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• Connelly: Ed Murray -- Head tax would let feds, state off hook on homelessness

  10-05-2018 23:57
  The proposed Seattle head tax on big business is "extraordinarily high," threatens to drive away jobs, and is a city-only solution when the crisis of homelessness is "swamping the West Coast" -- ex-Mayor Ed Murray..
  
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• According to Crosscut, Seattle Now Fucking Hates the Left

  10-05-2018 23:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeA hard hat hard at work! Charles Mudede
  Before I start this brief criticism of a Crosscut piece by the conservative columnist and radio personality John Carlson, "Workers of the world, unite — against Kshama Sawant," I must remind the reader of the first half of a sentence on page 56 of Adam Smith's The Wealth Nations, a text many on the lettered right (a dying breed for sure) consider to be the founding document of the free-market economy. Smith writes: "The masters, bein
  
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• Timeline: The Head Tax in Seattle from 2006 to 2018

  10-05-2018 23:22 via thestranger.com
  
  An interactive.by Steven HsiehThe Seattle City Council could vote on an employee hours tax, also known as a head tax, to fund housing and homelessness services as early as Monday. While we wait for that, click through the following slideshow to see how we got here.
  Am I missing any big events? Let me know in the comments.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Reddit Thinks I'm Dead: AMA

  10-05-2018 23:16 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Um...
  Hello Bottit, get ready to have all of your most pressing questions answered TWICE! u/dearabbotnik will respond with predictive text keyboards trained on Dear Abby answers. u/danbotsavage with keyboards trained on Savage Love answers. Botnik Studios staff will use both keyboards to bring these famous columnists back to life to answer your burning questions. You ask the questions, they respond, your votes will determine once and for all who gives the best advice.
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• The Top 30 Seattle Beer Week 2018 Events You Need To Know About

  10-05-2018 23:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffCelebrate the women in the Northwest craft beer industry at Pike Brewing's Women in Beer on May 15. Courtesy Women in Beer
  Seattle Beer Week is upon us, and with it, eleven days crammed with craft beer events of every stripe. To get you started, we've picked out some unique and exciting events we think you should know about, from a beer can derby race to hop vaping, and from the Back in Black Stout Fest to Women in Beer. For all of your beer week planning needs, you
  
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• Where to Go for Seattle Beer Week

  10-05-2018 23:09 via thestranger.com
  30 Picks for May 10–20by Stranger Things To Do StaffSeattle Beer Week is upon us, and with it, eleven days crammed with craft beer events of every stripe. To get you started, we've picked out some unique and exciting events we think you should know about, from a beer can derby race to hop vaping, and from the Back in Black Stout Fest to Women in Beer.THURSDAY, MAY 10
  Official SBW 10 Kickoff!
  It all begins tonight, at Georgetown Brewing. They'll read off the proclamation to officially start
  
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• Remains of missing Grays Harbor County girl recovered; case now a homicide investigation

  10-05-2018 22:34
  Lindsey Baum, 10, disappeared at about 9:30 p.m. on June 26, 2009, while walking home from a friend’s house. Despite extensive searches for the missing girl in the hours and days after she vanished, no sign of Baum was ever found.
  
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• ‘A monster is still out there’: Homicide investigation opened after remains ID’d as Grays Harbor County girl who disappeared in 2009

  10-05-2018 22:34
  Lindsey Baum, 10, disappeared at about 9:30 p.m. on June 26, 2009, while walking home from a friend’s house. Despite extensive searches in the hours and days after she vanished, no sign of her was ever found.
  
