What about that michael moore Go here http://www.sickocure.org/
and his new movie SiCKO.
Are the Fat Cat Dr's CEO's Senaters & Congresspersons
Killing American's?
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I believe michael moore has opened a door for change. Voter's need to go through it.
September 4, 2007 We can win a single payer guaranteed national healthcare system in about 16 months…
Dear Healthcare-NOW Activists and Friends:
Right now, as we begin the new season and the continuation of a Congress that has been unable (or unwilling) to overturn Bush’s policies (privatization and domination everyday everywhere), we at Healthcare-NOW are making new plans.
Mr. Bush has unabashedly supported the unconscionable health profits of insurance and pharmaceutical drug pushers – It doesn’t matter how many people they kill as long as their profits continue to roll in.
This is the time to reassess where we are on the national healthcare struggle. One clear and unassailable truth—we must elect a new progressive Congress in 2008. No ifs, ands or buts about it. We could elect a Super Majority like 1964 when they passed Medicare in 1964. But it must be a “progressive” Congress willing to lead!
Michael Moore has made a tremendous difference. His brilliance has helped us build our campaign for national healthcare. The fact that he urged his huge mailing list to join Healthcare-NOW in creating new Healthcare-NOW coalitions, the pre-opening benefit of SiCKO he provided for Healthcare-NOW in Atlanta, and his relentless message about the healthcare system has helped tremendously as we continue to build the campaign to make our nation respond to each other as “we” instead of “me”.
The Sickocure website has brought us thousands of new members and potential activists on this issue and we’ve been able to send those names to our organizers in their cities nationwide. At the same time, the healthcare options are boiling down to two: 1.Individual Mandates forcing everybody to purchase insurance from the private insurance companies “You’re on Your Own,” or 2. Single Payer, a much better, publicly-funded healthcare system “All in it Together.”
If you are a new person to this struggle, we urge you to go to www.Healthcare-NOW.org, join Healthcare-NOW, pay some dues, read the website, and be in touch with us about how you can really get involved with the campaign to get a national guaranteed healthcare system for all.
Here are some of our plans for the coming fall and spring, and we hope you will help us succeed:
A National Roadshow featuring the DVD of SiCKO, will invite people to caravan with us to the next city and urge people to come to the Road Show, tell their healthcare story on video tape (which we will send to Michael Moore) and to hear about the solution to healthcare in this country – a guaranteed, national, single-payer healthcare system for everyone, guaranteed – for life! We will also be talking about and demonstrating how we can get from here to there. You are invited to come along with us and even join us as an organizer or a driver, a camera person or a short order cook along the route. We plan to launch the Road Show in November.
A SiCKO Action Guide is in the works -- something that you can use in meetings, house parties, your church, your union, your student group , or with business associates, anywhere you intermingle with other people to discuss the issues raised in “SiCKO” and your own experience with the healthcare system – We’ll also be talking about solutions on this power point/ pamphlet.
Our new Washington advocacy office can help you with meetings you’re your Congress person in D.C. or at home in your home district. She can supply information on your Member of Congress and information on how you can help get at least 100 Members of Congress signed onto H.R. 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act. We now have 78 co-signers and we are shooting for 100. Call Elyse Seigle at our D.C. office -- 202-488-5650
Truth Hearings in communities nationwide. Pull together your community. Tell the truth about the system and talk about the solution – everywhere. If you are organizing a Healthcare-NOW truth hearing, be in touch with our office or look at the ACTION pages on our website, and get some organizing help and lists of speakers.
Creation of ads for key television markets to help people understand how a national healthcare system would work.
YOU CAN HELP!
It is entirely possible that we will win a national single payer, guaranteed healthcare system during the next few months. We must work to elect a progressive congress – a huge majority in 2008 and we must build a huge constituency for single payer guaranteed healthcare during the next 14 months. That Congress will be expected to lay a single payer health plan, H.R. 676, in front of the newly elected president in order to get it implemented during 2009.
Since you are a part of Healthcare-NOW, we hope you will pick up a part of this task. Look for progressive candidates. If you have a Member in your District who is supportive of our goals, be sure to get that person elected.
