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panies that isn't earning the public _ anything is a bad political liability.
And So:It Goes
Revenue Minister—-Benson™ isn't afraid of the big bad Tory wolf. He’s openly challenged Mr. Diefenbaker to take him to court for saying the
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“On The Same Basis”
The city council should lose no further time in coming to an arrange- ment with the provincial government | in the matter of school building costs. | Why, we keep asking ourselves, ‘has it waited so long?
| ment ‘ the Civil Service Commission's pay research bureau having recommend-
As noted at Monday's council | eq. before the strike, a $660-a-vear meeting, Charlottetown has heen on pay boost to postal workers. “Come.on € its awn in financing these costs. while | and sue.” savs the minister in effect _the government pays 60 per cent «1 dare-you!" for other districts apart from Sum Bat Dief- who is a lawyer, has
merside, which a few years ago re
ceived help to the extent_of $6,000
per classroom in building a high school. The need for a change in this system has come to a head by ,rea- son of the decision of the city school board to build a new £800,000 high school. which in turn has been neces- _sitated by the decision of the board - commission be made public.
of governors appointed under the The Government retorts that the
Prince of Wales College Act 1964 t0 “| turreait doesn't make recommenda-
. discontinue.high..school courses. at.) tions.-It provides comparative data Prince of Wales.
Now. our citizens have been told that, without financial aid from oth- er sources. this new program could involve an almost immediate 25 per cent ‘hike in civic taxes. Actually, the news is as old as last April, when “Pshaw'” says Mr. Diefenbaker. the school board first-announced that — “}4airsplitting! Let it produce the
_ it was going ahead with its plans for | phyreau's report whether specific pay ‘this-undertaking. Why-have we-been | marking time since then in getting ® | That will tell the story.” Put up or ‘showdown from the responsible au- | shut up, as they say in less polite thorities?. It was reported at Mon-| quarters. day's council meeting that the Char- This argument could go on for a lottetown and Summerside school | jong time, without ‘making much
boards were planning a meeting and~/~gense. But if it's so sure of” its would seek help from the provincial | ground, why on earth doesn’t the Gov- government in the matter of school | ernment produce the darn thing and building costs. But surely this is a | get it over with? And for goodness special case calling for prompter and sake let's have no more shadow- box-
~more vigorous efforts. ~~~ /"ing from Mr. Benson. His - opponent | ~The report of the Royal Commis-
is too old a hand to be taken in by sion on Higher Education—which set that game.
pointed ont ihat there is no legal re-
| an accusation that a statement is un- ' true. So obviously the issue can’t be | settled that way. He's dismissed Mr. | Benson's challenge an ‘a smoke- | screen” and again demanded that the bureau's recommendations to the
recommendations to the -administra- tion. In this case the commission's recommendations of. $330-360_ in- creases were followed to the letter, Prime Minister Pearson maintains.
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in the matter—is worth noting in - this connection, It recommends, as a necessary prerequisite to the development of -a satisfactory pro- gram of higher education, that col- leges should not offer high school courses but that. all high school edu- cation in the province “be integrat- ed into the present system so that Charlottetown and Summerside be included on the same basis as oth- er districts.” Obviously the system cannot ‘be. on ‘‘the same basis” if oth: _ _er_districts_receive 60—per—cent—
of Regina.
cheaper than conventional ground: seeding methods. Airplanes have been used in Sas-
building costs and Charlottetown | pasture to control bush growth. But nothing. | this is believed to be the first time The provincial government {8 | such seeding procedure has been used
hard pressed financially,-as we all know. But it has, after all, the re- sponsibility of having initiated this policy, and it should follow it through consistently and without discrimina- tion.
Congress Asking Why According to a Washington dis-
patch in the Financial Post, the leng- thy delay in Congressional approval of the Canada-U:S. auto trade-deal is because Congressmen want to know - ‘why car prices have not yet been lowered in Canada. A good many Canadians would like to have an an- | swer to the same question.
