Samantha McCarthy
Professor Luke Vasilelou
Eng 103
24 May 2011
Based on the movie Look Who’s Talking NYC in the 1980s portrayed how realistically New York City was compared to now, whether it was social, political or economic at the time. NYC has always been known to be a fast, busy and always stuck in traffic type of place. People travel from many different countries still though to make a better living condition for their families. Mid 80s the violent crime in NYC had decreased in the last 15 years. The crime rate spiked in the 1980s and early 1990, when crack came to the city. The train fare was only fifty cents per ride. Jobs were easy to look about and it all depended on the experience you had. Housing was hard to find because you had several abandon housing more than apartment or housing to rent.
At the time Ronald Regan was in office and he was the oldest president to be elected as the 40th president. Clubs, schools and restaurants were reasonable to attend but even back then there were some hustling and bustling going on in the city. That’s to show you how NYC hasn’t changed much since the 1980s. Segregation was already over so it wasn’t an issue at the time for blacks & whites to be in the same location. The boom on Wall Street caused the real estate market and unemployment numbers to dropped extremely. the city got rid of discrimination between gays and lesbian people within the employment and housing matter in 1986.In the last two years of Edward Koch was major homelessness became a serious issue during 1978- 1990. The world trade center on September 11 made a huge impact on the city.
Into the 90s women were becoming more independent .They had high class jobs and could provide for themselves. For example, the taxi cab driver (john tavotte) made reference to the NYC traffic. The business man neglected to give molly the cab when she was in labor because he was in a rush. Men in the corporate world like to have power and control over things.
At the time the taxi driver assume she had a husband or boyfriend because she was pregnant. But off the back by hear saying she didn’t have either and she was arterials inseminated people thought it was either because she was ugly or a lesbian. In life now maybe your partner can not produce and you have to get frozen sperm in order to produce a baby and that’s understandable.
Having a Family was important that the time. It was custom to have a two parent household. Shown in the movie molly had a strong desire to find a father for her child, even though she was independent enough to take care of her child on her own. The movie can come unrealistic because it happened so fast so we don’t get to see a day to day progress .for instances in the movie it seem like just two days ago little mikey was born and she met the taxi driver while rushing him to take her to the hospital. The next sense mikey is big and that taxi driver is in the house putting molly to bed and taking mikey for a ride in his cab.
The movie also depicts the class structure and the means of survival within the city. James the cab driver has two different jobs and is very creative in finding ways of meeting his financial needs. Making $1100 a month in comparison to what molly is an accounting makes a significantly difference. We also see where as a single mother, molly is able to provide a comfortable atmosphere as hiring a babysitter in the charter of James. This was a clear indicator of the class and economical structure of the society at the time.
The Mets is represented like a symbol because molly mom is wearing the sweat shirt and most times when you see the Mets people think NYC, So it a identifications of NYC. Accounting was use by a paper based method which was causing NYC to lose $600 million a year in uncollected taxes. As evidence in the movie molly is manual typing in the numbers and doing the calculations from out her head manually. (Stated from the New York Magazine may 14, 1984) From 1989 to 1922 the city suffered loss in mandatory growth. In this day in age everything is computerized so accountants have an easier task to get the job done quicker and faster.
In Manhattan the medium price for homes “dropped by more than a quarter, construction declined by a third, and the city lost one-tenth of its jobs”. (Stated from the New York magazine.)The market was further destabilized by bond bedding and jacked up interest rate. Employees were made redundant; there were various merges acquisitions, and buyouts of companies. “Wall street alone saw 16,000 layoff in the two years before the recession even began”. Referring back to the movie when James went to his second job to get his schedule, nothing was on it and Carrie informed him that they had to lay him off because of the recession.
In 1989 New York City was financial different regarding the salary for certain jobs, the rent to live in certain locations and the cost of certain items. For instance a paralegal would make around 28,000 a year, a register nurse would make 20,000 a year and a computer programmer would make an average of 27, 00 per year. Housing range for a new house cost around $68,714.00 and by 1989 was $120,000.00. A gallon of gas was $1.19 and a year later was 97 cents. During those times pricey was really reasonable. A new car was just $7,210.00 but soon rose by 1989 to $15,400.00. A pair of Nike air force shoes was $54.99. Milk was 85 cents for ½ gallon. Bunk beds with mattress were $148. In the movie Molly was an accountant and she made enough money per year to be a single mother and raise her child. James only drives a cab which therefore he wasn’t able to afford everything that he would have like to. For instance in order to make a long distance phone call to call his mother & family, he would pretend he was a lost messenger. Go to huge corporation and the receptionist would allow him to use their phone. He also knew how to get free lunches in 20 different restaurants.
