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Hong Kong tells U.S. to stay out; students form protest chains – Los Angeles Times

Thousands of students formed human chains outside schools across Hong Kong on Monday to show solidarity in the push for democratic reforms after violent weekend clashes in the semiautonomous Chinese territory.

The silent protest came as the Hong Kong government condemned the “illegal behavior of radical protesters” and warned the U.S. to stay out of its affairs.

Thousands of demonstrators held a peaceful march Sunday to the U.S. Consulate to seek Washington’s support, but violence erupted later in the day in a business and retail district as protesters vandalized subway stations, set fires and blocked traffic, prompting police to fire tear gas.

Hong Kong’s government agreed last week to withdraw an extradition bill that sparked a summer of protests, but demonstrators want other demands to be met, including direct elections of city leaders and an independent inquiry into police actions.

Protesters in their Sunday march appealed to President Trump to “stand with Hong Kong” and ensure Congress passes a bill that proposes economic sanctions and penalties on Hong Kong and China officials who are found to be suppressing democracy and human rights in the city.

Hong Kong’s government expressed regret over the U.S. bill, known as the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. It said in a statement Monday that “foreign legislatures should not interfere in any form in the internal affairs” of Hong Kong.

The government said it was “very much in Hong Kong’s own interest to maintain our autonomy to safeguard our interests and advantages under the ‘one country, two systems’ principle” after the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) said last week that Hong Kong residents deserve real autonomy and freedom from fear. She urged an end to police violence against protesters and said Congress looks forward to “swiftly advancing” the Hong Kong bill.

The unrest has become the biggest challenge to Beijing’s rule since it took over Hong Kong, and an embarrassment to its ruling Communist party ahead of Oct. 1 celebrations of its 70th year in power. Beijing and the entirely state-controlled media have portrayed the protests as an effort by criminals to split the territory from China, backed by what it said were hostile foreigners.

Trump has suggested it’s a matter for China to handle, though he also has said that no violence should be used. Political analysts suggest that his response was muted because he doesn’t want to disrupt talks with China over their tariff war.

High school and university students across Hong Kong held hands for a second straight week Monday to form long human chains that snaked into the streets outside their schools before the bell rang. They were joined by many graduates wearing the protesters’ trademark black tops and masks.

Some university students continued their protest chains at lunchtime, with passing cars honking in support. Many rallied against what they viewed as excessive use of force by police, with one student carrying a placard that read, “Stop violence, we are not rioters.”

At the St. Paul Co-educational College, a Catholic school, students in blue dresses also chanted “five key demands, not one less,” the slogan of protesters who have refused to yield until all their demands are met.

Apart from the extradition bill’s withdrawal, protesters also want direct elections for Hong Kong’s leader, an independent probe into alleged police brutality against demonstrators, unconditional release of those detained and not characterizing the protests as riots. Police have detained more than 1,200 people.

Separately, well-known Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was released Monday, a day after he was detained at the airport following an oversight in his bail certificate.

Wong, a leader of Hong Kong’s 2014 pro-democracy protest movement, was among several people held last month and was charged with inciting people to join a protest in June. His prosecution comes after his release from prison in June for a two-month sentence related to the 2014 protests.

A court said Wong’s overseas trips had been approved earlier and his detention was due to mistakes in dates in his bail certificate.

Wong, who visited Taiwan last week, said he will proceed with trips to Germany and the U.S. to raise global awareness about Hong Kong’s fight for democratic reforms.

Germany’s foreign minister welcomed Wong’s release and called it “a good signal.”

Heiko Maas said if Wong is in Berlin, “I am prepared to see him.”

“We hope that the conflict there will be de-escalated bit by bit, but without that entailing the rights people are entitled to — namely the right to express their opinion, including on the street — in any way being limited,” Maas told reporters in Berlin.

Source Article from https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-09-09/hong-kong-tells-u-s-to-stay-out-students-form-protest-chains

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Boris Johnson, expected to fail in his call for October elections, talks up potential for Brexit deal breakthrough – The Washington Post

September 9 at 10:47 AM

LONDON — The British Parliament is expected again on Monday to reject Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s call for early elections, further narrowing the options for the new British leader.

John Bercow — the colorful and controversial speaker of the House of Commons, known for his enthusiastic shouting of “order, order” — set the tone for a long day of debate with the announcement that he would step down on Oct. 31, if the push for an October election indeed fails.

The date is significant because Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said Britain will leave the E.U. by then, “do or die.”

Johnson got little help from his Irish counterpart Monday as he sought to turn the page on a disastrous week in London and unblock the path to a British exit from the European Union on Halloween.

