The World and Everything in It: September 11, 2024

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LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Good morning! Donald Trump and Kamala Harris debate in Philadelphia.

NICK EICHER, HOST: We’ll bring reaction, ahead on Washington Wednesday. Also today, World Tour. And later, on this anniversary of the 9/11 attacks a remembrance of some of those lost.

LE: It's not just a flag. This is a life. It represents a human life.

And holding social media companies accountable, commentary from WORLD Opinions contributor Brad Littlejohn.

MAST: It’s Wednesday, September 11th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Lindsay Mast.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

MAST: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Debate » Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump met for the first time at last night’s presidential debate in Philadelphia.

ABC News hosted the, at times, heated debate which tackled a very wide range of topics, including abortion. Moderators asked the vice president a question that she never directly answered.

MODERATOR:  Would you support any restrictions on a woman's right to an abortion?

HARRIS: I absolutely support reinstating the protections of Roe v. Wade.

The former president later pressed the question again …

TRUMP:  You should ask, will she allow abortion in the eighth month, ninth month, seventh month? 

HARRIS: Come on. 

TRUMP: What don’t you ask her that question? That’s the problem … 

Trump said the Supreme Court made the right decision in reversing Roe v. Wade and sending the matter back to the states.

The candidates also sparred on healthcare, the economy, and the border crisis.

TRUMP: What they have done to our country by allowing these millions and millions of people to come into our country, and look at what’s happening to the towns all over.

Harris countered by blaming Trump for the demise of a Senate border bill.

They also debated foreign policy, including conflict involving Israel in the Middle East.

HARRIS:  We must chart a course for a two state solution, and in that solution, there must be security for the Israeli people and Israel and an equal measure for the Palestinians.

Trump accused the Biden-Harris administration of working against the interests of Israel.

Late last night, Vice President Harris’ campaign called for a second debate with Trump. It’s unclear if that will happen.

Congressional Gold Medal ceremony » House Speaker Mike Johnson and other top leaders Tuesday honored the families of the 13 U.S. service members killed during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan three years ago.

JOHNSON:  Since the time of the American Revolution, Congress has commissioned these medals to show our national appreciation for the achievements and contributions of great Americans. And today we're here to honor some of our greatest.

Johnson heard there presenting those families with the Congressional Gold Medal.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer also paid respects.

SCHUMER:  Nothing, nothing we can do today can bring them back. But through this award, we swear their memories will live forever.

The U.S. service members were killed along with more than 170 Afghans in a suicide bombing at the Abbey Gate at Kabul’s Airport in August 2021.

The ceremony came on the heels of a scathing report released this week by House Republicans, calling the Biden administration to task for the disastrous pullout of U.S. forces.

House Democrats countered by blaming the Trump administration for an agreement with the Taliban that preceded the withdrawal.

Francine storm » The Gulf Coast is bracing for Hurricane Francine.

Brad Reinhart with the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday.

REINHART:  It's expected to turn more towards the northeast and accelerate over the next day or two and approach the coast of Louisiana on Wednesday.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry is urging people to prepare and heed all warnings from emergency officials.

Francine is expected to slam the coast as a Category-2 hurricane, with winds potentially topping 100 miles per hour.

Israel - criticism over activist’s death » Israel is still facing heavy criticism for the shooting death of a U.S. Turkish activist in the West Bank. Yesterday, the Israeli military said a preliminary investigation shows the 26-year-old woman was likely shot unintentionally by Israeli forces.

President Biden told reporters:

BIDEN: Apparently it was an accident. It ricocheted off the ground. And she got hit by accident. We’re working that out now.

And Secretary of State Tony Blinken called the woman’s death unacceptable …

BLINKEN: Her killing was both unprovoked and unjustified. No one, no one should be shot or killed for attending a protest.

And he called on Israel to change its rules of engagement.

Israel says it’s launching a criminal investigation into the incident.

Terrorism indictment » The Justice Department is accusing two American men of leading a transnational terror group. WORLD’s Kristen Flavin has more.

