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Cleveland
Plain Dealer… Kasich's
school funding proposal puts Ohio on the right path,
By Thomas W. Johnson
February 24, 2013 - Ohio has once again started the journey to develop
a new way of funding our local school districts -- a journey our state
has started several times but never quite finished. This time, I
believe Gov. John Kasich is bringing this journey toward the end and
that his new school funding and reform plan holds great promise for
providing every student's school with the resources they need to
succeed. As a former state budget director for seven years and state
representative from... read
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The You Know What Rolls Down the
Hill, By Mona Lease
From Washington, DC - 2/26/2012 - U.S. Representative John Boehner
says - "Over the past 10 years, more than $100 million in EPA
grants went to foreign countries. Our IRS spends 4 million dollars a
years to operate it's own full service television studio." Our
President Obama, now wants an additional $400 million in tax hikes. The
national debt is said to be $52,000 per person. Obama is, at
this
time, traveling through the USA, trying to get the populace to... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Integrity
Matters In Democracy,
by Allen B. West
The topic for this week’s installment of the Next Generation weekly
update is a simple word – integritas. Yes, that Latin word means
exactly what you think it means – integrity – and I pulled down this
explanation of integrity from Wikipedia: Integrity is a concept of
consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles,
expectations and outcomes. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the
honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions. Integrity can be
regarded as the opposite of hypocrisy, in that... read
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Federal
News Radio… Mike
Causey's Federal Report,
By Mike Causey
Tuesday - 2/26/2013 - Here's an e-mail I got last Thursday from a
friend. She's from the metro Washington area but currently is working
on a humanitarian project in one of the poorest spots on the planet.
She asked: "So, how is the sequester going? Guess D.C. is in turmoil.
For me, no problem. All I am doing is working for kids who don't have
shoes. Or food!" Gulp! Meantime, back in the US of A we still have (at
least) the rest of the week to... read
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Townhall…
The
Big Con, by Bill O'Reilly
Feb 23, 2013 - Please listen up. We are all being conned by the Obama
administration. This year, the American taxpayer will fork over about
$571 billion to pay for educating children in the nation's public
schools. All told, the country spends close to $16,000 per student
every year on primary through college education. That's the highest
per-student spending rate in the world. However, according to President
Obama, it's not enough. He wants more tax dollars, especially for
"early education." He said so... read
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Townhall…
Higher
Education, R.I.P., by
Paul Greenberg
Feb 23, 2013 - What ever happened to the medium once known as Little
Magazines? This country once had a select group of literary and
political journals that represented the vanguard of American thought
and art. Some were both literary and political. High Culture, it was
called when there was still such a thing. For example, the old and
much-missed Partisan Review. Its first issue as an independent journal
in 1937 included Delmore Schwartz's short story, "In Dreams Begin
Responsibilities," a... read
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Heritage
Foundation… Why
a Car Commercial Can Make You Cry,
By Amy Payne
February 21, 2013 - Is there a veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces in your
life? If so, tears likely came to your eyes when you saw Jeep’s Super
Bowl commercial. Oprah Winfrey’s voice-over was a moving tribute to
those who fight for us: “In your home, in our hearts—you’ve been
missed. You’ve been needed. You’ve been cried for, prayed for.” For
those of us who have had loved ones in harm’s way in Iraq, Afghanistan,
or other overseas bases in the past few years, the ad acknowledged that
desire... read
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Verities & Balderdash… Your
House,
From a CNO Reader
I couldn’t resist. Not too often do I get a big grin after a long day
that started at 3:30 or 4 a.m., but this one managed it. If you’ve ever
owned a house, wanted to buy one or sell one, or just went window
shopping, it might be advisable to note the different perspectives of
the Traditional American Dream. According to the reader who sent it,
there is more truth here than fiction. Ideal for a Verities &
Balderdash... read
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Politico…
Obama,
the puppet master, By
Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen
2/18/13 - President Barack Obama is a master at limiting, shaping and
manipulating media coverage of himself and his White House. Not for the
reason that conservatives suspect: namely, that a liberal press
willingly and eagerly allows itself to get manipulated. Instead, the
mastery mostly flows from a White House that has taken old tricks for
shaping coverage (staged leaks, friendly interviews) and put them on
steroids using new ones (social media, content creation, precision
targeting). And it’s... read
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Townhall…
GOP
Has Trouble Settling on Candidates Who
Can Win, by Michael Barone
Feb 21, 2013 - One of the interesting things about recent elections is
that Republicans have tended to do better the farther you go down the
ballot. They've lost the presidency twice in a row, and in four of the
last six contests. They've failed to win a majority in the U.S. Senate,
something they accomplished in five election cycles between 1994 and
2006. But they have won control of the House of Representatives in the
last two elections, and in eight... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Hopeless:
Job
Corps Slams Door on 30,000 Young Adults, by
Tony Lee
President Barack Obama campaigned last week to promote his plans for
job training and job creation that he claimed would expand the
country's middle class, fully aware that the Job Corps program had
suspended enrollment in January due to gross bureaucratic mismanagement
of the country's largest job-training program for low-income youths,
particularly African Americans.
