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Cedar Falls High School took eight events to the Large Group Speech District Contest held at Union High School in Laporte City on Jan. 19, and they came home with seven Division I ratings.

“Seven of our eight events are go-ing on to state contest,” speech team coach Deb Eschweiler said.

The speech team participated in events throughout the entire day. The earliest performance was musical theatre’s “Anatomy of a Musical” at 10:30, and the final Cedar Falls perfor-mance was ensemble acting’s “Vani-ties” at 4:30.

The eight events also included cho-ral reading’s “Beat,” another ensemble acting performing “Mornings at Sev-en,” reader’s theatre’s “Just a High School Play,” another musical theatre with “Little Shop of Horrors” and two group improv events as well.

“Little Shop of Horrors” was the only CF event to not go on to the state contest, receiving a Division II rating.

“I was especially pleased to see the choral reading succeed. We’ve tried for years to develop a choral reading performance to suit the judges, and this one finally made it,” Eschweiler said.

The speech team involves fresh-man as well as sophomores and upper classmen.

“Two of the ninth grade performers are included in the events going on to State also, so that is very nice. They’ll get firsthand experience at honing their skills at the different levels,” Es-chweiler said.

“Little Shop of Horrors” director Katie Houts is still happy about her group’s performance at Districts.

“Seeing the students’ excitement af-ter their performance, I could tell they were pleased, too. ‘Little Shop’ is not the typical song-and-dance musical that you might usually see at speech contest, and the students worked hard and used creativity to tell this particlar story,” Houts said.

The reasoning she has for the Divi-sion II rating is simple.

“For half the cast, this was their first experience in theater/speech. The cast of “Little Shop” is young, and they all have many more opportunities ahead of them in the next few years and I’m looking forward to seeing them on stage,” Houts said.

Everything considered, the coaches are ecstatic about their performance at district contest.

“It was awesome to have all eight of our events do so well,” Eschweiler said.

The team is currently working on giving a stellar presentation at State.

“This will be even stiffer compe-tition, so we’ll have to practice and refine our performances,” Eschweiler said.

The state contest is in Decorah on Feb. 2.

Senior Megan Creasey, who partic-ipates in two of the groups performing at State, is excited to perform again on Feb. 2.

“I am in one of the improvisation groups and ensemble acting. I don’t see us getting into All State, but I am hoping we’ll do well. Still hoping for some Division I’s,” Creasey said.

The stakes are higher at state speech, and the judging is much less forgiving. Judges at State are more particular.

“I’m not really expecting any mira-cle trips to All State, but I am expect-ing us to do well, and we will have fun,” Creasey said.

Creasey is in an improvisation group with junior Rhys Talbot and se-

nior Lizzie Lockard, so she is not quite sure how well they will do as a group.

“When it comes to improv., it’s very iffy. We’re not sure what we’ll have to act out until we get there, or whether the group will click, but we’ll see,” Creasey said.

Creasey is also in ensemble acting with sophomore Brian Harris and se-nior Alice Peck. They are performing from the script “Mornings at Seven.”

“I think our group is doing pretty good. We need to revamp some block-ing, but we do well considering the script,” Creasey said.

Junior Arlene Freudenberg, who is performing “Beat” in the choral read-ing group, is feeling very excited.

“We weren’t sure if we were going to make it or not because our group was a little out there. It has a more laid back, beatnik feel to it, and our judge did not have much expression,” Freudenberg said.

Relief, anxiety and excitement sums up the general feeling amongst all speech team students heading to State.

“We’re preparing ourselves as much as possible with 7 a.m. practices and 6 p.m. practices, but it’s all up to the judge. All we can hope for is that we can go in, perform out best and not screw up,” Freudenberg said.

The musical theatre group, “The Anatomy of a Musical,” is a favorite of Freudenberg’s.

“I haven’t seen all our speech team groups perform, but of the ones I have seen, I think ‘The Anatomy of a Musi-cal,’ one of our musical theatre groups, will do the best at State because they are really energetic, and they have fun with it, and it’s just really fun to watch them perform,” Freudenberg said.

This musical theatre group has six members: freshman Sammy Takes, sophomores Carter Allen, Gage Stone-man, Katelin DeSerano, Riley Martin and junior Sam Lilja.

