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From Swahili to Irish Gaelic, students who choose to study lesser-known and taught languages are able to reap the benefits of their specialized study through the Foreign Language and Area Studies scholarship.

FLAS fellowships, which are awarded through the U.S. Department of Education, allow students to “develop greater attention to the study of a chosen modern foreign language and area studies speciality.”

The fellowship gives recipients of yearlong programs $10,000 towards their tuition, along with a $5,000 stipend. FLAS coordinator for the Global Studies Center Elaine Linn Above: Lauren Jewell, a sophomore applied said that right now is a great time to study developmental psychology major, poses for a languages at Pitt. Summer FLAS grants award photo. Right: Lauren Jewell during her trip to Tanstudents with $5,000 to tuition and $3,500 in zania. Courtesy of Lauren Jewell stipends.

“It’s an amazing time for language learners [in aid to students],” Linn said. and for the language departments, as currently The single qualification for the fellowship “Taking the time to build fluency in a lanall six UCIS Centers award over $1,267,000.00 is to study a FLAS language through one of guage and understanding of another culture the language departments — African Studies, is an excellent stepping stone in a variety of Asian Studies, Global Studies Russian East career paths as distinct as health sciences, edEuropean Eurasian Studies, European Studies ucation, museum students, or policy,” Rookand Latin American Studies — at an interme- Koepsel said. diate or advanced level. Languages that Pitt For sophomore psychology major Neila offers that qualify for the program include Ar- McElfresh, the scholarship gave her the opabic, Greek, Polish, Ukrainian and Quechua. portunity to grow as an Irish speaker.

Sophomore applied developmental psy“The FLAS scholarship allowed me the opchology major Lauren Jewell traveled to Tan- portunity to travel to Ireland this summer for zania to begin studying Swahili, and after a two-week-long language intensive program,” Follow completing the first two levels, she became McElfresh said. “This experience was invalueligible for the FLAS fellowship for the cur- able to me, and I grew so much as an Irish @pittnewssports rent academic year. speaker and learner. This truly is an opportuon Instagram “I traveled with Pitt to Tanzania last sum- nity that I never would have had the resources mer for six weeks, where I completed Swahili 1 to engage in. FLAS was essential to my ability and 2,” Jewell said. “This would not have been to study the Irish language outside of the conpossible without my professor, Filipo Lubua. straints of the classroom.”

Filipo pushed me to test into intermediateFor hopeful recipients, the deadline to aplevel Swahili upon our return to the states for ply is Feb. 15. Summer fellows must attend the upcoming semester.” a six-week modern language intensive. AcaFurthermore, Jewell said the program demic year fellows must be enrolled in a FLAS helped her expand her idea about what un- language course during both semesters. They dergraduate language study could be and what are not allowed to seek other employment opportunities look like. during this period due to the money awarded.

“FLAS has allowed me to complete my McElfresh said it’s important and different language ambitions and explored totally new that Pitt offers such a wide range of languages. career possibilities,” Jewell said. “I have been “It’s important that less commonly taught able to network through the program and ex- languages, like Irish, maintain their imporplore international career possibilities.” tance within universities and within the proEmily Rook-Koepsel, the FLAS coordi- fessional world,” McElfresh said. “FLAS plays nator for the Asian Studies Center, said the a vital role in participating in language enscholarship offers fellows a leg up in the job gagement and enthusiasm.” market.

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PITT QUADBALL CLUB BRINGS INCLUSIVITY, WIZARDRY TO OAKLAND

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Whether a devoted “Potterhead,” or only vaguely familiar with the franchise, many are aware of the fictional sport Quidditch. Originating from the “Harry Potter” series by J.K. Rowling, Quidditch is a high-stakes game that is played on broomsticks. The immense popularity of the series has inspired the sport to be adapted and played in colleges and universities across the country — which is now known among them as Quadball.

To Pitt junior computer science major Jim Karas, who is also co-vice president of Pitt’s Quadball Club team, Quadball has differentiated from its origin.