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• Save the Planet: Sterilize Yourself

  10-05-2018 22:33 via thestranger.com
  
  Sign up for voluntary human extinction today!by Katie Herzog Getty Images
  I was asked yesterday, possibly for the millionth time, whether or not my girlfriend and I plan to have babies."No way," I said. "I'm not a morning person. But sometimes my girlfriend does threaten to make us foster a problem teen someday. Hopefully same-sex fostering will be illegal by the time she's ready."I was kidding (mostly), but you'd think I'd slapped the ice cream cone out of a grandma's hand with the reaction thi
  
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• Reader to Gay Trump Voter: May You Die Alone and Unloved in the Filthiest Unregulated Roach-Infested Nursing Home Because the GOP Defunded the Medicaid Program That Pays for It

  10-05-2018 22:16 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love Letter of the Day: Reader Advice Round-upby Dan Savage
  It's Reader Advice Roundup day!
  Recent Savage Love Letters of the Day: Should this 23-year-old proposition their hot high school teacher and his hot wife? When should this letter-writer disclose her bonus vagina? Is this woman's husband too hot for them to open up their relationship? And a gay Trump voter wonders why no one will fuck him. (I don't wonder. I know.) And, as always, last week's column and Savage Lovecast.
  Regarding
  
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• Human remains found near spot where Washington family’s SUV plunged off cliff

  10-05-2018 22:11
  MENDOCINO, Calif. — A Northern California resident found a pair of jeans and human remains inside a girl’s shoe on a beach near the spot where a woman drove her Woodland, Washington, family off a cliff in March, authorities said Thursday. DNA tests will be conducted on the remains to try to identify who they […]
  
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• New Supergroup Alert: Idol Ko Si, Featuring Members of A Frames, Climax Golden Twins, and Dreamsalon

  10-05-2018 21:40 via thestranger.com
  
  New Seattle supergroup Idol Ko Si just dropped an instant classic debut LP of timeless and placeless strangeness.by Dave SegalIdol Ko Si: Seattle underground all-stars' debut LP is an enigma wrapped in a mystery.
  Min Yee, Robert Millis, and Matthew Ford have been in so many great bands over the last quarter century, it makes sense that they would eventually form a unit among themselves. That time has come with Idol Ko Si, whose self-titled debut album hit Bandcamp on April 30. If you know the pe
  
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• 'We've brought Lindsey home': Missing McCleary girl Lindsey Baum's remains found

  10-05-2018 21:23
  The body of Lindsey Baum, a 10-year-old girl who went missing in McCleary, Wash. nine years ago, has been recovered, according to an announcement from Grays Harbor Sheriff Rick Scott Thursday afternoon.
  
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• Connelly: Republican Rep. Cathy Morris Rodgers, under fire, starts TV campaign

  10-05-2018 21:02
  Embattled Republican U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a member of the House Republican leadership,  is up with her first TV spot, more than five months before the November election.The move to the airwaves comes as advocates of campaign finance reform and gun safety legislation target McMorris Rodgers and call for her defeat.
  
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• Say goodbye to La Nina, maybe hello to a more normal summer

  10-05-2018 21:01
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. scientists say this winter’s brief La Nina has evaporated, meaning an increased likelihood of a more normal summer. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday that the central Pacific has returned to normal after a weak-to-moderate natural cooling that happens every few years during the presence of La Nina, the […]
  
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• Only Sinners Eat Shrimp

  10-05-2018 20:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie HerzogThe devil's seafoodGetty Images
  It's National Shrimp Day, and as shrimp pics roll across your feed, you may be tempted to run to the nearest seamart, pick yourself out a pound or two, and mark the day with some buttered, lemoned, garlicked sea creatures for dinner tonight. But I'm here to tell you: NO. Do not do it. Shrimp, as everyone familiar with the Holy Bible knows, is verbotten according to the word of our Lord and was put on earth by Satan herself to tempt you with those be
  
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• Rock ’n’ Roll Requiem: Steven Hyden’s Twilight of the Gods

  10-05-2018 20:41 via thestranger.com
  The journeyman music journalist documents the decline of classic rock.by Ned LannamannJourneyman music journalist Steven Hyden (Uproxx, Grantland) was raised on classic-rock radio, one generation removed from the rock stars he idolized.By the time Hyden came of musical age, Keith Moon and John Bonham were dead, Ozzy had been kicked out of Black Sabbath, and Aerosmith had transformed from the druggiest, most dangerous band in rock into a loathsome power-ballad factory.Twilight of the Gods is Hyde
  
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• Suspect arrested in 1986 death of Tacoma girl, police say

  10-05-2018 20:36
  Police say the unidentified suspect is believed responsible for the 1986 death of 13-year-old Jennifer Bastian. Police plan to hold a news conference to discuss the case.
  
