Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Facebook rolls out same-sex icons for gay marriage

From timeline of Jeremy Hooper/Good As You

By Helen A.S. Popkin

Facebook

Jeremy Hooper was the first to use the new same-sex marriage icon Facebook rolled out on Sunday. The writer, activist and author of the new book "If It's A Choice?" updated his Timeline over the weekend with his June 2009 Connecticut? marriage to healthcare CEO Andrew Shulman with a photo of the happy couple, and a two-groom, cake topper-style image.?

Before Sunday, gay Facebook users who wanted to indicate their marital status on the social network were relegated to the bride-and-groom, cake topper-style icon. The new Facebook icon choices ? two grooms or two brides ? allow gay newlyweds "to see themselves in the choices they make, and that means a lot," Allison Palmer, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLADD) spokesperson, told msnbc.com.

Hooper's Timeline update with the new icon was soon followed by that of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who married Sean Eldridge on Saturday.

Facebook's new icons come two weeks after Apple updated its iPhone operating system with gay and lesbian emojis ? texting and email emoticons ? featuring same-sex couples and families. The support also extended to an unlikely corner of the Web last week, on Oreo?s Facebook page. The cookie company posted a six-layered, rainbow-hued Oreo cookie to Facebook and Twitter. Unlike the concept cookie however, the Facebook icons actually exist.

Palmer said the addition of the same-sex marriage icons is the latest in Facebook's support of the LGBT community. In February 2011, the social network added civil unions and domestic partnerships to relationship status options. In 2010 Facebook, GLADD and other LGBT organizations created "Network of Support," the social network's initiative to combat cyberbullying and support LGBT teens. In June, Facebook received a GLADD media award for its support of the LGBT community.

While gay marriage is now recognized everywhere on Facebook via the new same-sex cake topper icons, it's still only legal in nine of the United States, and even in those states, gay married couples don't receive the same tax benefits as heterosexual married couples. Still, the visibility offered on Facebook can help pave the way for more gay rights in the future, said GLADD spokesperson Rich Ferraro.

"Facebook offers another platform where people can see same-sex couples are just as committed and loving? as any couple," Ferraro told msnbc.com. "People can see photos of families and come to realize we deserve the same opportunities to love and take care of each other."

While the new Facebook cake-topper offerings "are just a small icon, young adults can see that they too can hopefully have that opportunity to love and be happy in their future."

For more stories about the Internet and privacy, follow Helen A.S. Popkin ?on ?Twitter?and/or?Facebook. Also,?Google+.

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China court: Apple pays $60M to settle iPad case

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2012 file photo, a man walks by an advertisement of Apple's iPad 2 in Shanghai, China. Apple has agreed to pay China's Shenzhen Proview Technology $60 million to settle a dispute over ownership of the iPad name, a court announced Monday, July 2, 2012, removing a potential obstacle to sales of the popular tablet computer in the key Chinese market. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2012 file photo, a man walks by an advertisement of Apple's iPad 2 in Shanghai, China. Apple has agreed to pay China's Shenzhen Proview Technology $60 million to settle a dispute over ownership of the iPad name, a court announced Monday, July 2, 2012, removing a potential obstacle to sales of the popular tablet computer in the key Chinese market. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Visitors look at computer products near advertisement for Apple's iPad tablet computer at an Apple store in Beijing, China, Monday, July 2, 2012. Apple agreed to pay $60 million to settle a dispute in China over ownership of the iPad name, a court announced Monday, removing a potential obstacle to sales of the popular tablet computer in the key Chinese market. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Visitors look at computer products near advertisement for Apple's iPad tablet computer at an Apple store in Beijing, China, Monday, July 2, 2012. Apple agreed to pay $60 million to settle a dispute in China over ownership of the iPad name, a court announced Monday, removing a potential obstacle to sales of the popular tablet computer in the key Chinese market. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Visitors look at computer products near advertisement for Apple's iPad tablet computer at an Apple store in Beijing, China, Monday, July 2, 2012. Apple agreed to pay $60 million to settle a dispute in China over ownership of the iPad name, a court announced Monday, removing a potential obstacle to sales of the popular tablet computer in the key Chinese market. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A woman walks near the Apple logo outside an Apple store in Shanghai, China on Monday July 2, 2012. Apple agreed to pay $60 million to settle a dispute in China over ownership of the iPad name, a court announced Monday, removing a potential obstacle to sales of the popular tablet computer in the key Chinese market. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

