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Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1a
18 May 2009
The Positive Outlook on Loving One’s Body

“81% of 10 year olds are afraid of being fat and 91% of college students have taken unhealthy measures in an attempt to be thinner.” Connie Sobczak and The Body Positive are working to change these statistics by teaching self love and acceptance within the community. Connie Sobczak is a social entrepreneur, a social agent for society, making positive changes, improving systems, and inventing new approaches with sustainable solutions. She is inspired to fight the epidemic of self hate, body hate, and eating disorders. Sobczak, herself, was not immune to body dissatisfaction and self hatred; throughout her adolescence and early college years, she developed the deadly eating disorder, Bulimia.

Eating disorders are directly defined as anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder and EDNOS (eating disorder not otherwise specified). There are criteria one must fall under to be diagnosed with any of the above; however, any negative relationship with food, body or self is dangerous and an illness. As defined by the DSM-IV-TR, (diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders), Anorexia is the refusal of maintaining one’s body weight normal for their age and height, maintaining a body weight of <85% of what is considered healthy, an intense fear of becoming fat, and, in women, the loss of one’s menstrual cycle. Bulimia is defined as recurring episodes of eating an amount of food larger than what most people would eat during a short period of time, a lack of control over ones behavior, and the compensatory behavior of eliminating the food through: self-induced vomiting, misuse of laxatives, diuretics, other mediations, fasting, or excessive exercise. Binge eating disorder encompasses the same behaviors of bulimia but without the behaviors to rid one of the food ingested. EDNOS is defined in many ways and is no less threatening or dangerous than anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating disorder. For female patients, all of the criteria for anorexia nervosa are met except that the patient has regular menses. Another branch of EDNOS is for the patient to meet all of the criteria for anorexia nervosa except that, despite significant weight loss, the patient's current weight is in the normal range. A bulimic branch encompasses patients who meet the criteria for bulimia but the binge eating and inappropriate compensatory mechanisms occur less than twice a week or for less than 3 months. Another form of EDNOS is when the patient has a normal body weight but regularly uses inappropriate compensatory behaviors after eating small amounts of food. A less common, but still prevalent eating disorder is ‘chew and spit’ which is comprised of repeated chewing and spitting out, but not swallowing of large amounts of food.”

Connie is aware of these deathly diagnoses and equates much of her struggle to the time in which she grew up. Sobczak grew up in the 1970’s during the second wave of feminism when women were attempting to control their bodies to look like men, in hopes of obtaining higher positions and status. The “fat-free” fad entered in the early 1980’s in an attempt to combat heart disease and rising obesity. The cause of these illnesses, however, was not an influx of fat but an influx of ignorance to listening to one’s body. After the birth of her daughter, Sobczak lost her older sister to bulimia. She decided that she must take action against the body and self-hatred taught and inherited by women that killed her sister. Eating disorders were becoming an epidemic and the key to healing began with self love. Out of the dust, Sobczak began working with friend and school psychotherapist, Elizabeth Scott, to develop the Body Positive. Sobczak saw the hatred women hold and watched it morph into a disease that physically and emotionally crippled and disabled them. “A simple trip to the grocery store is no longer safe. One is bombarded with weight loss items, low fat options and hundreds of magazines pushing the latest diet craze, slim star, or bashing an overweight celebrity.”

Connie is fulltime leader toward body and self-satisfaction. She tours schools, conferences, and treatment centers spreading knowledge and insight on the importance of self love. Although eating disorders are on the rise, Connie Sobczak’s program The Body Positive, is promoting change and producing leaders because of her dedication and the positive change she has witnessed among young women.

The Issue Connie Sobczak Confronts
Due to familial, media, and social influences, a rise of eating disorders and body hate is rising in women--young and old. The human body is a vehicle in which to live out one’s life, yet, over the millennia it has become a show piece and a litmus test for ethical and moral status. Throughout history, a larger waist-line indicated wealth, health, and good fortune. If one were “overweight”, they had enough money to purchase food and hire help. The waiflike commoners often died from malnutrition or diseases that infected a weakened immune system due to the lack of essential vitamins and minerals. The paintings, “‘The Union of Earth and Water’, by Peter Paul Rubens, and ‘La Gioconda’ also known as ‘The Mona Lisa’ by Leonardo da Vinci” highlighted the essence of the larger, healthier and wealthier women of the past. Only in recent years have women begun to rage against their bodies’ natural patterns.