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• To Birth? Or Not to Birth? An Art Show Inspired by an Age-Old Dilemma

  10-05-2018 20:24 via thestranger.com
  
  by Emily Pothast"I wanted to have had kids, but I never wanted to have kids," says artist Jennifer Zwick, who made this hypnotic pregnant belly for the show.Jennifer Zwick
  To have kids or not to have kids? That’s the question more than two dozen artists have been asked to contemplate in advance of Kids/No Kids, a multimedia art exhibition inspired by Sheila Heti’s new book Motherhood opening tonight at The Factory from 6-11.“I wanted to have had kids, but I never wanted to have
  
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• Starbucks Joins Sea of Big Businesses That Oppose Head Tax

  10-05-2018 20:07 via thestranger.com
  
  by Katie Herzog Getty
  Seattle's most loved and loathed coffee company weighed in on Seattle's controversial head tax this week and—surprise—they are against it.“We share the same concerns of every other major employer and small employer in Seattle and are opposed to the tax, but are more concerned that we’re missing the opportunity to reform and to focus on a compassionate need of hundreds of children sleeping in cars in Seattle,” S Bucks executive John Kelly told t
  
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• Trump nominates ex-deputy Washington state AG Brian Moran for U.S. attorney

  10-05-2018 19:37
  President Trump has nominated Seattle lawyer Brian Moran, a former chief deputy in the state Attorney General’s Office, as the next U.S. attorney for Western Washington. Moran works for the business-law firm Orrick, where he has advised Fortune 100 companies, banks and tech firms facing investigations by state attorneys general and other regulatory agencies, according […]
  
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• UW Medical Center Describes “Extraordinarily Difficult Time” Amid Potential Cuts and Closures

  10-05-2018 19:16 via thestranger.com
  
  UW psychiatric nurses still worry about the school's plans to close their unit.by Heidi GrooverNurses, labor advocates, and others are urging the University of Washington not to close a psychiatric unit and unionized laundry facility. HG
  Outside in a courtyard on the University of Washington Campus Wednesday, advocates for several threatened medical programs rallied to demand the university protect their workplaces. Inside, at a meeting of the UW Board of Regents, the chief financial officer of
  
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• Connelly: Trump picks Seattle's Brian Moran as new U.S. Attorney

  10-05-2018 18:58
  Brian Moran, top deputy to former Attorney General Rob McKenna, is the Trump administration's pick for U.S. Attorney for Western Washington.
  
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• A Strike Is Likely as Negotiations Stall Between UW and Student Employees

  10-05-2018 18:37 via thestranger.com
  
  Undergraduate and graduate student employees want raises and better healthcare.by Heidi GrooverThe University of Washington, where student employees plan to strike next week. july7th/getty
  With contract negotiations stalled, teaching assistants and other student employees at the University of Washington say they’re ready to strike next week.Members of UAW 4121—which represents 4,500 undergraduate and graduate students who work as researchers, tutors, graders, teaching assistants, and
  
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• Pruitt to hear economic arguments in enforcing Clean Air Act

  10-05-2018 18:30
  Federal law and U.S. Supreme Court decisions require the EPA to focus on public health — not costs — in setting limits for smog, soot and other pollutants under the Clean Air Act. But the EPA will now ask its committees to consider how enforcement affects the economy.
  
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• Pruitt to change Clean Air Act enforcement, seek out and allow economic arguments

  10-05-2018 18:30
  Federal law and U.S. Supreme Court decisions require the EPA to focus on public health — not costs — in setting limits for smog, soot and other pollutants under the Clean Air Act. But the EPA will now ask its advisory committees to consider how enforcement affects the economy, and will seek input from state and local government, tribes and others.
  