Look who’s talking is a 1989 film produce in New York City directed and written by Amy Hecrkling.the stars were John Travolta( James), Kristie alley(Mollie) and Olympia Dukakis( Mollie mom). The release date was October 13, 1989. The budget was $7.5 million but after gross revenue the movie made $296,999,813.
Mollie is a single mother who is on a mission to find a reliable and normal boyfriend. Her son mikey seem to find the job easier because he has a better clue of which one of the guys his mom goes out with would make an excellent father figure in his life.mikey is only a baby so Mollie isn’t able to understand mikey when he makes the decision for her. Mollie lives and works as an accountant in New York City.mikey father is her latest Clint, He is married and stills embarks on having an affair with her. He even made a promise to leave his wife for her. Deep down Mollie feels that the relationship need to stop because it is wrong but then continues to have sex with him and becomes pregnant. When giving Albert the news he took it well and said “he would always be there for his baby and raise him with her. Meanwhile Mollie decide to keep it a secret ad tell her parents that there is no father and there was a sperm donor. She finds out that Albert is seeing another woman, she gets upset and it causes her to suddenly go into labor. James is her taxi driver, realized her situation and tried to get her to the hospital as soon as possible. A few days later James brought Mollie her purse she left in his taxi. Mikey & Him starts to enjoy each other company. When she offered him a job to babysit mikey this causes them to become even closer. When Mollie was arguing with the manger where James grandfather stays, Mikey escaped from James grandfather.Mikey then notice a taxi outside and thought it was James, so he followed it. He then ends up standing in the middle of NYC traffic while still trying to look for James. James and Mollie finds him and reuse him from the street, when suddenly mikey calls him da-da. Mollie then realized that James is the perfect father figure for her son and for herself.
In my belief life in the movie was very realistic political, economic and social. Relating to the movie women was in the working field and very independent. The average salary at the time was reasonable because nothing was as expensive that the people were struggling to meet ends meet. The average rent was good enough of money because molly as a single mother was able to work, take care of her baby and still have money to go out and look a boyfriend. NYC has always been known to be a fast going, busy and always traffic type of city. James had trouble getting to the hospital, which was prime example to show the reality of NYC. People travel to NYC to make a better living ennovriment for their families. Relating to the movie you can tell moly had more money than James because she didn’t have to sneak in places to feed her child and James always had a way of getting around things in a mysterious way. Economical Back in the 1980s violent crimes was get a very high peek and as time moved on it started to increase. NYC will always have crimes because you have your lower class and upper class. The upper may be afford to pay for such things but the lower class may not but still want to have it , so that’s when they would steal.
Worked Cited
(n.d.). Retrieved from www.thepeoplehistory.com
New York Magazine, May 14, 1948
The Wall Street journal
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
blog#16
Samantha McCarthy
Professor Luke Vasilelou
Eng 103
24 May 2011
Based on what is happening in the movie even in the 1980s NYC is always been known to be busy and always have lots of traffic. The movie tends to portray the movie in a realistic way. Mid 80s into the 90s women were becoming more independent .They had high class jobs and could provide for themselves. There was some hustling and bustling going on in the city also. For example, the taxi cab driver (john tavotte) made reference to the NYC traffic. The business man neglected to give molly the cab when she was in labor because he was in a rush. Men in the corporate world like to have power and control over things
At the time the taxi driver assume she had a husband or boyfriend because she was pregnant. But off the back by hear saying she didn’t have either and she was arterials inseminated people thought it was either because she was ugly or a lesbian. In life now maybe your partner can not produce and you have to get frozen sperm in order to produce a baby and that’s understandable.
Having a Family was important that the time. It was custom to have a two parent household. Shown in the movie molly had a strong desire to find a father for her child, even though she was independent enough to take care of her child on her own. The movie can come unrealistic because it happened so fast so we don’t get to see a day to day progress .for instances in the movie it seem like just two days ago little mikey was born and she met the taxi driver while rushing him to take her to the hospital. The next sense mikey is big and that taxi driver is in the house putting molly to bed and taking mikey our for a ride in his cab.
