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Cars enter the U.S. from the San Ysidro port of entry after its six-hour closure on Sunday. A group of migrants stormed the border seeking asylum prompting U.S. border patrol agents to close the border.
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reshman physics major Eve Khatami died at a hospital 2 a.m. Nov. 15, according to an email sent from the Housing Office at 3:19 p.m. Nov.16. Khatami was found in her Los Alamitos Hall dorm room around 12:30 a.m. and transported to Long Beach Memorial Hospital around 1 a.m. She died at the hospital around 2 a.m., according to Jeff Bliss, executive director of media and digital news. Bliss was unable to comment on the nature of the medical emergency. The cause of death is unclear and has not yet been released by officials. “We recognize that many of you have been close to Eve and deeply affected by this loss,” said Corry Colonna, executive director of Housing and Residential Life, in an email . “We share in your grief as we mourn the tragic loss of a member of the Beach family.” CAPS representatives are available for students to meet at their office on the second floor of Brotman Hall or via telephone after hours at 562-985-4001.
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Linguistics professor Alexandra Jaffe dies over fall break Faculty share their thoughtful words and memories on the late professor. By Jay Yim and James Chow Staff Writers
Faculty learned over Thanksgiving break that linguistics professor Alexandra “Misty” Jaffe died in her home Tuesday. Jaffe, who was in her 50s, started her career at Long Beach State in 2001 and worked as both a professor and a department chair in linguistics. She has taught courses spanning from introductory linguistics to sociolinguistics and ethnography. Her main area of study was research on the ethnography of Corsica, a perspective she said she brought with her in teaching undergraduate linguistic courses, according to her staff page on the university website. In response to the email blast about Jaffe’s death, faculty have shared words and memories about Jaffe.
“In the past few days, there has been an amazing flow of emails on the faculty listserv that attest to Misty’s rare character and commitment to her students and to the campus,” said associate professor of anthropology and linguistics Wendy Klein in an email. “Misty’s leadership skills, scholarship, and deep dedication to faculty governance and student wellbeing are unparalleled.” Political science professor Mary Caputi worked with Jaffe on a retention, tenure and promotion committee. She said she will remember Jaffe’s intelligence and compassionate attitude. “We worked on RTP at the college level, and Misty was a real work-horse and a pleasure to be with,” Caputi said in an email. “She was a very conscientious member of the committee and was thorough, thoughtful, and fair.” Jaffe’s accomplishments include being the first recipient of the Edward Sapir Book Prize
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for her book “Ideologies in Action: Language Politics on Corsica.” She also served as an editor in chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.
Klein recently worked on a project with Jaffe, the Long Beach Office of Equity and students in LBSU’s Language and Social Justice course in creating an ethnographic evaluation of the language access policies within the city government offices. Klein credits Misty for the project coming to fruition. “Misty has been incredibly supportive of my own scholarship and teaching, and I’ve witnessed the valuable encouragement she has offered — and the opportunities she has created — for colleagues and students,” Klein said. “Her long-term research on Corsica and minority language revitalization along with her work on language diversity and sociolinguistics in education, has been an important source of intellectual inspiration for me.” A memorial service for Jaffe will be held at the beginning of spring semester by the linguistics department and her family.
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Firefighters Return Home after Weeks of Battling the Camp Fire By KTXL-TV, Sacramento
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he deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history is finally 100 percent contained. However, with at least 85 people dead and more than 14,000 buildings destroyed, the nightmare of the fire is far from over. Wildfires are nothing new for firefighters in Sacramento but the Camp Fire was unlike anything they’d ever seen. On Sunday, they were thankful to be home safe, knowing first-hand many victims of the fire weren’t as lucky. Firefighters are home in Sacramento after roughly 2 weeks fighting the #CampFire in Butte County. I’m talking with crews about their experience today. “It was unlike anything I’d ever seen,” Captain Rick Marrs with Sacramento Fire says.