With another near-certain defeat expected in Parliament on Monday night, Johnson crossed the sea in the morning, visiting Dublin for talks with Irish leader Leo Varadkar aimed at disentangling one of the thorniest aspects of Brexit negotiations: what to do about Northern Ireland.

But the chilly, overcast skies in Dublin matched the apparent mood between the leaders. While Varadkar told reporters he was hoping for “a good start” to the talks, he was also clear that Johnson’s government had yet to offer a serious proposal for breaking through the deadlock.

And he savaged a favorite Johnson talking point, insisting that a British exit without a deal would only lead to more rounds of interminable negotiation — not to an end to Britain’s Brexit agony.

“There is no such thing as a clean break,” Varadkar said as Johnson grimaced.

[Boris Johnson has four options to escape his Brexit mess. One of them is to go to jail.]

The British leader struck a notably more conciliatory tone than he had last week, insisting again that the Britain “will come out on October 31” but also citing a clear preference for a deal to manage the withdrawal.

To leave without one, he said, “would be a failure of statecraft for which we would all be responsible.” In the past, Johnson has been dismissive about the potential negative consequences of a no-deal exit.

The talks Monday came hours before a vote in Parliament that is expected to be the last before the House of Commons goes into recess for over a month. As he did repeatedly last week, Johnson is forecast to lose, with opponents in the House of Commons teaming up to block the election that the prime minister craves.

Monday’s events came as Downing Street — and Britain as a whole — reeled from a manic political week in which the prime minister lost his majority in Parliament, lost his attempt to ram through a no-deal departure and even lost the support of his own brother, a minister who quit because of “unresolvable tension” between family loyalty and the national interest.

Another minister, Amber Rudd, followed him out the door over the weekend, saying she was protesting the purge of 21 Tory members of Parliament who had defied the prime minister.

Rumors of additional departures swirled on Monday. But for the moment, at least, no additional resignations appeared imminent.

Downing Street confirmed Monday that Parliament would be suspended as of Monday night and would not come into session until mid-October, just before the end-of-month deadline for Britain to leave the E.U.

The suspension had originally appeared aimed at allowing Johnson a free hand to take Britain out by Halloween, with or without a deal.

But that plan backfired spectacularly, as did his backup plan to call for a new election.

With his options limited, Johnson appears focused on talking up the possibility of a breakthrough in long-stalled talks with the E.U.

[Boris Johnson’s statements about the state of Brexit negotiations bear little relationship to reality, E.U. officials say]

Rudd, in her resignation, said she had seen little evidence that Johnson’s government was serious about trying to strike a new deal, and was instead focused on planning for a no-deal crash-out.

But the prime minister insisted in Dublin Monday that there was still plenty of time to come to terms with his European counterparts before E.U. leaders meet for a summit Oct. 17-18.

“There is a way forward,” he said. “If we really focus, I think we can make a huge amount of progress.”

He declined, however, to specify new proposals. And Varadkar maintained that he had not seen any.

After their joint news conference, the pair met for a half-hour over breakfast and then for another half-hour with their delegations. A joint statement following the meeting said that “common ground was established in some areas although significant gaps remain.”

The question of how to handle the border between Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Ireland, which will remain a member of the E.U., has bedeviled Britain’s Brexit plans from the start.

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks on during a meeting with Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in Dublin, Sep. 9, 2019. (Phil Noble/Reuters)

Both the British and Irish governments say they don’t want a hard border, complete with checkpoints and barriers, dividing the island. But the Irish, and the E.U., have insisted on a “backstop” that would in effect keep Britain in the E.U.’s customs union until a solution can be found that allows for two different trading systems to exist side-by-side.

Johnson has rejected such an arrangement, arguing it will keep Britain from striking deals with other countries, such as the United States, and reaping the benefits of life outside the E.U.

As Johnson and Varadkar spoke, dozens of people from the border region protested outside Leinster House, the seat of Ireland’s parliament. They said they want Johnson to visit the area to see for himself the impact that a disorganized British exit could have on an area that thrives on cross-border trade.

“No deal would be disastrous for the border community,” said Bernard Boyle, a 67-year-old accountant. “I want him to come and speak to the people in the border areas. Don’t be flying in and out of Dublin. Livelihoods are under threat.”

Witte reported from London.

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Exclusive: US extracted top spy from inside Russia in 2017 – CNN

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Kamala Harris, Confronting Critics, Releases a Criminal Justice Plan – The New York Times

Other Democratic candidates have also released robust positions on criminal justice, including two recent offers by Ms. Warren and Mr. Sanders. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, the race’s other major black candidate, championed the First Step Act, which was signed into law last year, and Julián Castro, the former housing secretary, has won plaudits for his early focus on policing. Mr. Biden and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., have also offered proposals.