The movie also depicts the class structure and the means of survival within the city. James the cab driver has two different jobs and is very creative in finding ways of meeting his financial needs. Making $1100 a month in comparison to what molly is an accounting makes a significantly difference. We also see where as a single mother, molly is able to provide a comfortable atmosphere as hiring a babysitter in the charter of James. This was a clear indicator of the class and economical structure of the society at the time.
The Mets is represented like a symbol because molly mom is wearing the sweat shirt and most times when you see the Mets people think NYC, So it a identifications of NYC. Accounting was use by a paper based method which was causing NYC to lose $600 million a year in uncollected taxes. As evidence in the movie molly is manual typing in the numbers and doing the calculations from out her head. (Stated from the New York Magazine may 14, 1984) from 1989 to 1922 the city suffered loss in mandatory growth.
In Manhattan the medium price for homes “dropped by more than a quarter, construction declined by a third, and the city lost one-tenth of its jobs”. (Stated from the New York magazine.)The market was further destabilized by bond bedding and jacked up interest rate. Employees were made redundant; there were various merges acquisitions, and buyouts of companies. “Wall street alone saw 16,000 layoff in the two years before the recession even began”.
In 1989 New York city was financial different regarding the salary for certain jobs, the rent to live in certain locations and the cost of certain items. For instance a paralegal would make around 28,000 a year, a register nurse would make 20,000 a year and a computer programmer would make a average of 27, 00 per year. Housing range for a new house cost around $68,714.00 and by 1989 was $120,000.00. a gallon of gas was $1.19 and a year later was 97 cents. During those times pricey was really reasonable. A new car was just $7,210.00 but soon raised by 1989 to $15,400.00. A pair of Nike air force shoes was $54.99. Milk was 85 cents for ½ gallon. Bunk beds with mattress were $148.
Professor Luke Vasilelou
Eng 103
24 May 2011
Based on what is happening in the movie even in the 1980s NYC is always been known to be busy and always have lots of traffic. The movie tends to portray the movie in a realistic way. Mid 80s into the 90s women were becoming more independent .They had high class jobs and could provide for themselves. There was some hustling and bustling going on in the city also. For example, the taxi cab driver (john tavotte) made reference to the NYC traffic. The business man neglected to give molly the cab when she was in labor because he was in a rush. Men in the corporate world like to have power and control over things
At the time the taxi driver assume she had a husband or boyfriend because she was pregnant. But off the back by hear saying she didn’t have either and she was arterials inseminated people thought it was either because she was ugly or a lesbian. In life now maybe your partner can not produce and you have to get frozen sperm in order to produce a baby and that’s understandable.
Having a Family was important that the time. It was custom to have a two parent household. Shown in the movie molly had a strong desire to find a father for her child, even though she was independent enough to take care of her child on her own. The movie can come unrealistic because it happened so fast so we don’t get to see a day to day progress .for instances in the movie it seem like just two days ago little mikey was born and she met the taxi driver while rushing him to take her to the hospital. The next sense mikey is big and that taxi driver is in the house putting molly to bed and taking mikey our for a ride in his cab.
The movie also depicts the class structure and the means of survival within the city. James the cab driver has two different jobs and is very creative in finding ways of meeting his financial needs. Making $1100 a month in comparison to what molly is an accounting makes a significantly difference. We also see where as a single mother, molly is able to provide a comfortable atmosphere as hiring a babysitter in the charter of James. This was a clear indicator of the class and economical structure of the society at the time.
The Mets is represented like a symbol because molly mom is wearing the sweat shirt and most times when you see the Mets people think NYC, So it a identifications of NYC. Accounting was use by a paper based method which was causing NYC to lose $600 million a year in uncollected taxes. As evidence in the movie molly is manual typing in the numbers and doing the calculations from out her head. (Stated from the New York Magazine may 14, 1984) from 1989 to 1922 the city suffered loss in mandatory growth.
