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Florida Will Use Tax Dollars to Sue Its Own Public Schools on Behalf of Parents

April 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Attorney General James Uthmeier announces the Office of Parental Rights in Jacksonville on April 29, 2025. (Screenshot via Attorney General’s X livestream)

Attorney General James Uthmeier said his office is “putting our money where our mouth is” in announcing a state-funded legal team dedicated to enforcing parents-rights laws. Addressing a crowd of fourth graders at Jacksonville Classical Academy Tuesday, Uthmeier said his office is “making sure that we’re walking the walk and setting examples” in enforcing laws related to gender transition, library materials, school surveys, and other topics that have dominated legislative, judicial, and executive conversations in recent years. 

Florida House Sets Up Panel to Weigh Cuts or Elimination of Most Property Taxes

April 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, called Wednesday for a sales-tax cut. Colin Hackley/File

A special House committee will begin hearings this week to consider possible alternatives for asking Florida voters to cut property taxes. House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, on Tuesday announced the creation of a select committee to look at potential property-tax changes that could go before voters in November 2026. The full House would take up the issue at the start of the 2026 legislative session in January.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, April 29, 2025

April 29, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 25 Comments

Retirement savings disappear by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

Flagler Airport Terminal Groundbreaking at 10 a.m., Random Acts of Insanity at Cinematique Theater, when a judge calls an inmate “sane and competent” for a state-sponsored killing.

Trump Dictates Press Coverage. His Model: Hungary’s Viktor Orbán

April 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán during a meeting in the Oval Office on May 13, 2019 in Washington, DC.

In his first 100 days, Trump asserted new control over the press, starting with those who cover him daily. In February 2025, his administration barred The Associated Press from the Oval Office for using “Gulf of Mexico” rather than adopting the president’s newly named “Gulf of America.”

Florida Lawmakers Look to Increase Tax-Dollar Shift to Charter Schools

April 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Someone will benefit. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature is moving forward with a series of proposals that would help charter schools, while Democrats argue the measures would chip away at traditional public schools. At least five bills have passed the House or the Senate that could help lead to more charter schools, bolster charter school facilities and, at least in some cases, ensure charter schools get a cut of local tax dollars.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, April 28, 2025

April 28, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

No Mas by Ratt, PoliticalCartoons.com

Bunnell Mayor Catherine Robinson delivers the Bunnell State of the City Address, Ta-Nehisi Coates on our imagined traditions, The Economist on the best places to live, 12 states dependent on international migrations.

100 Years of Art Deco

April 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

In Miami Beach, playground of art deco. (© FlaglerLive)

On 28 April 1925, the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts opened in Paris. It was a landmark event in the evolution of art, architecture and design, and aroused great interest both for the works on display and for their impact.

Florida House Votes to Scrap Work Limits for Older Teens But Ban STI Treatment Without Parental Consent

April 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

High school and college students participating in Planned Parenthood programs testified against a bill in the Senate on March 25, 2025, that would require parental consent to access birth control and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. (Photo by Jackie Llanos/Florida Phoenix)

Although older teens could work unlimited hours, they wouldn’t be able to get treatment for sexually transmitted infections on their own under two bills the Florida House approved Friday. House lawmakers voted on party lines both to require parental consent for health care providers to treat minors with STIs and to let 16- and 17-year-olds work full-time hours during the school year without their parents’ permission.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, April 27, 2025

April 27, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

From Clay Jones

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Clay Jones on why the president hires only morons, when Ronald Reagan pined for the time when war was “civilized,” before he joked about nuking the Soviet Union.

How Florida Went from Swing State to Solid Republican

April 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Maga Bucee's. (© FlaglerLive)

Florida has undergone a dramatic political transformation over the past decade from a swing state to Republican stronghold. In 2012, there were almost 1.5 million more registered Democratic voters than Republicans in Florida. In 2020, Democrats’ advantage dropped to about 97,000. And by September 2024, there were almost 1 million more registered Republicans than Democrats.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, April 26, 2025

April 26, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Deaf Rubio's State Department by Bill Day, FloridaPolitics.com

Philomena Cunk on the meaning of life, Gamble Jam, Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley (assuming he’s not too jet-lagged), a few lines from Percy’s Moviegoer.

