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CHICAGO (CBS) -- There were four more violent armed robberies in the greater Lakeview area overnight making for a total of 11 in less than a week in Lakeview and neighboring Lincoln Park.

That includes a disturbing incident early Friday in which Dakota Earley, 23, was shot and critically wounded at Wayne and Webster avenues over a cellphone.

As CBS 2's Tara Molina reported, the Lincoln Park community held a meeting about their concerns Tuesday evening. A big turnout was expected ahead of time at the meeting because of the continued concerning crime in the area -- such that the meeting was moved from The Warehouse on Fullerton Avenue to St. Josaphat School, 2245 N. Southport Ave., to accommodate the crowd.

Police tell us they believe some of the crime is connected, but no one is in custody in any of the recent crimes.

"Really, really nervous," said longtime Lakeview resident Greg Baird. "A lot of friends are not going out like they were."

We've heard about that nervous, uneasy feeling from Lakeview to Lincoln Park, with at least 11 armed robberies in the past week.

A 52-year-old man was rushed to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center just after 12:30 a.m. after he was robbed at gunpoint in the 1500 block of West Waveland Avenue by two men who took off in a silver sedan.

About 15 minutes later, three people were walking on the sidewalk in the 600 block of West Cornelia Avenue when two men approached, robbing them at gunpoint and taking off in a dark sedan.

Police are not saying if they believe the two Lakeview crimes are connected as they continue to investigate. Police have also not said if these crimes are connected to a robbery at 1:03 a.m. Monday in the 900 block of West Armitage Avenue in Lincoln Park, where police say two men were robbed at gunpoint by a group of four men traveling in a gray sport-utility vehicle.

One of the victims, 26, fell to the ground and the robbers took his wallet and an unknown amount of money at gunpoint. The other, 25, ran to safety.

Those three armed robberies all came after the disturbing shooting that critically wounded Earley, which was caught on camera. Earley is still hospitalized after a number of surgeries.

"If detectives determine a link, they will update the Community Alert, which we will disseminate at that time," police said in a statement.

Police said these armed robberies at the following times and locations are also possibly linked:

2900 block of North Clark Street on Wednesday, May 4, at 10:45 p.m.

2600 block of North Bosworth Avenue on Wednesday, May 4 at 10:50 p.m.

1100 block of West Wellington Avenue on Wednesday, May 4 at 11 p.m.

3000 block of North Racine Avenue on Thursday, May 5 at 10 p.m.

2600 block of North Racine Avenue on Thursday, May 5 at 10:26 p.m.

700 block of West Aldine Avenue on Friday, May 6, at 12:30 a.m.

1100 block of West Fullerton Avenue on Friday, May 6, at 3 a.m. The victim of this robbery was a DePaul University student.

"You've got to look over your shoulder a little bit more," Baird said.

Brian Comer is the president of the Sheffield Neighborhood Association - a group expressing concerns about the uptick to Chicago Police at the community meeting.

"This is an opportunity for our neighborhood to really take hold of itself and start becoming really active partners with police here in the 18th District," Comer said.

Neighbors say vigilance is warranted at all hours, but especially when the sun goes down.

"People are worried about walking at night by themselves," Comer said. People are worried if their car is going to be next."

Comer said if the crime trend does not reverse, the situation could be ominous.

"People are wondering what the neighborhood is going to turn into if this keeps continuing," he said.

In Lakeview, Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) also issued a public safety notice in the wake of armed robberies in the area. Tunney wrote that he met with Town Hall (19th) District Cmdr. Amin Jessani, who said additional police resources will be deployed.

The police resources will be focused on an area from Belmont Avenue south to Fullerton Avenue and from DuSable Lake Shore Drive west to Racine Avenue. Fullerton Avenue divides the Town Hall (19th) District from the Near North (18th) District.

"This area corresponds to the recent armed robberies and it includes several busy CTA stations and business corridors. Officers from citywide units will be deployed to the 19th District to boost local staffing numbers and officers stationed in the 19th District will be working increased hours," Tunney wrote. "New 'mission teams' of patrolling beat officers and detectives will be assigned to each robbery case and these teams will be out talking to neighbors and collecting evidence."