Racing toward the flames in Paradise, Sacramento Metro Fire Capt. Neil Weitzel knew he had his work cut out for him. “Really it was a worst-case scenario,” Weitzel said. “The wind was just lined up perfectly to push it right through Paradise.” He’s part of a strike team made up of firefighters from Sacramento, Folsom and Cosumnes. They’ve spent more than two weeks fighting the Camp Fire. “There’s only so much you can do. Your priority becomes getting people to safety,” Weitzel told FOX40. “You can’t stop it because the heat and embers … you just can’t stop it. There isn’t enough water to be effective.” When he arrived in Butte County the first day of the fire, his focus was on evacuating the people still left. “You could hear the fire was coming down the road,” Weitzel said. Sacramento Fire Department Capt. Rick
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A search and rescue team comb through debris for human remains after the Camp Fire destroyed most of Paradise, Calif., on Nov. 20, 2018. Marrs was across town trying to save buildings and homes in Paradise. “We had some successes,” he said. “Saved one house and a neighborhood. But there were other houses we’d start working on protecting and the wind would change or something next to it would catch on fire and just be out of our control.” Marrs spent the next two weeks working to put out hot spots around Butte County while Weitzel went to the fire lines. Now home in Sacramento, both men are thankful to be alive and thinking constant-
ly of the people who once called Paradise home. “We have the advantage when we go into something like that, we bring tools and equipment and training,” Weitzel said. “Trying to imagine surviving something like that without all the benefits we have, you wonder how they did it. So, you look and you pray and you look for opportunities to help them when you can.” Some firefighters were just heading up to Paradise Sunday to help search for people who died in the fire.
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SAN YSIDRO — Cars inched forward toward the 805 North Freeway at the San Ysidro border after its six-hour closure Sunday. The San Ysidro port of entry, which sits between San Diego and Tijuana, was closed around 11:20 a.m and didn’t fully open again until 5:11 p.m. Central American migrants have been gathering in Tijuana for weeks to seek asylum in the United States, according to an article by the Los Angeles Times. According to a press release from U.S. Customs and Border Control, additional personnel were sent to the San Ysidro port of entry in preparation for multiple planned demonstrations on both sides of the border. Authorities from the Metropolitan Transit System and the San Diego Police Department met last Tuesday to create a contingency plan in case tensions rose on the border, Metropolitan Transit System transportation supervisor John Tarantino said. At 11:19 a.m., San Diego U.S. Customs & Border Protection tweeted that both northbound and southbound lanes leading to Mexico at the San Ysidro port of entry were closed. An order by the federal government ordered trains from the San Diego Trolley to turn back one stop before San Ysidro, Tarantino said. Alison Chang, 25, and her mother Betty Chang, 65, were stuck in a line at the Otay Mesa port of entry for four hours. The port was filled with people who had traveled to the nearest border crossing after hearing of San Ysidro’s closure. Around 4 p.m., when they found out that the San Ysidro border was set to open again, she called her husband to pick them up and drive them over. In line, she met Mina Resendiz, and her two sons Esteban and Jesahias. They crammed into Chang’s husband’s car, along with two others, and all eight of them drove an hour to San Ysidro. “We cross every Sunday,” Resendiz said. “It takes 10 to 15 minutes, 20 minutes at most.” She lives in Tijuana, but drives her sons over the border every week to attend Escondido High School. “We were expecting this,” Resendiz said. “Just not now.” After the closure ended, things seemed to quiet down on the U.S. side. “It was quiet over here,” Tarantino said. “No mobs, no yelling.” Near the entrance of the border facility, CBP officers, U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement officers and uniformed soldiers were seen packing up their gear to head home for the night. According to the press release from U.S. Customs and Border Control, earlier in the day some had attempted to enter the U.S. illegally through both the northbound and southbound vehicle lanes of the port entry. “There are good and bad people,” Resendiz said. “People are just trying to look for a better life.”