Maggie Devine and Nadia HonaryStaff Writers

Ashley EhrigStaff Writer

At the Iowa High School Music As-sociation Jazz Festival (IHSMA), Jazz I and Jazz too! both earned Division I ratings on Saturday, Jan. 26.

Jazz too! under the direction of Ger-ald Ramsey played its three pieces at 2:40 .The pieces included “All of Me” arranged by Clarke, “Prayer Meetin’” by Matt Harris and “Using the Force” by Skeffington.

Jazz I, directed by Kyle Engelhart, played at 4:05, performing “Blue Miles” by Bob Washnut, “Oblivion” by Piazzolla and “Take the A Train” ar-ranged by Bill Hollman. After perform-ing selected music bands must then sight read a piece.

“We have five minutes to look over a piece without playing then take it in front of a judge. It’s really cool because its like what happens in the real world, you don’t get to practice the music you’re required to play if you’re a pro-fessional,” said Engelhart.

All band performances in Hudson are ratings based, meaning the bands play for test standard, and do not com-pete against each other. The ratings range from one to five, one being the best.

“This was the first contest for the jazz bands this year, and their first op-portunity to play in front of judges and get really great feed back,” said En-gelhart.

Other jazz performances coming up include, the CF Jazz show Feb. 2 at 7:30 pm in the high school audito-rium. Performers include Jazz I, Jazz II and the Jazz singers under Kendra Wohlert.

“We’d love to have a full house and it’s on a Saturday night which is a wonderful time to hear jazz,” said En-gelhart.

Both jazz bands perform for the ju-nior high schools to recruit and at UNI for the Tallcorn Jazz Festival on Friday, Feb. 15. Finally on Feb. 23 Jazz I will participate in a Jazz show in Kirksville Missouri.

Speaking of SuccessSpeech team earns seven Division I ratings at Large Group District Contest, prepares for upcoming State competition

AP Exam ReminderAll Advanced Placement (AP) students at Cedar Falls High School will

have the opportunity to register for AP exams to be given in May. Registra-tion for the exams runs from Monday, Feb. 4 through Friday, March 7, with Teresa Martin in the English Department. The fee is $84 for each exam. All checks must be written to CFHS AP Exam.

While taking an AP exam is optional, Cedar Falls High School encour-ages its Advanced Placement students to take AP exams. Students who get college credit through the AP program clearly have a head start on their college course work as well as reducing their college tuition costs. It is encouraged that parents register their sons or daughters for the AP exam.

Jazz groups take top honors at festival, prepare for upcoming contests, shows

At the auction on Jan. 25 for the Magical Mix Kids, an organization that raises money to send local families with sick children to Disney World, juniors Melanie Adrian and Mark Lukasiewicz joined other SSR members and community groups in raising over $60,000.

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Leave grading scale up to individual teachers

Vincent StiglianiStaff Writer

Universal healthcare would provide necessary relief for U. S. citizens

Last week, during homeroom, many CFHS students watched a video of Senior Leadership addressing student concerns to several high school ad-ministrators. Many important issues were addressed during the 17-minute video; The Tiger Hi-Line staff thanks both the administration and Senior Leadership students for facilitating discussion about school spirit, final ex-ams and uniform grading scales. We believe that open discussion, such as what was held last Wednesday, fosters an environment that allows CFHS staff to better address the needs and concerns of their students.

The Tiger Hi-Line staff would like to take this opportunity to ex-press our opinion about one issue that was addressed in the video, imple-menting a uniform grading scale for all classes in the building. We do not support a standardized grading scale because we believe it would do very little to establish grading equality. Even if everyone uses the same grad-ing scale, each teacher will still grade students’ works with varying levels of scrutiny. Even classes within the Advanced Placement, Dual Credit and Honors classifications have varying levels of difficulty. Though all Advanced Placement classes, for example, have a similar amount of impact on a stu-dent’s transcript, some of these classes are simply more difficult than others. Implementing such a grading standard, while it would look fair, would not increase the fairness of class grading because none of these variables would be taken into account.

