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		<title>Slaves</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2011/07/slaves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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M
any of you will be surprised to learn that my great grandparents were slaves in America. Usually, we think of African Americans as those who represent the descendants of early American slavery, but there were also other peoples who were kidnapped, taken from the land of their ancestors and forced into slavery in America.
My father’s [...]


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The debts</small></li><li><a href='http://therubicon.org/2008/03/doubletake-i-still-love-chocolate/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Double~take &#124; I still love chocolate'>Double~take &#124; I still love chocolate</a> <small>
Stop The </small></li><li><a href='http://therubicon.org/2007/11/ragamuffin-church-and-leader-2/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Ragamuffin: church and leader 2'>Ragamuffin: church and leader 2</a> <small>

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		<title>Bang Bang You&#8217;re Dead</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2011/07/bang-bang-youre-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://therubicon.org/2011/07/bang-bang-youre-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 20:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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An Army that shoots its wounded won&#8217;t survive, says Captain C.
I had the pleasure of conversing with one of the Army&#8217;s world renowned brass band composers this last week. He is a very clever man who has written some of the best music of the past forty years but he is no longer a salvationist. You [...]


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&#8220;My</small></li><li><a href='http://therubicon.org/2011/06/taking-whats-offered/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Taking what&#8217;s offered?'>Taking what&#8217;s offered?</a> <small>
Rescue th</small></li><li><a href='http://therubicon.org/2010/03/the-holiness-movement-dead-or-alive/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The Holiness Movement: Dead or Alive?'>The Holiness Movement: Dead or Alive?</a> <small>
 Is ther</small></li></ol>]]></description>
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		<title>What the Hell? (Part Two: Rethinking and Restating Hell)</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2011/06/what-the-hell-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://therubicon.org/2011/06/what-the-hell-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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 by Mark Braye
                                     &#8220;I would go on an errand to Hell, if the
                                    Lord would give me the assurance that
                                    the Devil should not keep me there.&#8221;
                                    (Catherine Booth)
 

                                    &#8221;In all discussions of Hell we should keep
                                    keep steadily before our eyes the possible
                                    damnation, not of our enemies nor our
                                    friends&#8230; but of ourselves.&#8221;
                                    (C.S. [...]


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by Mark B</small></li><li><a href='http://therubicon.org/2009/01/highway-to-hell/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Highway to Hell'>Highway to Hell</a> <small>
We might </small></li><li><a href='http://therubicon.org/2008/01/vox-populi-heaven-or-hell/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Vox populi &#124; heaven or hell?'>Vox populi &#124; heaven or hell?</a> <small>
When are </small></li></ol>]]></description>
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		<title>Taking what&#8217;s offered?</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2011/06/taking-whats-offered/</link>
		<comments>http://therubicon.org/2011/06/taking-whats-offered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Rescue the perishing, prey on the dying? asks Captain C.
Iremember my officer Grandfather&#8217;s outrage at a colleague accepting a house from one of his former corps parishioners via their will. It wasn&#8217;t that there was anything un-toward happening but it just wasn&#8217;t acceptable, according to the regulations for officers. Then again this particular officer was from a [...]


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		<title>Living Right</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2011/06/living-right/</link>
		<comments>http://therubicon.org/2011/06/living-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before a candidate is accepted for training college they must be interviewed by a divisional board.  This can be quite intimidating as it usually includes the Divisional Commanders, the 2IC, the DYCS, a representative CO and a representative soldier.  In my case I&#8217;m sure there was another person present but I can&#8217;t remember exactly who [...]


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Found wi</small></li><li><a href='http://therubicon.org/2008/10/justthinking-living-sacrifices/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: JustThinking &#124; living sacrifices'>JustThinking &#124; living sacrifices</a> <small>
&#8230; o</small></li><li><a href='http://therubicon.org/2007/01/kingdom-living/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Kingdom Living'>Kingdom Living</a> <small>
Brian Arm</small></li></ol>]]></description>
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		<title>Release and Empower (Part One)</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2011/06/release-and-empower-part-one/</link>
		<comments>http://therubicon.org/2011/06/release-and-empower-part-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ (Note from Joe: About five years ago (2006) I wrote a brief series on this subject over on my &#8220;Slightly Irregular&#8221; blog. Because of recent developments and an exciting upcoming project, I feel Spirit-led to revisit these post here on The Rubicon, adding to them as relevantly inspired.)
Oh, the miracle of Webcasts. To think that [...]


