Violence as Thousands of UK Students Protest Tuition Fees
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LONDON (AP) — Tens of thousands of students marched noisily through London on Wednesday to oppose plans to triple university tuition fees, in the largest street protest yet against the government’s sweeping austerity measures.
Organizers said 50,000 students, lecturers and supporters were demonstrating against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to 9,000 pounds ($14,000) a year — three times the current rate.
“I am here because it is important that students stand up and shout about what is going on,” said Anna Tennant-Siren, a student at the University of Ulster in Coleraine. “Politicians don’t seem to care. They should be taking money from people who earn seven-figure salaries, not from students who don’t have any money.”
Violence flared briefly during the overwhelmingly peaceful protest as a handful of people smashed windows in a high-rise building that houses the headquarters of the governing Conservative Party.
Frances O’Grady, of the Trades Union Congress, said the hike would make colleges “no-go zones for young people from ordinary backgrounds.”
Britain’s Liberal Democrats, who are part of the coalition government, pledged during the country’s election campaign to abolish fees.
Protest leaders said they would attempt to use recall powers to oust lawmakers who break campaign promises on the issue.
The National Union of Students said it would try to recall legislators from the party who vote in favor on the hike.
“We will not tolerate the previous generation passing on its debts to the next, nor will we pick up the bill to access a college and university education that was funded for them,” said union president Aaron Porter.
Opponents of the tuition hike have pointed out that Prime Minister David Cameron and other members of the government attended elite universities like Oxford and Cambridge at a time when university education was free.
The previous Labour government of Prime Minister Tony Blair introduced the first fees for students soon after it was elected in 1997. Scotland abolished tuition fees in 2000, and in the rest of Britain the cost is capped at about 3,000 pounds ($4,800) a year.
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Comments (157)
stinkybisquit
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:27pmAll that’s missing from the videos is the monolith.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZieSsxPkMwk&feature=related
In God We Trust
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:24pmI don’t see a wound so, is that splash of red on the students face suppose to be blood or war paint?
just askin’…..
Report Post »Red Bubba
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:22pmVeteran’s benfits, ROTC, part-time work.
Report Post »Ya, try smashing windows first.
alienguns
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:21pmleeches, parasites, mouches…what ever happened to paying for your own stuff…why does the left think other people should pay for their stuff……….coming soon to a neighborhood near you……….
Report Post »myptofvu
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:21pmIsn’t 3 times their current rate…half of our (US) current rate?
Report Post »DSTSS2010
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 5:04pmThat was my first thought. Waaa waaa waaa! It’s not free! Let’s riot! Blame those evil Capitalists!!!!
Report Post »stinkybisquit
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:20pmYes, education expenses are getting ridiculous, and it’s not because the education is expensive.
“They should be taking money from people who earn seven-figure salaries.” Remember, kiddo: someday you may be the one making the 7 figures, and some little conceited arrogant self-centered brat is going to want to legally steal what you made.
Report Post »Rob
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:06pmParasites.
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:04pmOn the one hand, as ghostie says, a three fold increase all at once is a helluva lot. So yeah, I can see why they have a gripe. On the other hand — rioting in the streets doesn’t help, kiddies, and only shows why you don’t deserve a helping hand. Finally — There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch, as one of my favorite writers was fond of saying. If this is what the fee is being raised -to- , what is the actual cost? Even more? And how much has been pi$$ed away down the rabbit hole already on free university education?
Here we see the final result of the pyramid scheme that socialism is — tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich — then one day you wake up and there’s no-one left to tax. Uh-oh.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:26pmRight, precisely. If you (or your family) socks away X amount of pounds sterling as you were growing up, figuring on a nominal tuition cost, you consider yourself set. You get in college and suddenly going to school next year is going to wipe out all of your savings, poof gone, and you’re going to a bit upset.
If only the small, so small, libertarian population over there can help them understand who the real enemy here is (it’s not the Torries in this case) and redirect their anger. Doubt it will happen though.
Report Post »Richardthefirst
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:03pmWaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
Report Post »LLATPOH
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:03pm“They should be taking money from people who earn seven-figure salaries, not from students who don’t have any money.”
They already take money from seven-figure earners. That, and most seven-figure earners actually – ahem – CONTRIBUTE to society with some sort of value!
