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Bloomberg Seeks to Pay Felons’ Outstanding Fines So They Can Vote. DeSantis Wants Him Investigated.

September 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 47 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing Attorney General Ashley Moody to investigate Michael Bloomberg's plan to contribute money toward the outstanding fines of felons so they can have their voting rights restored. (NSF)

Attorney General Moody at the request of DeSantis asked the FBI and FDLE to investigate Bloomberg raising at least $16 million for the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, contending it could be a violation of state laws against offering incentives to people or groups in exchange for voting in a particular manner.

The Gardens Development Again Rebuffed as Commission Seeks More Answers and Residents’ Buy-In

September 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

John Tanner, arguing the case against approval of The Gardens' development application at a long County Commission hearing Monday evening. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

The Flagler County Commission on Monday opted unanimously to table The Gardens’ application for a 335-home development on John Anderson Highway, the latest in a series of obstacles the development has faced since reviving a plan first devised by developer Bobby Ginn a decade and a half ago.

Corinne Hermle, Flagler County Commission Candidate: The Live Interview

September 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Corinne Hermle. (© FlaglerLive)

Corinne Hermle is the Democratic Candidate for the Distritct 1 County Commission seat, facing Republican Andy Dance in the Nov. 3 election. All registered Flagler County voters may cast a ballot in the race regardless of address or party affiliation.

Flagler Sheriff’s New Real-Time Crime Center Merges Tactics, Technology and Powerful Surveillance Tools

September 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Sheriff Rick Staly and Chief Paul Bovino explaining the Real-Time Crime Center, operating since spring, and shown to reporters today. (© FlaglerLive)

The age of command, control, surveillance and crime-fighting in real time is here, and its nerve center at the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, operational since spring, is the Real-Time Crime Center. The sheriff opened it to reporters on Wednesday.

DeSantis Election-Keyed Proposal to Criminalize Certain Acts at Protests Sparks Partisan Furor

September 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The line between legal and illegal protest has been blurry for years. (Erwin)

The proposal comes as Republicans double down on efforts to deliver a second presidential victory to Trump in Florida, a battleground state with 29 prized electoral votes, on Nov. 3.

Covid ‘Superspreader’ Night and Other Events at Social Club of Palm Coast Cause at Least 2 Deaths and Up to 50 Infections

September 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 64 Comments

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An August 28 singing night at the Social Club of Palm Coast on Old Kings Road, where people sang and socialized, many without masks or social distancing, triggered a rare covid-19 superspreader event whose toll in infections and deaths the Flagler Health Department is still tallying.

Andy Dance, Flagler County Commission Candidate: The Live Interview

September 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Andy Dance. (© FlaglerLive)

Andy Dance is the Republican candidate for Flagler County Commission, District 1, facing Democrat Corinne Hermle, for the seat previously held by Charlie Ericksen. All registered Flagler County voters may cast a ballot in the race regardless of address or party affiliation.

Commissioners O’Brien and Sullivan Block Motion to Censure Joe Mullins Even as They Call Behavior ‘Unacceptable’

September 22, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 55 Comments

Commissioners Don O'Brien and Dave Sullivan flanked Joe Mullins Monday night. (© FlaglerLive)

Don O’Brien and Dave Sullivan refused to censure Joe Mullins for insulting fellow-commissioners, saying it would be bad for Flagler’s reputation. Sullivan didn’t want to be the first chairman on whose watch a censure vote passed.

DeSantis Calls for Criminalizing Numerous Acts By Protesters While Protecting Those Who Hurt Them

September 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

A peaceful protest in Flagler Beach in June, one of innumerable protests like it across the state and the country, in June. (© FlaglerLive)

DeSantis, a staunch supporter of Trump, calls for new felony crimes when property is damaged or when people are injured as a result of protests while drivers would not be liable for injuries or deaths “caused if fleeing for safety from a mob.”

Flagler Beach Commission Makes It Explicit: The City Will Provide Water and Sewer to The Gardens Development

September 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Flagler Beach City Commissioner Ken Bryan, setting up the discussion of The Gardens development at the commission's last meeting earlier this month. Mayor Linda Provencher is to the right. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

Flagler Beach can and will provide water and sewer to The Gardens, one of the more controversial proposed developments on any local government’s agenda. Monday evening, the County Commission was set to hear The Gardens’ development applications in one of the last hurdles before it can start building.

