A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given.

The term General is used in two ways: as the generic title for all grades of general officer; and as a specific rank. Since the late twentieth century, the rank of General is usually the highest active rank of a military not at war.

All general officer ranks

The various grades of general officer are at the top of the rank structure. Lower-ranking officers are known as field officers or field-grade officers, and below them are company-grade officers. All officers who commanded more than a single regiment came to be known as "general officers". The word "general" is used in its ordinary sense in English (and other languages) as relating to larger, general, military units, rather than smaller units in particular.

Common systems

There are two common systems of general ranks.

Variations of one form, the old European system, were once used throughout Europe. It is used in the United Kingdom (although it did not originate there), from which it eventually spread to the Commonwealth and the United States of America. The General Officer ranks are named by prefixing General, as an adjective, with field officer ranks, although in some countries the highest general officers are titled Field Marshal or Marshal.

The other is derived from the French Revolution, where generals' ranks are named according to the unit they (theoretically) command.

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The system used either a ''brigadier general'' rank, or a ''colonel general'' rank (i.e. exclude one of the italicised ranks.)

The rank of field marshal was used by some countries as the highest rank, while in other countries it was used as a divisional or brigade rank. Many countries (notably pre-revolutionary France and eventually much of Latin America) actually used two brigade command ranks, which is why some countries now use two stars as their brigade general insignia. (Mexico and Argentina still use two brigade command ranks.)

In some nations (particularly in the Commonwealth), the equivalent to Brigadier General is Brigadier, which is not always considered by these armies to be a general officer rank, although it is always treated as equivalent to the rank of Brigadier General for comparative purposes. Unlike other general officers, the brigadier general rank is not derived from a ''field'' rank of brigadier.

The rank of ''major general'' is a shorter form of ''sergeant major general'', and is lower than lieutenant general as a lieutenant outranks a sergeant major, although outranked by a major.

French (Revolutionary) system {| style="border:1px solid #8888aa; background-color:#f7f8ff; padding:5px; font-size:95%; margin: 0px 12px 12px 0px;" |align="center"| Marshal |- |align="center"| Army General |- |align="center"| Corps General |- |align="center"| Divisional General |- |align="center"| Brigade General |} More information about this system can be found on the page: Général.

Other variations

Other nomenclatures for general officers include the titles and ranks:

Adjutant General

Commandant-General

Inspector General

Captain General

General-in-Chief

General of the Army (which is distinct from the title Army General)

General of the Air Force (USA only)

General of the Armies of the United States (of America), a title created for General John J. Pershing, and subsequently granted posthumously to George Washington.

General Admiral (German Navy)

Air General and Aviation General (Chilean Air Force; roughly equivalent to Air Chief Marshal and Air Vice-Marshal respectively)

Wing General and Group General (Mexican Air Force; roughly equivalent to Air Commodore and Acting Air Commodore respectively)

Lieutenant-Colonel General (A Serb rank immediately inferior to Colonel General, and roughly equivalent to Commonwealth/US Major General)

Director General (a common administrative term sometimes used as an appointment in military services)

Director General of National Defence (most senior rank in the Mexican Armed Forces)

Director of Intelligence Bureau (senior most 4 star Indian Police Service post in India)

Controller General (general officer rank in the French National Police)

Prefect General (the most senior rank of the Argentine Naval Prefecture)

Master-General of the Ordnance

In addition to militarily educated generals, there are also generals in medicine and engineering. The rank of most senior chaplain, Chaplain General, is also considered to be a general officer rank.

The specific General rank

In the Old European system, a General, without prefix or suffix (and sometimes referred to informally as a "full general"), is usually the most senior type of general, above Lieutenant General and directly below Field Marshal. Usually it is the most senior peace-time rank, with more senior ranks (for example, Field Marshal) being used only in wartime, or as honorary titles.

