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Date Sent: 2012-05-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Saturday, May 19, 2012 |
House Upholds Indefinite Detention of US Citizens -- France Tells Obama Troop Pullout Will Proceed
When the looter is the government - by George Will -- Police nab airline pilot with loaded gun in luggage -- Maricopa County treasurer seeks to block Wilcox settlement -- Iran, Syria among top for G-8 and NATO -- Paul Rusconi, Malibu Artist, Cleared Of Allegations Of Raping His Twin Daughters (VIDEO) -- James Turk Answers Doug Casey -- "This Is the Bottom for Gold" – John Hathaway -- Can a Solar Eclipse
Really Blind You? -- Craig Venter Wants to Solve the World’s Energy
Crisis -- Surprise! China’s Stealth Jets Are 2 Years Ahead of Schedule
-- The Exposed Backbone: The Risk of Cyber Attack -- Joe Biden Doesn't 'Blame People' For Voting For That Felon In West Virginia Over Obama -- Jesse Benton's $586,616 Take as a Result of the Ron Paul Campaign -- Witness Told Cops He Saw Trayvon Martin Straddling George Zimmerman And Punching Him "MMA Style -- Arizona Secretary of State Threatens to Remove Obama from Ballot
AZ: Save America Seminar
- Phoenix 2012 - today, May 19th, 2012
NH: 30 days until PorcFest
(schedule now online) smart phone app
Sunday: Solar Eclipse Visible from
National Parks
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News Link • Police State
House Vote Upholds Indefinite Detention of US Citizens
05-18-2012
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New York Times
The House turned back an unusual coalition of liberals and conservatives and voted down legislation to reject explicitly the indefinite detention of terrorism suspects apprehended on United States soil.
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News Link • Afghanistan
France Tells Obama Afghan Troop Pullout Will Proceed
05-18-2012
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New York Times
François Hollande used his first visit with President Obama as France’s president on Friday to restate his pledge to withdraw combat forces from Afghanistan by the end of the year, two years earlier than originally planned.
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News Link • Government
When the looter is the government - by George Will
05-18-2012
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Washington Post
Russ Caswell, 68, is bewildered: “What country are we in?” He and his wife, Pat, are ensnared in a Kafkaesque nightmare unfolding in Orwellian language. This town’s police department is conniving with the federal government to circumvent Massachusett
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Police nab airline pilot with loaded gun in luggage
05-18-2012
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Reuters
An airline pilot was arrested Friday morning at Buffalo Niagara International Airport after security screeners discovered a loaded revolver in his baggage.
Brett Dieter, 52, of Barbersville, Virginia, arrived at the upstate New York airport Friday
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Maricopa County treasurer seeks to block Wilcox settlement
05-18-2012
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Arizona Republic
Maricopa Co. will ask a federal judge to reconsider his order to award $975,000 to Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox as settlement for her lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, former County Attorney Andrew Thomas and the county.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
SpaceX test flight to space station aborted after ignition
05-18-2012
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AP
Space Exploration Technologies' Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule aborted the launch at 4:55 a.m. EDT (0855 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida .
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News Link • Iran
Iran, Syria among top for G-8 and NATO
05-18-2012
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AP
President Obama and leaders of other major industrial powers stepped outside discussions of European economic woes and Afghanistan that will dominate a long weekend of summitry for a look at options to solidify world resolve against development of an
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Paul Rusconi, Malibu Artist, Cleared Of Allegations Of Raping His Twin Daughters (VIDEO)
05-18-2012
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Huffington Post
After being cleared Friday of allegations that he raped his 20-month-old twin daughters, famed Malibu photographer Paul Rusconi cried.
It's been almost a year since distant family members, the nanny who took care of Rusconi's two girls, and her hu
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News Link • Gold and Silver
James Turk Answers Doug Casey
05-18-2012
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Free Gold Money Report
He concludes by asking some questions he would like answered in order to convince him that the gold price is manipulated. Because Doug is a friend, I have prepared this response to him to provide my perspective on this matter.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Can a Solar Eclipse Really Blind You?
05-18-2012
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http://www.livescience.com, Stephanie Pappas
People in the western United States, Pacific and parts of Asia will have the chance to see a partial solar eclipse on Sunday (May 20). While it may be tempting to brush off warnings against looking up at this eclipse bare-eyed, don't
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
May 20, 2012 Edition
05-18-2012
John Semmens
Obama Gains Key Reelection Endorsements
The Communist Party of the United States announced it is supporting Barack Obama's reelection bid. “It used to be that we had to run our own candidates for public office,” recounted Sam Webb, chairman of the
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Gray Matter: In Which I Play With White Phosphorus
05-18-2012
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http://www.popsci.com, By Theodore Gray
Being a mad scientist can be a thankless job, but every once in a while you get a chance to shine"literally. I recently had that opportunity when working with a TV show to film one of the most beautiful of all chemical phenomena, the cold luminosity
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News Link • Energy
Craig Venter Wants to Solve the World’s Energy Crisis
05-18-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Thomas Goetz
There is one version of Craig Venter’s life story where he would’ve been a dutiful scientist at the National Institutes of Health, a respected yet anonymous researcher in genetics, perhaps. Thankfully, Venter saw that story line developing"and set ab
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News Link • Transportation
Night Rider
05-18-2012
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http://www.wired.com, by Nathan Hurst
This thing has stealth in spades. Its matte black paint job is dressed with black decals, and there are just enough red highlights to make it mysterious. But the real stealth feature is the silent Gates carbon belt drive that replaces the typical cha
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News Link • China
Surprise! China’s Stealth Jets Are 2 Years Ahead of Schedule
05-18-2012
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http://www.wired.com, By Spencer Ackerman
Last year, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates was greeted in Beijing by China’s experimental stealth jet buzzing over his head. Gates didn’t sweat it: He proclaimed that the J-20 wouldn’t be ready until at least 2020. Oops.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
Is Mobile Computing Good For Productivity?
