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Charles Pierce | History Will Remember Mike Pence's Performance for Two Reasons Beyond the Fly on His Head
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "The first was his absolute and obvious contempt for the two women with whom he shared the stage."
ne day, the president*’s Jewish grandchildren will grow up and realize that a big lump of Velveeta with a fly on its head used them as a shield for their howling bigot of a grandfather. That will be a bad day.
That was one of the many alarums and diversions employed by Vice President Mike Pence Wednesday night when he was asked a question he didn't want to answer, which was practically all of them. Senator Kamala Harris was belaboring him with the president*'s undeniable bigotry, and Pence decided that the proper answer was to point out that the president* has Jewish grandchildren and, therefore, not only can the president* not be anti-Semitic, but also that none of the white-supremacists the president* steadfastly has refused to condemn are anti-Semitic, either.
History will remember Pence's performance in the debate for two reasons beyond the fly on his head and the fact that something else appeared to be crawling out of one of his eyes. The first is his absolute and obvious contempt for the two women—Harris and moderator Susan Page of USA Today—with whom he shared the stage. He repeatedly interrupted Harris; the Democratic campaign already was selling, "Mr. Vice President. I'm Speaking." T-shirts, as well as Biden-Harris flyswatters. He simply bulldozed Page on the agreed-upon time limits. He wasn't as grotesque about it as his boss was last week, but he left the rules in pretty much the same shambles. The second was more important, and vastly more telling. He simply would not answer Page's questions as she asked them. And while it is true that Harris ducked a question about what she and Biden might do as regards the Supreme Court, it hardly measured up against Pence's Patches O'Houlihan act.
The most striking example of what Pence was about in this debate came when Page asked him, as a former governor of Indiana, what that state would do if Roe v. Wade were overturned by a newly confirmed 6-3 conservative Supreme Court majority. Now, Mike Pence is not merely anti-choice. He's a damn fanatic on the subject. He introduced the first congressional bill to cut off Planned Parenthood, and he introduced it in 2007. He proposed a bill that would have limited the rape exception for anti-choice laws to cases of "forcible rape." He introduced a federal "personhood" amendment, a concept so far out there that a bill to that effect once was crushed in a referendum campaign in Mississippi.
Moreover, when he was governor of Indiana, he signed no fewer than eight anti-choice bills, one of which would have mandated funeral services for fetuses no matter how they may have died. (This prompted one of the most creative exercises in direct action—the famous "Periods For Pence" campaign, during which women across Indiana called Governor Pence's office during their periods to make sure they didn't have anything for which they might have to throw a funeral.) Pence's anti-choice bona fides were a big part of drawing evangelical voters to a ticket headed by the most thoroughgoing heathen ever to run for president. He is one of the most enthusiastic fetus obsessives in American politics.
And yet, on Tuesday night, this was the answer he gave to Page's question about what would happen in Indiana if Roe were overturned—something that god and man know has been central to this administration*'s judicial selection process from Neil Gorsuch to Amy Coney Barrett.
President Trump and I could not be more enthusiastic about the opportunity to see Amy Coney Barrett become justice Amy Coney Barrett. She's a brilliant woman. And she will bring a lifetime of experience and a sizable American family to the Supreme Court of the United States. Our hope is in the hearing next week, unlike Justice Kavanaugh received with treatment from you and others. And we hope she gets a fair hearing. And we particularly hope that we don't see the kind of attacks on her Christian faith that we saw before. The Democratic Chairman of the Judiciary Committee before when, when Judge Barrett was being confirmed for the Court of Appeals, expressed concern that the dogma of her faith lived loudly within her, and Durbin of Illinois said that it was a concern. Senator, I know one of our judicial nominees, you actually attacked because they were a member of the Catholic Knights of Columbus, just because the Knights of Columbus holds pro-life views.Mike Pence dodged a question about repealing Roe v. Wade!
This is the equivalent of hearing Joe Biden bad-mouth the good people of Scranton, PA.