The Government Is Repurposing Your Data To Spy On You

April 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

Immigration enforcement is a key justification for repurposing government data. Photo by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Data that people provide to U.S. government agencies for public services such as tax filing, health care enrollment, unemployment assistance and education support is increasingly being redirected toward surveillance and law enforcement.

House Panel Drops Investigation of Casey DeSantis Charity That Funneled $10 Million to Political Committees

April 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Ron and Casey DeSantis. (Facebook)

After weeks of investigation, a state House leader said Thursday his panel is halting a probe into a foundation linked to First Lady Casey DeSantis’ signature economic-assistance program, Hope Florida. Rep. Alex Andrade, a Pensacola Republican who chairs the House Health Care Budget Subcommittee, spent weeks scrutinizing the foundation’s receipt of $10 million as part of a $67 million legal settlement that Centene, Florida’s largest Medicaid managed-care company, reached last fall with the Agency for Health Care Administration, then redistributing the $10 million to two anti-pot political committees.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, April 25, 2025

April 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Spot the ‘domestic terrorist’ by John Cole, Philadelphia Inquirer

Council member Theresa Pontieri and two prospective city managers on Free For All Fridays, Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, the discovery of life on another planet 120 light years away, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on what makes man valuable.

Social Media Before Bedtime Wreaks Havoc on Our Sleep

April 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Social media use before bedtime can be stimulating in ways that screen time alone is not. Adam Hester/Tetra Images via Getty Images

Poor sleep isn’t just about feeling tired − it’s linked to worsened mental health, emotion regulation, memory, academic performance and even increased risk for chronic illness and early mortality. At the same time, social media is nearly universal among young adults, with 84% using at least one platform daily. While research has long focused on screen time as the culprit for poor sleep, growing evidence suggests that how often people check social media − and how emotionally engaged they are − matters even more than how long they spend online.

With House and Senate Split on Size of Tax Cuts, Florida Legislature Goes Into Overtime

April 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A game of chicken over taxes. (© FlaglerLive)

With the Senate and House unable to reach agreement on tax cuts and spending, lawmakers will not finish negotiations on a new state budget in time to end the legislative session as scheduled next week. The House has proposed a tax package (HB 7033) totaling about $5 billion, with the cuts largely stemming from a plan to permanently reduce the state’s sales-tax rate from 6 percent to 5.25 percent. The Senate proposed a $1.83 billion tax-cut package (SB 7034) that includes eliminating sales taxes on clothing and shoes that cost $75 or less.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, April 24, 2025

April 24, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

The Great Retaliator by Ed Wexler, CagleCartoons.com

Robert Reich on Tariffs, The Flagler Beach City Commission meets and hears about its latest audit, Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, a few words about nuts from Richard Powers.

Relatively Low Fluoride Levels May Affect Intelligence in Children

April 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Palm Coast water has no fluoride. (© FlaglerLive)

A new study found that relatively low exposure to fluoride during the foetal stage (as a result of the mother’s exposure to fluoride) or in the child’s early years may affect their intelligence.

Florida Sues Snapchat, Alleging Social Media Platform Is Not Blocking Minors

April 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has filed a lawsuit alleging that the operator of Snapchat is violating a high-profile 2024 law aimed at keeping children off some social-media platforms. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Santa Rosa County circuit court, came after a federal judge last month rejected a request by tech-industry groups for an injunction to block the law. In a federal-court filing Monday, attorneys for the state said Uthmeier “expects that additional investigations and enforcement actions will commence soon.”

