The CNN Washington Bureau’s morning speed read of the top stories making news from around the country and the world. Click on the headlines for more.
WASHINGTON/POLITICAL:
CNN: What’s behind Gingrich’s jump in the polls?
It's the biggest headline in a national poll full of headlines: Newt Gingrich has surged and is now basically tied with Mitt Romney in the race for the GOP presidential nomination.
CNN: Cain stumbles over Libya
Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain took a moment Monday to clarify his position on Libya: He needs more information.
CNN: Congress faces Friday shutdown deadline
Congress is facing yet another government shutdown threat this week as it confronts the expiration Friday of its latest short-term spending bill.
NY Times: Students lose zeal for aiding Obama again
As students look towards graduation this June and the job hunt ahead, the emotions they feels is fear, and many students cannot imagine having the time or spirit to work for Mr. Obama like they did in 2008.
NATIONAL:
CNN: Police move in to evict Occupy protesters from New York park
Police moved in to New York's Zuccotti Park early Tuesday morning, surprising many protesters who have camped there for almost two months.
CNN: Sandusky admits he 'horsed around,' but insists he's innocent
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky insisted in an interview Monday he is "innocent" of charges that he sexually abused young boys, denying to NBC's Bob Costas that he's a pedophile.
CNN: Dire warnings from Pentagon over potential defense cuts
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta turned up the heat on Congress Monday, warning that looming automatic budget cuts would undermine national security and set off a financial chain reaction from the hallways of the Pentagon, to the battlefields of Afghanistan, to civilian assembly lines.
Sports Illustrated: NBA season in serious jeopardy, but not lost yet
If you have even a passing interest in the legal world, David Boies is a name you should already know. He’s possibly the most famous litigator alive. So when he walked in with the NBA players’ union on Monday, you knew the news was bad enough to jeopardize the season.
INTERNATIONAL:
CNN: Iran may reconsider atomic watchdog cooperation
Iranian lawmakers want Tehran to reassess its cooperation with the U.N. atomic agency after the latter published what Iran calls a "politically motivated" report on its nuclear program, state-run Press TV reported
CNN: New fighting reported in Syria; Jordan's king on Syria's president: 'I would step down'
A day after a neighboring Arab ruler indirectly called for Syria's dictator to step down, his opponents inside the country did battle early Tuesday against government troops, an opposition group said.
CNN: As China's rich grow in numbers, so do their mobile aspirations
Despite the global financial crisis, China's rich are getting richer. And the newly affluent are getting more outwardly mobile, too.
CNN: Does Azerbaijan's 'Black City' have a golden future?
What I first noticed when arriving in Baku, beyond the world's tallest free-standing flag pole, was the oil derricks in the Caspian Sea, visible from western hotels steadily rising along the coast.
BUSINESS:
CNN Money: Stocks slide as eurozone issues persist
U.S. stocks slid Monday as investors grew wary over whether political transitions in Greece and Italy will help resolve Europe's debt crisis.
CNN Money: Buffett buys IBM, Intel and DirecTV
Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway disclosed Monday that he bought positions in chipmaker Intel Corp., satellite television service DirecTV and old-school tech giant IBM.
CNN Money: Ads pulled from ESPN's Penn State games following scandal
The sexual abuse scandal at Penn State has prompted at least one advertiser to pull out of broadcasts featuring the now-tarnished football program.
In Case You Missed It…
Anderson Cooper talks with legal experts about Jerry Sandusky's lawyer's strategy, and the public perception of the crimes.
Senate:
• PA-Sen: Sam Rohrer, who has been inching toward a run for some time, will formally join the Republican primary field on Monday. Rohrer is a former head of the Pennsylvania chapter of Americans for Prosperity, the notorious Koch brothers front group.
Gubernatorial:
• MO-Gov: Ah, fun. Some serious TARP-related troubles for plastics magnate Dave Spence, the newly-minted Republican gubernatorial savior:
In addition to Alpha Packaging, Spence served for six years on the board of directors for Reliance Bancshares Inc., a bank holding company headquartered in St. Louis. In February, the company announced it would stop making payments to the U.S. Treasury on the $42 million it received under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP.Spence told the Associated Press that he didn't recall any details about that decision to stop making payments. But he defended the federal bank bailout program, saying it helped avoid a potential economic disaster by providing banks with "extra cushion of capital."
