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Every parent eventually faces the question of when to let their kid travel alone, across the street, through the neighborhood, or across town. And every single one worries that something terrible might happen. Of course, they also worry that protecting their child will stifle independence. Well, recently, Lenore Skenaz...
Nissen was able to catch a ride on a helicopter back to the Kathmandu Valley, where he's now trying to reach his embassy. On the streets of the capital, some shops are reopening, but electricity is scant. Thousands of people displaced by this earthquake are camping out on pretty much every available piece of green spac...
Now, I'm willing to take serious advice about better eating. Goodness knows battling obesity is one of the most serious challenges in the U.S. today. But living abroad helped me to see just how obsessed we are in the U.S. about giving each other tips about what not to put in our mouths. Just for fun, here are a few oth...
I think there are legitimate issues with respect to the Syrians. I mean, let's take them at their word. Let's assume that they are prepared to withdraw heavy equipment and military forces from some of the cities. Let's assume they are prepared to release prisoners. The real problem with the Annan plan is not that. The ...
Well, you know, when you think about the folks who have been paired together - I mean just go back to, you know, the first Reagan candidacy and, you know, when they were going to the primary season, and George Bush referred to his economic policy as voodoo economics, you know, they don't have a problem with that mudsli...
There is still sentencing, so that is going to happen at a later date. But yes, there are - should be no more trials for Michael Slager. Now, it's worth remembering that just a couple months after this shooting in 2015, Dylann Roof shot nine - shot and killed nine black worshipers in Charleston. And this has been a ver...
The president said some of his efforts have begun to pay off. The tax cuts in the stimulus package are now showing up in workers' pay checks and mortgage rates have fallen, so many home owners can save money by refinancing. But Mr. Obama said many families and businesses still find it hard to borrow the money they need...
But I also think that he's making a distinction between the workplace and personal relationships. And in many ways, I think it's much easier to be honest in workplace situations because the relationships are transient. There are often status differences. It gets much harder when you're talking about personal relationsh...
Each of these songs represents a scene, a movement, in some cases, a sonic revolution that completely altered the course of popular music. They're all also calling cards, almost, for those cities, songs totally linked with their city's identity, and it might be why you probably consider them to be music cities. Now, th...
A lot of them are, yes. I mean a lot of the people are doing - are people who are the street sweepers and the garbage men, and they're doing jobs that you can't really picture a Saudi doing. But on the other hand, there's also a lot of very inexpensive foreign workers working as teachers in the schools, and working in ...
The dispute between Japan and China over small islands in the East China Sea is escalating. The two nations first dispatched unarmed vessels to stake their claims, then patrol boats. Unarmed aircraft came next. Most recently both sent fighter jets over the islands. The Senkakus, as they're called in Japan, are uninhabi...
But first, how do you get your news, and how has that changed? Is the news as important to you as it used to be? Do you read, listen or watch as much as you did a year ago? Tell us your story. Our number is 800-989-8255. Our email address is talk@npr.org. And, of course, you can join the conversation at our website. Go...
Look, you know, most certainly anytime there is a collective endeavor, anytime there is collective action, there is also social change. And not only is this an expression of the need for certain kinds of services in the public sphere or certain kinds of safe spaces in the public sphere to express their opinion, but it'...
That was the issue in California, whether the state had done enough to get its most vulnerable students over the hump. A judge said no, ruling that tens of thousands of English learners and low-income minorities were stranded in inferior schools with few resources. Judge Robert Freedman said as long as that's the case,...
Well, I was disappointed. But my disappointment isn't actually fair to Israel, because I had such an idealistic view. Sort of a Leon Uris "Exodus" view of a perfect state with perfect people, that I inevitably wound up holding people to standards that no humans can be held to. It was a roller coaster for me. There were...
It's that way in a lot of states. I would also note - I mean, it's - I think it was B.J. - no, Jay was saying earlier, this is very much a matter of traits meeting certain environments. And we tend to focus on behaviors instead of traits and mistake behaviors for traits. Driving fast on the highway is not a trait. It's...
Well, as you heard just now, I mean, he had a very clear position on torture - firstly, that it doesn't work. And even if that - even if it did work, it would be immoral to do it. That was his view bred in that prison cell in Hanoi. Ultimately, he was able to pass into law, or help pass into law, a total prohibition on...