(AP) ? Apple has paid $60 million to settle a dispute in China over ownership of the iPad name, a court announced Monday, removing a potential obstacle to sales of the popular tablet computer in the key Chinese market.

Apple's dispute with Shenzhen Proview Technology highlighted the possible pitfalls for global companies in China's infant trademark system. It also posed a challenge for the communist government, which wants to attract technology investors to develop China's economy.

Apple Inc. says it bought the global rights to the iPad name from Proview in 2009 but Chinese authorities say the rights in China were never transferred. A Chinese court ruled in December that Proview still owned the name in China. Proview, which is struggling financially, asked Chinese authorities to seize iPads in an apparent effort to pressure Apple to settle.

"The iPad dispute resolution is ended," the Guangdong High People's Court said in a statement. "Apple Inc. has transferred $60 million to the account of the Guangdong High Court as requested in the mediation letter."

China is Apple's second-largest market after the United States and the source of much of the Cupertino, California-based company's sales growth.

Proview hoped for more money but felt pressure to settle because it needs to pay debts, said a lawyer for the company, Xie Xianghui. He said Proview sought as much as $400 million and might still be declared bankrupt in a separate legal proceeding despite the infusion of settlement money.

"This is a result that is acceptable to both sides," Xie said.

The dispute centered on whether Apple acquired the iPad name in China when it bought rights in various countries from a Proview affiliate in Taiwan for 35,000 British pounds ($55,000). The December court ruling said Proview, which registered the iPad trademark in China in 2001, was not bound by that sale, even though it was part of the same company.

The settlement should be good news for both Apple and its customers because it clears a potential obstacle for the company to start selling the new iPad 3 in China, said You Yunting, a lawyer for the DeBund Law Office in Shanghai.

"It is a good deal for Apple, because sales of iPads, which are in great demand, can compensate for this $60 million cost," You said.

Apple has yet to announce a China release date for the iPad 3 but the country's telecommunications equipment certification agency approved the tablet in May.

The case gave Chinese authorities a chance to show that their courts could impartially resolve intellectual property disputes but also raised the possibility that technology investors might be put off by a negative outcome for Apple. Chinese regulators said Proview clearly owned the mainland name rights under Chinese rules.

Without a formal ruling, it will be hard for companies to draw lessons about how Chinese courts will handle such disputes in the future, said Stan Abrams, an American lawyer who teaches intellectual property law at Beijing's Central University of Finance and Economics.

"It's such an atypical case," he said. "Certainly, the details and specifics of this kind of commercial dispute aren't going to give us any long-term lessons."

The outcome reflects Chinese courts' preference for encouraging adversaries in commercial disputes to settle instead of pushing for a ruling, Abrams said. He said the relatively small size of the settlement by Apple's standards suggested Proview gave in, possibly under pressure from either its creditors or the court.

All of Apple's iPads are made in China by Foxconn Technologies Group, which employs more than 1 million people in sprawling factories. Brazil's government says Taiwan-based Foxconn plans to open factories there to produce iPads and other products.

Shenzhen Proview Technology is a subsidiary of LCD screen maker Proview International Holdings Ltd., headquartered in Hong Kong.

A Hong Kong court ruled in July that Proview and the Taiwan company both were "clearly under the control" of the same Taiwanese businessman, Yang Long-san, and had refused to take steps required to transfer the name under the agreement. The judge said the companies acted together "with the common intention of injuring Apple."

