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BY DONNA DEEDY DONNA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Popular downtown Kings Park businesses, such as the Park Bake Shop and the Kings Park Shipping and Business Center, have said for years that they lacked adequate parking for their customers. Their decade-old complaint has finally spurred action that has become one of the county’s most significant investments in a downtown: $500,000 for a new parking lot that will provide 23 stalls for local businesses.

“I was shocked when I got the call,” said Lucy Shtanko, who owns the bakery with her husband, Gabe.

On Thursday, Oct. 3, County Executive

The community applauds as Bellone and Wehrheim shake hands after the county awards Smithtown $500,000 in jumpstart funds. Since 2013, Suffolk County has distributed $11.3 million in funds to foster regionally significant downtown economic development projects. Photo from the Town of Smithtown

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St. James Day 2019 The St. James Chamber of Commerce, for its 32nd year, hosted its annual street fair on Lake Avenue Oct. 6. More than 300 vendors set up shop this year for the chamber’s only fundraiser. The event is said to draw more than 10,000 people who enjoy the fair’s food and festivities. Overall, its a great day to meet their neighbors. The Chamber of Commerce uses its revenue from the event to cover the costs for its parades, egg hunt and holiday decorations.

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KINGS PARK JUMPSTART Continued from A3

Steve Bellone (D) sat beside Smithtown’s Town Supervisor Ed Wehrheim (R) inside the busy bakery to sign the new Jumpstart economic initiative.

“When we’re focused on families, communities rather than political nonsense,” Bellone said. “We get things done.”

Bellone said that Kings Park had all the qualities worthy of economic development efforts. It has a train station, natural resources, a good school district and is located between Stony Brook University and Cold Spring Harbor Lab. Most importantly, people worked together to make it happen.

“When you talk about revitalization, you have to start with community right from the start, otherwise it will fail,” Bellone said.

“This community has done it right.”

Shopowners Shtanko and John Nobles,

who own the shipping center, said they had gathered years ago more than 750 signatures and worked with civic groups and other businesses to mobilize action. Their persistence has ultimately paid off.

Wehrheim, who lives in Kings Park, said that the town had already purchased in the late summer of 2018 two vacant lots for the additional parking at a cost of $279,000.

“We cannot do this alone,” the supervisor said.

“We rely on higher levels of government and there couldn’t be a better partner than Bellone.”

The jumpstart funds will pay for the entire project from start to finish, according to the supervisor’s office. But, not for the land that has already been purchased. Costs include surveying, erosion control and environmental protection, excavation, grading, pavement, concrete, handicap accessible sidewalk entrances, landscaping, all new electric lighting, traffic control signage and labor.

The parking lot is expected to be particularly useful for the Park Bake Shop and the Shipping Center and restaurants

The Reel Kitchen, Dragon House, Red and Relish. The additional parking will also likely help with leasing out shops that have been vacant, according to town officials.

Since the downtown is laid out rectangularly with the train station serving as a corner hub, some business leaders foresee Kings Park becoming a more popular destination.

Joann Galletta Hahn, president of the Kings Park Heritage Museum, predicts that people will be more likely to stroll the business district.

Bellone noted that when the chamber, civic, businesses, residents and government join together, anything is possible.

Twenty-four hours after the jumpstart announcement, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D)

signed a bill that essentially secured funds for $20 million in sewer upgrades for Kings Park. The upgrades are considered essential for the downtown business development.

“I thank the governor for signing this important bill into law,” said State Sen. John Kennedy (R) who was the bill’s original sponsor. “And I am grateful the project can now proceed.”

The overarching — Bellone consensus of the community after the announcements: Great things are on the horizon.

The jumpstart project will begin immediately with the surveying. The town expects to finish the parking lot in May or June of 2020.

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Region Scientists to Public: Act Now to Create More Bird-Friendly Communities Birds on the Brink of Extinction

BY DONNA DEEDY DONNA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM A new study in the Sept. 20 issue of Science has found that in the United States and Canada bird populations have fallen a staggering 29 percent since 1970.