In the “roaring 20’s” women where fighting for the right to vote and finally received it! With voting they began to work toward equal pay, better jobs, seats in government, and higher education. Men had the utmost power; hence, women began to develop a style and body closer to a man. As Margo Maine states in her book, The Body Myth, “Media was becoming prevalent in every household and workplace. The flapper image became a popular ideal. Fashion began to take on a prominent role. Women dawned suites and used their svelte bodies to ease their way up on the social and business ladder.”

The 1940's and 1950’s brought another change to the ideal female body image. The despair of the Depression had dwindled and the winning of WWII was near. This brought hope and prosperity to Americans. The ideal female body image then changed to become glamorous with a sensual appeal. This new image was pronounced as a higher bust, a defined waist, and rounded hips.

The second wave of feminism came in the 1960’s and 1970’s when Twiggy a popular model, Twiggy, came onto the scene at “five’ and 6”…she weighed a mere 91 pounds” and provided an impossible figure to portray. By the 1970s women had access to more education, birth control, and jobs but were still fighting for equality and attempting to transform their bodies in order to gain that equality.

Television sets, radios, movies, commercials, and magazines were, and continue to be, a large commodity for body image influence as most homes had a television, radio, and subscription to a newspaper. A marketer’s strategy consists of three levels. First, they find and convince the consumer of a problem. Second, they create a product to fix the problem, and third the consumer purchases it. The “problem” body size and shape envelop society and marketers have created multiple “fixes.” U.S. citizens spend “40 billion dollars a year” on diet fads and fashion trends in an attempt to look like models who represent less than 1% of the actual human population and are consistent in having lower body mass indexes (BMI) than that of an average woman.

Today, new media, such as the internet and fashion shows, cater to the old battles of body insecurities. On almost every website advertisements buzz the screen to fund the website. Advertisements range from credit cards, diet schemes, makeup plugs, liposuction, and breast implants. A simple click leads unsuspecting women to a harsh battle ground of judging and fear.

Women’s bodies have become manufactured objects. The United States spends $20 million on makeup annually. Plastic surgery is on the rise to please men and receive better job positions. Insurance companies are well known to cover cosmetic surgery procedures while denying coverage for an eating disorder sufferer.

A small body shape and size is promoted and supported by the media. For example,”90% of all girls’ ages 3-11 have a Barbie doll, an early role model with a figure that is unattainable in real life.” “One of every 11 commercials has a direct message about beauty.”

The media uses imaging software, camera angles, and makeup artists to revel “picture perfect” specimens. Models, actresses, actors, and celebrities spend thousands of dollars and hours sculpting their bodies and following strict diets; this is time the average American spends working, taking care of family, and education.

Body image and eating disorders were thought to affect only white and wealthy young women. This presumption is, however, false. An article appearing in “Essence” magazine (a publication aimed at the African American audience) commented, “largeness...once accepted-even revered-among Black folks, now carries the same unmistakable stigma as it does among Whites."

“Essence” magazine conducted an eating disorder study, examining a sample of 600 female respondents. “Sixty-six percent of the respondents reported dieting behavior, 39% claimed that food controls their lives, and 54% were at risk for an eating disorder.” A recent study by physiotherapist, Striegel-Moore, found that Black adolescent girls demonstrated a significantly higher drive for thinness than White adolescent girls. The study also found that the Black girls drive for thinness was significantly correlated with having been criticized for being too fat. The study reported that “40% of the 2000” girls surveyed wanted to lose weight. An epidemic is on the rise and The Body Positive is attempting to quell its rapid spread.

The Outlook and Guidance of The Body Positive

The Body Positive is a non-profit organization headquartered in Berkeley California. It has created two videos disturbed to schools and organizations to teach and promote positive body image and healthy lifestyles. The main component of the program focuses on the Healthy At Every Size (HAES) campaign. HAES focuses on the acceptance of all body shapes and sizes, the ineffective results and dangers of dieting, the method of relaxed eating and enjoyable physical activity in response to internal body cues, and the physical, emotional, and spiritual contribution to health and happiness. The HAES approach suggests that one’s health is not determined by numbers but overall heath in terms of vital signs, happiness, and immunity. Dieting is dangerous and addictive. It is capable of causing physical traumas such as: hair loss, malnutrition, poor circulation, heart arrhythmias, and loss of menses (in women). Dieting is almost always a setup for failure. With HAES one must listen to their body, feed it, and move it in response to its true cues and wishes, this will ultimately keep one’s weight and health stable.