However, that judgment had no automatic force in the mainland case because Hong Kong, while Chinese territory, has a separate legal system.

Apple also ran into a trademark dispute before it launched the iPhone in 2007.

Cisco Systems Inc., the maker of networking hardware, had owned the trademark since 2000 and used it for a line of Internet-connected desk phones. After Cisco sued, the companies reached an undisclosed settlement and the phone launch went off as planned.

The dispute came amid complaints Beijing is failing to stamp out rampant unlicensed Chinese copying of goods ranging from music and Hollywood movies to designer clothing and pharmaceuticals.

But unlike "trademark squatters" who register names of products already sold abroad and then demand foreign companies pay for the Chinese rights, Proview registered the iPad name long before Apple planned its tablet computer.

"The only thing companies really should take form this case is, be careful when you do transactions, be careful with your contracts," Abrams said. "Be careful you're doing it the right way or you could pay a lot for your mistakes."

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AP researcher Fu Ting in Shanghai contributed.

Associated Press

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Tuesday, 3 July 2012

No one-size-fits-all approach to wooing Hispanics

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ? In New Mexico, Tomasita Maestas says she will pick the presidential candidate who has the best plan to fix education and the economy.

In Arizona, Mexican immigrant Carlos Gomez backs Republican Mitt Romney because he's more conservative on social issues than his Democratic opponent.

In Miami, Colombia native Luna Lopez probably will vote for President Barack Obama now that he's decided to halt the deportation of many illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children.

The reasons that Hispanics give for choosing between Obama and Romney are just as diverse as the countries that they or their ancestors once called home, suggesting there's no one-size-fits-all approach to courting the nation's fastest-growing minority group.

The Latino vote isn't monolithic or, really, a voting bloc. It includes a range of people with varying opinions. Among them are Republican-leaning Cubans in Florida, new Mexican immigrants and longtime descendants of Spanish settlers in the Southwest, and Democratic-tilting Puerto Ricans in the East.

Immigration policy would seem to be the natural top issue for these voters, except that nearly two-thirds of Hispanics are born in the U.S. Their priorities are the same as the general population ? jobs, the economy, education and health care.

"We need to see more jobs here, that's my No. 1 priority and what I want to hear about," says Stefan Gonzalez, an almost 18-year-old from Denver, whose heritage includes Spanish, Mexican and Native American roots. Gonzalez, who works in a suburban Denver pawn shop, says he plans to vote for Obama this fall.

In Albuquerque, Ernest Gurule, an 84-year-old whose ancestors settled New Mexico in 1580, says his main issue is the federal health care plan upheld by the Supreme Court last week, and that he'll back Obama in part because of it. Also, the Democrat, adds: "It's too expensive to change horses midstream."

Democrats and Republicans are in a fierce race to figure out how to best reach Hispanics.

In the short term, these voters could decide the outcome in Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Florida and elsewhere. The long-term stakes are even bigger because Hispanics are projected to account for roughly 30 percent of the population by 2050, doubling in size and, potentially changing the national political landscape.

Like most minorities, Hispanics traditionally have leaned Democratic. But a recent Pew Research poll indicates that Hispanics also are the fastest-growing group of independent voters, with 46 percent now shunning a party label compared with 31 percent six years ago. Such results only underscore how diverse Hispanics are and the challenges for the political parties.

"It is going to be a very hard fight to win," says Jennifer Korn, the executive director of the Republican-based Hispanic Leadership Network, which was established to help bring more Hispanic voters to the GOP. "The more they assimilate, the more sophisticated they become and that's when they start dividing between parties."

For now at least, Obama and his Democrats have an advantage, with the latest polls showing 65 percent of Hispanics back Obama and 25 percent back Romney.

The Democrats' campaign has worked to keep that edge, helped by Obama's new immigration policy and the Supreme Court's decision to side with the administration on most of an Arizona law that many immigrants viewed as overly harsh.