He told PoliticMo on Tuesday that he resigned from the board in March because of the issue, although paperwork filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission says his March resignation was "not related to any disagreements with [Reliance Bancshares'] operations, policies or practices."
Supporting TARP is usually sin enough to earn some serious noogies on the campaign trail. Actually taking TARP money is something else altogether… and refusing to pay it back? Oof. (Note that this is not a comment on the merits of TARP itself, but rather how it plays as a campaign issue.)
• NH-Gov: This should be an entertaining battle of the crazies. Conservative activist Kevin Smith, former head of an advocacy group called Cornerstone Action, has, as expected, declared that he will enter the Republican primary. He joins fellow nutter Ovide Lamontagne, which is almost perfect for us, since the two will very likely try their hardest to out-lunatic each other as they seek the GOP nomination.
• WI-Gov: Somehow, St. Norbert College has found support for recalling GOP Gov. Scott Walker at an astounding 58-38 spread, up from 47-48 in April. That is basically impossible to believe, especially since 24% of Republicans supposedly in favor of the idea. It's also contradicted by PPP's polling, which has consistently seen an evenly-divided electorate. Really, I just can't take this poll seriously.
House:
• AR-04 (PDF): Beth Anne Rankin, the unsuccessful 2010 Republican nominee in the 4th CD, is touting an internal which shows her with a huge 40-3 lead over newly-minted golden boy Tom Cotton in the GOP primary. The poll, from the firm of Dresner, Wickers, Barber, Sanders, does contain one oddity. At the top of the memo, it says: "The margin of error, at .90 confidence is +/- 4%." I've never seen a single political poll which uses anything other than a 95% confidence interval—indeed, that is such a common standard that you almost never even see the confidence interval mentioned. I don't know why they chose to play this game, since the poll reveals its sample size, a perfectly respectable 400. (That's a 4.9% MoE by normal reckoning.)
• AZ-02: Local sports radio announcer Dave Sitton says he's forming an exploratory committee to run in the proposed new 2nd CD, which would pit him against Rep. Gabby Giffords if she seeks re-election (and if the draft redistricting map is actually adopted). Sitton's the third Republican in the mix, along with state Sen. Frank Antenori and 2010 nominee Jesse Kelly.
• CA-26: Ventura County Supervisor Steve Bennett, whose name first emerged as a possible candidate back in August, was expected to officially join the race for California's redrawn 26th District on Wednesday. There are a few other Democratic contenders here, though with Bennett's entry, he probably becomes the frontrunner. No Republicans are in the race as yet because everyone is waiting on Rep. Elton Gallegly to decide if he'll run here or just bail altogether.
• CA-44: Republican businessman Craig Huey, who ran a decently competitive race against Janice Hahn in the CA-36 special election earlier this year, won't seek a rematch (Hahn's since moved over to the new 44th) and will instead run for the state Assembly.
• CO-03: Sal Pace is definitely in this thing: He just stepped down from his post as state House Minority Leader in order to concentrate on his run for Congress against GOP freshman Scott Tipton.
• IL-08: A pair of locals of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (aka the UFCW) endorsed Tammy Duckworth's candidacy for the Democratic nomination on Wednesday.
• IL-10: We missed this last week, but activist Ilya Sheyman just picked up his second endorsement from a member of Illinois' congressional delegation: Rep. Danny Davis joined Jesse Jackson, Jr. in giving his support to Sheyman in the Democratic primary.
Meanwhile, I've received confirmation from the Brad Schneider campaign that DCCC recruiting chair Allyson Schwartz did not endorse Schneider, contrary to this piece from Grayslake Patch. However, back in June, her leadership PAC ("We the People PAC") gave him $1,000.
• IL-12: GOP state Rep. Mike Bost had been considering a run for the seat left behind by retiring Dem Rep. Jerry Costello, but now he says he won't pull the trigger. (He will instead run for re-election to the state House.) Last year's Republican Lt. Gov. nominee, Jason Plummer, entered the race late last month, so that may have been a deterrent to Bost.
