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• Protester tries to push legal boundaries of new abortion 'bubble-zone' law

  08-02-2018 23:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  A new “bubble-zone” law protecting abortion clinics in Ontario has been challenged twice in the week it has been in effect in Ottawa, raising questions about how police should interpret the bill as protesters try to push the legal boundaries.
  The Safe Access to Abortion Services Act, which came into effect Feb. 1., provides automatic 50-metre zones around eight abortion clinics in the province, including The Morgentaler Clinic on Bank Street. 
  But nearly a year after The Morgent
  
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• Electrocution victim Sabryna Mongeon improves, but faces long road to recovery

  08-02-2018 23:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  After nearly two months and 12 operations involving a series of amputations and skin grafts, Gatineau electrocution victim Sabryna Mongeon has really just begun her challenging road to recovery.
  Sabryna, 18, suffered devastating injuries on a Christmas Eve after her car crashed on Outaouais back roads. She was unhurt until she stepped out of her wrecked car and was jolted by a massive charge from downed hydro wires. She eventually managed to crawl back into her vehicle, where she was discov
  
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• Reevely: New money helps Odawa program keep Indigenous accused out of jail, but it's only a start

  08-02-2018 23:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  The provincial government is spending millions of dollars to make Ottawa’s courts work better, Attorney General Yasir Naqvi said at his old University of Ottawa law school this week, and the smallest piece of it might be the most important: a tiny program for helping Indigenous people get bail when they have nobody to stand up in court and help them.
  Naqvi pledged $7 million for renovations to the Ottawa courthouse (most of it’s for security, actually, which is only about making the
  
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• Smaller, glassy addition for Château Laurier revealed in new design

  08-02-2018 23:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  The owner of the Château Laurier revealed a new, glassy design for its proposed addition on Thursday, hoping a scaled-down concept will win over critics.
  The eight-storey addition on the north side of the historic hotel would have 171 long-term accommodation suites, compared to the original concept that had 11 and 12 storeys, and 218 suites. The number of parking spots in the proposed five-level underground garage is 370, down from the 385 in the previous design.
  The architecture, the crea
  
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• Scanlan: Hockey tournament in memory of Ethan Allard to help Valley families in need

  08-02-2018 22:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ethan Allard would have been all over this hockey tournament that bears his name.
  How could he not have been? All his boyhood pals from Petawawa will be there, as will his parents, Linda and Shane and his 12 Allard siblings – Shawn, Jamie, Justin, Adam, Kyle, Tyson, Holly, Hope, Cole, Faith, Paige and Felicity. Plus their significant others.
  The seven brothers are all suiting up to play in the 16-team tournament. There is also one co-ed team, with competitive and recreational divisions.
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• 'I am deeply sorry,' says Ottawa teacher spared jail despite sexual relationship with teen student

  08-02-2018 22:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Disgraced Ottawa teacher Jessica Beraldin has been spared jail after admitting she had a sexual relationship with one of her students.
  The teacher, who now uses her maiden name Jessica Fiore, stood in court Thursday and said she was deeply sorry for exploiting the teen boy and pleaded guilty to sexual assault. In a tearful apology, Fiore said her marriage was falling apart and she sought “support and affection in the wrong places.” 
  “I am very disappointed in myself,&
  
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• Ski resorts grant will help support the next Nancy Greene

  08-02-2018 22:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Even while she was taking part in a news conference, Nancy Greene Raine was looking beyond to a gentle hill at the Snowpark Kingdom where young skiers were taking their first runs.
  Greene Raine built a lasting legacy with her Nancy Greene Ski League program, and she never tires of watching young skiers start the sport.
  On Thursday, Greene Raine, Canada’s 1968 Olympic ski hero, was part of a Gatineau conference to declare $150,000 in funding to support national ski and snowboard programs. T
  
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• BREAKING: Dow Jones Industrial plummets 800 points.

  08-02-2018 21:45 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Dow Jones Industrial plummets 800 points.
  
