Ka`u Calendar News Briefs Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Everyone is invited to attend Sunday Bon Dance practices to prepare for Aug. 21, Pahala Hongwanji's first Bon
Dance since 1999 when this photo was taken by filmmaker Cliff Watson. Watson also made a film about the last
 harvest at Ka`u Sugar Co. See more below. Photo by Cliff Watson

OCEAN VIEW RESIDENTS WILL HAVE access to water during prolonged repairs to the well there, Hawai`i County Department of Water Supply announced yesterday.

Click to enlarge public notice from Hawai`i
County Department of Water Supply.

      In its original public notice, DWS said the standpipe facility and spigot station would be closed from July 25 to approximately Sept. 30 but later agreed to keep the makai spigot station at the site open for residential potable water needs. The department requests that users limit their water filling to 55 gallons or less in order to meet the daily water needs of all spigot users.

      Mauka standpipes for water hauling trucks will remain closed until repairs are completed.
      “Following my discussions with the Department of Water Supply yesterday expressing the extreme hardship residents of Ocean View will suffer if the standpipes as well as the spigots were closed while repairs are being made, I am very pleased that the Department of Water Supply was very understanding and cooperative in compromising to find a solution,” County Council member Maile David said. “Mahalo a nui loa to everyone for their patience and understanding, and to the department for their quick response to our community's and requests.”
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PAHALA HONGWANJI HOSTS its first Bon Dance of the 21st century on Sunday, Aug. 21. The last was held in 1999. Footage of the 1999 Obon service, filmed by Cliff Watson, is available at uluulu.hawaii.edu/titles/3789. Watson, a filmmaker based in Honolulu, with family ties to Pahala, also made a film on the last harvest of Ka`u Sugar Co. in 1996, called Ka`u Sugar: A Town Remembers. See uluulu.hawaii.edu/titles/4451. Watson said he plans to visit Pahala to witness the historic return of the Bon Dance in August.

Obon includes a service at Pahala Hongwanji.

      Bon Dances not only draw the Buddhists. People of all religions and ethnic groups are invited. It is a style of dancing performed during the Obon season to welcome spirits of ancestors during the harvest when food is placed at the temple altar.
    The event begins with a service at Pahala Hongwanji, followed by the dance and fellowship, including food.

    Obon Dances, which are held around the island each summer, involve people, often in traditional Japanese dress, moving in a circle around a high wooden scaffold called a yagura. The yagura is usually also the bandstand for musicians and singers of Obon music.

      Practices are scheduled for each Sunday beginning July 24 from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Pahala Community Center. Participants are asked to bring a tenugui (hand towel) and uchiwa (fan).
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GOV. DAVID IGE VETOED Senate Bill 2077 that calls for benefits to Hawai`i Health Systems Corporation employees who are facing abolishment of their positions or workforce restructuring at Maui Region facilities. The Legislature last year authorized the transition from state to private operation. HHSC also operated Ka`u Hospital and other facilities in its East Hawai`i Region.

      “There are three primary reasons for this veto,” Ige said. “The Employees Retirement System believes this bill jeopardizes its tax-qualified status because it allows affected employees to choose between a lump-sum cash payment that is taxable as wages and a special employer subsidized early retirement benefit. Under the IRS code, sections governing the state’s ERS plan, this is not permitted, and therefore it threatens the plan’s tax-exempt status.

      “Affected employees were given a lump-sum cash payment upon separation from state service. However, the bill does not appropriate funds for this purpose. Nor does it provide authority to Hawai`i Health Systems to make the payments.

      “Finally, the bill adds an additional unfunded liability of about $17.2 million to the ERS and $18.4 million to the Employer Union Benefits Trust fund to cover Maui employees separated from state service.