In some armies, however, the rank of Captain General, General of the Army, Army General or Colonel General occupied or occupies this position. Depending on circumstances and the army in question, these ranks may be considered to be equivalent to a full General or to a Field Marshal.

The rank of General came about as a "Captain-General", the captain of an army in general (i.e., the whole army). The rank of Captain-General began appearing around the time of the organization of professional armies in the 17th century. In most countries "Captain-General" contracted to just "General".

General ranks by country

The following articles deal with the rank of General, or its equivalent, as it is or was employed in the militaries of those countries.

General (Australia)

General (Canada)

Shang Jiang (China) - People's Republic of China (PRC) and Republic of China (ROC/Taiwan)

Kenraali (Finland)

Kindral (Estonia)

Général (France)

General (Germany)

Obergruppenführer (Nazi Germany, SS rank)

Strategos (Greece)

Aluf (Israel)

Generale (Italy)

Daejang (Korea - DPRK and ROK)

General (Mexico)

Generał (Poland)

Army General (Philippines)

Army General (Russia)

General (Sri Lanka)

General (Sweden)

General (Switzerland)

General (United Kingdom)

General (United States)

Army generals' insignia

Air force generals' insignia

Generals' insignia of disbanded armies

Air Force and Navy equivalents

Some countries (such as the United States) use the General Officer ranks for both the army and the air force; others only use the General Officer ranks for the army, while in the air force they use Air Officers as the equivalent of General Officers. They use the air force rank of Air Chief Marshal as the equivalent of the specific army rank of General. This latter group includes the British Royal Air Force and those based on it (e.g., India, Pakistan, New Zealand, Nigeria, etc.).

In most navies, Flag Officers are the equivalent of General Officers, and the naval rank of Admiral is equivalent to the specific army rank of General. A noteworthy historical exception was the Cromwellian naval rank ''General at sea''. In recent years in the American service there is a tendency to use ''Flag Officer'' and ''Flag Rank'' to refer to generals and admirals of the services collectively.

See also

Général

Generalissimo

List of comparative military ranks

List of Roman generals

Shogun

References

External links

Generals of World War II

Schema-root.org: US Generals News feeds for US Generals in the news

Marines.mil: General Officer Biographies Biographies of US Marine Corps General Officers

Bios & Information on Generals of Western History Information on 10 Generals who influenced Western History

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Thomas Martin "Tom" Devine OBE FRSE FRHistS FBA (born 1945, Motherwell) is a Scottish historian. His main research interest is the history of the Scottish nation since c.1600 and its global connections and impact.

Tom Devine was educated at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, from 1964 to 1968, and graduated with first class honours in Economic and Social History, followed by a PhD and D.Litt. He rose through the academic ranks from assistant lecturer to Reader, Professor, Head of Department, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. He was Deputy Principal of the University from 1993 until 1997. In 1998 he accepted the Directorship of the world's first Centre of advanced research in Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen (the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies), which was formally inaugurated by President Mary McAleese of Ireland on St Andrew's Day 1999. Over the following five years, over £2.5m were raised for the Centre's research programmes from AHRC - which led to the establishment of the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, funded competitively over 2 phases, - the Leverhulme Trust and the British Academy, and a further £1.6m endowment gifted from the Glucksman family in the USA for a Research Chair in Irish and Scottish Studies, which Devine held as founding Professor until 2005.

In April 2005, he was appointed to the Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh, widely acknowledged as the world’s premier Chair of Scottish History, which he took up in January 2006. In 2008 he became Director of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies at Edinburgh, established by an external endownment of £1 million pounds by a leading Scottish fund manager and his family. This is reckoned to be the single largest private donation ever made to a UK university for the development of historical studies.

