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Friday, April 7, 2023

News and Weather Briefing for Friday, April 07, 2023



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Russo-UKrainian War Updates
National News Roundup
COVID-19 News and Updates
Science and Technology
On This Day
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GENERAL OUTLOOK

The front will become stationary from the Gulf to the eastern Carolinas Friday, with waves of low pressure riding along the front. This will result in wet and chilly weather Friday and Saturday. Drier and somewhat warmer conditions will return Sunday as the front settles further south and dry high pressure builds in from the north.



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Local Weather

General Forecast Through Sunday Night





Franklin Area

Today

Showers and thunderstorms likely before 11am, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm between 11am and 1pm, then showers after 1pm. Patchy fog between 7am and 11am. Highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Light and variable winds. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.

Tonight

Rain. Patchy fog after 1am. Lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the east around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Saturday

Rain. Highs near 50. Winds out of the east 3 to 7 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Saturday Night

Rain likely, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows in the upper 30s. Winds out of the northeast around 5 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.

Sunday

Sunny, with highs in the lower 60s.

Sunday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s.
Highlands Plateau

Today

Showers and thunderstorms likely before 10am, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm between 10am and 1pm, then showers after 1pm. Patchy fog between 7am and 10am. Highs near 60. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.

Tonight

Rain. Patchy fog. Lows in the upper 30s. Winds out of the northeast 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Saturday

Rain. Highs near 41. Winds out of the northeast 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.

Saturday Night

Rain likely, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 35. Winds out of the northeast 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.

Sunday

Sunny, with highs in the low-to-mid 50s.

Sunday Night

Mostly clear, with lows around freezing.
Otto and South Central Macon County

Today

Showers and thunderstorms likely before 11am, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm between 11am and 2pm, then showers after 2pm. Patchy fog between 7am and 11am. Highs in the low-to-mid 60s. Calm winds becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.

Tonight

Rain. Patchy fog after 3am. Lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Saturday

Rain. Patchy fog before 8am. Highs near 49. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Saturday Night

Rain likely, mainly before 7pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the northeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 60%.

Sunday

Sunny, with highs near 60.

Sunday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid 30s.


Nantahala Area

Today

Showers and thunderstorms likely before 9am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 9am and noon, then showers after noon. Patchy fog between 10am and 3pm. Highs near 60. Light winds out of the northeast. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between three quarters and one inch possible.

Tonight

Rain. Patchy fog before 2am, then patchy fog after 3am. Lows in the mid 40s. Winds out of the southeast 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Saturday

Rain. Patchy fog before 8am. Highs in the upper 40s. Winds out of the east 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.

Saturday Night

A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly before 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with lows around 40. Winds out of the east around 5 mph.

Sunday

Sunny, with highs near 60.

Sunday Night

Mostly clear, with lows in the mid-to-upper 30s.


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Hazards and Tropical Weather

Hazardous weather is not expected today.





Latest US Drought Monitor Map for North Carolina.

Space Weather The Sun Works Up Some Big Flares and Fast Wind | Space Weather News: 31 March 2023




Back to Top El Nino is Coming - A Look at What That Means and What to Watch for Over the Coming Months | hurricantrack





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Almanac

24 Hour Smoke Forecast









PM2.5 AQI is 30 (MODERATE) for most of the county, and the ridges and other higher elevations PM2.5 AQI is 30 (MODERATE)


Fire and Smoke Map




Local Air Monitor

Pollen

Pollen levels are expected to be in the low range (1.1 out of 12) today with Oak, Juniper, and Birch being the main culprits. Tomorrow is expected to be in the low range (1.1 out of 12).



Record Weather Events for April 7th

Record weather events for this date in Macon County
(1872-2016)

Highest Temperature 84°F in Franklin in 1967
Lowest Temperature 14°F in Highlands in 2007
Greatest One-Day Rain 7.00 inches in Highlands in 1895 (also a state record)
Greatest One-Day Snowfall 5.0 inches in Highlands in 1989

Weather Extremes for Macon County for the month of April Data available from 1872

Highest Temperature 91°F in Franklin on 04-26-1986
Lowest Temperature 13°F in Highlands on 04-01-1987
Greatest Rainfall 7.00 inches in Highlands on 04-07-1895 (also a state record)
Greatest Snowfall 9.5 inches in Franklin on 04-04-1987