Of course, he wants Roe repealed. He's never shut up about that. But now that a repeal seems more imminent than it has been at any time since 1972, support for the original decision is peaking in the high 60s and low 70s. As part of a campaign that is shedding the support of women faster than the White House staff is shedding viral load, Mike Pence has the gallows in his eyes and sees what could be a historic beating on the horizon, and so even Mike Pence's career-long campaign to shred the privacy rights of 51 percent of the American population had to give way to the Hippocratic Oath of political rhetoric: First, Do No Harm. It was epochal. Because of his fealty to a plague-ridden president*, a fly-specked Mike Pence couldn't even answer his simple, customary "yes" to a question he's answered 1,000 times before.
Perhaps of more significance down the line was Pence's refusal to state flatly that he would accept the results of the election, which, of course, is completely in line with what the president* has been saying for months. Instead, he said this, and I quote it at length because there are some tasty nuggets amid the word salad:
When you talk about accepting the outcome of the election. I must tell you, Senator, your party has spent the last three and a half years trying to overturn the results of the last election. So amazing. When Joe Biden was Vice President of the United States, the FBI actually spied on President Trump in my campaign. There were documents released this week that the CIA actually made a referral to the FBI documenting that those allegations were coming from the Hillary Clinton campaign. And of course, we've all seen the avalanche what, what you put the country through for, for the better part of three years, until it was founded. There was no obstruction, no collusion, Case Closed.
And then Senator Harris, you and your colleagues in the in the Congress tried to impeach the president of the United States over a phone call. And now Hillary Clinton has actually said to Joe Biden that under in her words, under no circumstances should he could see the election. So let me just say I think we're gonna win this election. President Trump and I are fighting every day in courthouses to prevent Joe Biden and Kamala Harris from changing the rules and creating this universal mail in voting that will create a massive opportunity for voter fraud. We have a free and fair election. We know we're going to have confidence in it. And I believe in all my heart that President Donald Trump is going to be reelected for four more years.
It's all in there, every bit of wormwood with which this administration is attempting to poison the process. In that answer, Pence is catapulting a conspiracy theory on the 2016 election that comes directly from a debunked Russian propaganda campaign. He also read off the administration*'s bogus script about mail-in voting. (Does Indiana have vote-by-mail? Yes, sort of.) Kamala Harris did what she had to do on Tuesday night. Meanwhile, the hollowed-out shell that once was Mike Pence proved conclusively that it has been filled to its top with Donald J Trump. If I weren't laughing at the fly on its head, I might have found that sad.
Attorney General Bill Barr at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center on July 28. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
Trump Demands Barr Begin Rounding Up Political Enemies
Andrew Naughtie, The Independent
Naughtie writes: "During a live phone-in on Fox Business, Donald Trump complained again that not enough of his political enemies have been arrested - and said attorney general Bill Barr could find himself in 'a sad situation' if he doesn't start rounding them up."
uring a live phone-in on Fox Business, Donald Trump complained again that not enough of his political enemies have been arrested – and said attorney general Bill Barr could find himself in “a sad situation” if he doesn’t start rounding them up.The blunt warning comes after Mr Trump left Walter Reed Medical Centre and returned to Twitter with a blizzard of angry tweets and retweets, many of them calling for the indictment of Obama administration figures.
The president’s rambling and ill-tempered interview with Maria Bartiromo on Thursday saw him run through a long list of his usual grievances, but he was particularly rancorous on the subject of supposed Obama-era “crimes” against him for which he wants to see his predecessor indicted, along with Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and many others.
“Unless Bill Barr indicts these people for crimes,” declared the president, “the greatest political crime in the history of our country, then we’re gonna get little satisfaction unless I win. Because I won’t forget it. But these people should be indicted, this was the greatest political crime in the history of our country. And that includes Obama, and that includes Biden; these are people that spied on my campaign, and we have everything.
“Now they say they have much more, and I say Bill, you got plenty. You don’t need any more.”
Comparing Mr Barr unflatteringly to former acting director of national intelligence Richard Grennell and successor John Ratcliffe, both of whom have released documents related to the Russia investigation, Mr Trump gave his attorney general a warning.
