back pain, but the fact is that you are in a better place to understand why you have pain in your back that they do.

This is because pain in your back that is not congenital or due to a precise accident, illness or series of medications is usually due to bad posture and that means lifestyle changes.

For instance, I am heavy and have just begun having back pain. My doctor could see my size and recommended that I lose weight. We all know that that is not going to happen over night and so did he, so he gave me a prescription for 20 tablets a day and his assistant gave me a massage and an jab in the posterior.

I waited and waited until the tablets ran out and I was no better. It would have been simple to say that the medical doctor was of no use and, to be honest, his quick fix remedies were useless, but his advice was spot on. I lost eight kilos (20 pounds) during a week or so and could stand up straight again.

Now, I still have back pain, but I know that I can afford to lose another 20 pounds, although the actual compulsion - the debilitating twenty-four hour pain - has passed, which will make it more difficult for me to focus on losing more weight.

That is not the medical doctor’s fault, it is mine.

We live in a society where we expect a tablet to cure us and some doctors pander to this culture (like mine did). Unfortunately, fifteen minutes with the physician and a handful of pills will not cure all our troubles. Occasionally, we have to realize that we are our own worst enemies and hold our hands up.

This is not to say that doctors are always right. I have a friend who has had debilitating back pain for thirty years and had to give up work early. His wife left him too because she could no longer cope. He sits at home alone most days very lonely.

When I told him that I had obtained relief from massage, he told me that his physician had told him 20 years ago that neither massage nor acupuncture could help him, so he has never tried them.

You could say that my friend ought to have tried them anyway and I would agree with you, but he believed, and still believes, his physician.

It is a real shame when people close their minds off to ideas that they know too little of so they are not able to make a sensible decision. It has cost my friend 30 years of mobility and his best friend.

Bob Dylan said it best when he said:

‘Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don’t criticize What you can’t understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin’. Please get out of the new one If you can’t lend your hand For the times they are a-changin’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCWdCKPtnYE

there is a lesson there for a lot of us, I think.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a range of subjects, but is now involved with sciatica pain management. If you would like to know more, please go to our web site at Sore Back Remedies

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Preventing Back Injury

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Back injury is very common. Not so much in children because their backs are still flexible and they get lots of exercise running around and playing, but as we become older most of give up running about and playing. Add that with the natural stiffening of joints that comes with age and back injury becomes more prevalent.

When you comprehend those easy facts, the way to prevent injury seems clearer - keep running about and playing or if you do not fancy that, take other exercises frequently. Back injury occurs most frequently in the workplace, so people say, but what is not a workshop. Is cooking and cleaning at home not work?

Do not think that you are at far less risk at home than in the office, on the shop floor or on a construction site. Back injury is usually the result of doing something in an incorrect manner over a long period of time - bad posture or bad technique - but it can also be caused by lifting a box onto or down from a shelf one time.

The best approach is to prevent back injury ever occurring because when you have it, you will sorely regret it and have a difficult time getting shot of it. So, how do you go about avoiding back injury?

Firstly, you should reduce the stress that you place on your back by normalizing your weight and by learning how to manoeuvre heavy objects properly and adopting right postures.

Secondly, you should attempt to strengthen the muscles in your back so that they are more cheerfully equipped to deal with the unavoidable stresses of daily life. Rather than only talking about back muscles we should include stomach muscles too.

So, beginning with posture: walk tall, adopt a military bearing and do not slouch. Likewise whilst sitting. Do not merely fall into a chair like a sack of potatoes; keep your back straight and attempt not to lean to one side or the other all the time. Sit near to your desk so that you do not have to lean over to reach which may encourage slouching and rounded shoulders and back.

Learn how to sit at your desk. Your feet ought to be flat on the floor (or a foot rest); your thighs ought to be parallel with the floor. The desk or chair ought to be of such a height that you can rest your arms on it with the forearms parallel to the floor without reaching up or slouching over. Stand up and walk around for a minute or two each hour.

