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| Saturday, June 21, 2025 |
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Jones Act keeps U.S. lagging in global shipbuilding output
By Cato Foundation @ 2:28 PM :: 1769 Views :: Jones Act, Military
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... The protectionist law’s defenders claim U.S. shipbuilding would be virtually nonexistent without it, but it would be hard to do much worse ....
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| Saturday, June 21, 2025 |
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Barking Sands Land Leases Set to Expire 2027-30
By News Release @ 12:54 PM :: 2628 Views :: Kauai County, Environment, Military
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... U.S. Navy and NASA release Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for proposed, continued use of state lands on Kauai ....
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| Saturday, June 21, 2025 |
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Saving for a Home in Hawaii Takes 29 Years
By Selected News Articles @ 12:10 AM :: 2412 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... with just $489 left over each month after covering essential living expenses, residents are left with little room to save ....
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| Friday, June 20, 2025 |
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Navy faces key ruling in Hawaii fuel contamination case
By Court House News @ 11:58 PM :: 2467 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Military
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... A federal judge is deciding whether the U.S. Navy should be held liable for 543 Clean Water Act violations at its Red Hill fuel facility ....
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| Friday, June 20, 2025 |
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UH Grad Student $6.7M Settlement in 2016 Lab Explosion
By News Release @ 2:44 PM :: 2331 Views :: Health Care, Higher Education, Labor
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"Dr Ekins-Coward, an academic researcher, was seriously injured when her laboratory experiment exploded on 16 March 2016."
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| Friday, June 20, 2025 |
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AG Terminates Lahaina Investigation
By News Release @ 3:30 AM :: 1759 Views :: Maui County
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... Attorney General Lopez also announced the official transition of future wildfire analysis, mitigation and coordination efforts to the new state fire marshal and the Hawaiʻi Wildfire Management Organization (HWMO) ....
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| Thursday, June 19, 2025 |
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Bubble: Investors Flood Into Hawaii Housing Market
By Selected News Articles @ 7:27 PM :: 2616 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... in Hawaii investor buyers outnumber investor sellers more than any other state ....
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| Thursday, June 19, 2025 |
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Priced out: The growing challenge of teacher pay and housing costs
By News Release @ 6:33 PM :: 2847 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Cost of Living
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... in Hawaii, rent for a one-bedroom unit costs 46% of beginning, bachelor-degree-holding teacher salary ....
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| Thursday, June 19, 2025 |
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Hawaii Democrats Outraged Over Ban on Juvenile Sex Change
By News Release @ 3:10 PM :: 2144 Views :: Family, Health Care
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... Hawaii Democrats remind us why they are more repulsive than Donald J Trump ....
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| Wednesday, June 18, 2025 |
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HMSA: 2nd Worst Health Insurance Company in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 5:43 PM :: 4175 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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... submitting claims multiple times before they’re paid is necessary and sometimes claims are completely ignored ....
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| Wednesday, June 18, 2025 |
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Wahiawa Veteran Wins in Class Action Lawsuit Against Iran
By News Release @ 4:55 PM :: 2396 Views :: Health Care, Military
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... On May 30, 2025, a federal court in Washington, D.C., awarded over $573+ million in total damages to victims and families affected by terrorist attacks in Iraq that were enabled by Iran’s support for extremist groups ....
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| Tuesday, June 17, 2025 |
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Why Hawaii lawmakers should adopt interstate telehealth
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:19 PM :: 1708 Views :: Health Care, COVID-19
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... The practice worked well and safely during the COVID-19 crisis and could do so again, the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii says ....
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| Sunday, June 15, 2025 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted June 14, 2025
By GovTrack .us @ 7:19 PM :: 1301 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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... votes cast and bills introduced in Congress ....
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| Sunday, June 15, 2025 |
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Supreme Court decision makes it easier for disabled students to sue school districts for bias
By News Release @ 5:10 PM :: 1968 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care
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... lower courts had ruled against the family’s claim for damages, despite finding the school had fallen short ....