Gov. Ige announcing his vetoes. Photo from Office of the Governor

      “This undermines the state’s moratorium on enhanced benefits and puts the state’s long-term financial plan in jeopardy because the state’s long-term financial position is judged by bond rating agencies based upon the state’s outstanding unfunded liabilities.
      “Adding to the unfunded liabilities raises concerns for these agencies about the state’s commitment to financial sustainability.
      “This transition to a new system of care has never been done before. It is complex, and there are multiple stakeholders and issues at play. I have exercised my Constitutional duty to veto the bill and submit a remedy so the transition can move forward. My proposed cure remedies legal, technical and fiscal issues while respecting public employees and the collective bargaining process as the employees separate from state service. It is a path forward.”
      Ige submitted a proposed amended bill to the Legislature that he said balances the needs of the various stakeholders and constituents. It calls for the state of Hawai`i and HHSC as the employer to negotiate with exclusive representatives for separation benefits for affected employees who separate from state service.
      Affected employees would be authorized to purchase retirement credits for the amount of time they would have received if they had remained in state service up to June 30, 2017.
      It would appropriate $25 million in general funds for allocation by the Director of Finance to HHSC for payment of the separation benefits and related fringe costs.
      The state Senate has called for a special session regarding the governor’s veto. It will reconvene on Monday, July 18.
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New legislation would help with full implementation
of Title IX, the Patsy Mink Equal Opportunity in
Education Act. Photo from Patsy T. Mink Foundation.

SEN. MAZIE HIRONO LAST WEEK introduced the Patsy Mink Gender Equity in Education Act. The bill would provide more resources for schools, school districts, states and institutions of higher education to fully implement the Patsy Mink Equal Opportunity Act, commonly referred to as Title IX – which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded educational programs and activities.

      “The Patsy Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act transformed the educational landscape in our country with an idea that seems redundant today, but was profound at the time: that sex-based discrimination has no place in our schools,” Hirono said. “Forty-four years later, Title IX has opened doors for girls and women from access to higher education to sports. But we have more work to do. This legislation builds on Patsy’s legacy by expanding resources to see Title IX’s mandate through.”
      The act would provide resources, training and technical assistance to fully implement Title IX and reduce and prevent sex discrimination in all areas of education, including establishing an Office of Gender Equity in the U.S. Department of Education to coordinate activities within the Department and among other federal agencies; combating discrimination, harassment, bias and violence based on sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions; supporting Title IX coordinators with annual training; providing competitive grants to K-12 schools, institutions of higher education, local educational agencies, or states as the primary applicants, with the option to partner with organizations with relevant expertise; including evaluation and assessment of how applicants improve on indicators of gender equity; and disseminating resources and best practices nationwide.
      More than 25 organizations, including the American Association of University Women, the Hawai`i Department of Education and the Human Rights Campaign support the bill.
      “The Patsy Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act, which is widely known as Title IX, protects people from discrimination and the Hawai`i State Department of Education works to ensure equal opportunities are afforded to all students,” said Hawai`i Department of Education Schools Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi. “Hawai`i’s Patsy Mink led the way, and now Sen. Hirono’s bill is taking it a step further because it would safeguard that gender equity is effectively carried out by providing resources, including grants for gender equity efforts and training for Title IX coordinators.”

Pele by Dietrich Varez

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RECONSTRUCTING KALUAPELE: Stories and Observations of Lava and Explosions is the topic tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Volcano Art Center in Volcano Village. Oral histories in the form of chants about Pele, her family and their works contain evocative poetry and stories of volcanic or other natural events, cloaked in metaphor and hyperbole.

      Naturalist Bobby Camara and geologist Don Swanson hold an interactive discussion about Pele and how oral traditions about her can be interpreted in terms of what is known today about Kilauea. They piece together a history of eruptive and explosive activity using feet-on-the-ground exploration and observations of sometimes subtle differences in rock and ash. They also share some of their interpretations about Kilauea’s volcanic history by linking geology and cultural traditions, providing a richer appreciation of this unique place.

HAWAI`I COUNTY COUNCIL District VI candidates meet constituents during a forum at Ocean View Community Center Friday at 5:30 p.m.

