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Date Sent: 2011-02-11
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, February 11, 2011 |
Protesters angry after Mubarak will not resign -- German's buy NY Stock Exchange
In China, Tentative Steps Toward Global Currency -- Anti-computer hacking bill coming in Congress -- Hospitals Shift Smoking Bans to Smoker Ban -- Obama touts plan to get wireless Internet to 98% of U.S. -- Ontario Woman Sues Over Strip-Search At Ambassador Bridge -- Ex-CIA staffer alleges agency coverup in toxin exposure case -- Man faces misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty after his dog kills raccoon -- Postal Service warns of default as losses mount
-- Firm hacked by ‘Anonymous’ plotted against WikiLeaks on bank’s
behalf: report -- Last Fed Hawk (Excluding The Drama Queens) Kevin
Warsh To Leave Fed March 31 -- Daniel Boyd pleads guilty to US terrorism charges -- Big Sis: Times Square Mastermind Bigger Threat Than Bin Laden -- Gold Confiscation: Dutch Central Bank Orders Pension Fund To Sell Its Gold -- American Traffic Solutions desperate for friends -- Paul Supporters Hijack Cheney-Rumsfeld Reunion (Video) -- RESTORE
THE REPUBLIC British Foreign Policy in American History Part 2:
Feigning Friendship -- Saudi ministry profusely denies report of King
Abdullah’s death -- Jon "Sieg" Kyl, second-ranked Senate Republican, retiring in 2012 -- Another mammoth Icelandic volcano ready to erupt -- Ron Paul Says Next US Crash Will Be Like That Of The Soviet Union
AZ: Fruit Tree Class at Bakers Nursery & Hands On Chicken Class at the Urban Farm Sat.
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News Link • World News
Protesters erupt in anger after Mubarak signals he will not resign
02-10-2011
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CNN (video)
Mubarak says, "bite me!" Still el-Presidente. But my powers are now the CIA guy's. We'll hold elections real soon. Crowd none too happy. CIA guy warns mob to go home.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
German's buy NY Stock Exchange
02-10-2011
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Washington Post
News this week that Frankfurt-based Deutsche Borse is poised to acquire a majority stake in the New York Stock Exchange did not sit well in every corner of the financial world.
Critics complained that a symbol of American capitalism was being scoo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - International
In China, Tentative Steps Toward Global Currency
02-10-2011
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NY Times
Now that it has passed Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy after the United States, China is considering the next step as a world power: making its money a global currency.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Internet
Anti-computer hacking bill coming in Congress
02-10-2011
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Reuters
Strengthening cybersecurity is the goal of legislation being introduced in Congress after reports of hack attacks on computer networks at Nasdaq OMX Group and at oil and gas companies.
"Cyber-threats are not on the horizon, they are upon us," Demo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Drug War
Hospitals Shift Smoking Bans to Smoker Ban
02-10-2011
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NY Times
More hospitals and medical businesses in many states are adopting strict policies that make smoking a reason to turn away job applicants, saying they want to increase worker productivity, reduce health care costs and encourage healthier living.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Obama touts plan to get wireless Internet to 98 percent of U.S.
02-10-2011
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Washington Post
First High Speed Trains, now: Obama said he would use $18 billion in federal funds to get 98 percent of the nation connected to the Internet on smartphones and tablet computers in five years. To get there, the federal government will try to bring mor
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Immigration
Ontario Woman Sues Over Strip-Search At Ambassador Bridge
02-10-2011
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CBS News
An angry and embarrassed Ontario woman who says she was strip-searched at the Ambassador Bridge without justification has sued two U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.
The Detroit Free Press says Loretta Van Beek of Stratford filed the suit
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Activism
Mobile payment startup builds buzz through causes
02-10-2011
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Reuters
When competitors shut down payments to WikiLeaks after the controversial website released a slew of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables, Sharif Alexandre refused to join the boycott.
