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8/23
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8/24 (MINIMUM DAY) Science Content Standards Investigations and Experimentation (I and E) Assignments : Due Assignments: New Bring ID for tomorrow HW Course Policy signature sheet due ASAP HW: Read Safety Rules pg.1060-1062, Take Safety Quiz except question #21 (in your journal; 1 stamp) due 8/29 & Safety Contract print out and sign (print out the last page to turn in) Due 8/25 In Class: WELCOME!!! Policy, Books, Seating Chart, Classroom/lab Safety, Donations$$ How to read this calendar Podcast Lectures & Additional Links
FYI: Download Adobe Acrobat Reader for reading PDF files
Lab Safety Movie (http://www.nclark.net
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8/25 Textbook Pickup Assignments : Due Course signature, donations Assignments: New 1. Please print out Exploring Scientific Method for tomorrow 2. Assign BFQChapter 1 homework due in journal 8/30 3. Academic Integrity contract signature due tomorrow In Class: Note Taking Skills SQ3R FYI: General Graphing Rules and Excel Graphing Help Alien Fun (Extra Credit) due 8/31
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8/26 Science Content Standards I&E A,F,J,N Assignments : Due Academic Integrity contract due HW: Read Safety Rules pg.1060-1062, Take Safety Quiz except question #21 (in your journal; 1 stamp) & Safety Contract print out and sign (print out the last t page to turn in) Assignments: New Finish "Sam" paragraph in journal answer A-C. and calculate your age to the 0.01 place and height in cm DUE Tomorrow Make an Excel Graph of one of the class sets of data below, print out graph to be peer edited tomorrow...Please use the following data for your graph Age Height Class Data (Additional help on graphing) In Class: Calvin and Hobbs Activity (just in case you're absent) 1. Scientific Method practice paragraphs Find the IV/DV/SV and other info for the Exploring Scientific Method
2. Start Activity Collect class data Explain Excel Graphing
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8/29 Science Content Standards I&E A,B,C
Assignments : Due Assignments: New HW : Re-graph Height Data in MS Excel (use trendline); print out due 8/31 (if you don't have access Excel, use the computers in the library or class during lunch or after school). HW: Organism/Sowbug Lab (design) due in journal tomorrow
In Class: Skills quiz (8 questions) Go over Safety Quiz responses in journal. Lab seats and Science Equipment activity
Introduction to Scientific Inquiry: Organism/Sowbug Lab FYI: What is a Pre-lab? |
8/30 Warning Quiz tomorrow on Observations and Inferences, variables and graphing : Assignments : Due BFQChapter 1 homework due in journal 8/30 Assignments: New HW: BFQ your own notes or Chapter 2.1-2.2, notes in journal due 9/2 Recommended:
In Class: Sowbug lab exploration, decide on short investigation
FYI: Download Adobe Acrobat Reader for reading PDF files
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8/31
Assignments : Due Re-graph Height Data in MS Excel (use trendline); print out due 8/31 (if you don't have access Excel, use the computers in the library or class during lunch or after school). Assignments: New In Class: Lab day and discussion, assign lab write up. |
Science Content Standards I&E, G,KL,N Assignments : Due Assignments: New HW: put in your journal due 9/2 New Version of Water Lab: Organism/Sowbug Lab due 9/7 Rubric on lab In Class: Lab write up requirements for sowbug/pillbug lab Chemistry pre-test (checking prior knowledge) Video: Origins (hour 4) first 15 minutes FYI:
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9/2 Assignments : Due BFQ your own notes or Chapter 2.1-2.2, Cornell notes due today H2O assignment due today (see 9/2) Assignments: New In Class: Miller/Urey Atoms, Ions, Bonds, pH, and water FYI: |
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9/5 Labor Day No School
Assignments : Due
Assignments: New
In Class:
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9/6 Science Content Standards 1 B Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class: pH lab demo
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9/7 (Back to School Night)
Assignments : Due Organism Inquiry Lab Write-up due today (see 8/31) Redo lab due 9/9 Due today: your own notes or BFQ 17-2 notes: pgs 423-428 Assignments: New In Class: Peer Grade Lab Sowbug lab Review for Unit Test FYI: |
9/8
Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class:
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9/9 Assignments : Due Organism lab redo due today (late on Monday) Assignments: New Test Corrections due before next unit test Sowbug redo due ASAP
In Class: Introduction: Bio-molecules Lecture: The Importance of Organic Models Carbohydrates, Lipids and Proteins
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9/12 Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class: Practice building bio-molecules more on biomolecules
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9/13 Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class: Animation of building Biomolecules More molecules Organic Lecture Functional Groups
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9/14 Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class: Demo Lab Day: Organic Unknowns. Testing Biomolecules