IMMIGRATION
Migrant demonstrations cause Tijuana border closure People trying to enter the U.S. unable to travel across at the end of a holiday weekend.
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A migrant man pushes a child in a baby stroller past a cordon of riot police as he joins a small group of migrants trying to cross the border together at the Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018.
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LBSU ceramics alumnus debuts newest exhibition Wedel’s exhibition, ‘Everything is Everything’ is focused on the concept of breaking down the walls between sculpture and painting as art forms. By Tashfina Rahman Staff Writer
Nestled on a vast nine-acre property, Matt Wedel works from a studio where he creates immaculate and colorful sculptures, largely reminiscent of the agricultural plains of Ohio. Although Wedel currently resides and builds sculptures on his acreage in Albany, Ohio, his roots as an artist were began at Long Beach State. Wedel has been immersed in art and the practice of ceramic making from an early age. His father was a potter and after studying and working with him throughout his childhood, Wedel decided to study sculpture at The Art Institute of Chicago. However, when beginning his master’s degree of fine arts in ceramics in 2006 at Long Beach State, Wedel says he was in for a rude awakening. “I learned that I didn’t really know how to make anything,” Wedel said. “While I feel like the Art Institute of Chicago taught me how to be an artist, Long Beach really pushed me to challenge myself and make things and taught me the true intensity of working hard as an artist.” Wedel said his time at Long Beach State laid the foundation as an artist and helped
Sculptor Matt Wedel photographed in his Athens studio November 23, 2015.
him develop the style of sculptures he makes and shows professionally today. The ceramics program, along with its faculty, greatly inspired him as an artist. “The department there is amazing and specifically Tony Marsh was a phenomenal teacher and allowed space for students to make work and explore and encouraged travel,” Wedel said. Wedel said his experience abroad studying ceramics in Europe, was largely influential to his growth and development as an artist. Wedel’s current exhibition, “Everything is everything,” is being shown at LA Louver Gallery in Venice from Nov. 14 to Jan. 5. Since his graduation in 2007, Wedel says he has built a strong relationship with the gallery, his third to be shown there. His first showing at LA Louver Gallery was a group exhibition, “Rogue Wave,” which celebrated the works of young Southern California artists. “My inspiration behind ‘Everything is everything’ came from the concept of boundaries between different materials collapsing, whether that be the boundaries between photography and painting or painting and sculpting,” Wedel said. “I thought a lot about how ceramics are just now beginning to be accepted as an art form and this sequence of thinking about boundaries collapsing led to the idea that everything is everything. Spe-
cifically, for me, painting is sculpture and that really informed this show for me.” Wedel’s inclination toward ceramics came not only from his relationship with his father, but also its position in the art world as a less serious medium. As a young artist,
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Matt Wedel, artist ceramics allowed Wedel to explore art and begin creating without the dogma and pretentiousness that is often associated with other mediums of art. “Ceramics has always seemed outside the language of arts,” Wedel said. “It has not always been treated as a legitimate material and because of this, it seemed like I could
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create my own rules and it also had a sense of familiarity for me because of my own background. It seemed like a good place to begin.” After getting married, Wedel moved to his wife’s hometown of Albany. Wedel said he quickly fell in love with Albany and its agriculture, which inspires much of his work today. “I began the practice of gardening and found an interest in agriculture, which began to influence my sculptures,” Wedel said. “The sustainable agriculture movement in this area serves as a hopeful influence as I explore the ideas of landscape through my work. Much of my work explores how art is able to represent both landscape and culture.” Wedel says his motivation to create art comes from its ability to make him feel alive and fully engaged with the world around him. “[Art] allows me to constantly be in a place that challenges my thinking, my habit and my understanding of society,” Wedel said. “It puts everything on the table for exploration and critique.” Wedel’s gallery “Everything is everything” is available for viewing from Nov. 14 to Jan. 5, 2019 in Venice at the LA Louver Gallery. For more information go to to LA Louver Gallery website.