Such a dramatic drop has scientists concerned that the decline could be a sign of an ecosystem collapse. Habitat loss is considered a prime culprit.

Huntington resident Coby Klein understands the big picture. He’s an ecology professor at Baruch College and a guide with the HuntingtonOyster Bay Audubon Society.

“If the arctic continues to become warmer and drier, it will cause larger and more frequent fires,” he said. “Fires kill birds and destroy nesting habitats and drive down populations of sandpipers, gulls, terns, waterfowl and birds of prey that migrate through or winter on Long Island.”

The best thing people can do, if you really have an interest in protecting birds and the environment, he said, is to vote.

Otherwise, the Audubon Society is committed to transforming communities back into places where birds flourish. Sterile lawns, ornamental species, pesticides and herbicides mean that on a local level, the landscape no longer supports functioning ecosystems.

Klein himself said that he lives on a postagestamp-sized lot and the only native plant that thrives in his yard is poison ivy. But he notes that the Audubon Society is sponsoring a campaign called Creating Bird-Friendly Communities.

The program is designed to educate the public on what they can do to help reverse the damage done and revive disappearing bird populations.

Growing native plants is a key component to re-establishing the ecological functions of cities and towns, according to the society and its experts. And they say the concept is easier on the back and wallet.

To flourish, birds need (a) plenty of food, (b) shelter where they can rest, (c) clean water to drink and bath in and (d) safe places to raise their young. Native plants and the insects that co-evolved around them are vital to a healthy system. The more native plants, the Audubon emphasizes, the more food and shelter. More bugs, caterpillars and seed pods on more public and private land is part of the solution.

The Audubon’s Native Plants Database, which is on its website, suggests plants according to ZIP code. The choices were hand-selected by local experts and include information about the birds and creatures it benefits. Serviceberry, for example, is recommended for Long Island’s North Shore communities. The small, shrublike

tree with dense branching produces white flowers in the spring followed by red, purple or black berries. It attracts butterflies and caterpillars, as well as warblers and woodpeckers and about nine other types of birds. The database can be a good first place to explore landscape options.

The Long Island Native Plant Initiative’s website is another good resource. The local nonprofit gathers wild seeds and makes native plants commercially available. It also grows and sells the native plant species to local nurseries to increase availability. Polly Weigand, the executive director, recommends requesting native plants from your favorite garden center to increase demand. It’s goal is to reach more businesses in the nursery industry. Once people get into the habit of providing suitable habitats, birds become less vulnerable and are potentially more capable of adapting to climate conditions, according to the Audubon.

Native gardens, experts agree, are also relatively maintenance free and require little to no special irrigation system or fertilizers or toxic chemicals. So, it saves time and money and is a healthier option for people in the long run.

This fall consider practicing less drastic and costly yard cleanup. The Audubon recommends leaving the seed heads of perennials in the garden and skipping the raking. Leaf litter, they say, is free fertilizer, and a good place for birds to forage for worms and other critters. If tree limbs fall, they say, consider building a brush pile that will provide birds with shelter from the wind and predators. Branches settle and decompose over the seasons and make room for the next year’s contributions.

Birds are indicator species: They tell us if things are functionting right in our ecosystem. Clockwise from above: American goldfinch eats a nonnative Echinacea seed in authumn. Hunningbird searches for nectar in a jewel weed, a plant native to Long Island. Rose-brested grosbreak male rests on the branch of a tulip tree, a native tree with a tall canopy that also attracts hummingbirds to its flowers. Photos by Luci Betti-Nash

Plant asters and woody shrubs like bayberry and winterberry this fall. The waxy fruit of bayberry provides an important source of energy to migrating birds. Evergreens, too, like cedars, firs and holly, provide shelter and something for birds to eat in winter. In general, milkweed, goldenrod and sunflowers are important plants for the rest of the year.

“When you plant native species in your home landscapes it’s a protective way of ensuring that invasive ornamental species seeds don’t spread and dominate the rest of Long Island’s landscape,” said Weigand.

