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65-499: The Boat, Yacht and Allied Trades Association was formed in 1913 with the aims of promoting and protecting its members, promoting or opposing government legislation and helping companies in monetary and legal matters. By 1919, the Association had 108 Full and 74 Associate members and a full-time secretary. In 1947 the Association became the Ship and Boat Builders National Federation . In 1973,

130-505: A challenge to Healey for the role; the election was bitterly contested throughout most of 1981, and Healey was able to beat the challenge by less than 1%. Standing down as Deputy Leader after Labour's landslide defeat at the 1983 election , Healey remained in the Shadow Cabinet until 1987, and entered the House of Lords soon after his retirement from Parliament in 1992. Healey died in 2015 at

195-730: A double first degree, awarded in 1940. He was a Harmsworth Senior Scholar at Merton College, Oxford in 1940. After graduation, Healey served in the Second World War as a gunner in the Royal Artillery before being commissioned as a second lieutenant in April 1941. Serving with the Royal Engineers , he saw action in the North African campaign , the Allied invasion of Sicily (1943) and

260-545: A Callaghan premiership than they had under Wilson. As a result of the first ballot, Crosland was eliminated, while Jenkins and Benn withdrew from the contest. The remaining three candidates would face each other in a second ballot, five days later. Benn recommended that his supporters vote for Michael Foot. It was reported in The Glasgow Herald that Jenkins had withdrawn, despite finishing third, as he had concluded he could not improve on his 56 votes. Indeed, that result

325-412: A figure from the left who could unite the wider party with the leadership, which Healey could not do. Richards believes that Foot was not a "tribal politician" and had proved he could work with those of different ideologies and had been a loyal deputy to Callaghan and so came to be "seen as the unity candidate" which allowed him to defeat Healey. Healey was returned unopposed as deputy leader to Foot, but

390-527: A remark by a third party that "Denis Healey would sell his own grandmother", quipped, "No, he would get me to do it for him". On 14 June 1978, Healey likened being attacked by the mild-mannered Sir Geoffrey Howe in the House of Commons to being "savaged by a dead sheep". Nevertheless, Howe appeared and paid warm tribute when Healey was featured on This Is Your Life in 1989. The two remained friends for many years, and Howe died only six days after Healey. Healey married Edna May Edmunds on 21 December 1945,

455-468: A repeat order. This brought him into serious conflict with Wilson, who had, initially, also supported the policy. Healey later said he had made the wrong decision on selling arms to South Africa . In January 1968, a few weeks after the devaluation of the pound , Wilson and Healey announced that the two large British fleet carriers HMS Ark Royal and HMS Eagle would be scrapped in 1972. They also announced that British troops would be withdrawn in 1971 and

520-597: A row over the European Economic Community (Common Market). At the Labour Party conference on 1 October 1973, he said, "I warn you that there are going to be howls of anguish from those rich enough to pay over 75% on their last slice of earnings". In a speech in Lincoln on 18 February 1974, Healey went further, promising he would "squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak." He alleged that Lord Carrington ,

585-459: A secret branch of the Foreign Office dedicated to spreading anti-communist propaganda during the early Cold War . Healey was first elected to Parliament in a by-election in 1952 for the seat of Leeds South East . He moved to the seat of Leeds East at the 1955 election , which he represented until his retirement at the 1992 election . After Labour's victory at the 1964 election , he

650-492: A variety of training programmes in U.K. Some of them are: Denis Healey Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey , CH , MBE , PC , FRSL (30 August 1917 – 3 October 2015) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970; he remains the longest-serving Defence Secretary to date. He

715-557: The Bodleian Library . In 2004, Healey became the recipient of the first Veteran's Badge . Healey is credited with popularising in the UK a proverb which became known as Healey's First law of holes . This is a minor adaptation of a saying often attributed to Will Rogers . Healey is the only Chancellor of the Exchequer to have appeared on BBC One 's Morecambe and Wise Show . In 1986 he appeared in series one of Saturday Live . He

