How we Can All Help In Our Work!!!

We will accept small donations {$500. to $10000. Dollars} that will help us buy stamps; buy paper {100 % recycled}; buy computer cartridges; buy gas for the business use of the car; buy envelopes; pay rental fees; office equipment; pay legal fees; pay for staffing; pay for the Founder, President and CEO's salary; and buy Real Estate and Property.

Your donation will NOT be tax deductible because we are a for-profit company. We are determined and consistent in our activity to help our Black youth especially, to turn the corner and steer towards a better life for themselves and their families. ...  We are doing this on four fronts. They are through 1} The soon-to-be-published books: ``Writing In Wet Cement,'' by Brother Tracy Gibson and ``A Gathering of Children: A Fantasy World of Real Life Poems,'' also by Brother Tracy Gibson.  The first book intersperses the life of Brother Tracy Gibson--his travels, his youthful experiences and adventures, his schooling and his relationships--with some serious advice and political commentary about living the ethical and better life that builds responsibility, reliability, trustworthiness, and honor in our young people and the rest of us. He is NOT and Was NOT perfect, but has learned from the mistakes He has made. The book has its' controversial points, but it is expected to be a best seller and a Blockbuster like ``Man-Child in the Promised Land,'' by Claude Brown was in the 1970's. The second book is an exciting book of poetry out in September as well.

Brother Gibson is also working on developing a network of stores called ``The Knowledge Hut,'' that will  offer a great selection of ethically chosen DVD's; CD's; Books; Tee-Shirts; Greeting cards; Posters; and a few healthy food items.  These products are not just thrown at our Young people for them to purchase.  They are carefully selected to build better character; build respect for elders and each other; build responsibility; build reliability; build trust; and build young minds that are more concerned with starting businesses than just getting a job. 

Our Business Plan is just about done {We attended the Small Business Development Center @ Temple University for 10 weeks {We graduated and did our final presentation on May 31, 2012} and still have about two weeks to put the final touches on the Business Plan... {As we develop it, you can see our work on this Bloog.  Look under Knowledge Hut Business Plan}

There are several other components to the company we Incorporated in 2006 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania...  Our Parent Company name is: Brother Tracy Gibson and Associates, Inc..... We are an Education,  Marketing, Publishing, Celebrity Management, Retail Outlets, Public Relations, Advertising and Advocacy concern with a heart.  We had an office at 3819 Lancaster Avenue for a year and a half {From April 2006 to September 2007} but had to temporarily close up shop when the economic down turn took hold.  We are presently in the research and development stages, but still doing heavy advocacy for the Black community; the Progressive Community and for all people internationally who quest for change, democracy, hope and positive progressive order.

As part of our advocacy, we write literally hundreds of letters a year. Some of those letters have advocated for the following subjects [this list is NOT inclusive]: Better housing; more jobs from the government and the private sector; Free trade and travel with Cuba; the rights of Same Gender Loving people such as job rights, the right to marry and the right to organize effectively; the Rights of oppressed women to work, go to school, make a living wage and live with dignity and grace; better artistic outlets for people of color and Non-Whites such as more intellectually challenging films, theater, music [especially rap and hip hop], videos and TV programming; better nutrition for the Black community and nutritional education; the rights of Non-White children and Black children to have solid educations from kindergarten through college; The rights of the Palestinian People to live freely and travel and work in Israel and have their own country and land; more freedom of information and less cumbersome, bellicose laws like the Patriot Act I, The Patriot Act II and the National Security Act signed by President Bush II and or President Barack Obama, which impinge on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties [it is our position that these laws should be rescinded, turned back, overturned and rejected at every point as they have weakened our democracy]; An open and free Press and access to media and less concentrated ownership of media by the ultra rich [the media should ultimately be in the hands of the people--especially poor and oppressed people such as Black people, Latin people and poor Whites who are thinking clearly on the issues of race, gender rights, the rights of women and the rights of the disabled]; and we have also written to find peaceful Ways to work with others [and within our own company] to develop a more free and open society and end the tradition of war our country has followed for generations.