Implementing a universal grading scale is part of a greater issue: teacher control. While we believe that certain standards and criteria must regulate classroom curriculum and student performance, we also feel teach-ers are the most qualified to develop a system for evaluating their students’ academic efforts. We believe that if we trust teachers with the important job of providing students with the information necessary for success after high school, we should certainly trust them to evaluate their students’ progress. Cedar Falls High School is certainly fortunate to have many excellent and inspiring teachers, and we believe the way that they deem appropriate to evaluate their students is likely superior to a generic scale that does not take individual class curriculum into account. What is ultimately important is providing teachers with the freedom that they need to use their unique talents and passions to educate their students.

As the caucuses rolled through Iowa and as states across the country are de-ciding on whom they are supporting, health care has been pushed into the limelight as one of the most important issues in de-ciding the next presi-dent.

There are different ap-proaches to addressing the prob-lem, and, frankly, dif-ferent views on what the problem is. The Demo-crats are pushing for universal health-care, while the Republicans are de-manding a free market solution.

In the debate of how to solve this problem the rebuttal to the idea of

universal health care is always as fol-lows. “Look at Europe and Canada, see socialized medicine at work and what a disaster it is.” So I did just that. I researched these said countries and compared them to the United States, but failed to see the fore mentioned di-saster.

First, we are not the healthiest coun-try in the world. A recent United Na-tions statistic showed that we are 38th in the world in life expectancy, behind nations such as Iceland, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Canada, Austria, Netherlands. Although life expectan-cy is not completely indicative of the health of a nation, to brand Europe’s and Canada’s health systems as disas-ters is a terrible misconception.

A sick diabetes patient visits his doctor’s office.

He is prescribed medicine, but he does not have health care and can not afford it.

Instead, he is forced to continue with

his life, without his prescribed medica-tion, as his situation gets progressively worse.

My mother, a nurse, sees situations like this on a regular basis, stories of people falling through the cracks be-cause they don’t have healthcare, don’t qualify for Medicaid, can’t afford medications and sometimes can’t even afford the visit to the office. In fact, a recent census bureau statistic indicated that there were around 47 million unin-sured Americans, or about 15.8 percent of the population.

Even the other 84.2 percent of the population have troubles cover-ing expensive operations, with health care providers constantly looking for pre-existing conditions or other ways around covering clients.

How can we be the country our fore-fathers envisioned, offering life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness when the health of our citizens is not even a guaranteed right?

Think back to all the books you have ever had the pleasure of indulging in. Throughout the list, are there not some characters who simply stick out above the rest? Ones that you will never for-get? I have read several of these un-forgettable characters over the years and I believe it’s time some of them are paid proper homage.

1. Ginny We a s l e y. Yes, the red headed younger sis-ter of Ronald Weasley in the Harry Pot-ter series, by J.K. Rowling. She caught my attention from the very beginning, with her fiery passion and never-failing loyalty later in the series. Ginny was simply unpredictable in the very best of ways, and she would never back down from a situation. There is plenty to be taken from Ginny, but her charac-ter truly belongs in Gryffindor, as she could undoubtedly be the definition of courage.

2. Owen Armstrong from Just Lis-

ten by Sarah Dessen. In this tale of music, friendship, romance, and self-discovery, Owen is the leading man. Yet, he is far from your typical leading man. Rather, he is surly, has a tendency for violence, and follows the beat of his own drum. The way Owen feels toward music is perhaps what sparked my in-terest the most. He feels that music, when fully embraced, can enlighten a person. You want read Owen’s actions and words because you wish you could have that sort of unabashed honesty. Above all that, Owen is the first to ad-mit his flaws as well as the first to tell you not to worry about being perfect. Owen’s character is one that is easily, if oddly, adored, and his honesty is en-dearing.

3. Cammie Morgan from I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You. The greatest thing about Cammie, is her strong-mindedness. She knows what she wants, and most of the time she goes for it. She even finds a way to have a relationship with a boy outside of school. The main reason Cammie truly sticks with me is the way she transforms, becomes more than the expectation her mother, the dean of the school and a legendary spy, has set for her. She breaks out of the mold and does what she has to do for HER,

and no one else. That is something I, and many readers, could really learn to admire.