05-18-2012
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http://www.technologyreview.com, By Jessica Leber
Yes, of course, but things got out of hand. A quarter of executives admit to having slept with a smart phone.
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News Link • Space Travel and Exploration
Science Fiction Barely Ahead of Space Exploration Reality
05-18-2012
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http://www.space.com, by Clara Moskowitz
Science and space exploration have caught up to science fiction in many ways, producing marvels beyond the imaginings of the visionary writers of the past.
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News Link • Biology, Botany and Zoology
Bacteria alive (more or less) in 86-million-year-old seabed clay
05-18-2012
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http://phys.org, by Lin Edwards
A new study by scientists from Denmark and Germany has found live bacteria trapped in red clay deposited on the ocean floor some 86 million years ago. The bacteria use miniscule amounts of oxygen and move only extremely slowly.
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News Link • Techno Gadgets
New silicon memory chip developed
05-18-2012
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http://phys.org, byUniversity College London
The first purely silicon oxide-based 'Resistive RAM' memory chip that can operate in ambient conditions " opening up the possibility of new super-fast memory - has been developed by researchers at UCL.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Acid in the brain: Team develops new way to look at brain function
05-18-2012
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http://medicalxpress.com, byUniversity of Iowa
University of Iowa neuroscientist John Wemmie, M.D., Ph.D., is interested in the effect of acid in the brain. His studies suggest that increased acidity or low pH, in the brain is linked to panic disorders, anxiety, and depression.
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News Link • Technology: Computer Hardware
The Exposed Backbone: The Risk of Cyber Attack
05-18-2012
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http://survivalblog.com, by LockedGate
Computers are the exposed backbone of America’s infrastructure. They are new technology with big holes that is under attack from very skilled and motivated people who mean our country harm. Yet, we trust them to provide almost every service our mode
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News Link • Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Joe Biden Doesn't 'Blame People' For Voting For That Felon In West Virginia Over Obama
05-18-2012
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http://www.businessinsider.com, Brett LoGiurato
Biden was campaigning in Ohio on Thursday when he gave an interview to WTOV-TV in Steubenville. He was asked what he "made out of" the fact that 41 percent of West Virginian Democrats voted for a convicted felon, Keith Judd, over Barack Obama
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Jesse Benton's $586,616 Take as a Result of the Ron Paul Campaign
05-18-2012
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Economic Policy Journal
We make not get liberty because of the Ron Paul campaign run, but sure looks like Ron Paul's campaign manager, Jesse Benton, got the big bucks. Benton's total income from the Ron Paul Presidential Campaign and PACs, in the 2012 election cycle, is at
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News Link • Gun Rights
Witness Told Cops He Saw Trayvon Martin Straddling George Zimmerman And Punching Him "MMA Style
05-18-2012
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The Smoking Gun
The man rsaw “a black male, wearing a dark colored ‘hoodie’ on top of a Hispanic male who was yelling for help.” The black male, “was mounted on the Hispanic male and throwing punches ‘MMA (mixed martial arts) style.'”
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Secretary of State Threatens to Remove Obama from Ballot
05-18-2012
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Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett is threatening to keep President Obama’s name off the state’s ballot in November unless he receives confirmation from Hawaii that it has a valid birth certificate on file for him.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Palm Beach Sheriff targets deputies, blogger who expose corruption
05/18/2012
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Adrian Wyllie
Former Palm Beach County Deputy Mark Dougan was a law enforcement officer that upheld the oath he took to support and defend the Constitution of the State of Florida and the United States. That’s why, according to Dougan, “all hell broke loose” when
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
In Arizona, Corruption and Incompetence on a Breathtaking Scale at theGOP State Convention
05-18-2012
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Submitted by inspirit
This is from Pepper who was in the tally room observing the ballot counting.
May 12, 2012 AZ GOP
Part 1
Pepper Draper
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Opinion • Iran
Ray McGovern: My Take
Applying the Six-Day War to Iran
05-18-2012
Ray McGovern
With the 45th anniversary of the Six-Day War of June 1967 coming early next month, pro-Israel pundits like syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer are again promoting Israel’s faux-narrative on the reasons behind Israel’s decision to attack its neig
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Global Bondageddon?
