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The John Kam Malt and Kiln House at 356 Hertel Avenue in Black Rock is on its way towards a mixed-use future. Eighty apartments, a self-storage facility and 14,000 sq.ft. of retail/service space are planned. The building will also include a co-working space, seventh-floor patio, dog park and wash station, bicycle storage and an event space.

The project is being undertaken by Fred LoFaso and designed by Studio T3 Engineering. Sienna Realty is handling commercial leasing.

The 130,000 square foot building is on the State Registry of Historic Places and is seeking nomination to the National Register. Some background information on the property:

The John Kam Malting Company was one of the largest malt producers in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth century and is significant in Buffalo’s long beer brewing history. It is the only remaining example of the Dornfeld drum and kiln system sub-type of malthouse architecture in Buffalo.

The building was designed by John F. Dornfeld, the engineer who also patented the innovative pneumatic drum germinating system and pneumatic kiln technologies utilized at the site. The organization of the interior spaces and architecture, which retain a high degree of integrity, is specifically determined by, and inclusive of, these systems.

In the late nineteenth century as the production of beer in Buffalo was increasing dramatically, John Kam’s malting complex on Genesee and Pratt Street was no longer able to produce the quantity of malt necessary to meet growing market needs. “Mr. Kam determined upon building a new plant and, after consideration of a large number of sites, settled upon a large plot of ground at Black Rock, …This land is at the crossing of the Belt Line tracks of the Central and main line of the same road, running to Niagara Falls. It is bounded on the west by the Niagara Falls tracks of the Central and on the south by Hertel avenue and the Belt Line tracks.” The plant that Kam intended on building would be a “gigantic structure,” “first-class in all respects.” Kam engaged John F. Dornfeld, who had recently left the Galland-Henning Company, so it is highly probable that this was one of the first commissions of the J.F. Dornfeld Company. 

John Kam, who was considered “one of the pioneers of the malting industry in Buffalo,” was born in Pleistein, Bavaria in 1833, where he was trained as a brewer and maltster. He emigrated to Buffalo in 1855 and worked as the brewmaster for the Jacob Scheu Malting Company at Genesee and Spring Streets. In 1860 he started his own bakery, which he ran until 1869 when he started a small malt house adjacent to the bakery. With the success of the malting business, he constructed a building at Genesee and Pratt Streets in 1872, which he enlarged in 1879, and again in 1884. 

In 1889 he founded the John Kam Malting Company with his sons Joseph, Henry, and John Jr. Joseph, who was on the board of the German American Bank, and owned the Exchange Elevator Company, was secretary, and Henry was an executive in the company. John Jr., the youngest, was a student at Canisius College and would later join the firm and become general manager. In 1898 it was “one of the largest privately-owned commercial enterprises in Buffalo,” with a capacity of 600,000 bushels annually, which were all floor-made. To meet the demand for malt, the company constructed a large malt house on Hertel Avenue in 1901.

The John Kam Malting Company Malt House and Kiln House on Hertel Avenue incorporated the technologies of the Dornfeld Pneumatic Drum System and Pneumatic Kiln House and, at the time, was the largest pneumatic drum malting system in Buffalo, and the “biggest malt house on earth.” The capacity of the new malt-house had increased dramatically to 2,000,000 bushels per annum. 

Following John Kam’s death in 1905 his sons continued operation of the company, utilizing both the Genesee and Pratt complex, where the compartment system of malting was used, and the facility on Hertel Avenue where the pneumatic drum and kiln system was used. The John Kam Company continued to thrive, and the business was one of the largest malting enterprises in the city of Buffalo and the country. 

In late 1918 the Oswego Milling Company purchased the John Kam Malting Company plant on Hertel Avenue. Dornfeld’s pneumatic kiln house was utilized by the new company, retaining the apparatus that defined and remains a part of the architecture. The large pneumatic drums were removed from the structure and shipped to South American and Mexican firms. Today, their presence is still evident in the architectural volume and ghosting that provides architecturally specific evidence of the Dornfeld drum system sub-type.

Get Connected: Meredith Battin, Sienna Realty- 716.228.6187

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On Saturday August 27, Reciprocal Roots will host the Western New York Herbal Conference – an event that celebrates herbal medicine and the community.