Police Supt. David Brown also talked about such plans on Monday.

"All of those areas, to include Lincoln Park, will see increased resources - not just flooding, but specific to the blocks we are seeing these crimes happen," Brown said.

Anyone with information on any of the robberies is asked to call Area Three detectives at (312) 744-8263.

Tara Molina is a general assignment reporter for CBS2 Chicago.

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The Dodgers managed only three hits in the nightcap of Saturdays doubleheader, but they made them count. Mookie Betts hit a three-run double and added a two-run home run to lead Los Angeles over the Cubs 6-2 and a doubleheader sweep at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

Despite the three hits, the Dodgers did manage nine walks, helping to stretch out Chicagos bullpen game to seven pitchers and 168 pitches. The nine walks match a season high for LA this season, also April 12 in Minnesota.

Four of those walks scored in the second inning, the first run coming home on a four-pitch walk to Hanser Alberto, whose 2.3-percent career walk rate ranks 415th among the 415 players with at least 1,000 plate appearances since 2015.

After the bases-loaded walk tied the game, Betts untied it.

Betts cleared the bases against reliever Keegan Thompson, but the first three runs of the inning were charged to Daniel Norris, the opener of this bullpen game who recorded four outs. All three runs against him reached base via walk. Technically, Norris is just the seventh starting pitcher to lose to the Dodgers despite allowing zero hits, and the first since Jered Weaver on June 28, 2008.

Through two outs in the ninth, the Dodgers only had one hit as a team, coming eerily close to just the fifth game in MLB history in which a team scored at least four runs despite zero or one hit. The most is six runs, by the White Sox against the Washington Senators in 1909.

Betts ruined the footnote with a home run to left, cashing in yet another walk and continuing his hot run. Betts during his eight-game hit streak is 12-for-31 (.387/.412/.677) with three home runs, eight runs batted in, and eight runs scored.

The Dodgers had to settle for six runs on three hits instead, which was more than enough thanks to continued stinginess from a pitching staff that has held opponents to three or fewer runs 21 times in 25 games.

It was a Steve Winwood type of night for Dodgers starter Tyler Anderson, who had a lot of traffic on the bases behind him early, but was able to roll with it, baby.

Much of the action was in right field, including a drive by Willson Contreras that clanged off Betts glove after a long route, scored a triple. Contreras, a catcher by trade who was the designated hitter in the nightcap, scored on a ground ball, beating out a throw from third baseman Max Muncy.

After stranding a two-out double in the second, Anderson allowed another triple in the third, this one by Seiya Suzuki that found its way past Betts into the right field corner. A walk gave Chicago runners on the corners with one out, but Anderson induced a popout and a strikeout to escape the jam.

The Cubs were 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position against Anderson, who notched three of his seven strikeouts in those situations.

Nobody was on base in the fifth inning for Contreras, who proved he was in scoring position in the batters box by launching a ball 420 feet and nearly onto Waveland Avenue.

That was just the second run against Anderson, who has allowed either one or two runs in all five games, recording between twelve and fifteen outs. His seven strikeouts Saturday are a season high. The left-hander, who began the season as the Dodgers sixth starter, has a 2.78 ERA.

Contreras had the only hit against Brusdar Graterol, who stranded him thanks to two strikeouts, finishing off a season-high two innings.

Daniel Hudson, Graterol, and Craig Kimbrel finished off the win with four scoreless frames.

Home runs: Mookie Betts (5); Willson Contreras (3)

WP Tyler Anderson (3-0): 5 IP, 4 hits, 2 runs, 1 walk, 7 strikeouts

LP Daniel Norris (0-2): 1 IP, 0 hits, 3 runs, 3 walks, 1 strikeout

Both teams can sleep in a little tomorrow, with the series finale on Sunday Night Baseball (4:08 p.m. PT, ESPN). Walker Buehler takes the mound with an active scoreless streak of 14 innings, with Marcus Stroman pitching for the Cubs.