Yes. Switchgrass is a fabulous plant but other grasses, big blue stem, little blue stem, another one called the Indian grass - depending upon the soil, they're actually better than switchgrass. And what we found in a paper we published in Science just about a year ago is there's a step beyond just growing a monoculture...
The best way I can say I use my faith is that I just walk by a certain, you know, Godly principle. I don't force what I believe and whom I believe on anyone. I just lead a life that exemplifies Christ. And so people will ask me, well, why are you so different? You know, what is it all about? And that would give me th...
Well, it's been a big hit. They're standing by her for many reasons, but one of them is that they could never get anyone else confirmed by the Senate as the secretary of Health and Human Services. And there are many people in the White House who are angry at her for the botched rollout. But the hit, politically, is big...
I couldn’t help feeling a little apprehensive before my meeting with Thomas Clements. The British 30-year-old has what used to be called Asperger’s Syndrome, and describes himself as ‘slightly autistic’. Until our meeting in London, I’d had few close encounters with autistic people, so I wondered how to act, and how he...
The Fair Pay Act is a piece of legislation that has been introduced by Senator Harkin. It would actually require that firms do more to ensure that workers that are doing the same kinds of jobs are actually being paid similarly. One of the insidious ways that you see the pay gap playing out in our economy is that you ha...
For the rest of the hour, we're going to look at the latest in hydrogen-fuel-cell cars. Now, maybe you didn't know that there are some hydrogen-fuel-cell cars. And Honda has announced plans to lease - to lease its hydrogen-fuel-cell cars to the public. Well, it's really just a select few members of the public in Sou...
Twice what it was last year, and it was big then. Last year, they passed bills in 34 states. So it shows the extent of the problem. A lot of the bills, you know, they try to impose harsher penalties on businesses who hire illegal immigrants, or give law enforcement more leeway to detain them, or make it harder for the ...
So Gila monsters aren't very fleet of foot. They're slow. They go out and search very slowly for their prey, and they use their sense of smell to detect these things. So what they tend to find are animals that are in nests. We're talking quails, they lay their eggs on the ground so they can find those eggs and eat thos...
Farming, you know, we think of it as so natural. Farming is a great artifice. You simply cannot farm without speech. For example, if you can't tell your son, son, look, this here's seeds. Now you take your seeds and you've got to put them in the ground where I tell you, put them in a straight line and if you don't do t...
This is NEWS AND NOTES. I'm Ed Gordon. Black intellectuals: do they matter in an age where pop stars make policy and politicians are former movie stars? On today's special Labor Day Roundtable, NPR's Farai Chideya takes this question on with three black intellectuals: Algernon Austin, a sociologist and author of Gettin...
I went in the wrong direction for 50 years or so and got into politics. And I (laughter) - but after a time when I said everything I had to say, I decided that there was - well, the Village Voice decided by firing me that it was time for me to find some other kind of work. And eventually, I stumbled on what I'd loved f...
In fact one of the people I was closest to was actually, according to him, fourth in line in another state, I'm not going to say which, but another state, and in the Aryan Brotherhood. He'd been in prison since 1973 and did 28 years and was recently released. But he - I mean, he's 5'2", he's a Vietnam veteran, he's wel...
Well, I think one of the reasons why it's not in control yet is really quite fundamental. One of the things you need to control cholera is that you have to have good water systems and good sanitation systems. And although there has been some progress in that regard in Haiti over the last four and a half years, there re...
Unfortunately, crime is not something that's missing from our national parks, and national parks are typically not very heavily policed. In fact, some of the most popular hiking trails at Organ Pipe National Park, along our border in Arizona, are now closed to the public because they've become too dangerous. There are ...
He makes me feel very cynical. One thing about best actresses, which he brought up - this was, I think, a very good year. There are - it's a perennial complaint, you know, that there are no good roles in Hollywood for women, especially for women who are viewed in the movie industry as older, which means, you know, over...
And actually, we now have inaugurated real new directions in the study of genetics and theory of advanced social evolution. Some of this, as I suggested earlier, has come from our knowledge of other species of animals that have achieved advanced social evolution. The most advanced stage which humans have is called euso...