During the next three months, we must raise the money to continue our offices in Washington and New York, support organizing efforts all over the country, and run the Roadshow – all essential tools if we are to win.. In addition, we can place strategic ads in important markets. All you have to do is turn on the TV to understand how important it is to counter the fraudulent healthcare message of the big insurance and pharmaceutical drug pushers and their front groups.
You are one of 50,000 people on this list now – people who see the need for a national healthcare system. We have support from virtually sector of the society. The people want it.
* If every person on this list pledged just $10 per month to Healthcare-NOW (Donate NOW right on our website,) we would have enough money to do all of the above and, most probably be able to win guaranteed national healthcare for everybody for life by early 2009.
We know you are supportive and you want to help. Please send a check or go to the website and make a pledge right now. Go to: www.healthcare-now.org and click the “Donate NOW” button. It is easy and it will make a huge difference. If you want to volunteer for the Road Show or to do a Truth Hearing in your community, call or write us. That will be a great contribution too.
Call me if you want to talk about it. 1-800-475-8350. I want to talk to you.
Our sincerest thanks to all of you for your continuing inspiration and support,
Marilyn Clement
National Coordinator
Healthcare-NOW
339 Lafayette Street, NYC 10012 info@healthcare-now.org
August 1, 2007
Dear Healthcare-NOW Organizers and Friends:
I was surprised last Thursday when Michael Moore’s office called to say, “Michael is writing a letter and he wants to ask people to form a Healthcare-NOW coalition.” He wrote the letter, and since that time, thousands of you have hit our website, called and emailed our little office and found out how to create Healthcare-NOW coalitions in your communities.
The healthcare revolution that we need so badly is on its way. Let’s work together as we create the guaranteed national healthcare system we all want so much. What Michael has done with his film “SiCKO” is to help us see a national vision, a vision of what it would feel like to not worry about medical debt any more and to provide ourselves with the guarantee that none of us will ever be denied healthcare again in this land.
SO If you haven’t seen “SiCKO.” go see it right away. Don’t miss this moment in the history of our country. I believe it is a turning point.
Do like the Bethany Baptist Church in Newark – take two busloads of parishioners. Follow the leadership of one international union president urging all of his members nationwide to take their families and friends. Invite the skeptics and the believers. Download the Sickocure flyers from our website, put an invitation on the back and pass them out at the theatre calling people together to work for guaranteed healthcare. When you do that, you are creating a Healthcare-NOW Coalition - a community of American people working together for the common good. We’ll help you. Just give us a call if you are ready to roll!
Marilyn Clement, National Coordinator, Healthcare-NOW
See the Movie, Start the Revolution ...a letter from Michael Moore
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Friends,
I am overwhelmed by the response to "Sicko." And I'm not just talking about all the wonderful, heart-felt letters you've sent me and the stories you've shared with me about the abuse you've suffered from our health care system.
No, I'm talking about how thousands of you are taking matters into your own hands and using the movie to do something. From Seattle to New England, each day I learn of numerous groups holding meetings or dinners after the movie to discuss it and to plot a course for action. A church in Plano, TX took its weekly bible study group to see "SiCKO." 70 people crammed into a Wisconsin coffee shop's back room. Groups are plotting over pancakes in Illinois and microbrew in Missouri. E-mail addresses are being exchanged in theater lobbies. A Connecticut group is inviting legislators to see "Sicko" and keeping a tally on their website. Local groups have been buying out theaters to have special screenings for their members. Information tables are set up, literature is distributed, action groups are formed.
It's all an amazing sight. I can't tell you how thrilled I am to see the impact a movie can have. For all of you who have written me to ask, "What can I do," well, read more about what others have done, and then try these simple steps:
1. Call or write you member of Congress right now (I'll wait) and tell him or her that you insist they become a co-sponsor of H.R. 676 -- "The United States National Health Insurance Act." It's sponsored currently by Rep. John Conyers and 76 other members of Congress. Insist that your congressperson be one of those co-sponsors. I want to see 100 co-sponsors by Thanksgiving. Will you help make that happen?
2. Call and write to each of the candidates running for President. Tell them you expect them to back H.R. 676, and to take the Senator Brown pledge. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio refuses to accept his free, government-run health insurance until EVERY American is covered.
