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American Students Help Cambodian Counterparts
After learning that children in Cambodia’s countryside were in dire need of support, the students of Overlake School in Redmond, Washington began working with the group American Assistance for Cambodia to build a school there. Through bake sales, talent shows and raffles, these students raised $15,000 for construction of the school. Once the building was complete, they continued to raise money for teachers, books and computers. “Words can’t express how proud I am of what we’ve accomplished,” said 12th grader Kelsey Schmidt. Some of these students traveled over to Cambodia to view the progress and have been keeping in touch with their new acquaintances.
House Rejects Escalation Plan in New Resolution
Today, the Democratic-controlled House voted 246-182 on the non-binding resolution to oppose President Bush’s plan for deploying thousands of more troops to Iraq. Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “[t]he stakes in Iraq are too high to recycle proposals that have little prospect for success.” However, Bush’s Republican allies have said several times that the resolution would lead to attempts to cut funding for the troops.
Tax Cut Vote Could Pave the Way for Minimum Wage
The House is also expected to vote today on a tax-package that’s worth approximately $1.8 billion over the next 10 years. This vote could set the wheels in motion for the final passage of a bill that would raise the minimum wage. The $2.10 per hour increase (from the current $5.15 to $7.25) is one of the top priorities of this new legislature. The question, that many are wondering, is how much of a tax break will small businesses receive from this package.
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Hi Folks,
Before I turn in: on Bill Mahr tonight, he called Howard Dean the Nostradamo of the Iraq War, saying that he's been right about everything. This in context with saying that Biden's gaffe about Obama and Kerry's mistold joke and Dean's scream shouldn't have disqualified them for the presidency. How we got the Chimp is another story. As usual, Bill is brilliant. I think comedians are some of our most creative and intelligent people. Good Luck, Al Frankin.
Went to dinner in Loveland, said "Piece of cake" again, as we st arted up our forest access road. Dumb me. I swore I'd never say that again. It's a taunt to the gods, and it always, always results in problems, near disasters The road, a sheet of ice, and after three attempts and wheelies backing down just skirting a ditch, we abandoned the Jeep below a certain impossible hill. Studded snow tires aren't enough. We will have to get chains. But, as is true in mountain communities, a friend in a pickup with chains drove us the rest of the way home.
This is a winter.
We're tuning to Bill Maher at 10 PST tonight.
Congratulations to the Chicago nine!
Just put up a post that I thought some of you may be interested in on my blog.
http://crawfordstake.blogspot.com/2007/02/tying-it-all-together-djia-milw-suburbs.html
Check it out! Rae
Saw the Maher thing tonight also. Grinned to myself. He was awesome tonight and Def Poetry afterwards was also incredibly good.
Okay, this is probably a minor thing, but have you guys noticed that when you hit refresh on this new blog stuff it takes you to the top of the page instead of back to where you were? I know it's a small thing, but really irritating!
Maybe I'm the only one out here, but regardless, I'm tired and going to bed. Take care all! Rae
I turned Maher off when Steele kept talking. I hope it got better or was better before then. I may watch it later in the week.
Guess what. Florida is going to try go pass a bill to "allow" women (did you get the word allow)...to have the Plan B pill if they are a rape victim. But one lawmaker won't vote for the bill, and after some checking around....I don't think they can pass it. Sad.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1083
It's a shame what has happened to my state.
Florida...Plan B pill.
johnny cash with oscar the grouch nasty dan the stars come out on sesame street sesame street 0:20:00
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/9239
Rep. Dennis Baxley, a leading conservative voice, said his belief that life begins at conception would preclude his support.
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..."it seems to me that the right wing of the Republican Party preaches virtue on the one hand and intolerance on the other"
Lexington
Dick Cheney under the microscopeFeb 15th 2007
From The Economist print edition
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The two characteristics that have emerged most clearly are ruthlessness and obsessive attention to detail. Mr Cheney was clearly determined to punish Joseph Wilson for casting doubt on some of the administration's claims about WMD.
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Indeed, one of the most striking things about the trial is that it demonstrates just how much of a creature of Washington Mr Cheney really is. He may present himself as a plain-spoken son of Wyoming who eventually went on to become the no-nonsense CEO of a global company. But in reality he is the quintessential Washingtonian.
He started his career as a failed academic, dropping out of Yale after a few terms and never completing his PhD at the University of Wisconsin. But he flourished when he came to Washington: attracting the attention of Donald Rumsfeld, rapidly climbing the greasy pole, and becoming Gerald Ford's chief of staff at the age of 34. He had found his perfect milieu.