If you want to join us in the import and crucial work we are doing, we hope you will read more of the articles on this Blogg and send us the donation we talked about at the beginning of this promotional article.  You can send youR donations to: Mr. Tracy Charles Gibson; 213 South 49th Street; Philadelphia, Penn 19139-4205; or you can e-Mail us at: BLockBoi75@Yahoo.Com

you can also call us at: 1.215.471.6494. You can also reach the Founder, President and CEO at: BrotherTracy11@GMail.Com

 The more you can give, the quicker we will be able to get ouR work fully under way.  Please send and ask for a full disclosure of the 8 businesses components we presently have. We thank you for considering us.  If you want to partner with us on any particular business component, please call and let us know.  We will have full disclosure, and all our legal agreements will be easy to follow and understand...

    

Letter to McDonalds Corporation.....June 4th, 2012 {Monday}

From Brother Tracy Gibson
Teacher - Learner - Businessman - Fund Raiser
Writer - Political Organizer - Visionary
213 South 49th Street
Philadelphia, Penn 19139-4205
1.215.471.6494
BLockBoi75@Yahoo.Com

The McDonald's Corporation
Dear McDonald's:


I hope you are doing well as you walk this great earth of ours... I am writing you today to let you know we are boycotting your stores in the Philadelphia area.   Our boycott will be joined with other such efforts in other parts of the Nation and the World.

I have to tell you that if you check your records, you will find that I have written you on at least two other occasions about the health risks of your food, but to no avail.  You have no open and democratic system to determine what changes the public would like in your food and no mechanism to implement such changes.  Your stores are responsible for about 6 % of the trash in our Nation.  That is despicable and a real problem.  You should do something about that.  We have a litter free campaign going on in the Philadelphia area to help alert the public about trash and how to place it in the proper receptacles. We think you should have a similar campaign for your stores in the Philadelphia area.  We are willing to work for you for no charge to design just such a campaign.  As we said, we will do this for free.

What we really want to talk to you about is how eating @ McDonald's was once a very accepted thing because few people knew of or understood the health risks involved with gulping down Slurpee, fattening mile shakes; eating greasy French Fries; and eating contaminated cheeseburgers.  Even your highly acclaimed Fish Sandwich contains contaminated fish, is fattening and covered with greasy tartar sauce.  What are you going to do about this? You can't remain as a good corporate citizen and carry on flagrantly and blatantly as you do great damage to our Nation's people.  We know you own another chain of stores {Or is it two other chains of stores?}... You have offered other food choices at these stores, however, unfortunately, these other food chains are equally contaminated, fattening and unhealthy.
You sit in your headquarters as if it were a citadel and make decisions that impact many, many millions of people.  And people are led by the nose to your so-called restaurants to gouge themselves with so-called food that continues to give them high blood pressure; sugar diabetes; unheard of obesity; severe heart ailments; chronic joint pain; cancer and other health risks that are extremely costly in lives and in the amount of money they cost our health care system to treat and heal.  How would you like The President to send YOU a bill for about $ 2 Billion Dollars and ask for YOU to pay for the health risks and health problems YOU are causing the American public?

As I have said in previous letters My company and myself are MORE than willing to work with you to get this situation rectified, work with you on making the proper changes, implementing those new policies and keeping you as a viable profit- making company.  But you have to change with the new reality.  For this, we would like a fee.  That fee will be determined later. Most of the money, except for a small amount for living expenses, will go towards helping agencies, companies and Non-Profits that are helping the indigent, the temporarily disenfranchised and those who are too lazy and ignorant to help themselves by never entering your doors.  I am African American, but this involves all kinds of variations of people.

I hope to hear positively from you soon.  Otherwise, our boycott will be linked with other similar boycotts in France, England and Spain.  You will feel the financial heat because as you know, a small decrease in your profit margin can close several stores in an economy such as the one we are struggling to survive in right now.  I don't care how many billions of burgers you have sold to an unaware public, you can be stopped...
I am sure I will hear from you soon.  Please don't waste my time with another pathetic form letter.  This letter will be sent to the Black Association of McDonald's Owners and we expect a positive, coherent and well-thought-out response.  We are also hoping that you will take us on as a client because we can help you see the light that you obviously don't see.
LOVE, Peace and Mo LOVE,

Brother Tracy Gibson,
President and CEO OF: Brother Tracy Gibson And Associates, INc.

Building a Better World with Integrity and Consistency of Effort...

The Knowledge Hut Business Plan, April 26th, 2012...

