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Schmid Shot at Smith’s Lyme disease Amendment Doesn’t Help Her, Experts Say

https://newjerseyglobe.com/congress/schmid-shot-at-smiths-lyme-disease-amendment-doesnt-help-her-experts-say/


House Candidate Stephanie Schmid. Photo by Kevin Sanders for the New Jersey Globe

Schmid shot at Smith’s Lyme disease amendment doesn’t help her, experts say

Democratic-controlled House unanimously passed Smith call for probe into origin of Lyme disease

By David Wildstein, July 22 2020

After Rep. Christopher Smith (R-Hamilton) got the U.S. House of Representatives to agree to probe whether the U.S. government ever weaponized ticks with Lyme disease on Monday evening, Democrat Stephanie Schmid may have walked right into a political buzz saw.

Schmid pounced on Smith, accusing him of wasting tax dollars and “promoting debunked conspiracy theories.”

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

The ignorant one here is Schmid who obviously doesn’t know her history.  

For more:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/07/31/tick-expert-admits-to-working-on-ticks-dropping-them-out-of-airplanes/

In this eye-opening interview with entomologist James Oliver, we learn he went to Fort Detrick and did distribution tests on ticks after they released them from airplanes.  He explains that members of the army and civil service people had special training and aptitude, and were working on biological warfare in crops and bacteriology.

“Everything was very hush-hush, very secret.  I’m still leery talking about it, because I think they might put me in jail because I’m delivering secrets.  It was a crazy time.” James Oliver

Does that sound like conspiracy “theory” to you?  Me either.

Further, we learn it was shut down in 2019 after a failed safety inspection.  It housed frightening pathogens like Ebola & Tularemia:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/08/07/fort-detrick-lab-shut-down-after-failed-safety-inspection-all-research-halted-indefinitely/

Then there’s that little nagging fact that the “discoverer” of Lyme disease, Willy Burgdorfer, worked at a biowarfare lab and partnered with Oliver:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/08/06/kris-newby-responds-to-telfords-criticism-of-bitten/  In this link, investigative journalist Kris Newby tells the history:

The Army explained: “In 1953, the Biological Warfare Laboratories at Fort Detrick established a program to study the use of arthropods for spreading anti-personnel BW agents. The advantages of arthropods as BW carriers are these: they inject the agent directly into the body, so that a mask is no protection to a soldier, and they will remain alive for some time, keeping an area constantly dangerous.” Source: U.S. Army Chemical Corps, “Summary of Major Events and Problems (Fiscal Year 1959),” Rocky Mountain Arsenal Archive.

Burgdorfer, the discoverer of the Lyme bacterium, was a key member of this project team. He worked on weaponizing ticks and teamed up with fellow tick expert James Oliver at the Ft. Detrick bioweapons headquarters to develop ways to mass produce infected ticks so that they could be dropped from airplanes on enemy territory. These claims are backed up by interviews with these scientists, as well as with extensive government documentation from multiple reliable sources, all listed in BITTEN…

And after my interview, I verified his claims with recently released documents, including a 1962 Memorandum to the NIH Director that says that Dr. Burgdorfer, “was engaged for 3 years on classified projects (Army) from which findings could not be published because of their impact on national defense.”

So much for conspiracy “theory.”

Then there’s Lab 257 on Plum Island (another biowarfare lab), right off the coast of Connecticut where the first outbreak occurred:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/07/21/got-15-minutes-the-officially-ignored-link-between-lyme-plum-island/  Within this link another entomologist explains that ticks have been experimented on due to their ability to spread disease.  He admits ticks have been genetically engineered, have become more ‘potent’ and that scientists can create human disease almost at will.

The Plum Island biowarfare lab relocated to KU:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2015/07/07/plum-island-research-center-moved-to-ku/

Another chronological timeline of events complete with FOIA documents and studies:  https://galacticconnection.com/lyme-disease-mycoplasma-and-bioweapons-development-timeline/  Of particular interest is the Burgdorfer’s involvement with infecting the relapsing fever tick with Borrelia latychevi, a close relative to Lyme, at the NIH Rocky Mountains Lab, demonstrating they were working on infecting ticks with borrelia in bioweapons labs well before the 1975 Plum Island outbreak. A few years later Burgdorfer studies the artificial feeding of black-legged ticks for the transmission of disease agents, again showing they were infecting ticks with diseases to use in research experiments by those involved with bioweaponry. He also infected ticks with leptospirosis, another spirochete similar to Lyme that infects humans. 