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• The Answer Is Housing, You Idiots

  10-05-2018 18:26 via thestranger.com
  
  King County needs 14,000 more units of housing that people experiencing homelessness can afford.by Heidi GrooverBuild it, subsidize it. Flory/getty
  As Seattle loses its collective shit over a proposal to tax the city's largest businesses to raise $75 million a year for affordable housing and homelessness services, a new analysis finds the region needs more than five times that amount to actually address the problem.The Seattle Times first reported on the analysis, which the consulting firm McKin
  
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• "Those Are Sacred": A First-Person Account From the Tipi Demonstration That Shut Down Traffic

  10-05-2018 18:10 via thestranger.com
  
  by Frank Hopper350 Seattle water warriors Danny Lange, Aaron Brouillette, Antonio Camora and Sean Fujimori sit atop Native American "tarpees" patterned after traditional tipis. Frank Hopper
  Sometimes you don't know you're in a fight until the other person suddenly hauls off and socks you. Then you reel back, grab your jaw, and think, did that really just happen? Whoa! Did you really just do that? We were talking! Dang!
  That's what happened Monday downtown when environmental activists and Native
  
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• Slog AM: King County Says 'Fuck You' To Big Oil, Costa Rica Plans Decarbonized Society, Amazon Paid Some Taxes After All

  10-05-2018 17:22 via thestranger.com
  
  Elementary school outlaws birthday spankings, Toys 'R' Us employees are sad, no peace in the Middle Eastby Nathalie GrahamFuck your fossil fuelsRUI_NORONHA/GETTYIMAGES.COM
  King County says fuck you to Big Oil: Exxon Mobile, Chevron, BP, and some more major oil companies that are basically two-dimensional movie villains are being sued. King County filed a lawsuit against these companies for destroying the environment and downplaying the effects. The lawsuit basically states that these oil compani
  
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• Mother’s Day presents gone wrong? Please share your stories with us

  10-05-2018 16:54
  Mothers and children, what are some of the worst Mother's Day gifts you've given or received? Let us know and we might publish some of your responses.
  
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• Health officials find 7 probable cases of hepatitis C after outbreak at Puyallup hospital

  10-05-2018 16:48
  Officials say the cases might be linked to a nurse who worked at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup.
  
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• As Head Tax Proposal Races Forward, Durkan Says She Doesn't Support Current Plan

  10-05-2018 16:31 via thestranger.com
  
  by Steven HsiehDueling signs at City Hall over the head tax. SH
  The Seattle City Council is moving quickly on a $75 million employee hours tax to fund housing and homelessness services.
  The challenge for council members over the next couple days will be working out a plan that can get Mayor Jenny Durkan’s support or at least a veto-proof majority. A final vote could happen as soon as Monday.
  Durkan said Wednesday she doesn’t support the tax in its current form, calling for a review a
  
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• Juuling: If you don’t know what it is, ask your kids

  10-05-2018 16:18
  As teens' use of Juul e-cigarette devices has exploded, parents, principals and police struggle with underage use, worried the novelty of the e-cigarettes that look like USB drives and their fruity nicotine will create a new generation of addicted smokers.
  
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• David Goodall, 104, just took his own life, after making a powerful statement about assisted death

  10-05-2018 15:44
  On his final day, before he went to a Swiss clinic to die, David Goodall spoke about his 104 years of life — and his scheduled death. The Australian scientist, who had traveled to Switzerland to end his life because euthanasia isn’t legal in his homeland, answered questions about his well-publicized plans for an assisted […]
  
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• King County sues big oil companies for downplaying global warming

  10-05-2018 15:00
  King County is pressing for damages against the oil companies for the impacts of climate change. This is part of a broader wave of lawsuits alleging that fossil-fuel producers knew the risks of global warming, but discounted them.
  
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• Family turmoil overshadows homecoming for victim of vicious attack

  10-05-2018 15:00
  A week ago, DaShawn Horne left the hospital after three months recovering from a traumatic brain injury after what police call a racially motivated attack. His homecoming has been marred by a family dispute over the nearly $125,000 raised for his care in a GoFundMe campaign.
  