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780-573: The British economy to IMF supervision. The loan was negotiated and agreed in November and December 1976, and announced in Parliament on 15 December 1976. Within some parts of the Labour Party the transition from Healey Mark I (which had seen a proposal for a wealth tax ) to Healey Mark II (associated with government-specified wage control ) was regarded as a betrayal. Healey's policy of increasing benefits for

845-758: The Five Power Defence Arrangements squadron and the Hong Kong Guard frigate, HMS  Chichester . Healey also authorised the removal of the Chagossians from the Chagos Archipelago and authorised the building of the United States military base at Diego Garcia . Following Labour's defeat in the 1970 general election , he became Shadow Defence Secretary. Healey was appointed Shadow Chancellor in April 1972 after Roy Jenkins resigned in

910-586: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the British economy, which imposed external conditions on public spending. Healey stood a second time for the leadership of the Labour Party in November 1980 , but narrowly lost to Michael Foot . Foot immediately chose Healey as his Deputy Leader, but after the Labour Party agreed a series of changes to the rules governing leadership elections, Tony Benn launched

975-462: The Italian campaign (1943–1945) and was the military landing officer ("beach master") for the British assault brigade at Anzio in 1944. He was twice mentioned in dispatches during this campaign. Healey became an MBE in 1945. He left the service with the rank of Major . He declined an offer to remain in the army, with the rank of Lieutenant colonel , as part of the team researching the history of

1040-942: The Soviet Union internationally. From 1948 to 1960 he was a councillor for the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the International Institute for Strategic Studies from 1958 until 1961. He was a member of the Fabian Society executive from 1954 until 1961. Healey used his position as the Labour Party's International Secretary to promote the Korean War on behalf of British state propagandists, used British intelligence agencies to attack Marxist leaders within UK trade unions , and to exploit his position in government to publish his books through IRD propaganda fronts. Healey

1105-605: The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) delegation to the Labour Party conference. Ignoring its members, who had shown two-to-one majority support for Healey, it cast the union's block vote (the largest in the union section) for Benn. A significant factor in Benn's narrow loss, however, was the abstention of 20 MPs from the left-wing Tribune Group , which split as a result. Healey attracted just enough support from other unions, Constituency Labour Parties , and Labour MPs to win. Healey

1170-595: The general election in which he narrowly failed to win the Conservative -held seat of Pudsey and Otley , doubling the Labour vote but losing by 1,651 votes. He became secretary of the international department of the Labour Party in 1945, becoming a foreign policy adviser to Labour leaders and establishing contacts with socialists across Europe. He was a strong opponent of the Communist Party of Great Britain at home and

1235-501: The redistribution of income and wealth ; "That is what our policy is, the party must face the realities of it". Healey became Chancellor of the Exchequer in March 1974 after Labour returned to power as a minority government. His tenure is sometimes divided into Healey Mark I and Healey Mark II . The divide is marked by his decision, taken with Prime Minister James Callaghan , to seek an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan and submit

1300-712: The British military and navy bases in South East Asia , " East of Aden ", closed, large facilities in Malaysia and Singapore and the Persian Gulf and the Maldives . The next Prime Minister Edward Heath slowed the implementation of the policy, with 5/6 frigates on station East of Suez until 1976, when Healey as Chancellor used the IMF crisis to withdraw the Royal Navy frigates attached to

1365-471: The Conservative Secretary of State for Energy, had made £10m profit from selling agricultural land at prices 30 to 60 times as high as it would command as farming land. When accused by colleagues including Eric Heffer of putting Labour's chances of winning the next election in jeopardy through his tax proposals, Healey said the party and the country must face the consequences of Labour's policy of

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1430-700: The Federation joined forces with the Royal Yachting Association and lobbied MP's to oppose a Labour Government imposed 25% VAT on boats. After an audience with then Chancellor Denis Healey , the following year the rate was halved and eventually returned to the standard rate. In 1986 the Federation became the British Marine Industries Federation , in 2008 it was renamed the British Marine Federation and finally, in 2015, it