In Manhattan the medium price for homes “dropped by more than a quarter, construction declined by a third, and the city lost one-tenth of its jobs”. (Stated from the New York magazine.)The market was further destabilized by bond bedding and jacked up interest rate. Employees were made redundant; there were various merges acquisitions, and buyouts of companies. “Wall street alone saw 16,000 layoff in the two years before the recession even began”.
In 1989 New York city was financial different regarding the salary for certain jobs, the rent to live in certain locations and the cost of certain items. For instance a paralegal would make around 28,000 a year, a register nurse would make 20,000 a year and a computer programmer would make a average of 27, 00 per year. Housing range for a new house cost around $68,714.00 and by 1989 was $120,000.00. a gallon of gas was $1.19 and a year later was 97 cents. During those times pricey was really reasonable. A new car was just $7,210.00 but soon raised by 1989 to $15,400.00. A pair of Nike air force shoes was $54.99. Milk was 85 cents for ½ gallon. Bunk beds with mattress were $148.
blog #19
Working with the archives paper it helped me to understand more about new york city.I never seen that this beautiful city i live in you to be a dump in several places.people come to new york for adventure and to live there big dreams.The introduction to the archives project wasn't helpful at all to me. i still had to use the internet and my own knowlege about the city to put a paper together. i think the research paper was more easier then the archives project because i had a more understand of the movie then the planned shrinkage. i had watched the movie several time so i grew to understandhow new york city was in the 1980 compared to now. witht he planned shrinkage everyone had sevral opinion about it.. and i couldnt see the city for myself. the major reaserch paper was also easier becuase it was a movie of my choice, so i had alot to say about it.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Blog 18: report on major research paper
the difficulties i faced when drafting my major research ppaper was finding the proper information relating to my movie and the correct sources that should be included.My movie took placed in 1989 so certain information wasnt avaiable to find . Any time i type in 1989 they would bring me to current 2011.when i type in rent or cost of living in nyc in the 1980s they would result finding current rent prices to live in nyc now.Certain other information i had to ask my parent to get there opinion of nyc in the 1980s.if i didnt have the movie to relate the project to., i think it would have been even more difficulties becuase the internet isnt always true.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
blog 15
In this class discussion where I think privacy or security is more important, security the priority of all. New york is a target to many countries. We try to escapes from having to tell deal with privacy and security even though it part of reality. We have been attack so many times in different locations. I would rather be strip search before entering a certain area. You never know when someone will try to attack again. For example before going on the plane they ask you to reach at the airport 2 hour before your flight.
Security is the longest thing to go through at the airport and it all for your own good. But as American we don’t understand that. We argue about people looking at us a certain way, looking through our bags, going through metal detector and having to go into a room to strip if we continue to beep off. The airport is basically trying to do there jobs, so to make sure when that plane takes off there isn’t any terrorist on it or some type of weapons. In other case maybe they can get to personal. Certain people might have to take certain pills everyday and if the airport feels that the pills don’t look right. They would be force to throw it away.
Security is the longest thing to go through at the airport and it all for your own good. But as American we don’t understand that. We argue about people looking at us a certain way, looking through our bags, going through metal detector and having to go into a room to strip if we continue to beep off. The airport is basically trying to do there jobs, so to make sure when that plane takes off there isn’t any terrorist on it or some type of weapons. In other case maybe they can get to personal. Certain people might have to take certain pills everyday and if the airport feels that the pills don’t look right. They would be force to throw it away.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Archives Paper
Samantha McCarthy
Dr.Luke Vasileiou
Eng. 103
9 May 2011
Planned Shrinkage
During the 1970s New York City Roger Star made a proposal called “Planned Shrinkage”. This proposal introduced him as the housing administrator in the south Bronx and Brownsville, where the two neighborhoods was undergoing acute population and housing erosion. Roger Star stated that “there’s only one way to make a housing problem, and that to start with vacant land”. His plans were to build houses on vacant land out in rockaway and move the first section of Brooklyn slums out to those empty Brooklyn buildings in rockaway, and then empty the second section of slums in Brooklyn and move those people out there. Afterwards he wants to demolish their homes so they could build new housing in Brooklyn, which would remain empty. The whole argument between roger star and Robert Fitch is roger wanting to do all this moving in and out and building up without contacting with the people on what his ideas are and finding out whether they like it or not.