3. Organize your own local HealthCare-Now! coalition. You can do it in your own neighborhood. It has to start somewhere. Everyday people have to make this happen. Don't wait for someone else to do this. Ask yourself, "if not me, who?"
4. Call your local media and tell them about your health care horror story. Many papers and TV stations have been running these since "Sicko" arrived in theaters. They like the local angle. Tell them you saw the movie and that there's a "Sicko" story happening right here in (fill in the blank). Tell them you are passing it on to me.
Well, that's a start. Here's what I'm going to do. Because last weekend's "Win a Trip to a Universal Healthcare Country" was so successful (the winner will be announced next week), this weekend we're going to try something different: it's "Take a Republican to 'Sicko!'" C'mon, we all have a conservative in the family! They mean well. It's just that they believe what they've been told about that scary "socialized medicine." Treat them to the movie this weekend and tell them to send me their ticket stub and entry form. I will hold a drawing and the lucky winner will get to have me come to their home and do their laundry -- just like in France! Now, what would make a Republican happier than to see me working away in their laundry room?!
I truly believe that the health care issue is one where we can find some common ground with those who may hold different opinions than us. After all, they're getting the shaft by the same insurance and pharmaceutical companies we are. And sooner or later, they're not going to take it any more, either.
Yours,
Michael Moore mmflint@aol.com MichaelMoore.com
P.S. I will be on Jay Leno (The Tonight Show on NBC) tonight (Thursday) at 11:35pm ET/PT. I will be making a special announcement on the show.
"Sicko" in Top 5 Grossing Docs of All Time -- This Weekend it's "'Sicko' Night in America!"... from Michael Moore
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Friends,
Good news! "Sicko," after less than three weeks in national release, has become one of the top five grossing documentaries of all time! So, this coming weekend, the distributor is expanding the movie by opening it in nearly 500 new theaters in small cities all over the country (for a total of nearly 1,200 screens nationwide)! From Rapid City to Carson City, from Gettysburg to Pearl Harbor, from Juneau to Battle Creek -- they're all getting "Sicko" tomorrow (Friday). Scores of cities that never have a documentary come to their local theater will now be able to see this one. It's happening all thanks to you who live in the larger cities and have supported "Sicko" so strongly. It's led the studio to say, "Let's make more prints and ship them to Oshkosh (and Beaverton and Brattleboro and Sault Ste. Marie and...)." The entire country goes "Sicko" in less than 48 hours! (Check here for the complete list of theaters showing "Sicko" in North America.)
So, friends, this is it. This is the weekend to go see "Sicko" if you haven't seen it. I get a lot of letters from people saying they plan to "get around" to seeing it "soon." Well, soon is here! Trying to get theaters to give us screens when we are up against huge summer blockbusters is an almost impossible task. "Sicko" won't be around forever. And if you're waiting for the DVD, ask anyone who's seen "Sicko" -- this is a movie you want to see with a crowd of people in a theater.
So let's pack the movie houses this weekend! Send an email to everyone you know, call your friends and tell them, "It's 'Sicko' Night in America!"
And, to show my thanks to all of you who'll go see "Sicko" this weekend, I'm going to send one of you and a guest on a free weekend to the universal health care country of your choice! That's right. You'll get to pick one of the three industrialized countries featured in the movie where, if you get sick, you get help for free, no matter who you are. All you have to do is send us your ticket stub (make sure it says "Sicko" on it and has the name of the theater and this weekend's date on it -- Friday, Saturday or Sunday - July 20th, 21st, 22nd). Attach the stub to a piece of paper with your name, address, phone number and email and send it to: 'Sicko' Night in America, 888c 8th Avenue, Suite 443, New York, NY 10019. (Yes, you have to use that old 18th century device called the U.S. Postal Service, and it has to be postmarked on or by Tuesday, July 24th). First prize is a weekend in the city of your choice: Paris, London or Toronto. This includes airfare, hotel, meals and, most exciting, a representative from their fine universal health care system who will give you a personal tour so you can see how they treat their fellow citizens. You'll meet people who pay nothing for college and citizens who are in the fourth week of their six-week paid vacation. Oh, and you'll have time to see the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben or whatever they have in Toronto that is old and tall. (If you don't have a passport, we'll pay for that, too!)