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9/15 (late start day) Assignments : Due Assignments:
New In Class: Notes on biomolecules continued
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9/16
Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class: more on biomolecules FYI:
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9/19 How to make a data table in Word
Assignments : Due Test corrections for short unit test due by next unit test Assignments: New Quiz next Monday: Enzymes In Class: Lecture: Thermodynamics, Chemical Reactions & Activation Energy FYI:
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9/20
In Class: Nucleic Acids, Enzymes, Thermodynamics continued FYI: |
9/21 Assignments : Due Assignments: New Pre-lab: Bean Juice due in journal tomorrow (prepare a data table) Demo Bean Juice Demonstration Fabulous and Versatile Bean Juice
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9/22 Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class:
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9/23 Assignments : Due Assignments: New (Additional helpful Resources and lab reports ) Title Help . Due 9/30 (Remember that info on how to format references can be found in Section 8 of the CP Formal Lab instructions In Class: Results discussion assign lab write up FYI:
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9/26
Assignments : Due Assignments: New
In Class: FYI: Concept Mapping Activity (pick a concept to review)
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9/27 Lecture review: Questions about bean juice lab write up Start reviewing information for unit test (On all materials covered in class and in the laboratory) Up to 50 multiple choice and 1 short essay.
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9/28 Assignments : Due Assignments New: Look through the calendar, check out the links, your journal, your reading notes start reviewing |
9/29 (Mrs. Groch Absent) Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class: |
9/30 (Mrs. Groch Absent) Assignments : Due Bean Juice Lab Write up due today Assignments: New Cell Size Activity due in journal 10/4 In Class: Cell Size Activity Continued |
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Content Standards 1 C,E,F,G,J In Class: Introduction to cells ( cell theory) video: Cells Video "Keeping it together" 33 min (#216): Part I: Organelles FYI: |
10/4 Assignments : Due Cell Size Activity due in journal Assignments: New In Class:
Test Corrections due 10/19 Video: Origins Hour 2 (if absent today take notes in your journal from the transcript) |
10/5
Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class: Organelle Review Microscope Rules ; Determining Field of View Prokaryotes vs. Eukaryotes |
10/6 Assignments : Due Assignments: New
In Class
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10/7 Science Content Standards 1 A,C Assignments : Due
Assignments: New
What’s up doc? Please print out. In Class: Introduction to membranes, structure and function, diffusion and osmosisFYI:
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10/10 Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class:
Demo Membrane Activity Introduction to Membranes
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10/11 Assignments: DUE Microscope Activity : Microscope Rules ; Determining Field of View Estimating Sizes complete in journal, answer all questions, due BFQ 7 -2 due In Class: Lab Day What’s up doc? Set up
Membranes continued FYI:
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10/12 Science Content Standards 1 A,C Assignments : Due Assignments: New What’s up doc? Results. Semi Formal due 10/19 (Title, Abstract What's up Doc Rubric In Class: What’s up doc? Results. Semi Formal due 10/19 (Title, Abstract What's up Doc Rubric (Additional helpful Resources How to write an abstract (1) + How to write an Abstract (2) and sample abstracts and lab reports Title Help (Remember that info on how to format references can be found at www.bibme.org What's Up Doc: Collect carrot data and clean up What's up Doc wrap-up FYI: |
10/13 Quiz: Cell parts, organelles and structures Assignments : Due Test Corrections due 10/20 Cornell Notes: BFQ 7-3 Pgs 182-189 due today in journal Assignments: New : BFQ 7-4 Reading Notes also includes questions for Chapters 18-1, 18-3, 471-472 (part of 19-1) and 478-479 (part of 19-2). due in journal 10/18 In Class: Introduction to Domains, Kingdoms, etc. Lecture & Kingdoms, domain, bacteria and viruses; More on prokaryotes, More on Eukarya Intro to Kingdom Activity
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10/14 Unit test coming up next Tuesday Assignments : Due Assignments: New Print out cell unit review sheet for MondayIn Class: Kingdom Activity (Cell types) Questions due in journal on 10/18 (Microscope Rules) FYI: |
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10/ 17 Science Content Standards 1 C, BFQ 7-4 Reading Notes or BFQ also includes questions for Chapters 18-1, 18-3, 471-472 (part of 19-1) and 478-479 (part of 19-2). due in journal Test Corrections due Assignments: New |
10/18 (On all materials covered in class and in the laboratory since the last unit test) Up
to 25 multiple choice and 1 short essay.