“To be honest, Bill Barr’s gonna go down either as the greatest attorney general in the history of the country or he’s gonna go down as a very sad, sad situation. I mean, I’ll be honest with you. He’s got all the information he needs. They wanna get more, more, more, they keep getting more, I say: ‘You don’t need any more. You got more stuff than anybody’s ever had.’”
Mr Trump has complained for years that various Democrats should be “locked up”, even telling Hillary Clinton to her face at a 2016 debate that she would be “in jail” if he won. (His administration has not investigated her in any meaningful way.)
However, in the last year or so, he has begun insisting ever more furiously that the Obama team committed crimes against him, in particular saying Mr Obama spied on his campaign.
While Mr Barr has been criticised by many Trump critics for intervening in cases against the president’s associates – including Roger Stone, whose recommended prison sentence his department sought to reduce – he has defended his independence from the president before.
“I’m not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody,” he told an interviewer in February. “Whether it’s Congress, a newspaper editorial board, or the president.”
At the time, this was seen as a stunning rebuke to Mr Trump, who routinely appears to direct policy via Twitter. However, the president reacted only with a single, level-headed tweet, raising suspicions that Mr Barr’s interview was a calculated gesture to justice department attorneys concerned about political interference.
Later in the Fox Business interview, while expounding the theme of Hillary Clinton’s State Department emails, Mr Trump appeared to suggest that he might take a more active role in his proposed criminal roundups.
“She should be indicted for that!” he shouted down the phone. “If people delete emails in a regular court case – she deleted 33,000 emails and nothing happens to her! Our justice system, nothing happens to her. With all of the pages of stuff, thousands of pages that we have on them, nothing happens to them, nothing happens.
“And you know, I said I’m gonna not get involved, I’m gonna have to get involved, because these people are crooked people.”
Families of those killed by police marched to the Minnesota State Capitol building in St. Paul. (photo: Leila Navidi/Star Tribune)
Hundreds March in Second Night of Protests After Derek Chauvin - Killer of George Floyd - Released on Bond in Minnesota
Matt McKinney and Erin Adler, Star Tribune
Excerpt: "Protesters took to the streets for a second night Thursday to decry the release of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd on May 25."
No arrests were reported after the marches wrapped up Thursday, one night after 51 people were taken into custody, mostly in south Minneapolis.
The rallies — one in St. Paul, one in Minneapolis — came on the heels of a march Wednesday night in south Minneapolis that ended when 51 people were arrested near the Police Department’s Fifth Precinct headquarters.
As of 10:15 p.m. Thursday, the rallies appeared to have wrapped up, and no one had been arrested. Most participants wore masks and appeared to be practicing social distancing.
At the St. Paul event, dubbed the Secret March, hundreds of people, including family members of Minnesotans killed by police, marched down University Avenue to the State Capitol.
The march was organized by the Justice Squad, Visual Black Justice, Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence and the 10K Foundation.
Former NBA player Royce White, a march organizer, said its message was “that the state has human lives, deaths, murders, on their hands, and this is a symbol of the state’s authority here in Minnesota. And so we brought our sorrows and pains to their doorsteps to leave.”
The marchers carried signs bearing the names of 100 people killed by police in Minnesota, along with five coffins and a sign that said, “Who will be next?”
“That’s the feeling amongst the people right now,” said White. “Obviously we are extremely dissatisfied with the decision to release Derek Chauvin on bond.”
In Minneapolis, several hundred people gathered outside the Hennepin County Government Center for a protest organized by the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar, Black Lives Matter Minnesota and other activist organizations.
Standing on the center’s steps, speakers called for Chauvin to be taken back into custody as Aztec dancers from Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli circled two drum players.
The crowd chanted, “Say his name! George Floyd!” and “No justice, no peace!”
Chauvin shouldn’t have been given the option of bail, the protesters said. They also decried the arrests of people involved in protests over Floyd’s death over the past few months.
After the rally, the protesters marched around downtown Minneapolis, chanting, “Black power!” and “Native lives and trans lives, they matter here!”
Chauvin left Oak Park Heights prison Wednesday after posting bail on a $1 million bond. In anticipation of unrest, Gov. Tim Walz activated the Minnesota National Guard and mobilized 100 State Patrol troopers and 75 Department of Natural Resources (DNR) officers to help local law enforcement.
