On Thursday, hold your fire — and your fiery remarks!
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Hold your fire, because you don't know what's coming next.
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In case you are inclined to jump on this as a partisan view of Donald Trump's candidacy, hold your fire.
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The Star Destroyer gunner who was told to "hold your fire" when he could have blasted the droids' escape pod and ended the whole saga right there.
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To bring up the reset option immediately, just hold your Fire Stick remote control's Back button and Right button simultaneously for 10 seconds or so until the reset screen is activated.
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Here's a story—Hugh moved to L.A. when Rush was putting out the Hold Your Fire record, which came out after Power Windows, Hugh's idea was to include me on that record cover as well.
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Still, when I recently visited The Museum of Modern Art to see Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends, I found a painting by Drexler, "Hold Your Fire (Men and Machines)" (1966), directly across from the bank of elevators, flanked by screens on which videos were looped.
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All Music. Retrieved March 18, 2006.[ "Hold Your Fire"]. Allmusic. Retrieved November 11, 2008.
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"Mission" is a song by Canadian rock band Rush from the 1987 album Hold Your Fire.
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Hold Your Fire Review [ Allmusic, Eduardo Rivadavia]. Retrieved September 20, 2007. Whereas the previous five Rush albums sold platinum or better, Hold Your Fire only went gold in November 1987, although it managed to peak at number 13 on the Billboard 200. A third live album and video, A Show of Hands (1989), was also released by Anthem and Mercury following the Power Windows and Hold Your Fire tours, demonstrating the aspects of Rush in the '80s.
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Michael, Fischer (October 15, 1987). Rush - Hold Your Fire. The Michigan Daily. Accessed from June 18, 2013.
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It was performed live from the Hold Your Fire Tour through the Test for Echo Tour, then later on the R30 Tour and Clockwork Angels Tour. The song received a favorable critical reception, with Allmusic calling it "the band's [Rush] most immediate number in years," rating the song an AMG pick track.Rivadavia, Eduardo. Hold Your Fire - Rush. Allmusic.
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"Mission" was performed live during the Hold Your Fire tour (1988), the Presto tour (1990), and the Snakes & Arrows tour (2007-2008).
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The song has been given positive reviews from music critics. Allmusic called the song "quintessential Rush".Rivadavia, Eduardo. Hold Your Fire - Rush. Allmusic.
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A Sputnikmusic review gave a description of "Mission" as a "rocky ballad."Rush - Hold Your Fire (album review 2). Sputnikmusic. December 28, 2005. Accessed from June 23, 2013.
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'Hold Your Fire' more of the same old Rush, but with potential. Pittsburgh Press. Accessed from June 18, 2013. making mentions of threats about a "killer instinct" inherent in humanity.
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Hold Your Fire is the twelfth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on September 8, 1987. It was recorded at The Manor Studio in Oxfordshire, Ridge Farm Studio in Surrey, Air Studios in Montserrat and McClear Place in Toronto. Hold Your Fire was the last Rush studio album released outside Canada by PolyGram/Mercury. 'Til Tuesday bassist and vocalist Aimee Mann contributed vocals to "Time Stand Still", appearing in the Zbigniew Rybczyński-directed video.
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Firework: The Making of "Hold Your Fire" . 2112.net. Accessed from June 21, 2013. A marimba solo is played in the song, in unison with the snare drum and bass.Parisi, Deborah (February 1988).
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Lock and Key - Rush. Allmusic. Accessed from June 22, 2013. Rush also performed the song live on their Hold Your Fire tour,Rush Tour Dates and Setlists . 2112.net. Accessed from June 19, 2013.
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Side one # "Hold Your Fire" (Vincent Crane) 4:51 # "Headline News" (V. Crane) 5:16 # "Taking a Chance" (V. Crane) 3:08 # "Metal Minds" (V. Crane, Jean Crane) 4:27 # "Land of Freedom" (V.