The HAES model has been backed up by therapists, doctors, and educators. Jonathan Robison holds a doctorate in health education/exercise physiology and a master of science in human nutrition from Michigan State University. He has authored numerous articles and participated in research in the HAES approach. He determined that HAES has significantly helped people who participate so long as they participate without giving into society’s false claims and miracle “fixes” for body weight and health concerns.

There is a current war on obesity, and dieting is not the answer! A key answer to the war is to start with children and adolescents which is the goal of The Body Positive. If children can learn to love and accept their bodies and listen to their physical cues then the need for obesity prevention is obsolete.

The Body Positive uses the “Body Aloud”, which is a program created by its founders, Sobczak and Scott. Body Aloud caterers to high schools, middle schools, elementary schools, universities, community-based agencies, hospitals, clinics, youth groups, and churches. Sobczak comments, “It is our goal to provide all youth with the opportunity to voice their feelings about the conditions in their lives that cause eating and body image problems, and with the tools and support necessary to invent their own solutions to the problems caused by those conditions.” The Body positive uses several modes of education including videos, and seminars.

Director Connie Sobczak has produced two videos. The Body Talk videos are comprised of interviews from local schools, with real children who have gone through the program and have been transformed by the positive outlooks on ones self and body. The Body Positive traveled to Illinois in 2002 to help implement the Body Aloud program. The state gave 525 grants to Illinois school districts to improve the health of their youth. The state has expanded and almost all the school districts in Illinois are now participating in the Body Aloud approach.

The Body Aloud is a comprehensive handbook and curriculum that provides teaching methods to the lay representative. In elementary and middle schools the curriculum focuses on helping children listen to their bodies’ internal cues of hunger, fullness, and needed activity. Children are prompted with questions: What is love? What is fear? How does love and fear interact with one’s view of themselves? Connie also implements a two week challenge in which she encourages students to spread only positive concepts of their bodies and to speak out against body hate and bulling, prompted by one’s appearance.

With a world full of advertisements promoting quick snacks, video games, skinny movie stars, and cartoon figures, Sobczak teaches children to use a filter on media. The key is for children to understand that media is an interpretation of only the views of a select few. Children learn the basics of false advertising including the use of green screens and computers to change the looks of the people they see on TV and in movies. They also learn that celebrities live in a different world where each celebrity can choose how to portray themselves. Positive role models such as athletes and community leaders are offered to balance the influx of celebrities and movie stars.

Studies and personal experiences prompt the Body Positive to continue its education. Some key findings from the Kaiser Family Foundation, surveying 1,200 children of all ethnic groups and ranging from ages 10 to 17, showed staggering evidence of body hate and lowered self-esteem. In the study, “Both girls (61%) and boys (53%) said that the female characters on TV are thinner than women in real life.” The majority of girls wanted to resemble a character on TV and 31% had changed something about their appearance to be more like the character. Children spend hours watching TV and are bombarded with advertisements, celebrities, hate and destruction.

“The Social Learning Theory, developed by physiologist Albert Bandura in 1963, suggests that humans learn behavior by observing others.” The act of watching TV is an observation process. With most parents working and attending to household duties there is little time for positive role modeling and, hence, children imitate T.V. stars. The American Psychological Association Task Force on Television and Society presented research that indicated that the “average child viewer watches 27 hours of T.V weekly.

Too many commercials advocate a get fit-quick trick or a beauty regime to adopt.
The American Psychological Association Task Force on Television and Society discovered direct correlations of T.V. and real life scenarios. When exposed to positive and kind behavior children practiced prosocial behavior and less aggressive behavior. When exposed to healthy images and feasible celebrity bodies, children were less likely to be so hard on themselves. The thoughts and feelings held by the viewers are being glamorized and supported by appearing on television and in other forms of media.