1495-449: The Italian campaign under Colonel David Hunt . He also decided against taking up a senior scholarship at Balliol, which might have led to an academic career. Healey joined the Labour Party. Still in uniform, he gave a strongly left-wing speech to the Labour Party conference in 1945, declaring, "the upper classes in every country are selfish, depraved, dissolute and decadent" shortly before

1560-538: The Labour Party and Prime Minister . It is the only occasion when the Labour Party , whilst in government, has had a leadership election with more than one candidate. The new leader was elected by members of the Parliamentary Labour Party . In the first ballot, held on 25 March, six candidates vied for the leadership: In the wake of the news of Wilson's decision to resign, Callaghan was reported as being

1625-512: The SDP in early 1981 later said they voted for Foot in order to give the Labour Party an unelectable left-wing leader, thus helping their newly established party. In an essay addressing why Healey did not become Prime Minister or Labour leader, Steve Richards states that in 1980 Healey, not Foot, was widely expected by the media and many political figures to be the next Labour leader. Richards also notes that by that point, his main rivals as leaders from

1690-603: The Shadow Cabinet, and in 1992 stood down after 40 years as a Leeds MP. In that year he received a life peerage as Baron Healey , of Riddlesden in the County of West Yorkshire . Healey was regarded by some – especially in the Labour Party – as "the best Prime Minister we never had". He was a founding member of the Bilderberg Group . He was interviewed on his role as a co-founder of the Bilderberg Group by Jon Ronson for

1755-587: The age of 98, having become the oldest sitting member of the House of Lords, and the last surviving member of Harold Wilson's first government formed in 1964. Denis Winston Healey was born in Mottingham , Kent, son of William Healey (1886-1977) and Winifred Mary (1889-1988), née Powell. The family moved to Keighley in the West Riding of Yorkshire when he was five. His middle name honoured Winston Churchill . His father,

1820-426: The apparent inconsistency by the presenter Anne Diamond on TV-am , Healey refused to comment and ended the interview. He then hit journalist Adam Boulton with a jab . Healey was an amateur photographer for many years; he also enjoyed music, painting and reading crime fiction. He sometimes played popular piano pieces at public events. In a May 2012 interview for The Daily Telegraph , Healey reported that he

1885-772: The band was facing. During Yes 's recording of what was to become the album Tormato (1978), there was an outtake called "Money", on which the Yes keyboardist at the time, Rick Wakeman , provides a satirical voice-over parodying Healey. Healey's publications include: Healey's Eye (photography, 1980), The Time of My Life (his autobiography, 1989), When Shrimps Learn to Whistle (1990), My Secret Planet (an anthology, 1992), Denis Healey's Yorkshire Dales (1995) and Healey's World (2002). 1976 Labour Party leadership election Harold Wilson James Callaghan [REDACTED] The 1976 Labour Party leadership election occurred when Harold Wilson resigned as Leader of

1950-461: The book Them: Adventures with Extremists . During an interview with Nick Clarke on BBC Radio 4 , Healey was the first Labour politician to publicly declare his wish for the Labour leadership to pass to Tony Blair in 1994, following the death of John Smith . Healey later became critical of Blair. He publicly opposed Blair's decision to use military force in Kosovo , Afghanistan , and Iraq . In

2015-576: The comedienne Hermione Gingold , with which I thought everyone was familiar. On the contrary, when it leaked to the press, the Chinese Embassy took it as an insult to the People's Republic ." The controversy may have contributed to a poor performance when he fought for the Labour leadership following Harold Wilson 's resignation. Healey's long-serving deputy at the Treasury, Joel Barnett , in response to

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2080-407: The contest as being to determine who would face Foot in the final ballot, and believed Healey had a chance of pulling ahead of Callaghan. No candidate achieved an absolute majority; hence, the candidate with the lowest number of votes was eliminated (in this case Healey). Callaghan was reported to be the favourite with his supporters, believing that it was impossible that the left-wing Foot could win

2145-467: The disastrous 1983 general election , when the Conservatives bolstered their majority and Labour suffered their worst general election result in decades. Healey had declined to run as leader to succeed Foot and stood down as deputy leader. Healey's views on nuclear weapons conflicted with the unilateral nuclear disarmament policy of the Labour Party. After the 1987 general election , he retired from