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, April 23, 2025

April 23, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

Torch of Liberty by Bill Day, FloridaPolitics.com

Jermaine Williams, who stabbed his wife to death in Bunnell last year, is in a pre-trial hearing, the River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization meets, Flagler Beach Commissioner Scott Spradley sends a few pictures from England.

Would Branson-Type Shows at the Kennedy Center Be Such a Bad Thing?

April 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

kennedy center as reflection of national diversity

Rather than ridiculing the president’s taste, responses to the takeover would be better placed focusing on more fundamental questions about the role of the U.S. government in the nation’s artistic life. How can a national arts institution best reflect the country’s diverse range of people and interests? Prior to Trump, how well was the Kennedy Center doing at that?

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, April 22, 2025

April 22, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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Stetson University’s 2025 Holocaust Memorial Lecture, the Palm Coast City Council will have a look at a proposed YMCA in Town center, it will discuss the Palm Harbor Golf Club, the city’s 10-year capital improvement plan, and other issues, the school board holds a pair of meetings.

How Pope Francis Mattered

April 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Pope Francis during the Palm Sunday Mass at St. Peter’s Square on April 2,

Francis had served as pope for 12 eventful years, after being elected on March 13, 2013 after the surprise resignation of Benedict XVI. Prior to becoming pope, he was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Buenos Aires, and was the first person from the Americas to be elected to the papacy. He was also the first pope to choose Francis as his name, thus honoring St. Francis of Assisi, a 13th-century mystic whose love for nature and the poor have inspired Catholics and non-Catholics alike.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, April 21, 2025

April 21, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Trump Manufacturing in Fake Crisis by Christopher Weyant, CagleCartoons.com

The county commission in a pair of meetings today discusses replacing County Attorney Al Hadeed, who retires this summer, and further discusses its teetering beach management plan, the East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets, manufacturing an America crisis.

The Law Behind National Monuments’ Creation–and Elimination

April 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Over 730,000 people visit Colorado National Monument each year. It was established in 1911 under the Antiquities Act. Gordon Leggett, CC BY-SA

One of the new administration’s early orders was for the Department of Interior to review all national monuments for potential oil and gas drilling and mining. At least two national monuments that President Joe Biden created in California are among the new administration’s targets. The avenue for many of these changes is rooted in one century-old law, the Antiquities Act of 1906, signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt.

New College Hides Russell Brand Sleaze Behind Free Speech

April 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Russell Brand thought he had a safe haven in Florida. Ron DeSantis disabused him. (David B. Young)

Florida attracts sleazeballs, creeps, and the criminally-inclined the way cookie crumbs attract roaches. It’s always been like this: Al Capone wintered in Miami Beach; Richard Nixon escaped to his Key Biscayne compound so he could hang out with his mob-affiliated pal Bebe Rebozo; Charles Ponzi  made a name for himself for selling Florida swampland — impossible to build on— to unsuspecting Yankees. Russell Brand almost made it on the list.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, April 20, 2025

April 20, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

MAGA Reeducation by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune

J.S. Bach’s dark vision on Easter Sunday, the complete St. John Passion, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, Richard Taruskin revisits the cantatas.

The Threat of Deep-Sea Mining

April 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa

Deep-sea mining can pose a danger to what lives above it, in the midwater ecosystem. If future deep-sea mining operations release sediment plumes into the water column, as proposed, the debris could interfere with animals’ feeding, disrupt food webs and alter animals’ behaviors.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, April 19, 2025

April 19, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The North East Florida Jazz Association (NEFJA) Jazz Appreciation Concert, “Henry Flagler: Florida Visionary,” a Palm Coast Historical Society talk, ‘Sense and Sensibility’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, Ayşegül Savaş’s “Marseille.”

Studying Hooters’ Servers

April 18, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Servers told researchers that they were instructed to make their male customers feel special.

Declining sales, rising costs and a large debt burden of approximately US$300 million have threatened Hooters’ long-term outlook. A researcher looked into breastaurants and the toll they take on servers. Here are her findings.