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		<title>&#8220;It depends on what you mean&#8221; - A Study</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2011/05/holiness-vs-pentecostal-candidates-a-study/</link>
		<comments>http://therubicon.org/2011/05/holiness-vs-pentecostal-candidates-a-study/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 20:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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In the latest issue of &#8220;The Officer&#8221;, Commissioner Robert Street describes his being confronted with his Candidate&#8217;s Papers and seeing the question: &#8220;Do you have the Blessing of the Clean Heart?&#8221; He asked the DC, &#8220;What does that mean?&#8221; The reply: &#8220;Just write &#8216;Yes&#8217;.&#8221;



A Review of Candidates’ Application Forms in the New Zealand Territory
(with reference [...]


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		<title>Enjoying joy</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2011/05/enjoying-joy/</link>
		<comments>http://therubicon.org/2011/05/enjoying-joy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 20:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At one stage last year my mate Dazzler (self-evidently not his real name) went on a news media-free diet.
He spurned newspapers and magazines. His iPod was on; his radio and TV off. He re-read novels, forsaking his laptop for anything but work (prompting his facebook buddies to send out cyber search parties).
Cultural cold turkey may [...]


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		<title>What The Hell? (Part One: Bell&#8217;s Hell)</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2011/05/what-the-hell_1/</link>
		<comments>http://therubicon.org/2011/05/what-the-hell_1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 20:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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by Mark Braye

  &#8221;For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways
  my ways,&#8221; declares the LORD. (Isaiah 55:8)
  &#8221;It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a
  thought without accepting it.&#8221; (Aristotle)

Pardon the pun, but it seems like Hell is a hot topic these days; scalding hot; white hot! In fact, [...]


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 by Mark</small></li><li><a href='http://therubicon.org/2008/01/vox-populi-heaven-or-hell/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Vox populi &#124; heaven or hell?'>Vox populi &#124; heaven or hell?</a> <small>
When are </small></li><li><a href='http://therubicon.org/2009/01/highway-to-hell/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Highway to Hell'>Highway to Hell</a> <small>
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		<title>To thine own self be true!</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2011/05/to-thine-own-self-be-true/</link>
		<comments>http://therubicon.org/2011/05/to-thine-own-self-be-true/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 20:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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Let&#8217;s stop &#8220;cooking the books&#8221; says Terry Camsey
 
I n Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” these words appear spoken by Polonius…
 

&#8220;This above all, to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day, 
Thou cans’t not then be false to any man…&#8221;

 
My father used to quote that frequently to me when I was a young lad [...]


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		<title>I am [NOT] Holy</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2011/05/i-am-not-holy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 20:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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                                                                                                                                                             &#8220;Holiness is not a state&#8221; says James Pedlar
 
In my opinion, the main problem with Wesleyan/Holiness understandings of sanctification is their attempts to define a &#8220;low water mark&#8221; of holiness, by which I mean, a line in the sand - a threshold which we can identify as the indication that someone has experienced holiness or [...]


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Danielle</small></li><li><a href='http://therubicon.org/2009/02/a-holy-sabbath-mindset/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: A holy Sabbath mindset'>A holy Sabbath mindset</a> <small>
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		<title>the Rubicon by request - Heaven without Hell</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2011/04/the-rubicon-by-request-heaven-without-hell/</link>
		<comments>http://therubicon.org/2011/04/the-rubicon-by-request-heaven-without-hell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 04:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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Andrew Bale on Sheol
A
ll Salvationists publicly state at the time of their enrollment that they “believe and will live by the truths of the word of God expressed in The Salvation Army&#8217;s eleven articles of faith.” Cadets repeat this declaration when they are commissioned, and the statement is an integral part of their Officer’s Covenant.
However, [...]


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 by Mark</small></li></ol>]]></description>
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		<title>Articles now wanted!</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2011/04/articles-now-wanted/</link>
		<comments>http://therubicon.org/2011/04/articles-now-wanted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the imminent return the TheRubicon we are now seeking articles.
Please send them to rubiconeditor@gmail.com asap!


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theRubicoGone to the beach Starting J


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		<title>The Next General (Redux)</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2010/12/the-next-general-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
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Geoff Ryan provides a job description for the &#8220;top job&#8221;
O rganizationally The Salvation Army is closer to the Roman Catholic church than most other Protestant denominations, the majority of which are governed according to a congregational model while we are structurally a hierarchy. We are a particular expression of the church militant and our ecclesiastical head [...]


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A CALL TO</small></li></ol>]]></description>
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		<title>Off to the Beach &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2010/11/going-to-the-beach/</link>
		<comments>http://therubicon.org/2010/11/going-to-the-beach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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theRubicon takes a short break &#8230;
Starting November 11, theRubicon is taking a short break… we’re off to the beach on our annual break.
While we are away, please take some time to look through theRubicon’s archives, where you’ll find over 1070 articles and almost 3,800 comments. While you are at the beach, if you write something that you [...]