Chauvin, who has been fired, was initially booked into the Ramsey County jail after being charged and then moved to the state prison. He is charged with second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
On Wednesday evening, about 300 people marched from the site where Floyd died a few blocks north and then back. Some of the marchers made their way to the Fifth Precinct, where many of the 51 arrests took place.
Minneapolis police spokesman John Elder said 49 of the arrests were for misdemeanor offenses. The Hennepin County jail log showed many were cited for unlawful assembly. One person was arrested for fourth-degree assault and one other on a felony warrant.
The state Department of Public Safety said 24 of the overall arrests were made by the State Patrol and another 10 by DNR officers.
A gathering in Louisville, Kentucky, in September. (photo: Bryan Woolston/Reuters)
The Plot Against Gretchen Whitmer Shows the Danger of Private Militias
Mary B. McCord, The New York Times
McCord writes: "In the swirls of disinformation that now pollute our political discourse, one is particularly dangerous: that private militias are constitutionally protected."
These groups have no constitutional right to exist.
Although these vigilante groups often cite the Second Amendment’s “well regulated militia” for their authority, history and Supreme Court precedent make clear that the phrase was not intended to — and does not — authorize private militias outside of government control.
Indeed, these armed groups have no authority to call themselves forth into militia service; the Second Amendment does not protect such activity; and all 50 states prohibit it.
Abortion rights demonstrators rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington. (photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Nina Totenberg | Supreme Court Refuses to Block Lower Court Order on Abortion Pills
Nina Totenberg, NPR
Totenberg writes: "The U.S. Supreme Court has refused, for now, to reimpose FDA regulations that require women seeking medication abortion to pick up the prescribed pills in person at a clinic instead of by mail."
The court's decision came Thursday night on a 6-to-2 vote that rejected an emergency appeal from the Trump administration.
The challenge to the FDA regulation was brought by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists after the the agency relaxed similar regulations for other drugs — including opioids — in order to limit patients' exposure to Covid-19 during the pandemic, but refused to relax the same rule for those with prescriptions for abortions with pills in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
Federal Judge Theodore Chuang in Maryland ruled in favor of ACOG, declaring that requiring such in-person pick-ups of pills during a pandemic posed "a substantial obstacle to women seeking an abortion." The Supreme Court has long ruled that such substantial obstacles unconstitutionally interfere with a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy.
On Thursday night, the Supreme Court turned down the Trump administration's attempt to block the lower court order. But the decision was more of a punt, than a long-lasting decree.
The high court said it would hold the Trump administration's request "in obeyance" to permit the district court judge to promptly consider other efforts by the administration to "dissolve, modify, or stay" its previous order if "relevant circumstances have changed." And the justices said that their decision did not indicate their views on the merits of the case should it come to them again.
The language of the one-paragraph order seemed to suggest that the court was simply unwilling to make any decision in an abortion case two weeks after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, and just days before the U.S. Senate is scheduled to take up the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett as Ginsburg's replacement.
"It is a relief that for the next few weeks the Trump administration cannot force abortion patients to needlessly risk contracting a life-threatening disease as a condition of obtaining care," said Julia Kaye, lead counsel for ACOG in the case. But, she added, "When President Trump is trying to rush through a third Supreme Court justice with the express goal of overturning Roe v. Wade, the court's delayed ruling in this case gives little comfort that the right to abortion is secure."
But Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the SBA List, which opposes abortion rights, said her group was "disappointed by the lack of a ruling."
"We thank the Trump administration for fighting for vitally important health and safety protections and are confident we will ultimately prevail," she said.
Dissenting from Thursday night's decision were Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. Writing for the two, Alito said that "for all practical purposes there is little difference between what the court has done and an express denial" of the Trump administration's emergency motion to block the lower court order.
Alito went on to blast his colleagues for other actions it has taken during the pandemic in upholding bans on large church gatherings, decisions that he characterized as "unimaginable restraints" on the "free exercise of religion."