Canadians who are reading this -- you're probably thinking, "Hey, what about us? Where do we get to go?" Quit complaining! You're already there! But just to make it up to you -- and to prove we don't hold it against you for smugly walking out of a hospital with the same amount of money in your wallet that you went in with -- we'll let you participate in the drawing, too.
Thanks again to everyone who has gone to see "Sicko." Take a friend or two this weekend and celebrate "'Sicko' Night in America."
Yours,
Michael Moore mmflint@aol.com www.michaelmoore.com
P.S. I'll be on "The Colbert Report" tonight (Thursday) on Comedy Central. On a sadder note, my appearance on CNN with Wolf Blitzer has been moved to a later date. Wolf just called to say he had a death in his family and that we would have to re-schedule. Our condolences to him and his family.
CNN Throws in Towel, Admits to Two Errors, and States That All 'Sicko' Facts Are True to Their Source (or something like that)... Moore Realizes All This is Huge Distraction and Then Spends More Precious Time Thanking Paris Hilton for Seeing 'Sicko'... Meanwhile, More than 300 Americans Die Because They Had No Health Insurance During the 8-Day Gupta-Moore War...
July 17th, 2007
Friends,
The mighty CNN, in a lengthy and sad online defense of their woe-begotten 'Sicko' story of last Monday, has admitted that they did indeed fudge at least two of the facts in their coverage of my film and have apologized for it:
1. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN: "To be clear, I got a number wrong in my original report, substituting the number 25, instead of 251." -- My Conversation with Michael Moore, July 11th, 2007; and
2. CNN: "Moore is correct. Paul Keckley left Vanderbilt in late 2006." -- CNN's Response to Michael Moore, July 15th, 2007.
Furthermore, CNN confirmed that all of our statistics in "Sicko" are the correct numbers from the sources we cited. Although CNN still prefers to use older World Health Organization statistics, we will stick to using this year's Bush administration stats and more recent U.N. data. (In "Sicko," we consistently use only U.N. Human Development Statistics unless it's for studies they don't do or have recent numbers for.) CNN did apologize for these two factual errors, but no apology seems to be coming for the rest of their errors. These days, to get the mainstream media to admit they were wrong is rare; to get them to admit it twice, as they have with "Sicko," I guess should be considered a whopping victory. Will they eventually apologize for the rest, or for their reporting on the war? Will the Cubs win the World Series this year?
So the truce has been signed, the peace pipe has been smoked. And the public is left with a much more cautious and wary eye when it comes to CNN. To be fair, this is what happens when you have to grind out "news" 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with a staff you have shrunk through layoffs over the years (like all the broadcast networks have done). You end up rushed and having interns do your research. You have robots replace live camera operators. And, if you're CNN, you are constantly dodging the accusation that you are "too liberal." So when you do a piece on someone like me, you have to make sure you add superfluous and standard ad hominems attacking me simply to prove that you are NOT too liberal. I get it.
Until the last month or so, I have not appeared on a single national TV show for nearly 2 and 1/2 years. After the attacks I had to endure three years ago, from a media intent on questioning my patriotism because I dared to speak out against the war when none in the media would, I decided I had had enough and would simply concentrate on making my next film. I had no desire to participate in networks that were complicit in the war because of their refusal the challenge the commander in chief.
I have to admit, though, I do feel kinda bad taking it all out on Wolf Blitzer. It's not like he's the official representative of the mainstream media. I mean, he's from Buffalo, for crying out loud! He said to me at the end of the show last week to please come back on "anytime you want." I will take him up on that offer and appear again with him tomorrow (Wednesday). I'm not expecting a dozen roses or make-up sex -- I only want a promise that there will be no more distorted distractions so we can have a decent discussion about the REAL issues like why 18,000 Americans die every year because they don't have a health insurance card. More than 300 of them died this week. As Ehrlichman said to Nixon in "Sicko": "The less care they give 'em, the more money they (the insurance companies) make."