The great fear is that they'll be lost to posterity. It's not necessarily a bad thing if Oprah Winfrey wanted to buy them and donate them to the Library of Congress. The great fear is that a speculator will buy them and then turn around and sell them piecemeal, on the grounds that to maximize the revenue you want to ge...
But it follows three years where he's basically destroyed every norm of common civility and the rules by which we used to do our politics. And so we've entered a world where a lot of people apparently treat politics as a cult, as, like, the most important form of identity, which is asking more of politics than it can b...
He won the argument and led CIA for a little more than a year until Bill Clinton became president. By the end of the decade, Gates had landed at Texas A&M. He became president of the University in 2002. Robert Bednarz has been a professor at the school for 35 years. The Gates he describes doesn't sound much like the bl...
Dean Singleton, the CEO of the Denver-based Media News Group, has recently surfaced in the newsrooms of the Inquirer, the Mercury News, and the Pioneer Press of St. Paul, Minnesota, as though he were kicking the tires. His company already owns the Denver Post, the Detroit News, and other papers. The Gannett Company, th...
...Which - I don't know if it's his door or some part of the house, but everyone in the podcast in S-Town, they were talking about, you know, sometimes you just sit around and listen to the creakings in this house. So it was pretty amazing to hear that in the recording, yeah. Well, John - yeah. John took his own life i...
Well, what's interesting is that I've been speaking to pastors here in Nashville, a lot of whom are rooted in civil rights history, many of them even came to this area because of it. And others who grew up after, in the post civil rights movement - even the era of sort of the Black Power movement, where the kind of the...
Yeah. There's - I tell another story about a man named Abu Gamal, who we caught in a house full of suicide bombers, and through some very innovative ways of interrogating and using new methods of interrogation that relied on knowledge of Arab culture, I was able to convince him to sell out his cause. But this is a man ...
Figueroa says it will also cut down on the trauma that many kids experience having to go inside prison to visit a parent. And that's heartening to kids like A.J. Minor, who says he would've liked something like this when his mom was in prison. A. MINOR: A visit with your parent like that would actually keep a kid from ...
Hi. Yeah. You know, my dad had given me - well, he'd sent us a series of about six to a dozen audiotapes when he was in Vietnam. I was pretty young at the time, but I had a chance to listen to them again a couple of years ago and actually have them transcribed and considered trying to do a repository of, you know, batt...
My question is: I'd like to know how helping the very low minimum wage, raising it to, say, approximately $7 is going to help those that personally I feel are in more need, which would be around the $9 to $11 an hour wage, which is bumping them out of the lower brackets, reducing the amount of governmental help that th...
But the consensus was that the choice that he's described is a false one, that you don't have to buy Russian support on issues that involve our national interests and their national interests. On an issue like Iran, if we're going to be able to cooperate, it's got to be because each government sees it as consistent wit...
And you know, New Orleans is not back to, quote-unquote, normal yet. My little hometown, a very small community hit by a hurricane six years ago, and there are still some buildings, maybe, that need to be torn down that shouldn't be there or some parts of the economy that have not even recovered yet. And to think about...
I'm standing in front of you today in all humility, wanting to share with you my journey of the last six years in the field of service and education. And I'm not a trained academic. Neither am I a veteran social worker. I was 26 years in the corporate world, trying to make organizations profitable. And then in 2003 I s...
I'm a emergency physician in Charleston, South Carolina at a relatively small community hospital, Summerville Medical Center. I'm actually in the car, on my way to a shift now. I'm going to be coming in about an hour early. It's like - I had a shift yesterday, which was one of the busiest that I've experienced in a lon...
Well, we get people at different stages, which is very interesting. We have some authors that come to us pretty much with just a manuscript. Then we have other people that will come to us after they have completed some of the steps - meaning they may already have a cover design. They may already have a title picked out...
Yes. Well, sorry about that. But I dedicated, literally dedicated my life and my career to exploration of space, ultimately achieved a Ph.D. in engineering, went into the aerospace industry. I recently retired as an executive. And last night it's amazing, I was playing "2001: Space Odyssey" for a friend of mine who was...
No, not quite really that, in jail. I mean I used to be there with some of - locked up with some of our comrades. So it used to be more of a high moral (unintelligible). There was quite a lot of poetry and a lot of singing. But also from there, after 1976 when I joined the youth organization in the South African Nation...