His campaign has spent the past year setting up offices with grassroots outreach to Hispanic communities in the Southwest, as well as in important states such as Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Florida.

Mindful of the diversity among Hispanics, Obama has custom-tailored his outreach, including tweaking Spanish dialect for different regions.

For instance, in Florida the campaign has two distinct outreach plans. One focuses on Cuban-Americans in Miami who tend to lean Republican and are less concerned about immigration; the other speaks to traditionally Democratic Puerto Ricans, who are U.S. citizens from birth, as well as new immigrants from Central America.

Obama also has promoted the new health law, which can resonate in states such as New Mexico, which has one of the highest rates of uninsured in the country.

Romney has plenty of ground to make up after a bruising primary season filled with tough rhetoric that even Republicans acknowledge turned off many Hispanics. He recently established a Hispanic advisory group that includes top elected Republican Hispanics.

During the primaries, the former Massachusetts governor pledged to veto legislation, known as the DREAM Act, that would give a path to citizenship to young immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children but have since attended school or served in the military. He has since toned down his anti-immigration stance, which included self-deportation, telling a Hispanic leadership gathering in the Orlando area that he would address illegal immigration "in a civil but resolute manner."

Alexandra Franceschi, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee's Hispanic effort, made clear that the GOP outreach will focus broadly on the economy. "Hispanics are Americans and are facing the same issues as everyone else, chronically high unemployment, lower pay and rising health care costs," she said.

Republicans have noted that under Obama, the Hispanic unemployment rate is higher than the national average. And Hispanics' median household income fell 7 percent between 2000 and 2010, from $43,100 to $40,000, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.

What drives Hispanics to vote depends on who's asked.

Lopez, a 20-year-old new citizen and college student from Colombia, cites Obama's policy shift on deportation as reason she's likely to pick him when she casts her first vote in the country.

"The issue didn't directly affect me, but I have many family members and friends who it did," she said.

In Arizona, Gomez, a 43-year-old priest who immigrated to Phoenix 15 years ago, backed Obama's policy change. But Gomez says immigration isn't his priority because "immigrants will continue coming across the border no matter what we do." He says he's voting for Romney because, like him, the Republican opposes gay marriage and abortion rights.

In Albuquerque, Maestas, a 37-year-old mother and office manager, is focused intently on pocketbook issues. Immigration, she says, is only important to "a certain point" because "If you can't take care of your own, how are you going to take care of others?"

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Associated Press writers Laura Wides-Munoz in Miami, Kristen Wyatt in Denver and Amanda Lee Myers in Phoenix contributed to this report.

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Katie Holmes Divorce Filing: Fear of Scientology Sea Organization Boot Camp the Last Straw?


The catalyst for the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes divorce appears to have been fear of their daughter being immersed in Scientology, according to reports.

Specifically, a Scientology organization known as Sea Organization (or Sea Org), where the religion is taught to kids as young as five, was the final straw.

Kids can be sent to live there without their parents to learn the highest levels of the belief system. Tom is said to be a huge supporter; Katie not so much.

Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise Picture

Even before she filed for sole custody of Suri, Katie and Tom had been arguing over the little girl's indoctrination into Scientology. She's now six years old.

Sea Org has been often likened to a boot camp; ex-Scientology members have been outspoken against its military-like conditions on several occasions.

Members of Sea Org must sign "a one-billion-year pledge to symbolize their eternal commitment to the religion and it is still signed by all members today."

When Holmes and Cruise first hooked up in 2005, Jessica Feshbach, who had been with Sea Org since 1994, became her Scientology handler/chaperone.

In one of Katie's first interviews after getting together with Tom, Feshbach was described by a writer for W magazine as "cold-eyed" and "a third-wheel."

Katie, 33, reportedly felt the only way to save Suri from being shipped off to Sea Org was to file for divorce from Tom, 49, and seek sole legal custody.

The church denies, meanwhile, that the actress is being stalked by Scientology minions around NYC, a report that circulated over the weekend.

