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Blackhawks Shut Out for Sixth Time This Season: ‘It Sucks Losing Like This' - NBC Chicago

Blackhawks Shut Out for Sixth Time This Season: ‘It Sucks Losing Like This'

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Seth Jones after shutout loss: 'It sucks losing like this' originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago

It's been a challenge all season long for the Blackhawks to score goals, which is why Friday's offensive explosion in an 8-5 win over New Jersey was a little bit of a weight lifted off their shoulders. That also ended a seven-game winless skid at home.

Unfortunately for the Blackhawks, they couldn't capitalize on that momentum on Sunday afternoon. They were shut out for the sixth time this season — second against the St. Louis Blues — and gave their fans little to cheer about.

Seth Jones has been really good since being acquired by Chicago over the offseason, but you can sense the dejection in his voice when talking about another defeat in which the Blackhawks didn't give themselves a chance.

"I hope it's getting through our heads here," Jones said following the 4-0 loss. "It sucks losing like this, at home, the way we're losing. It's not fun for us, for the fans, for anybody."

Jones, of course, signed an eight-year extension with the Blackhawks one week after the trade, which indicated he wants to finish his career in Chicago. You don't sign a contract like that if you don't believe the future for the organization is bright, and the Blackhawks' trajectory appeared to be pointing up after the flurry of offseason moves.

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Patrick Kane has been here for the highest of highs in franchise history and has been one of the leaders in helping the Blackhawks try to maintain a winning culture through the retooling seasons. He doesn't want the younger players to get comfortable with losing, and he doesn't get the sense that they are.

"I think a lot of what’s been going on the last couple of years, you lose games and all of a sudden you start thinking, is this OK? Is this the way it should be?" Kane said after Friday's game. "But when you start looking in the mirror and start taking it upon yourself to make something happen every shift and know the moment that’s on the line, when it gets to crunch time, a lot of these young guys are really doing well in that position, so it’s good to see."

The Blackhawks have relied way too heavily this season on Marc-Andre Fleury, who masks the team's flaws as best as he can. But at some point, they need to figure things out in front of him, because who knows where the Blackhawks would be without him.

"He stood on his head," interim head coach Derek King said. "He was unbelievable. He keeps us in the games every night. ... I don't know know what else to say about this guy."

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Catch up: Here are some of the ways countries are responding to Russia's invasion of Ukraine - CNN

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Videos uploaded to social media are giving a rare view of clashes between Russian and Ukrainian military forces on the streets of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine.

Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, has been the target of frequent Russian military strikes since the invasion began early Thursday morning. Now it's the site of intense street battles as the Russian military attempts to win control of the city.

One sequence of videos uploaded to social media show an attempt by a Russian unit to advance towards an important airfield and arms factory in the northeast of Kharkiv. The airfield at the Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company is small — just a single runway — but might be a useful bridgehead for the Russians.

CNN has geolocated and verified the authenticity of the videos.

The first video, taken by a resident, shows a convoy of Russian troops surrounding military vehicles, creeping along a roadway that ends near the airfield.

"There are two [military vehicles] as far as I can see," someone says in the video. "A third one is crawling through with infantry who are wielding automatic rifles."

Suddenly, gunfire is heard and seen.

A Russian soldier is seen quickly kneeling and firing a shoulder-fired rocket towards the area where the gunfire appears to be coming from.

A second video, taken after the firefight, shows the military vehicles driving in reverse in an apparent retreat. The Russian troops are seen huddled behind their vehicles.

A Reuters journalist was at the location after the firefight and took video that showed one of the Russian military convoy vehicles abandoned and a significant amount of blood staining the snow on the ground. The Reuters journalist spoke with a resident, identified as Yevgeniy, who told them that at least one Russian soldier was killed.

"After we've killed this one, the others run away," Yevgeniy told Reuters, pointing to a bloody stain in the snow. "They were some 12-15 people. That's it...They won't take Kharkiv. They have run back to where they came from. They don't have good navigation you see. Nothing works for them. They came and were hiding behind the houses," Yevgeniy said.