So about 40 percent of the people got better with usual care compared to about 60 percent who had acupuncture. But here's an interesting twist to the findings, some of the back pain patients got just pressure put on the acupuncture points, no needles. And it turns out that these folks did just as well as the people who...
We took a copy of the first edition of the paper that we did 150 years ago and peeled out the middle and left the old masthead and did a note to our readers, thanking them for a 150 years. And I worked on it last night, and by the time I was done with it, I was sick of it. And got up this morning and got the paper out,...
Well, you know, most of what we do is in the low points of the world and - because we only go where the most-hurting people are. So one of the things you have to deal with is just the constant exposure to human suffering. But I think our finest hours have been when we have become champions for major issues in our world...
Sure. I think it's very important, though, to think a lot about what happens now because everything that's happened up to now was a selection process. And you can even debate how much the media should have a role in selection. So there's a whole question about that. There's no question we have a crucial role now, and t...
This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm Neal Conan. Boylston Street in Boston reopened early this morning, nine days after bombs blew up near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. It's one sign the city is starting to move on, though the investigation continues, and the people injured in the bombing - more than...
To be a renter, yes. The basic story is that we've had an unprecedented run-up in housing prices since the mid-90s, interestingly coinciding with the stock bubble. I talk about having a housing bubble alongside the stock bubble as you had in Japan in the '80s. And what happened is if you look since 1995, house prices h...
Yeah. I think we love to see this is as a children's phenomenon. Look at those funny kids. Look at those fads, you know, whether it's Pop Rocks or whatever those kids are doing this days. But the same thing happens with adults. You know, it's more expensive. It's - rather than $10, it's $100 or a $1,000, but it has to ...
Yeah. We rap in Wolof, it's our natural language. But also, we rap in French. So, and then some English. But also, the thing is like, people are so interested about what we're doing because we are not just doing hip-hop but be like, more activist and also talking about, like, problems in Senegal and issues that the com...
Way before the first selfie, the ancient Greeks and Romans had a myth about someone a little too obsessed with his own image. In one telling, Narcissus was a handsome guy wandering the world in search of someone to love. After rejecting a nymph named Echo, he caught a glimpse of his own reflection in a river, and fell ...
Well, so I'm in Monmouth County, New Jersey, in the town of Long Branch, and just a few towns to the north of me, the storm surge is already being felt pretty severely. You know, we saw whole residential blocks underwater, basically, with the water sort of beginning to lap at the front steps of houses, and in some case...
Asgard, a realm of wonders, was where the Norse Gods made their home. There Odin’s great hall of Valhalla towered above the mountains and Bifrost, the rainbow bridge, anchored itself. But though their domain was magnificent, it stood undefended from the giants and trolls of Jotunheim, who despised the gods and sought t...
The session was adjourned, and when the witness took the stand again, the defendant had been put in another room to watch the proceeding on a monitor. The former child soldier no longer felt intimidated. He told how soldiers kidnapped him and forcibly trained him in warfare. With special protection measures for former ...
Thank you. I have a funny story. Years ago, I mean, before I even knew I was a linguist, I heard a piece by George Carlin where he talks about growing up in New York City and how that, you know, all the kids, you know, inevitably all of the white kids would imitate the black kids. He said, you never once would hear a b...
The real heroine of "The Woman in White" isn't the innocent Laura Fairlie, who frankly is a bit dull, but her older half-sister, a poor and physically unattractive spinster called Marion Halcombe, whose daring and intelligence as a novel's real engines. Marion is the ultimate crime fighter, and the fact that she steals...
There are many criteria by which to judge a society. Dostoyevsky recommended examining its prisons. Gandhi said to look at how it treats its weakest members. If you want to discover a society’s attitude towards authority, or to gauge the power of its official belief system, I suggest that you could do worse than look a...
My meeting took many weeks and some string-pulling to arrange. It is not an interview, as such, insists Father Nephon, a Patriarchal archimandrite, or senior abbot, but an ‘audience’. I feel slightly daunted. Both the Dalai Lama and the Pope are known as ‘His Holiness’, but Bartholomew I, 270th Ecumenical Patriarch of ...
