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• Fuck Your Report, Seattle Is the Best Coffee City in the World

  18-01-2019 23:55 via thestranger.com
  
  Fuck the haters, Seattle's is the best coffee city in the world.by Lester BlackJesse Nelson, the owner of Conduit Coffee in West Lake, pulls a shot on a Mavam espresso machine. Lester Black
  There’s a new report making the rounds on the Internet right now that claims Seattle is not the best city for coffee lovers, instead giving that title to Berkeley, California. The survey, published by Apartment Guide, even puts Vancouver, Washington and San Francisco in front of Seattle, which is ranked
  
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• Some Thoughts on Coming, Catholicism, and Making a Portrait of Trump Out of Dicks

  18-01-2019 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Day: Reader Advice Round-upby Dan Savage
  Recent Savage Love Letters of the Day: An arts patron seeks to donate dildos for Trump massive likeness; this guy isn't who he thought he was and this relationship isn't what she thinks it is; marriage, kids, furry porn, and the price of admission; and her sext-and-Skype boyfriend got busted by his wife and now he doesn't have time for her.First, sometimes my advice sucks...Your advice in the column about the 60-year-old who cant
  
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• Kobach’s defeat puts future of voter database in doubt

  18-01-2019 23:15
  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The future of a much-criticized database that checks if voters are illegally registered in multiple states is up in the air after its patron, Kris Kobach, lost the Kansas race for governor and is out of elected office. A spokeswoman for Kobach’s successor as Kansas secretary of state said Friday the […]
  
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• Statewide bans on plastic bags, straws are on Dems’ green to-do list in Olympia

  18-01-2019 22:36
  With hefty majorities in both chambers of the state Legislature, Democrats say the time is ripe for a shift away from the material that has polluted waters and clogged recycling centers. Opponents question how much good the measures would do.
  
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• We Should Ban Honking During the Seattle Squeeze

  18-01-2019 22:29 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles Mudede zenstock/gettyimages.com
  As clogs around the city become more and more intense during the "Seattle Squeeze," drivers are more and more losing their marbles. One example suffices to make my point: Yesterday at the corner of Denny Way and Westlake Avenue, men and women operating the most irrational mode of urban transportation ever conceived refused to believe they were stuck because others were stuck. What could not enter their minds was the idea that absolutely nothing could be
  
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• Oregon transportation chief resigns after 13 years in role

  18-01-2019 22:26
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Transportation Director Matthew Garrett says he will resign from the Oregon Department of Transportation by the end of June. The agency said Friday that Garrett has been with ODOT 22 years and has been in the top job for 13 years. He is the longest-serving department of transportation director in […]
  
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• Seattle woman faces eviction for failing to pay $2 she owed in rent

  18-01-2019 21:49
  A pending eviction in Seattle over $2 in late rent could result in a 23-year-old woman and her three young children being homeless again.
  
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• Oregon finds discharges of 17 mentally ill patients improper

  18-01-2019 21:41
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Health Authority has overturned a contractor’s decision to force 17 severely mentally ill patients out of state-funded residential facilities. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Friday that OHA had hired the contractor Kepro to review the cases of 1,600 patients in the facilities to determine if they all needed to be in […]
  
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• Facility where comatose woman had baby faces new abuse claim

  18-01-2019 21:32
  PHOENIX (AP) — A long-term care facility where an Arizona woman in a vegetative state was raped and gave birth last month is looking into another abuse allegation. Hacienda HealthCare officials said Friday that a female patient accused a registered nurse and a certified caregiver, both women, of abuse. She says they yelled at her […]
  
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• Facility where comatose woman gave birth faces new complaint

  18-01-2019 21:32
  PHOENIX (AP) — A long-term care facility where an Arizona woman in a vegetative state was raped and gave birth said Friday that it’s investigating another patient’s allegation of physical abuse. Hacienda HealthCare officials said in a news release that the female patient accused a registered nurse and a certified caregiver, both women, of abuse. […]
  