KRISTEN FLAVIN: Authorities have indicted 37-year-old Dallas Humber of Elk Grove, California and 37-year-old Matthew Allison of Boise, Idaho on numerous felony charges.

Prosecutors say the pair led a white supremacist terror group called the Terrorgram Collective. The Justice Dept. accuses them of soliciting hate crimes, calling for the murder of federal officials, and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.

Humber pleaded not guilty this week. Allison has yet to enter a plea.

They both face sentences of more than 200 years behind bars if they’re found guilty on all charges.

For WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

Missouri abortion on ballot » In Missouri, voters will decide whether to keep or roll back protections for the unborn in the state. That after the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that a measure on whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution will be on the November ballot.

A group of Republican state lawmakers and other pro-life advocates had sued to remove the measure, arguing that voters were not informed about the list of abortion laws it could repeal.

The proposed amendment could remove protections for the unborn up until late stages of pregnancy.

I’m Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: more analysis of last night’s presidential debate on Washington Wednesday. Plus, World Tour.

This is The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: It’s Wednesday the 11th of September.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Lindsay Mast.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

First up on The World and Everything in It, last night’s Presidential debate.

The two candidates squared off for the first and what may be the last time. Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris currently have no other debates scheduled.

With two months to go till the election and more than one poll this week showing them in a dead heat, both candidates had a lot riding on the faceoff.

MAST: So could the debate change voters’ minds about the candidates…or does it simply reinforce their perspectives?

WORLD reporter Leo Briceno has the story.

LEO BRICENO: The country got its first real good look at the updated presidential tickets as Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump went toe to toe on Tuesday evening.

Trump spent the bulk of his time attacking the Biden-Harris administration on the border, on domestic policy, and international strength while also defending his own record.

TRUMP: Our country is being lost. We're a failing nation, and it happened three and a half years ago.

In response, Harris tried to pitch a new path forward for the country.

HARRIS: As a prosecutor, I never asked a victim or a witness, are you a Republican or a Democrat? The only thing I ever asked them, are you okay? And that's the kind of President we need right now, someone who cares about you and is not putting themselves first.

Heading into the debate, voters had questions about how the candidates would handle issues like abortion, border security, and the economy. I asked pro-life voter Liliana Zylstra what she hoped to hear from Trump on abortion.

ZYLSTRA: I guess my hope would be that Trump will, you know, retract and correct his previous statements that he’s made, you know, supporting legal abortion on some level or even condemning pro-life laws. If he can’t do that then I think at the very least he should challenge Kamala Harris on her record of permitting unlimited abortions and bullying those who stand in her way.

Trump reaffirmed his stance that states should decide abortion laws now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned. He declined to answer whether he would veto a pro-abortion bill if it reached his desk.

TRUMP: But what I did is something, for 52 years, they've been trying to get Roe v. Wade into the states. And through the genius and heart and strength of six Supreme Court justices, we were able to do that. Now, I believe in the exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother. I believe strongly in it. Ronald Reagan did also. 85% of Republicans do—exceptions, very important, but we were able to get it, and now states are voting on it.

Democratic voters I spoke with wanted to see if Harris would be able to appeal to the political center and win over Republicans who have qualms about voting for Trump. Craig Ellis, a longtime supporter of Joe Biden and a Democratic voter from California, told me he wanted to see how Harris would address issues like the economy and the border.

ELLIS: She'll have to bring up the fact that they were ready to pass the most conservative border bill in decades. And Trump shot it down because he wanted to, and I think people understand that.

Ellis thought Harris did a good job of that. He said she came across exactly as he would have hoped— as more of a former Attorney General and less of a verbal bruiser. Harris also made direct appeals to disaffected Republicans and touted endorsements from Republicans like former vice president Dick Cheney.

BAKER: Whether you think the establishment is good or not, I think that this shows that Kamala Harris is the establishment candidate.