. It is said. that the United Auto Workers Union has been a prime “mover in getting Congress to delay ‘passage of the auto deal on this ground. Canada already has elimin- ated its auto tariffs, and at Washing: | ton the Ways and Means Committee | has approved the bill covering the
in the province.
areas where pastures cannot be seed- ed by the conventional method,
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‘tause of seeding difficulty. It may set
a pattern which could prove of con- siderable importance in prairie farm. ing elsewhere.
EDITORIAL NOTES
Children have more need of mod-
els. than of critics. | +.
An elephant; savs one of our cyni- cal observers, is a mouse built to gov ernment specifications.
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__ Determined to “keep up with the Joneses” at Ottawa, members of the | Quebec legislative assembly have vot- * agreement signed by President John- | ed themselves a $3,000 pay boost. son and-Prime Minister Pearson last | making their salaries equal to that
January. But it has not yet asked | of federal. MPs—$13.000—of which
‘ that the measure be sent to the House — $6,000 is non-taxable allowance. This for a vote. gives them $6.000 more than mem-
It feels that a fundemantal pur- | bers are paid in Canada’s wealthiest
- pose of the trade deal was.to lower | province, Ontario, and $15,000 more prices and, although savings are now | than .Prifice Edward Island indém-
being made by car manufacturers in | nities. It will give added impetus,no
Canada, the savings are not passed, doubt, fo Premier Lesage’s demands __
“on to the consumer. It is noted for a still bigger share of the federal ‘ specifically that the Ford autos going | tax pie. e =
course-against a person, who makes_.
which the commission uses to make ,
Last month the Saskatchewan de- partment of agriculture used an air- plane to seed grass on 3,200 acres of | a 9,000-acre community pasture being developed with*ARDA assistance near Yorkton. about 140 miles northeast The cost of 89 cents per acre is expected to be about one-third
The department-is | planning to expand the program in
or » where it is much cheaper to use the
Air-seeding thus opens up many acreyof land previously dismissed as _potential improved grazing areas be-
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Opposition leader had made a state- | ‘that was just not true’ about.
recommendations: arein-it~or-not.-~
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AUGUST METEORS
They Provide Celestial Bawen
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The skies put on their own Fourth of July display in August
The Perseid meteor shower oc- eurs around August 11 each year. Then the earth is bombar- ded with tons of. debris. from space. Meteors streak’ across the sky every minute by the thou-... sands in a pyrotechnic display. |
The speed with which the me- heat |
teors fall generates great from air friction. They become white - hot and often blaze bright trails of incandescent gas.
A COSMIC RIVER
Old Faithful of meteor show- ers, the Perseids were first re-
corded iin A-D. 36: Unlike other |
~ Depicting Violence
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swarms that wheel around the sun in clusters, the Perseids form a stream that fills. their entire orbit with dust and pebb- les. Every August, the earth passes through this cosmic river ~~ In 1862, -Giovanni Schiaparelli, while observing a faint, unspectacular comet, noticed that its orbit was almost identical to that of the ! Perseids. He concluded it was | the source of the August display
Since then many other meteor swarms have been linked with comets. \
Eight billion meteors strike the
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Christian Science Moniter
Does press, radio, and slocie ton coverage of tense. situations
, tend to bring on violence or to
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| .the . communications media are,
' vielence- “the outrage generated by view- ing an occurrence in one place may occasion an assault hund-
| reds of miles away.’
--katchewan-for-crop-spraying-and fer +—tilizing;-and-spraying-chemicatson-
ting $750,000 a
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hold it in check? The question
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sponsored by the Inétitute on Violence, Brandeis University
United States Attorney Gener- al Nicholas Katzenbach assert- ed that news coverage has been ‘a powerful deterrent to racial Violence ig the South—-——
Dr. Norton’ Long, acting direc tor.of the institute, charged that
He pointed out
This underscores the fact that the media cannot afford to un- derestimate their responsibility in these matters. Much depends upon the manner in which they report an event.
