The 33-year-old put her best assets forward as she dressed to the nines for a Melbourne soiree.
Turning heads at the Confidential party held at Bond Bar, the socialite donned a barely-there frock that showcased her ample cleavage and a G-String covered derriere.
Looking good, Brynne!
Since the demise of her marriage to businessman Geoffrey Edelsten, Brynne has lost around 15-kilograms and completely overhauled her life.
Last year, Brynne told us she lost the weight by eliminating sugary drinks and sticking to a strict exercise regime, which includes working out five days a week.
“It’s given me more confidence, but beyond just the way it looks,” she mused at the time.
Now and then! Brynne, pictured at Tuesday’s event on the left and a few years ago on the right, has lost around 15-kilograms.
The star says her new-found shape is thanks to working out and ditching sugary drinks.
Despite the recent Shane Warne “nightcap” fiasco, the reality star was in great spirits at the event.
The cricket champ was infamously snapped arriving at her home for a cheeky drink in the early hours of Thursday morning last week.
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Furious at being found out, the 46-year-old dad-of-three went into damage control, taking to Twitter to accuse the blonde of tipping off the paparazzi. “Some people never cease to amaze me. Listen to this one,” he wrote.
“After a fun night raising money for breast cancer in Geelong last night, me & a few friends plus Brynne Edelsten went out for a couple of drinks.”
“Brynne invited me back to her place around 1am for a nightcap, when I arrived, paparazzi were conveniently waiting outside her home to get the pic, coincidence? I left instantly and thought how sad is that!”
But Brynne tells a different story. Retaliating to Shane’s post, she immediately released a string of messages between the pair, proving Shane was yearning for more than just a nightcap.
“Leaving now! You safe? Excited for me to devour u? X,” wrote Warnie in the wee hours of Thursday (below, Shane is the white Brynne is the blue).
Hitting back, Brynne told Woman’s Day, “It’s sad that Shane has chosen to respond in this fashion. I used to have a huge crush on him and told him at the charity event in Geelong. He replied, ‘You did, or you still do?’ before grabbing my bum. That surprised me a bit, but he’d had a bit to drink by that stage.”
Brynne became a household name after marrying Dr Geoffrey Edelsten in 2009.
She has since spoke to Kyle and Jackie O about the drama.
“I’m glad he likes himself so much, but you know what, honestly, not something to really brag about,” she told the KIIS FM stars.
Adding, “[It’s] not my proudest moment and definitely not something I’d set up.”
“I actually used to have a big crush on Shane,” she confessed.
“And that went down the drain really quick after all this. I definitely have nothing close to crush on him now!”
Brynne has become so confident since her body overhaul.
Just you wait – this is the new ‘white and gold/black and blue dress’ photo.
If you look close enough (or have a quick glance at it again in half an hour), you’ll see that’s it’s not a grey stone wedged between two bricks but it’s actually a Cuban cigar sticking directly out from the wall.
Have you spotted it yet? Once you see it you will never un-see it!
Here are a few more tricky illusions, like this baffling video posted by Twitter user Marc Blank-Settle.
It read the caption “My toddler’s train track is freaking me out right now. What is going on here?!”
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He placed two pieces of a train track next to each other – both of which were clearly different sizes – but when he placed the longer one on top, they are exactly the same size.
Mind-blowing!
Another unexplained video is of Kevin Parry filming himself in front of a mirror and bouncing a ball… to himself!?
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Some Vine users are claiming it’s the work of tricky editing software, but regardless, it’s pretty cool!
My daughter, Mary, was home sick from school one day. She’d been living with anorexia since she was 12 and we let her stay home sometimes as she became exhausted easily. She was in her room when my husband rang and asked me to check on her.
I cracked open her door and peered into her room but she was gone. There had been an incident in town where a young girl had taken her life at a local bridge.
That young girl was my 15-year-old daughter. My beautiful, vibrant, Mary.
Mary had been living with this eating disorder for three years, but I never imagined it would end in a phone call that changed my life forever.
Mary was a normal kid of a normal weight when she suffered a nasty abscess in her tooth. We travelled from our home in Albury to Melbourne for a root canal but her health continued to decline.
