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Belvoir honors Women’s Equality By Adrienne Anderson Staff writer Fort Belvoir observed Women’s Equality Day Aug. 15, with a program at the Fort Belvoir Community Center. Women’s Equality Day celebrates the passing of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920, which gave women the right to vote. Guests included poet Rebecca Dupas and Janice C. Greene, a storyteller and author. Greene performed as three historic females: Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks. Detailing their biographies, she discussed their roles in helping to secure women’s rights and voting rights. Truth was born Isabella Baumfree and was a slave in New York. She was the first black woman to win successfully a case against a white man to regain custody of her children. Her children had been illegally traded despite the passing of the New York Anti-Slavery Law. She spent time as an abolitionist and suffragette. Po r t r a y i n g T r u t h , G r e e n e detailed Truth’s attempt to vote in the 1872 presidential election. “Susan B. Anthony said we
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Janice Greene portrays Rosa Parks during Women’s Equality Day celebrations in the Community Center, Aug. 15. should all go out there and try to vote,” Greene said. “So I went to a polling place and pretended to be ... lost and confused like I didn’t know
where I was.” However, Truth was barred from doing so. “It wasn’t until 37 years after the
death of Sojourner that the 19th Amendment was ratified to give women the right to vote,” Greene said. As Tubman, Greene discussed Tubman’s journey to freedom. Sick of living within the confines of slavery, Tubman escaped, but still had more work to do, as her family was still trapped. “There were two things that I knew I had a right to—liberty or death,” Greene said as Tubman. “If I couldn’t have one, I was going to have the other. No man was going to take me alive. I would fight for my freedom with my last breath, and it was time for me to go, only the good Lord could take me, and I run, and I run.” With the help of Quakers, Tubman was able to escape. However, the paths to help others escape were harrowing, as laws were frequently passed making it tougher for slaves to runaway. “Soon as (you) took one step forward, they’d pass a law to drag you five steps back,” she said. Tubman’s heroism didn’t end with helping others escape; she also led a raid during the Civil
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A sense of community – Springfield BridgeWalk Tuesday By Public Affairs Springfield’s annual BridgeWalk is Tuesday and Jeff McKay, from the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors’ Lee District, has invited everyone. The family-friendly event starts
at 7 p.m., at the corner of Amherst Avenue and Bland Street in Springfield. At 7:30 p.m., police will close the road and the group will stroll across Veterans Bridge to American Legion Post 176. At the Legion, there will be a brief ceremony and com-
munity covenant signing with Fort Belvoir officials, followed by community time and food with friends and neighbors. McKay represents the county’s Lee District, which includes Springfield and Franconia.
This is the 17th annual event, honoring the local military, that Springfield and the American Legion have hosted since 9/11. Weather permitting, the celebration is entirely outside, so leashed dogs are welcome.
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Deputy reflects on careers ahead of retirement By Adrienne Anderson Staff writer Stephen Brooks has been Fort Belvoir’s deputy to the garrison commander since 2009 and is retiring at the end of August. Over his years working on the installation, he has seen many changes and said he is glad to be part of seeing those changes. Around 23,000 people were working at Belvoir when he started, Brooks said. And, with BRAC actions that began in 2005, the daily work force is now more than double that, with 50,000 people working here. “I’ll always be very proud when I come back to visit Fort Belvoir and look around remembering the things that I was there for,” Brooks said. Brooks said that working with people during many large projects is what he will remember the most. Some of the projects he’s seen come to fruition in his time here include road construction, including Route 1 widening; building the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and improvements in access control at the gates. “It’s easy ... to manage your accomplishments by how many people you supervise or how much money you may have spent. But really, at the end of the day, it’s the relationships you have with all the different people that you meet and you work with to get the work done,” he said. Brooks said he’s also proud of Belvoir’s MWR, which provides excellent, quality-of-life services to the Belvoir community. “I look forward to coming back in the future and seeing it continue to grow,” he said, adding that he especially loves the Officers’ Club, one of the Army’s very few profitable O Clubs. “The Officers’ Club has a beautiful view looking out at the Potomac River. And, it hosts a lot of weddings.” The facilities on Belvoir, such as the Officers’ Club, bring the commu-