As Dr. Long put it. ‘‘The high- sounding aim of informing hbe- comes a cover for commercial-
: —
ly profitable sensationalism.” When this happens, television. radio,.and the press abuse their educational function and endan _peace of society.
By subjecting a tense situation
to the glare of publicity, it is sometimes possible to prevent an eruption. By carefully and | accurately reporting an outburst of violence, the media can help -—-people-weigh- the—situation take right steps to correct their own- communities condil- tions which could trigger simil-
‘not dwell on the mere — fact | of violence. It will report efforts | to arrive at peaceful solutions and endeavor to explain the rea- sons for their success or fail- ure.
If the reporting of violence 19 necessary to inform men and to stir their conscience, we trust the press will not shrink from its responsibility. But lest it compound tragedy, we trust that it will shun the role of a bull in a china shop.
It 1s to a wondered which 46 Is the greater challenge for the NDP — to raise a $1,000,000 fund to win a general election. or to win without it. In posing challenge tn the party —conven- tion, leader T.C. Douglas made no suggestion as to how such a big: wind could be raised. He cannot however, be unaware that Labor in Britain is in the money and how it got that way since Prime Minister Wilson re- ported after the 1955. election failure that the party's organiz- ational machine was ‘‘penny far-
it are financially speaking Rolls Royce The simple explanation is gambling ‘ i
Since . > some 70 constituen-
cy parti a minority—have
-been striking it rich year after |
year through a numbers game which, it is estimated, is put- year
| coffers and heading for $1,500,-
For Coin Collectors
The Canadian Banker
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Theregare as many different ways to start a coin collection, ~as there are types of collection, but for the real ‘beginner, who- has ho special series in mind, possibly the best way is to begin | with a genera! collection.
ns can be done by purchas- | ing, a packet of coins from di
countries, organizing | — and adding new>packages | at the rate which time and mo- ney allow.
Plenty of interest can he gain- '
ed from beginning in this way, but @ word of warning is in or-— der: a collection is a collection, not an accumulation. The more complete a collection. becomes, | the more interesting «| is for study and: the creater will be its Monetary value
_ Fof this reason. most collec-
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Today some sections of |
into their |
“000. The lottery, permissible t un der a 1956 act, is based on & at 15 cents an entry. Half money goes in prizes, the rest to the-constituency fund. Very lit- tle is passed on to headquarters Prime Minister Wilson’s rid- ing ‘is one where -Labor is mak- ing money hand over fist. So »clubs are redecorated or new ones built, offices equipped, bill boards booked all year round to carry Labor posters and the _ser- ‘vices of a trained agent hired Conservative organizations, with scruples about such a mode of fund raising, look on with dis | taste, probably mixed wit h envy. jj
Canadian law-being what. It is, the NDP cannot copy this scheme, and in any case, the Baptist conscience of ex-pastor | Douglas would not permit him | to countenance it. So that NDP will-remain a party in search of $1,000,000.
tors nv begin with a general collection will, at some point, decide to specialize. The possi- bilities are unlimited: collec- | | tions may be restricted to the obsolete coinage of Canada or other countries,to coins.from the British colonies, to ancient or | Biblical coins, or to. coins from | Renaissance Europe.
Canadians may naturally pre- | fer to collect the coins of their | own country. The least expen- sive way to do this is. to begia | | with the coins in your own, poc
ket and assemble the vivieas | gases of all the types and deno- | minations now in circulation.
This is a time-consuamng op- on but it can be’ most re-
Italian -astronom er
~rarea seven "times that “of ___izona pit.
- weekly draw of a set of numbers: the
atmosphere each day, a few reach the ground. In
shower of:,1833, ‘‘the sky was li-
tegally ablaze with meteors all order to develop a reaction.
night tong,’ according to one observer. “Church bells tolled, and many feared the end of the world was near. Most. me he seen. Daylight, clouds, trees, | and late hours cut down further on the numbér reported. Meteors vary in size from minute dust particles to flaming juggernauts. The du at ping enough friction to melt. As- | tronomers estimate that much as 2.4 billion tons of such / celestial dust fall on thé earth ~ ‘every year.