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• Pickathon Starlight Series, Episode 3: Wild Child

  18-01-2019 21:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ned Lannamann Peter LoveraI know it feels like January out there, but trust me, Pickathon season is just about to start heating up. The lineup announcement party takes place this weekend, and here to get you in the mood is the latest video from our Pickathon Starlight Series, in which we spotlight the nocturnal after-hours performances of the Starlight Stage, filmed late at night after the main stages call it a day. Today's episode features Austin, Texas band Wild Child and their sultry rendi
  
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• Scorpio and the Hunter Brings Astrology-Inspired Soul to Barboza Tonight

  18-01-2019 21:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Jasmyne KeimigScorpio and the Hunter Amina Maya Photography
  Seattle-based, QPOC-led, neo-soul band Scorpio and the Hunter are groovy. It’s easy to imagine them killing a gig like Tiny Desk Concert, with frontman Anthony Canape’s voice soaring above all those file cabinets while the band’s solid rhythms keep those vocals from flying too far out of reach. The band uses their music as a means to “explore their identities as queer folk and people of color through allusion
  
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• ‘Add the Words’ legislation introduced by Boise senator

  18-01-2019 21:03
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Legislation has been introduced to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from employment and housing discrimination in Idaho. Democratic Senator Maryanne Jordan of Boise introduced the legislation on Friday. The legislation would add the words “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” to the Idaho Human Rights Act. The law bans discrimination […]
  
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• Ex-Up Records Luminaries Duster Return from Long Hiatus to Space-Rock Again

  18-01-2019 20:40 via thestranger.com
  by Dave SegalView this post on InstagramA post shared by Duster (@thisisduster) on Apr 5, 2018 at 8:36am PDT
  California space-rockers Duster put out two albums via Seattle’s Up Records—Stratosphere (1998) and Contemporary Movement (2000)—and then peaced out for nearly two decades. That was long enough for the trio to accrue that quality for which many bands work so hard: mystique.
  Now they’re back, just as the sterling Chicago label Numero Group is prepping reissues of Du
  
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• ‘A pleasant surprise!’ ‘Smooth sailing.’ Here are readers’ reactions to their post-viaduct commute.

  18-01-2019 20:35
  There were some delays — even a tale of a two-hour ordeal — but many readers say their first workweek of post-viaduct commuting has been unchanged and even improved.
  
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• Oregon lawmakers discuss need to unite a divided state

  18-01-2019 20:27
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Leaders of the Oregon Legislature spoke Friday about the need to bridge divides that exist in the state, days ahead of the start of the 2019 session. Speaking at The Associated Press Legislative Preview, lawmakers described an Oregon that is divided between urban and rural, Democrat and Republican. The November election […]
  
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• Brown says education funding, reform top legislative issue

  18-01-2019 20:27
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Gov. Kate Brown said boosting funding for Oregon’s struggling education system is her number one priority heading into the 2019 Legislature. Brown, speaking at The Associated Press Legislative Preview, said Friday “the time is now for us to make significant investments in our education system.” Brown added a $2 billion education […]
  
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• Rising Post-R&B Star Cautious Clay: Dude Can Play the Flute. He Sings Good, Too.

  18-01-2019 19:55 via thestranger.com
  
  by Leilani Polk Shervin Lainez
  Have we graduated from the PBR&B subgenre, which is a very specific, sort of boring stripped-back style I could never quite get behind? I guess Josh Karpeh, aka Cautious Clay, from Brooklyn, belongs in that class, although his music feels so much more compelling.He draws on hiphop production qualities and experimentation, his sound hinting at elements of gospel, island, pop, and soul. He has a creamy caressing vocal timbre that can hit falsetto notes (so I forg
  
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• Linda Waterfall, beloved and talented Seattle singer-songwriter, dies at 69

  18-01-2019 19:54
  Over a career that spanned five decades, Ms. Waterfall released 13 albums, was in the bands Entropy Service and Skyboys, wrote choral works and taught songwriting at Cornish College of the Arts and the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop.
  