Sobczak also works with high school students in order to make an impact on bulling, teasing, and body hate. A study of high school students from 80 high schools showed a theme of using body size and physical characteristics to determine friends and social status. Body size and appearance affects how adolescents, especially girls, view themselves and others, which shapes the nature of high school peer networks. “Larger adolescents tend to be teased and ridiculed more than their smaller (and) thinner counterparts. (They show) less involvement in school sports, student government and clubs, due to fear of ridicule.” The study also found that when asked to nominate “the top” or “choice” friends (five male and five female) nearly all 90,000 students chose thin, “beautiful” students. The fact that these girls and boys were sought out left many alone. When a person feels rejected, the rates of depression, suicide, and other issues surface. If one can confidently and safely express their feelings and hardships and then receive guidance and help, the chance of acting out using food, drugs, alcohol, or self-harm is often lessened.

Sobczak not only teaches students but also educators and therapists. Lectures include information identifying cultural myths and combating them with core principles that lead to healthy and joyful living. Lectures at colleges and universities include: “How to eat without Mom: Navigating the college cafeteria, Prevent eating disorders: Create a ‘Body Positive’ environment in your dorm, Make peace with your body: Cultivate intuitive eating and intuitive exercise at college.” At corporations the Body Positive offers: “Healthy living: The Body Positive's approach to weight and health, and Healthy eating on the run: How to eat intuitively and healthfully on a busy schedule.” In Women's Group lectures Sobczak and Scott offer: “Why diets don't work: The Body Positive's approach to weight and health, and Tell your body story: Write, dance, paint and move to improve your relationship with your body, health, and concept of beauty.” For Mental Health Professionals Sobczak personally trains participants during the seminar: “Resolve body hatred with self-love: The Body Positive's approach to helping your client make peace with her body.”

The Body Positive also offers three hour seminars in which participants have the chance to share their personal stories related to body image such as bulling, self-esteem, or eating disorders. Sobczak leads the group to search for the deeper meanings behind body hate and then teaches supportive tools to aid in health and happiness. These tools include: positive affirmations, knowledge of the media’s tools to change images, links to websites and books promoting healthy choices and loving acceptance, journaling, and talking honestly with other women experiencing the same feelings. Like seminars, workshops have become a hot commodity as women are recognizing the strength in themselves when they accept their size and shape. During workshops participants engage in activities such as body tracings, meditations, and art to unearth their deeper connections with food and heath.

The Body Positive also offers individual coaching. Personal coaching is a form therapy in which Sobczak and Scott are able to focus with the patient one on one. Andrea, a client, comments on her experience with personal coaching, “The Body Positive's approach is as unique and unconventional as the things they teach. Their process is multifaceted and relies equally upon reading, writing, verbal communication, physical activity, emotional support and a very strong philosophy that we all have the ability within us to learn how to truly love, accept and respect ourselves”.

Sobczak’s recent activity has been in colleges where she is creating leaders of tomorrow. A main program in process occurs at the University of California at Berkley. Students have come together to learn and to teach others about body acceptance and feminine strength.

UC Berkeley is participating in the Alterations Art Project, started by the Body Positive, and currently spreading to multiple campuses. College students, directed by Sobczak, come together to analyze the relationship between themselves and their clothing. Birgit Gehrt, an artist working with Sobczak and Scott, notes the functions clothes play on one’s psyche. “People, especially youth, are highly susceptible to and easily tormented by the whims of fashion, especially in relation to body size and cultural definitions of beauty. These garments (created through the project) act as visual manifestations of the constituents' stories about their bodies in a larger body—society.” Clothes are tailored to certain body types and ethnicities, usually the white and slender. Mannequins in stores illustrate unrealistic body compositions and “cookie cutter” shapes. The Alterations Art Project asks college students to bring forth their clothing that encumbers them. Women bring clothes they forced themselves to fit into such as: “skinny jeans”, skin tight tank tops, miniskirts, and clothes that only come in sizes 0-4. It is rare to find the latest fashions in all shapes and sizes. Fashion designers make clothes that look good but are impractical. Beautiful works of poetry, art, and photography have been created through The Alliterations Project due to the feelings of rejection by society’s designers. Women are beginning to fight for their style and their right to clean and beautiful fashions no matter their shape or size.