He is the author or editor of some thirty books and numerous articles on topics such as emigration, famine, identity, Scottish transatlantic commercial links, urban history, the economic history of Scotland, Empire, the Scottish Highlands, the Irish in Scotland, sectarianism, stability and protest in the 18th century nation,Scottish elites, the Anglo-Scottish Union, rural social history and comparative Irish and Scottish relationships. ''The Scottish Nation'' (1999) became an international bestseller, selling nearly 100,000 copies to date in the UK alone. (and for a brief period even outselling the adventures of Harry Potter in Scotland!) Devine has won all three major prizes for Scottish historical research (Hume Brown, Saltire and Henry Duncan Prize and Lectureship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh), is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the British Academy: the only historian elected to all three national academies in the British Isles. Professor Devine holds the honorary degrees of D.Litt. from Queen's University Belfast and the University of Abertay Dundee and the hon. degree of D.Univ from Strathclyde. He was awarded the first John Aikenhead Medal for services to Scottish education by the Institute of Contemporary Scotland in 2006, and in the same year Bell College (now part of the University of the West of Scotland) conferred on him an Honorary Fellowship in recognition of his contributions to Scottish culture. In 2000 he was awarded the Royal Gold Medal, Scotland's supreme academic accolade, by Queen Elizabeth II, the only historian winner to date, and in 2005 was appointed OBE in the New Years Honours List for 'services to Scottish history'. One of his recent books, ''Scotland's Empire 1600-1815 (2003)'' formed the basis of a six-part BBC2 series in 2005.

Tom Devine was a member of the Research Awards Advisory Committee of the Leverhulme Trust from 2003 to 2009 (adviser on all history fellowship applications) and holds Adjunct Professorships at the East Carolina University and the University of Guelph, Canada.He was Acting Head of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology from 2008 to 2009 in the University of Edinburgh. Devine has also been a Trustee of the National Museums of Scotland and a Member of Council of the British Academy.

See also

Thomas Martin Devine has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the - EUROCLIO.

Bibliography

'The Oxford Hanbook of Modern Scottish History 1500-2010(2012 jt editor)' 'Scotland and the British Empire(2011,jt editor)' 'To the Ends of the Earth : Scotland's Global Diaspora(2011)' 'Scotland and Poland : Historical Connections'(jt editor 2011)u )

''Scotland and the Union 1707 to 2007 (editor,2008)

''The Scottish Nation 1700 to 2007'' (rev ed. 2006)

''Clearance and Improvement: Land, Power and People in Scotland 1700-1900'' (2006)

''The Transformation of Scotland; The Economy since 1700'' (co-author with Clive Lee and George Peden), Edinburgh University Press, 2005 ISBN 0-7486-1433-8

''Scotland's Empire, 1600-1815'', Penguin Books, 2003

Being Scottish : Personal Reflections on Scottish Identity Today(co-editor with P Logue,Edinburgh University Press,2002.)

''Scotland's Shame?: Bigotry and Sectarianism in Modern Scotland'' (Editor), Mainstream Publishing, 2000 ISBN 1-84018-330-6

''The Scottish Nation: 1700-2000'', Penguin, 1999 ISBN 0-14-023004-1

Celebrating Columba : Irish-Scottish Connections 597-1997( ed.with JF McMillan,1999)

''People and society in Scotland 1760-1830'' (co-editor with R. Mitchison), John Donald, 1998

''Eighteenth-century Scotland'' (co-editor with J.R. Young), Tuckwell, 1998

''Scotland in the Twentieth Century'' (co-editor with Richard J. Finlay, Edinburgh University Press, 1996

''Exploring the Scottish Past'', 1995

St Mary's Hamilton : a Social History 1646 - 1996 (ed.1995)

''The Transformation of Rural Scotland: social change and the agrarian economy, 1660-1815'', 1994

Industry,Business and Society in Scotland since 1700 (ed. with AJG Cummings,1994)

''Farm Servants and Labour in Lowland Scotland, 1770-1914'', (Editor) 1994

''Scottish Elites'' 1994

''Clanship to Crofters' War'' (Manchester University Press, 1994)

''Scottish Emigration and Scottish Society'' (Editor), 1992

''Irish Immigrants and Scottish Society in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century'', (Editor), 1991.