Mr. Biden helped write, and Mr. Sanders voted for, the 1994 crime bill that has been widely criticized by civil rights experts for contributing to the rising prison population. Mr. Buttigieg has had strained relations with black residents in South Bend, and Mr. Booker has faced scrutiny for “stop and frisk” tactics used by the police when he was mayor of Newark. Still, Ms. Harris has faced some of the fiercest attacks over her criminal justice record.

“The people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor — you owe them an apology,” Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii told Ms. Harris at a debate in July.

Ms. Harris has become familiar with this line of criticism, including the internet memes that have labeled her a “cop” and, sometimes, a turncoat to minority communities that are historically distrustful of the police and the legal system.

She has defended her record on the debate stage, but she admitted in the interview that the attacks had stung, particularly when levied by black activists. “It feels awful,” she said.

“I understand it intellectually. Emotionally, it’s hurtful,” Ms. Harris added. “I know what motivated me to become a prosecutor, I know what motivated me to do the kind of work we did, and I know that it was groundbreaking work.”

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/us/politics/kamala-harris-criminal-justice.html

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Trump reportedly wanted to show off his negotiation skills by inviting the Taliban to Camp David – Business Insider

A meeting between President Donald Trump, leaders of the Taliban, and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani at the presidential retreat in Camp David was called off due to disagreements over political showmanship, a new report claims.

According to a New York Times article published Sunday, a potential peace agreement was ironed out on September 1 by US special representative to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, which ended in the suggestion of a visit to the US.

The idea for the Taliban’s trip to the presidential resort was reportedly embraced by Trump, but some National Security Council officials were not privy to the fluid developments, The Times reported.

A point of contention ensued when the Taliban leaders accepted the proposal, but insisted the trip be held after a peace deal was announced.

Trump, however, believed the Taliban’s trip should be held before then, and wanted for it to be a part of the peace process, according to The Times.

Trump, who dispensed with decades of political norms when he abruptly met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Demilitarized Zone in the Korean Peninsula, reportedly wanted to be perceived as the chief negotiator of peace with the terrorist group.

A US soldier in Afghanistan.
U.S. Army / Sgt. Trey Harvey

Trump intended to hold separate meetings with President Ghani and the Taliban at Camp David, after which the US president would have the prime opportunity to showcase the new relationship, according to The Times.

Other issues were raised in the days leading up to the Taliban’s trip. Afghan officials reportedly said they objected to releasing thousands of Taliban prisoners, which the US had agreed to.

On Thursday, the potential trip was nixed after Trump was informed of a suicide car bomb in Afghanistan which killed US Army Sgt. 1st Class Elis Angel Barreto Ortiz Ortiz, as well as a Romanian soldier and at least 10 civilians. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

Trump and his aides came to an agreement that the Camp David trip — which would have been held three days before the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks — could not be conducted after the car bomb attack, The Times said.

“This is off; we can’t do this,” Trump said to officials, according to the article.

Afghan officials reportedly seemed unaware of the change because the White House did not make a formal announcement.

Trump would later announce the cancellation of the trip on his Twitter account: “Unfortunately, in order to build false leverage, [the Taliban] admitted to an attack in Kabul that killed one of our great great soldiers, and 11 other people.”

“I immediately cancelled the meeting and called off peace negotiations,” Trump added. “What kind of people would kill so many in order to seemingly strengthen their bargaining position?”

News of the potential trip, which was first revealed through Trump’s tweet, was widely condemned by lawmakers. Democrats and Republicans in Congress denounced the plan, particularly in light of the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

“As we head into the anniversary of 9/11, I do not ever want to see those terrorists step foot in United States soil. Period,” Republican Rep. Michael Waltz of Florida, a former US Army special forces soldier, said on Sunday.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared on several television networks on Sunday to defend the plan and explain the rationale for the criticized trip.

“In the end, if you’re going to negotiate peace, you often have to deal with some pretty bad actors,” Pompeo said on ABC News’s “This Week.”

“And I know the history, too, at Camp David. Indeed, President Trump reflected on that, we all considered as we were debating how to try and get to the right ultimate outcome.”

“It was a place where we thought we could convince all the leaders of Afghanistan, President Ghani and his team, as well as the Taliban, we could convince them to begin to head in the direction that would create better conditions,” Pompeo added. “It’s why the president was willing to go down that direction.”