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‘You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch,’ but not in today’s society Long gone is the evil, negative creature we know in the 2018 adaptation. By Zulema Suarez Staff Writer
In the 61 years the world has known Dr. Seuss’ Grinch there is one thing all the different grinches had in common: they were mean. They all hated Christmas and the people of Whoville. However, the newest retelling of “The Grinch” has a very different take on everyone’s favorite holiday menace. To begin with, his voice does not match the way the Grinch usually sounds. It is not as raspy, angry or passionate as it sounds in Jim Carrey’s portrayal in the 2000 film, “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” nor is it as deep and snarly as it is in the 1966 “How The Grinch Stole Christmas!” television special voiced by Boris Karloff. The new movie has Benedict Cumberbatch as the voice of the Grinch and it is abysmal to say the least. It is not mean, it is not grumpy and it does not fit the face of the Grinch at all. The movie shows the Grinch as a fluffy green character with green eyes. However, in both the 1966 and the 2000 version, the Grinch is hairy, not necessarily “fluffy” and has yellow instead of white around his green eyes. This gives him a more maniacal look, while the recent Grinch has more human eyes, making him more relatable and friendly. In the new movie, he also has an exceptional smile with extremely straight teeth. This is nowhere near the Grinch we know with “termites in his smile.” The animated version showcases the Grinch as a regular guy who no one in Whoville fears. He is not hated by anyone and he even leaves Mount Crumpit to get groceries like any other Who. He is very normalized in the movie which seems to be a tactic the writers used to make us like the Grinch more and to give him more sympathy when telling
his backstory. This being said, he does have his moments of cruelty, like pretending to get a jar for another woman at the store who could not reach it or being rude to his dog Max. Sadly, throughout the movie he is not nasty, mean or disgusting. This takes away from the grouchy, angry Grinch he is supposed to be. This movie, like the 2000 version, touches a bit on why the Grinch hates Christmas. In the 2000 version, he gets bullied as a child for making a Christmas present for Martha May, causing him to leave to Mount Crumpit alone, angry and bitter at the Christmas holiday and hating the Whos. In the new movie, the Grinch is left abandoned in an orphanage as he watches everyone else enjoy Christmas. The Grinch is not the only character changed in the movie to fit into today’s standards. Cindy Lou Who, rather than being a regular child, wants to kidnap Santa Claus to ask him to help her mother. Cindy Lou says her single parent mother always puts her children before herself and she deserves whatever she wants. In the 1966 movie, Cindy Lou was a twoyear-old girl who asked the Grinch why he was taking their tree away. In the 2000 movie, she played a more integral part, as she tried to get the Grinch to partake in their Christmas festivities, but it blows up in her face when the Grinch steals Christmas anyway. Unfortunately, “The Grinch” was a major disappointment for many, as it is difficult to measure up to Jim Carrey’s exquisite portrayal of the character. It seemed as though the creators of “The Grinch” wanted so desperately for the public to find the Grinch relatable and fun, that his character and authenticity got lost in the process.
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“The Grinch” is the third take on the green creature created by author Dr. Seuss in 1957.
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Inmates are willingly working at fire camps and helping to combat fires alongside firefighters but they are getting paid low wages.