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Reception to Hold Your Fire has been mixed to positive. While the album has been criticised for its 1980s pop music sound and overused synths, some, including the band members, felt it was better than their previous studio projects, with praises of the album's production, composition, and lyrics. Hold Your Fire was initially deemed a commercial disappointment in comparison to other Rush albums. It stalled at number 13 in the Billboard 200 album chart, the first time a Rush studio album failed to reach the Top 10 since 1978's Hemispheres.
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Hold Your Fire is the second studio album of the hard rock band FireHouse. It was released in June 1992. The album spent thirty weeks in the Billboard 200 Top Albums chart peaking at No. 23.Album Chart Position @ Billboard.
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Although Hold Your Fire was certified gold in the United States shortly after its release, it failed to reach platinum status according to the RIAA, becoming the first Rush studio album to not do so since 1975's Caress of Steel.
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Peart has said that Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson were "trying to explore some musical areas that we hadn't covered yet," when writing the music for the song.Peart, Neil. Firework: The Making of "Hold Your Fire" . 2112.net. Accessed from June 22, 2013.
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Initially, his brother, John Wackerman played with Kidneys, but he would later be replaced by Todd Hennig (Death By Stereo). A full-length self-titled album was released in 2007, and another album in 2012, entitled Hold Your Fire, is available for digital download. The band split ways in 2012.
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"Lock and Key" was only released as a promotional single by Anthem Records in Canada in 1987.Rush - Lock And Key (Vinyl). Discogs.com. Accessed from June 18, 2013. It is the sixth track of the album Hold Your Fire, and it later appeared on compilation albums such as Chronicles and Sector 3.
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The first single from the album, "Shake & Tumble" enjoyed success on the radio and brought attention to the band, but it failed to chart on the Pop charts, although it did at Metal radio. The album went on to become certified Gold in Canada, Singapore, and Japan. The band followed their impressive debut with Hold Your Fire in 1992.
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"Time Stand Still" was the first track Neil Peart wrote for Hold Your Fire. According to Peart, he wrote the lyrics for "Time Stand Still" based on his time with Rush: "Time Stand Still" is in the key of E major. The tempo is moderately fast. The song starts in before going to common time by the first verse.
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This prompts a frightened Molly to rush past the barricade tape toward her mother, whereupon Layton takes Molly hostage instead and leads her down the steps toward the river's edge, threatening to kill her if followed. Drake puts herself in between the police sharpshooters and Layton & Molly, whilst repeatedly screaming "Hold your fire!" to the former.
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The song was performed on the tours for the albums Hold Your Fire, Presto, Roll the Bones, and Counterparts. After not being played live for 16 years, it was included in the set list for the 2010-2011 Time Machine Tour. Live recordings of the song appear on the albums A Show of Hands (1988) and Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland (2011).
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Rush On 'Lock and Key'. VH1. Accessed from June 18, 2013. He also said in 1988 that, unlike most songs from Hold Your Fire, he played a 5-string bass for the song: "I find that low string really means more today, because we're living in the world of synthesizers that go lower than basses ever went before."Tolleson, Robin (November/December 1988).
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It consists of 5 tracks from their debut, FireHouse, 3 tracks from their sophomore effort, Hold Your Fire 1 track from their 3rd release aptly titled 3, 1 track from their acoustic release, Good Acoustics, and 1 track from The Best of FireHouse compilation. The album spawned a late tour covering the United States, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Peru, Korea, Portugal, and India.
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A Show of Hands is a concert film released on VHS, Laserdisc and DVD by the Canadian rock band Rush. It documents a live concert performance by the band on their 1987-88 Hold Your Fire Tour. In 1989, the band released an audio album of the same name on vinyl LP, audiocassette, and compact disc. The video comprises an entirely different recording, and features a different track list.
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A clip from this film was used by progressive rock band Rush as their introduction to the song "Lock and Key" during its performance on the "Hold Your Fire" tour, later released on the "A Show of Hands" laserdisc. The VHS and DVD versions of the film omit the song. Both Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable played Killer Mears onstage in 1930, Tracy on Broadway and Gable later in Los Angeles, which benefited the careers of both men.