Federal officers fire tear gas grenades at protests in Portland. (photo: Getty)
Portland: Officers Targeted Medics With Teargas and Projectiles, Report Finds
Jason Wilson, Guardian UK
Wilson writes: "Law enforcement officers in Portland, Oregon, specifically targeted medics with teargas and projectiles during summer protests in 'indiscriminate attacks,' according to a new report by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)."
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Rescued songbirds perch on a branch at New York City's Wild Bird Fund, the city's only wildlife rescue and rehabilitation facility. (photo: Jeffrey Jones/National Geographic)
Birds Are Crashing Into NYC Buildings. Record Numbers Are Being Rescued.
Natasha Daly, National Geographic
Daly writes: "When Genevieve Yue brought an injured pigeon to Manhattan's Wild Bird Fund wildlife rehabilitation center last Saturday, she was surprised to find a line outside."
Rescued songbirds perch on a branch at New York City’s Wild Bird Fund, the city’s only wildlife rescue and rehabilitation facility. On October 2 and 3, the center received a record number of injured birds that had collided with glass while migrating through the city.
hen Genevieve Yue brought an injured pigeon to Manhattan’s Wild Bird Fund wildlife rehabilitation center last Saturday, she was surprised to find a line outside.
“A couple ahead of me had a bird in their sweatshirt. Other people had birds in Amazon boxes. Mine was in a take-out bag that I’d grabbed from a restaurant,” she says. One passerby asked if people were waiting in line for an ice cream shop.
Yue had found the injured pigeon lying on the sidewalk in her Lower East Side neighborhood and knew the bird needed help. “I have a particular fondness for pigeons. It breaks my heart when I see people treating them like vermin,” she says. She lined a paper bag with a spare diaper she had packed for her two-year-old, hopped in a Lyft, and headed north to the Wild Bird Fund on the Upper West Side.
It’s a tiny nonprofit operation tasked with serving all of New York City. “It’s kind of like a bird emergency room,” Yue says. “Our little ambulances are basically paper shopping bags and shoeboxes.” Everyone in line bonded over their tiny charges. “We started immediately sharing. ‘Where did your bird come from? Where did you find your bird? Do you want to see my bird?’”
She didn’t know at the time that New York was in the midst of a wave of bird collisions. Between Friday, October 2, and Saturday, October 3, the Wild Bird Fund took in a record 220 injured birds, three-quarters of which were migratory songbirds including northern parulas, common yellow-throats, and many warbler species,
The annual winter migration south for North American birds started a few weeks ago, and with migration comes collisions. New York City Audubon scientists estimate that up to 240,000 birds die annually from collisions in the city. Nationwide, the number is estimated to be a staggering one billion.
Migrating birds, says Rita McMahon, founder and executive director of the Wild Bird Fund, fly through New York (and Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Boston, and many other major East Coast cities that comprise the Atlantic Flyway migration path) and collide with glass on buildings. Interior lights behind windows confuse night-migrating birds, disrupting their ability to navigate and drawing them towards the light. During the day, windows reflect trees and sky, creating an invisible obstacle. Navigating glass windows is a minefield for any bird, but most who crash are “first years,” says McMahon—they’re less than a year old and haven’t migrated through a city before.
Birds colliding with glass is not a new problem. Nor—despite the record numbers of birds brought into the Wild Bird Fund last weekend—is there any indication that it’s getting worse in New York. It’s not that more birds are crashing, McMahon says. It’s that more people are helping.
“More people seem to know about us. They come from great distances. Like from the edge of Brooklyn, or Rockaway Beach. It can take them two hours to get to us,” she says. “If you put a bird in your pocket or paper bag, you could be saving his life. Otherwise he will die of hypothermia on the sidewalk.”
Since April, the center has been taking in more injured animals than the same period last year. “I believe there is a silver lining to COVID. People are valuing nature more. They’re on the watch for things they haven’t noticed before. It’s very heartening and so reassuring to learn that New Yorkers are that compassionate,” she says.
A particularly bad weekend
McMahon and her colleagues were expecting the birds. Staff and volunteers follow radar reports on birdcast.info, a website that shows incoming nocturnal bird migrations. Bird-watchers use it to track sighting opportunities; bird rescuers use it to track potential tragedy.