Your car seat should be adjusted to be right for you as well, particularly if you drive much. Be careful of weights and bulky or awkward objects. Even the shopping. Learn how to manhandle them with the least amount of risk. Get help if you think you may need it.take it from me, in the case of backache, prevention is much better that cure, if you can find one.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a range of subjects, but is now involved with sciatica pain management. If you would like to know more, please go to our web site at Sore Back Remedies

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Learning How To Relieve Your Back Pain

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

Millions, and usually tens of millions of individuals in every country suffer from back pain and many of them get inadequate help. It seems that it is treated lightly because it is so common, but the fact is that it is very hard to treat. There are so many causes of back pain and the cause of a person’s back pain might not be instantly apparent.

The cause could be one event like moving a weighty object yesterday, but normally back pain is the result of bad posture over years, which is why tracking down the cause is so difficult. With so little effective support, it is hardly surprising that numerous individuals turn to drugs (both legal and illegal) and alcohol. However, drugs and alcohol can only ever provide temporary relief - when the effects wear off the next day, the pain and discomfort will return.

Very often, backache starts in the lower back and the most common cause of it is bad posture and lack of exercise. The bad posture could come from a personal idiosyncrasy of favouring one side of your body like always putting your weight on your right buttock and leaning on your right elbow while watching TV or merely sitting for too long without moving much as a result of driving for a living or sitting at a desk all day.

However, bad posture can also be the result of injury or being overweight. Finding out why they have back pain and what they can do about it becomes a hobby for many people with back pain especially these days whilst computers and the Internet make research so a lot easier.

You could always hope that it simply goes away, obviously, and it frequently does. It can simply clear up and go away one morning as inexplicably as it came, but most people find that it just stays there gnawing away at them with a continuous dull ache interspersed with flashes of sharp pain

So in order to begin learning how to relieve your back pain, you have to analyze the cause of it. If the cause is genetic or due to injury or illness, you will naturally need professional help, but if they are the causes, you are probably getting it already. For the remainder of us, it is time for some hard thought and honest decision-making.

Being overweight is a big difficulty nowadays and it is also a major cause of backache or a weak back which may lead to injury. So, if you are overweight, lose it or at least much of it. That could cure your back pain in weeks. If you are overweight because you eat or drink too a lot, you will need to exercise more or cut down.

Exercising a lot with a bad back can be quite a problem, so most people will have to cut down and build up the amount of exercise they do slowly. While you are trying to build this new body, try also to lay off the painkillers, because then you will be in a better position to judge how effective your actions are.

Drugs and alcohol can lead to addiction as well and there is no use swapping a bad back, which is not life-threatening for internal organ injury which is.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a variety of topics, but is now involved with sciatica pain management. If you would like to know more, please go to our web site at Sore Back Remedies

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Retirement Gift Ideas For Executives

Saturday, July 16th, 2011

For those elite people in business, who have probably known the finer things in life, personalization is the key to giving the perfect retirement gift. It must be something that allows them to remember their legacy in the company, where they had slaved for decades to get to the desk of their dreams.

The gift should be something related to their previous business interests, and which, after their life-time of profitable deals and perfect investments, reminds them of those business-related activities that gave them pleasure and therefore makes them feel happy again. These two things are basic and essential to help the former executive remember how they lived their working lives, and of course, the one who thoughtfully gave them the gift.

For The Keen Golfer: Nothing says elitism and top-flight more than the sport of golf. The demand for golf clubs, gloves, golf-carts and the like has soared over the years due to the proliferation in industries like hedge fund investing and financial advisors in general. A rising number of business people simply means more golfers as golf is the sport where lots of them go to bond and become acquainted. More evidence of this, is that golf courses are becoming more popular in rising countries like India and China, where ‘Mission Hills’ and many other courses are frequently advertised in the sporting press.

All it takes is some creative thinking. For example, you could emblazon their company logo, family seal or monogram on some golf balls, markers, tees or their golf bag to display that certain kind of elitism that they relish. For those who love to take friends to the golf course with them, nothing says camaraderie more than personalized golf vests for the four friends!