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• 2 found dead in Grants Pass motel may have died of drugs

  18-01-2019 19:51
  GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A man and woman found dead in a Grants Pass motel room may have died of a drug overdose. The Daily Courier said Friday the bodies of the 31-year-old man and the 37-year-old woman were found Wednesday by employees at the Motel 6. Their names have not been released yet. […]
  
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• Man kills polar bear outside animals’ normal habitat

  18-01-2019 19:50
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A man from northeast Alaska said he fatally shot a polar bear that had strayed far south of the animal’s usual habitat. Jim Hollandsworth of Arctic Village said he encountered the bear in early January. He said the bear had tried to get into his cabin about 20 miles from the […]
  
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• Portland man convicted of trafficking girl, 15

  18-01-2019 19:45
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Portland man has been convicted of multiple sex crimes after luring a 15-year-old girl from a bus stop five years ago. Multnomah County District Attorney’s spokesman Brent Weisberg said Friday that 54-year-old Anthony Curry forced the girl to pose for nude photos and dance naked in a strip club alongside […]
  
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• Portland man convicted of trafficking 15-year-old girl

  18-01-2019 19:45
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Portland man has been convicted of multiple sex crimes after luring a 15-year-old girl from a bus stop five years ago. Multnomah County District Attorney’s spokesman Brent Weisberg said Friday that 54-year-old Anthony Curry forced the girl to pose for nude photos and dance naked in a strip club alongside […]
  
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• JBLM Army Ranger dies from combat wounds suffered in Afghanistan

  18-01-2019 19:40
  The decorated soldier, who had been stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, was injured in combat in Afghanistan on Jan. 12 and died five days later.
  
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• Police Say Sammamish Man Killed His Parents After They Told Him to Move Out

  18-01-2019 19:30 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogEvgen_Prozhyrko/Getty ImagesSome people really do not want to leave home. According to the King County Sheriff's Office Major Crimes unit, 34-year-old Matthew Ficken killed his mom and dad last week after they told him he would have to move out of the family house. What's more, the police made sure to point out in their press release, "his mother gave Matthew more than enough money to pay for his first and last month deposit on an apartment and additional expenses."Detectives say
  
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• 3 years later, no one is in jail over Flint tainted water

  18-01-2019 19:22
  DETROIT (AP) — Michigan’s attorney general in 2016 promised to investigate “without fear or favor” the scandal over Flint’s lead-tainted drinking water and pledged that state regulators would be locked up for fudging data and misleading the public. Yet three years later, no one is behind bars. Instead, seven of 15 defendants have pleaded no […]
  
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• Idaho buys timberland for state endowment investment

  18-01-2019 19:18
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Department of Lands says the state has purchased roughly 50 square miles (80 square kilometers) of timberland in northern Idaho. The Idaho Press reports the state paid more than $42 million for the land, using endowment money earned by the auction of formerly state-owned lake cabin sites and some […]
  
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• Idaho environmental official seeks money for mine pollution

  18-01-2019 18:23
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s top environmental official says his agency needs money for continued cleanup efforts of toxic discharge from an abandoned silver and lead mine in central Idaho near one of the world’s top ski destinations. Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Director John Tippets on Friday also told the Legislature’s budget-setting Joint Finance-Appropriations […]
  
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• The Seattle Symphony Is Now Offering Free Tickets for Furloughed Federal Employees

  18-01-2019 18:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Furloughed? Then pick up four complimentary tickets for Seattle Symphony performances for the remainder of the 2018–2019 season.by Rich SmithThe symphony is good.Brandon PatocAre you one of the 11,000 federal employees in Washington state who isn't getting a paycheck because Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans are cowards? Well then, if you haven't already, you should apply for the state's unemployment program. Looks like it's going to be a minute. But while you're waiting (or worki
  