A. Name of Company: The Knowledge Hut Stores.
B. Mission Statement and Objectives:
Mission Statement: The Mission of the Knowledge Hut Stores is to help younger Americans of Color to better understand their history, grow and develop as more productive and reliable adults and learn better ethical behavior through the development, production and sale of positive, defined and responsible products.
Objectives: To help parents, guardians, grandparents and others who care for youth to assist them in developing strong personal and community-wide values including responsibility, good health habits and hygiene, good ethics, good family values, cleanness, reliability, good and positive cultural values and other positive traits in an on-going fashion through the sale of good products that reflect those values.  While we are a for profit store, we will network with non-profits and social service agencies to bring on more support services for needy Non-White youths.

RE: ``The Knowledge Hut Stores'' and Why We Need Them.....

It has come to my knowledge, more and more over the years, that our young people are in deep trouble. Unless we act as responsible and concerned adults, they are doomed to create another generation of lost souls who are down and out economically and unprepared morally, ethically, culturally and politically for what faces them in a few short years.

This is why I have labored so hard to create the concept of ``The Knowledge Hut Stores'' and why I think the concept will be a Big Success when it goes National very soon.

The concept is a simple one: Instead of throwing a whole bunch of assorted products at young people when they come to shop, why not give them a selection of products that are designed to stimulate their thinking; develop the mind and body correctly; spark learning; and develop good strong family values and strong positive study habits in them including better eating habits.

What we would like to sell to our young people is music and videos with positive messages and positive images; Tee-Shirts that are developed to make people think of positive things and that are designed, drawn, written and developed by the young people themselves; food snacks and drinks that are healthy and exclude white flour, potato chips, soda and too much sugar, salt and fat; greeting cards with inspirational and funny sayings in them that are written and designed by the youths themselves that reflect strong positive political and cultural values; and plenty of books that reflect the same values and also describe and create roads to self-awareness, self-reliance, honor, holistic thinking, sharing progressive ideas, interacting positively with elders, other young people and other members of the community with respect, decency and humanity, and teach our history, languages and culture in a positive and upbeat way.
                                   Executive Summary
We have registered our company name ``The Knowledge Hut'' Stores with Go.Daddy Network. Eventually we want to be an LLC.  We are planning to copyright our idea within the next few days.  We have done some test marketing through our Parent company--BTGandA.Com--and we are operating a mail order firm right now.  We are low on funds to develop our Tee-Shirts and buy other products right now.  Our Mission is to instill positive values in young people by helping them choose more politically conscious and ethical products.

Our company came about when our founder recognized a need to curtail the negative impact some of the more lured rap music and rap videos were having on American inner city and suburban youth. We will be selling Tee-Shirts, greeting cards, books and posters chosen by our staff to reflect and promote better values in youth. Those values include: doing homework; not bullying; having respect for parents and elders; avoiding teen pregnancy and STD's; and staying out of trouble with the law. We also hope to have outreach information in our stores from the youth service network, churches and Non-profit organizations that work on youth issues such as staying in school, attending college or university and starting youth-run businesses.

Our target market is youth and young adults, ages 12 through 27 and their parents, grandparents and guardians. Market trends show that church-going parents are looking for products to purchase that will enhance and support family and church values, and there is an obvious need to increase business knowledge and political awareness among young people.  We have circulated a petition and generated 30 signatures from people who support the concept of ``The Knowledge Hut'' stores and the community seems ready for the positive change.  Few stores of any size are offering only products that encourage better values in young customers so competition at this point is null.

I think we can compete successfully, especially if we can get on Board with Macy's because they have hundreds of stores Nationwide. {We have written letters of intent to possible investors about actually having our stores within Macy's network}.  While we have not actually officially approached Macy's as yet, we think their up-beat, youth oriented specialty shops would be perfect for our stores and well suited for our idea.  We have written General Mills about carrying their Nature valley Granola Bars.  {We do not want to sell potato chips, sodas and Twinkies which hamper young people's energy level by providing too many empty calories and too much sugar}. There could be barriers if someone beats us to the punch and gets investors or gets a major similar contract before we do.