If they have played particularly well in a memorable golf tournament, a miniature personalized scorecard print will also stimulate memories just as much as photos do. With their podium photos and ranks immortalized for ever, you can recreate the spirit of the golf tournament and help the golfer (and other participants) to relive the moment just as if they were replaying and enjoying the game again.

Recreational Gambling: A lot of executive figures like to spend some of their spare time in casinos, where they display their opulence and try to win more too. Such people live life in the fast lane, so to speak, winning and losing a lot of money as spend their free time. The perfect gift for this type of person, are gifts that represent his/her lifestyle, like a personally branded cigar or a monogrammed cigar case and cutter. What do you think about a personalized deck of cards with the logo that represents the retiree’s former trade or industry?

You can also go for the classic gift of expensive wine or champagne, the taste of which reminds one of the good life with its incomparable taste. A bottle of Chateau Lafite, Cristal Brut or Clos du Mensil are on this list. Presenting top-flight executives with these types of privilege is integral to the perfect retirement party for them. Cigar cases with a monogram and expensive wine go a long way to achieving this.

The Conclusion: Nothing else will remind them of their previous lifestyles more than personalized items that represent their previous way of life. Giving these sorts of gifts to retiring executives will be spot on. They ought to be able to live their retirement years the way they want to and thinking along the lines of luxury and personalization will help you discover the best retirement gift for them quite easily.

If you are interested in executive items, please visit our web site on Choosing an Executive Briefcase.

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The Necessity of Installing AV Software Today

Friday, July 15th, 2011

AV software or anti-virus software plays an important function in detecting, preventing, and removing malware, computer viruses, computer worms, Trojan horses, spyware and adware.

It is true that the Net has proved to be an excellent means of communication, but at the same time it is an simple target for computer viruses and worms that can cause great chaos to a networking system.

Computer viruses and worms have the capability to adjust, delete and steal data, with worms also having the ability to multiply and spread themselves to cause great concern.

The necessity of loading AV software is imperative because it is quite possible that a bug or worm could have been in a computer a long time before one knows it.

This could leave your computer infected a long while before you take action for its removal. So the proper functioning and storage of essential and confidential data requires the latest version of the software which can help to not just keep your personal computer clean and uninfected, but would also inform you of threats where prompt action is required.

A number of strategies can be used in anti-virus protection using signature based detection involving searching for known patterns of data within executable code. But it is vital to know that this does not always prove effective if the computer is contaminated with new malware.

There are regularly new updates created for the software to counter such so-called zero-day threats. Some of them use heuristics to foresee new dangers.

Generic signatures, one heuristic approach, has proved effective in identifying new versions or variants of current viruses by looking for known malicious code, or slight versions of such code, in files. Some AV software has, in addition, the ability to test what a file will do by running it in a sandbox. It can also analyze what it does to see if it will perform any malicious actions.

The necessity of installing AV software on your computer for Internet usage arises out of a requirement for computer safety and the protection of crucial documents and files that could become damaged or lost forever. The two main ways that AV software works involve, firstly, that it scans for all the viruses that are specified in the virus dictionary.

Then it alerts the user, after having discovered them, of their suspicious nature like port monitoring, spyware or data capturing. Then it takes action to be rid of infected files either automatically or on instruction from the user. Most good AV software will update these files automatically, which is achieved by having the software connect via the Net to the vendors? server for the regular downloading and installation of the latest virus patterns.

I would say that anti-virus software is without doubt necessary for the effective use of computers and the Internet, but it does not come without drawbacks such as the slowing down of the computer. Along with impairing the computer’s speed, it could give prompts and take decisions that are a problem for laymen to understand, thus leading to confusion and possible security breaches.