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Ka`u News Briefs Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Hawai`i Wildlife Fund regularly hosts Ka`u Coast Cleanups such as the one at Kamilo Point last Saturday.
See more below. Photos from Megan Lamson/HWF

CLOSING OCEAN VIEW’S WATER WELL for more than ten weeks constitutes a State of Emergency. That was the consensus residents at last night’s talk story hosted by Raina Whiting, a candidate for Hawai`i County Council.
      Whiting, a Na`alehu teacher and President of the Democratic Party in Ocean View, is running against incumbent Maile David in the Aug. 13 primary election.
      The well is the only source of water in the town of 7,000 residents, who, when the well is closed for repairs, must travel to either Na`alehu or Ho`okena for water. Last night, many residents complained that for those who walk to the well with water jugs, this is not an option.

      Suggested solutions included hiring trucks to bring water from Na`alehu to the storage tank, banning water trucks from getting water from the well until repairs are complete, shortening the time for repairs, and not closing the well until all needed machinery is available and repairs are ready to begin.

      Whiting said she had called and emailed Daryl Ikeda, Chief of Operations for the county Department of Water Supply, in order to get more information, but her calls were not returned. She wanted to find out about the repairs and determine what plans the department has for keeping residents supplied with water for household uses.

Hawai`i County Council candidate Raina Whiting held a talk story
at Ocean View Community Center yesterday. Photo by Peter Bosted

      Unless the department comes up with an alternate solution, Ocean View’s spigots will be closed from Sunday, July 24 until approximately Sept. 30, a minimum of ten weeks. Residents at the meeting all agreed that the county needs to do whatever it takes to keep water in the storage tank that feeds the spigots, supplying essential household water.
      Ocean View’s looming water crisis was one of many concerns facing the town that Whiting and residents discussed. Issues included the controversial solar farm project that threatens to industrialize the rural town and the long-awaited Community Development Plan that, according to residents at the meeting, has been languishing on the Planning Director’s desk instead of being approved by the County Council.
      Ocean View resident Karen Pucci raised the issue of inadequate and ineffective policing and lack of facilities for criminals that are apprehended. “We need a holding cell with about four to six beds,” she said.
      James Weisend, a former law enforcement professional in Alaska, told the meeting that the police set-up in Ocean View was abysmal, and other residents complained that “the police pick on victims.”
      “There is talk of vigilantism,” another resident said. “We need real officers who won’t make us wait an hour for a response.”
      Whiting agreed that the community needs to be active in holding the authorities accountable for the poor standards of police services.
      “I am a grass roots organizer at heart,” she said. “If this is not working, we need to speak out. We need to be the ‘squeaky wheel.’ We need plans for our future growth, as well as the services we need already.”
      State Rep. Dr. Richard Creagan, said that “a good, solid showing at the polls” is needed.
      “You all have a vote,” he said. You need to vote. Communities who do not vote are ignored. State politicians care enormously where the votes are coming from and cater to communities that can, and do, deliver the votes. It’s not enough to have 7,000 residents if only a few hundred vote. You all need to register and vote and encourage your friends to register and vote on Aug. 13,” urged Creagan. 

      Thursday is the last day to register to vote in the August election. Wikiwiki applications are available at Na`alehu Police Station and Pahala Library and online at elections.hawaii.gov. For more information, call 961-8277.
      Whiting announced that sign wavings would take place tomorrow in South Kona and outside Na`alehu Post Office from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and on Friday in Ocean View on Hwy 11 above Malama Market from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Also on Friday, Whiting and current Council member Maile David will hold a forum at Ocean View Community Center beginning at 6 p.m.

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Piles of trash are ready to be hauled
away from Kamilo.

HAWAI`I WILDLIFE FUND and 41 community volunteers helped remove nearly 1,485 pounds of marine debris from the shoreline at Kamilo Point last Saturday. The litter included more than 200 pounds of derelict fishing nets, 150 pounds of large loose debris, 45 pounds of Method recyclables, 80 pounds of microplastics, 890 pounds of miscellaneous debris and dozens of toys, bottle caps, five cigarette lighters, six plastic crates, two large plastic pallets and a plastic teddy bear coin bank.