Overall, the objective is to lose some lawn, or create pathways through it, and create habitat layers.

Tall canopy trees produce nuts and provide nest cavities for shelter.

Shrubs and small trees throw fruit for bird food and herbaceous plants supply seeds and a habitat for pollinators. Decaying leaves produce the base of all habitats. It also happens to be where moth pupae live, a favorite food of baby birds.

Start small, the Audubon states, and cluster plants in groupings of five or more of the same species.

Pollinators, they say, prefer to

feed from masses of the same flower. And remember to include a birdbath or hollowed out rock where rainwater collects, so birds have a supply of fresh water.

In the end, you’ve created a backyard sanctuary and a sure method for healthy, sustainable living.

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Rob Ciavarella’s fifth-grade class at Mount Pleasant Elementary in the Smithtown Central School District went on the offensive against childhood diseases by teaming up with the National Football League. The class made activity books that were distributed to children in the pediatric wards of Stony Brook Hospital. This community service project added 2,000 minutes to the “NFL’s Huddle for 100” goal of 100 million community service minutes during the league’s 100th anniversary season. Photo from Smithtown Central School District

Smithtown High School East senior and co-president of DECA Alexis Albert addressed the Suffolk County legislators on Oct. 2 imploring them to approve a bill that she helped to develop with Legislator Rob Trotta (R-Fort Salonga) making November Teen Mental Health Awareness Month in Suffolk County. Her efforts are part of a larger DECA community awareness campaign that she is running throughout Smithtown Central School District this school year called BREATHE (Boosting, Reforming, and Enriching Access to Health Education). Pictured from left, Rob Trotta, Alexis Albert and Matthew Hennings, Smithtown High School East DECA co-adviser. Photo from Smithtown Central School District

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Students examined the physical and chemical aspects of the aquatic ecosystem where freshwater and salty seawater meet. They documented the amount of sediments, nitrates, phosphates and oxygen levels in the water and conducted biodiversity inventories of the flora and fauna in and around the river and estuary. Participants also reviewed the work currently underway to restore various migratory fish species to their historic seasonal spawning environments.

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BY BILL LANDON DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Undefeated at 4-0 in league play Smithtown West hit the road to take on crosstown rival Smithtown East (3-1) for the Smithtown Bull’s bragging rights. West, which allowed a game to go beyond 3 sets only twice this season, did it again defeating East 25-15, 25-17 and 25-15 on Oct. 2.

Team leader Kasey Tietjen notched nine kills, five digs and a pair of aces, along with teammates Carley McAleavey and Hannah Naja, who had seven kills each. The win ties Smithtown West with Centereach atop the League III leaderboard with five wins each.

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Opinion

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Businesses Should Look to End Discrimination

If you ignore prejudice, you invite prejudice.

Stony Brook University officials recently hosted a forum in Port Jefferson to highlight how, despite efforts to stamp out prejudice in the local community, its specter constantly lingers in the background. The catalyst for the panel discussion was a recent incident, where a Sikh man was essentially barred from entering a restaurant because his religious garb was misunderstood.

Presenters praised the more than 40 people, mostly business owners, who attended the panel for being open-minded. Many walked away with new insights and goals in mind.

It makes little economic nor moral sense to restrict who can buy your products or shop because of a lingering prejudice, so we agree that all North Shore businesses should be looking for ways to become more inclusive.

Prejudice sits just under the skin of a community and surfaces regularly. Back in May, a gay couple were called “faggots” by a waiter as they left a restaurant in Smithtown. The restaurant wrote a long apology on its Facebook page, but not until after the news was carried far and wide. That incident not only looks bad on that one individual and the business where they are employed, but the stigma is transmitted to all surrounding businesses.

People can pretend that prejudice is contained as overt acts of aggression, yet the truth is less obvious. In reality, much of Long Island is dotted with areas of high wealth, situated alongside areas of upper and lower middle class. Consider Long Island school districts, which dictate their own boundaries. Segregation among school districts is such that the majority of Brentwood students, for example, are black and Hispanic, while a district like Three Village is comprised of more than 80 percent white students. To pretend that such overt segregation doesn’t lead to ignorance and prejudice is fooling oneself. The truth is that Long Island is regarded as one of the most segregated metropolitan regions in the country.