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"Time Stand Still" is a song by Canadian progressive rock band Rush, featured on their 1987 album Hold Your Fire. Released as a single in 1987, credited to "Rush (featuring Aimee Mann)," "Time Stand Still" peaked at No. 3 on the U.S. mainstream rock charts on November 6, 1987. It was also a minor hit single in the United Kingdom, peaking at No. 42 on the Singles Chart. A music video for the song was directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński.
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His words are silenced and a message appears onscreen telling viewers that his offensive speech has been censored. Lifeson actually said, "Singing is easy" and proceeded to make a series of strange random noises. Although the band has never confirmed what (if anything) Lifeson said, they have admitted that the censorship was a joke. The songs "Subdivisions," "Limelight," "Time Stand Still," "Lock and Key," "Distant Early Warning," and "Red Lenses" were performed on the Hold Your Fire tour, but omitted from the video.
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"Lock and Key" is a song written, produced and performed by Canadian rock band Rush. It is a promotional single from their twelfth studio album, Hold Your Fire. The song deals with the theme of every human being’s primal, violent instincts underneath their civil appearance - their “killer instinct”. Critics gave the song liking reviews, with some saying it had quality of a hit single, and would make it on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart; it went on to reach number 16 on the chart.
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More than 40 years of activity has provided Rush with the opportunity for musical diversity across their discography. As with many bands known for experimentation, changes have inevitably resulted in dissent among critics and fans. The bulk of the band's music has always included synthetic instruments, and this has been a source of contention among fans and critics, especially the band's heavy usage of synthesizers and keyboards during the 1980s, particularly on albums Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, and Hold Your Fire.[ "Grace Under Pressure"].
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According to Peart, the song describes the "storms of life," using storm level in the Beaufort wind scale as an analogy. Peart, a self described "weather fanatic", makes references to "the eye of the storm" and circling hurricanes in the lyrics. He also "express[es] appreciation" for the disproportionally small number of female fans at Rush shows "singing along, or air-drumming, or even dancing" in the lyric "cool and remote like dancing girls". "Force Ten" was written in three hours on December 14, 1986, the last day of pre-production for Hold Your Fire.
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Accessed from June 17, 2013. Sputnikmusic named it a "brilliant choice for a second single, and criminally underrated," and Scouting magazine said the song had "genuine hit-single potential."Scouting. Vol. 76. No. 1. January–February 1988. Accessed from June 17, 2013. Metal Storm said that the song was a standout track of Hold Your Fire, stating that it "has a clear-cut power edge over the rest of the album." The Manila Standard also named it one of the best cuts from the album.Lara, Lucky (November 19, 1987).
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Simmons Electronic Drums beginning with Grace Under Pressure, 1984 Musically, although Lee's use of sequencers and synthesizers remained the band's cornerstone, his focus on new technology was complemented by Peart's adaptation of Simmons electronic drums and percussion. Lifeson's contributions on the album were decidedly enhanced, in response to the minimalistic role he played on Signals. Still, many of his trademark guitar textures remained intact in the form of open reggae chords and funk and new-wave rhythms. With new producer Peter Collins, the band released Power Windows (1985) and Hold Your Fire (1987).
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The music on these two albums gives far more emphasis and prominence to Lee's multi-layered synthesizer work. While fans and critics took notice of Lifeson's diminished guitar work, his presence was still palpable. Lifeson, like many guitarists in the mid-to-late 1980s, experimented with processors that reduced his instrument to echoey chord bursts and razor- thin leads. Hold Your Fire represents both an extension of the guitar stylings found on Power Windows, and, according to Allmusic critic Eduardo Rivadavia, the culmination of this era of Rush.