Record Weather Events for April 7th in North Carolina

rdrd Highest Temperature 95°F in Roxboro, Person County in 2006
Lowest Temperature 2°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2007
Greatest Rainfall 7.00 inches in Highlands, Macon County in 1895
Greatest Snowfall 13.0 inches in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County in 2017
Weather Extremes for North Carolina for the month of April Data available from 1872

Highest Temperature 102°F in Carthage, Moore County on 04-29-1981
Lowest Temperature 1°F in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 04-08-2007
Greatest Rainfall 7.30 inches in Lake Toxaway, Transylvania County on 04-16-2011
Greatest Snowfall 19.00 in Mount Mitchell, Yancey County on 04-11-2003




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Macon Calendar
(send your event to calendar@maconmedia.com)

SUNDAY, APRIL 30th

Youth Mental Health-Help Rally From 2pm to 4pm at the Town Gazebo LINK: https://fb.me/e/RrdJAWHS

Come join us on our first Youth Mental Health and Bullying Rally to raise more awareness about this urgent need for us children. This inaugural event is the first youth led event for Youth Mental Health as far a we know in Franklin NC.

Our event will close with our March from Macon County Court House to Franklin Town Hall.

Local speakers include NC State Senator Kevin Corbin, Franklin Chief of Police Holland, and others

Youth provider organizations will be on site to share resources and education

For more information send email to whyuskids0@gmail.com

SATURDAY, MAY 6th

Friends of the Greenway Spring Arts and Crafts Event (FROG FAIR) From 10am to 4pm

Friends of the Greenway announce their Spring arts and crafts event. FROG FAIR will be held May 6, 2023 from 10-4 at FROG Quarters, 573 E. Main at the Town bridge in Franklin. Vendor spaces are available (only registration fee goes to FROG)--check our website (littletennessee.org) for registration forms or stop by FROG Quarters. Volunteers needed too. Make sure to mark your calendar--arts and crafts, food, and music will make it a special day. For more information, email frog28734@gmail.com.







No events have been submitted for Macon Calendar.
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Local and State News



• Governor Cooper calls for accountability in Canton [BPR]

• Pactiv Evergreen closure: Gov. Cooper takes message of hope, determination to Canton [WLOS-TV (Asheville, NC)]

• Newly veto-proof North Carolina GOP files transgender bans [WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC)]

• What does NC Rep. Tricia Cotham stand for? Here’s what her voting history shows [Raleigh News and Observer]

• Several employees OD on the job at popular south Charlotte restaurant [WSOC-TV (Charlotte, NC)]

• HB259 NC House Bill Budget Substitute [PDF Download (640 pages)]



Proposed State Budget for 2023-2025 [Download PDF]



• Macon County Board of Commissioners March 2023 Regular Meeting [Macon Media]


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National and World News Roundup

• Judge in Trump's criminal case has received dozens of threats, police sources say [ABC News]

• Some clothing workers in Los Angeles earn as little as $1.58 an hour, Labor Department finds [CBS News]

• Tennessee House moves to expel 3 Democrats after gun protest [AP News]

• Clarence Thomas has accepted undisclosed luxury trips from GOP megadonor for decades, report says [CNBC]

• Maryland sheriff and firearms dealer indicted in illegal machine gun acquisition scheme, DOJ says [CNN]

Washington Today (4-6-23): TN House votes on expelling three Dems for anti-gun protests in chamber | C-SPAN RADIO



Global National: April 6, 2023 | How can Ontario, Quebec recover after harsh spring storm?



Nightly News Full Broadcast - April 06


PBS NewsHour full episode, (April 06, 2022




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COVID-19 News and Updates

Here is a section on COVID-19. It includes local, regional, state, national, and global items.



COVID-19 Numbers for Macon County:






• WHO Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard [World Health Organization]

In United States of America, from 3 January 2020 to 11:02am CEST, 6 April 2023, there have been 102,873,924 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,118,800 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 31 March 2023, a total of 666,193,352 vaccine doses have been administered.

Globally, as of 11:02am CEST, 6 April 2023, there have been 762,201,169 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 6,893,190 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 4 April 2023, a total of 13,337,835,146 vaccine doses have been administered.