Conspiring and manoeuvringDuring his years as an insider he has acquired the typical habits of mind of veteran Washingtonians: an obsession with spin and gossip, including an over-inflated sense of the importance of newspaper articles; a hyper-sensitive nose for threats; and, it would appear, a determination to destroy his enemies by whatever means necessary.
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He relied on his own intelligence sources—the latter-day equivalent of Team B—and made repeated visits to the CIA headquarters in Langley to interrogate officers there on their intelligence. Mr Wilson was thus a ready-made target for Mr Cheney: an Iraq war sceptic who had been sent to Niger by a notoriously soft agency and who tried to ventilate his views in the newspapers.
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Where did Mr Cheney get his fervour from?
Pat -- chains on cars ... around hereabouts they've been trying something entirely new. They fit into a small plastic case and they are like socks with non-skid bottoms. They are supposed to fit over the tires. I can't remember the name but a friend just recently showed them to me and was going to try them out on his upcoming vacation to the higher-elevation ski areas.
Evidently they were developed in Norway. I'll ask my friend how they worked out when he's back next week.
Has anyone else heard about these ... whatever they are ...?
What a genuinely helpful project for Redmond HS!
Great going and congratulations! From the mouths ... and actions ... of babes.
Let us listen to and learn from these *children.* They are our greatest legacy and we have an obligation to try to keep the world functioning for them.
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As for prick ... he was born an evil slug ... he got sluggier wherever he went and now he has become the sluggiest ... delusions of grandeur and living proof that some people should never have power because they have no sense of morality or accountability or responsibility.
Has anyone seen "Breach?"
I'm looking forward to it.
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Friday, Feb. 16, 2007Inside the Mind of a SpyBy Richard SchickelAs if we don't have enough worries about national security, Breach obliges us to think about the deeply weird (and by most of us half-forgotten) case of Robert Hanssen, the FBI agent who for a couple of decades enriched himself by passing classified documents to the Soviet Union as well as to its heirs and assigns. When he was arrested in 2001, his case seemed to be just another of those fairly routine lapses in security that afflict all great powers. Some people will spy. Some of them will get caught. Life tends to go on. Who knew how entertainingly, if sometimes scarily, bent Hanssen — brilliantly played in director Bully Ray's film by Chris Cooper — was?
Well, it turns out that a fellow named Eric O'Neill (Ryan Phillipe) got a pretty good idea about that pretty quickly. He was an ambitious young FBI trainee recruited by the counter-espionage team headed by Laura Linney's Kate Burroughs to be Hanssen's assistant and to mole his way into the wack-job's confidence. In the movie the kid is eager, innocent and eventually becomes so obsessed with his prey that he is endangering his marriage to pretty, sensible Juliana (Caroline Dhavernas). For Hanssen is something more than the mere neat freak he first appears to be. He is also both a devout, mass-every-day Catholic and an equally devout purveyor-consumer of pornography, some of which features his sweetly simple wife (with or without her consent is unclear in the film). The man gives new meaning to F. Scott Fitzgerald's notion that the test of a good mind is the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts simultaneously. Which says nothing about the fact that a man whose political views appear to shade toward the right-wing-crazy end of the spectrum is among Russia's most valuable assets in the secret world.
Cooper's performance as this character is nothing short of astonishing: it encompasses a rigid posture, a snappish disposition and a careless contempt for agency protocol. One of the first things he does is send O'Neill out to steal a new computer from their colleagues down the hall. What begins to emerge, almost inferentially from Cooper's taciturn playing, is a portrait of a sharp knife nestled in drawer full of dull ones. A man this bright should have been on the bureau's fast track. Instead, he's on a side track, chugging along a bureaucratic road to nowhere. Hanssen's fuming impatience with the patronizing doofusses who have held him back is well, even comically, stated in the script written by Ray in collaboration with Adam Mazer and William Rotko. So is the barely suppressed tension his double life imposes on him.
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I'm looking forward to this one. I loved *The God of Small Things.*
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Live to tellArundhati Roy wrote a stunning Booker winner, then became a political activist. Ten years and two court cases later, she has begun a second novel. Randeep Ramesh reports
Saturday February 17, 2007Guardian
Many had written off the chances that Arundhati Roy would return to the world of fiction. Her astounding first novel, The God of Small Things, won the Booker in 1997. Ten years and 6m copies later there was still no repeat of the lyrical, whirling debut. Instead Roy turned to lobbing literary Molotov cocktails at Enron, George Bush's war on terror and the World Trade Organisation in the form of incendiary polemics. No one could accuse her of having writers' block: she churned out six books, collections of her essays with titles such as Power Politics and An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire.