nity together, Brooks said. George Dickson, Belvoir’s MWR director, also had praise for Brooks. “Mr. Brooks has been a great supporter of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation, here on Fort Belvoir,” Dickson said. “He was also known for his great, impactful one liners of advice, including ‘be a persistent nerve agent’ and ‘the best offense is a good defense.’ Another garrison director, Andrea White, agreed. “I’ve always genuinely liked Mr. Brooks,” she said. He is very consistent. And, we know his keys to success: do your work, have integrity, a sense of humor and food. I will miss him very much and this retirement is well earned.” White is the director of garrison’s Plans, Analysis and Integration Office. Brooks, who has spent a combined 45 years in the Army and as a civilian, will enjoy retirement with his wife who also spent more than 40 years in the Army and working as a civilian. Brooks retired as a colonel from the Army Chemical Corps. The couple plans to move to Asheville, N.C. “We’ve loved our careers, but we want to enjoy the next chapter of our life,” he said, adding they plan to pursue interests and hobbies, spend more time with family and friends and travel more. His connection to Belvoir has a long history dating back to 1965, when his father was at DeWitt Army Hospital while his father was on active duty. DeWitt is Belvoir Hospital’s predecessor and was affected by BRAC 2005. “That was the first time I’d really been away from home,” he said, adding he grew up in Atlanta. “So, that always stuck in my mind about Fort Belvoir.” His next visit to Belvoir came when he joined the Army in 1975, where he went to Advanced Individual Training and lived in a barrack on Gunston Road for about five months. He loved the historical aspects of
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Belvoir and thought it was a beautiful place. When he became an officer in the Army and got married, the couple came to Northern Virginia to find a place to live when they PCSed to the D.C. area as majors. Once out of the Army, he moved onto his civilian career. “When I took this job back in 2009, I didn’t have anything to prove,” Brooks said. “I’d already been a successful Army officer, but I loved Fort Belvoir, and so I jumped at the opportunity to be part of it.” Because of his love for the installation and its people, the future of the installation and the services it provides is important to him. “One of the challenges we’ve had over the years is to fight for, advocate and receive the funding we need to provide the quality services that Soldiers, civilians, and retirees and all their families expect.” With having a volunteer Army, attracting quality recruits requires offering a certain quality of life because they are competing with the private sector, Brooks said. And, with historically low unemployment rates,
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“what makes Soldiers want to be in the Army … a lot of times, there’s a tradition within the family of military service. But, the other thing is a quality of life.” With reductions in funds, it gets harder to provide quality of life that’s due to Soldiers and their families. The role of a leader is to help source the mission, he said. As a result of funding challenges, “Senior leaders must understand that every time a Soldier is deployed, he leaves his family at an Army installation,” Brooks said. “And, if we don’t meet their expectations of the quality of life they thought they were going to receive when they enlisted or re-enlisted, their family is not going to want them to stay in the Army when they get home.” In the future, Brooks said he would like to see greater funding for Army installations “because we are the home for all of our Soldiers and their families.”
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Equality from page A1 War; however, despite giving her time to the Union Army, she was not paid for her service. Because she was a woman, they thought she was volunteering, Greene said, portraying Tubman. Greene also portrayed Rosa Parks, who was born in 1913. “At the time when she was being born, Harriet Tubman lay in a hospital bed waiting for that Lord that she loved so much to take her,” Greene said. “Just imagine, for one month, Harriet Tubman and Rosa McCauley Parks lived this earth together. They felt the same sun. They breathed the same air. It was as though God ushered one freedom fighter out and one freedom fighter in.” Parks is well known for refusing to give up her seat on a bus, which sparked a bus boycott. Greene, portraying Parks, said her grandfather taught her never to make whites angry because of the potential for violence. “Sometimes, we slept with our clothes on, like the children of Egypt ready for flight, because we never knew what the Ku Klux Klan was going to do,” Greene detailed about Parks growing up in Alabama. Eventually, Parks joined the NAACP and became its secretary, because she was the only woman in the room at the time and being a secretary was supposed to be a woman’s job. But, Parks wasn’t satisfied, so she tried to exercise her right vote so that she could help make changes in the country. “The 19th Amendment had been passed. I was ready to vote,” Greene said, as Parks. “But, if you are a negro, the polls where you
registered to vote are only open twice a week for two hours during the day, when most people had to work.” Despite having the right to vote, blacks frequently faced obstacles that prevented them from exercising their rights. For example, blacks faced a literacy test, which was impossible to pass, regardless of the educational background of the person trying to vote. The final straw was the bus incident, Greene as Parks said, “You see, I just couldn’t take it anymore. Anymore of being treated differently because I was colored in America. Land of the free. Home of the brave. I wanted to keep my seat.” Despite there being several empty seats on the bus, Parks was asked to move. When she didn’t, she was arrested for not giving up her seat. “The bus boycott that everyone h e a r s a b o u t wa s s t a r t e d b y the Women’s Political Council of Montgomery, Alabama. Not the Montgomery Improvement Association started by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but the women that day, within hours after my arrest, had thousands of handbills passed out encouraging people to boycott the buses for the day of my trial. For one day,” Greene said, acting as Parks. When Parks was found guilty, the boycott bloomed from there, Greene said. Greene emphasized the three women’s roles in American history in securing rights for women and minorities. “I stand here today as a daughter of famous women of color. I stand here today because others stood before I was born,” she said.