In later research they state that these spirochetes persist in the body and when infected cows develop the “chronic form” it is associated with abortion, stillbirth, infertility, loss of milk production or premature birth in weak an infected calves. http://www.ivis.org/proceedings/navc/2005/LA/001.pdf?LA=1

This link https://sites.google.com/site/jerryleonard999/home/burgdorfer shows that a highly pathogenic “clone”of borrelia found in Ixodid ticks “dispersed rapidly and widely in the recent past” and caused an epidemic Lyme disease centered around a biowarfare lab. 

One of the best reads is by Jerry Leonard, a tireless and knowledgable researcher on this topic:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/07/19/biological-warfare-experiment-on-american-citizens-results-in-spreading-pandemic/

Coming around full circle to the COVID fiasco, Gates Foundation monies via CEPI are financing the messengerRNA Moderna SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. Moderna’s other partner is the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which Dr Fauci heads and who is front and center of the Trump Administration virus emergency response.  The experimental vaccine was sent to Fauci’s NIH for tests on human guinea pigs, not on mice. 

Time for people to get their heads out of the sand and wake up.  They’ve been experimenting with ticks & spreading them for a long, long time.

 

 

 

 

 

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Melatonin As An Antioxidant: Under Promises But Over Delivers

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpi.12360  (Full article here)

Melatonin as an antioxidant: under promises but over delivers

Russel J. Reiter, Juan C. Mayo*, Dun-Xian Tan, Rosa M. Sainz*, Moises Alatorre-Jimenez, Lilan Qin

Accepted August 5, 2016

Abstract
Melatonin is uncommonly effective in reducing oxidative stress under a remarkably
large number of circumstances. It achieves this action via a variety of means: direct
detoxification of reactive oxygen and reactive nitrogen species and indirectly by
stimulating antioxidant enzymes while suppressing the activity of pro- oxidant en–
zymes. In addition to these well- described actions, melatonin also reportedly che–
lates transition metals, which are involved in the Fenton/Haber–Weiss reactions; in
doing so, melatonin reduces the formation of the devastatingly toxic hydroxyl radical
resulting in the reduction of oxidative stress. Melatonin’s ubiquitous but unequal
intracellular distribution, including its high concentrations in mitochondria, likely
aid in its capacity to resist oxidative stress and cellular apoptosis. There is credible
evidence to suggest that melatonin should be classified as a mitochondria- targeted
antioxidant. Melatonin’s capacity to prevent oxidative damage and the associated
physiological debilitation is well documented in numerous experimental ischemia/
reperfusion (hypoxia/reoxygenation) studies especially in the brain (stroke) and in
the heart (heart attack). Melatonin, via its antiradical mechanisms, also reduces the
toxicity of noxious prescription drugs and of methamphetamine, a drug of abuse.
Experimental findings also indicate that melatonin renders treatment-resistant can–
cers sensitive to various therapeutic agents and may be useful, due to its multiple
antioxidant actions, in especially delaying and perhaps treating a variety of age-
related diseases and dehumanizing conditions. Melatonin has been effectively used
to combat oxidative stress, inflammation and cellular apoptosis and to restore tissue
function in a number of human trials; its efficacy supports its more extensive use in a
wider variety of human studies. The uncommonly high- safety profile of melatonin
also bolsters this conclusion. It is the current feeling of the authors that, in view of
the widely diverse beneficial functions that have been reported for melatonin, these
may be merely epiphenomena of the more fundamental, yet- to- be identified basic
action(s) of this ancient molecule
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**Comment**
Melatonin, normally thought of as the “sleep hormone,” does so much and may help Lyme/MSIDS patients particularly due to the amount of inflammation they struggle with, as well as oxidative stress, sleep issues, and the need to detoxify due to harsh antimicrobial treatment.  When I heard about it’s ability to detoxify the brain, I knew I had to read up on it.  I’ve been using it ever since.

