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"I rhyme / To see myself, to set the darkness echoing." - Seamus Heaney, in Personal Helicon Let love, empathy, kindness guide everything we do. ...let's stop this divisive madness shredding our country apart. #StrongerTogether

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
"I remember walking out of that luncheon feeling like I had glimpsed something important. The beating heart of the GOP no longer cared about principles or policy. There was a nihilist wing in control that scared me; they were happy to let it all burn."
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
he president is demanding government stakes in U.S. companies and cuts of their revenue. Experts see some similarities to state-managed capitalism in other parts of the world.
nytimes.com
Corporate America’s Newest Activist Investor: Donald Trump
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
'..only modern president who refused to concede a certified election defeat now proclaims his authority over election rules nationwide... Having tried his best once to undermine our constitutional system, Trump is the last American..who should be entrusted to supervise the integrity of the vote.'
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump’s Stunning Power Grab on Elections
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
It's amazing it's come to this! "The case could determine whether immigration agents can rely on factors including a person's "apparent ethnicity" or speaking Spanish, as part of the "reasonable suspicion" standard that permits immigration stops."
newsweek.com
Supreme Court to decide if ICE can arrest based on "apparent ethnicity"
The Supreme Court will consider staying an order that limits ICE agents from stopping people based on "apparent ethnicity."
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
America’s democratic system depends on the public’s understanding that law is bigger than politics. But now, Trump is sending a clear message that he is willing to go after his enemies and undermine that system.
theatlantic.com
Trump Is Sending a Terrifyingly Clear Message
America’s democratic system depends on the public’s understanding that law is bigger than politics, David Frum argues. But now, Trump is sending a clear message that he is willing to go after his enem...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Trump softened America up for the ICE Gestapo by constantly saying migrants are dangerous criminals who don't lead ordinary lives. So why is ICE raiding neighborhood restaurants & immigration courts instead of drug dens & dog fights? (BTW militarization of domestic law enforcement is abhorrent.)
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Rise Up Western Mass Indivisible ❌👑 @ruwmi.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Elon Musk's Reign of Corruption Chronicled in Elizabeth Warren Report
Warren’s report is focused on Musk’s misuse of political power for personal gain as Donald Trump’s DOGE chief.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/06/2025
Trump’s advisers have given up trying to restrict his phone use. His personal cellphone has become, Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer write, “the most pivotal technological device in the federal government, directly linking Trump to the outside world.” theatln.tc/mWgdUKd0
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
we are all exhausted and tired... i'm staying away from bluesky for mental sanity! I do peruse news and know whats going on but we slid really fast into fascism. each day there is something new that reminds me of this! Lawmakers and even many judges have failed us. image: recent. New Yorker 2025
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Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
"Venturini’s exquisite prose and her boldness in diving deep into the consciousness of a troubled, outcast young girl, one who defiantly chooses her own uncompromising way in the world, makes this a novel well worth reading." — @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social‬ lareviewofbooks.org/article/open...
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Opening the Pandora’s Box of Latin American Women’s Writing | Los Angeles Review of Books
Elaine Elinson reviews Kit Maude’s new translation of “We, the Casertas,” a novel by Argentine author Aurora Venturini.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Timothy Snyder Spent Years Studying Fascists. He Thinks Trump Is One. Is the Yale historian a prophet, as his supporters say? Or is he stripping the word ‘fascism’ of its meaning?
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Timothy Snyder Spent Years Studying Fascists. He Thinks Trump Is One.
Is the Yale historian a prophet, as his supporters say? Or is he stripping the word ‘fascism’ of its meaning?
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Didn't get to this over the weekend...will listen later tonight Timothy Snyder, a leading historian of authoritarianism, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, joins Scott to discuss the threats to American democracy, echoes of 1930s fascism, and what still gives him hope.
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How to Fight Fascism in America — with Timothy Snyder | Prof G Conversations
YouTube video by The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The paper mentioned in the article above: Is the US Moving Toward Autocracy? A Critical Assessment onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Politics & Policy | PSO Policy Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
Using the theory of incremental autocratization, I illustrate in this commentary that recent developments in the United States perfectly align with this theory. In the analytical framework I use, inc...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Anyone paying attention knows we have slid into autocracy, fully enabled by lawmakers in Congress, selected to represent us but failing to do so. Further, Felon45's attacks on judges and lawyers who defend his opponents is the ultimate sign that it's over...
scientificamerican.com
The Science of Autocracy Suggests the U.S. Is Headed for Dictatorship
The red flags abound—political research tells us the U.S. is becoming an autocracy
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
There's so many different things he's done ...it's tough to keep track! Cut, Baby, Cut — a new report reveals the (almost) impossible task facing the US Dept. of Agriculture & Dept. of Interior as it looks to deliver on Trump's promise to deliver timber self-sufficiency.