“I feel like it's definitely transcended for me,” Karas said. “It was ‘Harry Potter’ that influenced me. Yeah, because I was familiar with it. But we ended up pulling in people — you know, like your friends hear that you play Quadball, and they're like, I want to come play Quadball [too].”

Since 2005, the sport has expanded to nearly 40 countries and has become an intergender sport.

Due to the obvious lack of flying broomsticks, major modifications were made to the rules spelled out in the series. At the collegiate level, a volleyball serves as the Quadball, which is advanced by three chasers to the goal hoops.

The keeper defends the hoops but can also act as a fourth chaser at any point. A team is awarded 10 points if they send the Quadball through one of three goal hoops.

Two beaters use dodgeballs to “knock out” other players. If hit by the dodgeball, these players must tag their goal before resuming play. After the 20-minute mark, a flag runner — who is a neutral party — with the flag attached to their back comes out. One seeker from each team tries to get the flag off the flag runner. The first to gain the flag is awarded 35 points for their team.

Quadball is physically intense, as it combines elements across many sports. Chasers must be adept at catching and throwing the Quadball, but they are also permitted to kick the ball, meaning at any time it can turn into a game of soccer. The flag runner is allowed to fight against seekers trying to tackle them for the flag.

Similarly to rugby, while fighting one another for the Quadball, players may receive a yellow card for physical play.

The Panthers hosted Penn State and Case Western’s Quadball teams this past weekend at the Three Rivers Throw Down. Penn State and Pitt played first. While Pitt took a more strate-

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Austin James (95) looks for a scoring opportunity during a match against Pitt on Saturday morning outside the Pitt Sports Dome. Alex Jurkuta | Staff Photographer

Jackson Neofes (10) looks to score by throwing the Quadball during a match against Pitt on Saturday morning outside the Pitt Sports Dome.

Bronco York | Staff Photographer gic approach, Penn State was more aggressive, leading to its 130-105 victory. Pitt ultimately lost both games to Penn State, but won both games against Case Western and had flag catches in all four games.

Since the notoriety of quadball largely comes from “Harry Potter,” some spectators of the tournament donned merchandise like gold cloaks as an homage to the flag runner or House merch, such as Gryffindor.

While some players join the Pitt Quadball Club due to their passion for “Harry Potter,” other members of the self-proclaimed “sexiest club sports team” joined the club without knowing much about the franchise.

“We have players who have never watched the movies or read the books,” Karas said. “But they got into it because of other people on the team or they just happened to find it at the activity fair, and just became involved in the sport outside of its influence of ‘Harry Potter.’”

Quadball used to be known as Quidditch and had the original names from the series for the different positions and balls. For example, the flag runner was called the Seeker, the flag was the Golden Snitch, the Quadball was the Quaffle and the dodgeballs were the Bludgers.

The rebranding of the game came after author J.K. Rowling faced controversy for her transphobic comments online. Many organizations, such

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as Major League Quadball and the Pitt Quadball Club, renamed itself to disaffiliate from Rowling. The sport was then renamed to Quadball to disaffiliate from the author.

To senior communications major Delaney Lindberg, captain of the Pitt Quadball Club, this has allowed Quadball to evolve into a more inclusive and transcendent environment.

“There's definitely been a bit of a transcendence from the ‘Harry Potter’ realm,” Lindberg said. “Starting with the name change. Part of that is with some negative associations with J.K. Rowling. And there's also just different variations in terms of how the sport is played. I mean, obviously, you can't fly.”

Another major part of the inclusivity of Quadball comes from its “gender maximum rule.” Quadball is a cross-gender contact sport.

There cannot be more than four players of the same gender on the field at the same time. Lindberg shared that this is one of her favorite parts of the game.

“In this sport [the gender maximum rule] has been one of the most important things for me,” Lindberg said. “Being able to remove that barrier and have dependence and trust in an athletic competition where you have full dependence across genders where the male players on this team trust the non-male players and vice versa. That is a super important thing to me that I very rarely see in athletics in general, and I think that has been the biggest life lesson for me — prioritizing that inclusivity and being able to put all of that together with one another.”

Lindberg likes the intergender nature of the sport.