Their efforts to retreat appear to have been stopped by another attack. A convoy of vehicles — the same type — is seen on fire in another video.

"And that's how we meet the b**** Russian army," someone is heard shouting in the video. "That's how it's going to be for each of them who come to our Kharkiv land."

It's not possible to be absolutely sure that the Russian trucks on fire are the same as those trying to reach the airport, but they are in the same location, are the same type, and bear the same markings.

Another video taken at the site of the abandoned military convoy — the vehicles are no longer on fire — shows Ukrainian troops engaging.

"Give it all to them," a voice yells repeatedly in the video.

Amid the firefight, a Ukrainian soldier steps out from the wall and is seen firing a shoulder-fired rocket.

Later, another video shows Ukrainian troops around the convoy, appearing to rummage through the abandoned vehicles. Sporadic gunfire is heard and some Ukrainian forces move along a wall in the background.

"Slava Ukraini," someone says in the video — "Glory to Ukraine."

"That's how we meet Russian world," another person said. "This will be the same with everyone who will come to stomp on our Kharkiv's lands! There you go with your Russian-Russian letters 'Z!' Everyone will get the same."

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Scott Rochat: Rochat, Can You See? At a time like this - Longmont Times-Call

It somehow feels wrong to feel normal.

I know. “Normal” exists on the washing machine, not in the world. If the last few years haven’t proved that, I don’t know what will, between pandemics, protests, wildfires and … well, you don’t need the litany from me. We’ve all lived it.

And now we have a war half a world away. Demanding attention. Stirring up its own bizarre mix of feelings.

Part of mine come from old memories — those of my generation and my parents’ — of the old Cold War flare-ups. Like a standoff in a room full of nitroglycerin, you had to wonder if any sudden move would have devastating results.

Part of it is the same helpless feeling I get in the wake of another school shooting, when the alarm keeps going off with no clear way to answer the call.

On top of it all sits the clash, the collision between peril and mundanity. The little voice that whispers about how frivolous, even silly, some of my thoughts and activities are. Maybe you’ve heard it, too: “How can you even bother doing (X) at a time like this? Don’t you know what’s going on in the world?”

If so, take heart. You may be doing more than the voice knows.

I’m not advocating a callous denial of reality. The world doesn’t need another Nero fiddling while the world burns, or a Scarlett O’Hara complaining about how war is ruining her social life. It’s not about locking out another’s pain to make yourself feel better.

But we’re complicated beings. We’re capable of attending to more than one thing at a time. And when we turn to something that doesn’t have to do with either a crisis or a day-to-day need, it’s not necessarily because we don’t care.

Many times, it’s a release. One acquaintance of mine dances in times of stress. Others turn to music, or to books, or to a mile-long walk to free the anxiety that has nowhere else to go. Engines can’t run hot all the time, and the soul needs cooling down and maintenance just as much.

Sometimes it even goes beyond that. It becomes transformative, channeling the fear and anxiety and anguished hope into something that lifts up instead of presses down.

One of my favorite authors, J.R.R. Tolkien, took this above and beyond. A veteran of World War I, he mingled old battlefield horrors with his love of language and nature to produce a mythology that’s still giving people hope, inspiration and release today.

Naturally, he also had his “times like these“ critics — after all, with so many real problems to address, why waste time on fantasy? His pointed response was that “escape” could be a virtue … except, maybe, in the eyes of jailers.

“Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home?” Tolkien noted in a lecture. “Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it.”

Regeneration. Transformation. Hope. These become especially vital in hard times — not in denial of them, but to better grapple with and endure them.

Don’t turn away. But don’t fear the ordinary, either. It doesn’t have to be a dereliction of duty. It might even be just the thing to make you readier than ever.

Even in times like these.