Florida GOP Lawmaker to Randy Fine: “Proud To Have Voted Against Your Moronic Campus Carry Bill”

April 18, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Rep. Randy Fine speaks at an anti-abortion rally on the steps of the Historic Florida Capitol Building. May 24, 2022.

Miami Republican state Sen. Illeana Garcia, who joined with three Senate Democrats in a committee vote last month rejecting a proposal sponsored by then-GOP Sen. Randy Fine (SB 814) to allow concealed weapons on college and university campuses, says she has zero regrets for that vote. But few fellow-Republicans are willing to voice similar assurances even after the FSO shooting.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Friday, April 18, 2025

April 18, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Trump vs PBS by Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com

‘Sense and Sensibility’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, marking Flagler Beach’s centennial on Free For All, Robert Reich on the tax cut scam, Richard Powers on age.

How ‘Doge’ Is Eliminating Government Accountability

April 17, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

government accountability FOIA layoffs

Mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services are continuing as the agency makes good on its intention, announced on March 27, 2025, to shrink its workforce by 20,000 people. Among workers dismissed in early April were several teams responsible for fulfilling requests for access to previously unreleased government data, information and records under a federal law known as the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA.

20-Year-Old Student Kills 2, Injures 6 in Shooting at Florida State University

April 17, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

FSU President Richard McCullough's message to the university community today, as posted on the university's social media pages.

Two people were killed and six others were injured Thursday after a shooter, the son of a Leon County sheriff’s deputy, opened fire around lunchtime at Florida State University. The shooter, 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, also was shot after confronting police officers, authorities said during a late-afternoon news conference. News reports identified Ikner as an FSU student. Ikner is accused of using a handgun that was an old service weapon of his mother, a school-resource officer.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, April 17, 2025

April 17, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

The happiest cartoon we've run in a long time: Saving Democracy At Harvard by Bob Englehart, PoliticalCartoons.com.

Harvard’s message to the shah of maralago, Town of Marineland Commission Meeting, ‘Sense and Sensibility’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, John Updike’s sexism.

Florida to Immigrants: Get Lost

April 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

Only as long as you fit a certain profile. (© FlaglerLive)

DeSantis has savaged lawmakers for not doing enough to support President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to detain and deport as many as 20 million undocumented immigrants. He has worked assiduously to engineer Florida’s reactionary version of “how many ways can we screw over immigrants?”

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, April 16, 2025

April 16, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

Bad Republican parenting by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

Flagler Tiger Bay Club welcomes Brian London on tourism, a suburban conjunction featuring Palm Coast’s Epic Theatre, Walker Percy on hs own “Moviegoer,” the Palm Coast Planning Board meets.

Secular Americans Are Changing the Political Landscape

April 15, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Conventional wisdom about nonreligious Americans’ voting misses some important distinctions.

After climbing for decades, the percentage of Americans with no religion has leveled off. For the past few years, the share of adults who identify as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular” has stood at about 29%, according to a major study the Pew Research Center released Feb. 26, 2025. But this hardly means that the “nones,” or their impact on American life, are going away. In fact, their sheer size makes it likely that they will increase in political prominence.

Florida Senate Proposes Tax Cuts Nearing $2 Billion Instead of House’s $5 Billion Sales Tax Cut

April 15, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The Florida Senate makes a counter offer to the House's $5 billion sales tax cut.

The Senate on Monday released a ratcheted-up package of proposed tax cuts, as it prepares for negotiations with the House, which has pitched a $5.43 billion measure that includes reducing the state’s sales-tax rate. The Senate Finance and Tax Committee is scheduled Tuesday to take up the Senate bill (SPB 7034), which would reduce revenue by $1.83 billion next fiscal year.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, April 15, 2025

April 15, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The Palm Coast City Council meets and picks a new member, Food Truck Tuesdays in Town Center, remembrances of Mario Vargas Llosa from “Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter” to “Conversations in the Cathedral.”