The freeze started in January and is expected to last until June 30.
That did not stop Obama from making lofty promises in his ... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… The
Problem
With Liberalism Is That Eventually You Run Out Of Other People's Money!,
by Frank Hill
People under the age of 40 in America probably know very little about
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of England.
You should. She said a lot of things like the title of this posting
that made sense, especially when it came to government debt,
over-spending and high taxes. All of which those of you under the age
of 40 are
... read
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WND
Exclusive… Texas
Preps for Going it Alone, by Bob Unruh
Proposal
considers collapse of U.S. and how Lone Star state would survive
- Texas was its own nation before joining the United States, and many
jokes have been made about some Texans still not recognizing that
“other government” with which it now is affiliated. But lawmakers there
are drawing attention by considering a law that would have Texas review
how it would respond should the U.S. government no longer be there to
send federal tax revenue back to the state... read
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Townhall…
Excuse
Me, Your Illogic Is Showing:
Orwell’s Vision Emerges In California, by
Austin Hill
Feb 17, 2013 - In the 1940’s and 50’s, famed Author George Orwell
surmised that both the English language and civilized society were in
decline. After a press conference held last week by Emeryville,
California Police Chief Ken James, it’s easy to see a decline in both
language and critical thinking skills in our country. And as Orwell
thought, indeed civilized society may very well be in jeopardy. It
happened on February 14th. Taking to the microphones and cameras in his
suburban San Francisco... read
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Townhall…
God
Bless You, Sen. Feinstein,
by Debra J. Saunders
Feb 17, 2013 - Sen. Dianne Feinstein began her war on allergy and cold
sufferers in 2005. In an effort to prevent small-time dealers from
buying allergy and cold drugs and cooking them into methamphetamine,
she pushed through legislation requiring consumers to show
identification before purchasing products with pseudoephedrine --
otherwise known as the good allergy drugs, known only to those who know
enough to ask for them... read
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Akron
Beacon Journal… Question
of adequacy
February 14, 2013 - For more than 20 years two concepts have dominated
the school-funding debate in Ohio: adequacy and equity. Equity points
to a distribution issue, the task of evening wide disparities among
districts in the money directed to education. Adequacy concerns whether
the funding is sufficient to ensure any student, anywhere in Ohio, has
access to a competitive standard of education. Perhaps the ultimate
test for policymakers is to achieve a balance of equity and adequacy
that meets... read
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Townhall…
Why
Do Societies Give Up? by
Victor Davis Hanson
Feb 14, 2013 - Why do once-successful societies ossify and decline?
Hundreds of reasons have been adduced for the fall of Rome and the end
of the Old Regime in 18th-century France. Reasons run from inflation
and excessive spending to resource depletion and enemy invasion, as
historians attempt to understand the sudden collapse of the Mycenaeans,
the Aztecs and, apparently, the modern Greeks. In literature from
Catullus to Edward Gibbon, wealth and... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Does
the Republican Party have a future?
by Star Parker
The United States, from Day One, was a project about principles and
ideals. The superpower that emerged and grew from the handful of
colonists that began settling here was not the product of where those
colonists happened to land, but of the ideals and principles in their
heads and hearts, applied in how they lived their lives. The Republican
Party was founded in 1854 to address one great blot on the nation's
founding legacy: the existence of slavery in a nation founded under the
ideal of... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Obama's
Favorite Things! by
Ben Shapiro
On Tuesday night, President Obama gave what will go down as one of the
most partisan State of the Union Addresses in American history. In
consonance with his favorite tactic – citing widespread but nonexistent
consensus in order to press for his radical left agenda – Obama led off
by linking himself to John F. Kennedy: Fifty-one years ago, John F.
Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not
rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he said, “to
report the... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Top
Ten Things Republicans Have Failed to
Learn from Democrats
by Joel B. Pollak - House Majority Leader Eric Cantor
presented a
new vision for Republican strategy in the second Obama term today. The
Virginia Republican, speaking to the American Enterprise Institute,
emphasized that Republicans needed to learn to work with President
Barack Obama, and should emphasize policies that improve Americans'
lives, while compromising on contentious issues such as citizenship for
the children of illegal immigrants. Yet before conveying an eagerness
to work with... read
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Townhall…
Recycling
Old and Failed Ideas,
by Cal Thomas
Feb 14, 2013 - President Obama's approach to so-called "climate change"
appears to include recycling old ideas. In his State of the Union
address, the president recycled the idea of spending more on education,
though we are still getting unsatisfactory results. A fact he
inadvertently acknowledged by saying we're not keeping up with other
countries in science and math. He maintained there are tens of
thousands of jobs available but companies can't fill... read
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Heritage
Foundation… Morning
Bell: Get the Federal Government Out of the Natural Gas Business
By
Amy Payne - February 11, 2013 - In North Dakota, people have jobs. That
state led the nation in job creation last year, and its unemployment
rate is only 3.2 percent (compared to the national rate of 7.9
percent). Why?
One word: energy.
As Nicolas Loris, Heritage’s Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow, writes in
a forthcoming paper:
Technological advancements in directional drilling and hydraulic
fracturing have led to an abundance of natural gas production in the
United States that is fundamentally... read
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Investors.com…
The
Jihad On Free Speech
Islamofascism: Islamists have launched a hostile takeover of American
language through an increasingly aggressive and organized censorship
campaign that threatens free speech. Over the past few weeks, there
have been an alarming number of cases of Muslim pressure groups trying
to force Americans to conform to a pro-Islamic speech code. They've
insisted on censoring any speech or expression that offends them,
including TV ads, Christian symbols, speeches and even parts of speech.
In some... read
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Heritage
Foundation… Court
Strikes Down EPA Biofuel Mandate
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cannot impose a mandate for a
non-existent product and then punish companies for failing to use said
non-existent product, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
ruled. That non-existent product? Cellulosic biofuels, a type of
ethanol made from non-food sources such as wood chips, switchgrass, and
non-edible feedstock. The court ruled that the EPA can set renewable
fuel production standards as a means to stimulate economic... read
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Our
Political Class… Airline
Reservations ~ How Dumb Can They
Get?????
And we wonder why nothing gets done in DC - From a CNO Reader - This is
priceless funny stuff; but alas, is only a small indication of how much
trouble our country is in. God Bless America! A DC airport ticket agent
offers some examples of 'why' our country is in trouble: 1. I had a New
Hampshire Congresswoman ask for an aisle seat so that her hair wouldn't
get messed up by being near the window. (On an airplane!) 2. I got a
call from a... read
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Investors.com…
Krugman:
Death Panels and Middle-Class Tax
Hikes Ahead
Big Government: We almost never agree with President Obama's favorite
economist Paul Krugman, but he recently spoke the truth about where
Obama's policies are taking the country. It should scare anyone with a
pulse. Krugman, after speaking at the Sixth & I Historic
Synagogue
in Washington, D.C., was asked about the debt crisis. After arguing
it's no big deal in the near term, Krugman admitted that "Eventually we
do have a problem. The population is getting older, health care costs
are rising... read
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Wall
Street Journal… Obama's
Thunderdome Strategy,
By Daniel Henninger
The president's goal is to make Republican ideas intolerable. Few are
the men and women in American public life who haven't heard Mr.