In addition, AV software that uses heuristic detection might occasionally not be able to accomplish the right balance between false positives and false negatives, with both of them proving destructive. Lastly AV software running at the highly sensitive kernel level of the operating system creates a potential avenue of attack.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on many topics, but is currently concerned with the network antivirus software. If you have an interest in such software, please go over to our website now at Computer Antivirus Software

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Alarm Clocks And Working Together Online

Monday, July 4th, 2011

Have you ever bought a piece of equipment that you thought would come in really useful only to leave it lying around for months because you could not work out how to set it up? Or not set all the features up, because it would have cost hours to read through the handbook, which looked as if it had been translated by a machine anyway?

Most people have experienced the state of affairs at some time or another. I had an alarm clock some time ago that had dozens of functions like waking me up at diverse times on the weekend to during the week and arbitrarily selecting a radio channel every day to wake me up. It also had a feature with which I could train it to understand some voice commands, but I could not be bothered with all that.

I just wanted it to get me up whenever I set it. Video recorders are similar devices. How many times do you hear of individuals setting their video recorder to record a film only to get a documentary on another channel? It used to happen a lot, didn’t it?

The point that I am getting at here is that the designers of these machines have been told to put as many features as possible into them up to a price in order to be all things to all people. However, in making their machines so complicated, a great deal of people decide not to bother using them at all and will avoid that make in the future, which is the precise opposite of what the manufacturers wanted.

The next time you go out looking for some electrical gadget, you will say to yourself: “Oh, So-And-So, you need a degree to use one by So-And-So. I’m not buying one of theirs”.

So how can this affect you? Well, if you have to organize anything that you expect others to take part in or be animated about, try not to make it excessively complicated. I am not saying ‘dumb-down’, just don’t show off by putting all the bells and whistles on it simply to show that you can do that. People will not be grateful to you for it, they will ignore your undertaking.

This has a lot of implications for on line projects where individuals can be thousands of miles apart but still be working together on a joint development from home. Open source programming is a good example of this type of work. The team leaders should keep everything as simple as possible if they want the utmost co-operation.

One technique that you can use to test to see if your project is being understood is to ask. It sounds obvious and it should be, but a lot of team leaders will not ask because they think that it makes them look weak and unknowledgable. Again, in fact, the opposite is true. A great team leader is not a tyrant; a good team leader is a good organizer and is thoughtful.

If you are interested in finding outmore about team-building, then go over to our website called Team Building to learn more.

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The Benefits Of Off-site Data Storage

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

Everybody who utilizes a computer for any reason needs to take backups. Even if you just play games on your computer, you will want to remember your highest score and your place in the game, but if you run a business with that computer, then backups are even more vital. They are totally crucial.

Data is a vital instrument in any business and it is necessary for an IT business - it is the earnings stream, the more important your data is, the more you should treasure your data backups. Most people keep their data backups on removable disks - thirty years ago it would have been on tape or 4.25 inch floppy disks; twenty years ago, it would have been on 2.5 inch disks and ten years ago until now on CD.

However, none of these media is totally safe. Data on these traditional media is subject to deterioration, a sort of natural wastage. However, they can also get destroyed in a fire or by magnetic fields, get stolen or get lost. This is not actually an acceptable situation for a business that depends on its data.

So what is the answer? IT specialists have been struggling with that question for fifty years. Off-site storage is one solution. This means that you ought to make at least two backups of your data at given points during the day, place one in your office safe and send one by courier to a safe storage location owned either by yourself or by a data storage company.

This is still the system that most companies use, if they back up their data on a ordinary basis at all. It is inexpensive and at least two times as safe as storing your backup data on the office premises. After all, it is extremely unlikely that two buildings will burn down or get robbed on the same day.

However, that still relies on the data being backed up correctly. For data to get securely backed up, it ought to get backed up and then verified. If you have much data this can become a lengthy process if you merely have one or two aging PC’s in the office. If this is a fact, people often skip verification or just back up in the right manner once a week.

I have been in both these situations. Fifteen years ago, I did not verify our office data and had three months of unusable nonsense, when our hard drive crashed, because I had not verified it and something was wrong with the back up program and ten years ago, I had a good backup, but it was a week old and had to pay my secretary a week’s overtime to re-input that week’s data.