      “Mahalo to Norwex, Kona Surf Film Festival, and Hoffman Leung for the financial support to host this cleanup,” said coordinator Megan Lamson. “And a special thanks goes to Hawai`i Kombucha for the delicious hibiscus kombucha tea keg to keep our volunteers happily hydrated. Our heartfelt gratitude also goes out to all the individuals and groups that joined us, including Nurdle in the Rough Jewelry, Hawai`i Outdoors Institute, Pulama Lanai, Surfrider Foundation Big Island Hawai`i Chapter - Kona Kai Ea, local artists Kathleen Crabill, Don Elwing and Laurel Schultz, and many other amazing individuals and family members!”

      HWF’s next Ka`u Coast Cleanup takes place on Saturday, Sept. 24. Email kahakai.cleanup@gmail.com for more information and to register.
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Agatha, Blas, Celia and Darby are named storms in the Pacific
so far the year. Another is forming behind Darby.
Map from University of Hawai`i

STORMS ARE LINING UP IN THE PACIFIC. Tropical Storm Blas is sending squalls and swells toward Hawai`i Island. The National Hurricane Center reported that Hurricane Celia is moving northwest and weakening as it hits cooler waters. Celia’s impacts could affect the state early next week. Further east is Tropical Storm Darby, which continues to strengthen but is also expected to weaken when it reaches cooler waters.

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MAULI OLA FESTIVAL IS SET for Sept. 21-24 at Wood Valley Farm. According to founder Malian Lahey, the festival will bring together a global tribe to celebrate, learn and generate new conversations about coffee, human rights and earth-friendly practices.

Malian Lahey, wearing lei, presents Mauli Ola Festival
in September. Photo from Lahey

       “Conversations like these are powerful force multipliers that can create real shifts in how the world works,” Lahey said. “When it comes to coffee, agriculture and our relationship with the earth, it’s easy to become disconnected. It’s easy to not remember the people who farm that coffee, to not worry about whether they are treated well or paid fairly. It’s easy to forget that our actions – and our inaction – have an impact on the earth and our communities.

      “The Mauli Ola Festival is about reconnecting with those values. We will bring together a global tribe to celebrate, teach and start new dialogues about many aspects of the world around us.”
      Sunalini Menon, of CoffeeLab; Sarah Allen, of Barista Magazine; Sarah Grant, of USC Fullerton, and more will share their work in the nuts and bolts of women’s empowerment, economic empowerment and other aspects of human rights in coffee.
      Using framework developed by Monica Sharma, a senior staffer at the United Nations, to develop Leadership for Community Transformation, participants will relate the conversation at the event with their own projects and passions at home and create the seed of their own legacy.
      Land-based skill workshops include permaculture, natural building, Leave No Trace ethics, fermented foods, biodiesel and more.
      Musicians include Malian, Grammy-nominated Senegalese West African Kora player Youssoupha Sidibe, Hawaiian music from Jeff Peterson, a Brazilian zouk workshop and a performance by Marie Alonzo Snyder.
      Food and award-winning ethical coffee will be available from local vendors.
      See www.mauliolafestival.com for more information.
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Utamaro: Deeply Concealed Love
Image by Glenn Yamanoha
from Volcano Art Center

AN INTRODUCTION TO MOKUHANGA: Traditional Japanese Woodblock Printmaking takes place at Volcano Art Center in Volcano Village starting on July 14. Sensei Glenn Yamanoha Five teaches five sessions on consecutive Thursdays from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

      Traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking is a relief printing technique that uses Japanese tools and natural materials. Attendees will learn fundamental techniques of Mokuhanga such as cutting with chisels, preparing blocks and paper, registration and printing with a baren (printing pad.)
      Mokuhanga differs from western woodblock in that it is water-based printing with sumi ink, watercolor and nori (rice paste), so no toxic solvents are used; it is printed with a hand-held baren rather than a press; and it employs the accurate kento registration method, cut directly into the block. By utilizing non-toxic, green materials, it readily combines traditional processes with new printing technologies.
      Yamanoha studied woodblock printing in Kyoto, Japan on a Monbusho (Japan Government) scholarship between 1988-90. He lives in Volcano Village and runs Volcano Gravel.
      Course fee is $80/$72 for VAC Members plus a $25 supply fee. No experience is necessary for this workshop.