''Conflict and Stability in Scottish Society, 1700-1850'' (Editor), 1990

Improvement and Enlightenment(1989)

''The Great Highland Famine'', 1988.

''People and Society in Scotland , Volume 1, 1760-1830'' (co-editor with R. Mitchison), 1988

''Farm Servants and Labour in Lowland Scotland 1770-1914'', 1984.

Scotland and Ireland 1600 to 1850 (joint ed. 1983)

''A Scottish firm in Virginia 1767-1777, William Cunninghame and Co.'', 1982.

''Lairds and Improvement in the Scotland of the Enlightenment'', 1978.

''The Tobacco Lords: A Study of the Tobacco Merchants of Glasgow and their Trading Activities c. 1740-90'', 1975.

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Erik Qualman (born 1972) is an American author of Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business, and is a speaker within the Internet community. In 2010, Socialnomics was a Book of the Year finalist as voted on by the American Marketing Association. . He is a columnist for Search Engine Watch and ClickZ Magazine.

Background

Qualman was born and grew up outside of Detroit, Michigan in Rochester Hills. He attended Michigan State University receiving a BA in Marketing. While at Michigan State (1990–1994) he was named Academic All-Big 10 for Basketball. Qualman also holds an MBA from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas (1999). In 2011 Qualman gave the keynote address to the McCombs graduating class on the Austin, Texas campus.

He is currently the Global Vice President of Digital Marketing for EF Education headquartered in Lucerne, Switzerland and a Professor of Digital Marketing for Hult International Business School's Masters program. Prior to joining EF Education and Hult, Qualman worked in online marketing and eBusiness functions at Cadillac & Pontiac (1994–97), AT&T (1998–2000), Yahoo (2000–03), EarthLink (2003–05) and Travelzoo (Head of Marketing 2005-08).

Qualman was a featured speaker at BookExpo America 2009, presenting to those in attendance on how social media is transforming the way people live and do business. Qualman also was the keynote speaker at Europe's Fiber To The Home (FTTH) Council Meeting in Lisbon, alongside the Prime Minister of Portugal Jose Socrates. The 2009 FTTH keynote speaker was Don Tapscott.

Qualman has been highlighted in Mashable, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, Forbes, and The Huffington Post He has also been interviewed on radio and television discussing his view on digital trends.

Books

Crisis by Erik Qualman

Socialnomics by Erik Qualman

References

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Name	Sir David Frost
Birth name	David Paradine Frost
Birth date	April 07, 1939
Birth place	Tenterden, Kent, England
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Sir David Paradine Frost, OBE (born 7 April 1939) is a British journalist, comedian, writer and media personality, best known for his serious interviews with various political figures, the most notable being Richard Nixon. Since 2006, he has been hosting the weekly programme ''Frost Over the World'' on Al Jazeera English.

Early life

David Paradine Frost was born at Tenterden, Kent, on 7 April 1939 the son of a Methodist minister of Huguenot descent, the Rev. W.J. Paradine Frost. While living in Gillingham, Kent, he was taught in the Bible Class of the Sunday School at his father's church (Byron Road Methodist) by David Gilmore Harvey, and subsequently started training as a Methodist Local Preacher, which he did not complete. He attended Barnsole Road Primary School in Gillingham, then Gillingham Grammar School and finally Wellingborough Grammar School. He subsequently won a place at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a degree in English. He had turned down a contract with Nottingham Forest Football Club to attend university.

At Cambridge, he edited a student newspaper, ''Varsity,'' and a literary magazine, ''Granta.'' He was also secretary of the famous Footlights Drama Society, which included actors such as Peter Cook and John Bird.

After leaving university, he became a trainee at Associated-Rediffusion and worked for Anglia Television.