Assignments : Due Kingdom Questions due in journal today. Assignments: New In Class: Unit Test FYI: |
10/19
Assignments : Due Assignments: New Assign BFQ Chapter
12.1 ( Pages 287-294) due 10/26 In Class: How to build a DNA molecule (DNA
nucleotide assembly instructions) Test Corrections FYI |
10/20 Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class: Introduction to DNA Assemble paper DNA helix Begin Nucleus Unit (DNA/RNA/ Central Dogma/ Gene Expression) Strawberry DNA Isolation demonstration :
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10/21 Homecoming Shortened classes Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class: or Video: Origins Hour 2 (if absent today take notes in your journal from the transcript) or Video: The Shape of Life: Life on the Move (if absent look through site page and write down 20 facts in your journal) |
October 24- November 25, 2011
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Assignments : Due
Test Corrections 1
point for 4 corrected questions due 11/9 Assignments: New In Class: Size of E. ColiFYI:
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10/ 25
Science Content Standards 5 a,b,c,d,e Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class: E.coli con't replication FYI:
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10/ 26
BFQ Chapter 12.1 ( Pages 287-294) due Assignments: New
In Class: Video: (#267) Rosalind Franklin and Photo 51
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10/27
Assignments : Due Assignments: New
In Class: Replication of DNA FYI:
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10/28
Science Content Standard 4a,b,c,d,e and 1d Assignments : Due
BFQ Chapter 12.2 Notes Pages 295-299 Notes due Assignments: New
In Class: go over answers to sizes of E. coli Introduction to Central Dogma. FYI: |
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10/31 Staff Development Day no school (2011) |
11/1 Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class: Introduction to
Hemoglobin Activity (if you lose your copy of DNA for this activity you can download a copy here)
FYI: Extra Credit: Hand-Draw a cartoon of Transcription
and Translation (6-8 cells per process) 10 points due 11/15 Review Information: |
11/2 November 11/1 Assignments
: Due Assignments: New In Class: Hemoglobin Activity (Additional Information for this activity ) (if you lose your copy of DNA for this activity you can download a copy here)FYI: |
11/3 (Late Start Day) (make pGlo plates) Assignments : Due Assign notes or BFQ- Chapter 12.3 Due 11/3 (pages 300-306) Assignments:
New
Assign BFQ-Chapter 12.4 Pages 307-312 also answer questions on page 312 due 11/9 In Class: Hemogloblin activity continued Hemoglobin Activity Wrap-up FYI: Practicing transcribing and translating from gene to protein
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11/4
Science Content Standards 4a,b,c and 1 d Assignments : Due Extra Credit Cartoon of Replication due (see 10/27) test corrections due by next unit test Assignments: New In Class:
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November 7
Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class: Introduction to Recombinant Genetics/ Transformation
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November 8 Assignments: New
Pre-lab (Read Lesson 1: do a check list procedure of Lesson 2, answer
Lesson 2 review questions) pGLO,
Day one due (Do NOT print out the whole lab just read and get the
information) In Class: Introduction to pGlo Lab pGLO, demo lab techniques FYI:
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November 9 Assignments : Due
Extra Credit: Hand-Draw a cartoon of Transcription
and Translation (6-8 cells per process) 10 points due Assignments: New Print out pGlo Results sheet You will use these two pages tomorrow
In Class: pGLO, day 1 FYI: |
November 10 Assignments : Due Assignments: New Typed due 11/18 pGlo lab (includes Title, Completed pGlo Results sheet draw plates + answer questions on RUBRIC pGlo In Class: pGlo wrap-up pGLO, day 2: Results
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November 11
Veteran's Day No School
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November 14
Assignments : Due BFQ-Chapter 12.5 due Extra Credit: Draw a cartoon of Transcription and Translation (8 cartoon cells (boxes) per process) 10 points due Assignments: New In Class Why cells need to divide: Cell size Volume vs. Surface Area
Review
Information: DNA interactive from Cold Spring Harbor (click on copying the code to get to the general site then "putting it together" to see the animations) |
November 15 Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class:
Mitosis/ Cell Cycle |
November 16
Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class: Mitosis/cell cycle continued... FYI: Review List also go to www.biology.com click on the "Biology Place" then click on "Biocoach" to find specific tutorials for this unit.