On the night of Thursday, October 1, the radar predicted a high-intensity migration over the entire country. Calista McRae, a volunteer who patrols for injured and dead birds most mornings throughout the year, prepared paper bags (for injured birds) and plastic gallon bags (for dead ones).
“When I got to the first building on Friday morning, there were 30 birds on one side, dead and alive.” She walked around the building and found another 40. She spent several hours on Friday and Saturday day collecting birds. In all, she collected 333 birds—231 dead birds and 102 injured ones, which went to the Wild Bird Fund.
“We knew there would be plenty but didn’t expect the onslaught,” McMahon says. Wild Bird Fund put out a call on Twitter, asking for volunteers to help transport birds to the facility. One couple loaded 50 into their car; a woman secured two onto her bike, while another brought four on the subway.
At Wild Bird Fund, staffers triaged the patients as they came in. Every bird is individually assessed, and the team separates them into categories based on the severity of their injuries. If a bird starts hopping around, it’ll get housed in the “flyway” room, where they can fly around, perch, and be monitored for 24 hours. Most birds, however, are kept in cloth laundry baskets, about six or eight per basket, where they have little perches. This weekend, McMahon says, they had 20 laundry baskets in a single room. Severely injured birds are kept in incubators in a quiet, intensive care unit-type room.
They’re all fed mealworms. The tinier, the better, so they don’t have to bang their possibly-concussed heads around trying to break a large bug apart. Last weekend, the center ran out, and volunteers scoured pet stores all over the city and rounded up three dozen mealworm tubs.
Of the 220 birds that came in, 90 died or were euthanized. More than a hundred recovered; many have already been released. When the birds are recovered, volunteers release them at Prospect Park and other locations in Brooklyn, where they’re able to fly due south—over the water and away from the city. “We don’t know what happens after, but if we can ensure that they don’t have to see any more buildings this year, we feel more secure that they’re going to do OK,” McMahon says.
Collecting dead birds to prevent more dead birds
In December, the New York City Council passed a law that mandates any newly constructed building must be built with bird-safe glass. It’s a good step, McMahon says, but it doesn’t apply to existing buildings. There are several that are especially dangerous for birds, like 3 and 4 World Trade Center and, a block away, Brookfield Place. “It’s a mirrored canyon that is so inviting for birds flying through,” McMahon says.
Glass collision isn’t just a downtown issue: Nearly 45 percent of collisions happen at low-rise buildings, according to the New York City Audubon.
It's easy and inexpensive to retrofit a building to be bird-safe, McMahon says. Although some inexpensive preventions like netting aren’t very aesthetically pleasing, other common strategies include window decals, UV window films (invisible to humans but obvious to many bird species); and even basic screens. At night, something as simple as turning off building lights that are visible from outside can be effective, according to the American Bird Conservancy. For new buildings, decisions about the type of window glass, the position and number of windows, and style of outdoor lighting can all make a difference.
Collecting data about bird crashes around a particular building and approaching management about mitigation are also important parts of the equation, McMahon says. It’s what motivates McRae to go out and collect dead bird bodies in the mornings, recording where and when she found them.
“If you can say to a building owner that your building killed 350 birds this fall between 6 to 9 a.m.—what can you do to prevent this?” it’s more likely to make an impact, she says.
Volunteering to count, collect, and rescue injured birds is a great way for people to feel empowered to help, especially during such turbulent times, McMahon says.
Yue, who rescued the pigeon, says she felt that sense of purpose. She says that she practices social distancing carefully, so it was nice to be in a public space without the pandemic being her primary focus. “It’s like we were all on a mission. Everyone was doing something kind,” she says.
After her pigeon was admitted, she cried behind her mask as she walked away. “It was a mix of feelings. I was moved to see this humane behavior—to see this man holding a little bird in his hands—but I also felt so anguished that there was so much hurt and suffering,” she says. “It was kind of a release. There’s so much hurt going around, but also so much caring.”
Yue’s pigeon turned out to have a broken back and had to be euthanized. Sometimes “stopping suffering is all we can do,” says McMahon, who personally cared for the bird. What Yue did, she says, “was not a small thing.
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