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Glenn Beck Reveals Some Exciting Details About His Trip to the American Dream Labs in Salt Lake City

Feb. 18, 2013 9:54pm Jason Howerton

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Glenn Beck traveled to Salt Lake City this past weekend to visit the American Dream Labs and continue planning his exciting “Man in the Moon” event, set to kick off on July 6. During his show on TheBlaze TV Monday, Beck discussed his trip and what the future holds for the American Dream Labs.

“It is exciting,” Beck began. “Over the last four days, I have met with my dreamers in a very plain, unmarked 7,000 sq. ft. warehouse in a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah…I spent about three hours with some scientists who are on the verge of answering the question of whether or not we can really have green energy in a timely fashion, and enough energy to power our world.”

Beck said he now believes the answer is a “clear, powerful and resounding yes.”

“You can’t imagine some of the things I saw this weekend,” he continued. “And in time, I believe you feel the same sense of history I did, if after we complete all of our testing, it remains true.”

Careful not to reveal too much information too soon, Beck explained he has kept much of the American Dream Labs’ work under wraps as the research and testing is ongoing, though “promising.”

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abyrd
Posted on February 25, 2013 at 8:03pm
Too all who say Glenn is crazy: So what, live your own life. If he funds a breakthrough, awesome. If not, he tried and put his money on the line and that’s not crazy, that’s balls.

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Nuclear Bumpkin
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:59pm
Maybe Glenn’s the guy finally throwing some real money behind the thermal power chip.

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- Tukadoodle
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 9:54pm
  GB is another Megalomaniac that likely is suffering from Bi Polar illusions of grandure and being too rich. The guy is totally unhinged and uses everyone he can. He thinks he is .od and his ” church” is being found out. Maybe a Personality Disorder as well but not any great Tesla magical cure. The guy just never seems to grow up and is searching for revelence cos he is just fading away. He used the Jews and and thinks he is god and his ” scientists” are probably junk. Everyone is grabbing cash and selling out for the coming global collapse. Another ” investment” scam just like his Commune at very big bucks. Yes he is a blaze that just burned out and going nuts.
  
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- Nuclear Bumpkin
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:38pm
  Excuse me, sir. You must have replied to the wrong comment. I’m idly wondering if someone has finally made a real investment towards the only truly feasible alternative source of power that’s developed an accepted proof-of-concept prototype, and you’re irrelevantly ranting like an ******* with an axe to grind.
  If this becomes a trend, next thing we know you’ll launch into a tirade about Kentucky’s educational system any time someone expresses their love for fried chicken.
  
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- Nuclear Bumpkin
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 2:50pm
  That is a fascinating, lengthy and irrelevant tirade that would make a great case study for psychological fixation on personality over subject matter. Are you going to defame Bunce when I say I look forward to the development of organic computing?
  
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b1kerguy
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:04pm
@ 4:59 and 5:03 that is a fly-over being described to LT Col Nutnfancy or I havent been a subscriber of his since 2008

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:33pm
Every time the words “green energy” is used, another nail in the coffin of your civil liberties is hammered?

People are not going to necessarily buy technology even if you invent it.

“States rights” in the US Constition are reserved rights that say, even though we found a way (we don’t, this is hypothetical) to power the national grid with hydro energy from Niagra falls, Utah has the right to sell coal?

Sounds like a nightmare to civil rights activists?

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Will-db
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:19pm
Has ‘snake oil’ written all over it…

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Will-db
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:18pm
Poor Glenn. Hope he’s not being taken for a mug here…

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Zeon49
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:14am
Oh boy, another one of Glen’s amazing yet anti-climatic marketing blitzes. I can’t wait. Just tell me where to go and how much money to bring with me. Glen has apparently solved the world’s energy problems right in his SLC compound. Good grief people.

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- Cronpolis
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:54am
  Wish I could go, but like Glenn says that I have to get out of debt before I can help others.
  
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Canada_Goose
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:58am
After all the mocking of Al Gore, and railing at Solyndra and other solar energy start-ups, demonizing Van Jones, and general denial of climate change and the need for alternative energy, Mr. Beck has embraced the notion that “…we can really have green energy in a timely fashion, and enough energy to power our world.”

I am assuming since Mr. Beck is bankrolling this “American Dream Labs” projects or whatever it is, can he at least spring for a website to inform the curious who these scientists are and what they’re up to.