THAT'S the only thing we should be talking about. How profit and greed are killing our fellow Americans. How profit and private insurance have to be removed from our health care system. CNN should join me in asking why our 9/11 rescue workers aren't receiving medical care. Somebody should send a crew to Canada to find out why they live longer than we do, and why no Canadian has ever gone bankrupt because of medical bills. And all of the media should start saying how much it costs to go to a doctor in these other top industrialized countries: Nothing. Zip. It's FREE. Don't patronize Americans by saying, "Well, it's not free -- they pay for it with taxes!" Yes, we know that. Just like we know that we drive down a city street for FREE -- even though we paid for that street with our taxes. The street is FREE, the book at the library is FREE, if your house catches on fire, the fire department will come and put it out for FREE, and if someone snatches your purse, the police officer will chase down the culprit and bring your purse back to you -- AND HE WON'T CHARGE YOU A DIME FROM THAT PURSE!
These are all free services, collectively socialized and paid for with our tax dollars. To argue that health care -- a life and death issue for many -- should not be considered in the same league is ludicrous and archaic. And trust me, once you add up what you pay for out-of-pocket in premiums, deductibles, co-pays, overpriced medicines, and treatments that aren't covered (not to mention all the other things we pay for like college education, day care and other services that many countries provide for at little or no cost), we, as Americans, are paying far more than the Canadians or Brits or French are paying in taxes. We just don't call these things taxes, but that's exactly what they are.
See you all when I'm back on CNN tomorrow -- where the discussion will be not be about whose statistics are right, but rather about the guy without insurance who died while I was writing this letter.
Yours,
Michael Moore mmflint@aol.com www.michaelmoore.com
P.S. Oh... I forgot to tell you about Paris Hilton. Apparently cooped up for too long at home since getting out of jail, she decided to head out for a night on the town. But where does she go? Clubbing? Cruising down the Strip? No! She and her sister decide to go see "Sicko." Now THAT'S news! So, no more bad words about Paris Hilton!
This is MY site Jeff Beaman Sr. (http://www.jeff-beaman.com)and is NOT!! afilliated with Sicko or michael moore in anyway,
But I do have a very high reguard for him, & his must see movie SiCKO
An Open Letter to CNN from Michael Moore
7/14/07
Dear CNN,
Well, the week is over -- and still no apology, no retraction, no correction of your glaring mistakes.
I bet you thought my dust-up with Wolf Blitzer was just a cool ratings coup, that you really wouldn't have to correct the false statements you made about "Sicko." I bet you thought I was just going to go quietly away.
Think again. I'm about to become your worst nightmare. 'Cause I ain't ever going away. Not until you set the record straight, and apologize to your viewers. "The Most Trusted Name in News?" I think it's safe to say you can retire that slogan.
You have an occasional segment called "Keeping Them Honest." But who keeps you honest? After what the public saw with your report on "Sicko," and how many inaccuracies that report contained, how can anyone believe anything you say on your network? In the old days, before the Internet, you could get away with it. Your victims had no way to set the record straight, to show the viewers how you had misrepresented the truth. But now, we can post the truth -- and back it up with evidence and facts -- on the web, for all to see. And boy, judging from the mail both you and I have been receiving, the evidence I have posted on my site about your "Sicko" piece has led millions now to question your honesty.
I won't waste your time rehashing your errors. You know what they are. What I want to do is help you come clean. Admit you were wrong. What is the shame in that? We all make mistakes. I know it's hard to admit it when you've screwed up, but it's also liberating and cathartic. It not only makes you a better person, it helps prevent you from screwing up again. Imagine how many people will be drawn to a network that says, "We made a mistake. We're human. We're sorry. We will make mistakes in the future -- but we will always correct them so that you know you can trust us." Now, how hard would that really be?
As you know, I hold no personal animosity against you or any of your staff. You and your parent company have been very good to me over the years. You distributed my first film, "Roger & Me" and you published "Dude, Where's My Country?" Larry King has had me on twice in the last two weeks. I couldn't ask for better treatment.
That's why I was so stunned when you let a doctor who knows a lot about brain surgery -- but apparently very little about public policy -- do a "fact check" story, not on the medical issues in "Sicko," but rather on the economic and political information in the film. Is this why there has been a delay in your apology, because you are trying to get a DOCTOR to say he was wrong? Please tell him not to worry, no one is filing a malpractice claim against him. Dr. Gupta does excellent and compassionate stories on CNN about people's health and how we can take better care of ourselves. But when it came time to discuss universal health care, he rushed together a bunch of sloppy -- and old -- research. When his producer called us about his report the day before it aired, we sent to her, in an email, all the evidence so that he wouldn't make any mistakes on air. He chose to ignore ALL the evidence, and ran with all his falsehoods -- even though he had been given the facts a full day before! How could that happen? And now, for 5 days, I have posted on my website, for all to see, every mistake and error he made.