The only thing many college kids contribute to is the local bar and the condom dispensers.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:13pm@LLATPOH
Quite so. Unfortunately they don’t posess the ability to critically analyze this any longer. It’s such a shame, they should be venting their anger on the progressives who promised them Utopia on earth, the same progressives who KNEW that their promises were hollow, and who KNEW that their promises would bring down society (which is the goal of course). They should be mad as hell at the “Labor” folks for not living up to their promises, but they’re mad instead at the very people trying to SAVE THEIR BACON, and they don‘t even realize that they’re mad at their saviors. They don’t know, all they’ve been taught is progressivism, they literally have no framework to conceive of a different course.
There are small handfuls of libertarians over there, classical liberalism was birthed in Europe after all, especially Britain. Their grandfathers and great grandfathers who fought in WW1 and WW2 with us were every bit the liberty lovers as we are here, by and large.
The freedom loving type is endangered over there now though. Their numbers are few, and they don’t have a voice in the national debate over there. Here‘s hoping the Torries don’t capitulate, which they probably will.
Report Post »alienguns
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:34pmwith their PARENTS money at that…lol
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:03pmLike a spoiled child….Veruca Salt come to mind? Give them more and they expect more, even when they deserve NOTHING! Like Veruca having a hissy fit the one time out of a thousand when something does not go the way their warped mind expected it to.
Life is so unfair… I want a “Golden Goose NOW”!
Report Post »trukmek
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:00pmUntameable Kate: they see what is happening over there and want it to happen here. We are the only thing stopping them, so far.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:34pmStand fast.
Report Post »Star Spangled
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:59pmWe all know the only way to fix our economy is to cut budgets and cut out some things altogether , when that happens we’ll see this in our streets too . It’ll be the unions , the illegals , people who will lose entitlements and have to support themselves .
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:59pmComing to a country near you….
Report Post »Ellie
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:58pmBe it a car or a college education people do not value something unless they have had to sacrifice something else in order to obtain it.
Free education programs don’t produce a large number of successful careers they only produce a large number of well educated failures.
click on my name for some cool new anti-progressivism designs.
Report Post »kmbr
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:57pmWhat’s it even matter you brain dead useful idiots? Why bother going to university to pay nearly all if it to the state in taxes? Skip college and get on the dole. It’s the UK way.
Report Post »trukmek
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:57pmSee what communism brings? This is what happens when you have a right to everything.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:21pmI just want the right to keep what I earn for my own family and to be left alone by big brother so I can live my life in peace
Report Post »Lion420
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:57pmThis is comical! They are all for ANY taxation…provided it’s not aimed at them.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:54pmHow DARE the British try to get its economy back on track. Poor babies might have to work thier way through college. I can‘t believe the WH doesn’t see what is happening abroad and realize the policies they are making take us down this same road.
Report Post »Lion420
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:59pmGuess what…The White House….WANTS THIS!
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:53pmNice work George, I’ll bet your feeling all warm and fuzzy inside. Enjoy it for now, we see you…….
Report Post »subflavus
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:53pmTime to create the “Tuition Is Too Damn High” party!
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:56pmi don‘t know if there’s another black version of Col. Sanders out there to start the new party
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:52pmSad but this is just a preview of what’s coming to America.
Report Post »ovrwlmd
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:31pmStruggle. To obtain something of value, there is usually some, if not lots of struggle to achieve it. Realistically speaking, we are not going to get back to the type of country we want without a major stuggle. Being a part of the working middle-class, I realize there might be time where it will be difficult to meet my family’s, even my own basic needs. But I see the value. I get the struggle. I hope to relish it — if the struggle means getting us back as a strong nation — and not towards a socialized world.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:52pmwhat can you expect from a failing nation who is rolling over for muslim sharia law and was ruined by soros.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:04pmCan‘t say I’ve experienced the U.K. being “rolled over” for Sharia law. France perhaps, but they’re starting to fight back. Last time I was in London (last year) it had small segments of middle eastern sections, while the vast majority of the rest of the city was the common lily white ango-saxon type. Getting out of London and it was even less ME, in fact I don’t think I saw anything but typical anglo-saxons outside of London. Walking through the ME parts of the city was no big deal. The streets and shops there were clean, there was no demand that my wife “cover up” and all that rot.