Nowadays, I make all my backups by the book, but by a new course of action. I now use a cloud drive. This sounds fanciful, but what it means is that i send my data to a different company somewhere in the world automatically by means of the Internet every day. It happens in the background automatically. You simply set the program up, tell it what data to backup and off it goes.

This is the very best kind of data backup that I have ever found and it is cheap to free. Several businesses offer free storage up to a certain amount of bandwidth or data storage capacity. Merely enter ‘cloud data storage’ into a search engine. Now all you have to worry about is what happens if the Internet is scrapped.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on many subjects, but is currently concerned with the Microsoft Antivirus Software. If you have an interest in such software, please go over to our website now at Computer Antivirus Software Suite

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Gun Safety For Shooters And Hunters

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Most boys and an increasing number of girls want to shoot. Not everyone wants to kill something but that is neither here nor there. The test for shooters is to be able to hit the target when required. Gun safety is vital, of course, because guns can be used as lethal weapons, yet at the end of the day, a gun is only a tool but tools can be used and mis-used.

Guns though are specific tools, as are all tools actually, but they have such an evocative reputation. Some Individuals are violently against them yet others uphold their legal right to hold them in a world where a higher percentage of criminals hold guns than innocent civilians.

Criminals will not toe the line by definition, but for the rest of us gun holders, it is quite important to show that we are responsible - that we know how to be safe towards others with our firearm. It is a manner of dispelling fear in non-shooters and displaying that we are not all red-neck, gung ho idiots.

So, the first law is: always to regard a gun as if it were loaded. You never, ever point a gun at anyone in jest. Several famous individuals have been killed in shooting accidents. OK, frequently when they were stoned, but ‘being out of it’ is no excuse whatsoever for behaving irresponsibly. Do not point a gun at anyone you do not want to threaten - and that means threaten really big time!

There is never, ever any valid reason for having to aim a gun at anyone in jest or accidentally. While loading a gun, it should be held so that the barrel is pointing away from anyone, even yourself.

If you are asked to pass a gun to someone, either you have to know them well or you do not do it. Whether the gun is loaded or not. The number of times I have been handed a loaded gun is incredible and I cannot put it down to my charisma.

If you must show off your gun, unload it in front of your friend and check that it is unloaded in front of your friend. If he or she does not know about guns, at least you are demonstrating how to check the safety of the gun and that you are responsible.

One means of demonstrating or reminding yourself that a gun is safe is to fasten a ribbon to a blank case and put that in the cylinder of a revolver and take the magazine out of a semi-automatic. Always hand a revolver over for viewing with the cylinder flipped out so that the person can establish that the chambers are empty except the one with the ribbon.

Never, ever play about with guns if you are under the influence of alcohol or drugs - it is too simple to make mistakes that can land you in jail and regretting the incident for the remainder of your life, because the one injured or killed in these circumstances is usually a friend - someone you were having a good time with.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on several topics, but is now concerned with Oakley safety glasses. If you would like to know more, please visit our website at Safety Glasses Bifocal

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Snow Boarding Safety Tips

Friday, May 20th, 2011

Safety is a very important part of snow boarding not merely to avoid injury to yourself but also to ensure the safety of innocent bystanders. Snow boarding safety should become the prime concern for all snow boarders, because it is considered an extreme sport and therefore more dangerous than usual.

So, in the interests of safety for snow boarders and their spectators, I have put a number of safety tips together below.

The first thing to do is to check the quality of the snow board. Look for damage and particularly cracks and splits. The board comes under a lot of stress while in use and you do not need it to disintegrate when you are travelling at speed.

When inspecting the board, check that it is the correct size for you - in other words, is there adequate room for you to put your feet on it comfortably? Using the correct size board will allow you to exercise your skill without impediment.

After making certain that the snow board is good enough, you ought to make certain that you have the right protective clothing. One obvious concern is staying warm and another is being able to see where you are going. When you are travelling at high speeds, small flecks of snow and debris can be very painful and even blind you temporarily, so make sure that you are wearing protective goggles.