4. Edward Cullen from the Twi-light series by Stephanie Meyer. This is a very recent one, but in the first 30 pages, I could already tell that Edward would be a character who stayed in my mind forever. He is mysterious, yet not. A vampire, perhaps, but he de-fies all expected behaviors. And above that, he is unconditionally romantic and caring, without even realizing as much. He captivates readers just as he captivates Bella, the leading lady. There aren’t as many concrete ways to describe it, but his character is unde-niably irresistible. Perhaps it is some-thing in the way his character carries himself, or the way he comes to care so deeply for someone he should, by legend, hunt. Someone so honest yet deceitful, reckless yet extremely cau-tious, demanding yet giving. This is one you have to read to fully under-stand, so I highly recommend you read.

There are four characters who will always stick with me. The next time you pick up a book, I challenge you to pay attention to the characters and all they have to offer. You might just relate to them in a way you didn’t expect.

Book characters can linger with readers

Torie JochimsOpinion Editor

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Aiden BrockWrestling

1.) What kind of ritual do you have individually?Prepare mentally, warm up and say a little prayer.2.) What have you learned from wrestling?No one is going to give you any-thing; you have to take it.3.) What motivates you?Looking at all the sacrifices my team, coaches and family have made for me.4.)Is there anything that you can tell others about wrestling that you think others wouldn’t know?It’s harder than it looks.5.)How many pins have you had all through high school so far?As a freshman and sophomomre, I didn’t pin many opponents. But, this year I have eight out of 20 matches.6.) Do you have a role model? Who is it and why?Yes, my brother because he always gave his all no matter how small the task.

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ActionMen’s Basketball1/26 lost to C.R. Jefferson 60-73Next up: 2/1 W. East (Away 6 p.m.)Women’s Basketball1/25 beat D. Hempstead, 58-39Next Up: 2/1 W. East (Home 6 p.m.)Wrestling1/26 4th at MVC Super Meet Next Up: 1/31 IC West (Home 6:15 p.m.)Men’s Bowling1/25 lost against D. Hempstead Next Up: 2/1 Jefferson(Home 3:45 p.m.)Women’s Bowling1/25 won aginst D. HempsteadNext Up: 2/1 Jefferson(Home 3:45 p.m.)Men’s Swimming1/26 2nd at MVC Super Meet Next Up: 2/2 Districts- TBA

Jakob ZiererStaff Writer

After three months of hard work, the CFHS swim team can be proud of the results: undefeated in dual meets, first place in the Mississippi Division, two Academic All-Conference Swimmers, one Athlete of the Mississippi Confer-ence Varsity Meet and Coaching Staff of the Year.

On Jan. 19, the Tigers were invited to the Mississippi Valley Conference Varsity Super Meet. After six hours of high-quality swimming, the Tigers (2nd place) could finally defeat Iowa City High (3rd place) and were only beaten by Valley Division winner Ce-dar Rapids Washington (1st place).

“We swam a little tired but per-formed well. We came in first in our division,” coach Dick Marcussen said after the meet.

“Most of us swam well consider-ing we have not tapered, but we wish we could’ve beat Washington,” Brian Verink, one of the key Tiger swimmers

Swim team takes second at MVC Super Meetand one of the best 500 free-style swimmers (personal record 4:51:19) in the nation, agreed.

Besides win-ning the Missis-sippi division, seniors Jack Ko-smicki and key swimmer Andy Peck were named Aca-demic All-Conference swimmers.

Peck was also selected Athlete of the Meet, and the Tiger coaching staff was selected MVC Coaches of the Year.

“It is a real honor to be voted the swimmer of the year. I’m good friends with a lot of guys on the other teams from club swimming. For them to elect me really means a lot,” Peck said. “I thought it (was) really special that coach Marcussen was voted Coach of the Year, too. He’s one of the greatest high school coaches in the nation. It’s awesome to be able to swim for him.”

The next and last meet before State

is Districts on Feb. 2, and Coach Mar-cussen is preparing his swimmers as well as possible.

“We are beginning our taper – more rest (no morning workouts), work on starts, turns, technique and the mental part of the game. We will shorten yard-age, more quality swimming,” he said.

The team recognizes the change.“The workouts always are a little

different before Districts. We shift our training from conditioning to sprint,” Peck said.

