Baltimore Sister Cities

Ballot topics for February 15, 2023 BSC Annual Membership Meeting

In the February 15, 2023 Annual Membership Meeting of Baltimore Sister Cities, Inc., (BSC), the following items (A, B, and C) will be submitted for approval by the BSC membership. The meeting will be held online via Zoom at 6:00pm ET. The information has been posted on this webpage so that members have a chance to review it before the meeting.

Who can vote in the BSC Annual Membership Meeting:

  • Members of BSC’s constituent sister city committees who have paid their 2023 membership dues — both Regular and Associate level members.

A. 2022 ACCOMPLISHMENTS REPORT

(for BSC-level activities and activities for the constituent sister city committees)

View proposed 2022 Accomplishments Report (PDF, 3.7mb)

PDF updated on: 2023-02-04 2:15pm ET

B. 2023 PLAN

(for BSC-level activities and activities for the constituent sister city committees)

View proposed 2023 Plan (PDF, 2.6mb)

PDF posted on: 2023-01-29 1:30pm ET

C. Board Elections

Below is the list of board directors that represent sister city committees and other organizations on our board, as defined in our bylaws.

Persons indicated in bold font with an asterisk (*) are nominees, up for election this year. These nominations were made by the sister city committees and other organizations represented on our BSC, Inc. board. Opposing nominations, if desired, can be made at the February 15, 2023 Annual Membership Meeting.

Persons WITHOUT an asterisk are in the middle of their board term and therefore NOT up for reelection on February 15, 2023.

OrganizationRepresentativeTerm (2 years)
BSC:Changwon (BCSCC) Representative:
Michelle Lee *		2023 & 2024
Gbarnga (BGSCC) Representative:
Luana Kiandoli		2022 & 2023
Kawasaki (BKSCC) Representative:
Jay Gordon *		2023 & 2024
Luxor-Alexandria (BLASCC) Representative:
Karen Leggett Abouraya *		2023 & 2024
Odesa (BOSCC) Representative:
Karina Mandell		2022 & 2023
Piraeus (BPSCC) Representative:
Diane Homberg		2022 & 2023
Rotterdam (BRSCC) Representative:
Gary Davison		2022 & 2023
Xiamen (BXSCC) Representative:
Hosea Chew *		2023 & 2024
Mayor’s Office:Baltimore Mayor’s Office Representative:
Nina Themelis (Deputy Director, Mayor’s Office of Government Relations)		2022 & 2023
MIMA:Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs Representative:
Masuma Islam Lonczak *		2023 & 2024
BDC:Baltimore Development Corporation Representative:
William Cawthern (Director of Baltimore Foreign Trade Zone #74)		2022 & 2023
BOPA:Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts Representative:
Lauren Green * (Director of Marketing)		2023 & 2024

Note:

The positions of the non-voting (a.k.a. co-opted) board members (currently Fontaine Bell, Geri Byrd, Hosea Chew, Teresa Leslie, Nancy Taylor) are not approved at the Annual Membership Meeting but at the 1st regular Board Meeting of the year following the annual meeting. This year, the Board Meeting immediately follows the Annual Membership Meeting on February 15, 2023. BSC Executive Officers are also elected at the February 15 Board Meeting. The officer positions up for election this year are: Vice President, Secretary, and Assistant Treasurer. See the ballot topics for the February 15 Board Meeting.

D. Sister City Committee Chairs

The following list is informational only. The chairs are elected by their committee members. The chairs are not elected in the BSC Annual Membership Meeting.

CommitteeChairTerm (2 years)
Changwon (BCSCC)Michelle Lee2022 & 2023
Gbarnga (BGSCC)Luana Kiandoli2022 & 2023
Kawasaki (BKSCC)Jay Gordon2023 & 2024
Luxor-Alexandria (BLASCC)Karen Leggett Abouraya & Tharwat Abouraya (co-chairs)2022 & 2023
Odesa (BOSCC)Karina Mandell2022 & 2023
Piraeus (BPSCC)Diane Homberg2022 & 2023
Rotterdam (BRSCC)Rachel Sengers2022 & 2023
Xiamen (BXSCC)Xin (Cindy) Wang2022 & 2023

Note

The 1st Board Meeting of 2023 immediately follows the Annual Membership meeting.