 

 

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$5 Million Gift Aims to Propel Lyme Disease Research & Education

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200706/245-million-gift-aims-to-propel-Lyme-disease-research-and-education.aspx

$5 million gift aims to propel Lyme disease research and education

To the Fairbairns, the symptoms–debilitating fatigue, joint pain, cognitive problems–were as worrisome as they were mystifying. All four members of the family had them.

Eventually, all four tested positive for the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. After months of hitting diagnostic brick walls, the family had a unifying explanation for their symptoms, yet getting them under control took a year. Their conditions are now chronic, with recurrent flare-ups that require ongoing medical management.

The family’s experience is not uncommon. In an effort to help spare others with the disease a similar odyssey of pain, worry and confusion, the Fairbairns have made a $5 million donation to Harvard Medical School.

The gift, which will fund three tracks, is aimed at propelling research into Lyme disease and improving public understanding of the most common vector-borne disease in the United States. Even though official reports put the annual number of Lyme disease cases at around 300,000 people per year, that number likely underestimates the true magnitude of infections and the spread of the disease. The National Institutes of Health estimates that the actual number of Lyme disease cases occurring every year is much higher.

The gift will fund the following areas:

  • The neuroimmunology track ($2 million) will attempt to elucidate how the bacterial pathogen behind Lyme disease may influence the interplay between immunity, inflammation and the nervous system during infection.
  • The mechanisms of Lyme disease track ($2 million) will study the fundamental processes that underlie the development of disease following infection with disease-causing bacteria (most commonly, Borrelia burgdorferi, and more rarely other organisms).
  • The education track ($1 million) will support efforts to empower the lay public through improved public understanding and prevention of the disease.

“There is growing evidence that in the setting of infection, the immune system and the nervous system engage in a complex interaction,” said Isaac Chiu, who will lead the neuroimmunology research arm with colleague Jun Huh, both assistant professors of immunology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS.

The disease-mechanisms research track will investigate more broadly how the bacteria that cause Lyme disease interact with cells, tissues, and organs and can result in acute and chronic disease--knowledge that can inform new and more effective diagnostics and therapies and could help propel vaccine research. Over the next five years, this funding will support grants awarded to researchers looking at different aspects of Lyme disease at Harvard Medical School and its affiliated hospitals.

“These grants will facilitate cutting-edge, adventurous science and the ability to ask questions that are going to move the field forward in jumps instead of incremental steps,” said Mark Namchuk, executive director of therapeutics translation at HMS, who will administer the disease-mechanism fund.

 

The education track will support efforts to inform the public about ways to prevent Lyme disease and about the latest research on the pathophysiology of the condition.

Most of the funding in the education arm will be used to develop new content for Harvard Health Publishing, which provides health information to people around the world, drawing upon the expertise of more than 11,000 Harvard Medical School faculty physicians.

“One of Harvard Medical School’s core tenets is generating knowledge and disseminating it to the public,” said David Roberts, dean for External Education at HMS, who will administer the education fund. “Using this far-reaching educational platform, we hope to improve the understanding of this disease and offer information that can help improve the lives of those affected.”

Lyme disease is a confounding disorder. Its presentation can vary from person to person, and a diagnosis is rarely straightforward. A single tick bite can transmit multiple disease-causing organisms. Infections with more than one organism can result in widely ranging disease presentation and may alter how the immune system responds to the infection. Exactly how these coinfections affect disease presentation, symptoms and the short-term and long-term course of the disease remains largely unknown.

There are no consistently accurate tests, and most diagnoses require complex clinical assessment and astute clinical judgment in addition to testing for the causative organisms. A negative test for bacterial infection does not necessarily rule out the presence of disease. The accuracy and speed of diagnosis are further complicated by the varying range and presentation of symptoms. For people who develop lingering symptoms and chronic forms of this disease, there is no established cure and the most common treatment–several classes of oral or intravenous antibiotics–do not work reliably for everyone.

These are all areas of research that require unwavering scientific attention and sustained research efforts enabled by a steady stream of funding, the Fairbairns said.

“Historically, Lyme disease research has been woefully underfunded, and much more needs to be done to better understand this complex disease and its devastating consequences,” said Emily Fairbairn, whose husband Malcolm and daughter, Nina, are both Harvard University alumni. The youngest family member, Grant, is expected to graduate from Harvard College in 2021.