Source Article from https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-reportedly-wanted-to-show-negotiation-skills-by-inviting-taliban-2019-9

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‘Grand Bahama is dead’: A firsthand look at Dorian’s destruction – CNN

By Patrick Oppmann, Jaide Timm-Garcia and Jose Armijo, CNN

Updated 6:14 AM ET, Mon September 9, 2019

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Patrick Oppmann is a CNN correspondent based in Havana. Jaide Timm-Garcia is a CNN producer in Atlanta. Jose Armijo is a CNN photojournalist based in Mexico City.

Freeport, Bahamas (CNN)It’s been almost a week since Hurricane Dorian ravaged the Bahamas, but the deadly hurricane continues to haunt those of us who rode out the storm here.

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Chrissy Teigen is Trending After Donald Trump Referred to Her as John Legend’s ‘Filthy Mouthed Wife’ – Newsweek

President Donald Trump went on a tirade against John Legend and his “filthy mouthed” wife Chrissy Teigen after the singer appeared on an MSNBC show about criminal justice reform.

Trump appeared to be upset that he and fellow Republicans were not given enough credit for helping to pass Criminal Justice Reform, also known as the First Step Act, on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and chose to hit out against the EGOT-winning singer and his wife, a model and TV presenter.

In December 2018, Trump signed the First Step Act into law after it was passed in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The act reduces mandatory minimum sentences in certain cases and will see more than 3,000 inmates released.

During the show, John Legend urges people to get involved with his Free America organization, which he set up to help “transform America’s criminal justice system.” He also urged viewers to “become voters that think about the criminal justice as an issue they can affect” and to be “aware of what you governors and legislators are doing in your state” in order to help reform the criminal justice system.

In a series of tweets Sunday night (September 8), Trump wrote: “When all of the people pushing so hard for Criminal Justice Reform were unable to come even close to getting it done, they came to me as a group and asked for my help. I got it done with a group of Senators & others who would never have gone for it.

“Obama couldn’t come close, and many others, were profusely grateful (at that time!). I SIGNED IT INTO LAW, no one else did, & Republicans deserve much credit.

“But now that it is passed, people that had virtually nothing to do with it are taking the praise. Guys like boring musician @johnlegend, and his filthy mouthed wife, are talking now about how great it is—but I didn’t see them around when we needed help getting it passed.

“‘Anchor’ @LesterHoltNBC doesn’t even bring up the subject of President Trump or the Republicans when talking about the importance or passage of Criminal Justice Reform.

He added: “They only talk about the minor players, or people that had nothing to do with it…And the people that so desperately sought my help when everyone else had failed, all they talk about now is Impeaching President Trump!”

Teigen responded to the outburst in a tweet referencing her daughter. “Luna, remember the night before your first day of school? When mommy was making your sign and the p**** a** b**** president had his 9th meltdown of the day,” Teigen wrote.

“The absolute best part of his tweet is I literally didn’t speak in the special, nor was I mentioned. I’m cackling at the pointless addition of me because he cannot not be a b****,” she added.

Teigen then started a campaign to get #PresidentP****A**B**** trending on Twitter.

Picking a fight with Chrissy Teigen to make everyone forget you randomly tried meet with the Taliban to make everyone forget you drew on a weather map with a sharpie to make everyone forget yoâ

— jordan (@JordanUhl) September 9, 2019

Donald Trump is now blaming his impeachment on:

– President Obama

– Chrissy Teigen

– John Legend

– Van Jones

– Lester Holt

Also, Trump is too much of a coward to even tag @chrissyteigen in his rant, because heâs particularly afraid of strong women of color.

— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) September 9, 2019

Also responding to Trump’s remarks, Legend wrote: “Imagine being president of a whole country and spending your Sunday night hate-watching MSNBC hoping somebody—ANYBODY—will praise you. Melania, please praise this man. He needs you. Your country needs you, Melania.”

Earlier this year, Teigen was one of several high-profile names who urged a boycott of several fitness companies, including Equinox and SoulCycle, after it was revealed their majority owner hosted a fundraiser for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign.

This article has been updated with additional information.

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Pressure builds on Trump to plot course on guns – CNN

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Sacklers Reject Demand They Surrender Personal Wealth To Settle Opioid Claims – NPR

Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, is facing thousands of lawsuits seeking to hold it accountable for the opioid crisis.

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The family that owns Purdue Pharma, maker of Oxycontin, has rejected a demand that they give up $4.5 billion of their personal wealth to settle opioid claims against the firm, according to state attorneys general negotiating with the company.

As a consequence, talks toward a national settlement with members of the Sackler family reached an impasse over the weekend, according to an email obtained by NPR.

Two attorneys general directly involved in the talks predicted in the email that the company will now file for bankruptcy “imminently.”