Dooley's famous aphorism: "Politics ain't beanbag." John Boehner,
currently serving out his community service as speaker of the House,
appears to have been meditating on Mr. Dooley's cautionary wisdom. At
the Ripon Society last week he said the Obama administration was trying
"to annihilate the Republican... read
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Redstate…
A
Sign Of The Things To Come? Hospital
Chain Gives Obama’s NLRB & SEIU The Finger
By LaborUnionReport - February 4th, 2013 - In a move that may become
more prevalent among employers–as in epidemic–a California hospital
chain is refusing to comply with rulings issued by Barack Obama’s
constitutionally-questionable National Labor Relations Board. Since
early 2010, Prime Healthcare Services has been the target of a vicious
SEIU ‘extortion campaign.’ The SEIU, according to a 2011 press release,
began its campaign against Prime Healthcare Services in order to... read
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Heritage
Foundation… Taking
America from Welfare State to
Opportunity Society, By Matthew Spalding, Ph.D.
February 6, 2013 - “I must go to college!” insists eight-year-old
Pierre William. Such planning may seem unusual in a second grader. But
Pierre is lucky. He’s attending a private school in the District of
Columbia using funds from the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
That’s opened his eyes to the possibilities that only a college
education can provide. His mother Patricia William says the program has
taught her how to be a better parent and to be involved in her
children’s education. She insists she’ll... read
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Investors.com…
Dear
Congress, Please Privatize The Post
Office
02/06/2013 - Gov't Monopoly: So the Postal Service's genius plan for
saving itself in the face of massive consumer flight is to raise prices
and provide worse service. Unfortunately, Congress has left it with no
other choice. At the start of the year, the USPS hiked postal rates
across the board, and this week it followed up by announcing plans to
stop Saturday home delivery. Obviously, something has to be done. Last
year, the USPS posted a record $15.9 billion loss, and Postmaster
General Patrick... read
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Investors.com…
Newtown
Shows America The Way To Fight Gun
Violence
02/04/2013 - Crime: Education officials in Newtown, Conn., site of the
December school massacre that stunned the nation, have requested more
armed police officers in schools — exactly the common-sense remedy IBD
called for.
Last month, in an editorial warning that the Obama administration's
gun-control measures won't reduce gun violence, we noted that "sensible
proposals for armed security and increased police presence at our
schools are off President Obama's agenda."
The policymakers
... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Obama
Doctrine Leading America Toward Another 9/11,
by Ernest Istook
According to national security expert Dr. James Carafano, the terrorist
attack in Algeria shows that America is on the path to another 9/11,
thanks to the Obama Administration's foreign and military policy.
Carafano is Vice President of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at The
Heritage Foundation. He told me, “The warning lights are blinking red,”
even while President Barack Obama pretends that things are under
control. The terrorists, Carafano claims, showed in Algeria... read
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Heritage
Foundation Video… Couple
Faces Jail Time for Saving Baby Deer’s Life,
By Daniel Dew
January 30, 2013 - An Indiana couple is facing up to 60 days in jail
and $2,000 in fines for saving a deer from death. Jeff Counceller, a
police officer, and his wife Jennifer spotted an injured baby deer on
their neighbor’s porch. Instead of turning a blind eye to the dying
fawn, the Councellers took the deer in and nursed it back to health.
They kept the deer, Little Orphan Dani, in their backyard as it
recovered. Everything was fine until an Indiana Conservation... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Stall:
Unemployment Ticks Up to 7.9%
by Mike Flynn
The Labor Department reported this morning that the economy added
157,000 jobs in January, down sharply from November and December.
Revised hiring figures show the economy added 247k and 196k jobs,
respectively in the final two months of 2012. The apparent slowdown in
hiring is consistent with this week's report that GDP contracted in the
4th Quarter. January's jobs number is about break-even with population.
The economy generally needs to add 150-200k jobs a month to keep pace
with... read
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Washington
Examiner… Study:
New E15 gas can ruin auto engines
Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets - January 30, 2013 - This week's warm
Washington temperatures had some thinking about rolling the Lawn-Boy
out of the garage for the first cut of the year. And we all know what
that means: Difficult starts due to E10 gas that gels when it sits.