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On the night the Cubs finalized Marcus Stromans three-year, $71 million contract, president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer called Seiya Suzukis agent, Joel Wolfe, with a reminder before Major League Baseball imposed a lockout: Dont forget about us. We will be waiting for you on the other side.

While Stromans decision-making process appeared to be rushed, the Cubs used the unstructured time to reassess their scouting and R&D evaluations of Suzuki and focus on the personal touches in the next phases of their recruiting efforts. Like Suzuki, Stroman had mentally prepared to sign after the lockout until the Cubs saw they were running out of options for their rotation and realized they couldnt afford to be so patient and passive. Stroman needed to board a red-eye flight from Los Angeles International Airport to reach Chicago in time to close the deal before the Dec. 2 transactions freeze.

Staggering those signings and shutting down the industry for 99 days created zero momentum for the Cubs business operations department and MLB as a whole. The Cubs announced 35,112 as their Opening Day attendance and that number dropped to 30,369 and 32,858 for the seasons first weekend at Wrigley Field. Casual fans must be wondering: Who are these guys? Nine Cubs made their first appearance on an Opening Day roster, and 11 of those 28 active players were not with the club last season.

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Actor Jason Momoa went from walking the Oscars red carpetin Los Angeles to dining at Tasty Tacos in Des Moines.

The "Aquaman" and "Dune" star, who grew up in Norwalk, was one of the presenters for the 94th Academy Awards on Sunday,where he worea black-on-black tuxedo and wayfarer glasses, styled with aFrench braid that was secured with a pale pink scrunchie.

Momoa and actorJosh Brolin presentedeight awards handed out before this years live telecast. His latest movie, "Dune," won an award for Best Sound, which Momoa presented.

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On Monday, Tasty Tacos posted a photo of the actor in a yellow T-shirt with employees at the restaurant.

"A BIG thanks to Jason Momoa for stopping in today to grab some of his favorite tacos after a night at the Oscars!" says on a post on the restaurant's Facebook account.

He visited the south sidelocation at5847 S.E.14th St.

When back in central Iowa, Momoa likes to dine at some of Des Moines' beloved restaurants. Heis known to frequent the Waveland Cafe, where he's ordered his namesake dish, the Momoa with a full hashbrown, biscuits and gravy,sunny-side-up eggs and a side of bacon.

Susan Stapleton is the entertainment editor at The Des Moines Register. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter or drop her a line at sstapleton@gannett.com.

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Hey, that St. Peters basketball team, eh? If they can make it to the Elite Eight, surely the Chicago Cubs could surprise enough to be in the race for a playoff spot come late July, right?

The trade of Harold Ramirez last night took the Cubs 40-man roster down to 39 (Esteban Quiroz doesnt require a 40-man spot), which would give them temporary space to grab a player on waivers if someone caught their eye. But keep in mind, the Cubs are going to need a spot when pitching prospect Alexander Vizcaino is ready to be activated from the restricted list (whenever that is we dont even know why hes on there). Moreover, if any of the non-roster invites make the team Jesse Chavez? Robert Gsellman? thatll require a 40-man spot.

There will still be a lot of roster sorting coming. Some of it will be organic. For example, if any of Michael Hermosillo or Rafael Ortega or Jason Heyward dont make the Opening Day roster (its highly unlikely all three do), they will necessarily have to be DFAd/released, which more or less guarantees another 40-man spot is going to be opened. That was all the more reason why it made sense to trade Ramirez last night when an interesting trade return presented itself Ramirez, also out of options, was going to hit the waiver wire at some point soon anyway.

Speaking of the outfield, if everyone is healthy, heres how its shaking out. Youve got a positional group that will be 13 players, and will presumably include the two catchers, one first baseman (Frank Schwindel, if healthy), one second baseman (Nick Madrigal, two shortstops (Andrelton Simmons and Nico Hoerner), and the third baseman (Patrick Wisdom and Jonathan Villar). That leaves a maximum of five outfielder spots available, two of which will absolutely be taken by Seiya Suzuki and Ian Happ. So you have three spots left for Clint Frazier, Hermosillo, Ortega, and Heyward. Someone will have to go, and Frazier is the only one with a minor league option left. Its *conceivable* the Cubs could send him down to open the season so that they can keep each of the other three, but if Frazier is healthy, Id think you would want him on the big league roster right out of the gate.