Roger felt that all his life people always told him what he can’t do and what not to do and he always did it anyways. Was the problem really the housing priorities of was his forces mostly on the clearance of the slums that on the middle class housing, the city is spending unnecessary sums in services and money on Ares that are now being demolished and the costs are getting outrageous. Everything would have worked out better if the land in south Bronx had extensive vacant area because then they would have a greater redevelopment value.
The city was losing almost about 1% of its populations a year and has lost 400,000 people since the 1970s.Demographics is unsure if the residents are moving to other neighborhood or whether a migration of the part of the poor city and the northeast is under way. Roger star stated that “he is not talking about forced migration or anything related to that. He also denied that he would ever propose that the south Bronx become a national park after the residents moved out. The city was not in good shape because are borrowing money, but had the ability to pay all of it off. Today the city suffered from a cash flow problem, the lack of wealth creation to support the immense obligation, because they have to take care of the people who can’t take full care of themselves.
The fact in matter with an increase in population will lead to decline within jobs and force the city’s obligations to become smaller. In order to live on the future revenue they would have to shrink down the subways system extremely and do the same for the bus lines. Roger star thought that he could have the city’s responsibilities shrink by having private people from the outside do it.
Fitch speaks on star wanting to cut back on services, which mean it would be recycled as privatization. He replied saying he wasn’t driving out anyone from the city; the people were just leaving themselves. Star made two arguments saying he didn’t realize there was an extent of immigration but then also talked about job shrinkage as if everything he was trying to pursue was right. In the 1977 there were many more jobs then there is today. The only thing that has exceeded was the financial district in the past few years. But certainly after 5-6 years they had a decline after the market dropped. Wall street today has many more jobs than has many more jobs than they had in the 1969 of course.Roger states that there will be a shrinkage in wall street again because the stocks can’t just go up and because of that in effect people will start to get laid off again.
Thursday May 15, 1975 president fords a legislative of the federal assistance denial to the people of the city of New York in there tragic time of finical crisis. Several business and financial taxes amounted to be a little over 3% of the city’s budget. The idea to balance out the city’s budget they would have to cut off several services, which can affect 8 million people and put their safety and health at a risk. Several hospitals, schools, firehouses would have to be closed down as well. Police protection in every area would increase and the remains services would inefficient beyond what the citizens are used to. (Joint statement by Governor Care and Major Abraham D. Beame).
Based on Major Abraham D beame there are several kinds of service that he asks Washington and the rublican party in Albany to live by. For example, making calls to 911 will now be screened and the less important calls would be unanswered. Crossing school guard’s position will be dropped by 7,251. Neighborhood family care center and other citizens units are closing. The Sanitations department is refusing to pick up 1/3 of the trash, so 2,882 of their positions were dropped. The highway and streets that are due for maintenance and repair will be reduced by 50%. The financial community is reducing everything from the city which is punishing them further. He proposed a plan that gives more opportunity, to close all gaps from the 1975-76 without borrowing extra money from groups or other institution. This plan will leave the city to be living and expanding without struggling for survival. Six councilmen are now demanding Roger star to quit his $45,418 a year job as the leader of the city’s housing and development administration. Star and the mayor both refused the offer on resignation.
LaGuardia and Wagner Archives beame Oral history collection
Interview with roger star, by Robert Fitch, 9-2-93
Daily news March 5, 1976
Lawa beane collection bx 070012
Dr.Luke Vasileiou
Eng. 103
9 May 2011
Planned Shrinkage
During the 1970s New York City Roger Star made a proposal called “Planned Shrinkage”. This proposal introduced him as the housing administrator in the south Bronx and Brownsville, where the two neighborhoods was undergoing acute population and housing erosion. Roger Star stated that “there’s only one way to make a housing problem, and that to start with vacant land”. His plans were to build houses on vacant land out in rockaway and move the first section of Brooklyn slums out to those empty Brooklyn buildings in rockaway, and then empty the second section of slums in Brooklyn and move those people out there. Afterwards he wants to demolish their homes so they could build new housing in Brooklyn, which would remain empty. The whole argument between roger star and Robert Fitch is roger wanting to do all this moving in and out and building up without contacting with the people on what his ideas are and finding out whether they like it or not.
