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CENSORSHIP AT ISRAEL'S HAARETZ NEwSPAPER
2008-06-01 16:28:00 From: Sonja Karkar "Whenever the Western world's press fails to give readers a true picture of what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, one can always rely on the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz to carry the stories. But now, it too is being subjected to censorship and some of its most honest... Click on the headlines to read the full story!
The need to protest
2008-05-27 21:26:00 What is it about society that drives people to protest? Other than for the sake of being there and actually experiencing a protest, I’ve never felt compelled to take to the streets to stand up for what I believe in. I wonder, though, had I grown up in Thailand rather than the UK, if perhaps ...
Organisations in Sweden 83 - Statens biografbyrå Film Censorship in Sweden
2008-05-21 18:21:00 Organisations in Sweden 83 Film Censorship in Sweden Statens biografbyrå Film database The database contains 35841 films classified by Statens biografbyrå since January 1st 1956. Barntillåten= Allowed for all ages; Förbjuden= Not allowed for public showing; Klipp = Cut. For audiences over the age of 15, the only scenes that may be banned are such where "the events are depicted in such a manner and in such a context as to have a brutalizing effect. The assessment shall take particular account of whether the film contains explicit or protracted scenes of severe violence to people or animals or depicts sexual violence or coercion or presents children in pornographic situations." Films must not be approved for children under the age of 15 if they are liable to cause children in the relevant age group mental harm. Apart from films that are passed for universal viewing, the age limits for the different categories are 7, 11 and 15. Children under the age of 7, who are...
Anti-Censorship ads
2008-05-13 15:03:00 ?A censura nunca desiste. Ela sempre volta disfarçada. 3 de Maio Dia Mundial da Liberdade de Imprensa.? ?The censorship never gives up. It always return disguised. 3th of May, world day for the freedom of press.? Advertising Agency : Africa Propaganda Advertiser: Associação Brasileira de imprensa
By: Ad Sneeze
Nigeria films: censorship argument
2008-05-12 22:08:00 Source: All Africa A couple of interesting articles about film censorship in Nigeria. Nigeria: Kannywood - Why They Must Be Censored http://allafrica.com/stories/20-0804290626.html Daily Trust (Abuja) OPINION 29 April 2008 Muhammad Mahmud Nigeria: Censorship And Film Development Issues in Kano (1) http://allafrica.com/stories/20-0804220495.html
Blame Cana? no, wait a minute
2008-05-12 19:44:00 In South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, there?s a scene where some of the characters sing a song called ?Blame Canada? in response to the trouble that their children have been getting into after watching the movie Terrance and Phillip: Asses of Fire. Imagine, for a minute, that South Park is set in Thailand. What ...
Mr. Rogers - Unnecessary Censorship
2008-05-03 00:35:00 Jimmy Kimmel Presents the 40 year Mr. Rogers Anniversary Edition.Enjoy your Weekend! SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mr. Rogers - Unnecessary Censorship", url: "http://videospills.com/mr-roge-rs-unnecessary-censorship-very--funny" });
By: VideoSpills.com
How China Leads the World in Web Censorship
2008-05-02 16:01:00 Just in the time for the Olympics, the Chinese government has proved itself to be a pioneer as well as a top exporter in cutting-edge online censorship methods. And Western firms still give Beijing their active support. more… Baiting the Dragon: German Business Warns of Pushing China too Far Internet Users Strike Back: Chinese Call for Boycott ...
By: 1913 Intel
Trouble In Fijiland-Censorship, That Is
2008-05-02 09:23:00 The Fiji islands have been taken over by members of the military who are contnuing their effort to end democracy on the islands. The military government defied an order from the High Court and deported the Australian publsiher of the nation’s leading newspaper. The oup-installed gov ernment claimed publisher Evan Hannah was a threat to ...
Activist faces 15 years for sit-down protest
2008-04-26 17:08:00 Have you ever been in the cinema when the Thai national anthem plays and you?ve seen someone not stand up? I have, a couple of times — and it was Thai people, not foreigners. I?ve also seen people not stop in the street or at the BTS station when the anthem has played. There are some ...