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Ka`u Calendar News Briefs Monday, July 11, 2016

What's Buggin' the Mountain? Researchers discuss Maunakea's flora and fauna tomorrow at After Dark in the Park.
See more below. Photos from NPS

RAINA WHITING HOSTS A TOWN meeting at Ocean View Community Center tonight at 6 p.m. She is running for Hawai`i County Council against incumbent Maile David. The Ocean View resident has a strong background in grass-root activism and a passion for education.
      Whiting is a teacher at the Na`alehu Elementary School. She sees Ka`u as a rural community that is largely ignored by the county.
      “I see the problem of the county’s overall lack of services to rural communities as the ‘umbrella problem’ under which we find many shortcomings – like wastewater issues, the solar project, the transfer station, ocean access, police and fire services and land security for farmers, especially the small coffee farmers,” Whiting said.

Raina Whiting

      “Keiki and kupuna have to go to Hilo or Kona for services for everything from car registration to WIC stamps, legal services, health services and many other essential services that we pay for with our county taxes. 

      “For example, kindergarten students are required to have shots before they can start school, but the shots were not offered locally during the summer. Parents who did not know this had to go to Kona or Hilo. As a result, many students were enrolled late. This kind of thing can be avoided with planning.
      “Look at waste removal. People dump items that the county makes difficult to take into the system. We need to make it easy to be neat. I would like to see a zero waste program implemented with recycling facilities for almost everything.”
      A graduate of University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Whiting has spent many years in community-based activism. She was a legal advocate for the Legal Aid Society of Hawai`i and a member of AmeriCorps, a nationwide service group that offers services to communities. She was a union organizer for UNITE Here Local 5, which serves hotel workers. She is also a member of Hawai`i State Teachers Association Speakers Bureau, which does legislative advocacy work for teachers and children.
      Whiting is also a member of Teach for America. This organization recruits and places teachers but accepts only 15 percent of applicants. The organization’s goal is to place teachers in rural, underserved communities with high poverty. It works to close the gap on educational inequality.
      “I was fortunate to be accepted and then placed in my home community,” she said.
      Whiting is heavily involved with the leadership of the Hawai`i Democratic Party. She is a member of the state’s Central Committee and a national delegate. She is also vice chair of the House District V and President of the Ocean View precinct. To read comments, add your own, and like this story, see Facebook. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter.

KA`U’S STATE REP. RICHARD ONISHI and his challenger Ainoa Naniole discussed their views on genetically modified crops with Leila Fujimori, of Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

      “I’m pro-farmer,” Naniole told Fujimori. “Papaya farmers have been able to make both work. One farmer does both GMO and non-GMO, organic.” He said he’s willing to work companies such as Monsanto “to grow food that stays here.”

Ainoa Naniole

Rep. Richard Onishi

      “The issues of the anti-GMO movement, the anti-pesticide movement, for many of us in the Legislature is not based on scientific fact,” Onishi said. “Those movements are trying to penalize businesses in the agriculture industry by putting on these restrictions.
      “The Big Island passed an ordinance against GMO. It was supposed to be a complete ban. And when they found out all the papaya growers — 95 percent — raise GMO Rainbow papaya and it would put them all out of business, they said, ‘OK, we’ll allow them to grow GMO crops.’”
      According to Onishi, one of the last two dairy farms on Hawai`i Island raises GMO corn to feed their cows.
      “On the mainland they do the same thing and ship milk to Hawai`i,” he said. “We’re not going to ban the shipment of milk. … Those are examples of where these (anti-GMO) efforts are not looking at us as a state and our survival, our businesses and survival, on jobs. These outside organizations are organizing people to run against us.”
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U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard

HELPING FAMILIES IN MENTAL HEALTH Crisis Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 422-2 last week.