Restricting somebody from entering a restaurant is overt in its ignorance. It’s wrong for a whole host of reasons, and in the small relatively insular communities of the North Shore of Long Island, those ideas are hard to wrestle away.

But those ideas must be torn away, ripped up and be jammed deep to the bottom of the garbage bin.

Our local shops have a lot they can do to help. The Stony Brook University panel suggested businesses talk about hiring people to become more diverse. Simply putting a sign in a store window inviting people of all races, religions, creeds, sexual orientations and genders to shop can emphasize inclusivity.

Learn to recognize prejudice and then take a stand when you see it, especially if it’s within your own thoughts and actions.

There are benefits to racial and cultural diversity. Let’s celebrate our differences.

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Don’t Hold Your Breath Congress holds the key to pass a bill for gun control, but don’t hold your breath.

In 2009, under former President Barack Obama [D] with a super democratic majority, what was accomplished? During his eight years, there were 32 mass shootings and the deadly Sandy Hook shooting that left 28 people killed (20 young children).

Are our children being protected like Congress today? Only in New York City schools are there metal detectors, police officers, locked doors and safety officers.

Recently, in June, Mayor Bill de Blasio [D] announced an initiative to put more social workers and less police in city schools.

Detailed background checks, curtailing access to assault weapons, mental health reviews are all good, but the gun is only one tool of mass destruction. What about when pressure cookers, knives and moving vehicles are used? We seem to be repeating superficial answers to our complex cultural problems. We have yet to hear on a state or national level a discussion with

regards to the bombardment of violence via the TV, movies and electronic games and the effects of marijuana and other drugs that can add to the prevalent mental illness and violence.

It really needs to start at home, with parents, relatives, friends, teachers, ministers, doctors, police and judges.

Taking action individually and locally as former President Harry Truman [D] said, “The buck stops here.” Perhaps our state leadership can “reprioritize” projects that cost millions and spend resources wisely on the cause and effects of violence.

A major challenge is that criminals do not abide by laws, and we need to remember as Americans that our Second Amendment was put in place not for hunting and home defense but was created to give citizens the right to fight back against a tyrannical government — having just fought off the British during the Revolutionary War. In conclusion, we value scrutinization of information. Facts matter but more important is if the resources are accurate

and not part of a revised history. To set the record straight with regards to former President Woodrow Wilson [D], from a critic, he was not supportive of the Nineteenth Amendment — giving women the right to vote — which was met with much resistance for many years. In fact the government used heavy-handed tactics and unspeakable brutalities, and National Woman’s Party attorneys had to step in. The Republicans gained control of both the House and Senate after the 1918 elections, and it was the Republicans who passed the Nineteenth Amendment, June 4, 1919, and ratified Aug. 18, 1920.

Now our Congress, with the impeachment inquiries, is in a “summer rerun” of the Mueller report on a revised movie of “Groundhog Day” since they returned to Washington from their vacations. They are too preoccupied to work on things that matter to the American citizen.

Lisa Pius Carol Florio Old Field

Suffolk’s Fiscal Stress Unsustainable It’s official: For the second year in a row, Suffolk County has been rated the most fiscally stressed county in the state.

This is not from some think tank, this is directly from the New York State Comptroller’s Office, and the report shows what I have been saying all along: Suffolk is in a fiscal crisis.

To say that the county is showing “significant” fiscal stress, like the report said, is a gross understatement. According to the state comptroller’s office, the county’s general fund balance is running a deficit of over $91 million. That is more than three times the figure from three years ago. It also shows that, since 2016, expenditures have outpaced revenues. That is because our current county executive, Steve Bellone (D), is spending more than the county is taking in and continues to borrow against our future.

And because of our junk bond status, he will borrow at higher interest rates, burdening the county’s taxpayers.