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- LokiC2
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:43pm
  Glenn gave two clues a month ago when he first mentioned free limitless “green energy”. Those clues were Tesla and Lindbergh. Do a little search and you will start coming up with 1928, Hendershot and generator. There are many “greater than unity” devices; Hendershot wasn’t the first. Also, read Hendershot’s history if you would like to know why Glenn would want to have this thing nailed down beyond question before showing it to the public. Also read Tesla’s history. There is big money behind discrediting this idea – why would someone spend millions to discredit a quack and fraud? JP Morgan did.
  
  Tesla is the father of Radiant Energy. He was able to heat objects at a distance without heating the air between (you can buy radiant heaters based on his discovery). He was able to light arrays of light bulbs at 25 miles with no wires back in the early 1900s. Tesla believed that there was one or more forms of radiant energy that surrounded us all the time – all we had to do was find a way to receive it and convert it to run our machines. So when Hendershot asked Tesla if free energy was possible, Tesla told him “yes”. This is not some perpetual motion scheme.
  
  I watched a two hour video of a man building a Hendershot generator. Yes, it could have been faked, but I sat through to hours of a man carefully winding coils by hand and then connecting all the components to produce a generator. He then lit a bank of light bulbs and powered a computer.
  
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- Canada_Goose
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:29pm
  I see, Mr. Beck is planning to rewrite the laws of Thermodynamics.
  
  So he’s gone from conspiracy to outright quackery.
  At least he’s making progress.
  
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Joyzee
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 7:00am
One Giant Solar Flare’ from the Sun and we’ll have all the Energy Possible

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johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:57am
Glenn,

What’s happened to you, son?

Too many assets to maintain that edge you had?

Too bad.

“Remember Benghazi and ALL the Traitors!”

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- TROONORTH
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 9:08am
  And, “NICE HAT.”
  
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- huntinwabbits
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 9:33am
  Glenn is moving on to new things. Do we really need more proof at the corruption in government? Do we honestly need yet another story of the insanity that is Washington D.C.? Another news story is going to change people’s minds nor is it going to do anything for our future. It sounds like you’re getting so comfortable listening to his program and just getting angry over the stories he is bringing; then getting off the couch and doing nothing about it. I appreciate the stories and like to keep tabs on our government. But there has to be a point of action too. Are we going to watch America go down the toilet or attempt to do something about it? If we sit back and do nothing, are we any better than those who are leading the way down?
  
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- Zeon49
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:25am
  Meh, makes his head look fatter.
  
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soybomb315_II
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:55am
beck, you remind me of howard hughes – without all the technical knowledge…..be careful

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- CLARKR3000
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 7:30am
  Not without binding carbon. That is at the heart of photosynthesis. Can’t call it that if you do not bind carbon from CO2.
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 7:48am
  well there is supposedly too much carbon in the air, right?
  
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- CLARKR3000
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:36am
  No there isn’t but that was not your original point now was it?
  
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BryanB
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:59am
Well Glenn don’t have have a clue of what your up too,

God Bless and good luck……….

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Rayblue
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:12am
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own rede.

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- liltexasgal
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:52am
  Well said
  
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RestoreCapitalism
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:02am
I am still of the opinion that hydrogen is the clean and abundant fuel we should be using. If we extract the hydrogen from water, we can use it for anything. But the key is to not allow it to be controlled by energy conglomerates that sell it to you in cans, but rather own our own machines that converts water to hydrogen and uses it for fuel. Pee could run your car, or cool your home.

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- CLARKR3000
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:09am
  Oh, Dear Lord, please take a class in thermodynamics. Free Hydrogen does not exist in abundant quantities in Nature. In order to get hydrogen you have to strip it from water or hydrocarbons and then seperate it from the other constituents, which requires energy. MORE ENERGY! than what you get back when you burn it with oxygen. This is due to the efficiencies inherent in the process. What you are proposing is a perpetual motion machine. Please do not say we could get the enegy from Solar either because converting water to hydrogen with electrolysis is not as efficient as just using the electrcity from the panels themselves. TAKE A SCIENCE CLASS FOR GODS SAKE! This is why people believe in Climate Change because they are uneducated!
  
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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:18am
  perhaps they could use bacteria (photosynthesis) to make it
  
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- thx1138v2
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:36am
  @Clark3000
  I’m not sure why people have trouble with the concept of a “perpetual motion” machine. The entire universe is a perpetual motion machine – galactic clusters, galaxies, solar systems, stars, planets, moons, tectonic plates, oceans, rivers, molecules, atoms and subatomic particles are all in motion. The entire universe at every level, macro and micro, is awash in energy.
  