At least 100,000 migrant workers in Phuket
2008-04-25 21:10:00 I?ve been writing about immigrant workers a lot recently. It?s not that I feel some sort of satisfaction by criticizing the police or the government, but I think it?s important to highlight the hypocrisy of the government?s recent attempts to curb the flow of illegal Burmese laborer entering Thailand. The 54 Burmese migrants who died in ...
Technology to Circumvent Censorship (Part 2)
2008-04-24 13:56:00 Back in March I blogged on a Technology to Circumvent Censorship. I actually expected some dialogue on this but today somebody posted an interesting comment, I think is worth reading. Just click the link above and look at the second comment Roger
Cracking the 'Great Firewall' of China's Web censorship
2008-04-23 05:08:00 HONG KONG - If an Internet user in China searches for the word 'persecution,' he or she is likely to come up with a link to a blank screen that says 'page cannot be displayed.
By: Get rich
Human trafficking? What human trafficking?
2008-04-22 20:07:00 It has taken the death of 54 Burmese migrants to provoke the government to redraft a law prohibiting human trafficking. The way the law is set up at the moment, the Prevention and Suppression of Human Trafficking Act is ineffective. The National Operation Center on Human Trafficking is part of the Ministry of Social Development and ...
Don't Get Mad. Get Vlad.
2008-04-19 16:40:00 Russian ex-KGB thug "Vlad the Impaler" Putin shuts down a Moscow newspaper that reported Putin had secretly jettisoned his wife for a 24-year-old Olympic gymnast. Putin denied the speculation yesterday. ?I have always disliked those who, with their infected noses and erotic fantasies, break into other people?s private affairs.? NYT Here's Russia's Interfax version. Pravda 1 Pravda 2 No mention in Tass (I still call it Tass even though it is now Itar-Tass) The Moscow newspaper editor has disappeared; perhaps spirited to a Gorky psych "hospital" for "therapy." More Alina Kabayeva photos here and here. ABC News should be grateful Putin isn't prez here...
By: Chickaboomer
Free Hu Jia
2008-04-19 10:39:00 Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia was on April 3 sentenced to three-and-a-half years imprisonment for ?inciting subversion of state power and the socialist system?. For years, Hu Jia has been working in the name of human rights, often coming into conflict with the Chinese government. There have been numerous attempts to silence Hu Jia. Along ...
Schism: A Muslim?s video response to Geert Wilders? anti-Qur?an film Fitna
2008-04-14 06:01:00 Barry Duke of The Freethinker writes: “IT had to happen ? a Saudi man has hit back at films criticising Islam in a Fitna-style video which portrays Christianity as a religion of violence. The film, entitled Schism, was made by Raed al-Saeed. It splices together Bible verses and Iraq war images - including British soldiers beating civilians. Other ...
Canadian Heritage Minister hates censorship bill C-10, says Senator
2008-04-11 21:52:00 Heritage Minister Josée Verner hates bill C-10, according to a comment made by Conservative Senator David Angus. A member of the Senate committee on banking, trade and commerce, Angus was listening to arguments against the proposed film censorship law from Canadian film producers when he committed a classic political faux pas?he said something incriminating while his microphone was still on. "The minister agrees. She told me she hates the law," said Angus to a colleague, as his voice was still being streamed live on the internet. "What we want is a sort of moratorium?" As an experienced politician, Angus took the high road when asked about his comments. Standing strong in the face of incriminating evidence, he denied everything. "I did not quote the minister because I did not even talk to the minister," he told CBC News. "I haven't heard myself say [the comment] and I'm certainly not acknowledging that I said it." What was he thinking? That as an unelected Senator appointed fo...
The Words They Are A-Changin?
2008-04-08 21:52:00 Our ‘culture’ consists of the knowledge and values transmitted by our language. In the process of learning language, we learn the meanings that other people have ascribed to particular words and phrases. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean ? neither ...
By: Uncommon Sense
Anvil hacked 3X in 11 days
2008-04-05 10:06:00 Yes, the Anvil was hacked yet again yesterday morning. That makes three times in the past 11 days. Do not panic. I can and will weather the storm. I fully expect such attempts to continue, just as all the other forms of censorship and abuse have come my way since going ...