Once Short-Listed for Manager, Palm Coast’s Don Kewley Resigns Ahead of Firing in City’s Latest Shake-Up

September 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

The relationship never quite gelled: Don Kewley, left, and Matt Morton. (© FlaglerLive)

Don Kewley, who’d been short-listed for Palm Coast City Manager then hired as its innovations chief, resigned before getting fired by Matt Morton, who’d hired him. Morton says he is closing down the division Kewley was overseeing and turning it over to IT for management.

No, Republicans Aren’t Hypocrites: RBG’s Death and The Wages of Power

September 20, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

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Charges of hypocrisy are insufficient to change the course of the RBG’s replacement or, in fact, in other Republican attempt to race-bait, disenfranchise voters, or increase the wealth of the affluent.

With No Mention of Hansen or Ericksen, ‘Vague’ Joe Mullins Apology Contradicts Continuing Insults Online

September 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 37 Comments

Joe Mullins, standing, right, conferring with Assistant County Attorney Sean Moylan at a meeting in June. County Administrator Jerry Cameron is to the left. Mari Davis, his assistant, is in the center. (© FlaglerLive)

Joe Mullins’s brief apology today was more focused on back-patting and dissembling his role while never taking responsibility for the abuse he’s continued to heap on Commissioners Hansen and Ericksen. The email doesn’t materially change anything, Commission Chairman Dave Sullivan said, with a discussion about Mullins set for next Monday’s meeting.

Unemployment Falls to 6.7% in Flagler and 7.4% in Florida; Government Jobs Account for a Fifth of Gain

September 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The number of people with jobs in Flagler increased to 43,000, up 2,200 from the previous month, but still more than 4,000 workers short of where the labor force stood a year ago, suggesting that thousands remain on the sidelines.

Jobless Claims Are Down Across Florida, But Companies Are Imposing Large-Scale Layoffs

September 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

It's been slow. (Alpha)

Florida is expected to end its participation in the federal Lost Wages Assistance program, which provides $300-a-week in benefits on top of state benefits. Nothing else has been lined up to replace it.

From Antagonism to Annexation: How Airport Commons Shopping Center Came to Love Palm Coast

September 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Airport Commons under construction this week. It sits at the edge of the county airport's property, opposite Wawa, along State Road 100. Its first businesses are set to open at the end of September or early October. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast City Council this week annexed the 4-acre shopping center known as Airport Commons, opposite Wawa, on State Road 100, in a big shift from threats to sue the county over disagreements about it two years ago.

Flagler Tiger Bay Club Hosts 2-Night Live Forum With Candidates for Sheriff, County Commission and Palm Coast Council

September 17, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Like old signs from previous elections, in-person election forums are largely relics of former times. Flagler Tiger Bay Club is striving to offer a live forum featuring the candidates in person, for an audience at home, through live radio and video streaming, next week. (© FlaglerLive)

The hourlong forums will feature all, or nearly all, candidates running in local elections, with candidates for the Flagler County Commission and for Sheriff on Wednesday, and the candidates for Palm Coast Mayor and the Palm Coast City Council on Thursday. 

Joe Mullins Again Erupts in String of Abuse Against Commissioner Hansen at 9/11 Event, Spurring Calls for Censure

September 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 58 Comments

Commissioners Donald O'Brien, in the foreground, and Chairman Dave Sullivan, in the middle. Mullins, third from left, has relied on them as a shield. (© FlaglerLive)

Less than 48 hours after insulting Commissioner Greg Hansen at a County Commission meeting, Commissioner Joe Mullins unleashed another string of worse abuse on Hansen, to his face–at an event commemorating the death of 3,000 victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. But Commissioners Sullivan and O’Brien are resisting saying whether they’d censure him.

31 Test Positive At Grand Oaks Rehab; Flagler’s Covid Death Toll Up to 21 as Cases Spike Again to Near Peak

September 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

It's not improving. (© FlaglerLive)

Two more covid-related deaths were added to Flagler’s tally and a serious spike in cases at the Grand Oaks rahab and nursing home, in schools and at social clubs has resulted in a return of near-peak case loads for the county.

America Is About to Lose Its 200,000th Life to Coronavirus. How Many More Have to Die?

September 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 44 Comments

John Twohig's 'Walking Frame Available,' July 2020.