Our concept designer has sound business experience, having  worked at Macy's, Sears, Gimbals and Staples as a cashier; and having test marketed some products that will be sold at The Knowledge Hut at our Parent company--Brother Tracy Gibson and Associates, INc....  Brother Gibson has also taken some business courses at Temple University and with the Money School in Wilmington and New Castle, Delaware.  We did the test marketing from April 2006 to September 2007.  Our key manager will be our concept designer, Brother Tracy Gibson, until we can get funding and hire additional staff.

We want to have 15 locations and about 300 employees.  We also want to manufacture our own products in the United States and provide shipping and handling at a reasonable cost.  At the same time, however, we want to pay all employees good wages and have suitable benefits available for employees, as we can afford.  According to reliable Internet sources most book stores reach about $ 3 Million Dollars in annual sales for each store.  Since we will sell other products besides books, we project about $5 Million a year in sales for each store.  The total income from all 15 stores would be $60,000,000 {Sixty Million Dollars a year.}

We are seeking $15 Million Dollars in start up funds through about five investors.  The funds will be used to buy, modernize and refurbish existing property and hire staff.  Investors will get their funds back.
    
     Business Budget for Three Months:
My Salary: for Three Months is: $24,999.00 *

Staff and Staff Development {Includes use of a consultant for initial personnel development, All figures are for three months}: $50,000.00 *

Office Supplies: $2,100.00  *

Office Furniture: $5,500.00  *

Computers: $18,000.00  *

Rent for One Year: $10,500.00  *

Rental use of vehicles plus car fair: $4,500.00   *

Capitalization and Renovation of Building to be purchased and / or rented: $25,000.00   *

Legal fees: $5,000.00 *

Merchandise and inventory to be bought wholesale to be modified or improved on: $50,000.00   *

Purchase and Modernization of Property to be used for the Factory in North Philadelphia: $375,000.00   *

Postage for Three Months: $2,500.00   *

Internet and Web Page Development: $5,000.00   *

Phone and Utility Bills: $2,727.00   *

Phone Installation: $400.00   *

Community Outreach, Promotions and Advertising: $7,500.00   *

Additional Communications, Accounting and Consultants:  $2,250.00   *

Other Legal Fees, Licenses, Contracts and Consultants:  $7,500.00   *

Other Costs and Consultants: $1,500.00   *

Security:  $19,200.00   *

Health Insurance for Four Employees {Including Myself} for Three Months: $48,000.00   *

Total Expenses for Three Months:  $666,676.00   *

* All figures with Asterisks have been added into the total...


Still Being Edited for the next two weeks.

Part III: Bringing Down the Price of Oil at the Pump and Rebuilding Our Cities

Part 3: Bringing Down the Price of Oil at the Pump and Re-Building and Reconstructing Our Inner Cities.....

 

6} There needs to be more exposure in the world media, the established White- Owned Goliath American media, and small and alternative and non-White media as well, of how the price of gas is deeply influenced by the policies of the American oil companies, their refineries and the oil executives who make decisions on oil policy and pricing... There is also a need to expose how rich political and Arab and non-Arab families who own much of the oil in the region and elsewhere benefit from the relationships they have established with those same oil companies and their top executives. Meanwhile, many of the common Arabs n countries like Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia go without jobs and are poor. { This is a fact that is kept from most people in the United States through manipulation of the Major White-Owned Goliath Media in the U.S. and elsewhere...}

7} How to change things and bring down the price of oil at the same time, needs to be devised by some people like myself, and many others who think outside the box and want the best for out country, but who also want to see us deal more honestly with the North American people and the average Arab public on this topic.

Part II: The Cost of Oil at home and the Reconstruction of North American Inner Cities.....

4} If and when we are more honest about what is actually happening in the Middle East {and our role as State Terrorists in creating much of the havoc there} we will find open roads to Lasting Peace. Peace sits in the streets of the Middle East waiting for us to pick up the pieces as if they were pieces of Gold or gems. But our dishonesty, bickering in Congress, and our underhandedness in policy creation and implementation continues to create roadblocks for ourselves and the rest of the World who is concerned about real and lasting Peace in that region.