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Hammond hails Ineos Grenadiers at 'opening weekend': 'If they ride like this they're going to win' - VeloNews

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Finishing outside the top-15 in both Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne was scant reward for Ineos Grenadiers in “opening weekend.”

The British team animated both races with Tom Pidcock, Ben Turner, Magnus Sheffield and Jhonatan Nárvaez among their roster to go on the attack throughout the weekend.

Narváez came closest to a top result when he was caught just a hundred meters from the line in Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne on Sunday, but throughout the weekend the young squad gelled and showed attacking intent.

Roger Hammond, who joined as a sports director over the winter, came away from the “opening weekend” with a great sense of pride in his riders, and claimed that they were the strongest team in Sunday’s race.

“I feel really pleased with the guys and how quickly that they’ve come together, and how quickly that they’ve formed a really good team that’s worked together. As a team, I’ve not seen that many team performances like that in my lifetime. We come out of the weekend with really something to look forward to. The guys should be really proud and very excited about what’s to come in April,” Hammond said.

It was AGONISINGLY close 😱@NarvaezJho gave it everything, but his break is caught within sight of the line after a thrilling finale at #KBK22

Well done on a tremendous performance, Jhonny 👏 pic.twitter.com/tTQ0gqJfsc

— INEOS Grenadiers (@INEOSGrenadiers) February 27, 2022

The team came into the weekend with a young roster that included team-leader Pidcock and a number of exciting prospects. Ethan Hayter is still feeling his way back to racing, and Ben Swift crashed on Saturday but Turner was a constant present at key points in both races.

Hammond believes that despite the young age within most of the classics team the rider bonded well and raced intelligently.

“We’re working hard, we’re trying to get things going and there’s a lot going on but that’s what we’re trying to do. We’re trying to calm the chaos. I think that showed with the riders today and how they road. They had a plan, they committed to it, and they executed it. The result is the cherry but if they ride like that then the results will follow. It makes it all worthwhile to see them race like that,” he added.

On Sunday the team created several important splits and Narváez was part of a three-man move that almost claimed the race from eventual winner Fabio Jakobsen.

The Ineos rider was caught just shy of the line and he eventually finished 39th but his performance, and those from his teammates around him, suggested that the team could be genuine contenders for top honors once the cobbled season resumes next month.

“Look at the age of the guys on the team, and this is only their second one-day race together. That’s pretty impressive,” added Hammond.

“We were by far the best-placed team in the race today. The second-best team was nowhere near us today. So if we take that home from today, that’s pretty bloody impressive. I find it really impressive because there’s real headspace. We’ll keep pushing, keep working, and that’s why I’m so excited with what’s to come. These guys are learning, we’ve got the talent, we’ve got the attitude, the desire and the hunger. If they ride like this they’re going to win.”

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Omloop Het Nieuwsblad: It feels like 'the first day of school' as fans return to the classics - VeloNews

The Belgian classics without the fans are just not the same.

For the first time since the 2020 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, spectators were allowed back into the iconic Kuipke velodrome in the center of Gent for one of the best pre-race team presentations of the year.

About 4,000 people — with their COVID-19 vaccination pass in hand — rolled into the small track to welcome the men’s peloton ahead of the start of the race.

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, which is organized by Flanders Classics, was one of the final races to be run under “normal” conditions two years ago. Race operations are not quite back to normal yet, with access to team busses completely restricted, but the buzz around the start felt like a big step back to normality.

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“It feels like the first day of school for all of us. Not just for me, but for the whole organization, for the press, and the fans,” Flanders Classics CEO Tomas Van Den Spiegel told VeloNews. “Even though we can’t yet welcome fans to the riders, I saw in ‘t Kuipke that there are several thousand people. It’s really exciting and this is what you do it for.

“The last two years have been really tough on us on the logistical side but also on the emotional side, because you want to offer emotions to the people. We couldn’t do it the same that we used to so that’s the feeling today. The sun is out, and everybody is happy so that helps.”