As people wake up to the fact that we have been poisoning our bodies for decades, with endless prescription medications and noxious foods, we’re left with a society that is overweight and unhealthy. The ripple effects of this poisoning of our bodies is massive. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 6 in 10 adults in the US have a chronic disease, and that 4 in 10 adults have 2 or more. Those are some scary numbers.

Those escalating numbers are one of the reasons that a concerned segment of the population is opting to head in a different direction. These people are not only taking a closer look at labels, they are finding out where their foods are coming from.

Thankfully, there are more and more groups and organizations that are making it easier to source healthier remedies and health solutions, including apothecary items, healing plants, seasonal foraging bounty, plant medicine, medicinal mushrooms, healing traditions, herbalism, ayurveda, Chinese herbal medicine, balms, essential oils, and a wide variety of healing arts.

As far as Western NY goes, there is one place to find all of the makers, the marketeers, the healers, the teachers, and the gurus – at the 2022 Western New York Herbal Conference.

A $65 ticket includes all classes, workshops, and lunch.

The all-day event takes place on Saturday August 27th from 9am to 5pm – a full day of Herbal Classes, Vendors, and Community!

2022 Western New York Herbal Conference

Saturday August 28, 2021

9:30 am Registration, 10am to 5pm

Singer Farm Naturals

6730 Lake Rd, Appleton NY

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Over the past 18 months, the team at Severyn Development has been renovating a collection of 7 brick townhomes into 14, 3 bedroom, 1 bath apartments that are now available for rent on Florida Street. With this development team behind the reins, these homes have undergone an extensive renovation, and have been restored to their original grandeur all while maintaining their historic value.

Alex Severyn and his brother William Severyn have been the masterminds behind much of this company’s success, and while they take pride in each renovation, there is something particularly special about the Florida Street project. These units pay homage to an area that hit close to home for the duo since they sit relatively closely to their alma mater, Canisius College. 

“This project has been watched by the local community. These houses were vacated for 15 years and although Canisius had kept up with the grounds and the location, the buildings themselves very quickly fell into disrepair. So we spent a lot of time focusing on rebuilding these things to their original grandeur. I think the neighborhood always had a soft spot for these seven properties. They would stop by and tell us that they used to be beautiful,” shares Alex.

Within the first two weeks, half of these units have been rented by people within the surrounding community, and ultimately prove to be serving the purpose the team had hoped for, 

“ The majority of the tenants that we’ve already placed are from the community. They wanted to live there because they remember what they were and are pretty happy to see what they are today.”

Severyn Development has high hopes for that neighborhood, and plans to continue further developments on Florida Street in the near future. 

“ I hope that this is a good display of our flexibility and really our commitment to Buffalo- this project in particular, we’re going to be invested here for the long haul.”

7 of these beautiful units are still available for immediate occupancy, and any additional information can be found on their website https://severyn.co or by emailing info@severyn.co 

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And a side of horror

“Resurrection” has been widely described as a “psychological thriller” and a “horror” film. The horror content is not of the sort common to, say, 1980s slasher films, in which a pretty girl might be dispatched every 10 minutes. There are only two scenes that qualify as horror; one lasts a few seconds, the other, near the end of the film, about 5 minutes. Both will make a reasonable viewer uncomfortable, and the second will force some to turn away. Even so, the horror label is inaccurate. “Psychological thriller” is not, yet even that term fails to capture the complexity of this intense drama.

At the center of the film is Margaret, the consummate neurotic, brilliantly rendered by Rebecca Hall, who wrote (from Nella Larson’s book) and directed last year’s “Passing.” Margaret has a managerial position in an anonymous corporation, which fits nicely with the high modernist, alienating government complex of Albany, New York, where the movie was filmed. She is rail-thin, obsessive-compulsive, a fast—if excessively determined and rigid—runner, an (overly) authoritative mentor/therapist to the intern Gwyn (Angela Wong Carbone), and a hovering, controlling mother to her almost 18-year-old daughter Abbie (Grace Kaufman, who does annoyance to perfection). Except for Abbie and Peter (Michael Esper), a nice married man with whom she has occasional sex, she’s radically isolated. Although she does her best to hold herself together, it becomes increasingly difficult. Margaret’s marked physical decline parallels her psychological deterioration. But why?