      “Millions of people in the U.S., including more than 32,000 adults and 12,000 children in Hawai`i, are living with serious mental health conditions, yet less than half receive the services they need,” Ka`u’s Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said. “To help bridge the gap that has long existed in mental health care, H.R. 2646 would better connect those dealing with mental illness to community-based services, promote early intervention and treatment, increase access to tele-medicine for underserved and rural communities, and remove access barriers to Medicaid and Medicare for adults and children who need treatment. In addition, the legislation will help address a nationwide shortage of nearly 100,000 inpatient beds, encourage states to provide community-based alternatives to institutionalization, and increase funding for suicide prevention research and outreach programs. Mental illness affects every community in every state across the nation. This bipartisan legislation will help to ensure that those in need of mental health care have better access to the treatment and care they need.”
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THE FIRST-EVER HAWAI`I ISLAND Festival of Birds is scheduled for the weekend of Sept. 24-25 at Sheraton Kona Resort & Spa at Keauhou Bay.

      Saturday’s workshops, including special programs for children, will be highlighted by talks from Brian Sullivan, project leader for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for eBird.org; Dr. Chris Farmer, Hawai`i program director for the American Bird Conservancy; and a panel discussion by the Hawai`i Forest Bird Survey crew. Noah Gomes, park ranger at Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park, will also speak about traditional Hawaiian featherwork.
      Saturday’s program options include a hands-on Photography Workshop with Jack Jeffrey and a block-printing workshop with artist Gretchen Grove. Materials bill be provided.
      Saturday night’s Gala Dinner will be headlined by Dr. Sam Gon III speaking on the cultural and biological significance of Hawai`i’s unique bird life.

`I`iwi Photo by Jack Jeffrey

      A highlight of the first-ever festival is Sunday’s sneak peek of the newly created Hawai`i Island Coast to Coast Birding Trail with field-trip van departures from Hilo or Kailua-Kona. Other options are a pelagic (sea) birding trip with biologist guides Brian Sullivan, Mike Scott and Lance Tanino, or a bird photography field trip with Jack Jeffrey.

      “We are very pleased with the excellent reception we’ve had so far,” said Rob Pacheco, of Hawai`i Forest & Trail. “Not only are we enrolling participants from Hawai`i, but birders from across the U.S. Mainland have expressed great interest in our program. The festival is a boon to Hawai`i tourism, and it also will give our keiki a chance to learn more about the nature of Hawai`i, with the help of experts who will be joining us to teach at the festival.”
      Festival sponsors include Hawai`i Tourism Authority, County of Hawai`i, Alaska Airlines, Audubon Magazine, Hawai`i Forest and Trail, Destination Marketing and others.
      For more information and registration, see hawaiibirdingtrails.com. Book before Aug. 1 to take advantage of early-bird pricing for all festival components.
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CASSANDRA CUPPLES EXPLAINS what acupuncture is and what conditions it treats today at 3 p.m. at Na`alehu Library and tomorrow at 6 p.m. at Pahala Library.
      Call 939-2442 and 928-2015 for more information.

FREE MOSQUITO TRAPS will be distributed  at Ocean View Community Center tomorrow at 6 p.m. during an update on Hawai`i County’s dengue fever status.

AT AFTER DARK IN THE PARK tomorrow, Heather Stever and Jessica Kirkpatrick present their thesis research on the diversity of insects on different plant types in Maunakea’s subalpine community and the distribution of wekiu bugs on cinder cones in the alpine stone desert.
     The free program begins at 7 p.m. at Kilauea Visitor Center Auditorium in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park.
      $2 donations support park programs; park entrance fees apply.

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