Around 4,000 people packed into the Kuipke velodrome in Gent (Photo: Bas Czerwinski/Getty Images)

While it might not be the same outpouring of excitement that we saw at the road world championships in Flanders late last year, the atmosphere in ‘t Kuipke was still akin to a concert with fans rapturously welcoming each team onto the stage.

“It took me a little moment to realize that it was the velodrome because there were so many people, but I think it just shows the unique atmosphere with racing in Belgium,” Magus Sheffield, who is making his debut at the race, said shortly before the start. “There’s nothing like this in the US. I think it’s really about soaking up all of the memories so I can remember it in 20 years.”

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Oliver Naesen is riding his eighth Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and experienced last year’s behind closed doors edition. Though it’s not yet back to business as usual, he’s happy to see fans being able to get a taste of the race up close.

“It’s nice, it’s good that almost everybody is back. Normally there are people at the busses but it’s a good start,” Naesen said.

The relaxation of COVID-19 rules as the latest omicron wave of the virus has subsided in recent weeks has allowed for the organizers to open their doors, literally and metaphorically. The cheering fans and bustling roadside is a stark difference to the last two years where you’d have been almost able to hear a pin drop at the start of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad.

The riders got a rock star entry into the velodrome (Photo: David Stockman/Belga Mag/AFP via Getty Images)

With the last two years showing us that anything can change at any moment, Van Den Spiegel hopes that the opening up of races to the fans will continue into the heart of the spring classics.

“We have a legal framework now in Belgium that allows us to have fans inside, with some demands. We are very happy that we can welcome 4,000 fans inside ‘t Kuipke,” van den Spiegel said. “I’ve been in the organization since 2018 so half of my time has been crisis management during COVID-19. It has been tough on us, and it felt like crisis management. It still feels like that but at the same time you get a lot of satisfaction.

“Everything is going for us, we will keep our fingers crossed and we won’t take anything for granted.”

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Looking for a new home may seem like a daunting task these days.

Prices are up, inventory is low and mortgage rates are rising.

That's why, in this environment, it pays to do your homework before you enter the market. Once you start looking, you'll have to move at light speed to place an offer, explains Jessica Lautz, vice president of demographics and behavioral insights for the National Association of Realtors.

"As interest rates are climbing, there has been a rush to lock in lower relative rates, while at the same time the inventory of homes has hit all-time lows," she said.

The median price of a home in January jumped to $350,300, an increase of 15.4% from January 2021, according to the National Association of Realtors. Homes are spending an average of 19 days on the market.

Meanwhile, the mortgage rate for a 30-year fixed loan is 4.17%, according to Mortgage Daily News. Early last year, they were less than 3%.

With that in mind, here's what you can do now to put yourself in the best position to find your new home.

Learn the language

Becoming familiar with real-estate lingo, like closing costs and home inspections, is part of the process. Yet learning the language before you jump in can help you move quickly.

"Your offer will likely be up against other buyers, so educate yourself with your agent on what terms like earnest deposit, appraisal contingency, home inspection contingency, and appraisal gap mean before viewing homes," Lautz suggested.

Earnest money is the deposit you put down on the property you'd like to buy. It shows good faith, and the funds eventually go toward the down payment and closing costs. An appraisal contingency is a provision in your contract that allows you to back out if the appraisal price comes in lower than the sale price. That difference in the appraisal and sale prices is known as an appraisal gap.

Similarly, a home inspection contingency gives you an out if there are issues that arise during the home inspection. In both cases, you can also try to negotiate with the seller instead of pulling out of the sale.

Since competition is so fierce, many buyers have been waving contingencies in order to get a leg up.

Make a list

Write down your "must-haves" and your "nice-to-haves," said Danielle Hale, chief economist at Realtor.com.

This way, when you have to make a quick decision you already know what trade-offs you want to make.

It can also help you in a bidding war, which is easy to get carried away with in a highly competitive market.