“We usually do 6,000 and more yards in the normal mid-season. Now with the season winding down, we are

doing fewer yards,” Verink said.Marcussen has his personal and

team goals for Districts.“My personal goal is to correct all

weaknesses as a team and individual,” he said. And he is expecting to “win our District as a team.”

Verink has the right attitude for Dis-tricts. “I would like to go under 4:50 in the 500 free, then go best time in the 200 IM (Individual Medley) and then see all three relays make it to State,” he said.

After Districts, State, on Feb. 9, is the big event and the end of the swim-ming season. The team is very excited, but the big question is now: Who will make it to State?

“If the taper works perfectly, others besides Andy Peck, Brian Verink, Nick Challgren, Josh Bower, Austin Abbas and Garrett Moses could make the cut to State,” Marcussen said.

The top 24 times out of six districts will make it to State. “I think our team will have a good number of guys quali-fying for State,” Verink said.

Alex EntzStaff Writer

The Tigers are off to a 7-6 start. The team limited it’s turnovers and played good defense in its 65-54 win over Dubuque Hempstead last Friday.

Unfortunately, the team skidded the next night, losing to Cedar Rapids Jef-ferson 73-60.

“We’ve hit a rough patch, but each game we improve on something differ-ent,” senior standout Austin Pehl said.

“Based on the quality of teams we play, we’d like to win more, but we’re progressing and getting better with ev-ery practice,” Slykhuis said.

The team focuses mostly on fun-damentals in practice, but Slykhuis has added extra incentives this year in order to make the team more competi-tive. Practice activities are now tied in with consequences, like push-ups or running, which Slykhuis hopes will help the team improve.

“We need to learn to take care of the ball better and limit our turnovers,”

Pehl said.The team also has something else

that many basketball teams can only dream of—a strong sense of com-mitment and belonging. “We get along well on and off the court,” Pehl said.

Though Iowa City High has all of the tools for a run at a State title, Slykhuis believes his team has the tools in place to act as a spoiler.

“Obviously we’re not going to win the conference … but we want to be playing in Des Moines (at the state tournament) in the first week of March,” Slykhuis said.

Pehl agreed. “If we can limit our turnovers, we should make State.”

The Tigers’ attention now turns to the game at Waterloo East on Fri-day at 6. The team will also faced Dubuque Wahlert at home at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, but the details of the game were unavailable at The Hi-Line’s deadline.

“We have a never die attitude,” Slykhuis said.

Sara StreverStaff Writer

Last Friday night the Tigers traveled to Dubuque Hempstead and dominat-ed. With an overall score of 58 to 39, it is easy to say the Tigers are having a great season.

Their current record is 14 wins and 4 losses. Earlier this week, the Tigers had a nail-biting name versus Iowa City, when they had to go into over-time. The Tigers managed to wrap up the game by three points.

The Tigers also had a rough start to the season when volleyball, weather and other obstacles came in their way.

“We have had a lot of tough games against some top rated schools, but probably our first game (was the hardest game) against Ballard and also against Cedar Rapids Washington because we had so few practices before then with everyone there, and they were both on the road and rated number 1 in 3A and 4A,” head coach Dan List said.

The Tigers have definitely gotten in

the swing of things, winning the past 11 games consecutively. This could be due to their emphasis on teamwork.

“The chemistry of this team is ex-cellent. They are a great group of kids. I can not think of a group that I have coached that is more competitive than this group. They play with a lot heart,” List said.

The Tigers have three more games until they start the road to the state tournament.

“We have a tough road to haul be-cause Ankeny has been put in our re-gional, and before them we have to get by two big rivals in West and East, but, yes, if we play like we are capable, we certainly have a good chance to go,” List said.

“We have three more games be-fore we play the winner of East versus West. Then we will probably have to play Ankeny to go to State. It will be tough because they are ranked in the top five, but I really think that we can beat them,” varsity player Laura John-son said.

After making waves with coaching, swimming honors,

“I thought it (was) really special that coach Marcussen was voted Coach of the Year ... It’s awesome

to be able to swim for him.”—Andy Peck

senior swimmer

Slykhuis focuses team on reducing turnovers

Women hope win streakcontinues through State

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Kara SchreiberStaff Writer

At the beginning of the year, the CFHS world language department wel-comed aboard Anna Danforth, a French teacher with a diverse array of world experience.