Roger felt that all his life people always told him what he can’t do and what not to do and he always did it anyways. Was the problem really the housing priorities of was his forces mostly on the clearance of the slums that on the middle class housing, the city is spending unnecessary sums in services and money on Ares that are now being demolished and the costs are getting outrageous. Everything would have worked out better if the land in south Bronx had extensive vacant area because then they would have a greater redevelopment value.
The city was losing almost about 1% of its populations a year and has lost 400,000 people since the 1970s.Demographics is unsure if the residents are moving to other neighborhood or whether a migration of the part of the poor city and the northeast is under way. Roger star stated that “he is not talking about forced migration or anything related to that. He also denied that he would ever propose that the south Bronx become a national park after the residents moved out. The city was not in good shape because are borrowing money, but had the ability to pay all of it off. Today the city suffered from a cash flow problem, the lack of wealth creation to support the immense obligation, because they have to take care of the people who can’t take full care of themselves.
The fact in matter with an increase in population will lead to decline within jobs and force the city’s obligations to become smaller. In order to live on the future revenue they would have to shrink down the subways system extremely and do the same for the bus lines. Roger star thought that he could have the city’s responsibilities shrink by having private people from the outside do it.
Fitch speaks on star wanting to cut back on services, which mean it would be recycled as privatization. He replied saying he wasn’t driving out anyone from the city; the people were just leaving themselves. Star made two arguments saying he didn’t realize there was an extent of immigration but then also talked about job shrinkage as if everything he was trying to pursue was right. In the 1977 there were many more jobs then there is today. The only thing that has exceeded was the financial district in the past few years. But certainly after 5-6 years they had a decline after the market dropped. Wall street today has many more jobs than has many more jobs than they had in the 1969 of course.Roger states that there will be a shrinkage in wall street again because the stocks can’t just go up and because of that in effect people will start to get laid off again.
Thursday May 15, 1975 president fords a legislative of the federal assistance denial to the people of the city of New York in there tragic time of finical crisis. Several business and financial taxes amounted to be a little over 3% of the city’s budget. The idea to balance out the city’s budget they would have to cut off several services, which can affect 8 million people and put their safety and health at a risk. Several hospitals, schools, firehouses would have to be closed down as well. Police protection in every area would increase and the remains services would inefficient beyond what the citizens are used to. (Joint statement by Governor Care and Major Abraham D. Beame).
Based on Major Abraham D beame there are several kinds of service that he asks Washington and the rublican party in Albany to live by. For example, making calls to 911 will now be screened and the less important calls would be unanswered. Crossing school guard’s position will be dropped by 7,251. Neighborhood family care center and other citizens units are closing. The Sanitations department is refusing to pick up 1/3 of the trash, so 2,882 of their positions were dropped. The highway and streets that are due for maintenance and repair will be reduced by 50%. The financial community is reducing everything from the city which is punishing them further. He proposed a plan that gives more opportunity, to close all gaps from the 1975-76 without borrowing extra money from groups or other institution. This plan will leave the city to be living and expanding without struggling for survival. Six councilmen are now demanding Roger star to quit his $45,418 a year job as the leader of the city’s housing and development administration. Star and the mayor both refused the offer on resignation.
LaGuardia and Wagner Archives beame Oral history collection
Interview with roger star, by Robert Fitch, 9-2-93
Daily news March 5, 1976
Lawa beane collection bx 070012
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Special Activity: MOMI
The first thing I learned was the ADR…that allowed us to record and play as the actors. Its like you record while reading the lines and watching their lips and it plays back with your voice. The most amazing stuff I learn was how they separate the voice, the music and the affects from each other from a scene in the movie. For example they use the titanic where rose falls on the deck it really a bag filled of sand falling on a chair. The whips hitting the water from the can is really guns shots. The can bending in half is a soda can crushing and when it hit the water its really and elephant horn. That was cool because its like you haven’t really thought about the sounds or what was going on in the scene until they separate it. Then without the music you have just the voice people yelling and it was kind of funny because you couldn’t really get the moment of what they were yelling for without the music or hearing the affects. Next
We then moved on to a baseball screen where it should you different cameras and different angles .the director telling a specific cameras what to show or how to move either its a zoom in or move down or trolley out.
We then moved on to a baseball screen where it should you different cameras and different angles .the director telling a specific cameras what to show or how to move either its a zoom in or move down or trolley out.
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