I suspect that the reports of the Islamization of Britain are a bit overinflated.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 4:34pm@Ghost of England: did you go to Birmingham or Liverpool? One of the suburbs of B’ham just elected a new mayor of Pakistani origin who ran on the campaign pledge of making Sharia law the justice system in the city. They have also been a couple of cases recently also where the High Court has decided that a case who be better adjucated in a Sharia court. Take the case also of Oklahoma where once again we the people spoke, but they the judges ruled that the people’s wishes re Sharia law are unconstitutional when they ruled in favor of the lawsuit brought by CAIR. Nudge, nudge, no one will notice, nudge some more, and you are in.
Report Post »Regarding the students in England. First, I would want to know who organized this well-orchestrated protest and who paid for all those poor students to travel to the protest. Second, why in all these types of demonstrations do they feel the need to burn and destroy? Do they ever stop to think that some of the businesses they burn or loot might go out of business causing people to lose their jobs? Do they realize that they might as well just burn their money? Third, the education system in UK has for many years been indoctrinating the students that environment is god and that education is a human right, not a privilege. This same sort of indoctrination is slowly, but surely creeping into our own education system. Think Al Gore‘s speech to middle school students telling them that there are things that they know that their parents don’t or the new car commercial where the obvious child is upset because their car is not “cool” enough. They already succeeded in getting our children to accept wearing only clothes or shoes with logos on them. It is time to wake up and push back.
DimmuBorgir
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:52pmTHEBLAZE… Have I mentioned how much I can’t stand “college kids”
liberal f-tards
Report Post »plunderpower
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:08pmMakes all those Liberal Basketweaving courses a little high doesn’t it? Just get rid of the tenured worthless and eliminate the indoctrination courses and the tuition should come down quickly enough.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:33pm@DimmuBorgir
I have to tell you this, at one time I was one of them “College Kids” you detest so much. My degree was for engineering before going unto my calling into the priesthood. I paid my own way through the school even after winning a grant to cover parts of the fees. And I especially cannot stand having to deal with progressives, yuppies, preppies, and holier than thou professors I can outsmart and out talk as well.
Just do not dump all of us into the “College Kids” zone. Not all of us are dingbats like the main hard core pro rabble rousers – who should be thrown to a pack of rabid wolverines .
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:39pmI would suspect that this is a paid riot mob. They are there to do a job probably paid for by George Soros. Most of these mobs are just that.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:49pm@ SNOW
I’m not lumping you in that group. The only way I could think to put it was in quotes ; “college kids”
the liberal children who have no problem spending all that money and at the same time curse the free market system that their parents used to get that money. Then they turn around and ask for more more more when they’re on their own
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 3:11pmApologies, I misunderstood the context. Thanks for clarifying this.
Report Post »kickedoutofengland
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 3:46pmNot all college students are “liberal f-tards”. take Engineering majors or ROTC for instance.
Report Post »jcons114
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 4:49pmExcuse me…but I did Philosophy for my undergrad and Politics for my MA. I would never agree with these idiots. I have to pay over 60k in loans now…and I just started to work a minimum wage job! People do have a right to a good education in my opinion…but we must realize that it takes a lot of money and time to get it… I’m proud of my degrees. I worked hard and many hours studying. Did my partying too but still managed to graduate *** laude from a great Catholic University (St. John’s in NY). Maybe a Catholic Education makes all the difference?
Report Post »SND97
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:50pmWhat a bunch of spoiled brats!!!
Thats a liberal for ya
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:54pmGreece, France now England….here it comes folks! One step closer. The anarchists are having meetings as we post!
Report Post »Fletch
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:55pmbut it also shows just how OVER priced education is here in the USA
Report Post »Fletch
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:56pmcoming to a city near you … soon
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 1:56pmYou know, on the one hand I think that they‘re a bunch of people who think they’re entitled to everything. That much is quite clear. On the other hand, it would probably tick me off a bit if one year I was paying X number of dollars to attend school (and my parents are being taxed to the eyeballs and barely able to afford X dollars), and the next year I‘m told I’ll be paying X*3 dollars.
It’s easy to call these kids hippies, and in a sense yeah, totally socialist kids. But they really don’t know better, it‘s all they’ve ever experienced in their short lives. I strongly doubt that, due to the onerous taxation in Britain, that 80% of them will be able to afford (with or without their parents) X*3 Sterling next year. So in a sense, I see why they’re upset.