This webpage was last updated on 2023-02-06.

Jan 14 – Mar 25 / Lunar New Year Exhibition at Baltimore Clayworks

Exhibition: “Lunar New Year” Curated by Adam Chau.
Dates: January 14 – March 25, 2023.
Times: Tuesday – Saturday 10am-5pm ET. Sunday 12-5pm ET.
Admission: Free and open to the public.
Location: Baltimore Clayworks, 5707 Smith Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21209 .
About the exhibition: Exhibition page on Baltimore Clayworks site.
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 14 from 6-8 pm.
Virtual Artist Talk: January 24 at 2pm ET with curator Adam Chau About the artist talk & to register for it .

Chinese/Vietnamese American artist, Adam Chau, has produced this series of exhibitions across the United States celebrating the Asian New Year since 2019. Participating AAPI and mixed-heritage artists share original ceramic works inspired by the animals from the Asian zodiac – a rabbit for the year 2023. Multiple cultures are represented in this project, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Participating artists are Ian Basset, Ling Chun, WangLing Chou, Grace Gittleman, Gunyoung Kim, Steven Kin, Nikki Lau, Cindy Leung, Mari Ogihara, Eun-Ha Paek, Shoji Satake, Juliane Shibata, Hitomi and Takuro Shibata, Micah Sweezie. Curator, Adam Chau, is a New York-based artist and Exhibitions Manager at ArtsWestchester.

Event partners include Baltimore-Kawasaki Sister City Committee (BKSCC), Baltimore-Xiamen Sister City Committee (BXSCC), Towson University Asian Arts & Culture Center (AA&CC).

Ceramic work by artist Steven Kin, part of the “Lunar New Year” 2023 exhibition at Baltimore Clayworks. This artwork is a vase shape (gray and white), with a blue rabbit in the center, and blue patterns at the top and bottom.
Ceramic art by artist Steven Kin

B4 Youth Theatre Liberia – 200 Years of Returns

Performance on December 18

B4 Youth Theatre is excited to announce that we will be giving our closing Bicentennial performance of 200 Years of Returns on Sunday, December 18, 2022 at 6pm at Providence Island in Liberia. Doors open at 5pm. This performance will be historic as we approach the end the year of 2022 which marks the 200 years of diaspora-making in this land of Liberty. We invite you to celebrate this historic occasion with as we welcome international guest actors from the Museum Theatre.

This is a collaboration with Department of Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia (US), dancers sponsored by the Inheritance Baltimore project, and graduate researcher assistants under the direction of the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship at Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University. Since we began this collaboration in 2019, we have consulted with notable Liberian scholars, artists, and policymakers such as Dr. Carl Burrowes, Dr. Clarice Ford Kulah, and Hon. Rosana G.D.H. Schaack on the development of a production that includes many perspectives for a thoughtful reflection on the challenges and triumphs which brought us together in the past and with hope for how we might persevere together in the future.

Our senior company of theater artists, composed of actors from our national leadership team, many of whom began with our program as students in 2013, will join our international guests in this performance. Between June-August of this year, five of our Liberia national leaders and senior company members traveled to the US to perform an early version of the script and conduct theater workshops in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia.

Opportunity for a performance on December 19

Students at our Gbarnga area program site are excited to see this performance for themselves, and as many cannot travel to Monrovia for the main performance on December 18, we would love the opportunity to bring them to the Bong County Technical College campus for a performance workshop. We envision a 30 to 40-minute combined performance with our Liberian actors and those from Colonial Williamsburg along with dancers from Baltimore, Maryland, US, and a panel discussion with all of our artists and distinguished educational professionals in Liberia. Aligned with our mission of empowering young people to become educated citizens through the arts, we believe this would be a valuable opportunity to cultivate knowledge with Bong County Technical College students, faculty, and staff, local youth artists, and our international guests. We could be available for this event the afternoon of Monday, December 19, 2022.