• MA-09: Dem Senate President Therese Murray says she won't run in the new, and nominally open, 9th CD, to which Dem Rep. Bill Keating is relocating. Keating's 2010 opponent in the general election, GOPer Jeff Perry, says he won't run, either—nor will Republican state Rep. Vinnie DeMacedo. But the Boston Herald lists several other new potential candidates, including Keating's 2010 primary rival, former State Sen. Robert O’Leary (who says he's considering the race), Dem state Sen. Mark Montigny, and Republican Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz.
• NJ-02: Michael Assad, a member of the Absecon (pop. 8,400) Board of Education and a self-identified Tea Partier, says he plans to challenge veteran Rep. Frank LoBiondo in the Republican primary. Godspeed, little buddy.
• NV-04: State Sen. John Lee's campaign manager says his boss is reconsidering his run for congress in Nevada's new, blue-tinted 4th CD—and if he gets out, that would clear the way for one of Horsford's fellow state senators, Majority Leader Steven Horsford, to scoop up the Democratic nomination. I've gotta believe Lee will bail after making remarks like these—it's a lot harder to win a race after you publicly moot quitting it.
Meanwhile, on the GOP side, Jon Ralston seems to be suggesting that Danny Tarkanian is polling a potential primary matchup in the new 4th against state Sen. Barbara Cegavske, who just entered the race late last week. The numbers apparently show a massive lead for Tark, who has failed in three prior runs for office (and whose wife was recently elected chair of the Nevada Republican Party). In response, newly minted GOP Rep. Mark Amodei endorsed Cegavske, which Ralston thinks is a message to Tarkanian to stay out of the race.
• OH-07: Dem ex-Rep. Zack Space, who lost in last year's red tide, had reportedly been considering a comeback bid, though I don't believe we ever heard so from the horse's mouth. Now, though, that seems very unlikely, since he just took a job with an Ohio-based consulting firm. Space is only 50 years old, though, so he could conceivably run again somewhere down the line. (By the way, I've filed this under OH-07 even though Space's old district was the 18th; that's because the 18th has been eliminated and the guy who beat Space, Bob Gibbs, has been placed in the new 7th.)
• SC-07: Horry County Council Chairman Tom Rice officially launched his campaign for the GOP nomination for South Carolina's new 7th CD on Wednesday. It's definitely going to be a busy Republican primary.
• WA-03: Clark County Commissioner Steve Stuart, who first said he was looking at a run against GOP freshman Jamie Herrera Beutler back in August, just announced that he won't make a bid for Congress. However, at least one other potential candidate is still waiting in the wings, Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt. (Leavitt's never actually declared that he's a Democrat, but given Washington's top-two primary system, a run as a Republican would probably be doomed.)
Also, earlier this week, Jon Haugen, a Navy vet and commercial pilot for Delta Air Lines, became the first challenger to enter the field. Haugen lost a state Senate bid in 2008 as a Democrat, then ran without any party line for a state House seat last year (also unsuccessfully), so it's not clear if he's running as a Democrat this time or what.
Grab Bag:
• Ads: Two new ad campaigns have been launched this week in a variety of federal races. First up, a trio of labor groups— AFSCME, SEIU, and Americans United for Change—are targeting Republicans Denny Rehberg (MT-Sen), Scott Brown (MA-Sen), and Dean Heller (NV-Sen), warning them not to cut Medicare. The ads use the same script; here's the Brown version:
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Animating New York City's <b>News</b> - NYTimes.com
A Hong Kong-based company, Next Media, that has turned major news events into popular animated videos has now set up an office in New York City.
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A Hong Kong-based company, Next Media, that has turned major news events into popular animated videos has now set up an office in New York City.
Animating New York City's <b>News</b> - NYTimes.comNBA Lockout <b>News</b>: Eventually A Hopeful Rumor Might Actually Be <b>...</b>
A look at the most recent NBA lockout news, with analysis on the potential veracity of the speculation.