woodcentral.com.au
Cut, Baby, Cut — Why Trump Must Ramp Up Logging 450% to Meet Order
Donald Trump will find it "incredibly challenging for the US federal timber harvest to offset Canadian wood products in the coming years" without significant ca
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
!! International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen. ICC's staffers have been told that if they travel to the US they risk arrest.. hurdles for court staff since Trump slapped sanctions on its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, in Feb.
pbs.org
Trump's sanctions on ICC's chief prosecutor have halted tribunal's work, officials and lawyers say
Staffers and allies of the ICC said the sanctions have made it increasingly difficult for the tribunal to conduct basic tasks, let alone seek justice for victims of war crimes or genocide.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
"..new report that the president's crypto holdings ...approximately $2.9 billion. ..due in part to his release of the $TRUMP and $MELANIA meme coins, in addition to a large stake in World Liberty Financial, a crypto exchange affiliated with the Trump family that launched in October 2024."
cbsnews.com
Trump family's net worth has increased by $2.9 billion thanks to crypto investments, new report says
As the Trump family's crypto ventures increase their wealth, the president's administration pauses a dozen federal crypto probes.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
“This isn’t Trump just being Trump. The Trump coin scam is the most brazenly corrupt thing a President has ever done. Not close.”
newrepublic.com
Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done
He’s using the White House to get rich from anonymous investors—and it’s hardly even a news story.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
After the busy weekend of trade negotiations in Geneva, Li Chenggang, a Chinese official, replied with a wry smile and an old saying: “Good food is never too late.” Trump administration gave China a strangely good tariff deal: for the next 90 days, at least.
economist.com
America has given China a strangely good tariff deal
For the next 90 days, at least
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
While US economic model is of artificial scarcity, China has a model of abundance. Abundance is a supply side model, where there is sufficient goods for everyone at affordable prices. In China that means enough, not only for everyone at home, but for everyone in the world.
reuters.com
G7 finance leaders to seek US consensus on non-tariff issues at Canada meeting
Finance leaders from the Group of Seven democracies will strive for a show of unity when they meet this week on topics other than U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs, including economic security, Ukraine and artificial intelligence cooperation.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
In Crypto Rush Aftermath by Georgian filmmaker Salomé Jashi, residents of Akhalkalaki in the Caucasus nation of Georgia recount how a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme ‘spread faster than COVID’ through their town, leaving big losses – and a few scattered winners – in its wake.
aeon.co
What happened when a crypto scam swept over a sleepy town in the Caucasus | Aeon Videos
First the rush, then the reality – how a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme spread faster than a virus in a sleepy Georgia town
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Stories and literature: Our narrative prison The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell? ...essay by Eliane Glaser #ToReadLater
aeon.co
Why does every film and TV series seem to have the same plot? | Aeon Essays
The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Video (5min): A stunning visualisation explores the intricate circulatory system of our oceans aeon.co/videos/a-stu...
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A stunning visualisation explores the intricate circulatory system of our oceans | Aeon Videos
Explore Earth’s oceanic circulatory system via this groundbreaking visualisation of the global flow of ocean currents
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Moon Marbles ! A mantle-rocking asteroid impact could have made curious glass beads on the surface..
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Moon Marbles Hint at Lunar Depths
A mantle-rocking asteroid impact could have made curious glass beads on the surface
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Ai Could Help Humans Understand Animals But are animal dictionaries enough to demystify the animal mind?
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AI Could Help Humans Understand Animals
But are animal dictionaries enough to demystify the animal mind?
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Claw print fossils discovered in Australia hint that the ancestors of reptiles, mammals, and birds evolved around 40 million years earlier than previously thought.
theguardian.com
‘Turning point’: claw print fossils found in Australia rewrite story of amniotes by 40 million years
The discovery by two local fossil hunters on a river bank in Victoria has ‘potentially far-reaching implications’, scientists say
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Is the fault of whale strandings partially in the stars? Note: Gray whales migrate through a 10,000-mile route spanning the Pacific coasts of Central and North America
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Whales Run Aground by the Sun
Is the fault of whale strandings partially in the stars?
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
A full rendition of Spiritus Sanctus Vivificans (2.5 mins), performed by the British vocal ensemble, Armonico Consort in an album called Naked Bryd Two. Soloist: Anna Sandstrom. Conductor: Christopher Monks
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Spiritus Sanctus Vivificans
YouTube video by Anna Sandström - Topic
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) who was a German abbess, healer, poet, composer and polymath, wrote Spiritus Sanctus Vivificans (O virtue of wisdom). ...a sound as similar to a Gregorian chant.