Dispensing with story-writing she pursued a career in social activism, appearing at anti-war rallies and using her celebrity to raise the profiles of unfashionable causes - Kashmiris on death row, the rights of tribal communities in India, hardscrabble suicides in the country's farming belt.
But this week the 45-year-old quietly announced that she would be stepping back from the public stage to write her second novel. The last person to know, apparently, was her agent, David Godwin, who had negotiated for her a million dollar advance for The God of Small Things. "David rang me saying, 'Why did you not tell me? I have had hundreds of calls from publishers'. I thought it was so funny, I mean let's have a bidding war for a non-existent book," says Roy.
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329719165-99930,00.html
Love this headline!
And some Republicans are apparently seeing the light (or the polls).
But those two Dems have got to go because they are clearly DINOs.
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By 246 votes to 182, Congress sends rebuke to Bush over Iraq troop surge· Seventeen Republicans vote against president
· White House warning over taking protest further
Saturday February 17, 2007
Guardian
Congress yesterday condemned President George Bush's decision to send more troops to Iraq, delivering its first rebuke to his war leadership since the invasion.
Although the House of Representatives vote against deploying 21,500 more troops to Iraq was non-binding, the repercussions of this rare wartime reprimand for a commander-in-chief could be great. Democrats hope the resolution, carried by 246 votes to 182, could be a turning point, and eventual force Mr Bush to bring home the troops.
It also showcased Republican dissent. Seventeen Congressmen defied Mr Bush to vote for the measure - fewer than projected, but still a significant show. Two Democrats, from Mississippi and Georgia, voted against. After four days of often passionate debate, the language in yesterday's resolution was sparse, offering continued support for the troops while registering disapproval of sending more.
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Conservatives an *oppressed class* .... hardly.
There is no *conservative* satire. Satire requires an ability to look objectively at oneself or one's surroundings and realize the illogic in the contradictions. It is in that illogic that humor lives. Satire requires brilliance and wit, a la Jon Stewart or Colbert or even Al Franken ... or at least a homey folksiness that comes from the heart, a la Garrison Keillor.
Objectivity, brilliance, and wit are not characteristics of today's RW-controlled *conservatives* who are not true conservatives in any way, shape or size.
Among Rethug *conservatives,* there IS a lot of meanness that tries to pass itself off as humor. And if this show is being launched by Fox, it'll be mean enough, I'm sure.
But I don't think that Jon Stewart will need to lose any sleep over it.
Mission Impossible?
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One last mission for the man behind Jack Bauer: make US right funny again· Fox launches rival to Jon Stewart's Daily Show
· 24 creator aims to revive conservative satire
Saturday February 17, 2007
Guardian
For some it is a sign that the conservatives are preparing to move into opposition. For others, it represents the right's attempt to reclaim satire from the cosy clasp of the liberal elite.
This weekend Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel, home of all that is "fair and balanced", launches the Half Hour News Hour. As the title suggests, the programme is not entirely serious. Nor is it fair and balanced. Indeed, it is intended to wrench the iron fist of satire away from the liberals on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show and give the right all the best lines.
Regardless of the merits of the gags in the Half Hour News Hour, its appearance may represent something of a cultural shift. With a waning presidency, a drawn out war and an over-familiar group of political targets, viewers may be tiring of jokes about the Bush administration.
The programme is the brainchild of Joel Surnow, the man behind the hit Fox series 24. A self-confessed "right-wing nut job", Surnow recently told the New Yorker magazine that "Conservatives are the new oppressed class". Surnow says he wants to counter what he sees as the dominance of left-leaning comedy. "You can turn on any show and see Bush being bashed," Surnow told Variety. "There is nothing for those who want satire that tilts right."
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Wasn't it Nicolo Pollari who was very much involved in the *yellowcake* story that has been Libby's undoing (or so I hope ... and also hope for more)?
What a crying shame ... but those who disregard the law must pay the consequences ... and following orders is no excuse.
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CIA agents will be tried for kidnap in Italy John Hooper in RomeSaturday February 17, 2007
Guardian
Twenty-six Americans and five Italians are to be put on trial in Italy, accused of kidnapping a terrorism suspect as part of the CIA's programme of so-called extraordinary rendition.
Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as Abu Omar, who was released from prison in Egypt this week, said he had been reduced to a "human wreck" by torture during four years in a Cairo jail. Prosecutors in Milan who were investigating Abu Omar when he disappeared from the city four years ago allege he was flown to Egypt from a US air base in Italy after being snatched by a CIA team helped by Italian intelligence.