• COVID caused brain damage in 2 infants infected during pregnancy -US study [ Reuters ]

• Covid origins: Chinese scientists publish long-awaited data [ BBC News ]

• Excess deaths doubled in Japan in 2022 — COVID-19 may be to blame [ The Japan Times ]

Immune 66: COVID-19 immune memory - what you need to know | Microbe TV



• TWiV 996: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin [Microbe TV]

• TWiV 997: Inside Omicron with Mohsan Saeed [Microbe TV]




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Science and Technology News Roundup

• Is Artificial Intelligence Better at Assessing Heart Health? [Cedars Sinai]

• Walmart will add thousands of EV charging stations to stores by 2030 [CNBC]

• Kobo’s $400 Elipsa 2E jumps into the “big e-readers with a pen” fight [ARS TECHNICA]

• Color Variants & Styles Are Coming to Linux Mint 21.2 [It's FOSS News]

• Outrage over white-only job ad drives tech firm to delete website [ARS TECHNICA]

• New study reports 1 in 5 adults don't want children, and they don't regret it later [PHYS.ORG]

• Z-Library returns, aims to avoid seizures by giving each user a secret URL [ARS TECHNICA]


Evergreen Links

• Red Dead Online player bids farewell to Google Stadia save by releasing horse they named after their departed daughter [Games Radar]

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History 69 - Twilight of the Æsir



Hardcore History: AddendumEP24 Manifesting the Muse with Rick | Dan Carlin



• Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 drops white paper on building the open metaverse [Venture Beat] [PDF of White paper]

• Yes, the Great Books Make Us Better People [New York Times]


How Do We Know What We Know? Philosophy of Science | Fraser Cain






Podcasts and Long Form Videos (History, Culture, Science, Space, Technology and Current Events)
Anything covering educational, entertainment, history, current events, and technology topics

An ULTRAMASSIVE black hole has been discovered in A BRAND NEW WAY | Dr. Becky



The Level1 Show April 7 2023: The Divine Right of Rodents | Level1 Techs



You Can Log In, But Never Log Out - DTNS 4493 | Daily Tech News Show



Is Our Understanding of Life Wrong? With Dr. Janusz Petkowski | Event Horizon



SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Intelsat 40e with NASA's TEMPO | NASA Spaceflight



Nuclear Propulsion From Earth to Mars in Just 45 Days | Megaprojects



Linux Action News 287 | Jupiter Broadcasting



Stacking Dies For Performance and Profit | Asianometry



30 Windows Commands you CAN’T live without | Network Chuck





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Special Section: The Russo-Ukrainian War
(sharing of a particular source is not an endorsement)



• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 06 [Institute for the Study of War] [PDF for April 6th]

• Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 408 [Al Jazeera]

• Russo-Ukrainian War. Day 407: Zelenskyy visits Poland, brings back a new military assistance package [Euromaiden Press]


• HMS Queen Elizabeth to be deployed to deter Russian aggression [The Times]

• Ukraine War Plans Leak Prompts Pentagon Investigation [New York Times]

• Wagner advances in Bakhmut as Ukraine gears up for counterattack [Al Jazeera]

• Belarus deploys tanks near Lithuanian border: report [TVP World]

• Explained: Ukraine's fight for Bakhmut [DW News]

• A Leaked IT contractor files detail Kremlin's stockpile of cyber-weapons [The Register]

• ‘Vulkan files’ leak reveals Putin’s global and domestic cyberwarfare tactics [The Guardian]

'Buffer zone' between NATO and Russia shrinking | DW News



Finland joins NATO, Zelenskyy visits Poland, Russia has a big new headache - Rock Rachon | TVP World



'Putin has decided to become the new Stalin': Exiled Russian dissident Vladimir Osechkin | FRANCE 24 English



French President Emmanuel Macron presses Xi to urge Russian peace in Ukraine | WION Fineprint



The heavy cost of a long war for Russia’s ‘best of the best’ | BBC Newsnight



Finland Joins NATO: What This Historic Alliance Expansion Means | WSJ




News from Russian or pro-Russian outlets or Video About the Russian Perspective

Douglas Macgregor & Andrew N.: "Russian missiles nosediving in a top attack" | Straight Calls with Douglas Macgregor



• China issues warning to US and NATO over Ukraine [Russia Today]

**Pravda has not updated today** • Vladlen Tatarsky's killer Daria Trepova suspected of working for Ukraine [Pravda]

• Russian forces kill up to ten Ukrainian troops, destroy suicide drone in DPR [TASS Russian News Agency]





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On This Day

April 7 is the 97th day of the year (98th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 268 days remain until the end of the year.



