“wax and flame” (photo by Dave)
Sometimes conditions are just so, that by the end of a service our prayer candles in the bowl of joys and concerns have melted into a pool of wax on the surface of the sand. Perhaps there are so many candles standing next to each other that the combined heat melts them, sometimes the air movement across the top of the bowl speeds the meltdown, sometimes the minister has spoken too long…In any case, it creates an interesting phenomena where the flames appear to be floating on liquid wax and sand. Each Sunday as we share a different assortment of life experiences (no two weeks alike), in the same manner, sand, wax and flame create their own story.
This Sunday’s service is a continuation of our theme “The Science of Religion and our UU Shared Values” (part 11) as we explore the topic of forgiveness, one of the basic components of religion. We also have a special guest speaker assisting in the service and then leading a workshop during coffee hour; Heidi Carroll, a minister, shamanic practitioner, intuitive healer, pranic healer and author. The title of the service is “Opening Your Heart; Release and Forgiveness” and the title of the workshop is “Learn Heart Coherence.” Come and learn about heart-math and how to connect to your own heart-center. More details about Heidi and her workshop are included below.
YouTube Channel content for this week is a continuation of our theme “The Science of Religion and our UU Shared Values” (part ten) as we explore the topic of virtue, another key components of religion. Ethics (or virtue) is the movement of Love in our world; the expression of our shared values and priorities in our day to day living.
We hope you can join us for one of the services online or in-person.
In Ministry,
Dave
Special Workshop
April 6 Sunday Morning during Coffee Hour
Heidi Carroll “Learn Heart Coherence”
Heidi Carroll will join us on Sunday, April 6th during the Sunday Service AND during Coffee Hour directly after the service.
Heidi was a part of the Metaphysical Tent during the Eclipse Weekend last year. She felt a connection to the area and hoped to return to Houlton. And here we are! Heidi asks if you or someone you know needs any level of healing or inspiration to please attend! Q&A to follow.
Her background and training as a shamanic practitioner, intuitive and pranic healer coupled with her loving and honest nature is a great combination for some powerful healing and uplifting experiences.
Come with an open heart and mind. Come with questions. Come with curiosity.
Donations gratefully accepted.
“Hands Off” Rally
April 5 Saturday Afternoon 1PM at the Peace Pole
This is a reminder that we will have a “Hands Off!” rally at 1:00 pm this Saturday, April 5 at the Peace Pole in Houlton. This is in coordination with, but not necessarily aligned with rallies happening all over the country. A permit has been acquired. We will meet at the Cup Cafe after the rally at 2:00 pm. After our last meeting, someone suggested that we do more than push back against what we see happening and bring some food or monetary contributions to a local food pantry to help those made less secure because of the cuts and changes. from the “Restore” Group organizers
- Hands Off Our Democracy!
- Hands Off Our Health Care!
- Hands Off Social Security!
- Hands Off Our Data!
- Hands Off Public Schools!
- Hands Off Our Bodies!
- Hands Off Our Wallets!
- Hands Off Public Lands!
THIS WEEK’S YOUTUBE SERVICE:
HERE IS THE SERVICE LINK FOR THIS WEEK’S YOUTUBE SERVICE
(Please note it won’t be active until 10AM on Sunday morning)
HERE IS THE ZOOM LINK FOR SUNDAY COFFEE HOUR:
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Calendar of Events @UUHoulton
April 5 “Restore” Group “Hands Off” Rally in Monument Park 1PM
April 5 “Restore” Group Meeting 2PM
April 6 Sunday Service: David Hutchinson & Heidi Carroll
April 13 Sunday Service: Dale Holden (Palm Sunday)
April 14 UUHoulton Board Meeting 4PM
April 19LGBTQ+ Luncheon 12 Noon
April 19 “Restore” Group Meeting 2PM
April 20 Sunday Service: Easter Service David Hutchinson
April 22Meditation Group (online) 4PM
April 27 Sunday Service: Kathryn Harnish
May 3 “Restore” Group Meeting 2PM
May 3 Unitarian Concert Series: James Mullinger 7PM
May 4 Sunday Service: Leigh & Fred (Maypole Service)
May 6 Meditation Group 4PM (online)
May 7 Climate Group Meeting in the cafe 6PM
May 11 Sunday Service: David Hutchinson
May 17 LGBTQ+ Luncheon 12 Noon
May 17 “Restore” Group Meeting 2PM
May 17 Houlton Coffeehouse 7PM Feature: Just Us (Janice, Doug & Ira)
May 18 Sunday Service: Randi Bradbury & Ira Dyer
May 25 Sunday Service: David Hutchinson
Virtual Offering Plate
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UU Church of Houlton
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UPCOMING EVENT:May 3 Saturday Night 7PM
James Mullinger on the Sanctuary Stage
With Opener John Thompson on Harp from Woodstock$20 tickets (children under 12 are free)
James Mullinger was one of the UK’s top comedians and the Comedy Editor for GQ magazine when he moved to The Canadian Maritimes in 2014. Since his arrival, he has taken the country by storm. He has sold out shows across the country, made appearances on CBC’s The Debaters, movies, Television shows, festivals, award shows and stand up specials for Prime… he’s done it all.