This is not a problem that can be solved by increasing taxes. The truth of the matter is, unlike what County Executive Steve Bellone would have you be-

lieve, most county taxpayers in its five western towns have experienced annual tax increases averaging about 4 percent per year over the past several years, well above the 2 percent tax cap. County residents are simply taxed too much and can no longer afford to live here.

We are in a fiscal free fall, with insufficient cash flow, making it difficult to pay the county’s bills. We are now in a position where we are having difficulty meeting our financial obligations from week to week. Many of our vendors are receiving delayed payments, putting significant financial stress on them as well. It means these companies will not meet payroll, employees will not be paid on time, jobs will be in jeopardy and, in many cases, a reduction in services to the taxpayers.

How has this affected Suffolk’s fiscal crisis? The comptroller’s report goes on to say that, from 2017 to 2018, Suffolk’s population decreased by 1.28 percent, home values declined by 12.52 percent and more than 17.5 percent of the county’s population rely on state and federal aid just to live here.

But who can afford to live here? Since

Steve Bellone took office in 2012, Suffolk residents have been burdened with $200 million in new taxes and fees, a 22.4 percent hike in the property tax levy and a 15 percent budget increase — along with nearly $900 million in debt, seven bond downgrades and seven fiscal emergencies — and we have seen over 16,000 residents flee Suffolk. Our younger generation cannot afford to live here, and our seniors can no longer afford to stay here.

The tax-and-spend policies of this administration have created this fiscal crisis and have hurt Suffolk County taxpayers. This has to end. Our finances are on the brink of disaster and, if we are hit with another recession or an economic slowdown, sales tax revenues, which the county heavily relies on, will be reduced. This is what keeps comptrollers up at night, and I worry about the impact it will have on our county, its taxpayers, employees and those who rely on it for vital services.

John Kennedy Suffolk County Comptroller Republican candidate for Suffolk County Executive

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Opinion

A Little Appreciation Goes a Long Way

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speak with a police officer near my son’s school regularly. She steps into four lanes of frantic morning commuting traffic to allow people to maneuver into and out of a school parking lot.

She offers a pleasant, “Good morning,” to people who roll down their windows or who walk past her. As she steps carefully into a heavily trafficked street, she makes eye contact with drivers.

D. None She waves of the above to the waiting

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF parents to make their turns and rejoin the flow of traffic to work or to their next morning destination. She sends them off from school with

a pleasant, “Have a great day,” as they drive around her.

Recently, I pulled up to the stop sign and saw the officer holding her stomach.

“What’s happening?” I asked.

“I just can’t stop laughing,” she said. “I see the same crazies every day. I’m used to them.

There’s this guy who drives a pickup truck and he cusses at me every time he passes. I’m not sure why.”

“Is that funny?” I asked.

“No, today, a woman looked right at me, clapped, gave me the thumbs up and raised her fist. She seemed so happy that I was here.”

“That’s great,” I said.

“Yeah, she made my day,” the officer said, again holding her stomach. “That was just so funny.”

This police officer spends her day looking in car windows, hoping people stop instead of running her over or creating traffic hazards for children or their parents near schools.

And yet, this driver made her happy by sharing an effusive and appreciative series of

simple gestures.

The movements the woman made are the kinds of displays superstar athletes see every time they step on a sports field or tennis court.

These expressions of appreciation, gratitude and admiration are so common that many of the players block out the sounds so they can focus on the game.

But for this officer, the show of support was a welcome sight.

A day before, a friend told me that he and his daughter pulled into a parking lot, where a parking attendant asked for $3. When he handed out the money, his daughter leaned across him and thanked the attendant.

The attendant smiled and directed them to a spot nearby.

“What are you thanking him for?” my friend asked. “What did he do?”

“He’s doing his job and I appreciate it,” his daughter said. “Why can’t you appreciate it?”

“He’s taking my money,” the friend reasoned.

“Yes, and you’re getting a place to park,”

she said.

My friend recognized the value of the words. Besides, even if it didn’t make the attendant’s day, it didn’t cost anything and it may have helped the car park collector feel like someone cared that a good job was being done.