“My favorite part about this sport is that I can be respectfully tackled by 250-pound men,” Lindberg said. “And I can tackle them, too.”

While the notion of a sport built from flying brooms and magic may seem silly to some at first, Quadball is athletically challenging and requires its players to be skilled in all its aspects.

It has distinctive inclusivity to all genders and the LGBTQ+ community.

Quadball also has the opportunity for leadership development and life balance according to junior nursing major Kevin Oh. The covice president of the Pitt Quadball Club spoke on the lessons the sport has given him.

“I'd learned to take it easy,” Oh said. “I'm learning the balance of enjoying myself, and still being able to lead the team at the same time.

And something I tell all the players on the team just to throw the ball because I feel like that's just the essence of the sport.”

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POST GENRE’S FIRST ATWOOD CHURCH CONCERT AIMS TO TRANSFORM THE OAKLAND MUSIC SCENE Tanya Babbar

Senior Staff Writer For concertgoers in Oakland, the feeling of a favorite DIY venue shutting down is a familiar one.

Post Genre, an Oakland-based music project, is trying to lay the groundwork for a permanent musical fixture in the church on Atwood and Bates in Central Oakland. The building has sat dormant for years between sporadic stints as a barbecue restaurant and hookah lounge — but last Saturday, the space was packed with Oakland music fans for a sold-out show.

Post Genre and 8TRAK Entertainment held the first of three concerts on Feb. 3 in the Atwood church as a project sponsored by the Pittsburgh Innovation District, a nonprofit focused on developing arts and science initiatives in the Oakland area. The show featured live performances from three local bands, Heading North, Clay Coast and 9FiftySeven.

Adam Klenovich, one of the co-founders of Post Genre and a sophomore business and marketing major at the Community College of Allegheny County, created the project with Eli Alfieri, an Oakland resident, and Mark Riggio, a sophomore audio engineering and jazz performance major at Duquesne University, last year. They were the force behind the Oakland block party last September.

Though Post Genre’s presence in the church is a temporary arrangement, Klenovich said the group hopes to start a process of creating a permanent, professional venue to keep the local music scene thriving.

“Even last year, there were more venues than this year. It’s been limited even since I've come to Oakland,” Klenovich said. “It’s kind of been dwindling, and that's not something you want to see, because when people give up the initiative to go and host concerts at their house, it's very quick for the dream to die. Finding a permanent location for Oakland will help through these rough periods where venues aren't as frequent for people.”

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Although Post Genre is a relatively new project, Alfieri has pushed to fill the vacant church on Atwood for over two years. But Klenovich said making a vision like that a reality took not only a lot of dedicated planning, but also larger support. Through their partnership with the Pittsburgh Innovation District, which leases the property from the Oakland Real Estate Company, Post Genre fulfilled that vision.

Klenovich’s home doubles as the venue Black Lodge.

He said funding small concerts at the house and larger shows like the Oakland block party often means contributing his own money. That financial constraint pushed Klenovich and the other organizers toward prioritizing ticket sales over connecting with Oakland’s music community. But with the Pittsburgh Innovation District, a nonprofit pulling in over $700,000 a year, now acting as a sponsor, Klenovich said Post Genre has received grant funding allowing the group to bolster both safety and overall production quality from the vibe of a DIY basement show to a professional music venue.

Post Genre is itself in the process of becoming a nonprofit to continue to receive funding. If it succeeds, Klenovich said Post Genre hopes to create a permanent student-centered venue space for live music and creative work at the church on Atwood.

The possibility of a permanent, well-funded music venue in Oakland would also avoid the typical pitfalls of house shows. Andrew Klepeis, WPTS Radio’s outreach assistant station manager and a senior political science major, said he feels a more permanent music venue in Oakland could offer a step in the right direction.

“Venues in Oakland — it’s one of those things where it's so impermanent, and a lot [of] that is because these are people who are using their landlords’ basement basically to hold this community art thing,” Klepeis said. “If your landlord doesn't like it, they will stop that very easily, or if your neighbors don't like it, they can put a stop to that pretty easily.”