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November 17
Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class:
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November 18
Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class: Quiz Video: Curing Cancer FYI:
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November 21 Thanksgiving Break |
November 22 Thanksgiving Break |
November 23 Thanksgiving Break |
November 24 Thanksgiving |
November 25 Thanksgiving Break |
November 28, 2011 -January 20, 2012
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November 28 Assignments : Due
BFQ-Chapter 10.3 due Pages 250-252 Assignments: New Go through review list and bring questions for review tomorrow In Class:
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November 29
Assignments : Due
Activity:
Assignments: New
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November 30 Assignments : Due Assignments: New Assign BFQ-Chapter 9.1 Cornell Notes Pgs. 220-225 due 12/5 In Class:
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Science Content Standards 1 g and i Assignments : Due Assignments: New
In Class:
Introduction
to Cellular Respiration Enzymes/ ATP/
Anaerobic Respiration vs. Aerobic Respiration FYI: Extra Credit Article: Double Life of ATP Alternate Lesson: Work on Chapter 9.1 and 9.2 worksheets Test corrections due by next unit test |
December 2 Assignments : Due Assignments: New Pre-lab BTB Respiration Activity In Class: Lecture, Cellular Respiration, Respiration Fermentation Introduction to BTB demo review glycolysis, Kreb's and ETC FYI: Lecture References: |
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December 5 Assignments : Due Pre-lab BTB Respiration Activity Assignments: New In Class: BTB Respiration Lab Day FYI:
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December 6
Science
Content Standards 1 f and i
Assignments : Due Assignments: New Due 12/10 In Class: Data for BTB Respiration Activity
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December 7 Assignments : Due
In Class: Cellular Respiration continued. Lecture References: FYI: Cellular Respiration Guided Reading Review SheetsEnrichment: |
December 8
Assignments : Due Assignments: New Unit Test Study Guide for January 6th
In Class: Quiz; Introduction to Photosynthesis FYI:
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December 9
Assignments : Due Assignments: New Assignments: New In Class: Photosynthesis continued
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Assignments : Due Assignments: New Assign Pre-lab (procedure summary and data table only) Leaf Disk Assay Assay In Class:
How to do Leaf Disk Assay, Photosynthesis
Leaf Disk Assay: Assay lab demo Brad Williamson's site great pictures Unit Test Study Guide for January 6, 2011 FYI:
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December 13
Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class:
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December 14
Assignments : Due Assignments: New
In Class: Leaf disk results Formative Assessment FYI: |
December 15
Science Content Standards 9A &C Assignments : Due DNA/Mitosis Test (ch 10, 12) corrections due Due by next unit test Assignments: New BFQ Chapter 8.3 due1/5/12 In class: Start Plant video FYI:
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December 16
Winter Break starts next week School resumes January 4, 2012 Assignments : Due Leaf Disk Assay Assay lab results : Write-up includes (Title, do all 3 questions listed in the Part One Analysis includes a graph of each light intensity (two tables worth of data hand done in journal) due in journal Assignments: New In Class: Private Life of Plants: Putting Down Roots FYI:
Fall Semester Final Review Guide and student review FYI: |
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January 2, 2012 NO SCHOOL Fall Semester Final Review uide and student review |
January 3 NO SCHOOL Fall Semester Final Review Guide and student review FYI: |
AND WE'RE BACK Science Content Standards 9 a,b,c,d, Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class:
Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class: Video: Branching Out
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January 5 Fall Semester Final Review Guide and student review Assignments: New
Assignments : Due Assignments: New In Class: Plant Life in Action: Photosynthesis (23 min) (from Davis) Cellular Respiration Photosynthesis wrap up: ppt Final exam Info: Guide and student review
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January 6 Fall Semester Final Review Guide and student review Science Content Standards 9E & 9I
In Class: Comparing Mitochondria and Chloroplasts; review for test Last day to turn in any lab redos or Extra Credit for 2nd quarter is this coming Monday!!!
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January 9 Fall Semester Final Review Guide and student review
Unit Test Review
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January 10
Fall Semester
Final Review Guide and student review
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January 11 Fall Semester Final Review Guide and student review
Review: using Animated Biological Concepts DVD Test Corrections in class |
January 12 Fall Semester Final Review Guide and student review
Final Exam Review
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January 13 Fall Semester Final Review Guide and student review
Fall Semester Final Review Guide
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January 16 Martin Luther King Holiday No Classes
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January 17 Fall Semester Final Review Guide and student review
Review Day Final’s Week Period 6 final Review Day
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January 18
Period
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January 19
Period 3 & 4 Final
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January 20
Period 5 & A Final
2nd semester begins on Tuesday January 24, 2012
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