Judge Caterina Interlandi ruled yesterday that the prosecution had made a prima facie case during a preliminary hearing that opened last month and that a full trial should begin on June 8. It will be the world's first trial over the extraordinary rendition programme in which suspects are often delivered to countries where torture is common.
Among those indicted were the CIA's former Rome and Milan station chiefs, Jeff Castelli and Robert Lady, and the then head of Italian military intelligence, Nicolo Pollari. Other defendants include another 23 suspected CIA operatives and a US Air Force officer who was serving in Italy when Abu Omar vanished.
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Pumpkin time ... yes, another working weekend ... just not the usual draconian early start.
Find the Latin Proverbs!
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the proverbs are not in the same order in the list.
R O M A A E T E R N A V A G A E S T F O R T U N A B E L U A F E R A E S T A V A R I T I A V A R I A V I T A E S T I T A V I T A L O N G A E S T V I T A S I P L E N A E S T V I T R E A E S T F O R T U N A C A E C A I N V I D I A E S T F O R T U N A C A E C A E S T S C I E N T I A P O T E N T I A F O R T U N A E S T R O T U N D A[...]
Here are the proverbs you will find in there. You may or may not want to look at these first as a prompt.
Scientia potentia. Knowledge is power. (As a teacher, of course I agree!)
Fortuna caeca est. Fortune is blind. (We are used to the image of "Blind Justice" in the English tradition, but it also makes sense to imagine Fortune doing what she does without looking.)
Fortuna est rotunda. Fortune is revolving. (Good etymological connection here in Latin: the wheel, rota, of Fortune is what makes her "rotund.")
Vaga est fortuna. Fortune is fickle. (We use "vague" in a more limited sense in English; this is Fortune who wanders, is erratic, fickle.)
Vitrea est fortuna. Fortune is made of glass. (In other words: she shines brightly, and shatters easily!)
Varia vita est. Life is inconstant. (In English we might say "life has its ups and downs.")
Ita vita. Such is life. (A nice near-rhyme in Latin!)
Longa est vita si plena est. A life is long, if it is full. (Hopefully full of good things!)
Roma aeterna. Rome is eternal. (So far, she has proved herself so!)
Belua fera est avaritia. Avarice is a wild beast. (The word avaritia is abstract and disembodied, but this metaphorical expression gives it fangs and claws: greed as a ravening beast.)
Caeca invidia est. Envy is blind. (This is a brilliant little play on words in Latin, as Latin invidia is derived from "looking on," but doing so blind with envy.)
And here is the text with the boundaries marked:
http://latin.bestmoodle.net/index.php/proverbia/2006/08/30/find_the_proverbs
Good morning, everybody
What a short thread. I read the whole thing.
Vindication is nice but hundreds of thousands of people are dead because of the 2000 and 2004 mis-elections. It's really convenient to be able to say somebody else made the hard choices, but what that really means is that one somebody made a choice about somebody else and another somebody made sure many bodies died. Hard choices hardly ever affect the somebody that makes them.
The notion that making the choice is in any way equivalent to doing the deed is really offensive.
And then there are the secrets.
How come we never hear or read about the sorties from the aircraft carriers and Kuwait that are still dispatching bombs and missiles into Iraq on a regular basis? Troops getting shot at by a sniper call for backup and "boom"--a bomb arrives to smash the suspected source of the shots.
Good Morning, Folks. I just got home from the 2nd night of passionate frenzied tango dancing for our yearly Valentango. I can barely walk and may have to crawl up the stairs. And I was wearing my comfortable spikes!
Who saw NOW? Was it about spying on our blogs?
Right-wing satire? Isn't that an oxyMORON?
Pat, stay off that road! I find it scary in mid-summer altho I used to drive Magnolia's hairpins with just studs.
I can't be serious during our tangofests so it's funville tonight. I wonder if this woman is related to President Cheney.
Woman Allegedly Stabs Man During Sex
Woman arrested after allegedly stabbing man during sex, telling him she likes to drink blood
Patient Sprays Her Way Out of Hospital
After being advised not to leave, woman allegedly pepper sprays her way out of hospital
In my in-box this morning is a speech delivered by Joe Biden last week. It starts out like this:
This is a time of tremendous challenge for America in the world.
We must contend with the on-going war in Afghanistan, the genocide in Darfur, nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea, the rise of China and re-emergence Russia, the growing insecurity of our energy supply, the fragility of our climate, and the threat posed by radical fundamentalism.
But one issue dominates our national debate: Iraq.
If we deal with it successfully, we can recover the freedom, flexibility and credibility to meet these other challenges.