About B4 Youth Theatre

www.b4youththeatre.org

About the Johns Hopkins University program

JHU’s RIC Supports Trip to Liberia for Baltimore Schoolchildren

Baltimore+Rotterdam: Designing Cities

Baltimore+Rotterdam: Designing Cities - Conversation Series 2023. Baltimore Inner Harbor and Rotterdam waterfront by the Erasmus Bridge, looking towards Rotterdam Zuid. Logos of Baltimore-Roterdam Sister Cities, AIA Baltimore, RAvB, and Morgan SA+P.

A webinar series all about designing cities — spanning Baltimore and Rotterdam!

This series is a sequel to the previous webinar series from spring 2022. The spring 2023 theme is: Infrastructure as a Barrier: The scar that divides communities and breaks the very heart of the city. The 2023 series is intended to critically look at the theory gained through the 2022 series and provide practical input to current urban challenges.

Architects, designers, and researchers from Baltimore (Maryland, USA) and Rotterdam (the Netherlands), discussed “How do architects design spaces for people?” together with the audience — in 4 round tables facilitated by international moderators. Each round table dynamically explores designs that value infrastructures, cities, public spaces, communities, and individuals. Each webinar explores a specific theme. This is a unique opportunity to hear how different types of firms approach design in two cities with similar historical legacies (working class cities with port industries).

The Baltimore+Rotterdam 2023 series was part of Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning’s Spring 2023 Lecture Series. The Baltimore+Rotterdam series was designed and coordinated by Cristina Murphy, Assistant Professor at Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P) and Adjunct Professor at Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design’s Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center.

Dates: Every Tuesday from February 14 to March 7, 2023
Format: Online webinar — moderated panel discussion and Q&A
AIA continuing education credits: 1.0 AIA LU|HSW per webinar

The series has ended, but you can watch recordings of each webinar below!

WEBINARS:

Jump down to:

Webinar 1

Webinar 2

Webinar 3

Webinar 4

WEBINAR 1

Photos of buildings designed by some of the speakers, plus a neighborhood that is the research focus of the one of the speakers. Headshot photos, names, and titles of each of the speakers and the moderator.

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Video recording: youtube.com/watch?v=FeSNoK-B0wc

Event info page

THEME
Urban Ecology: Approaches for Environmental + Social Justice
A discussion on urbanization based on ecological knowledge and sustainability approaches

SPEAKERS
Paul Riley & Cara Versace Marshall Craft Associates (MCA) (Baltimore)
Amelle Shultz Ayers Saint Gross (Baltimore)
Jaqueline Bershad National Aquarium (Baltimore)
Jan Jongert Superuse Studios (Rotterdam)
David ter Avest Urban Geographer; Lecturer, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (RUAS) (Rotterdam)
Moderated by Thijs van Spaandonk Program Director for Urban Design, Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst (RAvB)

ABOUT
Urbanization is domesticating our ecosystems. Cities are spatially heterogeneous, complex adaptive systems. Furthermore, contemporary cities tend to be big in size and ecological footprint, fast in growth in population and land, and irregular in landscape configuration. Although the dynamic trajectory of cities can never be controlled, its evolution can be guided toward desirable directions through planning and design that are based on urban ecological knowledge and sustainability approaches.

WEBINAR 2

Photos of buildings designed by the panelists' firms. Headshot photos, names, and titles of each of the speakers and the moderator.

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Video recording: youtube.com/watch?v=yzCjIl5kbQE

Event info page

THEME
Collective Reuse: The Art of Reuse through Community Participation
A discussion about the roles of adaptive reuse in the urban environment, focusing on repurposing in order to (re)define the city

SPEAKERS
Megan Elcrat Present Company (Baltimore)
Evan Wivell EastWing Architects (Baltimore)
Duzan Doepel DoepelStrijkers (Rotterdam)
Jan Knikker MVRDV (Rotterdam)
Moderated by Sinisha Brdar Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal

ABOUT
Adaptive Reuse is the use of buildings and materials for purposes other than originally intended. Although adaptive reuse has a long tradition in arts and crafts, more recently environmental awareness and design for sustainability have revitalized the role of a trash-to- treasures approach, providing a wide array of contemporary urban design which is an important part of today’s city sustainability. In this session, we will explore the roles of adaptive reuse in the urban environment, focusing on repurposed objects (also) found in urban public spaces in order to (re)define the city.