Now, according to a new study, cars and truck may face the same fate
thanks to President Obama's demand for a higher ethanol in the new E15
gas... read
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E-Mail Tracker Programs and More,
From a CNO Reader
By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with snopes.comand/or
truthorfiction.com for determining whether information received via
email is just that: true/false or fact/fiction. Both are excellent
sites. Advice from snopes.com 1) Any time you see an email
that
says "forward this on to '10' (or however many) of your friends", "sign
this petition", or "you'll get bad luck" or "you'll get good luck" or
"you'll see something funny on your screen after you send it" or
whatever --- it almost always has an email... read
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Pew
Center on the States… Fracking
for State Dollars, By
Pamela M. Prah, Staff Writer
Natural gas being drilled by hydraulic fracturing on a farm near
Wyalusing, Pennsylvania (Corbis) - Could Ohio, New York or Pennsylvania
be the next North Dakota and “frack” its way to budget surpluses? The
United States is on track by 2020 to become the world’s largest oil
producer and a net exporter of natural gas, a reversal of fortunes with
huge consequences for many state budgets. But it depends on what kinds
of taxes the states want to impose. States as varied as
Pennsylvania... read
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Investors.com…
Rahm
Emanuel Goes After 1st And 2nd
Amendments
01/30/2013 - Sturm Ruger's and Smith & Wesson's profits don't
come
from gun violence or selling to gangs, but rather from the millions of
law-abiding American citizens legally buying their completely legal
products, including military and law enforcement. How many lives their
weapons have saved in thwarting home invasions or other instances of
self-defense against criminals and predators is not known. Chicago does
a lot of business with these banks and does... read
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Purdue
University… Letter
from University president Mitch
Daniels
“There’s a tsunami coming” This quote from Stanford President John
Hennessy was one of many comments presented to the students and faculty
in an Open Letter from Purdue University President Mitchell E. Daniels
Jr. Daniels was referring to college education as we know it today. In
his letter he noted that student debt has soared past the $1 trillion
mark, more than the total credit card debt. He said that some
“insiders” have noted... read
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Artur
Davis:
School Choice Is About “Basic Principles” T.
Elliot Gaiser
Heritage Foundation - National School Choice Week - January 30, 2013 -
The 7th grade class in Highland Park, Michigan’s school district was
given an assignment: Write a one-paragraph essay on “what could make
the school better.” Former Alabama congressman Artur Davis, who
celebrated National School Choice Week at The Heritage Foundation’s
event “Choosing to Succeed,” presented a particularly alarming
response: [Y]ou can make the school gooder by getting people that will
do... read
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Townhall Finance… Who
says Obama Doesn’t Like to Prey?
by John Ransom
President Obama- and yes I only capitalized the “p” in president
because it was at the beginning of the sentence…. Anyway, as I was
saying, president Obama can be best described as the anti-president. He
apparently doesn’t care much for getting things done as long as not
doing something doesn’t interfere with neglecting keys areas. Got it?
Because, there are some areas in which action is absolutely... read
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Investors.com Obamacare's Insurance Exchanges
Are Already
Turning Into A Disaster
by By Sally C. Pipes - 01/29/2013 - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker,
speaking on June 28, 2012,
said at a Madison news conference that Wisconsin will not move ahead
with... View Enlarged Image
Devoted users of Internet radio apps like Pandora may soon hear
unexpected sound bites on their favorite music channels — ads touting
ObamaCare.
That's right. In an attempt to drum up support for the law's health
insurance exchanges, some states are planning advertising campaigns
that could include everything from... read
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Forbes… How
President Obama Lost
His Shirt to John Boehner
The House, under the leadership of Speaker John Boehner, has
precipitated a postponement in the debt ceiling fight until May. This
represents a strategic choice by Boehner to make the Sequester fight,
not the debt ceiling fight, the next major engagement. Much of the
mainstream media now is accusing Congress of “kicking the can down the
road.” They are missing the strategic implications.
In retrospect, at the Battle at Fiscal Cliff, Boehner took President...
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