Klepeis added that he would like for Oakland to

have a “non-hierarchical, art collective” where creatives and musicians can come together.

“We need more third places. Hanging out in someone's basement — that's cool, but there are ways that can become kind of cliquey,” Klepeis said.

On top of permanency, the church on Atwood street sits in a prime location for students who live on Pitt’s campus and young people in Oakland. For Dillon Johnson, a 19-year-old Oakland resident who enjoys the local music scene, the possibility of a permanent venue at the Atwood church is exciting.

“It’s good to have what feels like a real venue within walking distance from here, instead of having to take a bus to the Government Center,” Johnson said. “It makes things a lot more convenient, and it's kind of exciting to see what's gonna come from this because you don't really see a lot of the younger students going to shows anymore.”

While working with a larger organization may signal a step away from the DIY ethos of local artists rooted in underground music scenes, many students — attendees, organizers and musicians alike — say they feel larger partnerships offer more stability, safety and opportunity to the local scene.

In Johnson’s view, the potential opportunities for Oakland’s music scene from larger partnerships outweighs concerns of the scene getting too corporate.

“I think what matters is that they're [Post Genre] providing a space in Oakland for musicians to actually perform with real setups,” Johnson said. “That’s something that doesn't exist in Oakland — we didn't really have before they started doing their live series, so, I think the end is much more important than the means.”

Nicky Chiaro, a junior mechanical engineering major who attended Saturday’s show, said while he appreciates a more typical DIY show, the first Atwood church show signaled potential.

“There's definitely some character in being in some random person’s basement, but I could see this place

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really thriving far in the future,” Chiaro said. “This could be a staple for kids, as long as the right people are running it.”

Alfieri said while Post Genre doesn’t aim to shed a negative light on house shows, a professional venue offers a greater experience for not just those who attend, but the artists themselves.

Mike Stolarz, a member of the band Heading North and a Pitt graduate, said while he appreciates what house shows offer to the local music scene, Post Genre’s vision for the Atwood church offers a greater professional opportunity for musicians and students.

“I don't want to just pretend like, ‘Oh, now that we have a new venue, basements or house shows aren't a value,’ but I think there's a sense of legitimacy that a venue, such as the church, provides to the Oakland scene,” Stolarz said.

Alfieri said while some Oakland residents may feel wary about organizations like the Pittsburgh Innovation District making the local scene feel less genuine, the ability to mitigate that concern and stay true to the heart of local music lies in maintaining strong bonds with the community.

“The most important thing to us is to maintain the authenticity, and to keep that hand on the pulse because it could easily go wrong, if it were to turn into a more corporate thing, which is the total opposite of what we're trying to accomplish,” Alfieri said.

“I’m sure there are people who have their doubts, and that's fine — it helps hold us accountable.”

For Johnson, this model of community involvement through the local music scene might be just as DIY as the basement or house show model.

“I look at Post Genre, and I see an organization that is made up of community members and students … educating people about audio engineering, event organizing and lights, and I think using the resources that these community members are providing is the most DIY thing you can do,” Johnson said.

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BRIGID EVENT CELEBRATES IRISH CULTURE THROUGH MUSIC AND DANCE AT AUGUST WILSON CENTER Liam Sullivan | Staff Photographer

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Guests at the BRIGID event gathered to enjoy live music and dance performances at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center in downtown Pittsburgh for a celebration of Irish culture on Saturday, Feb. 3.

The event was a collaboration of the Pittsburgh Irish Festival and Irish Partnership Pittsburgh to celebrate St. Brigid of Kildare, the Celtic goddess and a patron saint of Ireland. St. Brigid’s feast day is a traditional holiday in Ireland celebrated on Feb. 1, marking the beginning of spring in Ireland.

The event opened with live music by Celtic ensemble The Bow Tides, who ignited the stage with their dynamic fiddling, playing a mix of traditional Irish tunes and originals. The Bow Tides’ fiddler, Katie Grennan, expressed her joy in performing at BRIGID. She said her passion for Irish

music stems from her family and background in dance.