In that same vein, I’d like to thank you for reading this column today and any other time you take the time to read it. I know you could be doing numerous other tasks and I appreciate the opportunity to share words, thoughts or experiences with you.

I realize you don’t always agree with me.

Maybe climate change isn’t top of your mind or you have perfect children who never once frustrate and amuse you, or your dog is so well trained that it never jumps up on anyone or consumes a plate full of warm cookies. But I appreciate the chance to connect with you.

Maybe today, tomorrow or next week, you can also pass along an appreciative gesture.

Who knows? You might make the day of a police officer, a baker, a mail carrier or a dog walker.

Talking to Strangers Can Be Revealing or Can Be Something Else

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book I recently finished and enjoyed has topped The New York Times Best Sellers Hardcover Nonfiction list, so clearly many others appreciate it as well. It is “Talking to Strangers,” Malcolm Gladwell’s latest offering. Reading it, in some ways, is like a summary of controversial current events, with a lot of interesting yet extraneous information thrown in because that makes for a good story. And one thing about Gladwell: He is a good storyteller. The author of Between previous bestsellers you and me including “The TipBY LEAH S. DUNAIEF ping Point,” and “Blink,” Gladwell is said to turn social science into best selling books. One of the critics

said that he could probably make a riveting story about a pencil sharpener.

Initially I picked up the book because of its title. I thought it could have been written for me because I habitually and notoriously talk to strangers.

I say it that way because I’m not sure the people I am with always appreciate sharing me but I can’t help myself. When I am in a theater and it is intermission, I am interested in how the people around me like the show. When I am at the opera — where a surprising number of different languages are spoken by the audience — I wonder where the people next to me come from and I ask them. Sometimes I even begin chatting with others in an elevator in conversations of obviously limited duration.

Lest you think I am an insensitive pest, I rush to assure you that if those questioned by me would seem unwilling to talk, I would immediately become silent. But I find quite the contrary. Most people seem to enjoy talking to strangers who are sharing the same environment.

So I started reading but was surprised that Gladwell’s theme was quite different from what I was expecting. From his perspective, it is difficult to evaluate a person, especially in a provocative

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situation, simply by talking with them and reading their body language. Why? Sometimes people lie, and lie convincingly. An example he gives is Bernie Madoff, who with his quiet and thoughtful manner, was able to convince clever and talented financial experts that he was honest. For a time, even members of Renaissance Technologies in Setauket were caught off guard.

As Gladwell wrote, “Through a complicated set of arrangements Renaissance found itself with a stake in a fund run by [Madoff]” and “The people at Renaissance are brilliant … but couldn’t quite make the leap to believe that it was all a setup” despite personal interviews with Madoff. That is, until they became sufficiently suspicious to take out their money, but then only half that was invested with Madoff, according to Gladwell.

There are other examples in the book having to do with cultural or contextual differences between the viewer and the person being viewed, sometimes with disastrous results.

One such situation involved Amanda Knox, an American student incarcerated for four years following the murder of her roommate in Perugia, Italy, largely because Italian prosecutors

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interpreted her youthful American goofiness as signs of guilt. She was subsequently acquitted of the murder.

Another example put forth by Gladwell is the unwillingness of witnesses to recognize the guilt of Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant college football coach who abused children. Yet another example, the one that starts and ends the book, is of Sandra Bland, the African-American woman from Chicago who was stopped by a white highway patrolman in a small town in Texas for not signaling when she changed lanes. It should have been a routine event. Instead, because of misreading, it turned into a confrontation resulting in her death three days later by hanging in a local jail that was ruled a suicide. There are also fascinating stories about Cuban spies fooling the CIA, among other tales.

Gladwell’s conclusion is that we should “accept the limits of our ability to decipher strangers.”

He goes on to say, “What is required of us is restraint and humility. … There are clues to making sense of a stranger. But attending to them requires care and attention.” And knowing that we can be wrong. Anyone who has hired the wrong applicant for a job can vouch for that.

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