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The talking Action Commander released in the late sixties issued eight commands at random (depending on how far out you pulled the cord); "This is your commander speaking", "Enemy aircraft action stations", "Volunteer needed for a special mission", "Enemy in sight: range 1000", "Action Man patrol fall in", "Hold your fire until I give the order", "Mortar attack dig in", and "Commander to base request support fire". The Dynamic Physique Talker introduced in 1978 had only five commands: "Enemy Tanks Approaching", "Give Me Some Cover", "Send Out The Patrol", "What's the password" and "Advance In Single File".
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Presto is the thirteenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush. It was released November 21, 1989 by Anthem Records and was the band's first album released internationally by Atlantic Records following the group's departure from Mercury. After the Hold Your Fire (1987) tour ended in 1988, the group members reconvened in December to decide their next step and agreed to take six months off before starting on a new album. Presto marked another change in Rush's sound, with guitar taking a more dominant role in the writing and a reduction in synthesizers and a return towards more guitar-driven arrangements.
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Shaw also recorded sessions with Peterik's group, Survivor, on 1986's When Seconds Count, and Shaw's solo band opened the majority of the US shows for Rush's 1987-88 Hold Your Fire Tour. Meanwhile, James "JY" Young recorded his own solo albums: City Slicker (1985 with Jan Hammer) and Out on a Day Pass (1988), both attracting only minimal attention. In 1995 Young partnered with other Chicago musicians and released an album under the name James Young Group titled Raised by Wolves. In 1989, Shaw formed Damn Yankees with Ted Nugent, Jack Blades, and Michael Cartellone.
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Meanwhile, Geddy Lee started to compose on his keyboard setup controlled on a Macintosh computer using software called Digital Performer, which would be useful for both the writing and production stages, and Alex Lifeson was doing experimental tapes at home. Peart also used the Mac to write some lyrics for the album. Peart wanted to do something in the same vein as Power Windows, this time working around the theme of time. However, after writing lyrics for the first song he wrote, "Time Stand Still", Peart started to create more material that would turn the theme into "Instinct," which was the reason for titling the album Hold Your Fire.
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The snow continued through the recording of the album, which inspired the album's artwork. Almost all of the tracks were written, arranged, and put onto a demo tape by December 1995, and the band were then joined by Peter Collins who they chose to resume his role as their co-producer. Collins was their co-producer on Power Windows (1985), Hold Your Fire (1987), and Counterparts and offered what Peart described as "small-but- critical improvements" to what they had already recorded. The album continued to display the group's change in sound, which had started on Presto (1989), towards guitar-oriented music and the reduction of keyboards.
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"Show Don't Tell" illustrates Rush's move away from synthesizer in favour of a more guitar-oriented approach; the band favoured a more funk/groove style of play and away from the 1980s style of music typical on Power Windows and Hold Your Fire, the two preceding albums. In Rush's music of the late 1970s and early 1980s, their progressive rock is indicated by asymmetric time signatures and lyrics fitting into a concept album, and in "Show Don't Tell", their progressive rock is shown by using a very complex riff played in unison by the members of the band. Bowman, Durrell. "Permanent Change: Rush, Musicians' Rock, and the Progressive Post-Counterculture," PhD dissertation in musicology, pp.
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Power Windows "Grace Under Pressure"Power Windows Website . Retrieved February 16, 2008 Starting with 1987's Hold Your Fire and including 1989's Presto, 1991's Roll the Bones, and 1993's Counterparts, Peart would continue to explore diverse lyrical motifs, even addressing the topic of love and relationships,Matt Scannell on Neil Peart Drumhead. Retrieved February 19, 2008 ("Open Secrets", "Ghost of a Chance", "Speed of Love", "Cold Fire", "Alien Shore") a subject which he purposefully avoided in the past, out of fear of using clichés. 2002's Vapor Trails was heavily devoted to Peart's personal issues, along with other humanitarian topics such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks ("Peaceable Kingdom").