She became very unwell with virus-like symptoms. She had a mild fever and her entire body was covered in a rash. Her paediatrician immediately diagnosed parvovirus. Although she had physical symptoms, her doctor once asked me if I thought this sickness was in Mary’s head.
I replied: “you’re the doctor.”
During this week of tooth infection, it’s as though an eating switch was turned off in Mary and her desire to eat simply vanished.
She spent weeks undergoing blood tests and we had ongoing trouble feeding her. We were finally discharged and went home.
When your child is sick, you rug them up on the couch and wait until they ask you for food. You give them whatever they want.
Sometimes they don’t feel like eating and you can’t force them to. I had no idea that we were dealing with an eating disorder.
When Mary was clearly at her sickest, her paediatrician told her it was time to stop it and get back to school. He had no idea what he was dealing with and I don’t feel like he tried hard enough to understand. We needed someone specialised and trained in this field.
I don’t know if anyone would truly ever understand why this was happening but maybe if Mary received adequate treatment in those crucial early stages, this story would have ended differently.
Within eight weeks, Mary had lost about 8kgs and she was dangerously thin at 27kgs. We took her back to hospital in Melbourne. Mary was fed seven meals a day through a nasogastric tube and it was akin to torture. She didn’t fight it, she didn’t cry, she didn’t anything.
Mary was compliant and went through the motions. My beautiful daughter’s spark wasn’t glowing any longer.
I tried talking to her, but she gave nothing away. I would have begged if I thought it would make a difference but pleading with an anorexic to stop is like begging someone with Alzheimer’s to remember. So I just watched her and loved her and tried to keep it all together.
We were discharged from the hospital after eight weeks and, of course, Mary had gained weight – but she was far from “better”.
Mary, Henry and Jack
Every week for a year, her big brothers, Jack, then 20, and Henry, then 16, Mary and I would drive 330km from Albury to Melbourne to go to Oak House for “treatment”. Their form of treatment wasn’t working for us. It was agonising to go through but we couldn’t stop as it was part of our ongoing treatment ordered by the hospital.
I was communicating with other psychiatrists and therapists but no one could really get to the bottom of what was happening with our Mary. It was mysterious and complex. And so incredibly heartbreaking.
Mary returned to school and one of our family would go three and sometimes four times a day to feed her for the next three years. I think this probably alienated her from her friends but if we didn’t go, she just wouldn’t eat.
If we physically handed Mary food, she would eat it with no argument, she would ask for changes in our evening meal, she would eat what was given to her but without us, it’s like she just didn’t think about food. Often people with anorexia will fight food, but Mary didn’t. She was just ambivalent.
This is not a normal case of an eating disorder, but there is no real normal case. It touches different people differently, which is why specialist care is so important.
I feel that something happened with the abscess. I feel that the infection may have affected her brain and changed something in there, but I will never know why this happened. I can only try to live with it now that it has.
Mary was not noticeably different in the days leading up to taking her own life. She rode her horse and played water polo. Everything seemed fairly normal. In hindsight, there were tiny signs that she was tidying away her life in preparation.
She closed down her Facebook page sagely stating it was a waste of time, she tidied out her room which she did every year or so anyway, but I suppose this time was different.
The pain I feel at her loss is indescribable. There is a hole in my family where Mary used to be, and that hole will never diminish.
The days after her death were like a nightmare. We found some poetry that Mary wrote and the way she articulated herself in these words was unlike any way she could communicate in life. These poems gave no real answers, but they allowed us to see what was going on underneath Mary’s façade.
Eating disorders are a very serious mental illness and to anyone caring for someone with an eating disorder I beg you to realise it may be more dire than it appears on the surface. Timing is crucial and getting adequate and personalised help as early as possible is paramount to survival of this terrible problem.
Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness and not enough people know this. No one told me suicide was a possibility, no one.
Suicide is a very complex issue and a deeply complicated grief. It is incredibly awful for the people left behind. I began the Albury Wodonga Winter Solstice with Survivors of Suicide and Friends to help shine a light on the darkest night of the year.
Once a year we join together with inspirational speakers in the field and together we continue our journey of healing and hope in the wake of such tragedy.