The Egyptian-born entrepreneur and founder of Xipwire - a Philadelp
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Central Intelligence Agency
Ex-CIA staffer alleges agency coverup in toxin exposure case
02-10-2011
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Washington Post
A former CIA security officer is alleging that the agency is unjustifiably invoking a "state secrets" claim to cover up evidence that he and his family suffered illnesses as a result of exposure to environmental contamination at an agency facility.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Future Predictions
2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
02-10-2011
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Time magazine
Kurzweil believes that we're approaching a moment when computers will become intelligent, and not just intelligent but more intelligent than humans. When that happens, humanity " our bodies, our minds, our civilization " will be completely and irreve
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Man faces misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty after his dog kills raccoon
02-10-2011
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Jackson Citizen Patriot
Seth Foster, 23, said he found his family garage in disarray last summer and sent his dog in to investigate. Grizz, a blue heeler, returned with the culprit, a young raccoon. As 2 teenage boys filming Grizz killed the coon. Now, Foster faces 90 days
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Book describes internal WikiLeaks tensions
02-10-2011
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Reuters
Julian Assange's former right-hand man on the Wikileaks website denounces Assange as an irresponsible, autocratic bully who once threatened to kill him. WikiLeaks' ability to receive new leaks has been crippled after a disaffected programer unplugge
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Government
Postal Service warns of default as losses mount
02-10-2011
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CNN
The U.S. Postal Service warned Wednesday that it may default on some of its financial obligations later this year after reporting yet another quarterly loss.
The USPS, a self-supporting government agency that receives no tax dollars, said it suffe
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Firm hacked by ‘Anonymous’ plotted against WikiLeaks on bank’s behalf: report
02-10-2011
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Rawstory
Three data intelligence firms concocted a plan to attack WikiLeaks on behalf of Bank of America, according to a published report.
The three firms, Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal and Berico Technologies, planned to "disrupt" Salon.com column
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Lawyers lead anti-government protest in Baghdad
02-10-2011
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AP
Iraqi lawyers called for the end of judicial corruption and prisoner abuse in a protest Thursday that was one of the biggest anti-government demonstrations in Iraq since the start of popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.
Dressed in the black clo
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Last Fed Hawk (Excluding The Drama Queens) Kevin Warsh To Leave Fed March 31
02-10-2011
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Zero Hedge
Kevin Warsh, the last real hawk at the Fed, excluding the primadonnas who keep bitching and moaning against QE2 yet continue to vote with the Chairsatan, has announced he will leave the Fed.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Pro-reform Saudi activists launch political party
02-10-2011
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Reuters
Saudi Islamists and opposition activists have launched a political party in a rare challenge to the absolute monarchy, asking King Abdullah for a voice in the Gulf Arab state's governance, its organizers said.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
Iran opposition leader under house arrest
02-10-2011
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AP
Authorities placed one of Iran's opposition leaders under house arrest Thursday, posting security officers at his door and detaining one of his aides, in response to his calls for a rally in support of anti-government demonstrations in Egypt, his web
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • TERRORISM
Daniel Boyd pleads guilty to US terrorism charges
02-10-2011
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BBC News
Daniel Patrick Boyd filed a guilty plea to conspiring to provide support to terrorists and conspiring to murder, kidnap and injure people. Boyd is alleged to have led a group of six other men who were part of a home-grown terror cell in rural America
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Homeland Security
Big Sis: Times Square Mastermind Bigger Threat Than Bin Laden
02-10-2011
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AP
The American-born cleric behind the attempted Times Square bombing has now eclipsed Osama bin Laden as the biggest threat to American security. Say sayonara to Osama. Anwar al-Awlaki is now the “boss of all bosses” of the group al Qaeda in the Arabia
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Food
Get ready for higher food prices
02-10-2011
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By David Hendee
Warnings of higher food prices headed for American supermarkets and restaurants were swallowed easily across much of farm country Wednesday.
The big gulp came when the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that global demand had pushed U.S. corn
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Thomas Costanzo
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News Link • Climate Change
Gigantic Icelandic volcano could plunge Europe into immediate Ice Age
02-10-2011
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Terrence Aym
Another mammoth Icelandic volcano, Baroarbunga, is ready to erupt. This one could dwarf the Eyjafjallajokull glacier volcano that blew in 2010 causing havoc throughout Europe. Baroarbunga's last major eruption was horrendous. It changed the weather
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Precious Metals
Gold Confiscation : Dutch Central Bank Orders Pension Fund To Sell Its Gold
02-10-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
Perhaps the most stunning example of what may be in store for asset managers and pension funds (and possibly retail holders) who dare to challenge central bank monetary authority comes from the Netherlands, where we have just...