WEBINAR 3

Photos of buildings designed by the panelists' firms. Headshot photos, names, and titles of each of the speakers and the moderator.

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Video recording: youtube.com/watch?v=aaIH9fWqObI

Event info page

THEME
The Generous City: Infrastructure and the Highway to Nowhere
A discussion on claiming back spaces historically divided by infrastructure

SPEAKERS
Jerome Gray Jerome C. Gray Architect (JCGA) (Baltimore)
Scott R. Vieth Design Collective (Baltimore)
Maarten van Bremen GROUP A Architects (Rotterdam)
Kees van Casteren Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) (Rotterdam)
Moderated by Selina Abraham Doctoral Researcher, University of Amsterdam

ABOUT
Cities and infrastructure can have an incredible impact on the lives of people. In the 1950s, the United States undertook an ambitious national interstate highway project with the goal of building roads to connect American cities. The design was, however, intertwined with racial prejudice creating segregation and impoverishing communities. In the Netherlands, cities like Rotterdam were rebuilt after the war and focused on cars as opposed to people. Urban highways have largely had a negative impact on urban life. This is the opposite of a “generous city”. In this session, architects from the Netherlands and the US will discuss how cities and their infrastructures can consciously contribute to empower people through generosity-by-design.

WEBINAR 4

Photos of buildings designed by the panelists' firms. Headshot photos, names, and titles of each of the speakers and the moderator.

MARCH 7, 2023

Video recording: youtube.com/watch?v=6ZzmVBNW0PE

Event info page

THEME
The Power of Design! Working with Stakeholders to Design Human Spaces
A discussion on co-designing and co-creating to confront big issues in urban design

SPEAKERS
Tyler Miller Gensler Baltimore (Baltimore)
Jason Neal J.Neal Design (Baltimore)
Elina Karanastasi ExS Architecture (Rotterdam)
Zico Lopes Spatial Codes – Studio for Architecture & Inclusion (Rotterdam)
Moderated by coleman a. jordan [ebo] Assistant Professor at Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P)

ABOUT
In order to improve the way we live, we ought to design healthier and safer cities and smarter buildings. To do so, collaboration is key. Our world faces challenges that are too great to be tackled by a single discipline. Baltimore and Rotterdam, like many cities around the world, face challenges related to food segregation, water resiliency, and poverty (also connected to homelessness), to name a few. More than ever, inviting users, customers, governance, and other stakeholders into the process of design is fundamental. These “new” stakeholders need to be brought in as active co-designers, to confront the big issues and develop actionable ways to improve experiences and to co-create new solutions. How can we, the designers, guarantee the welfare of citizens, through the creation of the built environment? Collaboration is discovering and using unique perspectives and benefiting from collective exploration.

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RELATED: SPRING 2023 EXCHANGE

Several of the above speakers are also participating in the spring 2023 architecture student exchange. Students and faculty from Morgan State University School of Architecture + Planning (MSU SA+P) will travel to Baltimore’s sister city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands in March 2023 and visit several architecture firms and infrastructure sites in Rotterdam. In April 2023, students from Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design (RAvB) will reciprocate the exchange by coming to Baltimore. More information about this exchange.

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July 6 | Baltimore Sister Cities Meet & Greet

Baltimore Sister Cities (BSC) Meet & Greet July 6, 5:30-8pm. BSC logo. Names of each of the sister cities.

Come mingle with our volunteers and friends!

Date: Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Time: 5:30-8pm
Location: R.House, 301 West 29th Street, Baltimore MD 21211
Has outdoors and indoors seating.
Weather note: The forecast calls for rain on July 6. We will still hold the event on July 6. It will not be moved or cancelled.