If you need support please contact the National Eating Disorders Supportline on 1800 33 4673 (1800 ED HOPE) at the Butterfly Foundation
The comments I’m about to make are informed by growing up in a small business family, where I was an unwilling volunteer during school holidays at my father’s factory. It was during those years that I saw the full impact that a small business has on a family.
During my career, I had a small business that I started on the side and ultimately was able to divest. Now, running a global business, I have to tell you that all the leadership principles I learnt in small business are exactly what I employ in running a larger business.
I have a number of reflections to share that may be of some assistance as you run your own successful businesses.
Firstly, you must find time to pause and look at your business from a holistic perspective. The nature of a small business is to jump in, make decisions quickly, with no time to think. However, finding that time to think broadly, allows you to reassess processes, objectives and strategy.
A mentor can be helpful with this. An objective point of view, someone who is going to test and challenge your strategy or ideas, is an effective way of helping you to develop your business without overlooking anything because you’re so close to it.
Second, ensure you’re instilling the most effective culture. To be honest, I used to undervalue culture, but it is so important to get it right. Values matter. And as the leader, you can’t do everything yourself, so it’s important to have a culture in place that the people working with you believe in and appreciate, which will give you the confidence to delegate more effectively and give you more time to think about the bigger picture.
In small business, it can often feel like you’re playing catch-up. This makes not only the skills mix you employ very important, but also your personality mix. Your team’s behaviour and personality is reflective of you and your business. It’s up to you to create the frame and expectation for people to work within. And more and more you should think about the skills you require to reach your objectives. Often these are skills or specialties that you don’t personally possess, meaning you’re looking for skills that complement your own.
Thirdly, a focus on widening the audience of interest in your business is very worthwhile for maintaining business relevance. This has been a significant brand objective for CPA Australia in order to help us build awareness and engagement with our organisation. We had to think deep and hard about our product and services, a career in accounting, and identify what it is about accounting that would interest people. Fundamentally, it came down to how a foundation in accounting can help build you into an aspirational leader. This has been a core message for audiences inside and outside the accounting profession.
For us, online engagement has been a key initiative, as it enables us to have wide-ranging yet personalised interactions with people. And it’s not about the hard-sell about our service – it’s about making ourselves accessible and developing lasting relationships. People value and expect that from brands today.
When you are really focused on your product or service, and you’re short on time, more and more you become insulated and you’re working within, whereas, you’ve got to find ways to make your organisation more community understood and valued.
The fourth is being disruptive, a word that appeared a lot in my school reports. It’s incredible how it has become a buzzword in business. When I refer to it, I’m not talking about technology, in spite of the fact that technology is an important part of it, I’m talking about being willing to hire people that have a disruptive aspect to them, that are going to be curious about potential ways to grow your business and gain an edge over competitors. Empowering this attitude in people is essential.
For CPA Australia, disruption is followed by integration. Our television series, The Naked CEO book, these initiatives are all about offering a variety of ways for people to engage with our brand. The TV series is one way, the book is another, and so too is our career mentoring website thenakedceo.com.
We’re providing various avenues for people to engage or find something in our brand that might be of use or interest to them. All of these initiatives feed into our strategy to broaden the audience of interest in our brand and be recognised as a respected voice in the leadership space.
I will always remember the late Bryce Courtenay saying to me in an interview that he’s never seen more qualified dumb people in the world. While this was jarring to hear, it’s a real reminder that in business and in life, we need to keep our messages and content simple. Increasingly, individuals are bombarded with information and their concentration spans have waned. You must factor these realities into how you communicate.
Finally, you’ll notice the one thing that I haven’t mentioned yet is finance. Of course, financial management is central to every business, but your success rests on first getting the strategy right, building a positive culture and creating sustainable relationships with customers.
From a cash flow perspective, it’s really important to understand that good management rests on the relationships you build with suppliers and customers. Negotiating preferable arrangements are always more successful when relationships have been built respectfully. In short term circumstances, never forget that credit cards properly managed are a very useful tool as you are able to access finance at zero interest.
I admire what all of you do. It’s one thing to be entrepreneurial in a role where someone is paying you a salary; it’s another thing to be entrepreneurial when you’re paying your own salary. Your self-belief is fantastic. Never underestimate culture, the significance of your business in the community, and the tangential benefits that brings.