As a nation, we became inured to a national death toll that has only recently dropped below a thousand people a day. Think about that. Every week, we lose far more of our fellow citizens than died 19 years ago in the most devastating terrorist strike in American history.

Palm Coast Council Approves ‘Luxury,’ Woods-Ringed 256-Apartment Complex on West Side of W-Section

September 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

A rendering of one of the 12 buildings of the Aviara apartment complex planned for the west end of the W Section in Palm Coast. (Aviara)

The development of 12 three-story buildings on 92 acres of woodlands and lakes near U.S. 1 in Palm Coast has drawn little attention and none of the opposition that traditionally barnacles to large apartment complex proposals in the city. 

Appeals Court Hears Challenge to Schools Using Non-Cops as Armed Security on Campuses

September 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

A Flagler County Sheriff's deputy during an active shooter training exercise last year. The Flagler County School district only uses trained deputies on its campuses, unlike numerous other districts that allow armed individuals who are not associated with law enforcement. (© FlaglerLive)

A controversial state program that allows school “guardians” to carry guns on campus came under scrutiny Tuesday, as an appeals court heard arguments in a legal challenge to Duval County’s “school safety assistants.”

How Detectives Used Facebook, Cell Phone Records and Tag Readers in Home-Invasion Armed Robbery Arrest

September 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Alexander Brown, left, now serving 10 years in state prison, and Isaiah Johnson.

The story behind the latest arrest is a window into detectives’ methods, illustrating how the use of technology such as license plate readers, search warrants for cell phone records and Facebook accounts, and old-fashioned on-the-ground interviews combined to help connect the dots  and build a case against an otherwise elusive suspect.

Haunted by Covid, Palm Coast and Sheriff Prepare for Halloween With Balance of Tradition and Safety

September 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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While such standard events as the Palm Coast Fire Department’s Hall of Terror have been cancelled, Parkview Church’s mega trunk-or-treat event will unfold as a drive-through version, and the sheriff is adding a drive-through event in early October.

County and City Taxes Will Stay Flat for Most Homesteaded Properties Except for Spike in Bunnell

September 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Bunnell has seen booming construction in Grand Reserve, the sprawling subdivision that's also increasing the city's population. But it hasn't kept taxes down. (© FlaglerLive)

Residents of Flagler County and each of its cities will again see little to no change in their property tax bills next year as governments are adopting tax rates that either stay flat or roll back a little, with the exception of Bunnell.

Suspicious of Trump Pressures, Most Adults Are Wary of Any Vaccine Approved Before the Election

September 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

Vaccinec horizons. (Fling93/flickr) vaccines vaccine

Six of 10 adults said they were worried the Food and Drug Administration will rush to allow a vaccine because of political pressure. The concern is held by 85% of Democrats, 35% of Republicans and 61% of independent voters.

After Briefly Defying Judicial Order, DeSantis Names Orange County’s Jamie Grosshans to Supreme Court

September 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Jamie Grosshans was appointed to the 5th District Court of Appeals in 2018 by then-Gov. Rick Scott after serving as an Orange County judge, will be the only woman on the seven-member Supreme Court.

Save Lives. Fill Out Your Census.

September 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Certain communities — such as rural, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, immigrant, and LGBTQ folks — are especially likely to be undercounted. Some experts warn this year’s census could be the worst undercount of Black and Latinx people in 30 years.

Joe Mullins Fires Demeaning Personal Insults at Commissioners in a Meeting, Repeating ‘Dangerous’ Pattern

September 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 99 Comments

A flagler County Sheriff's deputy intervened as Commissioner Joe Mullins was insulting fellow-Commissioner Greg Hansen, to the right of Mullins on the dais, Wednesday during a commission meeting. Mullins later wanted to lodge a complaint against a deputy even as he spoke from the dais about the importance of supporting law enforcement. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins called fellow-Commissioner Greg Hansen a “fat sonofabitch” and Charlie Ericksen a “useless old man” at a meeting Wednesday just months after Ericksen had felt so threatened by Mullins that he called on Sheriff Staly for help.

Opponents of The Gardens Development Win Commissioners’ Concern Even as They Lose Appeal

September 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

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Preserve Flagler Beach, a group largely opposing the proposed 335-home Gardens development on John Anderson Highway, lost a procedural battle but gained commissioners’ sympathy and concerns on substantive grounds in a hearing Wednesday.