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• Lawsuits ramp up pressure on family that owns opioid company

  18-01-2019 18:08
  The legal pressure on the prominent family behind the company that makes OxyContin, the prescription painkiller that helped fuel the nation’s opioid epidemic, is likely to get more intense. The Sackler family came under heavy scrutiny this week when a legal filing in a Massachusetts case gave detailed allegations that they and company executives sought […]
  
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• Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The No Wave Savagery of "anata watashi daita ato yome no meshi" by Japanese Madwomen Otoboke Beaver

  18-01-2019 17:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Otoboke Beaver's "anata watashi daita ato yome no meshi" is a punk/No Wave blast of fresh air you have to hear to believe.by Dave SegalOtoboke Beaver will melt your banana, punk. Damnably Records
  Otoboke Beaver, "anata watashi daita ato yome no meshi" (Damnably)Westerners are used to Japanese women musicians creating cutie-pie songs that are the aural equivalent of Hello Kitty graphics, with a bit of Ramones worship thrown in for spice. Exceptions exist, of course, such as Melt-Banana, Yoshimi o
  
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• Idaho’s high school graduation rate reaches new high

  18-01-2019 17:41
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Department of Education says the state’s high school graduation rate has reached an all-time high of just over 80 percent. Superintendent of Public Education Sherri Ybarra says the state’s graduation rate has been steadily improving and the pace of that improvement is accelerating. She says she expects improvement to […]
  
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• Weekend winter storm to sweep across Midwest into Northeast

  18-01-2019 17:18
  CHICAGO (AP) — A strong winter storm system is forecast to sweep across the Midwest into New England, bringing double-digit snow accumulations and high winds. The National Weather Service on Friday had winter storm warnings and watches in effect from the Dakotas, across the Great Lakes states and into New England. Forecasters say the storm […]
  
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• Slog AM: An I-5 Car Fire, Trump Had Michael Cohen Lie to Congress, Volunteer to Get Drunk With Cops

  18-01-2019 16:46 via thestranger.com
  
  by Timothy KenneyThat car on I-5 or Trump's presidency going up in flames? You decide. Eduard Muzhevskyi/Getty Images
  I'm back everyone! Shoutout to Nathalie for taking over Slog AM yesterday as the rightful ruler of the morning news. I'm in Wyoming right now where cats apparently have the bubonic plague so who knows if I'll make it back. But here's the news.
  Car fire makes squeeze even worse: In case your morning commute wasn’t bad enough, a car burst into flames along I-5 around 5am this
  
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• Police: Man breaks into Taco Bell near Portland, stabs employee

  18-01-2019 16:46
  HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) — Employees at a Taco Bell in Hillsboro, Oregon, barricaded themselves in the back room and called 911 after an armed man forced his way into the eatery after it had closed for the night. KOIN reports that police were called to the restaurant around 2:40 a.m. Friday after the man barged […]
  
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• Outrageous! Seattle not the best coffee city in the country, says new survey

  18-01-2019 16:03
  Say it isn’t so. A new survey claims that the Emerald City no longer wears the crown when it comes to all things coffee, and some local espresso enthusiasts are biting back. The Apartment Guide survey on the “best cities for coffee lovers” looked at cities with populations of more than 100,000 and added up […]
  
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• Outrageous! Seattle isn’t the best coffee city in the country, says new survey

  18-01-2019 16:03
  Seattle didn't top a recently released list of "the best cities for coffee lovers." But local java experts weren't fazed.
  
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• In Seattle’s Sodo district, frustration mounts amid RVs, drugs and skyrocketing crime

  18-01-2019 15:02
  In Sodo and Georgetown — known collectively as The Flatlands — crime is up 31 percent, driven largely by an increase in property crime. Police and business owners blame the rise on chronic drug users living in RVs who have moved into the industrial area.
  