Somewhere along the line, carbohydrates got confused as our body’s enemy.
Sure, if you’re going to eat white bread, cake and pasta every minute of every day then perhaps a cause for concern is warranted, but carbs are actually a critical source of fuel for our brain and body’s healthy, daily function.
A diet lacking in carbs will force the body to sub in protein, fats and sugars as a source of energy, which can cause those spikes of oomph, followed by a sudden onset of fatigue.
What your body needs to combat this slump, is a long-lasting source of energy found in the good kinds of carbs.
So without further ado, here are our top five healthy picks:
Corn
Corn when cooked fresh is an incredible source of natural carbohydrates. As well as its energy-giving properties, the little yellow gems are rich in dietary fibre with nearly five grams per cup and are loaded with lutein and zeaxanthin – two phytochemicals that promote healthy vision.
Pro tip: Try eating popcorn as a healthy guilty pleasure snack, because if you’re going to treat yourself (and we all should), then why not make your treat delicious and nutritious?
White potatoes
Okay sure, the health benefits of potatoes are probably going to be deemed redundant if you smother them with sour cream, salt and butter, but these fluffy nuggets are actually an incredibly rich source of natural, long-lasting energy. As well as providing that slow burn our body desperately needs, potatoes contain an abundance of potassium which in turn provides relief from anxiety and stress. Win-win!
Pronounced, Keen-wah (not Kwin-oh-ah – something I recently learnt under embarrassing circumstances and no, I don’t want to talk about it), is a current health craze for a reason. In just once cup of quinoa, you’ll find 30 grams of good carbohydrates, as well zinc, calcium, fibre and just about everything else good for you!
Peas
These good green veggies are perhaps the easiest way to add carbohydrates to your #CleanEating meals. Just pop a handful into your lunchtime salads, stir-fry, curry or whatever really, there are no rules! As well as releasing energy, peas are also an amazing source of fibre, vitamin K, C and B, and are rich in protein for all you vegetarians out there.
Kim Kardashian is all about incorporating greens into every meal.
Bananas
Is there anything bananas can’t do? As natures energy bar, bananas pack more carbs per bite than most fruits as they have a lower water content. Nanas are also a right source of potassium, which in addition to lowering blood pressure also enhances muscle strength and acts as a natural diuretic that eases water retention and bloating.
So what are you waiting for! Get eating and give carbs the love they so dearly deserve.
Gwyneth Paltrow sure does love quinoa! Watch the video below to find out just how much.
In heartbreaking interviews in the US, the singer spoke out about how she lost her soulmate when Rene passed away, and how she’s coping day-by-day.
“Rene always insisted the show must go on,” she told People magazine.
“You know what, I’m 48 years old and I lost the love of my life. I miss him a lot from when he was great, but not when he was suffering. I cannot be selfish. You have to let people go.”
“I feel at peace.”
The mother-of-three also told of how she used a family favourite Disney movie, Up, to break the news of their father’s death to her kids.
“Before I told them that their dad was not there, I talked about when we, everybody, gets sick. Then I said, ‘Do you remember the movie Up?'” She said of the 2009 Disney feature length animation to ABC News.
“‘Oh,’ they said, ‘Yes, Ellie went up. You know, she, with the balloons.’ And I said, ‘Well, yeah. You know, today Papa went up.’”
Celine and Rene.
The Canadian songstress explained that whenever she heard her children refer to where their father had gone, she wanted to hear them say “up”.
“Up is good. Up is uplifting,” she explained.
She then took the children outside for a private family ceremony that involved sprinkling “pixie dust” and releasing balloons up into the sky.
“We’re gonna say ‘Papa we love you. Have a good up’ and we’re gonna spread this and it’s gonna go to him,” she remembers telling them.
Rene performed the role of manager as well as doting husband for Celine, and the 48-year-old put her career on hold three times to care for him through three different bouts of cancer.
At one point they believed they had removed the tumours that were making him so ill, but the disease returned aggressively in 2014.
The singer put her career on hold to be a carer for Rene before he passed away.
She recalls finally telling him he didn’t have to worry about her or anything else anymore as her last words to him before he passed.