[Photo: WENN.com]

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Monday, 2 July 2012

Bombs kill 4 in Iraq as violence grinds on

FILE - In this Thursday, June 28, 2012, file photo, people inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in the Washash neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. June was the second-deadliest month since U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq in mid-December, but more significant than the numbers was the fact that insurgents appeared able to sustain the level of violence over a longer period than usual.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)

FILE - In this Thursday, June 28, 2012, file photo, people inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in the Washash neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. June was the second-deadliest month since U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq in mid-December, but more significant than the numbers was the fact that insurgents appeared able to sustain the level of violence over a longer period than usual.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)

FILE - In this Friday, June 29, 2012, file photo, Zainab Abbas inspects her destroyed house a day after a car bomb attack in the Washash neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. June was the second-deadliest month since U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq in mid-December, but more significant than the numbers was the fact that insurgents appeared able to sustain the level of violence over a longer period than usual. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

(AP) ? Bombers killed four people in two Iraqi cities, officials said Sunday, as al-Qaida's affiliate ramped up attacks six months after the last American troops withdrew.

Three coordinated bomb attacks within minutes of each other Sunday morning hit the central city of Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, a provincial official said. A civilian walking by was killed and two others were wounded.

The bombs went off near a middle school where students were taking exams, but authorities said none of the students was hurt.

Further south, three policemen died when a suicide car bomb and three roadside bombs exploded at a security checkpoint on Saturday night in Samarra, 95 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, a police official said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.

The bombing Saturday night raised the death toll for June to at least 237, the second-bloodiest month since U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq in mid-December.

Most attribute the violence to al-Qaida-affiliated insurgents emboldened by political feuding that has paralyzed the government and hoping to reignite fighting among the country's ethnic and sectarian factions.

More significant than the numbers was the fact that insurgents appeared able to sustain the level of violence over a longer period than before. There was a major bombing or shooting rampage almost every three days in June, many targeting Shiite pilgrims on their way to the annual Baghdad commemoration of a revered imam.

Another Shiite pilgrimage set for this week has security forces on high alert.

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims are expected to travel to the holy city of Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, for the festival of Shabaniyah, celebrating the birth of the ninth-century Shiite leader known as the Hidden Imam. The pilgrimage peaks on Friday.

Associated Press

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V3 Gaming PC Avenger


On the chance that its name gives you the wrong idea, you should know that the V3 Gaming PC Avenger ($4,599 direct) has nothing to do with the popular, recently released superhero movie. Given its powerful components, however, it seems designed to make you feel like a superhero yourself when you fire up your favorite 3D games. At that it succeeds?at least for a couple of years, you won't have to worry whether you're capable of handling whatever the newest and hottest title on the market is. But if you're longing for the fastest or flashiest system on the market, this isn't it; the Avenger gives you a solid combination of price and performance, but stops short of inspiring a deeply felt "wow."

Design and Features
The V3 Gaming PC Avenger may lack the ostentatious looks of many high-end gaming PCs, but it makes the most of what it does have. This starts with the Corsair Obsidian Series 650D case, a sharp-edged, sharp-looking model adorned with very little ornamentation: Nvidia and V3 logos on the windowed primary side panel, a giant Nvidia logo on the opposite one, and that's it. You certainly don't need much more, and the case is well enough outfitted that you likely won't care: There's plenty of interior space, and two easy-to-use door latches on either side panel give you frustration-free ways to access it.

Once you open the case, you're greeted with a bit more color by a green cold cathode ray lighting tube that spans the vertical interior (more Nvidia-focused subtlety, we'd wager). But you'll also find plenty of enticing components worthy of any serious gaming PC. Installed on the Asus P9X79 Pro motherboard is an Intel Core i7-3930K CPU, our favorite Sandy Bridge?Extreme model (because of its excellent performance-affordability profile), which has been overclocked from its natural 3.2GHz to a blistering 4.8GHz. That sort of treatment demands heavy cooling, and it's been provided by a closed-loop Asetek liquid cooler. The processor is paired with 16GB of RAM, distributed among four 4GB Corsair Vengeance DIMMs in the motherboard's eight expansion slots; you can install a maximum of 64GB in the P9X79 Pro (but to do so, you'll need to swap out the chips that are present?not that 16GB will become wimpy anytime soon). Providing hefty graphics firepower are three Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 video cards, which diminish expandability somewhat by blocking one PCI Express (PCIe) x8 slot and two PCIe x1 slots.