If you knew of a child who was being forced by a parent or guardian to sleep on a cold concrete floor in overcrowded surroundings, with screaming lights always on overhead that made it hard to sleep, had limited access to a bathroom, no way to brush their teeth, no soap and no towel, would you do something? Call the po...
There were some other instances of close calls, for example 1976 when North Koreans had killed two American officers at Panmunjom, (unintelligible) the security area, and then commander of U.S. forces in Korea, now they call it Combined Forces Command here in Korea, and he was ordered to take any action he would see fi...
Well, I think that - as I said, I think the folks in uniform - the judges, the counsel, and the members that'll sit on the jury - I think you'll find that they're going to think for themselves. So I think the uniform folks are going to do their best to do justice. But my concern is you have some political appointees th...
The shooter is almost always male. Of the past 129 mass shootings in the United States, all but three have been men. The shooter is socially alienated, and he can’t get laid. Every time you scratch the surface of the latest mass killing, in a movie theatre, a school, the streets of Paris or an abortion clinic, you find...
Griswold say the inclusion of mental health as an essential insurance benefit under the federal health law and the passage of the Mental Health Parity Act were huge victories for her profession. Insurance companies, for example, must charge the same co-pays and deductibles for mental health as they do for medical condi...
And as you mentioned, the gag of the show which is revealed in the pilot episode is that while Pearce's brain is his greatest strength and his greatest asset, it's also his Achilles' heel because he is, in fact, a paranoid schizophrenic, and he suffers from many of the symptoms that schizophrenics do, including visual ...
Of course, many people have had to leave their homes. That includes everyone within 12 miles of the plant, this evacuation zone. And people another six miles beyond that have had to stay indoors. And there's been a - there -most of the radiation that has been spread through this area came, apparently, from one big outb...
Twenty years ago, our attention was focused just 20 miles down the road from the town of West. In 1993, federal agents clashed with David Koresh's Branch Davidian community, near Waco. On April 19th, the order was given for military tanks to fire tear gas into the dwellings of the apocalyptic group, to try to force th...
Well, we can be accused of being fussy, I suppose. I would say we care a lot about the words we use and think a lot about them. Are we launderers? Maybe, but there's an important point here. We are communicators and we do need to make clear what that word was and we can telegraph it in some ways. But if the stories we'...
It's now around 6:10. The Clark County people have a whole bunch of questions running through their heads. First among them, do we get to keep our jobs? Ric can't answer that. Umpqua will only need about a third of the Clark County staff. But it's too soon to let each person know whether or not he or she just lost thei...
The Plastics Industry Association did not respond to interview requests. But one of the world's biggest straw makers, Tetra Pak, says it's trying to develop little paper straws to go along with its juice boxes. It says the long-term ambition is to make all of its packaging out of plants, not petroleum or metals. But th...
But - so I was going against the grain, and so I was kind of seen as doing something that wasn't going to pay off, but that was realistic for that particular period of time. And why that was realistic, I had worked at the Post Office. And working there, I interacted with men and women who had master's degrees. I also i...
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the slowly thawing waters of the world economy, some over-leveraged Middle Eastern real estate company announces it can't pay its debt. It's not just any old Middle Eastern real estate company though, it's Dubai World, the state-backed investment arm of the city-state o...
Well, what you have is, you know, he had four stars on his epaulettes. And he talked about his relationship to the military. To some extent, it was a response to concern that a military man would be put in position of heading the CIA. You had Carl Levin, the senator from Michigan, asking quite explicitly, you know, are...
This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. Thirty years ago, Muhammad Yunus made a loan of $27 to some villagers in his native Bangladesh and changed the world. In the three decades since, Yunus issued tiny amounts of credit - micro-loans he calls them - to more than 16 million people, most of them women...
Authorities in Nigeria are trying to negotiate the release of nine foreign oil workers. The group, which includes three Americans, was kidnapped by militants in Saturday in the oil rich Niger Delta. There have been a series of attacks on key oil installations there. The militants are demanding more control of the regio...
I am an astrodynamicist — you know, like that guy Rich Purnell in the movie "The Martian." And it's my job to study and predict motion of objects in space. Currently we track about one percent of hazardous objects on orbit — hazardous to services like location, agriculture, banking, television and communications, and s...