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| Sunday, June 15, 2025 |
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Intent to Veto
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1535 Views :: Taxes
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... two tax bills are on the list ....
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| Saturday, June 14, 2025 |
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A blue wave is helping rock the boat on Jones Act reform
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 8:01 PM :: 1741 Views :: Democratic Party, Jones Act
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... Democrats favoring Jones Act reform include U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres of New York, who introduced a bill in early May to exempt oil and other energy products transported to Hawaii, Alaska, Guam and Puerto Rico from the Jones Act ....
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| Saturday, June 14, 2025 |
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$294K Income Needed for Family of Four in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 4:40 PM :: 2671 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... This is up 9.48% from just a year ago ....
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| Saturday, June 14, 2025 |
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Hawaii: Fewest Boat Owners Per Capita
By Selected News Articles @ 3:49 PM :: 2013 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business
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... Hawaii has only 2.5 registered boats per 100 residents--dead last in USA ....
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| Saturday, June 14, 2025 |
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June 14, 1900: The Abolition of Slavery in Hawaii
By Andrew Walden @ 12:01 AM :: 67596 Views :: Hawaii History, Labor
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Hawaii was the last place in the US to abolish indentured servitude....
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| Friday, June 13, 2025 |
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Against all odds, Hawaii’s children are returning
By Court House News @ 2:54 PM :: 1964 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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"...they have grandparents who just passed away recently or moved into assisted living, so now they can move back home and live in that house....”
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| Friday, June 13, 2025 |
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Lawsuit: HTA bosses destroy Convention Center Roof in quest for retaliation
By Andrew Walden @ 1:56 PM :: 4508 Views :: Ethics, Tourism
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... After being frog-marched out of the building, former HTA VP of Finance Isaac Choy is spilling the beans ....
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| Thursday, June 12, 2025 |
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DoH Coverup? Health Dep't Fines Hilo Medical Practice $2.19M for Minor Paperwork Violation
By Andrew Walden @ 10:31 PM :: 4237 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Health Care, Small Business
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... "If (the $2.19M fine is) upheld by the hearings officer it will mean the closure of these two urgent care facilities." ....
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| Thursday, June 12, 2025 |
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House Announces New Assignments: Leadership, Committee Chair
By News Release @ 5:50 PM :: 1824 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Speaker Nadine K. Nakamura today announced updated leadership and committee appointments in the Hawaiʻi House of Representatives ....
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| Thursday, June 12, 2025 |
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Cost of Bills Index: Hawaii 32% Above US Median
By News Release @ 4:52 PM :: 1829 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... residents in the most expensive states like California, Hawaii, and New Jersey paying up to 39% more than the national median, while those in the most affordable states like West Virginia, Mississippi, and Oklahoma pay up to 44% less ....
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| Thursday, June 12, 2025 |
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Hawaii is a Leader for Preschool Quality But Last in Access Among Pacific States
By News Release @ 4:42 PM :: 3114 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...Hawaii serves just 5% of its four-year-olds and 2% of three-year-olds in state-funded preschool programs, dead last among Pacific states....
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| Thursday, June 12, 2025 |
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Hawaii 3rd-Highest Beer Taxes in USA
By Tax Foundation @ 4:19 PM :: 2354 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... Hawaii taxes beer at $0.93 per gallon .....
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| Wednesday, June 11, 2025 |
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Kauai Sewer Rates Model for Honolulu Council?
By News Release @ 11:25 AM :: 2191 Views :: Kauai County, Small Business, Cost of Living
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... Increasing 11% per year over a 5-year period -- The Honolulu Council apparently used this as a model. ....
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| Tuesday, June 10, 2025 |
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Lawsuit: Hawaii AG Accuses Trump of 'Distributing Machine Guns'
By Court House News @ 2:14 AM :: 1691 Views :: Second Amendment
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...The states accuse the Trump administration of hiding violations of federal law prohibiting the possession of machine guns in a settlement agreement with manufactures of forced reset triggers....