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A recap of Day 4 of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Loutraki Main Event where the final table is set and Zimnan Ziyard leads the way.
2011 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Loutraki Day 4: Ziyard <b>...</b>The CNN Washington Bureau’s morning speed read of the top stories making news from around the country and the world. Click on the headlines for more.
WASHINGTON/POLITICAL:
CNN: What’s behind Gingrich’s jump in the polls?
It's the biggest headline in a national poll full of headlines: Newt Gingrich has surged and is now basically tied with Mitt Romney in the race for the GOP presidential nomination.
CNN: Cain stumbles over Libya
Former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain took a moment Monday to clarify his position on Libya: He needs more information.
CNN: Congress faces Friday shutdown deadline
Congress is facing yet another government shutdown threat this week as it confronts the expiration Friday of its latest short-term spending bill.
NY Times: Students lose zeal for aiding Obama again
As students look towards graduation this June and the job hunt ahead, the emotions they feels is fear, and many students cannot imagine having the time or spirit to work for Mr. Obama like they did in 2008.
NATIONAL:
CNN: Police move in to evict Occupy protesters from New York park
Police moved in to New York's Zuccotti Park early Tuesday morning, surprising many protesters who have camped there for almost two months.
CNN: Sandusky admits he 'horsed around,' but insists he's innocent
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky insisted in an interview Monday he is "innocent" of charges that he sexually abused young boys, denying to NBC's Bob Costas that he's a pedophile.
CNN: Dire warnings from Pentagon over potential defense cuts
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta turned up the heat on Congress Monday, warning that looming automatic budget cuts would undermine national security and set off a financial chain reaction from the hallways of the Pentagon, to the battlefields of Afghanistan, to civilian assembly lines.
Sports Illustrated: NBA season in serious jeopardy, but not lost yet
If you have even a passing interest in the legal world, David Boies is a name you should already know. He’s possibly the most famous litigator alive. So when he walked in with the NBA players’ union on Monday, you knew the news was bad enough to jeopardize the season.
INTERNATIONAL:
CNN: Iran may reconsider atomic watchdog cooperation
Iranian lawmakers want Tehran to reassess its cooperation with the U.N. atomic agency after the latter published what Iran calls a "politically motivated" report on its nuclear program, state-run Press TV reported
CNN: New fighting reported in Syria; Jordan's king on Syria's president: 'I would step down'
A day after a neighboring Arab ruler indirectly called for Syria's dictator to step down, his opponents inside the country did battle early Tuesday against government troops, an opposition group said.
CNN: As China's rich grow in numbers, so do their mobile aspirations
Despite the global financial crisis, China's rich are getting richer. And the newly affluent are getting more outwardly mobile, too.
CNN: Does Azerbaijan's 'Black City' have a golden future?
What I first noticed when arriving in Baku, beyond the world's tallest free-standing flag pole, was the oil derricks in the Caspian Sea, visible from western hotels steadily rising along the coast.
BUSINESS:
CNN Money: Stocks slide as eurozone issues persist
U.S. stocks slid Monday as investors grew wary over whether political transitions in Greece and Italy will help resolve Europe's debt crisis.
CNN Money: Buffett buys IBM, Intel and DirecTV
Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway disclosed Monday that he bought positions in chipmaker Intel Corp., satellite television service DirecTV and old-school tech giant IBM.
CNN Money: Ads pulled from ESPN's Penn State games following scandal
The sexual abuse scandal at Penn State has prompted at least one advertiser to pull out of broadcasts featuring the now-tarnished football program.
In Case You Missed It…
Anderson Cooper talks with legal experts about Jerry Sandusky's lawyer's strategy, and the public perception of the crimes.
Senate:
• PA-Sen: Sam Rohrer, who has been inching toward a run for some time, will formally join the Republican primary field on Monday. Rohrer is a former head of the Pennsylvania chapter of Americans for Prosperity, the notorious Koch brothers front group.