The thinking had long been that Jason Heyward would be given at least a couple months to see if he could bounce back as a lefty bat against righties, but the addition of Suzuki may have changed that calculus. Im not sure I would rather see Heyward getting those starts in center field over Ortega and/or Hermosillo, and I definitely dont want to see him sending by extension Frazier to the minors.

Seiya Suzuki was a bit pissed off that he didnt do anything yesterday in his two at bats:

In there, its noted that new Cubs hitting coach Greg Brown (formerly the minor league hitting coordinator for the Rays) was part of the contingent that went to the meeting in Los Angeles that clinched the Suzuki signing. I like to hear that. Brown says of Suzuki, per the Tribune, The key is just trying to find connection points. He loves hitting, he loves talking hitting and hes got a great personality. . Hes very engaging, very confident, and you see with his player interactions, he just immediately can immerse himself. That is going to be a recipe for success for him . The ball comes off and it doesnt look like hes trying, but its because he moves from the center really well. So thats something that if you could help create better performance all the way around, it would be that so he already has that. Its just adapting to the flow of the way pitchers pitch. Its totally different style.

People have said Seiya Suzuki is funny, and were already seeing it:

Heres the full in-game interview with Seiya Suzuki if you missed it during yesterdays broadcast:

New Cubs reliever Mychal Givens, it turns out, is a training buddy with Kyle Schwarber, who talked up his experience with the Cubs and Chicago (Marquee).

Nick Madrigal had a couple hits yesterday, but also a really bad throw:

Eno Sarris has ten bold statistically-supported predictions for the season ahead, and the Cubs pretty much show up nowhere (which says a lot):

Interesting bit in there: Joey Votto, at age 37/38, increased his bat speed DRAMATICALLY, which played a big part in his jump in power production. Id love to know how he did it, but hes keeping it a secret sauce. Somebody talk to that man! GET HIS SECRETS!

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Planning a field trip? This kid-friendly destination is just 24 minutes outside the city. With 15 permanent exhibits plus special exhibits featuring hands-on activities and traveling exhibits to boot, theres plenty to not only keep your nugget entertained, but help them to grow and learn, too. In Ravinia Festival Music Makers, they can touch and play instruments to see how they sound and learn how they work. Pet Vet, meanwhile, will see them nursing sick stuffed animals back to health, examining their X-rays for boo-boos and helping lost pets find their homes. Know a budding artiste? Allow them to express themselves through the museums Adventures in Art exhibit, where theyll be provided with all the materials needed to create. No matter what your childs interests, it's bound to be piqued. Kids and adults, $15, 2100 Patriot Bvld., Glenview, IL, 60026; kohlchildrensmuseum.org

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Waveland Mayor Mike Smiths plan to create a happy, healthier city got some help today.

The city added outdoor fitness equipment to Gex Park. A pull-up bar, chest press, and cardio walkers are some of the equipment installed so adults can get a workout while the kids play.

Mayor Smith hopes the addition of the equipment will also help grow the downtown area.

Coleman Avenue is the heart of the business district for the city and it lost many businesses after Hurricane Katrina.

Its still coming back and adding these amenities, Smith hopes will help businesses decide to build back. Were about to get our pier fixed again. Thats one of the main attractions for Coleman Avenue and Downtown Waveland. In the future, I dont want to see overgrowth, but growth to where it will sustain itself.

Next on the agenda, the city will be making the park ADA accessible by adding new playground equipment.

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Posted in Iowa Dining February 14, 2022by Sarah McCosham

Theres nothing better than tucking into a big, hearty, fully loaded breakfast it is the most important meal of the day, after all. And if epic, decadent breakfast plates are your love language, youll want to mosey on down to Waveland Cafe, an Iowa eatery thats known to turn even lifelong night owls into bona fide early birds!