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• ICYMI: Questions linger over LRT delay, costs to city bit.ly/2nV1OfF https://t.co/fZbLAzoWA9

  08-02-2018 21:37 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Questions linger over LRT delay, costs to city bit.ly/2nV1OfF https://t.co/fZbLAzoWA9
  
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• New energy projects get two-year approval window under new assessment regime bit.ly/2EaEa5W https://t.co/IR71kPvsV7

  08-02-2018 21:32 via twitter.com
  
  New energy projects get two-year approval window under new assessment regime bit.ly/2EaEa5W https://t.co/IR71kPvsV7
  
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• No charges to be laid against Ornge air ambulance after allegations of criminal wrongdoing bit.ly/2C5soId https://t.co/yOSfKggoF0

  08-02-2018 21:24 via twitter.com
  
  No charges to be laid against Ornge air ambulance after allegations of criminal wrongdoing bit.ly/2C5soId https://t.co/yOSfKggoF0
  
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• STORY: Police find remains of 6 people, including Andrew Kinsman, in McArthur case bit.ly/2nUILC9 https://t.co/g5Sz8gV5R0

  08-02-2018 21:19 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Police find remains of 6 people, including Andrew Kinsman, in McArthur case bit.ly/2nUILC9 https://t.co/g5Sz8gV5R0
  
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• Ministry of Labour lays charges following workplace death of Ethan Allard

  08-02-2018 20:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario Ministry of Labour has laid charges against the company that employed Ethan Allard, who died in a Toronto construction site on Jan. 16, 2017.
  Allard, 24, of Petawawa, was killed when he became tangled up in a concrete hopper. A pump operator on a wet-mix shotcrete (sprayed concrete) job, Allard had about six months experience on the machine and was chipping away some of the dried cement on the chopper blades at the end of the day.
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• Heritage panel slams brakes on bid to demolish Lester B. Pearson's 1950s home

  08-02-2018 18:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city’s built-heritage subcommittee on Thursday turned down the Uganda High Commission’s application to demolish a Sandy Hill building that was once home to former prime minister Lester B. Pearson.
  The subcommittee sent the file back to city heritage staff, instructing them to complete an independent engineering study on 231 Cobourg St.
  Some subcommittee members were disappointed in city heritage staff for recommending the demolition without providing additional geotechnical docum
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, February 8th: 1:08: @CusoIntl 1:15: @mspratt 1:30: @BillBlair 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-02-2018 17:53 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, February 8th: 1:08: @CusoIntl 1:15: @mspratt 1:30: @BillBlair 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @Spencerpress joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞: 613-750-1310 https://t.co/lh9ihYHncA

  08-02-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 11:30:@Spencerpress joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs📞: 613-750-1310 https://t.co/lh9ihYHncA
  
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• Next: @SenNGreeneRaine joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the 50th anniversary of her Olympic gold win 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-02-2018 17:12 via twitter.com
  Next:@SenNGreeneRaine joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the 50th anniversary of her Olympic gold win📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Jazzman Chet Doxas finds inspiration in 1980s graffiti art, No Wave music

  08-02-2018 17:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Over the past five years, when saxophonist Chet Doxas was touring with rocker and fellow Montreal son Sam Roberts, the hornman spent many an afternoon off at a museum. At some point, the visual stimulation began triggering music in Doxas’s head.
  “All of a sudden, I would be standing in front of a painting, and it would go boom … sometimes these two- or three-voice melodies, like bass and harmonies, would come to me,” Doxas says.
  Later, Doxas did what he could to make the
  
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• Coming up: @jonkay joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the Steve Paikin sexual harassment allegations 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-02-2018 17:00 via twitter.com
  Coming up:@jonkay joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the Steve Paikin sexual harassment allegations📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Next: @MartinPatriquin of @ipoliticsca joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss Doug Ford's Ontario PC leadership race 📻… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-02-2018 16:43 via twitter.com
  Next: @MartinPatriquin of @ipoliticsca joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss Doug Ford's Ontario PC leadership race📻… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Was the Trudeau government actually unaware of legal action against military personnel?

  08-02-2018 16:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing some embarrassing questions after it was revealed that his government was trying to quash a class action lawsuit on sexual misconduct in the Canadian Forces.
  Trudeau has attacked his own Justice Department lawyers for their defence in an $800-million lawsuit over harassment in the military because it doesn’t align with his or his government’s beliefs. On Wednesday, Trudeau said he had asked Justice Minister and Attorney General Jody Wilson-Rayb
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @powerstim joins @_MarkSutcliffe live for weekly political segment: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-02-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30:@powerstimjoins @_MarkSutcliffe live for weekly political segment:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Carleton student's killer escapes from N.B. prison

  08-02-2018 16:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  The man who savagely stabbed to death a 22-year-old Carleton University student a judge would later call an “angel on earth” has escaped from Dorchester Penitentiary.
  Steven Bugden, who murdered Angela Tong in 1997, was discovered missing during a 10 p.m. count at the New Brunswick prison. Officials at the multi-level security federal institution say they immediately informed RCMP and issued the arrest warrant after searching the facility and surrounding area with a police dog.
  