Bars May Reopen Monday at 50% Capacity Indoors, Full Capacity Outdoors

September 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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Bars and craft breweries were among the businesses ordered to go dark in March by DeSantis in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, which causes the respiratory illness known as Covid-19.

Heroes

September 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Dr. Stephen Bickel, left, the medical director at the Flagler and Volusia health departments, and Bob Snyder, who heads the Flagler Health Department, a branch of state government. (© FlaglerLive)

If Flagler County had a Nobel Prize, Flagler Health Department Chief Bob Snyder and Dr. Stephen Bickel, the medical director there, would have won it this year for their management of the coronavirus pandemic, absurd claims against them notwithstanding.

12 Arrests, 27 Warrants For Frequent Flagler Drug Suspects as Sheriff Notes Sharp Rise in Overdoses

September 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Hydrocodone pills, Ecstasy pills, a loaded 9mm handgun, a box of ammunition, a scale and packaging materials were found at 7A Buttonwell Lane in Palm Coast Wednesday morning, according to the sheriff's office, after a search warrant was served there. (FCSO)

There have been 179 suspected drug overdoses in Flagler County so far in 2020, up 189 percent from 2019, Sheriff Rick Staly said during a live-streamed news conference about the latest sweep of local suspected drug dealers.

FPC and Matanzas Face Off Sept. 18 on Gridiron as Fall Sports Return and Uncertainty Outnumbers Fans

September 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Friday night lights will return as FPC and Matanzas kick-off the weirdest football season of all next week, but with limited fans and other restrictions. (© FlaglerLive)

Attendance at FPC will be limited to 640 people in the stands, or about 13 percent of the stadium’s capacity of 5,000. No tickets will be sold at the gate, no interactions between fans and athletes will be allowed.

Jobless Claims Ease to 36,541 in Florida But Permanent Layoffs in Tourism and Hospitality Loom

September 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

That empty feeling. (© FlaglerLive)

The state’s latest number is down from an adjusted total of 45,590 first-time claims during the week that ended Aug. 29 and 51,647 claims during the week that ended Aug. 22.

Joey Renn Jr., 21, Charged With Vehicular Homicide in Death of Logan Goodman, 14, in Woodlands

September 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

A roadside memorial for Logan Goodman went up soon after he was killed in a motorcycle crash last January in Palm Coast's Woodlands. (© FlaglerLive)

Using video footage, a traffic homicide investigator clocked Joey Renn going 109 miles per hour on his Suzuki motorcycle before impact after failing to negotiate a curve in Palm Coast’s Woodlands.

County Commission Meeting Turns Circus as Defiant Anti-Maskers Spread Falsehoods Before They’re Asked to Leave

September 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 68 Comments

A group of anti-mask militants was asked to leave the county commission meeting this morning unless its members wore mask. Some of them eventually addressed the commission, then were asked to leave the chamber. (© FlaglerLive)

A group of anti-mask militants held up the county commission meeting for 30 minutes today before addressing the panel in brews of misinformation, social media memes and alternative facts and calling for the removal of the Health Department’s Bob Snyder and Dr. Stephen Bickel. The commissioners explicitly rebuffed the militants in turn.

Trimming Budget and Rancor, Flagler Beach Commissioners Agree to No Tax Increase Next Year

September 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Kathleen Doyle, Flagler Beach's long-time finance director, and Matt Doughney, the police chief sitting in as interim manager during the commission's third day-long budget workshop last week. (© FlaglerLive via YouTube)

In recognition of residents’ difficulties with Covid-19, Flagler Beach city commissioners agreed to a net-zero tax increase next year, which will translate to a modest tax decrease for many property owners, or some increase for those who aren’t homesteaded and whose assessed values have shot up.

Flagler Sees 3 More Covid Deaths, New Spike in Cases and Hospitalizations; 14 Cases at Old Kings Elementary

September 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

There’s been 184 new cases in the last 14 days alone in Flagler, and 28 positive cases in the Flagler County school district through today since school reopened on Aug. 24, half of them at Old Kings Elementary, as a renewed spike has the local health department chief concerned.

Palm Coast Will Establish an Arts District in Town Center as New Spur for Commerce of Culture

September 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Copper Tritscheller’s “Burro With Bird on Shoulder” following the unveiling ceremony in Town Center last year. The 10-foot sculpture is part of a sculpture garden developing in Central Park, itself part of a larger arts district the city council is set to approve next week. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast City Council is moving toward establishing an arts district in Town Center, bringing together key arts and culture organizations through an arts council and dedicating revenue from the Town Center redevelopment zone to match private grants, spur artistic and cultural activity in the district and further encourage economic development.