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Ed Center can help anyone, from high-school to second-career By Adrienne Anderson Staff writer Barden Education Center’s TaMekii Clark-Warrington, site manager, wants the Fort Belvoir community to know that Barden is there to help people with their educational goals. The center offers a variety of services and resources and is open to active-duty Service members; Reserve; National Guard; civilians; retirees and their family members. Also, students attending Mount Vernon High School can take college credit courses through Northern Virginia Community College at Barden, Clark-Warrington said. Mary Pat Mabeus, Central Michigan University’s assistant director/ enrollment—Eastern United States, Fort Belvoir and Virginia, said her college offers students onsite college-courses and transfer credit evaluations and help throughout their college career with CMU. Having onsite courses provides for those who live or work on Belvoir, she said. “The majority of our students are looking for career progression,” she
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said. “They want to enhance their opportunities for promotion or a new career move. Education is one of the best ways to prepare for a career move.” Another large segment Mabeus sees are those who are established in their careers but want to do better by continuing their education. Shakirra Payne-Felder is a 10thgrader from a military family who is exploring her college options. She went to Barden to understand what she needed to know about attending college. “I want to make sure I understand how to go about getting certain degrees ... and how you can balance your budget for when you’re paying tuition,” she said. Another person using Barden’s resources is Spc. Carvarius Waitson. He recently got out of Advanced Individual Training and is in-processing. He uses the computer center at Barden for computer access and to do paperwork. “It’s very convenient,” he said. “You just sign in and get on a computer. There’s not too much noise here.”
With six colleges and a national testing center at Barden, ClarkWarrington said they have many services available. “They shouldn’t have to go off post,” Clark-Warrington said. “We have everything here.” Barden issues needs-assessment surveys to figure out what its population needs, in terms of which classes to offer and how often. Besides taking advantage of Barden services, Service members should also take advantage of the newly updated Tuition Assistance Policy. The policy, Clark-Warrington said, eliminates the previous restrictions set in place before a person could use tuition assistance. “By pursuing their education, (Service members) are able to obtain the degree or field that they really want to go into,” Clark-Warrington said. “A lot of them may be in an MOS because of whatever they tested into, but they also have aspirations to do other things. So by utilizing the free tuition assistance, it provides them that foundation.” For information about Barden resources, visit the center at Bldg.
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Army Cyber’s top Soldiers, NCOs excel in Best Warrior Competition
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Above: Spc. Tyler Gadapee, 21st Signal Brigade, left, and Pfc. Cameron Burgess, 911th Technical Rescue Engineer Company run to the finish of the 12-mile road march event on the final day of the 2018 U.S. Army Cyber Command Best Warrior Competition, Aug. 16. Right: Spc. Alexander Musarra, from Miami, assigned to the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber), U.S. Army Intelligence & Security Command, takes part on day four of the U.S. Army Cyber Command Best Warrior Competition at Camp Upshur on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Aug. 15.
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Spc. Tyler Gadapee smiles as he is recognized by Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty for winning the Cyber Command Best Warrior Competition during ceremonies in DAU’s Howell Auditorium, Aug. 16.
Spc. Tyler Gadapee from Groton, Vermont, assigned to the 114th Signal Battalion, U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, takes part in a stress shoot on day four of the U.S. Army Cyber Command Best Warrior Competition at Camp Upshur on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Aug. 15.