The answer to that question is the essence of the film, and it doesn’t come easily. Margaret’s descent—her incremental loss of an already fragile sense of self— begins with a blast from the past, the appearance, after an absence of 22 years, of former boyfriend David (an appropriately languid, unctuous and creepy Tim Roth, who continues to offer surprises even though he’s a familiar face from film and TV). Margaret first gets a glimpse of David at a professional conference, then at a shopping mall, later on a park bench and, curiously and repeatedly, in an inhospitable space under a thruway, turning the film, or so it seems, toward the ”stalker” genre, a horror staple.

David has something to work out with Margaret, something horrific for her, that has to do with their relationship when she was—you guessed it—18. David was, and is, disarming, calculating and highly manipulative (shades of Charles Manson and Svengali), and there’s more than a hint of sado-masochism in their past (and present). Their bond, tainted as it is, can also be understood in feminist terms: an older man taking advantage of a naïve girl who doesn’t yet know her own mind. She got pregnant.

So, another answer to the “why” question is motherhood, an issue “Resurrection” shares with a plethora of recent films, including “The Lost Daughter,” “Petite Maman,” “Spencer,” “Parallel Mothers,” and “Happening.” Margaret is the guilt-ridden “bad mom,” consumed by traumatic events of decades ago, now losing the ability to repress what happened, or what she thinks happened, displacing her neuroses onto her teenage daughter.

Motherhood, a feminist perspective, a stalker from the past—each has a role in shaping one’s understanding of the film. They’re valid frameworks, but insufficient. Haunting the narrative is the possibility that David, in his recent incarnation, is a phantom, a projection of Margaret’s no longer repressed guilt. He’s never seen by anyone except Margaret, and he appears in some unlikely places. His “story” is preposterous. When Gwyn, on hearing Margaret’s account of what happened to her years ago (a rare filmic moment when telling, rather than seeing, actually works) says that the story can’t be true, it’s a sign that maybe it isn’t. The final scene is not only beyond belief; it’s filmed with just a touch of ghosting. What we’re seeing isn’t “real,” except insofar as it’s “real” to Margaret. The one false note in this construct is the very tactile room key on the diner table.

Once one starts down the path of questioning Margaret’s reality, the narrative loses coherence. From a messy kaleidoscope of possibilities, one could conclude writer/director Andrew Semans is focused principally on engendering terror and disgust in the viewer. The world view underpinning his use of the thriller/horror genre does not rise to the level of Jordan Peele’s in “Get Out” or “Us.” 

At its best (and not everyone will see it that way), “Resurrection” manages to marry a powerful, tension-filled, “psychological thriller” with a rich analytic feast. Sauce for the goose, and for the gander, if one can stomach it.

Date: 2022

Stars: 3 (out of 4)

Director: Andrew Semans

Starring: Rebecca Hall, Tim Roth, Grace Kaufman, Michael Esper, Angela Wong Carbone

Country: United States

Language: English

Runtime: 103 minutes

Other Awards: One nomination to date

Availability: Showing in some theaters nationally; for rent or purchase streaming on AppleTV, Vudu, and Spectrum on Demand; see JustWatch here for full availability.

Lead image: Rebecca Hall brilliantly renders Margaret, the neurotic center of this psychological thriller.

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There are many people out there that continue to do everything that they can to keep the Ukraine’s fight for freedom front and center in our daily thoughts. It was back in February when Russia invaded Ukraine. Since that time, there have been countless casualties, cities destroyed, families shattered, and 6.7 million Ukrainians have fled the country. The damage is immeasurable – so great, in fact, that it’s hard to comprehend.

That’s why vascular surgeon at the University at Buffalo-Department of Surgery, James K. Lukan, has arranged to screen a documentary film at the North Park Theatre this coming Sunday, to ensure that people have an opportunity to learn about the history of the war (began in 2014), the horrific nature of the invasion, and the devastating impact that will be felt for generations to come.