Meet our friends and volunteers; find out more about our sister cities and our activities at this informal summer get-together.

Spread the word to others in your network and invite them to come, too!

How you can find us: look for people wearing “Baltimore Sister Cities” logo stickers on their shirts, or look for table-top signs with “Baltimore Sister Cities” logo.

No RSVP needed — just show up!

About the R.House

R.House is a food hall with several food stalls from Baltimore chefs and a bar. It is a large space with open floorplan seating — both outdoors and indoors seating available. No reservations accepted — it is walk-in only. Located in the Remington neighborhood, near the Maryland Avenue bike lane and near several bus routes, including Purple Circulator; CityLine Silver; Bus 21. Street parking.

R.House website

July 23 | Bmore for Ukraine!

Bmore for Ukraine fundraiser event July 23, 2022. Illustration of yellow sunflowers with blue stems and leaves on a black background; logos of the sponsors

Date: Saturday, July 23, 2022 (Rain or shine)
Time: 12-6pm ET
Location: Pulaski monument in Patterson Park, Baltimore
For more info and to purchase tickets: Eventbrite page

Join the Baltimore-Odesa Sister City Committee for the first annual BMore for Ukraine, a celebration of communities coming together to support Ukraine in its time of need. The event will feature live music, cultural dance, raffles, and more!

All proceeds will benefit World Central Kitchen & United Help Ukraine.

Blooming Rainbow Project

Blooming Rainbow class – making art
Blooming Rainbow class – making art
Blooming Rainbow class – writing names in English and Korean characters

During 2021-2022, artists conducted “Blooming Rainbow” — a collaborative class with children, 5-15 years old, in Baltimore and South Korea to create abstract painting jointly together. In this program, children paint scribbles — they can express their feelings, impulsion or their favorite figures. The scribbles are then exchanged with the artists in Baltimore and Korea, who overlap color onto the scribbles. The children learn about the sister cities of Baltimore, Maryland USA and Changwon, South Korea, and learn about abstract art concepts and artists. The program is coordinated by artists Ara Ko, Jack Koppert, and Huaqi Liu (graduate students in MICA’s LeRoy E. Hoffberger Painting MFA Program in Baltimore) and Chaeyeon Hong, Yongeun Kwon and Jaeeun Kim from Ewha University in Seoul, South Korea (who travel to Changwon to teach their group of students).

Baltimore-Changwon Sister City Committee (BCSCC) is a project partner.

Video about the Blooming Rainbow project

Exhibition – Summer 2022

The work is shown online on Instagram, and in an exhibition in summer 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland USA and Changwon, South Korea.

The opening was on June 10 at 7:00pm ET Baltimore time and on June 11 at 8:00 AM Changwon time and was livestreamed online. Dami S. Schlobohm was the MC at the opening show and performed music. Dami is a cellist and music teacher born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Maryland.

Watch highlights from the exhibition opening event

The full-length recording of the event can be viewed on YouTube.

The artists who are leading this program

Artist Ara Ko with examples of her artwork
Artist Ara Ko
Artist Chae Yeon Hong
Artist Chae Yeon Hong
Blooming Rainbow hand-drawn logo with hand prints

Maryland, USA Delegation September 2022

Maryland is Open for Business: Your Gateway to the U.S.A. (Photo of downtown Baltimore, with Maryland's logo and USA flag

Maryland state’s Department of Commerce leads a business development mission to the Netherlands in September 2022, with visits to the European Water Technology Week in Leeuwarden and to the Rotterdam/The Hague region.

About Maryland

Maryland is a state located on the east coast of the United States next to Washington, D.C. It is home of the Chesapeake Bay, the port of Baltimore, extensive river tributaries, forests, agricultural lands, ocean-front beaches and mountains.

Maryland is a leader in innovation, implementation, and manufacturing in advanced technologies related to water, also known as “blue tech”, which is one of Maryland’s emerging industries. Maryland is very concerned with climate change issues, environmental sustainability and water quality. New focus has been placed on reaching carbon reduction targets, building alternative energy sources, rebuilding its natural ecosystem (including oysters), purifying its water and reducing urban heat islands.