Gubernatorial:
• MO-Gov: Ah, fun. Some serious TARP-related troubles for plastics magnate Dave Spence, the newly-minted Republican gubernatorial savior:
In addition to Alpha Packaging, Spence served for six years on the board of directors for Reliance Bancshares Inc., a bank holding company headquartered in St. Louis. In February, the company announced it would stop making payments to the U.S. Treasury on the $42 million it received under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP.Spence told the Associated Press that he didn't recall any details about that decision to stop making payments. But he defended the federal bank bailout program, saying it helped avoid a potential economic disaster by providing banks with "extra cushion of capital."
He told PoliticMo on Tuesday that he resigned from the board in March because of the issue, although paperwork filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission says his March resignation was "not related to any disagreements with [Reliance Bancshares'] operations, policies or practices."
Supporting TARP is usually sin enough to earn some serious noogies on the campaign trail. Actually taking TARP money is something else altogether… and refusing to pay it back? Oof. (Note that this is not a comment on the merits of TARP itself, but rather how it plays as a campaign issue.)
• NH-Gov: This should be an entertaining battle of the crazies. Conservative activist Kevin Smith, former head of an advocacy group called Cornerstone Action, has, as expected, declared that he will enter the Republican primary. He joins fellow nutter Ovide Lamontagne, which is almost perfect for us, since the two will very likely try their hardest to out-lunatic each other as they seek the GOP nomination.
• WI-Gov: Somehow, St. Norbert College has found support for recalling GOP Gov. Scott Walker at an astounding 58-38 spread, up from 47-48 in April. That is basically impossible to believe, especially since 24% of Republicans supposedly in favor of the idea. It's also contradicted by PPP's polling, which has consistently seen an evenly-divided electorate. Really, I just can't take this poll seriously.
House:
• AR-04 (PDF): Beth Anne Rankin, the unsuccessful 2010 Republican nominee in the 4th CD, is touting an internal which shows her with a huge 40-3 lead over newly-minted golden boy Tom Cotton in the GOP primary. The poll, from the firm of Dresner, Wickers, Barber, Sanders, does contain one oddity. At the top of the memo, it says: "The margin of error, at .90 confidence is +/- 4%." I've never seen a single political poll which uses anything other than a 95% confidence interval—indeed, that is such a common standard that you almost never even see the confidence interval mentioned. I don't know why they chose to play this game, since the poll reveals its sample size, a perfectly respectable 400. (That's a 4.9% MoE by normal reckoning.)
• AZ-02: Local sports radio announcer Dave Sitton says he's forming an exploratory committee to run in the proposed new 2nd CD, which would pit him against Rep. Gabby Giffords if she seeks re-election (and if the draft redistricting map is actually adopted). Sitton's the third Republican in the mix, along with state Sen. Frank Antenori and 2010 nominee Jesse Kelly.
• CA-26: Ventura County Supervisor Steve Bennett, whose name first emerged as a possible candidate back in August, was expected to officially join the race for California's redrawn 26th District on Wednesday. There are a few other Democratic contenders here, though with Bennett's entry, he probably becomes the frontrunner. No Republicans are in the race as yet because everyone is waiting on Rep. Elton Gallegly to decide if he'll run here or just bail altogether.
• CA-44: Republican businessman Craig Huey, who ran a decently competitive race against Janice Hahn in the CA-36 special election earlier this year, won't seek a rematch (Hahn's since moved over to the new 44th) and will instead run for the state Assembly.
• CO-03: Sal Pace is definitely in this thing: He just stepped down from his post as state House Minority Leader in order to concentrate on his run for Congress against GOP freshman Scott Tipton.
• IL-08: A pair of locals of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (aka the UFCW) endorsed Tammy Duckworth's candidacy for the Democratic nomination on Wednesday.
• IL-10: We missed this last week, but activist Ilya Sheyman just picked up his second endorsement from a member of Illinois' congressional delegation: Rep. Danny Davis joined Jesse Jackson, Jr. in giving his support to Sheyman in the Democratic primary.
Meanwhile, I've received confirmation from the Brad Schneider campaign that DCCC recruiting chair Allyson Schwartz did not endorse Schneider, contrary to this piece from Grayslake Patch. However, back in June, her leadership PAC ("We the People PAC") gave him $1,000.