Danforth lived as a part of a village named Lassin in the country of Camer-oon from the ages of seven to 12. Her parents worked for the American gov-ernment and moved to Africa to help develop languages.

In Africa, the Danforths resided in a temperate climate. The average tem-perature is about 75 degrees.

However, the area has only two sea-sons: rainy and dry. So, it is alternately monsoon-style and desert-style weather with little to no happy medium in terms of precipitation.

Though she has not lived in Africa for years, Danforth still keeps in touch with her friends there.

They communicate through letters because her friends in Cameroon do not have access to computers.

Recently, Danforth led fundraising efforts in Cedar Falls to help pay for health insurance for her friend Biba’s son. By selling Christmas tree orna-ments, CFHS French students raised about $800.

Danforth learned how to speak a language called Nooni while living in Africa.

She also learned to appreciate the simple life.

Her village hunts for their food and lives without electricity.

“Living there taught me how to ap-preciate life more,” Danforth said.

When living in Africa, she would rely on her friends for fun.

They had no electricity, no televi-sion and no computers. Instead, the emphasis was on relationships and en-joyment of nature.

“We would go hunting a lot,” Dan-

forth said.They would hunt large, 18-inch-

long rodents called genrats, as well as birds, with spears and slingshots.

Danforth’s assimilation back into American culture was somewhat diffi-cult. She said she was culture-shocked by the fast pace at which Americans live.

Danforth’s time in Africa gives her a unique cultural perspective that she uses to enrich her classes.

Recently, Danforth brought a few new hand games to her class to show her students.

“These games were extremely fun and interesting, because she learned them in Africa. It was very neat to learn something from a different country.” sophomore Jane Thode said.

Danforth tells her French classes a lot about what she had done in Africa.

“It is neat to here about how differ-ent it is in Africa than in America be-cause they do things so differently.”

Teacher’s time in Africaadds spice for students

In our own backyard...Custodian’s provide much-needed supportfor appreciative CFHS students, faculty

Laura HennyStaff Writer

From 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. each day, the custodians keep the halls clean and gears running at Cedar Falls High School. They enable students and staff to work in a clean, comfortable envi-ronment.

Cleaning up after more than 1,200 staff and students are nine custodians: Mark Wray, David Murray, Jerome Bronner, Scott Coverdale, Duane Dean, Debra McCombs, Robert Mobley, Josh Schrum and Scott Wessels.

Head custodian David Murray, was a former student of Cedar Falls High

School and graduated in 1971. He en-joys his work because it keeps him busy “helping o t h e r p e o -p l e , ” Murray said.

I n addition to mak-ing this s c h o o l look its best, the custodi-al staff are heroes in many situations.

They often use their resources and

abilities to help out when no one else can.

At a recent v o l -leyball g a m e , t h e bleach-ers were packed full and an air d u c t

came loose and was hanging by a safety wire. Murray climbed up a tall ladder to fix the air

duct, and when he finished, everybody in the bleachers cheered.

“Once my feet came off the ladder and hit the floor, everybody started clapping,” Murray said.

The staff appreciates the diligence of the custodial staff.

“Roadies behind our rock concert, people don’t realize what they do,” English teacher Michelle Rathe said.

Associate principle Dana Deines notes that work, without custodians, would be nearly impossible.

“They are always willing to help and they make my job easier,” princi-pal Deines said.

And even though the work can be

“Once my feet came off the ladder and hit the floor, ev-erybody started clapping.”

—David Murray Head Custodian

strenuous, many note the positive at-titude of CFHS custodians.

“One of the guys calls me ‘cool lady.’ I love ‘em,” senior Candace Fer-guson said.

Students also appreciate the efforts of the custodians. “They do a nice job,” sophomore Conner Fairman said.

Junior Joe Youngblood notes that custodians help to keep him safe. “They clean the sidewalks so you do not slip and fall,” Youngblood said. Custodians also can help with unfortunate first-day-of-school mishaps. “They are very helpful and knowledgeable when it comes to locker-opening,” Youngblood said.

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