5} Also, we are suffering economically now because the price of oil is inflated because of the inherent dishonesty in our Middle Eastern policy. When we make a really authentic effort to make more friends in the Middle East and stop judging everybody other than the Israelis as our enemies, we will find real ways to help stop the price of oil from continuing to escalate at the gas pump at home. It is time we grew up and agreed to talk with whoever we need to in making the lasting Peace we need to make and bring down the prices of oil, which is a finite resource at best. Obviously there are other great reasons to work towards and fight for Peace in the Middle East. The saving of lives is an upper most priority; the issue of fairness to historically mistreated Arab groups such as the Palestinians, many of whom live in real squalor in the Occupied Territories and in concentration-camp-like facilities in refugee camps in Occupied Territories, and in surrounding countries like Jordan and Oman, must be the priority. Pressure should be put to bare to make these circumstances and conditions better for the Palestinian People as oil prices drop at the pumps in the United States.....

Part 3: Bringing Down the Price of Oil at the Pump and Re-Building and Reconstructing Our Inner Cities.....

6} There needs to be more exposure in the world media, the established White- Owned Goliath American media, and small and alternative and non-White media as well, of how the price of gas is deeply influenced by the policies of the American oil companies, their refineries and the oil executives who make decisions on oil policy and pricing... There is also a need to expose how rich political and Arab and non-Arab families who own much of the oil in the region and elsewhere benefit from the relationships they have established with those same oil companies and their top executives. Meanwhile, many of the common Arabs n countries like Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia go without jobs and are poor. { This is a fact that is kept from most people in the United States through manipulation of the Major White-Owned Goliath Media in the U.S. and elsewhere...}

7} How to change things and bring down the price of oil at the same time, needs to be devised by some people like myself, and many others who think outside the box and want the best for out country, but who also want to see us deal more honestly with the North American people and the average Arab public on this topic.

Oil Prices and Peace in the Middle East.....

An Open Letter to the World




From: Brother Tracy Gibson - Writer - Activist - Businessman - Fundraiser - Journalist - Visionary And Peace maker...



RE: What to do About Raising Oil Prices And Peace in the Middle East...???



1} We should be making friends with the Palestinian People because they are held dear to the hearts of the Arab World because of the discrimination and hardships they faced since the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. This will bring more fairness in our policies in the Middle East and help us be perceived as a Peace-Maker instead of a One-Sided ally of Israel's.



2} Our relationship with Israel needs to fundamentally change. We give them $3 Billion Dollars a year and Jewish Americans must legally hand over about another $10 Billion Dollars. Yet, Frightfully, this large sum of cash still isn't enough to buy lasting peace and stability in the region. In fact there is more stress and strife in the Middle East now than there ever was.



3} We need to stop the gun-boat diplomacy of bombing the Taliban in Yemen and Pakistan. Our drone missiles have been proven to take the lives of many women and children. This is unacceptable to the American public { at least to those who realize this is going on and are paying attention}.







Dear Amura: The above is the first three segments of a document I am sending out about Oil Prices and Middle Eastern Peace. I will send you another three parts tomorrow.







I thank you once again for the fantastic letter you sent about copyright and my book. It has proven to be very helpful and made me rest a bit easier. Log onto Google and put in my name: Brother Tracy Gibson, and log onto the Blogg ``The Politics of Real,'' and you will find several articles by me there.







Please keep in touch. I feel you are like a Brother because my sister Aziza Loves you so much and respects you so much as a writer and Renaissance Man....







Peace,







Brother Tracy Gibson...







BLockBoi75@Yahoo.Com







1.215.471.6494

How to Improve The System.... For REAL!!!

It’s Not Just Incumbency, It’s The System…


There has been a group of conservative activist voters—they have been called tea baggers by the mass media. They have made their wishes and their disgruntlement know at the poles by voting in more conservatives. They are voting out people connected with the ``problems’’ in Washington and they are particularly angry about just about everything President Obama has tried. What they fail to realize is that President Obama took hold of D.C. and the country when it was left practically destroyed financially and ethically, and spiritually bankrupt by one George Bush Jr.—a Republican. They are failing to see the corporate interest’s influence on our political system and the corrupting influence of same. The Republican Party has always been closer to the so-called ``business community’’ then the Democrats—but plenty of Democrats have taken a great shine to the corporate establishment as well. Especially the more conservative Blue Dog Democrats Down South. The problem is multifaceted, but not that hard to understand. The problem is that money influences in Washington are too predominating and the interest of the people has largely gone out the window with yesterday’s newspapers.