“Dr. Lukan has traveled to Ukraine to help with the travesty that is going on over there,” said James W. Baker, who is helping to promote the film. “He came back to Buffalo and wanted to keep the Ukraine issue on people’s radar to let them know that they still need our help. He has rented out North Park Theatre on Sunday to show an advanced screening of ‘Winter on Fire’ Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom. It is scheduled to premier on Netflix on October 9th. The advance screening aligns with the Ukrainian Independence Day, so the timing is impeccable.”

Admission is free | Doors open at 11am

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Western New Yorkers see themselves as Buffalo ambassadors 

Erie County residents love tourists. When confronted with curious outsiders, locals feel like ambassadors. They’re proud to share their insider point of views about the best place to get wings and what’s great about living here. That’s the kind of reception that leads to authentic experiences that tourists seek out, said Patrick Kaler, president and CEO of Visit Buffalo Niagara. 

“It does show that we are the ‘City of Good Neighbors,’” he said. “Buffalonians are very proud … It’s a good thing because it makes a visitor feel more welcome.”  

In an effort to help lift tourism back up to pre-pandemic levels, this year Visit Buffalo Niagara commissioned a resident sentiment survey and discovered some encouraging news: Locals believe tourism improves everyone’s quality of life. Most say it boosts the economy, preserves local culture, protects natural resources, helps the environment and leads everyone to enjoy the best parts of living here. 

“The response was so strong in favor of tourism,” said Kaler. “That was a pleasant surprise.”  

Local appreciation for tourism has grown since the pandemic. During the past two years, businesses noticed the drop in tourism that is now on the rebound. “We heard from many of our local businesses who said that they realize, even more so now, the importance of that visitor economy,” said Kaler. “They need those visitors coming in to supplement their business model and their revenues.” 

The survey also confirmed that Western New York is a profoundly sports-loving place. Two thirds say hosting youth, amateur, college and professional teams, and outdoor events, like marathons and bike races, helps the economy.  

For Kaler, this was great news for the Buffalo Niagara Sports Commission, a subsidiary of Visit Buffalo Niagara, which is Erie County’s lead tourism marketing organization. “There is a breadth of unique events that are out there that Buffalo can host and that will be welcomed by our community,” he said. 

Chiclets Cup (Photo by Buffalo RiverWorks / Facebook)

This includes new tournaments, like the street hockey Chiclets Cup and a horseshoe toss championship. Locals, just like tourists, get to come out to enjoy new sporting events, along with classic events the region is known for. 

Research also shows that tourism has been benefitting Western New Yorkers by offsetting taxes by about $598 per household. “Without that tourism revenue, residents would be paying more in their overall tax bills,” said Kaler. 

This is a number that will keep rising as tourism increases. “That number has grown significantly as our overall visitation has grown through the years,” he said. 

Locals also appreciate the city’s convention center, now in the midst of an ongoing renovation. Six out of 10 people believe its events contribute money and business to the community. The same number say it should expand and get more government funding. 

The news that people here are tourism fans and advocates was heartening to Kaler. “Residents do want visitors to come in and,” he said, “experience what we get to experience every single day.” 

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When Elizabeth Pantoja Lennon heard that her husband, Gregory Lennon, was in jeopardy of losing his commercial trucking license (CDL) due to poor health (diabetes), she decided to come up with a healthy snack that he would love to eat. The result was a “100% plant-based spread dip” that resembles hummus.

She wanted to make something that was along the lines of hummus, but was also loaded with protein, and all of the essential vitamins that Greg would need to keep him strong and healthy.

“She brought a bowl of it to the exact chair that I’m sitting in right now,” said Greg [laughing]. “At the time, my blood sugars were high, and I needed to lose weight and get in better health. So I tried the bowl of the spread dip. I ended up polishing off the whole bowl, and I asked, ‘Do you got any more of this, honey?’ I ate the second bowl, and said, ‘You should sell this stuff!’ It was the original flavor – the exact recipe that she still makes to this day. It turned out to be the perfect snack – something that I enjoyed snacking on, before watching the news and going to bed. The dip that I had been eating was causing me to gain weight, and I was disqualified from driving my truck.”

The spread-dip that Greg loved so much turned out to be called “Happeas.”