“My dad is from Ireland, and I enrolled in Irish dance classes when I was eight. From the moment I started taking lessons, I fell in love with the music — so being able to play it all these years later on a professional level with these four has been really amazing,” Grennan said.

Following The Bow Tides, multi-instrumentalist Ally the Piper from New York performed.

Ally has a following of 1.8 million on TikTok. She began her performance playing the Irish whistle accompanied by her vocals. Ally then transitioned to the bagpipes for the remainder of her set, putting her own spin on the traditional instrument through her incorporation of modern music.

During intermission, attendee Roz Meston shared her enjoyment of the performances thus far, mentioning that her previous trip to Ire-

land sparked her interest in BRIGID. “We went to Ireland and thoroughly enjoyed it so we keep going to things that keep bringing those memories back,” Meston said.“I love the bagpipes and how she [Ally] did that — I’ve never heard anyone play nontraditional bagpipe songs,

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so that was really fun.”

Following intermission was an Irish dance special, featuring dancers from The Step Sisters, Bell School of Irish Dance, Shovlin Academy of Irish Dance and Riverdance cast member Morgan Bullock. The performances showcased several styles of Irish dance, from hard shoe dancing — which created rhythmic sounds echoing on the dance floor — to soft shoes creating a lighter and elegant performance.

The closing act for the evening was The Brigideens, led by Grammy-winning fiddler and multi-instrumentalist Eileen Ivers. The band played an assortment of genres, taking influence from Celtic, bluegrass and Americana styles. The Brigideens ended their set with a rendition of “The Chain” by Fleetwood Mac, which included an electrifying fiddle solo by Ivers.

At the end of the event, all performers from the evening assembled on stage for a grand finale, showcasing the collective talents brought to BRIGID. After the performance, attendee Mara George said the event was her second time attending BRIGID and emphasized that the event’s showcasing of culture through various art forms is what makes it worth attending.

“We came last year and wanted to come again.

We love the fiddle and just the whole experience — the dancers and the music — and we have Irish in our background,” George said. “For the community, it really offers different insights into culture, ways of living and artistic styles.”

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SABBATH TRADITIONS CAN REMIND US ALL THAT REST IS SACRED Livia Daggett

Contributing Editor In “Little House in the Big Woods,” Laura Ingalls Wilder recalls despising Sundays as a young girl. In their 1880s homestead, the Wilders marked the seventh day of the week with pious reflection and quiet — no work or play permitted. Though her parents may have found this experience meaningful, Wilder wrote that as a child, Sundays were difficult.

“One Sunday after supper she could not bear it any longer. She began to play with Jack, and in a few minutes she was running and shouting. Pa told her to sit in her chair and be quiet, but when Laura sat down she began to cry and kick the chair with her heels. ‘I hate Sunday!’ she said.”

But not every interpretation of the Sabbath, the “day of rest,” requires solemnity and stillness. Many modern-day Christians see Sundays as a celebration — a time to reconnect with family, recover from the week and express their faith in community. Some Christian traditions make joy the focus of many weekend services and incorporate energetic singing or communal meals.

Some Orthodox Jewish traditions require adherence to specific rules, ranging from not turning on or off any electricity to the lesser-known injunction against moving a category of items called muktzeh, like flowers in a vase or dry beans. There’s a delightful loophole to the muktzeh rule — people can permissibly move them in very unusual or awkward ways, like with their teeth or elbows.

Cynical reactions to these traditions ask derisively why God would want people to follow such specific rules. But this attitude misses what Shabbat-observant Jews say makes Shabbat so meaningful.

“Does all this mean that Shabbat is somewhat of a miserable affair, where we sit hungry in the dark?” asks a Chabad webpage on the Shabbat laws. “Not at all. It simply means that we have to prepare for Shabbat in advance, so that, on the contrary, we celebrate in luxury, without doing any of the actual work, on Shabbat.”

Some people who grew up not marking Shabbat find meaning in the practice later in life. In her book “Here All Along,” Sarah Hurwitz, former highpowered speechwriter for Michelle Obama, writes about “rediscovering” her Judaism. She writes that although she found it difficult to follow the modified Shabbat rules she set, like shutting off her phone for the day — a big deal for a White House employee — and prioritizing rest, she also found the experience profound. It led her to dedicate a chapter of her book to thinking about ways modern religious and secular Jews, and even non-Jews in different ways, can create their own practices.