Non-profits like ``Common Cause’’ have decried the massive and powerful influence of money on our political system for years. So have many other more partisan, left leaning organizations. Being an incumbent makes you inherently closer and more connected to the influences of money and raw power in Washington. More thinking people need to come together and find ways to root out the influences in Washington that are NOT connected to the real needs of the people.

The Tea Baggers are misleading and being misled. They are being covered by the mass media, which in turn is part and parcel of the problem. The mass media itself, which has always been connected to Big Money interests, looks at the Tea Baggers, but fails to cover the righteous indignation of other, more progressive grass roots concerns. The media itself is a large part of the problem. The mass media itself is headed by mostly conservative White males, largely of Jewish origin. They have an undue and unwarranted say in how North Americans think and how we interpret the news, the events of the day and reality in general. Not just the news media, but those who make & distribute movies and fiction TV programming. There are very few real progressives and fewer still Black people among the top decision makers in this elite group of people.

Back in the 1970’s there was a small and purposefully ineffective attempt to bring more Black people into the decision-making process in America’s newsrooms. There was a limited push for Affirmative Action and more ``color’’ in the news rooms for TV and print media. This ``limited push’’ never reached into movie-making much, at least not for an extended period of time. Even during the Black Exploitation Era in Hollywood, most White movie producers, White Movie Moguls and White distributors of film remained at the helm and turned the reigns of power over to other Whites. The media and especially movie making is an extremely lucrative industry. It is also extremely Jewish… You can make a very bad film, but if you can get it distributed internationally, you can still make millions of dollars off of it...

America is controlled by image. If you have a bad image in corporate America and you don’t do something to clean it up, you will lose business and be dragged into red ink and bankruptcy. If you can maintain a ``good’’ media image—even if you are doing bad thing—(Like let’s say Wal-Mart for example) you will continue to maintain market share and keep your bottom line floating.

Many people say that we had to bail out the banking system, or everything would have gone under. Well, just about everything HAS gone under. The impact of the 43rd President of the United States giving billion upon billions of dollars to his rich friends through a costly tax cut has not even reverberated through the system completely at this point. Still, President Obama is getting all the blame now. It is no time to fall back into Republicanism (See related articles on the Republican Party in Chapter 13).

Voting for Republicans now is like giving the keys to your house that was destroyed by arson fire to the arsonist and asking him to fix it. The Republicans will smile at you, take your keys and gladly go about the business of doing you in further. So what can be done?

• There is a great and real need for term limits for politicians. Then, when the corrupting influences of money and power take hold, it is time for another face. Congress People should get three, two-year terms, Senators should get two, six-year terms. Governors should stay at two, four-year terms as well as two, four-year terms for Presidents. That is it. There will be no going back into office once you leave. This will cut back on the creation of the Good Old Boys’ Network effect and stop the circles of incumbency, corruption and old-line power that never seems to get anything done, but costs the tax-payers billions of dollars. Mayors, especially for Big Cities, don’t need more than two terms either…
• There needs to be an effective system for National Referendums. Handing our votes and the power over to elected officials is like giving the roosters the keys to the Hen House. You are bound to get taken. Media polling and public opinion is swayed by the media itself each and every day. If we had National Referendums that became law, we could effectively overshoot and Passover the wide and undue influence of Big Money, corrupt politicians, and the media itself.
• More people need to have the opportunity to vote. Voting in National elections for President should take place over a weekend so people who work get their vote in or, at least, we should get the day off from work. There should also be other incentives to vote such as a few bucks off at the local grocery store on election day if you show proof of having voted, or other such incentives.
• Advertising dollars for politicians should be given at a discount if you have shown some grass roots support. Have you ever seen the financial numbers in dollars, of the amount of money that the TV networks make during a Presidential election? The numbers are staggering. This in itself shuts out many people who are patriotic, progressive, grass roots, concerned individuals who want to get in there and fight and make the system work better for the average working JOE. The money influence on TV and the networks is nasty and growing. It overshadows popular candidates and corrupts the whole process. Cheaper ads would be a firs step to help…
• There needs to be an open Constitutional Convention to reshape and reformate how our government operates as we move into a new era and experience the coming paradigm shift and its global implications on world economies and the world’s people, including Black people who are the most poor and the most left out of the process....


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