Sporadic metoers have indivi- dual orbits. While some
to the belt of asteroids that cir- cle the sun between Mars and Jupiter. .
-—-€otlistons and the force of-gra= vity send these baby planets all directions; some run __ into the earth. Few survive the fiery descent, but occasionally large
chunks of stone plunge into the #8 wrinkled as a prune oe ground with thunderous explos-, of too much sun. oe | ions. They are called meteorites.
DESTRUCTIVE METEORITES Meteorites. have never caused
meteorite stones. leveled. a— Sib- erian forest in 1908.
Meteor Crater tn Arizona awes : tourists with its barren, moonlike appearance. But this 4,000-foot | crater pales in comparison with Chubb Crater, the largest of me- teoritic origin known on earth. Located close to the Arctid Circle in Canada’s Ungava Pen- insula, Chubb was discovered in 1943 on a routine weather flight. Parka - clad explorers, sponso- red by the National Georgraphic Society and the Royal Ontario | Museum, discovered the crater
n “Red Roses 4 And |Noses™ a
| By De, Theodore R. Van Delien
NOTES BY THE WAY
A neighbor down the block has | just received a communication from her young
| A.R.B. writes: “My brother's. “ fi si doctor says. there is no such ay pr gy & Calgary thing as rose fever. Why am I poraid, o
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A girl with the nickname of “Fatty” has won the Miss Uni- | Verse beauty contest. Her vic- tory will do for plump females | what Yul Brynner’s stardom did for baldheaded males. — Ham- ilton Spectator.
NOTES BY THE WAY
sneezing? My eyes are very itchy at this time dt. the yeaf.” This individual has. pollinosis or hay fever due to inhalation of whatever pollens were in the air at the time this letter was writ- ten
The term rose Sos isa hang- over from a misconception that originated 400 years ago. Leon- | When n-age ' hardus Botallus of dee tae senate me about individuals who developed | transistor radio, everyone headache, nasal congestion, and | 3 she has forgotten some- sneezing from the odor of roses. | thing. gh Globe. :
This was the origin of the belief | that roses were. responsible for It has been pointed out ‘that | ordinary midsummer hay fever. ery federal MP at Ottawa and We now know these flowers/ every: MPP at Toronto should are harmless and the cause | serve an apprenticeship by . op- hay fever is an allergy to the | erating a business in the black pollen of a far less attractive | (With from one to 10. employees) plant. Posse rarely are guilty, | for from five, to 10 years before
because the pollen is too sticky | being permitted to go into Par-
- to float in-the-air-and. is. spread_|Mament thenwemight—-hope—to—4.
by insects. The same can be expect some sane form of econ said of dandelions, goldenrod, | cosmos, sunflowers, daisies,.and_| | other insect- pollinated flowers. In contrast, we use the term | hay fever even though hay is | mot the common offender and | |} the victim -is not feverish. For | | some, the hay fever season he- | gins in April and May-with the | flowering of trees and early grasses. Grass hay fever is com- | mon in May, June, and early | July. Weeds, especially ras- | weed, are. in the picture ‘until the first frost. The timing var- talks between Britain and Aden ies in different parts of the coun- Singapore and Aden are tra- | try, and the amount of pollen in | ditional bastions of British mili-
News.
Britain's dwindling influence east of Suez has received a one- | two jolt with the secession of | Singapore. from Malaysia and the collapse -of independence
| the air depends upon weather tary and éommercial power on
|
| abundance of “windborne pollen | but“pnly - people are sensitive to golden-
the- spectacular. meteor by insects rather than via air.
are too-tiny to Since the death of my wife a
sifts fects. In some, it increases the through the sky without develo flow:
as dry.
m8 addition uses a sun come from comets, many belong this too much of a good thing?
_if she continues her double ex- in Posures
RAR CANAL LINING ache ne eR RCS Ie ECORI hie
_But <a—responsible.. press. -.will. -=tory,-though-- a—tluster--of =smalk- oe enaaenest
, that produce wax (cerumen).
to be 11,500 feet across with an.