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| Monday, June 9, 2025 |
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Lahaina: Hotel Unions, HSTA Join with Meth Gang to Demand Seizure of Vacation Rentals
By News Release @ 3:23 PM :: 3387 Views :: Maui County, Development, Tourism
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... The Lahaina fire is an opportunity to exploit. The hotel unions and the hotels want the TVR business all for themselves ....
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| Monday, June 9, 2025 |
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In Hawaii Only Military Water Systems are Fluoridated
By Selected News Articles @ 2:48 PM :: 2751 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Military
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... 70.6% of third graders in Hawaii experience tooth decay—the highest rate in the nation ....
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| Monday, June 9, 2025 |
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Hawai‘i children hit hard by high cost of housing
By News Release @ 12:22 PM :: 3088 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... Hawaiʻi ranks 24th in overall children’s well-being in the Data Book, as well as 33rd in the economic well-being ....
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| Sunday, June 8, 2025 |
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Maui Council approves tax-rate hikes
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:00 PM :: 2224 Views :: Maui County, Taxes
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... overall, Maui taxpayers will still see their tax bills go up in 2026 because of a combination of higher tax rates and assessments ....
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| Sunday, June 8, 2025 |
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Grassroot: Democratic Congressional Staffers focus on Jones Act
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:46 PM :: 1751 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Jones Act
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... Truth about Jones Act makes big leap forward ....
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| Sunday, June 8, 2025 |
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REPORT: Hawaii Math Instruction 'Unacceptable'
By News Release @ 5:29 PM :: 1622 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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... an estimated 3,120 students in 4th grade likely cannot perform skills like adding and subtracting multidigit whole numbers, fractions, and decimals ....
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| Sunday, June 8, 2025 |
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The Unseen Stopper Committees
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2133 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government
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... money chairs’ macabre tradition ....
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| Saturday, June 7, 2025 |
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"Diversified ag" rhetoric doesn't match reality
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 10:19 PM :: 2706 Views :: Maui County, Agriculture, Small Business, Tourism
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... Two bills that would relax some of these regulations passed out of a Maui County Council committee just this week ....
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| Friday, June 6, 2025 |
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Governor Green Releases 'Intent-to-Veto' List
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 1916 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... Green informed legislative leaders and stakeholders of his intent to veto 19 bills ....
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| Friday, June 6, 2025 |
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Hawaii’s energy future: Red tape is in the way
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:47 PM :: 2136 Views :: Energy, Development
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... regulations that allow community groups to essentially kill projects after they’ve been approved are the biggest hurdles to clear ....
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| Thursday, June 5, 2025 |
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Matt Elliott selected as the next UH Mānoa athletics director
By News Release @ 10:58 PM :: 1931 Views :: Gambling, Higher Education, Tourism
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... Most recently, he served as the UCLA Bruins’ Chief Strategy Officer from 2022 to 2024, where he led the department’s transition from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten ....
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| Thursday, June 5, 2025 |
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Babylon Bee challenges Hawaii law criminalizing political memes, satire
By News Release @ 5:58 AM :: 2389 Views :: First Amendment
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... ADF attorneys represent popular satire site, state resident in legal challenge to censorship law ....
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| Thursday, June 5, 2025 |
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Lawsuit Alleges More Affordable Housing Fraud
By Selected News Articles @ 3:45 AM :: 2905 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Development
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“The height restriction … is wrongfully preventing Honuaʻula from completing the construction of an approved affordable housing project…"
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| Wednesday, June 4, 2025 |
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Guilty on All Counts: Big Island Affordable Housing Fraudsters
By Selected News Articles @ 11:25 PM :: 2684 Views :: Hawaii County , Ethics, Development
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... Sulla is set to be sentenced on October 21, Zamber on October 7, and Budhabhatti on October 8 ....
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