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		<title>Unsafe God</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2010/11/unsafe-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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by James Pedlar
I was preaching on Isaiah 6 a while back and a passage from The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe came to mind.  It&#8217;s the part where the children find out that Aslan is a Lion, not a man. 
 &#8220;Ooh!&#8221; said Susan, &#8220;I&#8217;d thought he was a man.  Is he - quite safe? I shall feel rather [...]


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		<title>ONE DAY! (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2010/11/one-day-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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by Joe Noland  (See Part 1 for reference) 
What To Do?
This is today, over a Century later, an Army firmly established with systems galore - some of them necessary, many not. What to do? - &#8220;&#8230;less restrictive, more imaginative and accommodating.&#8221; A tall order indeed! 

Examine the systems now in place. Eliminate those that are outdated, ineffectual [...]


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		<title>Moralistic Therapeutic Deists</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2010/11/moralistic-therapeutic-deists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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 by James Pedlar
C hristian Smith, Notre Dame sociologist and author of some significant books on youth in North America&#8217;s churches, uses the term &#8220;moralistic therapeutic deists&#8221; to describe the default religion of our time.  Christianity Today had an interview with Smith in their October 2009 issue, in which they discussed his new book on &#8220;emerging adulthood,&#8221; Souls in Transition.  He&#8217;s got [...]


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		<title>The Name That Belongs to Jesus</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2010/10/the-name-that-belongs-to-jesus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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 by Jonathan Gainey
In the original movie, &#8220;The Karate Kid&#8221;, Daniel is a boy who is being bullied by some very skilled karate students. When he meets a karate instructor (Mr. Miyagi) who is willing to teach him how to defend himself, Daniel is more than enthusiastic to learn. Mr. Miyagi teaches Daniel how to wax [...]


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		<title>ONE DAY! (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2010/10/one-day-part-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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 by Joe Noland
Commissioner Jim Knaggs has recently published a visionary statement via the USA Western Territory. I was one out of a cast of several invited to write a chapter on one of those vision statements as follows:
&#8216;ONE DAY! &#8230;that our systems would be less restrictive and more imaginative in order to accommodate the new [...]


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Joe Nolan</small></li><li><a href='http://therubicon.org/2009/04/sacred-cows/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Sacred cows'>Sacred cows</a> <small>
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		<title>The Saddest Thing I&#8217;ve Ever Heard</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2010/10/the-saddest-thing-i-have-ever-heard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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by Geoff Ryan
When the news first broke in the press it was as if a scab had been ripped off society&#8217;s façade, exposing the raw and rotting flesh just underneath. It was one of those moments in which we found ourselves face-to-face with the sordid tackiness of popular culture and its perverse craving for recognition [...]


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		<title>Review: Praise the Lord for Covenants</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2010/10/review-praise-the-lord-for-covenants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book Review  - Praise The Lord For Covenants: Old Testament wisdom for our world today By Captain Michael Ramsay
Covenant seems to be a word shied away from in 21st century society and culture. Contract disputes in sports, mortgage foreclosures, criminal and civil suites, and broken trust between employees and employers and among family and friends [...]


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		<title>The Demon Drink</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2010/10/the-demon-drink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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Is teetotalism a problem for our growth?
ALCOHOL, the demon drink; I&#8217;ve never touched the stuff, ever. So it&#8217;s not a problem area for me personally, but there is a question that begs an answer - at a time when most of our other church colleagues have relaxed or completely deleted their alcohol ban for church members, why are [...]


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 Alcohol </small></li><li><a href='http://therubicon.org/2008/03/why-we-don%e2%80%99t-drink/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Why we don’t drink'>Why we don’t drink</a> <small>
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		<title>An Earth-Shattering Event</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2010/10/an-earth-shattering-event/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After hundreds of years of removing the apocalyptic genus from some of the obvious apocalyptic teachings of Jesus, it can be difficult for some Christians to accept correction. But, regardless of one&#8217;s personal sensitivities, placing Jesus&#8217; words within their proper Jewish type is important and must be exercised by those who are given the purpose [...]


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		<title>In God&#8217;s name</title>
		<link>http://therubicon.org/2010/10/in-gods-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Apriest was walking along the road with a member of his church when they came across a beggar sitting in the gutter. The member said to the priest, &#8220;Why doesn&#8217;t God do something for that beggar?&#8221; The priest quickly came back with, &#8220;He has, by bringing your attention to the beggar,&#8221; replied the priest. 
God brought [...]


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