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Still basking inlocal celebrityandnational TV exposure, The Tower Of London stood strong gigging well into 1968 despite significant changes in line-up and musical direction. Joe Yanovitch left the group to pursue work in the DC soul scene, Mike Elliot left for college, and Glen Bundy Brown split for a day job. From there the band picked up two new members, Annapolitan guitarist Steve Herron and Severna Park drummer John Schumacher. Shep Tullier remained on bass; guitarist John Rausch was the only other member left from the previous line-up.

The Towers repertoire evolved, encompassing songs by acid rock acts Cream and Jimi Hendrix, including Burning Of The Midnight Lamp and other lysergic deep cuts. At this time Tullier also befriended The Jimi Hendrix Experience during their August 1967 live stint at DCs Ambassador Theater. Meeting up at their hotel room the British-based musicians were particularly impressed when Shep brought them fresh copies of NME and Melody Maker, a slice of home to help the road-weary UK artists get caught up on pop news. At around the same time, Tullier headed off to Eastons McKean Sound Studio to create a new remix of Substitute that featured psychedelic tremolo effects in the vein of The Smoke and The Who.

Rausch and Tullier were fulltime college students, but neither planned on staying in Maryland forever. Tower Of London had one more Leonard Schwab-supervised recording session at a studio in College Park (done for an unreleased 1968 single that included an untitled original and a cover of The Kinks Stop Your Sobbing). Soon after that the band called it quits Tullier and co. pursued continuing education outside of Maryland, or formed new bands and other projects which quickly found audiences beyond the local all ages/teen scene.

Tulliers music activity has spanned 60 years. The first band he played with after The Tower Of Londons break-up was David, a progressive rock group whose repertoire mainly consisted of material from Jethro Tull, Blodwyn Pig, and other early-1970s art rockers. This was followed up by Whats So Bad About Evel?, a one-shot novelty single from Annapolis studio group Snake River (the combos music and lyrics were inspired by stunt superstar Evel Knievel). Two major solo projects (one that earned him the chance to sign withLifesong Records, and another that caught the ear of the infamous Kim Fowley), new wave/pub rock band Zero, the late-70s line-up of Joe Yanovitchs Zappa-esque freak rock combo The Vandaltones, and the power pop single Go Modern filled out Tulliers Cold War-era resume. The 1990s found the indie music vet married with a family and settling into a day job as a community planning consultant in Anne Arundel County. A high point of 1993 came when Tullier won a seat on the Annapolis City Council. Despite political success and domestic commitments, his love of music was still strong.

When 1960s teen rock artists remain active long after their early days they usually take one of two paths: they violently rip themselves from their primal lo-fi roots, or get stuck in nostalgia, creating a sonic mid-life crisis. Its rare to find post-garage rockers who can strike a dynamic balance between sophisticated perspectives of adulthood and the rawness of youth music. Roky Erickson, Fred Cole, The Glass Sun, Downliners Sect, and a few others successfully made recordings that matched the power of their youthful work. Quietly following in the footsteps of these cult faves, Tulliers esoteric work circa the 2010s and 20s gives The Tower Of Londons best elements a fresh intensity.

Shep Tullier: It just seemed like the machines were taking over. EDM? I [didnt] pay any attention to it. Anybody can do a tune on Garage Band, on your phone, you can post it on YouTube, your stuff can be streamed, and theres still talent to be found, but I dont know where to find it because Im just drowning in content. By the time the 2000s rolled around I was just heading back more towards guitars.

Focusing on original material inspired by the messy endings of two marriages, climate change, and unique perspectives on social behavior gleaned from his planning work, in the 2010s Tullier re-discovered his artistic voice and revived The Vandaltones as a mercurial studio entity. In many ways Vandaltones was the perfect name for the new project. Its a subtle tribute to late Tower Of London/Vandaltones founder Joe Yanovitch (who passed away in 2015) and a defiant scrawl on the impersonal facade of modern pops assembly line style. Upon learning that many pop hits of the aughts were created by teams of marketing specialists, demographics experts, and several songwriters and arrangers Tullier was dumbstruck.

Tullier: The idea that you need eight writers to come up with some pop confection just boggles the mind, to me thats just formulaic. To have writing by committee, I just dont understand it.