You, on the other hand, in the face of this overwhelming evidence and a huge public backlash, have chosen to remain silent, probably praying and hoping this will all go away.
Well it isn't. We are now going to start looking into the veracity of other reports you have aired on other topics. Nothing you say now can be believed. In 2002, the New York Times busted you for bringing celebrities on your shows and not telling your viewers they were paid spokespeople for the pharmaceutical companies. You promised never to do it again. But there you were, in 2005, talking to Joe Theismann, on air, as he pushed some drug company-sponsored website on prostate health. You said nothing about about his affiliation with GlaxoSmithKline.
Clearly, no one is keeping you honest, so I guess I'm going to have to do that job, too. $1.5 billion is spent each year by the drug companies on ads on CNN and the other four networks. I'm sure that has nothing to do with any of this. After all, if someone gave me $1.5 billion, I have to admit, I might say a kind word or two about them. Who wouldn't?!
I expect CNN to put this matter to rest. Say you're sorry and correct your story -- like any good journalist would.
Then we can get back to more important things. Like a REAL discussion about our broken health care system. Everything else is a distraction from what really matters.
Yours,
Michael Moore mmflint@aol.com www.michaelmoore.com
P.S. If you also want to apologize for not doing your job at the start of the Iraq War, I'm sure most Americans would be very happy to accept your apology. You and the other networks were willing partners with Bush, flying flags all over the TV screens and never asking the hard questions that you should have asked. You might have prevented a war. You might have saved the lives of those 3,610 soldiers who are no longer with us. Instead, you blew air kisses at a commander in chief who clearly was making it all up. Millions of us knew that -- why didn't you? I think you did. And, in my opinion, that makes you responsible for this war. Instead of doing the job the founding fathers wanted you to do -- keeping those in power honest (that's why they made it the FIRST amendment) -- you and much of the media went on the attack against the few public figures like myself who dared to question the nightmare we were about to enter. You've never thanked me or the Dixie Chicks or Al Gore for doing your job for you. That's OK. Just tell the truth from this point on.
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Today, Michael Moore will be on CNN again for Part Two with Wolf Blitzer, (Did you see Part One? And our response?), a new appearance on Larry King Live with Dr. Sanjay Gupta (appearing, we assume, to apologize for his factual errors), and a rerun of Mike's appearance on Jon Stewart from 13 days ago.
Those of us who maintain Michael's website have started a truth squad. Watch for our daily reports on how the media lies, distorts and carries the water for Big Pharma and Big Insurance.
As Michael Moore's new movie makes clear, our nation's health system is Sicko! The best solution is single-payer national health insurance. HR 676, the U.S. National Health Insurance Act, is endorsed by more than 14,000 doctors and would provide comprehensive, universal health care coverage for all Americans.
Visit SiCKOCure.org to learn more and become a part of the struggle for real universal health care.
I felt like kicking someone’s A** How someone can not give a patient what they need to not die. How do these fat cats sleep at night?
After seeing the movie Sicko I felt like kicking someone’s ass! I was laughing sometimes and crying some it’s a roller coaster of emotions!
But it’s our own fault. We live in the “Me generation” and screw you. Until the s**t hits our fan then it’s “there ought to be a law” talk.
I myself am now disabled and have lost everything so I’m poor enough to get good health care with the state.
Which I could never get when I was working as an automotive electrical & computer control diagnostic technician.
Which means Lead Tech.
I worked at only 1 shop that had Insurance and it was bad. They wanted me to pay $200.00 a pay period to the plan. So I decided, I like eating better then going to the Dr.
You know, we all know about this shameless neglect of our own people, by the Fat Cat corporations, in control of the worst heath care of the western Nations.
Scum bag (pay me ) lawmakers. We may wonder why someone would spend millions into campaigns for there congressional offices, that do not pay even a fraction of what gets spent.
Ok then we know it's for power, but power for good? Then what is good? Good for who? There's way to many questions for me to digest
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Jeff