“Per-patient NIH funding for Lyme disease research amounts to less than $90 per newly diagnosed patient per year, and this is precisely why private philanthropy is crucial,” Emily Fairbairn added. “This disease needs billions of dollars, not millions. We are hoping that this investment will make strides that will attract even more funding to better understand, prevent and treat this important disease.”

The Fairbairn family previously donated $1 million to the laboratory of geneticist George Church to support research into the genomics of Lyme disease.

Source:

Harvard Medical School

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**Comment**

And this, right here, is how Lyme/MSIDS research makes any progress at all – by private donations and often research done by people who are infected themselves.  Sad but true. Our government and major institutions have by and large tossed tick-borne illness off to the side OR they follow an extremely myopic narrative which completely denies chronic/persistent infection.

Let’s pray this newly funded work yields some badly needed answers.

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FREE: Chronic Lyme Disease Summit Online July 27-Aug 2

https://chroniclymediseasesummit4.com/

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Don’t miss The Chronic Lyme Disease Summit 4

Now considered to be a dysfunction of the immune system, Lyme disease can mimic other chronic conditions; it can manifest in autoimmunity… along with other misunderstood chronic conditions, Lyme disease has destroyed people’s lives. 

Lyme disease can be a devastating (and sometimes hidden) condition, but it doesn’t have to be! Known as “The Great Imitator,” Lyme disease may mimic other chronic health conditions: arthritis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, MS, depression…

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Lyme disease is difficult to diagnose and treat and has over 150 different possible symptoms: fatigue, mood problems, insomnia, neurological impairments, brain fog, migraines, gut issues, neuropathy, joint pain and others. If not properly treated, over time Lyme disease becomes chronic and can manifest in autoimmunity or a number of other degenerative, debilitating health issues.

Some people live in a cycle of symptom management while remaining extremely ill.
Many doctors don’t know which medications to give people, so many have to find their own solutions.

The fact is: if you don’t know the root cause of your health issues, it’s so much harder to heal.

WHY ATTEND?
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Lean on the wisdom of our health experts to help with:
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P.S. When you register for The Chronic Lyme Disease Summit 4k, you’ll also unlock early-access interviews, complimentary guides and helpful eBooksabout living your most resilient life!

 

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**Comment**

Just for clarification: ALL disease is basically due to an impaired immune system from the standpoint of if the immune system was working at 100% it would be able to fight off disease.  Tick-borne illness by nature causes immune dysfunction as these are pathogens who work synergistically together and literally feast upon the human body, depriving it of vital nutrients.  Of course replacing those nutrients and building blocks is essential but in my opinion only one prong of treatment.  Detoxification is another prong, and antimicrobial treatment is the third important prong.

When we only focus on the immune system we miss a key of the puzzle and that is the pathogens themselves – which typically means antimicrobial treatment of one form or another.

From my experience, when the pathogens are dealt with, many if not most symptoms just disappear.

There’s always exceptions.  I’ve personally heard stories of people getting well on nothing but supportive things like diet and supplements; however, they are in the minority.  I get excited over each and every person who finds wholeness – no matter how it comes, but at the end of the day we all must make informed choices and nobody knows your body better than you do. You must gather all the information you can and choose for yourself your course of action.  All I can say is “God speed” on whatever you choose and may you reach the other side.

For more on treatment:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/02/13/lyme-disease-treatment/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/06/26/new-treatments-for-lyme-disease-on-the-horizon/

https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/02/22/why-mainstream-lyme-msids-research-remains-in-the-dark-ages/ This article is based upon an important video Dr. Burrascano did where he shares nuances of successful treatment. Blood levels of antimicrobials are important (dosage) as well as cycling (going off treatment when you’ve been symptom-free for 2-3 months and then hitting it hard with antimicrobials if and when you relapse.  He’s found that doing 3-4 cycles has brought people to remission).

Some of the sickest patients I’ve seen are 1) those who have had it for decades 2) used antimicrobials (typically antibiotics) indiscriminately.  It takes a trained eye and know-how to treat this.  You can NOT just throw more and more doxycycline at this.  It takes many antimicrobials and varying dosages (depending upon the person) in a layered fashion.  You have to deal with all forms of Bb (borrelia or Lyme) as well as every coinfection, which can include worms.

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Happy 4th of July!

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https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

In Congress, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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**Comment**

Never were the words in this document more important than today.

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