Of the four 5.25-inch drive bays on the Avenger, one is filled with a Samsung Blu-ray burner, a second with a multiformat card reader, and two are empty. The case technically has six 3.5-inch drive bays located below the 5.25-inch drives, but all are spoken for. There's a 2TB 7,200rpm hard drive in one, two 120GB Corsair Force solid-state drives (SSDs) in a RAID Level 0 configuration in two others, and the controller for the interior lighting takes up all of the bottom three; if you want to add more drives later, something will have to go first. Providing the juice for all this is a 1,200-watt Corsair AX1200 power supply.

Ports on the rear panel include six USB 2.0, four USB 3.0, two eSATA, Ethernet, S/PDIF optical out, and jacks for eight-channel audio. Also present are a dongle that adds Bluetooth 4.0 and a BIOS flashback button (used in conjunction with a specially marked USB 2.0 port) that gives you the freedom to tweak your system settings without fear that you'll render the computer unbootable. The front-panel port selection is hidden behind a drop-down door, and comprise two USB 3.0, two USB 2.0, FireWire 800, and headphone and microphone jacks. Another nice addition is a 3.5-inch drive dock in the front section of the top panel; it's covered by a door as well to protect the SATA connectors inside, though we had consistent trouble closing that door all the way.

Our V3 Gaming PC Avenger also game with a peripheral pack to help round out your gaming experience. It includes two items by Razer, a Death Adder mouse and a Lycosa keyboard, as well as a Fatal1ty Professional Gaming Headset MK II; these are all basic, few-frills offerings, but if you need to augment your setup, they're a decent way to go. (If you already have pieces you're happy with, you can get the system itself for $100 less.) The Avenger's warranty covers parts for three years and labor for life, and provides lifetime technical support as well.

Performance
V3 Gaming PC AvengerYou rarely have to worry much about performance with a serious gaming machine, and that remains true of the V3 Gaming PC Avenger. It delivered dazzling results in all our productivity tests: 2 minutes 17 seconds to apply a dozen filters and effects in Adobe Photoshop CS5, 54 seconds to convert a video in Handbrake, and scores of 13.62 on CineBench R11.5 and 6,348 on Futuremark PCMark 7 respectively. But none of these was a record setter: The latest Origin Genesis (which was overclocked to 4.9GHz) surpassed the V3 in Photoshop (2:12), CineBench (14.23), and Handbrake (51 seconds); and the Editors' Choice Maingear Shift Super Stock delivered a stronger PCMark 7 score (6,501).

The one test in which the V3 set a new standard was the Entry preset on Futuremark 3DMark 11: Its 26,055 was well ahead that of the closest competitor (again the Maingear, with 24,337). But the V3 trailed in all other gaming tests, whether 3DMark 11's Extreme preset (the Genesis' 9,710 trumps the V3's 8,884), Lost Planet 2 (where the Maingear won at both 1,280 by 720 and 1,920 by 1,080, with 359 frames per second, or fps, and 232fps respectively), or Crysis (the Genesis won here, as well, with 131fps and 86fps at lower and higher resolutions).

Although the V3 Gaming PC Avenger costs less than the newest Maingear Shift Super Stock, we're letting the latter retain its Editors' Choice based on its superior gaming and productivity performance, stronger upgrade potential, and more innovative design in a more elaborate and compelling chassis. But if you don't want to shell out the extra money for those privileges, and you can live with less than all-consuming performance, the Avenger is a fine choice.

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