Mario Vargas Llosa the Great

April 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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The death of Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa (Arequipa, 1936 – Lima, 2025) marks the end of a Golden Age of Latin American literature. Just as there will not be another generation in Spain like that of Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, Tirso de Molina, Góngora and Quevedo, in America there will not be another like that of Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, César Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier and Carlos Fuentes.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, April 14, 2025

April 14, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Trump and China trade by Dave Granlund, Minnesota

Kerouac on the road, Florida Man v. ski patrol, the Bunnell City Commission meets, the Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets, and a look at how policy is devised in the Trump White House.

How Could FIFA Award Saudi Arabia 2034 World Cup?

April 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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FIFA officially awarded Saudi Arabia the 2034 World Cup. The Gulf Kingdom was the sole bidder. Human rights groups, though, have widely condemned FIFA’s decision – Human Rights Watch warned that there is “a near certainty the 2034 World Cup […] will be stained with pervasive rights violations.”

Florida Bill to Prevent Anonymous Complaints Against Cops Divides Law Enforcement

April 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

A bill misfires. (© FlaglerLive)

A bill that would withdraw citizens’ ability to lodge anonymous complaints against law enforcement officers sparked sharp disagreement between department leaders and rank-and-file officers. The bill (HB 317), sponsored by Miami-Dade Republican Tom Fabricio, is supported by groups representing law enforcement officers, such as the Fraternal Order of Police. Two of the most powerful lobbyist organizations in Tallahassee — the Florida Sheriffs Association and the Florida Police Chiefs Association — are firmly opposed.

American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell

April 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

A still from surveillance Camera footage of Ozturk being handcuffed by six plainclothed officers in Somerville, Mass., on March 25, 2025.

30-year-old Turkish national Rümeysa Öztürk is a former Fulbright scholar in a doctoral program at Tufts University. Here’s how, though charged with no crime, she ended up in a crowded cell in Louisiana, part of a sprawling, opaque apparatus designed to deport the maximum number of people with minimum accountability. Her lawyers describe it as the story of a Trump-era rendition, a callback to the post-9/11 practice of grabbing Muslim individuals off the street and taking them to locations known for harsh conditions and shoddy oversight.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, April 13, 2025

April 13, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Trump Art Of The Tariff Deal by R.J. Matson, CQ Roll Call

April 13, 1975: 50 years ago today, the beginning of long war. ‘Sense and Sensibility’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, “Something Rotten,” at the Daytona Playhouse.

Supreme Court’s Order to Return Wrongly Deported Man: Rule of Law Matters

April 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

People hold signs on April 4, 2025, supporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

The Supreme Court has now said the order to facilitate Abrego García’s return is proper. But the high court also said the district court judge should further clarify its order, being mindful of the president’s authority when it comes to conducting foreign relations. The Salvadoran government seems to be imprisoning Abrego García at the request of the U.S. government.

The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, April 12, 2025

April 12, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

An explosive Donald Trump by Becs, CagleCartoons.com

Sean Foo on the Greenland Grab, U.S. Rep.  Earl Carter wants the island to be renamed “Red, White, and Blueland,” Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, “Something Rotten,” at the Daytona Playhouse.

Foreign Accents Shape the Way We Interact

April 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Foreign accents can have a big impact on the way we interpret meaning. In our increasingly globalised world, foreign accents are an inevitable part of communication, but studies suggest they can create barriers, not just in comprehension but also in perception of the speaker and social interaction.

Why Is the President Undermining Libraries and Museums?

April 11, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

libraries trump executive order

A few weeks ago, President Trump issued an executive order calling for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), adding to a growing list of illegal efforts to bypass Congress and abolish entire government agencies. All staff at the agency were placed on administrative leave on March 31. IMLS is an independent federal agency that provides crucial financial support to America’s 125,000 public, school, academic, and special libraries and museums nationwide.

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