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When performed live, many of the synthesizers and sound effects heard in the original track are triggered through pedals used by Lee and Alex Lifeson, plus Peart's electronic drum pads. The song was first performed live during the Power Windows Tour and was the show opener on the Hold Your Fire Tour (as heard on the 1989 live album A Show of Hands). The song would be performed during most of Rush's later tours, including the Roll the Bones Tour, the Test for Echo Tour, the Vapor Trails Tour (documented on the 2003 album Rush in Rio), and most recently, the Clockwork Angels Tour (documented on the 2013 album of the same name).
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The Time Machine Tour was a concert tour by the Canadian rock band Rush that began on June 29, 2010 in Albuquerque, New Mexico and ended July 2, 2011 at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington. The tour was notable for featuring the album Moving Pictures played in its entirety for the first time live, as well as material from the band's then upcoming studio album Clockwork Angels (i.e. the songs "Caravan" and "BU2B", which had been released as a single in early June 2010).Official Rush websiteAlex Lifeson Interview This tour is one of three where the setlist has been consistent throughout the entire tour, the others being the 1987 Hold Your Fire tour and the 2004 R30: 30th Anniversary Tour.
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Wexler first album cover commission was to photograph The Brothers Johnson (“Blam!” 1978), for Quincy Jones Productions and A&M; Records. Album cover projects include, Van Halen (Balance), Black Sabbath (Reunion), Rush (Hold Your Fire), ZZ Top (Greatest Hits), Missing Persons (Spring Session M), Slaughter (Stick It to Ya), Chuck Wild (11 Liquid Mind albums) and Chaka Kahn (Naughty). Wexler also created images for Michael Jackson, KISS, Yes, Kansas, Whitesnake, The Black Crowes, Boston, Steve Miller Band, Peter Frampton, Bob Weir, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Heaven and Earth and many others. Wexler created a fantasy album cover for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum exhibition “The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were,” which toured nationally 2003-2006.
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Lee recalled the difficulty the band had in achieving more power from some tracks with producer Rupert Hine on Roll the Bones in the studio but were able to on tour, "and I think that stuck in the back of our minds". This matching of music and production style became an element that the band wanted to focus on for Counterparts and in doing so wanted to work with different producers and engineers. Initially, they talked to a lot of young producers, but they soon realised that there was little to gain from someone who had worked on fewer albums than the group had released over its career and sought someone experienced. Rush chose English producer Peter Collins who had co-produced Power Windows (1985) and Hold Your Fire (1987) with the band.
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For the recording of their second album they managed to get in touch with producer David Prater, best known for his multi-platinum work with Dream Theater ("Images & Words" and "A change of seasons"), Firehouse ("Firehouse" and "Hold your fire") and 2 hit singles from the "Dirty Dancing" movie original soundtrack, "Hungry eyes" and "Time of my life". Against all odds, based on the precariousness of the Chilean musical rock scene, the band pulled their efforts together and found the way to hire Prater to produce their second album. Because there were no precedents of this kind of music in the Latin scene, the band decided to record in their native language, Spanish, and developed a power and modern sound, creating "Nuevos Tiempos". By the end of 2006, Chilean label "Oveja Negra" signed the band and the name ºFahrenheit began to appear in massive media with their first single "Vuelvo a vivir" being aired on the most popular radio stations in Chile and MTV.
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After Charlie Dominici's departure from Dream Theater, the band auditioned nearly 200 individuals across the nation, until James LaBrie, who at that point was part of Canadian glam metal band Winter Rose, sent the band an audition tape. After a short jam session, he was named Dream Theater's new lead singer, and has remained with them ever since. With LaBrie as the new vocalist, the band was signed to a seven-album contract by ATCO Records, and shortly thereafter, they began recording their new album in late 1991. The album's production was marred with tensions, as the band clashed with producer David Prater, including incidents where Prater would lock the band out of the studio, and infamously forcing drummer Mike Portnoy to use triggered snare and bass drum samples, with the snare sample being the exact one used on FireHouse's 1992 album Hold Your Fire, another album Prater produced around the same time. The lead single, "Pull Me Under", gained the band considerable commercial success with its airplay on MTV and radio, garnering them a top 10 hit on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
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