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Camera Fraud
ATS = Astro Turf Support; American Traffic Solutions desperate for friends
02-10-2011
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CameraFraud.com
What does one do when they are universally hated but has a lot of stolen money and the backing of banking/investing mega corporate-conglomerate Goldman Sachs?
Buy “friends.”
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Shondean Coochise
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News Link • Technology: Software
MIT links 'Sixth Sense" software to human gestures
02-10-2011
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Terrence Aym
Microsoft and Apple have nothing on MIT's amazing sixth sense gizmo…except perhaps a lot of catching up to do.The short age of multitouch devices may already be over once MIT's new slam bang tech comes to the market. Techno geeks that caught a glim
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Food
Food Bank Locator
02-10-2011
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Farm Wars
Whether you need food assistance or are a producer willing to help others, here is a very handy tool for locating the nearest Feeding America Food Bank where you can find pantry schedules and addresses as well as drop-off locations for donations.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • r3VOLution Continues
Paul Supporters Hijack Cheney-Rumsfeld Reunion (Video)
02-10-2011
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Evan McMorris, talkingpointsmemo.com
Dick Cheney just popped up here at CPAC to introduce his old pal and Bush administration colleague Donald Rumsfeld. Fans of Ron Paul turned what should have been a friendly moment before an audience of fellow conservatives into a screaming match and
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Hugo Tellez
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Scientists create a real-life thinking cap
02-10-2011
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Terrence Aym
Scientists at the University of Sydney's Center for the Mind in Australia have created a real-life thinking cap. They did it by jolting the brain with electricity flowing from a strange headpiece with rubber straps and twisted tubes. Although to get
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Men trying to be our God
Global Governance of Nano-scale Technologies
02-10-2011
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Farm Wars
News Release: ETC report on nanotechnology. Nanotechnology has been rolled out with virtually no government oversight or public debate.
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Barbara Peterson
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News Link • Surveillance
More Police Using Video to Fight Crime
02-10-2010
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Officer.com
Surveillance video cameras are sprouting in mid-sized communities across the USA as police borrow the crime-fighting tool from big metro areas.
Saginaw, Mich. (population 55,238), last year installed 17 video cameras at a water/skate park and plan
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Justin Tyme
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News Link • World News
Emotions of a Reluctant Hero Galvanize Protesters
02-10-2011
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nytimes.com
The television host narrated the pictures of the dead protesters on the screen, young men with sweet smiles whom she compared to roses in a garden.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • World News
Saudi ministry profusely denies report of King Abdullah’s death
02-10-2011
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Rawstory
Saudi Arabian officials were on a PR offensive Thursday following a report that claimed King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, 86, had suffered a heart attack after [chewing out] US President Barack Obama about the protests in Egypt.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Jon "Sieg" Kyl, second-ranked Senate Republican, retiring in 2012
02-10-2011
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Rawstory
Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the second highest-ranking Republican in the chamber, announced Thursday that he will retire in 2012. Kyl, the Minority Whip, has served in the US Senate since 1995, and before that held a House seat in Arizona for eight year
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Environment
Another mammoth Icelandic volcano ready to erupt
02-10-2011
University of Iceland geophysicists warn of significant rise in seismic activity in the area of Vatnajökull, the largest of Iceland’s glaciers. A swarm of earthquakes has erupted signaling the likely eruption of Bardarbunga, Iceland's second bigges
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Terrence Aym
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Ron Paul Says Next US Crash Will Be Like That Of The Soviet Union
02-10-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
That when all is said and done, and there is no incremental vapor and no incremental HFT levitation effect, that the US collapse will be comparable only to that of the Soviet Union. Needless to say, we are confident he is optimistic.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
The Great Super Bowl Fumble
02-10-2011
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RealityReport.TV
Is history repeating itself? Will America fall like Rome? This week on Reality Report we look at the Super Bowl and show you what you may have missed while watching the game. Ernest Hancock from Freedom's Phoenix joins us to
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Federal Court Upholds DUI Jailing of Sober Man
02-10-2010
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TheNewspaper.com
US Court of Appeals denies relief to sober Army veteran jailed for DUI.
The Eleventh Circuit US Court of Appeals on Tuesday saw no problem with jailing a man for eight hours after he blew .03 on a breathalyzer -- far below the legal limit. Santa
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Justin Tyme
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