"Focus on the goal you set out for yourself, like your list of must-haves and nice-to-haves and your budget," Hale said. "Stick to that. Be persistent."

Tackle debt

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Mortgage lenders will look at your debt-to-income ratio, which is the amount of debt relative to your income, when determining your loan. If you have debt, try to pay it down before you start house hunting, Lautz advises.

Consider using any bonus money or cash gifts to pay it off. If you don't have debt, put that cash into savings to help with your down payment.

Know your credit

Your credit score is also an important factor in getting a mortgage and the type of loan you'll get. It also impacts the interest rate you'll receive and potentially how much money you need for a down payment.

By checking your credit score ahead of time, you'll know whether you'll need to make any changes or adjustments to try to increase that number.

Also, get a copy of your credit report to check for any errors or unpaid bills, which may also affect your credit score. Consumers can get their credit report up to once a week for free from the nation's three largest credit reporting firms — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — through April.

Talk to a mortgage lender

Reach out to a lender as soon as possible, at least to ask questions and find out what they need from you in order to preapprove a mortgage.

Using online calculators can help you figure out what you can afford and whether it makes sense to buy or rent. You'll also want to know how much money you'll need to bring to closing, since there are fees — known as closing costs — that are due in addition to your down payment.

You can also get preapproved for a mortgage before you start house hunting, since you'll need it before you submit a contract for a house.

Have a budget

Just because you are preapproved by a mortgage lender for a certain amount of money to spend doesn't mean that is your budget.

Look at your monthly expenses to determine what you can afford to pay each month. Don't forget about interest rates. If they continue to rise before you close on the home, they will increase your monthly mortgage payments.

Consider expanding your market, if possible, to find lower-priced options.

"This is the time to go to overlooked areas if there are any in your market," Lautz said.

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Friday, February 25, 2022

Ukraine on TV: A Cold War Nightmare Meets Modern Politics - The New York Times

As the invasion unfolded, images straight out of Cold War nightmare dramas butted up against 21st-century politics.

If you are more than a few decades old, the invasion of Ukraine was horrific but familiar. It was what TV had taught you to expect since childhood.

There was the buildup of tensions over a supposed “military exercise,” the scenario that opened “The Day After” in 1983. There were the columns of tanks, an image out of the invasion of Czechoslovakia, Soviet newsreels and the 1984 movie “Red Dawn.” There were the maps of Europe, with arrows diagraming pincer attacks and fire-red explosion graphics.

There was the American president pledging that this aggression would not stand. There was his glowering Russian counterpart proclaiming his country’s destiny and threatening woe to any who interfered. There was the live video from the United Nations, as desperate diplomats flung mere words, no competition for the detonations on the other side of the split screen.

This was the worst kind of nostalgia programming. This was the background chatter in the first act of a Very Special TV Movie, just before the whistle overhead and the blinding flash in the distance.

At the same time, especially if you grew up with Cold War TV specials and bomb drills, this was also nothing that you had expected to see. Some of the differences were technological — smartphone video, discussions of cyber warfare.

But above all, you would not expect to see programs on an American news channel, if not taking the side of the Russian aggressor, at least giving a platform to its excusers and sophists.

You certainly would not have expected that one of those apologists, even as the blitz began, would be the previous American president. But there was Donald Trump on Wednesday night, ushering in the world’s new war the way he began his political career: Calling in to Fox News.

Mr. Trump, who had called President Vladimir Putin’s aggression toward Ukraine “pretty smart” and has seemed constitutionally unable to utter a cross word about the Russian leader, saved his harshest rhetoric on Laura Ingraham’s show for his successor, and in service of his ongoing lies about the election he lost.

Mr. Trump’s “good relationship” with Mr. Putin, he said, was “hurt by the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.” The invasion, he said, “all happened because of a rigged election.” (Ms. Ingraham dismissed President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine’s plea that Russia not overrun his country as a “pathetic display.”)

They used to say during wartime that politics stops at the water’s edge. Now it doesn’t stop until the commercial break.