2210-494: The favourite to succeed him. Political journalist Geoffrey Parkhouse wrote that "Barring a sensation, James Callaghan will be the next Prime Minister". He argued that the timing favoured Callaghan, with Denis Healey caught up in budget work and having alienated the left wing of the Labour Party after attacking the Tribune group in a recent speech. He doubted whether Crosland or Jenkins would stand, as they were likely to fare better under

2275-435: The globe. He was best known for his economising, liquidating most of Britain's military role outside of Europe, and cancelling expensive projects. The cause was not a fiscal crisis but rather a decision to shift money and priorities to the domestic budget and maintain a commitment to NATO . He cut defence expenditure , scrapping the carrier HMS  Centaur and the reconstructed HMS  Victorious in 1967, cancelling

2340-439: The idea of Gaitskell's volatile deputy, George Brown , leading Labour, saying "He was like immortal Jemima; when he was good he was very good but when he was bad he was horrid". In the 1963 Labour Party leadership election , he voted for James Callaghan in the first ballot and Harold Wilson in the second. Healey thought Wilson would unite the Labour Party and lead it to victory in the next general election. He didn't think Brown

2405-633: The journalist Robin Day . Healey was elected to the House of Commons as MP for Leeds South East at a by-election in February 1952 , with a majority of 7,000 votes. Following constituency boundary changes, he was elected for Leeds East at the 1955 general election , holding that seat until he retired as an MP in 1992. During these years, Healey was close friends with the Rev. Canon Ernest Southcott , and Douglas Gabb, who would go on to become Lord Mayor of Leeds . He

2470-408: The next year was challenged by Tony Benn under the new election system, one in which individual members and trades unions voted alongside sitting members of Parliament. The contest was seen as a battle for the soul of the Labour Party, and the long debate over the summer of 1981 ended on 27 September with Healey winning by 50.4% to Benn's 49.6%. The narrowness of Healey's majority can be attributed to

2535-403: The oldest sitting member of the House of Lords . Following the death of John Freeman on 20 December 2014, Healey became the surviving former MP with the earliest date of first election, and the second-oldest surviving former MP, after Ronald Atkins . Healey's notably bushy eyebrows and piercing wit earned him a favourable reputation with the public. When the media were not present, his humour

2600-415: The poor meant those earning over £4,000 per year would be taxed more heavily. His first budget saw increases in food subsidies , pensions and other benefits. When Harold Wilson stood down as Leader of the Labour Party in 1976, Healey stood in the contest to elect the new leader . On the first ballot he came only fifth out of six candidates. However, he also contested the second round, coming third of

2665-565: The proposed CVA-01 fleet-carrier replacement and, just before Labour's defeat in 1970, downgrading HMS  Hermes to a commando carrier . He cancelled the fifth planned Polaris submarine. He also cancelled the production of the Hawker Siddeley P.1154 and HS 681 aircraft and, more controversially, both the production of the BAC TSR-2 and subsequent purchase of the F-111 in lieu. Of

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2730-500: The right of the party, Roy Jenkins and Anthony Crosland , were no longer in contention for the position, with the former out of Parliament and the latter having died in 1977. However, he also argues that while "Healey was widely seen as the obvious successor to Callaghan", and that sections of the media ultimately reacted with "disbelief" at Labour not choosing him to be their leader, the decision to opt for Foot "was not as perverse as it seemed". He argues that Labour MPs were looking for

2795-618: The scrapped Royal Navy aircraft carriers , Healey commented that to most ordinary seamen they were just "floating slums" and "too vulnerable". He continued postwar Conservative governments' reliance on strategic and tactical nuclear deterrence for the Navy, RAF and West Germany and supported the sale of advanced arms abroad, including to regimes such as those in Pahlavi Iran , Libya , Chile , and apartheid South Africa , to which he supplied nuclear-capable Buccaneer S.2 strike bombers and approved