After publishing his bestselling memoir Brit Happens – Living The Canadian Dream, creating his own magazine celebrating Atlantic Canada and creating and starring in New Brunswick’s first ever sitcom, he is back on the road with a full length stand up show sharing what he has learned about this special place over the past decade. Irreverent, honest, unpredictable but always hilarious, James is a Canadian citizen now and the gloves are off. In this far-reaching show celebrating 10 years living in his favorite place in the world, James shares his unique insights into the province and the world. Looking back and looking forward, this is your last chance to see some of James’ classic routines and first chance to see some of his newest. For longtime fans and newcomers alike, this is a show for everyone! Be prepared to laugh, feel inspired and uplifted.A rare chance to catch the award-winning, record-breaking British comedian in an intimate venue (Houlton Unitarian Sanctuary
Stage). James Mullinger is one of the top comics in the UK and Canada where he now lives and this is his first ever show in Maine, USA! Video clips of James Mullinger performances will appear on The Cup Cafe Facebook Page in coming days…
Tickets are now available at The County Co-Op & Farm Store in downtown Houlton
and online at uuhoulton.org (just click on the front page image or go to “concert series”)
Press Reviews:
“James Mullinger is Britain’s greatest gift to Canadian comedy.” Montreal Times
“A great stand up” Jimmy Carr
“Fantastic, very talented and very funny. The next big thing. I love James Mullinger.” - Michael McIntyre
“James Mullinger has the audience laughing uproariously.” The Globe & Mail
On Tyranny
by Timothy Snyder
One of the books we added to our UUHoulton “feature list” this year is “On Tyranny” by Timothy Snyder who
is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. It’s a small book (just 125 pages) with big ideas. We have two copies that were donated to the Unitarian Society Library which are available to borrow. Snyder also writes material which you can find on Substack.
Here is my best guidance for action. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Millions of you, around the world, have put these lessons to good use; it has been humbling to learn how from courageous and creative dissenters, protestors, and oppositionists. I am delighted to have this special chance now to share the lessons again.
1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
2. Defend institutions. It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of “our institutions” unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf. Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning. So choose an institution you care about — a court, a newspaper, a law, a labor union — and take its side.
3. Beware the one-party state. The parties that remade states and suppressed rivals were not omnipotent from the start. They exploited a historic moment to make political life impossible for their opponents. So support the multiple-party system and defend the rules of democratic elections. Vote in local and state elections while you can. Consider running for office.
4. Take responsibility for the face of the world. The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow. Notice the swastikas and the other signs of hate. Do not look away, and do not get used to them. Remove them yourself and set an example for others to do so.
5. Remember professional ethics. When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges. Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor.
6. Be wary of paramilitaries. When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.
7. Be reflective if you must be armed. If you carry a weapon in public service, may God bless you and keep you. But know that evils of the past involved policemen and soldiers finding themselves, one day, doing irregular things. Be ready to say no.
8. Stand out. Someone has to. It is easy to follow along. It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom. Remember Rosa Parks. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow.
9. Be kind to our language. Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.
10. Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.
11. Investigate. Figure things out for yourself. Spend more time with long articles. Subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media. Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you. Learn about sites that investigate propaganda campaigns (some of which come from abroad). Take responsibility for what you communicate with others.
12. Make eye contact and small talk. This is not just polite. It is part of being a citizen and a responsible member of society. It is also a way to stay in touch with your surroundings, break down social barriers, and understand whom you should and should not trust. If we enter a culture of denunciation, you will want to know the psychological landscape of your daily life.
13. Practice corporeal politics. Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them.
(Nota bene, jumping away from the text for a moment: there will be chancesto practice corporeal politics all over the USA on April 5th).
14. Establish a private life. Nastier rulers will use what they know about you to push you around. Scrub your computer of malware on a regular basis. Remember that email is skywriting. Consider using alternative forms of the internet, or simply using it less. Have personal exchanges in person. For the same reason, resolve any legal trouble. Tyrants seek the hook on which to hang you. Try not to have hooks.