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Music from Another Age: The Devotional Songs of Hildegard von Bingen
A woman wrote the following song a thousand years ago. The song’s name is Spiritus Sanctus Vivificans (O virtue of wisdom). Readers who are familiar with early music will recognize this sound as si…
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Ten brilliant essays by Annie Dillard collated here: tetw.org/Annie_Dillard
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10 Great Articles and Essays by Annie Dillard
Timeless essays about nature and life Essays This Is the Life You enjoy work and will love your grandchildren, and somewhere in there you die The Force That Drives the Flower What is it about...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"The essay may deal in metaphor better than the poem can, in some ways, because prose may expand what the lyric poem must compress. ... The essay can do everything a poem can do, and everything a short story can do — everything but fake it." Annie Dillard on the essay
themarginalian.org
Annie Dillard on the Art of the Essay and the Different Responsibilities of Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, and Short Stories
“Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.”
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"Say you have seen something. You have seen an ordinary bit of what is real, the infinite fabric of time that eternity shoots through, and time's soft-skinned people working and dying under slowly shifting stars. Then what?" - Annie Dillard essay, This is the life
billemory.com
"This Is The Life" essay by Annie Dillard
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
2018: Hope, Hypervigiliance, and Human Hours: A Conversation with Catherine Barnett
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Hope, Hypervigiliance, and Human Hours: A Conversation with Catherine Barnett - The Adroit Journal
Catherine Barnett is the author of three poetry collections, Human Hours, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced and The Game of Boxes, winner of the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of Americ...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
"Catherine Barnett’s 2018 collection of poems, Human Hours, invites readers into the impermanence of time and the human desire to try and capture the hours that continually slip away from us. Our guide is a speaker who embraces the ache and hilarity of life found in unexpected moments."
pshares.org
Human Hours by Catherine Barnett - Ploughshares
As Barnett unfolds for readers the hours of a particular human life, she simultaneously asks readers to examine their own hours.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
"For all the contemporary poets who rely on wordplay or the associative mode, very few write poems this gratifying, or with such philosophical heft. Barnett plays for mortal stakes, the comic and the tragic in constant dialogue."
kenyonreview.org
On Catherine Barnett's Human Hours - The Kenyon Review
Benjamin Voigt reviews Catherine Barnett's Human Hours on KROnline. "Catherine Barnett’s enchanting third collection, Human Hours, takes its name from..."
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Poem: Uncertainty Principle at Dawn Catherine Barnett, in her 3rd book of poetry, Human Hours (2018)
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NPR @npr.org · 05/05/2025
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.
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'James' wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
“She would tell me stories about her own childhood…She described the life there—how the girls slept in little beds that stood in two rows and how they went walking in two straight lines, all dressed alike. She was happier there than at home.”
wbur.org
How A Jilted Mom, A Former Nun And A Shattered Childhood Inspired ‘Madeline’
Eric Carle Museum exhibit reveals Ludwig Bemelmans styled himself a carefree bon vivant, but his "Madeline" kids' books were inspired by things gone wrong.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 05/05/2025
“They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have 5.”
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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"What did the earth teach the trees? How to speak to the sky." -Pablo Neruda
two bare trees on the side of a road in a wildlife refuge. there are mountains in the distance and a cloud in the sky.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/05/2025
“The administration is no longer pretending that it is standing up for Jewish students,” Rose Horowitch writes. “The project has been revealed for what it is: an effort to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.”
bit.ly
Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext
The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"Trump is more effective than the Covid virus at creating chaos" Quotable quote from Justin Wolfers is a professor of public policy & economics at the Univ. of Michigan and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution & the Peterson Institute for International Economics and host of the podcast 👇
art19.com
Think Like An Economist
Think Like an Economist and you’ll see the world more clearly, empowering you to make better decisions at work, at home, and in your community. Leading economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers w...
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
wow - congratulations, Sophia!
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
#Music: "wash away from the soul the dust of everyday life" Colombia & Venezuela are neighbors with deep cultural ties despite different political histories. Colombia rock bands Bomba Estereo from and Rawayana, of Venezuela, have a newly released collaborative album called “Astropical.”
theworld.org
Lead singers from Colombia's Bomba Estereo and Venezuela's Rawayana join forces - The World from PRX
Colombia and Venezuela are neighbors in South America, and they share deep cultural ties despite different political histories. The Latin rock bands Bomba Estereo from Colombia and Rawayana, of Venezu...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
when you think about it rfk jr. is the pinnacle of the american dream because in what other country can an ex-heroin addict who didn’t go to medical school and gets his science from 4chan become the authority on public health
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Billy Binion @billybinion.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200. The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money. Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.
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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
No hope with the way Republicans are standing by the criminals/dictators/fascists. www.axios.com/2025/04/29/p...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is petty. The FBI has reassigned several agents simply for being photographed kneeling in solidarity with racial justice protesters in D.C. during the 2020 demonstrations after George Floyd’s murder.
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