The Community as Stewards

Sobczak is a leader and an inspiration but without the community, the Body Positive would be nonexistent. The Body Positive was the first non-profit organization in California to receive a grant for eating disorder prevention. The money, however, was inadequate, lasting from 1998-2002. Sobczak is currently applying for additional grants and sponsors to support the upcoming adult body-image videos and an upgrade to the website. She has hit a road block as government funding grant agencies still do not see eating disorders as a threat to society.

The Body Positive relies on the community to support them. In a sense the community owns the organization because without the brave young women willing to look within themselves and to learn healthy coping alternatives, there would be no lectures, movies, or projects. It is difficult to admit ones defeat from social pressures, but the Body Positive is willing to aid women in becoming the best they can be. The Body Positive engages with the community, offering its movies, Body Aloud curriculum, and the Alterations project book for sale. The money assists the Body Positive to continue its curriculum.

Sobczak as a Guide and Community Leader for Change

Sobczak’s individual contribution to the community is completely voluntary. She spends hours daily focusing in teaching the HAES philosophy to children and women. She has helped women open up about their internal struggles with sex, media influence, bulling and depression, expecting nothing but a smile and at least one changed attitude.

Every woman that has participated in the Body Positive curriculum has gone away with an ability to sort out media’s distorted myths from factual evidence. Participants walk away with tools: knowledge of their body’s inner cues, positive thinking, and a filter for the tricks of the media. Students of the program begin to create a group of friends to fight body hate and receive support. Women have returned to work as eating disorder counselors, nurses, doctors, and community activists. Sobczak visits hospitals and communities burdened by eating disorders. Her methods of accepting one’s body, listening to its cues, recognizing society’s false claims and lies, and creating larger communities of steadfast women have helped women’s recoveries.

Connie is supported by the community by seeing women’s attitudes change. She is also becoming more motivated due to the urgency needed to reach women before society can brainwash them. Society has evolved to think of “thin as in” and powerful. Beauty has become skin deep and chosen by a select few. She is upset that eating disorders are ignored and thought of as a vanity disease and a way to receive attention.

The media has hidden eating disorders and their dangers. In 2005, Terri Schiavo, a young, beautiful, and intelligent woman, passed away from a seven-year battle for her life. She was attempting to control her weight by practicing bulimia, restricting her calories, and overloading her body with water. In February, 1992, Schiavo collapsed due to cardiac and respiratory arrest. Schiavo spent several minutes without oxygen and her brain suffered extreme damage. She fell into a vegetative state and for 15 years was admitted to numerous hospitals and clinics, by order of her husband, to try to bring her back. Her situation became a national news story when people began questioning her husband’s motives to keep her on life support in her vegetative state. Schiavo moved from a vegetative state to a coma in 1998. The public discovered that her collapse was caused from bulimia and dieting only after her death. This fact was not known to the public for fear that the community might see her illnesses as a plea for attention and brush it aside. Schiavo was eventually removed from life support and passed away. Her illness and death was sadly caused by a desire to fit into the media’s perfect body ideal. Sobczak is disturbed by these instances and is dedicating her life to change the community and provide proper treatment of eating disorders. Connie has gained a sense of self stewardship, accomplishment, and motivation in her serious work of saving lives.

Sobczak is not quitting as eating disorders are on the rise. She has wonderful plans for the Body Positive including the publishing a recipe book, “Recipes for Body and Soul”. This book will include recipes that reflect on intuitive living concepts, favorite recipes, stories about eating and moving intuitively, and essential restorative practices. The organization is also introducing two new videos and plans on taking a trip to more schools.