Hunter Baker is provost of North Greenville University and a contributor to WORLD Opinions. He says while Harris called for unity and establishment values and policies, Trump offered the alternative to that.

BAKER: Whereas Trump is a challenge to the establishment. Now, is he the right challenge to the establishment? Good question. Not so sure about that, but He is the anti-establishment candidate.

Baker said both candidates made appeals to the center…with Trump moderating his position on abortion, and Harris moving away from her prior leftist positions.

BAKER: This may be more than a “get out the base” election. This may be the election where you've got to find that sliver of voters in the middle and to convince them to come over to your side.

Trump has been a defining character in politics for almost 10 years now. The same can’t really be said of Harris who, to the general public, is a much newer figure.

HENNIGAN: …she is the first person in a long time that is in this spot without having a primary election for her to get voted in.

Craig Hennigan teaches debate and communication at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He says Harris went into the debate with a lot to prove, even with her party’s enthusiastic backing.

HENNIGAN: And like some voters are probably going to be taking a look at that too and be like, did the DNC make the right choice? Because I wasn’t really involved in this one.

Although Harris might be a relatively new face for voters, she’s got a track record with the current administration. Harris didn’t try to run from that record, but also didn’t embrace it as her own.

HARRIS: It's important to remind the former president, you're not running against Joe Biden, you're running against me.

Baker thought that was a key moment for the Vice President.

BAKER: She has to somehow convince voters that when she is forward looking, that is the true Kamala Harris, whereas the record of the administration is not necessarily who she is. So she is, she is kind of saying, look forward. I am both going to be more moderate than I appear to have been in the past, and I am going to be a uniter of people.

In his closing remarks, President Trump challenged that vision.

TRUMP: Why hasn't she done it? She's been there for three and a half years. They've had three and a half years to fix the border. They've had three and a half years to create jobs and all the things we talked about. Why hasn't she done it?

With the debate now over, it’s time for American voters to decide who won. Some will decide based on policy positions the candidates took. Others will focus on how the candidates performed on stage.

STEWARD: So it’s the first impressions matter…

Patrick A. Stewart teaches political science at the University of Arkansas. He’s written about how debate audiences pick winners and losers, and says four characteristics are at play.

STEWART: …And one of them is dominance, and certainly, that’s Donald Trump’s strength. Then there’s competence. With Harris, that has been her strength. Then we look at them in terms of trustworthiness. And dominance and trustworthiness are correlated to a certain extent in that we trust people who are more dominant less—so it’s a negative correlation. And then finally there’s attractiveness.

But even as voters evaluate how the candidates performed, Hennigan says the debate isn’t likely to change people’s minds.

HENNIGAN: Presidential debates don’t often move the needle at all. Only about 10 percent of the people who are watching it are undecided and 10 percent of those actually come to a decision as a result of those debates so you’re talking about a subset of a subset of people who are actually influenced by the debate.

Voters still have ample time to come to a decision about the candidates. Despite the last-minute switch in the Democratic ticket, this was still the earliest-ever televised debate between presidential candidates from opposing parties … no debate had ever been held before September 21—with the exception of this year’s matchup between Biden and Trump in June.

In that debate, President Biden dramatically underperformed expectations… leaving Trump the victor. Baker says this debate was different.

BAKER: If I was forced to declare a winner, I would say that Kamala Harris won because she radically outperformed very low expectations. Donald Trump did not lose but she can make a case for victory.

This might be the one and only time Trump and Harris take the debate stage together. The two campaigns are discussing the possibility of a second debate, but no details have been confirmed.

That’s it for Washington Wednesday. Reporting for WORLD, I’m Leo Briceno.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: World Tour with our reporter in Africa, Onize Oduah.

AUDIO: [Applause]

China-Africa Forum —Today’s roundup takes off in Beijing where more than 50 African leaders welcomed more offers of economic and financial assistance.

The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation happens once every three years. This year, China’s President Xi Jinping pledged to give the leaders more than $50 billion over the next three years.

Xi said the funds would go toward agriculture, infrastructure, trade, and investment.