Censorship alive and well under Bush
2008-04-04 09:48:00 U.S. Funded Health Search Engine Blocks 'Abortion' | Threat Level from Wired.com A U.S. government-funded medical information site that bills itself as the world's largest database on reproductive health has quietly begun to block searches on the word "abortion," concealing nearly 25,000 search results.One of my favorite hypocrisies of the Bush administration is the global war for freedom and democracy while fighting a domestic war against freedom and democracy. One thing we want to absolutely make sure of, and that is not to educate people. Telling people the truth will only get them into trouble, and certainly anything we think might be morally objectionable should be hidden.What's most amazing to me is that this sort of thing actually has support in the US. One wonders how George can maintain, even at this late date, a 28% approval rating. This is why. He is still appealing to this lowest common denominator. There are still a pretty large group of people in the US who ...
By: Markism Explored
Emperor Capello Manager of England MI5 BBC Censorship
2008-03-31 23:57:00 Despite heavy censorship at the BBC by MI5, we here at the IrishBlog can now exclusively reveal, that far from being highly competent, Capello is in fact a fraud and a complete phoney. Tired of feeling positive toward the same manager for more than three months, English fans have concluded that abuse and mockery are what the coach of the national side needs as soon as possible if he fails to win his first friendly and meet their unrealistic expectations.The British press, reflecting as accurately as ever the groundswell of fickle public opinion, will no longer view the Italian as "cool, suave, collected with a refusal to panic under pressure". Instead, he will be "a sleeping with the fishes unable to show or communicate any enthusiasm indeed anything whatsoever to the English speaking players".We can also reveal that Emperor Capello instead, will be the BBC's next incarnation of Doctor Who. Capello's emissaries are understood to be in advanced discussions with the corporation, wi...
By: Podcast Ireland
[Photoshop] Theme: Unnecessary censorship. Take a wholesome image and censo
2008-03-27 09:24:00 YouTube
CNN's Censorship Of Ron Paul Soars To New Heights
2008-03-25 03:07:00 Now that there are only four presidential candidates left in the race - two Democrats, Senator's Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton; and two Republicans, Senator John McCain and Congressman Ron Paul - you would think that CNN would finally have to shrug their shoulders and actually post the truth. You'd think now that Paul is no longer one of 10, or one of 5 - now that he's the only other Republican candidate left, they'd have to finally acknowledge him. You'd think wrong. On CNN's Election Center homepage today, the snapshot above is what they actually have up. Instead of placing Ron Paul next to John McCain, CNN has placed John McCain's head higher than all the other candidates (Democratic and Republican) with the caption PRESUMPTIVE NOMINEE below him; and Mike Huckabee, who dropped out of the race this month, is in the place where Ron Paul belongs, with a stamp that lets you know Huckabee's OUT.
Qtel Censorship
2008-03-21 06:07:00 Nigel has an interesting post on Qatar internet censorship on Qatar living. His post follows the story that Qtel have blocked parts of facebook - not inflammatory material or pornography but an application which allows you to show miniature pictures of your friends! Presumably a mistake - again! Unfortunately, Qtel can rarely be bothered to rectify it's mistakes.Qatar Visitor FriendsQatar JobsFind the best deal, compare prices and read what other travellers have to say about QatarTagsQatar censorship
By: Qatar Visitor
Russian Protestant and Muslim groups want cartoon channel shutdown for airi
2008-03-19 05:37:00 CBC reports that Russian Protestant and Muslim groups are calling for the shutting down of a Russian cartoon channel, 2X2, for airing programs such as South Park, which these groups have deemed to be anti-religious and to promote homosexuality. 2X2 is standing its ground. A spokesperson responded to the demands by pointing out that Russia is a secular ...
Art censorship alive and well in America: Wafaa Bilal installation shut dow
2008-03-17 08:00:00 Wafaa Bilal has done it again ? his latest art installation Virtual Jihadi has caused an uproar in Troy, New York. The show opened on March 6 at the Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute (RPI) which promptly (the day after the opening) shut the installation down. After reopening a few days later at a another local gallery, city officials closed the gallery citing bylaw infractions. The artwork in question shows Bilal appearing as a character in a tweaked version of the video game The Night of Bush Capturing, a video game that was produced by Al Queda in response to the U.S. made video game Quest for Saddam. Bilal hacked the source code and wrote himself into the script. After the show was closed by RPI, it reopened at the The Sanctuary for Independent Media. A video recording of Bilal's opening remarks is available at the Sanctuary's website. This second opening was also short lived. The gallery received a phone call (recorded and also available for listening at the we...