I was going to do a point by point rebuttal, but the whole thing is just too depressing. There are so many assumptions that have to be challenged.
Joe Biden is an idiot, but in putting Russia and China in the same category as genocide and the climate he's at least being honest about the root causes of the American elites' distress. The prospect that the largest nation on earth might actually prosper is what's upsetting the hegemonic apple cart. Why else would he categorize the "rise of China" and the "re-emergence of Russia" as a challenge? The Russian bear's emergence from hibernation is perhaps an apt metaphor, but we all know that our historic fears were/are unfounded.
Never mind that why anyone would want to take on a nation that has no health care, a foundering education system and ranks twentieth in how well it cares for its children is a puzzlement.
And "radical fundamentalism" has to be one of the silliest redundancies. At least that's mildly funny. Biden is obsessed with roots. We already know that. LOL
OK, I'm going to Vilsack's blog to see if there's anything new.
Vindication is nice but hundreds of thousands of people are dead because of the 2000 and 2004 mis-elections.
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had Republicans been "thumped" in 04 instead of 06 much destruction would have been avoided
whenever a Republican starts moaning to me about how bad things have gotten, I just give that classic "I didn't vote for that loser."
bbl
Good morning!
Feingold on CSPAN's Washington Journal at 8 AM ET.
increased community involvement in the decision making process,” said DFA chair Jim Dean
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listener
that is my bottom line on the gas line/LP decision
that it be a community choice after open discussion, open hearings and not just one
Vilsack's blog has fixed the link to the Daily show and the Tonight Show appearance is worth having a look at.
www.tomvilsack08.com/blog/
Feingold has drunk the Kool Aid, as well. He's on C-SPAN talking about how the Iraqis have got to settle their civil war and Iraq is a failed state, as if the U.S. was on an elimosinary mission all along.
Oh, yes, and it's going to take many years, perhaps decades, before Iraq is stable.
How do we address that the U.S. has no business trying to control the globe?
09:02 AM EST
1:09 (est.)
Interview
The Castle in the Forest
Writers Bloc
Norman Mailer
Andrea Grossman , Writers Bloc
cspan2
and the Senate will be on later...
12:00 PM EST
5:00 (est.) LIVE
Senate Proceeding
Senate Session
U.S. Senate
C-SPAN2
How do we address that the U.S. has no business trying to control the globe?
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Monica,
If I may............just sit back love, perform occasional humanitarian gestures, travel, maintain a healthy lifestyle, make money, expand your mind...........be at peace within yourself.
Let this all play out and let nature take its pre-destined course.............let the phoney politicians and their militaries of the world play their silly games for nonsensical purposes and idealogies.
It all wont make much differance i the long run........just watch.
cheers
Slow night--New thread
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Democracy for America Endorses Nine in Chicago Aldermanic Races Released on: February 16, 2007
CHICAGO, IL -- On behalf of the progressive grassroots, Democracy for America (DFA) endorsed nine outstanding government reformers in the Chicago municipal elections today at Chicago City Hall.
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/press
“They are true reformers with the courage to fight for progressive values. Although their political platforms are diverse, they share a commitment to affordable housing, full funding of public schools, neighborhood revitalization, honest government, fair elections, a liveable wage, smart growth and increased community involvement in the decision making process,” said DFA chair Jim Dean. “With great pride and enthusiasm, DFA endorses these nine candidates who share our belief in people-powered politics and will move Chicago forward.”
Edgewater/ Rogers Park DFA leader Sandra Verthein agrees, “Chicagoans have a choice to make. We need open, accountable government that serves the interests of the common good and treats all people fairly and with dignity. We know these nine government reformers will be excellent aldermen.”
The following DFA-List endorsed aldermanic candidates enjoy the enthusiastic support of activists from local groups such as Edgewater/Rogers Park DFA and the Loop DFA:
David Askew (Ward 2)
Greg Brewer (Ward 50)
Joe Moore (Ward 49)
Leroy Jones (Ward 21)
Manuel Flores (Ward 1)
Michele Smith (Ward 43)
Ricardo Munoz (Ward 22)
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The nine candidates graciously accepted their endorsements, including incumbent Joe Moore who commented, “I'm grateful for DFA's endorsement. The people- powered politics that DFA represents is long over due at Chicago's City Hall. I look forward to returning to the City Council with all of DFA's endorsed candidates, when we can bring a more democratic process to the City Council.”
Democracy for America, which was founded by Howard Dean in 2004, is a political action committee dedicated to building a grassroots network of socially progressive and fiscally responsible activists running for all levels of office – from the school board to the Presidency. DFA is empowering everyday Americans to reform their political system.
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