15. Contribute to good causes. Be active in organizations, political or not, that express your own view of life. Pick a charity or two and set up autopay. Then you will have made a free choice that supports civil society and helps others to do good.
16. Learn from peers in other countries. Keep up your friendships abroad, or make new friends in other countries. The present difficulties in the United States are an element of a larger trend. And no country is going to find a solution by itself. Make sure you and your family have passports.
17. Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to use of the words “extremism” and “terrorism.” Be alive to the fatal notions of “emergency” and “exception.” Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
18. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, and so on, is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. Do not fall for it.
19. Be a patriot. Set a good example of what America means for the generations to come. They will need it.
20. Be as courageous as you can. If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny.
We have featured several of Rebecca Solnit’s columns in the Support Page lately as the country finds itself in a constitutional crisis and citizens are trying to assess the issues moving forward.
| MEDITATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY |
| People Have the Power |
| By Rebecca Solnit • 2 Apr 2025 |
I wrote the following early yesterday before the big news of the Wisconsin election in which Elon Musk’s estimated $20 million and illicit bribes to voters did not net a win for his candidate and may have done the opposite and before Cory Booker’s filibuster entered its final hours and triumph at the 25-hour mark. It was a good day for democracy and for Democrats and one no one quite foresaw. I was writing about the nature of power, and Booker’s power to stand on principle, literally, for more than a full day, while hundreds of millions sat up and paid attention (he got 400 million likes on TikTok alone), and Musk’s powerlessness to buy an election or prop up his sagging car company said a lot about it. I wrote:
This is a test. Not like a test as not the real thing like a fire drill or a math test, but the real thing itself: a test as in all of us are being tested, as in “these are times that try men’s souls” and everyone’s principles. Who will stand up to the coup/constitutional crisis? Who has already surrendered? The coup is unfolding as an attack on the institutions and relationships and even facts that stabilize and sometimes protect and aid this nation and the world and people across the world, as a vicious attack on nature itself, and as an attack on the rights of individuals and the rule of law. It’s a horrific nightmare of an era, and each of us had a choice in how to respond to it.
This is a test with two options for people in this country, resisting or acquiescing; there is no third alternative, no sitting this out. (Obviously, children, the infirm, and those already facing great danger are exempt, but that leaves a whole lot of us, especially those of us who are straight, white, and born in the USA.) In how we respond, we find out who we are, who is with us, who is strong and lives by their principles and who is weak and surrenders theirs (or didn’t have any, or finds Trumpist principles just fine).
I write as Senator Cory Booker enters the seventeenth hour of his filibuster-ish speech protesting the Trump Administration, a performance that only highlights the comparative absence of most of our senators from the public arena. Everyone in this crisis who can speak up should speak up, and while some people are vulnerable in that they would face difficult to dangerous consequences for so doing, senators are uniquely empowered to speak up. Also it’s their job, and they took an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and the domestic enemies are in their face right now, and as obvious as can be.
Of course more than half of the hundred senators are already Team Trump but the Democrats in Congress have overall been missing in action in what is, arguably, the biggest crisis in this country’s history. Not being on the wrong side of history is not good enough. They need to be on the right side, loudly, to do the job we voted for and pay them for. Pretending that this is a normal situation for which a normal legislative response is adequate is delusion or deceit. The same goes for the lower house, in which we’ve been listening to the sounds of silence from a lot of representatives who are not representing us.
(I must acknowledge, though, that the news media are not doing a great job in keeping us informed on what’s going on, and though I’m (obviously) obsessively scouring the news most days, I miss stories. While looking for something else, I just ran across Elizabeth Warren speaking up for the Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, the PhD candidate snatched off the street by ICE and incarcerated in Louisiana, calling for her release and the restoration of her visa. And then I came across mention of the Social Security war room Warren and Senator Ron Wyden announced at a press conference today. I do think that Democrats in Congress need to do a much better job of telling us they hear us, they’re doing stuff, and what that stuff is. It’s striking that Booker said he decided to filibuster because he was listening to us. “We need a greater love in this country a greater fight in this country, a greater determination,” he said toward the end of his extraordinary performance.)
Right now a lot of elites are surrendering or at least some very high profile ones–a number of elite private universities and law firms have very publicly caved to the Administration’s direct pressures and demands. Which has in turn prompted some very public resignations from brave lawyers at these firms, who did not sign up for surrender to lawless authoritarianism. More than a thousand of them signed a petition and a few of them at the firms that acquiesced have written public letters of resignation.