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• Kyle Turris hoping for warm welcome from Senators fans upon Ottawa return - sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/kyl… #Sens #ottnews https://t.co/CuAsvx8pBY

  08-02-2018 16:00 via twitter.com
  
  Kyle Turris hoping for warm welcome from Senators fans upon Ottawa return - sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/kyl… #Sens #ottnews https://t.co/CuAsvx8pBY
  
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• RCMP are searching for a man who escaped a New Brunswick prison. He was sentenced to life in prison for the second-… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-02-2018 15:58 via twitter.com
  RCMP are searching for a man who escaped a New Brunswick prison. He was sentenced to life in prison for the second-… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @LMartinWashDC @David_Moscrop & @MikeVlasveld join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-02-2018 15:53 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk:@LMartinWashDC @David_Moscrop & @MikeVlasveldjoin @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up: @RiverWardRiley joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss LRT delay 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-02-2018 15:49 via twitter.com
  Coming up:@RiverWardRiley joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss LRT delay📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Renovation Transformation: Black mold spurs complete reno of Westboro home

  08-02-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Joshua Svatek had been struggling with allergies since moving to Ottawa almost nine years ago.
  He had all the common symptoms — sneezing, sore eyes, and a stuffed nose — in addition to pounding headaches that began when he woke up.
  The symptoms would likely had worsened if he hadn’t chosen to renovate his home near Westboro Beach. 
  Turns out it wasn’t just allergies. He was feeling the effects of having an invasion of black mold in the ceiling of his bedroom.
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• Coming up: @Geddes28 joins @_MarkSutcliffe for their weekly @macleans on the Hill segment:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-02-2018 15:29 via twitter.com
  Coming up: @Geddes28 joins @_MarkSutcliffe for their weekly @macleans on the Hill segment:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Report: Nearly three quarters of Canadians want pay transparency - 1310news.com/2018/02/08/nea… #ottnews

  08-02-2018 15:28 via twitter.com
  Report: Nearly three quarters of Canadians want pay transparency - 1310news.com/2018/02/08/nea… #ottnews
  
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• Next: @C_Mulroney joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss Ontario PC leadership race 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-02-2018 15:15 via twitter.com
  Next:@C_Mulroney joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss Ontario PC leadership race📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Milder temps today, possible flurries in forecast. Low of -17C

  08-02-2018 15:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Here’s a novelty: There’s isn’t a single weather watch, alert or warning.
  We’re on our way to -7 C under mainly-sunny skies with nothing more than a few flurries Thursday.
  Celebrate with a skate – the Rideau Canal offers up its 26th skating day, already outstripping last winter’s total, the National Capital Commission reported.
  Or look towards spring with their friends at Parks Canada noting Wednesday that it’s “only” 100 days until
  
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• Mother, held in Syria after trying to bring sons home, arrives in Ottawa

  08-02-2018 13:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  OTTAWA — Two and a half months after she first travelled to Lebanon to bring her two young sons home to Canada — a journey that ultimately led her to be smuggled into Syria and taken into some form of quasi-captivity by al-Qaeda-affiliated militants— Jolly Bimbachi is back home with her family.
  Bimbachi arrived at the Ottawa International Airport shortly before 1 a.m. on Thursday morning, where she was greeted by her mother, her daughter, and three sisters.
  Having spent more ti
  
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• Weather: No warnings or alerts! Milder temps, possible flurries in forecast

  08-02-2018 13:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Here’s a novelty: There’s isn’t a single weather watch, alert or warning.
  We’re on our way to -7 C under mainly-sunny skies with nothing more than a few flurries Thursday.
  Celebrate with a skate – the Rideau Canal offers up its 26th skating day, already outstripping last winter’s total, the National Capital Commission reported.
  Or look towards spring with their friends at Parks Canada noting Wednesday that it’s “only” 100 days until
  
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• Mother, held in Syria after trying to bring sons home from Lebanon, arrives back in Ottawa

  08-02-2018 12:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  OTTAWA — Two and a half months after she first travelled to Lebanon to bring her two young sons home to Canada — a journey that ultimately led her to be smuggled into Syria and taken into some form of quasi-captivity by al-Qaeda-affiliated militants— Jolly Bimbachi is back home with her family.
  Bimbachi arrived at the Ottawa International Airport shortly before 1 a.m. on Thursday morning, where she was greeted by her mother, her daughter, and three sisters.
  Having spent more ti
  