• IL-12: GOP state Rep. Mike Bost had been considering a run for the seat left behind by retiring Dem Rep. Jerry Costello, but now he says he won't pull the trigger. (He will instead run for re-election to the state House.) Last year's Republican Lt. Gov. nominee, Jason Plummer, entered the race late last month, so that may have been a deterrent to Bost.
• MA-09: Dem Senate President Therese Murray says she won't run in the new, and nominally open, 9th CD, to which Dem Rep. Bill Keating is relocating. Keating's 2010 opponent in the general election, GOPer Jeff Perry, says he won't run, either—nor will Republican state Rep. Vinnie DeMacedo. But the Boston Herald lists several other new potential candidates, including Keating's 2010 primary rival, former State Sen. Robert O’Leary (who says he's considering the race), Dem state Sen. Mark Montigny, and Republican Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz.
• NJ-02: Michael Assad, a member of the Absecon (pop. 8,400) Board of Education and a self-identified Tea Partier, says he plans to challenge veteran Rep. Frank LoBiondo in the Republican primary. Godspeed, little buddy.
• NV-04: State Sen. John Lee's campaign manager says his boss is reconsidering his run for congress in Nevada's new, blue-tinted 4th CD—and if he gets out, that would clear the way for one of Horsford's fellow state senators, Majority Leader Steven Horsford, to scoop up the Democratic nomination. I've gotta believe Lee will bail after making remarks like these—it's a lot harder to win a race after you publicly moot quitting it.
Meanwhile, on the GOP side, Jon Ralston seems to be suggesting that Danny Tarkanian is polling a potential primary matchup in the new 4th against state Sen. Barbara Cegavske, who just entered the race late last week. The numbers apparently show a massive lead for Tark, who has failed in three prior runs for office (and whose wife was recently elected chair of the Nevada Republican Party). In response, newly minted GOP Rep. Mark Amodei endorsed Cegavske, which Ralston thinks is a message to Tarkanian to stay out of the race.
• OH-07: Dem ex-Rep. Zack Space, who lost in last year's red tide, had reportedly been considering a comeback bid, though I don't believe we ever heard so from the horse's mouth. Now, though, that seems very unlikely, since he just took a job with an Ohio-based consulting firm. Space is only 50 years old, though, so he could conceivably run again somewhere down the line. (By the way, I've filed this under OH-07 even though Space's old district was the 18th; that's because the 18th has been eliminated and the guy who beat Space, Bob Gibbs, has been placed in the new 7th.)
• SC-07: Horry County Council Chairman Tom Rice officially launched his campaign for the GOP nomination for South Carolina's new 7th CD on Wednesday. It's definitely going to be a busy Republican primary.
• WA-03: Clark County Commissioner Steve Stuart, who first said he was looking at a run against GOP freshman Jamie Herrera Beutler back in August, just announced that he won't make a bid for Congress. However, at least one other potential candidate is still waiting in the wings, Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt. (Leavitt's never actually declared that he's a Democrat, but given Washington's top-two primary system, a run as a Republican would probably be doomed.)
Also, earlier this week, Jon Haugen, a Navy vet and commercial pilot for Delta Air Lines, became the first challenger to enter the field. Haugen lost a state Senate bid in 2008 as a Democrat, then ran without any party line for a state House seat last year (also unsuccessfully), so it's not clear if he's running as a Democrat this time or what.
Grab Bag:
• Ads: Two new ad campaigns have been launched this week in a variety of federal races. First up, a trio of labor groups— AFSCME, SEIU, and Americans United for Change—are targeting Republicans Denny Rehberg (MT-Sen), Scott Brown (MA-Sen), and Dean Heller (NV-Sen), warning them not to cut Medicare. The ads use the same script; here's the Brown version:
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Animating New York City's <b>News</b> - NYTimes.com
A Hong Kong-based company, Next Media, that has turned major news events into popular animated videos has now set up an office in New York City.
Animating New York City's <b>News</b> - NYTimes.comNBA Lockout <b>News</b>: Eventually A Hopeful Rumor Might Actually Be <b>...</b>
A look at the most recent NBA lockout news, with analysis on the potential veracity of the speculation.
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