Renatha Francis’s Appointment to Florida Supreme Court Draws Renewed Challenge

September 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Circuit Judge Renatha Francis during her interview before the Florida lorida Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission. (Florida Channel)

Rep. Geraldine Thompson’s attorneys challenged the constitutionality of the appointment and contended that the Florida Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission should provide a revamped list of candidates to DeSantis.

America Doesn’t Have a Coherent Strategy for Asymptomatic Testing. It Needs One.

September 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

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While it battles a virus that can spread quickly via silent carriers, the United States has yet to execute a strategy for testing asymptomatic people. This is a problem, especially as the CDC pushed guidelines that people without symptoms didn’t necessarily need to be tested.

Mary DiStefano, Two-Term Palm Coast Council Member Through City’s Boom and Bust, Dies at 83

September 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Mary DiStefano when she was a member of the Palm Coast City Council. (© FlaglerLive)

Mary G. DiStefano, an X-ray technician by trade and marketing professional for medical companies, ran for the council in 2003 and served until 2011. She was named Rotarian of the Year and Woman of the Year in her 28 years in Palm Coast.

State Puts Gag Order on Flagler Health Department’s Public Release of Covid Numbers in Schools

September 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 36 Comments

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The state’s gag order falls as the Flagler health department was preparing to issue a weekly reports of cases in schools, and as a drizzle of covid cases continues to affect Flagler schools, with a few classrooms, individual faculty and students required to quarantine. The district intends to issue some of the information.

Police Chiefs Issue Use-of-Force Report With Premium on ‘Preservation of Life’ and Calm Communication

September 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Steven Barneski after Flagler County Sheriff's deputies shot him in his car in west Flagler, after he reached for a gun. It was the first time in eight years that deputies had fired and injured an individual.

The Florida Police Chiefs Association has issued a report calling for a series of steps, ranging from largely banning chokeholds and other neck-related restraints to stepping up recruitment of police officers who would better reflect communities.

‘Guerilla Epidemiology’: How Palm Coast Sewers Are Helping Guide Health Department’s Covid Strategy

September 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

A map combining Flagler health department data on covid incidence with Palm Coast utility data from the sewer system's detection of the presence of covid in effluent.

Palm Coast and the Flagler Health Department unveiled an innovative way to conduct covid-19 surveillance by measuring the viral load in city sewers, and overlaying the findings according to six geographical areas where testing of individuals is then targeted accordingly.

Doughney Option Off the Table, Flagler Beach Appoints Building Official Its Place-Holding Interim Manager

September 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

Rick McFadden, Flagler Beach's building official, addressing the city commission this afternoon, and offering his services as manager.

The Flagler Beach City Commission in a surprise appointed Rick McFadden, its long-time building official, as its interim manager until a permanent manager was found. He said he was willing to take on the role if it helped.

Palm Coast Adopts Hybrid-Meeting Rules That Ask Some Participants to Waive Constitutional Rights

September 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Three of the Palm Coast City Council members and most of the city's top administrators are still appearing remotely for meetings, as they did Tuesday evening when the council formalized rules for hybrid meetings. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast City Council members Bob Cuff and Jon Netts raised questions before approving a resolution on conducting covid-restricted hybrid meetings, when developers may be asked to waive some rights to cross-examine witnesses.

Florida Bars Cook Up Ways to Reopen By Turning Into Low-Budget Restaurants

September 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Low-budget, hassle-free cuisine like hot dogs and cold sandwiches might be a financial godsend for desperate bar owners who’ve been sidelined for months because of the coronavirus pandemic.

“I’m So Embarrassed,” Judge Perkins Says of Further Delays in 3 Murder Trials Caused by Covid, Despite Innovations

September 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Benjamin Allen, left, and Tammy Almond, appearing for docket sounding in court Tuesday, by video link, before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins. (© FlaglerLive)

Nathaniel Shimmel has been waiting three years for his murder trial, Tammy Almond two, Benjamin Allen one, and all three must wait until at least November as Covid restrictions are hampering Circuit Judge Terence Perkins, to his dismay, from going forward.

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