My first job was as a lawyer. I was not a very happy or inspired lawyer. One night I was driving home listening to a radio report, and there is something very intimate about radio: a voice comes out of a machine and into the listener’s ear. With rain pounding the windscreen and only the dashboard lights and the stereo ...
The documents released at the National Archives late yesterday afternoon number in the thousands of pages, but only a relative few are in Roberts' own words. What there is, however, is an indication of why the Democrats want to see more from Roberts' years in the Reagan White House and from his ten...
…that Dylan played his electric guitar. But it's always been a part of me. In fact, that - at that time, it was very new to me because we were just so strictly gospel. And we were being invited to folk festivals, and what I saw was, you know, that they were just all about love, you know. And I mean, love came in all co...
The administration had never acknowledged that it was bound by the Geneva Conventions, but the administration had always taken the position that it was complying with the Geneva Conventions to the extent that it felt that it could, and that it shouldn't be criticized for junking the protections because even though it d...
The bulk of President Bush's visit to Israel will revolve around the celebration of the establishment of the Jewish state. Among their activities, the president and First Lady will host a reception at an Israeli museum. They'll tour the ancient mountaintop fortress of Masada, where in the first century A.D., hundreds o...
Well, if you're in a situation where you somehow have prior knowledge or information that the person you're dealing with may come in with a very, very low offer. Then it seems to me wise to get your offer on the table. We've had that a few times. We did have once with Michael Jordan, where we were renewing his contract...
And as people at both ends of the spectrum are concerned about today, about there being the opportunity, the possibility, that something like the Nazis, a group like the Nazis will again rise in this country - now personally I think it's ridiculous, I don't believe that at all. But what I find very important is the fac...
Well, Sam, thanks for the question. The federated Iraq - most of the Iraqis on any side of the aisle that you talk to among the three major groups with the exception of the Kurds - certainly where the contention is between the Sunnis and the Shias do not see that. Now, there is a thought that the Shia's form of governm...
But I think of more immediate concern to most people is that we are omnivores. We're generalists. We do need those 50 different nutrients, 20 or 30 of which are plant compounds. And if we're just getting all our food from this one crop, we're not getting the lycopene, we're not getting the beta carotene, we're not gett...
Well, the first thing you worry about - well, it's just the total mass. Okay? Because we want to put about two square kilometers of collecting area of the antennas on the moon, that's a lot. But you can actually sit down and work out, you know, how thick a wire is, how the mass of the metal you like to make it out of t...
I think these are really interesting candidates to point to because during their campaigns they talked a lot about clean energy, and especially in both cases they talked a lot about wind energy and various kinds of renewable power. I think one of the things that you might see coming from this Congress - if the Congress...
And as we heard, the scene now shifts to New Hampshire. Many of the presidential candidates have already arrived there. We will be broadcasting all this morning from here at Smokey Row, a coffee house in Des Moines. And just recapping the final count in Iowa, the Republican winner, Ted Cruz, with a finish by Donald Tru...
Correct, and what administration officials will tell you privately is that they just - they use this analogy all the time of teaching someone how to ride a bike and you keep your hand on the back of the bicycle seat. And they'll say in Baghdad we let go of the bicycle seat too soon. And, you know, I think one of the in...
In 1992, Juan Rivera was arrested for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Waukegan, Illinois. On the night of the murder, Rivera was wearing an electronic ankle bracelet in connection with unrelated burglary charges, and this bracelet showed he’d been at home. Yet, based on a tip, police decided to arrest him...
Well, I think the important thing that I tell the president and what we try to advise him is that while there's evidence that people are suggesting that the president's support is eroding, we believe that we're making great strides to benefit African-Americans. And in the end, the facts will be sup...
I was in seventh grade in 1993 when Marie C Wilson and Gloria Steinem launched the Ms Foundation’s Take Our Daughters to Work Day, intending to show us young women that a big, wide world existed beyond our gender and our bodies. For me, it did just that, although it also seeded a lifetime obsession with bodies in a dif...
Yes, I love it, and yeah, regarding this movie, I have also watched this movie, and it's very unique in the sense that - I am from India, and I've heard about the slums, but to see that on big screen in such a way, it was very profound to me, and I couldn't believe the living conditions of these children. And juxtapose...

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