XI: [Speaking Mandarin]

He says here that modernization is an inalienable right of all countries. But he blamed the Western approach for inflicting suffering on developing nations.

China has positioned itself as a leader of the Global South or developing countries.

Xi proposed elevating diplomatic relations with African countries to a “strategic” level. He also outlined 10 partnership actions with the countries, such as opening more Chinese markets, training for African politicians, and $140 million in military assistance grants.

China is also the lead bilateral lender on the continent, amounting to an $80 billion debt before the new pledges made last week.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed the new support from China. He rejected the notion that China’s assistance seeks to leave countries in a debt crisis.

RAMAPHOSA: I don't subscribe and believe that it's a relationship that is oppressive, that is also neocolonial. It should be seen as a mutually beneficial relationship that is based on recognition, respect, and also of advancing each country's own development. China is much more focused on the development of countries on our continent.

AUDIO: [Sound of authorities leaving]

Philippine cult leader — Over in the Philippines, authorities have ended a 16-day siege outside the compound of a religious sect after the leader surrendered.

Apollo Quiboloy leads the Kingdom of Jesus Christ sect and proclaims himself as the “appointed son of God.” The sect has more than 7 million members globally.

U.S. federal prosecutors indicted Quiboloy three years ago on charges that include child sex trafficking, fraud and coercion, and bulk cash smuggling.

The Philippines’ President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday said authorities have rejected his request for extradition as they focus on similar local charges of child and sexual abuse and human trafficking.

The 74-acre church compound includes a network of underground tunnels and an airplane hangar with a taxiway that connects to the international airport.

Police deployed more than 2,000 officers to detain Quiboloy, but his supporters organized a stand-off. He surrendered after police threatened to raid another building in the complex.

Nicolas Torre is the regional police chief.

TORRE: [Speaking Tagalog]

He says here that police would have arrested Quiboloy whether or not he surrendered.

AUDIO: [Cars honking]

Algeria election — And in Algeria, cars honk in celebration after President Abdelmadjid Tebboune clinched a second-term electoral victory.

Algeria's National Independent Election Authority said Tebboune won nearly 95 percent of the votes.

Despite his victory, Tebboune joined his two main opponents in an unprecedented move to question the electoral process. In a joint statement, they disputed the electoral agency’s report of a 48 percent turnout rate. The opposition also reported proxy voting and pressure on poll workers to inflate some results.

AUDIO: [Flooding]

The poll comes as the typically arid northern Algeria and neighboring Morocco face heavy rainfall and flooding.

AUDIO: [Music]

Paralympics — We wrap up in Paris where rainfall did not stop the closing ceremony of the Paralympics.

Athletes extinguished the Paralympic flame and cauldron and handed over the flag to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. The California city is hosting the next Paralympics in four years.

More than 4,400 athletes joined the ceremony, featuring French classics and electronic music.

Anastasia Skampardoni arrived from Greece to attend the ceremony.

SKAMPARDONI: Amazing. I'm so, so happy. I feel blessed for having the opportunity to come with my friend. I can't wait for the next Olympics and Paralympics.

That’s it for this week’s World Tour. Reporting for WORLD, I’m Onize Oduah in Abuja, Nigeria.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Wednesday, September 11th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day. Good morning. I’m Nick Eicher.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It:

GUMBEL: We understand that a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center. We don’t know anything more than that.

Remembering 9/11. Twenty-three years ago today, nearly 3,000 people died in the worst terrorist attack in our nation’s history.

EICHER: This morning, remembrance ceremonies are taking place in parks and fire stations and city halls across the country.

WORLD reporter Jenny Rough brings us this story.

JOHN BOSSLER: I was in 9/11, in the towers on my way to work when the first one hit.

JENNY ROUGH: John Bossler was underneath Tower One on the morning of September 11th, 2001. He was riding an escalator up from the deep-level subway stop at the World Trade Center.

He lived in New Jersey and commuted on the PATH train to his office in Manhattan.