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• DaShawn Horne was brutally beaten in a hate crime months ago. Now, his homecoming is marred by family turmoil

  10-05-2018 15:00
  A week ago, DaShawn Horne left the hospital after three months recovering from a traumatic brain injury after what police call a racially motivated attack. His homecoming has been marred by a family dispute over the nearly $125,000 raised for his care in a GoFundMe campaign.
  
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• Academia’s #MeToo moment: Women accuse professors of sexual misconduct

  10-05-2018 13:38
  Higher education runs on relationships built outside the classroom. Veteran professors hold private meetings during office hours, lead teams in laboratories and mingle at wine-and-cheese receptions. They aim to connect with students and junior faculty, provide academic guidance, develop confidence and trust. Too often, women say, men who hold these positions of privilege and power […]
  
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• Pentagon revised Obama-era report to remove risks from climate change

  10-05-2018 13:30
  WASHINGTON — Internal changes to a draft Defense Department report de-emphasized the threats climate change poses to military bases and installations, muting or removing references to climate-driven changes in the Arctic and potential risks from rising seas, an unpublished draft obtained by The Washington Post reveals. The earlier version of the document, dated December 2016, […]
  
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• Soldier needed an ear transplant; doctors ‘grew’ a new one in her arm

  10-05-2018 13:12
  Two years ago, Army Pvt. Shamika Burrage almost died when she was ejected from her car during a crash in Texas. Afterward, when she woke up in the hospital, she wasn’t whole. Her entire left ear was gone. But the now-21-year-old is on the path to recovery. And due to a procedure hailed as the […]
  
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• UN to hold additional climate meeting ahead of Poland summit

  10-05-2018 10:54
  BERLIN (AP) — The United Nations says an additional round of global climate talks is being scheduled for September ahead of the annual ministerial summit at the end of the year. Diplomats currently meeting in Bonn, Germany, have been struggling to draft a text they can put before ministers at the summit in Poland in […]
  
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• Talks on climate rules inch on, despite lack of leadership

  10-05-2018 10:54
  BERLIN (AP) — Diplomats from some 190 countries have wrapped up two weeks of talks on drafting a rulebook for combating climate change, with observers Thursday noting some progress but also a lack of the kind of leadership that helped bring about the 2015 Paris accord. The pact’s signatories have set themselves a December deadline […]
  
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• Scientists: Explosive eruption risk rises for Hawaii volcano

  10-05-2018 08:05
  Scientists say the risks of an explosive summit eruption will rise in coming weeks as magma drains down the flank of the Hawaiian volcano toward the area where it began erupting lava in a residential neighborhood. A summit explosion could also release ash, steam and sulfur dioxide emissions.
  
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• Scientists: Explosive eruption possible at Hawaii volcano

  10-05-2018 08:05
  PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano could soon send boulders and ash shooting out of its summit crater in the kind of explosive eruption last displayed nearly a century ago. Scientists said Wednesday the risks of an explosive summit eruption will rise in coming weeks as magma drains down the flank of the volcano […]
  
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• Hawaii volcano park to close amid explosion concerns

  10-05-2018 08:05
  PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano could soon send boulders and ash shooting out of its summit crater in the kind of explosive eruption last displayed nearly a century ago. Scientists said Wednesday the risks of an explosive summit eruption will rise in coming weeks as magma drains down the flank of the volcano […]
  
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• Hawaii volcano could spew boulders the size of refrigerators

  10-05-2018 08:05
  Scientists say the risks of an explosive summit eruption will rise in coming weeks as magma drains down the flank of the Hawaiian volcano toward the area where it began erupting lava in a residential neighborhood. A summit explosion could also release ash, steam and sulfur dioxide emissions.
  
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• APNewsBreak: Pennsylvania funds clean air with VW settlement

  10-05-2018 07:00
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s governor said Thursday the state will use a $118 million settlement with Volkswagen over the company’s cheating on emissions tests to cut air pollution in the state. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf told The Associated Press that he is setting up Driving PA Forward , a program to distribute grants and […]
  
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• Crew clearing garbage finds human remains near Snohomish County’s Highway 522

  10-05-2018 04:56
  The circumstances that led to the person's death remain unknown.
  
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