Academics have circulated and signed similar petitions. Law-school deans, led by UC Berkeley, signed on to a public letter affirming their principles. It’s striking that the supposedly top eleven law schools did not sign on, which raises some questions about what makes an institution top. A BlueSky commenter wrote “Mr. Rogers said, ‘Look for the helpers’ – but maybe don’t look for them in the Ivies. And rethink those rankings. ” It raises more questions about elites and what power and wealth and strength are.
“Columbia University agreed on Friday to overhaul its protest policies, security practices and Middle Eastern studies department in a remarkable concession to the Trump administration, which has refused to consider restoring $400 million in federal funds without major changes,” the New York Times reported on March 21. “This week, the University of Pennsylvania was also explicitly targeted by the Trump administration, which said it would cancel $175 million in federal funding, at least partly because the university had let a transgender woman participate on a women’s swim team” in 2022. This is forced ideological conformity, and I’m pretty sure it violates a bunch of laws.
It’s worth mentioning Penn because it’s a reminder that it’s not just about campus protests or alleged antisemitism; it’s about anything they want, and breaking universities as strongholds of education, research, and intellectual activity serves authoritarianism well. Here’s another example from Forbes, which declares: “The recent attempt to deport Kseniia Petrova, a 32-year-old Russian medical researcher at Harvard Medical School, and her current detention has ignited a firestorm of concern among academics and human rights advocates. Her alleged infraction—failing to declare frog embryos used in research—has led to her visa revocation and the threat of her removal to Russia, where her outspoken criticism of the Kremlin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine places her at severe risk.”
In the case of Columbia University, some part of its administration seemed to welcome making the campus a place where speech is no longer free (and after the university’s president agreed to these outrageous conditions, she was fired by its board for allegedly saying in a zoom meeting that enforcement might be lax). The Trump Administration is seeking to crush the first-amendment-guaranteed freedom of speech, association, and maybe religion, along with the freedom of the press as it intimidates news outlets with lawsuits (some of them caved by paying settlements rather than fighting winnable cases in court). And the freedom of the legal profession to defend people of all political persuasions and ethnicities.
A number of conservative Jewish organizations have also gotten behind the Trump Administration’s supposed pursuit of antisemites, with a definition of antisemitism suggesting that opposing the current government of Israel is antisemitism, though many Israelis and Jews vehemently oppose the Netanyahu regime and its mass killings. Letting authoritarians aligned with actual antisemites as in Nazis decide who’s a Jew and who’s a good Jew is a dangerously corrupt choice. Trump announced on Truth Social Tuesday that Wilkie Farr & Gallagher had agreed to supply $100 million in pro-bono work on causes his administration supports, including “Combatting Antisemitism,” which will likely mean critics of Israel and not Trump’s neo-Nazi supporters.
Some surrenders are public. Some take the form of quiet acquiescence, of not speaking up, and I’d include in this category all the celebrities who seemed to be passionately anti-Trump last year, in their campaigning for Kamala Harris (and in the case of George Clooney and a lot of others, campaigning against Joe Biden). Where did all the celebrities go? Do any of them have a guitar that, like Woody Guthrie’s, fights fascism? Could Bruce Springsteen please sing us a song of no surrender? White Dudes for Harris, you need to become White Dudes for Democracy. (At least Mark Hamill is lively for democracy on BlueSky.) Celebrities are more securely placed than most of us when it comes to speaking up and have more impact when they do. Where are they hiding?
What’s most striking to me about all this is the question of: what is power? Normally we’d say that Columbia University and those law firms taking in tens or hundreds of millions of dollars annually are powerful. They’re rich, they’re highly visible, but in their acquiescence they have proven they are weak rather than strong, that what is supposed to be their power is their accumulation of privilege they are so afraid to lose they turn out to also be afraid to use. If you can’t use it, it’s not power and you’re not powerful. Or maybe it’s that you can both accumulate power and spend it, and they’re afraid to spend it. I think this is often the case with elites – they become hostage to their own privileges, so afraid of losing them they are acquiescent to whatever comes.
At least if their loyalty is to rank, status, riches. Some are willing to risk or just walk out on all those things. Take this young lawyer who just resigned from Skadden, one of those elite law firms that surrendered. “On Friday, hours after Jenner and WilmerHale filed their lawsuits, Trump said he had reached an agreement with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, in which the firm would provide at least $100 million in pro bono legal services for causes the president supports,” the Washington Post reports, noting that the firms Jenner & Block and WilmerHale went to court to stop the executive order Trump issued against them, as had Perkins Coie, while Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison surrendered.