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- CLARKR3000
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 7:35am
  THX1138V2 You seem to have a problem with the concept of perpetual motion. The solar system is not a perpetual motion machine and neither is the myriad of other examples you cite. I will leave it to you to figure out why.
  
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- UNIX_Techie
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 7:56am
  We are already on a hydrogen economy. I am not a chemist but because of my interest, I spent a lot of time in the hydrogen energy news group in the old usenet. I learned from some very knowledgeable people that all of our fuels are hydrocarbons meaning that the hydrogen atoms are linked to carbon atoms to make a compact molecule. This is why if you look up the amount of BTU’s (energy) in these different chemical combinations you will find that the amount of BTU’s is directly proportional to how many hydrogen atoms are linked to the carbon atoms.
  
  From wikipedia web site:
  1 gallon of gasoline = 114,000 BTU’s 8 carbon atoms and 18 hydrogen atoms
  126 cubic ft. natural gas = 114,000 BTU’s 1 carbon atom and 4 hydrogen atoms
  357 cubic ft. hydrogen = 114,000 BTU’s. 1 hydrogen atom
  
  So from this you have to compress or liquify 357 cubic feet of hydrogen to get the equivalent amount of energy that you get from 1 gallon of gasoline that you just pour into a tank in natural liquid form without any special pressurization or liquification/ thermos container.
  
  The only reason why hydrogen has any traction is because of the lefts insistence that carbon (CO2) is a pollutant. My opinion is that this ploy is yet another way to put another sword through the heart of the economy, just as all the debt is another way to kill the economy.
  
  If you want to get rid of carbon dioxide from burning hydrocarbons then come up with a different carrier.
  
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- TROONORTH
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 9:17am
  The separation of one oxygen atom from two hydrogen atoms through electrolysis is the perfect use for nuclear generating stations that need to be running all the time to realize their efficiencies. You are right ‘RESTORE….” the hydrogen cycle, when applied properly, is the answer to our polluting fossil fuel problems. Any ‘green’ who wants to send you back to school has let his agenda blind him to the full picture and should try to broaden his view.
  
  However, if your pee burns, perhaps you should see a urologist.
  
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- CLARKR3000
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:40am
  It’s true you could use nuclear energy to generate hydrogen but it is not 100% efficient which is what my point was. You have to build nuclear plants in order to do that. Which I am all for, however good luck getting that past the environmentalist whackos in this country. We need to use all of our resources to bridge us until alternatives are viable. Climate Change is a scam.
  
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nzkiwi
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:21am
I’m a natural skeptic when it comes to this sort of thing. Let’s be honest; it’s not the first time that the world has been teased with an imminent breakthrough in various areas only to find that it was unworkable for whatever reason.

That said; I am always hopeful and it should be fairly noted that very occassionally the breakthrough is real.

So, good luck Mr Beck, and here’s hoping…

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- taxpro4u03
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:55am
  The Telsa ‘papers’ were CONFISCATED by the Feds upon his death — it’s not ‘possible’ that they are available subsequent — “RIiiiiiiiight” — the technology is being used today — ‘green’ energy is readily available — no MONEY in it, hence — ‘suppressed’ by those who HAVE perfected the designs to ‘tap’ it — the ‘green’ spend and bust is simply to annoy and indoctrinate the masses that ‘its not feasible on a global scale — yet…’ — What, pray tell, would be the result of ‘curing cancer,’ and ‘free energy?’ FREEDOM from OPPRESSION all mankind?? Hm – Yup! Keep it up, Glen……. :-) The global shift from a MONEY based existence to a RESOURCE based existence is the cornerstone that will do just that — FREE mankind — IF we don’t kill each other first ;-) Human beings are the ONLY species on the planet that ‘charge a fee’ to live free upon the earth — as say — deer do; nature and — DNR tags not-with-standing … btw — seen and HONEY BEES of late??????
  
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TrueSoundsOfLiberty
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:57am
Spoiler Alert!!

This is a total scam. Glenn has never cared about new or green energy or anything like it. He has torn down everything “green” over the last 5 or so years.

Send your money, buy your tickets. A fool and his money are soon parted.

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DLV
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:57am
This seems pretty cool. I wish you the best Glenn!

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smokey888x2
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:47am
I think most people will be amazed at the speed of inventions coming in the next ten years. What use to take a good seven years in research is now falling over each other. One huge problem however, we use to have all sorts of people who wanted ‘in on it’. We don’t have that economy any longer. Honestly, our debt comes with a huge price.