JOHN BOSSLER: You’re 12 stories below, and you would take the escalators up through all the shops and everything, and then come out of Tower One and go to your office.

On that escalator ride, he felt movement.

JOHN BOSSLER: I knew something was wrong, you know, you could feel what was happening. And then when we got outside there was glass and stuff.

He reached for his phone to call his wife, Susan.

SUSAN BOSSLER: I was home with a 1- and 3-year-old. John called me and said, “I’m safe.” 

On the other side of the country, in Los Angeles, it was only 5:46 a.m. when the first plane hit. Ryan Sawtelle was sound asleep. He got a phone call too—from a friend.

RYAN SAWTELLE: And he said, “We're under attack. Wake up, we're under attack.” And I was like, we're under attack? What are you talking about?

Sawtelle was 18 years old and had just moved to California.

SAWTELLE: I didn’t have a television. I walked down to the All American Burger on Sunset Boulevard, and they had a big box television hanging up in the corner of the burger joint.

Like most people that day, his eyes stayed glued to the T.V.

SAWTELLE: And it was actually pretty incredible to see the individuals of different backgrounds that were coming through the All American Burger at the time, all having that sense of being one. You see a massive attack on your country and then everyone starts to congeal as a team.

It was a formative event in his life. But in the years that followed, Sawtelle felt the county began to lose that sense of patriotism and unity. And he wanted to do something about it. Plant flags for the victims.

SAWTELLE: The more that we become removed from the events of 9/11, the more complacent we become. And I feel like we needed to do something to remind us of how we were all one back after 9/11, but also as a standing place to come and heal and mourn as well as feel pride.

By then, he was a student at Pepperdine University. The campus has a majestic green lawn that overlooks the Pacific Ocean. He typed up a 12-page proposal and sent it to the university president, requesting permission to organize a display: 2,977 American flags planted in the large lawn to commemorate each innocent life lost. An additional 90 international flags to represent the countries whose citizens died in the attacks.

It took him over 18 months, but he raised $40,000 to pull it off.

Then came the physical labor: Sawtelle and a friend placed rebar in the lawn—a metal stand for each flag they planned to raise.

SAWTELLE: I remember probably about six straight weeks of putting in rebar. People were driving by and yelling at me, “Are you putting up sprinklers?”

On September 10th, 2008, the flags went up at sunset. People driving by no longer yelled questions.

AUDIO: [Car honking]

They honked in appreciation. Or pulled over for a closer look.

The university now holds its Waves of Flags display every September. Eight acres of stars and stripes blowing in the wind. Hung Le is the university’s senior vice chancellor and now oversees the display.

HUNG LE: These are full-sized flags, so you’re walking through a forest of flags.

The beauty is stunning. Tho’ walking among them can be overwhelming.

LE: It's not just a flag. This is a life. It represents a human life.

AUDIO [Volunteer handing out flags]

Last Saturday, hundreds of university students volunteered to raise the flags. 

VOLUNTEER: Here, I’ll take these. Thank you!

Few of today’s students remember September 11. Most hadn’t even been born. Like prospective student Tessa Maryott. She and her mom happened to swing by the campus for a college tour last weekend. They learned of the event and decided to help.

TESSA MARYOTT: Honestly, it hurts me to know how many people lost their lives and how many people lost their loved ones, but it also inspires me how many people are still so very eager to remember this day.

Ryan Sawtelle says he had no idea how meaningful the display would become. He’s met people in the field who tell him their story—people who tape funeral cards to the flagpoles.

SAWTELLE: People are still healing. I mean, it's still doing a lot of therapeutic good for a lot of people.

Like John Bossler, the man underneath Tower One that morning. He did finally get off Manhattan—by boat. And on that tragic day, he made it back home and into the arms of his wife. But many of his friends and colleagues did not.

JOHN BOSSLER: The way you would know who didn’t make it was the cars left at the train station.

September 11 changed the Bosslers’ lives.