The Fox News host Tucker Carlson spent the run-up to the attack in sneering anti-anti-Putin mode. He said Ukraine was not a democracy but a U.S. “client state.” He argued, with a mix of swipes against China and his familiar appeals to racial and cultural grievance, that Democrats were trying to “mandate” that Americans hate Mr. Putin. (“Has Putin ever called me a racist?” Mr. Carlson asked. “Does he eat dogs?”) Russian state media gave Mr. Carlson a rave review, picking up his commentary.

Thursday night, with Russia having moved more aggressively than “certainly this show ever anticipated,” Mr. Carlson staged a tactical retreat. “Vladimir Putin started this war,” he said. “He is to blame for what we’re seeing tonight.” He then pivoted to blaming “the usual liars on TV” for leveraging the invasion for partisan gain, likening it to calls for gun control after school shootings. (He also had a series of guests repeat that NATO should offer a guarantee that Ukraine won’t join it, a longtime Putin demand.)

Meanwhile, Fox’s daytime programs, in a sort of flanking move, featured guests who decried President Biden’s response as not tough enough. “Where was the action? Where was the outrage?” asked Nikki Haley, the former U.N. ambassador. You could see conservative talking points re-form in real time; by the end of Thursday, Sean Hannity and other commenters were preaching the gospel of beating Mr. Putin via oil drilling and fracking.

On CNN, the coverage of the invasion — with nighttime fireballs, plumes of smoke and reporters in protective vests — recalled its historic broadcasts from the beginning of the first Gulf War, as well as its on-the-ground coverage of later bombardments. Even shock and awe eventually becomes a rerun.

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But this time, although CNN captured some video of Russian special forces at an air base, reporters had only so much access to the front lines. The networks relied heavily on personal smartphone video, including, in a grim crossover, footage shot by the “Dancing With the Stars” dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital.

This was also a war fought by an aggressor that uses disinformation as a weapon. The Soviets had the Iron Curtain; Mr. Putin, with his troll armies and cynical meme warfare, has the Irony Curtain. Anchors spent much of their time pushing back. CNN’s Jake Tapper disdained the Russian claim that it had invaded to “de-Nazify” Ukraine, noting that Mr. Zelensky is Jewish.

The epochal global events unfolded with reminders of domestic politics. Broadcast networks cut into afternoon programming for President Biden’s speech, which cast Mr. Putin as a bully who had chosen war and needed to be restrained for the good of the world; he also promised to minimize the effect of planned sanctions on Americans, and to keep gas prices under control.

Sometimes grave images collided with TV business as usual. In a CNN clip, footage of air-raid sirens ominously sounding in Ukraine segued straight to the Zac Brown Band serenading glistening chicken pieces in an Applebee’s ad.

Other images were both ordinary and horrible, like the scenes of Ukrainian families using a subway station as a bomb shelter or escaping on foot along a highway.

As the invasion’s first day went on, the gravity, and the chilling uncertainty, sank in. On MSNBC, Rachel Maddow broke her hiatus to host two hours in prime time. Earlier, Chuck Todd considered the scenario of Mr. Putin testing NATO by deciding, “Let me try a tactical nuclear weapon and just see what happens,” his voice quavering as he finished.

I felt that quaver. This story was not simply one more skirmish in the endless cable war of words. This was war-war, as modeled by an international authoritarian movement flexing its muscle, executed by a country with a doomsday arsenal and ordered by a tyrant of questionable stability.

It was also, however, a war between two other countries — by Friday morning, it was sharing space on American morning shows with stories about Covid policy and a busy upcoming wedding season. Avril Lavigne performed on “Good Morning America.”

You could see this as evidence that we were still living in the same world that we lived in last week. You could assure yourself that this did not fit the apocalypse-film script, that this was not, in the end, “The Day After.”

You might also remember, though, that that is exactly the sort of thing someone always says in the first 15 minutes of the disaster movie.

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