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• Questions linger over LRT delay, costs to city 1310news.com/2018/02/08/que… #ottnews https://t.co/gxfE3CjL0w

  08-02-2018 12:42 via twitter.com
  
  Questions linger over LRT delay, costs to city 1310news.com/2018/02/08/que… #ottnews https://t.co/gxfE3CjL0w
  
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• Police arrest man for violating new abortion zone laws - 1310news.com/2018/02/08/pol… #ottnews https://t.co/mqShRXdanp

  08-02-2018 12:24 via twitter.com
  
  Police arrest man for violating new abortion zone laws - 1310news.com/2018/02/08/pol… #ottnews https://t.co/mqShRXdanp
  
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• Megaphono: Forging the missing link between the Ottawa music scene and the world

  08-02-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The fourth annual edition of Megaphono, Ottawa’s only showcase festival and music conference, runs just three days, but it’s jam-packed with activities. More than 70 artists are performing in almost two dozen venues, and at least 50 music-industry delegates from Canada and beyond are participating in panels and networking events.
  The whole idea, according to co-founder Jon Bartlett, who’s also an artist manager with a knack for discovering new talent, is to forge the missing li
  
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• Kyle Turris hoping for warm welcome from Senators fans upon Ottawa return - sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/kyl… #ottnews #Sens https://t.co/Jwj7xwDJ5I

  08-02-2018 11:48 via twitter.com
  
  Kyle Turris hoping for warm welcome from Senators fans upon Ottawa return -sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/kyl… #ottnews #Sens https://t.co/Jwj7xwDJ5I
  
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• BREAKING: Former Ottawa Senator Chris Kelly has been named the captain for Canada's Olympic men's hockey team.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-02-2018 11:45 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Former Ottawa Senator Chris Kelly has been named the captain for Canada's Olympic men's hockey team.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa's live, local, and breaking news. We're live from 5:00am to 9:00am with @Stu_McGinn and @1310glennis. Join us. #ottnews

  08-02-2018 11:18 via twitter.com
  Ottawa's live, local, and breaking news. We're live from 5:00am to 9:00am with @Stu_McGinn and @1310glennis. Join us. #ottnews
  
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• Going batty: Couple living nightmare after buying 'dream-home' farmhouse

  08-02-2018 01:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Matthew Dewan and Katrina Arcand learned that the grey farmhouse near Arcand’s childhood home was for sale, it seemed the answer to their need for more space.
  They needed room for four children. The Kemptville-area farmhouse on an acre-and-a-half of land near the Rideau River had enough space for everyone and even had a separate playroom.
  “I grew up as a farm girl. It  was the greatest thing. I want my children to be here,” said Arcand.
  They put all their savings into
  
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• Outaouais hospitals make changes to deal with overcrowding due to flu outbreak

  08-02-2018 01:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hospitals in the Outaouais region are implementing new measures to fight severe overcrowding in emergency rooms due to a flu outbreak that has pushed hospital staff to their breaking point.
  The outbreak has contributed to overcrowding at the Hôpital de Hull and Hôpital de Gatineau, which were at 176 and 139 per cent capacity, respectively, Wednesday morning. At the two hospitals combined, 37 people had been on stretchers for the past 24 hours and 14 had been stuck on stretchers for 4
  
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• First charges laid against demonstrator in abortion clinic bubble zone

  08-02-2018 00:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have laid their first charges after a demonstrator allegedly violated a new law that provides an automatic 50-metre “bubble zone” around abortion clinics in Ontario.
  Police said a man was arrested Wednesday near The Morgentaler Clinic on Bank Street and charged with several offences under the Safe Access to Abortion Services Act, which came into effect Feb. 1.
  The man, whose name was not released, was set free with a promise to appear in Provincial Offences Court on Mar
  
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• Going batty: Couple living a nightmare after buying 'dream-home' farmhouse

  08-02-2018 00:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Matthew Dewan and Katrina Arcand learned that the grey farmhouse near Arcand’s childhood home was for sale, it seemed the answer to their need for more space.
  They needed room for four children. The Kemptville-area farmhouse on an acre-and-a-half of land near the Rideau River had enough space for everyone and even had a separate playroom.
  “I grew up as a farm girl. It  was the greatest thing. I want my children to be here,” said Arcand.
  They put all their savings into
  
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