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DLA successfully defends golf title Agency tops Cup rankings in golf
By Rick Musselman Sports Editor Defense Logistics Agency took another giant step forward in its campaign to secure the FY18 Commander’s Cup, when its athletes dominated the fairways and greens of the Golf Club’s Woodlawn Course, Aug. 16 to win the intramural golf championship title. The unit wrapped up competition with a combined total of 416 strokes—50 fewer than runner-up, Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Program Executive Office – Enter-
prise Information Systems finished the tourney in third and the 249th Engineer Battalion claimed the fourth-place slot. The victory, coming right on the heels of the unit’s triumph in the bowling championship a week before, firmly cements DLA at the top of the overall Cup standings holding a 40-point lead, with only two major events remaining in the season. More than 40 athletes competed in the tournament on ideal course conditions. Individually, DLA teammates, Dave Dustin and Justin Wingo, spearheaded the unit’s charge to the
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Top right: Anthony Howard, competing for PM-DCATS, chips the ball onto Woodlawn Course’s first green during the FY18 intramural golf championship, Aug. 16 at the Belvoir Golf Club. Bottom left: Ellis Anderson, competing for rankings leader DLA, tees off at the Woodlawn Course first tee.
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Overall Team Division 1st place 2nd place 3rd place 4th place Photos by Rick Musselman
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1st place DLA 2nd place DLA
Best Round Dave Dustin 72 strokes Justin Wingo 76 strokes
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Game delayed— the floor’s leaking By Rick Musselman Sports Editor A couple of days ago, I was going through the kitchen junk drawer—everyone has one of these repositories for everything from
extra straws and Christmas card envelopes (should you ever need Aunt Beatrice and Uncle Vernon’s return address), to pliers and spools of twine. As it happens, I found a faded ticket stub from the old Capitol Centre in Largo, Md., from a 1977 Washington Bullets game. Even more surprising was how much of it I still remembered, especially the moment during the first period when the referees brought the action to a screeching halt. An opposing player had slipped and fallen as he worked the ball inside, and the refs—
suspecting a patch of sweat—were dismayed to realize that ice beneath the hardwood panels was melting and coming up through the seams in the hardwood. I learned later that, since the Capitals hockey team played there as well as the Bullets, often on back-to-back nights, the actual basketball court was laid down right on top of the rink on NBA game night. Long story short, it took a great deal of time to get the game back underway, and ever since I’ve wondered if there was some kind of freezer in the floor some oaf had forgotten to check.
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winner’s circle. Dustin turned in 72 strokes on the day to take first place and Wingo wrapped up competition with 76 strokes to earn the runnerup trophy.
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DTRA’s Miles Anderson sinks a short-range putt on the Woodlawn Course first green during the IM golf championship.
PM-DCATS’s Jeannie Winchester sinks a midrange putt on the Woodlawn Course during the IM golf championship, Aug. 16 at the Belvoir Golf Club.
Edgardo Edwards, competing for PM-DCATS, tees off on the Woodlawn Course first tee during the intramural golf championship, Aug. 16 at the Belvoir Golf Club.
DLA’s Justin Wingo sinks a short putt during the IM golf championship, Aug. 16 at the Belvoir Golf Club.
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Sports and Recreation Briefs This week Paddling Adventures Join Outdoor Recreation for its all new Paddling Adventures program this summer. All of these adventures are for experienced paddlers. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult; if under 18, a guardian signature is required for participation. All adventures are weather dependent so call Outdoor Recreation the day of the adventure to confirm the session will take place. Each adventure is limited to the first 15 boats. Life jackets and paddles are included in the $5 per boat price. Please bring appropriate clothing, sunscreen and water. Adventure dates are Saturday, Sept. 18 and Sept. 22. For more information, call ODR, 703-805-3081.
Get Golf Read beginner clinics The Fort Belvoir Golf Club offers group golf clinics for beginners that cover everything needed to get started.