However, the goggles should be of a sufficient safety level, say, polycarbonate, and must also offer UV protection - UVa, UVb and UVc, if possible. Oakley make safety glasses and goggles of this type.

Make sure that your underwear is warm and then it will not matter too much what outer clothing you don as long as it is waterproof and tear-resistant. Make sure that you are well padded, so that whenever you take that inevitable fall, there is less chance of you breaking bones.

Next, make sure that your inner body is sufficiently taken care of. Exercising in the snow and staying warm necessitates the expenditure of energy, so make sure that you have some. Whilst it is not recommended that you eat heartily immediately before exercising for fear of cramps, you do have to have eaten something with calories in it and you ought to make certain that your body is adequately hydrated.

Think about taking some emergency supplies with you too. Snow boarding is a dangerous sport so it is easily possible that you could suffer a bad fall and have to wait for an emergency rescue, which can take a time and the weather could turn foul, so have some energy-rich chocolate and cereal bars on your person. You can eat snow to make water, but you may want to take a litre of water with you anyway.

And last, but not least, take a cell phone with you - one that has GPS, so that you can accurately phone your location to the rescue services if you have to.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on several topics, but is now concerned with Oakley safety glasses. If you would like to know more, please visit our website at Safety Glasses Bifocal

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Home Remedies For Stress And Anxiety

Friday, May 13th, 2011

A surfeit of stress can result in all sorts of problems both mental and physical. The mental problems that can arise from stress include anxiety attacks, although there can be other causes for anxiety attacks as well. Furthermore, it appears that the tendency of anxiety attacks is on the up. This is perhaps because of the increased levels of stress that everyone feels.

You just cannot avoid tales of misery and strife in the newspapers and on the TV. It appears that news casters take pleasure in in telling us how much trouble we are in from all sorts of things from terrorists to diabetes.

They also never tire of warning us of the risks from paedophiles, rapists and murderers. It is no surprise that everybody is stressed or that some people have converted this stress into anxiety and anxiety attacks or panic attacks.

These attacks are characterized by a sudden feeling of panic for no reason at all or unjustifiable anxiety. These anxiety attacks are very distressing for those who suffer from them regularly.

There are many prescription drugs to be had, but these days many people try to manage without drugs, preferring more natural remedies. One detail that many sufferers comment on, is that they feel much worse if they have a hangover.

Not that they suffer anxiety attacks while they are drinking, but that they get an increased number the following day, if they have a hangover. It follows then, that you may be able to lessen the rate of recurrence and the severity of your panic attacks, if you do not drink too much.

In this vein, sufferers have also noticed that they get more recurrent and more severe attacks of anxiety if they are exhausted or worn out. Getting a good night’s sleep will undoubtedly help, if this is one of the causes of your panic or anxiety attacks.

On the dietary front, vitamin B12 has been pointed to as having a beneficial effect on sufferers. The vitamin B group help the brain to create serotonin, which is the body’s happy drug. A lack of serotonin can create depression. Therefore, ensure that you get your daily recommended amount (RDA) of vitamins in the B group, especially vitamin B12. B12 is readily available in natural foods, it is even in cornflakes, just make sure that you are getting sufficient.

Many people have had large amounts of success by restricting their use of sweeteners too. This includes normal sugar, as well as artificial sweeteners like saccharin. In order to obtain the biggest benefit you should try to monitor your mental reaction to sweeteners. Some may be perfectly OK for you while others may not.

Caffeine has also been linked with anxiety, so it would be worth attempting to do without ordinary tea, coffee and coke, to see if that makes a difference. You could try decaf, if you miss the taste of coffee or herbal teas.

Another proposed home remedy that has provided great benefits is physical activity. If you sense an attack coming on, try to ‘take your mind off it’ by distracting yourself. A simple walk might be enough or a conversation with someone.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece writes on several of topics, but is currently involved with work on high blood pressure charts. If you want to know more or check out some great offers, please go to our website at High Blood Pressure Recipes.

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