05-18-2012
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The Political Commentator
For some EU countries (i.e. Spain, Italy, Greece) the Doomsday Clock is ticking towards midnight!
Not the nuclear Doomsday Clock leading to global armageddon, but the Bondageddon of the financial kind. This potential outcome crosses the mind when
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News Link • Drug War
Hondurans Attack Government Buildings, Demand US Leave
05-18-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
American security forces are "persona non grata," say angry Honduran activists
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News Link • Congress-Congressmen
House Rejects Effort to End Afghan War
05-18-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz
One of 142 different amendments to the House military spending bill for 2014, Rep. Barbara Lee (D " CA)’s amendment that would effective end the Afghan War, allowing spending only for the “safe and orderly withdrawal of US troops and military contrac
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Dangerous Legislation
05-18-2012
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Rep. Ron Paul
I strongly oppose H Res 568, a resolution "expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the importance of preventing the Government of Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability."
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News Link • Transportation: Air Travel
Spy drone could have almost brought down a plane in Colorado
05-18-2012
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http://rt.com
An airline pilot came close to crashing his plane near Denver, Colorado this week after encountering a mysterious object in the sky thought to be an unmanned drone aircraft.
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News Link • Obama Administration
US seeks extra $70m for Israel defence shield
05-18-2012
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http://www.aljazeera.com
Pentagon requests Congress to provide Israel with additional funding for its "Iron Dome" missile defence programme.
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News Link • Economy - International
Spanish Banks’ Bonds Slide After Moody’s Downgrades Ratings
05-18-2012
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http://www.bloomberg.com, By John Glover
Bonds of Spanish banks fell after Moody’s Investors Service downgraded 16 of the nation’s lenders and said it may cut seven of them again because of the state of the economy and the government’s deteriorating credit.
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News Link • Currencies
FOREX-Euro at 4 month low against dollar as crisis spins
05-18-2012
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http://www.reuters.com, By Nia Williams
The euro hit a four-month low against the dollar and 3-1/2 month trough versus the yen on Friday as concerns about a chaotic Greek exit from the euro zone and instability in the Spanish banking system fuelled demand for safer currencies.
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News Link • Libertopia
30 days until PorcFest (schedule now online) smart phone app
05-18-2012
The PorcFest.com online schedule is shaping up, get the "EverNote" app to stay connected. or get more at http://happyporcupine.info
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News Link • Activism
Watchdog blasts ‘excessive’ policing at G20 Toronto summit
05-17-2012
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AFP
Canadian police used “excessive force,” ignored civil rights and made “unlawful” mass arrests in cracking down on unruly protests at a G20 summit in Toronto two years ago, a watchdog said Wednesday.
Gerry McNeilly, head of the Office of the Indepe
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News Link • Internet
Remember Stuxnet? Why the U.S. is still vulnerable
05-17-2012
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Pro Publia
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security revealed a rash of cyber attacks on natural gas pipeline companies. Just as with previous cyber attacks on infrastructure, there was no known physical damage. But security experts worry it may only be a
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Plaintiff in NDAA case: U.S. has ‘gone insane’ in its war on terror
05-17-2012
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Rawstory
Journalist Tangerine Bolen, who along with other activists and writers filed suit over an indefinite detention law, said Thursday that the citizens United States had become indifferent about their rights.
“This panoply of laws and circumstances ov
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News Link • Economy - International
Cost of Greek exit from euro put at $1tn
05-17-2012
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The Guardian
The British government is making urgent preparations to cope with the fallout of a possible Greek exit from the single currency, after the governor of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King, warned that Europe was "tearing itself apart".
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News Link • Healthcare Industry
Obama caught in drug deal
05-17-2012
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Washington Examiner
Three years ago, President Obama cut a secret deal with pharmaceutical company lobbyists to secure the industry’s support for his national health care law. Despite Obama’s promises during his campaign to run a transparent administration, the deal has
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
North Carolina Man Arrested For Trying To Report Suspected Crime
05-17-2012
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Photography Is Not a Crime
John Nix pulled out his cell phone after spotting what he thought was a gang of thugs mugging a man in the parking lot of a North Carolina shopping mall last week.
The former city council candidate ended up in jail after the men who were in street
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News Link • Gun Rights
Trayvon Martin autopsy indicates hand-to-hand struggle with George Zimmerman
05-17-2012
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Washington Post
Includes laboratory reports that show traces of blood in Martin’s fingernails, Zimmerman’s blood on Martin’s sweatshirt and Martin’s blood on Zimmerman’s red jacket. Martin’s autopsy report shows that he had a small abrasion on his left fourth finger
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
The American Response to Saverin
05-17-2012
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NeoAbolition.com
The ideals of freedom and individual sovereignty that America once stood for are nothing more than legends of the past. The discussion of citizenship and immigration, taxation and wealth taking place today serves as further evidence of this.
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News Link • Obama Administration
Obama's Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: 'Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii'
05-17-2012
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http://www.breitbart.com, by Joel B. Pollak
Andrew Breitbart was never a "Birther," and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of "Birtherism." In fact, Andrew believed, as we do, that President Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961.
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