Anyway, Thomas Sipp, formerly of Skadden, wrote about loving history when he was in school, and how he would, while reading about those who acted with conscience in times of crisis, “often imagine myself faced with the same dilemmas. What would I do if I was there? Would I do the right thing? It always felt like there was no way to know.” He concludes, “As lawyers, we have an obligation to uphold the rule of law. This responsibility does not end when profits are threatened by a burgeoning autocracy. I am making this decision to leave even though I was happy here. I have made so many great friends at this firm and learned from many great mentors. Thank you so much, I will miss you all dearly. And I am making this decision knowing that not everyone can leave as readily as I can, that many of you have families who depend on the income you earn here—I do not mean to shame you into leaving, only to explain my decision. Skadden is on the wrong side of history. I could no longer stay knowing that someday I would have to explain why I stayed.”
He demonstrated that he had the power to act on conscience, to face the consequences of so doing, and to speak up about it. Individual courage – embodied for the past 36 years by that man facing off the tanks approaching the pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tienanmen Square in 1989 – is inspiring, and I hope what it inspires is more courage. But safety in numbers is a rule that applies exceedingly well to acts of resistance, opposition, and defiance. The more of us who stand up and speak out the safer it is to do so. It’s easier to pick off a few than round up the majority.
I recently watched the famous scene in which the Roman authorities demand Spartacus identify himself and lots of the enslaved men stand up and announce “I am Spartacus.” It’s a demonstration that even these men have the power of solidarity. The script for the 1960 film Spartacus was written by Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted left-wing screenwriter, adopted from the novel by Howard Fast, who was likewise a former Communist, and the novel and film were critiques of their own era of McCarthyite right-wing repression and attacks on freedom of thought and speech in violation of the Bill of Rights. We’re in an era like it, and it behooves all who can to speak up and stand up when they come for any of us.
Here’s another thing about power; the power the Trump Administration has is largely what we give it. They often cave when it is not given or when it’s taken away by the courts. And they’re spending power, not tending it, by breaking alliances, support, relationships, treaties. their threats to seize Greenland. They may desire to make the US weaker, because they may think a weakened country with undermined institutions may be easier to dominate, but as the heads of government they’re also making themselves weaker. The administration has sabotaged relationships with our neighbors, Canada and Mexico, and with NATO and EU allies. So they’re losing the power of alliances abroad, along with the power of public support at home.
They seem to have miscalculated–so far as I can tell by assuming their power is boundless, to be endlessly spent, never built up and protected, as political leaders normally do. Take the threats to seize Greenland, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark, which in turn is part of the European Union and NATO, so that any invasion of the indigenous-majority island would be an attack on these powerful alliances. The loud threats have infuriated and alienated Greenlandic and Danish and many other people around the the world. The stunt whereby the administration decided to send the vice president’s wife to Greenland for what was clearly a publicity campaign pretending to be a little holiday backfired badly.
Usha Vance was going to attend a dogsled race, show herself about, and then the vice president decided to join her. Greenlanders made it so clear they were so unwelcome that they limited their tour to a few hours at the isolated US military base for a pathetic photo op. It was a fool’s errand and they showed their weakness by backing down from something that was always a dumb idea and maybe one that shows they lack intelligence in the ordinary sense of being smart and the specific sense of having good analysis of the political situation and the consequences of given actions. Or maybe they think their power is irresistible, but a small indigenous population resisted it effectively. They certainly failed, again, to anticipate both public reaction to their conduct and the fact that the public has power too.
Elon Musk has helpfully just proven how resistible power is, or the folly of confusing mountains of money with outright power. He had an apparent meltdown last night over his failure to buy the Wisconsin supreme court election, in which his candidate didn’t just lose but lost in a landslide. And earlier he choked up on Fox News talking about the protests against Tesla and the impact it’s having on the company’s valuation. Both these things demonstrate the limits of his power and the scope of our power. People have the power.
Prayer List
For those working for social justice and societal change
Pray for peaceful action and democratic process in our nation
The war in Ukraine continues
Prayers for the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza
Prayers for peace in the Middle East
Prayers for this affected by the tragic aircrash in Washington DC
Prayers for those affected by recent governmental (and policy) changes in DC
Prayers for those affected by the earthquake in Myanmar
The Four Limitless Ones Prayer
May all sentient beings enjoy happiness and the root of happiness.
May we be free from suffering and the root of suffering.
May we not be separated from the great happiness devoid of suffering.
May we dwell in the great equanimity free from anger, aggression and delusion.
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