Art censorship alive and well in America: Wafaa Bilal installation shut dow
2008-03-17 08:00:00 Wafaa Bilal has done it again ? his latest art installation Virtual Jihadi has caused an uproar in Troy, New York. The show opened on March 6 at the Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute (RPI) which promptly (the day after the opening) shut the installation down. After reopening a few days later at a another local gallery, city officials closed the gallery citing bylaw infractions. The artwork in question shows Bilal appearing as a character in a tweaked version of the video game The Night of Bush Capturing, a video game that was produced by Al Queda in response to the U.S. made video game Quest for Saddam. Bilal hacked the source code and wrote himself into the script. After the show was closed by RPI, it reopened at the The Sanctuary for Independent Media. A video recording of Bilal's opening remarks is available at the Sanctuary's website. This second opening was also short lived. The gallery received a phone call (recorded and also available for listening at the we...
Technology to Circumvent Censorship
2008-03-15 10:52:00 Well, I was thinking hard whether I shall blog on that or not. But then a friend of mine brought up a valid point: I am always claiming that a lot of issues on the Internet are missing a public debate yet, what is more important - and this might well be one of those. I do not want to take a position here and I am clear, looking at the map of my visitors, that the debate would be pretty one-sided: However, it is an interesting project: http://psiphon.civisec.org/ and if you want to know the details: http://psiphon.civisec.org/samp-les/psiphon_guide.pdf To quote from their website: psiphon is a human rights software project developed by the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies that allows citizens in uncensored countries to provide unfettered access to the Net through their home computers to friends and family members who live behind firewalls of states that censor. Living in a European country it is normal for me to have the freedom of speech and it is intere...
Syria expands ?iron censorship? over Internet
2008-03-14 00:11:00 Syrian authorities have ordered Internet cafe users to reveal their identity, the latest measure in their "iron censorship" of cyberspace, a Syrian monitoring group said on Thursday.
Censorship & Federal Ban on Anonymity
2008-03-12 07:47:00 Correction:Rep. Couch is a member of the Georgia State Legislature. His proposed bill is state, not federal.YNET News reports on the whining about Geert Wilders' upcoming film about the demon's book. Their report contains two crucial quotations. Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari cited the 1948 Human Rights declaration's 29th article that individual rights may be limited in the interest of respecting other people's freedoms and "meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society." My right of free expression, guaranteed by the first amendment to the United States Constitution, is not in conflict with any other right of any person. There is no right to be sheltered from the truth. Rights & obligations must be reciprocal, they are not one sided. Muslims refer to us as "sons of apes and pigs", the expression derives from the demon's book. That same book invokes the demon's curse upon us. Guess what they p...
By: A NEWT ONE
Ben Stein Movie to fight against censorship in academia
2008-03-11 18:00:00 Ben Stein has produced a new documentary that will cause quite the stir in the educational institutions. You can see the trailer below. I have heard that “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” comes out in theaters nationwide on April 18,2008. Check out his website for more details. Share This
By: Tundra Politics
Censorship at an Indiana state university
2008-03-06 20:47:00 A janitor was reading a scholarly history book about resistance to the KKK in Indiana. Black employees objected to his reading of a book about the Kl1 Vote(s)
By: JeQQ it
Censorship with your free Wi-Fi?