Raise the minimum rage
The state of California exploits prisoners fighting ongoing wildfires; paying inmates $2 a day. By Jorge Paniagua Staff Writer
Statewide catastrophes often wind up revealing severe flaws within a state’s economic system. California’s wildfires which blazed through more than 200,000 acres, all through the Sierra Nevada foothills and Los Angeles shoreline, throughout the month of November, are now 100 percent contained, according to The New York Times. Aside from devastating the state’s landscape, as well accruing a death count of 87 people, California’s relentless fires have showcased a stark economic divide within the state — one involving severely underpaid inmates working as firefighters. The wealthy are able to hire their personal “concierge” firefighters while everyone else gets their help from an unorthodox place: the Californian prison complex. Currently, there are 3,700 inmates voluntarily working at fire camps, 2,600 of those inmates working directly to combat fires, as reported by The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Furthermore, these inmates are being unfairly paid $2 per day, including an extra $1 when fighting actual fires, according to a report by CDCR. I do not think that prisoners deserve this
kind of pay and my ideology does not align with the argument that they’ll learn their “lesson” by being on the front lines of fighting relentless blazes. I believe, and excuse me if you consider this “extremist,” prisoners should be paid at least minimum wage like the rest of us. This allows them to save some money and start forming a plan for their eventual release. Back in 1865, when the thirteenth amendment, which banned slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the United States, passed, private corporations were far from pleased. For the sake of capitalism, the cutthroat economic system exalted by those it benefits and criticized by the marginalized, to thrive — you need cheap labor, and a lot of it. Since the thirteenth amendment banned slavery, a largely overlooked clause was added to the final version of the amendment. The original amendment read as follows: “All persons are equal before the law, so that no person can hold another as a slave; and the Congress shall have power to make all laws necessary and proper to carry this declaration into effect everywhere in the United States.” The final version; however, is: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place sub-
ject to their jurisdiction.” In essence, slavery was reformed in a manner where corporations could still benefit from free labor, and $2 an hour is basically free labor, in a manner that the public would completely support. Who cares about criminals after all, they’re criminals, right? Wrong. Prisoners, specifically those who choose to take part in this little to no-paying work, are people. Moreover, if you would still like to view them as non-human, which, to say the least is problematic, many of those serving to firefight are of the “lowest classification for inmates based on their sustained good behavior in prison,” according to CDCR. In other words, this program includes inmates who have committed nonviolent offenses such as theft, drug and alcohol-related crimes, and bribery. Yet, then there’s the money argument. According to an article on prison labor by the New York Post, “Proponents argue it saves the state between $90 million and $100 million a year and helps inmates learn new skills while working in a team environment.” However, this only further proves my point. A capitalist powerhouse state such as California, doesn’t necessarily care about ethics, but rather is concerned with making exorbitant amounts of money; the easiest way to accomplish this is by means of exploitative labor. Prisoners are easy to profit
from, hold few constitutional rights and are chastened, both severely and immediately, if they fail to follow directions. Now, I am aware that I used the word “capitalist” in a rather critical way throughout my article. Try not to to go all ”Red Scare” on me and immediately deem me a communist. I simply believe prisoners should be paid far more than $2 a day, especially when they’re fighting some of the most deadly fires that California has ever experienced. I mentioned the “moneyed 1 percent” earlier and would like to end with this: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, celebrities in the upper echelon of societal ranks, have “called in private firefighters to save their Hidden Hills home from the ongoing Woolsey wildfire,” according to an November Vanity Fair article. American International Group is, for example, one insurance corporation that provides this “concierge” firefighting service. According to NBC, 42 percent of people eligible for AIG’s “Wildfire Protection Unit” services are a part of Forbes 400 Richest Americans. California, your staunch economic divide is showing. While the rich are phoning in their personal A-Team for help, the rest of California is left getting help from, oftentimes, unexperienced prisoners who are paid $2 a day for 24-hour shifts, and that’s upsetting.
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Long Beach advances to second round of NCAA tournament By Robert Hollar Staff Writer
Freshman utility Garrett Zaan waited patiently in the center as the 49ers worked the ball around the perimeter on the powerplay. After three one-touch passes he rose from the water, received the ball at the top of his drive, and flung it into the net for his fourth goal of the game. No. 6 Long Beach defeated Pomona-Pitzer Saturday 12-5 advancing to the quarterfinals against UC San Diego next weekend at Stanford University. The 49ers were overwhelmed early in the game as they allowed two goals in the first. However, they then scored three unanswered, escaping the quarter with a 3-2 lead. “It’s almost better that that happens early, it was a wake up call,” head coach Gavin Arroyo said. Arroyo stressed a press defense against the Sagehens. The tactic risks fouls, and an
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Freshman utility Garrett Zaan blocks a shot against Pomona-Pitzer Saturday. early penalty shot gave Pomona-Pitzer a 1-0 lead. “Your team gets engaged when they’re pressing a little bit more,” Arroyo said. “Sometimes it’s not just a defensive tool, it’s to get back on track.”