“You were worrying for my career. You were worrying for the children. You were worrying for everything. It’s enough. Do you trust me? Please do. Trust me,” she recalled saying to the 73-year-old.
“It’s been a long, long journey,” the iconic artist confessed to ABC of the process of caring for her husband, whose cancer first appeared in 1999.
“We were living in hope, knowing that there’s no hope.”
Rene is survived by Celine and his three children René-Charles, 15, and five-year-old twins Nelson and Eddy.
“I really, really just want to prove to my kids their mother is strong,” she said.
This story was originally published on Woman’s Day.
On Tuesday The Duke of Cambridge embarked on a moving visit to the Royal Marsden Hospital in London in his capacity as president.
It was there the father-of-two candidly chatted about his precious poppets with cancer patient Kathryn England.
“He said they were fine. He said his household is very noisy at the moment. He said he was looking at schools – I suppose for George he would be,” she recalled of her meeting with the 33-year-old.
George is expected to start school in September 2017.
Our favourite cheeky monkey has already started pre-school.
And he might follow his daddy’s footsteps to attend Wetherby School.
George, who turns three in July, is currently attending the local Westacre Montessori nursery in Norfolk, just a short drive from his family’s country mansion Anmer Hall, which is located on the Queen’s Sandringham Estate.
While the young royal family live away from their London base, Kensington Palace, there is no word on whether the children will continue their education in Norfolk or London.
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If they choose to follow in their father’s footsteps, they George may become a pupil at London’s elite pre-preparatory Wetherby School.
No matter where Catherine and William decide to send their little ones, the kids will have fabulous role models in their parents.
The Prince followed in his mother Princess Diana’s footsteps in becoming the president of Royal Marsden Hospital back in 2007, a role the late royal held onto from 1989 until her untimely passing in 1997.
Relive Princess Diana, Prince Harry and proud papa Charles send off William to his first day at Eton. Post continues…
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Diana’s eldest joined Ralph Lauren and his wife, Ricky Anne Loew-Beer, to take a tour of the new breast cancer research centre that has been named after the designer following his generous donation.
The American fashion icon explained his decision for his hefty donation.
“A good friend of mine in America had breast cancer. She said I haven’t got any support from anyone and I said ‘I’m going to help you’.”
William told breast cancer patient Kathryn England (left) that he was looking at schools for George.
The dad-of-two was excited to explore the new research centre.
“She didn’t make it but I got hooked into really feeling very strongly about breast cancer. I have a daughter and a wife and it’s a family situation. Your mother might have it or your sister might have it but the family goes through it so it involves everybody.”
Ralph and Wills visited the laboratories and met members of the research and clinical teams.
Showing off his funny side, the designer joked about his tour with the royal.
“He goes wherever I go, I go wherever he goes, I follow him.”
Check out the sweet friendship between the designer and the Prince in the video player below
When a Brisbane woman discovered she was a child born of incest and rape, her world caved in around her. It was her “worst fear,” reports Daily Mail.
Lois Buch was adopted out at birth and although her childhood was very loving, at 23 she became curious about her biological mother and wrote her a letter.
They reunited in Sydney in 1992 and Lois said it was like “looking at her twin.” Her mother passed away a few years later from cancer, which is when one of her aunts disclosed the awful truth.
“She told me that my biological grandfather was my father. So my birth mother had been raped over many, many years, right through her childhood,” Ms Buch said on SBS’s Insight on Tuesday evening.
Until then, Lois had presumed her mother had fallen pregnant to a high school sweetheart and the discovery that she had was a victim of her father was shocking.
It was also revealed that her mother had not fallen pregnant once, but twice, and Lois had a sister born under the same circumstances who was also put up for adoption.
No charges were ever laid against her grandfather who died before Lois could confront him.
Back in the nineteenth century, Australia led the way in giving women the right to vote and stand for parliament.
Yet here we are 114 years later and still only around 30 per cent of politicians in Australia’s parliaments are women.
Political parties say they’re doing everything they can to get to 50-50, but so far only Labor and the Greens have managed to get close. Labor has 45 per cent women MPs in the national parliament, while the Greens have 45.5 per cent. The Coalition parties have 27 per cent, and may have even less following the upcoming election.