''That Was the Week That Was'' (''TW3'')

Frost was chosen by writer and producer Ned Sherrin to host a pioneering satirical programme called ''That Was The Week That Was,'' alias ''TW3.'' This caught the wave of the satire boom in 1960s Britain and became a popular programme. ''TW3'' was the last piece of scheduled programming broadcast by the BBC on a Saturday, and regularly overran its time slot.

After a pilot episode on 10 November 1963, a 30-minute American version of ''TW3'' featuring Frost ran on NBC from 10 January 1964 to May 1965. In 1985, David Frost produced and hosted a television special in the same format, ''That Was the Year That Was,'' on NBC.

After ''TW3''

Frost fronted a number of programmes following the success of ''TW3,'' including its immediate successor, ''Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life,'' which he co-chaired with Willie Rushton and P. J. Kavanagh. More notable was ''The Frost Report,'' 1966 and 1967, which launched the television careers of John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. He signed for Rediffusion, the ITV weekday contractor in London, to produce a "heavier" interview-based show called ''The Frost Programme.'' Guests included Sir Oswald Mosley and Rhodesian premier Ian Smith. His memorable dressing-down of insurance fraudster Emil Savundra was generally regarded as the first example of "trial by television" in the UK.

In 1963 a tribute to the recently assassinated President John F. Kennedy on ''That Was the Week That Was'' had seen Frost's fame spread to the United States. His 1970 TV special ''Frost on America'' featured guests such as Jack Benny and Tennessee Williams.

From 1969 to 1972, Frost kept his London shows and fronted ''The David Frost Show'' on the Group W (U.S. Westinghouse Corporation) television stations in the United States. In 1977, he met US President Richard Nixon in a series of interviews for American television.

That same year Frost was the executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated ''The Slipper and the Rose.'' Frost was an organiser of the Music for UNICEF Concert at the United Nations General Assembly in 1979. Ten years later, Frost was hired as the anchor of the new American tabloid news program ''Inside Edition.'' However, he was dismissed after only three weeks, and then-ABC News reporter Bill O'Reilly was recruited in his stead.

During the 1990s, he presented the panel game ''Through the Keyhole'', which featured a long running partnership with Loyd Grossman. After transferring from ITV, his Sunday morning interview programme ''Breakfast with Frost'' ran on the BBC from January 1993 until 29 May 2005. The programme originally began in this format on TV-am in September 1983 as ''Frost on Sunday'' until the station lost its franchise at the end of 1992. Later it transferred briefly to BSB before moving to the BBC.

As of November 2006, he works for Al Jazeera English, presenting a live weekly hour-long current affairs programme, ''Frost Over the World'', which started when the network launched in November 2006. The programme has regularly made headlines with interviewees such as Tony Blair, President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, Benazir Bhutto and President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua. The programme is produced by the former Question Time editor and Independent on Sunday journalist Charlie Courtauld. He was one of the first to interview the man who authored the historic fatwa on terrorism, Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri.

During his career as a journalist he became Concorde's most frequent flier, having flown between London and New York an average of 20 times per year for 20 years.

In 2007 Frost hosted a discussion with Libya's dictator Gaddafi as part of the Monitor Group's involvement in the country.

Achievements

Frost was instrumental in starting up two important ITV franchises: London Weekend Television in July 1968 and as one of the ''Famous Five'' who launched TV-am in February 1983. Ironically, both had plans that were considered highbrow and both suffered launch problems with low audience ratings and financial difficulties that led to outside parties taking large stakes in the companies and significant changes in business strategy before stability was achieved.

On 20 and 21 July 1969, during the British television Apollo 11 coverage, he presented ''David Frost's Moon Party'' for LWT, a ten-hour discussion and entertainment marathon from LWT's Wembley Studios, on the night Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Two of his guests on this programme were British historian A.J.P. Taylor and Sammy Davis, Jr. Taylor was skeptical about the proceedings and believed that the moon landing was actually a mock-up being broadcast from a Hollywood studio. Frost started a production company called David Paradine Productions and was also part of a consortium with Richard Branson, which failed to acquire three ITV franchises under the CPV-TV name.