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Tiger r Country
Most English readers must have been surprised to learn that the Queen Mother, during her recent visit to-Canada, was -honoured in Toronto with a ti- ger. Royalties, when visiting abroad, receive such a copious and curious assortment of gifts, some of the white elephant kind, that accommodation for them all must be hard to find even in platial premises. A tiger, on first thoughts, would be more acceptable if it were all skin and no bone. But the Toronto “animal was no monster; it was a. salutation.
A tiger across the Atlantic is a name for a fourth cheer en- thusiastically added to the us| ual three. _kin_are described _as__ ringing there can be a further vocal sal- vo demanded and supplied. The | name given to it is no novelty.
| Tigers of this friendly kind have. , been North American residents |
for over a century...
When rafters or wel- |
jin the “emnpest of applause the
|
Smart his |
“Song to David" gave the lion a chest like a bastion and an eye-ball like a coal, but—the.
fires of ferocity have blazed far 4
more effectively
in Blake’s~
bright-burning tiger of the for- | est night. In more prosaic mat-—
ters and amid the jungle of our sports the tiger of the golf- course is he who once overcame that exemplary phantom Colon- i el Bogey and now | more exacting Mr. Par. It can be replied that the lion
defeats the |
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| was never diminished in onr vo- <
|eabulary to be “a smartly-liv- eried boy acting as a groom” such as was Tiger’ Tim of the. Ingoldsby Legends’ But in the momatic novels of the. type.
warding a% a number-«f coins’ wherein Elinor Glyn excelled |
in circulation have # premium | ead
the an eae ladies” a = (aking of tigers not of lions
sides of the Indian The separate weekend
conditions and wind currents Ragweeds are the most impor-
opposite Ocean
| tant hay fever plants in North | developments have created un- |/ America despite the fact grass@s |
certainty about the prospects of are found all over the country. | centinuing Western influence in All seed- bearing plants gener- both places.
ate pollen, but only a few pro- The Malaysian Federation has duce enough to constitute a hay | heen a pro - Western political fever menace. Pines produce an | entity that counter-halanced the often-erratic influence in that area of Sukarno's Indonesia.
rod pollen, but it Is transported | kien in vegetations on- 38 >
that are nonallergenic. Many |
Our Yesterdays
a or hemp
(From: The Guardian Files)
TWENTY -\FIVE YEARS AGO (Auguit 11, 1940) Prohibition administration by
The flower must be handled in
~ EXCESS” “SALIVA” 8. 8. writes: Can emotions | cause an excess flow of saliva?
few months ago,~} have been
troubled by this annoying SYMP- the Campbell Government has tom. < : become more of an anomaly than ever, if current reports are
Nervousness has varying ¢f- to be credited. The reduction tn
doctors’ prescriptions from an inlimited number to 50 to each doctor per month, following the recent plebiscite, resulted in agreement. among-a numberof “doctors to charge the standard medical examination fee of $2.00 for each script issued. Other doctors compromised by charg- | ing $1.50, where they had pre- viously charged $1.00.
in others, secretions are reduced and the mouth feels Of the two conditions, dry- _ness.is more annoying.-—- OVERDOING IT
L. P. writes: My niece soaks - up the sun‘at the beach, and in lamp. Isn't
- * REPLY “Yes, and her skin will suffer
A clean-lip will phe made in the City by police immediately of all bootleggers manufacturing ‘Bathtub “Moonshine”, His Wor- ship; Mayor B. Roy Holman said | at the regular meeting of the _City Council: He explained. this was the name given to moonshine which is made by us- ing Gillett’s Lye; adding that. it
for many years.~ Many women ‘and men) in their late forties and- early fifties have dark spots on the skiii and are
Robin writes: T am nine. years old and want to know why yel- low.