“States have already begun preparations for handling the bankruptcy proceedings,” wrote Josh Stein, North Carolina’s state attorney general, and Herbert Slatery, attorney general for the state of Tennessee.

“The Sacklers refused to budge,” the email concluded, “and have declined to offer any counterproposal.”

The email, first reported by the Associated Press, was sent Saturday to other state attorneys general. It details an offer made to the Sacklers that would have forced them to pay billions of dollars to compensate states for their role helping to fuel the prescription opioid epidemic.

The deal would also have forced Purdue Pharma into bankruptcy proceedings while dissolving the Sacklers’ overseas opioid business.

But in a statement emailed to NPR Sunday night, the drug firm suggested a deal might still be possible.

“Purdue Pharma believes a settlement that benefits the American public now is a far better path than years of wasteful litigation and appeals,” the statement said. “Those negotiations continue and we remain dedicated to a resolution that genuinely advances the public interest.”

Overdose deaths linked to prescription opioids have killed more than 218,000 Americans since the addiction crisis began in the late 1990s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

State and local governments have filed more than 2,000 lawsuits claiming Purdue Pharma played a central role marketing opioid medications, while downplaying the risks.

Over two decades, opioid sales generated billions of dollars in profits for the company, making the Sacklers one of the richest families in the U.S.

A spokesperson for Purdue Pharma declined an interview request by NPR and wouldn’t say whether the company is, in fact, considering an immediate bankruptcy filing. Last March, company officials acknowledged that filing for Chapter 11 protection is one strategy being considered.

If Purdue Pharma does file for bankruptcy without first reaching some kind of structured deal, it could take years to sort out the remaining value of the company’s assets and then determine who’s first in line for compensation.

Pressure to reach a settlement is also intensifying because a federal opioid trial involving Purdue Pharma and more than twenty other drug makers, distributors and pharmacy chains is set to begin next month in Cleveland.

While that legal process moves forward, state attorneys general have promised to continue pursuing the Sacklers personally to recoup profits the family received from opioid sales, even if Purdue Pharma seeks Chapter 11 protection.

“I won’t let them get away with their crimes,” wrote Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro Saturday on Twitter. “I will sue them personally, so that we can dig into their personal pocketbooks.”

The Wall Street Journal also reported Friday that the U.S. Justice Department is involved in separate talks with Purdue Pharma.

According to the newspaper, those negotiations involve possible civil penalties tied to federal probes of Oxycontin sales, but could also include criminal charges using statutes normally used to prosecute drug dealers.

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As evacuations continue, hundreds of Bahamians were told to get off a ferry headed to the US – CNN

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DNC amassing huge 2020 research trove against Trump: report | TheHill – The Hill

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has reportedly built a trove of opposition research against President TrumpDonald John Trump To thwart a possible recession, Trump should work on policies that support workers Trump to speak at GOP House retreat in Baltimore after repeatedly criticizing city Kennedy leading Markey in possible Senate matchup: poll MORE in advance of the 2020 election.

Axios reported that the DNC has compiled its haul by sifting through nearly 7,000 lawsuits from all 50 states. The organization has also reportedly compiled a comprehensive document of every time Trump told supporters when campaigning in 2016 that Mexico would pay for a wall along the southern border.

The cache of research is expected to make its way to local reporters, groups and Democrats in battleground states, according to a source who spoke with Axios.

“Let’s say [Trump] goes to Youngstown, Ohio. We have everything he said, what he promised in 2016 to that community — maybe it’s ‘that bridge will be fixed’ — then we’ll show what’s actually happened since,” a source told the news outlet.

Additionally, the DNC reportedly has examples of how American farmers and truckers feel about Trump’s tariffs, the ongoing trade dispute with China, and the way the GOP tax law has hurt the trucking industry.

DNC Chairman Tom PerezThomas Edward Perez Clinton’s top five vice presidential picks Government social programs: Triumph of hope over evidence Labor’s ‘wasteful spending and mismanagement” at Workers’ Comp MORE plans to center the 2020 presidential race around Trump’s “performance as president, not his bigotry or awfulness,” according to a source who was present at a meeting of 20 Democratic operatives and strategists where Perez spoke.

To add to the trove, the DNC has already filed “thousands” of Freedom of Information Act requests to get even more information on Trump as the election draws closer.

The Hill has reached out to the DNC for comment.

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The Apple Watch 4 Is Getting Older in Smartwatch Years and So Is on Sale Right Now – Daily Beast

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Hong Kong protesters waving US flags appeal to Trump to ‘liberate’ their city – CNBC

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