John stayed in his industry but working in Manhattan proved too difficult. The Bosslers decided to move back to California. They volunteer at Waves of Flags every year.

AUDIO: [Volunteer planting a flag]

And they know of others .. those whose loved ones died on 9/11 … who will soon visit the display.

JOHN BOSSLER: They make a sojourn here with their family every year because they want their kids to know and remember.

Bossler wonders about the cars driving by—

AUDIO: [Cars driving by]

—over 40,000 a day along that stretch of coastline.

JOHN BOSSLER: Some people stop. Some people just go. But you never know what it means to them. We don't know their stories. We don't know how 9/11 impacted them or not, or how they feel about it. But this remembrance allows them to think, and offer a place of solitude. Or to stop and spend time.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Jenny Rough in Southern California.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Wednesday, September 11th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Lindsay Mast.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Up next, holding social media companies accountable for content harmful to children.

Here’s World Opinions Commentator Brad Littlejohn.

BRAD LITTLEJOHN: In American capitalism, we rightly give private businesses extensive leeway to seek profit—but not unlimited leeway. If your company cuts corners on a faulty toaster that sparks a house fire, I can sue you for the defective product. Even First Amendment rights are not unlimited: A newspaper that publishes falsehoods with malicious intent that destroy someone’s reputation can be held liable for libel. Only one industry enjoys immunity from these commonsense curbs on profit—the internet. At least, up until now.

In a potentially landmark recent decision, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling in Anderson v. TikTok. The facts of the case are sickening: A 10-year-old girl, Nylah Anderson, ended up trying something dangerous that the platform recommended that she view. After mimicking what she saw, she was killed. Her distraught mother, Tawainna Anderson, tried to hold TikTok liable, but a U.S. District Court rejected her suit. In so doing, the court followed a quarter-century of precedent that protects online platforms for any content they host—including the worst offenses of libel, violence, and pornography.

The 3rd Circuit panel unanimously rejected the lower court’s ruling. Drawing in part on recent Supreme Court writings from Justice Clarence Thomas, the judges concluded that by recommending certain content to users, platforms were not simply hosting “third-party speech” but engaging in their own speech—just like the editor of an anthology might. Two of the three judges were willing to concede the crucial problem was the platform’s recommendation of those videos to users.

A third judge, Paul B. Matey, wrote a separate opinion saying the court should have gone further. Opening with a rhetorical flourish that included a quotation from St. Augustine’s Confessions, he denounced TikTok’s “casual indifference to the death of a ten-year-old girl.” He then criticized its reading of Section 230 of the 1996 law, the Communications Decency Act, designed to protect children from dangerous content online. From his standpoint, even if Nylah had searched for, not merely stumbled across, the videos in question, the platform should still face liability since it knew that children had died after viewing the content. But it let the videos continue to circulate.

Judge Matey also pointed out that in every other communications medium in American history, legislatures and courts have distinguished between unintentional versus knowing distribution of dangerous or criminal content. Indeed, the supreme irony of Section 230 is that it is one of the only surviving sections of a 1996 law, the Communications Decency Act, designed to protect children from dangerous content online. In a questionable 1997 ruling, the Supreme Court struck down most of the law as potentially too restrictive of adult speech. But it left in place Section 230, designed to encourage platforms to self-police and to take down harmful or obscene content. In his opinion, Judge Matey explained how the clause had subsequently been misread to leave children inundated in a media ecosystem of hard-core pornography and self-harm videos.

Since its advent three decades ago, the internet has offered untold benefits to billions of users, providing access to new sources of knowledge and new forms of productivity. But it has also done untold harm through a lack of common sense regulation, leaving behind a digital Wild West beyond the reach of the law. The 3rd Circuit has served notice that there might be a new sheriff in town, and we can only hope that the Supreme Court follows suit and honors the original intent of Congress for Section 230.

I’m Brad Littlejohn.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: Might a red-flag law have made a difference and stopped a school shooter in Georgia? We’ll have a report. And, Christians in Mexico fight to get their homes back. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast.

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