PLY. 8 the lining of the ear
canal contains special glands |
TEN YEARS AGO (August 11, 1955) Mr. and Mrs. W. Wylie Gib- son, Marshfield, announced the engagement of their youngest
NOT WORTH IT ed M. L. writes: Ts novocaine ever used to alleviate the. pain
of arthritis? : daughter, Lila duse, ip Wilere
Yes, but ark be injected es, eldest son of Mr. and ' Robert W
and relief is so brief it is not Sedseue oe Lower
work the risk of infection. TODAY'S HEALTH HINT— Avoid overpriced and worth- less “‘health’’ fads. (NOTE: All correspondence
Police in- Moatreal said that existence of a ‘‘call girl’ racket, complete with a-filing system of addresses and telephone numb- te Dr. Van Dellen should be ers was made public because of addressed to: Dr. Theodore pressure from business execu- “Van Dellén, ¢o Chicago Trib- "tives. Vice - buster Pa |_ une, Chicago, Tlinois.) —_ Plante,-assistant police “director”
;and_the_manin charge of the
| morality equad, said fear of | blackmail had been expressed.
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The average cost.of a college date is $7.78. In the old days, that was enough to get married on. -- Vancouver Province.
Chicage is te have « peanut butter macnene-oouating per: haps a demonstration the scientific fact that the slice of bred always falls with peanut-buttered side down? ~ Vancouver Sun.
«a8 part of the war on pover- ty, it is suggested the govern- ment should give periodic $ doles to beatniks for haircuts.— Boston Globe.
Don’t dismiss peas as a cul inary whimsy. In their own right they are big business, agriculturally speaking. This summer in Canada, 58,300 acres of peas are being produced un- OP- der contract. The total is dows _a_bit from last year but still frightening as a mathematica) exercise: If there are five (or six, or whatever it is) peas im
a_pod, how many are there in all that acreage? We'll drop the
matter here. It already has gone far enough. — Windsor ‘ Star
Singapore's s Secession
By Carl Mollins Canadian Press Staff Writer
dependence program opens the prospect of increased violence in the Red Sea colony by the Aden National Liberation Front. The Malsyaian Federation has been an uneasy union: from its beginning 23 months ago,
RACE-RIOT SCENE
The dominant Chinese of Sing apore became a_ minority among the Malays of the feder- ation. Singapore was the scene of bloody race riots last: sum: mer,
Lee Kuan Yew, premier of Singapore, is a Socialist who had friendly relations with such non - aligned governments as Yugoslavia, Egypt, Algeria and .— befofe ‘formation of the federation provoked Indonesia's armed hostility—with Indonesia.
Federal Prime Minister | Tunku Abdul Rahman,,on the other hand, is an ur conser-
| Vative with strong Western sym- | pathies. He considered Malay- sia’s defence against Indonesian raids -and subversion as one frontline battle against - Asian
communism, with the United
States war in Viet Nam other. if
With Indonesia welcoming Singapore's move and offering recognition to Lee's regime, the
,
viability.,of the Borneo section «
of Malaysia is doubtful. ». Singapore isthe main ‘opera- tional base for British warships and more than 50,000 troops combatting Indonesian Incur- sions across the Borneo border. Should an independent Singa- pore wish to reestablish rela- {tions _it_would-be- difficult for city-state te con- tinue as a base of operations for the Borned battle. ~
INDEPENDENCE BY 1968 Aden, base for about 22,000” w-scheduied te
deceive. Aadaouedinne by 1988 along with the adjacent pro tectorates in the, South Arabian.
ederation. —_
set up a full constitutional con- ference in December broke down after a week, with Aden leaders demanding British com- mitment to “early withdrawal” of the military base, an end te a state of emergency and re lease of political prisoners. Britain considers the future ot the military base a matter for for negotiation with Aden after independence. It declined te ease the state of emergency. Attacks on British personne? and an attempt to blow up a | British oil refinery pipeline took {place even as the Aden leaders ‘were in London. __
Revolutionary pressure on the British to quit their last im- | portant Middle Eastern base is like}y to increase.
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