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In the context of the hustle and bustle of family Employers send the unspoken message to their em- Religious observances involve attending services life, especially now that most two-parent households ployees that they need to be reachable even when or carrying out specific rituals, and cultural norms are also two-earner ones, celebrating a weekly holi- they’re off the clock. emphasize community and family — none of which involve napping. Depending on what you’re running low on, your rest might mean reading a dense book about medieval cheesemaking, laughing with a friend or meditating. Deep rest requires identifying what you’re not getting in your day-to-day life and setting aside time to treasure it.

Rest, too, might ask us to do things we’re not so keen on doing — like deleting social media, letting our bosses know we’ll be offline or saying no to plans we don’t want to miss out on but we know will just wear us out more. This is where discipline comes in.

In Judaism, Shabbat is called a “precious jewel,” even a queen, but marking it — especially with traditional observance — requires thought, planning and selfcontrol. Someone has to bathe the kids and precook three meals. We should be wary of making routines solely around what’s easiest — it’s not necessarily what we need. It might keep us from finding the most meaningful practice.

Though you should listen to your physical needs, and there’s nothing wrong with indulging your whims or cravings for a sweet treat, it’s worth remembering that Western culture — particularly secular — tends to emphasize desire fulfillment and consumption above commitment to holistically positive traditions. In this way, making rest intentional might also lead you to borrow from Buddhism, or from ancient Stoic philosophy. It might take some trial and error to strike a balance between what your monkey mind Carrington Bryan | Staff Illustrator wants and what your human self needs.

For people who technically have more time off, day that requires a halt in the week’s work is a dauntI’m not a religious person, but I do think there’s but feel more burned out regardless, giving strucing task. But the reward is a day to focus on spiritual- something sacred about rest and retreat. What would ture and even ritual to leisure time can help us get ity, family and rest. Contrast this with grind culture, it look like for all of us to put rest and celebration first more out of it. Rather than guiltily procrastinating by which tells us that every second that passes is another every week — to say no to the encroachment of ev- watching YouTube, we can decide to set a timer and potential moneymaking enterprise lost in the blink of erything else on our time? actually enjoy the videos, then get back to our schoolan eye, and Sabbath celebrations that require abstainBringing the value of a day of rest into your life work — or have a weekly YouTube and rot night. ing from everyday activities are downright radical. doesn’t mean you need to follow a particular regimen It may be that I’m bastardizing sacred religious Americans on the whole spend less time at work or even make your tradition last a full day. You might traditions by putting them in the same article as adthan ever — but don’t necessarily feel more relaxed set up a weekly date with a friend, commit to spend- vice to have a weekly routine that could hypotheticalfor it. Though the average employee in 2024 works ing six hours with your phone in the other room or ly involve Mr. Beast. What I mean to say, though, is around 34.1 hours per week, compared to 55 hours read for pleasure rather than for school before bed. that religious Sabbath observance is proof that people in 1900, people in both years spent a similar amount You could cook one fancy meal, hike a new trail or have considered rest sacred for a long, long time. For of time on leisure. learn a new song on the ukulele once a week. It could those of us outside these traditions, it’s worth learnThe ubiquity of cell phones and emails are one be any day, for any amount of time — the point is ing from them and reflecting on what it means to put obvious explanation for why the increased time we being mindful of the time you’re occupying and to distractions on pause. have doesn’t translate to more leisure. It’s hard to re- make it a point to set aside that time. lax when work emails flood your home screen faster Religious Sabbath celebrations also help us reLivia Daggett is a junior politics-philosophy and than you can mark them read or when there’s the think what rest can mean. Rest can be a day of com- writing major. Mr. Beast scares them. If he scares you, constant threat of having your hours changed unex- forters and snoozed alarms, and often needs to be, too, email Livia at LED88@pitt.edu pectedly, as is often the case for hourly employees. but it can also be mental, spiritual or emotional.

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