2008-03-05 22:18:00 The World Is My Office — Denver International Airport is the biggest in the world to offer free Wi-Fi. But now a Denver newspaper reports that the connection is censored. The airport actually blocks blogs like BoingBoing.net, perezhilton.com and other potentially racy sites… read more
Diane Inquest: British News Blackout continues
2008-03-05 21:44:00 Earlier transcripts, from a news blackout by the British media, of censored information, deemed by the authorities, as not appropriate for British commoners.>http://www.scottbake-r-inquests.gov.uk/hearing_trans-cripts/030308am.htmDiane Inquest, Secret Service questions remain unanswered ???. The usual censorship of the press continued in Britain on the Diane inquest. Commoners in Britain suffered another day of a news blackout, of startling new revelations at the inquest, into the cause of her death and questions that remain, regarding the involvement of British secret services. Mr. Darren Lyons had told police, he was convinced that British secret service agents had raided his office in London, searched and/or planted audio and video surveillance devices there.Mr Lyons was cross-examined on the dark subject of secret service involvement, by Mr. Nicholas Hilliard QC.Hilliard: Right. The next incident I want to ask you about, please, Mr Lyons, is the early hours of 5th September 1997....
By: Podcast Ireland
Anti-Censorship Protest in Finland
2008-03-04 22:43:00 This is the newscast by Nelosen Uutiset about the Internet censorship demonstration held in Helsinki, Finland, at March 4th, 2008. The protesters complain about the censorship implemented by the police, as it does absolutely nothing to help the children victims who are instead being used as dubious political levers. read more
Proposed censorship bill threatens to pull crucial funding from "offensive"
2008-03-03 16:01:00 For our readers working in the industry this is probably by now old news, but for the rest of us, we may be surprised at just how much mileage Young People Fucking is getting as a catalyst for culture-clampdown. The Canadian feature that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival is repeatedly cited by right wing reactionaries such as Charles McVety and his group Canada Family Action Coalition as the arbiter of all that is unholy in the Canadian culturescape. McVety and his gang are disgusted that their taxes go into funding productions like YPF, a soft-core romantic comedy about, you guessed it, horses skydiving. Lucky for McVety and the Victorian moral police, they have a fearless leader who has responded with action. Stephen Harper and his gang of moralizing crusaders, the Conservative party, have a bill before the Canadian Senate called C-10 that would give Heritage Canada power to deny tax credits to film and TV works they decided were too offensive, essentially putt...
Proposed censorship bill threatens to pull crucial funding from "offensive"
2008-03-03 16:01:00 For our readers working in the industry this is probably by now old news, but for the rest of us, we may be surprised at just how much mileage Young People Fucking is getting as a catalyst for culture-clampdown. The Canadian feature that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival is repeatedly cited by right wing reactionaries such as Charles McVety and his group Canada Family Action Coalition as the arbiter of all that is unholy in the Canadian culturescape. McVety and his gang are disgusted that their taxes go into funding productions like YPF, a soft-core romantic comedy about, you guessed it, horses skydiving. Lucky for McVety and the Victorian moral police, they have a fearless leader who has responded with action. Stephen Harper and his gang of moralizing crusaders, the Conservative party, have a bill before the Canadian Senate called C-10 that would give Heritage Canada power to deny tax credits to film and TV works they decided were too offensive, essentially putt...
Former Chinese professor to sue Google, Yahoo over censorship
2008-03-02 13:33:00 From The Times of London: A former Chinese university professor who was dismissed after he founded a democratic opposition party, plans to sue Yahoo and Google in the United States for blocking his name from search results in China. Guo Quan, an expert on classical Chinese literature and the 1937 Nanjing massacre of Chinese civilians by Japanese ...
Posties not welcomed by PayPerPost
2008-02-29 00:22:00 Well, I’ve signed up posties.us with PayPerPost to test them as an advertising platform and after a couple of posties took our money we were censored once again. So… let’s get this straight. They censor their “community forum” They censor the forum for posties by posties by not allowing they to advertise on the network. They do not ...
By: macewan
Net censorship spreading to Japan as suits fail to comprehend new media
2008-02-28 13:09:00 Digital World Tokyo – Its easy to believe the tales of internet censorship we hear regularly from China, but not so its ostensibly democratic neighbor in Japan. That perception may change of Japanese regulations shake up ... read more
How Internet Censorship Works
2008-02-23 07:49:00 "One of the early nicknames for the Internet was the "information superhighway" because it was supposed to provide the average person with fast access to a practically limitless amount of data. For many users, that’s exactly what accessing the Internet is like. For others, it’s as if the information superhighway has some major roadblocks in ...