That was in 2020. Then the pandemic hit, just as Elizabeth and Greg began to take the concoction on the road, to farmer’s markets.

“It was tough, because people couldn’t sample it,” said Greg. “But we ended up selling it based on us describing it. People liked the idea that it was healthier than hummus, but similar – the texture and the flavor is amazing. Being in Buffalo (based out of Silver Creek) we decided to come up with a Buffalo wing flavor (using Frank’s) that is also popular. And then there’s a jalapeño.”

Elizabeth also came up with an indie flavor that has been extremely popular. It has a mixture of turmeric and ginger, giving it a Middle Eastern flavor profile.

All of the different Happeas flavors are not only delicious, they are also remarkably healthy. That’s because they are plant-based, organic, and incorporate a blend of chickpeas, green peas, and nutritional yeast. Combined with the rest of the herbs and spices, Happeas ensures that there are all of the essential vitamins and minerals to properly fortify the body.

Elizabeth discusses the health benefits at The Stagecoach Market

“I love to make something that’s good for my family, and for everyone,” Elizabeth told me. “It tastes good and it’s good for you. It’s something that is different. It’s more complete, with so many nutrients. This is the whole thing. Hummus is just chickpeas, tahini, water, oil, and spice for taste. Happeas has nutritional yeast that has all of the vitamins. I don’t even take vitamins anymore because it’s all in the spread -dip, and it’s natural eating. That means that your body absorbs it better. And parsley (for example) is one of my natural preservatives. Then there’s the onion and the garlic. People love that there is so much flavor, and all of the ingredients are so healthy.”

Being all natural, with no artificial preservatives, Elizabeth and Greg began to run into some stumbling blocks. While Happeas was making a name for itself on the farmer’s market circuit, they needed to get it on the shelves of the supermarket shelves. But with a one-week shelf life, that meant that they would have to visit all of the stores once a week to ensure that any of the Happeas containers that weren’t sold within the expiration date, were removed and replaced with fresh (PBA free) containers. They couldn’t just load up a store shelf, because of the limited shelf life.

That’s when Elizabeth, who was formerly a bio chemist, began to research ways to extend the shelf life of the product.

“We were at places like the East Aurora Co-op,” explained Elizabeth and Greg. “And we were trying to get our foot into the doors of Dash’s and The Lexington Co-op. We were not ready to approach places like Tops and Wegmans, because we were still doing small batches – the production workload would have been too much. Plus we needed to extend the shelf life. That’s when we learned about high pressure processing (HPP – uses hydrostatic pressure to prevent harmful microbes). We had a Zoom meeting with Frank Cavallaro – COO of Ithaca Hummus – who was so helpful, and he works for the competition [laughing]. After speaking with Frank, we were invited down to Miami to visit the headquarters for the company that makes the machine for the process of the high pressure cold pasteurization. We saw how it was packaged and sealed, by loading it into a chamber, and into tubes, and ten minutes later it came out great!”

With the new HPP process, Happeas would have a shelf life of 100 days! The only problem was that there was no machine in NYS that would do smaller batch runs for smaller businesses. Currently, Elizabeth and Greg are appealing to Grow-NY and the State of NY, to help bring a facility to (possibly) Buffalo. It would be the first HPP facility in NY for use by small businesses. While they are weighing the possibilities, they are preparing to send their HPP samples to The Cornell Food Product Development Lab (FPDL) for texture, taste, color, etc. Six months later, they will get their results, at which time they will essentially have the green light to begin their HPP packaged production runs.

“This will allow us to ship further,” said Greg. “And the products can stay on the shelves longer.”

As they patiently await the green light, Elizabeth and Greg are planning on applying to the Launch NY competition, and possibly other competitions for investments and resources. What they have realized is that they need to be on the shelves of larger markets, and they need to be in additional markets around the country, to justify the business model.

The HPP packaging technology will allow them to open more doors, and to explore the full potential and the possibilities of happeas, which is music to my wife’s ears. She is officially addicted to the stuff – every Sunday at The Stagecoach Market I am told to bring four tubs home. Her two favorites are the original and the indie, but now we’re adding the jalapeño to our tacos, which is delightful – the blend of green peas makes it similar to guacamole.