Despite his disinterest in techno pop and EDM, Tullier has managed to avoid any okay boomer moments. You wont find anti-K-pop anthems or Taylor Swift dis lyrics in his songbook. While they may not offer any synthetic digital bliss, the recordings released by the latter day Vandaltones sport an even mix of distorted post-teenbeat damage, top-flight production, and virtuosic tasty licks a la Mac DeMarco, Thundercat, and other eccentric jazz rockers.

Tullier: Ive been using some really good jazz players on some of The Vandaltones sessions. I mean, these guys can sight read and all that. [Famous L.A. session musicians] The Wrecking Crew used to call it reading rat shit because when you seedotted 32nd'sand all this stuff its just a complicated cluster of notes.

The Vandaltones recordings are unified by an intimate connection to independent rock history and Tulliers life experience. Even with numerous connections to the past, none of their songs sound old. Waveland (from the 2020 EP Heavy Water),"Floatin"(from 2018sHighSociety), and the entireFeelGoodEP (2021) feature fusion and vapor wave elements intermingling with warm r & b hooks. This is psychedelic soul for daydreamers, a panoramic sound with the shimmer of a Chesapeake Bay sunset. The bittersweet folk rock single"A Lot To Live For"is just as melodic as these cuts, but less spacey and imbued with some of the singer-songwriters most poignant autobiographical sentiments.

The rough side of The Vandaltones creates a perfect contrast for their stoned chill-outs. Bad Day At Black Rock (fromHigh Society) and Reap What You Sow (fromHeavy Water) brandish a fury destined to please fans of grungy doom metal. The title track fromHigh Societyand the short and savage"Little Tiny World"have a fresh take on Tower Of London-style folk-punk. With frenetic Dylanesque vocals, Tullier spits out a tirade against global warming, a constant danger that effects the bureaucratic boondoggles confronted by a planning consultant in one of Americas most frequently flooded regions.

Before scoring hits as a maudlin singer-songwriter, Eric Carmen played with 1960s garage legends The Choir. Teenbeat to the core, once that band split up in the early-70s Carmen co-founded The Raspberries. This group re-contextualized the youthful electricity and propulsive hooks of The Choir with weird arrangements and poetic lyrics informed by the heavy 1970s prog era, a time period barely removed from garage rocks mid-60s apogee. Tullier has pushed the concept behind The Raspberries work further by fusing the expansive sonic innovation of 21st-century music with a classic song craft whose contextual power is charged by six decades of pop evolution. The world would be better place if the derivative Boomer cover bands littering local bars could forget about Clapton and Zep and start taking cues from Shep Tullier and The Vandaltones.

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Now that the medical marijuana bill has passed in the state of Mississippi, Waveland Mayor Mike Smith wants his city to be the first to open a medical marijuana facility.

On February 2nd, Governor Tate Reeves signed a bill legalizing medical marijuana, making Mississippi the 37th state to enact the policy change in the country.

While some people are not fond of this legalization, others like Waveland Mayor Mike Smith are in support of it. I was excited to see the medical marijuana bill pass in Mississippi mainly because of the help it can provide to people for seizures and for especially cancer patients.

Mayor Smith is a stage-four cancer survivor and says he knows how prescribed medicines can affect the body. I went through a rough patch the four months I was in chemo. I couldnt eat. I lost weight.

Many of the medicines would leave Mayor Smith unable to eat and feeling very nauseous. I think that this medical marijuana would actually help the nausea, from what I understand, and make it easier for the cancer patients.

Mayor Smith says if Hancock County is going to have a marijuana dispensary, he wants his city to be the first city to open one. To get it open quicker, get it to the public quicker, so that these people can enjoy the benefits of medical marijuana.

Not only will this be a health benefit for the people of Waveland, but also a great source of revenue for the city. From what I understand, the revenue made off of medical marijuana is going to just benefit the city. Citywide, you know there is a lot of services that we can provide with the money.

Mayor Smith says he has not brought the idea of the dispensary to the board of alderman, but he plans to at the next meeting.

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