This is not just a matter of balancing things up for appearances sake.
Without enough female voices in the nation’s decision-making forums, there is an increased chance that governments will make poor or bad decisions that have a negative impact on women.
That’s because it’s easier for a bunch of men on comfy incomes to cut funding for frontline domestic violence support, women’s health services or child care without thinking through the implications for women, families, the economy or the broader community.
In the absence of there being enough female politicians to stand up against their male-centric colleagues, it’s up to female voters to remind politicians what our half of the population wants from elected representatives when it comes to identifying priorities and allocating government funds.
The power of women voters cannot, and should not, be underestimated. Hell hath no fury like a female voter scorned.
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Some politicians are alert to this, and while some have tried to pitch themselves as the supporter of women’s interests, many have failed.
Who could forget Tony Abbott trying to neutralise his “women’s problem” with an expensive, badly-targeted and poorly defended paid parental leave scheme.
And then there was Julia Gillard who, on the same day that she delivered her blistering speech about Abbott’s misogyny, also cut payments to single mothers when their youngest child turns eight.
So it’s hardly surprising a major opinion poll found more women supported Labor after Kevin Rudd replaced Julia Gillard in 2013 federal election, even if he did eventually lose to Tony Abbott.
Opinion polls are now showing the Government first led by Abbott and now Turnbull has lost its lead on the Opposition, with at least one poll suggesting this is because women have shifted their votes from the Coalition to Labor.
This may be in part because of decisions in the federal budget, which we highlighted last week as pretty unsatisfactory for women. But female voters have also gone off the Prime Minister, who failed to deliver on the high voter expectations he encouraged before challenging Tony Abbott for the top job.
Back then, 68 per cent of men and women approved of Turnbull, now that has dropped to 46 per cent for women and 49 per cent for men. The PM’s disapproval rating has increased accordingly.
Even so, despite their disillusionment with PM Turnbull, male voters seem to be sticking with the Government.
Accordingly, the outcome of the federal election rests in the hands of Australian women.
That’s why we’ll be providing you with analysis of the parties’ election policies, in light of their track records to date, and an assessment of what each party has to offer Australian women.
In preparation for election day, which falls on July 2, it’s worth checking to see if you are on the electoral roll and your details are correct. If you’re not yet registered to vote, you can enrol online at the Australian Electoral Commission.
Next week: The Coalition Government’s election pitch to Australian women.
The blonde bombshell broke her baby news via Instagram back in March, and now, the angel has revealed her impending bub’s gender with an equally sweet snap!
Candice Swanepoel and her handsome fiance Hermann Nicoli will be welcoming a baby boy into the world.
In true Victoria’s Secret style, the mum-to-be made the announcement with a sexy, black and white shot in which the model stands topless, covering her chest and showing off her burgeoning belly.
“My Not so little boy,” she captioned the pic, making sure to include the baby boy emoji as well as the blue love heart.
Motherhood certainly suits this angel! (Image via/ Candice Swanepoel Instagram)
The 27-year-old has made it very clear indeed that she and her 33-year-old beau simply cannot wait to welcome their bundle of joy.
Candice, who got engaged to Hermann in August 2015 after nearly 10 years of dating, has shared multiple shots of her bumps progression since she first announced the happy news.
The mum-to-be is already besotted with her baby boy.
The couple met in Paris when Candice was just 17 years old.
The South African beauty has also been particularly excited to share her pregnancy with best friend and fellow angel, Behati Prinsloo, who is also expecting her first bub with rocker husband Adam Levine.
“Candice and Behati are best friends and they are not far apart from each other in pregnancy due dates,” a source revealed to E! News.
“They both have been experiencing the first stages of being pregnant together and are happy to have each other who understand. They can’t wait to be mommies!”
Did someone say playdates? Candice and Behati are due just months apart!
Behati and Adam have been very vocal about their desire for a big brood, with the Maroon 5 front-man even saying, “I want to have 100 kids. I want to have more kids than would be socially responsible.”
And just last month it was announced that the genetically blessed couple are expecting the arrival of their first sweet-as-sugar baby girl in late September, so one thing’s for sure, the mini-angels will certainly be having plenty of playdates!
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