Zaan made an incredible spinning shot from the attacking left side to give Long Beach a 4-2 lead early in the second. He added a powerplay goal minutes later to make it five unanswered goals for Long Beach. “We kinda pride ourselves on the man-
up situations in being able to move the ball well, it’s sort of my philosophy and the guys did it really well tonight. That one finish with Zaan was pretty textbook,” Arroyo said. The Sagehens took a timeout to draw up a play, but turned the ball over on their next possession. “We just tried to stay composed, we didn’t want to be tricked or any of that,” junior attacker Austin Stewart said. “We just tried to trust the system.” Freshmen continued to lead the 49er offense. Early in the third, freshman center Theodoros Pateros hit the crossbar but Zaan tapped in the rebound for a hat trick and a 7-4 49er lead. “I got my way tonight,” Zaan said. A goal from redshirt senior Lorvo Miocevic on a 2-on-0 sprint in the fourth quarter iced the game 11-5. Long Beach State water polo will travel to Stanford for a 1 p.m. Thursday quarterfinal matchup against UCSD.
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Long Beach misses upset chance against Oregon State The 49ers had two opportunities to send the game to overtime, but failed as time expired. By Kevin Colindres Sports Editor sportswriterkev
A promising start ended in a down to the wire loss for the Long Beach State men’s basketball team against Oregon State 75-72 Sunday. The 49ers started out strong, but failed to capitalize in the second half, which the team has struggled with all season. With 11.4 seconds left on the clock, senior guards Deishuan Booker and Jordan Griffin had a chance to send the game to overtime with a deep three, but both were unable to connect. “I really liked a lot of things today, but I feel for our guys,” head coach Dan Monson said. “We have to evaluate ourselves a lot in the preseason and see how we play. We had them on their heels, I really liked our fight, attitude and grit.” The game got out of control for Long Beach (2-5) with 7:46 left in the second half with Oregon State (5-1) racking up an 11 point lead. After shooting 48.3 percent from the field in the first half, the team struggled with shooting at 21.1 percent. Long Beach had a flurry of easy baskets at the rim and cut its deficit to two with 3:02 left. The 49ers still fell short even when trailing by 1 with less than a minute left. “When we’re down we just refuse to lose and we know that we can fight back,” senior forward Temidayo Yussuf said. “We always
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believe in ourselves, but we couldn’t do it today.” Long Beach played its best half of the year, even better than its 41 point first half against No. 17 UCLA. The main difference is that the 49ers were able to finish the half with a solid five point lead against the Beavers and looked like the better team on the floor. Sophomore guard Edon Maxhuni’s contribution off the bench is what led the charge for the 49ers. His 10 points on 50 percent shooting and the team’s defensive intensity gave Long Beach a chance. “I try to help my teammates, I shot the ball well and I had a flow going,” Maxhuni said. Much like the UCLA game, Long Beach came out stagnant, tired and unable to keep up with Oregon State’s pace. In the final seconds of the game, the 49ers found themselves in a clutch situation, but couldn’t deliver. Maxhuni led the 49ers with 15 points and two assists, while Yussuf delivered a double-double with 10 points and a season high 11 rebounds. Long Beach also did a good job in taking care of the ball, finishing the game with 12 turnovers. “Our guys stayed locked in and put their frustrations behind them,” Monson said. “That to me is what we have to focus on and grow on.” Long Beach travels to Los Angeles 8 p.m. Wednesday to take on USC.
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