Maryland is your gateway to the USA

Maryland is the ideal place to expand your business to the USA, and for you to find Maryland partners to assist in addressing the environmental challenges facing us all.

Maryland has developed innovative programs and incentives to help international companies interested in developing a presence in the U.S. market, including the Maryland Global Gateway soft landing program: https://commerce.maryland.gov/softlanding

Learn more about doing business in Maryland:
https://open.maryland.gov/information-for/international-business

Meet the Maryland companies

Maryland’s September 2022 delegation to the Netherlands includes:

Early Charm — A venture builder that converts science to business. It specializes in turning brilliant scientific discoveries into companies focused on growth. With a decade of experience, its companies have grown into manufacturers of specialty products, innovators for aquaculture farms, and builders of engineered products for use in healthcare.
Website: www.earlycharm.com

Innovatreat — Innovatreat’s miniMBR is an extremely efficient pre-engineered system excelling in decentralized nutrient removal and water reuse applications. The miniMBR utilizes externally mounted, vertically-oriented tubular ultra-filter membranes for biomass separation. Its one-of-a-kind, hydraulic pattern contributes to the highest energy efficiency of any MBR available on the market today.
Website: innovatreat.com

Tetrahedron, Inc. — Provides environmental services in the USA and internationally. Its services include drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater management. Its expertise has been in conducting water quality assessments with respect to all contaminants including organics, inorganics, disinfectant by-products, explosives, per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and microorganisms.
Website: tetrahedron-inc.com

Blue Sources — Provides real-time, early warning systems that detect toxic chemicals in drinking water distribution and raw water systems. Additionally, its products and services are used for monitoring wastewater effluent and EPA superfund sites discharging water. In support of water security monitoring tasks, it provides consulting, technical, and managed services.
Website: www.bluesources.com

GaiaXus — Develops water environmental monitors for citizen science, school education, and academic research. Its first system is an IoT water quality system with integrated educational content. The system measures common water quality parameters such as salinity, temperature, and turbidity and is open for collaborators to add their specialized sensors.
Website: gaiaxus.com

Ranging from off-the-shelf options to bespoke solutions, these companies provide wide ranging blue tech services including water quality testing, recycling, monitoring, education, security, management and more. Large or small, on the ground or over the web, these leaders can meet your needs.

For more information

Contact the delegation’s leader:
Andrew Kreinik, Regional Manager for Europe and Australia at Maryland Department of Commerce: andrew.kreinik@maryland.gov
(or contact Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee)

Maryland Commerce’s blog post:
https://open.maryland.gov/blog/maryland-blue-tech-sector-on-full-display-at-european-water-technology-week

About the delegation trip:
https://baltimoresistercities.org/blue2022/

Venture Cafe Rotterdam September 22 networking event:
https://venturecaferotterdam.org/sessions/break-out-learn-more-about-maryland-and-opportunities-to-land-here/

Logos of the Maryland companies in delegation: Early Charm, Tetrahedron, Innovatreat, Blue Sources, GaiaXus
Logos of the promotion partners: Maryland Department of Commerce; BlueTechMD; Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister Cities

Baltimore-Xiamen chair speaks at Baltimore Mayor’s “410 Report” event

Xin (Cindy) Wang (Chair, Baltimore-Xiamen Sister City Committee) was one of the speakers in the 2022 Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month edition of Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott’s “410 Report.”  Other speakers included HyeSook Chung (President, Baltimore Civic Fund), Cori Dioquino (Co-Executive Director & Co-Founder, Asian Pasifika Arts Collective), and Heang Tan (Deputy Commissioner, Office of Aging). Mayor Scott and these members of our local Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community celebrated the contributions and experiences of our city’s AAPI communities. With a rich history in our city, AAPI communities continue to be a thriving source of what makes Baltimore, Baltimore. The program was originally broadcasted on Thursday, May 19, 2022, on the Mayor’s Facebook page, the CharmTV Facebook page, and the Mayor’s Instagram page. 

To view a recording of this program, visit the CharmTV Facebook page.

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