Historical Events

(Please note that the Wikipedia articles often contain a bibliography and links to where you can learn more about a historical event)




451 – Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz and attacks other cities in Gaul.

529 – First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.

611 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.

1141 – Empress Matilda becomes the first female ruler of England, adopting the title 'Lady of the English'.

1348 – Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV charters Prague University.

1449 – Felix V abdicates his claim to the papacy, ending the reign of the final Antipope.

1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.

1541 – Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.

1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion, BWV 245, at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

1767 – End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–67).

1788 – Settlers establish Marietta, Ohio, the first permanent settlement created by U.S. citizens in the recently organized Northwest Territory.

1795 – The French First Republic adopts the kilogram and gram as its primary unit of mass.

1798 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and the Spanish Empire. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.

1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.

1805 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premieres his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

1831 – Pedro II becomes Emperor of Brazil.

1862 – American Civil War: The Union's Army of the Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio defeat the Confederate Army of Mississippi near Shiloh, Tennessee.

1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation, is assassinated by a Fenian activist.

1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.

1906 – The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.

1922 – Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.

1926 – Violet Gibson attempts to assassinate Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.[5]

1927 – AT&T transmits the first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).

1933 – Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States.)

1933 – Nazi Germany issues the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service banning Jews and political dissidents from civil service posts.

1939 – Benito Mussolini declares an Italian protectorate over Albania and forces King Zog I into exile.

1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.

1943 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.

1943 – Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.

1943 – The National Football League makes helmets mandatory.

1945 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato, one of the two largest ever constructed, is sunk by United States Navy aircraft during Operation Ten-Go.

1946 – The Soviet Union annexes East Prussia as the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.

1954 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.

1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.

1956 – Francoist Spain agrees to surrender its protectorate in Morocco.

1964 – IBM announces the System/360.

1965 – Representatives of the National Congress of American Indians testify before members of the US Senate in Washington, D.C. against the termination of the Colville tribe.

1968 – Two-time Formula One British World Champion Jim Clark dies in an accident during a Formula Two race in Hockenheim.

1969 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.

1971 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.

1972 – Vietnam War: Communist forces overrun the South Vietnamese town of Loc Ninh.

1976 – Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party after being arrested for faking his own death.

1977 – German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.

1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.

1980 – During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran.

1982 – Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh is arrested.

1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.

1988 – Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov orders the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.

1989 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway, killing 42 sailors.

1990 – A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.

1990 – John Poindexter is convicted for his role in the Iran–Contra affair.

1994 – Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda, and soldiers kill the civilian Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.

1994 – Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.

1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.

2001 – NASA launches the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter.

2003 – Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime falls two days later.

2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.

2009 – Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.

2011 – The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system to successfully intercept a BM-21 Grad launched from Gaza, marking the first short-range missile intercept ever.

2017 – A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people and injuring fifteen others.

2017 – U.S. President Donald Trump orders the 2017 Shayrat missile strike against Syria in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack.

2018 – Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is arrested for corruption by determination of Judge Sérgio Moro, from the “Car-Wash Operation”. Lula stayed imprisoned for 580 days, after being released by the Brazilian Supreme Court.

2018 – Syria launches the Douma chemical attack during the Eastern Ghouta offensive of the Syrian Civil War.

2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan.

2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier.

2021 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States.

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Published at 5:00am on Friday, April 07, 2023
Author: Bobby Coggins


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Macon County Board of Elections 03-11-2014 The Macon County Board of Elections holds a special meeting to hear a challenge brought by Charles "Scoon" Nichols to the candidacy of Macon County Commissioner Ron Haven regarding his eligibility to file as a candidate in the District II County Commissioner race. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9lNBy-faAA ********************* Jair Bolsonaro leaves Brazil for the US ahead of Lula’s inauguration https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/americas/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-us-lula-inauguration-intl-latam Dang. He pulled a Trump and snuck out of town and can't be civil during the transfer of power. What a toddler move. ******************** Fierce Kitty, Glorious Kitty, Little Ball of Fur. Honourable Kitty, Warrior Kitty, Qapla' Qapla' Qapla'-->
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