By: Malware Help Org
PayPerPost forum dives as posties.us jumps
2008-02-23 04:14:00 Many of the folks signing on with the posties.us forum say their afraid to use their real names. They worry about retaliation from the Izea mods on the other boards. I can tell you that the day the site went live traffic to the Izea boards sank as the posties.us traffic jumped. Following the board ...
By: macewan
BRITISH CENSORSHIP
2008-02-22 01:52:00 Prince PhilipUnder questioning Mr. al-Fayed reiterated that he was in "no doubt" that Diana and Dodi were murdered by UK security services on the order of Prince Philip.He declared: "It´s well known he is a racist. He´ll not accept my son as a person who is different religion, naturally tanned, curly hair. They´ll not accept he´ll have anything to do with the future king." He did not think that the Queen was involved. But he added: "Prince Philip is the actual head of the Royal Family. He was brought up by his auntie who married Hitler´s general. Would someone growing up with Nazis accept my son? No way. Time to send him back to Germany or where he comes from."Then he continued: ""You want his original name? It ends with >FrankensteinPrince CharlesInsisting Charles wanted Diana out of the way so he could marry Camilla, Mr. al Fayed said: "He knows what is going to happen because he´d like to marry his Camilla."Then he added: "They cleared the decks, they finished her, they murdere...
By: Podcast Ireland
Censorship Alert
2008-02-17 21:50:00 From the realm of miseducation, we bring you the further adventures of the deliberately ignorant conservative. A successful challenge was brought again the book And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell in a Virgina school. This is a children's picture book about two males penguins hatching and raising foster egg. Typical kneejerk conservative reaction: Sweet Jesus! This books promotes the homosexual agenda. Our children's eyes will explode if they read this. They may be compelled to tolerate the people we have dedicated intense hours to teaching them to hate.First of all, if you want to know, the "homosexual agenda" is no different from anyone else's agenda. The homosexual agenda is: go to work, finish the laundry, clean the house, live my life without the unsolicited input of the people whose values conflict with mine. See? Gays and conservatives have a lot in common.More importantly, And Tango Makes Three is a true story. Two male penguins living in captivit...
By: In-the-Weird
Murder plot against Danish cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard
2008-02-13 00:31:00 JP.DK reports that Early this morning Danish police arrested several individuals of Muslim background suspected of conspiring to kill Kurt Westergaard, one of the 12 Danish cartoonists who on September 30, 2005 published cartoons of alleged Muslim prophet. The Danish Security and Intelligence Service had been tracking three of the arrested suspects for a number of ...
Discovery Channel Accused of Political Censorship for Dropping Oscar-Nomina
2008-02-12 15:37:00 DN! A new documentary called ?Taxi to the Dark Side? was recently nominated for an Academy Award. The film investigates some of the most egregious abuses associated with the so-called ?war on terror??including the US torture of prisoners. The Discovery Channel bought the rights to the Oscar-nominated film and had planned on airing it. But this week, ...
By: Current Era Blog
Debate Guide Update
2008-02-10 04:34:00 I have moved Debate Guide from its on-site location to its own domain, at debate-guide.com. For site administrators, the ftp details remain the same (simply insert [username]debateguide into the user field, instead of [username]newgon). Debate Guide remains an umbrella project of Newgon.com (the organisation, as opposed to the website), and I encourage all interested parties to take ...
By: Uncommon Sense
President asks press to exercise self-censorship
2008-02-10 02:58:00 President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked the national press to exercise self-censorship as the government would never control the press."I really want self-censorship to be practiced. I put hope in the press council, senior journalists and chairmen of journalist organizations to boost the principle by giving priorities to information which is newsworthy," the President said when speaking at the commemoration of the National Press Day and the 62nd Anniversary of the Indonesian Journalist Association (PWI) here on Saturday.He said that in the press day commemorations he had repeatedly suggested the press self-censorship since he had become the President in 2004. The matter should be considered by the media because the press control was over and it should never occurred again, he said. However, the media should be able to select itself which story is newsworthy and which one is not.The Head of State also asked the press to maintain its idealism in helping develop the nation and ... |
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