“I use it in place of mayonnaise for my tunafish,” said Greg. “There are so many different uses. It’s great on sandwiches, and in salads. We eat it on everything.”

In case you were wondering, thanks to Happeas, Greg is happier and healthier than ever. He’s happy that he has a tasty treat that he considers guiltless eating. Plus, he’s lost weight and is feeling much better overall.

Now, we need to get Happeas onto the shelves of more markets, and into the hands of more customers, so that everyone can benefit from this miraculous product that was with heart, by Elizabeth, with the help of Mother Nature, who always has all of our best interests in mind.

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Maintaining a healthy fitness routine is absolutely essential when it comes to living a healthy life. But if you are anything like me, the idea of stair steppers or treadmill sprints can seem absolutely daunting and downright grueling. In this episode of Project Best Life we learned that there are other ways to get necessary exercise, but in ways that can actually be enjoyable!

The team at Build a Machine Fitness takes exercise to a whole new level by implementing techniques that aren’t necessarily commonplace in the world of fitness. This gym features obstacle course racing like ninja warrior and also parkour training.

Coach Liz Goss explains this sport as a full body workout, without even realizing you’re working out,

“When people hear that we’re a gym, they typically assume it’s a traditional gym, but our primary offerings are ninja warrior and parkour. Typically we always start off with saying, ‘Have you seen the show American Ninja Warrior?’ That’s our easiest segue into explaining what we do. For those that aren’t familiar with that we explain it as obstacles- a lot of swinging obstacles, balance obstacles, and agility obstacles.”

Coach Goss wouldn’t describe herself as a typical athlete, but when she found ninja training, all bets were off. This sport became a passion that would follow her into all stages of life and ultimately something she would teach to her entire family,

“ This is just a unique sport where you are getting that full body workout, and you’re having a lot of fun. I liken it to going to an adult playground. We have a great training crew, which was a big thing that pulled me in unlike a lot of other competitive sports where it can get a bit cutthroat. It is highly competitive, but it is more of a community than anything.”

Coach Chris McCooey is a lifelong athlete that came to ninja as a way to break up the monotony of his everyday workouts. After aging out of competitive high school and college sports, the most accessible competitions were those centered around running- something McCooey isn’t over the moon about. Finding running courses broken up by obstacles was something he found much more appealing, and ultimately where his love for ninja blossomed. Here Coach McCooey has not only found an intense passion, but also a sense of community that makes every hard competition worth it!

“The community is absolutely phenomenal, we get to go and see all of our friends at every competition and at training. For me, it was really a come for the competition and stay for the community kinda thing, and that really keeps me coming back.”

Apart from the physical strength this sport can give you, it also trains the mental muscles too. Ninja, along with parkour, practice tactical and problem solving training in order to beat the obstacles set before you.

“There’s a huge mental component. It’s learning how to fall and learning how to pick yourself back up- those are also huge life skills. So when we’re working with kids and even with adults, we need reminders that you don’t get everything the first time, there’s gonna be frustrations. You have to work on things. There’s some skills that I spent three years before I was able to unlock and there’s skills that I’m still working on unlocking, and I’ve been doing this almost five years now. That mental aspect and those life skills that we can teach are a huge component of what we do within our sport,” shares Coach Goss.

While competition plays an important role in this sport, it is ultimately testing your own self’s strength and facing your own fears of the unknown set before you,

“You’re always kind of testing yourself against the obstacle and you’re always gonna come up against the unknown. With ninja you’re always trying to find the strength that you need for just whatever it’s gonna be. We get to build confidence not because somebody’s telling us we can do it, but because we can actually do the things that we’re trying to do. We also get to face a lot of fears in having unknown and new challenges,” states Coach McCooey.

The team at Build a Machine Fitness is challenging people to think about fitness in a new light. With ninja training, you not only care for your physical health, but also equip your mind to take on the obstacles of everyday life. Build a Machine Fitness offers the support and community you need to take on a new fitness feat that might just change your life in ways you didn’t think were possible.

To learn more about Build a Machine Fitness or to schedule a class, visit https://bamfninja.com

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