2860-453: The show was late covering that year's European elections . The iconic eyebrows were similarly parodied in the 1977 serial The Sun Makers from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who , in which the antagonist known as the Collector is distinguished by having similarly bushy eyebrows to Healey. In 1994, Healey appeared in a TV advertisement for Visa Debit cards. This

2925-733: The son of a tailor from Glenfarne , County Leitrim , was an engineering mechanic who worked his way up from humble origins, winning an engineering scholarship to Leeds University and qualifying to teach engineering, eventually becoming head of Keighley Technical School. Healey had one brother, Terence Blair Healey (1920–1998), known as Terry. Healey's family often spent the summer in Scotland during his youth. Healey received early education at Bradford Grammar School . In 1936 he won an exhibition scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford , to read Greats . He there became involved in Labour politics, although he

2990-505: The spring of 2004, and again in 2005, he publicly called on Blair to stand down in favour of Gordon Brown . In July 2006 he argued, "Nuclear weapons are infinitely less important in our foreign policy than they were in the days of the Cold War ", and, "I don't think we need nuclear weapons any longer". In March 2013 during an interview with the New Statesman , Healey said that if there

3055-534: The support of the right of the party for granted; in one notable incident, Healey was reputed to have told the right-wing Manifesto Group they must vote for him as they had "nowhere else to go". When Mike Thomas , the MP for Newcastle East defected to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), he said he had been tempted to send Healey a telegram saying he had found "somewhere else to go". Four Labour MPs who defected to

3120-673: The three candidates but increasing his vote somewhat. Labour lost the general election to the Conservatives, led by Margaret Thatcher in May 1979, following the Winter of Discontent during which Britain had faced a large number of strikes. On 12 June 1979, Healey was appointed a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour . He won the most votes in the 1979 Shadow Cabinet elections which followed and The Glasgow Herald suggested that this showed that he

3185-487: The two having met at Oxford University before the war. The couple had three children, one of whom is the broadcaster and writer Tim Healey. Edna Healey died on 21 July 2010, aged 92. They were married for almost 65 years and lived in Alfriston , East Sussex. In 1987, Edna underwent an operation at a private hospital – this event drawing media attention as being seemingly at odds with Healey's pro- NHS beliefs. Challenged on

3250-500: Was Shadow Foreign Secretary during most of the 1980s, a job he coveted. He believed Foot was initially too willing to support military action after the Falkland Islands were invaded by Argentina in April 1982. He accused Thatcher of "glorying in slaughter", and had to withdraw the remark (he later claimed he had meant to say "conflict"). Healey was retained in the shadow cabinet by Neil Kinnock , who succeeded Foot following

3315-530: Was a Member of Parliament from 1952 to 1992, and was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983. To the public at large, Healey became well known for his bushy eyebrows, his avuncular manner and his creative turns of phrase. Healey attended the University of Oxford and served as a Major in the Second World War . He was later an agent for the Information Research Department (IRD),

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3380-570: Was a referendum on British membership of the EU , he would vote to leave. In May, he further said: "I wouldn't object strongly to leaving the EU . The advantages of being members of the union are not obvious. The disadvantages are very obvious. I can see the case for leaving – the case for leaving is stronger than for staying in". Following the death of Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway , in June 2013, Healey became

3445-405: Was a disappointment to him, as he had expected to receive at least 68 votes. Most of his advisors agreed with his decision to withdraw, though one, Dickson Mabon , attempted to convince him to stay in the contest. In contrast, Denis Healey, despite finishing behind both Jenkins and Benn, reckoned he could pick up votes from many parts of the party. The Herald also characterised the second round of

3510-562: Was a moderate on the right during the series of splits in the Labour Party in the 1950s. He was a supporter and friend of Hugh Gaitskell , Leader of the Labour Party. He persuaded Gaitskell to temper his initial support for British military action in 1956 when the Suez Canal was seized by the Nasserist Egypt , resulting in the Suez Crisis . When Gaitskell died in 1963, he was horrified at