Frost is the only person to have interviewed eight British prime ministers serving between 1964 and 2010 (Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron) and the seven US presidents in office between 1969 and 2008 (Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush). He was also the last person to interview Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran.

He is a patron and former vice-president of the Motor Neurone Disease Association charity, as well as being a patron of the Alzheimer's Research Trust, the Hearing Trust, East Anglia's Children's Hospices, the Home Farm Trust and the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

After having been in television for 40 years, Frost is worth £200 million. This valuation includes the assets of his main British company and subsidiaries, plus homes in London and the country.

''Frost/Nixon''

Originally a play by Peter Morgan that was developed from a series of interviews, ''Frost/Nixon'' was presented both in London and on Broadway. The play was adapted into a motion picture, starring Michael Sheen as David Frost, Frank Langella as Richard Nixon, directed by Ron Howard, and released in 2008. The film was nominated for five Golden Globe awards: Best Motion Picture Drama, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score, as well as five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Editing.

In February 2009, David Frost was featured on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC-TV) international affairs programme "Foreign Correspondent" in a report titled "The World According To Frost", reflecting on his long career and portrayal in the feature film ''Frost/Nixon''.

Personal life

He is married to Lady Carina ''née'' Fitzalan Howard (born 20 February 1952), a daughter of the 17th Duke of Norfolk, and has three sons. He was previously married (1981–1982) to Lynne Frederick, widow of Peter Sellers. He was also engaged to American actress Diahann Carroll in the early 1970s. He also apparently supports Southampton Football Club

Selected awards and honours

1970: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) 1993: Knight Bachelor

1994: Honorary doctoral degree of the Sussex University

2005: Fellowship of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts BAFTA

2009: Honorary Doctor of Letters degree of the University of Winchester.

2009: Lifetime Achievement Award at the Emmy Awards.

Publications

''"I gave them a sword": Behind the scenes of the Nixon interviews'' (1978). Published as ''Frost/Nixon'' in 2007.

''David Frosts Book of Millionaires, Multimillionaires, and Really Rich People'' (1984)

''The Rich Tide: Men, Women, Ideas and Their Transatlantic Impact'' (1986). With Michael Shea.

''An Autobiography. Part 1: From Congregations to Audiences'' (1993).

References

External links

BBC News Profile of David Frost

The Frost/Nixon Interviews Site

TV Cream on Paradine Productions

David Frost Interview with Benazir Bhutto

Frost's entry at IMDb

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Dave McClure is an entrepreneur and prominent angel investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, who founded and runs the business incubator "500 Startups". He is often described as one of the super angel investors.

Bio

McClure was born in and grew up in West Virginia. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science in "Mathematical Sciences Engineering".

Technology startups

McClure founded Aslan Computing, a technology consultancy, in 1994, and later sold the company. He later worked as a technology consultant to Microsoft, Intel, and other companies. He was Director of Marketing at PayPal from 2001 through 2004. He founded and ran marketing for Simply Hired in 2005 and 2006.

After leaving PayPal, McClure became a frequent investor in consumer Internet startup companies. He led the fbFund incubator on behalf of Facebook.

McClure gained attention both for his opinionated blog ''500 Hats'' (as of 2011 one of the ten most-read blogs on venture capital finance, and as one of the so-called "Super Angel" investors involved in the Angelgate controversy.

500 Startups

500 Startups is a business accelerator and related investment fund McClure founded in 2010. The fund admitted a first "class" of twelve startups to its incubator office in Mountain View, California in February, 2011. They expanded to a second class of 21 in June 2011, bringing the total number of investments to 140, including investments in myGengo and Udemy.

External links

500hats - investment blog

500 Startups - official site for incubator

References

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