That said, they’re bankrupt just like us. They can no longer afford to be cared for cradle to grave. Not to worry, this is a temper tantrum. These are the descendents of the once mighty Anglo Saxons, they‘ll adapt I’m certain.
It’s never easy to be unplugged from the Matrix, after all, they usually don’t unplug them at so late an age. :)
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:04pm“I am here because it is important that students stand up and shout about what is going on,” said Anna Tennant-Siren, a student at the University of Ulster in Coleraine. “Politicians don’t seem to care. They should be taking money from people who earn seven-figure salaries, not from students who don’t have any money.”
Ms. Tennant-Siren, I worked 30 hours a week to put myself thru college. I had to take 3/4 of a class load and it took longer but I was able to do it. This, at a private University, 20 years ago whose yearly price tag at the time was about $15,000.00. Are you the child of these “people” who earn seven-figures? NO!? Then why should they have to put YOU thru school?!?!
“Frances O’Grady, of the Trades Union Congress, said the hike would make colleges “no-go zones for young people from ordinary backgrounds.”
Mr./Ms. O’Grady…See my comment above.
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:06pmTake a look good people of the USA!!! Hasn‘t Obama said he wants to make it so students don’t have to pay for their college education? WELL, HERE IS YOUR FUTURE!!!!!
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:08pm@ GHOST
but really ghost, $14,000?? riots over $14,000.
And I really think they would have rioted over a $5 increase
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:18pm@DimmuBorgir
Yeah, at $14,000. The cost of living is insane over there, they are taxed at rates that would make you want to pick up a rifle and go into politics, if you get my meaning. They simply do not have, as a whole, the means that we do over here at the same “class” levels. In other words, a middle class person in these united States has a large surplus of money normally that he spends on luxuries or fun or saves in the bank. Not so much in Britain. Their taxation, yikes, horror story.
These kids aren’t French, they normally don‘t riot for fun because they’re bored. I can‘t recall the last time I’ve heard of British students rioting en masse (though I’m sure they must have at some point).
Please don’t misunderstand, I’m not excusing them per se. I‘m just wondering if they simply don’t have the intellectual tools to understand what they’re protesting? They‘ve been taught nothing but fabian socialism over there since the late 1940’s. They have rage, but it is misdirected in my view. They should be burning down the homes of the smug little progressive professors who taught them and their parents that you can get something for nothing. Just my view of course.
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:22pmExaclty DimmuBorgir! Look in the crowd! Who is doing the dammage? Hooded individuals! These are the anarchists who have plotted this and just waited for a reason to incite rioting. Will the damage they are creating help to reduce costs? NO!
Report Post »Rogue
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:27pmHey Brit college kids – those classes on Fabian Socialism didn’t tell you what happens when the government runs out of money, did they? Ooops. And here you thought everything should be free. Capitalism and Socialism are like oil and water, kids. You either pay the actual cost of school under a capitalist style system, and gain a competitve advantage in the market by having an education, or you enact your socialist utopia, where everyone gets a diluted degree and you are still stuck with the thousands of people looking for the same work with the same worthless piece of paper. Oh don’t worry – when you can’t find work, the UK Govt will be there to support you… oh wait, what was that pesky little detail about money again?
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:29pmIndeed it is coming to America soon; get the people hooked on so many programs for so long and when the real world comes crashing into your cozy little set of life – suprise. People hate to have any changes come into their worlds. They often fail to realise or prepare that life is built about change, and nothing we do can avoid this one dynamic from happening.
What we can do is try to anticipate parts of it coming, adapt to it, and find the best or make the best of the new relaities rippling outward from the events occuring.
Our own government is now in position to tell people who will go to shcool, who will do what, and who will get paid what (by determining what education they will or will not get.)
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Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:39pmThese fools have placed the Gov’t in the position that they can never compromise. If they do then every time the idiots don’t like something they will riot. You never reward bad behavior as it only ecourages even more bad behavior.
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 2:48pmFunny (as in strange) how the students don’t have money to pay for tuition but you look at the different footage available on the internet and someone had a good about of cash available to pay for some really nice, professionally printed signs, banners, etc. Wierd isn’t it?!
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 3:04pmOh! and the pretty pink signs so many are holding…They are from the UCU! What is the UCU you ask? The Union of College and Universtiy workers. You know, the ones whose wages will have to now be held in check. But they are peacefull too! Right Ed?-…..Ed?….Keith?…..Mike?…any mouth from the left wish to comment?