3575-661: Was appointed to the Cabinet by Prime Minister Harold Wilson as Defence Secretary; he held this role until Labour's defeat at the 1970 election , making him the longest-serving Secretary of State for Defence to date. When Labour returned to power after the 1974 election , Wilson appointed Healey Chancellor of the Exchequer . He stood for the leadership of the Labour Party in the election to replace Wilson in March 1976, but lost to James Callaghan ; Callaghan retained Healey as Chancellor in his new government . During his time as Chancellor, Healey notably sought out an international loan from

3640-417: Was banned by the Independent Television Commission as it contained a reference to a scandal, subsequently revealed to be a fabrication, involving Norman Lamont 's personal life. Healey had appeared in an advert for Sainsbury's in the previous year. During Led Zeppelin 's 1975 and 1977 concert tours, Robert Plant facetiously dedicated the song " In My Time of Dying " to Healey for the tax exile issues

3705-410: Was capable of doing either. He was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Defence after the creation of the position in 1964. Following Labour's victory in the 1964 general election , Healey served as Secretary of State for Defence under Prime Minister Harold Wilson. He was responsible for 450,000 British Armed Forces uniformed servicemen and women, and for 406,000 civil servants stationed around

3770-403: Was equally caustic but more risqué. The popular impressionist Mike Yarwood coined the catchphrase "Silly Billy", and incorporated it into his shows as a supposed "Healey-ism". Healey had never said it until that point, but he adopted it and used it frequently. Healey's direct speech made enemies. "At a meeting of the PLP I accused Ian Mikardo of being 'out of his tiny Chinese mind' – a phrase of

3835-413: Was not active in the Oxford Union Society . Also while at Oxford, Healey joined the Communist Party in 1937 during the Great Purge , but left in 1940 after the Fall of France . At Oxford, Healey met future Prime Minister Edward Heath (then known as "Teddy"), whom he succeeded as president of Balliol College Junior Common Room , and who became a lifelong friend and political rival. Healey achieved

3900-468: Was one of the leading players in the Königswinter conference that was organised by Lilo Milchsack that was credited with helping to heal the bad memories after the end of the Second World War. Healey met Hans von Herwarth , the ex soldier Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin and future German President Richard von Weizsäcker and other leading West German decision makers. The conference also included other leading British thinkers like Richard Crossman and

3965-441: Was portrayed by David Fleeshman in the 2002 BBC production of Ian Curteis 's The Falklands Play . He appeared on The Dame Edna Experience in the song and dance number "Style" alongside actor Roger Moore . Healey was satirised in the ITV series Spitting Image , his caricature mainly focusing on his famous eyebrows, with the real Healey appearing in the twelfth episode of the programme's first series in 1984 briefly noting

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4030-454: Was rebranded as British Marine. Starting in 1914, a joint exhibition took place at Olympia , London with the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) but in 1954, an independent London Boat Show was held at the Empire Hall, Olympia. This moved to the Earls Court Exhibition Centre in 1957 and finally to its current location, ExCeL, in 2004. National Boat Shows, rebranded British Marine Boat Shows in 2015 and then British Marine in 2017,

4095-440: Was set up to run the organisation's Boat Shows, and made a successful acquisition of the Southampton Boat Show. The cancellation of London Boat Show from 2019 was announced in May 2018, with organisers citing the show as commercially unviable for the industry in its current format. The Southampton Boat Show is currently a ten-day event held annually in September in Mayflower Park, Southampton , England . British Marine promotes

4160-407: Was swimming 20 lengths a day in his outdoor pool. Healey was interviewed in 2012 as part of The History of Parliament 's oral history project. After a short illness, Healey died in his sleep at his home in Alfriston , Sussex , on 3 October 2015, at the age of 98. He was buried alongside his wife in the graveyard of St Andrew's Church, Alfriston. In 2017, his personal archives were deposited at

4225-461: Was the "strongest contender" to succeed Callaghan as Leader of the Labour Party . When Callaghan stood down as Labour Party leader in November 1980, Healey was the favourite to win the leadership election , decided by Labour MPs. In September, an opinion poll had found that when asked who would make the best prime minister if Healey were Labour leader, 45% chose Healey over 39% for Thatcher. However, he lost to Michael Foot . He seems to have taken

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