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• ‘We have your DNA’: Seattle police create video to get killer to come forward

  18-01-2019 15:00
  Jonathan Pecina, 22, was fatally stabbed in the neck on June 14 in West Seattle. His unknown killer left his DNA at the crime scene but it doesn't match any DNA profiles in law enforcement databases. In an effort to shake loose some leads, the Seattle Police Department produced a video about the unsolved homicide using crime scene photos and video-surveillance footage.
  
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• PG&E bankruptcy could undermine utilities’ efforts against climate change

  18-01-2019 15:00
  Solar and wind developers depend on creditworthy utilities to buy electricity from their projects under long-term contracts, but that calculus changes in a world where a 30-year purchase agreement doesn’t guarantee 30 years of payments.
  
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• New Yorker article about marijuana strikes nerve with pot researchers

  18-01-2019 15:00
  In the article, Malcolm Gladwell drew connections between Washington's legal marijuana and rates of violent crime in the state. Gladwell was also criticized for implying pot use could cause schizophrenia, a conclusion counter to the research he cited.
  
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• King County property tax bills are coming, and the housing market slowdown won’t lower your bill

  18-01-2019 15:00
  The single biggest reason your property taxes go up is because of voters and politicians raising rates — not because home values have skyrocketed in recent years.
  
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• Issaquah School District employees authorize strike, claiming contract wasn’t honored

  18-01-2019 15:00
  Two unions argue the district did not provide cost-of-living raises they say were promised to them in their four-year contracts.
  
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• Amid national and local splits, Seattle Womxn’s March organizers promise diverse programming

  18-01-2019 15:00
  There will be two women's marches in Seattle this year, as controversy at the national level has led to divisions within the movement.
  
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• Police: 150 pounds of pot found in bags at Tennessee airport

  18-01-2019 13:34
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee say two men were caught at the Nashville International Airport with more than 150 pounds of marijuana in their suitcases. News outlets report 40-year-old Trung Tiey, of Philadelphia, and 56-year-old Tihn Tran, of Murphy, Texas, were arrested Tuesday on felony drug charges. The Metro Nashville Police Department says […]
  
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• Woman killed in Bend was on date with man suspected of manslaughter

  18-01-2019 13:05
  BEND, Ore. (AP) — Deschutes County officials say a woman killed by gunfire Saturday in a Bend apartment and the man arrested in connection with her death were on a first date when she was killed. The Bulletin reports 36-year-old Alan Porciello remains in jail, indicted on charges manslaughter and unlawful use of a weapon […]
  
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• UN health agency: Rising misconduct reports are ‘positive’

  18-01-2019 12:37
  GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization says it is seeing increasing reports of misconduct reported by staffers within the U.N. health agency, describing the trend as “a positive thing.” WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said Friday the agency has been investigating misbehavior for “years and decades,” following the publication of an Associated Press story Thursday […]
  
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• Swiss, German students protest inaction on climate change

  18-01-2019 11:18
  BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of students held rallies Friday across Germany and Switzerland to protest the lack of action against climate change. The demonstrations in dozens of cities were inspired by student Greta Thunberg , who has been staging a weekly “school strike” in Sweden. Many used the Twitter hashtag #FridaysForFuture to give their offline […]
  
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• Students in Germany, Switzerland protest climate change

  18-01-2019 11:18
  BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of students are holding rallies across Germany and Switzerland to protest lack of action against climate change. The demonstrations taking place in dozens of cities Friday were inspired by a Swedish student’s weekly “school strike.” In Berlin, protesters focused on an upcoming political decision on when to end the use of […]
  
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• German brewers to print calorie content on beer bottles

  18-01-2019 10:11
  BERLIN (AP) — Two German brewers associations are recommending that their members start printing the number of calories contained in their beers and shandies on the label. The German Brewers Association and the Association of Private Breweries in Germany said Friday it hopes other industries, such as vintners and distillers, will follow suit. The voluntary […]
  
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