Report Post »slickmeister
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 3:11pmHmmm….
Drones aren’t too happy when you take away their bennies are they? I wonder what would happen if the taxpayers who actually pay their bills acted like this?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 3:27pmAn education costs money … what a concept! Looks like they are getting schooled.
Report Post »bobby535
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 3:38pmAnyone notice all the hamas bandannas (that’s what I call them anyways)??
Report Post »ConsChristian
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 4:09pmStudents are getting stupider every day. Degrees are barely worth the paper they’re printed on. This and everything else is getting worse with Obama at the helm.
Report Post »Robert W
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 4:19pmBuckle up people, 2011s gonna be nuts.
Report Post »Robert W
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 4:19pmOnly God can save us.
Report Post »sawman
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 4:28pmLibs, Socialists,….whatever they want to call themselves. This is the government their society wanted. One day, they woke up to find out that all the money was gone. Now, if they want something they have to pay for “all” of it themselves. Cry Baby, Cry Baby. When the udder is dry, the teat produces nothing. Suck on a turnip or something else.
Report Post »Coming soon to a theatre near you.
poverty.sucks
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 4:57pmToday‘s action by the immature tarts explains why it’s so expensive to try to educate them.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 5:56pmBig Educaion is out of control. I believe it is a rip off to go 60k into debt and only know how to riot at the end of your stint at the indoctrination station. These students are so smart about finances and economics.. Oh, are they still students because they have a head full of mush? Tell them if they don’t like a product or service to walk on by and do not patronize the intity. Shoot they don’t teach capitalism anymore. No wonder the students don’t understand how their seven figure fathers voted this sort of mess for them. At least they will get extra gym credit for rioting.
Report Post »Major Infidel
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 7:02pmMaybe your incompetant parents should have planned a little better for your education you spoiled little brats.
I don‘t own a BMW because I can’t afford one. The same reason I had no children. I knew I couldn’t afford them.
We need to put birth control in the worlds water supply for a decade or so. Too many stupid people breeding carelessly.
Funny, look how much effort it takes to adopt a child, how you have to meet strict criteria just to have a chance at getting a child (in which we have a grand abundance). Yet any two retards can breed at will. It’s astonishing. Nothing seems rational in our society anymore, nothing makes sense.
Report Post »psst
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 8:53pm@ Fletch.
Report Post »It’s overpriced here because “Everyone” can now go to college, even the most ignorantly stoooopid imbicile student.
Why?, the government says it’s their right and force taxpayers to give student loans (most never gets repaid) and grants.See, the ignoramouses think‘s it’s government $$ and not the taxpayers.
Um, the government tells them it‘s the government’s $$. I guess it is.If a thief grabs your wallet and take all the $$ that’s in it. What da hey!! it‘s now the thief’s money.
The colleges don’t mind, they have dumbded down entrance exams and curriculums to get as many government paid students as they can get.The more the merrier.
Soo, they keep on raising tuitions, after-all, it’s only government money.
The Chancellors can then live in even more opulence. The profs can then devote even more time to writing manuals that no one reads,( It’s all about how many books they publish, never mind that no one reads them) The classes are now being taught by even dumber advanced (?) student teachers.
Go to government funded(aka taxpayers paid) college, do your 4 years and get a job at MickeyD’s or Burger King.
Many corporations won‘t hire them because they not only can’t read,they can’t even add 2+2.
But what da hey!! They are college grads.It’s the American dream, like buying a home you can’t afford.
Anarcho Capitalist
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 9:16pmMy God! They have to pay for stuff? Those poor bastards.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 3:10amTo me, it just proves that these idiots DO NOT DESERVE AN EDUCATION. They deserve to go to jail.
Report Post »catllers
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 3:41amtop down, bottom up, inside out. These students need an education go back to pre K and learn respect, honor, charity.
Report Post »Freedomisslavery
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 6:58amOnce on the gub‘ment teet you just don’t wanna be weened.(Sucking sounds…)
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on November 11, 2010 at 3:23pmI feel a little bad for them. They probably didn’t know what was coming. Many of us (before we started looking into it) really didn‘t realize how the government really can’t afford what is going on. Although I am currently in the lower half of the economic spectrum, I am doing my best (by working hard) to make a decent living. I’ll be more prepared when the tax benefits of being poor go away than someone who is not awake.
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