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Gums
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:26am
What’s “green energy”? Those hyrids that need electricity (fossil fuel) and gasoline (fossil fuel)? The biofuels that starve people in third world countries and pollute more than fossil fuels? Those light bulbs we are forced to buy that need haz vac clean up when they break because the mercury poisons everything? What exactly is this “green energy” stuff?

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supertas
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:12am
I think they’re working on that 100 mpg carburator we’ve all been searching for. Seriously, best of luck to Beck and his dreamers.

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DZ-015
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:01am
Very little about the Dream Labs was in the clip, so it’s too early to see if Glenn will go green. The Man in the Moon demo was interesting, but it reminded me of that famous scene in Georges Melies’ 1902 film adaptation of Jules Verne’s “From the Earth to the Moon” in which the cannon shell carrying the the early astronauts draws close to the lunar surface before hitting the Man in the Moon in the eye.

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brianhks
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:52pm
I hope he hasn’t found cold fusion again in Utah.
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- SingerGuy
  Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:59pm
  If he did, let’s hope he tests it thoroughly before announcing it to the world.
  
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guufyfoot
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:29pm
Many, many times we have seen inventions which would save money, gas, the climate, etc… with nothing to show for it due to a mysterious death or some kind of payoff. Let’s hope that Mr. Beck can make it happen so the general public can have access to INEXPENSIVE clean energy.

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- moreoilplease
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:10am
  I think most of the “inventions” you speak of where just a combination of scams and bad science. There has always been talk of payoffs etc. but I have seen no proof. Tesla’s story is the closest to suppression that I know of when JP Morgan cut funding to Tesla’s attempt at wireless communication. Some say he was really working on atmospheric, free energy with a way to broadcast it. Others say he just failed. So, it’s still a conspiracy theory.
  
  When it comes to energy, the laws of physics are hard to get around. Splitting the atom, so far, is the only way to produce more energy than it consumes. Everything else is a net energy loser. But when factoring in all the fossil fuel needed to deal with a reactor, nuclear comes close to being a net energy loser.
  
  Technology probably wont due. We need a breakthrough discovery in science. Something like a new dimension of physics previously undiscovered.
  
  We keep trying.
  
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- Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:47am
  guufyfoot
  “We have seen inventions” that never made it to market because the inventors were killed or bought off? Have we really? I’ve never seen those inventions. I’ve heard stories like that from kids in school and guys in bars. Are you sure that you have any other sources that aren’t kids in school and guys in bars?
  
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- Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:02am
  moreoilplease
  Not even Tesla. First of all, it wasn’t about “wireless communication.” We already had that. It’s called the radio. Nor was he about to give us free energy from nowhere. He was hung up on the idea of wireless transmission of electricity, that you could just send millions of volts through the air from Niagara to Long Island and run an electrical grid on it. People who, unlike Tesla, relied on math on paper more than thought experiments conducted in their head realized that even if it worked there was not all that much to be gained by doing it this way compared to using good old fashioned copper wires. Also, remember that Tesla was a guy who regularly ran electricity through his own body because he thought that electricity was good for you. Now that we know that just living near high voltage wires can be bad for your health, it should be obvious that that even if it worked there could be horrific environmental and health consequences to poor old Nicola’s grand vision of shooting all our power through the air between big antennas.
  
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- thx1138v2
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:55am
  @Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
  No, we didn’t already have radio. Tesla was the one that gave us that. In fact Marconi used seventeen devices patented by Tesla to make his radio. In the 1940′s, after Tesla’s death, the patent dispute was settled and Tesla was recognized as the inventor of radio.
  
  Although Tesla patented a method of transmitting energy through the air it would have required terminals maintained at 30,000 feet. It isn’t necessary to actually build the device to receive a patent. He did, however, demostrate to a patent examiner his method using a tube with the reduced air pressure of high altitude between the two terminals and subsequently received the patent.
  
  Read his Colorado Springs notes of July 4, 1899 and you will see that in his experiments he determined the the energy could be transmiited in the ground. and in fact he accomplished it on a small scale of 25 miles while he was in Colorado.
  
  The problem now, of course, is that it is no longer feasible because the last 100 years of infrastructure development is incompatible with it. Had the infrastructure been built up around his method, we would be living in a different world right now.
  
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- Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:16pm
  thx1138v2
  We already had the radio in 1904 when Morgan stopped funding Tesla. If you had looked at my comment in the context of the comment to which I was responding, you would not have needed to waste your time telling me things I already know.
  
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SingerGuy
Posted on February 18, 2013 at 11:18pm
I saw that lab today and it is my goal to become one of those dreamers.

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- liltexasgal
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:55am
  I hope your dreams come true.
  
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