Belvoir takes runner-up trophy at All-Star Softball
Pooch Plunge Fort Belvoir’s Connelly Outdoor Pool at the Officers Club “goes to the dogs,” Sept. 8 when MWR wraps up another summer swim season with the 2018 Pooch Plunge, an opportunity for canine community members to get in one last dip before fall. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the cost is $3 per dog (people are free). The Pooch Plunge is the one day out of the year when the dogs can enjoy free reign over the pool, diving into the water to retrieve toys and balls, swimming laps, enjoying a snack or two or just interacting with their fellow animals on a warm September
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California National Guardsmen fight fires By Sean Kimmons Army News Service
California National Guardsmen are expected to remain busy this year, as part of ongoing firefighting efforts in a state that is battling the largest wildfire in its history. As of Aug. 16, about 760,000 acres have burned or were on fire across the state. That equates to about the size of Rhode Island or 60 times the size of Manhattan, said Maj. Gen. Matthew Beevers, assistant adjutant general of the California Joint Force Headquarters. Nearly 1,000 California Guardsmen have been activated, along with 22 aircraft and more than 100 vehicles, to help the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire. An additional 200 active-duty Soldiers from the 14th Brigade Engineer Battalion at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., have also been moved to fire lines to stamp out hot spots at the Mendocino Complex Fire. The fire has scorched roughly 350,000 acres, making it the state’s largest ever. The majority of the state's worst fires, including Mendocino, are about 60 to 70 percent contained, the general said. While there are no current plans to call up more California Guardsmen, who are activated for about 30 days, the general said that could soon change, since the fire season has just started. The annual Santa Ana winds in the southern part of the state have yet to happen, he said, and extreme fire behavior generally occurs much later in the summer and into early fall. Recent drought conditions and a lack of snow during the winter have also not allowed for any kind of recovery, leaving fuel sources extraordinarily dry. "This will be a busy year for us," he said at a Pentagon briefing on the Guard's month-long firefighting efforts. "But, we train for this every year." Every spring, helicopter crews in the California Guard, who normally perform medical evacuations, train with Cal Fire personnel on water-bucket operations. "We'll dip into a lake and drop it on a notional fire line," Beevers said. "That's done every year and it provides a great opportunity to ensure that all of our aircrews are ready." Sgt. Julian Ross and other UH60 Black Hawk crew members are now performing real-life missions to protect people and structures from the fires. "It makes me feel really proud to be out there to help support our communities," he said at the brief-
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Staff Sgt. Ge Xiong, a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crew chief with the California National Guard, checks a 600-gallon water bucket before a mission fighting the Mendocino Complex Fire in Lake, Colusa and Mendocino counties, California.
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A CH-47 Chinook helicopter drops thousands of gallons of water during firefighting efforts in California.
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A Soldier from California National Guard’s Task Force 144 cuts through a burned area searching for any smoldering hot spots near a residential area in Redding, Calif. California Guardsmen are expected to remain busy this year, as part of ongoing firefighting efforts in a state that is battling the largest wildfire in its history. ing. Battling heavy smoke and wind in hazardous areas with other rotary and fixed-wing aircraft, Ross compared the dangers of the current mission to combat. "As far as intensity, it's like being in a combat zone, but we're not
getting shot at," he said. Being in a helicopter, his crew has also had to look out for "firenados" --- a whirlwind induced by a fire. "They do affect us, because they're strong enough that they can actually pull us to the ground,"
he said. "So, our protocol is that if the winds are not variable for us to fly, we try not to fly into those conditions." Guardsmen have also been fighting fires in three other states. In Colorado, two Black Hawk helicopters and crews were activated last week to conduct water bucket operations. Nearly 460 personnel were activated July 20 to provide fire support in Oregon, where Chinook helicopters have already dropped more than 700,000 gallons of water on fires, according to a news report on Defense.gov. And in Washington State, two Black Hawk helicopters and at least seven 20-person hand crews were mobilized Aug. 5 to fight fires.
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More than 100 teachers and staff participated in a PCS Challenge and learned about military family life, in preparation for the start of school, which is Tuesday. Lt. Col. Andrew Wilbraham and Command Sgt. Maj. Robert Cleveland, from Fort Belvoir Headquarters Battalion, welcomed participants before a ‘Day in the Life’ of a military student. The boot camp, hosted by school liaison officers from Child and Youth Services, included an installation tour and ended at the Bowling Center.
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Belvoir Briefs Increased emergency activity A force-protection exercise is planned for Aug. 30 near INSCOM’s Nolan Building, from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., for National Preparedness Month, which is September. Employees and commuters may see increased emergency services’ presence near INSCOM and J.J. Kingman Gate.
Legal closures The Legal Assistance Office is closed for all services today, Aug. 30 and 31.
Girl Scout cookies? The USO Warrior and Family Center at Fort Belvoir will deliver Girl Scout Cookies to all units and/or organizations on Belvoir on Aug. 30, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. People interested in receiving cookies should e-mail usofortbelvoir@usometro.org.
Home educators ice cream social The Belvoir Home Educators invites everyone to its annual Ice Cream Social, Aug. 30, 6:30-8 p.m., at the Fairfax Community Center,
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The Mount Vernon Genealogical Society hosts board-certified genealogist Victor S. Dunn, who will speak about how to make the most of your time on a research trip to a courthouse, library or other record repository, in the presentation, “Efficient and Effective On-Site Research Strategies.” The free event is Sept. 18, 1-3 p.m., in Room 112 of the Hollin Hall Senior Center, 1500
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