Sobczak remains hopeful about her crusade against eating, body, and self-esteem issues. With limited government funding Sobczak not only struggles against the media and false interpretations but also with the financial sector. Government funding is not properly allocated. “For the 10 million suffers of eating disorders only $12,000,000 is allocated toward research and treatment while the 4.5 million suffers of Alzheimer’s receive $647,000,000, and the 2.2 million suffers of Schizophrenia receive $350,000,000.” Eating disorders are the deadliest physiological disease, killing thousands annually. Connie stays motivated by seeing the progress made by the leaders of the Body Positive. Since the start of the Body Positive 14 years ago, the first participants are now in their late twenties and have gone on to change their communities. Numerous members of the Body Positive have graduated college with psychological degrees, others have gone into holistic healing, and others into community activism. Sobczak has changed lives and seen recovery. With her own daughter, she, perhaps, witnessed the most fervent change. While Connie never directly taught or lectured her daughter on body and self- love, she learned through osmosis and mirroring positive role models. Sobczak’s daughter mingled with the positive actions and feelings of women around her. She witnessed instances of talking against diets, eating when hungry and stopping when full, exercising for friends, fitness and fun, and using one’s time to volunteer, enjoy nature, or educating the mind. Connie Sobczak is creating hope for self-love and, in turn, love and respect for the earth and all its beings.

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God'sChild said...: Bridgette Copprue
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
May 17, 2009

Reflection on: "Body Possitives"

Hello Classmates, its been awhile since I blogged or anything and seeing that the semester is coming to an end and I wished that I could have been a better role model being the eldest in the class, I would just like to comment on the essay that I just finished reading.

It was as though I just read a collaboration of writings about women in particular and their attitude or lack there of, concerning- weight. At times, I became lost as to what I was reading, i.e., is this a story of one social entrepreneur or many? Then I was brought up to date as to the research that was done in order to produce such a detailed document concerning the mass problems women face just with weight alone.

I am not going to post another essay in commenting on this essay, just like to let you know that once again, Rebecca, you did it girl.

And to Professor Sabir, I would just like to say that I got lost in the process when my illness kept me out of school and I never seem to get back on track, and I don't blame you for my lackadaisacal attitude towards the class or my grade. I am happy with the completed assignments and test grades that I have received thus far. I plan on completing at least the "Barack essay and my Social Entrepreneur essay. When I think of all the other started but incompleted assignments, I become depressed and don't work on anything for the class, but finish assignments for other classes. I appreciate English 1A and you, being my instructor, just hate that I did not come up to par, or stay with the flow in completing assignments.
I believe that I have learned a great deal from my completed and graded assignments that will help me further in my endeavor of receiving an AA degree in Accounting in the future, in spite of all these writing essays! If I ever decide to write my memoirs, I'll definitely mention my first English Professor in college since High School, some 30 odd years later, that showed me what becoming a writer is all about. Stay on your toes - read, write, read some more and then write some more.; 10:55 PM
Professor Wanda's Posse said...: Thanks Bridgette for the comments and compliments. I hope you're doing better, and if you want to come by May 27, 8-10 to hear student presentations, please be our guest: once a member of the family, always a member of the family. We might not see you, but you are certainly in our hearts, as are all those who began the journey and for whatever reason didn't complete it with us.

I agree with you about our brilliant scholar Rebecca's essay. You did better than I. I stopped on page 7 and have to complete the rest by tomorrow morning (smile).; 3:58 PM
Anonymous said...: Thanks Bridgette for the comments and compliments. I hope you're doing better, and if you want to come by May 27, 8-10 to hear student presentations, please be our guest: once a member of the family, always a member of the family. We might not see you, but you are certainly in our hearts, as are all those who began the journey and for whatever reason didn't complete it with us.

I agree with you about our brilliant scholar Rebecca's essay. You did better than I. I stopped on page 7 and have to complete the rest by tomorrow morning (smile).; 2:56 PM
Anonymous said...: Pidd makes an error by incorrectly placing the verb before the subject in a sentence. He writes, “There is rumors going around Ludville” (1). Even though the verb comes before the subject, it still must agree with its subject. To fix his error Pidd can replace the be verb “is” with the be verb “are.” The corrected sentence will read, “There are rumors going around Ludville.”; 2:58 PM
Anonymous said...: 1. Although the earth's atmosphere is slowly dissipating, our government is making ecological changes because of the fear of global warming.

2. Although our earth provides room to dump waste, we still need to reuse and recycle the products we use because our landfills are increasing and becoming more toxic to the earth.; 3:05 PM
Anonymous said...: 1. Although the earth's atmosphere is slowly dissipating, our government is making ecological changes because of the fear of global warming.

2. Although our earth provides room to dump waste, we still need to reuse and recycle the products we use because our landfills are increasing and becoming more toxic to the earth.; 3:09 PM

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